The pain caused by broken bones is simply unbearable for ordinary people. Not everyone is like Wang Xiao, who has developed a strange habit of missing limbs.

The man's wails were humming and groaning, trying to keep the echo within a small area.

But the short man's sneeze just now inevitably triggered the alarm.

“Who is it?!”

Suddenly, a guard's shout was heard in the distance, followed by two beams of light shining towards this side.

The noise of chaotic footsteps, bullets bouncing everywhere, and dragging heavy objects filled Factory No. 2.

When the two guards finally aimed their guns and flashlights at the target, they saw the two men, one tall and one short, already standing on an ordinary open space.

The next second, the two's bodies sank rapidly and disappeared from their sight.

The young guard fired several rounds into the ground and then began rubbing his eyes.

The older one seemed to be quite calm and collected. He calmly put away his gun and walked aside in a daze.

"Captain, was that... a superpower?"

"What do you think?"

"What an amazing ability..."

The young guard was still thinking about what he had just experienced.

"How many superpowers are there in Hope City?"

"How should I know? I remember hearing some big shots say when I was on security duty that the probability of humans awakening superpowers is 2 to 3 in a thousand."

"Oh, why isn't it me?"

"Look at it more positively. It's really not that easy to be a superpower."

The older guard always felt that he should hold something in his hand when educating the younger generation, but due to material control, he could only explain dryly:

“The awakening of super powers is random, and some powers are not actually practical.

"Those who are suitable for combat will be selected separately, and the rest will be distributed to factories and so on. So for a considerable number of super-powered people, their abilities only make their salaries a little higher.

"We have a good job now. We have food and supplies. When we see this kind of situation, we just need to fire a few shots to show our respect."

The young man pondered the captain's words, and his expression became a little more lively:

"Captain, are you saying that because it was a superpowered person who committed the crime, our mistake today is not that serious?"

"well."

The captain lowered his head and sighed:

"My salary will be deducted, I need to write a report, and if I can't keep my job, there will be an investigation, but at least I survived."

Hearing that a lot of trouble was waiting for him, the young guard's face fell.

Seeing the obvious changes in the younger generation, the captain said calmly:

"It's better than being dead. Otherwise, you'd better be quiet after being shot twice."

“…”

---

In the sewer, El looked at Li Rui with a ferocious expression and asked:

"What's going on? The smell in the factory is a bit pungent. It's my fault. Sorry."

At this time, Mr. One-Armed Swordsman was sitting on the iron box that the two of them had just stolen, and he was adjusting his bones bit by bit with his hands in the dark.

The pain caused by this process was even more severe than being hit, but when he thought that if he couldn't solve it, a miracle doctor would use angle grinder therapy, Li Rui suddenly became motivated again.

The most terrifying thing in the world is not torture, but treatment disguised as torture. While living a life worse than death, one knows in the heart that this is a necessary step, which brings a more severe shock to the heart.

Li Rui didn't know whether Boss El had thought of this, but he had thought of it anyway. Since he had this realization, he never asked El to treat him again.

The whole process lasted for several minutes intermittently. There were several parts that had already grown back but were in deformed positions, which were eventually corrected by Li Rui himself.

He stood up with a grin, indicating that he had completed the treatment.

El didn't say much and started walking through the sewer with Li Rui.

Over the past few decades, with the help of some superpowers related to excavation and earthwork, Hope City has built a usable sewer system while continuing to expand.

The only problem is that this is exclusive to the inner city areas.

Whether it's the sewers or the deeper underground farms and ranches, most people will never be able to access them in their lifetime.

And most of them, of course, include security guards and the Ministry of Internal Affairs' cleanup teams.

El used his ability of dimensional displacement to draw a detailed map of the sewer structure in the inner city, and then he and his partner began to steal a lot in the past few weeks.

While mapping the sewer structure, El found himself unable to get close to the most central part of the inner city.

There seemed to be an invisible but powerful repulsive force between himself and that place, which prevented him from getting close even in a higher-dimensional state.

So in his hand-drawn drawings, the most central part of the inner city remained blank, without any marks.

The sewer was actually not as smelly as Li Rui had imagined.

Perhaps because of the reasonable planning, although there is sewage and odor here, it is not piled up or flowing...

Amid the sound of splashing water, Li Rui asked his boss:

"Boss, the things we've been stealing lately have been getting weirder and weirder... Before, I could barely understand the instructions, but now..."

El thought that he had no idea about this, and could only say with a sigh and a rebuke:

"So that's why we need to take action. Why do you care so much?"

Li Rui thought about it and said nothing more. With the experience of seducing the young fat man last time, Li Rui actually knew that his boss might have another boss.

And now most of their actions are also instructed by that person.

But he chose to play dumb.

El was at least a being with whom he could communicate, but it was hard to say whether the one who cut off the fat man's arm in an instant and whose facial features were shrouded in chaos was a human being, let alone someone who could bypass his boss and deal with the other party.

Thinking of saying something to ease the atmosphere, Li Rui asked tentatively:

"Boss, how many missions like this do we have? You know, we were assassins before. I'm still a little uncomfortable with this change of profession. After all, you are the famous 'Mind Flayer'..."

In the darkness, a pair of confused eyes looked at Li Rui:

"Is that so? If I remember correctly, it seems that you are the Mind Flayer?"

Li Rui was suddenly struck hard, and his mind suddenly became clear to the extreme.

He suddenly remembered that he was the one with the wanted warrant, he was the one who was both good and evil in the rumors, he was the one that the sheriffs loved and hated, and he had nothing to do with the young man in front of him.

"Since you miss that time so much, I think it's time to come up with something new."

"What?"

"Hehe, did you know that I found some... strongholds while exploring the sewers?"