"Old Ao, do you remember the book at the innermost end of the bookshelf against the wall? No cover, no logo? Turning around, Munch said, walking in the direction of the hall.

"Oh, that's just a paper sample, there's no actual content. I've been there for a long time, why did I suddenly remember to ask this? Ovid picked the coin from the table and played with it in the palm of his hand.

"Forget it, it's nothing." Munch looked back at the book that had strange associations, and he was sure that the change that had just occurred was definitely not a hallucination. All the details are so real, as if a familiar dream has come again.

Calvin sat in his seat, his palms folded, his two thumbs kept making circles at the tiger's mouth, a little bored.

"Old Ao, in the next few days, Bane will be handed over to you. It was not early, and there were still a few hours to drive on the road, so we packed up and were ready to go. Bane was leaning at Ovid's feet, asleep.

Hearing that he was about to leave, Calvin's eyes lit up, his fingers stopped turning, and he left the long table and leaned over to the two of them.

"Don't worry, it just so happens that I have multiple companions. Besides, I have a lot of space here, and Bane has always liked it. Ovid handed the coin to Munch, "You get to Dent City, help me give this to an old friend, he will help you." ”

Munch took the coin in his hand again and examined it carefully.

On the obverse of the coin, a vertical dividing line is engraved in the middle, on the left is half of the face of the demon, on the right is the half of the face of the angel, the two faces are strangely fused together, and around the head, a circle of unknown plants is entwined. It's exactly like the plants on the ceiling.

The coin is flipped upside down, and the image on the reverse side is basically the same as the image on the obverse, except that the left and right positions of the demon and the angel are swapped. In addition, the back of the plant is full of small flowers on the vine, and the corolla is in the shape of a human face, and the triangular vine leaves enclose the central stamen. Munch felt familiar, but he couldn't remember anything.

"What's the name of this plant?" Munch's fingers glide over the coin's embossed pattern.

"Let me see, maybe I know." Calvin stood aside, unable to interject for a long time, holding back very uncomfortable, and finally found the right opportunity, impatiently snatched the coin from Munch's hand. After watching it for a long time, I didn't hold back a fart.

"Don't think about it, this kind of plant, the upper domain doesn't exist."

"Doesn't exist?" Two young men made surprised noises at the same time.

"Because I made it up myself." Ovid looked at the expressions of the two and couldn't help but laugh out loud.

"Okay. This can also be done. Taking advantage of Munch's inattention, Calvin put the coin on his thumb, aimed it at his head, and with a flick of it, the coin flipped in the air, crossed an arc, and landed on Munch's forehead, because of sweat stains, the coin was tightly attached to Munch's face, and the scene was a little funny.

"Let's go, the dropcart has arrived at the door." Monk took the coin off his forehead, wrote down the address of Ovid's friend, and got into the car with Calvin. Ovid hugged Bane and stood by the car window, watching the vehicle disappear from view.

Watching the car leave, there were also group portraits of demons and angels on both sides of the stone wall on the Arc de Triomphe.

……

"So what exactly is the purpose of our trip? Do you think I'm going to be naïve enough to believe what you say at Volcanic Rock? Tell me about it as the basis for our first team-up. As soon as Calvin got in the car, he was ready to turn on chatter mode for the long hours of the road.

"You're already in the car, does it really matter?" Munch lay down in his seat, tilting his head to the side of the window. "Hurry up and rest, for whatever reason, as things stand, Dante's trip won't be easy. This one is up to you. ”

Munch took out a pair of Dream Headphones from his bag and threw them to him. Karl Text came to prepare a lot of topics, and when he saw Munch, who was gradually falling asleep, he had to close his mouth, connect the headphones to the implant, and select the "forest" option in the floating scene selection bar.

The implant continuously emitted brain waves of the forest scene to Calvin's brain, Calvin closed his eyes, and the scene around him changed to a verdant and lush forest, and the hypnotic music came from the air, which completely relaxed his body and mind, and gradually, he also fell asleep.

After 5 hours and 50 minutes.

Night has fallen, and the prompt program in the water drop car is activated, waking up the two people who are sleeping.

"It is expected that after ten minutes, you will enter the city limits of Dante City, and once again remind you that your destination is not within the service range of the water drop car, and after reaching the service boundary, you need to get off the bus and choose other means of transportation, thank you for your cooperation."

"What's the use of not cooperating? Pushing the cart on? Calvin returned from a "walk" in the forest, and was awakened by such a voice, which covered his soul that had been washed and purified.

Munch didn't speak, his eyes kept glued to the window, immersed in his own thoughts. Gradually approaching the water drop car, the city boundary is more and more clear outlined by the reddish lights.

If the city of Tozcan is a model of scientific planning, then the city of Dent is a representative of wild growth.

Because of the lack of a government's management role, the city of Dent is like a cancer cell that spreads wildly, occupying every piece of land that can be eroded. Crowded skylines, poor street planning, and a mix of architectural styles—every imaginable and unimaginable element all strangely intermingled to create a disordered aesthetic that is unique to the city of Dante.

"Look, what's that? Garbage aggregates? Calvin looked at the approaching buildings in front of him and used this description, the chaotic lighting design made him feel dizzy. In fact, for the first time, Munch felt that Calvin's description was exceptionally accurate.

With a loud "bang", the seat belts on both sides of the seat firmly controlled Monk and Calvin, who were about to fly forward, on the seat. The water drop car immediately stopped, and the on-board program reported: "The vehicle has an accidental impact, please get out of the car immediately to ensure your safety!" ”

The doors opened automatically, the seat belt was retracted, and Munch put on his bag and got out of the car with Calvin.

The street lights on both sides of the road don't shine enough, and everything around is dyed a hazy dusk. Munch walked to the front of the droplet and found that the front of the car was deeply dented, and the engine part was emitting thick smoke. The rear of the vehicle in front was also badly damaged, and it was parked diagonally on the side of the road, knocking down a street lamp.

The probability of accidents in water drop cars is extremely low, and the data confirmed by official statistics every year is only in single digits, and they are only slightly rubbed. Of course, the statistics have removed the 50 kilometres around the city of Dante and its urban area, otherwise the data curve would have risen sharply.

The chaotic source of signal transmission in the city of Dante is often the direct cause of accidents, which is why the water drop operating company added it to the blacklist.

Munch approached the drop truck in front of him, leaning on the side of the road, to check on the injuries of the other passenger. The door opened, and before anyone appeared, a black umbrella stretched out of the car, and then, in the dim light, a beautiful woman stood in front of Munch.

"Beautiful reporter!" Munch cried out excitedly, his mind was so hot that he forgot the other person's name and blurted out the thoughts in his heart. Munch seemed to think that such a title was inappropriate, and his face flushed.

"Munch! I didn't expect it to be such a coincidence! Touching you in such a way! Frontline correspondent for the Totzcan news channel, Apu Andy, raised his umbrella and looked back at the two smoking cars.

"You're not hurt, are you?" Munch lowered his head, his gaze bypassing the black umbrella, just in time to meet the gaze of Apu under the umbrella.

"It's okay, but fortunately, the safety of the drip car is good enough......"

Before Apu could finish his sentence, Calvin on the side came up.

"Hello, my name is Calvin, and as a good friend of Munch, I'm glad to hear that you're not hurt." After speaking, he stretched out his hand under the umbrella, and Apu also shook it politely.

"By the way, you're going to Dent City too? What are you going to do? "Apu's big bright eyes reveal a sincerity that is impossible to refuse.

"Let's go find Yao ......"

"We were just passing through the city of Dent and bringing something for a friend." Without waiting for Calvin to finish speaking, Monk quickly thought of a reason, fooled around, and then glared at Calvin fiercely, signaling him to control his mouth.

"What about you? Apu. Munch finally remembered her name while throwing the question back to divert her attention. Gathering news materials? ”

"You said yes. Because the superspecies evolution project initiated by Arif has been very popular recently, about the real purpose behind it, it has triggered a series of conjectures and rumors, and our program conducted a folk survey, listing several possibilities, and the highest percentage of votes, guess what? ”

The two people on the opposite side shook their heads at the same time.

"I'll give you another hint, it's related to the underground industry in Dante City."

Munch looked at Calvin, as a police officer, he should have enough information channels and professional accumulation for this kind of information about the underground industry. Unexpectedly, Calvin looked dazed and shook his head again.

"Illegal biomodification! It is rumored that Adam's lab is undergoing biological modification, extracting the genes of mutated organisms and injecting them into the human body to synthesize a new superhuman species, which is the true meaning of the name of the evolution of superspecies. ”

"Of course, this is more of an after-dinner conversation, taking advantage of this heat, the program team wants me to make a special report on illegal biological modification. So, here I am, and then I just bumped into it. ”

After Apu finished speaking, he smiled at Munch. "Well, are you satisfied with this answer?"

While talking, the drone came to the scene of the accident with the wrecker robot, the drone was connected to the core processor of the water drop car, read the driving data at the time of the accident, and confirmed that the cause of the accident had nothing to do with the passengers, and reported to several people:

"Dear passengers, on behalf of Lauterani, the company that operates the water drop truck, I would like to express my sincere apologies to you."

The sound stopped abruptly, and under the command of the drone, the wrecker began to work.

"Finished? No compensation? What's the use of just verbal apologies? I'm going to call the police! It's too much! Watching the wrecker disappear into the night with the damaged wreckage in tow, Calvin was so angry that he almost jumped on the spot. I'm bullying me and I'm suspended now, otherwise I'm really ......"

"Do you know about the creature duels in Dent City? My informant told me that tomorrow night the final. Interested? Apu automatically filtered out Calvin's complaints, and turned his face to Munch beside him.

"Still can't, next time."

"I heard that the prize for the first place is an obsidian shard, are you interested? I think the little fat man just now, what he didn't finish talking about should be it, right? ”

This sentence was like a lightning bolt that hit Munch's heart, forcing him to re-examine the woman in front of him, standing in the dim light with an umbrella.