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

Li Tuantuan's massive body crashed down from mid-air, instantly creating two half-meter-deep craters in the ground. He stretched out his thick, wide bear paws and steadily caught the falling coal briquette.

The two-tailed lynx stood on a tree branch in the distance, its two tails swishing triumphantly, letting out an extremely piercing hiss. The sound was full of mockery. Then, in a flash, it disappeared into the dark woods.

Li Tuantuan was so angry that her teeth itched. Just as she was about to run after him, she suddenly felt a violent struggle in her hand.

The coal ball's black fur bristled, and dark blood was oozing from the hole in its left wing where a bone spur had pierced it. This blood wasn't foul-smelling at all; instead, it emitted a strange, sweet odor that made anyone who smelled it feel dizzy and weak-kneed.

The system's urgent electronic voice immediately rang in my mind.

Warning. High concentration of hallucinogenic toxin detected. The target organism's central nervous system is damaged, and it has entered a state of indiscriminate berserk rage.

Before Li Tuantuan could react, the coal ball had suddenly grown a size larger. The black bird's two beady green eyes turned blood red, staring intently at Li Tuantuan's round face, drool dripping incessantly from its beak.

"Chicken! What a huge poached chicken!"

Coal Ball squawked in its broken voice, flapping its intact right wing, and pecked at Li Tuantuan's dark circles.

Li Tuantuan gasped in pain.

This idiot's gone mad. Me, a 300-pound iron-eating beast, a police bear with deputy-division-level benefits, and you're treating me like a boiled chicken?

He quickly reached out his other paw to cover his face. Coal Ball, utterly devoid of any martial ethics, seized the opportunity to bite down on Li Tuantuan's hand, holding on tightly and refusing to let go.

Li Tuantuan was so anxious he stamped his feet on the spot. He possessed superhuman strength, capable of bending steel bars, so how could he dare to be rough with his underling? With just a little force, that black bird would be turned into a pile of minced meat.

"Let go! If you bite again, I'll dock your special bird food allowance for this month!" Li Tuantuan cursed wildly in her mind.

Coal Ball was now completely delirious, unable to hear telepathy at all. Its two bird claws were kicking wildly at Li Tuantuan's arm, and it was still muttering incoherently, "Chicken leg...I want to eat a big chicken leg..."

Lin Wan ran up behind, gun in hand, and saw the comical yet thrilling scene. She was sweating profusely with anxiety. She had heard the commotion inside and rushed out without even putting on her shoes properly.

"Gun Gun! Don't move, I'll hold it down!" Lin Wan slung the gun behind her back and reached out to grab the coal ball's wings.

Coal Ball caught a glimpse of someone approaching out of the corner of its eye and abruptly released Li Tuantuan's hand. It turned its head, its blood-red eyes fixed on Lin Wan's neck.

In Coal Ball's hallucination, what ran over wasn't a pet owner at all, but a giant walking sausage.

"Eat sausage!"

With a strange cry, Coal Ball kicked off forcefully from Li Tuantuan's palms, and the bird, like an out-of-control fighter jet, opened its sharp beak and lunged straight for Lin Wan's throat.

Lin Wan was completely unprepared for this crow, which usually only knew how to talk big and was faster than anyone else to run away in danger, to suddenly attack with deadly force. As the bloody beak rapidly enlarged in her pupils, she couldn't even manage to back away or dodge.

Li Tuantuan's mind went blank.

You can mess with me, but you absolutely cannot mess with my pet owner. She's my long-term meal ticket, washing my lunchboxes, taking the blame for me, and paying my salary every day. If she dies here, who will reimburse my ever-increasing food expenses?

Li Tuantuan couldn't care less about anything else. He exerted force with his two hind legs, and the 300-pound mountain of flesh left a trail of afterimages on the spot.

This speed completely defies common sense in physics.

Just as the coal ball's pointed mouth was less than three centimeters from Lin Wan's throat, a furry black and white claw reached out from the side.

The claws were swift, precise, and ruthless, gripping the coal ball tightly by the back of its neck, sealing its fate.

The coal ball was abruptly stopped in mid-air, its two claws still kicking wildly in the air, making strange squeaking noises.

Lin Wan was so frightened that she fell to the ground with a thud, gasping for breath, cold sweat streaming down her face. She stared at the crow held in Li Tuantuan's hand, speechless for a long time.

Li Tuantuan looked down at her crazed underling and cursed inwardly.

The toxin is too potent; the coal ball's body temperature is terrifyingly hot. If this continues, this silly bird will surely exhaust itself to death.

"System, is there any way to quiet this stupid bird down? Hurry, I can't hold it anymore!"

The system's cold, mechanical voice immediately rang out.

The host can exchange for a basic physical anesthesia skill. This skill can instantly sever the nerve conduction of a target creature, causing forced unconsciousness. Exchange price: 300 merit points. Note: The host is currently in an overdraft state; continuing to borrow will increase interest by 10%.

When Li Tuantuan heard the price, her heart was bleeding.

Three hundred merit points. How many electric bike thieves would I have to catch to earn that back? I'm already heavily in debt; this damn system is a vampire.

But looking at the still-bleeding hole in the coal ball's wing, he gritted his teeth.

"Change it! Change it for me! When I catch that dead cat, I'm going to skin it alive and sell it to pay off my debts!"

Ding. Redemption successful. Basic physical anesthesia has been loaded.

Li Tuantuan felt a surge of heat suddenly rise in her right middle finger, and her fingertip became as hard as steel.

He picked up the coal briquette, looked at the black bird that was still fluttering around, and raised his glowing middle finger.

"Bro, bear with it, it might hurt a little."

Li Tuantuan silently recited a sentence in her mind, bent her middle finger, aimed it at the coal ball's forehead, and flicked it.

boom.

A muffled thud.

The coal ball's squeaking stopped abruptly. Its blood-red eyes rolled back instantly, its legs kicked, its head lolled to the side, and it passed out completely.

Li Tuantuan carefully placed the coal ball on the ground and let out a long sigh of relief. This physical anesthesia was indeed effective, but it looked a bit mentally taxing. A large bump was visibly swollen on the coal ball's forehead.

Lin Wan finally came to her senses. She got up from the ground, ran to Li Tuantuan's side, and looked at the unconscious Coal Ball, her voice trembling.

"Rolling, what happened to Coal Ball? Why did it attack me just now?"

Unable to speak, Li Tuantuan could only point with her paw at the wound on Coal Ball's wing, then at the direction the lynx had fled, and then waved her fist.

Lin Wan was a smart policeman and immediately understood what Li Tuantuan meant.

"You mean, the mutated lynx's attack was poisonous, causing Coal Ball to hallucinate?"

Li Tuantuan nodded heavily.

Lin Wan gritted her teeth, pulled out a tactical dagger from her waist, and her eyes became extremely fierce.

"How dare they hurt our police officers! Get out of here, we're after them! Old Wang is still in their hands, we absolutely cannot let these beasts get away."

Li Tuantuan plopped down on the ground and stretched out her paws to block Lin Wan.

He shook his head, pointed to the unconscious coal ball on the ground, then to Lin Wan, and finally patted his chest.

Lin Wan was taken aback: "You want me to stay and take care of Meiqiu, while you go after her alone?"

Li Tuantuan nodded again.

The forest was pitch black, and their opponent was an extremely fast, venomous mutated creature. Lin Wan, an ordinary human, would not only be useless but also a burden if she went along. Li Tuantuan didn't want to be fighting while simultaneously protecting her.

Lin Wan panicked: "No way. You're a national treasure, how can I let you go on such a dangerous adventure alone? That lynx is too dangerous. What if something happens to you? How am I supposed to explain this to Director Chen?"

Li Tuantuan rolled her eyes.

Explain your ass. I'm a cheat code-breaking iron-eating beast now. If a real fight breaks out, that cat isn't even worthy of giving me a gua sha treatment.

To reassure Lin Wan, Li Tuantuan went to a corner of the yard and picked up a large millstone that weighed several hundred kilograms. Without even panting, he exerted force with both hands.

A loud cracking sound.

He broke the hard granite millstone in two, and the broken pieces fell to the ground, creating a large crater.

Lin Wan stared in disbelief, swallowed hard, and swallowed back the words of advice that were about to come out.

She knew how monstrous this panda's fighting power was; that attack just now was merely to reassure her.

Just then, a rustling sound came from the mouse hole next to them.

A tiny golden head popped out of the ground.

It's a golden bean.

This SSR-level treasure-hunting rat had been hiding underground listening to the sounds, and only dared to show itself now that the battle was over.

Jin Dou crawled out of the hole, shook off the mud, and ran to Li Tuantuan's feet. Far from being frightened by the scene just now, it excitedly rubbed its two front paws together, its two bright blue eyes shining in the darkness.

It ran to the black blood dripping from the coal briquette on the ground, sniffed hard, and then sneezed in disgust. Then it turned around, pointing its little paws towards the depths of the woods where the lynx had fled, and made rapid squeaking noises.

Li Tuantuan's eyes lit up.

That's right, Golden Bean is a treasure-hunting rat; its sense of smell is a hundred times more sensitive than a police dog's. When the lynx attacked just now, Golden Bean must have already memorized its scent.

Li Tuantuan bent down and patted Jin Dou's head with her paw.

"Well done, little rascal. If you can find that dead cat today, I'll treat you to a whole case of sausages when we get back."

Jin Dou understood what Li Tuantuan meant, happily did a somersault on the spot, and then dashed out into the dark woods without hesitation.

Li Tuantuan stood up, glanced back at Lin Wan, and gave her a reassuring look. He picked up the titanium nunchucks from the ground and tucked them into his tactical belt at his lower back.

Its massive black and white body blended into the night, silently following behind Jin Dou, and disappeared into the depths of the dense forest.

Lin Wan held the unconscious Coal Ball, watching Li Tuantuan's departing figure, and gripped the gun in her hand tightly.