C8
The satellite communication received in his head broadcast the news of Carlos' successful election as governor of the district.
"When Governor Carlos takes the oath of office, he will replace the former Minister of Security and most of the top management of the Metallurgical Security Institute. As for the reason why he removed his old subordinates who had followed him for many years, many media speculated that it was related to the almost assassination of Governor Carlos some time ago......"
The communication signal in the slums is very poor.
Although most towns have long since been updated to the point where there is no loss of information transmission, and the communication mode with information delay close to zero, it is still easy to have a short information delay in the slum wormhole near the bottom level.
The man stood at the top of the wormhole, quietly listening to the latest information, looking out at the tallest building in the center of the town.
He wore a crimson cloak that almost covered him, with a hood pulled up over his head. In the glare of the sun,
The brim of the hat cast a shallow shadow on his face, and only the bridge of his nose was high, and his sleek, skeletal chin was clearly resolute.
“…… Here's the news of the satellite town. In satellite towns near the towns surrounding the ENA-79 District, at 7:00 a.m. local time, the Ye'an patrol found the body of an unnamed red-haired woman. The female corpse's teeth and fingerprints have been severely damaged, and no corresponding information can be found in the DNA database. Residents are welcome to provide clues and help ......"
The man's originally relaxed hanging fingers moved slightly, and his fingers shook towards his palm, closing the news.
The wormhole is about hundreds of meters high, and the side facing the town is densely packed with holes, and it is full of ordinary residents.
There is an inaccessible trail on the back of the wormhole facing the radiation zone, which is unmaintained due to the strong radiation around it and uninhabited, and is steep and smooth, almost impossible to climb by human beings.
The wind blew his cloak, and the man pressed the edge of the cloak with one hand, and turned to walk towards the back of the wormhole.
He slowly lowered his center of gravity, his legs spread apart at obtuse angles, and crouched at the entrance to the path.
From this angle, the area on the back of the wormhole is almost perpendicular to the horizon of the ground - a slightly weaker heart, or a person who is afraid of heights, may be scared into a cold sweat just by looking down like this.
The man's movements caused the cloak he wore over his body to lift an angle at the side of his legs, revealing the soft leather boots with metal soles on his feet.
Seeing that no one around him was paying attention, he stopped deliberately pressing his hood and lowered his hands to keep his balance.
The hat was blown down by the wind of the hunt on the heights, revealing the face of the man under the cloak.
Unlike the slightly old-fashioned dress, the person in the cloak was actually only sixteen or seventeen years old, with a very young face, not so much a man, but perhaps a teenager.
The long silver hair grew lighter in the sunlight, and the contrast to his almost albinistic skin was extremely low, and the edges of the hair were not clearly separated from his fair and perverted forehead. The face was almost perfectly symmetrical, with a pair of impressive purple eyes, and the difference between the pupils and the pupils was not very distinct, except that the dark purple eyes were darker near the middle of the eyeball.
The strange-looking boy had long, pointed ears—large pinna, like the elven ears described in ancient books.
He took a deep breath.
In the nest across the lanth, the youngest girl in the Morris family poked her head out to look out.
Although it has been a long time since I have seen that good-looking teenager, every time the girl habitually looks out, her little heart will still "plop" and beat faster.
The girl didn't see the figure she was expecting, but she saw an incomparably strange sight.
The figure wearing a red cloak and silver hair sprinted down at an extremely high speed along the back of the opposite wormhole, which was extremely steep and slippery, almost perpendicular to the ground.
The man's movements were very light, and his movements were as graceful as flowing water, like a dancer in the wasteland...... Or the young red horned antelope she had seen on the old television set at home.
She was about to call her brother over and rub her eyes, but the red-robed and white-haired strange man she had just seen had long since disappeared into the air, as if it were just a short daydream of a girl in the scorching and irritating air of midsummer.
The water on the showerhead was gurgling.
In this barren area, where even safe drinking water is precious, at the bottom of a wormhole, the owner of the house shows leisurely showering with a song out of tune.
Silver hair was soaked and clinging to his body, and the milky foam of the shower gel was thinning out along the water, scrambling to enter the drainage system with the whirlpool.
The long, big ears of the housekeeper suddenly turned in a certain direction.
The faint, barefoot sound of stepping on his wooden floor came from a distance of about a few meters from his bathroom.
He continued to listen with his ears pricked up alertly, and the out-of-tune singing continued, and there were signs of interruption at the slightest anomaly. The bathing boy continued to sing, but his blood-red eyes stared firmly through the water curtain at the blurred black shadow that gradually emerged outside the shower curtain.
The deer reached out to the bump on the wall where bath supplies were placed, and pushed the tiles above. The extremely well-made trap behind the tile slowly opens and flips over, revealing a silver hunting knife embedded in the back of the tile.
The deer put the knife up and hid it behind his arm.
The attack took place in a matter of seconds.
And the deer attack is faster.
The man only felt that his waist and abdomen had received a great impact, and the boy broke the shower curtain and came out, relying on the weight of his whole body to knock the uninvited guest directly to the ground - his brain buzzed after receiving a great impact, and his eyes seemed to be surrounded by black mist, and the purple eyes of the deer stood out and looked down at him indifferently.
The man's jaw was also elbowed by the boy when he swung the knife, and his mouth was full of blood—the broken teeth rubbed against his mouth like broken cups and saucers in the blood.
Because the wound was too sudden, the deer's attack was too fast, and all kinds of severe pain were delayed, and only then did they arrive.
The deer's left knee knelt at the softest part of the visitor's abdomen, and the sharp hunting knife was less than a centimeter from his throat.
The boy's control of force was very precise, and he didn't intend to kill the intruder directly, but he also didn't intend to give him any chance to fight back.
Lying in the center of the broken floor tiles in the bathroom was a child who looked about the same age as the deer:
The shabby clothes barely covered most of the torso, and the flesh was just enough to cover the skeleton - a dirty face, a pair of brown eyes that were white and yellowish.
After being hit hard, the intruder coughed violently, still not begging for mercy, but still aimed at the deer's face and spat out.
Seeing the appearance of the comer, the deer laughed contemptuously, stood up, and tore off the clean towel to wipe the blood off his face.
Poor jurisdictions have extremely high crime rates.
When ordinary people are forced by the environment and there is no normal way to improve their lives, many people will choose similar "shortcuts".
And such a poor person who tries to rob a house is close to zero threat compared to a deer.
The traps and weapons in his house were not for these petty poor people.
“…… Go out and buy something to eat," the deer took out a few change from the clothes he had just taken off and threw them on him.
"Ten seconds, if you don't disappear from my eyes, cut off your organs and sell them for money."
The thief lying on the ground picked up the money and struggled to get up, his dirty and numb face showing no gratitude, and no fear of death. He limped and dragged his battered body through the over-clean and even somewhat hollow living room, leaving a trail of blood on the gray floor, tumbling out of the broken windows, and disappearing from the deer's view.
The deer stood in a messy bathroom, stepping on the broken tiles through the half-cut shower curtain he had cut off and walking to the huge mirror of the bathroom.
Unlike his young, clean, and even somewhat androgynous face, his muscular body was covered with deep and shallow scars, old and new.
The deer's long, fabled-like elven ears relaxed as it listened to the intruder's distance.
[Please fix my windows and update the security system.] 】
The deer said to the "butler".
Although he knew that the other party was not a real artificial being, the deer was still accustomed to using polite words such as "please" and "thank you".
What did you just say in the news?
Governor Carlos was sworn in and immediately removed the former Minister of Security—
It seems that he is still like a god, and such a small "surprise" made the seemingly indestructible Governor of Carlos suspicious.
Carlos's red-haired lover was soon found to be a "nameless female corpse" in the gray area between the two jurisdictions after his "assassination". Lu carefully examined the body before the Ye'an officer intervened, and determined that not only had her face and fingerprints destroyed cleanly, but all her teeth had been extracted, preventing the medical examiner from identifying her based on dental records.
Based on the protection of the privacy of residents' data, anyone who does not have any criminal record only leaves basic information such as dental records, face and fingerprints in the system.
Carlos's shadows treated his old lover like this, and I am afraid that they all know that she is innocent and has no criminal record, and even if she is discovered, it will not leave any hidden dangers in the future.
This man is cunning and cautious by nature, and the city is very deep, and if you want to catch his tail, you really have to take it step by step.
The deer sighed that the man was like a god, stepped on the broken glass with an indifferent expression, picked up the new clothes that had been washed and put them on.
The water temperature of the pool was just right.
This is the thirtieth lap, 50 meters back and forth, and after swimming, you can go ashore and prepare to take a shower and go home.
Sixteen thought silently.
Originally, she didn't want to swim today, this time is close to the exam, and the pressure is too much, but after thinking about it, she still came - she just stayed up late last night to read the paper, and after only a few alveoli, it was obvious that she was a little weak, and she soon felt tired and sore.
She continued to force her to shoot a few more waters, opening her eyes at the bottom of the water and looking around at the pool walls that she had long been tired of seeing.
The young girl seems to be a goldfish enclosed in a fish tank, or an insect trapped in resin and struggling to leave.
The blue swimming pool water, the underwater backlight looks, you can see the strange waves on the water surface, the mark on the pool seems to be a huge black cross, usually every day looks nothing, but today I inexplicably feel a little crazy.
She reassured herself that it was only due to her own ill health, and swam a few more times.
Look, isn't there nothing now?
She deliberately forced herself to lower her head again and open her eyes under the water.
Except for the bubbles around his mouth and nose and the controlled exhalation, the water around him is as quiet as ever.
The scene on the left and right is nothing more than the turquoise pool water, and the occasional current fluctuation is only the swimmers in the adjacent lane breaking the waves.
The rumbling sound of the water as the swimmers slid and slapped was like thunder in the distance in the dark night.
Ahead, it was the mark of the pool she was tired of seeing.
Look, it's really just that I'm too stressed and tired, and Sixteen comforted himself.
Down......
She instantly forgot that her nose was still underwater, and she inhaled in horror and inhaled a large gulp of pool water.
An extremely symmetrical, even slightly distorted human face, looking at her from a height of a meter under the water, levitated-
In her panic, she thought it was some boring swimmer who was deliberately diving underneath to be scary, but there were no large number of bubbles around the pale face from breathing.
Without warning, the face that was close to perfection and therefore seemed a little mysterious seemed to smile at her.
The thin lips gradually split, and the curvature extends to the corners of the mouth.
Caught off guard, the upper and lower lips were pulled apart until they reached the base of the ear—where the grin was open, revealing two rows of extremely sharp, jagged fangs.
Sixteen screamed almost uncontrollably, as if she had forgotten that she was still underwater, and her brain was subconsciously thirsting for more oxygen.
The pool water filled her with the smell of disinfectant poured into her airways and lungs.
The will to survive caused her to immediately raise her head and surface, grasping the nearest float that divided the lane with both hands, and inhaling in large gulps, trying to stop her cough.
That's an illusion, right?
The girl comforted herself in horror as she tried to stop her violent coughing from inhaling the pool water.
The strange smile and the two rows of crocodile-like teeth still seemed to be in front of him.
"Hurry up!"
The voice of the lifeguard seemed to drift from afar.
"Everyone, hurry up!!"
In the blue pool, small patches of red gradually spread out.
There was a strong pain in the position of the leg, and the body was dragged down by the huge force. Sixteen coughed, forcing himself to cough up the water from his lungs. She struggled and continued to hold on to the float, almost pressing her whole body weight on the arm-thick float.
Frightened to the extreme, Sixteen suddenly calmed down - she remembered untimely that face as if she had seen it somewhere.