Chapter 269: Inhuman (77) (1st + 2nd) [VIP]

Without having time to care about Lu Yun in front of her, Dita climbed over the fence with one hand and chased after him.

"Wait a minute! You guys wait..." Before she finished her words, the group of people disappeared.

"Oh my god!" She had personally experienced Xiao Tang's madness a few days ago, "Lu Yun... Lu Yun!"

Lu Yun didn't know where this group of newcomers went after they left, so in his nightmare, they gradually walked away and then disappeared.

"Alright, alright, alright," Yuan Shanming held her back, "Even if you catch up with them, you won't be able to find out anything."

That's true.

After all, the illusion was only based on Lu Yun's cognition. If Lu Yun didn't know what the City Guard was, even if they caught up with the square-faced man, they wouldn't be able to get any information out of him.

But Dita still subconsciously fell into anxiety: "We must be right, right? That person is from the city guard."

"Are the members of the City Guard new to the City of Violence?" She widened her eyes and asked Yuan Shanming for confirmation. "How could they be new? Isn't it said that after the fifteen-day exploration, all newcomers must leave the Novice Village?"

After all, she was just a novice leader, and there were many things she didn't know, so she subconsciously asked veterans like Yuan Shanming.

"You ask me..." Yuan Shanming touched his chin thoughtfully, "I don't know, but I have never heard of such a situation in the City of the Dead. All the newcomers I have led have left the Novice Village safely."

"Then..." Dita pointed in the direction where the group disappeared, with an exaggerated expression, "What happened to that guy?"

"Calm down," Bai Jinshu patted her shoulder gently. "Since this person appeared in Lu Yun's illusion, Lu Yun must have seen him before. Now is only the first day they entered the City of Violence. There are still fifteen days to go. As long as we go out with Lu Yun often, we may run into him again."

Now we can only hope for this.

If Lu Yun had more interactions with him, then they would be able to see more.

The fact that the members of the City Guard and the newcomers in the City of Violence had the same face seemed to have dealt a heavy blow to Dita. She was distracted the entire day.

That night, after paying part of the protection fee, the group slowly walked towards the house where Lu Yun lived.

As more and more people died in Purple Street, many houses that were once crowded became empty.

The street that they had passed by before and was full of people had become empty. Many houses were vacant, and some people from Purple Street who had originally lived in wooden sheds had moved in.

A house that can shelter from wind and rain is naturally much better than a wooden shed.

The house has much better sound insulation and light blocking, and at the same time, it is much more resistant to impact.

At least now I don’t have to worry about being affected by the aftermath of the battle while sleeping.

Dita was quite distracted that night. Before Lu Yun went to sleep, she held his arm as if to confirm: "Lu Yun, are you going to steal the new guy tomorrow?"

"Of course I'll go," Lu Yun was puzzled. "If we don't go, what will we do with our protection money?"

"That's fine..." Dita stared at him blankly for a few seconds, "Good night."

"Why do I feel like there's something wrong with Sister Tazi..." Xiao Tang went to talk to Bai Jinshu in a low voice again, "Does she know something? About the City Guard?"

"Maybe," Bai Jinshu and Guan Hongyan exchanged glances. Guan Hongyan nodded slightly at him. He understood and said, "Hasn't she been leading the team in the City of Violence for more than three months? For them, it is an established rule that newcomers will leave after fifteen days. Now it is suddenly broken. It's a bit hard for her to accept it."

"Really..." Xiao Tang touched his chin, "I feel like there's a ghost. There's a ghost in this place called the City of Violence."

She went to find Yuan Shanming thoughtfully.

It's not just the violence that's the problem, Bai Jinshu suspects the entire Novice Village is haunted.

"Dita, this person is actually quite amazing," Guan Hongyan, who had just exchanged glances with him, came closer and lowered her voice, "She has only been leading the team in the City of Violence for three months, but from what I have observed, she is different from other team leaders."

"She doesn't seem to be in a hurry to earn points. Compared to those team leaders who urge newcomers to explore strange stories, she usually prefers to take us around, including the triggering of this S-level strange story," Guan Hongyan said softly, "I suspected before that she came to the Novice Village and the City of Violence to find someone... or to investigate something."

"Investigate something?" Bai Jinshu raised his eyebrows.

"Yes," Guan Hongyan nodded. "I have always thought that Dita might have met someone or something happened to her in the City of Violence when she was still a newcomer, which led to her coming back immediately after she became qualified as a team leader, wanting to find out the truth in the City of Violence."

But now it seems that it is not the case.

"Is she looking for some newcomer? The missing newcomer?" Guan Hongyan lowered her voice, "She now suspects that the missing newcomer has become a member of the city guard?"

From this perspective, her move to trigger the [Nightmare] was absolutely correct. If she had not entered the previous nightmare, she would probably not have seen the true face of the City Guard until her death.

"It's still just speculation what she's looking for," Bai Jinshu shook his head slightly, "but it's certain that the newcomer has a connection with the City Guard."

He and Guan Hongyan both had their occupational diseases, and whenever they saw something wrong, they wanted to get to the bottom of it. If only they could meet that square-faced guy a few more times and get some information out of him.

Unfortunately, the nightmare is controlled by Lu Yun and is based on Lu Yun’s cognition.

Even though Dita repeatedly mentioned Xiao Huo, the policeman who caught him last time, in the next few days, and kept trying to hint at him to use the illusion to get the team out, the square-faced man still did not appear in front of everyone for the second time.

After several days, they had almost paid enough protection fees, but they still had never encountered this team outside Purple Street.

Just when everyone was about to lose hope, at noon one day, when they were about to return to Purple Street, they suddenly heard a few honks from the horn overhead.

Intermittent electric current sounds came from inside, accompanied by a female voice with a broadcasting tone: [Violence City Road Conditions Quick Report: A large-scale armed fight occurred on the section from Central Avenue to B City Bank Headquarters, a car chase occurred on the section from Hongshan Tunnel to Panshan Highway, and a robbery team occurred on the section from Nanping Park to Suburban East Road. Residents who plan to pass through the above three sections of roads please change their driving routes and detour to avoid congested areas.]

"Traffic broadcast?" Xiao Tang looked up at the loudspeaker above his head. "Isn't this the same loudspeaker that broadcast the city guard earlier?"

This thing actually has a traffic broadcasting function?

"It seems that this timeline was a long time ago..." Bai Jinshu looked up at the speaker, "Master Zhan said that this thing was used more often before the promotion of Daleme, so this timeline must have been at least before the citizens installed Daleme in large quantities."

"Dita," he looked at Dita, "When did you make the Violence City software available to the citizens?"

"I'm not sure..." Dita thought for a few seconds, "About ten or twenty years ago..."

This timeline sounds similar to the timeline of their last nightmare.

"The road we are going to take is the headquarters of B City Bank." Lu Yun also heard the broadcast. He stopped and looked forward. "If we go any further, we will be sucked in."

He is not good at fighting, nor does he have as much energy as the citizens of the violent city.

What's more, they had just stolen things from other places, and each of them had a bunch of things in their hands that could be sold on the black market.

"Let's take a detour," Bai Jinshu looked around and said, "Let's go back to Purple Street first."

According to Lu Yun's cautious character, he would most likely not participate in these fights, and he must have chosen to take a detour in the first place.

"Then let's go this way," Lu Yun thought for a moment, "I know a small path! It's next to B City Bank!"

The group avoided the road where the fight was breaking out, and followed Lu Yun into the alley, carrying the things in their hands.

Lu Yun was worthy of being one of the people from Purple Street who often committed thefts outside. He knew the transportation network of the entire violent city very well. Everyone was in this small alley, and just across the wall was the central street where the fight was taking place.

From time to time, one could hear something hitting the wall, or someone being pushed against the wall and beaten. Lu Yun was walking in front. Although he knew that those who were fighting didn't know that a group of Purple Street thieves were walking just across the wall from them, he still subconsciously tensed up.

"Bang!" It seemed that someone was pushed against the wall on the central street separated by a wall. Someone was holding his neck, or controlling his limbs, and hitting his abdomen again and again.

Lu Yun paused nervously, then turned around and gestured to everyone: [Quiet].

Everyone nodded.

He typed again quietly: [Go].

The crowd quickened their pace, gradually getting further and further away from the sounds of fighting behind them.

Just as they were about to walk out of the path, Lu Yun, who was walking in front, suddenly stopped and said, "Ah..."

"What's wrong?" Everyone behind him immediately came forward nervously.

"The wall collapsed, someone is trapped here..." Lu Yun paused, took a deep breath, and his voice returned to his usual roughness. "It should be that someone wanted to leave here like us before, but there was a fight in front, and the wall happened to collapse..."

Those unlucky people who happened to pass by here were crushed underneath.

"What should we do?" Everyone looked at each other, "Retreat?"

The wall has collapsed and this path is no longer passable.

"Let's go back..." Xiao Tang glanced behind him, "Let's go a little further."

Anyway, there is still enough time now. It is only noon and it is still early for the sun to set.

"Wait...wait a minute, Sister Tang," Lu Yun called out nervously from the front, "I..."

"What's wrong?" Xiao Tang poked his head out.

"Can I..." Lu Yun spoke with great difficulty.

"Friend, friend..." A weak voice came from the collapsed wall, "Meeting is fate, please help me..."

The yellow-haired guy in the front was shocked: "Fuck! He's not dead!"

“Ahem… ahem,” the man who spoke seemed to be choked. “No, buddy, we are just buried underground, please save us.”

Xiao Tang twitched his lips: "You guys are quite hard to kill."

The wall was so high, but I didn’t die after falling down and I was still conscious.

This is too tenacious.

"Sister Xiao Tang..." Lu Yun gently pulled Xiao Tang's sleeve, "Can you...save them?"

When he said this, everyone's face showed a hint of surprise.

Lu Yun wants to save people?

This is too weird. Doesn't Lu Yun seem like such a kind person?

According to their observation, Lu Yun is the most typical person in Zijie. He has no moral concepts and will do anything to survive, including stealing and robbing, hunting the undead every night, and paying endless protection fees. These are the elements that make up them.

They have always disdained to do things that are not helpful for survival.

This time he took the initiative to save people because...

"That person," Lu Yun was silent for a few seconds, looking at the half-exposed hand in the ruins, "is the one who didn't send me to the police station last time."

Policeman Xiao Huo?

"Save him, save him right now!" Dita reacted immediately and grabbed Yuan Shanming who was standing beside her, "That policeman! This is the square-faced team!"

"Square face... City Guard?" Guan Hongyan suddenly realized what she was talking about.

“Come on, come on, lend a hand!” She quickly walked to the rubble and waved to the yellow-haired man next to her, “Let’s lift it together.”

After everyone lent a hand, the ruins were quickly cleared.

After the large and small concrete blocks were moved away, they could see that there were only five people trapped underneath. Fortunately, the rocks did not hit any vital parts of their bodies. The most seriously injured was the newcomer who had just asked them to save him. His left arm was bloody and mangled by the concrete blocks and looked like he needed a bandage urgently.

The square-faced man was not among them.

Dita watched from the side for a long time and lowered her voice: "We have to go back with them."

She wanted to find out what was going on with that square-faced man.

"Brother, lend me a hand. Thank you, thank you..." At the edge of the ruins, the yellow-haired man had already helped one of the newcomers up. The newcomer grimaced and cried out in pain, "It hurts, it hurts, it hurts...hiss."

"Where is your leader? Where are the other members of the team?" Dita asked hurriedly.

"The leader... the leader and the others are not with us," the newcomer who was most seriously injured stood up, unaware of the inquiry and excitement on Dita's face, and waved his hand and said, "We were planning to go back to the hotel after finishing the ghost talk, but we accidentally got involved in a fight. We wanted to take a shortcut, but who knew it would be so inconvenient and we were hit by the wall..."

"Stop talking," Xiao Huo interrupted him, "You need to bandage your arm quickly, otherwise you won't be able to save your arm. Thank you."

She hurriedly thanked everyone.

She seemed to have forgotten the pickpocket who was almost sent to the police station by her a few days ago. Her eyes flashed across Lu Yun and she quickly turned her head to bandage her teammate.

Xiao Huo seemed to be the least injured among the group. She was a police officer before her death and knew some first aid knowledge. She was now stopping the bleeding of her four teammates.

Lu Yun stood there and looked at her for a long time, then curled his lips and said, "Let's go."

"Don't go!" Dita said anxiously, "They are seriously injured. Let's send them back to the settlement. Which settlement do you live in?"

She was anxious to ask the square-faced man questions, so naturally she didn't want to leave now.

"The injury is not serious," Lu Yun returned to the indifferent and thrifty manner when they first met, and slowly glanced at everyone, "He is not going to die."

Can these newcomers who can get good medical care be the same as these people from Purple Street?

In Purple Street, there is a lack of medicine, and even the most common cold is considered a serious illness.

Lu Yun glanced at Xiao Huo who was being bandaged, lowered his eyes, and secretly cursed himself in his heart for being so sentimental.

There are many people dressed like him in Zi Street. He was a policeman in his previous life. I wonder how many thieves he caught. How could they still remember him as a petty thief?

Besides, the money she gave him was not enough for his protection fee. He still had to steal from others. What was there to thank him for...

"Hey, and you too, thank you." At this moment, Xiao Huo suddenly spoke.

"Um..." She stood up from the ground, ran forward a few steps, grabbed Lu Yun's arm, and revealed a hint of relief in her tone, "These are your companions, right? You won't steal things anymore, right? It seems that I still have a talent for education. I said I was the most talented in the institute."

Lu Yun was startled and subconsciously did not shake off her hand. After Xiao Huo finished speaking, he shook her off with a start: "N...what does it have to do with you!"

He certainly doesn't steal anymore, because now he starts robbing.

They also had a bunch of stolen items in their hands and were ready to take them to the black market.

"Hey, don't be so nervous," Xiao Huo blinked, "Are you still living in Purple Street now?"

"...What do you want to do?" Lu Yun raised his head and glanced at her indifferently, "Are you so kind that you want to teach me not to steal and then tell me to stay away from Purple Street?"

Where does this person get so much desire to teach and be a teacher?

"Ah... that's not the case," Xiao Huo scratched his head awkwardly. "After I went back that day, my brother told me what Purple Street was. He said that you kids in Purple Street are very pitiful. You have no parents, and you have to do whatever it takes to make money to survive, otherwise you will die at night..."

"I'm not." Lu Yun quickly interrupted her.

He didn't know why, but he didn't feel anything when the pitiful words he was used to saying came from his own mouth. But when they came from the mouth of this newcomer, he felt very uncomfortable.

"I lied to you that day," he glanced at Xiao Huo and took a step back, "I just wanted to steal the money. I'm sorry for lying to you, but digging you out of here will make up for it. I'm leaving now."

"Hey, hey, hey, don't!" Xiao Huo hurriedly grabbed him, "You're a good person, please help me send my teammates to the settlement where we are staying."

"I'll pay," she said quickly before Lu Yun could refuse. "We are in an employment relationship. I hired you to send us back. Otherwise, we are all injured now. If we encounter another round of fighting, we may not be able to survive and return to the hotel."

Lu Yun lowered his head, seemingly thinking.

Dita watched from the side for a long time and lowered her voice: "We have to go back with them."

She wanted to find out what was going on with that square-faced man.

"I'll go talk to Lu Yun," she squatted down and whispered, "They are all wealthy newcomers. We can extort some money from them, and then we won't have to worry about the protection fee next month!"

"We also charge per person and charge them four times more!"

"That won't be enough for next month. It will increase by half tomorrow." Lu Yun denied in a low voice.

But despite saying so, he still looked up with a look of disdain: "How much can you offer?"

"Four hundred..." Xiao Huo observed his expression, "Five hundred?"

"Six hundred, six hundred! Seven hundred should be fine!" She hurriedly pulled Lu Yun and said, "I'm not familiar with the prices in the City of Violence. How about you tell me?"

It’s high.

So stupid.

Lu Yun silently looked away. Seven hundred was enough for them to last until next month. It would be more than enough for the gang to raise the protection fee ten times during that time.

"Seven hundred... is enough." He glanced at Xiao Huo silently, "Where do you live? Let's go."

"You agreed? Oh, don't be so cold, I know your companions are willing to save us because of you," Xiao Huo shook his hand in surprise, rubbing the cold-faced Lu Yun, and said proudly to the back, "Is my brother going to cook for lunch? Let him treat the sister who saved us to dinner!"

Lu Yun suddenly jumped out of her hand: "What are you talking about!"

"Ah...ah?" Xiao Huo was startled.

"What, what's wrong?" She looked at Lu Yun and asked in confusion, "You don't want to eat outside?"

"Who are you calling sister?" Lu Yun's voice was trembling a little.

The triggerers behind him looked at each other, and the yellow-haired man said in a very tactless manner: "Lu Yun...you are a girl?"

"No!" Lu Yun denied quickly.

But this denial happens to be an admission.

Lu Yun is actually a girl...

Xiao Tang opened his mouth slowly: "Damn... this damn kid is really good at pretending..."

They were a group of people, and after so many flashbacks, they never figured it out.

Bai Jinshu was also stunned: "But if you think about it carefully, there are actually some clues..."

Lu Yun has always been a little special. For example, her voice becomes a little shrill when she gets excited, her head-to-shoulder ratio is smaller than most people in Zi Street, her hand joints are unexpectedly thin, and she never trims her hair, which has grown into a tangled mess that covers her face.

Previously, they thought that Lu Yun was trying her best to survive and had no time to take care of her appearance, and the difference in her body was interpreted as incomplete development, but now it seems that she was just trying to cover up her face...

"Ah...ah this," Xiao Huo seemed to realize that he had said the wrong thing and withdrew his hand awkwardly, "Should I not have said that..."

It's said even though it shouldn't be said.

Lu Yun took a deep breath and glared at her fiercely: "How did you know that?"

It's not easy to survive in Purple Street. She lives alone, and the situation will be even worse if she is discovered to be a girl.

"Well..." Xiao Huo laughed awkwardly, "I'm a policeman... I found out when I caught you for the first time."

She awkwardly took a few steps forward and raised a few fingers: "Sorry, I'll raise the price! Up to nine hundred and fifty! I'll fine myself two hundred and fifty for my recklessness!"

It's hard to tell who this idiot is calling an idiot.

Lu Yun: ...

She looked like she wanted to walk away immediately, but Xiao Huo had a firm grip on her. Finally, Lu Yun had a cold face and kicked the gravel next to him: "Where do you live?"

"Hotel, hotel," Xiao Huo replied quickly, "Let's go, we still have time to have lunch!"

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