The banquet was actually not too noisy.
Everyone was chatting in low voices, and occasionally there was the sound of clinking glasses.
The middle-aged woman knew very little about Xia Chuluo.
The information she had only said that Xia Chuluo was a girl with short hair.
But the girl in front of me has long hair.
So she didn't react immediately.
She knew that the chance of escaping was very small, so she begged for mercy: "Ms. Xia, I was really short of money back then. My child..."
"Here we go again..." Xia Chuluo shook his head, "I find that you always like to use your family as an excuse, but before you lie, you should think carefully about whether you have any family."
Seeing that this trick was useless, the middle-aged woman immediately changed her mind.
She felt that as one of the participants in the assassination that year, she must still have some value.
"Ms. Xia, I know who the participants were at that time. If you are willing to let me go, I can tell you everything and help you find those people."
"Sorry, Luo Ruyan gave me all this information before he died."
The woman's face turned ugly again.
She could only hear her cursing in a low voice: "Luo Ruyan, an old fox, has to drag others with him even if he dies. If I had known, I should have killed him when I had the chance."
"I killed it for you, so you can thank me." Xia Chuluo said lightly.
“Ms. People’s bodyguards.”
The woman tried her best to appear calm.
The surrounding environment is actually favorable to her.
"Once someone pulls out a gun... no, even just pulls out a table knife and shows a willingness to attack, they will be shot immediately by the people around them," the woman said.
"Of course I know."
Xia Chuluo pointed to the wine glass in the woman's hand.
"This is the second glass of wine you drank at the banquet today. This glass of wine is clean and contains nothing else."
The woman's expression changed drastically.
"You poisoned my first drink?"
"Guess what kind of poison it is and how long it takes to take effect?"
Xia Chuluo glanced at her lightly, turned and left.
Judging from her appearance, she must be quite poisonous.
"Miss Xia, I was wrong. Please give me the antidote. I can help you kill those people. They all know me and won't be too wary of me..."
The woman begged softly and held Xia Chuluo's arm.
But Xia Chuluo walked away without even looking back, and walked straight towards the door.
A flash of malice flashed in the woman's eyes, and her face turned ferocious.
"Since I can't survive today, then don't even think about leaving alive!"
"Snapped!"
She broke the wine glass in her hand.
The colorless wine wetted the red carpet, smearing it with a faint red color, like blood that had not yet dried.
Splattered glass shards were scattered all over the floor.
This place immediately attracted the attention of everyone present at the banquet.
The woman pulled out the gun that had been hidden in her inner thigh, and pointed the cold muzzle at Xia Chuluo, who was walking towards the door.
"Be careful, young lady!"
someone exclaimed.
There were indeed quite a few bodyguards present.
One of them is quite close to Xia Chuluo, and he is a bionic man.
Seeing that human life was threatened, the first law of androids engraved in the program made him immediately take a step forward and block in front of her.
"boom-"
"Bang-bang-"
Several gunshots were fired in succession.
Almost simultaneously.
The first gunshot came from the woman. The spinning bullet accurately hit the android blocking Xia Chuluo, and blue blood flew in the air.
The remaining few sounds came from the bodyguards on site.
Those bullets hit the woman's abdomen, and the overflowing blood instantly dyed her light blue cheongsam red. She fell to the ground in pain.
The organs in the abdomen had been shattered by the huge impact.
"Miss, are you okay?" The android lowered his head and looked at the blue blood on his chest. There were still many minutes until the machine was completely shut down. After all, it was also a customized security type.
"It's okay, thank you very much."
Xia Chuluo smiled slightly, held up her skirt, bowed slightly, and made an elegant gesture.
The android immediately felt it was worth it.
After turning on the phone for so long, it was the first time I was greeted by a human being.
"Who is your employer?" Xia Chuluo asked.
"It's me." A middle-aged businessman replied with a smile.
"Please repair him." Xia Chuluo handed over a bank card with a password already written on it.
"Of course it will be repaired. What happened today is enough to show his loyalty to mankind. I can safely take him with me in the future." The middle-aged man refused Xia Chuluo's bank card. He did not lack the money.
The two exchanged business cards.
Even if you know each other.
Xia Chuluo walked to where the middle-aged woman fell.
At this time, the woman was already dying, her eyes were distracted, and her vision gradually blurred to see the girl standing in front of her.
She suddenly figured out something.
"That glass of wine..."
Her first drink.
It wasn't poisoned at all.
Xia Chuluo said that deliberately to make her cornered, push her into a desperate situation, make her draw her gun, and let all the security personnel present see her intention to attack.
Unfortunately it was too late.
She was very unwilling and felt that she was being fooled by Xia Chuluo from the beginning to the end. Xia Chuluo even knew that the bodyguard was a bionic man, so he walked there deliberately.
But no matter how unwilling he is, he can only die with this unwillingness.
"This woman looks familiar, let me check."
A security-type android stepped forward and said.
"She is a quite famous killer. What she is best at is attacking targets at banquets and taking advantage of the panicked crowd to escape. She is currently on Central City's wanted list, and the bounty is quite high."
He turned to look at Xia Chuluo.
"Miss, her target today is probably you. You need to think about whether you have provoked any enemies recently."
"I will. I will investigate it carefully when I get back. Thank you for your work."
Xia Chuluo smiled slightly, turned and left the banquet.
There was a luxurious car parked at the door, and someone opened the door for her.
Everyone at the banquet felt that this young face was quite unfamiliar.
However, recently many people from out of town have come to Central City, all competing for the one hundred invitations. It is not surprising to see unfamiliar faces.
After getting in the car, Xia Chuluo took off his wig.
She simply wiped the makeup off her face with a tissue.
"Awesome, really awesome."
Fatty Jiang sat in the passenger seat and admired sincerely.
“Ms.
"Don't talk about these useless things. Have you found the second target?" Xia Chuluo asked.
"The second target must have also received the news, so he packed up his equipment just now and is now driving out of the city, and the speed is quite fast."
The roads in Central City are narrow.
Generally speaking, the speed of vehicles has nothing to do with the word "fast".
The news of Luo Ruyan's death could not be concealed at all.
After he came to Central City, he has been making great fanfare, recruiting troops, contacting his old partners, and forming a team.
Many people knew that he was trying to deal with someone, but they didn't know who.
The participants in that incident all knew that his target was Xia Chuluo.
But not many people knew that Xia Chuluo had come to Central City.
Luo Ruyan's death reminded those people.
"The second target... He is very cautious in doing things. He was not on Central City's wanted list before, but just ten minutes ago, that guy was wanted for violating Central City's traffic rules."
"Can we catch up?"
"Of course, don't doubt Lu Wen's driving skills."
Lu Wen was speechless and drove silently.
An hour later, the team arrived at the edge of the city and changed into four-wheel drive vehicles that were most suitable for driving in uninhabited areas.
They did not violate traffic rules, they just chose roads that were not too congested.
Now a full half an hour's drive behind the second goal.
"Half an hour... I hope we can catch up." Someone in the team said.
"Don't worry, I've been tracking his car. Although the guy was very cautious and removed the positioning device in the car, and even the mobile phone was specially modified, he certainly didn't expect that the collector's edition mechanical watch he was wearing. There’s also a positioning inside.”
The manufacturer of that watch was quite responsible.
After all, the price is high, so the manufacturer has added a positioning system to the watch. If the buyer is threatened by some kind of life, he can contact the manufacturer urgently through the watch.
In this chaotic era, after-sales service not only protects products, but may also save lives.
But the second target probably doesn't know that.
He took this watch off a dead man's body.
"He stopped suddenly, maybe because he thought he had escaped far enough and we couldn't find him." Fatty Jiang said.
"This is a good opportunity. I thought I would have to chase it for several days."
Everyone in the team breathed a sigh of relief.
"Speed up the car and go over there and kill him. There are still many people on Miss Xia's list."
"Just follow Lu Wen, he won't get lost in no man's land."
In this kind of multi-person operation across no man's land, Lu Wen is always at the forefront.
We marched like this for about twenty minutes.
Xia Chuluo suddenly stopped the entire convoy.
"Okay, close enough, the man should know that his watch has a positioning device." She said to the entire team.
"What Miss Xia means is that the man deliberately took off the watch and used it as bait to wait for us to find him?"
"right."
As for the locator of the disassembled vehicle, use a modified mobile phone.
These behaviors may be used to confuse people.
Let everyone think that he was really running for his life.
But in reality... he wanted to fight back.
"As an experienced mercenary, he must know that running away is not an option. He will be found one day, so he may have been thinking about how to destroy our entire team from the beginning." Xia Chuluo said.
"If I guessed correctly, he escaped with two vehicles, an off-road vehicle and a mountain motorcycle, but the motorcycle was in his compartment."
That dirt bike can serve as bait.
Place the watch in the car.
Then install enough explosives around the body.
"The wind here is quite strong. After he arranged the scene, he could escape on the motorcycle. In a few minutes, the wind and sand would bury the wheel marks of the motorcycle."
Lu Wen’s eyesight is quite good.
Across the windy sand, he could see a canyon in the distance.
A very abrupt canyon with jagged rocks and violent sand and dust flying in the canyon.
He described the scene he saw to everyone.
"In this way, he is planning to use that canyon to bury us." Fatty Jiang said.
"And where will he be in person?"
"He will definitely not leave at ease above the canyon, so he will definitely watch us fall into the trap, and he will refill the gun at the right time. If everything goes well, he can even show up triumphantly and mock those of us who are still alive. "
When dealing with such a dangerous opponent, every step must be carefully considered.
Even the top of that canyon could be a trap.
So it's time for Lu Wen to take the lead and test the danger.
"Brother Lu Wen, if you are tricked by that guy and unfortunately die, I will burn your beautiful paper wife every year." Fatty Jiang patted him on the shoulder.
That tone was filled with the sigh of the wind and the emotion of Yi Shuihan.
"If nothing goes wrong, I can actually attend each of your funerals and never grow old." Lu Wen said lightly.
"Gan! You androids just want comfort and eternal life."
Lu Wen set off.
Everyone was waiting for his good news.
After driving for a few minutes, the face of the canyon gradually became clearer.
The car was parked in the center of the canyon. The driver's seat was opened. There seemed to be someone inside. Wisps of white smoke floated out from the driver's seat and were blown away by the wind in the canyon.
An ordinary person might think that the person in the driver's seat is resting and smoking.
But Lu Wen did not drive in, but drove straight to the top of the canyon.
It was a steep incline, but luckily his car had plenty of horsepower.
"Buzz!"
Before we even got close to the top, we heard the roar of a motorcycle.
The man knew that his plan had been seen through, so he fled decisively.
Before escaping, he detonated all the bombs buried in the canyon in an attempt to create some difficulties for Lu Wen in pursuit.
"Boom!"
The rocks on both sides of the canyon began to roll down.
Accompanied by a violent explosion, flames shot into the sky.
The smoke and dust were quite serious, and the entire canyon was filled with loess and sand.
on the other side.
Everyone in Xia Chuluo's team heard the explosion.
At the same time, I also heard the news from Lu Wen.
"It's safe. The guy ran off on his motorcycle and I'm chasing him."
Everyone got into the car one after another and chased after him.
The explosion did cause a lot of trouble for Lu Wen. The top of the canyon collapsed a lot, and the stones rolled down into the canyon.
So much so that after he drove out of the cave-in, the figure riding the motorcycle had turned into a small dot.
From such a long distance, it is difficult to hit with a shot.
So I can only keep chasing.
"Don't be too anxious. Our battery life is much stronger than his. We can even kill him if we use it." A member of the team said with a smile.
"No… "
Fatty Jiang suddenly spoke.
"There is a city a few kilometers ahead. It is not an ordinary abandoned city. It has been polluted."
He was worried that the target would be cornered and flee into the city.
If that were the case, Lu Wen would have to go in alone.
The rest of the team are all normal human beings. At most, their limbs have been mechanically modified, and flesh and blood life will definitely be affected by radiation.
"After so many years, the half-life of those radioactive substances is not that long and should have been reduced to a range acceptable to normal people." A member of the team said.
"The area in Kerry City in the north was also hit by nuclear saturation more than two hundred years ago. Isn't it still inhabited now?"
Everyone in the team felt that it didn't matter.
There were no nuclear weapons in the war 80 years ago. Those weapons had been destroyed long before countless wars.
Almost all of the polluted areas enclosed in no-man's land were from two hundred years ago.
These areas were all hit by nuclear weapons at that time and were deemed by scientists to be unfit for human habitation within a hundred years.
"I remember that some experts detected some polluted areas a few years ago and said that the radiation indicators in those places were already quite low and would not cause harm to the human body." Lu Yang said.
"The Lu glasses are right. I've seen this news too."
"There are still some Internet celebrities who go to polluted areas specifically to take photos and attract attention."
"No, this city is different!"
Fatty Jiang projected a map.
Map of the entire planet.
The nine blue dots are the current nine cities, and beyond that are the vast and endless uninhabited land and the far north that may be inhabited.
There are some red spots in the uninhabited areas.
Mostly light red, with some dark red.
"The light red areas were hit by nuclear weapons more than two hundred years ago. As for the dark red areas...there were nuclear power plants in these places."
Fatty Jiang pointed to a dark red spot outside Central City.
The red color of this place seems to be infected by scarlet flesh and blood. The dark red color has a strong visual impact.
"Fat Grandpa, I cherish my life the most, so I made enough preparations before setting off. The city in front of me was originally built on the basis of nuclear power plants. The residents of the entire city are the family members of the workers who built and maintained nuclear facilities. "
Later the city's power station leaked.
This is not an ordinary leak, but a leak caused by a nuclear attack by a hostile force. It is quite a terrifying leak, no different from the end of the world.
The people who survived the nuclear weapons walked out of the hiding building in a daze.
It started to rain in the dark red sky, and the super radioactive rain poured down on them.
In the following years, their skin began to fester, peeling off layer by layer, and their internal organs also rotted away bit by bit, which was irreversible.
The pain was comparable to any kind of torture in the world, and those people eventually died in long agony.
"The whole city is a quarantine zone. If you go in, you are seeking death. Anyway, I won't go in. Miss Xia, you must not go in either. Those so-called experts only dare to go to the light red city."
In this kind of city, there are likely to be some special creatures with tenacious vitality.
For example, when Lu Wen was in the purgatory made of corpses created by the young painter, he saw a creature that resembled a snake, but had smooth skin, thick arms, and mucus on its surface, burrowing in and out of the corpses.
There is no record of that kind of creature in the blue biological database.
The little painter said that it was the pet that Zero found from the contaminated area.
These polluted areas can be summed up in two words.
Danger.
"That man is heading towards that city now. It seems that he has already planned his route."
"He's betting that we won't dare to follow him!"
(End of chapter)