Chapter 56: Master Tian’s drastic measures bring big changes to North Station!

Cheng Ye grabbed his backpack and pushed the door open to walk out.

He thought his outfit, which only revealed his eyes, was strange and eye-catching enough, but when he walked onto the street, he was surprised to find that one-third of the passers-by were dressed similarly to him.

Does everyone know about the substitute starfish?

Of course not.

According to what Liu Bi said last night, even the frontline military and police will not know the inside story of the infection spreading before the outbreak. The news will be released in stages until it is confirmed that there is no way to reverse the situation before the outbreak, and then it will be made public.

According to the notice issued so far, this is just an emergency drill for the death of a stationmaster on duty.

However, despite this, everyone has their own standards in their hearts.

Whether infected bodies have sneaked in and whether a small wave of infection will be triggered are all unknowns.

You can believe what people say, but don’t believe it completely.

It is for this reason that some people choose to be fully armed, believing that it is better to believe it than not to believe it.

"Sir, under Level A epidemic prevention, we need to record your movements. Do you want to..."

As we walked out of the community gate, two Western military police stopped us.

"work."

Cheng Ye took out his ID badge from his pocket. The military police took it, swiped it on the defense channel, and immediately handed it back with a respectful look on his face.

“Thank you for your contribution to Happy City, may God bless you!”

Cheng Ye nodded and took it, sighing silently in his heart.

Since Xingfu City has no intention of suppressing the situation with violence and instead continues to maintain superficial peace, it means that it has some confidence in being able to resolve the wave of infection.

As long as a method to eliminate the source of infection can be developed within three days, this crisis can be largely resolved.

On the contrary, the buffer zone may become a paradise for infected bodies at any time and collapse completely.

On the way to North Station, Cheng Ye tried his best to stay close to the wall and avoid the crowd, even avoiding touching the corners of his clothes with others.

When I arrived at the bus stop, I saw a thin figure washing cars from afar. I met Master Tian again.

"The water has stopped, why are you still wiping the car?"

"There's nothing I can do. I'm used to it. Even without water, I can still wipe it."

Master Tian smiled, then suddenly sniffed something strange and asked, "Sir, are you... injured?"

"Well, when you're sparring with others, it's inevitable that you'll get bruised a little bit."

"I have a special medicine for sprains and bruises here. Why don't you try it? It might be more effective than what you're using?"

"Okay, thanks."

Cheng Ye nodded and took the small bottle that Master Tian handed to him from the storage compartment when he got in the car.

Seeing that he was wearing rubber gloves and his outstretched arms were tied with scraps of cloth, Master Tian was obviously stunned for a moment, but his expression quickly returned to normal.

Sit in the middle of the bus.

When I opened the bottle cap, I saw a sticky dark green paste inside, which looked like the common herbal paste in modern times.

Because they were chartering a car again, Cheng Ye did not avoid suspicion and directly took off his pants and rubbed it on his thighs.

Master Tian glanced in the rearview mirror and couldn't help but click his tongue. "Sir, are you made of iron? You're injured in this area, and you still have the strength to walk?"

"Don't call me Mr. or you. Just call me Cheng Ye or Prosecutor Cheng."

"OK."

Master Tian was not surprised by Cheng Ye's identity as a prosecutor. "Prosecutor Cheng, apply this. You will recover in about five days, but the premise is that you can't fight with others again."

"Five days?"

Cheng Ye was shocked. Miao Yang said yesterday that his injury would take at least ten days to half a month to recover.

"Almost. The common stuff you used is too weak. I added several kinds of mutant crystal powder to my medicine, so it's very potent."

"Eh, didn't you feel it?"

"Feel?"

Cheng Ye was stunned, then unloaded the iron body.

In an instant, a bone-chilling chill seeped out of the purple wound, which was both painful and itchy, but it was like getting a pedicure for athlete's foot. The more it hurt, the more comfortable it felt, almost making one want to scream out loud.

Wow, so fierce?

"When walking in the wasteland, especially in the wilderness, you must bring some of this medicine, otherwise it will be very troublesome if you get injured."

"How much?"

"Added crystal powder. Not cheap, only 80 Happiness Coins!"

You really dare to ask for it.

Cheng Ye muttered in his heart, but his hand nimbly took out the coins from his pocket and asked, "Are there any more? I bought them all!"

Before the war, supplies are necessary.

Weapons and equipment are one thing, but consumables certainly cannot be left behind.

"I have another bottle at home. The shelf life of this medicine is only six months. If you need it, I can prepare it and send it to you."

"Give me two...three bottles, please."

"Okay! I'll be sending out here every day this month, so just come and pick it up."

Master Tian smiled and agreed, "You know, a third-rate killer is good at saving lives."

Cheng Ye didn't respond, but opened the panel and took a look.

[Master Tian, 21%, searchable scope: Intelligence]

"The cooperation is so low, there's something wrong."

He pondered over it and decided that after getting through this wave of infection, he must give this "Master Tian" another chance to search.

Miao Yang only has ordinary goods in his hands. How can you, a bus driver, come up with powerful medicine?

What an excuse for a third-rate killer.

Cheng Ye didn't take it to heart at all. In the wasteland, one cannot underestimate any passerby. Who knows, the person in front of him might be a hidden golden legend.

"Inspector Cheng."

"Um?"

"Can you still run away?" Master Tian asked without any context, his eyes still fixed on the road ahead.

Cheng Ye was stunned for a moment, said nothing, and just shook his head slightly.

His movements were reflected in the central rearview mirror, and Master Tian could only pull up a bitter smile and said nothing more.

After applying the ointment, Cheng Ye leaned against the car window and took a nap.

Although there was a starting price for chartering a car, no one spent 2 coins to get on the car along the way.

"Inspector Cheng, we're here!"

"Thanks."

Cheng Ye put on the iron body and got out of the car as if nothing had happened, under the admiring and complicated gaze of Master Tian.

Since it was the first shift in the morning, I saved myself the trouble of handing over to the Western inspector.

From a distance, the guard saw him coming and pressed the open button of the isolation door in advance.

"Inspector Cheng." The tall guard greeted respectfully.

Cheng Ye nodded in response and glanced at the guards on the city wall. This time, no one deliberately avoided his gaze, but there was something unnatural in the eyes of most people, and they deliberately kept a distance.

Go through the isolation door and enter Area E.

Cheng Ye slowed down his pace and moved along the wall to the window of the reporting room.

Glancing inside, he saw, as he had expected, that Jamie had left the checkpoint.

Sitting in the room at the moment was a red-haired young man, boredly fiddling with the defense communication system and playing the built-in Tetris.

Suddenly noticing a shadow cast in front of the window, the red-haired young man looked up abruptly and was about to curse.

But when he saw Cheng Ye taking off his mask with a smile, he was immediately frightened and stood at attention.

"Inspector Cheng... Inspector Cheng!"

"Where's Jamie?"

"He...he..." The red-haired young man was so frightened that cold sweat broke out on his forehead and his tongue was tangled.

"Jamie wasn't feeling well, and I've arranged for him to go home."

Raul walked out of the archives room nearby and said with a smile, "Don't worry, Inspector Cheng. You will never see Jamie again during your time on duty at North Station."

"Really?"

Cheng Ye muttered and glanced at the red-haired young man in the archive room.

The latter was so frightened that he took two steps back and almost tripped over a chair and fell to the ground.

"he?"

"Jamie might have said something he shouldn't have said and scared him. I'm here to help you clock in."

Raul walked into the reporting room, took Cheng Ye's badge and swiped it lightly. This was how he clocked in for work.

"Thank you."

Cheng Ye curled his lips. Could it be that he had gained a bad reputation after just one day of work?

However, he glanced at the other workstations around him.

With his excellent memory, he immediately discovered that among the people he saw the day before yesterday, less than 20% remained, and the rest had been replaced by a new group.

"My father reorganized District E. All those who were previously unqualified were sent back."

Raul explained, "It has nothing to do with you, don't worry."

"oh."

Cheng Ye nodded, took the badge, turned around and put all these things behind him.

It's okay for a group of pampered second-generation rich people to hang out at the checkpoint, but it's against the rules to make things difficult for the inspectors.

Even though he was just a trainee inspector, he was not someone these people could easily control.

It’s better to send it back directly to avoid any further trouble.

Go to Quarantine Area A.

The sky cleared up, but the air was still damp.

The crowd waiting to leave the city suddenly increased. Nearly twenty large Jinbei vehicles were lined up in the waiting area, like a silver-gray greedy snake. The trunk doors were all open, and various small industrial products were placed under the waterproof cloth.

A rush to buy goods broke out in the buffer zone, and the situation in the gathering places outside was not much different.

A rainstorm suddenly intensified the survival crisis, and everyone urgently needed basic supplies to survive.

If you take out your goods for trading at this time, you can not only sell them at a higher price, but you can also often exchange them for good things that scavengers would be reluctant to part with on ordinary days.

As for the dangers...for speculators who have their heads tied to their belts, dangers happen to be the thing they fear least compared to the premium space for goods and the urgency of demand.

"Prosecutor Cheng... Prosecutor Cheng, would you... would you like to check?"

Seeing him approach, several young men who were checking the shipping list became very nervous.

The Western drivers standing by looked at each other in bewilderment. When did these fearless second-generation rich people become so afraid of an Eastern prosecutor?

"No need, just check it."

When Cheng Ye thought that these people might take the substitute starfish to the gathering place next door, he could only pray silently in his heart.

However, after taking a few steps forward and reaching the isolation passage, someone blocked his way.

He is a big and strong man.

Her bangs of golden hair dazzled in the sunlight, and she wore a thick silver chain around her neck, which clattered with every movement. Her bare arms were tattooed with twisted devil and angel patterns, giving her a style somewhat similar to that of the Beatles in Cheng Ye's memory.

"Hello, Inspector Cheng, I'm Arthur Amir."

The man introduced himself. "Prosecutor Liu already told me about this, but I was on duty the day before yesterday and didn't have time to greet you."

It was a familiar name. Cheng Ye thought about it and immediately understood.

"Are you...Heavy Arthur?"

"It's me. The machine gun post is also on a weekly basis. I happen to be on duty the same week as you."

Arthur grinned and said, "Don't worry, as long as I'm here, even if the sky at the checkpoint collapses, I will never let any infected body or any person attack you before I die!!"

"Yeah?"

Arthur's honest appearance forms a sharp contrast with the Beatles' style.

Cheng Ye smiled, but the smile did not reach his eyes. He did not take his promise to heart at all.

The most untrustworthy thing in the wasteland is the human heart. If he had just traveled through time, he might still believe what Arthur said. If he really believed it, he would not have time to come and meet him.

But two days passed and Defense Communication didn't even call. Did they think he was stupid?

"This guy is quite a shrewd person. It seems that the news of Dario and I meeting yesterday must have spread. I didn't expect Arthur to know about it as well."

"But that's true. Guards have to climb all the way up to become sentry gunners, second only to inspectors. If you don't have some shrewdness and ability, you would have been taken down long ago."

Cheng Ye's expression remained unchanged despite his thoughts. He smiled and said, "Arthur, the kindness left by our ancestors belongs to them. I won't let you take any risks."

"Don't worry, if I come looking for you, it must be for a good thing that will help you climb up the ladder. There's no need to be so dangerous."

As soon as the words fell, Arthur instinctively made a polite promise.

Although it was their first meeting, the two chatted familiarly for several minutes before stopping, as if they had known each other for many years.

"Okay, go back to your duty. It's getting late."

"yes!"

After being sent away by Cheng Ye, Arthur retreated respectfully.

But when he walked to the corner, his expression changed slightly, and an elusive solemnity flashed in his eyes.

It's really interesting. No wonder Inspector Cheng was able to turn the situation around within two days as a trainee. Not only was he not targeted by Westerners, but he was even offered an olive branch.

With this method, this deep thought...

"If I keep climbing up the ladder, could I become a prosecutor in the future?"

Watching Cheng Ye's back as he left, Arthur licked the corner of his mouth and decisively turned around and walked towards the watchtower.

He had to admit that his heart was indeed moved for a moment.

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