Chapter 368: Latent
At the end of the night, the sky is bright.
The rain stopped.
The shattered streets left deep shades of dark red puddles.
Collapsed houses hang shaky neon signs.
The rusty end of the sign was still dripping with rain.
"Tick ......"
Vic Lord sits by the dilapidated bar.
Beside him was a tattered corpse of a deformed man.
He reached out and picked up a bottle of white wine in good condition from the rubble, and tapped it on the tattered brick beside him.
"Bang!"
The bottleneck bursts.
The wine is spilled.
Vic took a few casual sips.
Kate, the blue race, stepped over the collapsed wall and walked into the bar, finding an unknown bottle of alcohol, breaking the bottleneck, and then sitting next to Vic.
In front of them was a dilapidated street.
There were also two or three scattered bodies on the street, in normal mood, waiting to be transported.
On a normal day, more than a hundred corpses would not have needed to be disposed of for so long, but now there are not enough people.
The people under both of them were forcibly transferred by Ivan to search for the machine all over the world.
It was a tiring night.
No one slept.
Vic's eyes were bloodshot.
Kate put down the bottle, turned her head to look at Vic, and turned off the headphones pinned to Vic's front of her.
"Ivan has already gone away, it's okay if you don't turn off your headphones, and now the two of us have lost contact with them." Vic said calmly.
"You have to be on guard."
Kate looked at the dilapidated scene in front of her and was full of emotion.
"My side has not yet been cleaned up, the collapsed building, the dead brother...... Many people are saying, I'm Kate dead, I'm burned down two floors in one night, like a lost dog......"
As he spoke, he licked the corners of his mouth, which were a little chapped.
Two sips of wine followed.
"Ivan's supplies will arrive in a few days, and you have nothing to worry about, just recruit a new batch." Vic said lightly.
"Aren't you the same?" Kate asked.
"It's different, it's my family who died."
"Those are just born deformed, and at most they can be counted as your people."
"I've heard that your Kate is pretty bad for her own people."
"That's just...... As a last resort. Kate responded, "If I give preferential treatment to the blue people in my area, more and more blue people will come to my area, and they will appreciate me if I give them low-cost potions, but not everyone can afford that cost, even if it is the original price...... They may band together and call on all the blue people to overthrow me under the gimmick of free potions. ”
As he spoke.
The corpse of a blue man was carried past the two men.
Vic's men weren't exactly deformed, and there were some of the other races as well.
Kate continued, "If I keep the original price of the potion, they will scold me, saying that I, the lord, have not done a good enough job and have not treated the people of the clan with preferential treatment...... If I give them free potions, there will be more and more blue people, and one day I will be dragged down and no longer provide them with them, and they will scold me again, and one day they will unite to overthrow me...... In this case, it is better to be a villain in the first place, raise the price of the potion, and let them all go to other areas. ”
Vic smiled faintly, as if he wasn't interested in the rhetoric.
He didn't turn his head, still looking at the ruined scene on the street, and said, "After all, you're still worried about losing this seat on the second floor." ”
"Yes."
Kate doesn't deny it.
After sitting in this position, no one wants to go down.
The mixed district is a cruel place, and Kate has suffered from poverty, so when she ascended to power, she became even more aggressive to his people and expelled them.
Vic has also experienced the days of crawling at the bottom, and knows that those days are very difficult, so after taking the position, he takes special care of those people at the bottom.
The two people have different philosophies.
There are also many people in the Freak race who need to use special potions to keep them alive.
"Actually, I've always wondered, can you see this third eye on your head?" Kate asked with a sudden smile.
"I can't see it, it's just flesh and blood."
"Then there shouldn't be many peripheral nerves, and you can consider a minor surgery to remove them."
"No...... It's good to be a deformed person, and there is nothing to envy about pure humans. ”
Vic looked down at the mangled deformed corpse beside him.
This is one of his more trusted subordinates.
When he was not in power, the two knew each other.
This person has a very strange appearance, his facial features are distorted, his eyes are asymmetrical, his nose is flat, the corners of his mouth are crooked to one side, his limbs are uncoordinated, he walks with a limp, hunchback, he was born in a high-rise world, and he was thrown into the mixed zone at the age of one and left to fend for himself...... He didn't have anything to do with fighting, in the darkness a few hours ago, he could only desperately hold Lu Wen's legs, hoping to drag it for even half a second.
Freaks have been ridiculed a lot when they grow up.
Even in a place like a mixed zone.
Vic remembers when he was young, crouching on a dark street corner, cloaked in rags, and telling his deformed brothers that if he became the owner of the second floor one day, he must give all his brothers a full meal.
Now those guys have all died in the rainy darkness of the early morning because of this full meal.
Now I want to come.
This two-story owner is also quite boring.
Kate suddenly said, "I heard...... The deformity rate of those humans on the ground is quite low, and there are few deformed ...... out of a hundred babies."
"How much do you know about the ground?" Vic turned to look at him.
"Not much...... It's just hearsay, after all, I've lived in the mixed zone all my life, and we have only Ivan here, and the old guy Golden Bear, who has been to the high-level world, and they may know more about the terrestrial world, but ......"
"What?"
"I actually never believed in that 'Heaven is coming.'"
"Heh......"
Vic smiled, holding up the broken bottle, and touched it with Kate.
"I don't believe it either."
The kingdom of heaven has come.
The extraterritorial kingdom of God descended on the earth and banished them to the earth.
This kind of nonsense is only believed by the real bottom.
"Where's Alan?" Vic asked.
"He just went back, saying that he wanted to appease the families of his dead brothers, and Ivan's first supplies should have been sent to him." Kate replied.
"In order, the first batch of supplies should be delivered to you first."
"There was no order in Ivan's eyes."
"The machine disappeared in the wee hours of the morning and never reappeared, you say he...... Is it really the limit? ”
"Limit?" Kate shook her head, "I don't even think that Ivan is the opponent of that machine in a one-on-one situation. ”
"But now, the entire three-story area is saying that the reason why that machine is hiding is because it doesn't dare to collide with Ivan head-on."
"I don't think Ivan himself would have believed ......"
……
Lu Wen was indeed hiding.
Having smashed three second-story buildings in one night, he was not as glamorous as he seemed on the surface.
As Dr. Jiang said, this body is inherently tailor-made for combat.
But there is a limit.
In the battles of last night's rainy night, he was hit by two bullets in the leg, but the metal layer under the bionic material was relatively tough, and it was forcibly stuck, and the inside was still damaged.
There were also fragments of several shells, which were also embedded in the body.
After being hit by multiple rocket launchers or howitzers, the operation of some modules in the body has a feeling of looseness and stagnation.
The arm knife on the right arm was severed, and numerous notches appeared in the blade of the left arm.
The bullets in his body poured out.
Lu Wen now.
Except for the two big killing weapons behind the back, which are useless, they have really reached the point of running out of ammunition.
Sit back and wait for the drone to send support.
……
The other side.
Ivan angrily patrolled the territory and roared and demanded that everyone find Lu Wen immediately.
Except for the disappeared Golden Bear and the three second-story lords who were smashed, the other second-story lords all cooperated with his actions and went door to door to find Lu Wen's traces.
"Lord Ivan, the blue mother and daughter are gone, and we don't have any means to threaten the appearance of the machine now."
"Then go find it! Keep looking, don't stop! ”
Ivan roared, fist at the punch, and his eyes bloodshot.
He was maddened by the feeling that his three-story territory had been violated and that he couldn't do anything about it.
If he could find it, he would definitely tear that guy apart in the first place.
"Yike...... It's Lord Ivan, I heard that your second floor has mutinied? A feminine voice came from afar.
Ivan glanced coldly at the other side.
This is the junction of two three-story buildings.
The man on the other side, who looked skinny, deliberately came over to see his jokes.
"Nuosen, take care of your own turf and don't have nothing to do."
"Ivan-sama, I'm here to care for you." A very sincere smile appeared on Northson's face, "If you really can't manage your own three-story area, I can reluctantly help you take on some of it, don't thank me." ”
Ivan just gave a look of disgust and a cold word.
"Get out!"
"Alas...... Why don't you know the hearts of good people......"
Northon sighed and shook his head.
The men on both sides were silent and silent.
Although Ivan was moody, he was still good compared to the one opposite.
This man, named Northam, was born deformed, was very ugly at birth, was abandoned by his parents, and later turned himself into a normal-looking ...... through repeated surgeries A machine in human skin.
"Lord Ivan, if you have anything, you can call me at any time."
Northen still smiled sincerely, and made a simple etiquette from a distance.
Ivan looked indifferent and walked away with his men.
……
At this time on the ground.
There are two days left until the referendum.
All kinds of rhetoric emerge one after another, and all forces are fighting for interests.
Suddenly, another rumor appeared.
"It is said that the city of Mou is preparing another plan for a floating city?"