Enforcer's Handbook

When Jack Roman woke up, the heat of the desert was burning his back.

His last memory is that he put on the exoskeleton armor and led the Brotherhood's ground exploration troops to approach the ruins according to the order. Then a storm hit them. At that time, they were like sailors who had encountered a storm and a tsunami. He could only watch helplessly as he was swallowed by the storm.

When Jack woke up again, he found himself lying here.

The exoskeleton armor protected them, but at this moment it also became a piece of broken parts.

The team members he led were missing, and all communication devices were cut off.

The only good news is that Jack found a village in the distance, and his strong desire to survive made him struggle to get up from the sand—it took him most of his life to join the Brotherhood with his viciousness and ruthlessness The top executives must not die in the desert so unclearly.

Go fuck the death crab, go fuck the artifact.

He didn't know which neutral station the village in the distance belonged to, but Jack believed that as long as he was still near the oasis, there would be no one who didn't know the prestige of the Brotherhood, and he could easily promise the villagers a sum that they couldn't imagine huge sum of money.

Thinking of this, Jack pushed aside the broken parts of the exoskeleton armor and walked towards the village step by step.

And this walk, most of the day has passed.

When his mood changed from excitement to despair, and he even wondered whether the village was what people called a mirage, the smoke and lights finally appeared in front of him.

There is a strange aroma wafting from the village, which is the deadliest attraction to Jack, who has been hungry all day.

He stumbled into the village, and the first thing he saw was a small shop called "Lao Xu Sheng Jian", which seemed to be the only shop in the small town.

The store is very lively, the villagers who have been busy all day gather here, order a few steaming pan-fries, bring their handmade special drinks, and sit at the simple wooden table to talk and pass the time.

You can see such a scene at any border post in the oasis, but such a scene gave Jack goosebumps.

Ever since I came to the village, my heart has been filled with a strange and terrifying feeling.

He always felt that he had seen these villagers somewhere, but when he thought about it carefully, he couldn't remember it.

Hunger finally got the upper hand.

Jack decided not to think about it anymore. He sat at the seat closest to the boss. The oversimplified menu made him frown. If he hadn't encountered unexpected disasters, he would never come to such a simple place to eat.

The Brotherhood has opened countless luxurious restaurants in Rila, and spent a lot of money to invite top chefs from all over the world to the capital of the oasis.

In addition to the kidnapping, extortion, extortion, and human organ trafficking industries, the Brotherhood has also begun to promote "high-end consumption" in recent years. For example, places like the Golden Stone Casino are specially opened for dignitaries from the Oasis and other Allied countries.

Unlike those "refugees", as long as you are prominent, you can experience any service you can dream of in the lira-whether it conforms to the laws of the Allied countries or not.

The owner of the shop is a cheerful-looking middle-aged man, and everyone in the village cheerfully calls him Laoxu, which must be the origin of the name "Laoxu Shengjian".

"Boss, what is this place?"

A table of fried food was served, and the fragrance of the food made Jack's unhappiness a little less.

"Sandstone Town."

"Sandstone Town?"

Jack will bite open the fried golden crispy skin, and the plump gravy will immediately spread on the tip of his tongue. The taste of the food is much more delicious than he imagined, even no less than the dim sum he tasted in the high-end restaurant owned by the fraternity .

He muttered the name of the town.

He had never heard of this place name before, "How far is it from Root City?"

"far away."

It wasn't the answer Jack wanted to hear.

When he asked a question, what he expected was a complete set of plans, such as starting from Sandstone Town, what kind of transportation would be needed, and how long it would take to reach Root City.

Perhaps it was the disaster and the weird atmosphere in the village that made Jack restrain his temper a little, so that he would not explode on the spot and press the boss's head on the table.

"What do I need to do to get back there?"

"Guest, you can't go back."

Jack stopped chewing. He wiped off the grease on his hands, and stared directly at the busy middle-aged man with unfriendly eyes, and the atmosphere suddenly became tense.

He is waiting for the other party to make a reasonable explanation.

Otherwise, the "pigsty" of the fraternity will always welcome this kind of able-bodied people, and the boss's craftsmanship will not be reduced to being dismantled into human organs.

The boss didn't rush, and said, "Guest, since you mentioned Root City, you must have heard about the disappearance case that made a lot of noise a while ago, right?"

"Have you been to Root City?"

Jack didn't answer the question.

Of course he knew what was going on with the missing persons cases in various cities in the Oasis.

The research of biopharmaceutical companies needs a large number of "volunteers", and the fraternity provides them with information on residents, and biopharmaceutical companies will use their information to select subjects for drugs.

As for the whereabouts of the "volunteers"...

He can only say that any success requires countless failures. After the experiment failed, the "volunteers" were sent to the desert.

"If you own a small store like this, you know that people like us hear a lot of news from people every day. For example, a regular customer in our store has a daughter who once Zhouzhang took great pains to send his daughter to go to school elsewhere, and after graduation, his daughter finally returned to the city to be reunited with her family."

As he said that, the boss fumbled for something in the inside pocket of his clothes, and pushed towards Jack who was opposite.

By the dim light of the little shop, Jack saw that it was a photograph.

This is a group photo.

The young girl the boss spoke of stood with her father, smiling brightly.

And when he saw the photo, Jack's creepy feeling became even stronger.

He had seen the girl in the photo, not so long ago.

She was sent to Lila by the members of the Skeleton Gang. According to the procedures of the brotherhood, she was finally packaged and sent to the auction, where she was spotted by a wealthy foreign businessman and bought at a high price.

Things like this happen every day, and if her story stopped here, Jack might not be too impressed.

What really made him remember the girl in the photo was that she somehow escaped from the hands of the rich businessman, but she was unlucky and was betrayed when she asked someone to smuggle out of Lira, and was finally sent back To the "pigsty".

The wealthy businessman was outraged by this, preferring to leave this disobedient commodity to the brotherhood.

In the end, biopharmaceutical companies have a satisfactory solution for everyone.

The last time Jack saw the girl, she could no longer recognize her original appearance. Like other volunteers who were injected with failed experimental drugs, her face and body were cracked, and she could only crawl like a crab in the isolation room. I am afraid that the father who loves her the most will not recognize her when he sees her at that time.

The wealthy businessman is very satisfied with the result of this treatment.

The researchers of the biopharmaceutical company showed him the same photo, which recorded the whole experience of the girl after being kidnapped by the Skeleton Gang.

Each failed subject was changed beyond recognition, and the photos were taken to remind researchers of their pre-alteration identities.

"You made the right decision not to continue being a detective."

After a long silence, Jack spoke.

Oasis never needs detectives. For people living in border cities, being confused can make them live more securely.

What happened to the girl in the photo was only a small probability event. If anyone was to blame, she could only be blamed for returning to Root City at the wrong time.

"The regular customer hadn't come to the store for a while, and later I saw his name in the news. I don't know who told him that the Skeleton Gang had taken away his daughter, so he impulsively came to ask for it. To speak."

Naturally, the Skeleton Gang did not give this father an explanation.

Instead, the body was left casually on a street corner.

Jack could hear the boss's tone of regret.

This is also a true portrayal of Lao Xu's heart. This regret stems not only from the tragedies he witnessed, but also from the fact that Song Lan let Scarface die too easily, and he only had time to smash his knee with a gun.

"If I were you, I wouldn't always take these things to heart."

Jack said.

This was indeed a tragedy, but it couldn't make any guilt surge in his heart.

From the moment they joined the fraternity, they had those emotions out.

And he didn't want to waste time on meaningless remembrance of the past. He wanted to return to the oasis and report their findings to the leader.

"Uzor-Nebrus".

He remembered the words engraved on the stone gate, its existence was different from any archaeological remains in the past, which meant that perhaps the artifact was real.

To redeploy against the harsh weather, as long as they can break through the storm, they can reach the ancient kingdom hidden behind the stone gate.

Compared with this, the changes in someone's family in Root City are not worth mentioning at all.

"Old Xu, two servings of fried rice, daddy will come over in a while."

The lively and energetic voice interrupted Jack's thoughts, but also made the fear in his heart rise to the peak.

The girl in a plain dress sat beside him, and said something to the boss with a smile on her face.

Technically, this is the first time Jack and the girl in the picture have met.

Now she has returned to the lively and lovely appearance in the photo, and she is no longer in the state of being sealed in an isolation room, distorted beyond recognition, crawling on the ground like a crab.

And judging from the tone of her speech just now, it is not difficult to judge that her father who died at the hands of the skeleton gang seems to have come back to life.

An ominous thought came to Jack's mind, and he finally understood where the familiarity when he came to the town came from.

As one of the top executives of the fraternity, he needs to keep in touch with the biopharmaceutical company for a long time. In addition to grasping the real-time progress of the research, he occasionally browses the photos and identity information of the "volunteers" on a whim, but not all Would have impressed him too much like the girl in the picture.

The rest of the "volunteers" may be coalition outsiders or locals.

Just like the people in the small town, even if they meet each other, it can only bring him some shallow familiarity.

However, the dead cannot be brought back to life.

It is absolutely impossible for them to see the undead who have been dead for a long time.

unless……

He didn't actually survive the storm.

Oasis people have also discussed where people go after death.

Most of the local people believe in the God of Life, and believe that when their lives come to an end, their souls and consciousness will return to the embrace of the God of Life, which is a place without pain and sorrow.

Jack Roman has been scoffing at this.

In his view, death is the end of everything, and the soul and consciousness are just the way people seek solace.

The atmosphere in the store was still lively, and his arrival did not attract much attention. The voice he heard was close at hand, but seemed far away, all of which became illusory in his eyes.

Jack heard the crackle, the sound of oil dancing over the fire.

The fragrance of raw fried food got into his nostrils, and everything they experienced at the moment seemed extremely real.

The village under the night, and the villagers who gather to talk after a busy day, are a warm scene from any angle.

But Jack's face was distorted due to panic, and his instinct made him retreat, wanting to leave this ominous place as soon as possible.

In a panic, he stepped on the foot of the chair, lost his center of gravity and fell backwards.

The muffled sound he made finally made people's eyes stay on him. Jack looked at him one by one, and there was no hatred or anger in people's eyes, they were calm and curious.

"Stay away from me, you bastards!"

Jack struggled to get up from the ground, and pain became his only partner, which seemed to be the only evidence that could prove that he was still alive at this moment.

The girl looked at Jack who suddenly lost his composure and collapsed with concern, and reached out to help him up.

The friendly gesture was rebuffed, and Jack roughly slapped the girl's hand away.

"Go away, I don't belong here, I want to go back to the oasis!"

"Please rest assured, guest, you are not dead."

"Nothingness" said, "But you are right, you do not belong here, there is no place in this village that can accommodate you."

The vibration from under his feet made Jack even more flustered. He wanted to get up several times, but found that he was sinking deeper and deeper, and there seemed to be something dragging him from below, preventing him from getting up.

When half of his body was embedded in the ground, he finally saw the colossal creature hidden underground.

That's the death crab.

But why are there death crabs lurking below the village?

His body, which has been modified several times, can't resist the power of the death crab at all, and he can only really watch himself sinking deeper and deeper.

"What a long day... Mr. Jack Roman, you are the last."

Before his head sank into the ground, Jack heard the boss muttering to himself, "Welcome to 'Uzor Nebrus'."

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Small theater two hundred and seventy-one:

On a certain day of a certain year, Thursday, morning

This was the longest vacation that Lu Xiang had ever experienced. It was already past eleven o'clock, but she was still lying on the bed, enjoying the warm sunshine at noon.

The fragrance that wafted from the living room into the bedroom made her index finger move. She stroked her growing belly, feeling particularly comfortable.

Since deciding to raise a little dumbbird, Song Lan has obviously become much more diligent, and even took the initiative to study nutrition books, and the daily meals are satisfactory.

She lay on the soft pillow, closed her eyes and imagined today's sumptuous lunch.

If you ignore laziness, you will find that this dumb bird actually has many advantages. She also hopes that her child can inherit Song Lan's mantle, so that when Song Lan is not at home in the future, she can also enjoy delicious food...

Thinking of this, Lu Xiang suddenly opened his eyes.

His expression also became tense.

In the last conversation, she hoped that the child would follow her, because she really didn't want to see the backs of their heads lying on the sofa every time she came home from get off work. After getting along with Song Lan for a long time, Ye Lu had already been Completely corroded, the former archbishop's angel of death has now completely become an angel at home.

But then she had to face a serious problem.

What if...

The child's culinary talent also follows her, what should she do?