Gunfire, Punk and Necromancer

The Vipers are gone. It's not that the PCPD "attacked social cancer" as advertised, but it was completely eradicated. Every key member and core member of the gang, and every penny of their money, was wiped out by the hungry mercenaries. It’s been a long time since I’ve held back on a serious task. Everyone is working hard on this matter, and they are also very generous. They don’t mind bringing in some new people and finding reasons to pay them some wages.

Zhuang Xuteng is also counted among these newcomers - there is no way, he is the youngest among Lucy's people who can appear on the scene. If he is not counted as a newcomer, what about some people who are slightly older than him but don't have names yet? As a "scarecrow", he did not earn enough appearance fees, but considering that he only guarded the armored vehicles on the periphery and did nothing else, this was money in vain.

Compared with Zhuang Xuteng's deserted and boring place, Ge Gongdao had a great time. He and a group of people raided the Viper Gang's safe house, demolishing people and looting everything they saw, killing everyone. The combination of the super-computing martial arts three-dodge and his big body produces astonishing results. None of the opponent's thugs can withstand his attacks, even if they have implants, they won't be enough. The master is right, except for the two types of implants that are too thickly armored or have extremely powerful bursts, other types of implants will be restrained by super-calculated martial arts.

After a whole night of guarding, without a single fight, and with two thousand euros in my pocket - this mission was quite appropriate. In the early morning, Zhuang Xuteng met with Ge Gongdao and asked him not to forget to check out the meat buns every few days to prevent the little guy from starving to death. Ge Gongdao laughed loudly, waved his big hand, and patted his chest to wrap up this matter on himself.

"You must serve Morgana well, don't be shy!"

Zhuang Xuteng pretended not to hear it, but he still prepared in advance, cleaned himself up, and then went to the agreed meeting place. This is a suburban bus station, right on the approach road next to the highway, and the surrounding area is very desolate.

The white beast was parked right next to the stop sign. The clean white body of the car was in sharp contrast to the red and rusty old stop sign. There is a half-collapsed convenience store behind the stop sign. There are only holes in the doors and windows. There are no products in the room and there are more fallen ceilings. The "Good Houses For Sale" sign was leaning against the doorway and was mostly buried in the soil - even when it was destroyed, it could not be sold.

I heard that there used to be a village here, but traces of it can only be found in history. The bus station next to it is the last glory of the village and town. It can be established entirely because it is "said" that the village and town will be expanded as a satellite city. Later, the town disappeared, but the bus station remained. There were not many buses every day, and it was a convenient route. It could not be delayed for more than two minutes, so the bus company did not bother to submit a report to abolish this station.

No one gets off here and the bus will not stop. Zhuang Xuteng consciously stood farther away to avoid the driver thinking that he was about to get in the car. Fifteen minutes before the appointed time, a silver-white luxury car stopped at the bus stop. The driver stabilized the car, hurriedly got out, ran around the car half a circle, and opened the door.

Morgana got out of the car, waved to herself, glanced at Zhuang Xuteng, and blushed slightly. Since the bus didn't arrive on time, Morgana had no choice but to ask her family driver to take her there. She wore blue and black casual denim, dusty hiking boots on her feet, and carried the company's war-era army-style carrying bag on her back - she looked like a wanderer, completely inconsistent with the style of a luxury car. .

The driver closed the door, took out a suitcase from the trunk, and handed it to Morgana respectfully. Then, he stared at Zhuang Xuteng carefully for a while, his serious expression seemed to contain a thousand words. Morgana coughed behind him, and the driver immediately got in the car and drove away without looking back.

Zhuang Xuteng walked over with a smile and asked her if she wanted to help get something. Morgana snorted and shook her head, so Zhuang Xuteng retracted his hand. He opened the trunk of the white beast, waited for Morgana to throw the backpack and suitcase in, and then said: "I came too early, otherwise I shouldn't have seen the luxury car. What model is that?"

"I don't know, I didn't buy it." Morgana looked at the motorcycle in the trunk and asked, "Has anyone ridden it?"

"No one else has done it, but I have ridden it once. At that time, I needed to go separate ways with Brother Dao. I don't know much about motorcycles and have rarely ridden them, but I can still feel that this car is very comfortable." Zhuang Xuteng asked with a smile: " Does your family sell cars and motorcycles?"

"No." Morgana rolled her eyes at Zhuang Xuteng and said, "If I said yes, you are so smart and you would know immediately that I was lying, so I tell you 'no'. Naike, what do you think my family does?" "

"I can't guess it." Seeing that Morgana didn't believe it, Zhuang Xuteng said, "I really can't guess it! You think I can make plans quickly, so you say I'm smart, but I know few people and have little contact with things, so I don't You can't judge people. You spend money very generously, and Brother Dao and I will definitely be curious. Brother Dao has met many people, and he can't figure out your identity, so I'm even more in trouble."

"Has Lucy, your middleman, investigated me?"

"As long as you ask her for a commission, she will investigate it. After all, you have to know who is coming and whether the commission is a trap. The result of the investigation is: I don't know." Zhuang Xuteng asked Morgana to enter the cab with him and wait for the car to warm up. She continued: "She got some information, but she thought it was all false. She calculated the cost of maintaining cover information, and then stopped the investigation. She warned me that I must serve you well, you are quite Important customer."

"Then what do you think? Do you want to serve me well?"

"Hey, you're thinking too much." Zhuang Xuteng shook his head and said: "During the commissioned task, I will give priority to the task and not consider serving others - the key point is that I don't have the skills in this area. I will take care of you and protect you. , but this is the same for every mission partner. Maybe I can take care of people better than others, but this is not waiting. I am a mercenary, not a servant."

"Very reasonable and very good. So what about outside of commissioned tasks?"

"Outside of the mission? You are a pretty good girl, a rare good policeman in the PCPD. I have no discomfort with you, except for two things..."

"Which two points?" Morgana asked quickly.

"I don't know what your hobbies are, so when you are very serious, I don't know what to talk about. Besides, we all know that you are rich, but you never treat guests! Next time, bring a few bottles of beer, Brother Dao can You praise God.”

"Just these two points? Okay..." Morgana smiled and then covered her mouth.

Zhuang Xuteng rolled his eyes and said: "Don't be so nervous. You don't even dare to laugh. I haven't heard of any profession that has such a requirement, and I haven't heard of any tutor that doesn't let children laugh. Come on, learn from me. Louder: Hahahahaha!”

"I can't learn, I'm too stupid." Morgana frowned, covering her mouth and shaking her head. Zhuang Xuteng shouted again, but she still shook her head. After a few quarrels, she took two deep breaths and regained her composure. Then she put down her hands and said, "Our family used to work for God."

"From the Church? Uh... Holy Light Witch is really from the Holy Light Church? Wow... I thought you were no longer there..."

"What does it mean that we are no longer there? Yes, there is no church now, and there are no popes, archbishops, and priests in various regions. It turns out that the statues and shrines have become calendar-like pendants. The church is gone, but we have not committed suicide along with it. !”

"That's right. If your boss runs away and the company is gone, you can just change your job. Well, it seems like the job change is a good one!"

Morgana nodded and said: "The gods are gone, and most of the magical arts are dead. However, with the development of shadow slaves, there are still some rune spells that can be used. The combination of the two forms new spells. School. The church originally had a monopoly on divine magic and gathered the strongest spellcasters around it. It no longer has a monopoly, but it has a lot of shares in the new school - I don’t know the details. I guess I can’t tell if I know. , but to put it this way, can you understand it?"

Zhuang Xuteng nodded and said: "I understand. With the development of Shadow Cong, the money and technology spells have taken shape. You have made good investments, so you are living a comfortable life now. I think you don't need to hide it! Okay. Investment should yield good returns, seize the opportunity to make profits, and then live a good life, there is no problem at all.”

"Of course there is no problem! Whoever says there is a problem, I will worry about it! However, our ancestors who made investments in the past set the rules. We can enjoy it, but we must also abide by the rules, so we will not take the initiative to talk about it - unless someone has already told us about it. I can see it." Morgana spread her hands and said: "We can't lie without telling lies. What if the gods come back again? What if it wants to judge and test the world again? Our behavioral and moral The requirements are still relatively high, not much different from when the church was strong, and sometimes people call us stubborn.”

"I see you're not stubborn!"

"I am the Holy Light and a witch. There are some differences between me and my family." Morgana waved her hand and said: "Let's stop talking about this matter. I am not used to being asked about family affairs all the time. This time I've said a lot. Naike, how did you come up with the idea of ​​becoming a mercenary?"

"I wasn't good at studying and was unlucky. Working in a factory was pretty good, but the factory was sold and I lost my job. When I was about to find my next meal, I met Brother Dao, so I joined him. This is good. This opportunity is rare, I want to do it well, and I believe I can do it well." Zhuang Xuteng gave a thumbs up, blinked, and then said: "Since we are talking about mercenaries, what are we going to do this time? "

Morgana also wanted to hear more about Zhuang Xuteng's personal affairs, but she was too embarrassed to ask directly, so she returned to the topic: "By analyzing the impurity environment of that kilogram of blue crystal, we basically locked in the place where its raw materials were made, or It's its transport route - we can't quite confirm that yet."

"Us? Do you have a team?"

"We are you and me. I do the chemical analysis myself, but the instruments are all at home, as are the environmental data. You asked me before what my hobbies are. I have two hobbies, one is fighting evil, and the other is studying witches. Spells. What are you doing with your eyes wide open? I use chemical instruments for analysis, not a big cauldron to boil witch potion..."

"I always feel that the witches in the story are all bad people and would not have the hobby of fighting evil - don't pay attention to me, I just said this nonsense." Zhuang Xuteng coughed twice, returned to seriousness, and said: "We now know The frozen fish factory is upstream, and it hands the blue crystals to the logistics company for transportation. We did not find the equipment to make blue crystals in the frozen fish factory, so the frozen fish factory is just a storage point. This time we have to follow the clues and find It goes home, right?”

"Yes, that's what it means." Morgana took out a piece of paper from her pants pocket and handed it to Zhuang Xuteng. "Here are the four most likely locations. Let's start from the most likely locations to see if there are any signs of transporting or manufacturing blue crystals. The mission this time is investigation and reconnaissance, not conflict. The purple one last time Leather Man… I don’t want to encounter him again.”

Zhuang Xuteng nodded and said, "Yes, the closer we get to the source, the stronger the enemy's defense will be, so we must be careful. What is the latitude and longitude written on this piece of paper?"

"Yeah. Chemical environment analysis uses sampling from various places. The standard data is a few years old. It can be more accurate in places where no one is active in the wild. The closer it is to people, the less accurate it is. Three of the four addresses are in the wild. Take a look. The matching degree can reach 70%. The last one is close to the town, and the matching degree is only 30%. Let’s start with the highest one, what do you think?”

"Look for the highest one first. Wait a moment while I look for a map around Peicheng. I remember it has the latitude and longitude. I marked the address on the map." Zhuang Xuteng asked Morgana to lean back, and then squeezed into the deputy chair. On the driver's side, open the storage drawer and start rummaging. He quickly found an old kraft paper map and looked at it carefully by the light of the carriage.

"Good landmarks. The four addresses are in the four directions of Peicheng, east, west, north and south. If so, I can also do chemical analysis: they are around Peicheng."

Morgana asked: "Is there not enough coal in the car?"

"Enough coal powder has been added, don't worry." Zhuang Xuteng smiled, put away the map and handed it to Morgana, and said: "I also remember the route. Let's go to the place with the highest probability first. You can sit down and go to bed early. Sleep."

"I'm not sleepy." Morgana shook her head.

"It's not that you are sleepy now, but I want you to rest first and accumulate more energy." Zhuang Xuteng said: "There are only two of us in this operation, and we may spend most of the time investigating and following, so we have to arrange a good handover. Let’s take turns together. I can’t sleep while driving, and there’s nothing going on at this stage, so you have to sleep, it’s not a question of whether you want to sleep or not.”

"That makes sense. I'll just follow your wish and sleep for a while. Is there a blanket in the car? Oh, it's in the back. I'll get it myself."

Zhuang Xuteng drove the car as smoothly as possible so that Morgana could have a good rest. She was wrapped in a blanket, half curled up on her side on the folded seat, listening to the rhythmic clang of the steam engine, and fell asleep in a daze. When her blanket slipped off, Zhuang Xuteng covered her again.

The two met in the southwest of the city. The first location was in the northwest. They first took the beltway and then left the city. From smooth and comfortable highways, to undulating secondary roads, then to potholed dirt roads, and finally to areas without roads. Zhuang Xuteng drove according to the map in his mind and soon arrived at the area near the first coordinate.

This place is almost as desolate as the bus station. At a glance, there is no human habitation at all. Is this right?

PS: I have adjusted the detailed outline and there is a little less writing. I will update it today and make up for it tomorrow.