"I won't be back tonight, I have something else to do."
"No, classmate Lu, you actually want to spend the night outside?"
"With Wei Boyan."
"It's actually with a man."
“…”
Xia Chuluo is not very serious sometimes.
After hanging up the phone, Lu Wen saw Wei Boyan's disdainful eyes.
"Do you have to report if you don't go home at night?"
"So she doesn't have to worry."
The two returned to the car.
Wei Boyan posted the relevant case information on the public channel, and everyone in District 10 was stunned.
"Canglan Village? Are you sure? Don't make another trip in vain. I'm really tired these past few days, and I've been tortured by that Lu Wen."
"Since the crime has been reported, it must be true."
Everyone started chatting quickly.
Wei Boyan also posted a message on the channel.
"Anyone who has nothing to do tonight or feels energetic can come over and have a look."
By the way, he sent a copy of all the information to Lu Wen.
"The reporter was a local villager. He said he saw blood flowing out of the door. The villager was more courageous. He walked up and knocked on the door. After a long time, there was no response, so he kicked the door open."
"So he died not long ago. It will take us two hours to get there from here."
Lu Wen calculated the time in his mind.
"The scene was not damaged by those villagers, was it?"
"It's hard to say. I contacted the person who reported the crime and asked them to try their best to maintain the scene, but the person said that they had already carried the body to the entrance of the village."
This is more troublesome.
There will definitely be a lot of traces left at the scene, such as fingerprints, footprints, and even spit.
It was not certain whether any of them were left behind by the murderer.
There have been many similar cases in the Thirteenth District. A passerby spit at the scene of the crime and was broken down and taken away for interrogation a week later.
…
at the same time.
After four days of long journey.
The body in No Man's Land finally made it to the outskirts of Baker City.
The car was riddled with holes.
During this period, I changed tires twice, traveled through numerous extreme weather zones, and was almost struck by lightning.
The windshield held on tenaciously, its appearance was shattered into pieces, but it still didn't fall off. It was indeed bulletproof.
I have also encountered some small android organizations in the past few days.
I have communicated with some of them, some from Baker City and some from Mowu City.
A handful of them were hostile, and Lu Wen sent them on the road with heavy machine guns.
"finally reached."
Lu Wen found a motel outside the city and booked it for a week using a fake ID.
He looked into the distance.
The huge steel monster was crawling on the ground, and dark red lights floated on the surface of the city.
There are countless abandoned steel factories on the outskirts of the city. This industrially developed place was once the most prosperous city after the war, but now it has fallen to the bottom of the nine major cities.
Walking on a desolate road.
Giant rusted pipes, twisted metal pillars, and scarlet steel beams can be seen everywhere.
The same clouds are gathering.
It's just that there is a strong red in the gray.
"Welcome to Baker City."
This is the prompt at the entrance to the city.
The rusty street signs are crooked and spiders have spun their webs on them.
"Due to the expansion of factories, Baker City's urban area is more than twice that of Mau'u City, but its population is now less than half that of Mau'u City."
Lu Wen obtained these contents from the information.
He found a bus stop at random.
After waiting for a long time, the old-fashioned bus with a shabby appearance slowly drove over along the edge of the street. There was black exhaust gas behind the bus, and people passing by covered their mouths and noses.
The paint shell of the bus body fell off a lot, the rain corroded the metal inside, and the rust fell off as the vehicle moved.
Lu Wen walked to the car and found a seat to the side.
The lights in the car were not bright and flickered from time to time, but the surrounding passengers were obviously used to it.
"It's worse than I thought."
Depressing, dark.
It was very dark along the way. Storefronts on both sides of the street had their doors ajar, and the weak lights were not enough to illuminate the surrounding streets.
Dark red light strips cling to the pipes along the street.
People come and go.
Homeless people used scrap newspapers to light fires in the streets.
Countless dim fires swayed with red light in the dark corners of the city. Next to the fires were pairs of dead eyes.
"Mowu won't allow street fires and there aren't that many homeless people."
Observation is almost done.
Lu Wen found a random stop and got off.
The shops on both sides of the street are very interesting.
Most of the signboards on the storefront are rusty irregular iron plates. There are some miscellaneous light tubes on the iron plates to piece together the name of the store. The lighting is very dim.
"Hand over the money you have."
After getting out of the car and walking a few steps, a cold object touched Lu Wen's lower back.
This is where things get interesting.
The android's hearing is very strong, so Lu Wen knew that someone was approaching from behind.
The system also gave a prompt, but he ignored it.
"The steps are not steady, a little hurried and frivolous, the tone of speech is unstable, the breath is sometimes gentle, sometimes rapid..." Lu Wen smiled, "This is the first time you have done this? Or do you have a respiratory disease?"
"Stop talking nonsense and hand over the money!"
The voice sounded like that of a young man, not very old.
"It's interesting. I've encountered people with fake guns to scare people before, and not long ago, I actually encountered them again."
"How did you know... No, shut up if you don't want to die!"
"My psychological quality is not good. I let it slip after a little deception. It seems that I am indeed a newbie. I haven't done it a few times. I can still save it."
"What do you mean?"
"Do you feel a chill on your neck?"
While talking.
A mechanical spider slowly crawled along the young man's clothes and onto his neck.
The deformed spider legs are very sharp and pointed.
Cold machinery touches the skin on your neck.
"This... what is this, tell it to go away!"
"It's just a little pet." Lu Wen smiled faintly, "Have you had dinner? Do you want to find a place to eat first and have a good chat?"
"you you… "
"If you don't agree, I'll let it stick in."
"Fine."
that's all.
A hijacking turned into a counter-hijacking.
The most indispensable thing in Baker City is steel parts, large and small.
So much so that the tables and benches in the hotel are all welded with scrap steel.
The black appearance makes it cool to sit on.
"You walk very slowly, so I know you are not a local and just want to make some money..."
"Do you have to go faster tonight?"
"Generally, no one wants to stay too long in the city at night, except for the homeless."
"So you're one of those homeless people?"
The two sat facing each other.
The young man's name was Xu Eryi, and he looked about seventeen or eighteen years old.
Very thin, with dark skin.
The hair is yellowish, due to malnutrition.
Lu Wen also saw clearly that the so-called gun in his hand was actually just an old steel pipe.
Xu Eryi looked at the restaurant's menu and swallowed.
"Have you not eaten for a long time?" Lu Wen asked.
"Um."
Xu Er nodded.
His eyes stayed on the menu for a long time, then looked at Lu Wen, a little hesitant.
"Answer me a few questions and order whatever you want."
…
Good night, fellow book friends!
I got conjunctivitis, so it took me a while to go to the hospital. I'll update it tomorrow.
Thank you to book friend Eeyli Mada Da Hey Yo and book friend 20190621193143515 for the reward.
(End of chapter)