Chapter 678: The Tree of Sin
In just one day, there were two vicious incidents in District 1.
At first, the air conditioner of a certain company failed, and all the team responsible for maintenance were killed, and then a sudden explosion occurred under a certain section of the road, resulting in a major car accident on the road section resulting in three deaths and one injury.
Outside the window, the sky had completely darkened, and Song Lan moved a chair to sit by the window, looking out over the unique night view of the first district, and the TV behind her broadcast local news.
The migrant workers in the opposite building are still working overtime day and night, as if everything that happens outside the company has nothing to do with them.
He felt that he had been deceived.
Obviously, everyone told him that District 1 was one of the areas with the best security environment, and there were more than two six-star rescuers at all times of the year, so that even the craziest criminals would not dare to make a mistake in this place, but he had only arrived in District 1 for a short time, and so many people had died.
Now Song Lan seriously suspected that some of them had a Conan physique, and they would die wherever they went.
"Dong Dong Dong, Dong Dong Dong-"
The sudden knock on the door seemed a little hurried, and without waiting for Song Lan to respond, the knocker reported his identity and said, "Mr. Luqi, I'm Natalie, MI7 just received important information, please open the door!" ”
Years of salted fish intuition made Song Lan understand that it would not be good for MI7 to look for him.
He stretched and opened the door with some reluctance.
"Mr. Lucci, we just learned that an alternate is missing! This is information about his identity. ”
The photo on the electronic business card is so familiar, just like the yellow-haired youth in NTR's work, facing the camera with his right hand and making a victory gesture, smiling.
"'Sub-Aerospace Barrier', you should have seen him earlier, he was last seen at the scene of the disappearance of the air conditioning maintenance team, and the Captain of the Enforcers said he went to the sewers alone."
They had every reason to suspect that the sudden explosion that followed was the aftermath of the fight between the Sub-Aerospace Barrier and the attackers.
But as the investigation deepened, they gradually discovered the strangeness of the whole thing.
The company to which the "Aerospace Barrier" belonged was unaware of this, which was more like his personal behavior, but the details of the scene described by the Captain of the Enforcers contradicted the account provided by the company - the captain saw the "Aerospace Barrier" carefully film the scene with his mobile phone before entering the sewers, and send it to someone.
They guessed that the person who handed over to him should be the company's liaison with him.
"We investigated all the people in the company who were involved in the 'sub-air barrier', but when we found the liaison, he suddenly jumped off the building, and before jumping, he destroyed all the personal data, and we have sent the best hackers to try to recover the damaged data."
Although the process is tortuous and bizarre, and the ending is sentimental, Song Lan always feels that this is not strange at all.
He rarely saw someone who could put cannon fodder lines on his lips at any time like Yakong.
"Tell me, what do you need me to do?"
"This is the location of the explosion, which may be the last place where the 'Sub-Aerospace Barrier' appeared, and our investigation team has not found any useful information, so I would like to ask you, the expert, to go to the scene to take a look."
"I see."
Song Lan whistled, and the night heron, who was so bored that she was rolling on the bed, finally lit up and flew to his shoulder happily.
"Excuse me, Mr. Luffy!"
……
The location of the explosion is not difficult to find, it seems that out of the protection of the scene, the law enforcers in District 1 blocked the entire section of the road and did not call the maintenance team, after all, this matter involves the disappearance of a six-star candidate, but what they didn't expect was that the first person to provide this news was not the company behind the "sub-air barrier", but their grassroots personnel.
"Captain, captain, someone's coming."
Someone patted the captain who was sorting out the information, and as soon as she looked up, she saw Song Lan, who was walking slowly to the scene of the accident, and there was a strange vulture standing on his shoulder.
They have already been greeted by the above, and they will send an expert over in a moment.
She immediately sorted out all the information she could think of about the eucalyptus, which included information about each victim in addition to the clues found at the scene, and they spent the afternoon investigating the interpersonal relationships of the victims of the maintenance team, but found nothing.
The victims were very ordinary staff members, and no one had a grudge against them and wanted to kill them.
"I don't think it's a deliberate killing, it's a random killing."
The captain greeted him and handed the data chip that saved the details of the eucalyptus to Song Lan, "This is the information I have sorted out, please take a look." ”
"I didn't bring my laptop."
Song Lan waved her hand, but this response made the captain fall silent.
She had to look at Song Lan with confused eyes.
Laptop?
In order to communicate effectively, each of them must undergo a prosthetic transplant before employment, install a unified chip slot, and install a data reading system to facilitate their more effective communication and record all the details about the criminals.
This is standard even in the more powerful parts of the Anomaly Investigation Bureau, MI7 or the counterintelligence service.
She has worked in District 1 for so many years, and she has never met an expert who can't connect with data.
"Then you wait a minute, I'll ask them to bring a notebook from the bureau......"
"No, I'll just go down and have a look."
"But ......"
The captain wanted to say something, but saw Song Lan go straight to the huge hole created by the explosion and jump down.
A glimmer of foreboding welled up in my heart.
It was the second time in a day that she had seen something like it.
The last person who jumped into the sewer like this has become a missing person.
She didn't understand why all the experts who had been assigned from above were so maverick, and she complained a few words in her heart, and the captain gathered the people on the scene and moved the searchlights so that the experts could see the situation in the sewers.
And the moment he landed, a familiar feeling came to his heart, and Song Lan immediately thought that he had also smelled this smell when he was in the second district.
The site of the explosion was littered with a large amount of psionic residue, which appeared to be mixed with human tissue that had been ground into powder.
Could it be that everyone's good friend Yakong has already ......
But then, Song Lan dispelled this idea.
Because in addition to the residue of psionic energy, he also sensed the traces left by another psionic energy, and what was even more strange was that the source of this psionic trace came from the wall on his left.
He tapped his finger on the wall, which was solid and didn't look too remarkable.
"What's behind this wall?"
He looked up and asked the enforcers above.
Of course, this sounds like an inexplicable question to them.
Behind the sewer wall......
Of course, it's still a wall, could it be that there is still a big secret treasure buried under the ground in the first area?
But considering that the expert should have asked this question, the captain said, "Please wait a minute, I'll see if I can bring in some excavation equipment." ”
"Not really."
Song Lan shook his head, and under the puzzled gaze of the Enforcers, he raised his right foot and pointed it against the wall that was blocking him.
There was no earth-shaking sound, and there was no earth shaking, but the solid wall disintegrated into powder under their gaze, Song Lan turned on the lighting equipment of her mobile phone, and followed the passage she had opened up all the way down until she came to the place where the traces of spiritual energy were most intense.
Or nothing.
More precisely, there is nothing now, but he is sure that Akon must have been here before, and there was even a battle.
But what's going on?
Yakong: This is bad luck, and when he jumped into the sewer, he got stuck and stuck himself out of the map?
This certainly can't happen in the real world.
The only plausible explanation has to do with the human ability and space where he has fought, either by dragging him into the wall by taking advantage of the unpreparedness of the sub-sky, or by using his ability to carve out a space that does not exist in reality.
Song Lan carefully sensed the changes in the traces of spiritual energy, simulating the movement trajectory of Yakong, and returned all the way back to the vicinity of the landing point.
"When he finally escaped from the strange space, he was attacked by a bomb......"
He looked at the sewage that was still flowing, and the faint traces that seemed to have been washed away by the current.
It is impossible for one person to possess two very different abilities.
"Attackers, two."
One of them was the "Domination" that δ mentioned in the second district, when it also escaped from the castle by some unknown means, like a spatial leap.
The law enforcers above were stunned when they heard this, and they didn't know how Song Lan came to their conclusions.
Is this the expert?
“…… Is the rescuer still alive? ”
The captain nervously asked, saying that despite Akon's first impression of her, she definitely didn't want anything to happen to them, especially when it came to detecting the Eucalyptus to find a possible survivor.
"Should still be alive."
Although it was very faint, Song Lan did feel the traces of psionic energy present in the sewage.
The ability prevented him from dying in the explosion, and it seemed that he ended up in the sewage, where he was washed away with the current.
It's really a blessing and a great fate.
"You stay here and don't move, I'll go find him."
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At the same time, somewhere in the sewers.
Akon sat on a tattered mattress, staring blankly at the floor, and after a while, a pair of legs wrapped in black over-the-knee socks blocked his view.
"Oh, nutrition injections."
He looked up sneeringly, and was greeted by a girl with short white hair, who looked to be in her early twenties, and her skin seemed to be a little pale because she had not been in the sun for a long time.
Akon didn't know where he was, but he observed that the room was densely painted with markers.
"The injuries on your body are very special, I can't help you, and after you have the strength to act on your own, I suggest that you go to the hospital for treatment as soon as possible."
Hearing this, he lowered his head again.
What really tormented him was not the pervasive pain on his body, but the air conditioning mechanic who kept coming to his mind.
Her frightened eyes were full of love for life, and she sent a distress signal to him, a six-star candidate.
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But at that time, he could only use a barrier to separate her from the other side.
At that moment, time seemed to pass extremely slowly, and he clearly witnessed the whole process of the other party's body exploding and shattering from the inside.
He woke up in the aftermath of the explosion and was in the sewage.
Seeing Yakong's decadent appearance, the girl frowned, and accentuated her tone, "You have to cheer up, I can't take care of you for too long, if it catches up, I will have to leave you alone." ”
"Anyone else living here?"
Akon's eyes finally returned to his senses, and he couldn't help but ask.
He was ultimately unable to save the survivors, and now the only thing he could do was to continue his investigation and find the culprit of the attack.
"Not people."
The girl shook her head, "It's the tree of sin that is entrenched here. ”