Chapter 96 Published



Tal took a step back.

He's actually... not afraid of guns.

Although he has lost his memory, his fighting instinct has not been forgotten. In the early stage of amnesia, Tal is like a veteran who has just retired from the front line. Any slightly dangerous behavior will trigger his PTSD. So after discovering that he has a secret, Millie said to him: "Go become a policeman."

He is strong enough, like a man-made fighting machine, so he should learn to be a protector of others.

Tal lowered his arms but did not touch the gun at his waist. He felt that he was better at throwing knives than guns. He had sharpened steel sheets hidden in his gloves, which were sharpened for him by the children in the shelter.

However, how can I escape from this dangerous situation without exposing the special characteristics of my body?

He slowly raised his hands and said, "I am sure my ID is authentic. You can check it again. If this is a misunderstanding, Chief Robert, will you apologize to me?"

Millie said: Don't do it right away.

Director Robert stared at him, smiled and nodded: "Of course I know your documents are real... but once your body is thrown into the sea cave, the authenticity of the documents may no longer be certain."

Millie also said: Don't let others bully you.

The steel sheet slipped out of the glove and was caught on Tal's fingertips like a silver butterfly wing, but no one noticed this because before he was ready to take action, a tear gas canister was thrown in from the window. Tal did not hesitate at all and threw the steel sheet, stabbing the hands of several gunmen. However, with his vision impaired, the South Hinckley police officer chose to shoot immediately. Even though he dodged part of the bullet, two bullets still hit his lower abdomen and right arm.

The window was smashed with a loud bang. Tower kicked away the police officers' guns that had fallen to the ground and turned over to leave through the window.

As he left, he was still thinking that he had to customize a batch of special gloves and bulletproof arm guards for the police in the East District to prevent them from encountering enemies like Tower himself.

As he just turned over, inhuman claws attacked him. He was stunned for a moment and did not fight back. The sharp claws made of stone hooked his coat. Tal grabbed the "enemy" with his backhand and turned over to the monster's back.

Vivi was waiting for him on the gargoyle's back.

“Not long after you went in, people came to smash your car,” Weiwei explained to Tal. “I summoned the gargoyles to scare some of them away, but many people still shot at the gargoyles—”

Fortunately, as long as there is fear, these gargoyles can recover from any damage, but to Weiwei, "fear" is equivalent to gold coins, and it is not created out of thin air! It always makes her unhappy to waste it here!

"Then I guessed that you must have trouble there," Weiwei asked, looking at a bunch of red dots squeezed into a room on the map, "What's going on?"

"I just explained why we came here to investigate," Tal said, keeping his unchanging low-key paralyzed face and speaking in a flat tone, "and the chief of the police station decided to kill me."

Weiwei: "...How about asking the mayor to send in the army to bomb this place?"

Just like when they wiped out most of the resistance in the East?

Fortunately, it was already evening and it was always cloudy in Gotan, so visibility was low due to the clouds, so they could fly higher and it wouldn't be a problem for the time being.

As time passed, Tal's body recovered and automatically squeezed out the two bullets in his body. The bullets fell on the back of the gargoyle and rolled down from mid-air... Because they were not sure who else in the town was the enemy, they kept flying in the air without landing.

Both of them looked at the fallen bullet, and then, "Pah", Weiwei opened her palm and a police bullet of the same type fell down. She said, "What's wrong? Isn't it just the body repairing itself?"

They both have the last name White and can both heal themselves. Is there anything wrong with that?

Director Tal White, who had been holding his breath, breathed a sigh of relief without leaving any trace.

"The army," he refuted Weiwei's previous statement, "It's better not to."

"I am on the same level as the director, but he chose to kill me without hesitation. You know, we have surveillance evidence all the way, which shows that they at least have control over the surveillance in South Hinckley. Under such circumstances, we escaped in front of him. This was beyond his expectations, so there are only two possibilities-"

Tower, the amnesiac, analyzed the situation clearly: "First, they used all means to keep us in this town, in the form of corpses, and the whole town can testify, so even if Commissioner Gordon or the mayor wanted to argue for us, there would be nothing they could do."

"The second option is that we have no evidence, nor video evidence. Moreover, they have more people and can turn black into white. With some editing, it will become evidence against us. You and I broke the window, injured the police, and summoned the 'gargoyle'... Is this gargoyle that can carry people also magic?"

He looked at Weiwei with a sharp gaze, as if he wanted to confirm something. After a while, he whispered, "...Weiwei, do you know me before I lost my memory? No need to say more, no need to explain, just answer 'yes' or 'no'."

Weiwei saw that Tal was looking for his past, so she nodded and said, "I know you."

Tal hesitated for a moment: "So, are we on good terms?"

Weiwei shook her head: "Not so good, but I don't hate you."

Although Tal killed her, he was just a tool in the hands of the Owl Court at the time, just a knife, and both of them were undead, so what did it matter if they killed each other?

Tal exhaled, then asked, "So, does the mayor know me? I mean, do I have a...relationship with the mayor?"

"Of course she knows you," the girl thought for a moment and smiled, "You are from the same camp. She was also surprised when she found out that you had lost your memory."

Tal could tell she wasn't lying. He was lost in thought when he heard the girl add:

“But Madam Mayor is a good person.”

"Well..." Tal said, "I'm in an organization, right?"

The girl nodded and frowned, "But not everyone in the organization is willing to understand the mayor."

No one knew where the three bullets had landed, but the three bullets with the same fate seemed to foreshadow the same... part of Tal and Vivi. He understood something and seemed to have made a decision: "I understand. Thank you, Vivi."

He knew that Vivi was the mayor's person, and that he was picked up by Millie when he was in a state of amnesia. Tal was actually very sensitive. When he first saw Vivi, he felt that the girl looked at him in an unpleasant way.

After this conversation, he felt he had reached a conclusion.

They are in the same organization, they can all recover, they all won't die, but Vivi and the mayor may have chosen different paths from the original organization and have other partners, and disagreements arise. This is a dispute among the upper class, but it has nothing to do with Vivi and him.

...because they are of the same kind, they are also brothers and sisters.

After all, Tal climbed from the bottom to the position of police chief and acquired a lot of common sense. He knew that an organization that could resurrect people would definitely not be a simple existence and must involve illegal human body modification. Compared to an organization that has never appeared, he is more willing to believe the mayor he has met. He knows that the mayor is working hard to change the city.

"Thank you, my sister." His eyes became determined. "We have to rescue the other brothers and sisters. I want to know the name of our organization."

Weiwei looked at him silently, staring into those determined brown eyes, and said, "It's claws."

"The claw was once a claw to others, but now it can be a claw to protect the innocent."

There is nothing wrong with the weapon, only the way it is used is wrong.

Tal smiled, "Of course I do. Yes, I want to protect others. I believe that the mayor is just like what Millie said. She will change this city. Those who don't understand just can't understand her yet. I don't really want to know what I did in the past... It's nothing more than being a killer or working for others. My body instincts have told me everything. If there is a chance, how great it would be for our brothers and sisters to become protectors like me... I want them out. We have to save them."

I hope the claws won't cut me when they come out of the nest, Weiwei thought to herself, but she still agreed with Tal: "But they may not be like you."

Tal touched the back of Vivi's head and said calmly: "Vivi, damaging this part of the brain can clear our memories. You have to be careful about this."

[You get the side quest: Claws Out of the Nest]

[Mission Description: Destroying the layer between the occipital bone and the brain can clear the memory of the undead killer Claw... You have obtained an important clue, Claw has left the nest, perhaps this clue will help you in your next action. As long as Claw is still staring at you in the dark of the city, you are still in danger. Please solve the crisis brought by Claw.]

[Mission Reward: 50 Diamonds, 1 Million Gold Coins]

Weiwei: “!” She didn’t know what kind of experiment Tal had done to know this. She even suspected that Tal had actually recovered his memory, but then cleared it on his own. Anyway, from now on, this Claw Killer who gave her the information for free was her brother!

"I'll pay attention!" Weiwei answered decisively, "If nothing unexpected happens, South Hinckley Town is related to drug dealers, especially the police station, which may be in cahoots with drug dealers..."

But they had no clues. Weiwei thought about killing the man first and then looking for clues. With so many drugs being supplied, the production base must be very large, and a carpet search would surely yield results.

"There must be innocent people in this town," Tal touched her head, "Let me go, you ride the gargoyle and leave, I will go collect evidence and investigate the location of the production base."

Tal was apparently very persistent, and Vivi put him down in the forest, then said, "You have to be careful with cryo weapons. The claws are vulnerable to low temperatures."

Watching Cheap New Brother leave, Weiwei rode the horse she summoned and decided to go around the forest to find the Frozen Man's warehouse.

She knew a little about Mr. Freeze. Although he was a criminal, he only took revenge on those who had personal grudges against him. It was also those people who turned him into a monster that could only survive in a low-temperature environment. This was considered a tit-for-tat.

Later, Frozen made money from academic reports and was actively trying to find a way to treat his wife's illness. He lived in seclusion and was even a green-listed criminal, so there was a possibility of negotiation.

The sky turned completely dark, but the town did not. On the contrary, every household turned on the lights, and the police patrolled the streets, catching every passerby to identify whether they were outsiders. However, Vivi still had confidence in the Claws' hidden ability, especially Tal, who was a Claw with his own thinking ability. She found that she could not stay in the jungle forever, and later she entered the town with the title of "Water Master".

It’s not that Weiwei didn’t use it at first, but this title could be used on the battlefield. It doesn’t mean that she disappeared as a whole, but was just ignored, and she was still riding along.

When Weiwei rode her horse to break open the warehouse door, she found that the Frozen Man's side was also quite lively.

The Freezer converted the entire warehouse because his wife was terminally ill, so he froze her. However, both he and his wife needed to be kept in a low temperature state all the time, which limited the Freezer's range of activities.

But when Weiwei came, there happened to be someone here.

The model husband among criminals, the Frozen Man, grabbed his freezing gun and pointed it at a hooded man in front of him. The two were obviously in a standoff.

The Frozen Man seemed to hear the sound of horse hooves, but was influenced by the title and subconsciously chose to ignore it. He tilted his head, and the man under the frozen armor said in a dissatisfied tone: "I do know that there are problems in this town, but I have never participated in what they did. Even if you ask me, it's useless! I don't know where they make drugs!"

"Don't pretend, Victor," the man confronting him was not Claw, but was obviously also here to investigate Nan Hinckley's drug problem. "If you didn't investigate everything clearly at the beginning, why would you bring your wife here? Aren't you worried about your wife's safety?"

He sat on the table with guns in both hands, one gun aimed at the frozen man in front of him, and the other gun aimed at a frozen life-support device. He obviously didn't hear the movement made by Weiwei behind him.

There was an almost imperceptible sound of flapping wings in the sky, and several gargoyles landed silently from the eaves, as if cooperating with Vivi.

Weiwei opened the map, then closed it again, her heart filled with speechless emotions: the two green names seemed to be about to fight in front of her.

The temperature in the warehouse was low, and the frozen man who was threatened with his wife was obviously very angry, but he was unable to resist the other party for a while. The gun in his hand was charging, but he was not sure whether he could stop the other party before he fired.

"This is a mining town," he said coldly. "I've said all I can say. Get out of here."

The man immediately realized: "...Mine?"

But at the moment he was distracted, the Cryoman opened fire, freezing his arm first, then switching to the icy water gun state, directly flushing the man out far away under the high-pressure water gun.

Weiwei glanced at him, then looked at her own task.

[Side quest "Drug Production Chain" has been updated]

[Your reward: 20 diamonds, 300,000 gold coins]

[Mission Tips: Go down to the mine and take a look]

Weiwei: "Ah... I think there are 915 diamonds now!"

She ignored the fight between "Red Hood" and "Mr. Freeze" for the time being, and squatted in the safest place at the moment, next to the life-support device of Mr. Freeze's wife, and decided to try a ten-draw combo first.


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