Chapter 11: Skyrim
In the No. 15 neighborhood after dark, the weather is still cloudy and rainy, and the streets are full of people who go out to relax after work
As a front-of-the-line or upper-half community in the lower city, No. 15 is not as urban-centric as Dawning, but it is no worse than commercial districts like Watson or Westbrook, with shopping malls and entertainment venues full of promotions.
The huge virtual light screen plays the famous work "Skyrim" by the most popular rock band nowadays, which is a song that praises the city of a thousand sails, and the MV was filmed in the "city in the sky".
The bright sunshine and deep blue sky that never seem to die occupy a lot of space in the entire music video, and there is nothing more appealing to the people of the lower part of the city in the rainy season for nearly 270 days out of 365 days a year.
In addition to these popular contents, the MV also invited several of the most famous female stars in Thousand Sails City to perform singing and dancing performances, each of whom is an absolute natural beauty without any "post-processing", and their performances are claimed to be enough to make anyone stop.
At this moment, on the side of the street, there are people holding umbrellas and enjoying this constantly looping video.
The umbrella holder is slender, with long white fingers holding the handle of the umbrella, his face hidden in the umbrella, and humming softly to the music playing on the light screen.
Even if she was covered with a wide leather robe, it still made people feel that a little stronger wind could blow her around.
In the middle of the MV, a man wearing a hood trotted out at the entrance of a nearby alleyway, came to the vicinity of the umbrella holder and whispered a few words.
Raising his hand to draw a void mark on his chest, he turned around and followed the reporter back into the alleyway, raising his head, the window a few meters high spread outward, and a white strip of cloth swayed in the wind.
The height of the houses in the lower city is only three floors at most, that is, nearly 10 meters, this is to unify the community construction, the higher floors of the province are uneven, and the occasional slope can be understood.
Put away the umbrella, the wind and rain are coming, the fawn-like eyebrows and eyes are half-squinted, and after a little bow, he jumps up on the ground, staggered between the debris of the two walls on the left and right of the laneway, and finally falls on the edge of the window frame.
In the room, someone knelt on the ground, and someone behind him was holding an iron hammer wrapped in thorns, looking at the appearance, if he fell down, if it was not fatal with a blow, he would definitely be tortured.
"Thress?"
Although he has deliberately lowered his voice, it is still difficult to hide the crispness of his voice.
"That's right, I am, this time I'm planted, and I'm not interested in knowing who you are, say, what do you want, money, weapons, as long as I have it, you just ask!"
Half of his face was tattooed with a red-eyed spider, and the shirtless strong man bared his teeth, and his hideous face full of horizontal flesh did not mean to be soft at all, but only said compromising words in the most ferocious tone.
In Thres's opinion, if these people really wanted to kill him, they could do it just now, and they must have wanted to get something from him if they delayed until now, the situation was not strong, as long as he could survive, he thought he had nothing to cherish.
"Thres, the leader of the Sludge Gang, one of the Snake Snakes of Community 15, murdered, kidnapped, robbed...... The crimes you commit are enough to get you in the electric chair dozens of times. ”
Instead of answering Thresis's question, the man just recounted the former's crimes, word for word.
"The laws of Thousand Sails City cannot punish you, in this case, your sin will be punished by us!"
"May God forgive you~"
Several people standing around him continued.
"God? you are believers? shit, fuck, let me go!"
Hearing the words of several people beside him, Thres, who was still fearless, immediately began to struggle violently while cursing.
Thress is not afraid of his peers, because the gang pays attention to the supremacy of interests, he has enough capital to buy his life, and he is not afraid of the police or patrols, because he can exist in the No. 15 community for so long, and he is acquiesced by the upper echelons, but when he encounters this group of brainwashed madmen, he knows that if he doesn't do something, I'm afraid he won't have a chance!
He made the right decision, but the time to rebel was wrong.
As he struggled to get up, the hammer wrapped around him with thorny wire landed directly in the groove behind his knee, and as flesh flew everywhere, Thress was forced to fall to his knees again.
"Your sins will be a wake-up call to the new, and your flesh and blood will be their strength to contribute to our unfinished business and be part of your atonement. ”
Taking a step forward, he raised his hand to Serres's forehead, and as the words continued, black streaks suddenly appeared on the white arms under the robe, at first they were just black spots scattered all over the veins, and then they converged in the former's horrified eyes, until the first knuckle of the index finger was completely black.
A drop of black mycelium resembling a liquid landed directly on Thress's forehead, which was constantly leaning back, and then disappeared completely.
"You should know how to do it next. ”
Her gaze swept over the few worshippers who bowed in greeting, lifted the umbrella up with her free hand, and left the way she came, she was only responsible for this step.
Compared with the steadiness when she climbed the stairs, she stumbled forward because of the trembling of her legs when she landed, and she barely supported her body by relying on an umbrella.
"Whew~"
There were beads of sweat sliding down on the left temple, and the exhaled breath carried a white mist, obviously not a low temperature.
The singing outside the alleyway reached a climax again, and the high-pitched voice unique to the rock band sounded no longer the excitement it had before, only noisy and irritable.
......
The phone ringing next to the pillow kept ringing.
The girl behind the computer desk frowned, her right hand continued to shake the mouse while her left hand went back and fumbled wildly, grabbed the phone, and pressed the answer button without looking.
"Hey, I'm busy right now, if there's anything please wait a minute. ”
"Film, it's me!"
"You're Uncle Anthony?"
Pursing his lips and recalling for a few seconds, he asked with some uncertainty.
"Something about your mother......"
"Did you find information about the murderer?"
The mouse paused, and the girl's voice immediately rose by more than ten decibels.
"No, it's just that someone came to the Ketchton News today to ask about your mother, about that march three years ago...... He seems to be looking after something from the beginning, and I can tell that he cares a lot about Glintys, did you leave any message from your mother when she died?"
Selfishly, although he had promised Zhu Jue before, Anthony didn't want Filyn Prada to contact the person before him.
What happened three years ago made him quite sensitive to anything about the parade, so he didn't rush to tell Filyn Prada how to contact Zhu Jue, but asked Filyn Prada if he had some information in his hands.
If not, Anthony is ready to replace Filyn Prada to reject Zhu Jue.
"Someone is tracking the human rights march three years ago?"
Still looking at the web page on the screen, Filmin asked,
"Did you tell him that my mother had died?"
"Of course, that's why he asked me to ask you if Glinti had left any relics behind, you don't have to worry, I didn't tell him anything about you, and if you don't want to get involved with that person, then you can be treated as if you didn't have the phone. ”
"No, Uncle Anthony, please tell me the other party's contact information immediately, I have also made some breakthroughs recently, and I am about to ask for proof, maybe he has the information I want...... As long as you can help me find out who killed my mother, I don't mind having anything to do with anyone!"
Without hesitation, Rejecting Anthony's kindness, Film's fingers ran over the picture frame on the side of the computer desk.
It was a photo of their family.
Filin's father died of an illness when she was very young, so most of her memories of family affection are those of her kind mother.
Now he is the only one left alive in this world.
There is not much motivation to sustain her survival.
One of them is that she would never allow her mother to die so inexplicably!