"A lot of people are like bears breaking corn, always looking for the next one to be better. [No pop-ups. 】”

Suddenly hearing the other party say this on the phone, Xindi was a little surprised. She stopped, holding her phone and glancing at the streets to the left and right, as if she was afraid of being seen. Someone was riding by, moving away, and the gravel road that pressed against the corner made a loud noise. The craters in the urban area have not yet been filled, and there are potholes everywhere. Will the cyclist hear, unlikely, Cindy pursed her lips at her excessive nervousness. Even if this sentence is heard by others, it will only think that it is a commonly used wording to urge girls to get married.

But when this metaphor is applied to Cindy, it means something else. From a small shop to today, Hinty has become an important arms supplier in the Pacific Rim, relying on more than just business skills. Two months ago, for example, the local newspaper reported on an inconspicuous burglary in which a family of six was shot dead by gangsters. The owner of the house is an arms supply middleman between Dongao and a former US military contractor. His misfortune caused a major blow to the arms supply chain east of the Victoria Wall, forcing contractors to adopt Central Continent standard ammunition and fire control software, which was equivalent to tripling Hinty's territory.

Xindi didn't care about this news, she had seen too many things from the castle tower to Shintoto, and then to Osaka. Together one after another, sometimes there are dead people, sometimes many people die. The mercenaries are fighting, why are they not on the battlefield, and the corpses are piled up as the scenery of the road of fate. But this path is her own choice, and she must go to the end.

The person on the other side of the phone seemed to know this, and the middle-aged man said in a slow voice, "Unlike them, I am a different person." The greatest joy of my life is following these bears. You know, bears have very poor eyesight and can't see far, so they have an exceptionally keen sense of smell and can lead me to unexpected places. ”

Xindi knew she was the bear, and she felt a little scared. It's not that I'm afraid that what I've done in the past will be known by others, but that I'm going to be targeted by a paranoid stalker, and I can be in trouble in the future.

There's no need to think too much, maybe the other party just wants to extort a little money.

"What do you want to say?"

"Don't use such an innocent tone, don't be nervous, I'm no longer working for the special police."

"Okay, then what do you want."

"I want to see you."

"See me?"

"Yes. I will see you in a safe place, and I will come to the new land of Tokita. ”

"Tobida? What the hell do you want to do? ”

“…… Honestly, you made me change, you were the first person I wanted to stop. Listen, you've reached the end of the line and don't have to go all the way to death. The person you trust the most now is actually the least trustworthy, don't be wrong...... Wait, you make sure your phone is unblocked, and I'll let you know when we meet. ”

The phone hung up abruptly.

Xindi's slender wrist pressed the phone to her ear, and she was stunned, the thin silk sleeves slipped down to her elbows, and the breeze blew to her armpits, making her realize that she was sweating.

"Feitian Xindi, really good at picking places."

It's a special place, and if you ask for directions and mention the name, the locals will smile knowingly, but they won't say it or step in. Tokita Shinchi is the largest red-light street in the western part of the Hibon Islands after the war, and it is a real paradise. Compared to Tokita, Shinjuku Kabukicho can only be regarded as a tourist attraction.

The other party is a person who is familiar with the post-war political ecology, so he was able to choose Tokita as the secret meeting place. After the end of the war, all departments of the Ribang archipelago were taken over, especially the most tense "one year after the war" high-pressure control period, which made people absolutely breathless. No small gestures are tolerated here.

Tobita is a special case.

Xindi had never been to Osaka before, but she had heard of a special feature there: Tokita was a private law place run by a yakuza clan, and if the mercenaries were a private army, they were private law courts, and they had the final say in the life and death of the entire Tokita Shinchi. Photography and audio recording are prohibited in the whole region, and some outsiders can't help but take pictures, so they lose their lives, and even the body can't be found.

The person who called today made an appointment to meet in Tokita Shinchi, and I am afraid that this is precisely because of this, and he did not dare to act rashly there. What's more, under the compromise of post-war policies, Feida not only completely inherited the original style, but even the power of public security management was still retained in the hands of the gangsters, and the special high police had no right to get involved. If the other party feels that it is safe to be there, it means that it is the special police officer who threatens his safety.

"Who is the person on the other end of the phone? He didn't know I didn't recognize him. ”

The guy took the initiative to say that he no longer worked for the special police, indicating that he thought Xindi had recognized who he was. Of course, there is another hypothesis, that is, the other party wants to dispel Xindi's concerns about the special high police, but he said that he exposed his previous identity by the way.

She mentally rejected the second hypothesis. The other party has the guts to play hide and seek with the high-ranking police here, and he will never be a fool. After all, Osaka has completely changed after the war.

There was a rumbling sound from the river below the roadbed, and a water bus slowly drove by, crowded with people. Osaka is the water capital of the "Eight Hundred and Eight Bridges", with many bridges and complex river networks; Coupled with the fact that the terrain was altered and the water level rose due to the nuclear attack of the Great War, the megacity had to rely on waterways to maintain urban traffic. There were rumors that Osaka would sink underwater, but after the war, Chuo Continent invested in large-scale engineering efforts to rebuild, and even if it did, Chuo Continent would lift the city up, and there was no corner from top to bottom that could get out of control.

"In that case, he's a guy I know, and a former police officer."

I have dealt with the police a lot, which one will it be.

In my impression, the police officers you may have met have to go back to the days of the Xindi shop in the castle tower. At that time, she had just divorced, but her ex-husband was always pestering, endlessly, and Xindi could only choose to call the police. Not long after, her ex-husband was unlucky and died in a melee between the Owari group and the Maleria government army, and Xinti was investigated by the police for a while, and the police said that she had a motive to kill her husband. Perhaps the death of her ex-husband left her without baggage, and Xindi decided to take the first step out of the limitations of a woman and challenge fate. In the melee, she used her identity as an arms supplier to boldly infiltrate the Owari group and help government officer Lei Yujian escape. Lei Yujian also kept his promise to let her get rid of the police investigation, leave the small place in the castle tower, and enter the new eastern capital, and her fate changed.

"The people who called, it couldn't be those guys. The police in the castle tower are all fools. ”

Stepping into the new eastern capital, to be precise, stepping into the road guided by Lei Yujian, life can not relax for a moment. Xindi first bought the store manager of 10,000 stores at a low price as a basis, and then bought a few small shops to carry out decentralized operations, specializing in mercenary business that big stores disdain. She was right in this direction: after the war, the government budget was constantly reduced, the mercenary community continued to grow, and with her determination, Xindi soon had the strength to compete with the largest arms supplier in the South Seas, Metlitz. Looking back now, if I had chosen to stop here and guard those few small shops in Xindongdu with peace of mind, maybe I would be living a different life now, a mediocre life similar to that of Castle Tower, but more comfortable.

She smiled. That's a fantasy, a banal life in the post-war world, which can only be the fantasy of a naïve ghost. In the world of the end of the law, there is no such thing as "small but certain happiness". Either go greedy and plunder or starve to death, there is no middle ground to choose from. The only way for Hindy to survive is to eat Matritzer or she will be dragged to her perdition. But how can he take down Metlise and own the largest arms supply group in the South Seas. If you don't have enough strength, you can only dream of an idiot. It's not that Hindy herself hasn't worked hard, she has tried to cooperate with Metlizer, even if it is like a blood transfusion, but in the end, Metlize actually used the contract flaw to trap her, and almost lost all her money. It's just that Metlize always looked down on Xindi and didn't kill them all.

When he is desperate, Lei Yujian can always help him tide over difficulties, and he said that he will be responsible for his life to the end.

Although Metlize easily cornered Hinty, they only served the government army and claimed to be on the right foot, and their financial resources were already stretched thin in the context of the shrinking government army. Lei Yujian found a mysterious backstage for Xindi, providing her with funds, doing everything, and paving the way; On the condition, Xinti must help Lei Yujian get rid of his father-in-law, Commander Lei, a core conservative figure in the government army. On the night of the move, Xinti still recalls it with her heart beating a lot, but with Lei Yujian's assistance, the route, method, and alibi are all flawless, she broke through, and finally took Metlize into the bag.

The result of the investigation into the death of Division Commander Lei was an accidental fall. During the investigation, Hinty meets an impressive police officer. The image of the man came to her mind: a middle-aged man with a thin face and a big nose, and a pair of small eyes that were particularly terrifying. I remember his name, he is Li Changgeng, a criminal policeman in the central district of Xindongdu. I heard that he was investigating the case of Lu Tong, one of the Seven Aces of the First Sino-Japanese War, and somehow found Xindi across the district.

Criminal Police Li didn't embarrass Xindi, but just asked a few simple questions. But she was still impressed by the eagle eyes embedded in the sides of the big nose. When Detective Li left, he glanced sideways at himself, and his eyes clearly said, "I won't let you go." ”

The jingling of the water bus as it enters the station pulls Hinti's thoughts back to where she will have to board the boat if she wants to get to Tokita Shinchi.

Could the person calling today be Detective Li from Xindongdu? He didn't check himself carefully back then, could it be that as he said on the phone, he wanted to follow to the end and discover a deeper shady scene. In that case, why did he say that he would stop him halfway? And the "most unbelievable person" in his mouth refers to Lei Yujian.

"Then he was wrong." Xindi laughed, "I never trusted Lei Yujian, I only believed in myself. ”

She gently lifted the hem of her skirt and stepped onto the water bus, her high heels clattering on the deck. Xindi decided to go to the appointment, of course, not to listen to the other party's reasoning, but to find out who knew her secret.

This is the last moment, and there is no room for negligence.

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