Chapter 87: When A Detective Can’t Afford Your Few Spirit Plants [2-in-1]
Professor Luo Wan, Detective Chief Hao Ke, and the others drove up with a team of detectives in police cars, startling the security guards in the gatehouse when they arrived at the entrance to Shanpan Garden Community.
This was the first time they had seen such a big show of force here.
Normally, any disturbances in the residential area were either handled by the security personnel themselves or reported to the police station by them.
Something like this—late at night, with a full combat squad of police station detectives arriving fully equipped—was truly rare.
Detective Chief Hao Ke’s police car was at the front of the convoy.
As they approached the main gate of Shanpan Garden Community, he rolled down the window and waved to the security personnel.
When the security personnel jogged over, he directly flashed his police badge without a word of nonsense.
“Open the gate, get in the car, lead the way to Villa 16.”
Seeing the police badge and hearing Detective Chief Hao Ke’s order, the security personnel didn’t hesitate at all, immediately pressing the gate open button while heading to the car.
This security personnel was knowledgeable; with just a glance, he knew these people were genuine police station detectives.
But he didn’t forget his duties; after getting in the car, he picked up the walkie-talkie and reported the situation to the community control room.
Detective Chief Hao Ke watched the security personnel through the rearview mirror and didn’t stop him.
The roads inside Shanpan Garden Community weren’t complicated, and vehicles could drive right up to the entrance of every villa.
When Detective Chief Hao Ke and the others arrived at Villa 16, before anyone got out of the cars, they heard two muffled thuds from inside the villa.
This was… a fight breaking out?
Professor Luo Wan was especially anxious upon hearing the sounds and hurriedly yanked open the car door, about to rush into the villa.
Detective Chief Hao Ke was quick-eyed and quick-handed, grabbing his old friend with one hand and shoving him back.
Professor Luo Wan stumbled, his footing unsteady, and fell into the arms of a young detective.
“What are you rushing blindly for? Stand back and watch, don’t cause trouble.”
Detective Chief Hao Ke irritably glanced at Professor Luo Wan and unceremoniously complained, while not forgetting to instruct the young detective who had caught him.
“Xiao Liu, I’m handing him over to you. Take Professor Luo and stand back.”
“Yes!”
Detective Xiao Liu received the order and nimbly grabbed Professor Luo Wan’s arm, striding quickly to the rear.
Professor Luo Wan anxiously looked back toward the villa, resisting Xiao Liu, while muttering nonstop.
“Alright, alright, no need to go so far.”
Xiao Liu acted as if he couldn’t hear, stubbornly dragging Professor Luo Wan all the way to the rear of the police cars.
Meanwhile, Detective Chief Hao Ke didn’t rush forward to break down the door but kept his eyes fixed on the villa.
One hand on his waist holster, the other raised high, he signaled with hand gestures to the detectives arriving from behind.
With a glance from the corner of his eye confirming the detectives were moving into position, he quickly began sketching a summoning array, and Beika’s figure solidified above it.
Beika, the well-trained lightning-element canine pet beast, had fought alongside Detective Chief Hao Ke for years.
Spiritual power lights from summoning arrays at the rear lit up one after another, and each detective’s pet beast, upon appearing, showed extremely high discipline.
Not only did they remain completely silent, they also swiftly moved to assigned positions under their respective beast tamers’ commands.
Among them was a spirit planter detective who stood cautiously at the rear of the team, summoning a Transcendence Realm devil vine.
As soon as the devil vine appeared, it climbed onto the ground and walls, rapidly extending forward.
It was clear this was a well-trained team of detectives with rich cooperative experience.
Detective Chief Hao Ke had personally led this team of detectives for a long time and had tackled many tough cases, so he was very reassured, devoting all his attention to the villa.
Apart from those two muffled thuds, there were no other sounds coming out now.
Detective Chief Hao Ke observed for a few seconds, saw no abnormalities, and had just raised his right hand to signal advance when he suddenly noticed spiritual power changes around them.
Space element spiritual power fluctuation.
Beika crouched low, positioning itself in front of Detective Chief Hao Ke, eyes locked on a spot in midair in one direction.
Reacting to Beika, the detectives and pet beasts, originally in a triangular assault formation, immediately adjusted positions to form a circle.
Soon, a rift with space distortion appeared in midair, and the struggling bloodthirsty mad hyena fell out of it.
The bloodthirsty mad hyena suppressed its dizziness, struggling in midair to adjust its posture and barely landing on all fours.
Upon landing, it cautiously scanned its surroundings, realizing it was in an encirclement, its fur instantly bristling as it bared its teeth with low growls.
Detective Chief Hao Ke stared fixedly at the bloodthirsty mad hyena, his instincts telling him this dog was no pushover, with too heavy a scent of blood on it.
At the same time, his mind was racing, quickly reviewing the known situation.
The reporter Ge Bai was a spirit planter; their response time was only 20 minutes, and Ge Bai’s information was clear: two beast tamers as home intruders, and she hadn’t mentioned any companions.
Professor Luo Wan had briefly explained Ge Bai’s situation on the road: she had a space element spirit plant.
This nearly unscathed bloodthirsty mad hyena had been teleported out by space ability.
That made it obvious: this bloodthirsty mad hyena was the pet beast of the two intruding beast tamers.
“Control, enemy!”
Having figured it out, Detective Chief Hao Ke immediately ordered.
Even if it weren’t an enemy, suddenly appearing at a police operation site required control anyway.
But against an enemy, the methods could be less restrained.
Beika charged first, biting the bloodthirsty mad hyena’s throat.
The hyena wasn’t defenseless; it jerked back fiercely, its neck mane exploding into steel-like spines.
Seeing this, Beika had to withdraw and retreat swiftly.
But it wasn’t a big problem; this full-strength combat squad of 7 had summoned 9 Transcendence Realm pet beasts.
Though their levels ranged from early to mid Transcendence Realm, they had numbers and perfect coordination; it wasn’t a huge gap in stages, so dealing with one advanced level Transcendence Realm bloodthirsty mad hyena wasn’t difficult.
In the instant Beika contacted the hyena, six or seven skills mercilessly slammed into it, including two combination skills.
Police operations never involved one-on-one fights; it was always a group beatdown.
The devil vine had been waiting in the shadows.
Seeing this wave of skills flip the hyena, the devil vine swiftly extended forward without hesitation, binding it tightly.
As expected of a vine-type spirit plant; this binding was far more efficient than Big Willow’s willow threads.
From the hyena’s appearance to the police combat squad subduing it, the whole process took less than 3 minutes.
Ge Bai rushed to the main gate with Big Willow; when she opened the door and came out, she only saw a group of uniformed detectives, a group of majestic pet beasts, and a devil vine cocoon on the ground.
The person and the willow stood stunned at the scene, while the just-finished-fighting detectives all turned their heads simultaneously toward the suddenly opened villa door.
In that instant, both sides fell silent.
This wasn’t going anywhere; Ge Bai thought for a moment and decided to say something.
She stepped aside, pushing the door open fully, stood to one side of the entrance, forced a smile, and said to the group of detectives in front of her.
“Everyone, please come in?”
Not a single detective moved a step, but some had already raised a fist to their mouths, pursing their lips in fake coughs to stifle laughter.
Detective Chief Hao Ke kept a calm expression; from the moment Ge Bai pushed the door open with Big Willow, he had been observing her.
Until this girl said “please come in,” even Detective Chief Hao Ke nearly lost it.
He shook his head and walked forward.
While walking, he didn’t forget to glare at a few detectives who had their heads down.
He had already decided: anyone he heard laughing would go for extra training tomorrow.
“Ge Bai? I’m Detective Chief Hao Ke from the Jinggang City Police Department’s major crimes unit.”
Detective Chief Hao Ke walked up to Ge Bai and extended his right hand.
“Hello, Detective Chief Hao Ke. I’m Ge Bai.”
Ge Bai took two steps forward, descended the steps, and politely shook Detective Chief Hao Ke’s outstretched right hand.
“Ge Bai! Are you okay? Not injured, right?”
Before the two could say more, Professor Luo Wan’s voice came from afar.
Professor Luo Wan strode quickly straight toward Ge Bai, with Xiao Liu following closely behind.
Seeing Professor Luo Wan’s figure, Ge Bai relaxed, the tension finally easing completely, an involuntary smile rising from the bottom of her heart.
Tonight, Ge Bai had been on edge the whole time; now relaxing, she suddenly felt very tired.
“Professor Luo Wan.”
Apart from calling Professor Luo Wan, Ge Bai didn’t know what else to say or where to start.
Professor Luo Wan, on the other hand, had a ton to say.
“You’re sure you’re not injured?”
Ge Bai smiled and shook her head.
“How could you be so bold? Losing resources is no big deal, but you didn’t think to hide far away?”
“You’ve only been a spirit planter for a few days, and you’re already staking out advanced level Transcendence Realm beast tamers?”
“You fought them? Where are they? Did they run?”
……
Ge Bai had never realized before that Professor Luo Wan was so nagging.
She didn’t know that this time, she had truly scared Professor Luo Wan.
If anything happened to Ge Bai, forget losing a promising talent; Professor Luo Wan wouldn’t know how to explain it to his old friend.
“Professor Luo, hold on. Let Ge Bai explain the situation first.”
Seeing Professor Luo Wan grabbing Ge Bai and lecturing nonstop, Detective Chief Hao Ke frowned.
Couldn’t he focus on the priorities?
Right now, they had only controlled one pet beast; weren’t there still two advanced level Transcendence Realm beast tamers?
Ge Bai had also recovered by now and quickly responded.
“Two beast tamers, two pet beasts, all knocked out and tied up; they’re all in the basement right now.”
While speaking, Ge Bai walked into the villa living room and pointed at the basement stairwell entrance.
Hearing this, Detective Chief Hao Ke grabbed her, pushed her and Professor Luo Wan toward Xiao Liu together, then turned and signaled the combat squad.
The combat squad detectives rushed into the basement stairwell with their pet beasts.
They had clearly auto-filtered the info: two beast tamers, two pet beasts, basement.
As for Ge Bai saying they were knocked out and tied up, no one took it seriously.
The group rushed into the basement and were once again stunned by the scene.
There were really four big and small willow thread-wrapped bundles scattered around the basement.
A cluster of orchids floated in midair, tilting its head to look at them.
“La~”
Little Orchid was startled by the group of uniformed detectives rushing in but quickly calmed down.
The uniforms these people wore were the same as the good guys on TV a couple days ago, so they should be good people.
Ge Bai had followed down by now; seeing Thousand Generations Orchid still dutifully guarding the basement, she gently beckoned to it.
“Thousand Generations, come here.”
Thousand Generations Orchid flashed over into Ge Bai’s arms.
Detective Chief Hao Ke scanned the entire basement, his gaze lingering deeply on Ge Bai.
Sensing Detective Chief Hao Ke’s gaze, Ge Bai held Thousand Generations Orchid and casually introduced to him.
“The one in front of the spiritual power room door is Xiong Dong; the one in the far corner is Xiong Xia.”
“Lying next to Xiong Dong is Xiong Xia’s pet beast, Neman Golden Beaver; the door was gnawed open by the beaver.”
“This one in the wall corner is Xiong Dong’s pet beast, Spirit Devouring Rat.”
In a few simple sentences, she explained the contents of the four willow thread bundles.
At this point, the devil vine also crawled in, curiously eyeing the willow thread bundles on the ground.
The vines quietly approached and lightly poked at the willow threads twice.
The spirit planter detective contracted to the devil vine didn’t stop its pet beast, instead looking up at Detective Chief Hao Ke.
Detective Chief Hao Ke nodded to him, and the spirit planter detective walked to the devil vine’s side, softly saying a couple words.
The devil vine rebound the four willow thread bundles and dragged them out of the basement.
The other detectives got busy too: taking photos, measuring, recording.
Seeing the scene was truly safe, Detective Chief Hao Ke finally relaxed.
Professor Luo Wan wouldn’t let Ge Bai off easily; standing in the messy basement, he forced Ge Bai to recount the entire incident from start to finish in detail.
He didn’t even skip details like where she got the golf club.
Ge Bai talked until her mouth was dry.
Detective Chief Hao Ke listened with great interest.
“Ge Bai, are you interested in interning at our police station for a while?”
He couldn’t hold back and, in front of Professor Luo Wan, extended the invitation to Ge Bai.
“If you perform excellently, not only are there generous rewards, you can also join the Jinggang City Police Department directly after graduation without an exam.”
The Jinggang City Police Department wasn’t easy to get into; every year it was thousands competing for single spots.
Detective Chief Hao Ke had opened a talent introduction green channel for Ge Bai.
Earlier in the police car, he had been joking with Professor Luo Wan; but now, after hearing Ge Bai’s detailed account of the day’s events, he genuinely felt a love for talent.
From Detective Chief Hao Ke’s perspective, Ge Bai was born to be an excellent detective.
Meticulous, cautious, bold, strategic—from her handling of this incident, she had all the qualities an outstanding detective needed.
Not to mention the strength gap; even a veteran detective alone in this situation and environment couldn’t have handled it better than Ge Bai.
“Did you get your quarterly bonus last quarter? Can your rewards be richer than our Spirit Plant Research Institute’s?”
Professor Luo Wan rolled his eyes and said to Ge Bai.
“Don’t listen to his nonsense; being a detective can’t afford to raise your spirit plants.”
