"Did you infect him with your illness too?"
"Yes, there should be a few more at school..."
"You..." Liu Yuning and I were both speechless for a moment. Given Chi Lingxuan's promiscuous private life at school, who knew how many boys she might have endangered this way.
Trouble was likely to erupt at the school soon, but there was nothing we could do to stop it since it had already happened. All we could do was take precautions. When Zhang Yangcheng was mentioned again, Chi Lingxuan said sadly, "You might wonder why I would like someone like him. I usually like younger underclassmen, don't I? Honestly, I don't know how I ended up meeting him. We met online. If you don't know Zhang Yangcheng, you don't know that although he was average in other aspects, he was a very good talker. We chatted often, late into the night online. He seemed to know everything. Finally, one day, we met.
I ended up having sex with him at his place. But for me, that was nothing, as it wasn't the first time I'd done something like that. At the time, Zhang Yangcheng didn't know he was sick. Even when I noticed some wounds on him, they were just self-inflicted scratches, because the ulcers were small. Later, I started feeling itchy and my immunity dropped. I asked Zhang Yangcheng about it, and he finally told me he had been diagnosed with AIDS.
I assume his private life was very chaotic, otherwise, how would he have gotten AIDS? But it doesn't matter how he got it anymore; he probably doesn't even know himself, considering how many women he's slept with. When I confronted him, I wanted to cause him trouble. But we argued that night. I knew I couldn't win against him, so I had to use my skills—drones. As for the crime itself..."
What Chi Lingxuan confessed matched our earlier assumptions. When asked if she controlled this technology herself, she outwardly replied, "Yes, I can handle it myself."
"But with so many drones, how could you manufacture them all by yourself? Did you know someone named Liang Manxiang?"
As soon as I mentioned this person, Chi Lingxuan couldn't hold back. "It seems you've investigated that company?"
Liu Yuning said, "Of course. I know you were all just being used by a shadowy force behind the scenes. So, you definitely didn't modify those drones yourselves."
"That's right. Since you know there's someone behind us, you can investigate yourselves. I don't know any other insider details, because it was only with Liang Manxiang's help that I gained the opportunity to control the drones.
I went to her house and saw countless drones. She's a genius in this field. She said I could control any of her drones, and then gave me a controller. I'm also quite skilled in this area, and I understood how it all worked with just a glance.
I quickly learned to use it, and then I used one of the drones to kill Zhang Yangcheng first. The rest happened as I described in the crime process earlier."
Chi Lingxuan didn't hide anything and actively confessed the remaining details. We recorded everything. Her case could be considered closed at this point. However, the person who developed those modified drones was not her. This meant we still had to investigate the force orchestrating all of this behind the scenes. That was the only way to truly solve the problem of people being harmed by drones. As for the Polaris symbol on Zhang Yangcheng's forehead, Chi Lingxuan stated that she had joined Polaris, and it was a mark left by the organization after a murder. She told us, "Listen up, the organization has decided to openly begin its comprehensive and formal revenge against your Sin Punishment Team and all other police officers in China! So, all of you wait to slowly become rotting corpses that no one cares about! Ahahahahaha!!"
"We have long been prepared to face any adversity. Your schemes will not succeed! Your dreams will soon turn to dust!! Because I am a Forensic Investigator of Strange Cases, and we are the Sin Punishment Team!!"
I replied coldly and then left the interrogation room. Unexpectedly, just as we resolved one case, the 110 emergency dispatch center broadcasted another: "A large number of drones have surrounded the central trade building on Taiyue East Road in Guangming City. The Sin Punishment Team is requested to assist the SWAT and Armed Police forces in rushing to the scene immediately!"
We mobilized immediately, got into our cars, and sped towards the incident location. We had just heard that the trade building was under siege, which was no small matter; in fact, it was a major event. The trade building housed many companies of various sizes in our city. If their employees were attacked, the consequences would be severe. Upon arriving at the scene, we were astonished to see thousands of drones hovering in the sky. The sight was almost like science fiction, but in reality, they were just drones, not some alien species.
Someone was definitely controlling them from behind. The situation was extremely critical, as the drones were already smashing into the glass of the trade building. They were equipped with sharp blades, drills, and hammers. Glass, even tempered glass, wouldn't withstand them for long; it would probably shatter immediately.
Several SWAT officers had already begun ascending the building, and we followed closely behind. When we reached the designated floor, we saw numerous drones flying nearby. Fortunately, we had already evacuated all the employees from this area to safety downstairs. Our priority now was to protect all the property here as much as possible. He Xin, Liu Yuning, and Zhao Xiong were searching for the controller's location, hoping they would find it quickly, as the drones would soon break through.
Li Fan and the others saw me about to take the lead in protecting the property and pulled me back, saying, "You should stay behind, don't forget your identity!"
"It's alright. Regardless of my position, I am a police officer. We police officers don't just protect lives; property is also part of our responsibility. I am a leader. If I don't charge forward, how can other officers dedicate themselves wholeheartedly to criminal investigation? Let's go, we need to resist the drone invasion!"
We gripped our weapons, awaiting the drones to break through the glass. As the glass began to crack, we were already prepared to open fire!
Dozens of criminal investigators and SWAT officers, a mixed unit, stood ready, their weapons pointed uniformly at the glass windows surrounding this floor. The moment the glass was breached, we simultaneously pulled the triggers. The rapid, dense gunfire erupted, and countless drones were shot down. Many were destroyed before they could even enter, but a large number still flew in!
We kicked over office desks, using them as cover. As the drones stormed in, their blades sliced through the desks in front of us. The strange sounds of crunching and clanging filled the vast office. This had once been everyone's workplace, and now it was utterly ruined. Documents were scattered everywhere, desks were overturned, printers were smashed, and water dispensers lay on their sides. The walls bore numerous holes from impacts...