Chapter 296 Our World

The girl hid the pencil in her sleeve, but Cha Bai had already noticed it.

She knew that even if she didn't use that hammer, the girl could use the tip of the pen to pierce the robber's throat in the blink of an eye.

The student's dress can hide the heart that doesn't care about the blood on her hands, but the muscle lines, breathing, eyes, these can't be hidden. Often, people who understand know what kind of background that person is after just one encounter.

Cha Bai can detect that the girl in front of her is very powerful, at least she can't be killed by a hammer.

There were messy footsteps outside the public toilet.

The ears of the two women moved.

"Thank you."

Half of the girl's face was still stained with scarlet, warm blood. But she thanked Cha Bai in the most gentle tone.

The girl opened the window and jumped out.

She landed flexibly on the building steel bars below, looked back at the window, and no longer stopped, hiding in the shadows of the city with the red earrings.

Cha Bai took back the hammer and put it into the magic element grid.

The intrusion of the police, the fact that she had just killed someone, and the girl's thanks and quick departure all made her miss the best opportunity to carry out the branch line that had just been triggered.

"What on earth is this..."

Two policemen rushed in, holding their guns tightly in their hands, and stepped over the kind-hearted old lady who gave Cha Bai sanitary napkins, the first to fall, but died with her eyes wide open.

Just as they were calling for reinforcements, one of them heard a voice behind him.

But when he turned around, there was nothing.

If he had to say anything, only the old lady who died with her eyes wide open closed her eyes.

Cha Bai had already walked out of the public bathroom, and pedestrians around were evacuated because of the shooting.

After she got outside and walked past the police car that arrived late, she took out her mobile phone and typed the information she got from the "Chamber of Commerce" into a text message and sent it to Li Nuo.

Then she touched her earrings.

And opened the branch line of "Bird in a Cage".

"Li Nuo, have you received the new branch line?"

"Well... I'll wait for you to come back."

When she received the message, she was looking at a clothing store and touched her handbag. The money in it was all the surplus food she had looted at "home". She originally planned to buy some vegetables on the way back.

But now she has changed her mind.

"Can I spend money recklessly?"

"Huh?"

Li Nuo, who was at "home", was stunned, and then thought of a certain nature of women... so she agreed casually.

Turning her head to look at Malger and Victor.

They were in the basement they found last night.

It was noon now, which was theoretically the time when Lockhart and his team had planned to kill them, but the ending was reversed.

The sun was lazy.

It was sunny and beautiful.

The warm wind blew into the basement through the hole above. Malger and Victor were fiddling with cables in front of something that looked like a slot machine.

"How is it?" Li Nuo asked, squatting beside him.

"Fortunately it wasn't broken." Malger said: "Terminal, a computer used to receive tasks."

"Well, the technology in this world is so strange." Victor said while typing on the keyboard to decompose data, holding a cigarette in his mouth: "Even though we already have bionic technology, we still use heavy desktop computers. The working method of the terminal is also old, and there is no sign of the development of the times."

Li Nuo said: "This is the steamwave world. There is no humanism in the cyber world. There is chaos under the stability."

Victor was curious: "Compared to Night City, which one is better?"

"It depends on what you think." Li Nuo pondered for a while and said: "For example, the people of Night City are all criminals. Everyone is forced to become criminals by the rule of big companies, but this society." He pointed to the ground, his pupils turned to the sky, and said: "Criminals are criminals. The reason for committing crimes is often not simply for money, but for interest."

Victor nodded slightly: "So it's worse than Night City."

Li Nuo shrugged his shoulders: "At least it looks good on the surface, not so naked, just a little extreme."

Two hours later.

Malger finished typing the last code.

To open the terminal, you need the verification password of the "agent" before you can start accepting tasks issued by various parts of the country.

Through Cha Bai's research on the "Chamber of Commerce Organization" and Lockhart's assassin joining task, Li Nuo roughly understood the so-called "professional task" route of players participating in the "Contest".

"First, you need to complete the prologue of entering the "professional organization", and then get the qualification to take over the task."

Li Nuo sat in front of the terminal, drinking tea and thinking.

"Due to Sauron, the time of the "Contest" has been extended, resulting in participating players having to join and complete at least one "professional organization" task within half a year. Looking at the prompt on the task panel, the difficulty seems to be very high."

He drank the tea in the teacup and licked his lips.

Maljie had a bad feeling: "You don't want to do all the jobs, do you?"

"What are you thinking? According to the system's judgment, it must be believed that players can't do multiple jobs." Li Nuo smiled and said, "Just do two."

Maerjie took a deep breath: "I knew it..."

Li Nuo stared at Kazilan's big eyes and said innocently: "According to the rules, each group of participating teams is assigned an initial professional function. From joining the professional camp to completing the required tasks, it takes a total of five months. Those who complete the requirements within the time frame will receive a large reward. Those who fail to complete the task will be eliminated. It doesn't say that they can't do more."

"What's more." Li Nuo said something very dangerous: "A scumbag who doesn't cheat on two women is not a good man."

Maerjie looked behind Li Nuo and reminded him: "There seems to be an engine sound above."

Li Nuo's body was shocked.

He immediately climbed out of the hole in the basement.

Forget that Cha Bai got off a taxi, carrying a big bag, and clumsily took out the money to pay the driver.

Maerjie wondered: "How did she get the driver to drive the car to the garbage dump?"

"That's not the important thing..." Li Nuo climbed out from the bottom and strode over.

Cha Bai turned around and was about to say something when Li Nuo reached out and gently touched the imperceptible red swelling and bruise on her lips.

"Who did it?"

"Oh... nothing, a robbery, the swelling caused by the impact when I caught the bullet in my mouth." The power of guns in this world is stronger than imagined, she added: "I've killed him."

Li Nuo's expression instantly returned to that lazy look.

Maerjie and Victor also came out.

Cha Bai took out a casual suit from a paper bag and said, "Maerjie, help me... please modify this suit so that it can blend in with Li Nuo's priest suit."

Li Nuo looked at him blankly: "So when you asked me if I could spend money recklessly, you meant buying me clothes?"

Cha Bai frowned and said, "The weapon box is fine, as long as it is wrapped in a layer of black cloth, it will not matter if you walk on the street, but your clothes are too targeted."

Li Nuo was speechless, she was right...

Maerjie's clothing equipment is a doctor's white coat, which is fine if you walk on the street.

Cha Bai has a lot of clothes, each with different entries, and he can wear anything.

The only thing that meets his personal best needs is this priest's black outerwear, which does not look like what people of this era wear.

Cha Bai: "Sorry... Maljie, and Victor, I don't have much money left, so I didn't buy you anything."

"Miss Cha Bai, this is not a big deal, but..." Ma Ge took the clothes and said, "I have to remind you two of something."

The two looked over, and it was rare to see him suddenly serious.

Maljie: "The house is very hard in space. In reality, your abilities are not much different from those of ordinary people, but here, one of you is a demon hunter who has killed demons, and the other is a mechanical sorceress. Do you understand?"

Cha Bai shook his head: "No, I understand."

Maerjie shouted: "Be gentle when doing it! This is not a problem of disturbing the people! You have now developed to the point of demolishing the house!"

He pointed to the half-collapsed first floor and said: "Several cables of the terminal were broken. What if I can't repair it? There are a lot of unnecessary problems that cannot be controlled by emotions. Understand?"

Li Nuo was dumbfounded: "Um... Oh, sorry."

Cha Bai also: "We were wrong..."

Maerjie felt that he was pretending to be cool. He took out a cigarette with satisfaction and held it in his mouth under the shadow of the sun. A mechanical life form came over and lit the cigarette for him.

"Master, calm down."

"Master, do you want us to secretly kill the demon hunter tonight and let you have some fun?"

Li Nuo was shocked: "Hey... What do you teach as a master?"

The mechanical lifeform answered honestly: "We have a training institution specifically for hunting damn demon hunters."

Li Nuo narrowed his eyes: "Maljie..."

Maljie immediately changed the subject: "Let's talk about business."

The three of them are not in any big crisis now. They just need to summarize the information they have obtained and decide on the next work.

The matter is very simple.

Lockhart and his team received the commission to kill the three of them from Akai at the beginning.

The location of the vase that sealed Sauron has appeared, and it is likely in the hands of Akai, the hidden leader of the "killer organization".

Through the conversation in the Chamber of Commerce, we can know that Akai is very mysterious. Everyone knows where he works, but they don't know who he is. In other words, this guy has some kind of "skill" to protect his true identity.

There are only two ways to find him.

1. According to the phone card found from Lockhart, the middleman of the serial killer organization "Red Hair".

2. The "Bird in the Cage" mission triggered by Cha Bai made it clear that the girl with red pupils was related to Akai. Find the girl and follow her.

The conclusion is that whether it is the line of saving Soran and defeating "Critical", or the line of the "Contest" professional mission that may be participated in, the most urgent task is to contact Akai.

"About that girl... I didn't have time to catch her..." Cha Bai blamed himself.

Victor then said, "Sister Cha, I mean, can't you just use the [Shuttle Gate] to find the person you are looking for?"

"No." Cha Bai said, "The door leads to the area you need to go to, not the exact location after locking a single target. We are already in the right area and don't need it."

Maerjie continued, "And if you open that door, the fortress will appear. There is no need to be so reckless before exploring all the dangers here."

Li Nuo asked, "What about using the bag function of the [Shuttle Gate]? Pull her out directly."

"Impossible." Cha Bai shook his head, "The principle of using the 'bag' is that you must have a deep understanding of a thing. For example, the only time we have used that function so far is to teleport to each other. The most outrageous time is when you, Li Nuo, pulled Chun Li out...?"

Cha Bai was stunned. A question suddenly appeared in her brain. On the premise that one must have a deep understanding of the thing to find it, why could he... be able to pull out Chun Li?

Li Nuo instantly understood the meaning in her eyes and immediately said: "When I was in financial difficulty, I would also draw some without clothes... so for many..."

"I... don't particularly care." Cha Bai returned to the topic: "There is no way, Li Nuo, you draw a rune, I will put the seal of the portal into it, and as long as I can find the girl, I will give her the rune Post it, since the girl has a relationship with Akai, there will always be a time when they meet. When they meet, they can go through the portal directly on the girl and catch Akai. "

This girl is very important. In addition to the line of Akai, it is also related to the clues of "Kasim".

In other words, Akai alone accounted for the traces of two members of Sauron's team.

Chabai recorded the girl's appearance and used the player in his free hand to send the recorded information to Marjie. The video was a little blurry, but he could generally see the girl's appearance clearly.

"This girl looks familiar..." Li Nuo thought of Marjie who was distracted while driving last night because of this girl, whose characteristic was red earrings.

Marjie was in a daze: Umezu Yasumi...a kite?

Li Nuo walked over and snapped his fingers: "What kind of fool are you doing?"

When Marjie came back to his senses, Cha Bai and Li Nuo were leaning against him. Cha Bai felt strange and Li Nuo found it interesting.

"Marjie, what's wrong with you?" Chabai asked.

"Maybe your taste has changed. Are you scared by a fifty-year-old mature woman?" Li Nuo replied.

"What do you two think about the 'Contest'?" Marger changed the subject.

Li Nuo followed him and said: "Simple, anyway, I have tied up Lance and another guy in Lockhart's team. After finding Sauron's vase, if you want to participate, just kill them and replace them." The team will participate. But the first step is to see what happens with Akai’s killer career line and the Chamber of Commerce’s agent career line.”

Marjie picked up the clothes, turned around and walked into the house. He said at the same time: "It's settled, I'll change the clothes for you. I'll have a day of leisure. Tomorrow you go find the 'red hair' and I'll sort it out." Ammunition to use.”

Li Nuo took out the one-carat diamond left by Lockhart from his pocket and handed it to Chabai.

"The diamond that popped out of Lockhart after you killed him, how about that?"

Cha Bai took it and was not happy. Instead, his eyebrows formed into splayed figures and he wrinkled in grievance.

"Li Nuo...even if I usually follow you...you can't..."

"Huh?" Li Nuo didn't understand.

At this time, Marjie told him through the headset: "Hmm~ You give a diamond that was taken out of a man's body to a woman who has no idea about money but values ​​you very much. Do you think she will be very happy?"

"I didn't think about it... I'm sorry." Li Nuo quickly reached out to grab the diamond.

Cha Bai, however, hid a little stubbornly, holding the diamond tightly, and walked towards the house.

"Marjie, can you make a ring deposit for me?"

Marjie was stunned: "Huh?"

Cha Bai looked back at Li Nuo and asked, "Ring finger?"

Li Nuo: "Yeah."

Nodding: "Yes... ring finger."

…

The next day, early morning.

Rainy.

Police search teams surrounded a building.

The broken openings on the ground display point to the underground square.

The upper floors of the building were badly damaged.

This is the building where Li Nuo and Lockhart fought yesterday.

Black leather shoes stepped on the ruins. Mr. Nanno from the identification department walked through the area and picked up a piece of dirt on the ground.

"Why is there so much shit?"

Nanye turned around and said to the person behind him: "There is a high probability that there will be another gang war. Hmm... I need to go back and investigate this matter carefully."

Behind him, fellow police officers were counting property damage.

"It's really difficult... That unprovoked terrorist attack half a month ago destroyed an entire city. It was also the scene you were investigating at that time, Mr. Nanye, right?"

"Yes, it is a very serious attack case. It is said that someone saw the appearance of Guanyin as big as a building."

"Huh...where did the superpower war come from?" a fellow police officer asked, "Are there any similarities between what happened back then and now?"

"No."

"By the way, is there any evidence or anything like that in that case?" My colleague said, "What I mean is, is there anything similar that can connect the two cases together, so that we can easily give a reason to close the case?" ”

Nanno: "The evidence..."

In the room, a white vase with glasses patterns is placed on the table.

Nanye returned to the room, finished his work, and pushed the vase inside.

Sitting on the bed, his face twisted, and the honest man turned into a middle-aged man with long pale hair, and his eyes were extremely cold.

Looking at the vase, he murmured to himself: "This is the evidence from that time...but I have no reason to hand it over."

At this time, the phone rang, and the number showed that it was a guy named "Red Hair" calling.

He picked up the phone.

A voice came from over there: "Mr. Akai, we have found out that the guys who died in the so-called 'terrorist attack' were the 'killers' I introduced to you a while ago to join the organization."

"Is it intentional?"

"I don't know. But could it be that the Chamber of Commerce has started to take action against us? You understand, I am referring to those resource issues."

"Hongmao, tell the bastard who calls himself 'Final Yan' to simulate the appearance of the mastermind who killed those people through traces."

Hang up the phone and throw it on the bed.

He is called Nanye outside, but his actual name is Akai.

"Are you in trouble again?"

The girl's voice came from the window.

Akai raised his head, looked at the girl's red pupils, smiled and said, "Maybe it's someone from the Chamber of Commerce, or maybe it's my enemy."

"What are you going to do?"

"Recently, I recruited an outstanding guy who can restore the appearance of certain people through smell."

Akai stared at the girl.

"Shayu, take action when the time comes. There are not many people I can trust."

Sand Yu crossed her legs and looked out the window, her red earrings reflecting the rain.

The TV is broadcasting news: Regarding the robber attack in the department store yesterday, the robber was shot dead on the spot. The police did not give the number of casualties. We will continue...

Akai looked at the TV and asked, "I remember you went to that department store yesterday. Did you kill the robber?"

Sha Yu: "No."

Akai: "What are you doing there?"

"I will take the exam tomorrow." Shayu paused, looked at Akai, and said with a smile: "There is a library there. I will go there to buy books."

"Have you not forgotten your college dream?"

Sunaba smiled: "Compared to holding a gun, I am more suitable to hold a pencil."

The rain outside the window is getting heavier and heavier.

Raindrops fell on the roof of the building, making a splashing sound.

Akai stared at Sha Yu and said, "Come here."

The girl touched her hanging hair, looked over, and said, "I'll take the exam tomorrow and I'm not in the mood today."

…

[The Limalu Street train has arrived at the station, please prepare to board the train]

station.

The bustling crowd surged in and out at the sound of a broadcast.

Sandha wore her school uniform and walked into the train.

The train started and entered the dark tunnel.

Sha Yu stood in front of the car door, looking at herself printed on the car window.

The red earrings exuded the smell of blood that only she could smell, and her eyes on the car window seemed to be stained red by drops of blood.

The unbearable stories replayed on the car window like a revolving lantern, imprinted in my mind.

Everything is like a dream, it is a dream when you open your eyes, it is also a dream when you close your eyes.

Finally he closed his eyes, took out his headphones and put them on.

"Dip~"

The tape was swallowed into the player, and the picture in his mind went black and white. After a burst of fast-paced trumpet sound mixed with drums and bass, a woman's brisk voice came out from the headphones.

("君たちキウイパパイアマンゴーだね", also known as "You are kiwi, papaya, mango")

I'm a little attracted to this rich white wine

Like the pre-dinner drink of love

A shy look from someone who is sincere or hypocritical

This damn libertine made me fall in love

If the solar energy hangs a rainbow

It doesn’t matter if I’m hugged by you

Zhi——

Sand Yu frowned slightly and took out the player from his pocket.

"Broken again?"

Beside her, a hand reached over, pulled out the earphones from her ears, and inserted a new one.

Sand Yu looked over.

A man who was handsome as long as he didn't open his mouth to speak stood next to her, wearing the same headphones, and his lazy black pupils turned over.

The moment the red and black eyes collided, Marjie didn't "hum" like usual.

Sand Yu didn't know whether it was a coincidence or a design, or the song just now continued the melody and lyrics.

If you can't wait, give me the first kiss

Make your whole body feel hot

You are kiwi, papaya and mango

A midsummer legend of joy mixed with shyness

You are kiwi, papaya and mango

Get moving

Talk about a fruitful love

I light a menthol cigarette just to lend you a light

If I could meet you in my dream while taking a nap

Sand Yu did not reject the voice, but asked in the melody: "Who are you?"

Marger was silent for a few seconds. Suddenly, he laughed, and it didn't look like him.

"Marger."

"Sandha."

"Miss Sunaba, you remind me of a game."

"What game?"

"Minecraft."