11: Alien-Golden Cicada

He couldn't drive the four-wheeled Policeman patrol car because he didn't have a license.

But a two-wheeled e-bike was no problem.

Riding the blue and white e-bike, with the word 'Patrol' on its front, he arrived at the Wetland Park.

Yang Dian then realized that this uniform he was wearing was really useful.

The Wetland Park prohibited outside e-bikes from entering.

But Yang Dian was wearing a Policeman uniform and riding a Policeman e-bike, so the Wetland Park staff didn't stop him.

They even greeted him kindly as he entered.

"Clothes make the man, and a saddle makes a horse; this saying is truly accurate."

He rode his e-bike, weaving through the dappled, sunlit tree-lined paths.

He felt the summer breeze, mixed with a hint of salty humidity, blowing in from the sea.

He listened to the constant chirping of cicadas in his ears.

Yang Dian's heart suddenly quieted.

"If I Cultivate the Heaven and Man Unity Skill now, it shouldn't be difficult to take three steps."

Just as Yang Dian was wondering whether to find a place to park and Cultivate the Heaven and Man Unity Skill, he faintly heard different sounds carried on the wind.

He gripped the brake lever and stopped the e-bike.

As the buzzing of the motor faded, a clearer cry for help reached Yang Dian's ears.

"Can I really stumble upon something?"

After a moment of surprise, Yang Dian immediately restarted the e-bike and sped towards the direction of the cries for help.

In a short while, the e-bike rounded several corners in the woods.

Then, four figures — one standing, three lying down — appeared in Yang Dian's eyes.

The person calling for help turned around upon hearing the commotion.

Seeing Yang Dian, she immediately cried out in surprise:

"Policeman Uncle, here, here!"

"Help!"

Although the situation seemed somewhat urgent, Yang Dian's expression still fell.

The girl wildly waving at him looked to be about his age, or perhaps even a little older.

But she called him "Uncle."

"This outfit really comes with an 'Uncle' attribute, doesn't it?"

While complaining, Yang Dian had already parked the e-bike beside the girl.

He kicked down the side stand. Just as Yang Dian was about to step forward to check on the three people on the ground, the girl beside him tugged at his sleeve:

"Don't go over there, it seems like some chemical poison has leaked."

"My best friend and I were walking here when we saw those two people collapsed by the roadside."

"We discussed it and wanted to go check on them, to see if they had heatstroke."

"But as soon as I got close to them, I felt a wave of dizziness."

"Realizing something was wrong, I immediately backed away."

"My best friend's Physique is usually not very good, and this time she just fainted there directly."

Upon hearing this, Yang Dian carefully examined the three people on the ground.

He then realized that their condition was indeed not good.

Their faces were green, their lips purple, and some foam was frothing from the corners of their mouths.

Coupled with their occasional twitching, they indeed looked like they had been poisoned.

But thinking about it carefully, he felt something was off.

The three people were only about three meters away from where he was standing.

A chemical poison capable of knocking out several people out of nowhere must have volatile properties.

Regardless of how long they had been unconscious, the volatile poison should have evaporated by now.

Even if the poison hadn't completely evaporated, standing so close and not being affected by it at all didn't make sense.

Having made up his mind, Yang Dian waved his hand at the girl.

"It's not a big problem."

"If you could run out before losing consciousness, then I should be able to too."

"Look at their condition now; they won't last much longer."

"I need to get them out first."

"By the way, have you called 120?"

The girl was stunned by Yang Dian's question, then immediately pulled out her phone from her pocket:

"I'll call now."

On the other side.

As the girl pulled out her phone, Yang Dian had already approached the trio on the ground.

Just as Yang Dian bent down to help one of them up, an extremely piercing cicada chirp suddenly entered his mind.

"Hiss ~"

Although his ears were ringing painfully from the sudden cicada chirp, Yang Dian still helped up his target, supporting him as he took two steps back.

It was strange.

As soon as he left the spot where the three had fallen, the cicada chirp suddenly disappeared.

Yang Dian, who already had a guess, didn't hesitate and returned to the remaining two people.

This time, however, he didn't get close to them; instead, he directly grabbed their ankles and dragged them away from their original spot.

It was as he had guessed.

Because his ears weren't close to that area, he didn't hear that piercing cicada chirp this time.

He carried the three people to a shady spot.

After waiting a while and seeing that their condition had improved slightly, he turned to the still-shaken girl beside him:

"Before you felt dizzy, did you hear any sounds?"

The girl looked at Yang Dian somewhat blankly:

"Uh, what sound?"

Seeing the girl's expression, Yang Dian immediately realized that she, unlike him, had not heard that piercing cicada chirp.

'So that cicada chirp earlier was an ultrasonic wave beyond the hearing limit of ordinary people?'

He lowered his head and examined the ears of the trio on the ground.

Yang Dian then noticed that a trace of blood had indeed seeped from their ear canals.

Connecting this to the piercing cicada chirp he had heard, Yang Dian looked towards the direction where the three had fainted.

'So, a cicada mutated and emitted ultrasonic waves, affecting the three people.'

'And the reason I could hear the cicada chirp, only finding it piercing but not feeling dizzy, is because my Physique far exceeds that of ordinary people?'

Thinking this, Yang Dian immediately stood up and walked towards the direction from which the cicada chirp had come.

"Uh, Officer, where are you going?"

Seeing Yang Dian get up and leave, the only conscious girl immediately became agitated:

"It's very dangerous over there, maybe we shouldn't go."

Yang Dian turned around and shook his head at the girl:

"That won't do."

"Not many people come to the Wetland Park at this time, but there are some."

"What if others are also affected by the chemical poison?"

"I need to determine the extent of the chemical poison's influence and see if anyone else has accidentally entered the area."

At this point, Yang Dian first pulled out his phone and sent a message to Lin Mo and Shi Sheng about the suspected discovery of a Mutant creature in the Wetland Park.

Then he held up his phone and waved at the girl:

"It's my duty; I must do this."

"I've already contacted other colleagues, and support will arrive soon."

"You are in a safe area here; as long as you stay, you should not encounter danger."

With that, Yang Dian ignored the girl who was about to speak but held back, and went directly to the spot where the three had fainted.

He took a step forward, and the piercing cicada chirp entered his ears.

He took a step back, and the cicada chirp disappeared.

After confirming that the cicada chirp would not affect him for a short time, Yang Dian, under the girl's strange gaze, rushed directly into the cicada chirping area.

After rushing out of the cicada chirping area, he stopped abruptly and looked back at the path he had come from.

"Because the surroundings are dense forests, the cicada chirp's influence range is not large, with a diameter of less than 50 meters."

"Secondly, because I'm not sure if the center of the cicada chirp, which is the cicada's location, overlaps with the path I ran."

"So I need to run two more times."

He acted on his thoughts.

After planning a route, Yang Dian traversed the cicada chirping area twice more.

After two passes, Yang Dian roughly determined the center of the cicada chirp, which was the cicada's location.

'I wonder if that cicada has any other abilities besides ultrasonic waves.'

He squeezed the pistol holstered at his waist and felt the high-voltage electric net capture ball in his pocket.

He looked around, saw no one, and once the girl's location was obscured by trees, Yang Dian decisively ran towards the source of the cicada chirp.

"It's not on this tree."

"It's not on this tree either."

"Then, if nothing goes wrong, it should be on this tree."

He quickly reached the base of the last large tree that had been singled out.

He tilted his head back and walked around the tree.

Before completing a full circle, a golden cicada, reflecting dazzling sunlight under the dappled sun, came into Yang Dian's view.