The boy who had been hiding in the distance immediately emerged from his hiding place when he saw Liang Wenbin carrying the man out. He cried out, "Daddy... Daddy..." and ran over.

Liang Wenbin carefully placed the man on a relatively flat surface, letting him sit against the wall. After the boy was reunited with his father, he quickly directed the arriving police officers to conduct a more thorough search of the alley to see if there were any other victims.

He then immediately led a woman carrying a medical kit, who looked like a doctor, toward Chen Mochuan.

"Young man, I need to remove your original bandages and check if the wound is infected. Please bear with the pain," the female doctor said as she opened her medical kit.

"I can still hold on," Chen Mochuan waved his hand and pointed to the man Liang Wenbin had rescued. "His injuries look serious, and he needs your help even more now."

The man had a gruesome wound on his arm with a dark greenish tinge, his face was deathly pale, and he looked like he was about to collapse.

The female doctor quickly compared the two men's conditions. Although she was surprised that Chen Mochuan had multiple injuries but remained calm and composed, she also understood that the man who was about to collapse needed immediate treatment.

She knew that the toxins carried by the vicious rat, although not fatal, could cause serious long-term effects if the rat was rescued too late and the toxins spread throughout the body.

So she nodded approvingly to Chen Mochuan, then picked up her suitcase and turned to the man.

Seeing the doctor leave, and the other two officers already cleaning up the scene and heading towards the carcass of the monstrous rat, Chen Mochuan knew the opportunity was fleeting, and quickly tried to guide Liang Wenbin in a casual tone:

"Uncle Liang, there's something strange... When I attacked the ferocious rat's neck earlier, the sensation of my fist felt off. It felt like there was something hard hidden under the skin... Should we check it more closely?"

As he spoke, he raised his right fist, which was covered in abrasions, as if to prove his point or to show off his injury.

"Okay, I'll go take a look." These words piqued Liang Wenbin's interest, so he walked over to the corpse of the vicious rat, squatted down, put on the evidence-gathering gloves he carried with him, and began to carefully examine the condition of the neck.

Not long after, he pulled something out from under the skin of the ferocious rat's neck. From a distance, Chen Mochuan could vaguely see that it was a bloodstained metal piece that gleamed, with what appeared to be a line of numbers engraved on it.

With a solemn expression, Leung Man-bun asked the police officer next to him for an evidence bag, carefully placed the metal piece inside, and then, instead of handing it to the officer, put it directly into the inside pocket of his shirt.

Chen Mochuan thought to himself that his prediction was correct; things were indeed not that simple.

According to normal case-handling procedures, on-site evidence should be collected and archived by designated personnel, and it is absolutely not up to Captain Liang Wenbin to keep it personally, so this item must be of great importance.

After carefully examining the entire body of the vicious rat and confirming that there were no other abnormalities, Liang Wenbin instructed the two police officers to collect the rat's body before returning to Chen Mochuan's side.

"Xiao Chen, thank goodness you reminded me! Otherwise, following the usual procedure, when collecting the corpse of a low-ranking ferocious beast, we wouldn't be particularly careful and might have missed this item." He pointed to the inside pocket of his shirt.

Chen Mochuan then feigned a bewildered expression and asked, "Uncle Liang, is there... a problem?"

Liang Wenbin said in a low voice, "This involves some people and is a confidential matter, so I can't tell you the specifics... But you must remember not to mention to anyone that you discovered the abnormality on the neck of the ferocious rat."

"I understand," Chen Mochuan replied earnestly.

It seems that Liang Wenbin not only recognizes the metal piece, but also takes it very seriously. The matter is more complicated than he imagined. He secretly rejoices that he did not rashly take the item before, otherwise he might have gotten himself into trouble.

Thinking of this, his heart tightened, and he quickly asked, "If I kill this ferocious rat, will it ruin someone's plans and lead to retaliation?"

Without the slightest hesitation, Liang Wenbin immediately shook his head, clearly having already made his judgment. "Don't worry, it won't happen. You just happened to be there. Given those people's ways, they're unlikely to hold a grudge against you... Besides, the reappearance of this ferocious rat could very well have been an accident."

Chen Mochuan keenly grasped the key point in Liang Wenbin's words: the group that implanted metal pieces into the ferocious rats sounded like a secret organization with specific rules of conduct.

As he was pondering, he heard Liang Wenbin continue, "However, just in case, I will have someone secretly protect you for the next period of time. You can continue your normal life and don't need to worry about your safety."

Chen Mochuan quickly thanked her. Just then, the female doctor had finished treating the poisoned man's injuries and arranged for a police car to take him to the hospital for further treatment. She then turned around and came over to treat Chen Mochuan.

During the removal of the makeshift bandages from Chen Mochuan's arm, the strips of cloth adhering to the skin and flesh of the wound were slowly torn apart, inevitably causing a stinging pain.

But the boy in front of her just gritted his teeth, with beads of sweat on his forehead, and didn't utter a sound. The female doctor secretly praised the boy's amazing endurance.

After she used a special solution to clean the dried blood and grime from the wound, she looked at the clean surface and exclaimed in surprise, "Strange, you...you weren't poisoned?"

Hearing the exclamation, Liang Wenbin leaned over to take a look and was somewhat surprised to see that the blood seeping from Chen Mochuan's wound was healthy bright red, not the blackish-green color of rat poison.

At this moment, the female doctor also used professional testing instruments to examine Chen Mochuan's wound again, confirming that there was no residual toxicity, which amazed her.

Standing beside him, Liang Wenbin hesitated for a moment, then asked with a hint of inquiry, "Xiao Chen, have you awakened a spiritual talent that enhances your physical body?"

Thinking of the detoxification effect of "Soul Devourer," although describing it as "physical enhancement" is vague, it still fits the description. So Chen Mochuan followed the conversation and admitted without hesitation, "Yeah, I guess so."

Liang Wenbin nodded to himself. As far as he knew, some special physical enhancement-type spiritual gifts did indeed have the effect of detoxification.

However, not wanting to pry too much, he stopped investigating and even specifically instructed the police officer next to him who was about to take a statement from Chen Mochuan not to ask too many questions about the specifics of his spiritual talent.

Then, he took a small jade bottle out of his pocket and handed it to the female doctor, saying, "Use this to apply the medicine to him."

Then she looked at Chen Mochuan and said, "This bottle of 'Regenerating Muscle and Promoting Blood Circulation Ointment' is a specially made wound medicine. It can not only relieve pain, but also promote the rapid healing of wounds. You are about to take the college entrance examination, so don't delay your martial arts training. Take the rest back with you later."

"Remember to change the dressing every morning and evening."

He wanted to say something more, but his personal terminal on his wrist suddenly vibrated. He glanced at the caller ID, immediately went to a secluded corner, and then answered the call.

Following the doctor's instructions, she cleaned all of Chen Mochuan's wounds, applied a cool and soothing "skin-regenerating and blood-circulating ointment," and carefully re-bandaged them. Liang Wenbin then returned after finishing his phone call.

With an apologetic look on his face, he said, "Xiao Chen, you see, the whole city is under martial law right now, and it's a very turbulent time. If the news about the ferocious rat tonight gets out, it could easily cause panic among the citizens, and might even give the enemy hiding in the shadows an opportunity to take advantage of the situation..."

"Therefore, after evaluation, the bureau leadership has decided not to publicly publicize your heroic deeds, but only to give internal praise and record them. We hope you can understand."

Upon hearing this, Chen Mochuan was not disappointed at all; on the contrary, he was delighted. Wasn't this a good thing?

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