Starting as an infant, with parents who are blond-haired delinquents?

Bai Lu asked.

In no time, the hotel staff explained the whole story to the three of them.

When they discovered the hotel had been robbed, the group casually uttered an "oh."

"Oh?" The hotel manager's smile was somewhat bitter. Why did the other party not seem to be here to solve their problems?

Indeed, that is certainly true.

The cases involving these martial artists have absolutely nothing to do with the Investigation Bureau, which is only responsible for dealing with alien beasts.

Normally, each department performs its own duties and does not interfere with each other.

Furthermore, it was not the task of that central administrator; the scale of this incident was originally within the purview of the municipal-level Extraordinary Administration Bureau.

It has virtually nothing to do with him.

That's not right...

When they turned around and saw Zhang Chaoqiang's family, they sensed something was wrong.

The idea of ​​standing aside and letting them wait for city-level administrators to handle the case is not quite right.

If they want Zhang Chaoqiang to join them, they must first make Zhang Chaoqiang admire them.

Bai Lu and Huang Feng thought about it again...

Previously, when dealing with the Jiegou incident.

These investigators from the Bureau of Exotic Beast Investigation barely displayed their formidable abilities in handling exotic beast incidents in front of Zhang Chaoqiang.

Most importantly, the person who forced Jie Gou out was none other than Zhang Chaoqiang.

As a result, in that incident and the capture of the alien beast, the investigators who should have been the leaders became secondary figures.

If it weren't for Zhang Chaoqiang, they would probably still be affected by the Jie Gou's abilities.

Frankly speaking, if they cannot gain Zhang Chaoqiang's admiration and recognition of their abilities...

So how could the other party come to the idea of ​​joining them?

Now is the perfect time for them to showcase themselves!

At this moment, it wasn't just the two of them who had this thought.

And that extraordinary administrator at the central level…

They quickly approached and learned that Zhang Chaoqiang and his group hadn't lost anything valuable; only Tan Yue had a rare but inexpensive keychain stolen from her.

The three men then patted their chests in affirmation.

He strode into the crowd and loudly assured them, "Don't worry, everyone. Although it's hot and late, the Extraordinary Management Bureau guarantees that we will recover all your stolen items within an hour!"

Bai Lu and Huang Feng, standing nearby, frowned and glanced at the administrator before saying, "Our Beast Investigation Bureau guarantees delivery within fifty minutes!"

The Investigation Bureau is involved too? Don't they never get involved in anything other than alien beasts?

Those present looked at each other, sensing that the two sides were somewhat in a competitive state.

The administrator, undeterred, retorted, "Our management bureau has forty minutes!"

Bai Lu frowned: "Thirty-five minutes!"

"thirty minutes!"

If other people didn't know the specifics, they would think that the two of them were having an auction.

Thirty minutes was already a stretch, and Bai Lu didn't follow after the Administration Bureau finished speaking.

"It sounds nice to talk, but we still need to show our strength and results, otherwise it's all just empty talk!"

First, Bai Lu and Huang Feng quickly inquired about the situation...

However, upon learning that the thief had left no trace and seemed to have used some kind of elixir to conceal spiritual energy fluctuations and scent…

The three of them cursed under their breath for the promise they had made thirty minutes earlier:

"That's sloppy!"

Chapter 162 Damage and Dog Sniffing

It's not because this matter is particularly difficult.

The main reason is the length of time.

I initially thought he was just an ordinary, clueless thief. After all, even in Zhongzhou City, cases like this, caused by fools' momentary greed, often happen frequently.

Generally speaking, the perpetrators can be apprehended within a few hours, even if they are martial artists.

With satellite detection and instrument scanning and tracking, even a surveillance camera is not needed.

This allows for precise location pinpointing.

That's normal, though. They've even brought out satellites to use, so why would they need to check surveillance?

Thirty minutes was indeed a very tight deadline for the two of them. The key issue was that, although they were very capable, they hadn't brought their various equipment and instruments with them...

Even if they investigated, they would have virtually no chance of catching the thief within half an hour.

The two competitors, sweating profusely for the first time, wiped the sweat from their foreheads with the backs of their hands, and then Bai Lu, Huang Feng, and the central administrator each took out their personal small equipment.

There were scents and smells that could track thieves, as well as fluctuations in the intensity of their spiritual energy.

The administrator pointed the testing bracelet at Zhang Chaoqiang's hand, and at Tan Yue's bag, which originally contained the winged tiger keychain. If the other party touched it, it would definitely react.

Although the other party did not leave any obvious traces, but...

drop by drop...

"what?"

"My testing bracelet!"

The central administrator quickly pulled out the bracelet, only to see the virtual display screen on it suddenly filled with white static, like a television set from hundreds of years ago.

This is getting a bit bad.

The administrator felt a little bitter, but he absolutely couldn't show any embarrassment or conflicted expression on his face in front of Zhang Chaoqiang.

Otherwise, it would definitely have greatly diminished Zhang Chaoqiang's impression of their Central Extraordinary Administration.

He clicked his tongue and quickly nodded over, thinking to himself, "This is troublesome. It seems that the bag still has the scent of photinia flowers. This kind of spiritual plant is a controlled item."

A liquid made using a special ancient method, when dripped onto the body, can mask one's own scent and spiritual energy fluctuations...

While it can't completely cover everything, it's a devastating blow to the Bureau's small instruments that detect spiritual energy fluctuations and smells…

The bracelet he used for detecting scents has now been completely ruined by the sap of the photinia flower.

This item is listed as one of the spiritual plants controlled by the Extraordinary Administration Bureau, and its use requires strict reporting.

In other words, unless they go back to headquarters to retrieve satellite equipment to pinpoint the other party's location, they have no way to get the scentless but enormous photinia spirit flower that can affect them with these few ordinary devices.

"Come on, Comrade Zhang Chaoqiang, tell me what you've lost, and we'll do everything we can to find it for you as soon as possible!"

Bai Lu and Huang Feng, each holding a spiritual energy fluctuation detection device resembling a searchlight, prepared to scan Tan Yue's bag to see if they could detect any residual spiritual energy fluctuations from the thief.

One of them assured Zhang Chaoqiang and the others that he could quickly find their lost items, but this time he did not guarantee a timeframe.

"They probably lost something valuable!"

"That's right, I think so too. Otherwise, we wouldn't have come to the Central Extraordinary Administration Bureau and the Alien Beast Investigation Bureau. It seems that my previous guess was correct. They must be some big shots!"

"Now we can get in on the good side of a big shot! If we went through the normal procedures and called the Municipal Extraordinary Bureau to send an administrator to handle it, it would definitely take four or five days to resolve this."

Although most of them are martial artists, martial artists are not omnipotent in this world. Even the most advanced martial artists can only prove their combat strength directly.

For tasks like reconnaissance, location, and search, manpower is far less capable than technology. Without instruments to detect scents and spiritual energy fluctuations, or even satellite positioning devices to mark and locate the other party's position in real time...

It's not impossible for them to do it manually, but it will take longer than usual.

Therefore, sometimes the Bureau of Exotic Beast Investigation and the Bureau of Extraordinary Management will give priority to recruiting martial artists with auxiliary martial arts skills.

Just like the Extraordinary Management Bureau, there are many martial artists with speed-type and sensory-type abilities within the bureau. These are all significant auxiliary functions that can amplify one's abilities in a certain area.

"I'm curious, what exactly was stolen from them that would attract so much attention..."

"High-level cultivation resources? High-level special bloodline level crystal cores?"

People were talking a lot.

When Bai Lu asked what she had lost, Tan Yue preemptively answered, "It's the Twin-Winged Tiger..."

"Isn't this thing almost extinct? And its bloodline level isn't high, so the overall strength of the race isn't strong..." That's what the people around thought.

"A ceramic double-winged tiger keychain! It was a free gift from the martial arts shop when I bought crystal cores!"

"Forehead……"

A sudden jolt...

In the hotel lobby, many guests who were pacing back and forth were almost knocked over by this sentence, and their bodies jolted for a moment.

"A free keychain?"

After all that, they were still intently listening, trying to eavesdrop on what important thing they had lost that had attracted such a large group of helpers…

It was just a keychain?

"Little sister, you've got it wrong, haven't you? We have plenty of ordinary first-tier crystal cores for cultivation in our room that haven't been stolen, so why would we steal something as worthless as you?"

Although the reasoning and logic were the same, Tan Yuezhen was not unable to figure it out herself. She remembered clearly that it was definitely something lost today.

The keychains aren't worth much, but Zhang Chaoqiang and Tan Yue's emotions are!

Huang Feng disregarded everything else and tried to detect any subtle fluctuations in the other party's spiritual energy...

The administrator glanced sideways at Bai Lu and Huang Feng's testing actions, deliberately not revealing anything about the Photinia Spirit Flower to them, secretly chuckling to himself...

Then, Huang Feng, feeling a pang of heaviness in his heart, widened his pupils...

The administrator's thoughts were exactly the same: "Oh no, it's the colorless and odorless scent of the photinia flower that masked the thief's original spiritual energy fluctuations and even ruined our spiritual energy fluctuation detection equipment!"

The secret passage is not good.

Controlling her expression, she dared not bring the instrument's image close to Zhang Chaoqiang's side.