The road to the police station was not smooth.

The main reason is that the city is too big.

Jietan City is a very developed metropolis that can be seen at a glance, and its area will not be smaller than any other provincial capital, even if it cannot be compared with the actual Shengjing, which has expanded several circles in a row, or continuously annexed several districts.

According to the information from Shen Ming's torture, the police station is in the center of the city, the most central area of the city.

You know, in reality, if we want to rush from the outskirts of the city to the city center, it takes about a few tens of minutes to take a bus, and some larger cities have it for nearly an hour.

The city of Sister Tan is now completely chaotic, the roads are full of abandoned cars, many sections of the road are blocked by these ownerless vehicles, people have to find a way to turn over the car on foot, and it is naturally impossible for buses to continue to operate.

And it can be seen that this game should be set in a near-future world, and many of the technologies in it are more advanced than in reality.

Like the long suspended railroad track suspended above the main road, five or six stories high, its branches are firmly fixed to the surrounding buildings, using them as bridge piers, and building a bridge over the winding road.

This suspended "road" is not an ordinary vehicle, but a railroad train hanging upside down on the suspended rails, which is similar to the common subway in reality.

Unfortunately, many sections of the current suspended track have been broken by unknown forces, and several of those trains have fallen from mid-air and smashed into the streets.

Or the ordinary cars on the street, which look sleek and more avant-garde and fashionable than the real cars, but unfortunately they can no longer play a role in this congested and cluttered street.

The traffic was completely paralyzed, and Shen Ming could only let his two legs move back and forth repeatedly, heading towards the city center.

Of course, it is very hard to walk all the time, but it is precisely because of this slow pace of progress step by step that Shen Ming further understands the chaos of this city.

The cut off traffic is only the slightest manifestation of the consequences of this chaos, and even more serious are corpses, corpses of all kinds, everywhere.

Some of them fell straight to the ground, and they could see clear wounds on their bodies; Some of them crashed into the front windshield and lay on the hood; Some didn't know what was going on, and were hung by ropes from street lamps; Some of the dozen bodies were piled together, and as soon as they passed there, they could smell an astonishing stench; Others seem to have fallen from a great height, falling into a soft puddle on the sidewalk......

Whether it was the smell of blood or the smell of corpses, whether it was the blackened skin of a dead man, or the wriggling maggots on the rotting corpse, they were all impacting Shen Ming's senses wave after wave, testing his stomach control.

Of course, there are other, less depressing discoveries.

For example, Shen Ming's test found very clearly that this should be a Western city, most of the people in the city are Caucasian, a small number are black, and the yellow-skinned and black-haired people have not been found in the corpse so far.

In addition, the city is not all criminals, there are still civilians, for example, in some areas with more apartments, or civilian communities, you can see some organized civilian self-protection teams from time to time, they are men and women, old and young, and they have built barricades on the main roads, and some strong men hold weapons to guard the key positions in the area.

Shen Ming even encountered an incident where a gang besieged a civilian self-protection area, and activated his ability to help these poor people.

It's just that even though he revealed his identity as a superhero, these civilians who formed associations to protect themselves were still wary of him, and their eyes were full of doubt.

Fortunately, after a round of negotiations, he finally got the qualification to pass through this block, and he didn't need to find another road to detour.

In addition to residential areas, there are also commercial areas, but it is not difficult to see that this side has long been swept away, especially the supermarkets that provide food and pharmacies that provide medicines, most of them have been smashed with their doors and windows, and the shelves are empty and clean.

It is not difficult to understand that a large city consumes a huge amount of materials every day, especially all kinds of fresh food, which is transported from the surrounding areas to the city in large quantities almost every day.

Just like the vegetable basket project in China, under the unified arrangement and dispatch of the government, at three or four o'clock in the morning in the general prefecture-level cities, hundreds of large and small freight vehicles will drive into the suburbs to transport the freshly picked vegetables and freshly slaughtered meat to various large supermarkets, vegetable markets, and distribution stations, and then from these places, they will be delivered to various restaurants and small supermarkets in batches......

Although the West does not call it this name, there is a corresponding mechanism, but with the current situation in Jietan City, presumably food from other places outside the city cannot be transported in, and people in the city can only eat stock.

And hunger is a very terrible thing, although the conflict between the various forces in Sister Tan City is not too fierce now, but once the food in the city is exhausted, the situation will be even worse at that time.

Of course, if the city is lucky enough to have someone with superpowers who can create food out of thin air, that's a different story.

In addition, as he continued to get closer to the city center, Shen Ming also discovered something else worth noting.

For example, it broke into two sections in the middle and collapsed half of the building; For example, the shallow imprints on the asphalt road, the huge, like the footprints of monsters; For example, there is a large circular pit on the ground that is more than ten meters in diameter and more than one meter deep; For example, small cars, armored cars, and tank cars that have been trampled into pieces of iron by something; For example, the surface of a building looks as if it has been corroded by something, and the walls of both walls have turned potholes black......

All of them are very shocking and imaginative.

All the way forward, all the way to observe, all the way to kill, all the way to electricity, all the way, finally, Shen Ming saw the headquarters building of the Jietan City Police Department.

This building is not very high, it is only twelve floors, and there is a big police badge painted on the wall, and below the police badge is "Sister Tan City Police Department" six big characters.

However, the building was war-torn at first glance, with large chunks in the walls as if they had been bombarded by bazookas, and black mottled after the gunpowder had been burned; The exterior windows of the entire building were almost useless, and none of them were intact, all of them had become holes; On the street outside the building, a three-meter-high fence was built with burned car wreckage, sandbags, iron bars, and stones from nowhere, enclosing the building and several buildings next to it.

From time to time, shadowy figures can be seen on this improvised fence, as well as in the dark windows of the building behind them, and on the roof of the headquarters building, all of them armed with weapons.

Shen Ming didn't rush closer, but found a nearby building, walked up the stairs, found someone to go to the empty office, carefully poked his head out of the window, and began to carefully check the situation at the police station.

Of course, this is due to his usual caution, although in the mission briefing it is said that there are still military police resisting on the police station, but things are often changing rapidly, and who knows if these people are still resisting? Could it be another large criminal organization entrenched here?

If you want to do things as well as possible and avoid risks as much as possible, you need to collect as much intelligence as possible and formulate a plan to minimize accidents.

After observing for a while, Shen Ming found that many of the people patrolling the police station headquarters were wearing blue police uniforms and black body armor, and there were even many soldiers in gray-green camouflage uniforms, and even at the door of the building, there were two armored vehicles loaded with machine guns on the roof.

It doesn't look like a gangster of criminals, but there are countless things like clothes, and it is possible to kill all the people here and strip them of their clothes to wear.

After observing for a while, Shen Ming's eyes froze.

I saw that on another fork in the road next to it, a group of people were slowly approaching the side of the police headquarters building, and the leader and the broken back of the group were also a few people wearing police uniforms and military uniforms and helmets, and they were surrounded by more than a dozen people in different clothes, who seemed to be civilians, these people were men, women, and several children, and several of them were carrying bulging backpacks on their backs.

The group fought for a short time in front of the improvised fence of the headquarters building, and then a pile of things was removed from the wall to make way for them, and the group entered, and the rest walked into the headquarters, while one of the men in police uniforms led the group of civilians into a building behind the police headquarters.

Thanks to the body completion system of the virtual reality game, Shen Ming's myopia and astigmatism in the original reality no longer exist, and his eyesight is very good, although the distance is a little far, but it can be seen that these dozen civilians do not seem to be forced, they walk a little casually, and the people on the opposite side do not scold, do not do anything like that.

It seems that yes, these people are indeed the military and police who are still resisting and maintaining harmony in the city!

Thinking of this, Shen Ming turned around and went downstairs, of course, he was still wearing the superhero custom uniform that was very difficult to wear.

"Who? Stop it! As soon as he appeared in the field of vision of the military police on the improvised fence, the shouting from the opposite side came: "I order you to stop!" Identify yourself! Otherwise, shoot! ”

Unlike before on the bridge, Shen Ming stopped, shook the superhero card in his hand, and said boldly: "I am a new superhero sent by the Harmony Alliance, Nine Heavens Ying Yuan Thunder Puhua Tianzun!" ”

There was an uproar on the other side, and then faded away, no sound, and certainly no response.

After waiting for a while, almost three minutes, another voice sounded from the other side, it was a somewhat hoarse male voice: "Please don't come closer!" We'll send someone to verify your identity! I repeat again! Please don't come close! ”

With a breath coming out of his nose, Shen Ming didn't raise his legs.

In a short time, as before, a small obstacle was removed, and three fully armed soldiers in camouflage uniforms, wearing hoods and helmets, armed with large blast shields, rifles, and submachine guns, approached in small steps.

"Please show your ID!" The one who spoke was the one with the blast shield, and the other two aimed the muzzle of the gun in their hands at Shen Ming.

Shen Ming handed him the ID card in his hand.

He stretched out his hand from behind the explosion-proof shield, took the identity card, looked at it repeatedly, handed it back, and then said: "Due to the limited equipment, we can't judge the authenticity of the identity card, please take out your exclusive mobile phone again!" Let me take a look at the interface after unlocking! There is also an exclusive APP of the Harmonyrs Alliance! ”

Should you be so cautious? If I unlock my phone, he won't come and grab it, right? But don't be afraid, at such a close distance, unless he is a fifth-order rubber ability or a spatial ability, once I explode with force, I can quickly kill them!

Thinking of this, Shen Ming still took out his mobile phone from a hard pocket on his waist, brushed it with his face, jumped to the main interface, and then clicked on the exclusive APP again and opened it.

The man looked at the interface of the phone, and then at each other with his companion next to him, and his tone was uncertain: "Are you really a superhero?" The kind of superhero like Mr. White Bird? ”

"Yes." Shen Ming nodded seriously, and then leaked a little bit of information: "And I'm also the same as White Birdman, both of whom are fifth-order superpowers." ”

However, the voice of the leader did not have the joy that he had expected, but a faint sense of helplessness: "Since this is the case...... Okay, then you come with us. ”

Although he was a little puzzled by their attitude, Shen Ming still followed them into the gap and into the small wall.

There were more people in the wall than Shen Ming guessed, there were almost thirty or forty of them, all of them were holding guns, their eyes were sharp, as if they were admiring the giant pandas in the zoo, they surrounded Shen Ming in the middle, and the muzzle of the gun in their hands was half-released, as if they would raise their guns to shoot at any time.

The shield-wielding soldier in the lead trotted two steps to a strong man in a black leather coat with two large silver pistols pinned to his waist, a short head and a beard, and looked to be in his forties, and whispered something to him.

The beard took two steps forward, and his voice was hoarse: "Can you unlock the phone again, let's confirm it?" ”

"Hey~" sighed, Shen Ming had to take out his mobile phone again, unlock it, and show it around.

In the midst of the exclamations around him, the beard took a closer look at the phone interface, and then nodded: "Okay, I believe you are the new superhero!" ”

"You're in charge here? What the hell is going on here? What happened? How did that White Bird Man disappear? Shen Ming had too many questions in his heart, and he couldn't wait to ask them all at once.

"I'm Sheriff James, and I'm the temporary commander here, huh...... The director and the deputy director have all died. The beard stretched out his hand: "As for other questions, let's go in and talk about it." ”

Shen Ming also stretched out his hand and shook his hand, and then the two walked into the police headquarters building together.

The headquarters building was a bit of a mess, even the corridors were full of stuff, bags of flour, boxes of bullets, a handful of reclining firearms, and a few rooms, as well as wounded people lying on makeshift beds, wrapped in bandages, and occasionally moaning......

The two went straight up the safety staircase to the third floor and into a room.

The room was simple, looking like an office, with a large desk in the middle, a folding bed in the corner, and a very detailed, large map of the entire city hanging on the wall.

"This is my office and bedroom." The beard introduced it slightly, and then shrugged his shoulders: "I'm sorry, there is no electricity now, and I can't make a coffee to entertain you." ”

"It's okay." Shen Ming waved his hand: "I also just arrived in Jietan City, and I don't know the specific situation here, can you explain it to me a little?" ”

"Absolutely." The beard was heavy: "I can only say that the current situation is very serious, the city has completely turned into a nest of evil, almost every moment, hundreds of innocent people die in the city, and the power of evil is far stronger than ours, we people, we can hold the surrounding few blocks is already doing our best......"

Shen Ming heard his words: "Don't worry, I don't need your exact support, just keep maintaining the status quo, I just want to know some information in this city, such as those large criminal organizations, or high-level super criminals and the like." ”

"Oh...... That one...... Let's follow the map. After listening to Shen Ming's explanation, the beard looked a little embarrassed, stood up, and walked to the map on the wall.

Then, he began to introduce: "You see, we are here now, almost the center of the city, and the scope of influence and protection is so great at the moment, from here to here, almost four blocks, we have requisitioned all the adult men in the neighborhood, together to defend against the wicked outside, to collect supplies, and every day people are sacrificed. ”

"Because the city's previous security situation was not very good, so after the alien incident, due to the addition of super criminals, the city was rapidly flooded with criminal organizations, large and small, I don't know how many, they are attacking everywhere every day, grabbing territory, humiliating, robbing ordinary people, and constantly merging, merging, and splitting each other...... So we can't say how many criminal organizations there are in the city now. ”

"But these are small organizations, not worth mentioning, and it will be easy to wipe them out when Mr. White Bird is here. The key is several large organizations, there were originally four, one was defeated by Mr. White Bird, and now there are three left......"

"Oh, the defeated is the 'Blood Crocodile Gang' that originally occupied this area in the south of the city, their boss Chagaev was originally an underground black boxer, after the alien incident, awakened the fifth-order transformation superpower [Crocodile God], and formed' Blood Crocodile Gang', he can incarnate into a huge crocodile more than eight meters high, his body is huge, his strength is endless, even the special armor-piercing bullet of the T29 tank can't penetrate his skin, so we are helpless at all, fortunately, because he is too threatening, Mr. White Bird gave priority to solving him, and he fought a big battle in the south of the city, successfully killed him, and completely destroyed the 'Blood Crocodile Gang', but unfortunately before we stabilized the south of the city, Mr. White Bird disappeared...... Hey......"

"The other three large forces are the 'Purple Skull and Bones Society' entrenched in the Easton Chemical Plant in the north of the city, and their old Dao Bolton was originally an ordinary worker in the factory, but accidentally fell into the chemical factory's reactor during the alien event, causing his original ability to mutate. According to the analysis of the information we have obtained, he should also be a fifth-order superpower now, and his original ability may be [Hydration], which can transform into water, but now, he can transform into a large area of dark purple special liquid, which is extremely corrosive, and it only takes a second to completely turn people into white bones...... White Bird Man had fought with him once before, but the two of them were helpless against each other, and in the end, they didn't do it. ”

"Then there's the Wayne Group, led by Miss Catherine, located here, in the west of the city, the original economic pillar of the city, and one of the largest private weapons manufacturing companies in North Rice, and their high-tech weapons are sold all over the world. As one of the greatest geniuses in this continent, Miss Catherine also awakened a fifth-order superpower during this alien event, which we call [Starfall], she can summon very huge stones to fall on the earth, and the power is very amazing, and she has repelled several attacks led by the 'crocodile god' Chagaev. ”

"Fortunately, Miss Catherine is a kind person, and her Vayne syndicate has not degenerated into a criminal organization, but has only occupied a small area in the western part of the city, and along with the employees of her company, they are guarding their families at the syndicate premises. When Mr. White Bird was there, Miss Catherine even cooperated with us many times and provided us with a large number of arms, weapons, food and medicine, which has allowed us to survive until now. Unfortunately, after Mr. White Birdman disappeared, the Wayne Group cut off contact with us. ”

"The last one is Haha Island in the east of the city, which has always been a slum area in the city, with a high crime rate and a very complex environment.

"But it's not much of a threat there for the time being, after the alien event, Haha Island was shrouded in a large fog, no one knows what happened inside, none of the people we sent to check came back, when Mr. White Bird Man first came, he also went to investigate, and he entered the fog for more than an hour before coming out, except for warning us not to send people over, but he didn't explain anything to us......"

Hearing this, Shen Ming couldn't hold back any longer, he opened his mouth and asked, "Will the disappearance of White Bird Man be related to this Haha Island?" For example, he could be on that island? ”

"Nope." Inspector James shook his head, with a thick helplessness in his voice: "It has nothing to do with Haha Island, Mr. White Birdman's disappearance is because he was invited by Mr. X to participate in Mr. X's game ......"

"Mr. X? Who is that? Shen Ming was puzzled.

"Mr. X is not a man, he is a devil!" After a pause, Inspector James emphasized, "He's the real devil!" ”

You can hear the fear in his voice that can't be concealed.

"The devil? Morph or Superman? Can he transform into the devil of myths and legends? Shen Ming continued to express his puzzlement.

"Nope." Inspector James bit his head: "He ......"

At this point, Inspector James's voice stopped abruptly, it was a very abrupt stop, like the music being played was suddenly pressed the pause button.

"What's wrong with him?" Shen Ming asked.

Inspector James raised his head, tilted slightly sideways, the corners of his mouth turned up, his eyes widened, staring at Shen Ming deadly, his expression was completely different from before.

His expression changed from the original serious and deep, and suddenly changed into a very strange perverse and crazy, but his expression changed, as if he had completely changed a person.

His voice was still hoarse, but his tone was full of frivolity: "You're the new superhero, huh?" ”

"Huh?" Shen Ming was a little confused.

"Introduce yourself first." Detective James said in a surprising voice: "I...... It's Mr. X. ”

Then, his right hand was raised, and in his hand was the large-caliber silver pistol he had pinned to his waist.

However, the pistol was not pointed at Shen Ming, but at his own temple.

The smile on his face remained the same:

"Welcome to my city!"

Followed by.

"Phew!"

Gunshots rang out, skulls exploded, and brains scattered.