Chapter 1789 - 921: Green Duckweed in the Wind

Don't say the Security Bureau found it hard to understand, even the East City Police Headquarters couldn't accept it!

After all, according to the records of the East City Bureau, those special police officers accused of being robbers had served the police force for at least nine years!

Many team members stated they were well-acquainted with them and could describe bits and pieces of their daily interactions.

Moreover, their names were on the list of action team members when the operation was decided!

At that time, however, the situation was so chaotic that there was absolutely no time to carefully verify the list and the number of members in both teams.

No one even noticed that there were seven non-existent names on the list.

Without wasting much time, after the Heart Core inspection by the Security Bureau, all the action participants and other special police team members showed issues.

In the three to four days prior, during a routine dinner, all participants received subtle hints, more or less.

So much so that nonexistent memories surged into their minds like good brothers connected by XP!

The person in charge of managing the general bureau's archives, who provided monitoring clues to the bureau that morning, had disappeared long before the Security Bureau's arrest.

By the time the East City Security Bureau stormed into the prison hospital, all they found was a signed list of recipients...

There was simply no sign of those seven guys on the list!

Three hours later, after searching all around East City, the Security Bureau members finally found the unrecognizably altered transport vehicle in a parking lot.

In the surveillance footage, just by turning a corner, the transport vehicle turned into a courier delivery vehicle.

The transport personnel, along with the seven suspects, changed into the courier and delivery uniforms common in East City after the vehicle stopped and vanished into the vast crowd as they brushed past the Security Bureau's special vehicle heading to the governor's mansion.

This was the moment when Yu Yinglong was closest to the robbers—less than three meters away!

And then, they disappeared without a trace...

With a population of tens of millions in East City, seven people could hide until the end of time.

They might not even need to hide for long. Just find a secluded place, perform an unauthorized Earth Veins transfer, and they would be free as the sky and sea.

"But what about the gold!"

In contrast to Yu Yinglong's complete numbness, the president of East City Bank almost wept blood, sobbing and wailing, clutching Chou Zong's hand, "Hundreds of tons of gold, where did it go!!!"

Chou Zong gazed at him with pity, sighing silently after a long while.

Amidst layers of mist and pollution, under the scrutiny of the Heavenly Eye, everything once again became crystal clear... Right in the midst of the chaos, he had already found the crucial clue.

Step by step, he walked through the unrecognizable bank vault.

Finally, he stopped outside the equipment room door.

Without needing to say much, someone rushed forward to open the door, revealing everything behind it at last, a plethora of air conditioning equipment, with nothing appearing amiss.

Chou Zong donned gloves, reached out, opened the toolbox nearby, and with some effort, pulled out a component of a pressure pump, throwing it in front of the bank president.

This was the final answer.

The whirring water pump emitted a pungent smell, but mixed with the acrid stench of fire, it was hard to distinguish.

The real suffocation came from the inside wall of the pump!

Under the light, the inner side of the joints was a dazzling golden yellow... as if gilded, so evenly applied it was hard to scrape off.

Soon, at his direction, someone found a bucket hidden amidst a pile of junk in another cleaning room.

Even now, the plastic bucket exuded a strong smell of detergent, but the craftsman on the scene immediately spotted the issue.

Hesitating for a moment, he took out a coin from his pocket and tossed it into the bucket.

Within seconds, under the effect of the remaining reagent, the coin subtly dissolved into a semi-liquid state.

"Indeed, the All Things Dissolving Agent."

The craftsman smiled bitterly, "It's the first time in my life hearing that robbing a bank requires such high-end technology..."

The All Things Dissolving Agent, like the Wise Stone, is one of the few unsolvable propositions in Alchemy.

But like the absolutely pure spiritual essence, dissolving everything is destined to be a delusion, but if one settles for less...

Conducting research and specialization on specific materials is still achievable!

The resulting achievements are countless!

For instance, with regard to certain metals...

Soon, after some rough demolition, the Security Bureau extracted pipes, the inner walls of which were all glistening golden!

Even the aging duct facilities unused for years in East City were part of the scheme... All these pipes were lead-based, which completely neutralized the effect of the gold dissolving agent.

While the above-ground firefighting crew was busy with their operations, due to pressure changes, hundreds of tons of liquefied gold were transported past everyone's eyes through water pumps!

After continuous digging and tracing, someone finally unearthed a maintenance record from a municipal file—four days ago, some areas in Guangfang District underwent pipeline modifications, inexplicably adding a valve and some pipes not present in the original blueprint...

When the Security Bureau tracked this clue to its end, they were utterly in despair.