"Welcome to a new day."
When the door of the sleeping compartment opened, Lian Chuan heard the familiar system greeting.
He yawned.
The voice was no different from the first time he heard it in his memory, the same female voice, the same pitch, and the same speed.
Lian Chuan had been thinking about the meaning of this greeting as a greeting when he walked out of the sleeping cabin.
The eternal morning.
Wake up, hear the sound, the hatch opens, step left foot.
Is it really a new day? Not the day before? Or someday after many days
But his thinking is meaningless, there may not be any difference between every day and every day, every day is today.
The only thing that can be used as a judgment is the split-like headache that he would have from time to time.
Had a headache all day at bedtime.
Woke up with no headache.
So it's a new day.
He glanced at the watch on his wrist, the number on the face was a green zero.
Rest today.
He took two cubes out of the breakfast box, one white and one brown, with letters printed on the transparent wrapping telling him that the white ones were eggs and the brown ones were beef.
It was indeed a new day, and the last breakfast was green and white.
But he didn't eat, because he lost his appetite just by looking at the color.
There was a brief noise from the communicator on the table.
When Lian Chuan picked up the communicator, he heard Li Liang's voice.
"First Central School," Li Liang said pantingly, "Come here right away."
"Redundancy?" Lian Chuan turned around and opened the closet, but when he asked, he knew it was definitely not. It was just that cleaning up the redundant population did not require the players who were resting to return to the team.
"It may be a mutation ability, but it can't be peeled off," Li Liang said, "It's already stuck..."
Captain Lei Yu's voice came from the intercom: "Back off!"
Then there was a popping sound.
Li Liang lay on the ground, his ears were so shaken that he couldn't hear anything, only the uninterrupted buzzing, his eyes were full of smoke and dust, and the only thing he could see was the black fragments wrapped in the smoke and dust.
I don't know which team member's fragments.
He coughed a few times and looked around, trying to find other players.
"The students were all evacuated."
Li Liang finally heard the voice on the communicator, and then heard the captain's voice: "Scatter the teams, push them over, three or four groups come from behind the building, and force him to the open space outside the building!"
"Don't wait for Lianchuan to arrive?" Li Liang got up, leaned against an iron plate flying from nowhere, and looked into the building in front of him, but he didn't see anyone.
"The four groups are here! Is there still one Lian Chuan left?" A hoarse voice filled with impatience and anger, "Is Lian Chuan the savior! If you have such no confidence in yourself and the people fighting side by side, why don't you do it?" fart!"
Li Liang didn't make any more noise. When the team members in front started to move, he separated a few meters and pressed towards the building on the left front.
"Keep your eyes on it," Lei Yu lowered his voice, "When he attacks, there will be a red light first."
The red light appeared for a very short time, not to mention that they didn't know the exact location of the target, even if they knew, the flash of red light was so short that the general team members had no time to react, as long as there was someone within the attack range, they would die.
But he still had to tighten the encirclement, next to the school, and a hospital.
Before Lian Chuan came over, the target had to be controlled.
The only one who can react between the red light and the attack is Lian Chuan, everyone knows this, including Long Biao who is full of anger.
"I'm still two blocks away," Lian Chuan's voice came through the intercom, "Target?"
Lei Yu stared at the building, but couldn't see any movement, and the surrounding area was eerily quiet. All the team members were on standby behind the bunker.
"It's a teacher," Li Liang briefly introduced in a private channel, and sent him the coordinates. "During class, I suddenly started talking about time, whether it has started, whether it has ended... very strange things."
Lian Chuan didn't make a sound.
"We received an order of suspected judgment, come and collect it," Li Liang said, "He attacked suddenly."
"How?" Lian Chuan asked.
"Explosion," Lei Yu said, "I can't see the trajectory clearly, but it's too late to adjust the equipment. You have to make a fatal blow."
"Understood." Lian Chuan fell silent after speaking.
When Lei Yu wanted to confirm his location again, a red light flashed in the building.
A few meters away, there was a cloud of smoke and dust, and then a huge cracking sound reached his ears, followed by a black fragment passing by his eyes.
This is the player who just got hit.
A new team member who performed the recovery mission for the first time today.
Fragments of him, to be exact.
his face.
Lei Yu could even see a somewhat dazed expression on his face.
After this attack, a black figure flashed past the rightmost window on the third floor.
"He wants to come out!" Lei Yu roared, stretched out his arms from behind the cover, and the gun equipped on the exoskeleton hit the window accurately at the same time.
"Follow me!" Long Biao rushed to the front of the building, lowered his body, and temporarily hid behind a broken pillar.
The pillar didn't have any cover, but Lei Yu didn't stop it.
After a short pause, Long Biao got up again and rushed into the building quickly. The three team members also rushed in after him.
"On the second floor!" Li Liang's urgent voice came from the intercom.
No one saw how the target got from the third floor to the second floor, and no one had time to think about it. Long Biao and his team would immediately confront the target.
In the task description, the target is a teacher, 21 years old.
But the target in front of him looks much younger than 21, more like a teenager.
Even so, he raised his hand without any hesitation, and the weapon on his arm emitted a dark blue light, like tiny lightning bolts.
A goal is a goal, regardless of age or status, a task is a task and must be completed.
But he saw red light.
There is also a slender black shadow across the red light.
He knew that he would never have a chance to touch the launcher on his weapon again.
I also know that I will not die.
A loud noise came from his left, and the shattered stones were wrapped in thick ash and rushed towards him with air waves, and he was shaken and flew laterally for more than one meter.
But he was unhurt and the target's attack missed.
The black shadow knocked the target a few meters away, kicked off the wall before landing, turned half a circle in the air, and landed in front of the target.
Brown-red fur, erect black ears, slender and strong hind legs, amazing jumping ability...
This is Lianchuan's caracal.
The target has fallen to the ground, but before anyone can judge his attack form, the red light appears again.
Then disappear.
This time the attack failed to break out.
His body has been broken down.
A hole running through his stomach, edged with black ash, rose and fell gently with his breath.
Lian Chuan is the only person who can seize the opportunity to attack at such a speed.
Long Biao wiped his face, stood up, and glanced at his team members, no one was injured.
"The target has lost the ability to attack." Lian Chuan looked down at the immobile man at his feet.
"Recycle." Lei Yu's voice sounded through the intercom.
Lian Chuan took off the recovery device on his back. This thing, which looked like a small cannon barrel, was as familiar as a part of his body. The barrel slid through his palm and aimed at the target on the ground.
"I don't want to disappear." The target looked at him, there was no pain after the injury on his face, and he was surprisingly calm.
Lian Chuan didn't speak, and pressed the recycling button.
The body on the ground immediately began to twist, crack, and turn into small pieces of black fragments, just like the team members who were killed before, the fragments swirled like a wind.
In the end, it was all sucked into the recovery port.
The task is over, but everyone is a little depressed.
This kind of ordinary recovery task, which should be easily completed by one team, actually used four teams and lost three team members, which is really a bit surprising.
The remaining team members are cleaning up the scene, and all traces will be eliminated, whether left by the target or by the team members.
Lei Yu personally recovered the fragments of the three dead team members, and walked up to Lian Chuan: "Have you had breakfast yet?"
"No." Lian Chuan said.
"Follow me to the headquarters to eat," Lei Yu glanced at his watch, and a few lines of small characters flashed on the display, "Then go to the City Affairs Office, the administrator wants to see you this week, there is no specific time, Just today."
"En." Lian Chuan responded, turned and walked out.
The caracal, who had been with him, jumped up the fence, then up the roof by the roadside, and disappeared behind a chimney.
Lei Yu looked at the roof: "Has the cat had breakfast?"
"It's not a cat." Lian Chuan glanced back at him.
"Has boss had breakfast?" Lei Yu asked again.
"I don't know," Lian Chuan said, "Eat it, I don't know where I went at night, I just met it when I was almost here."
"It's more comfortable than us." Lei Yu stopped by the car on the edge of the cordon, opened the door, and looked at the rest of the team members, "The first and second groups will carry out the original cleaning tasks, and the third and fourth groups will focus on the school. Patrol the five-kilometer block of Radiation, report any anomalies before taking action."
Lian Chuan followed Lei Yu into the car, and the destination of the autopilot was set to the Internal Defense Building, the headquarters of the cleaning team.
Although it was the headquarters, he hadn't been there for a long time. The cleanup team had its own base, and only the captain Lei Yu frequented the headquarters.
"When will you come back for dinner?" Lei Yu asked.
"When I'm hungry." Lian Chuan looked out the window.
The school is located in the new district of the main city, the most prosperous and safest area in the main city. Pedestrians are smiling and walking with ease.
But the car only needs to drive further, and it won't take long, and there will be another world, where Lian Chuan's tasks are more carried out.
Every time he returned to the safety of the new area, he would feel a little uncomfortable.
"Aunt Chun misses you." Lei Yu said.
"I miss her too." Lian Chuan said, Aunt Chun is Lei Yu's wife, Chunsan, and in Lian Chuan's memory, she is similar to her mother.
"Judging from this tone, it doesn't sound like it." Lei Yu smiled.
"Tomorrow afternoon," Lian Chuan withdrew his gaze from the window and turned his head, "I'll go back to eat."
Lei Yu smiled and patted his shoulder.
"You may need to explain the specific situation of this target to Minister Chen later," Lei Yu confessed after coming out of the cleanup team base, "You have direct contact with the target."
"Yeah." Lian Chuan nodded.
"Lian Chuan." Lei Yu looked at him.
Lian Chuan also turned to look at Lei Yu.
"Is there any abnormality that you need to report to me first?" Lei Yu said.
Lian Chuan didn't speak, and after thinking for a while in silence, he said, "I'm sure not."
"Okay." Lei Yu nodded.
"It's just the simplest attack," Lian Chuan said. "The only winning point is speed. Other than that, there's nothing special about it, not even the distance. It's different from... those."
"Well," Lei Yu nodded again, "It's not that I don't trust you."
"I know." Lian Chuan said.
When entering the internal defense building, Lei Yu stopped and looked around: "Cats cannot enter..."
"It's not a cat." Lian Chuan said.
"It can't go in." Lei Yu said.
"It really doesn't want to go in." Lian Chuan nodded.
The internal defense building was as busy as it was in memory. People entering and leaving had serious faces, and the guards were no more than five meters away from each other, adding a layer of tension to the busyness and seriousness.
But in fact, apart from the upcoming celebration day, nothing special happened. Tension and depression are the norm in the headquarters, and it is one of the reasons why Lian Chuan doesn't like to come here.
Minister Chen's office is underground, and the exact number of floors is unknown.
Lian Chuan tried it when he was bored, but he could only judge that there were three turns.
"That's it?" Minister Chen sat behind the desk and asked after listening to Lian Chuan's report, "It has nothing to do with the failure to recover it before... except that it can't be stripped?"
"Based on my personal experience," Lian Chuan said.
Minister Chen exchanged glances with Lei Yu, but Lei Yu didn't make a sound.
"Your personal experience is enough," Minister Chen put his hands together, looked at Lian Chuan and smiled slightly, "Are you ready to meet the administrator?"
"Anytime." Lian Chuan replied.
Although the title of administrator sounds a bit arbitrary, just like the City Affairs Office and the Internal Defense Building... But the three administrators in the main city are the core of the operation of this huge city. Except for daily operations, all major decisions are made by the three Administrators jointly decide.
There are very few people who can talk directly to the administrator. For a person like Lian Chuan who only has the status of an ordinary cleaning team member, such an opportunity is impossible to have once in this life.
But this is the second time that Lian Chuan has entered the deepest part of the underground of the city affairs hall to meet the administrator.
Maybe more than twice, maybe three or four times, who knows, the memory is just a picture that doesn't prove anything.
Just like the Internal Defense Building, no one knows how deep and how big the city affairs hall is underground. People only know that all the important departments of the main city are hidden deep underground and never see light.
Lian Chuan was standing in the teleportation car. He was the only one in the whole car. Outside the meaningless car window, it was pitch black. There was only one light in the car. The weak light overflowed, and it could only illuminate less than one meter of space. , What you see is still thick black.
The carriage has been going down, and it can be felt that it has been rotating to the right, but it is not obvious, this rotation circle is very large.
With a few slight vibrations, the car stopped, and Lian Chuan looked away from the car door, only observing from the corner of his eye.
When the door in front of him opened, a strong white light suddenly lit up, and there was a glare in front of his eyes.
When he opened the door last time, he was almost blinded by the light. In case of any emergency, he could only rely on his hearing for at least three seconds, which was too passive.
Get out of the car, walk through the corridor that is brightly lit without shadows, and then walk through the door that opens automatically, which is the administrator's reception room.
When Lian Chuan came in for the first time, he was a little short of breath because of nervousness.
Not this time.
Not because I'm used to it, but because...
He glanced at the three empty chairs behind the semicircular table in the drawing room.
There is no one here at all.