"A new day welcomes you."
Lian Chuan paused for a second when he came out of the sleeping cabin.
Today was his first day off since joining the cleanup team half a year ago. Although he didn't feel any obvious difference, after all, he had only officially carried out three missions, and they were the most common illegal births.
Then he felt someone outside his room door.
"Who?" he asked.
Before he finished speaking, he had already reached the door. When he opened the door, the people outside had no time to get out of the way.
Although he had already seen clearly who it was, Lian Chuan still pressed his fingers on the other person's throat.
"I." Wang Gui leaned against the wall, looked at him and sighed.
Lian Chuan let go of his hand and turned back to the house: "Isn't it time yet?"
Going out to relax with teammates and partners on rest days is a normal social activity for the cleaning team. Although he has no intention of relaxing with Wang Gui, he has no reason to refuse.
"It's not like we're on a mission," Wang Gui rubbed his neck, followed in, and sat on the sofa, "Is it necessary to set the time so accurately?"
“There’s no need to be so lenient as to deliver the meal an hour earlier.” Lian Chuan walked to the table and took a look at today’s rations. The colors were too bright and looked unappetizing.
"Just pretend that I haven't arrived yet," Wang Gui said, "and then pretend to see me in half an hour."
Lian Chuan smiled and said nothing.
"You can't eat today's rations, right?" Wang Gui said, "Come on, I'll take you to eat something good."
Eat something good.
Lianchuan is very familiar with the main city, especially the area outside Zone B, where various mission targets flee and hide.
But he didn't know where the delicious food was.
He felt that the best food in the main city was made by Chun San, but when he joined the cleaning team, the team had undergone major personnel adjustments and had been conducting special training for partner groups. He and Lei Yu had not tasted Chun San's cooking for almost two months.
But compared to the days of training in the training department, this kind of life now more than makes up for it.
"It's definitely not something Chun San can do." Wang Gui added.
"We're just going to eat something, isn't it too serious to use provocation?" Lian Chuan said.
Wang Gui looked at him and said nothing.
Lian Chuan didn't say anything else and went to wash up.
When Wang Guicai came out of the bathroom, he asked again, "Do you know why Lei Yu asked me to partner with you?"
"Because they don't want to partner with you." Lian Chuan said.
Wang Gui was stunned for a moment, then he started laughing. After a while, he stood up and walked towards the door: “That doesn’t make sense.”
Before Lian Chuan could speak, he turned around and smiled again: "I'm the only one who still treats you as a child."
Lian Chuan didn't say anything, went into the bedroom and closed the door.
He had thought about this question, and the answer he gave was not to anger Wang Gui. This was his first reaction when he heard that his partner was Wang Gui.
Wang Gui was thrown from the patrol team to the cleanup team because he was too lax.
Although his name sounds inexplicably tragic, his personality does not match his name and is rather nonchalant.
It's not possible to be sloppy, but it's impossible to be too sloppy.
Xiao Lin is not that kind. If that is the case, recycling and resetting will cure all diseases and there is no need to waste any procedures.
Wang Gui is about the same age as Xiao Lin. It is said that if Wang Gui had not refused many times because he was "too casual", Xiao Lin's current position should have been his.
So it’s nothing more than keeping those who are too strong, but not allowed to stay by your side. The best way is to throw them into the most shady team in the main city to do the dirty work that no one wants to do.
By the way, they can also give the cleaning team a leg up. Those eliminated by the patrol team will go to the cleaning team.
I don’t know if it’s for this reason, but Wang Gui always maintains a vague sense of distance from the people in the cleanup team, and their collective task coordination is perfect yet distant.
But maybe because of Lei Yu, his attitude towards Lian Chuan was quite good.
He was just a little confused by the fact that he kept insisting on Lian Chuan calling him "Boss" without providing any reason. Of course, he didn't mind that Lian Chuan had never called him that before.
When Lian Chuan walked out of the room, Wang Gui was lying in the corridor with a cigarette in his mouth, looking out.
"Smoking is not allowed in the dormitory," Lian Chuan reminded.
"No light." Wang Gui turned around and shook the cigarette in his mouth at him.
Lian Chuan could tell at a glance that this cigarette was a specialty of the Lost Valley, and it was often seen on bats. There was no such black-mouthed cigarette in the main city, and Wang Gui could not get the cigarette at his level.
Lian Chuan was speechless when he saw someone openly smoking a cigarette obtained from a bat in the cleanup team’s dormitory.
"This is evidence," Wang Gui turned and walked downstairs, "I'll hold it in my mouth for a while and then put it back."
"I can see that you really treat me as a child." Lian Chuan said.
"If teenagers are not children, then what are they?" Wang Gui said.
Then, less than a hundred meters out of the cleanup team's gate, Wang Gui lit the "evidence" and happily exhaled a puff of smoke.
Wang Gui took Lian Chuan to Area C. When they walked past a dilapidated building and were about to turn into a back street, Lian Chuan suddenly stopped.
"What's wrong?" Wang Gui turned and looked at him.
"There's something." Lian Chuan felt the sight.
"Take a break today," Wang Gui said, "others will take on the task."
Lian Chuan paused for a few seconds before continuing to follow him, but the feeling of being secretly watched still existed, even stronger.
At the same time, Wang Gui looked at the roof of the old building on the left.
That's right.
That's the direction.
Wang Gui is not an experimental subject. Except for Lian Chuan, all the people in the entire cleaning team are ordinary people. With the best equipment in the main city, they may be so powerful that ordinary people can't imagine, but they are still ordinary people.
However, Wang Gui, in the state of an ordinary person, determined the direction of what he perceived.
This extraordinary sensitivity might be the reason why Xiao Lin was unwilling to keep Wang Gui in the patrol team.
"It's over there." Lian Chuan said.
Wang Gui said nothing and continued walking forward.
"It's a bat," Lian Chuan said. He had heard the slight sound of the metal parts on the bat colliding, but just a bat would not make him feel so uneasy. "It should be more than just bats."
"It may be that Bat is leading people to smuggle. The other team members will deal with it." Wang Gui glanced at him and said, "Go eat something."
Bats carry out both compliant and non-compliant people through various unknown secret gaps in the main city. This has always been a well-known secret in the main city, but there are always more gaps that cannot be found than those that can be found, so the business has always been booming.
"Not an ordinary person," Lian Chuan concluded, "not a human."
“If a bat can carry something, even if it’s not a human,” Wang Gui sighed, “it’s not something important.”
Lian Chuan didn't say anything else, but he didn't follow Wang Gui either. He turned and walked towards the old building.
He wasn't particularly devoted to his duties, and the cleanup team's ability to handle various tasks did not require the help of the two resting team members.
He was just uneasy.
His training from childhood made all perceived insecurity a threat.
As long as you feel it, you must take the initiative.
Wang Gui didn't say anything else. He turned around and followed silently.
"Wait for me here." Lian Chuan said.
"I'll just take a look," Wang Gui said simply, "what on earth it is."
Lian Chuan didn't say anything else.
Behind the old building is a group of collapsed low-rise buildings, some of which are still occupied, while others are vacant, with cracked roofs and wall fragments scattered all over the ground.
In such an environment, danger can lurk in any corner.
Wang Gui looked around and habitually touched his left arm, which was the location of the external bone marrow fixed weapon.
Lian Chuan did not have such habitual actions, not because he had not formed a conditioned reflex for basic operations, but because since the day he could remember, he had been unarmed when facing any danger. The habits formed by the cleanup team in the past few months were far from overpowering such memories.
Another low metallic sound was heard from the second floor of a building in front of the left.
"Wait for the cleaning team," Wang Gui said in a low voice, "this noise is not right."
This sound was louder than the previous ones. Wang Gui must have heard that this was not the sound made by the metal parts of the modified normal bat.
It wasn't an ordinary metal collision, but more like the sound of something metal being squeezed.
Lian Chuan stared at the window on the second floor.
A figure flashed past the window.
It's a bat.
He was already dead, his body folded up in the middle by some force and suspended in the air, and began to slowly curl up, as if someone was slowly rolling up a suit of clothes.
The metal armor on the bat's waist was twisted and squeezed, making a slight sound.
"Mutation," Wang Gui said, "We can't see the main body, find a place to hide. We should have been discovered at this distance."
"I can see it." Lian Chuan said.
There are thin, gelatinous, translucent objects on the bat's body, which are tightening little by little.
Wang Gui glanced at him and slowly moved toward a nearby wall.
Lian Chuan did not follow him and chose the opposite direction.
This was not what he felt. It was not difficult for him to kill this type of mutant. What he felt was still in the dark.
There's no point in hiding, if the mutants over there on the second floor have already discovered them, this thing can't be worse than an ordinary mutant.
When you might be attacked at any time, the best option is to put yourself in a state without distraction.
But the next second he clearly felt the danger.
When he looked in Wang Gui's direction, he saw a man squatting on the eaves above Wang Gui. His pale skin was exposed, and there were sharp protrusions on the skin of his arms and calves.
This is an experimental subject.
A nightmare he was all too familiar with.
A feeling of uneasiness suddenly filled his entire body.
The interconnected streets, the soft sunlight, the expectation of "eating something good", all the brief relaxation brought by all this disappeared, and in an instant he seemed to be back in the cramped, oppressive, and always painful experimental cabin.
Wang Gui discovered that there was something unusual above because Lian Chuan suddenly behaved abnormally.
This was the first time he saw Lian Chuan enter combat mode when not on a mission, and it was also the first time he knew that Lian Chuan could reach an astonishing speed that exceeded the speed of any equipment without the help of any equipment.
No matter what the abnormality above is, with Lianchuan's speed, he can pull him away from danger.
No matter what the abnormality above is, it probably won't be more shocking than the one Lian Chuan in front of him brought to him.
But Lian Chuan did not come over to pull him, but jumped into the air.
When he raised his head, a white figure was already rushing towards him at such a speed.
But it didn't hit him.
Lian Chuan suddenly pulled him away.
A dead experimental subject lay quietly where Wang Gui had stood before.
Lian Chuan knelt on one knee on the ground, supporting the ground with his left hand, maintaining an attacking posture. After making sure there was no danger around, he slowly stood up.
After the feeling of being isolated like in a laboratory chamber slowly disappeared, he glanced at Wang Gui's face and said, "That's it."
"I understand." Wang Gui said.
Lian Chuan looked towards the second-floor window where the mutant had appeared before. The rolled-up bat had disappeared. The mutant was probably frightened and disappeared.
"Leave that to them," Wang Gui said, "You don't have to be too professional."
"Yeah." Lian Chuan responded.
"Don't you want to ask if I'm hurt?" Wang Gui looked at him.
"You are obviously not injured." Lian Chuan said.
"I thought you would pull me away first. With your speed just now, you should be able to do it," Wang Gui sighed, "but you didn't. As your partner, my heart is seriously hurt."
"Kill him before he attacks you. I can definitely do that," Lian Chuan said.
"That's not necessary," Wang Gui said, "We didn't receive any mission instructions, and we don't have the authority to kill during non-working hours... You're asking for trouble, young man."
"It is necessary." Lian Chuan answered simply.
Wang Gui glanced at him.
Lian Chuan didn't say anything else and turned to look to the other side. At the end of the road, a blue light flashed. It was the cleanup team.
"Five minutes ago, I remembered something very happy," Wang Gui said. "I thought I had forgotten it, but I didn't expect to remember it again."
Lian Chuan said nothing and just looked at him.
"But I may not remember it in the future." Wang Gui said again.
Lian Chuan took a look at the dead experimental subject.
"This is probably an experimental subject that Lost Valley didn't handle properly," Wang Gui said, "We shouldn't have seen it, let alone killed it."
This part of our memory will be erased.
This happy event will not be erased, but it is something that Wang Gui thought he had forgotten but unexpectedly remembered again. He may not have the chance to remember it again unexpectedly in the future.
"What's the matter?" Lian Chuan asked.
"It was a dream." Wang Gui glanced at the other side of the road and could already see the outline of A01. "Have you ever seen a cat in an animal storage facility?"
"I saw it when I was a child." Lian Chuan replied.
"I dreamed that I became it," said Wang Gui.
Lian Chuan didn't say anything and waited for him to continue.
"That's all." Wang Gui said.
"I'll remember it for you." Lian Chuan said.
"No need," Wang Gui said, "I have forgotten too many things, this one is not a big deal."
When Lei Yu's voice came from the intercom, Lian Chuan sat up suddenly from the sofa.
For a moment, I was dazed and couldn't tell where I was.
"I'll be there soon," Lei Yu said, "Minister Chen is already waiting for us."
"I'll go downstairs now." Lian Chuan stood up and picked up the intercom.
The daylight had already disappeared when I went downstairs. I slept for quite a long time. Before I dreamed of Wang Gui, the daylight outside the window was still bright.
Lei Yu's car stopped in front of him, and he opened the door and got in.
"You have about 20 minutes to think about it," Lei Yu said, "We don't know why the administrator wants to see you, and you may not have a chance to say anything..."
"I've thought about it," Lian Chuan said, "There's no one more suitable partner than the boss."
Lei Yu didn't say anything else. After staring at him for a while, he just reached out and patted his shoulder.