Chapter 62: Apricots
Snowflakes falling from the gaps in the upper neighborhoods swept through the community's aerial corridors, arcing in mid-air and avoiding several protruding eaves.
Eventually, it dissolves in a few drops of dark red liquid.
In the debris-filled alleyway, heavy wheezing was mixed with intermittent violent coughing.
Apricot covered her mouth, trying to suppress her voice back to her throat.
The black umbrella used to protect from the rain and snow was leaning against the wall, the umbrella bone was broken in several places, and the corners were drooping, as if it would be completely scrapped at any time.
And her situation at this time is probably the same.
The face that is always deliberately concealed is exposed, and if someone passes by, they will definitely focus all their attention on it.
There were still black lines on the exposed skin that had not completely dissipated, her delicate facial features were uncontrollably wrinkled by the double pain of physical and mental pain, her pale cheeks were pressed against the wooden box next to her, and only her clenched teeth showed that she was still fighting.
Everything that happened last night flashed in a trance like a marquee.
The sect wanted to get rid of them from the beginning, and those potions and the heart of evolution were all premeditated traps!
The loss of her mind as her companions, who had mutated into the monsters of the source of spiritual pollution, were engraved in her mind, testing her will all the time.
Everything in front of me seemed to be something else.
The bluestone bricks under her feet glowed with an eerie gray-brown light, the snowflakes at the entrance of the alleyway were pitch black, and the disgusting murmur echoed in her ears, she knew that it was an illusion, and the sad thing was that even if she knew, she could not escape from this illusion, and even her spirit was constantly being eroded by this illusion.
Am I going to be a monster like Finney and Sock?
Such thoughts began to occupy her mind.
The more you care, the faster the progress of mental erosion, the uncontrolled divergence of thinking, and the emergence of strange ideas one after another.
If he really becomes a monster, he may also be filmed in the video in the future...... Whether he is alive or not is a question.
What exactly was I thinking?
I must live, and I must avenge Finney and them!
Struggling to get up.
She didn't know where she was going, but she couldn't die here anyway!
......
The phone rings at the bedside.
The person in the quilt scolded and reached out to touch it, knocking down a document stacked next to the alarm clock, and the sound of landing caused the other side to complain.
It is a great sin not to let people sleep well in the early hours of Halloween's Day.
With the mood of scolding a few words before you get connected, I took the phone back into the quilt and pressed the answer button.
Three seconds later, a cold breeze poured into the warm bed, and the woman who was still asleep was awakened, looking at her husband who rushed out of the bedroom barefoot with messy hair on his face.
It didn't take long for the sound of the TV being turned on in the living room, and there were faint voices such as "Halloween disaster event" and "power outage in the bottom community".
"I see, is it the terrorist organization that did the accident in the bottom community?"
Just putting on a jacket, Ronna's legs kept shaking, hoping to retain the heat that was rapidly dissipating in this way.
"If you can, come and meet in the bottom community, I need your help...... This is not an order, you have the right to choose, I have to tell you that there are a lot of spiritual pollution source monsters in the bottom community now, there is a certain danger, and the task I want to give you is also very challenging, of course, the relative reward is also extremely generous, give you 5 minutes to think about it, and then contact. β
The voice on the phone made Ronna's shaking legs gradually stop, and the cold of his body was not enough to affect the functioning of his brain.
The phone was hung up.
Rhone quickly connected to the Internet and began to inquire about the situation in the underlying community.
The content is not much, and the announcement given by the government of Qianfan City is only a failure of the central control system, which is a clear reason to fool people, Rao has entered the information network in the federal office, and there is only a small amount of information that can be found.
βSHITοΌβ
He whispered in disappointment and wrapped his coat tightly, after all, it only happened last night, and it was not even 10 hours from now, and it was a large-scale celebration like Halloween Day, and a lot of information was drowned in entertainment news.
Coupled with the "meticulous" control of the Internet, it is indeed not easy to find out some special information.
"Ronna, what's going on?"
Obviously, the husband's sudden departure frightened his wife.
"It's nothing, my boss has something to look for me, the power supply in the bottom community seems to be cut off, can't I come out to confirm the situation, you go to sleep." β
Rubbing his face and pointing to the TV to explain, Rona walked briskly into the study.
Detecting that the owner of the house has entered the room, the heating is automatically turned on, facing the desk, barely dispelling the chill from Ronna's body.
5 minutes is not much time to consider.
The monster of the source of spiritual pollution, still in the low-level communities, and the terrorist organization that existed behind the human rights march three years ago, the danger is self-evident.
Let's give up.
I'm just an ordinary person, and this kind of thing is still handled by more professional people.
Take a deep breath and pick up your phone and dial the number you just called.
"It's pretty fast to make decisions, are you going to come?"
"Actually, I ......"
His eyes fell on the large pile of documents on the desktop in front of him, pursed his lips, blinked his eyes twice, and turned to a low voice and said,
"Where should I see you?"
"The alley next to John's breakfast shop near Community Hospital No. 35, when I got to the phone, be careful not to let the Thousand Sails City Government know your movements, this is confidential, and I am also lurking as a doctor now. β
After Zhu Jue finished speaking, he hung up the phone again.
Syllable~
A slap on his forehead.
"You're just a fool, why do you agree, there's no way now, you have to go if you don't go!"
scolded himself, but there was not much chagrin on Ronna's face.
Stooping down to open a locked drawer at the bottom of the right side of the desk, there was nothing else in it, a gray-black pistol and three loaded magazines.
Feeling the cold firearm, he made a few aiming movements, and then got up and stuffed the pistol into the waist, practicing pulling off his jacket and pulling out the gun.
The action has to be said to be extremely rusty, but Rona still enjoys it.
......
"Due to the failure of the central control system, the power outage will last for 5 to 7 days, we promise to use the fastest speed to carry out the repairs, in addition, in order to ensure the basic life of the people, the government will set up a compensation point in the community for the distribution of materials, please go to collect all kinds of temporary equipment in an orderly manner, the compensation point is located in the 11th block, 23rd block ......"
Vehicles with several loudspeakers on top of them are driving down the streets, constantly looping pre-recorded content.
The notice car was followed by several trucks loaded with various supplies and two patrol cars carrying protective supplies.
The Heavenly Brain will not be able to regain control in a short period of time, and it is now the cold winter season, and the temperature at night is even below zero.
There is no network to be able to endure it, no electricity is undoubtedly a very fatal thing, and the response of the Qianfan City government is to first give a fairly clear power restoration time, and then distribute all kinds of materials for free to minimize the dissatisfaction of the people.
In fact, it is not impossible to forcibly restore the power supply, as a super city, it is naturally impossible to have only one power supply station, in addition to the power supply station set up in a nearby satellite city responsible for the daily power supply of the entire city, there is also a power supply station set up in the No. 19 community of Xiacheng District, dedicated to the city in the sky.
The latter is not small, but the actual power resources used are not much, and it is fully capable of supporting one or two communities to restore electricity.
In fact, this plan was also proposed within the government, but after weighing the pros and cons, it was rejected.
On the one hand, this is likely to cause revolt among the people in several low-income communities that do not receive electricity.
On the other hand, the current situation is not without benefits for the government of Thousand Sails City, the power outage means that most people's mobile phones and computers will soon be useless, and the next actions in the low-level communities will not be easily exposed.
And without information and communication, the speed of communication within the community will be extremely slow, and even if there is a small chaos, there will be enough time to send people to quell it, without worrying about developing into a large-scale riot, and at the same time avoiding causing public opinion.
It's a lot of fun.
When you think about it this way, spending a little money is quite a good choice for value for money.
Anyway, it won't be long before the money spent will be earned back from these people's pockets!
Straight to the point.
At this time, Zhu Jue, who had already left the hotel, was standing on the side of the street, watching the vehicle carrying the first batch of supplies go away, preparing to go to the vicinity of the community hospital to wait for Ronna's arrival.
"You're going to ask Rona for help?"
Suzi knew that Zhu Jue had some connections with the federal government, and the two had mentioned Rona in their previous discussions.
Whether it is the echinoderm ball taken from the body of the monster mutated by the leader of the Ouroboros organization or the USB flash drive that carries a considerable amount of information, it seems that it is undoubtedly a very important bargaining chip now.
However, it is obviously not enough to only have chips, they need a target that they can bet on, but the two of them do not know anything about the person in charge of this operation, and their identities are destined to be impossible to take the initiative, otherwise the origin of these two things alone cannot be explained.
"Rona certainly knows more about this than we do, and he has a special status that might be of great help...... Even if he doesn't want to cooperate at that time, we can get some advice. β
As Zhu Jue spoke, his eyes turned to the soldiers of the garrison department who were lining up in front of him to prepare for departure.
Without the help of the Heavenly Wisdom Brain, the equipment on the soldiers who entered Thousand Sails City this time was obviously different from the previous batch.
The full-coverage tactical helmet has become a common bulletproof helmet with an independent spiritual protector, and the fully automatic weapon in the hand has not changed, but everyone has an extra energy firearm with a huge caliber on their back, which should be specially equipped for monsters.