Chapter 77 The Mischievous Kid's Online Romance

In the official livestream room of the Baishui City TV station and on major online platforms, the carnival surrounding the ghost car continued.

That line roared by the traffic police detachment leader, "Requesting aerial unit support," was even turned into various memes and viral videos by Netizens, becoming the hit meme of the year.

However, behind this feast of public spectatorship, the atmosphere in the temporary command center of the Baishui City Public Security Bureau was as oppressive as the sea before a storm.

dragon knight no. 1 had long since broken through all ground blockades and disappeared at the end of the expressway leading to the neighboring city, turning an unprecedented pursuit farce into a massive, unresolved mess.

All pursuit units had been withdrawn, and all the police's efforts ultimately ended in failure.

"Does the technical department have any new findings?"

Criminal Investigation Detachment Captain Chen Jianjun was in charge of the overall command, and he asked in a hoarse voice, his bloodshot eyes fixed intently on the big screen.

On the screen, the red dot representing dragon knight no. 1 had long since exceeded the jurisdiction of Baishui City.

"Report, Captain Chen, none for now." An Expert shook his head, his face full of frustration, "The vehicle's body material is very special and blocks all signals. We cannot perform any form of remote control or hacking."

Chen Jianjun rubbed his throbbing temples, feeling that the experience he had accumulated over a lifetime of handling cases had been completely crushed this afternoon.

He had handled the most brutal murder cases and caught the most cunning drug dealers, but he had never been so helpless as he was today, confounded by a nine-year-old child and his damned toy car.

In the command center, the family of Long Xiaotian had long since stopped wailing and crying.

After confirming that the child was not in any immediate life-threatening danger and was simply playing games with the city's police, their emotions had shifted from initial panic to extreme embarrassment and annoyance.

Long Dagui, the father, sat to the side with a livid expression, saying nothing.

He felt that the gazes cast by the surrounding police and staff were like the needles of Nurse Rong from My Fair Princess, pricking his face with pain. And they deserved to prick.

Just as the entire command center was plunged into a desperate deadlock where they could neither catch nor stop the target, in the corner, Cyber Police Officer Wang, who had been responsible for analyzing Long Xiaotian's personal belongings, suddenly made a new discovery.

"Captain Chen! There's a new situation!" There was a hint of irrepressible oddity in Officer Wang's voice.

Everyone's eyes instantly focused on him.

"We hacked the personal computer in Long Xiaotian's room and found a QQ chat software he had secretly hidden on his desktop." While operating the computer, Officer Wang projected the screen content onto the command center's big screen.

A chat interface filled with pink hearts and cartoon stickers appeared before everyone's eyes.

At the top of the chat box, the other party's avatar was a pure-looking, sweet-smiling female college student with the nickname Sunny Doll, while Long Xiaotian's avatar on this side was a muscular, sunglasses-wearing tough guy with the nickname—Long Aotian.

This discovery stunned everyone present for a moment.

"This kid… puppy love?" A young policewoman couldn't help but mutter in a low voice.

The corner of Chen Jianjun's mouth twitched; he felt that things were starting to develop in a strange direction.

He commanded in a deep voice: "Open the chat history and scroll up."

With Officer Wang's operation, the jaw-dropping chat history was revealed page by page before everyone.

At first, the style was still normal, consisting of some daily greetings.

But soon, this Long Aotian, sporting a tough guy avatar, began his greasy performance.

"Baby, what are you doing? Have you missed me?"

"I dreamt of you again last night, my sweetheart."

"The weather today is really nice, just like my mood when I see you."

These incredibly cheesy, greasy pick-up lines, paired with that muscular tough guy avatar, sent from a nine-year-old child's account, made the police in the command center feel a chill, and quite a few people got goosebumps just looking at them.

The more explosive stuff was yet to come.

When the chat history was scrolled to the last few days, the topic took a sharp turn.

Long Aotian: "Qingqing, I miss you. I want to fly to your side right now."

Sunny Doll: "Oh, you're so annoying, I miss you too, but we are so far apart."

Long Aotian: "Distance is not a problem! For you, I am willing to cross thousands of mountains and rivers! Wait for me, this Saturday, I will go to Linjiang University Town to find you! I want to give you a surprise!"

Sunny Doll: "Really? That's great! I'll be waiting for you! Mwah~"

When that final line, "This Saturday, I will go to Linjiang University Town to find you," and that glaring "Mwah~" emoji appeared on the big screen, the entire command center fell into a silence that lasted for over ten seconds.

Everyone stared blankly at the screen, their minds completely blank.

City-wide pursuit, high-speed racing, exhausted police force, mobilizing helicopters.

These thrilling scenes flashed through their minds, and the source of it all was actually just—a nine-year-old brat's online romance coming to reality!

A young police officer could no longer hold it in, spat out a mouthful of water, then desperately lowered his head, covered his mouth with his hands, and his shoulders shook violently, clearly trying to suppress his laughter.

His action acted like a switch, instantly detonating the entire scene.

Inside the command center, various sounds of forced, suppressed coughing and throat-clearing rose one after another.

Everyone turned their faces away or pretended to study the documents in their hands, but their flushed faces and constantly twitching mouths completely betrayed them.

They were police officers, they had all undergone professional training; no matter how funny, they wouldn't laugh, unless they really couldn't help it.

The face of the father, Long Dagui, had turned from livid to a dark purple.

He stared fixedly at those greasy, cheesy pick-up lines on the screen, trembling with anger.

These words, he was too familiar with them; weren't these the very routines he usually used to tease girls at the dinner table?

He could never have imagined that his nine-year-old son had actually mastered these "dragon-slaying techniques" so thoroughly and even put them into practice!

Beside him, Mother Long, looking at the chat content on the screen, had her well-maintained face flushed red; she only felt a sense of dizziness and almost fainted on the spot, just like her mother-in-law.

And that Criminal Investigation Detachment Captain, Chen Jianjun, experienced and having seen countless major scenes, could finally no longer hold it together.

He looked at the laughable chat history on the screen, thought about the various emergency deployment orders he had signed that afternoon, and his colleagues who had been spun around on the expressway, feeling that his decades-long criminal investigation career had turned into a farce.

He fished a cigarette out of his pocket, wanting to light it, but his hands were shaking too violently, and he failed several times.

Finally, he gave up, crumpled the cigarette into a ball, and threw it fiercely on the ground.

He held it in for a long time, and finally, squeezed a comment out from between his teeth, mixed with speechlessness and a hint of indescribable admiration:

"Damn it… he's truly a talent."