Chapter 21 Special Operations
Chen Xuan answered Zheng Guofu's call, and the next second he heard Zheng Guofu scolding him.
"Chen Xuan, what kind of rubbish plan did you submit? Did your plan save people?"
"I trusted you so much that you didn't rush to review your proposal, only to find it was worse than not even looking at it! Aren't you just giving up?"
"The proposals submitted by the other five task forces were all very reasonable and well-founded. They either rescued everyone or sacrificed existing victims. They were all plans to interrupt the chain of transmission. What about yours? How is it any different from surrender?"
"I'm telling you, change the plan immediately before tonight, otherwise..."
Chen Xuan hung up the phone with Zheng Guofu and waited at the victim's home for the sleepwalking to begin.
The night that should have been peaceful has recently become noisy. The police are on high alert, waiting for the person in charge on the scene to provide feedback and cooperate behind the scenes.
Each task force has over a hundred members, with comprehensive support from technology to policy, making tonight a battlefield filled with gunpowder smoke.
Except Chen Xuan.
He refused the help, saying his plan didn't require so many people.
The victim that Chen Xuan was responsible for was named Liu Yang. At the moment, he was shirtless and yawning continuously. Two nights ago, there was suddenly another person at home, which made him unable to sleep well. As a result, tonight, Officer Chen told him that he could not sleep.
"Officer... am I really sleepwalking? Why do I not believe it?"
"If you don't believe me, you can try it. You will just die."
Chen Xuan's faint threat made the man shudder and he dared not laugh and joke with the police officer anymore.
Although he didn't know that if he didn't laugh, he would be close to death.
Chen Xuan calmly watched the dead man in front of him without feeling much pity. In this world, the living are not necessarily happier than the dead, and the living may not be able to live forever.
Liu Yang naturally couldn't imagine that Chen Xuan in front of him had such complicated psychological activities. He was a little bored and was browsing his mobile phone, watching the game live broadcast happily.
Chen Xuan didn't care about this anymore. He looked around and checked his phone from time to time to find out about the other victims.
Currently, all victims are awake. The best case scenario is that they stay awake all night so that they cannot infect others through sleepwalking.
But it is not so easy to avoid the Pen Fairy.
In front of the Pen Fairy... Can you just not sleep if you can?
A chill blew past, and Chen Xuan's intuition told him that something was wrong, and he immediately looked in the direction of Liu Yang.
The sound of the game live broadcast was still playing, but Liu Yang's head was nodding, and then deep breathing sounds were heard, and he fell into a deep sleep.
"Liu Yang, Liu Yang?"
The increasingly violent shaking did not wake Liu Yang up. Just as Chen Xuan was about to forcibly wake Liu Yang up, Liu Yang stood up in a daze.
Liu Yang walked towards the door. He walked without making any sound, as if he was stepping into another world. His body was a little tall, and his heels did not touch the ground. His whole body was leaning forward, and his hands were shaking as he walked. With every step he took, his body seemed to squeeze into an invisible gap, gradually changing from three-dimensional to two-dimensional, and finally to a gap. Only from the side could the whole person be seen.
During this period, Chen Xuan did not move. He originally wanted to reach out and pull, but the creepy suction coming from in front of him finally made him give up this idea.
It felt like if he stretched out his hand, he would be sucked into this two-dimensional world and would never be able to get out.
Chen Xuan calmed down and looked at the group chat without putting himself in danger. Sure enough, this was not an isolated case. All the victims had symptoms of sleepwalking sooner or later, and their bodies walked into the two-dimensional world.
Seeing this, other task forces have also begun issuing instructions -
"All officers on the scene, follow the victim's movements and determine his final destination!"
"yes!"
Countless voices gathered into strength, dozens of police officers on the scene began to mobilize, and more police officers behind the scenes began to assist in the work.
The traffic lights at each destination intersection were changed to red lights, and cordons and vehicle blocking nets were set up on the grounds of checking for drunk driving and traffic accidents. The online navigation system temporarily displayed traffic jams to prevent people from entering by mistake and to prevent ordinary people from being implicated and the impact of public opinion storms.
Before the final determination is made, panic must not be allowed to spread among the masses. This is the consensus of the Xia Party. The "Pen Fairy" can only be announced by the official and accepted by the masses. Once the situation is reversed, it will cause extreme chaos.
At this moment, everyone followed the sleepwalker closely. The seemingly calm scene was actually turbulent. This was the first time that humans and evil spirits faced off head-on, and they had to save even one person from the ghost.
In comparison, Chen Xuan's side was truly calm. He just followed Liu Yang silently and observed Liu Yang. He found that Liu Yang did not seem to be wandering aimlessly, but more like he was executing a task with a destination in mind.
Have you determined your goals?
"The people on our side are walking very fast. We have to drive to catch up!"
"Follow closely!"
Compared with other task forces, Liu Yang still maintains a leisurely posture, and the performances of all the victims are also very different. Chen Xuan suspects that this may be related to the destination.
There was no answer. Just as he was thinking about it, all the victims approached their destination almost at the same time, and Liu Yang was walking towards a residential area.
Is this it?
From one to five, the same operation was performed uniformly——
"All police officers, mobilize! Send out notices! Clear the area!!"
"Everyone wake up, everyone wake up!!"
"Go, go!"
"All residents, get up and leave immediately. There is a suspected bomb hidden in the residential building. Please leave immediately. Leave immediately."
"For your personal safety, please maintain order and evacuate in an orderly manner."
The sounds of horns and shouts overlapped and intertwined, and the task force even directly requisitioned the aunt's square dance broadcast and started playing it on a loop.
With this lame excuse, the sleepy residents immediately woke up and walked towards their homes. Under the arrangement of the police, everyone walked to the square in an orderly manner and looked at each other in confusion.
The flow of people deliberately blocked the sleepwalker's route, but the sleepwalker saw mountains from all directions and peaks from the side, so even if he saw it, no one would think much about it.
The brief panic was quickly resolved. The police officer's clothes were the best tranquilizer, which was the common choice of almost all task forces.
Only Chen Xuan remains unique.
The community was not evacuated, no one was notified in advance, and there was no panic.
"Are you really not going to evacuate?"
The police officers around him all questioned Chen Xuan.
Chen Xuan didn't explain much, just shook his head.
He doesn't think these actions will have any effect on the "Pen Fairy". In everyone's opinion, this is a battle against time.
But Chen Xuan doesn't think so.
