"They're still looking. Those contract files are quite old. They might not be easy to find... Found it!" Yang Qi's tone suddenly brightened. "The na of the aquarium store is 'Senyang Aquarium'!"
"Which district is this store in?" Sun Hang imdiately asked.
"No, it's not in Tianfu City!" Yang Qi's tone was sowhat excited. "I checked this aquarium store's business license. It's registered in Jinlu County!!"
"Jinlu County!" Ye Xuan, who was just questioning Sun Hang a second ago, widened her eyes in surprise and looked at Sun Hang.
Jinlu County again!
This is definitely no coincidence!
Is this... is this the male intuition? Ye Xuan bewilderedly examined Sun Hang.
How can he grasp the key point from a casual remark? Has this guy got a God's perspective cheat code?
"At the fire scene in Qingzhu Bar, have they found any corpses of these marine fishes? Even if they're charred to a crisp, it's fine." Sun Hang asked again.
"I'll ask the sheriff responsible for the site investigation at the Public Security Bureau."
Two minutes later, Yang Qi's voice echoed in the communication channel again: "They said no, no corpses of aquatic creatures, including fish, were found at the scene."
"Even if both fish tanks were shattered, those fish couldn't have flown across several streets..." Sun Hang said, "Then there's only one possibility... The person who killed Qiao Liu and set fire to Qingzhu Bar took away those marine fishes kept in the ecological fish tank at Qingzhu Bar."
"Do you think those fishes... have sothing to do with the A11 Organization?"
"Since we can't find any abnormal communication or social records, why not boldly speculate. Could these marine fishes be the tool Qiao Liu used to communicate with the A11 Organization?" Sun Hang said.
"This Qiao Liu can talk to fish?! That's so cool!" Shinkata Misaki's voice chid in from the side.
"Not necessarily talking to fish. There are many ways to convey information... fish colors, numbers, actions, all these can be used as codes to transmit intelligence. As long as soone can remotely manipulate these fishes, they can use them to transmit internal information and orders to Qiao Liu from the organization." Yang Qi's mind had also completely turned around, "The address of this 'Senyang Aquarium' is at Victory Avenue No. 591 in Jinlu County. I'll notify Wang Xiyi right now to pay special attention to this address!"
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Shuzhou border town, Jinlu County.
Wang Xiyi's wings fully spread out, the wingspan length is nearly seven ters, the wings mbrane covered with tal-textured scales cut through the raging wind, swiftly gliding in the high air.
The black windbreaker and black wings almost rged with the night sky, only the occasional flash of fla at the tip of her tail occasionally exposed Wang Xiyi's whereabouts.
From the ground looking up, it seed like a fast-moving, erratic phosphorescence in the high sky.
Wang Xiyi kept her eyes open; she has completely adapted to this environnt. Even without goggles, the high-speed air currents don't affect her vision at all. A layer of transparent protective film ford from the secretion hardening on the inner side of her eyelids covered her eyes... Not to ntion the airflow generated during high-speed flight, even if one were to shoot at her eyes with a handgun, the bullet wouldn't penetrate this less than two-milliter-thick film.
Sun Hang called this "bullet-proof eye crust," Wang Xiyi didn't object, eye crust is eye crust, as long as it can withstand wind and bullets, it works.
She could already faintly see the outline of the city below—although Jinlu County is a border town, truth be told, its economic developnt is not bad.
Before the full city evacuation, the population residing in Jinlu County was not the few tens of thousands Wang Xiyi imagined but was a full nineteen thousand.
The city district has nurous high-rise buildings exceeding fifty floors, the straight office buildings form a dense concrete forest, and the not small-scale comrcial center glimpses the traces of prosperity before the big evacuation.
The reason Jinlu County can develop to such a scale despite being on the frontier is only one—there is a not small reserve rare-earth mine here.
According to the Disaster Response Committee's plan, after the eternal night recedes, Jinlu County must be reclaid sohow... but for now, withdrawing the defensive line is their only option. Resources like rare-earth mines won't lose value if left untouched, so temporarily abandoning them doesn't have much impact.
After all, the monsters couldn't possibly sneak in during Jinlu's full-city evacuation gap and hollow out the rare-earth mine, could they?
"Damn, is Jinlu County really this big?" Wang Xiyi muttered inwardly.
As the ace Hunter of Tianfu City, in the past two years, she'd been to many parts of Shuzhou on missions, but it was indeed the first ti she ca to Jinlu County.
Wang Xiyi slightly raised her altitude to avoid a writing tower that reached the sky. Then she turned sharply in mid-air and braked, diving along another office building's glass curtain wall.
The uncanny wristwatch on her wrist was set to the accurate ti. She decided to start searching from this seemingly most developed comrcial district and then slowly traverse the city from east to west.
At this mont, a beep sounded in her headphones.
It was a communication request from Tianfu City.
"I'm already in Jinlu County, what's up?" Wang Xiyi answered the communication.
"Prioritize investigating the 'Senyang Aquarium' at Victory Avenue No. 591. We discovered that this store may be connected with Qiao Liu and the A11 Organization." Yang Qi said.
"'Senyang Aquarium'? You're referring to... those two huge fish tanks in Qiao Liu's store?" Wang Xiyi had an excellent mory, "Was it installed by this store?"
"Yes. We suspect Qiao Liu used those fishes to communicate with the A11 Organization."
"Alright, I'll head over now!" Wang Xiyi responded.
She couldn't wait to finish the mission early... Sun Hang hasn't been visiting her for a while, as a humanoid black dragon, Wang Xiyi's actual needs are far greater than those of a normal human.
Her heart was always smoldering with a pent-up energy, yearning to vent thoroughly on Sun Hang.
"Hopefully, I can finish the task before ten o'clock." Wang Xiyi thought to herself, flapping her wings fiercely and heading towards the north of the city.
Victory Avenue is one of the four main north-south thoroughfares in Jinlu County. Across this prosperous comrcial district, flying straight along the road below, you can soon reach the address sent by Yang Qi.
As Wang Xiyi got closer to her destination, the height of surrounding buildings rapidly decreased—unlike the prosperous southern part of the city, north of town developnt levels are markedly different, this area consists mostly of old and small neighborhoods, rarely can buildings be seen with heights over six floors.
Yet even so, Wang Xiyi dared not lower her flying altitude too much—there were simply too many telephone poles densely packed around here, a slight mistake might result in directly crashing into the cables crossing over the streets.
And these black wires under the cover of night were very difficult to distinguish with the naked eye...
"This place... gives a sowhat uncomfortable feeling..."
While Wang Xiyi was caught in thoughts like these, suddenly her uncanny wristwatch exuded an extrely faint warmth.
"Hm?"
Wang Xiyi rembered clearly, Yang Qi said this watch's farthest sensing distance was one kiloter... implying the target she was seeking was within one kiloter radius?
Wang Xiyi landed on the ground, folding her wings.
"Looks like there's indeed sothing hiding here." She muttered to herself, transitioning to walking forward.
The temperature emitted by her watch gradually rose. This sensing function is bidirectional, aning the other party can also sense the "kindred object" approaching them... avoiding alerting the target is almost impossible.
But Wang Xiyi didn't care.
The opponent cannot escape.
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