45: Chapter 45: Reward Reversal!
Patrol Mission
45 -45: Reward Reversal!
Patrol Mission
Li Ming glanced at the corpse, his mechanical arm, sparking with electric arcs, retracted; its power was augmented by the Mother Ore of Cloud Thunder, making the electric arcs on the arm stronger than those he could generate himself.
Switching to the Control intelligent terminal, with the aid of a 360-degree view, he started to inspect the room.
Unfortunately, he found no hidden safes or the like, but he did locate two concealed surveillance probes, one on the ceiling and another opposite the bed.
“There really are surveillance probes…” Li Ming stared at the glass ball in front of him, well hidden and obviously custom made.
If it weren’t for his 360-degree view, he might not have spotted it at all.
There were no wires connected, nor were there any signal transmission fluctuations; it had an onboard storage disk, all for the sake of concealment.
Li Ming removed the hard disk to check it, finding only the last three days’ video.
He transferred the balance from the Rose Society’s Black Hole Network account to his own, bringing his total balance to 250,000.
Once the bounty task from the Rose Society was reviewed and completed, another 70,000 Star Coins would be credited to his account, making it 320,000 in total.
Li Ming was satisfied, but unfortunately…
whether it was buying an E-class gene seed or upgrading a D-class Controlled Object, he was far from the required amount.
He decided to save up for now.
Back at home, he flipped through the records from the surveillance probes with great interest.
The majority was pornographic content; it seemed that the Rose Society catered to both men and women.
It was somewhat interesting at first, but he quickly grew tired of it.
He didn’t know if there were any important figures among them, so he copied everything to his smart terminal and destroyed the hard disk.
……
“Captain Yang, a few more people died this morning—Black Dog, Rose, and a few small fry; those Bounty Hunters are becoming more and more brazen.”
In the office, Lao Dao was reporting.
Yang Peng listened, then suddenly looked up, “Who did you say?
Rose?”
“Yes,” Lao Dao nodded.
“This morning, Rose was found naked in her bedroom, along with one of her minor henchmen.”
“The bounty has already been claimed by a Bounty Hunter called Ghost Shadow, who recently took care of several bounties.”
Once a public bounty is claimed, the completer’s codename is displayed.
“Tsk…” Yang Peng frowned.
Rose was the one who sold Li Ming’s information to the Fierce Tiger Gang.
Somehow, he was reminded of Li Ming’s question from yesterday.
Impossible…
he dismissed the notion internally.
Rose’s gene seed development process had already surpassed 90%, on the same level as Scar-faced Tiger, not someone Li Ming could handle so casually.
Moreover, he hadn’t explicitly mentioned Rose yesterday, only casually referred to the Rose Society.
With so many people in the Rose Society, how could Li Ming possibly identify Rose within less than a day?
He shook his head and continued to listen to Lao Dao’s report.
…
By afternoon, a bombshell dropped: four more high-value bounties were added—the City Guard Security Director, the Intelligence Director, the Logistics Director, and the Internal Affairs Director.
A series of team leaders, including Yang Peng himself, were now on the bounty list.
At the same time, the hefty bounties on Tu Zheng and his two companions were withdrawn, though canceling a bounty required a fee of 50% of the bounty amount.
This shocking turn of events came suddenly, and just half an hour later, the City Guard Security Director—Wang An was assassinated.
An armor-piercing bullet tore through the Heavy Armor Hover Car he was in, grazing past his cheek!
The entire City Guard was in an uproar, with mid to high-level management being bountied, and the Security Director assassinated—it was a severe provocation!
All mid-level and above management were called to a meeting, and soon a notice was issued—Silver Grey City triggered a Level 3 alert; all City Guards, effective immediately, were to suspend leave, patrol day and night, schools were suspended, and all residents were advised not to go out unless necessary.
Furthermore, support had already been requested from Blue Star.
“Pretty vicious strategy, using high bounties to lure Bounty Hunters first, and then targeting the City Guard.
Even if Blue Star responds, it will take time,” Li Ming assessed, quite surprised.
“And the Bounty Hunters have already arrived, they won’t just leave without a fight, they will inevitably shift their targets to the City Guard.”