.Venice is a city destined to be extraordinary from the day it was born. An important Renaissance town, an industrial and commercial trade center, and the most prosperous port in the Mediterranean. In the history of Europe before the 20th century, this place experienced several booms and declines, and what was left behind in the end was a beautiful, poetic and picturesque city on the water.
But that's all in the past.
Nearly a hundred years ago, the rule of the empire changed the situation here.
In that turbulent era when rebels were everywhere, frame-ups, assassinations, and occupations occurred in every corner; before long, religion became the next target that had to be dealt with, and the actual power of all religions in the world was almost completely eliminated. Abolition; and finally, business was also involved. From then on, behind every big business on this planet, the nobles and royal families were able to get a share of the core interests.
Venice is just one of countless historic cities affected.
Today, the seven churches here require tickets to enter. Some are basically open to the public like museums, while others are simply used for tourist visits. The "priests" and "nuns" in the churches are just acting as clergy. That's it, I probably went straight to the nightclub after get off work. Hundreds of palaces and mansions along the Grand Canal were also bounded by imperial lands. Most of these quintessences of ancient European architectural art have now become the offices of the imperial "government". A very few of them are still used as private residences, but the people who live there are basically those who work in the palace next door during the day. A character who goes back to his mansion to sleep at night.
As time goes by, decaying silt will inevitably accumulate under the flashy water surface.
Venice in 2101 belongs to the Crown County, one of the five counties in Western Europe in the empire. There is no longer much of the feeling of a romantic water town here, and the glory of the past is hard to recreate. The population consists mainly of five categories: port workers, seafarers, service industry workers, tourists and self-employed people. Bars and nightclubs are everywhere. These business establishments that are incompatible with the European artistic atmosphere are the only way for the civilians who live here to find comfort.
January is the off-season for tourism and the coldest and rainiest time of the year in Venice.
In front of the door of the Bronze Parrot Bar, a yellow warning line was pulled, and several police officers blocked the onlookers from outside.
In the night, a man walked silently.
With his turtleneck trench coat and old-fashioned peaked cap, he seemed to be playing an old-school detective from the black-and-white movie era.
After showing his ID to the police officer, he walked towards the bar. The warning line in front of him twisted and rose on its own without being touched, allowing him to pass smoothly. This scene lasted only two seconds. No one noticed that his hands were always "stuck" in the pockets of his windbreaker.
His name is Elote Ness, thirty-three years old, "strong" level, a legend in the Venice Police Department, and the villains in the city call him "Paper Man".
Zhixia likes this title very much. His point of view is that no matter how loud the name is at birth, it is given by his parents, but the name Zhixia is earned by himself. Just like Superman is called Superman not because he has superpowers, but because he has helped and saved many people with his superpowers. If he did nothing, he would just be Clark.
"Hey, you're finally here, Lotto." The pot-bellied Sheriff Deacon waved to Paper Man; "You have to come over and take a look at this, haha, a rookie just vomited all over the floor after watching it."
Paper Man walked up to Deacon, took the pvp670 from his hand, and clicked play directly, "Is this a surveillance video?"
"Yes, look, the suspect is the big man on the left side of the screen, the one sitting at the bar drinking... Look there, three gangsters are harassing the waitress. She knocked over the wine in the tray and spilled it. On the big man's clothes." Deacon pointed at the player screen in Paper Man's hand and said, "Next... man, you have to take a good look at this..."
The suspect in the picture is over 1.90 meters tall, with a build like a water athlete, short hair, and wearing sunglasses in a dimly lit bar.
When the waitress accidentally knocked the drink over on him, he slowly turned his head, took off his sunglasses, and said something to the gangsters. Under normal circumstances, this sentence is likely to be "stay away from her", and then a good drama of a hero saving the beauty will be staged. However, the next scene in the video was that he grabbed the waitress' head with one hand, lifted her up and threw her away.
Paper Man raised his head slightly and glanced at a location that was not captured in the video. Following the direction in which the waitress was thrown, he saw a messy wine cabinet against the wall.
"How is the waitress doing now?" Zhi Xia asked, his eyes returning to the video screen.
Deacon replied: "She is still alive, with multiple cuts on her body, soft tissue contusions, and serious damage to her neck, but it is not life-threatening. She will be discharged from the hospital in half a month. Compared with those gangsters, she is lucky enough. ." He said and pointed to the screen of pvp670: "Look, this is the first deceased."
The big man in the picture punched the gangster closest to him. The fist entered from the left chest and extended from the back. It was clean and smooth, as smooth as a sharp knife penetrating a piece of fat.
"I think that scene helped every drunkard in the room sober up. After about 20 seconds, we lost all the witnesses. Their actions were faster than escaping from the fire scene." Deacon He took out a chocolate bar from his jacket pocket and started eating by himself.
The paper man frowned deeply. The punch in front of him was so terrifying. If the five fingers were put together to make a palm gesture, a blow with the fingertips would be understandable, but when punched with an ordinary fist, it could penetrate the body. , and no broken internal organs exploded out from the deceased's back, which shows how amazing the power and speed of this penetration was.
In the video, the other two gangsters stood still for two seconds and tried to escape, but the big man grabbed one of them by the back of the neck before he left the surveillance camera. Judging from the expression on the gangster's face, the big man's hand became tighter and tighter. The tightening tightened, and in just a few seconds, a large amount of blood spilled out of the gangster's mouth. The scene was like a tube of toothpaste being squeezed to death from the middle. His neck was squeezed out of shape, and his face turned purple. He rolled his eyes and his whole face began to swell.
Finally, the big man smiled ferociously and slammed the gangster's head against the hard bar. The scene was like a bulging pustule that was pricked open by a needle, and the splashed liquid could fly far away...
Paper Man raised his head again and looked in the direction of the bar: "Okay, this explains the smell that has been permeating the air since I walked in..." He turned off pvp670, handed it back to Deacon, and then asked Said: "Where is the one who escaped from the camera?"
Deacon said: "When I ran to the door, I was caught by the big man. You can't imagine what the murder weapon was." He tilted his head in the direction of the pool table.
Paper Man asked half-jokingly: "What? He made skewers of 'barbecue' with a club?"
"Ha!" Deacon didn't laugh, he just pretended to laugh dryly: "I told you, you can't think of it." He made a shaking motion with his hand and said to his eyes: "The suspect stuffed a billiard ball into Into the boy’s eye socket.”
"Oh? I thought the diameter of that thing was bigger than our eye sockets."
Deacon didn't take it seriously at Paper Man's cold joke: "Yes, that's why the deceased's brow bone and cheekbones were shattered. The murderer filled in the pieces as if he had forced a puzzle into an inappropriate slot. Looking at the brain size of the deceased, needless to say, we collected some brain matter spilling out of the nostrils and ears, and the coroner will also find an eyeball from the mangled brain. The funniest thing since the New Year's party Isn't it?" He grimaced: "Okay, the joke is over, this matter will be fully handed over to you from now on, I don't want to wade into this muddy water."
Zhi Xia said: "I know that you are only responsible for the part that takes credit when the case is closed."
"Hey! Listen, I know who's doing all your damn paperwork..."
"Okay, okay, you and your people, continue to clear the area, I have to go out and get some fresh air." Paper Man interrupted Deacon's nagging, turned around and left, passing by a young policeman with a green face. As he approached the staff member, he smiled and said, "Hey, man, do you like a cheese sandwich?"
The moment the other party heard this, he turned around and bent over and vomited.
I heard Deacon's roar coming from behind: "Asshole! I just said, find a paper bag!"