When the morning light rises from the end of the sky, the white clouds are illuminated by the sun, giving off an oppressive dull color.

The city has just woken up from its nightly slumber, and people are constantly opening their eyes to welcome the arrival of a new day, and then returning to the track of their lives.

And in a single-family, two-story courtyard in the suburbs, the man who had been buried in front of the book case all night raised his head and took off his glasses from his eye sockets.

On the table in front of him, old books that have become a little moldy are neatly arranged, including the geographical records of Shangyang City, the geographical changes over the decades, the detailed construction time of water conservancy projects, and aerial photographs of various projects.

Turning around, he met several solemn and impatient eyes, and smiled: "That news is not wrong. ”

Zhu Teng said as he lit the cigarette in his hand, spit out a puff of white mist and laughed: "It can be determined that this city has overlapped with subspace." ”

Hearing Zhu Teng's confirmation in person, several people in the room were more or less relieved, they received Zhu Teng's summons and hires, and gathered from all over the world, just for the benefits and power brought by this news. At this moment, how can you not be excited when you are finally convinced of its correctness and not rumors?

"You've done a good job of finding so many things in just a few days." Zhu Teng took off the cigarette he had just smoked, and said to the man who was standing silently at the door:

"Wang Biao, what do you want?"

In just a few days, Wang Biao, who was once the leader of the largest gang in the old city-district, looked like he was a teenager old, and his hair had turned gray.

For him, the changes in just a few days were too rapid for him to react.

First, his cousin was killed at home, and then the police, who had obtained solid evidence, were pushed by someone with a heart to sweep away his estate and his men at a speed close to thunder.

Wang Biao's industry and money, which he had worked hard for more than ten years, were all devoured by the state agencies that really took action, and turned into a year-end bonus for the police.

If it weren't for the fact that he still had an informant in the police station who was willing to reveal his mouth, and a few loyal younger brothers who were willing to block guns for him so that he could escape a way out, he would probably have been locked in an iron cage by now and being picked up and played with.

The walls fell and everyone pushed them, and the trees fell and scattered. What's more, who would pity an underworld leader who used to do anything for his position? Even the mistress who had kept the secret bank account for him fled with donations behind his back.

Whether it is the madness and anger that surged in his heart, or the bitter hatred for the so-called thief, in just a few days, he looked dozens of years old, almost unrecognizable.

If it weren't for the rescue of a white-pink tyrant who had met Wang Biao several times when he was making a fortune in Yungui in the past, he might have committed suicide in despair.

is like desperately grasping a life-saving straw for a drowning person, and he also took this opportunity to take this line at all costs and make a comeback.

And it just so happened that this big man who came to the coastal city for some purpose also had a place where he could be used, and the two sides hit it off.

With the help of the drug lord named Yungui Dao and called 'King Lu Dove', Wang Biao not only snatched back the money he had been swept away in just a few days, but also threw the stinky bitch who raised her little white face on her back into the Huangpu River and planted lotus flowers with her little white face.

Since then, Wang Biao has been doing things for them wholeheartedly, but their requirements are a bit strange.

I don't want women, I don't want money, I just let myself use all the remaining connections to collect the geographical changes, specific descriptions and county records around Shangyang City over the years, for this person named Zhu Teng to read.

Are they trying to turn the tomb upside down? It doesn't look like it, and Wang Biao has never heard of any dignitaries buried near Shangyang.

Shangyang is just a city that has developed from a small county town with trade and geographical advantages since the reform and opening up, and there are many places where the coastal area is better than Shangyang's feng shui.

He didn't know that he had seen all kinds of weirdness about these people these days, so he didn't dare to ask more.

Hearing Zhu Teng's words at this moment, he was stunned, he didn't know how to say it, and after a moment of incoherence, his eyes were already hideous.

"I see." Zhu Teng laughed: "The one who killed your brother? And the guy who fell on you? ”

"They have caused me to fall to this point...... Wang Biao's nails have sunk into the flesh, suppressing his bitter anger, gritting his teeth and roaring: "I will let them die without a corpse!" ”

"I see." Zhu Teng nodded: "You go down first, I will give you this opportunity." ”

Under his deep voice, a trace of emptiness flashed in Wang Biao's eyes, nodded blankly, turned his head and walked out of the door.

And on a large chair in the room, a middle-aged man who had been closing his eyes all the time opened his eyes: "Zhu Teng, this news...... How sure are you sure? ”

In this era when everything is commercialized, this man is still wearing a well-made green cloth coat and black breeches. Even if you close your eyes and recuperate, when your eyes are squinted, you have the feeling of cold afterglow, which makes people shudder.

Lu Yuanwei, Miao people, Miao's name is 'Goubo Dove King', Yungui Poison-Owl, known as 'Lu Dove King'. Legend has it that he colluded with several 'revolutionary' soldiers on the border to sell white powder, and at the age of 36, he became blue, surpassing his father's prestige before he was released from the army and dragged to eat guns.

No one knows why this man who controls more than half of the white powder sales in Yunnan and Guizhou provinces is here, and even this action was planned by him, and Zhu Teng and the short and thin man in the corner are also the helpers he found.

Hearing him ask, Zhu Teng narrowed his eyes and seemed to laugh again: "It was originally seven points, but now...... Ninth. ”

Lu Yuanwei nodded slowly, and then asked: "If it was really a subspace, it should have erupted with the Chaos Gate more than ten years ago, why didn't the Foundation find out?" ”

"I don't know why, it's only recently been showing signs of penetrating the material world." Zhu Teng spread his hands: "I'm not an expert after all, besides, didn't you find this job Master Lu?" ”

"In other words, the ability crystallization and armament inside will be stronger than we thought?" Lu Yuanwei's slender eyes slowly opened, and his eyes were like a lone wolf in the forest in the dark night:

"The deal is so lucrative that I can't understand why those gringos are willing to give us this news."

Zhu Teng shook his head: "I don't know, it's been accumulated for so many years, and if it really breaks out, it will be amazing...... They only need the few things they specify, although they say that the other things belong to us, I am afraid that they also have the intention of taking us to the minefield, right? ”

Lu Yuanwei sneered, I don't know who is using whom. A few xenoores, and a few mutant creatures...... When the thing is in their own hands, can they force themselves to spit it out?

After half a ring, he asked again, "When will the subspace be opened?" ”

"I don't know, there should be obvious signs."

After Zhu Teng said 'signs', his words suddenly paused, his eyes fell into dazed and deep thought, and he kept whispering in his mouth: "Signs, signs...... Yes, the signs! ”

As if touching a string of fate in the dark, the ability called 'Instant Sense' awakened from his body, guiding him to a foggy future.

As a rare prophecy ability classified in the 'special development' category, the ability called 'Instant Perception' is like a name, allowing Zhu Teng to see in advance a certain possibility and fragment from the future, or a vague hint.

In the life of human beings, such thoughts often arise.

This wine has been drunk before, such things have been eaten, this place has been visited before, such scenes have been seen before...... Something that has never been seen before, but it gives people such a strange feeling, which is called the illusion of 'perception'.

In Zhu Teng's hands, this sense of immediacy has become a tool for sensing the future. Sometimes, as long as he touches a clue that can connect the future and the present, he can vaguely perceive some general situation.

Although this ability cannot be activated on its own and can only be triggered passively, the future signs obtained are absolutely accurate, and this is where this ability is most powerful.

Seeing Zhu Teng's dazed appearance, Lu Yuanwei's eyes opened, and he said to the short thin man in the corner with full caution: "Lao Xin, bring him some medicine." ”

Known as 'Old Xin', the short, silent man nodded, stepped out the door, pushed open another door in the hallway, and broke into the room that looked more like a hospital room.

In the room, the old nurse who accompanied her saw the syringe in Lao Xin's hand, her expression changed greatly, and she blocked the front of the bed: "Don't do this...... She—she's running out of it. ”

"Get out of here!" Lao Xin kicked the woman's body, turned his head to look at the puppet-like girl on the hospital bed: "I'm not dead again." ”

Lying silently on the bed, the pale-faced girl stared blankly at the ceiling, like a puppet without any reaction. His skin was so pale that he couldn't see the color of blood, as if it would shatter at the slightest touch, and his emaciated body sank into the white futon and remained motionless.

As if it were painless, she allowed the slender syringe to plunge into her slender wrist, draining the blood that had already exceeded the safe level, leaving a deep needle hole in the pale arm once more.

Lao Xin glanced at the unresponsive girl, as if looking at a tool, and turned around and walked out of the room with a syringe full of blood.

Back in the room, he injected a tube of blood into Zhu Teng's carotid artery. As if he had gained new energy, Zhu Teng's eyes became brighter and brighter, as if he had seen the future.

Confused in his whisper, he murmured, "Key...... Entering there, I saw ...... To get there, you need a key! ”

Holding Zhu Teng's arm, Lu Yuanwei whispered in his ear, "Where is the key?" ”

"The key is in ...... In the ......"

Zhu Teng muttered in confusion, his empty pupils saw a fleeting illusion through the layers of mist.

That's a string...... Blood-red agate rosary?!

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Thanks to Carlos Firehawk for the tip