If you were made a mascot, you would become a legend in the police force.

Chapter 30 Qinling Intelligence Network Officially Launched

The lingering aroma of the stewed goose in the iron pot was still in her mouth when Li Tuantuan was stuffed into the cargo hold of the police helicopter.

The roar of the propellers made his ears ring, and his 300-pound body was squeezed into three pieces by the seatbelt. The plane lurched, and Li Tuantuan's face went from black and white to deathly pale.

"vomit……"

He gagged, and Lin Wan quickly handed him a vomit bag.

[Li Tuantuan's inner monologue]: I should have eaten two fewer cornbreads! Is this crappy plane overloaded? I'm practically a national treasure in terms of weight! Who gave me permission to take off? I'm going to complain!

The special police officers looked at the airsick panda, and their expressions were starting to tense.

"Captain Li, should we bring a mascot with us for this operation?" someone whispered.

Captain Li glared at him: "Stop talking nonsense. You'll see how powerful this 'mascot' is in a moment."

When the helicopter landed at the temporary helipad at the foot of the mountain, Li Tuantuan was dragged and pulled down by Lin Wanlian. He lay limp on the snow, his panda face as pale as a frozen dumpling just taken out of the freezer.

"Gungung, can you walk?" Lin Wan asked worriedly.

Li Tuantuan laboriously raised one claw—"Wait for me to calm down."

Ten minutes later, the group began their hike into the mountains.

The snow was knee-deep, and the cold wind felt like knives cutting into their faces. The special police officers, fully armed and carrying dozens of kilograms of equipment, were panting heavily as they walked.

The police dog "Black Panther" is a strong German Shepherd, usually majestic, but it was listless at this moment. It wandered around in the snow for a long time, but apart from urinating under a few trees to assert its dominance, it couldn't smell anything else.

"No, Captain Li, the snow is too heavy, it's all masking the smell." Instructor Zhang's nose was running from the cold.

Captain Li stared at the Beidou navigation device in his hand, his brows furrowing deeply: "According to Tiger's instructions, the target is within a ten-kilometer radius. But this range..."

He didn't finish his sentence, but everyone understood—finding a hiding place in this primeval forest was like finding a needle in a haystack.

Li Tuantuan walked quite steadily. He was on all fours, his large bear paws like natural snow boots, and his thick fur was like a natural down jacket.

But after walking less than two kilometers, it broke down.

He found a large, sheltered rock, plopped down on it, and refused to get up.

"Gun Gun, stop fooling around!" Lin Wan grabbed his ear. "Everyone's in a hurry!"

Li Tuantuan turned her head to the side and deliberately let out a loud yawn.

[Li Tuantuan's inner monologue]: What the hell are you doing?! You're all just fooling around! At this rate, we won't find anything even by next spring. Besides, there's a huge cliff ahead; we can't get across. We still have to watch my…

He pricked up his ears, trying to catch the subtle sounds in the woods.

"Squeak, squeak, squeak... It's freezing! It's so cold! This awful weather, I can't even find the pine nuts I hid there..."

"Coo coo... A group of two-legged creatures are coming over there, carrying black pipes. They don't look like trouble..."

found it!

Li Tuantuan slowly stood up, walked to a red pine tree, looked up at the tree crown and let out a low growl.

"Huh?" (Dude, can I ask you something?)

The squirrel in the tree was so frightened it almost fell off.

"Squeak?!" (Holy crap! The panda spoke?!)

In the animal kingdom, giant pandas are apex predators; most small animals would give them a wide berth. But this one… doesn't it look a bit like a mob boss negotiating a deal?

Li Tuantuan took an apple out of the pocket on his back (which Lin Wan had sewn for him) and tossed it in his paw.

"Mmm." (See that group of bad guys? They're about this tall, smell bad, and live in a big stone house. Tell me, and this apple is yours.)

The squirrel's eyes widened instantly.

In the dead of winter, a fresh apple is simply heavenly!

"Squeak squeak squeak!" (I see it! I see it! After you cross that mountain, there's a valley called 'Ghost's Sorrow' with dilapidated houses! Those people are really fierce; they even killed my cousin the day before yesterday!)

"Squeak?" (But...isn't one apple too few? I also know how many people they have, and how many guns they have...)

Li Tuantuan's eye twitched.

[Li Tuantuan's inner monologue]: Good heavens, has this squirrel become a spirit? It even knows how to bargain? How many years has it been cultivating in the Qinling Mountains?

He then pulled out half a sausage.

"Okay!" (Deal! But if you lie to me, I'll uproot your pine tree next time we meet!)

The squirrel happily took the food, grabbed the apple, and ran off in a flash.

"Squeak!" (Thanks, bro! You're so generous! I'll definitely ask you for help again if I have any information!)

Li Tuantuan turned around and looked at Lin Wan and the special police officers, who all looked bewildered.

He stretched out his claws, pointed southeast, then made a "throat-slitting" gesture, raised three claws, and finally made a "shooting" gesture.

Lin Wan immediately understood: "You mean...over there? Three people? With guns?"

Li Tuantuan nodded, looking smug.

[Li Tuantuan's inner monologue]: Police dogs? That's a joke. In this forest, there's no informant I can't handle. This is called a dimensional reduction attack, you know?

Captain Li was skeptical: "Is this...reliable? Was it negotiating with the squirrel just now?"

"Trust him!" Lin Wan said firmly. "Although Gun Gun is usually unserious, he has never failed in solving cases."

The team changed direction.

For the rest of the journey, Li Tuantuan was practically unstoppable.

When he encountered a pheasant, he squatted down and made two "coo-coo" sounds, and the pheasant flapped its wings to point the way; when he met an owl, he looked up and let out a "hoo-hoo" sound, and the owl pointed its wings towards the valley.

Reaching a seemingly ordinary patch of snow, Li Tuantuan suddenly stopped and used her paws to dig through the snow—below lay an animal trap!

"Holy crap!" Xiao Zhang gasped, "I almost stepped on it!"

Li Tuantuan picked up a stone and smashed the trap to pieces in front of everyone. Then she clapped her paws and had a "no big deal" expression on her face.

[Li Tuantuan's inner monologue]: This piece of junk thinks it can hurt me? I demolished more than eight hundred of them back in the Qinling Mountains! This is the legendary "mine-clearing expert," a professional one.

After walking for a while, Li Tuantuan suddenly signaled everyone to lie down.

He then quietly crept behind a boulder.

There crouched a sentry in camouflage, shivering and smoking to keep warm, completely unaware of the approaching black and white shadow behind him.

Li Tuantuan circled behind him and raised her bear paw—

"Snapped!"

A precise chop to the back of the neck sentry to his knees, and he went limp without uttering a sound.

Li Tuantuan skillfully disarmed the other man's hunting rifle, then casually pulled out half a pack of cigarettes and a lighter from his pocket, before running back to present them to him with great enthusiasm.

Lin Wan was both amused and exasperated: "You can even search people now? You're pretty good at petty theft, aren't you?"

[Li Tuantuan's inner monologue]: Nonsense, after watching "Today's Talk" for so many years in my past life, how could I not know this much skill? Besides, this cigarette is a premium Zhonghua brand; I can exchange it for three sausages when I get back!

And so, led by Li Tuantuan, the special police team slipped through the dangerous area unnoticed and made their way right under the noses of their target's lair.

It was an abandoned villa built halfway up a mountain, surrounded by mountains on three sides, with only one road leading up to it. All the windows were boarded up, leaving only a few firing holes.

Captain Li lay prone in the snowdrift, observed through binoculars for a while, and then gasped in shock.

"Good heavens, this location is brilliantly chosen. The firing positions are professionally set up; if we had charged in head-on, we would have suffered heavy casualties."

He turned and looked at Li Tuantuan, who was lying next to him, munching on a snowball to quench her thirst, his eyes full of admiration.

"This panda... is amazing."

Lin Wan smiled smugly and reached out to brush the snowflakes off Li Tuantuan's head: "That's right, look who brought her here."

Li Tuantuan rolled over, her belly pressed against the snow, and let out a comfortable hum.

[Li Tuantuan's inner monologue]: Stop praising me, hurry up and finish this mess, I need to go back to sleep. This crappy place doesn't even have a signal, I can't even browse Douyin. And my bowl of milk is still waiting for me in the fridge.

At this moment, inside the villa.

"Boss, we've lost contact with Tiger. Could something have happened to him?" a scarred henchman asked tremblingly.

A cold laugh came from the darkness, followed by the "click" of a bullet being loaded into the magazine.

"That good-for-nothing Tiger will get his comeuppance sooner or later."

The person who was speaking stood up, walked to the window, and peeked out through the crack.

Everything outside was a white blur, and I couldn't see anything clearly.

But the intuition she had honed through years of risking her life made her feel uneasy.

"Tell the brothers to stay alert." The voice was deep and hoarse, carrying a deadly danger. "It seems like we have some guests in this forest."