Chapter 1: Human-faced rats

Terra Calendar 1590.8.29.

Night: 21:30.

Fran Huadu - District 10.

On this quiet night, the streetscape of Huadu looks particularly peaceful under the breeze.

However, as the line of sight deepened, the jaw-dropping sight gradually emerged. The garbage cans lining the streets are overflowing with garbage, and plastic bags and waste paper are fluttering in the wind. Once known as the capital of romance, this city is now overshadowed by garbage.

"Squeak squeak—"

Under the dim street lamps, rats roam unscrupulously. Like ghosts in the night, they move nimbly from garbage heap to garbage dump, searching for food. Their numbers seem to be increasing, spreading throughout the city and giving a hint of fear.

The silence of the night did not hide the problems of sprawling in the city, and the stench of garbage filled the air and made people frown.

In the stillness of the night, these unclean sights are particularly glaring and disturbing.

As a graduate of Huadu Political College, Connie unconsciously tightened the satchel in her hand, and at the same time quickened her pace to pass through the narrow alley in front of her.

The day before yesterday, she had seen a lady screaming in the street, and in broad daylight, two rats snatched her sandwich from the lady's hand, and the two rats looked very large, and the flesh-colored tail behind their buttocks was almost as long as a normal straw.

The circle of threaded wriggling flesh-colored tails still echoed in Connie's mind.

Regarding the rats in Huadu, Connie, as a native of Huadu, really can't stand it.

In the long, hot summer, rats frolic freely in the flower-filled small square of Huadu Street, running around, completely ignoring the words on the billboard: throwing garbage everywhere will attract more rats!

When winter came, these cold and hot rats hid from the cold, they hid in the bushes under the statue of "Balzac", and the yew and laurel groves around the Montparnasse cemetery became their winter paradise, this cemetery was once the place where many philosophers and writers lived, and I think these literati should now hear the squeaks of rats from time to time, just like her.

The war between the people of Huadu and rats has never stopped, and more and more brown rats have become a "pain point" that is difficult for Huadu people to eliminate - using horse meat as bait, using carefully fermented potions, launching large-scale rat hunting competitions, and so on, all to no avail.

And in addition to these people who hate rats, there are also some people who believe that rats also have the right to live!

The image of Xu is a rat appears in many literary and artistic works, and in the era of information explosion and political infighting, this kind of movement in support of the right of rats to live will naturally appear.

One petition in question has already received support from 26,000 people, and the number is growing.

A recent pink poster appeared on the Huadu subway with the words "Rats are not our enemies!" It shows pictures of many furry rats with small hopeful signs on their paws: "Kiss one".

Connie's memories came to an end, and her progress stopped.

At the end of the street, a street lamp glows a warm yellow glow that illuminates the silent neighborhood. But just as people approached, it suddenly went out, leaving only a faint grayish-white halo.

Then, suddenly, it brightened up again, and a bright light illuminated everything around it.

"Squeak! Squeak! ”

Unlike the tiny murmuring sounds of the rats, this is not a sound that small rodents can make, but sounds more like the chewing sound of a jackal eating its prey.

Connie looked ahead with fear and horror, her heartbeat seemed to grow louder and louder, and an indescribable uneasiness seemed to spread through her chest.

Eventually, she saw where the light came from—a mouse-like monster with tiny claws that were more gripping than rat-like to mouse-like bones. The skull with its ferocious yellow fangs was the strangest and most perverse. From a certain angle, it looks like a miniature, horrible, depraved parody of a human skull, staring at a bloody corpse.

The corpse was apparently some unfortunate victim, torn beyond recognition, and the monster was holding its head and eating it like a watermelon.

Connie's eyes almost popped out, she could barely believe her eyes,

There seemed to be an invisible force pressing down her throat, preventing her from making a sound. Fear stretched from the soles of her feet to her whole body, and her legs seemed to become weak, almost unable to support them.

However, she couldn't look away.

The monster rat let out a cold, piercing scream, its claws gripped the skull bloodily, biting at the chilling sight. Her heart almost jumped out of her chest, and her mind was filled with terrifying images.

"Squeak—"

Suddenly, the monster seemed to be aware of the lady's presence.

It turned its head, its red eyes staring at the lady, making her feel as if she was being targeted by death.

Connie could no longer bear this fear, she turned around and tried to escape from this terrible scene, her feet running rapidly, and the eerie cold wind came from her back, as if she had crawled out of hell and was going to drag all humans into the endless hell.

Click-

However, unfortunate things happened one after another, and poor Connie felt a sudden loosening of the heels under her feet, followed by a crunch, and the heels broke.

Her ankles twisted and the pain was so intense that she almost fell, and she desperately tried to get to her feet, but the pain made it almost impossible for her to stand.

The monstrous monstrous rat was approaching, and Connie could barely see the mouth filled with viscous blood.

Fear and helplessness almost overwhelmed her, she sat on the ground staggeringly, her ankles twitching violently, her heart screaming in pain, and tears could not help but welling up from her eyes, hot tears falling on her legs, fear made her close her eyes.

Connie was like a camel, afraid to face the danger, but after ten seconds passed, the imaginary bloody scene did not happen, so she swallowed the fear in her heart and slowly opened her eyes.

Then she saw a scene of amazement.

In front of her, the monster rat was slowly advancing on the ground in a peculiar position, struggling with every step.

The rat's body begins to spasm. Its limbs flexed stiffly, and its muscles quivered irrepressibly like strings being taut.

"6 Million Rats and Cities Coexistence Strategy. I don't know if those people of the coexistence faction will have the idea of coexistence after seeing this 'human-faced rat'. ”

A magnetic sound sounded, and every syllable was pronounced with precision, as beautiful and harmonious as a piece of music.

Connie subconsciously looked at the source of the sound, and in the flickering light, in this blurred light, stood a man in a black suit, his blonde hair shining in the light, like shining gold, with a high nose and a straight chin outlining a perfect side profile, with a warm smile on his face.

If it were a different occasion, Connie would definitely find a way to get a contact information, hoping for further development.

However, now the human-faced rat in front of her, who is trying to move forward not far from herself, and blood is oozing from her skin and muscles, really makes her love brain can't start!

Migrant worker Xia Xiu took out a capsule from his arms, pressed it casually, and a spray appeared in his hand, and he threw the capsule in front of the trembling woman in front of him.

"No, ma'am, this is [healing spray], you can blow this bottle on your twisted ankle, you can be cured, after spraying, please honestly cooperate with the amnestic process of the meeting."

After finishing speaking, Xia Xiu didn't pay any attention to the other party, walked in front of the headless corpse, and floated out of thin air on the ground against the unknown mighty force.

The air around it began to squeeze inward, and soon, the human-faced rat was squeezed into a ball of flesh and then floated behind the blonde youth.

The human-faced mouse is not dead, although the bone marrow of its whole body has been crushed to pieces by the inexplicable pressure, but it is not dead, its squeezed and deformed eyes are revealing human fear, and its gaze is looking behind the blonde youth.

There, within Connie's invisible sight, a purple-gold phantom floated behind the blonde youth, and the purple-gold phantom's hands were emitting a layer of air ripples.

"Vector Authoritarianism"

[Gravitational manipulation-]

"Bruises and purple spots appear on the skin, bleeding from internal organs; Bacteria and toxins in the blood can cause skin tissue to die and form anthrax scars, which are one of the characteristics of septicaemic plague. This person died of sepsis, and this human-faced rat is estimated to have been led by blood food, and the sepsis on the deceased's body was artificially created, and others can't see it, but I can see the obvious artificially created [Mimu Catalyst]..."

Xia Xiu clearly saw the clearly visible [Mimu Catalyst] on the corpse through the [Perfect Prosthetic Eye].

[Mimu Catalyst] is a specific information carrier loaded with a large amount of anomalous information that has been pre-manipulated.

"Look at the memories he triggered." The blond youth muttered, then reached out and touched the corpse, and a strange rune appeared in his golden eyes, which contained two intersecting triangles and an inverted half-moon.

"Future Perspective (Timing Control) and Time Insight——"

【Vashak】You can see the past and the future moments.

By touching an object or person, he can reveal past events related to it.

Puff –

A subtle memory picture passed in Xia Xiu's eyes, and soon, he noticed a very interesting picture.

In the picture, this young man named Norris once came into contact with a Phrygian, and the accessories on this Phrygian are very interesting, it is a disc with holes, this thing is called "Great Circle", it is a token of the "Great Mother Goddess] series,

And the [Great Mother Goddess] is one of the events that Dr. Ponte has given him to deal with.

Disheveled!

Just as he wanted to continue his investigation, the corpse suddenly exploded, and countless blood beads shot at him like bullets.

Strangely, when these blood beads passed the face of the blonde youth, they inexplicably began to twist and detour, and the blood beads bypassed the blonde youth along a path similar to a Möbius ring.

"Morbius Ring Trigger!"

"I'm pretty grumpy."

The blonde young man complained about the "god" that had emerged from the horns, and slowly stood up, his golden eyes looking at the embarrassed woman who was standing in place, neither walking nor staying.

Connie was awkwardly holding the spray in her hand.

"That..."

"You can rest assured, the regular process, a snap of the fingers." Xia Xiu showed a warm smile at the woman, and then, he really snapped his fingers.

[Don Quixote Activate!] 】

[Ridiculous Pollution, Closed Mind-]

The subtle thoughts materialized into thin lines and pierced directly into Connie's mind, and then the terrifying Mi Mu Su directly distorted part of her memories of what she saw and heard today, and the spray in her hand was also taken back by Xia Xiu with the "Mobius Ring", and after deleting part of the memory, he directly issued a thinking command to let the other party leave this place of right and wrong.

Connie walked away from here with wooden steps, while Xia Xiu looked closely at the back of the other party leaving, and his right hand unconsciously began to rub his chin.

"The curtain has reached this state of superposition of broken and unbroken."

Xia Xiu had just come out of the [Unknown Land] of Heaven today, and he had been writing reports and holding meetings for the previous half month.

Yes, the angels also have to have a meeting, especially for Xia Xiu, a newly promoted (airborne) fourth sword-wielder in the Heavenly Kingdom, who has to meet with all the core institutions of the Heavenly Kingdom.

His half-month itinerary is recorded as follows:

August 9th

The Ethics Committee impeachment resolution meets and meets.

All the core angels took a little spiritual projection out of their busy schedules and began to argue in the [Resolution Room] on the third floor.

After they finished arguing, they met with 0-01 and started a friendly exchange with each other.

August 10th

Meeting. The Chief of the Trial Chamber returned, shook hands, and began a friendly conversation about the future of the Kingdom of Heaven, after which the Trial Chamber initiated a ruling of no confidence in the resolution assembly and began an internal review.

After that, he also met and chatted with other members of the resolution, and 0-02 privately made it clear that he would join his faction - no refusal or acceptance, and the main theme was "ambiguous".

On the same day, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Kingdom of Heaven began to actively enliven various departments, and the departments of the Kingdom of Heaven began to operate wildly.

August 11th

[Honkai Authority] passed quickly, and he was included in the list of the Authority, and was appointed as [Investigator], [Special Executive Officer], [Debt Collector No. 01] compatible with [Central Containment Chamber, Junior Researcher], etc. (other departments are also vacant, only the above four positions are more important); Unexpectedly, 0-03 Ponte Bergamos was appointed as the Doctor of the Authority's Command Section, a position in the core leadership position, and the other party became the top leader of the Authority except for Eden and Yahweh.

August 14th

Have a meeting with the second and third sword bearers in the kingdom of heaven.

August 15th

Mu returned to heaven, seemed to be in good condition, and met with him and talked a few words,

Regarding the handling of 0-13, avoid talking about it.

August 17th

Have a meeting with Dr. (drink {cross out}).

The Honkai Damage Authority's internal roster has been finalized, and the internal list includes: [Doctor (Only): Pont Bergamos (0-03)], Investigators, Executive Operators, Researchers, Security Personnel, Tactical Response Personnel, Field Personnel, Field Agents, Mobile Task Force Operatives, Administrators, and Special Operations Personnel. (Among them, debt collectors are classified as field agents, mobile task force operators, special operations personnel), intelligence officers...

August 18th

Eden gave birth, oh no.

Eden has assigned a "Super AI Operator" to the Authority, [Adam].

He and Pont Bergamos started [Adam's] template and data debugging, and he started nurturing [Adam].

He was granted [Adam's] first-level administrative privileges, and the Doctor was granted special administrative privileges.

August 19th

Debugging [Adam], [Adam] officially fully connected to the Heavenly Intelligence Network, and at the same time began the first [Honkai Detection].

August 20th

[Honkai List] is listed, and data verification begins.

August 21.

Commissioning, inspection.

August 22nd

Commissioning, inspection.

August 28th

Identification of the first phase of the list of targets began, with [Investigator-Hugh Abraham] conducting the first Honkai management test.

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