Jiangcheng Police Station.
Just one minute ago, they received an emergency call.
There were robbers attempting to rob a bank!
This was reported by the bank teller.
In the bank, all tellers had a one-touch alarm button connected to the police network at their fingertips.
They pressed the alarm button the moment they saw two robbers enter, wearing stockings over their heads and wielding kitchen knives.
The police station nearest to the bank immediately dispatched officers upon receiving the alarm.
It took them only six minutes to arrive at the bank entrance.
However, when they got there, they discovered that the two robbers had already fled in panic, abandoning their knives after hearing the police sirens in advance.
It was a false alarm, fortunately with no one injured.
Typically, police officers use sirens for three reasons.
First, to save precious time.
Turning on the siren while en route signals other vehicles to give way, allowing them to reach the scene as quickly as possible.
Second, to intimidate criminals.
The unique and loud sound of police sirens is highly effective in deterring criminals in situations such as robberies, hostage situations, or ongoing assaults.
The sound arrives before the officers, and the early arrival of the siren can make criminals abandon their illegal activities or even flee the scene before the police physically arrive, potentially preventing harm to victims.
Although the time between criminals hearing the siren and the actual arrival of officers may only be a minute or even seconds, those few seconds could save a life.
The third reason is to reassure victims - don't be afraid, we're here.
Of course, whether to use sirens depends on the situation.
When conducting a secret operation to apprehend criminals in a major case, not only will they not use sirens, but the officers won't even drive police cars or wear uniforms.
In fact, no one might even realize it's a police operation until after the suspect is caught.
Experience proved the officers right.
Upon hearing the sirens, the two robbers immediately dropped their knives and ran without a second thought.
However, they didn't get far.
Officers at the station tracked their location in real-time through surveillance cameras, while simultaneously reporting the robbers' positions to their colleagues carrying out the arrest.
Before long, both were apprehended.
When the stockings were removed from their heads...
Well, well, weren't these the very fake fugitives whose identities they had just recently confirmed?
They were about to devise a plan to capture these individuals.
Who would have thought that before they could even formulate a concrete arrest strategy, two of them would deliver themselves right to their doorstep!
From the start of the game until now, it had been merely twenty minutes, and already some had been caught.
Viewers in the live streaming room were stunned.
"Damn, does the efficiency have to be this high? How long has it been?"
"Indeed, the speed of the police is beyond our imagination. Impressive!"
"66666666, I admit I was a bit loud when I previously said the police and investigation team weren't up to par. I apologize..."
"Twenty minutes... and this is just the police in action, without even involving the investigation team?"
"..."
Meanwhile.
The information about one group of 'fugitives' failing in their bank robbery attempt and being caught was also announced by the production team via text message to the remaining ten groups of 'fugitives'.
Xu Mo had just woken up from a nap when he picked up his phone and received this disheartening news.
With one group captured, it meant he had lost out on one system reward.
The game had barely begun, and someone was already caught?
Were these people even trying?
The investigation team was being unfair!
Starting off by picking the low-hanging fruit, really?
Why catch others? Come and catch him!
"I need to act quickly too, try to catch people before the investigation team does..." Xu Mo sat up in bed abruptly.
Getting dressed, washing up.
He needed to race against time, compete with the investigation team, strike first.
After washing up, Xu Mo turned on his computer, intending to hack into the production team's backend to obtain a list of 'fugitives', then proceed to capture the remaining nine groups of uncaught 'criminals' on the list, excluding himself.
However, just as Xu Mo had obtained the list and was contemplating how to catch people, his phone rang.
He picked it up and looked.
It was a text message from the production team.
Another group had been caught!
This group was apprehended while attempting to extort ransom from the investigation team.
This time it was the investigation team that made the move. They used technical means to pinpoint their location during the one-minute phone call the 'fugitives' made to the production team to demand ransom, and caught them on the spot!
At this point, only thirty-two minutes had passed since the official start of the game.
Half an hour, two groups of 'fugitives' caught!
Nine groups remaining.
But that wasn't all.
After fifty-some minutes.
Another group was caught.
This group was arrested because they tried to apply for pilot positions at an airline company by impersonating pilots.
Without Xu Mo's flawless forgery skills, they had to settle for using papers printed at a copy shop.
Their laughably fake pilot credentials were immediately exposed.
Attempting to apply for a pilot position with forged pilot credentials was no small matter.
The airline company immediately called security to detain the two and then sent them straight to the police station.
This time, not only did the investigation team not act, even the police didn't have to intervene.
The airline company staff alone apprehended these two 'fugitives' and sent them to the police station.
In less than two hours, out of eleven groups of 'fugitives', three had already been caught.
Only eight groups remained.
After receiving three consecutive pieces of devastating news,
Xu Mo was dumbfounded.
He hadn't managed to catch anyone yet!
Before he could even make a move to catch someone, three groups had already been captured by the investigation team and the police, and eliminated from the game.
Xu Mo knew clearly that he had to act fast.
...
The capture of three groups served as a wake-up call for the remaining seven groups, excluding Xu Mo.
Failed bank robbery leading to arrest; unsuccessful extortion attempt resulting in capture; exposed fake pilot credentials leading to detention...
It was clear that these three groups were trying to imitate Xu Mo.
But they all failed in their imitation and ended up getting caught instead.
These were bloody lessons.
While watching the live stream, everyone had the illusion of "I could do that too," which now completely vanished.
The things Xu Mo did weren't something just anyone could pull off.
Trying to actively commit crimes like Xu Mo was essentially asking to be caught.
It was better to just lay low and hide.
Among the remaining seven groups, excluding Xu Mo, six held this view. They didn't dare to act recklessly and only wanted to quietly lay low.
After all, surviving one day meant earning 200,000!
However, one group thought they were being clever.
They came up with what they believed to be the best method to avoid capture - seek refuge with Xu Mo!
If they stuck with Xu Mo, how could the investigation team catch them?
What they didn't know was...
Xu Mo was thinking about catching other game challengers to gain rewards.
Even Xu Mo couldn't have imagined that without him having to make a move, someone would deliver themselves right to his doorstep.
They were practically feeding themselves to him!
y came from. The chests contained supplies, currency, class-change scrolls, skills, talents… and even godhood! The laws of the world were completely rewritten. This became a world where everyone gambled with their fate! Some people, despite having nothing, opened a divine artifact and rose to the top, eventually ruling the world. Others went bankrupt, opened nothing but worthless junk, and leaped from skyscrapers in despair. Lin Ye arrived in this world from another reality, utterly bewildered. “What is going on? Why is everyone a gambling addict?!” “Opening chests? No way. I refuse to gamble. I’ll start with myself!” Until— On his first chest, he obtained a Mythic Talent: Void Incarnation! He could become completely intangible, pass through all things, and reduce everything to nothingness! … On his fiftieth chest, he obtained a Mythic Weapon: Blade of Karma! With a single slash, karma shattered, twisting the universe and overturning the myriad phenomena of creation! … On his ninety-ninth chest, he obtained a Mythic Divine Treasure: Primordial Purple Energy! It could split open the heavens and earth, create all things, and evolve countless worlds with a single thought! Lin Ye: “Now that I think about it… shouldn’t someone have told me that every chest is guaranteed to contain something Mythic?!”
s + Rent Collection Wealth】 At the start, he inherited a rundown house in the urban village from his grandfather. The house had no tenants, but the moment he was diagnosed with a terminal illness, a self-proclaimed empress from the Tianxuan Continent arrived as his first tenant. Ye Chuan soon discovered that with every new tenant moving in, not only did he receive massive daily payments, but he also obtained unique items related to their backgrounds. 【Acquired Bai Qianshuang’s related item: Tiger Strength Pill—dramatically enhances physical power!】 【Acquired Bai Qianshuang’s related item: Deer Blood Pill—significantly boosts vitality!】 …… From that day on, all sorts of bizarre tenants began appearing in the house: the empress from Tianxuan Continent, an apocalyptic sorceress from the Magic Realm, a mysterious scientific girl who fell through a spacetime rift… Every single day, he received strange, powerful items and endless money. Then one day, he suddenly realized—he had become invincible. Enough, enough! Stop giving me more!
close your eyes and open them again, only to find yourself transmigrated into the role of a villainous male supporting character. Readers familiar with urban wish-fulfillment novels know that it is only through the relentless antics of the villainous male supporting character that the plot between the male and female leads can progress. As the villainous male supporting character, Long Aotian not only has to bully the female lead, harass the second female lead, and flirt with the third female lead, but he also has to go all out to antagonize the male lead. In the end, when his body is discovered, he is still clutching half a moldy fried dough stick in his hand. Fully aware of the plot, Long Aotian is determined to change his fate, starting with the female lead! In the beginning, the female lead lacks confidence: "Big brother, I hope I didn't scare you?" In the middle, the female lead treads carefully: "Brother Long, please don't hit me, okay?" Later on, the female lead becomes coquettishly clingy: "Aotian, it's time to pay the 'public grain' tonight." Long Aotian's legs go weak, and he feels like crying: "I taught you to be thick-skinned, not shameless!"
nd fell into a coma while saving his younger sister from an out-of-control car. He became a vegetable. No one knew that his consciousness had crossed into a world of cultivation. Over the course of sixty years, he began as the lowest kind of mine slave, struggling to survive amid mountains of corpses and seas of blood. By sheer chance, he eventually obtained the complete memories of a fallen Immortal King. Alchemy, medicine, formations, feng shui, physiognomy, artifact forging… Every great inheritance of the cultivation world was now his. But when he opened his eyes again, he discovered that ten full years had passed in the modern world. To pay for his treatment, his father had sold the family’s shop and house, leaving himself covered in lasting injuries and illness. His mother had cared for him day and night, and more than half of her hair had already turned white. His younger sister, who had been only fifteen back then, was now twenty-five. To help repay the family’s debts, she had been forced to lower her head and put on a smiling face in places of glittering lights and endless revelry. Only then did Chen Xuan understand that what he had lost was not merely ten years. He had lost the life his entire family was meant to have. The good news was that he had brought back the memories of an Immortal King’s entire lifetime. The bad news was that his soul had returned alone—his cultivation had not come with him. Spiritual energy was scarce, resources were depleted, and the modern world still had firearms, surveillance, capital, and laws. If he wanted to protect his family, break free from everyone’s control, and become truly invincible beneath the heavens, he would have to start all over again.
