"Okay, that's it, I'll go back first."
Ji Yongxing put down the stainless steel cup at hand and planned to return to the research institute through the secret passage.
The signal jammers he was researching could only last for two or three hours. If they lasted longer, they might be discovered by the intranet's security system.
As he stood up from the chair, a wailing sound mixed with electronic sounds came from the inner room of the basement:
"Dad, take me away, Dad, save me!"
Ji Yongxing rubbed his temple, feeling that [Sky Curtain] was far from the powerful and calm artificial intelligence he had imagined when he first designed it.
He came to the cell again, looked at the camera that was looking into his mind, and took out a few accessories from the pocket of his white coat:
"Help Dr. Lin record the data here, and all of this will be yours."
"Seriously, Dad?"
"…I kind of regret telling the truth…"
Under the illumination of the [Sky Curtain]'s own light, several components that could speed up operation were inserted into the corresponding slots.
The expressions on the screen seemed a little more lively than before:
"father……"
Ji Yongxing gave him a slightly sharp look, which made the green expression sound like crying.
"Your Excellency, the great [Pioneer]..."
"It's better to call me dad..."
Ji Yongxing felt that his brain was not enough. He stroked the artificial leather cover of the [Sky Curtain] and said slowly:
"Be good, when I have all the equipment, I may come to see you often."
After saying that, Ji Yong walked out of the room, set foot on the secret passage back to the research institute, and began to wonder if this thing was evolving a little too fast.
A few minutes later, Lin Qingliu, who had seen the researcher off, walked into the room:
"Any ideas?"
“Can you give me some wheels?”
Lin Qingliu instinctively felt that this would bring bad developments to himself, and said with a straight face:
"Change it."
The camera with a high degree of freedom gently taps the lid:
"Then I want to dye this thing green."
"What size wheels do you want?"
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Lin Qingliu sent Ji Yongxing away, and El and his right-hand man were able to escape from the sewer.
Two hours later, just as the sky began to slowly turn white, a team of fully armed men opened a manhole cover hidden behind a building in the inner city.
"Captain, this, this..."
The stench in front of him seemed to condense into a solid entity, constantly trying to pull the gas mask off the young man's face.
"What? You don't want to go down?"
A cold voice came from the headphones.
"no……"
The man looked down the well, then looked at his teammates who were gloating over his misfortune, gritted his teeth and jumped down.
He belonged to the Butterfly Squad of the Internal Affairs Ministry's purge team, and had accidentally let a fugitive go during a capture mission a few days ago.
Unlike other purge captains, Zhuang Mian has never been good at using corporal punishment to punish his teammates for their mistakes.
For teammates who did not cause great harm, Zhuang Mian's usual punishment method was to make them take the lead in the next mission.
This was a pure blind box punishment. After all, as members of the purge team, they didn't know whether their next mission was to help some big shots complete some easy but shady tasks, or to jump into the weird and unknown sewer in front of them like they were doing now, and fight a life-and-death battle with the possible "Mind Flayer" below.
After watching for more than ten seconds, amidst the huge crashing sounds and splashing noises, a firm voice finally came from the communicator of the cleanup team:
"It's safe down there, you can go in."
After hearing the team members' report, Zhuang Mian was the first to jump down.
She had been living a very comfortable life recently. She didn't have to look for the [believers] herself and only had to handle some cases normally.
Those difficult cases were easy for Zhuang Mian, who could sleep.
In order to conceal her superpowers, she would beat the other party until he lost consciousness after each interrogation.
Anyway, they are just some insects that are harmful to Hope City. Zhuang Mian has no mercy when doing such things.
But recently, her life suddenly started to develop in a good direction.
After the accumulation of tasks over the past few months, Zhuang Mian's team's task completion rate has reached a very high level.
Her decisiveness has been noticed by her immediate superior and her superior's superior, and she only lacks an opportunity to be promoted.
And just last week, the opportunity came.
His hidden partner, the gray-haired boy, recently contacted him again and wanted to do him a great favor.
At this moment, one of the only two sewer maps hand-drawn by El was quietly placed in Zhuang Mian's private locker.
In Zhuang Mian's opinion, this is not a map, but his next letter of appointment.
As long as he cooperates well with El, he will always have some credit for the Mind Flayer's series of theft cases.
As she expected, her teammates in front soon discovered something.
"Something's going on here!"
The sewers are rarely visited, so many corners are covered with strange molds.
Long-term accumulation has turned these algae into natural rubbing boards, recording traces of scratches or trampling.
The mold scratches in the sewer suddenly appeared not far ahead, and then began to spread into the distance with footprint-like traces.
After a brief investigation, everyone began to explore further into the distance.
"Captain, you are amazing... Few people in Hope City would notice the existence of the sewers, and the toxic gas inside is also above the standard, so it is impossible to move around for a long time."
The corners of Zhuang Mian's mouth first curled up, then slowly dropped. She suddenly became a little worried that she would see the familiar little gray-haired boy behind a corner ahead.
But thinking about the fact that the other party was able to draw a complete map of the entire sewer, Zhuang Mian felt that the other party must have his own special methods and there was no need to worry too much.
So she cleared her throat and spoke in a rare didactic tone into the communicator:
“A month ago, a thief hid the stolen goods under a manhole cover near the North Second Gate of the inner city, and several of you participated in that operation.
"At the time, I was thinking that although the sewers were dangerous, they were an excellent escape route for some daring people. Then I started to investigate the information and look for those thefts that had no clues..."
It must be said that when it comes to shooting the arrows first and then drawing the target, humans have always learned it without any instruction.
After serving as the captain of the purge team for half a year, Zhuang Mian gradually gained some power.
Although it is still not as good as the overnight success in his divine dream, it is still an improvement.
Under the instruction (tacit consent) of Lin Qingliu and the paperhanger hiding in the dark, Zhuang Mian and Ai'er have formed a hidden team, one in the open and one in the dark.
The two of them cooperated with each other and made the lives of several leaders in the inner city very unhappy over the past period of time.
Both of them have benefited a lot from it, and it can be foreseen that they will cooperate very well in the future.
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