201: Chapter 201 The Water Plant's Destruction Crisis, Judy Rabbit Finds Her Fangs

The black blood Nakamura coughed up carried a fishy, sweet stench.

He lifted his head, his face full of a manic, ferocious grin.

"It's too late... You think blowing up the pump room is the end? That's only the beginning..."

Just as he finished speaking, a guard on the wall who had luckily dodged the kunai suddenly pointed at the giant open-air reservoir in the distance, his voice cracking from the scream.

"Water!"

"Brother Liu! There's something in the water!"

"Black bugs! It's all black bugs!"

Everyone's expression changed, and they immediately rushed to the edge of the reservoir.

In the originally clear pool water, countless black parasites as thick as hair were growing wildly.

It was as if someone had poured a whole bucket of ink into the water.

The blackness churned up from the bottom of the pool and drilled downstream along the giant pipes.

Ah Qiang, the guard who had screamed just now, felt his legs go weak and sat directly on the ground, crying until snot and tears flowed together.

"I saw it!"

"A ninja threw a black canister in just now!"

"It was him! I really saw it!"

Scarface Liu looked in the direction he was pointing, his face turning deathly pale.

That was the main valve leading to the entire city's water supply system!

"It's over..."

Scarface Liu's lips trembled.

"If this water flows out, the entire Jiang City will..."

Panic exploded instantly.

Some people backed away, some cursed, and others reached for their guns, as if bullets could kill the bugs in the water.

Captain Han Xue stepped forward.

She didn't look at the bugs.

Instead, she stared at the dust-covered map of the giant pipe distribution on the wall, her fingertip tracing down the main water supply line.

"There's no time to seal the main valve!"

Her finger stopped at the very bottom of the pipe diagram.

"The only way is to intercept them before they enter the 'sodium hypochlorite mixing reaction pool'! That's the last physical purification checkpoint!"

Scarface Liu froze, then slapped his thigh hard.

"Right! The reaction pool! That place was my old hangout where I used to slack off and play cards during work! All water treatment stays there for at least fifteen minutes!"

He then slumped, anxious: "But that place is on the third underground level, it's like a maze! Now there's water everywhere, and the elevators are stopped, how do we get there?"

Captain Han Xue didn't waste words.

She tore off the yellowed "Fire Safety Evacuation Map" from the wall and pulled a marker from her tactical vest.

With a few quick strokes.

A red line cut directly through several maintenance tunnels marked "Abandoned."

"The normal route takes ten minutes."

"This route, three and a half minutes."

She lifted her head, her gaze fixed on Lin Yuan.

In those eyes, the flame belonging to a criminal police officer was reignited.

"I'll lead the way."

Lin Yuan held Zhou Niannian's hand, calmly watching Captain Han Xue.

He could feel that this rabbit from the old world had, at this moment, regained her fangs.

Lin Yuan looked at Qin Yumo.

"Break his leg and bring him along."

Qin Yumo raised her foot.

Crack.

Nakamura's other leg snapped on the spot.

He twitched all over from the pain, yet he was still smiling.

Lin Yuan nodded toward Captain Han Xue.

"You take command."

Captain Han Xue's body trembled.

It was as if an electric current surged down her spine.

That familiar weight of controlling the scene had returned to her hands.

She gripped the map tightly.

"Received!"

Everyone rushed into the pitch-black underground maintenance tunnel nearby.

Qin Yumo dragged Nakamura with one hand, just like dragging a dead dog.

Nakamura's broken leg knocked out a trail of bloodstains on the ground.

"Hehehe..."

He was still laughing strangely.

"It's useless..."

"Those are Yin Ghost Nematodes, biological weapons raised by the Elder using ninjutsu."

"They are not ordinary bugs."

"They live on ninjutsu and reproduce on flesh and blood."

"Ordinary serums can't even touch their skin."

No one paid him any mind.

In the slippery, pitch-black underground passage, there were only hurried footsteps and Captain Han Xue's calm commands.

"Turn left, jump over that broken pipe!"

"There's standing water ahead, walk along the wall, the water is half a meter deep, there are cables underneath!"

Scarface Liu and his few subordinates followed behind, already stunned.

Even they, the old employees of the water plant, didn't know one could walk underground like this.

Especially that broken pipe.

It had been broken for almost a year.

It was said that the repair funds were embezzled by the previous leader, and since it didn't affect the main operation, no one had bothered with it.

Captain Han Xue was as familiar with it as if it were her own home.

Three minutes and twenty seconds.

Everyone rushed out of the last iron door.

A huge pool appeared before their eyes.

The outer layer was encased in thick, explosion-proof glass.

A line of text was written on the sign.

[Sodium Hypochlorite Mixing Reaction Pool]

Behind the glass, a dense swarm of Yin Ghost Nematodes was pouring in through the water inlet.

They were rolling, twisting, and proliferating in the pool.

There was less than twenty meters left until the outlet at the other end.

At most one minute.

They would enter the city-wide pipe network.

"Hahaha..."

Nakamura was thrown onto the ground by Qin Yumo, his face turning blue from the pain, yet he laughed even more manically.

"Give up!"

"Yin Ghost Nematodes can corrode metal, that sluice gate will hold for ten seconds at most!"

"So what if you found it?"

"You can only watch with your own eyes as Jiang City turns into a bug nest!"

Several guards rushed toward the rusted-shut manual control lever.

Two men joined forces to turn it, but the control lever only emitted a harsh screech of friction.

It didn't budge an inch.

Scarface Liu was so anxious his eyes turned red.

"Damn it!"

"This piece of junk should have been fixed long ago!"

Nakamura laughed until his chest shook.

"Mortals are just mortals."

"You don't understand Divine Arts at all—"

His laughter stopped.

Lin Yuan walked to Zhou Niannian's side.

A red C-grade crystal core was gently placed into her small, cold hand.

"Niannian."

"Make them sleep for a while."

Zhou Niannian nodded.

"Mm."

She closed her eyes.

When she opened them again, her clear pupils had turned pure white.

No fear.

No emotion.

Like a young god.

[Absolute Equilibrium System].

An invisible domain spread out from her as the center.

Hum.

The entire third underground level suddenly fell silent.

The crazily churning black bug swarm in the pool was like someone had pressed the pause button.

The twisting stopped.

The proliferation stopped.

The eerie energy clinging to the bug bodies was instantly smoothed out.

The black bugs lost their support and, like a layer of dirty ash, slowly sank to the bottom of the pool.

Zhou Niannian had a drop of blood ooze from the tip of her nose.

The C-grade crystal core in her hand also turned grayish-white.

Dead silence.

Everyone was stunned.

Captain Han Xue only froze for a second.

The next moment, she turned her head sharply and roared at Scarface Liu:

"What are you waiting for! Start the backup purification program immediately! Use the highest concentration of sodium hypochlorite and ultraviolet irradiation! Destroy these bugs!"

"Huh? Oh! Okay!"

Scarface Liu and his henchmen awoke from a dream and scrambled toward the control console on the other side.

Crisis, averted.

Lin Yuan took a tissue from his space and handed it to Zhou Niannian.

He was thinking that when Bai Jingchen activated his system, he would have a nosebleed, and Zhou Niannian would too.

What about himself?

He immediately realized that one drop of X equals ten drops of blood; he had been bleeding all along.

"No... impossible, how could Divine Arts be suppressed by a child!"

Lin Yuan walked slowly to the dumbfounded Nakamura and stepped on his broken leg.

Crack.

The sound of bone shattering was clearly audible.

"Ah!" Nakamura let out a miserable scream.

Lin Yuan spoke: "What other deployments do you have in Jiang City?"

Nakamura twitched all over from the pain, but a look of resolute madness flashed in his eyes.

He used all his strength to roar: "Long live... His Majesty the Emperor!"

Immediately, he gritted his teeth hard!

Qin Yumo wanted to kick Nakamura's chin, but it was already too late.

A stream of black blood overflowed from the corner of his mouth, his head tilted to the side, and he died on the spot.

He committed suicide.

Lin Yuan withdrew his foot, looking at Nakamura's corpse without a change in his expression.

Qin Yumo pursed her lips: "Master, I was too slow..."

Lin Yuan patted her shoulder: "It's fine, I just wanted him to use the venom fang locator to transmit a signal."

"As long as these people enter Jiang City, Liu Qing can track them. There are only so many of them; with more coming to Jiang City, Shanghai will be a bit more relaxed."

Liu Qing's voice also chimed in at the right time: "Venom fang signal has locked onto three jump points."

Lin Yuan took out the black encrypted communicator and contacted Officer Wei Zheng in the capital directly.

The signal connected.

"Nanjiang Water Plant, Japanese Side ninja squad infiltration, has been resolved by our side."

"Additionally, I have the coordinates of several of their strongholds, which I will send to you later."

Lin Yuan paused for a moment.

"The thirty vials of awakening serum you promised, I require them to be delivered to Cloud Top Palace within six hours."

Having said that, without waiting for the other party to answer, Lin Yuan hung up the communication.

He turned his head to look at Captain Han Xue.

"Can a police officer know so much about the underground of a water plant?"