5
The celebration day was as grand and chaotic as every other day.
Every time people look forward to seeing the administrator's true face, but not being able to see him does not disappoint people. All kinds of delicacies that they cannot eat normally, good wines that they cannot drink, and all-nighters that they cannot stay up all can satisfy people.
And there are fireworks.
Just the two daylight fireworks in two days were enough to make Lian Chuan wonder how many people the safe zone could accommodate and where these people were usually. In the morning, the wall of an old house even cracked into a palm-wide gap because of the collective cheering.
All departments in the entire defense building cannot rest on this day, and the cleanup team is no exception.
The cleanup team is not responsible for maintaining public security or order. Their job content is similar to usual and they are only responsible for making people disappear.
The only difference is probably that there are more tasks.
Although all entrances to the main city have been strictly closed, only people in Zone D, including those who are not allowed to enter the safe zone under normal circumstances, are allowed to enter and participate in the celebration.
But there will always be bugs, and there will always be people who find a way to sneak in, see the excitement, steal some survival supplies, and feel the daylight and late-night wine in the main city.
Even just to take a few steps on flat ground.
At this time, the system is like a chatterbox. It will report coordinates, illegal population, redundant population, unknown creatures...
All eight groups of the cleanup team were deployed.
Lian Chuan was standing on the roof of a building in Area B with his car parked next to him and the boss squatting in the shadow behind him.
Lu Qian will not follow his car starting today. Li Liang, who lost his partner in group one, switched to group six and partnered with Lu Qian.
Li Liang is a steady, cautious and patient person, so he is very suitable to lead a fool like Lu Qian.
Everyone has to have his own partner when performing a mission. The main city is not much safer than the outside world. Even the legendary Lianchuan does not work alone. His partner is the boss.
Among all the people, only Long Biao was very angry. After all, apart from him, Li Liang was the most experienced in the group and could withstand his bad temper.
A very thin and light sound came from behind. It was the sound of the boss's claws gently falling on the ground.
"I have a headache." Lian Chuan said.
The eldest walked over and sat down next to him, tilting his head and sniffing his face.
He has been having headaches for many years. Since the day he discovered that his memory would be reset, headaches have been a side effect of the incomplete reset, and the pain is as severe as if the earth is breaking.
So no one knew about this except the boss.
He had suffered countless injuries during training since he was a child. The pain when his thigh was torn apart was nothing compared to the headache he suffered every time.
But no one knew.
Lian Chuan was able to endure such pain and participate in training of any intensity, even in the training on Betelgeuse without any flaws.
"You don't live by your body," Lei Yu said, "you live only by your will."
That's not entirely true.
Still living on the desire to survive.
The only person who is compatible with Betelgeuse always has a headache and must undergo an examination, a comprehensive, detailed, anatomical examination.
Once those checks that are not normally performed are started, the broken hard drive may...
The boss made a low sound from his throat, turned around and jumped up, quickly disappearing behind the building.
Lian Chuan looked downstairs and saw crowds of people pouring in from everywhere, gathering more and more. All kinds of noisy sounds gradually concealed the subtle decline of the main city.
Perhaps this is why the City Hall insisted on keeping the celebration day.
The street below was crowded with people and the air was filled with the smell of alcohol.
It is Lianchuan’s unchanging memory of the celebration day.
"Team leaders," Lei Yu's voice came from the intercom, "Stay in the area and patrol."
"Patrol?" Long Biao was a little confused.
"Patrol." Lei Yu repeated.
"Group six received it." Lian Chuan didn't ask any more questions. The boss suddenly ran away before, which meant that he had discovered something unusual.
Lei Yu did not give the exact coordinates of the target and only ordered patrols. There are only two reasons: the system cannot confirm the target location, or the target location cannot be exposed and needs to be cleaned up by a special person.
Lian Chuan jumped into the car and rushed down from the roof when he heard Lei Yu's voice: "Group One, Group Six, the target is among you."
The coordinates displayed on the goggles have been encrypted and only Lian Chuan and Long Biao can see them.
And the yellow coordinates are different from the usual green coordinates, indicating that they are not the exact location. At the same time, you can also see that the target's confidentiality level is i2.
This is an escaped non-standard adult.
"How to deal with it?" Long Biao asked.
"Self-destruct," Lei Yu replied, "Clear the route and make sure there are no witnesses."
The City Affairs Department has a long-running project called the "Non-Regular Plan".
The main research object is irregular adults, which is a project publicly recognized by the Urban Affairs Department. Irregular adults refer to those who do not pass the application, are not included in the population, and are officially... legal illegal population.
The content of this research is very simple, to improve the comprehensive ability and quality of human beings, adapt to the increasingly harsh environment, and fight against the demons outside the city who are eyeing them covetously. The reason for starting the research is also simple and intuitive - the Black Iron Wasteland that the main city had to abandon was once a paradise.
Sooner or later, the main city will be eroded and degraded, becoming part of the extension of the Black Iron Wasteland.
Once that day comes, I am afraid that these people will not be given a chance to survive...
This day has come many times.
But no one knows how everything will begin and end, and no one knows what kind of scenes will be seen, whether you are still you, whether I am still me, and who will be who.
However, this project, which sounds very reasonable and necessary, has been constantly protested by the largest civil organization in the main city, which calls it the "Anti-Human Enhancement Plan", which is simple and straightforward, just like the name the organization gave itself.
Let it be.
There is also a branch called Tell to the three administrators.
Lian Chuan was not sure what was said specifically, and no one knew whether the administrator knew about it or not.
In short, they believe that everything in the world now violates the laws of nature. They want to break everything man-made, let the world return to its original state, and move forward along the original trajectory of the world, whether it survives or perishes.
Lian Chuan had no idea what they were thinking.
I just hope that if they revolt in the future, they can keep the artificial daylight.
If the sunlight disappeared, if they wanted to hold a meeting, they would have to hold a meeting in the dark with a cold light bottle. I'm afraid the bats and travelers would not be able to help laughing.
The main city can also make the Black Iron Wasteland and Ghost Town eye it covetously, which simply means that the main city does not need to let nature take its course.
Therefore, Lian Chuan couldn't understand why people have been shouting for so long when their demands could be realized by just leaving the main city.
The Black Iron Wasteland welcomes you, and if you want to go further you can go to the Ghost Town.
"Patrol towards Area D in the direction parallel to Avenue E." Lian Chuan gave instructions to the team members.
He never questioned or had any doubts about Lei Yu's orders.
It is rare for an unconventional adult to escape, but there are always accidents. The cleanup team has seen it several times. Its appearance is not exactly the same as that of a normal human, but it is hard to say whether anyone still remembers the specific details, because Lian Chuan can't remember clearly.
At this time, keeping silent and following orders was his best option.
His chaotic memory had long taught him to remain calm in any situation.
"The fireworks show will be held in Guangci Park. Please do not crowd, line up to enter, and follow the staff's instructions. Please show your main city resident ID card when entering. For safety reasons, your ID card may be checked at any time. Those whose identities cannot be verified will be returned. Cherish your life and enjoy a good life..."
Broadcasts were playing repeatedly on all the streets in the main city, with a robotic male voice repeating instructions and warnings without any expression.
Lian Chuan's car drove over the crowd, firstly for the sake of speed, and secondly to avoid causing unnecessary panic.
and verbal abuse.
The boss appeared on the roof to his right and followed his car at a high speed. Lian Chuan took a look at the coordinates, gestured to the boss, turned east from the intersection, and the boss continued to move forward.
The system did not display the target and its status near the coordinates. He could not make any predictions, nor could he ask his teammates to cooperate. He could only follow the old rules and follow the boss to encircle the enemy from the front and back.
Although there are still Long Biao and his partner, he cannot be considered because Long Biao and he are not on good terms and he is too lazy to get along with them.
Lei Yu said that the solution is "self-destruction". Irregular adults all have self-destruction devices, which means that their task is only to confirm that the target has completed self-destruction and ensure that there are no witnesses before self-destruction.
This task, which was not too difficult at first, became difficult because of the requirement of "no witnesses". After all, this was not an ordinary night, but a carnival night with no curfew on the celebration day.
There are people everywhere. Even in the shabby streets where you usually wouldn't see anyone even if you walked three times back and forth, you can now hear laughter and joy.
Lian Chuan had to find a secluded place and park the car because A01 was too conspicuous.
"Come here." Long Biao's voice came from the intercom.
This sentence was said to Lianchuan, and Lianchuan had to understand its meaning himself.
Based on Lian Chuan's years of cooperation with him, this means that he has seen the target and is unable to complete the task independently. He needs to endure humiliation and put aside his dignity and be forced to ask for support from Lian Chuan, the fake savior he hates the most.
"Got it." Lian Chuan saw Long Biao's coordinates on the goggles. There was still some distance between them. Since there was no car and they had to run, the boss should arrive first.
Lianchuan hits three hits on a launcher on the leg side.
The boss quickly and silently appeared on the roof next to him. Lian Chuan climbed up in a few steps with the help of the exoskeleton and made a gesture to the boss.
The boss ran quickly towards Long Biao.
Lian Chuan also jumped up and began to run over the block.
Jumping from one rooftop to the next, the wind blew past my ears, and amid the whistling sound, I could hear the faint sound of the exoskeleton moving.
He could hear a lot, the sighs from below as he jumped over the street, and the whispers in the house as he jumped through the skylight on the roof.
The old pipes are humming, the cups of drinkers in the back alleys are falling to the ground, the small steel balls are bouncing, a cup of water is flowing in the sewer, and the shoes are rolling down the stairs...
Heavy and labored breathing.
This is an unusual breathing sound.
Lian Chuan suddenly stopped at the window of the clock tower at the intersection and lowered his body.
There were no irregular entities in his field of vision, and his goggles could not scan any information, but he could hear them.
This is the edge of Area D and Area C. There are already very few people reveling, but there are two passers-by on the street corner below him.
"He's going out." Long Biao whispered into the intercom.
"Did you see him?" Lian Chuan asked.
“… I saw a shadow,” Long Biao said, “but now I can’t see it anymore.”
"He stopped." Lian Chuan said.
"Did you see it?" Long Biao asked, "The coordinates."
"I heard it." Lian Chuan replied.
"Just say that you saw it with your brainwaves," Long Biao said unhappily, "The God of Internal Defense."
Lian Chuan didn't say anything and sent his coordinates.
"He was heading in that direction," Long Biao said, "Your cat should be due south of him."
Lian Chuan still didn't say anything. He canceled the coordinates, jumped down from the clock tower, and quickly crossed the intersection.
"Did you go?" Long Biao asked, "Why did you cancel the coordinates!"
Lian Chuan was silent, then jumped up again and landed on the gatehouse of an abandoned cinema at the opposite corner of the intersection.
The boss is not a cat.
"Lianchuan," another voice came from the intercom. It was Long Biao's partner Cui Ping. "Is the boss already in front?"
"Yes." Lian Chuan replied.
"We can block Xingpan Street if we push through," Cui Ping said. "There's no one there."
The order that there must be no witnesses also includes the meaning of "disappear if you see anything", but generally speaking, the cleanup team will not act recklessly because of such a special permission, even if they have long been known as hyenas.
Why Xingpan Street is called Xingpan Street is no longer known. After all, the stars are just a legend. In the early years, the main city would add a few dots of light to the black fog when the sunlight dimmed every day. After being criticized for wasting resources, the few dots of light have never been lit up again.
The only trace of anything related to stars in the main city is the incomprehensible Star Disk Street.
It is a chaotic and crisscrossing block with no straight streets or alleys. It is considered the most distinctive block in the main city.
Also the most dangerous.
You don’t know where the fork in the road is, you don’t know where the gap is, you don’t know which collapsed steel beam is hiding behind a sneaking bat, and you don’t know which abandoned sewer is hiding a bug that wants to escape from the city.
Xingpan Street was very quiet, and all the noises that Lian Chuan had heard before were reduced to nothing but the wind.
After diving deeper, he heard a few short guttural sounds from the boss.
This is a warning that the boss has found the target.
The sound was very close to Lian Chuan. Lian Chuan quickly jumped onto the roof of a house. After a few steps, he jumped up from the roof, crossed over the street, and landed on the opposite corner of the house.
The boss was on a metal ladder with half of the wall collapsed diagonally, with his head down, tail up, and his whole body on alert.
At the same time, Lianchuan saw a white creature lying in the middle of the road below.
"Lock on the target." Lian Chuan pressed on his shoulder and began to scan the creature in front of him that he couldn't tell what it was.
The data was quickly transmitted to Long Biao and Cui Ping. Cui Ping's voice was filled with doubt: "Is this illegal?"
Lian Chuan did not answer.
This is certainly an irregular adult, and it seems to be a failed irregular adult. The scanned form shows that it walks on all fours.
Take more looks at them if you have the chance. After all, once they have seen something like this, it is hard to say how much of their memory they will retain.
Some things can be pieced together from the fragments of Lianchuan's memory.
This irregular adult form does not look like the so-called "enhancement" mentioned in the public plan.
This is almost beyond the scope of humanity.
Lian Chuan had never seen anything like this, or even if he had, he couldn't remember it.
It is difficult to see clearly, and it seems as if there is a layer of fog when observing. Although I know that the fog comes from the target itself, it is difficult to really judge what is in the fog.
You can only get a rough idea.
It is very tall, with long, segmented limbs, scaly skin, protruding eye bones, and a torso that looks like it has been damaged, which makes people think of...
"Why does this thing look a bit like K29?" Long Biao's voice came from the intercom. He and Cui Ping were already lying on the edge of the rooftop next to them.
That’s right, it’s k29.
It is not known why k29 is called k29, and it is also not known whether there are k28 and k30, but they have the memory of k29.
This is a nickname for the ghost town’s native inhabitants.