Fog shrouded the city at dawn.

Red and blue dots of light flickered on both sides of the hazy streets, and the sound of "brushing" wafted in the morning breeze.

The droid who cleans the street starts a new day's work.

"Click!"

Lu Wen stepped on a leaf.

He walked into the alley on the side of the street, where countless wanderers were still asleep.

Most of them were padded with newspapers underneath them and covered with tattered clothing.

The little painter is an outlier among the wanderers.

He carries a sleeping bag with him at all times, and a drawing board is at his side.

In the middle of the night, he stroked the drawing board, his slender fingers running over the cold surface, as if to draw the stars in his dreams.

"The man is gone."

Empty sleeping bags.

"The wanderers around were not awakened, and they should have left on their own."

Although Lu Wen had only seen the little painter a few times, he probably knew the character of this young man.

The young man was timid and a little shy.

If you suddenly see a monster, it is likely to scream directly and wake up the wanderers around you.

Lu Wen touched the sleeping bag.

"It's still warm."

It didn't take long.

The artboard is still there, too.

The mobile phone was on the side of the sleeping bag, and he didn't take it away at all, Lu Wen followed the location of the mobile phone to find it.

It wasn't quiet all around, and the slight snoring of wanderers came and went.

It was rare that there was no rain on these two days, so there were no visible footprints on the ground.

"The tools such as the sketchpad are still there, and when people are faced with the fear of the unknown, they instinctively want to grab something to defend themselves, and he doesn't take anything with him......"

Lu Wen's heart sank.

But he turned suddenly, and in an instant, a sharp blade popped out of his right arm.

Chilling!

The sharp blade seemed to cut through the gray mist in the air.

The blade of the sword sliced through the pale shadows of the city of dawn.

"Ding ——!"

The sound of a blade colliding with some kind of metal.

In this early morning, it is accompanied by a gentle breeze.

Lu Wen strode forward.

All sensors in the body are adjusted to the maximum power, and it doesn't matter if the power consumption is consumed.

"That thing is missing?"

Lu Wen frowned.

In fact, the small alley where many wanderers are located is more suitable for fighting, and the empty street is not good for him, and it is wiser to retreat into the alley before, but those wanderers are likely to die.

If it was the body before, Lu Wen would definitely retreat.

But now it's different.

The first rays of sunlight were already shining at the end of the steel city in the distance, and it would not be long before the gray fog would dissipate considerably.

But on the street where Lu Wen was, the fog was getting thicker and thicker, and he could barely see his fingers.

If you were a normal person, you would be no different from being blind now.

"You should know that androids can measure the distance with a laser, and it's useless to do these things."

Induce the other person to speak.

Lu Wen is now in two hundred percent spirits.

In the past, when there was a sneak attack, the system didn't even send out any prompts.

On weekdays, as long as any creature stares behind Lu Wen for too long, or approaches quickly, the system will issue a command of [Attack Intent Detected].

But this time the system failed!

【Activate BATTLE MODE】

A sharp blade also pops out of the left arm.

Silently.

Lu Wen walked in the gray mist, his steps slow, like a silent killer.

Under his clothes, out of sight.

The surface biomaterial slowly faded, and the muzzles of countless black holes quietly appeared, no matter what it was, as long as you dared to approach, it would turn into a sieve in a few seconds.

[Radius of 100 meters, seven sewer manhole covers]

So much?

Is it because the rain is too intensive?

"I have refused to upgrade the monitoring of the city for 30 years, and the sewers have been repaired quite diligently."

The gray fog can give people a feeling of suffocation.

The fog grew thicker and thicker, creating a strong sense of oppression, sometimes surging and rolling, as if some strange creature was walking in the mist.

But Lu Wen did not detect any traces.

"I have an infinite number of ways to take you away, but it's too easy, and, I want to observe, you...... It's not what I thought it was. ”

A voice came from the gray mist.

In all directions, it seems to come from an unknown nothingness.

Lu Wen's perception was still blank for a while.

"Actually, I've seen a lot of androids who are more like people than you, and I took them back and took them apart one by one, the metal, the parts, the chips, the data...... I thought it would be different, but I was disappointed. ”

Maybe the other party already felt that the victory was in hand, and he felt that he could easily take down Lu Wen, so he didn't hide anything.

"You know what I'm looking for."

"It should have been a non-existent accident, a slim hope, and I don't know when I suddenly had this idea, like ...... An obsession. ”

The electronically synthesized voice is so low that you can't hear the original sound.

This is the same as described in the document.

This person always likes to pretend to be a ghost, making himself very mysterious, let alone the real body, and it is impossible to even give a real voice.

"This world shouldn't exist, these people shouldn't exist, and those who shouldn't have survived survived......"

"Uh...... Excuse me. ”

Lu Wen spoke very politely, bringing a sudden silence.

Even the surging gray fog calmed down.

"I've found that you all like to say things that confuse your mind, to show how mysterious you are, to make others think how good you are, but in fact...... You don't even notice that your brain is being targeted. ”

"Bang!"

A dull sound came from the sky.

……

The gray fog lifted.

At the same time, the sun on the horizon was dissipated.

Low-pressure clouds drifted from afar, but fortunately people were used to carrying umbrellas.

The world is always gray, as if it is dead, and what is alive is only those virtual projections.

"You made the plan this time, do you have any ideas?"

"If you have any ideas, just act."

Lu Wen shrugged his shoulders and sat on both sides of the street.

Xia Chuluo sat beside him, holding a cake in his hand and a sniper rifle at his side.

"Do you feel that after staying with me for a long time, your IQ has improved significantly?" She asked, taking a bite of the bread.

"Is it possible...... Am I already very high IQ? ”

"You're extra serious when you're not brainy."

“……”

This plan was really formulated by Lu Wen.

After hanging up the phone, he suddenly realized.

With the courage of a young painter, if he realized that the monster was underground, it was unlikely that he would calmly go to the official website of the Executive Directorate to check his contact information.

So there's only one possibility, someone wants him out.

And this person can only be Zero.

"This thing is supposed to scare me, and then see how I react to it, so as to judge what I am."

Zero didn't actually say much, but there was a message in his words - as long as he wanted, he could take Lu Wen away at any time.

This is to plant the seeds of fear in Lu Wen's heart, and then observe his reaction later.