Vault 861, a dilapidated single residence in the Middle End.

Persephone had been in this place for six days.

A dirty blanket was crumpled and stuffed into the corner of a tattered couch, and the floor was littered with empty bags of the most advanced synthetic foods and a handful of blood-stained alcohol cotton balls.

Persephone leaned back against the couch, lifting her shirt in a dirty color with one hand, and pressing a plastic bottle close to the wound on her flank.

Her personal account has been frozen, and she was able to exchange for these materials thanks to a delicate watch that she usually wears on her wrist - however, in those gang-controlled black markets, even the watch worth tens of thousands of resource points can only be exchanged for less than a hundred yuan worth of materials, and they are all of the lowest grade......

Medical alcohol is hard to come by, and she doesn't have enough money, so she can only use salt and water to prepare saline, and use saline to rinse the wound.

"Hiss......"

The liquid in the plastic bottle was poured on top of the wound, which made Persephone bite the collar in her mouth - although saline has the same concentration as human cell fluid, it is relatively soft for the wound, not as strong irritating as hypertonic saline and alcohol, but it still makes Persephone almost faint.

Luckily for her, the bullet seemed to have only passed through her organs, and if her spleen had been shattered, she would have died a few hours ago.

Luckily, the person who came to capture her was a secret agent belonging to the Union gendarmerie, and the weapon they used was a nine-millimeter miniature submachine gun - if it were replaced by the large-caliber assault rifle issued by the regular troops, it would be enough to cut Persephone's body in two in the middle!

But...... Even if she survives until now, I'm afraid she won't have much time...... Normal saline can only clean the wound, but it cannot sterilize and disinfect, and the place where the bullet was hit has begun to become infected and suppurated, and the warhead, because the embedded position is too deep, cannot be taken out under the current conditions.

Without any medicine to stop the bleeding, Persephone could only wrap a bandage made of rags tightly around her waist...... Although compression to stop bleeding can easily cause tissue necrosis, she has no other choice than dying of excessive blood loss.

……

Persephone's long neck tilted back slightly, her head resting on the back of the couch, she slowly closed her eyes, and began to think back to what had happened in the past few days.

After Qi Lin was officially wanted by the consortium alliance, she was already aware of her danger, and all along, she knew that behind the consortium alliance, there was a behemoth-like organization hidden, this organization acted in an extremely tough style, and it was completely unscrupulous in order to achieve its goals, and this time the wanted warrant for Qi Lin seemed to be issued by the consortium alliance, but in fact, the organization standing behind the alliance was the real mastermind.

The relationship between herself and Qi Lin is not a secret, if they can't catch Qi Lin, she will obviously become the second target of the organization - three hours before the wanted notice is issued, Persephone has already managed to get out of the Lexing Star Shield Consortium and secretly board a train used to transport laborers.

After the train arrived, Persephone got off the train among the laborers, and it was at this time that she found that her personal account had been frozen by the mastermind.

Although her wanted warrant has not yet been issued, her account has been frozen, which already says a lot, and Persephone is basically certain that the person chasing her must be on the way.

……

It's just that before the pursuers found her, another person found her.

Qin, the top executive of District 6, uses a discarded terminal to get in touch with Persephone, and uses enough information to gain Persephone's trust, Qin says that as long as Persephone can go to District 6, he can provide shelter for her, and find a way to get her to the ground.

Although there were still some doubts in her heart, for Persephone at this moment, she could only choose to believe the other party - if the other party wanted to arrest her, she didn't have to make this promise at all, just send someone to the place where she was now.

However, instead of doing so, Persephone was provided with a temporary hideout, a half-abandoned single residence.

For the past few days, Persephone has been looking for a way to get to the Sixth District, but the Consortium seems to have sensed that she is hiding in this shelter, and the entire shelter has entered a state of almost martial law, not to mention leaving by train, and even going to some crowded places, Persephone must be very cautious.

This morning, Persephone had planned to inquire on the black market to see if there was any other way out of the sanctuary - although she had wrapped her face tightly in a turban and her towering breasts had been flattened with tightly wrapped restraints, the curves of her waist and hips still revealed her gender, and a drunken man tried to touch her breasts, but accidentally grabbed the wrong place and ripped the headscarf off Persephone's head.

Persephone covered her face with her arm, then kicked the drunk in the crotch before hurrying out of the crowded black market.

Perhaps it was the screams of the drunk man who fell to the ground and rolled around his crotch was so loud that many people in the black market turned their eyes to it, including a consortium alliance agent who inquired about information in the black market.

Perhaps in order to monopolize the merit and reward of the capture target, or perhaps to know that Persephone is a rare stunner, in short, the agent did not choose to send the information that Persephone had been found, but secretly followed Persephone all the way......

Persephone quickly spotted the stalker, who she deliberately led him into a remote alley and then used a handgun she carried with her to finish off the agent......

However, the opponent's counterattack before dying also injured Persephone, and the bullet that remained in Persephone's body was also shot from the muzzle of the opponent's gun.

After taking all the useful things from the agent, Persephone dumped the stripped body in the alleys of the ghetto, where there were many more corpses of this type every day, so there was no need to worry about anyone finding the missing agent.

It's just that the only thing that makes Persephone a little uneasy is that agents like this need to report to their superiors every day, and the disappearance of an agent is enough to attract a large-scale search......

Persephone regretted a little, she should have gone to another black market a little further away from her residence.

Her breathing slowed down, the wound on her waist seemed to be beginning to scab over, and Persephone struggled to prop up her arms on the floor and get up from the ground.

In addition to a dozen empty cans, there were two guns on the table, one was her pistol, the P226 made by Sig Sauer, which she used to kill the agent who was tracking her, and the last four rounds in the P226's magazine, in addition to the loaded bullet.

As for the other gun, it was the MP5K compact submachine gun used by the agent, and she was unable to find any spare ammunition on the agent's body, apparently it had been placed somewhere else, and less than half of the ammunition left in the submachine gun magazine.

Even a skirmish could not cope with this ammunition, and what made Persephone even more troubled was that all her food had already been eaten yesterday.

Today in the black market, not only to inquire about the news, but also to buy some food, but that damn drunk disrupted all her plans......

This hideout was no longer safe, and she had to move immediately, even if she couldn't make it to Sector 6......

Persephone gulped in the murky air of the room, the pump that carried the fresh air had long since stopped working, and only the ventilation fan on the ceiling was still crunching...... The smell of the air here is terrible, but at least it's breathable, unlike the tunnels in the slums, where you can't get out of your house without a mask.

"Whew...... Call...... Let's wait until the wound doesn't affect my movements much before leaving......"

It took a lot of effort for Persephone to move her body to the couch, covering the bandage from the wound with one hand and clutching the cotton wool squeezed out of the broken part of the couch with the other.

She was very sleepy and tired, and for the past few days, she had slept no more than three hours a day, and the quality of her sleep was very poor, with two huge dark circles hanging on her fair face, and her eyelids were so heavy that they seemed to be filled with lead, and they kept falling down.

"Can't sleep ......"

Persephone's teeth bit her lip hard, trying to keep herself awake with the pain—just then there was a sudden knock on the door.

"Who?" Persephone asked in a voice that was similar to that of a middle-aged woman, with a hint of hoarseness, her artifice was so good that anyone across the door would have thought that there was an older woman over half a hundred years old.

"Routine checks." The voice of the person at the outer door was extremely cold, and there was no trace of emotion in his tone.

"Wait a minute...... I don't have a good leg or foot...... Ahem......"

Persephone climbed down from the couch, grabbed the MP5K from the table, walked behind the door, and pressed the muzzle of the gun against the composite panel.

This is the most humble dwelling in the middle district, not only does there be no bulletproof airtight door made of metal, but there is no cat's eye on the door panel to peek into the situation of the outer door, Persephone can only carefully open the door a crack-

A huge force came from the door panel in an instant! The person outside the door clearly intends to use brute force to push the door in! Persephone was immediately pushed backwards by the force - but at the same time, she did not hesitate to pull the trigger on the door panel!

Bullets poured out of the muzzle, piercing through the thin layer of door, and there was a dull thud of flesh penetrating, and the fallen body of the guy outside the door slammed the door open and fell to the ground.

The other party is not an executor who does not wear a taupe vest, but a gendarme in a black gendarmerie uniform! It's not a routine check at all!

Moreover, there is more than one person on the other side!

Persephone crawled into the dead corner behind the door with her hands and feet, took out a slender needle from her underwear, and stabbed her neck hard!

Inside the syringe is a high-grade stimulant, which is also the last hole card in Persephone's hand.

As the medicine began to work, Persephone only felt a strong force rush into her body, and the pain of the wound in her lower back and abdomen began to become less pronounced...... In just half a second, her whole body had recovered from a state of serious injury to almost her prime.

After emptying the last few rounds in the magazine and knocking down the second person who rushed in, Persephone quickly stooped down and swept past the fallen man, and in the blink of an eye, he had already copied the short assault rifle in his hand, and turned sideways to shoot at the door!

The search team of five agents was wiped out in an instant, but Persephone's whereabouts had also been revealed - the weapons used by the other party were not equipped with silencers, and the gunfire was enough to travel far and attract all the agents in the surrounding area......

You have to get out of this place right away before you get surrounded!

Removing all the magazines from the corpse and removing a breathing mask hanging by the door, Persephone rushed out of the humble hideout and began to run down the alley on her right—the area she had been familiar with in the past few days, and the road led to the slums of Vault 861, where the terrain was complex and crisscrossed with laneways and paths, making it the perfect place to play hide and seek with the agents.

But her luck wasn't good, and she just rushed to an intersection when she happened to bump into a squad of agents running out from the other side.

The other side is also five people, but the leader is wearing a tactical exoskeleton and carrying a heavy Gatling gun in his hand!

"It's over!" Persephone's heart was cold, the short assault rifle in her hand could not penetrate the armor on the opponent's body, while the weapon in the opponent's hand could easily tear itself to pieces...... And the most critical point is that the effects of the stimulant are beginning to fade, the power is constantly flowing from her body, and the wound in her lower back and abdomen is beginning to ache faintly......

"Catch her!" The agent wearing the tactical exoskeleton ordered, and he didn't shoot Persephone directly - it was clear that a living Persephone was far more valuable than a dead Persephone.

Four other agents, guns in hand, quickly outflanked them from both sides.

Although the other side of the "......" did not kill himself, but the current situation is not much better at all, Persephone knows very well in her heart that if she falls into the hands of the other party, it is probably better to die happily than to live.

In fact, she would always have the last bullet left in the magazine, and that bullet, she kept for herself.

A series of short shots knocked down a surrounding agent, and while the other three were looking for cover, Persephone turned around and ran—

"Phew!"

The gunshot rang out, and she only felt a sharp pain like a drill in the knee of her left leg, and she lost her balance and fell heavily to the ground.

It's over...... She thought to herself, do you regret it...... She asked herself silently, and the figure of the guy reappeared in her mind...... To say that you don't regret it is a lie to say that you have no regrets...... However, it would probably be nice to see him again before he died......

Anyway, sooner or later, I'm going to die...... In this damn era......

Persephone struggled to turn the muzzle of her gun against her jaw, and just then, a tall figure walked up to her and kicked the gun away from her hand—

Before Persephone could react, a deafening burst of gunfire rang out overhead, followed by a large number of searing bullet casings falling on her back......

The gunfire subsided, and the muffled sound of a person falling to the ground was heard behind him, and the tall figure bent down and picked her up from the ground and carried her on his shoulder.

"I'm 0592, and the master asked me to take you to the ground...... "The other party's voice was strange, between a child who has just learned to speak and a mechanical synthesizer.

"Your master...... Who is it? ”

"I can't tell you, but we're not your enemies, and we'll send you to Qi Lin."

Qi Lin...... Over there? Persephone wanted to ask something more, but the side effects of the stimulant had already begun to take effect, and the doubling exhaustion and sleepiness made her unconscious......