Tokyo underground city

Chapter 97 Officer Shao

"Ah sneeze!"

The man in the room sneezed, his nose dripping from his face.

"Sorry, I was hit by a fire hose last night and I caught a little cold."

He wiped his nose awkwardly and looked around for a tissue: "Adjutant Lu, where did you put the tissue I took out?"

"Ahem..." The female police officer who led Lin Huai'en into the office saw this somewhat unexpected scene. She calmly raised her fist and coughed lightly: "The drawer on your right inside."

"Ah... I found it, thank you."

Hum——

The loud sound of nose blowing made the other three people in the office feel a little embarrassed.

The female police officer named "Lu" had an expression of disgust on her face.

Looking at the man in front of him, the expression on Yuan Xiaole's face was a bit shocked and angry. It seems that he thinks that such a childish man can also lead other police officers to help him find Mu Yaya and Fat Knight?

However, Lin Huaien believes that the initial impression of a person is very important.

But that's only for humans who don't have a city.

He calmly studied the man in front of him.

Height...about 1.85 meters.

The shoulders are broad, but the body is not stout. He has a hedgehog hair of about five centimeters, black hair and black eyes. He looks like the most common grassroots police officer——

Only the police uniform he wore was different from the two-piece suit worn by ordinary police officers. It consisted of a waistcoat shirt on the inside and a long windbreaker on the outside.

The man held up the enamel teapot in his office, walked to the water dispenser, and took a cup of hot water.

He smacked his lips, took a careful sip, and shuddered.

It seemed like he had been burned.

He mixed it with cold water and drank it.

After a glass of hot water, the man seemed to have recovered from the coldness all over his body. He put on the windbreaker, rubbed his palms, and sat behind his desk:

"What's wrong, why are you still standing? Sit down?"

He pointed to the solid wood sofa next to his desk with some surprise: "Let me introduce myself, my surname is Shao, Shao Youming, you can call me Officer Shao. I am the Chief of the Tactical Execution Section of Changying Lower City Public Security Bureau - responsible for Changying For criminal investigation and other special police work in the city below the camp, you can think of me as both a criminal police officer and a special police officer."

"As long as it's related to dungeons and explorers, it's under our control."

Officer Shao summed it up simply.

"Then..." Lin Huai'en nodded. Just as he was about to open his mouth, he was interrupted by Yuan Xiaole beside him——

"Then when are you going to save my friend?!"

Officer Shao did not answer, but flipped through the information at hand: "Be patient, it's been a while since your friends have lost contact."

"Assuming that it only took them about four days to reach the fifth floor and got trapped inside, then five days have passed as of today."

Officer Shao analyzed the current situation:

"Normally, if a dungeon team in the gray card stage leaves the camp for 7 days without any message being sent back, it will trigger the alarm mechanism of the dungeon association. Send the list of relevant missing explorers to the police The center will come and dispatch the corresponding branch to handle it."

"But the wave of monsters that occurred this time blocked the missing information of your friends. But it also allowed us to confirm that there was a problem with their condition two days in advance."

Officer Shao coughed and raised his throat: "So please feel free to worry, although from your point of view, the disappearance of your friend is a very worrying matter. But as a professional, I think this accident should allow time for rescue. The window period is actually very sufficient.”

"……That's good."

Hearing Officer Shao's words, Yuan Xiaole breathed a sigh of relief.

After saying this, it seemed like all the fatigue was welling up in him.

His body staggered and he was about to fall to the ground.

Lin Huai'en subconsciously reached out to help him, but unexpectedly, Yuan Xiaole fell into his arms and lost consciousness.

"...He fell asleep." Lin Huai'en glanced at Yuan Xiaole speechlessly, then raised his head and looked at the man in front of him: "Should we wait for him to wake up? Or should we continue?"

"Look you guys - like I said, we're in no rush."

Officer Shao took a moment to raise the teapot and took another sip of hot water.

Lin Huai'en shook his head, thought for a while, and said: "The rescue window is very sufficient...but that doesn't mean the difficulty is low, right?"

Officer Shao raised his head with interest and glanced at him:

"...Did you draw this conclusion from what I just said?"

"I just came back from the blockade." Lin Huai'en replied bluntly: "My team encountered a temporary surge."

"The monsters at the tidal surge point sprayed into the sky like water jets. I don't think we can enter the underground city and rescue the missing people under this situation."

"Temporary surge..." Hearing Lin Huai'en's statement, Officer Shao nodded, understood what had happened, and sighed: "You have worked hard too."

He casually opened the information at hand and flipped through it: "Your name is...Lin Huai'en? Wilderness House ID 'Xiao Lin's strange classmate'? The person next to you should be the policeman 'Yuan Xiaole'?"

"Yes." Lin Huaien nodded, "Any questions?"

"The dungeon explorer level is 12...contribution points are 74,700 points...71,700 of which were all obtained yesterday..." Officer Shao looked through the information while nodding and evaluating: "Almost all monsters were killed. If It’s not that the concentration of magic power is too low, are you already over level 15 now?”

Lin Huaien was startled.

He didn't expect that the police station already knew about the contribution points that were just updated in the morning.

As if sensing Lin Huai'en's doubts, Officer Shao raised the folder slightly casually and pointed at the female police officer next to Lin Huai'en:

"We have a very good adjutant lady."

The female police officer, half of her face covered by bangs and with her hair in a bun, just straightened her spine and stood at the door, looking straight ahead without any response to Officer Shao's comments.

Lin Huaien withdrew his gaze:

"So, you called me into the room and that's all you wanted to say?"

Officer Shao shook his head, put away the information, held his hands, and looked at Lin Huai'en:

"In fact, during this wave of monsters, the people who lost contact in the Changying dungeon are not the only ones like Wanwan Holdings."

"However, the other group of people who lost contact were all red card-level explorers, and the protection pass was valid for fifty days. So after hearing our rescue suggestions, they chose to wait on the ground until the monster surge ended— —Or at least it will be after it weakens before carrying out rescue operations.”

Lin Huai'en frowned and thought: "But the monster tide has just begun. If we have to wait until the monster tide weakens, it will take at least 5 to 7 days. For the pioneers, the safety period is only 4 to 6 days. …”

"Yes, it's urgent...but not unacceptable."

Officer Shao nodded and agreed with Lin Huai'en's statement.

"With the strength of the police force, the time it takes to go to the 5th floor for search and rescue is only 4 to 5 days. We can go down on the sixth day of the monster surge and rescue people."

"But in this way, no accidents are allowed. Any failure will lead to unpredictable results..." Lin Huai'en narrowed his eyes slightly and said.

"There is nothing unpredictable." Officer Shao blew on the teapot out of habit and said, "It's just a 'loss of part of the personality memory'."

"It's unpredictable what kind of memory will be lost." Lin Huai'en replied calmly: "It would be fine if only part of the memory of life is lost. Once the explorer dies and the validity period of the pass is exceeded, it will jeopardize those memories and personality formation. Relevant key memories may even lead to symptoms of aphasia and agnosia... The specific extent of the severity will gradually become more severe as time goes by..."

"In the most serious case, even if the pass is retrieved and the person is resurrected, the explorer has already turned into a vegetative state."

Lin Huaien emphasized at the end.

"So, what are you going to do?" He looked at Officer Shao.

"I said, it's up to you." Officer Shao kicked the ball back to Lin Huai'en: "If you insist on immediate rescue, we can set off now."

"But before I listen to your answer, I have a request."

Officer Shao knocked on the table gently, seeming to be thinking about something:

"We are now in a period when monsters are surging. With the current police force of the Changying Branch, there is a serious shortage of manpower and there is no guarantee that the explorers will be rescued."

"So, once we fail... the Changying Branch will probably not be able to organize the next rescue."

Officer Shao's words made Lin Huaien's heart sink slightly.

"And...if you insist on sending out rescue during the monster surge...then I hope you can at least become a helper and go to the fifth underground floor with us."

Officer Shao looked at Lin Huaien and said calmly.

"If you refuse, I will submit the rescue plan to the Shangdu Underground City Public Security Bureau."

"According to previous experience, in this situation, the General Administration will 100% ask us to wait until the monster tide weakens before carrying out rescue."

"So, what is your choice?"

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