Most people have to follow the rules on the surface, but in secret, the rules often appear in a very simple form, such as - winner takes all.
The entire day was like a long offseason, and everyone had to pretend nothing had happened.
Especially those who have dual identities, they even need to continue to go to work with the lingering fear after last night's raid.
The daytime hours belong to the purge teams and the public security bureau.
Like ferocious carnivores, they quickly shared the credit for last night's actions, just like groups of predators on the grassland.
Then, as night fell, those gray areas outside the inner city became restless again.
One thing El realized that night was that not everyone was as stupid as he thought, and he was not the only one who discovered the wonderful uses of the sewers.
With gas masks and weapons, the sewers are like a very safe warehouse with almost infinite capacity that will never be investigated.
Several unclear small organizations used it as their own warehouse, allowing materials obtained through special means to fill up a large part of the space, and only dispatched a small number of personnel for defense.
But last night's raid disrupted all the original structures. Those who were once so powerful fell into the sewage, and those who survived by chance would hardly see the world outside the high walls again.
As night fell, the sewer area saw off two teams of carnivores and welcomed more scavengers.
Hope City is a city made up of and run by humans, so some things are always unavoidable.
Now that this ecological niche has been vacated, those who have managed to survive or who happened not to be involved in last night's events will always have some inappropriate fantasies.
Why can't it be me?
Countless guys with this mentality swarmed in, like a group of vultures fighting for the rotten flesh on the corpse.
Er and Li Rui were naturally among them.
It cannot be said that the identities of the two have been cleared now, it can only be said that they have been washed away.
El had been on the list of missing persons a long time ago. As for Li Rui, the purge team had just taken away his body as the culprit in the Mind Flayer case. Even if he turned against the purge team now, I'm afraid no one would want to take the blame.
So the battle inevitably began. The members of the security team and the purge team who were responsible for vigilance stayed two kilometers away and set up an isolation zone on the ground.
Some young people who are still full of enthusiasm certainly cannot understand this kind of lenient behavior, but others have become accustomed to it.
In principle, such behavior is certainly not allowed, but from the perspective of law enforcement officers, this kind of thing is beneficial and harmless.
The inner city has a complex network of sewers, and a group of headless flies running around might cause a surge in crime rates in the inner city in the next few months.
And if they submit to the new boss, at least on the surface, the nights in the inner city will still remain basically peaceful.
As for whether this new boss will gradually expand and become bigger, no one actually cares. After all, pigs are raised to be slaughtered, and no one wants their livestock to be skinny.
With such tacit approval, several small-scale fights broke out in the sewers, no less severe than the one last night.
In a deep, dark and poisonous environment, a person who can move freely between walls and corridors undoubtedly has a great advantage.
As for Li Rui, as the old saying goes - you must attack the follower with taunt effect first...
The first battle the two faced was not that simple.
This is also one of the few wild super-powered people that El has seen.
At this moment, a man emitting white light was standing at a corner not far away.
A group of men followed him, using the light emitted from his body to help them see the way ahead.
This ability that is neither good nor worthwhile to discard can almost be said to be tailor-made for the sewer, but El still firmly believes that even without him, this huge human-shaped light bulb in front of him will definitely not be able to become the boss -
The light bulb should be in the dark, not in the switched position.
Under the reflection of the light, El's elusiveness was weakened to a certain extent.
He didn't want to expose all his abilities so quickly, but if he didn't use them at all, the bullets Li Rui could extract today might be heavier than his body weight.
But soon El found his own way out.
All the ammunition that Hope City was able to get into the hands of these people was within the category of shelled bullets.
The firearms that match it are naturally those common types.
What El and Li Rui needed were not dead people but living people. Under such an action premise, the guns of the opposite side began to misfire one after another.
The magazine seemed to be filled with shell casings, and there was not a single bullet to be found.
The battle soon became one-sided. Five minutes later, El stepped on a huge light bulb, no, the head of a super-powered being, under his feet.
Middle-aged light bulbs flicker because of unstable voltage, or because of nervousness, as if the filament has aged and is on the verge of breaking.
El was blinking because of the flickering light. After a glance, Li Rui bent down and gave the light bulb two big slaps, and the brightness soon stabilized.
So even in the realm of superpowers, tapping can still solve most maintenance problems.
"You two, two big brothers."
The trembling in his bones seemed to transfer from the man's flickering abilities to the trembling of his voice.
"Big brother, and this second brother and little brother, please let me go.
"Everyone calls me Lamp Head. I have been walking in this sewer for three years. I can walk out of it with my eyes closed. You two must need me."
El and Li Rui looked at each other without much communication.
The two of them are not bloodthirsty people. Although the guy in front of them slid to his knees very quickly and seemed unreliable, as long as the two of them can maintain their control over their men, this kind of person will naturally become their supporter slowly.
After a brief silence, El raised his foot:
"Okay, then from today on you and the rest of you will follow us.
"There are many noobs like you in the sewers. Follow closely and learn from them."
The light bulb man hurriedly climbed out of the shallow sewage, and followed Li Rui with the young and middle-aged men who were with him.
Just as the group was about to set off, the light bulb man asked with some fear:
"I haven't asked the two bosses how to address me, and what our...our new name is."
"Oh, this..."
El seemed to recall something and replied casually:
"Let's call it 'Ashes'. No matter how many times it is extinguished, there will always be something left."
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