The desolation of Windy City has exceeded An Xiaoyu's imagination. She had no way of understanding how there could be such a desolate place in this world, and it was still a city. Even if it's a mountain village...... No, even the inside of the Sodrula Temple is more alive than this place.

The desolation here does not lie in the architecture and urban structure, but in the manifestation of a state of mind.

The buildings of the Windy City are all built by the Empire, and there will be fixed insistence and maintenance every few years, and even the paint on the exterior walls will be replaced, so it can be said that although there are no high-rise buildings in the city, it is basically neat and clean.

But it is this kind of prosperity and tranquility on the outside that sets off the whole city like a ghost land. Because the people here don't look like people at all. An Xiaoyu has been to the extreme north, and has also seen the residents there in the extreme north, but the people here are completely different from the state of the extreme north.

Wang Zhen said: "The people here are all from the far north, but when they left, they were all eighteen years old. According to the rules of the empire, people who have reached adulthood can leave the extreme north and come to live in these cities as long as they meet the conditions, but these people, they really know how to live? ”

"Huh! From birth to eighteen, they have been living in the Far North, and from the time they were sensible, they knew that they would be able to leave the Far North when they reached their age. But what about after leaving the Far North? Their elders have drawn a big blueprint for them, and the dream is rooted in their hearts. ”

"They thought that as long as they left the Far North and went to the outside world, they would be able to have freedom, they would be able to enjoy happiness, and they would be able to have the life that their predecessors dreamed of. But do they really know what freedom is when they get outside? Do you know what happiness is? Do you know what life is? ”

Wang Zhen shook his head: "These people haven't received enough education and haven't seen enough life, but they have already settled their minds at the age of eighteen, and it is too late to change them." When the time comes, we will have to force them back, so the Empire wants their next generation to get out of this state. ”

"They're just walking dead living outside, looking at the outside world and not knowing how they should be. When they were in the far north, they still had their relatives by their side, and there were people who understood them. But what about when you get outside? may be thousands of miles away, and he is the only one who can come out, and he doesn't know him. ”

"Such a young man is already confused, he no longer knows how to deal with himself, not everyone is a leader, most of them still choose to spend their lives in the ordinary after all. And those who are not qualified to choose the ordinary, can only choose to become such a walking corpse. ”

An Xiaoyu sat in the car, looking at these people outside the car window, the empire had indeed arranged a lot of work for them. For example, the people who sweep the streets are not robots, but these walking dead Far North remnants. There is no expression on their faces, they don't know how to be tired, they don't know how to be happy, and they don't know what it means to be alive.

There are many factories in the Windy City, and there is a lot of arable land on the periphery, and according to Wang Zhen, this place is more like a labor camp. These people who have lost their purpose and hope in life have no other pursuits than to work in a regular manner, and even lack interest in recreational activities.

These people don't know what to think, they don't know how to find their purpose, especially after the empire can provide them with enough work to survive, they will be more content with such a day. At least live here without worrying about hunger and cold and monsters? It's better than the Far North, right?

Most people think this way, at least the people An Xiaoyu sees may think this way. For example, these people who are sweeping the streets now, and there is not even anyone walking through the streets, so they are very comfortable sweeping from one end of the street to the other, and then carrying the brooms and doing it again, over and over again, like machines.

The police car of the garrison passed through, and soon arrived at the garrison headquarters in Windy City, the vehicle was parked in the yard, An Xiaoyu and Wang Zhen got out of the car, and after looking around, they did not find any abnormal phenomena, nor did they find anyone watching.

An Xiaoyu couldn't help but be a little puzzled, since the origin had already known that the whole thing had been learned by the empire, didn't they plan to monitor or resist a little? Or have they already transferred all of them? So don't worry about it at all.

But thinking of this, An Xiaoyu shook his head, when the garrison began to set off last night, the entire Far North Garrison had already moved, and Wind City was indeed within the jurisdiction of the Far North Garrison according to reason, so the North Gun had already sent someone to quietly block everything around.

Of course, this blockade may not be able to hide from the masters of the origin, but it must be even more difficult for them to transfer important people, after all, even if the masters can take people away, how many people can they take away? An Xiaoyu felt that the people of the origin must still be in the Windy City, and the reason why they didn't appear was because they had some unknown conspiracy.

So it just depends on who is better at us?

The garrison corps of Windy City is much more dilapidated than the outside, after all, the buildings outside are regularly renovated by the empire, and the garrison needs to report to the imperial capital for approval, and then repair them.

Because it is too troublesome, the garrison in such a remote place will not take the initiative to declare, unless the leader comes to inspect, and they will be done with paint from their own pockets, and there is no need to work hard to mobilize the public. And their yard is also cleaned by their own people, and they can't use people outside at all.

It's not that I can't trust these remnants of the far north, but the garrison is the most important organ in a city like Windy City. There is no political system, only an external economy, and all the people are cheap labor, and what needs to be managed are civil disputes and various hidden problems.

In such an important place, if the people are involved too much, the garrison will not be able to stand it from the heart. So they simply lined up shifts, and every once in a while someone changed to clean and clean, of course, not as diligent as the one outside over and over again, so it didn't seem so clean.

After everyone got out of the car, the captain of the local garrison walked out of the office building, and then greeted the picket leader sent by the imperial capital this time.

On the way here, they had already introduced themselves, and the name of the team leader was Gong Shanzhi, which was a typical case of a disciple of the sect entering the picket. Gong Shanzhi was born in a sect called the Falling Sword Sect, and he was also the best among the disciples of the Falling Sword Sect, and later after the sect's resources were confiscated, he joined the picket team to seek a way out.

In less than a year, Gong Shanzhi stood out among the pickets, and because of his meticulous thinking and logical and rigorous reasoning, he cracked several cases and caught several cultivators and criminals. Relying on merit points, he exchanged all the exercises and martial arts classics of the Falling Sword Sect, and finally became a master of the Falling Sword Sect, and his skills increased greatly.

The Falling Sword Sect is good at a fallen leaf sword technique, which sounds very vulgar. However, this set of fallen leaf sword inheritance is not young, it is said that the falling sword sect was established after the founding of the country, and it was the treasure of a large sect before the founding of the country that was based near the imperial capital.

The deciduous swordsmanship pays attention to the sword intent, and the swordsmanship carries the sword intent of Xiao Se, according to An Xiaoyu's understanding, it is a special divine soul fluctuation, and the power of the cultivator's divine soul is stirred out through the swordsmanship, affecting the opponent, and the threshold of the divine soul law may be able to be spied in the later stage.

Gong Shanzhi's deciduous sword technique is unfathomable, although he doesn't have any special law perception, he just experiences the law of strength, but relying on this sword technique, he can basically achieve the point where he can remain undefeated among the grandmasters, and he can escape if he can't fight.

Provided, of course, that you don't meet perverts.

Now, Gong Shanzhi is a captain of the picket team of the Imperial Capital Garrison, and there are more than 200 cultivators under his command, including four grandmasters alone, and eighty or ninety people above the master, and the rest are all powerful police officers, which can be said to have reached the pinnacle of life.

This time, they and his team were all dispatched to deal with the origin of the Windy City. Of course, in this team, he is the leader on the surface, but in fact, whether it is An Xiaoyu or Wang Zhen, even Qu Shuanghua's power is higher than him.

Needless to say, Wang Zhen was appointed by the Ministry of Supervision, and he was still a staff officer of the General Assembly of the Military Commission, and he was also a young generation in the limelight of the Wang family. Although Qu Shuanghua came from an ordinary background, his father is the captain of the division, and he is a special investigator, so he can have autonomy when performing special tasks.

He couldn't control any of these three people, and he even had to ask for their opinions.

However, the identities of An Xiaoyu's three people cannot be exposed, so on the surface, Gong Shanzhi will handle it, and it is of course his job to contact the local security team. When he saw the Windy City team, Gong Shanzhi was a little surprised, this team looked skinny.

He also thought that in such a job, at least he could nourish a little, right? After all, there are not many jobs in Windy City, and there are a lot of subsidies from the Empire, so can such a job be done like this? Could it be hyperthyroidism?

The head team of the Windy City garrison is called Miao Yu, and he is also an old cadre, it is said that he has worked in other places before, and he was later transferred to Windy City because of a certain case that offended a member of the court, and the garrison sent him over to support him in order to hold him.

But later, the court and the cabinet had been terminated and the regiment was wiped out, and of course the committee member that Miao Yu offended back then was gone, but Miao Yu was already old, and he was about to retire, so he didn't leave this post. An Xiaoyu must have seen the information here before she came, and of course she had also seen Miao Yu's photos.

Miao Yu, who came here back then, is not a strong man, but he is also a normal and healthy old man, but he didn't expect it to become like this now? She and Wang Zhen glanced at each other, both of them were a little surprised.

Miao Yu seemed to be used to others looking at him like this, so he just smiled and said, "This ...... It's really because the environment of Windy City is too bleak, and after staying in this kind of place for a long time, people's mental state is not very good, they don't think about tea and food, and they can't sleep at night, and they slowly become like this. ”

Gong Shanzhi expressed understanding, shook hands with Miao Yu and said, "It's hard old captain." ”

"Hehe, it's not hard, it's not hard!" Miao Yu said: "You are the ones who have worked hard, and it is our dereliction of duty to come all the way to let the traitorous organization take root in Windy City." But to be honest, after all these years, I really haven't heard of anything going on in Windy City, so I'm a little negligent. ”

Gong Shanzhi hurriedly said, "Let's go in and say!" ”

"Okay, go in and say!" Miao Yu called two police officers over and asked them to take Gong Shanzhi and Qu Shuanghua's men to the dormitory: "There is simply not much here, but there are many houses, and the dormitory of the garrison has been built for so many years, and many of them have not been lived!" ”

Several people entered the office building of the garrison, An Xiaoyu of course followed behind, pretending to be Gong Shanzhi's cronies and walking behind, Wang Zhen and Qu Shuanghua followed behind her, and Gong Shanzhi's real followers were still behind, with a little depression on his face.

"To be honest, we were too hasty when we received the order this morning, and we didn't react, so we haven't had time to investigate Windy City yet. Of course, we, ordinary police officers, may not be able to investigate anything, so I didn't pass on the order and waited for you to arrive. ”

"In fact, this task is indeed rushed." Gong Shanzhi said: "We also received an order urgently, and we knew that there might be a rebellion of origin hidden on the side of Windy City. Investigating this organization is still dangerous, and it is better for ordinary police officers to do some work such as information gathering and personnel transfers, and we will take over the main investigation work. ”

Miao Yu nodded: "Alas! The war is coming, I didn't expect that the empire is full of holes, and we, as guards, do our best to check and fill in the gaps, but I didn't expect that there were still omissions under our noses. I'm already dying, Captain Gong, I'll leave it to you this time! ”

Gong Shanzhi hurriedly said that he didn't dare, and then Miao Yu's subordinates also transferred out all the information about the size of Windy City over the years, including economic operations, personnel flows, large and small cases, etc., all of which were recorded in detail on these documents.

What is the speed of An Xiaoyu's current soul, he directly transferred these documents to the electronic version, and then turned on the automatic flipping, adjusted the page turning speed to the fastest, and finished reading it in less than an hour, the archives of the Windy City for nearly fifty years.

As for the number of people from fifty years ago, the number was too large, and Gong Shanzhi didn't plan to look at it more. Moreover, these files have been regularly transferred to the headquarters of the garrison, and now they have been handed over to the central government, and they are being analyzed and calculated using the Zhang Yang super computer.

However, although these materials are well documented, no clues can be found. Nothing has been found that could be related to the origin. An Xiaoyu looked at the electronic board and fell into deep thought, of course, she is not a professional security guard, and she does not have considerable quality for things like detectives, but now it seems that the bright side of Windy City is indeed calm, at least yesterday when she was observing outside.

Then the question arises, since the people of origin are here, it is absolutely impossible for them to be completely faceless, where are they hiding, how do they act in ordinary times, entering and leaving the city, material transportation, message transmission, and even the destruction of domestic garbage, these have not left any traces?

Is it possible?

Gong Shanzhi obviously didn't plan to read these materials on the spot, but after thanking Miao Yu, he arranged some points that need to be paid attention to when he was on duty, and under the leadership of Miao Yu, he came to a separate office building.

The two-story building, the base is not small, the back is the police dormitory, it seems that no one has used it, the things inside are all new, at first glance, after getting the order this morning, Captain Miao temporarily arranged someone to arrange it, in order to give them as a temporary headquarters.

Gong Shanzhi was satisfied and took your head, thanked Miao Yu again, and then sent the local guards away, and arranged for someone to inspect the entire building. Check whether there are any security vulnerabilities inside, whether there are any listening devices, and the condition of each entrance and exit and room.

After all, when they arrive in a new place, this will become their base, not that they don't believe in Captain Miao, but what the origin wants to do, and it is really impossible for Captain Miao and these ordinary police officers to detect it. So it's better for them to do their own research, it's safer.

Of course, An Xiaoyu also got a dormitory of her own, the room here is enough, the other police officers are generally two people in one room, and when they arrive at the grandmaster, An Xiaoyu, Qu Shuanghua and Wang Zhen are also one person in one room, and the reason is also very good, among the people under Gong Shanzhi, there are really no women.

Since she is disguised as a cultivator under Gong Shanzhi, An Xiaoyu is of course Gong Shanzhi's subordinate, and Qu Shuanghua is a special investigator, that is to say, An Xiaoyu's disguised identity is the only woman in Gong Shanzhi's team. As for how to explain to the outside world, Gong Shanzhi accepted a female team member, so it's even better to say.

Because An Xiaoyu pretends to be a user of the law of space, a practitioner of the law of space, and is popular everywhere, as long as you have the law of space, who cares if you are a man or a woman? Pull in the team first, and then say, at most, I will give you a little more high conditions.

After arranging everything, An Xiaoyu and the others regathered in Gong Shanzhi's temporary office and talked about this mission. Gong Shanzhi frowned and said, "I really can't find a clue at all, it seems that the origin is indeed very cunning." ”

An Xiaoyu nodded: "Although I'm not sure if the origin is really here, but ninety percent of the time is certain, I don't dare to search Windy City on a large scale, because once my existence is discovered, the origin may be going to be ruined, and you still have to work hard to investigate." ”

"Well, it's a big deal to spread people out and make secret visits." Gong Shanzhi said.

Wang Zhen smiled: "Just look at it, secret visit?" Who do you think can disguise themselves as dead people? ”