14
After waking up from a nap, Ning Gu tore off the bandage on his waist. His wound had healed. Uncle Ba's ability was still very practical. Minor injuries could be healed by just pressing them. But what was annoying was that he always had to spit on people's wounds to distinguish himself from other people's healing abilities. After all, this ability was not scarce in the ghost town.
Ning Gu stood up and tried to find some water to wipe himself, but there was nothing in the hut.
When he turned around and passed by the window, he found a person standing in the open space outside the clock tower, standing next to a small red lantern lit by a human lighter, but he couldn't see clearly who it was.
He leaned over to the window and waved, and the man turned and walked away along a path lit by lanterns.
It's not a nail. If a nail came over now, it would definitely be sneaky and dare not stand in the light.
This person looks like Lin Fan.
Lin Fan wanted to check his shoes in the car, and he heard this sentence, but he was completely confused at the time and couldn't move.
Fortunately, Li Xiang stopped it.
Because he did take the so-called "key" and hid it in his shoe along with the feather.
He didn't tell anyone about this thing. It seems that Hammer reacted quickly and even helped him conceal the information of the "key" without collusion.
Ning Gu sat back against the wall and carefully took out a black round bead from the inside of his shoe. It should be an iron bead, which made a tinkling metallic sound when it struck the metal guard plate of the shoe.
There are many tiny holes on the beads, and it is difficult to tell what they are.
But this thing might be very important. After all, Huang Huayan's mere words of "key" were enough to make a group of people start chasing him without even judging whether it was true or false.
Moreover, he suspected that this thing had something to do with him.
At least there is something in the main city that is related to him, otherwise Lin Fan would not be so direct.
The metal ball that wrapped this thing was covered with small holes, as if it had been hit, bitten, and knocked by many people but still couldn't be opened. If it wasn't faked by Huang Huayan, then no one had ever opened it.
But when he got the ball, he felt there was a place where he could pinch it and it would bounce off.
So he quietly pinched it a few times, and sure enough, it opened, and there was this thing inside.
Key
Where is it from? What is it used for
Do I have to find a similar hole to put it in? That would be too big a scope.
Bats seem to know this, it's no secret.
... Or maybe someone opened it and replaced the small round bead
In any case, this mechanism that he picked up casually in a place he had never set foot on was opened just like that.
An ordinary person who was born and raised in a ghost town and doesn’t even know who his parents are…
"Who are you?"
He still remembers the sounds in the small dark room very clearly.
who I am
Ning Gu, the bully of Ghost Town, the successor of the non-Ghost Town leader raised by the head of the group, the handsome face of Ghost Town...
So who are you
He had asked the team leader many times when he was young.
Who am I? Why don't I have any parents? And no one knows who they are
The leader’s response is always silence.
Ning Gu tossed the small round beads in his hand.
Maybe the answer to all this is in the main city. Maybe this is why the leader and his men didn't let him go to the main city.
So he had to go to the main city again.
And... he had a very good reason.
Why did Lian Chuan let him see those things
What he could be sure of now was that Lian Chuan definitely knew that he could see it, and he exposed his eyes specifically for him to see and feel it.
Why
"The target is locked." Lian Chuan said.
The car rushed forward in the air, turned around and stopped in front of a pair of young people who were running wildly.
A man and a woman, holding hands tightly, they are obviously lovers.
"Main city cleanup team," Lian Chuan looked at them through the scope and said the line he had repeated countless times, "According to the main city birth population management regulations, female No. 70135 is not eligible to give birth..."
"She has a name!" the young man shouted, anger in his voice, "She is not a number! Her name is..."
Lian Chuan pressed the button, and a silver light hit the man's leg. He fell to the ground instantly, gasping for breath. The pain made him unable to speak.
Don't tell me her name.
Lianchuan aimed at the woman next to him again, and she smiled at the muzzle of the gun.
Lianchuan pressed the recycle button before she could say anything.
In a flash, the only person left on the street was the man lying on the ground with tears streaming down his face.
The pain had not yet subsided. He could not move or make a sound. He could only stare at Lian Chuan who turned around and got into the car.
"Death to all the hyenas!" someone shouted for him.
Lianchuan launched a01.
"Devil! Death! Executioner!" another voice joined in.
"The main city doesn't need you! Get out!"
Lian Chuan raised the front of the car and jumped onto the roof. The boss looked at him, followed him and started running on the rows of roofs.
"Would you like to sit down?" Li Liang's voice came from the intercom. "You are quite close to us now."
"No, I won't sit down." Lian Chuan replied.
"No, I'm not drinking," Li Liang smiled, "Lu Qian and I are at Guang Guang's store. There are not many people here now, so we're taking a rest here."
Guangguang is Li Liang's friend, a girl from Greenland. Due to her rebellious personality, she gave up the path of being promoted to the Internal Defense Department or the City Affairs Department and went to District C to open an inconspicuous entertainment store.
Entertainment stores can be found in many places, covering areas abcd. However, as the areas become chaotic from the inside out, the entertainment methods in entertainment stores have also been upgraded from playing cards, chatting and small games to various performances, massages and alternative services.
It is said that bats also have it, and the form has a very strong bat style, such as fully modified bats dueling until they are broken apart.
Lian Chuan has never seen it and has no interest in it. His limit is massaging his head.
For him who suffers from chronic headaches, this is indeed quite comfortable.
"Are you really not going to try other parts of your body besides your head?" Guang Guang leaned against the table with his arms folded, looking at Lian Chuan helplessly, "Shoulders, arms, legs, you can all relax. You must be so tired running around every day. Is it enough to just pinch your head?"
"It's as if we still use our heads to run every day," Lian Chuan closed his eyes. "Just use your head. We have equipment to help us, so we won't feel tired."
"Yes, not only is there no power support on the head, but I also have to wear a helmet, which is tiring." Li Liang was lying on a small bed nearby, because there might be missions at any time, so the exoskeleton was still there.
"Okay," Guang Guang walked over to Lian Chuan and began to massage his head, "Do you want something to drink?"
Lu Qian was behind the bar, mixing drinks by mixing water of different colors while there were no customers.
"No." Lian Chuan said.
"You can try what I made," Lu Qian said, "It should be pretty good."
"No." Lian Chuan repeated.
Li Liang laughed.
Lu Qian took a sip of the water he mixed and frowned: "Why do they all taste the same?"
"The ingredients haven't even been put into the seasoning machine yet," Guang Guang said, "of course the taste is the same."
Seasoning machines are expensive. Apart from residents of high-end settlements, the only ones who can use them are various entertainment stores and pubs. All the ingredients processed without a seasoning machine taste the same.
Compared with the automatic dispensing system, the food and drinks that go through the seasoning machine have more flavors and taste better.
This is the kind of food Lei Yu asked him to eat when he got home. Aunt Chun’s cooking skills are very good. She can repeatedly process the ingredients to obtain a better taste and more complex flavor.
But Lian Chuan had no particular interest in any flavor.
Sometimes he would wonder, is this taste transmitted from the seasoning machine to the raw materials and then to the tongue, or is it transmitting some kind of information directly to the brain through the raw materials
Raw materials are like a dream. There is no sound, no smell, and no taste in the dream, but you still know what you hear, smell, and eat.
It's all just what your brain tells you.
The tongue is only used for speaking.
Guang Guang really likes people from the cleaning team to come to the store. They are all quiet, don’t talk much, and don’t make any unnecessary movements.
District C is no longer like what she remembered from her childhood. The street scene was a little gloomy but overall it was peaceful. Now District C is slowly becoming like the outer District D, gloomy and chaotic. People have become scary too, and verbal abuse and fighting are happening every day.
All changes come from people's hearts. The increasingly rapid decline of the main city has caused many people to begin to worry that they will become the generation that witnesses the main city being swallowed by the Black Iron Wasteland.
It's also good. Instead of being silently and inescapably recycled to death, it's better to witness how the world dies.
Just after pressing the top of his head, Lian Chuan's intercom beeped.
Before Guangguang's hand could be removed from his head, he had already stood up. When he walked out the door, a voice came from the intercom.
"Groups one and six, gather and go to the exit for inspection." Lei Yu's voice rang out.
"Group six received it." Lian Chuan looked back and saw that Li Liang and Lu Qian had also caught up.
"One group received it." Long Biao replied.
Li Liang and Lian Chuan looked at each other. The last time they received the order to check the exit, there was a system error, which opened the door of the material warehouse and allowed the unplanned experimental materials to escape.
"Please confirm the mission content." Long Biao asked again in the intercom.
"Capture materials VB39 and VB45," Lei Yu said, "VB39 is high risk."
Lian Chuan got on the car. This combination of numbers meant that the materials had passed the test and were mature individuals ready to enter the production experiment stage.
The management is quite strict.
He actually escaped
Or is there another system error
The possibility of this is quite low.
"Why don't you let the city guards go?" Lu Qian asked in the group channel after they set off. "They should be nearby. We still need to rush over."
"The city guards and the public security team, one is to defend against foreign enemies, the other is to clear up internal disturbances," Li Liang said, "the rest of the work is ours."
"This other range is much larger than I thought," Lu Qian sighed, "No wonder when I applied to join the cleanup team, my trainer suggested that I get my brain checked."
"It's not impossible to check it out." Lian Chuan said.
"Huh?" Lu Qian turned his head and looked at him from the roof across the street.
The laughter of several people in the group came over the intercom.
When the train does not come, the exit is just a barren wilderness. There have never been any buildings here, and no traces of human life.
Only a lonely track was vaguely visible from the black fog.
The main city is behind me, but if I don’t look back, there is no sign of life in front of me. It is so lonely that it seems as if the whole world has ceased to exist.
In comparison, the ruins that can still be seen, even the black iron wasteland of ruins, seem warmer than here.
The people from Group 1 and Group 6 had already arrived and formed an arc-shaped semi-encirclement according to their usual search formation, ready to press forward.
"Arrived at the mission location," Long Biao said, "start scanning."
The target information on the goggles has been transmitted. VB45 is of ordinary level, female, and has no aggressive traits. VB39, who is also female, has information marked in red, indicating a high level of danger and corrosive traits.
Lian Chuan frowned. It seemed that the unconventional research direction was no longer what was claimed at the beginning. The purpose was only to stimulate human potential, increase resistance, and improve the ability to withstand harsh environments...
If the K29-like monster we saw before was an accident, then VB39, which is completely different from 009 and has almost complete functions, is obviously an experimental subject designed to counter the Traveler.
Unless this is another project, a project that the City Hall doesn't know about, a secret project.
Who did it? Why
Lian Chuan didn't want to know, but one thing was certain.
… I’m going to have another headache tomorrow.
The coordinates of the two experimental subjects were quickly displayed. They were not far away from them, but the location was somewhat dangerous. It was already at the end of the safe section of the orbit. There was black fog ahead, and no one who went in had ever returned.
"Keep a safe distance." said Long Biao.
This safe distance refers to the black fog.
The semi-encirclement slowly pressed forward, and soon Lian Chuan saw two swaying shadows in the increasingly thick black fog. They looked like humans, but VB45's body was much smaller, and it felt like it was only up to the waist height of a normal man.
"Aim," Long Biao said, "one group on the left, six groups on the right."
The one on the left is vb39 and the one on the right is vb45. Lian Chuan has no objection to Long Biao taking on a difficult task, his goal is just to complete the task smoothly.
"Lock on." He raised the capture gun.
Lian Chuan had never doubted the power of this gun, but after seeing Ning Gu being shot twice and still being able to run like the wind...
In addition, the target this time was rather special. While aiming, he had already determined the direction in which the target might escape so that he could change the capture route at any time.
The weapons of the two groups were fired simultaneously, and in an instant the electric light formed a network and pounced on the two targets.
vb45 fell to the ground.
vb39 jumped back while firing, avoiding the attack.
If you take a few more steps back, you can retreat into the black fog. Although this speed is not fast to avoid the attack, you can avoid it if you bet on the right time to fire, but this speed is enough to retreat into the black fog.
When Lian Chuan put away his gun, he was already next to vb45.
Sparse hair, gray eyes, and somewhat darkened skin. If this is the human race after the main city, I'm afraid more than half of them will choose to be swallowed by the Black Iron Wasteland.
He grabbed vb45's arm and threw him back to Long Biao who was following him.
Forced to vb39.
The two actions are completed almost simultaneously.
Everyone knows that Lian Chuan is faster than weapons, and that he can only unleash his true speed when attacking with his bare hands.
But every time you make such contact, you are risking your own safety.
The legend that Lianchuan is as cold as the god of death is largely due to his obsession with completing the mission.
Lian Chuan's hand hit vb39's shoulder. This blow was not fatal, but it could subdue most opponents instantly.
vb39 knelt on the ground.
Lian Chuan's second strike was on the back, and there was a moment of hesitation that even he himself might not have noticed. He saw a transport mark on VB39, a black round mark on the back of his neck.
This is the transportation mark of the training department.
The two targets did not escape from the laboratory, but escaped during transportation.
The place of escape happens to be the only connection point between the main city and the ghost town.
Although Lian Chuan tried hard not to think, he still made a judgment immediately.
This is the experimental product that the Ministry of Internal Defense will secretly transport to the ghost town.
After installing both vb39 and vb45 into the control box, Long Biao glanced at him.
People from both groups have seen the black mark.
Everyone knows what this means and is used to it.
"Lianchuan." Long Biao looked at him.
"Yeah." Lian Chuan responded.
"I really hate you." Long Biao said.
"This sentence may not be reset," Lian Chuan said, "After all, everyone knows it."
"That's right." Long Biao kicked the box and said, "Add another electric lock and send it back to the internal defense department."
When they returned to the car, the eldest brother came around and gently swept his legs with his tail, which was a brief consolation for the possibility of another headache.
Lian Chuan got on the car and saw the small leather bag in the equipment bucket when he started the car.
This was seized from Ning Gu before, and there is nothing worth handing over.
Lian Chuan put the things that should have been thrown away in the car but never threw them away.
He glanced at the track extending into the black fog and turned the car around.
Ning Valley.
This traveler, who was originally just a hidden danger to him, has almost become a sword hanging over his head after he discovered that the Internal Defense Department and the Ghost Town may have a close relationship beyond providing experimental materials.