Super Detective in the Fictional World

out, Luke led Selina and Alice to the door.
He nodded at Olly and moved away the pipes and table that had been blocking the entrance.

The three of them snuck into Luke’s car, which wasn’t far away.

Without turning on the lights, the Ford quietly turned around and drove into the endless fog.

Olly and David were at a loss for a while after they closed up the supermarket again, before they hid themselves in the safe area at the back.

Luke’s car drove slowly along the road like a ghost.

He didn’t dare drive too fast, for fear of running into something.

The car moved as if it were floating in an ocean of fog.

Alice had covered her mouth with a towel.
Luke had asked her to put it on in case she screamed subconsciously.

If she wanted to talk, she could take off the towel first.

Alice’s heart raced as Luke moved forward.

Luke wasn’t lost.
He was on the right road, and reached her house in two minutes.

Noticing her neighbor’s mailbox, she said in a low voice, “We’re here.
It’s ten meters away.”

Luke quietly stopped the car and said, “Don’t make a sound.
Follow us.”

He then got out of the vehicle, with Selina and Alice close on his heels.

They reached the door of the house five seconds later.
With Alice’s key, Luke opened the door and entered.

After Selina and Alice entered, he immediately closed the door.

Gesturing to Alice, he went straight to Alice’s room on the second floor.

The bed in her room was empty.

Alice, however, wasn’t nervous.
She opened the bathroom door, and they found a little child crouching in the bathtub.

Shaking, Alice called, “Carrie! Carrie!”

Luke patted her shoulder heavily.

Coming back to her senses, Alice immediately made way for him.

Luke moved forward and checked the girl.
He then said to Alice in a low voice, “She’s fine, though she needs food and water.
Let’s get out of here first.”

As a company CEO, Alice wasn’t an idiot.
She nodded quickly.

Carrie wasn’t in the best condition, but she wasn’t in grave danger.

Because of her autism, she was quiet, and she tended to hide in the bathtub when there was nobody around to keep her company.

Perhaps that was the reason why no monsters had been drawn to her.

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The three of them went downstairs again with Carrie.

Luke slowly opened the back door, and the white fog flowed in.

He pressed forward unhurriedly, ready with his bat.

After moving forward ten meters, he saw Alice’s helicopter.

Luke opened the door of the helicopter and sat in the pilot’s seat.
He then examined the vehicle.

A moment later, he started the helicopter.

The most dangerous moment had arrived.

Since this was an emergency, he had to skip most of the standard flight checks.
However, a helicopter in the end wasn’t a car, and couldn’t be flown simply by hitting a gas pedal.

As the helicopter’s propellers began to spin, the enormous noise rang out.

Luke calmly continued as he got the vehicle warmed up.

He sensed that he was being watched, but maybe the monsters were unfamiliar with helicopters, and the crazily spinning propellers deterred them from getting close.

Each second was like a year for Luke, Selina and Alice.

Waiting for the helicopter to warm up was too torturous when there were monsters all over the place.

Finally, Luke said over the walkie-talkie, “You can come out now, Selina.”

A few seconds later, Selina and Alice ran out with Carrie.

Selina got on board first, and then gave Alice a hand.
All of them got seated.

Luke finally closed the door on his side.
Alice closed the door on her side, too.

The helicopter slowly ascended.

In the mist, the helicopter was like a tiny bird that was struggling to fly away from its cage.

Gradually, the helicopter rose higher and higher.

Luke was finally less apprehensive.

Now, the helicopter was almost a hundred meters high.
The risk of danger was significantly less.

Suddenly, Luke detected something wrong, and subconsciously turned the helicopter.

Two seconds later, the helicopter brushed past something.

Luke’s heart pounded despite his usual calmness.

Selina and Alice both held their breaths, not daring to make a sound.

In the fog, a gigantic creature passed by the helicopter.

Luke sensed the creature glancing at the helicopter, but it didn’t turn around.

He subconsciously looked at the dashboard.
They were now at an altitude of 120 meters.

Yet, the gigantic creature had looked at the helicopter head on.

So, it was… more than a hundred meters tall?

Luke didn’t expect to really run into a boss monster.

It was also out of his expectations that the monster would be so huge that it didn’t bother paying attention to them.

It was probably just like how lions were uninterested in flies; the helicopter would barely fill this boss monster’s mouth.

The helicopter broke through the thick fog when it was five hundred meters up.
The morning sun on the horizon illuminated the passengers inside the helicopter.

At that moment, even someone as composed as Luke felt as if he had been reborn.

At eight o’clock in the morning, the helicopter landed in Houston again.
All of them felt fortunate to have escaped.

The police station was dyed gold by the sun.

A detective of the Major Crimes Division was going in with his breakfast, when he saw Luke and Selina on the airfield.
He was stunned.
“Luke, Selina, you’re back?”

Luke and Selina greeted him with smiles.
“Oh, Creech, good morning.”

Creech looked at the helicopter, finding it odd.
“Why… did you come back in this?”

Luke chuckled.
“We were caught in an emergency.
A friend brought us back here with the helicopter.”

Creech wasn’t entirely convinced, but he didn’t ask more.

The detectives kept their cases confidential, and would only share with their best friends.

Luke and Selina were newcomers, and they weren’t familiar with each other.

So, Creech simply nodded and walked in.

Luke and Selina entered the police station with Alice and her daughter.

Selina stopped at the back door and inserted a few coins into the vending machine.

Two cans of Dr.
Pepper, as well as two cartons of milk, dropped down.

Seline gave one of the cans of Dr.
Pepper to Luke, and the milk to Alice.

Watching Selina enjoy her Dr.
Pepper, Luke shook his head, but could only drink his.

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He had never liked it, but Selina had been trying since forever to make him fall in love with it.
To quote her: partners should share enjoyable things together.

There was no telling if it was because he had smelled too many funny things last night, but Luke suddenly felt that it didn’t taste so bad after all.

Enjoying their drinks, they brought Alice and her daughter to Thomas’s office.

Luke asked Alice to wait.
He knocked on the door, and Thomas said, “Come in.”

Luke and Selina walked in.
Thomas frowned and didn’t say anything.

As the deputy chief of the police station, he didn’t want his subordinate’s subordinate to come to him directly, even if Luke was his own man.

Luke stood at attention and said, “Chief, there’s something that we need to report.”

Thomas frowned.
“Why don’t you write a report?”

Luke said, “I’m sorry, chief, but I don’t think I can write a report.”

Thomas asked, “Why?”

Laquin replied, “Officer Brock gave us the case about the missing police officer in Laquin, so we left for Laquin yesterday.”

Thomas was briefly dazed.
“Then what?”

Laquin said, “Then, before we reached Laquin, we ran into an emergency in Rumford, a town fifty kilometers away from Laquin.
The town is now surrounded by a weird fog.
Weird creatures in the fog have killed plenty of the residents.
The survivors are waiting for reinforcements in the supermarket.”

Thomas was dumbfounded.
“What? Are you kidding? What horror movie did you watch?”

Luke said, “No, chief.
You’ll be able to confirm the matter.
I’m here to ask you how I should write the report.”

Thomas was gloomy.

He wasn’t an idiot.

Luke was clearly trying to get him involved in order to split the responsibility.

However… could he stay uninvolved?

Thinking carefully, he said, “Don’t write a report just yet.
Also, you and Selina can have… three days off.
Don’t tell anyone what happened in Rumford.
Are we clear?”

Luke nodded.
“Crystal.
Do I need to talk to Officer Brock?”

Thomas waved his hand.
“That’s unnecessary.
I’ll inform him.
You can stay in the lounge until further notice.”

After they left, Thomas began to make calls.

Thirty minutes later, he sat in his office, astounded and sweating hard.

A moment later, he suddenly realized what was going on and cursed.
“Brock! You idiot! You’re so incapable, but you sure do have plenty of petty tricks.”

What actually pissed Thomas off was the timing of Brock handing the case over to Luke.

If it had been one day later, Thomas wouldn’t be as angry.

Well, fine.
Thomas would’ve still been angry, because he was the person who had opened the case.

Had it not been for him, the Westside Police Station wouldn’t have gotten involved in the investigation in Laquin in the first place.

As a result, he was now a victim of his own doing.

The situation was quite tricky.
Hundreds of people were trapped in Rumford, and only his two detectives had escaped from there.

It was hard to say whether or not his position would be affected by the incident.

Could he be blamed? Of course not.

He was the deputy chief.
He couldn’t be wrong.
It could only be his subordinate’s fault.

Luke and Selina hadn’t done anything wrong.
Could he blame them for working too hard?

So, Brock was the only person at fault here.

If Brock hadn’t sent Luke and Selina to Laquin, Thomas wouldn’t be in this mess.

In doing this, Brock was giving the newcomers a hard time as well as showing his opposition to Thomas.

Besides, Brock wasn’t his man, but Chief Faraday’s.

It was also the reason why Brock dared to stack the deck against Luke.

As long as it was about work, Brock wasn’t scared of Thomas.

But right now… Thomas sneered and called for Brock, telling him that Luke and Selina had three days off due to a special situation.

Then, Thomas pulled some strings and inquired about Rumford from Laquin.

Luke and Selina went to the lounge with Alice and her daughter.
When they passed their desks, they picked up some of the snacks they had there

The lounge was actually just a corner in the hall that had been partially blocked from the outside.

There were tables and chairs and a sofa here for the officers to rest.

Luke and Selina found two blankets for Alice and her daughter.

Then, they sat down at a table and had the snacks.

Naturally, Luke had chocolate.
He had prepared a lot of food high in calories for himself.

Enjoying sandwiches, milk and chocolate, Luke finally had the time to examine what he had earned in the past day.