Chapter 383 Chapter 380 Repeated Actions
Foundation, mana... Zhuang Xuteng certainly knows their importance, but their improvement can only be achieved through time and effort, and there is no shortcut. Especially in the theoretical system of the Lich Master, although the use of drugs, implants and other methods can increase the total energy of the shadow, those are only superficial improvements. Deep in the body and mind, the hidden dangers caused by forcing things to grow, even if they are not fatal, will permanently reduce the natural upper limit of this person, and it is still not worth the loss.
It believes that Zhuang Xuteng has a very promising future and cannot be eager for quick success. The more solid the foundation, the better, so that his mana can continue to grow in this life. Besides, Zhuang Xuteng has a lot to learn, so it is better to allocate time to various aspects so that he can be more comprehensive.
After returning from the 72-stone pillar hall, Zhuang Xuteng slowly opened his eyes. Roubao was lying in front of him, with his head arched over his feet and his tail wrapped around his neck. Zhuang Xuteng snorted, moved his tail away, and got up from the bed. Roubao also woke up, yawned with his mouth wide open, and then began to stretch.
"You have your own nest, why do you always squeeze me to sleep?" Zhuang Xuteng thought that the snow leopard was very lonely, so he was particularly sticky to him, but when he reached out to touch the snow leopard's head, it dodged him. Seeing Roubao twisting his body and walking arrogantly, Zhuang Xuteng felt that he could not understand this cat at all.
"What a little cutie..." Zhuang Xuteng stood up and stretched, then opened the resentful spirit jelly to keep his body under appropriate pressure at all times. This kind of pressure can not only sharpen his magic power, but also provide an environment for weight-bearing exercises for the body. Although the total power that the resentful spirit jelly can provide is not high, the all-round pressure is its advantage, which is much better than carrying sandbags and lead blocks.
As usual, he came to the workbench, where four mobile phones were charging. The encrypted phone used by the mercenary has no new messages, so just put it down and continue charging; the text message with routine inquiries for family members must be replied to report safety; the new phone just set up for the identity of "Dr. Mori" is currently only for Romeo's guidance, and it is also blank; but the phone he uses in his daily mercenary life has a missed call from Lucy and a text message from her.
The text message said: "No one answered your call, let me inform you: the house is ready."
Zhuang Xuteng took action immediately, called Lucy back, then washed up, changed clothes and went to receive the house. From the perspective of a mercenary, he conducted a reconnaissance of the simple decoration of the house to make sure that there was nothing installed that should not be there, and then went to Lucy to complete the procedures, and this house in the upper city belonged to him.
It can't be considered his, it should be him and Morgana's. Now the most critical step is to find Morgana and give her the key. Zhuang Xuteng went to PCPD to wait for her to get off work and tell her the good news in person. So Morgana turned down a dinner with her colleagues, jumped into Zhuang Xuteng's car, and followed him anxiously to see the new house.
She had been here once before and recognized the location and surrounding environment. Especially this location, it is only ten minutes away from the PCPD branch where she works now, and it takes no more than half an hour to walk there, which can be said to be quite perfect.
According to Morgana's requirements, only the most basic decoration was done at home. Except for the bathroom and kitchen, which were completed as a set, the walls of other rooms were only painted white, and there were no floors or furniture. Morgana had a lot of plans in her mind, and she just wanted to have a blank piece of paper to paint. Now that she has the key to the house, she has finally realized her childhood wish.
"I will only use the salary from PCPD to decorate this place, so I will only buy cheap and practical furniture. In terms of comfort, it is definitely not as comfortable as your apartment." Morgana said to Zhuang Xuteng: "Let me make it clear first, you paid for the house, and you can't pay a penny for the furniture and supplies in the house."
"Uh... Can I buy a chair? It's okay to give me one, right?"
"You can't pay, but you can give me ideas! Follow me to buy furniture, you can tell me what you like, but whether you can buy it depends on me. I don't have a big budget, so I have to be frugal."
Zhuang Xuteng nodded, he could understand Morgana's persistence. Neither of them lacked money, or to be more precise, at least they didn't lack money to decorate the house and buy furniture. Life is nothing, everything is good. Morgana could have done nothing and just focused on enjoying life, but she just wanted to work at PCPD and earn a simple house with her own hands.
This wish can be fully satisfied.
Just as Morgana was describing her future vision to Zhuang Xuteng in the new house, her pager suddenly rang. "Emergency assembly, important mission." Morgana frowned and said, "Look at the number, it should be a gunfight."
"I'll go with you!" Zhuang Xuteng glanced at his contact phone. No one called him, so he was completely free. "Although I may not be able to help you, you know I can take care of myself, at least I won't hold you back."
"Okay!" Morgana didn't pretend, and said, "I'll go back to the bureau first to see what's going on, and then apply for a temporary identity for you. The scene is often chaotic, and if you don't have an identity, you may be injured by mistake."
"No problem." Zhuang Xuteng nodded. The two of them didn't waste any words, and immediately left their new home and went back to Morgana's workplace first.
Not only Morgana, all the PCPD outside were called back, and vehicles drove into the parking lot one after another. Zhuang Xuteng thought that this matter might be serious, so he called Lucy.
"It costs money to get information from me. But considering your previous long-term cooperation proposal, the related information will be given to you for free." Lucy has always been able to balance professionalism and emotion very well. "If it is related to the PCPD area where Morgana is located, then it is probably related to the Cemetery Gang. At present, I only know that the Cemetery Gang has gathered a lot of people, and they seem to be competing for territory and interests. Not long after the incident happened, my The information is not comprehensive. Since you are going, I will update you with important information."
"Thank you, Sister Lucy." Zhuang Xuteng tilted his head and thought for a while, then said: "I know it is the Cemetery Gang, but I don't know who they are dealing with? Why do I feel a little weird? Generally speaking, the one who is beaten will be more Chaos will also reveal more information.”
"The general situation should indeed be as you said, but I can't cover the sky with one hand. It's impossible for me to know immediately as soon as information is exposed somewhere. I also want to be that powerful, but I'm not that rich..."
"That's right...hehe." Zhuang Xuteng smiled. "I saw Morgana coming out, still holding the clothes of the auxiliary police in her hand. It seems that I have an identity. Hang up the phone, see you later."
"Be safe, PCPD won't pay you."
Zhuang Xuteng didn't participate in this operation for the PCPD, he just did it for Morgana's face. Morgana was indeed very honorable. She went to the captain in charge of her group's operations to talk about the situation, and the captain immediately approved a set of uniforms and corresponding equipment. On the one hand, Morgana's background should not be a secret to her captain, who always takes good care of her; on the other hand, he may regard Zhuang Xuteng as a bodyguard, and come to protect her in broad daylight when in danger.
No matter what, if you wear the clothes given by the PCPD, at least you won't be killed directly by the PCPD. And because it was a PCPD mission, Zhuang Xuteng had to ride in Morgana's police car, and his armored ferret could only stay in the parking lot.
"All patrol officers and detectives have been dispatched, and only civilian personnel are left in the bureau." Morgana pointed to the back of the police car and said, "I still have to drive my colleagues, so I have to sit in the back!"
The back seat of a police car is a small reinforced cell, usually equipped with electric shock and shock devices to prevent thugs inside from trying to attack the police officers in the front seat. It's not that Zhuang Xuteng doesn't believe Morgana, he just doesn't like the atmosphere in the back seat. "No, I'm not going in. I'm going to stay in the trunk of the car."
"The trunk is full of equipment and there's no room for you." Morgana scratched her head, feeling very embarrassed.
"It doesn't matter, I just sit on the trunk. Don't worry, you can't throw me out under normal circumstances. Even if you throw me out, I can land safely and won't fall." Zhuang Xuteng patted Morgana's arm, Said: "Go and drive, it's absolutely no problem."
Morgana thought for a moment, and although it was a bit strange to let Zhuang Xuteng sit in the back of the car, she could not say anything that would force him to go to the small cell in the back of the police car, and she did not want Zhuang Xuteng to turn around and go back because of this disagreement. "Then you have to hurry up. Well...and be careful of stray bullets - I heard that we have been shooting at each other in the front."
"What happened?"
"The Cemetery Gang started a fight with someone who didn't know who it was, and it got quite loud. We were afraid that the situation would get out of control, so we had to evacuate the crowd and set up a cordon." Morgana approached Zhuang Xuteng and lowered her voice and said, "What I mean is, No matter who the Cemetery Gang is fighting, the PCPD should take the opportunity to beat up the Cemetery Gang. Unfortunately, the order given to us is to just watch and watch, which is meaningless. "
"The PCPD doesn't know who the Cemetery Gang is fighting?" Zhuang Xuteng scratched his head, feeling that this thing was getting weirder and weirder.
He thinks this is weird, but others think he is weird. Dozens of cars set off together and headed towards their respective areas. Everyone was inside the car and he was the only one outside. How could he not be noticeable? Everyone will definitely take a second look, and then they will find an interesting thing: no matter how the vehicle accelerates, decelerates or turns, Zhuang Xuteng sits firmly and seems completely unaffected.
"Did he put glue on his butt?" Many people speculated. In fact, Zhuang Xuteng used the "touch force" technique in martial arts. He knew the movement of the vehicle very well. As long as he changed his posture and center of gravity accordingly, he could make himself quite stable.
As expected, the PCPD implemented the strategy of sitting on the mountain and watching the fight. They were not in a hurry to advance towards the core area where the conflict broke out, and stopped two blocks (intersection) away. A blockade has been set up here, but there is a shortage of manpower. Originally there was only one vehicle responsible for patrolling this area. Once Morgana and two other vehicles arrive for support, they can push the cordon forward, but no more than one block.
Red and blue police lights flashed on the street, and the light reflected on the glass windows of the buildings on both sides, vaguely reflecting the faces watching inside. Zhuang Xuteng looked up, and he found that these people were not panicked or nervous, but rather calm: facing danger calmly, waiting for protection calmly, embracing fate calmly, and accepting the consequences calmly.
Morgana used a loudspeaker to play the PCPD's warning message in a loop, hoping that residents near the cordon would temporarily leave their location and seek shelter farther away, but very few people came out to do so. People around here don't seem to care what is happening two blocks away, and don't care if it affects them. They have become numb and neither feel that they are important nor that this society is important. They are like zombies one after another.
In fact, one block ahead, the situation is still the same. Scattered ghost energy stray bullets have been flying past the window, and some have even hit innocent buildings. There are still not many people here who are willing to listen to the PCPD and leave the room. The only difference between them and the previous block is that there are fewer people leaning on the windows to watch the excitement. Instead, they choose to hide in the inner rooms instead of using windows and walls.
Just as the PCPD was setting up a new cordon, a skinny old man upstairs opened the window and shouted to them: "Get out of here, you gangsters, get out of here!" Zhuang Xuteng looked up and saw An old lady pulled the old man back into the house, stretched out her arm and quickly closed the window.
"If she goes up to them, she will say that the old man has a mental problem and is talking nonsense." Morgana came to Zhuang Xuteng, stood side by side with him, and said, "I have encountered this person several times before. This situation. I was scolded for no reason. I wanted to ask what the reason was and whether there was a misunderstanding. It turned out to be mental illness. "
"PCPD has never been able to fundamentally solve the problem. Being scolded is a normal result. If..." Zhuang Xuteng narrowed his eyes, then pressed Morgana's head to lower her down, and said: "Be careful."
His voice was calm and there was no sense of urgency at all, but then a ghost energy bomb passed over their heads. Morgana was quite surprised. She didn't understand how Zhuang Xuteng discovered the ghost energy bomb so far in advance and even predicted its path. On the other hand, she felt that the ghost energy bomb was two or three meters away from her, so there was no need to hide?
"If you were still standing like that just now, you might attract the ghost energy bomb and make it turn towards you." Zhuang Xuteng explained: "If you don't squat down, there is a high probability that the thing will hit the car in the end. Due to the flight distance If it's too far, it won't have much power left, and the most it will do is make a hole in the car, but it won't hurt to take less of it. "
"How did you see it?"
"I have good eyesight." Zhuang Xuteng explained with a playful smile one second, and then frowned with an extremely serious expression the next. He stared closely at the situation outside an intersection and found three guys equipped with good implants trying to rush out of the building despite being shot by the shadow gun. These three people are very fast. They use bunkers to protect themselves and cover each other to attack forward. They seem to cooperate quite well.
However, their actions soon came to a standstill, because the Cemetery Gang also had experts who not only accurately predicted the movement direction of the three people, but also used multiple ejections to throw the explosives at those people at incredible angles. around. After the explosion, one dead and two wounded, they had to retreat into the building.
Zhuang Xuteng felt that the three men acted like mercenaries.