"I had a brother die."
"Two of my brothers died."
Fatty Jiang was sitting in the hotel lobby, holding a telescope and observing the raging fire not far away through the old glass boat, marveling at it.
"Next time they come back, they will definitely say that a group of my brothers are dead..."
Everyone in the team was speechless.
This was a bit too obvious. Everyone present, except for the three tenants who had been warned last night, did not know what the fat man meant by the words 'I have a brother who died'.
The hotel owner felt that the fat man deserved a beating. He had to get a telescope at such a close distance
By the way, was this telescope prepared in advance
The boss probably knows who did it.
As expected, this group of people are all ruthless people. Fortunately, he was quick to intimidate. If he had been more serious, the bodies would probably not be found by now.
The people at the secret door were also leaning against the door.
They watched with interest the burning wreckage of the vehicle not far away.
With such a violent explosion, no one in the dozen or so temples could survive.
A small part of a guy's body was still hanging on the eaves a few meters away. He flew over during the explosion, and the dripping blood splashed on the street.
"This brother is so kind. He always carries binoculars when he goes out?"
The man at the secret door said hello at the door.
They don’t have weird tattoos on their arms, but they are easy to recognize.
Everyone has a door-shaped pendant hanging around their neck. The meaning of this pendant is relatively simple. They say it is to open the door to a new world and give the city a new look.
"What do you call brother?" someone asked.
"Just call me Fatty Jiang."
"Brother Jiang... could you please add a contact information so you can tell me your real name? We don't mean any harm."
"My real name is Fatty Jiang."
"Ah this..."
The people at the secret door could naturally tell that the explosion just now was done by Fatty Jiang.
The enemy of my enemy is my friend.
So they came forward and added a contact information.
"In the past, at this time every few years, many people from other cities would come to Central City, but few of those people dared to go against the local snake of the temple, and some of them did not survive long."
"Aren't you also local snakes?" Fatty Jiang asked.
"That's what I say, but there is still a little difference."
The man introduced himself and said his name was Qi Jun.
"When I was a child, I always thought that there was only the Central City and the city floating in the sky in the world. I felt that life was meaningless and I couldn't see the way forward. I just watched the sunrise and sunset of the floating city every day... "
"Later, I met a foreigner and had the courage to communicate with him for a long time. Only then did I realize that there was something wrong with the education I received. Not only me, but also my parents... "
Qi Jun walked to the front desk and asked for a cup of coffee.
The boss then respectfully went to prepare coffee. As a native, the boss was afraid of the two forces, the temple and the secret door.
Not just the boss.
After Qi Jun came in, except for Xia Chuluo's team, the other tenants had unnatural expressions, just like when everyone in the temple was present.
"Don't be so nervous. We are different from the temple. The people behind the secret door are all good people. We will never take the initiative to threaten locals or foreign tourists. We have only one goal."
Qi Jun stretched out a finger and pointed at it.
That floating city symbolizes eternity.
"Secret Door has very strict management and restraints on each member. If anyone is found not to follow the rules, he will be fired immediately."
According to Qi Jun.
They are just a group of like-minded people who plan every day how to save the people of this city from ignorance.
Not long after, the boss handed over steaming coffee.
Qi Jun smiled and took out a piece of banknote and placed it on the front desk.
The boss quickly waved his hand and said no need, a cup of coffee is not worth much, but Qi Jun did not take the money away.
This secret door member who looks to be around thirty years old is quite kind.
He sat down opposite Fatty Jiang with a cup of coffee.
"Brother Jiang, are you the boss of your team?"
Qi Jun could tell that there was a team in the hotel lobby.
A single person rarely has the courage to go against the local gangsters of this city.
But everyone in this hall was seated casually, so he couldn't tell who was the boss.
According to general rules, the leader of the team should sit in the middle, protected by several powerful people.
"No, I'm just here to travel with a group."
Fatty Jiang made a look.
Qi Jun followed his eyes and looked over.
She is a little girl, on the thin side, with a silvery metallic luster on her exposed face and arms. She is a reformed person.
"What do you call this girl?"
"You talk a bit too much."
Xia Chuluo didn't answer the question and looked at him lightly.
"Haha, I don't mean anything else. It's just that your people might have saved our people in the heavy rain last night, so I think we can cooperate." Qi Jun said with a smile.
He also knew that this was a public place, so he couldn't say much.
So he handed over a business card.
The business card contains contact information and an address.
He thanked her, said with a smile that he would see her again in the future, and then left with the coffee.
The note I just gave to the boss had a relatively large denomination and included the money to buy the cup.
"Let me check."
Fatty Jiang picked up the business card and began to investigate the details of this organization.
June in Central City is also very hot. It is already the end of June, and thick clouds are lingering in the sky. Sultry is a better way to describe it.
There is no air conditioning in the lobby, so tenants in the lobby on the first floor have retreated to their rooms.
They all came to this city with a purpose.
Most people have the same purpose, for that thing a week later.
The doctor and the mechanic also went back.
The middle-aged gunman went out with all his equipment, and he didn't know if he could come back.
Soon, apart from the boss, only the team was left in the hotel lobby.
"That Qi Jun added my social account. He just sent me a message, saying that they got the news early in the morning. The people in the temple had an operation against a leader of the secret door last night. The most critical sniper in that operation was Maybe it was shot by one of our people," Fatty Jiang said.
According to Duan Tiannan.
That sniper was obviously very unprofessional, and he actually deserved the word 'key'.
"He told us to keep a low profile recently. It's best to move our location. The people from the temple must have been eyeing us and are very likely to take action against us. Moreover, Central City is in a very tense period right now."
Every few years, Central City goes through a period of tension.
This time is not fixed.
Sometimes it's three years, sometimes it's five years.
The floating city will give the news in advance.
"The Floating City will issue one hundred places in the near future, giving ordinary people below a chance to see the world above. Even if they perform well, some people can stay and become permanent residents of the Floating City." Fatty Jiang said .
"The floating city's move is not bad." Xia Chuluo nodded.
If this city floats forever and does not care about foreign affairs, then gradually it will be forgotten by the people below.
And if it is forgotten for too long, the people below will lose their respect for the city, and may think of ways to see what is in the sky, so they will unite to find ways to bring down the city.
But now Floating City has given this quota.
Every few years, people’s aspirations are aroused and they try to find ways to get that spot.
There will be more and more people wanting to go up there.
And the number of people who want to get that city above ground will gradually dwindle.
"This is what politicians do. Lu Wen, you should learn from it. After all, you are going to be a member of the parliament. Don't hang around with Wei Bo'an all day long." Xia Chuluo said.
"Wei Boyan's idea is to continuously increase my influence so that every word I say can be echoed by the majority of ordinary people."
"Relying on the power of social software? Public opinion governs the city?"
"That's probably what it means."
"That middle-aged man is quite good. He is in his forties and can still keep up with the pace of today's young people."
Xia Chuluo rarely makes positive comments about someone.
Most of the time she gives comments that can drive people crazy to death.
"How long will it take for Floating City to issue those quotas? In what way?" she asked.
"There is only one week left. They will be distributed randomly. At that time, drones will fly out from that city, carrying a hundred invitations. Whether you can get them depends on your own ability." Fatty Jiang said.
"It seems bloodshed is inevitable."
Those hundred invitations will definitely cause massive competition.
foreseeable.
In a week, bloodshed will become the norm.
This is a big city with a population of tens of millions, plus countless outsiders who came to the city during this period.
The more people die, the more valuable these invitations become, and the more those people will yearn for the city in the sky.
"I'd really like to take a look, but I definitely won't be able to get in with my identity."
As Xia Zheng's daughter, Xia Chuluo's identity is too sensitive. No matter how she disguises herself, the chance of her being spotted is quite high.
Moreover, there is also the unstable factor of Luo Ruyan. If Luo Ruyan suddenly reminds Xia Chuluo of Floating City after she goes to Floating City, then she will be in danger.
If she wanted to go to that city, she couldn't do it in a normal way.
"Lu Wen can go when he arrives. You are a new face with a human identity. I will try my best to deal with the fourteen guys who are still alive within this week, and capture Luo Ruyan again to avoid him causing interference to you. "
"It's useless if I go. Do you want to go shopping?"
"Too… "
Xia Chuluo hasn't decided yet what to do in that city.
However, her progress did not stop, but accelerated.
It would be best if all relevant personnel could resolve the incident within a week.
"The Floating City method actually has a drawback. Locals and outsiders will compete for invitations. When outsiders enter this city, the locals who have been controlled by them will gradually understand the outside world."
After learning the truth, the natives may feel resentful and dissatisfied, angry that they have been living a lie since childhood.
That's why organizations like the Secret Door were created.
"You are always observing Luo Ruyan, right?" She looked at Fatty Jiang.
"You've been watching, they're making a plan for you right now."
Fatty Jiang and the member who controlled the ant robot broadcast Luo Ruyan's plan live to everyone.
"Luo Ruyan said that he actually wants to retire and live a stable life, but if he doesn't get rid of you, he will have trouble sleeping and eating."
"This guy is really disgusting. Last night he pretended to beg Miss Xia to let him go by using blood ties."
Xia Chuluo waved his hand helplessly.
"There's nothing I can do about such a relative."
As for the plan formulated by Luo Ruyan and the others, they were still mainly aimed at Fatty Jiang.
As long as Fatty Jiang can be killed, Xia Chuluo's team will become blind in a short time.
"Luo Ruyan concluded that the first person Miss Xia would look for after seeing the information in the USB flash drive was the mercenary who has not yet retired, so he notified that person in advance and planned to ambush him. ." Fatty Jiang said.
"It's boring. I'm still waiting for him to contact more people."
The two times Xia Chuluo let Luo Ruyan go were both for fishing.
Now it seems.
There really didn't seem to be any more fish coming to bite.
"This Luo Ruyan did one thing to his face and another behind his back. He told the guy who has not yet retired that he risked his life to steal information from Miss Xia and found out that Miss Xia already knew about the twenty-one people who targeted her parents. He was ready to take action... But the information was clearly given to Miss Xia by him. "
So the man had to unite with Luo Ruyan due to his own safety.
Fatty Jiang sighed repeatedly.
He said he had never seen such a shameless person as Luo Ruyan.
"If I hadn't seen it with my own eyes, I would never have believed that Miss Xia would have such an uncle."
"My mother's whole family is not normal. Fortunately, my mother broke up with them and followed my father. Now I have never contacted them..."
Xia Chuluo has a very independent personality, perhaps inherited from her mother.
Everyone in the team sees the shadow of her father in her.
Calm, calm and decisive, it seems that nothing can defeat her.
"Let's go, it's time to go find the first guy according to Luo Ruyan's plan."
…
The clouds hovering over Central City are getting lower and lower.
In a high-rise building in District 4.
Yang Rong took a sip of tea, took out a piece of cloth, and slowly wiped the firearm in his hand.
During his daily rest, he prefers to drink to relax his tense mind.
But not today.
An old friend told him that that person's daughter came to Central City and already knew the people who participated in that incident and was now preparing to liquidate them one by one.
"I said at the beginning that the little girl should be dealt with together, but you still feel that she poses no threat."
He spoke calmly, but no reply came from the earphones.
Luo Ruyan's team was watching not far away.
There were many reasons why Xia Chuluo was not killed in the first place.
There are too many people who know about that mission, and those who take the mission are all respectable.
Duan Tiannan once said that Lu Wen did not understand people of his generation.
Secretly, they can be unprincipled, but on the surface, some guys still want to lose face.
At the beginning, countless people were paying attention to the action against Xia Zheng.
In that situation, many people would be shameless to attack a six-year-old girl.
Luo Ruyan was a very important part of it. Attacking his sister and brother-in-law had already made many people secretly despise him, so for the sake of his reputation, he had to keep Xia Chuluo.
I don’t know if he regrets it now.
"I heard that she became stupid later and had to take medicine to stay normal."
Yang Rong put down the gun in his hand.
He also knows now that the so-called taking medicine is just a sign of weakness.
That was Xia Chuluo ensuring her own safety.
"Could it be that...did she think of today's scene when she was six years old?"
(End of chapter)