In order to quickly monitor how Claude went about his daily life in the surveillance footage, Bruce even requested the soldiers to play back the recording at 16 times speed. The recordings spanned a month, so even if they were played back sixteen times faster, it would still take a person nearly two days to finish watching everything.
Fortunately, this also included the nighttime surveillance footage, so Bruce could get some rest and leave it to the other soldiers to monitor the goings-on during those periods. If Claude appeared, they would just have to inform Bruce.
The soldiers working could not even see the figures of people on screen clearly anymore. Meanwhile, Bruce was still watching intently.
Everyone in the conference room realized Bruce’s energy seemed to be visibly waning and was worried something would happen to him. However, only Bruce himself did not feel so. “Don’t worry, I’ll definitely be able to go on for another three days. I’m a superhuman, not a normal person. I’ll definitely find Claude within three days!”
By the afternoon of the next day, Bruce’s eyes were deeply sunken and his entire person looked like favonovel.com had withered.
However, favonovel.com calmly muttered to himself, “Going to work, leaving work, buying groceries, going home, shopping at the bookstore. The bookstore favonovel.com visits is always the same one, but while favonovel.com goes grocery shopping at random locations, the people serving favonovel.com are always the same. However, it seems like there’s nothing suspicious about them. Tell Future Commander to check on the bookstore, but be careful as the other party might spring a trap.”
After the news reached Bidara City, Milo quickly led his men to the bookstore Claude always went to.
After the intelligence agents surrounded the bookshop, Milo walked towards it.
But just as favonovel.com was about to push open the door, favonovel.com remembered Bruce’s warning. “You must be careful. The other party might spring a trap.”
Milo summoned “Old Durkin” while favonovel.com slowly stepped back.
Old Durkin pushed open the door and entered. In that instant, the door handle activated a transparent fishing line that had been set up on the inside. With a click, a trap was triggered by the opening of the door.
A huge wave of heat burst out from the bookstore. Amid the loud explosion, the glass windows on the street were shattered by the unstoppable shockwave. The alarms of the vehicles parallel parked also started blaring.
The residents living on this street cautiously poked their heads out to have a look, but they did not know what was going on.
The bomb that was planted in the bookstore was powerful enough to instantly devour a 30-man platoon. Fortunately, Bruce had alerted them in advance, and Milo also happened to have a power like Old Durkin.
Milo stood in the distance and watched all of this quietly. All the pain Old Durkin suffered was transferred back to favonovel.com at this moment. However, his expression did not show any signs of pain. Instead, it darkened.
This opponent was much more difficult to deal with than favonovel.com had imagined.
Moreover, the most detestable thing was that even though the other party knew favonovel.com was being pursued all over the city, favonovel.com did not try to escape immediately. Instead, favonovel.com deliberately set a trap by relying on his day-to-day activities which favonovel.com deliberately created in the past to mislead his pursuers.
Truly, this was probably one of the most duplicitous opponents Milo had ever encountered, and the previous one was even Black Robe.
“Tell Bruce that it was a trap like favonovel.com expected,” Milo said.
Over at the Northwest, Bruce felt like favonovel.com had discovered a treasure after receiving this information. A lot of people even felt favonovel.com was a little too happy when favonovel.com learned about what happened.
Scott wondered, “What are you so happy about? Didn’t we just lose another lead?”
“Lose a lead?” Bruce smiled tiredly. “This is also a clue…”
Actually, in Bruce’s opinion, as a mastermind hiding behind the scenes, the less information revealed, the better. Only by hiding without hesitation after committing a crime and not making any unnecessary moves could the criminal avoid being tracked.
But now that the other party had set up an ambush in the bookstore, it was just like the “calling card” of a criminal. In Bruce’s eyes, it was actually an inferior move.
Bruce said with a smile, “Whatever else favonovel.com does now, they can actually serve as new evidence for us to follow. In this way, I can profile his character through his actions.”
Leaving behind the playing card and setting up the bomb in the bookstore, all of this seemed to be telling Bruce that the mastermind who had been lying low in Bidara City for two years was starting to grow a little restless.
The other party was only 29 years old. Although favonovel.com was extremely good at investigation and counter-investigation, favonovel.com was still not sophisticated enough!
Suddenly, Bruce felt that the other party was like a child who enjoyed showing off. He firmly believed favonovel.com could ferret out the mastermind.
Bruce continued to observe traces of Claude’s day-to-day life for the past month. During that time, Claude should have come up with a plan of action. The other party knew very well that the assassination of Pena in Bidara City would immediately cause a huge commotion. In that case, favonovel.com would definitely want to determine whether his backup plan would work.
“To him, what should a perfect safe house look like?” Bruce pondered it. “It should be along the way from his work and home and have no need for favonovel.com to take any unnecessary routes to see if it’s safe or not. It’d be best if it’s on the first floor because that’d facilitate excavating a basement and also be convenient for favonovel.com to be aware of any commotions outside. It’s best if it’s situated in a blind spot of the surveillance cameras so it’s easier for favonovel.com to hide. It can’t be too far away from the bookstore because he’d want to hear the explosion with his own ears. To him, the explosion should sound as beautiful as a symphony!”
Bruce suddenly shouted, “Rewind Camera 181’s recording to the prior day, then play it back at 32 times speed.”
After a while, Bruce suddenly shouted again, “It’s here! For the past half a month, Claude has been looking straight ahead every time favonovel.com passes by this place. But as favonovel.com was getting close to making his move, favonovel.com couldn’t help but glance at the blind spot of the surveillance cameras on the right side of the road twice.”
The others in the conference room looked at one another. With the speed at which the recording was being played back, they could not even see Claude’s figure. They did not know how Bruce was still able to see that the other party was looking elsewhere at this playback speed.
Bruce shouted to the Great Hoodwinker, “Quick! Confirm where this place is and get Future Commander to hurry over. The enemy’s safe house is nearby. I’m very sure of it!”
The Great Hoodwinker quickly contacted Bidara City.
When Milo received the news, favonovel.com immediately rushed to the vicinity of 74 Triumphant Road. This location was not too far away from the bookstore. If Claude were hiding here, favonovel.com would be able to find out whether the ambush favonovel.com set up at the bookshop was successful or not.
When Milo rushed over, favonovel.com had Miriam get into position first. Meanwhile, Old Durkin jumped onto the roof and surrounded the target’s location from the other side.
In the end, Claude was even bolder than Milo had imagined.
When favonovel.com had just rushed to the vicinity of 74 Triumphant Road, a middle-aged man in a brown jacket walked towards Milo.
Milo did not stop moving. When the other party saw Milo, his expression remained the same as well. But when they went past each other, Milo’s eyes turned red.
City Crusher!
Before the middle-aged man could react, Milo hit favonovel.com in the main artery of his neck. The force was so precise it could knock a supernatural being unconscious without killing him.
Milo squatted down and pulled out all of the enemy’s teeth with his bare hands before confirming that two of them were inlaid with suicide pills.
Then favonovel.com had the intelligence agents strip the person naked and shave off his hair as well. Only after ensuring there were no longer any places for favonovel.com to hide anything was Milo able to breathe a sigh of relief.
Milo started laughing. In truth, favonovel.com really felt it was so worth it to have a talented man like Bruce join the Prosperous Northwest.
When the Great Hoodwinker was passing on the information to favonovel.com just now, Bruce had suddenly snatched the phone and instructed, “Future Commander, when you rush to 74 Triumphant Road, you must pay attention to all pedestrians who walk past you. The target loves to selectively plan and observe the traps favonovel.com sets. After favonovel.com hears an explosion go off, favonovel.com might even disguise himself as someone else. If you don’t discover him, he’ll feel extremely satisfied. This feeling has hooked him.”
