Chapter 5: Departure (I)
In the morning, he woke up on time at the time he set, washed up, and ate breakfast, he picked up his duffel bag, glanced around the room, and made sure that nothing had been left behind, and then turned to leave, without nostalgia or concern.
When he arrived at the headquarters, Vito did not go upstairs, went to the household registration office or the secretariat where he had stayed, nor did he go to those familiar colleagues to catch up, but went directly to the basement floor, where and in the hall above ground there are stops for various lines of light rail, of course, these platforms are for all the staff working in this building to commute to work, they take these means of transportation to work, and sit on them to go home, which is very convenient. Guan Li told him to wait at platform 3 on the basement floor of the headquarters at 7 a.m., and someone would pick him up at that time.
There are about seven or eight underground tunnels on the four sides of the negative floor of the police headquarters, like seven or eight monster mouths towering on the four walls of the negative floor, ready to devour everything here at any time.
Vito quickly saw Platform 3 by the light of the horizon, and saw that there were already several people standing on the side of Platform 3, all of whom were not very old. He grabbed his backpack and walked towards Platform Three.
He walked to the platform, and it was not yet rush hour, and several light rail trains had no one to get off, so he hurried through the intersection and went their separate ways. There are only a few people on platform 3 on the entire basement floor. Vito looked left and right, and made sure that there were five people including himself, judging from the badge and dress, those four people were all natural people, young men about twenty years old, with bright eyes and tall and strong physique.
Several people stood in one place, neither of them speaking, and the four looked at Vito, apparently recognizing him as a synth, and their eyes only swept over him, not paying attention to him.
The hall on the basement floor was empty, except for the sound of the friction of the train on the light rail and the flow of air convection from time to time from the mouth of the tunnel.
The five of them looked around indifferently, as if they were all waiting for something, but there was no one walking around, only the occasional passing train.
"Why haven't you come yet?" The man standing in front of Vito to the right finally spoke, but it seemed to be talking to himself, in fact, he really wanted someone to talk to him to ease the awkward situation in front of him.
But the other three were like dumb people, they didn't even look at him, Vito had to keep silent, and others didn't ask him directly, so it would seem presumptuous to talk, plus the eyes of everyone looking at him, so he didn't want to speak. Since someone opened their mouths but did not open the embarrassing and depressing scene, everyone gave up the intention of talking and gossiping, and let the time pass slowly in a stiff atmosphere, until a train came to a stop at platform three.
The train stopped, but no one was ready to get on the train, because the people on the platform should have been notified that someone would come to pick him up, and when the four people were ready to continue waiting as if nothing had happened, but saw that Vito was not on the train either, the four of them looked at Vito with surprised eyes, and secretly wondered in their hearts: Is he too?
The door of the train opened, revealing a man in a khaki trench coat and a top hat with a low brim that prevented him from seeing his face, except for the short beard on his pointed chin. He stood at the door, but he didn't get out of the car, a sneer on his lips.
"Qiu Wuxi?"
"Ahh One of the people on Vito's left subconsciously responded, a dazed expression on his face.
"Villa."
"Yes." The person reacted normally.
"Barron."
"Yes."
"Edmund."
"Yes."
"Vito."
"Yes, sir." Vito replied politely, he raised his eyes to see the man's face, but felt the man's eyes collide with his own, and Vito felt a chill in his eyes, like a sharp sword.
"Very well, you all arrived on time, I'm very happy, and now I'm going to tell you very much that you're now in the training selection phase, and that selection is going through until you're allowed to leave, you're going to be eliminated at any time. Now you will be in the harbor in an hour, and find the ship that is waiting for you to depart, and it will take you to where you are going, and there is only one clue I can give you, and that is that the owner of the ship has a scab on the left side of his face, and there are three hairs on it. You can only embark on the journey of your dreams if you find the ship within the allotted time. It's 7:15 a.m., and the ship will leave at 8:15 p.m., so it's up to your own brain and luck to make it to the flight. ”
I don't know if it was arranged by him in advance or by coincidence, but when he finished speaking, the door of the light rail train slowly closed, and then the locomotive started, from slow to fast, Vito and they could only see the contemptuous smile on the face half-covered by the top hat and his slowly waving arms.
Platform 3 is not a line to the port, and they are all standing here because the people who informed them told them to wait at this platform. The line to the port was platform five, and while the man finished speaking, Edmund and Qiu Wuxian had already begun to run quickly to platform five, apparently they had decided to rush to the port and find the target ship by themselves.
Vito didn't move, his eyes glanced at Edmund and Qiu Wuxi, then looked in the direction of the train the man was taking, and then looked at the other two, he wanted to see the reaction of the others first.
At this time, Villa silently walked forward for a while, but not in the direction of platform five, looking at his appearance just to get away from them, sure enough, when he thought that the distance was enough, he raised his arm, Vito had sharp eyes, saw that he had an infinite communicator in his hand, he began to call outward, someone answered the phone, he began to whisper to the communicator. However, the distance he thought was enough was still within Vito's hearing range, and Vito could even hear what he said very clearly.
"Find me a man, a shipowner, who has a scab on the left side of his face, and three hairs on it, which must be done in forty minutes if he is fast."
“.......”
"Okay, the sooner the better, I'll wait for your news." After saying that, the guy named Villa hung up the communicator.
Look at the posture, this is a very wide range of people, with a lot of resources in his hands, and his confident appearance shows that he is quite confident in the people or doors he entrusts, and believes that they can find the goal he described within the specified time.
There was another one over there, named Barron, who didn't react right away like the other three, but stood there like Vito, looking left and right for a moment, making eye contact with Vito, and showing a smile, he smiled very cheerfully.