Chapter 206: Does Efficiency Have to Be This High?

Jiangcheng Police Bureau.

Just a minute ago, they received a report.

There are robbers robbing a bank!

This is the teller notifying the police.

In the bank, each teller has a one‑click alarm button linked to the police.

When they saw two robbers wearing head‑covering stockings and brandishing kitchen knives enter, they immediately pressed the alarm button.

The police station nearest the bank, upon receiving the alarm, immediately dispatched officers.

In just six minutes, the officers arrived at the bank entrance.

When they got there, they found that the two robbers, having heard the siren in advance, had already dropped their knives and fled in panic.

It was a false alarm, and fortunately no one was injured.

Normally, officers sound the siren for three reasons.

First, to save precious seconds.

Turning on the siren on the road signals other vehicles to yield, allowing the fastest possible arrival at the crime scene.

Second, to intimidate criminals.

The siren's unique, loud sound is highly effective for deterring criminals during robberies, hostage situations, or assaults.

The sound arrives before the officers; the early siren can cause criminals in the act to abandon their crime, even drive them away, preventing harm.

Although the gap between the criminals hearing the siren and the officers' actual arrival is only a minute or two, or even a few seconds, those seconds may save a life.

Third, to tell victims—don't be afraid, we're here.

Of course, whether to sound the siren depends on the situation.

When a covert operation is needed to capture a major case's criminal, don't even think about sounding the siren.

Officers simply won't drive a police car or wear a uniform.

Moreover, even when the target is finally caught, no one will realize the police were involved.

In fact, the officers' experience proves correct.

After hearing the siren, the two robbers dropped their knives and fled without a word.

But the two robbers didn't get far.

The officers at the police station used the surveillance to lock onto their positions in real time, while reporting the robbers' locations to colleagues carrying out the capture.

In no time, the two were apprehended.

Taking off the stockings that had been wrapped around their heads, they saw…

Well, isn't this the fake fugitive whose identity they just learned about recently?

They had just been about to devise a plan to capture these people.

Who would have thought the concrete capture plan wasn't ready yet.

Two of them have already walked right into the trap!

From the start of the game until now, it's only been twenty minutes, and someone's already been caught.

The Water Friends in the Live Broadcast Room were all stunned.

"Whoa, does efficiency have to be this high? That's how little time!"

"Sure enough, the police's speed is beyond our imagination—awesome!"

"66666666, I admit my voice was a bit loud when I said the police and Investigation Team were ineffective; I apologize…"

"Twenty minutes… that's just the police deployment, and the Investigation Team doesn't even need to act?"

"……"

Meanwhile.

Now information that one group of Escapees failed a bank robbery and were caught has been broadcast by the Program Crew via text message to the remaining ten groups of Escapees.

Xu Mo, just waking from a nap, grabbed his phone and learned the bad news.

One group being caught means he loses a System Reward.

The game has just begun, and someone's already been caught?

Are these people even capable?

He hasn't even started yet!

The Investigation Team is being unfair!

Grabbing an easy target right off the bat, is that acceptable?

Why catch others? Come catch me!

"I need to act quickly too, trying to catch them before the Investigation Team…," Xu Mo sat up from the bed in an instant.

Get dressed, wash up.

He must race against time and the Investigation Team, striking first to gain the advantage.

After washing up, Xu Mo turned on his computer, intending to hack the Program Crew's backend to obtain a list of Escapees, then preemptively capture the remaining nine groups of uncaught "criminals" on the list, excluding himself.

But just as Xu Mo got the list and was pondering how to capture them,

his phone rang.

He picked it up and looked.

It was a text message from the Program Crew.

Another group has been caught!

This group was captured while extorting the Investigation Team for ransom.

This time the Investigation Team acted; during the minute they were extorting the Program Crew via the Escapees, they used technical means to pinpoint the location and arrested them on the spot!

At this point, only thirty‑two minutes had passed since the game officially began.

In half an hour, two groups of 'Escapee' were captured!

Nine groups remain.

That's not all.

More than fifty minutes passed.

Another group was captured.

This group was caught because they impersonated a Pilot to apply at an Airline Company.

Lacking Xu Mo's convincingly deceptive forgery technique, they had to settle for paper printed by a print shop.

The ridiculously fake Pilot Credentials were uncovered on the spot.

Faking a Pilot résumé and attempting to apply for a Pilot position is no small matter.

The Airline Company immediately called security to seize the two, then sent them straight to the Police Station.

This time, not only did the Investigation Team take no action, not even the Police acted.

Just the Airline Company personnel captured those two 'Escapee' and sent them to the Police Station.

In less than two hours, eleven groups of 'Escapee', and three groups have already been captured.

The final eight groups remain.

Received three pieces of news that felt like bad omens.

Xu Mo is numb.

He didn't get anything at all!

He hadn't even started catching people, yet three groups had already been seized by the Investigation Team and the Police and eliminated.

Xu Mo knows clearly that he must step up his capture efforts.

…

The capture of the three groups sounded the alarm for the other seven groups, except Xu Mo.

Bank‑robbery attempt failed and got caught; extorting the Program Crew failed and got caught; impersonating a Pilot was uncovered and got caught…

It's obvious these three groups were trying to imitate Xu Mo.

But none succeeded; they were caught instead.

These are all bloody lessons.

When everyone watched the live stream, they got the illusion "I could do it too," which completely vanished at this moment.

The things Xu Mo did really aren't something anyone can just do.

Learning from Xu Mo to commit offenses proactively is just asking to be caught.

Better to hide honestly.

Apart from Xu Mo, among the remaining seven groups, six hold this thought; they dare not act recklessly and only want to survive peacefully.

After all, surviving a day brings two hundred thousand!

Yet one group played a clever trick.

They thought of the best way to evade capture—by turning to Xu Mo!

If they blend in with Xu Mo, can the Investigation Team still catch them?

What they didn't know is…

Xu Mo was thinking of catching other Program Challengers to earn rewards.

Even Xu Mo didn't expect that, without his own move, someone would walk right to his door.

They fed him straight to his mouth!