"My name is Fan Lu," the old man pushed open a door, "you can just call me Uncle Fan."
"Well," Ning Gu walked in after him and the boss, "Uncle Fan."
"The crazy uncle you're talking about," Fan Lu asked, "who is it?"
"A traveler in the ghost town," Ning Gu said, "You two have very similar eyes."
"Oh," Fan Lu thought for a while, "It's not like other places?"
"It doesn't look like much," Ning Gu was very cautious, he could trust the boss, but not the old man, "so I want to cover your face."
Fan Lu didn't ask, but just nodded: "There won't be two people who are alike."
The main city has population control. No parents can have two children. Even travelers who leave the main city and go to ghost towns have few children because of resource problems, let alone two. The only pair of brothers Brother nails, I still picked them up.
But Fan Lu and Crazy Uncle do look alike, even though Crazy Uncle's face is full of beards and messy hair, Ning Gu spends a lot of time with him, so you can still see it more or less, just like a familiar person. Even a silhouette can be recognized.
It's just that he didn't say much, who knows the origin of this Fan Lu.
Fan Lu's house is on this side of the metal wall, underground of an old abandoned building.
The upper part of this house should have been a huge and bustling trading hall. The path from the entrance to the downward stairs seems to have passed through a maze. Fortunately, Ning Gu has the experience of Lost Valley. This is relatively simple, remember. Just turn left and right a few times.
"You are safe here." Fan Lu brought a plate and put it on the table. There was water and a box of rations in the plate. "There is no city guard station, and the patrol team only passes outside once a day."
"En." Ning Gu sat down beside the table.
"The hut where you sleep has a bed," Fan Lu pointed to a small door, "Boss and I are outside."
"Boss lives here?" Ning Gu was stunned.
When I turned my head and looked over, I saw a three-tiered hammock in the corner, which looked big and soft. The boss had already jumped to the top floor and closed his eyes.
"I don't come here often," Fan Lu said, "When I have missions, I stay at Lian Chuan's house."
"How is Lian Chuan?" When Ning Gu heard the name, he immediately chased after him. Since he knew the boss so well, he must know about Lian Chuan's situation.
"After entering the city affairs hall, I didn't come out again." Fan Lu poured out a glass of water and took a sip slowly. "The entire main city was alarmed. Half of the city's armed forces are still guarding outside the city affairs hall."
"Is he injured?" Ning Gu asked, "Did he get caught or went in by himself?"
"It's not easy for him to be injured," Fan Lu laughed, "he grabbed the second chief of the City Affairs Department and went in."
"How long will it take to come out?" Ning Gu asked.
"It's hard to say," Fan Lu said, "Maybe we won't be able to get out..."
"What?" Ning Gu stood up abruptly, "Can't get out?"
"Assault on the highest administrative organ of the main city," Fan Lu was not frightened by his actions, and looked up at him calmly, "It is a felony to be destroyed immediately, even if the city affairs department reads what he did in the main city. , if you want to give him a light sentence, it has to be a reset... "
The eldest moved in the hammock and let out a puff of air from his nose.
"That's right, it's impossible to reset," Fan Lu thought for a while, "Anyone in the main city who doesn't know Hyena Lianchuan can only be imprisoned for life, which is no different from destroying him. Anyway, no one will see him again, so maybe It's expulsion."
"Deportation?" Ning Gu stared at him, "Where is the deportation?"
"The Valley of Lost Ways is impossible. The poet is here. Normally, it is..." Fan Lu said, "a ghost town."
"It would be nice to be expelled to the ghost city." Ning Gu sat back on the chair.
Fan Lu laughed, very loudly.
"Laughing fart?" Ning Gu looked at him very unhappy.
"A hyena, a hyena that has killed countless travelers, is expelled to a ghost town without equipment, backup, and survival resources. What will happen to it?" Fan Lu said with a smile, "You think it's fine?"
"It's me." Ning Gu said, "I can cover him."
"Stupid boy," Fan Lu said, "you can't possibly see him. Do you think the leader is a vegetarian? The person who can keep the ghost town and the main city in peace for so many years is not a philanthropist."
Ning Gu took the ration hand and paused in the air.
"You were brought up by the team leader, right?" Fan Lu approached him with great interest, "You..."
Ning Gu smashed the ration back into the box, got up and pushed Fan Lu aside, walked into the back room, and slammed the door.
"What did I say wrong?" Fan Lu looked at the boss.
The boss yawned, covered his eyes with his paws, and ignored him.
"Ning Gu," Fan Lu walked to the door of the inner room, "You can use Lian Chuan's ID card, I have changed it for you, but if you want to go out, you have to tell me, in case someone finds out, I will not Will bring you back here again."
The door opened suddenly, and Ning Gu stood inside: "Then let me tell you, I'm going out now, and if anyone finds out, I won't come back here again."
"Learn to be patient," Fan Lu said as he helped him close the door again, "you can bend, stretch, and live."
The back room should be the place where Fan Lu usually lived, and it was neatly tidied up, much neater than Ningu's hut in the ghost town, and there were thick and soft cushions on the bed.
Ning Gu checked around. Although he didn't know what he was checking, he was sure there was nothing abnormal.
He lay down on the bed.
To be honest, since the day he left the ghost town, he has never slept on such a comfortable thing, and he is already quite tired after tossing all the way up to now.
But can't sleep.
He touched the small leather pocket, took out the contents one by one, and looked at them carefully.
When packing up, Nail sat opposite him and talked to him.
That time he just wanted to visit the main city, but Nail was afraid that he would not be able to go back... How is Nail doing now? Did something happen in the ghost town? head...
never mind.
He sat up a little irritably, picked up the boots he had taken off, touched the inside of the boots, and took out the "key".
This thing has been despised by Fu Lu, it is worthless, there are hundreds of them.
However, he didn't quite believe that such a worthless thing could make a group of bats chase him to the main city and catch him.
Certainly not a few hundred.
If not one, at most dozens of them.
He held the bead up to his eyes, fixed it with one eye, and looked at it carefully.
Still can't see anything special, only a lot of tiny holes on it.
There was a lamp on the small table beside the bed, which was much brighter than the cold light bottle lighting in the ghost town. Ning Gu held the beads and moved closer to the lamp, the light dazzled the eyes.
He narrowed his eyes and slowly turned the beads.
The eyes are going to be blind.
Finally, I found that these small holes are not all the same size, some are larger, some are smaller, the difference is very small, it looks a bit messy, but if you look closely, you will find that there is a pattern between them, and several large holes Smaller holes and several smaller holes are arranged at intervals.
His eyes were sour and tears were about to drip down, Ning Gu was sure.
Every eight small holes of different sizes are a group, arranged in the same order, and according to this arrangement, the whole bead is covered.
There must be something to this.
Ning Gu memorized the sequence and put the beads back into the small inner pocket of the boot.
"I can't guarantee what will happen after you meet the administrator," Minister Chen looked at Lian Chuan, "It is a serious matter for the precursor test subject to lose control, and the system will respond before the administrator, so you must ensure your own safety. "
"I know." Lian Chuan said.
Minister Chen took a step back, and the door of the transport cabin closed.
Lian Chuan began to travel to an unknown depth underground, as before, surrounded by quiet blackness.
Director Chen reported to the administrator that the precursor experimental body was out of control. This news will be conveyed to the administrator through the system. all possible threats.
After the door in front of him opened, Lian Chuan didn't know what would happen until he saw the administrator.
There is no such precedent in the main city. No one knows what the system will do under the premise of ensuring the safety of the administrator.
The transport pod stopped.
Lian Chuan looked under the door to avoid the bright light that would appear.
From the corner of his eye, the door opened to both sides, and when it was only half a person wide open, he already found a red spot of light at the monitoring position on the top of the corridor full of strong light outside the door.
Before the beam shot out from the position of the red light spot, Lian Chuan had already turned sideways to the door, and rushed into the corridor under the beam.
At this time, he didn't judge which direction the second light beam of the red dot came from, but jumped up and kicked the wall, and when he was in the air, he kicked hard at the position of the red dot.
Metal impacts echoed loudly.
Lian Chuan could tell that the position was kicked out of a pit by himself.
The red light disappeared.
But the system can't handle this alone. Lian Chuan didn't have time to wait any longer. When he landed, he rushed to the end of the corridor and kicked the door of the administrator's reception room again.
The door opened silently.
On the semi-circular table facing the door, there were three weapons that he was familiar with, and they were the most commonly used destroying weapons by the cleaning team.
Before the weapon was activated, he had already picked up the middle one, turned around and fired a shot in the direction of the corridor, and an experimental subject outside the door that hadn't rushed through the door turned into black fragments.
The other two weapons on the table went out.
The door of the reception room was also closed.
"Put down your weapon." Xiao Hong's voice came.
Lian Chuan threw the gun back on the table, walked across the table and stood down.
"It's not out of control." Xiaohong said.
"I lied," Xiaolan and Xiaolu said, "Why did you lie?"
"Because I want to see the administrator." Lian Chuan replied.
"Your behavior violated the rules." Xiaohong said.
"The premise is that I want to live," Lian Chuan said, "I want to eliminate all threats."
The administrator was silent for a while, and Xiaolan Xiaolu said: "Yes."
"Yes." Xiaohong also spoke.
"Who am I?" Lian Chuan said.
"The precursor experiment subject of the non-standard project." Xiaohong replied.
"The source of the mother's body?" Lian Chuan asked again.
"The main city of the previous generation retains the data." Xiaohong replied.
"The non-laboratory environment is forced to fit Betelgeuse," Lian Chuan looked at the three empty chairs, "Is it theoretically feasible?"
"Beyond the range of answers." Xiaoluxiaolan's voice appeared.
When Lei Yu came out of the sleeping cabin, Chun San was sitting in the living room, looking out the window.
Hearing his footsteps, Chunsan turned his head, looked at him and smiled: "The vacation is over."
"I'll go back to the Internal Defense Department later," Lei Yu put on his coat, "How's the situation?"
"Follow me directly to the City Affairs Office," Chunsan said, "Chuan kidnapped Chen Fei and went to see the administrator."
"What?" Lei Yu stopped in surprise.
"The manager's interview time is one hour," Chunsan said, "After he comes out, the City Affairs Office will announce his handling decision."
"Did the administrator see him?" Lei Yu asked, "Why?"
"The precursor test subject is out of control." Chunsan pressed his forehead, "He knows."
"...Let's go." Lei Yu said.
The city guard outside the city affairs hall is still there, and the number of people is a scale that has never been seen on a celebration day.
From the door to the office, everyone I saw on the road looked dignified.
There were quite a few people standing in the reception room. Apart from Shen Yi, the chief executive of the Ministry of Internal Defense, who was having a meeting together, several other ministers were also present.
When Lei Yu walked into the reception room, everyone looked at him.
The trump card of the cleanup team, Captain Lei's most valued player, is currently holding the minister hostage and having secret talks with the administrator. Everyone's eyes are full of complicated emotions.
The calm that the main city has been trying to maintain for so many years, and the inevitable decline that everyone has tried to ignore, seems to have been turned over by Lian Chuan's behavior.
With anxiety and uneasiness, it is presented in front of everyone.
Even if everyone knows it well, the person who brought the first rift is still the target of public criticism.
Lei Yu didn't make a sound, and walked into the corner.
Standing next to Xiao Lin.
"Are you awake?" Xiao Lin asked.
"It's okay," Lei Yu rubbed his face, "Are you still in the meeting? Have you made a decision yet?"
"No." Xiao Lin glanced at him, "It seems that Lianchuan will not be destroyed."
"After all, it's still useful." Lei Yu said.
"I'm afraid the cleaning team will be implicated." Xiao Lin said.
Lei Yu already knew about the cleanup team's actions. As early as Long Biao asked him about Lianchuan's mission, he knew that the cleanup team would definitely anger the main city.
But he didn't stop, nor reminded.
Hearing Xiao Lin's gloating tone now, he was actually a little proud.
"Come on, I'll take you out to get some air." Fan Lu opened the door and walked in.
Ning Gu lay still on the bed: "I don't want to breathe."
"There are few people at this time," Fan Lu said, "I'll take you to the entertainment store to relax, the one that the cleaning team often goes to."
Ning Gu sat up at once.
"But you have to pretend," Fan Lu said, "Although the store is in District C, you have a special status after all."
"How to pretend?" Ning Gu asked.
"Look at me." Fan Lu said.
The boss was lying on the hammock in the outer room, and when he saw Ning Gu, the whole cat froze.
"How is it?" Fan Lu pointed at Ning Gu, "Do you still recognize him?"
Ning Gu's face was covered with several scars by Fan Lu with some unknown substance, and it was painted dirty. A tattered hat was pressed on his head, and the brim of the hat was broken.
It looked no different from the homeless people who wandered around the D area.
The boss turned his head away.
Fan Lu took Ning Gu out, and the boss followed behind, but after walking out of the abandoned trading hall above, the boss disappeared.
"Where's the boss?" Ning Gu asked.
"Who knows," Fan Lu also wore a hat that was almost as ugly as him, and pulled it out to cover most of his face when he came out, "Remember the route I'm taking you, some places will trigger the main city system, Gotta get around."
"En." Ning Gu responded.
"In the past, there were many trigger points in area C, but now in order to save energy, many trigger points have been canceled," Fan Lu said, "as long as you don't reach area B, you can basically live better."
"How do you know?" Ning Gu asked, "What do you do?"
"Me?" Fan Lu thought for a while, "A former captain of the cleaning team."
"Is it just like this?" Ning Gu looked him up and down.
"What kind of mixture is it?" Fan Lu said, "Freedom."
Ning Gu didn't say anything, he didn't really believe Fan Lu's words, but he felt that what he said was the truth.
After walking for a while, I began to see the residents of the main city.
He hurried past, glanced at them vigilantly, and walked away quickly with his head down.
A red ball rolled out from the corner of the street, and when it rolled past Ning Gu's feet, he stepped on it.
"It's mine." A childish voice came.
There was a small figure by the wall at the corner, with half of its head exposed. It was a child, and it was hard to tell whether it was a boy or a girl.
When Ning Gu was about to kick the ball over, the child was picked up from behind and disappeared around the corner.
Do you look so scary yourself
Ning Gu touched his face.
It's pretty scary.
He kicked the ball lightly into the corner and a grown hand reached out and picked it up.
When Ning Gu and Fan Lu passed the corner, there was no one there.
"It must have been born illegally," Fan Lu said, "If it is discovered, it will be recycled."
"Take back the child?" Ning Gu turned his head, a little surprised.
"You have been with Lian Chuan for so long," Fan Lu also looked at him, "Don't you know?"
Ning Gu didn't speak.
"This is one of the tasks of the cleanup team," Fan Lu said. "Otherwise, what do you think the cleanup team is called, why is it a hyena, and only clean up travelers? Clean up everything, everything that the main city thinks is unnecessary and cannot exist."
Someone came up to him, but Fan Lu didn't say any more.
When the man passed by them, he took his hand out of his pocket.
Ning Gu immediately sensed something was wrong, but when he was about to raise his hand to punch him first, Fan Lu grabbed his arm.
The man brushed past Fan Lu, and a soft "ding" came from his feet.
Ning Gu saw a metal tube as thick as a little finger on the ground.
Fan Lu picked up the pipe, and the boss suddenly jumped off from which roof.
Ning Gu suddenly realized that Fan Lu and the boss didn't bring him out to get some fresh air, they came out to get news.
Fan Lu opened the tube and pulled out a piece of paper from it.
When Ning Gu picked up the metal tube, he had already approached it, and when he found that it was a piece of paper with writing on it, it was too late to go away.
After reading the note, Fan Lu put it on the ground in front of the boss, and looked at Ning Gu with a frown: "It's similar to my judgment, but what is Lian Chuan thinking?"
Ning Gu looked at him with some embarrassment.
Fan Lu stared at him for a while and then said, "I can't read?"
"En." Ning Gu responded.
Fan Lu sighed: "The City Affairs Department announced that Lian Chuan was expelled from the main city, but he is still in custody. It is estimated that he has to wait for a car to send him to the ghost town, but the secret news is that Lian Chuan asked to be separated from the detention."
"What is separation and detention?" Ning Gu asked.
"Deprived of all senses," Fan Lu whispered, "just comatose, don't know anything, don't dream...why?"
Ning Gu didn't speak.
Why does Lian Chuan do this.
He probably knows.