124: Chapter 124, Third Divination: Connections

The Big Guy who had fallen at the doorway was still trying to crawl forward using his arms.

Old Chen stepped forward, flipped his folding entrenching shovel, and struck the Big Guy on the back of his neck with the broad blade.

The man face-planted, knocked out instantly, and went still.

The atmosphere inside and outside the teahouse was incredibly stifling.

All that remained was the sound of the continuous rain and Lu Cheng's rapid breathing.

Outside, that group of machines stopped their orderly procession of throwing their lives away.

A thin, tall man at the end of the line took a half-step back.

He reached up to press the specialized communicator in his ear, his lips moving rapidly as he reported data in a low voice.

He was requesting backup from the rear.

He was waiting for a main server with greater computing power to analyze Jiang Feng, this deadly anomaly.

Through the curtain of rain, Jiang Feng took in the communicator's little movements.

Competing with him on backend computing power?

Jiang Feng couldn't help but laugh out loud.

Did that Eden leader hiding behind the scenes really think a crappy algorithm cobbled together from a few servers could compete with the metaphysical system inside his own head?

"Put away those useless little tricks."

Jiang Feng reached out, grabbed the last card on the table, and placed it face down on the wet wooden board.

He raised his head, his voice drawn out.

"The movement of your facial muscles has betrayed everything. Are you all waiting for the calculation results from your superiors?"

"A bunch of pathetic rejects; without orders, you don't even know which leg to step forward with."

Jiang Feng's fingers left the table, bypassed the group of wooden figures, and pointed at the communicator.

"Today, this third divination will be counted on you."

Old Chen bent down and pulled a fully loaded spare pistol from the waist of the unconscious Big Guy.

He took a step forward, positioning himself half a meter to Jiang Feng's side.

If anyone outside dared to draw a gun, he would definitely empty the magazine.

Lu Cheng bent down and picked up the tablet computer from the ground.

"The master control network terminal isn't on them," Lu Cheng quickly provided the intelligence. "This is a swarm system. The central brain is in a mobile command vehicle two kilometers away; they are just terminals receiving orders."

Lu Cheng looked at Jiang Feng and gave the worst-case prediction.

"Once the central brain in the command vehicle confirms that your behavior is unpredictable, in order to eliminate you, it will very likely call in large-caliber weapons for indiscriminate fire coverage, wiping out this teahouse and the entire street along with it."

Jiang Feng let out a scoff upon hearing this.

"Indiscriminate fire coverage?" Jiang Feng brushed off his clothes. "That depends on whether that central brain has a tough enough life!"

Jiang Feng pressed his finger against the edge of the last tarot card.

He flicked it upward with force.

A card with a dark, gloomy background appeared on the table.

The image was a skeleton wearing black armor, brandishing a massive grim reaper's scythe.

Beneath the scythe were crowds of people falling to the ground.

【Death】.

"I don't need to say anything more about this card, right?" Jiang Feng said coldly. "It means exactly what it says."

He pointed at the communicator who was reporting while pressing his earpiece.

"Tonight is your death knell! It is also the death knell for that damn central brain you've got hidden in the car!"

Upon hearing this, the communicator's lifeless eyes actually lit up.

His infrared eyeballs had scanned a high-risk keyword.

He quickly entered commands into the terminal, preparing to send the final environmental scanning data and coordinate guidance to the central brain.

"Your crappy logic can calculate ballistic trajectories, it can calculate wind speed and resistance."

Jiang Feng picked up the Death card and tossed it into the air. The card tumbled and fluttered down.

"But you machines that only talk about science will never be able to calculate one thing that exists in this world."

Jiang Feng laughed out loud. "This thing is called Connections!"

As soon as Jiang Feng finished speaking.

"Woo—woo—woo—"

At the end of the long street, the sound of sirens at the level of an air-raid alarm tore through the curtain of rain.

Red and blue flashing lights illuminated half the sky.

Twelve anti-riot armored vehicles from the Jinghai City SWAT team surrounded them simultaneously from both ends of the street.

The anti-riot vehicles drifted sideways to park, connecting end-to-end to form an impenetrable wall of steel, completely sealing off the street where this dilapidated teahouse was located.

The vehicle doors were pulled open forcefully from the inside, and fully armed SWAT officers poured out from the carriages like a tide.

Zhao Yi was wearing a black combat uniform, holding a gun, and charged ahead to the cover at the very front.

"Police! Drop your weapons! Hands on your heads and get down!" Zhao Yi bellowed at the group of black-clad men trapped in the middle.

Jiang Feng watched this grand scene outside, his shoulders shaking with laughter.

Just now, when Old Chen went to drag the solid wood table, Jiang Feng had seen Old Chen press something at the small of his back. It was a compact electronic communicator.

It was the highest-level alarm that Zhao Yi had specifically given to Old Chen after the Liu Zhengguo case concluded, to repay the debt of saving his life.

One-touch positioning, bypassing the branch bureau procedures, and connecting directly to the Municipal Bureau command center.

"Sorry, my machine brothers."

Jiang Feng spread his hands, his tone quite annoying.

"The reason my divination is accurate is not just because the patriarchs are feeding me, but more importantly, because I have connections at the top!"

Fighting?

How could a law-abiding good citizen like Jiang Feng possibly get into a fight himself?

A fortune teller is only responsible for calculating a dead end and then calling the police to make arrests.

The main point is to win without drawing blood.

The thin, tall communicator looked at the dense infrared laser aiming dots on his body and didn't listen to Zhao Yi's warning to get down at all.

He was still putting up a desperate struggle, raising his communication terminal to press the data send button.

"Bang!"

A heavy police sniper bullet fired from a hundred meters away, carrying a spiral airflow, struck the communication terminal in his hand squarely, shattering it.

Zhao Yi waved his hand, and dozens of SWAT officers rushed up with shields, compressing the encirclement to the minimum.

Having lost their command network and facing the police's absolute numerical superiority and heavy firepower encirclement, this group of Suit Men became completely like puppets with cut strings.

No one resisted; they were all ruthlessly pressed into the mud by the SWAT officers, their hands twisted behind their backs and cuffed.

Zhao Yi wiped the mud and rain off his face and stepped up the stairs. He glanced at the scattered gun parts on the ground, then at the Big Guy with shattered knees.

"Brother Jiang." Zhao Yi gasped for breath, his tone filled with helplessness. "You're really something. Wherever you go, a major case breaks out."

Jiang Feng reached out and patted Zhao Yi's mud-stained shoulder.

"Brother Zhao, don't complain. I've gifted you the whole package today; they are all important live captives involved in a major case."

Jiang Feng pointed to the circle of black suits on the ground. "Take them back and interrogate them slowly; I guarantee you'll earn a collective first-class merit for the team this year."

Jiang Feng slung his canvas bag over his shoulder and looked back at Lu Cheng, who was still standing there.

"Let's go, Dr. Lu." Jiang Feng walked outside. "The show is over, and your machine companions have all been caught."

"In this world of mortals, we still have to abide by the law."

"As for that central brain, I think the police comrades will soon be able to find that command vehicle by tracking radio waves."

Jiang Feng stepped over the threshold and walked into the rain.

In this game, he had won completely.