Indescribable cyberpunk

The sky in Shenzhen-Hong Kong area is not pretty.

It's not that the blue sky and white clouds are not pure enough, but that the iron pipes lying horizontally above the head come into view first, as well as the mottled walls and sky corridors, the clothes hanging everywhere, and the advertising lights and signs that are not at all neat and tidy. He raised his head and lowered his head in just a few seconds.

Occasionally, there may be a few places where people can look up to the sky without any scruples, but the burden in their hearts makes them unable to straighten their backs.

Along the way, Zhu Jue saw people hurriedly passing by with their heads lowered everywhere. Compared with other places in the Haywood community, people here were equally busy, but there were few smiles on their faces. The stall owners at the roadside stalls On the contrary, he always grinned and greeted the guests with a humble look, without feeling any trace of sincerity from the heart, as if it was just a piece of human skin tissue that would inevitably become wrinkled due to overuse.

"arrive."

The vehicle drove into a community, Suzi found an open space and stopped, turned around and said.

"This place is quite nice."

Zhu Jue got out of the car and looked up at the sky on the patio in the center of the residential building.

"I don't know how much better than your basement there."

Shenzhen-Hong Kong District is originally part of the Heywood District, so there are still quite a few of the same types of features in residential buildings, such as the structure of this hollow community residential building. However, the houses here are obviously different in style compared to those in the Heywood District. The gap of several decades can be seen just from the fact that the exterior is still covered with plaster instead of steel plates.

Of course, Zhu Jue cannot deny that this style of house is more pleasing to his eyes.

"This is the restaurant's stronghold in Shenzhen and Hong Kong that was established a long time ago. The conditions in all aspects are naturally better. Follow me and be careful not to reveal your identity."

Suzi still led the way and entered the residential building along the corridor next to it. The stronghold here was not underground, but on the top of the highest building.

"You chose the place so high, can you still run away if you are discovered?"

Standing in the elevator, Zhu Jue's eyes fell on the dark stains on the corners and the small advertisements posted on the elevator door, and he asked a little strangely.

“Nearly 30% of the 65th and 66th floors are rooms that we have rented or bought through various methods. By placing our base on the top floor, we can ensure to the greatest extent that no residents will accidentally find anything wrong. If someone finds out, we will There is also a way to deal with it here. This is an internal secret and I can’t tell you.”

"Thirty percent, why not buy them all?"

He pulled back the paw that the wind chime stretched out to scratch the little advertisement, and asked subconsciously.

"The funds distributed by restaurants to various regions are very limited. We have no monopoly consortium to support us, and we have not considered exploiting the people. The nature of the restaurant itself also means that we cannot seek sponsorship through normal channels, and even have to reject those of a certain nature. Unknown funding and manpower.”

Looking up at the numbers dancing above, Motoko deliberately emphasized the words "limited funds" and then said,

"Even so, compared to the situation five years ago when they were wanted across the federation, the restaurant has made great progress. Otherwise, we might not even be able to afford this 30%."

In the past five years, due to the fragmentation of the federal government and the rise of oligarchic consortiums, individuals or a small group of interest groups have gradually come to the forefront. The federal government is no longer in charge of major super cities. The financial oligarchs are busy grabbing profits, so they will naturally relax their encirclement and arrest of the Yi League.

This made the federal government unable to do anything, and had to stop some of its original arrest plans when the general environment was not conducive to it.

In the final analysis, compared to these people hiding in the dark, what the major forces need to solve is the imminent problem of monsters that are the source of mental pollution. After all, tax-paying citizens don’t care how many "special people" you catch, they are more like knowing The news is that there are no longer monsters that are sources of mental pollution in the area where I live.

Ding~

The indicator light on the door flashed and chimed loudly, and Suzi stepped out first.

Just as he turned the corner of the corridor, he was suddenly stopped by Zhu Jue. When he turned around, he saw a serious face.

Buzz~

A familiar voice in my head.

"Be careful, there is a spiritual pollution source monster nearby!"

Zhu Jue, who had always been confident in his sensing ability, frowned and said in a deep voice.

"What?"

Suzi was suddenly told that a monster had appeared near his stronghold. Suzi was surprised but did not doubt the authenticity of Zhu Jue's words. He quickly grabbed the firearm hidden under his coat at his waist.

"Find a way to determine the other party's location, and I will notify Mr. Fu immediately!"

"The wind chime is gone, can you feel it?"

With his perception ability fully activated, Zhu Jue was silent for a few seconds, lowered his head and asked Feng Chime. The latter nodded first, and then shook his head.

It also felt the existence of the monster that was the source of spiritual pollution just now, but now it has lost track of it.

Suzi, who was about to contact Fu Yingxiong, stopped what he was doing, straightened his clothes and asked, "Are you kidding me?"

There was no anger or embarrassment on Suzi's face, she just asked calmly.

"Do I seem like someone who likes to joke about this kind of thing? I did feel something strange when I stepped out of the elevator. It was near here, but now it has disappeared."

Putting his hands into his pockets again, his eyes rotated among the doors lined up in front of him, trying to confirm where the fleeting breath came from.

No results.

Su Zi did not stay where she was, but quickly led Zhu Jue to the door of Fu Yingxiong's room. He knocked on the door as a signal, and the door was opened immediately.

"Mr. Fu, just now Zhu Jue noticed information about a mental pollution monster appearing nearby outside the door."

While walking inside with Zhu Jue, he reported to Fu Yingxiong.

"Monster, here?"

After hearing Suzi's report, Fu Yingxiong's expression was startled at first. He looked at Zhujue and realized that the expression on his face didn't seem to be fake. He immediately said to the man Liang Ge who was sorting things in the room,

"Go and adjust the cameras in the corridor to the color monitoring mode. I want to know if any ordinary residents on the 65th and 66th floors have mental problems. Once discovered, they must be cleaned up as soon as possible."

As a relatively unnoticed residential area in Heywood District, Shenzhen-Hong Kong District usually does not have any police officers coming to check, but this is just normal. If there is a mental pollution monster, the nature will be completely different.

Major super cities almost have a zero-tolerance attitude towards this kind of terrifying monster that is not much different from a virus. Once a monster that is a source of mental pollution appears somewhere, in order to ensure that there is no possibility of a second recurrence, carpet-like color investigation and causes will be carried out. Investigations are inevitable.

And this is still a relatively common attitude. For example, the law in some super cities is simply to eliminate all people, which means that anyone in this area who may be related to the monster that causes mental pollution will be imprisoned until it is confirmed that there is no danger. will be released.

If this area happens to be in a slum, it is likely that the subsequent actions will be omitted directly, and instead it will be cleared on the spot!

"How's the situation here?"

Suzi has not forgotten his original intention of coming here.

"Some unexpected situations occurred, you should come in first."

Fu Yingxiong watched the door being closed again before opening the inner door.

The living room outside is no different from an ordinary home, but the bedroom inside is a different scene. Several machines similar to computers in operation are placed in the corner. On the recliners in front of these machines are people or semi-sitters. A young man lay.

"All your people like to work while lying down?"

When he walked into the stronghold, he saw people lying on chairs. Zhu Jue raised his eyebrows and began to look at the surrounding layout.

Suzi walked forward quickly, stretched out two fingers to open the other person's eyelids, stared at the eyeballs for a while and then said: "He lost consciousness, what happened?"

Zhu Jue glanced on tiptoe and found that the man's eyeballs were rolled up, and from his angle he could only see the whites of his eyes.

This is not like a sleeping state!

"Before you came here, he was investigating recent murder cases in Rongxia City and other areas. We found a key piece of information, and then a line of writing suddenly appeared on the screen."

Pointing to the screen in front of him, Fu Yingxiong said hesitantly.

"What?"

"Do you want to know the meaning of life? Do you want to truly live?"

"Pfft~"

Zhu Jue, who had just poured himself a glass of water and drank it, sprayed out half of the table. Fu Yingxiong said the above sentence in a heavy tone, which was really unacceptable to him.

"You don't believe this kind of thing, it's all a prank on the Internet."

"No, it's not that simple. The page I just mentioned has appeared all over the world in recent times. Through intelligence collection, we found that someone is using this website to implement online volunteer recruitment activities. Once you click on Click the OK button and you will immediately be involved in a certain event by default. We found that some of the dead who appeared in Rongxia City had surprisingly similar characteristics. They were all prosthetic people who had nearly 70% body modification. And their family background and income simply don’t allow for such extensive body modification!”

Pushing the unconscious man away temporarily, Fu Yingxiong stood in front of the screen and pressed the keyboard. After a while, a large number of pictures and background information of the deceased flashed quickly.

"has a problem!"

Mozi's information analysis ability has always been stronger than this kind of machine. After looking at a dozen pictures in succession, she immediately realized something was wrong.

"Among the corpses that have been discovered so far, all the people who have undergone prosthetic transformation are young adults between the ages of 18 and 30. There are 22 people in total, 9 of whom are residents of the poor communities in Rongxia City, and the other 13 It is the people in the slums in several cities around Rongxia City. As Mr. Fu said, these people cannot have enough funds to carry out large-scale prosthetic transformation. There is only one explanation, and that is that someone is supporting them behind the scenes. Behavior. But what is the meaning of this kind of behavior? Let them undergo prosthetic transformation and then let them die?"

"The real key point is that in the interviews with the families of the deceased, 10 family members said that they had heard the person involved talking about this so-called 'want to know the meaning of life' web page. Not surprisingly, several others This should be the case too! "

There is no doubt that the Yi Meng has control over the Rongxia City area, and it is precisely with this power that the Yi Meng collected a large amount of intelligence in a short period of time after the incident occurred.

However, the results compiled by this intelligence not only did not help solve the problem, but made the whole incident cast a thicker layer of fog!