He had just married a policewoman when he was diagnosed with criminal genius.

at the same time.

Yuhua District Public Security Bureau, Jiangbei City.

All the special police and criminal police officers were mobilized.

Jiang Xue heard the commotion outside and saw the urgent scene unfolding before her.

Xiao Wang, standing nearby, asked in surprise, "What's going on?"

"With such a large commotion, has some major case occurred?"

"It's possible. Special police and criminal investigators have been deployed; this is no small matter!"

At that moment, a middle-aged policeman came in carrying a thermos.

"Stop making wild guesses."

"Brother Sun, do you know what happened?"

Brother Sun gave me an expression that said, "No information can escape my notice."

"Hey, Brother Sun, stop keeping me in suspense and tell me already!"

"Yes, I'll buy you breakfast tomorrow."

The office was filled with chatter.

Brother Sun then slowly said, "I didn't hear very clearly either, but they said it seemed to be about some kind of exercise."

"Wait a minute, weren't all the people participating in the exercise supposed to have gone out? Why are they sending others out again?!"

Brother Sun took a sip of tea from his thermos and shook his head: "I don't know about that."

Jiang Xue looked out the window again.

Could it be that something went wrong with Lu Chen's exercise?

Although she wanted to go and see, she was a police officer.

In these counter-terrorism drills, special police and criminal police are the main force.

They can only move when they hear an order.

Simultaneously.

Outside the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China in Jiangbei City.

Ding Jianguo stood by the car window, a cigarette between his fingers, the ash already quite long, which he had forgotten to flick off.

He could still hear that loud bang from hundreds of meters away, through the car window.

The ground trembled slightly.

It was very light, but he could feel it.

He turned to the bank's vice president sitting in the back row: "How many tons does your vault door weigh?"

The vice president paused for a moment: "Two tons and eight ounces. Grade C standard."

Did you hear that sound just now?

"I heard that." The vice president smiled. "It must be construction outside; there's a construction site nearby where they're driving piles."

"It's not pile driving," Ding Jianguo said. "That sound is wrong."

"What's wrong?"

"The sound of pile driving is rhythmic," Ding Jianguo said. "That sound just now was the sound of something falling over."

The vice president's smile froze. He looked at Ding Jianguo, opened his mouth, then closed it again.

"Impossible," he said.

"What's impossible?"

"You mean he opened the vault door?"

"I just said that sounded like it."

The deputy bank manager shook his head vigorously, as if denying an absurd assumption: "Director Ding, you may not be familiar with the standards for a Class C vault door."

"That door has a 12mm steel plate on the front and a 12mm steel plate on the back, with a reinforced concrete filling layer in the middle, for a total thickness of 300mm."

"The anchors are twelve high-strength expansion anchors, each twenty millimeters in diameter, buried at a depth of two hundred millimeters. The locking system is a time-locking device imported from the United States, with three parallel locking bolts..."

After hearing the vice president's explanation, Ding Jianguo also felt that what he said made sense.

This is the vault door of the largest bank in Jiangbei City.

No matter how powerful Lu Chen is, he can't possibly open the vault door.

At most, they'll just 'steal' some loose cash from the counter.

A voice came from the walkie-talkie.

"Reporting to the Director, Team C's assault team and negotiation experts have arrived at their designated positions..."

Outside the bank.

The police cordon outside the bank has been expanded from one line to two.

The original one was a blue and white plastic warning tape, loosely tied to the roadblock, swaying in the wind.

This is standard procedure for drills; it's just a formality. In previous years, it was just a formality, and the "robbers" were apprehended within ten minutes at the fastest.

But twenty minutes ago, another one was pulled.

This one is orange, with the words "Police Enforcement, Idlers Avoid" printed in black. It's made of thicker material, pulled tighter, and positioned fifteen meters further out than the first one.

The special police officer who pulled the belt didn't explain; his movements were quick, and his expression was different from usual.

In the past, when setting up cordon lines, the special police officers were somewhat lax in their approach, as if they were just going through the motions.

The helmet visor was up, the side buckles of the bulletproof vest were loose, and someone even took the opportunity to squat down by the roadside and smoke a cigarette.

Not today.

Today, everyone's masks were fastened, every buckle on the bulletproof vest was in place, and the gun muzzle was pointing downwards, but the index finger was already placed on the outside of the trigger guard.

It's just one move away from firing.

Snipers were also deployed.

In previous years, during the exercises, the sniper would symbolically set up an Type 88 rifle on the roof of the opposite building, show his face, take a picture, and that was considered sufficient.

This year is different. A sniper position was set up on the sixth, eighth, and eleventh floors of the opposite residential building, covering the bank's main entrance, side entrance, and back alley exit from three directions.

The observer was equipped with a thermal imager, and the lens was already pointed at the inside of the bank. Although it was difficult to see very deep through the reinforced concrete walls, the thermal signals of the bank lobby and corridors could be captured.

Outside the cordon, the crowd had grown from a dozen people to over a hundred.

Taoxi Road is not a main road. Usually, the busiest places are the noodle shop across the street and the fruit stall at the intersection.

But today is different.

First came three police cars, then two SWAT vehicles, followed by a command vehicle, a communications vehicle, and a black van without license plates.

Old Liu, who runs a fruit stall by the roadside, moved his stall back to make room for the newly arrived riot control vehicle.

While moving the vehicle, he muttered to Old Zhao, the owner of the hardware store next door, "What's going on? In previous years, only two vehicles came for the exercise, and we were done in half an hour. What's this year? Did they bring the whole army?"

Old Zhao crossed his arms and squinted at the equipment of the special police officers in the distance: "Didn't you notice? This year is different. Look at those people, they're all holding guns. In previous years, they didn't even bring their guns out in the exercises."

"Isn't this just a drill? How can it be real?" Old Liu said dismissively.

"It's just a drill, but look..." Old Zhao gestured with his chin towards the bank, "Are they out yet?"

Old Liu was taken aback.

It definitely didn't come out.

In previous years, by this time, the "robber" would have already been escorted out by two police officers, looking disheveled but all smiles, and would even wave to the onlookers.

What are you talking about? It's just an exercise, everyone cooperate.

This year... the bank doors haven't opened since they were closed.

Even the police officers who went in never came out.

People in the crowd started taking videos with their phones, but they were quickly politely asked by plainclothes officers to move to a more distant location.

A high school student in uniform tried to climb over the police cordon to take pictures of the SWAT team's equipment, but was pulled back by a fierce-looking auxiliary police officer: "Go back! Don't you want to live?"

The high school student was startled: "It's just a drill..."

The auxiliary police officer opened his mouth, as if to say something, but finally managed to squeeze out only one sentence: "Go back even for the exercise."

……

in the bank.

[Ding! System task detected that the host has completed it!]

[The host has been granted two chances to participate in a blind box lottery!]

With a loud crash, the gate collapsed.

Lu Chen received a notification that the system task was completed.

A slight smile played on his lips; just as he suspected.

This identity as a senior advisor to the Jiangbei City Police Department is really useful.

They could break into a bank vault without breaking the law by posing as criminals in the training exercise.

This is why Lu Chen agreed to Ding Jianguo's request for the exercise without much thought.

At the same time, it is essential to breach the bank's vault doors.

Lu Chen knew that if he missed this opportunity, he might never have another chance to complete such a mission.

After stretching his legs, which had gone numb from squatting, Lu Chen walked into the vault.

Behind him, Old Zhou slumped to the ground, his face turning from white to ashen.

He never imagined that someone could actually open the bank vault door without a key or password.

He had worked in vault management for twenty years and had seen all sorts of people break into houses, use explosives, and pick locks with technical skills, but he had never seen anything like this…

No explosives, no cutting machine, not a single lock.

Using a bottle of solvent, a steel bar, a jack, and a screwdriver, the entire door was removed from the wall.

"You..." Old Zhou's voice trembled, "Who exactly are you?"

Lu Chen turned around, glanced at him, and smiled.

"Jiangbei Police Station's senior advisor, rest assured, this is just a drill."

"After the exercise, everything will be returned to its rightful owner."

Old Zhou was almost in tears.

He's starting to have trouble telling whether this is a real drill or if real robbers are actually robbing them during their exercise.

After all, who would actually open the door of a bank vault during a rehearsal of a "robbery"?

Looking at Lu Chen's appearance.

It seems like I should actually take something with me.