Chapter 25: The Ghost House
Li Pan was stabbed all over his body and opened his eyes suddenly.
He was lying on the floor of his apartment.
K the bodysuit, crouching beside him, looking down at himself with ice blue eyes, and holding an injectable cardiotonic in his hand to his chest, it can be regarded as pulling him back from the dead line.
"What's this thing again?"
Li Pan came back to his senses, and there were bursts of sharp pain all over his body, only to realize that he had just fallen into shock, had a strange dream, tilted his head and spit out the blood in his mouth.
"Ninja ......"
K frowned slightly,
"Imperial court? It's been three years since I've met a serious court, how can you cause trouble so much? β
Li Pan thought for a while,
"It should be, it's not a serious royal court......
The female ninja who came to attack him today is not surprisingly the daughter of the Akiyama Dokan, Ayako Akiyama. But when you think about it, it's a bit wrong.
The knife is wrong, the ninja knife used by the other party is even cut by the boy. If it had been cut into the warehouse, he would have been cut in two.
The prosthesis is also wrong, and Ayako also has nerve acceleration, but it is not military-grade at all, an alloy spine implant, where is it so easy to give him a hug and that hug, it is broken by brute force.
In other words, if it was the master who cut down the Vortex Gang in the warehouse who ambushed him tonight, Li Pan would have already traveled through another world by this time, and he wouldn't survive even if you cried and shouted.
But the question is, if the ninja who attacked the company's warehouse was someone else, why did the Akiyama family deliberately push their daughter out to blame after they found out that they were being targeted by the company.
What is the purpose......
"Hey, don't get my blood on it, just suck your fingers there! I'm not out of danger yet! Send me to the company! Come on! β
K, "Tsk, that's a hassle. β
So Li Pan was saved by K again.
Alas, this arrogant woman, talking about getting out, getting out, in fact, the body is quite honest, isn't it obedient as soon as you answer the phone, otherwise where would you have time to give first aid, it's really not honest.
But now is not the time to soak the horses, if this Nima continues to fight like this, there will be no rice to eat!
After this reset, the chip and ballistic processor set that Li Pan just bought was reimbursed again, damn it, it hasn't been heated yet, and the loan is rolling higher and higher, it's terrible, really, I can't afford to hurt yo, I can't afford to hurt......
Li Pan found out, it's really not okay to fool you with a bargain! Civilian goods are civilian supplies, and third-level goods are completely unreliable! What the hell 13PRO! Crack and knock out the hacker's puppet! You want to play the key game of life and death in the ranking, and if you are blind, malfunctional, and blue screen, it is too bad!
In this way, every time you win a miserable battle and reset, the prosthetic body is not installed!
In that case, it's better to put a bunch of the best guys on your body from the beginning, and don't die if you can!
And I probably can't stay in that apartment either.
Made, this time he was targeted by a three-headed dog, if this Nima half of it every night, the opposite side was cold, "Bang!" "Who can stand a shot?
But the question is, these days, where do you get an apartment with a monthly rent of only 1,000 yuan! This is a citizen welfare house that his family of three, joined the army as a soldier, shed blood and sweat, and literally earned it by playing hard!
And now Li Pan's various discounts and benefits have been used, if you rent and buy a second suite, you have to add various taxes to the original price! On the cheapest on the Internet, the rental house in the industrial area, and the whirlpool gang as a neighbor, the rent, water and electricity network property, community services are also 5000 for a package!
Of course, you can say,, it's not too late! It's a big deal, Lao Tzu sleeps under the overpass!
But the problem is that in the Night City, legal citizenship is tied to where you live.
In the City of Nights, you must first have a legal address before you can have a legal job. All credit cards, social security, medical insurance, water and electricity bills will also be tied to your legal address. In the future, criminal registration, military service, and the rights and obligations of all citizens are tied to your house, so if immigrants want to find a job in the night capital, the first thing they need to do is a 'temporary residence permit'.
So Li Pan sat at the table in the pantry, supporting his chin with both hands, and listening to the headset with a serious expression,
"Citizen Li Pan, account cash 182.27, loan payable in the next period 8291.43, total liabilities 31XXXX.XX......"
The system of voice loops, falling into deep thought.
Now he only has a gun, a knife, and three fifth-level rounds.
Is it easier to change houses, or is it easier to rely on this equipment to find the three-headed dogs and ninjas hiding in the shadows and slaughter them......
I don't know how long I pondered, and then eighteen, and a curly-haired child I had never seen before, sat down in front of him, opened the lunch box in his hand and started eating, and Ah Qi poured coffee for the three of them.
ββ¦β¦ Well? Who bought this lunch box? β
Li Pan was shocked when he saw it, it was actually three meat and two vegetables! Three Meat !!
Eighteen shrugged, "The cafeteria took it." β
Li Pan asked in a trembling voice, "Why does our company still have a canteen??" β
Eighteen nibbled on the chicken legs, "There's CSI's security cafeteria downstairs, the firewall is too weak, so I got a meal card for Rama." β
Oh, your roll head turned out to be the Rama in the cage, and the filing cabinet is really strong. But also, it doesn't matter if you have a broken arm, it's easy to change your skin.
Li Pan immediately smiled with a smile on his face, "Eighteen, give me the whole one." β
Eighteen looked at him suspiciously, "You are the general manager, a serious citizen, and you still go to other people's companies to eat?" β
Li Pan almost wanted to cry.
Ah Qi handed over a card and typed,
"The manager is probably in a hurry, I didn't have breakfast, Miss Eighteen also got one for me, give it to you, I don't need it anyway."
"Ah-ββ! Qi"
Then again, you don't need a salary card, do you? Can that ...... Ahem, forget it, you still have to be a little disciplined.
In short, it's done, and you can have the rest of the food money every month in the future! Ah, it's so convenient to have a hacker on the team!
"Eighteen, you have a big snake, can you give me a black credit card?"
Eighteen squinted at the corrupt and depraved adults in front of him,
"Yes, but if I get caught by CSI, they will raise the rent for the company at most, and if I get caught by the Security Bureau, you will go to jail, manager. Is that okay? β
Li Pan thought about it seriously, "There's nothing wrong with going to jail, at least it's ...... to eat."
So Eighteen felt that this adult was really hopeless.
She didn't eat much, so after a few bites of meat, she poured all the vegetables for Rama to eat. Rama was moved to tears, as if he had been completely domesticated.
Li Pan looked at Rama's contract, this kid signed a temporary worker under the recommendation of Ah Qi, codenamed 0791003, with eighteen helps, so he used Rama's mother's address to register, updated his temporary residence permit, plus the medical insurance and employment records are complete, and he has the endorsement of the monster company, he is now a legally employed temporary worker.
Of course, Rama had not served in the military, was not a citizen, and was just a migrant worker, so he could not enjoy the benefits of a prosthetic loan. And in view of the fact that the monthly salary will not arrive until next month, now the food and accommodation are in the company, the food depends on the meal card, the warehouse is lived, and the floor is laid in the broom room of the toilet in the room temperature warehouse.
Well, now Rama is the company's night security guard. Although this kind of thin monkey security guard who can only breathe fire can only breathe fire in XX basically has no combat effectiveness at all, since he is a temporary worker, he can also act on behalf of the company.
Li Pan drank coffee, picked up a stack of documents from the fax machine, and arranged casually,
"Today, the big snake unit was transported to the No. 7 warehouse for wiring and installation, Rama and Eighteen went to stare at it, how to make eighteen you decide, just buy it, don't save money for the company, let Rama sign, contact me if you have any questions."
Ah Qi, the employment of temporary workers in the warehouse outside the head office has been approved, please make two more trips to arrange for them to join the company. Personnel continue to recruit, too.
I'll go for two more monsters. β
So Li Pan was familiar with the whole social car, picked up the knife and went out, and flew straight to the Qiushan Dojo.
Made, this group of devils really don't know how to lift, the front foot is still sincerely apologizing, turning his head and turning his face and slashing people, there is really no one in this national character, I can't believe it at all.
Anyway, Li Pan has already made up his mind, no matter what the hell this big ass is doing, this time he will go to the door to spank, or give him tens of millions of medical expenses, it is not something that can be solved by an Akiyama Masako just apologetic!
Then the Akiyama Dokan is closed today.
"!"
Li Pan was furious, drew his knife and cut down all the trees planted at the entrance of the Autumn Mountain Gym. It doesn't matter, the plastic ones are not worth a few bucks.
Then he said harshly at the camera,
"The Akiyama family! If you can hide for a while, you can't hide for a lifetime! It's kind of coming back in the evening! Let's see you guys kill Lao Tzu first! It's better for Lao Tzu to blow you up first! Heh-phew! β
So the camera at the door was full of words and salivation, and Li Pan went to work.
This time it's still 'monster containment'.,The intelligence department of the head office swiped another video.,Damn, these idlers go to work and watch a small video, right......
In short, this video is a channel for a supernatural podcast, and in these years, social animals commute at two o'clock and one line, and the homeless stay at home to surf the Internet, but there are also special outdoor podcast anchors running around, and then uploading the Mewtwo experience filmed, rounding it up is equivalent to you have also traveled.
Of course, it's too boring to visit a store or something purely traveling, and the size has to be a gimmick to have traffic, and traffic can be realized, so there is a special theme of 'supernatural podcast adventure', which is said to be exploring various haunted houses and supernatural locations, in fact, they are all designed plots, there are erotic encounters and bloody ones, that is, stepping on the red line to broadcast black super dreams.
And this kind of place of dead people, nine times out of ten there are gangs, sometimes you can really bump into the gangster deal and get involved in a shootout or something, in fact, it is ordinary people hiding behind the network cable, watching the anchors who ask for money and die on the streets of the night capital, instead of their own death.
And this video from the headquarters is the death of a certain anchor, this kind of involving the death of people, it will definitely be banned and deleted by the system, but it can't stand that there are always many people who follow the screenshot and sell it to the black market, especially the more exciting and bloody the death, the more valuable it is, probably people like to watch this.
To get back to the point, this anchor was on an expedition to the ghost building, and he bumped into a drug dealer and was shot.
The anchor who was killed encountered by the gangster, this kind of plot is very common, but what is uncommon is that the anchor is in the stairwell of the ghost building, and he has to go up and down for four hours and can't get around, and the interference of Mewtwo live broadcast is extremely serious, and I don't know if it is electromagnetic interference, or the anchor is drugged, or psychotic, and finally it is so noisy that it completely collapses, so he goes out to attract the attention of drug dealers, and is shot in the head by a shuttle.
In view of the files obtained by the company from NCPA, the streamer's body was dismantled by drug dealers, everything that could be sold was sold, and everything that could not be sold was boiled in oil, and the rats in the sewers were fed, and the biggest residue was the dingding filled with synthetic resin, probably no one wants to use second-hand for this thing.
In short, the corpse could no longer be analyzed for laboratory analysis. The security system also deleted the original files, and could only analyze them from the Mewtwo live broadcast archives recorded by some viewers, so the company's intelligence officers could not confirm what happened to the anchor.
But if it's really the so-called space-time distortion, the state of physical disorder, is a phenomenon caused by a very standard monster. So I felt the need to send someone to this ghost building to run around, and if there was a monster, I would get it back.
Stairwell, Li Pan scoffed at the common setting in this kind of strange talk, this kind of tricky and mysterious words, probably Internet chatter, after all, everyone hates climbing stairs.
But it doesn't matter if it's an errand to pass the time, let's take a walk, what else can I do, it's a big deal to go all the way to hell, maybe hell won't have to work overtime.
In view of the nearby drug dealer trade, in order to prevent bad things, after arriving at the coordinate ghost building area, Li Pan asked the company's floating car to change the livery, play optical camouflage, disguise as NCPA to close the scene to handle the case, and drove the drug dealer away early, and then entered the 'ghost building' for inspection.
The' Ghost building area', located in the outer ring of the suburbs, is the kind of reinforced concrete old-fashioned apartment building, the industrial area is very common old buildings, in fact, this location is quite partial, even from the old city has a distance, and Li Pan now lives in the same place, you have to use the intercity subway to commute, but here even the subway is not connected, the surrounding facilities are more seriously insufficient, build a large ghost building in the wilderness, it is really a cyber psycho can not understand the brain-dead behavior, it can not be said that the people at that time had a prescient vision, left for future generations to do haunted house explorationγ
Well, in fact, it can be seen from the archives that this was planned and built in the late eighth new Tokyo era, when it was at the peak of the high-speed economic growth period, and the bubble was already very serious, so some real estate companies had money in their hands, so they planned to divide the land in the suburbs, focusing on the suburban natural landscape of the new city residential area, and then planned to be equipped with railway facilities, build a highway bridge, connect New Tokyo and Gifu Metropolitan multiple giant metropolitan areas, and plan a new area to hedge the bubble risk in the city center.
But we all know that the economic curve is not transferred by people's will, it has always been up and down, although Gao Tianyuan was not destroyed in the company war, but also involved in the serious economic crisis of the heavens, so in the wave of economic crisis, a large number of enterprises collapsed, employees were laid off, real estate companies could not pay back, and there was no money to engage in infrastructure expansion and regional revitalization, so this large number of overvalued suburban properties, the development plan was also postponed, and finally these unfinished buildings were abandoned on a large scale.
Of course, because it is relatively affordable in the urban area, ordinary people who buy a little hope with a meager salary have been abandoned, and every unfinished ghost building is hundreds of homeless families, and every time the evening wind howls, passing through this empty house, it is as if there are countless bankrupt souls in the patio, crying and crying.
This is the 'ghost building area' project that has been at the top of the supernatural anchor exploration list all year round, and it is quite worthy of its name.
Of course, these ghost buildings can't be considered empty now, except for the gangsters, many of them have received temporary residence permits, but the laborers who can't afford to rent a house for the 'time being' also live in these ghost buildings with no water, electricity and no network to support, at least they can shelter from the wind and rain. So these facilities, in the final analysis, are still for the benefit of the society! Ahem, enough is enough, I can't say any more......
In short, Li Pan's task is very simple, just follow the anchor's route as it is, walk from top to bottom, and see if you can't find the exit on the first floor.
It just so happened that he had the most dream before, and was taught two tricks by the strange man in the green robe, and now he can still remember the acupuncture point track of luck, so he simply climbed the building while learning the movements, the ape seemed to shake left and right, and the boy pointed and poked randomly.
Don't say it, this gymnastics seems to be something extraordinary, when practicing "Nine Yin Refining Form", he can't move at all, and as soon as he settles, he will fall into a state of falling asleep but not sleeping, as if waking up but not waking up. But this monkey dance can loosen the muscles and bones, move the joints, and refine a lot of cold accumulated between the lungs and intestines.
And what's even more outrageous is that this formula seems to really work.
After climbing more than a dozen floors, Li Pan clearly saw the blade of the boy Che Angang, lingering, gathering a layer of green light, faint blade Qi, like water mist contaminated on the blade, visible to the naked eye, like a green dragon wrapped around the tip of the blade, in the dim corridor, the green light is Yaoyao, like a layer of verdant fire blade ignited on the knife body, particularly conspicuous.
However, Li Pan remembered that in his dream, he could hit a large sword wind with two or three jumps of hands and feet, and when he woke up, he could only possess a demon......
"Ahhh Hell, ahhhh Hell, ahhhhhh Mom, ahhhhh β
it! What's the situation!?
Someone yelled above Leng Buding's head, which scared Li Pan a lot, jumped upstairs in three steps and two steps, carried the boy and cut it, and pulled up a fat man with a big bag and a small bag, a camera, a microphone, and a limp lying on the corridor, round glasses and a round face.
"Where's the ghost?"
The fat man looked at him, trembling and couldn't speak, Li Pan looked at him, and saw that the fat man's gun was stuck in the holster and couldn't be pulled out, and a barrage of light and shadow flickered on his glasses, so he reacted.
, this is also an anchor who came to climb the stairs, and I probably saw him dancing with a knife to scare the pee.
"Damn, a fart ghost, don't yell at you, like a fool."
Li Pan didn't bother to take care of him, and swished up three floors, and then heard the fat man downstairs shouting at the top of his voice,
"Family! You can see it! Through and through! Cyber Psycho!! 666οΌ Thank you for the thumbs up! Thank you for the tip! β
, you wait, wait for Lao Tzu to finish the building and let you see what cyber psychosis is.