sinovels Chapter 148 Turning from defense to offense
Chapter 148 Turning from defense to offense
Chapter 148 Turning from defense to offense
Humans are simply unable to perceive or hear low-frequency sounds beyond a certain range; this does not mean there is no potential for reception.
Humans at this point may have received the sound, but unconsciously, and were thus affected without realizing it.
Soon, Li Jiuhe, Luo Shuo, and Ma Li all arrived in the next room.
The two people and the insect disguised themselves as if they were still in the same room, and hid themselves away without making a sound.
Since it was still early, Li Jiuhe and Luo Shuo had a delivery person buy the best noise-canceling earplugs nearby and send them to the hotel, where they both put them on.
Strictly speaking, while this device cannot completely block out sound, it can at least significantly reduce the intrusion of various audio frequencies, giving them more reaction time.
Moreover, the first to hear the sound were Ma Li's swarm of black ants.
To ensure everything went smoothly, Li Jiuhe and the other man temporarily handcuffed Ma Li to the edge of the bed, so that even if her ant larvae heard the eerie infrasound, she would be unable to move.
Ma Li released some of the black ant larvae to the doorway so that she could react immediately if the Silent Singer's song was heard.
Before the other party was about to appear according to the plan, Li Jiuhe set a time reset anchor point here, so that if the task needs to be reset, he would not have to wait for more than two hours.
Otherwise, the sky in this world's timeline will probably be too bright by then.
This might make the other party suddenly realize something is wrong, thus causing them to cancel the plan.
Time passed slowly, and everyone waited quietly. Although Luo Shuo was exhausted, he dared not sleep.
Just as the estimated time came, Li Jiuhe gestured to Ma Li and Luo Shuo, reminding them that they were coming.
A moment later, there was a knock on the door next door, but it was barely audible unless you listened carefully.
Almost at the same moment, Ma Li lowered her voice and said to Li Jiuhe, "Infrasound has appeared."
Her black ant larvae were scrambling back, desperately trying to burrow into her tail.
Infrasound does not act on the target immediately; there is a process involved.
Li Jiuhe immediately got up and walked towards the door, with Luo Shuo following closely behind.
Li Jiuhe quickly opened the door and stood in the doorway, pointing the muzzle of his rune pistol at Song Zhixing, the director of the Investigation Bureau, who was standing in front of the door next door.
Song Zhixing should have been very surprised, but he turned his head expressionlessly and realized that Li Jiuhe and the others were not in the room, but in the next room.
"Stop transmitting infrasound, or I'll kill you first!"
Li Jiuhe quickly stepped forward, pointing the gun directly at Song Zhixing's temple.
Because he was worried about the other party's "paralysis" skill, he did not make direct contact with them.
But if Song Zhixing makes the slightest move at this moment, he will not hesitate to fire.
Song Zhixing immediately spoke up: "I don't know—what are you talking about? What infrasound?"
Time was of the essence. Every second of delay would put him and Luo Shuo in greater danger, and Ma Li inside the house would be the first to lose control.
"The sound is still there, it hasn't stopped!"
Ma Li's voice came out quickly.
"Stop! I told you to make him/her stop!" Li Jiuhe shot Song Zhixing in the knee.
Song Zhixing immediately sat down, but unexpectedly, his expression showed no pain, and he didn't even reach out to press the wound that was gushing blood.
"Something's wrong!" Li Jiuhe was slightly surprised upon seeing this and said to Luo Shuo, "Luo Shuo, come here!"
Luo Shuo immediately rushed forward and came to Song Zhixing's side. He reached out and took out the gun and handcuffs from the bureau chief's waist, first handcuffing him behind his back, and then quickly searched his body for more items, looking for clues.
During this time, Song Zhixing remained motionless, staring at the dark muzzle of Li Jiuhe's gun, which was pointed at him from not far away.
Before long, Luo Shuo placed his hand directly on Song Zhixing's body, forcing out all his energy, and began to quickly track down information about those who had contact with him.
In just two seconds, he found something, abruptly turned Song Zhixing's head to one side, and pulled a concealed electronic earpiece from his left ear.
"I've found the infrasound!"
Luo Shuo held the earplugs in his hand, even though he still couldn't hear anything.
"Director Song—he was also controlled by this voice—"
The situation was quite clear at this point: the fact that Song Zhixing had been plugged in his ears meant that he had long been controlled by the person transmitting the infrasound.
At this moment, Luo Shuo's body began to tremble, and the same uncomfortable feeling as last time descended upon him, as if his abilities were being blocked.
Li Jiuhe, on the other hand, felt nothing for the time being.
However, Ma Li in the room has begun to lose control. Her mind and body are separated; she is still conscious, but her body is no longer under her control.
Fortunately, her hands were handcuffed to the foot of the bed, so she couldn't stand up straight; she just stood hunched over with a blank expression.
Li Jiuhe stepped forward and reversed the pistol, while Luo Shuo, enduring his physical discomfort, placed the electronic earpiece on the ground.
With a thud, the butt of the gun slammed into the earpiece, shattering the electronic device into pieces and rendering it useless.
After a short wait, Luo Shuo suddenly said, "No, there's more!"
"Where?" Li Jiuhe asked.
Luo Shuo quickly sensed and tracked, pointing to Song Zhixing's abdomen.
Li Jiuhe lifted all his clothes, but saw nothing.
"It's in my belly," Luo Shuo said, his expression tense.
As soon as he finished speaking, he could no longer hold back and let out a painful groan, curling up on the ground.
"Give me the exact location."
Although Li Jiuhe hadn't felt anything yet, he knew that he had suddenly experienced a separation of mind and body, which was probably due to his high-ranking status.
Although there is no initial pain, you will still get infected when the time is right.
He then took out the silver-plated dagger, and Luo Shuo pointed it at the right side of Song Zhixing's abdomen. He immediately made a cut with the dagger.
At the same time, he reminded Luo Shuo, "Keep tracking, keep tracking!"
Luo Shuo reached out and grabbed the shattered electronic earpiece, desperately releasing his tracking ability.
Ten seconds later, Li Jiuhe pulled out a second electronic microphone, about the size of a button, from the surface of Song Zhixing's abdomen.
Although he couldn't hear anything, there was a red light flashing on the back of the microphone, indicating that it was working.
He threw it on the ground, before he could smash it with the butt of the gun.
Luo Shuo, standing beside him, said with difficulty, "Found it—!"
However, at this moment, Li Jiuhe clearly felt his consciousness rapidly withdrawing and completely separating from his body.
He seemed to switch to a third-person perspective again, looking at his own body, turning the raised gun butt over, and gripping the pistol handle again.
He then pressed the muzzle of the gun against Luo Shuo's head.
After saying "Found it," Luo Shuo fell silent and stared blankly ahead, clearly also under control.
Footsteps sounded from the end of the corridor; it was the sound of a pair of high heels.
This time, because the sound came from directly in front of Li Jiuhe, he saw the person who appeared. It was a woman with long, flowing hair, a slender figure, and wearing an off-the-shoulder short dress.
The woman had fair skin and an extremely beautiful face, even giving off a bewitching and alluring vibe. Her beautiful eyes were fixed on Li Jiuhe, who was already under her control. She walked gracefully closer and closer.
Until Li Jiuhe's vision was completely occupied by those long legs, he was unable to lift his head because he had lost control of his body.
Then the woman's voice rang out: "You managed to be discovered like this? Heh, the investigators from headquarters are quite skilled."
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The next second, Li Jiuhe pulled the trigger, a gunshot rang out, and the bullet pierced through the back of Luo Shuo's head.
Before he could see the other party's next move clearly, the gun was turned around without hesitation, and his out-of-control body sent a second bullet into his temple.
In his final moments, Li Jiuhe guessed that the last woman to appear must be the Silent Singer, the one who had controlled Director Song Zhixing.
The scene shifts to the moment when Li Jiuhe warns Luo Shuo and Ma Li that Song Zhixing is about to appear in the corridor.
According to the world timeline, this means returning to a few minutes ago. This was a reset time anchor point that Li Jiuhe deliberately set.
He silently estimated that he still couldn't find out where the mysterious woman was hiding, but he figured she must be far from the room, otherwise she wouldn't have used Song Zhixing to bring the electronic megaphone to get closer to them first.
It's likely that this silent singer wasn't acting alone; she had more accomplices who manipulated Song Zhixing to come, simply because they didn't know the capabilities of this investigation team from the General Bureau and wanted to test them.
Li Jiuhe was also puzzled by what happened to the Yuanmeng City Investigation Bureau. He never expected that even the director would be controlled by someone!
How long have these people been controlling him? Did they just succeed recently? Or have they been using Song Zhixing as a puppet for a long time?
What is their purpose?
It seems these people have deep backgrounds and are very secretive about their work. Even the Northwest District Investigation Bureau, the superior of the Yuanmeng City Investigation Bureau, has not discovered any clues.
If the silent singer is the same silent singer from the Spirit Awakening Party that Luo Shuo once mentioned, then this force is extremely powerful, and Li Jiuhe has reason to suspect that the Yuanmeng Investigation Bureau has been secretly controlled by the remnants of the Spirit Awakening Party.
Not only is Su Qin suspicious, but many other investigators from top to bottom in the bureau are also suspicious.
After experiencing this series of events, Li Jiuhe guessed that Su Qin's initial eagerness to kill or capture You Hong was due to two reasons.
The first reason is that You Hong is too high-profile. He has killed more than a hundred people in Yuanmeng City and the surrounding area, which is hard to ignore and even attracts the attention of the Northwest Investigation Bureau and the General Bureau.
If they could handle this guy quickly themselves, headquarters probably wouldn't send anyone down, or they would leave soon after solving the case.
This reduces the chances of these people hiding in the shadows being exposed.
The second reason is that the people who secretly controlled the Yuanmeng Investigation Bureau also knew about the existence of the death pass and wanted to kill You Hong to obtain it.
Now they are well aware that the Death Pass may have fallen into their hands, which is why they are willing to alert the enemy and kill the three of them to steal the pass.
Therefore, these two reasons can overlap, and the probability of the second reason occurring is very high.
Li Jiuhe quickly thought it through in his mind, combined with his own speculation, and after roughly sorting it out, he immediately gave the instructions.
"Mali, withdraw your black ant swarm first."
"Luo Shuo, after I knock Song Zhixing down, take out the electronic earpiece from his ear, destroy it first, and then track him down. Don't waste a second. Once you find the location of the electronic signal source, tell me immediately. No matter what other emergencies happen, remember to tell me the location first."
Ma Li and Luo Shuo nodded at the same time.
After a short wait, a knock came from the next room.
Almost at the same moment, Li Jiuhe suddenly flung open the door to this room and rushed toward Song Zhixing, who was standing at the door of the next room.
Because he knew the location of the opponent and that Song Zhixing's body was controlled and unable to use the "paralysis" skill, he attacked without any scruples at this moment.
With a thud, he knocked Song Zhixing to the ground, then pounced on him, pulled out the handcuffs from his waist, and cuffed his hands behind his back.
Luo Shuo rushed over quickly, pried the electronic earpiece out of Song Zhixing's ear, placed it on the ground, and smashed it with the handle of a knife he had prepared.
He then grabbed the shattered earplugs and quickly began searching.
Turning his head, he saw that Li Jiuhe had already used the silver-etched dagger to cut open Song Zhixing's abdomen and picked out a bloody, button-sized electronic microphone.
Li Jiuhe's series of actions were executed in one smooth motion, as if he had rehearsed them in advance, and he even knew the hidden location of the microphone clearly.
The infrasound attack continued, and Ma Li inside the house was about to lose control, while Luo Shuo also felt his body beginning to feel unwell.
The next second, Li Jiuhe used the hilt of the silver-etched dagger to smash the microphone he had found.
Luo Shuo's discomfort lessened considerably. He breathed heavily and said quickly, "That person is at the stairwell; she's already entered this floor."
As soon as she finished speaking, the sound of high heels began, and then the sound became heavy, because the high heels were already stepping on the thick carpet in the corridor.
Li Jiuhe said to Luo Shuo, "Where was she just now? I need to know where she was hiding!"
Luo Shuo was taken aback, wondering why Li Jiuhe wanted this person's initial location. In his opinion, since the person had already appeared, it was pointless to try to pinpoint her previous hiding place.
However, he still replied, "They're in the fire escape on the sixth floor, but Song Zhixing came up from the first floor by elevator. They weren't together just now."
The footsteps in the distance turned, and the beautiful woman that Li Jiuhe had just seen reappeared. She stood at the corner of the corridor, not approaching, and seemed to be humming a song.
It seems that the silent singer also realized that the two electronic microphones she had placed had been destroyed, so she arrived even earlier than before.
Since there was no medium for transmitting sound, she could only hum a song to replace the two destroyed microphones.
Although the woman's lips could be seen moving, no sound could be heard at all.
Luo Shuo's physical discomfort returned, and Ma Li, whose movements were restricted in the room, also let out painful cries. This direct impact was even stronger than the infrasound attack from the megaphone.
The woman was clearly very cautious; she did not fully reveal herself but was observing.
Because her attacks are better suited for long-range attacks, ideally the kind that are completely undetectable, as long as she doesn't show herself and allow Li Jiuhe to fire, they simply cannot stop her singing.
The situation turned one-sided once again. Although Li Jiuhe and his group had destroyed the megaphone, they had also proven to the silent singer that they had no effective means to deal with her singing.
That's why the woman dared to step forward at this time.
Li Jiuhe did not wait until he completely lost control; he took the initiative to reset the mission.
in the room.
Li Jiuhe took out a pen and paper and quickly drew a human figure on it. Then he drew a circle on the left side of the figure's ear and another circle on the right side of its abdomen.
He said to Ma Li, "Immediately release your swarm of black ants and have them guard the elevator entrance on this floor. No matter what your ants transform into, the moment the elevator doors open, pounce on Song Zhixing. Remove the electronic earpiece from his ear, then dig out the other electronic microphone from his abdomen. Destroy it immediately after you find it."
"Okay." Ma Li nodded emphatically with a surprised expression.
Li Jiuhe added, "Send out another swarm of black ants, transforming them into more powerful wild beasts to assist me."
Immediately, a large number of black ants crawled out from Ma Li's tail, and then split into two groups. One group, like a rapidly advancing army, surged out from the door crack and headed straight for the elevator entrance.
Another group surrounded Li Jiuhe's feet.
Li Jiuhe then said to Luo Shuo, "You come with me, we'll go and deal with the Silent Singer."
"Do you know where this person is?" Luo Shuo asked in surprise.
"Understood." Li Jiuhe nodded. "Put on your earplugs. Once we get there, we'll act swiftly and attack directly."
"no problem."
The two left the room one after the other. When they passed the elevator, they saw that the elevator had already gone to the first floor, and it was highly likely that Song Zhixing was taking the elevator on the first floor.
They were on the eighth floor at the moment. According to Luo Shuo's previous investigation, the Silent Singer was hiding in the fire escape on the sixth floor.
In addition to the regular stairwells, this hotel also has a private fire escape at the other end of the corridor, which is also a stairwell, but it is built to be more spacious.
Li Jiuhe and Luo Shuo arrived quickly. Without delay, the two entered the fire escape room and immediately tiptoed up to the sixth floor with their backs pressed against the wall.
When they reached the seventh floor, they could hear rustling sounds coming from the fire escape on the sixth floor. Although no one was speaking, there were clearly people below.
Li Jiuhe looked back and saw that the swarm of black ants following behind him had transformed into a small black beast with sharp teeth and claws, which looked exceptionally agile.
He quickly pointed to the sixth floor, and the little beast pounced down the stairs through the gap.
"What is that?" the woman exclaimed in surprise.
Then came the sound of tearing and biting.
Almost simultaneously, Li Jiuhe and Luo Shuo, armed with rune pistols, rushed downstairs, firing at anyone they saw.
Three people were found hiding in the fire escape on the sixth floor: one was a silent female singer, and the other two were men.
One man immediately dodged and moved toward the Silent Singer, trying to grab her, while another tall man's sequence ability was clearly energy attack type.
He reached out and swept his hand across his chest, forming a circular energy shield that blocked most of the rune bullets, and you could even see the sparks from the impact.
He was the primary target of the small beasts formed by the ant colony, which threw him into a panic as he had to defend himself against bullets and deal with the bites of the agile beasts at his feet.
On the other side, the silent singer and another man had already been shot twice.
One shot hit the silent singer directly in the corner of his mouth. With the help of the runes, his cheek was pierced through, and his mouth was full of blood.
At that moment, she couldn't sing any more infrasound.
The man grabbed the silent singer's hand, reached out and slashed the wall behind him, creating a strange crack out of thin air.
Prying open the slit, the man quickly pulled the silent singer, whose mouth was bleeding, inside.
Li Jiuhe rushed to the crack in the wall, and Luo Shuo quickly warned, "Don't go in, it's dangerous! This is where that person's sequence ability is formed."
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