Chapter 379 - Double Hit (2/2)

“The problem is, right now, there are gunshots everywhere, and there are a lot of pests underground. It’s difficult to trace the sounds of Gao Ye digging and eating earth.

“So, we can only predict his possible targets and try to arrive at the spot before he does anything so that we can catch him off guard!”

Ye Xiaoxing uploaded a distribution map of the important facilities in the south of the city to the tactical computers of the Group 9 investigators.

The investigators already had more than one hundred construction maps of the underground tunnels and 3D structure charts in their tactical computers. They contained the coordinates where they had recently traced Gao Ye.

If they connected the large number of densely packed coordinates together, they could form Gao Ye’s movement trajectory.

The scratches Meng Chao and Lu Siya discovered were the last place Gao Ye was seen.

When they connected his movement trajectory and the last place he appeared, his path formed an arrow.

Ahead of it were important facilities and a large number of skyscrapers. There were at least dozens of them in the area.

Each group of investigators was in charge of monitoring from three to five suspicious points.

Even so, they were still plagued by problems. There were large unmonitored areas between the targets, and it would be very easy for Gao Ye to take advantage of those areas to cause trouble.

If only they could learn of Gao Ye’s target beforehand…

Meng Chao stared at the map with rapt attention.

At some point, he bit the nail on his thumb to the point that it was uneven.

Suddenly, he saw a small spot at the edge of the map.

He magnified the map and closed in on the real time surveillance footage of that spot.

“Meng Chao, Siya, do you know the area you’re in charge of yet?” Ye Xiaoxing asked through the communicator.

“Captain, we’d like to change locations!” Meng Chao interrupted Lu Siya’s answer.

“Why?” Ye Xiaoxing asked.

“Uh… Instincts,” Meng Chao said. “The important facilities you marked are naturally good targets, and if they’re destroyed, they will cause a lot of deaths among the citizens. Parts of the area will collapse as well.

“But I think that Gao Ye won’t choose those places. His next target might be the construction site of Subway No.20!”

Ye Xiaoxing was silent and waited for Meng Chao’s explanation.

“I understand Gao Ye. He’s a true technical nerd. When he was a human, he racked his brains and even broke the law to achieve his goal just so that he could get the construction deal for Subway No.20.

“I think that even if he completely lost his humanity and forgot his pride as a human, he would still refuse to accept things the way they are deep in his nerves, even if just a bit.

“Recently, the construction of Subway No.20 has reached the point where they’re about to dig a tunnel under the river.

“This is the first tunnel under a river, and it will cross Red Dragon River. Aside from construction, the parties involved will also test a lot of advanced technology.

“Once the technology is verified, soon, there will be tunnels going under rivers everywhere. They will connect Jiangnan with the main city area, and it’s highly likely that this will increase Dragon City’s centralization and overall fighting power.

“But what if the gigantic Ultimate Sandworm dug into the tunnel during the crucial period of the construction and water flooded the tunnel, thereby making the tunnel collapse and perhaps even making the space for the underground railway that has already been dug out collapse? A lot of workers, architects, and specialists would drown, and it would lead to a major delay in Dragon City’s development.

“I think that this target is the only one worthy of the abnormal beasts racking their brains to launch the rat hordes and zombies at us as a smoke bomb to provide cover for Gao Ye!”

Ye Xiaoxing was silent for a while, then said, “The construction site of the tunnel under the river is at the edge of the southern part of the city.”

“If we calculate the time since the rat horde appeared, this amount of time should be enough for Gao Ye to run to that place and cause destruction!” Meng Chao said.

“Alright!” Ye Xiaoxing did not hesitate. He immediately made his decision. “There are dozens of important facilities here, and they concern the safety of millions of citizens. We can’t give up on searching for Gao Ye here and set up defenses around them too.

“But I’ll send your target to another squad. Go at full speed to the construction of the tunnel under the river with Lu Siya. If you discover Gao Ye’s tracks, the attackers will immediately head to you!”

“Roger that!” Meng Chao and Lu Siya said at the same time.

Both of them brought out different metallic boxes from their backpacks.

Meng Chao pressed a triangle shaped button on the metallic box, and as the whirrs from sophisticated gears and machines moving rose, the metallic box opened up layer by layer and revealed a shiny 3D mobile gear that looked like a metal skeleton.

Lu Siya’s metallic box turned into a flying backpack.

A pair of alloy wings that were as thin as cicada wings spread out from the backpack. A mini engine filled with crystal fuel released steam, which allowed her to make subtle changes in her movement direction.