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“Bang!”

“Boom!”

The loud sound of the closing door made Charlie involuntarily glance at the rearview mirror. The girl with a bit of blood on her, and the young man with a sheepish smile, had already sat back in the back seat of the police car.

“Nancy, are you injured?” Charlie frowned when he saw the bloodstain on Nancy’s clothes, silently regretting that he hadn’t gone with them just now.

“No, this bloodstain isn’t mine, it’s from that scumbag.” Nancy absentmindedly picked up the bag containing the gun from beside Charlie and whispered.

“Scumbag?”

“Nancy is talking about Sherry’s… stepfather.” Su Xiaoyu’s smile faded slightly as he mentioned this.

Meanwhile, he watched the girl beside him calmly scrape off the bloodstains from the fabric with a small knife, no change in expression. He had already underestimated this seemingly pure and beautiful girl.

From brandishing the firearms to intimidate Jason and his son, to using his son’s blood to make Jason yield, and the calm demeanor when doing all this, Su Xiaoyu had raised his assessment of this girl significantly.

“How did you get Jason to spill the beans?” Charlie was somewhat curious about this matter.

“Nancy threatened to cut off Brian’s hand in front of Jason. If Jason still didn’t talk, she would cripple Brian’s other hand.” Su Xiaoyu’s mouth twitched as he spoke.¹

“Wow…” Charlie turned his head in amazement at the calm snow-haired girl cleaning the bloodstains. After a moment, he composed himself and sat back. Having grown up in the slums of the Philo District, Charlie had known that this girl was not ordinary.

“By the way, did you manage to get any useful information?”

“Jason sold Sherry.”

“Sold her?” Charlie frowned slightly upon hearing this, but having been a police officer for many years and now holding the position of police inspector, he had seen quite a lot of unsavory things, so he wasn’t particularly surprised. “To whom? Where was she sold? Is it too late to intervene?”

“Villa 368, Century Avenue, Philo District. Sherry is there right now.” At this moment, Nancy, who had finished cleaning the bloodstains, raised her head and said.

“… ” Charlie’s brow furrowed even deeper upon hearing this address, but he immediately started the car and headed towards the address. “Longmen?”

The address Nancy mentioned was one of the underground kingdoms in Tianzhou City – one of the halls of the Longmen Gang. This gang was not to be trifled with. With tens of thousands of members, the Longmen Gang was now seemingly transitioning into a huge commercial empire, but fundamentally, it was still an outlaw organization.

This entrenched underworld organization in Tianzhou City was not something even Charlie, an extraordinary police inspector, would want to touch on a normal day. If today’s situation were to involve this massive organization… it would be quite tricky.

“Nancy, do you know that this villa is territory of the Longmen Gang?” Charlie thought for a moment, then spoke with a serious tone.

“…” Sensing the seriousness in Charlie’s words, Nancy’s eyes flashed with a glint of understanding. Although she had some understanding of the Longmen Gang through the plot, witnessing even Charlie, a former Colonel of Basileus’ guards and a level five ability user, exhibit signs of fear, made Nancy feel that things might be beyond her control.

But remaining silent was not an option. Nancy calmed her emotions and said, “Uncle Charlie, I know about what you mentioned, but…”

“Now that I know my friend is in danger, I can’t just sit idly by.”

“Uncle Charlie… I know this is dangerous, and it might even implicate you and Sister Mia, so you can just drop me off at the location. I’ll take care of the rest.” Nancy said calmly, not pretending, but genuinely considering Charlie’s situation.

Because he and Mia were one of the few warm figures in the original owner’s memories.

“And Su Xiaoyu, you shouldn’t get involved in this either. This isn’t as simple as throwing a few talismans or catching a few criminal monsters, so…” Nancy’s words silenced both Su Xiaoyu and Charlie, with Charlie’s mouth twitching even more.

If he abandoned Nancy alone to face the Longmen Gang, what would his wife do to him? Moreover, over the past few years, he had come to see Nancy as a goddaughter.

Moreover! He was still wearing his police uniform! How could he just stand idly by?

“Nancy, I’m a police officer.” This was Charlie’s response.

“Nancy, there’s something you should know. I’ve already dealt with several Foundation Formation Demons², eradicating those who have caused havoc in the world,” Su Xiaoyu grinned.

Considering he was somewhat famous in Donghuan’s Gaojing City as the “Demon Slayer Successor,” his hands were no less stained with blood than those wandering mercenaries in Oglea. How could he leave behind such a cute and sensible female classmate just because of fear of an urban gang?

“I can notify the Demon Slayer Association now. Those old guys owe me a lot of favors. It’s just a matter of words. I can bring in several peak innate masters.” Su Xiaoyu squinted, and many colorful talismans appeared in his hand.

“…” This remark left both Nancy and Charlie silent. Nancy’s silence was because she didn’t expect the seemingly calm protagonist in the original work to have such a fierce side. As for Charlie, he was quite surprised. Are people still using the cultivation system terminology to refer to ability users?

“Cough, Nancy, Su Xiaoyu, we’re just here to retrieve someone, not to start a fight.” Charlie coughed heavily to attract their attention as he drove.

“To whom did Jason sell Sherry?” Charlie pondered and asked.

“To Samuel. Uncle Charlie, do you know this person?”

“Squeak!” The police car, which had been driving steadily, suddenly skidded on the road.

“Samuel! The nephew of Donovan?!”

Charlie covered his forehead in agony. This was a big deal.

Donovan’s nephew! It was said that because the senior member of the Longmen Gang was old and childless, he treated this nephew as his own son. This incident was huge!

“Donovan? Longmen Gang? What are these?” Inside the car, Su Xiaoyu, who didn’t understand the situation, asked angrily, but at this moment, Nancy and Charlie didn’t have the mind to answer him.

After suffering for a while, Charlie came up with a solution.

Although Charlie had no personal relationship with Donovan, there was someone within the Longmen Gang whom he was quite familiar with.

But… if he wanted to use this relationship, he would have to reveal a bit of his past identity…

However, Charlie made a decision in just 0.3 seconds: “Nancy, Su Xiaoyu, when we get there later, remember not to start a fight. I think I can leverage some connections on my end.”

Even so, we still need a backup plan…

This was the simultaneous thought of the three people in the car at this moment.

The snow-haired girl carefully inspected the firearms in the system inventory.

The cat-eared youth took out a blue short sword from somewhere and wrapped it with layers of red talismans.

As for the man in the black police inspector’s uniform sitting in the driver’s seat, he picked up the small walkie-talkie next to him: “Connect me to the Supernatural Abilities Division.”

1. Silva: Wow, brutal!
2. Silva: hmm yea, I’m really bad with taoist term, what should I do with this term “结丹” I wonder… I remember we recently had a discussion about how Chinese cultivation terms don’t make sense and sounds like gibberish most the time in the Discord server ^^”

   This is a concept from Taoist cultivation practices. It refers to the process of forming a “dan,” which is a pellet or pill believed to contain spiritual or mystical properties.