When Lei Yu stopped the car and turned around to wake up Lian Chuan, Lian Chuan opened his eyes. There was no sign of fatigue on his face, and his eyes were so bright that people suspected that he was pretending to sleep.
"Do you want to go to my house?" Lei Yu asked, "Ask Aunt Chun to get you something to eat. You won't be eating the ration today."
"No," Lian Chuan opened the car door and got out, "I'll go straight to sleep."
The caracal stood up from the back seat, gently jumped out of the car window, and walked straight into the building where Lianchuan lived.
"Lianchuan." Lei Yu called him through the car door.
Lian Chuan turned around and leaned against the car window: "Hmm?"
At this moment, it was vaguely seen that he was a little listless, but this state quickly disappeared.
"Is 009 a little strange?" Lei Yu asked.
Lian Chuan gently pushed the car window with his hand and pushed himself away from the car door: "No, the material capabilities are not repeated, each time is different. If you want to say it's strange, each one is strange, but they are all similar."
"I think..." Before Lei Yu could finish his words, Lian Chuan had already turned around and walked towards the building.
"I don't think so," he said as he walked away. "Go back quickly. It's late."
Lei Yu asked this question based on Liu Dong's reaction. No material had ever been destroyed that made him slam the table.
However, when he asked the question, he didn't expect Lian Chuan to answer.
Lian Chuan is very good at concealing things, so good that you can't even tell whether he has ever concealed anything in his life, but what you can be sure of is that he never conceals is his distrust of people.
009 Whether it's strange or not, I won't talk to you. I don't trust you.
I can't trust anyone.
This vigilance, which seemed to be part of his temperament since he was old enough to understand, came from nowhere.
Growing up in the Operations Department's day-to-day training where almost no one survives is not the whole reason. It simply makes this vigilance become "cold" and "cold-blooded" in the eyes of outsiders.
Lei Yu sighed and turned the car around.
With the cat around, there's no need to worry too much.
Perhaps only the boss can make Lianchuan trust him. After all, the boss is no longer a human being.
I feel like vomiting.
I felt like vomiting when I was taking a shower, but I never vomited.
When I walked out of the bathroom, the boss was sitting at the door.
"It's not appropriate," Lian Chuan pulled the towel around his waist, "What if I forget you're here and come out naked?"
The boss turned and walked away.
"Would you like something to eat?" Lian Chuan walked to the ration supply box, opened it and took a look. The dinner automatically distributed by the system was still there. He took out the box and looked at the words on it. "There are apples, vegetables, and beef."
The eldest jumped onto the sofa and lay down.
"Have you ever eaten real food?" Lian Chuan put the box on the table. "Not the rationed food, nor the kind made by Aunt Chun. The kind recorded in historical documents, not artificial food."
The boss closed his eyes.
"Have we discussed this before?" Lian Chuan rubbed his face and walked towards the sleeping cabin. "I'm going to sleep first. There are only five o'clock left."
Sleeping time starts from curfew at 12 o'clock to 8 o'clock, and a countdown starting from 8 will be displayed on the sleeping cabin.
The sleeping cabins in the main city are strictly controlled, and not everyone can enter the sleeping cabins. In addition to restoring physical strength, energy, and various powers, they can also detect and repair some body problems in a timely manner.
For Lianchuan, the sleeping cabin is a very useful thing.
Of course, according to regulations, they are also required to enter sleeping cabins.
But perhaps no one knows that their consciousness and body will be separated in the sleeping cabin.
After the lights in the sleeping cabin are turned off, there is only a dim yellow number on the top, showing the remaining sleeping time, and everyone will fall asleep before the countdown begins.
No matter where you start counting from, you will never see the second number, and the number when you wake up will always be 0.
The number on top changed from 5 to 4.
Lian Chuan sometimes couldn’t understand why he existed as a person who kept making mistakes, perhaps the only person in the main city who made mistakes, or the person who made the most mistakes in the main city.
No matter where he started counting backwards, he could see the second digit, the third digit, all the way to 0.
He could feel that he had left his body. Except for the inability to move on his own, he could feel everything, but everything seemed unreal.
Just a feeling.
He seemed to have merged into a chaotic fog. The only thing in his field of vision was the pale yellow number. Apart from that, he could not hear, see, or touch anything else.
This situation does not occur every time, and there is no regular pattern to it.
Just adapt.
So he learned to think in this "non-existent time".
Pretend you had a dream.
The traveler hiding behind the wall, the main city weapon that was activated.
The suitcase that he and the boss retrieved contained 009. He was sure that even though it had been modified at the first opportunity, he could still tell.
When retrieving it, he had doubts. Why did he need Betelgeuse for such a material? Retrieving the material was not even a confidential mission, and the internal defense would not activate Betelgeuse even for a level I mission unless it was absolutely necessary.
This question was answered during the confrontation with 009.
009's attack was very powerful. The wind created when the air was stirred was like countless sharp knives. Every black cut on the skin would cause obvious pain. This knife could even easily cut his bones.
However, this ability is not special among many materials, nor is it worth transporting it from the Ghost Town, let alone letting Betelgeuse go to get it personally.
But when Betelgeuse fought against 009, Lian Chuan felt a fear he had never felt before.
Even if I searched those broken memories that had been reset, I couldn't find any similar feelings.
Someone was watching him.
It’s not the surveillance, nor the person behind the surveillance, nor even 009.
What scared him was not that "someone was watching me", but that... someone sensed him in a way beyond his sight.
The kind that he fears the most and absolutely cannot allow to appear.
One that might know all his secrets.
009 is a medium.
The people in the Operations Department definitely didn't know that 009 had such an ability, or they only knew that 009 had some extraordinary ability but were not sure what it was, otherwise they would not have allowed it to come out and attack head-on, resulting in this rare material being directly destroyed by Betelgeuse in one move.
Lian Chuan couldn't breathe a sigh of relief.
009 is just a medium.
He wants to find the person on the medium side.
The traveler who could evade Betelgeuse's detection.
For safety reasons, Hammer forced Ning Gu to stay in the shabby house for a long time before he carefully walked to the street.
In fact, there was no one around during the whole process, not even a homeless person.
"Are there homeless people in the main city?" Ning Gu asked.
"What are you doing as a hyena?" Hammer said. "There are definitely no hyenas in the safe zone. I heard that we smash every one we see. There are probably a few scattered around in the outer areas. If you want to see homeless people, there are some in the underground market."
"No." Ning Gu said, "How can we get into the underground market? We look like travelers, right?"
"What are you thinking?" said Hammer. "We look like homeless people."
Ning Gu stared at him for a while, then lowered his head and stared at himself for a long time.
The clothes are indeed quite old, having been worn for many years. Although they are washed frequently and are not too dirty, their original color can no longer be seen.
Ning Gu had never thought about this question before coming here.
Are the standards of homeless people in the main city so high
In a ghost town, people with rags wrapped around their bodies are called homeless people. His clothes are definitely a bully-style outfit, with a pretty little leather bag hanging on his leg.
Before Hammer could react, he raised his leg and kicked the door of a nearby shop into pieces.
"What are you doing?" Hammer was startled and turned his head frantically, looking around nervously.
Travelers generally do not take action in such relatively well-managed areas. The security system of the main city is not the same as the loudspeaker broadcasting system of the ghost town.
"Find a piece of clothing..." Ning Gu walked in. He had seen several sets of clothes hanging inside from the outside. None of them were new. This should be a store that trades second-hand goods.
Just as I was about to reach out and take off my clothes, I heard a noise in the corner.
Ning Gu turned around and saw a man and a woman, huddled together in fear.
"I'll take it..." Ning Gu hadn't finished his words when the man suddenly pounced to the side and stretched out his hand, not knowing what he was going to do.
Ning Gu kicked him on the wrist without thinking, and then kicked him against the wall.
After the man rolled to the side, he saw a button on the ground next to the chair leg.
This should be a device for calling for help, which can be stepped on in an emergency. He immediately broke out in a cold sweat.
"Don't kill us, don't kill us!" The woman held her head and cried.
"Don't shout!" Hammer stood at the door and growled in a low voice, "You'll die if you shout again!"
Ning Gu didn't say anything. He took a long coat from the shelf, put it on himself, turned around and walked out quickly.
The traveler never begged for mercy. Those he beat, some kept cursing at him, some turned around and ran away, but none of them begged him to stop beating him. So it was the first time for him to hear someone say such words, and he felt a little uncomfortable.
"Run." Hammer followed and said.
Ning Gu reacted immediately and ran away.
The button is there, and as soon as they come out, it will be pressed and the hyenas will be here immediately.
Area d a6.
Li Liang was the closest, but his partner Lu Qian was a novice, so he still needed Lian Chuan and the boss, who were waiting nearby, to go over for support, because the residents' alarm indicated that two travelers had invaded.
Described as "very aggressive", although only one item of clothing was stolen.
Travelers will not be idle when they come to the main city. They will be busy looting supplies, food, alcohol, and exchanging non-essential items.
But two aggressive travelers just snatched a piece of clothing, which is quite rare.
Lianchuan had never seen such a humble traveler.
The system cannot confirm the traveler's target and can only scan within range. After all, the current generation of travelers basically no longer carry the main city's identification information in their bodies.
Li Liang and Lu Qian went to the store first. They could collect limited target information on the spot. Their main goal was to find a way to capture the remnants and predict the traveler's capabilities.
"They're going to Lost Valley," Lian Chuan's A01 turned a corner and sped toward the most remote area of Zone D. The boss was still following them, appearing and disappearing on the rooftops. "The boss and I will get in front and intercept them."
"Okay." Li Liang replied.
The Lost Valley is an underground market, located at the junction of the main city and the Black Iron Wasteland. It is a real junction, half in the wasteland and half in the main city, which is very fair.
It is also a real underground market. It not only refers to transactions that cannot be made public, but it is really underground.
There are countless entrances and exits, and a maze-like layout. People entering and leaving can only remember one of the paths. If they take a wrong step, they cannot get back to where they came from. If a bat comes out of the main city's entrance, the end result will be disappearance, and vice versa.
What’s even more terrifying is that there are countless forks in the road that no one knows where they lead to, and once you enter, you can never come back.
Lost Valley is the business scope of the cleanup team, but even though the mission coordinates are in the market, the cleanup team only sets up checkpoints at the exit.
It's not because the main city has neglected the Lost Valley, apart from the overly complex and dangerous terrain, but also because this underground market retains powerful functions left over from an unknown generation of the main city.
This feature cannot be eliminated or copied and only exists in the underground market.
"We're almost at the Lost Valley," Hammer asked as he ran, "Is anyone chasing us?"
"I don't know," Ning Gu ran happily, "Look back."
"Why don't you look back?" asked Hammer.
"Looking back will slow me down," Ning Gu reached into the small pocket on his waist and took out a small piece of metal. This was also something that Ding Zi had forced him to lend him, and he had to return it in person. He lifted up the shiny piece of metal and looked at the scene reflected inside. "It seems..."
"Hmm?" Hammer tilted his head.
"There's a car flying on the roof..." Ning Gu saw a black car far behind him and an unclear black figure in the car. He could tell the difference between such advanced equipment and human without even thinking.
"It's a hyena!" he said in a low voice.
Hammer didn't say anything. While he was staring at the car in the metal sheet and accelerating to escape, he suddenly stopped. You could even hear the sound of his shoes rubbing against the ground. The soles of his shoes must have been worn through.
"What?" Ning Gu couldn't completely trust and follow Hammer's behavior. After all, he was just Nail's brother, not the nail itself.
And as soon as they entered the city, he startled them and caused them to run away.
So Ning Gu slowed down, but did not stop.
But when he shifted his gaze from the approaching black car behind him back to the road in front of him, he braked suddenly. He was stronger than Hammer. He stopped almost immediately and quickly retreated to Hammer.
There is something in the middle of the road ahead.
It had a slender body, smooth brown-black fur, and its eyes were staring at them, with its pupils contracted into a thin black line.
Although he had never seen the real animal in person, although this animal was completely different from the one drawn by Crazy Uncle, and although this animal was much bigger than he had imagined...
He still recognized it instantly.
This is a caracal.
And its legendary owner, the murderous hyena in the main city, should be in the black car at the back.
Ning Gu turned his head.
The car behind was hovering in the air twenty meters away from them.
At this distance, you can clearly see the people in the car.
The black uniform, the silver exoskeleton wrapped around the body, the weapons on the arms and legs glowing with dark blue light, were aimed at their gun muzzles and the half of the face behind the muzzle.
You can't see the eyes, only the tightly pursed lips and the sharp jawbone under the black goggles. There is no expression at all, and the coldness that emanates from the inside out makes people feel that a voice-over should be playing now.
"It's Lianchuan. We are dead."
Hammer said.