Chapter 380: Flesh, Blood, Weakness (10) (1st + 2nd) [VIP]
Ji Yu and Desmond in front had already walked away. Bai Jinshu stood there, watching Gu Qiang disappear from his sight, then he slowly lowered his eyelids and turned around: "Let's go."
He suspected that Gu Qiang had interrupted him twice on purpose.
Liu Sangen dared to go directly to the second contact scene to touch things from the dead policeman's body. He might even have been facing a killer creature, so the corpse looked extremely shady. Bai Jinshu didn't believe that he had no trump card.
Moreover, compared with the things of the police and mobile teams that I have seen before, some of Liu Sangen’s so-called equipment are really useful.
For example, the earring that he took away, Bai Jinshu changed his posture and calmly stuffed the earring into his clothes pocket. This thing gave him the feeling of Jiu Yu.
Liu Sangen must have gone to the second contact scene more than once.
For protective items of this level, Bai Jinshu couldn't think of any other way to take an earring that should have been hanging properly on the ear away from a living person, except to take it off the bodies of police officers or mobile team members.
"She Mochu," Zhang Lu trotted a few steps to catch up with him, and asked with a little worry, "Did Gu Qiang interrupt you on purpose? Did he recognize our identities?"
They were a group of policemen and members of the mobile squad, and were unwelcome here in the urban village. Moreover, everyone was in plain clothes.
According to Ji Yu, if police officers wearing police uniforms or the black windbreakers of the mobile squad came in to investigate a case, although the residents of the urban villages would reject the investigators, they would not dare to attack the police officers head-on because they were wearing police uniforms.
But if it's casual clothes, it's different.
This is also the reason why most police officers are reluctant to come here.
After all, once their identities are exposed, they are likely to be treated badly. It is normal for Zhang Lu to be afraid that Gu Qiang will find out their identities.
"No." Bai Jinshu was silent for a moment.
"If he recognized it, he should have shouted it out just now, instead of interrupting me twice in this way."
Although I don't know what the situation is like between the people in this area and the officials, I think they are definitely not on good terms. No matter how Gu Qiang shouted that they were police officers or members of the mobile team, an official who disguised himself and entered the urban village actually had a terrifying snake eye, and tried to use this eye to interrogate the residents of the urban village about some questions.
If this matter were to get out, it would definitely be big news.
Even if She Mochu had the ability to drag everyone present into san check, he couldn't drag his teammates in as well.
They will definitely suffer the consequences then.
"Then..." Zhang Lu thought for a while, "He found out that you are not an ordinary person, so he wants to protect Liu Sangen? Then should we go find him? Use coercion or inducement?"
Since entering this world, no one has dared to mention to the natives that She Mochu is immune to san checks and that one of his eyes is a snake pupil.
It’s not that I’m afraid that something might happen to She Mochu or them, but I’m mainly worried that the indigenous people won’t be able to accept it.
After all, there were precedents from the previous exploration teams. Among Team 4, there was a member from the Interstellar Era who came with his own intelligent AI butler, and that butler was not sensitive to san checks.
As a result, when they told their former captain about this matter, the captain was so scared that his face turned pale. He quietly pulled the group of people to a deserted place and pointed towards the sky.
"Don't talk nonsense," said the captain, who was quite nice. "If others hear you say that, they will think you have some connection with the people in heaven."
The relationship between the people in the sky and the people in the underground is incompatible. Everyone knows that the people in the sky who suddenly backstabbed everyone hundreds of years ago are immune to san check. Moreover, after they backstabbed the underground, they also destroyed all hopes of the underground people to upload their consciousness again, and destroyed all possibilities of them to develop and manufacture intelligent AI to defend against the anti-type creatures.
If others knew that they had a being that was immune to san checks, not only would some people be overjoyed as if they had found a treasure, but there would definitely be people who would suspect that they were sent by the gods to continue to destroy everyone.
She Mochu's eyes and his special identity are not suitable to be exposed in this world. If Gu Qiang finds out about his special identity...
"Then wait." Just as Zhang Lu was thinking, She Mochu had already walked to the front and said lightly, "Just wait for him to come to you."
Can Gu Qiang be a normal person if he could interrupt him twice?
Judging from what he said, he is more likely to belong to a neutral party in the village in the city. With such a powerful weapon as him appearing in the village in the city, can Gu Qiang, who is on the lawful side, just sit there and watch?
Bai Jinshu followed Ji Yu with his hands in his pockets, while paying attention to the gazes of the people around him as if nothing had happened.
Who knows... among so many eyes here, there might be Gu Qiang's spy?
*
The next clue about the drug that Ji Yu and Desmond discovered was about Tang Xingyu, a small leader of a force in the area who had a not-so-friendly temper.
In the future world, this name is equivalent to an insult.
"Xing" and "Yu" are the places where the heavenly people, who are untouchable by the current underground people but extremely hated by them, are located. After destroying the underground people's efforts for the first time, they left the earth with the equipment that operated the data world.
The people underground long to leave here, long for the sky and the universe, but they hate the people in heaven who have abandoned them, and gnash their teeth at their betrayal.
So it's really hard to say what the name Tang Xingyu means, but just looking at the impression these two words have on the minds of most people on earth, in modern times, this may be equivalent to some names like "Tang beast" and "Tang waste", which are very dirty insults, and it is enough to show that his birth was not welcomed.
It may be because of this reason that Tang Xingyu has a bad temper. He is a middle-aged man with a hot temper and loves to fight. The reason why he is still a small leader is because he is cruel to outsiders and to his own people.
Not only do his subordinates and confidants not receive any preferential treatment, but he will also beat them with his fists and feet when he gets angry. They have always had a bad reputation in the urban villages.
"We were expelled from zone 08 in our previous lives, so we have been discriminated against in this life. We ended up hating the government, society, and everyone. We usually make a living by stealing. After we were almost caught this time, we planned to come to Caicheng Village to avoid the limelight," Ji Yu whispered to everyone about their disguised identities, "The one who is related to the drug is the little boss we are looking for this time, Tang Xingyu."
"Recently, I heard that Brother Feng, who controls the largest territory in the urban village, has returned. In order to prevent his territory from being swallowed up by Brother Feng, he quickly became gentler to his subordinates and restrained his methods. Many people who couldn't find any connections but didn't dare to go to him in the past have now plucked up the courage to go there," Ji Yu said softly. "It is said that he has also promoted many of his confidants. Many people have heard him speak to people in the room in a gentler voice than before."
He frowned: "But I suspect it has something to do with that medicine."
Wasn’t one of the original effects of that pill to cause hallucinations and auditory hallucinations, causing the user’s temperament to change drastically?
Tang Xingyu is usually not very kind to others, nor is he a good person. Suddenly, he learns that the person in charge of the largest territory in the urban village has returned. Could he change his character overnight?
There must be something wrong here.
The only question is whether he took the drug voluntarily for some reason, or whether it was secretly added to his diet without his knowledge.
Some people also guessed in the barrage:
[I feel like it was my subordinates who poisoned me. I've seen a lot of people like this. How could they realize that they were wrong? In their minds, they are always right.]
[If his subordinates could poison him, why didn't he just poison him to death and become the boss himself? ]
[Didn't Ji Yu say that this man is cruel to his own people as well as to outsiders? If he died, all the territories that his subordinates had previously controlled by force would be scattered. If the man who poisoned him had the skills to integrate these territories, he would not have endured humiliation and served as his subordinate.]
[…That makes sense.]
[If you think about it this way, it's really possible that it was added by a subordinate. ]
[It can't get any worse, so why not just take a gamble? 】
[Yes, at worst he will die and then switch to another company. If he doesn't die and this bet wins, then we will make money.]
"Could it be that his cronies added it before?" Si Panxuan's train of thought collided with the investors', "Didn't he treat his cronies very well before? Could it be that someone got in touch with this drug and, with the mentality of trying their best, simply added it to his food?"
"It's possible..." Before Ji Yu finished speaking, She Mochu's voice rang out.
"But don't you think that this is more like the drug developer providing it than a subordinate taking the initiative to contact you?"
"The developer poisoned..." Si Panxuan frowned.
Bai Jinshu said casually: "To test the efficacy of the drug, or more directly, to control the small leaders in the village in the city?"
The other leaders in the urban village didn't know, but Tang Xingyu, even if this man died in the next second, his subordinates and confidants would only worry about how to divide his territory without the suppression of this iron-fisted leader, instead of being sad about his death.
In this situation, the worst that would happen after taking this strange medicine is that Tang Xingyu would die. Maybe after his death, although everyone would be worried about the division of territory, they would all feel relieved.
Under the expectation that the worst that could happen was death, Tang Xingyu suddenly changed his character and became tolerant and friendly to others. He promoted his confidants and treated old friends well, which was also a good result.
"We are also worried about this," Ji Yu nodded, "We are afraid that the drug researcher and the people behind him are trying to use this thing to control Tang Xingyu, and then spread to control the entire urban village, and then affect zone 08."
Not to mention that this thing might be related to the Crimson creatures.
This was a big deal, but Ji Yu had no evidence that Tang Xingyu's temperament change was due to taking the pills, nor did he have any connection between the strange deaths of the three victims and the pills. Even the connection with the Ke-type creatures was just his sixth sense guess.
"And there's something strange about that pill," Desmond finally got the chance to speak after promising not to talk nonsense. "Before we set out this time, we tried to ask the technical department to replicate the pill and feed it to the mice."
It turned out that all the procedures and ingredients were copied according to the ingredients detected in the first place, but they were just not as effective as the originals.
It seems like an important ingredient is missing.
Ji Yu suspected that this important component was the direct reason why the three victims chose to commit suicide and die tragically.
The group was led by Ji Yu for a long time, and finally arrived at their destination after passing through several residential areas.
This urban village was once a group of high-end residential areas. Although it has now become old buildings abandoned by the times, one can still see its former luxury through these decorations.
The small gang controlled by Tang Xingyu is on the edge of this urban village. Compared with the previous community that looked extremely clean and well-maintained, the one he is in is much more dilapidated.
It has a flavor of the "city 50 years after the disappearance of humans" that you often see in self-media or AI-generated pictures.
"The forces in that area just now are not the same as those here," Ji Yu simply replied after seeing everyone's confusion, "Tang Xingyu is not protecting the community."
In just a few steps, you suddenly walk from a thriving green garden into a community with an abandoned artificial lake full of dead branches and weeds. The contrast is indeed strong.
Ji Yu's plan was to pretend to be a low-level thief and infiltrate the subordinates of the small leader Tang Xingyu, then find an opportunity to observe whether he really took the medicine, and then find some evidence that was directly related to the medicine and his drastic change in temperament and the harmful creatures.
Next comes the mission of the mobile team.
He is not a superhero who saves the world, and he has no intention of solving such a big problem by himself. He came in disguise this time to provide more evidence for his speculation so that his superiors would believe his inference.
The reason why he asked the exploration team members of the mobile team to follow him was mainly because he could not think of how to prove that this drug was related to the K-series creatures.
So he chose to let the members of the mobile team responsible for the K-type creatures directly confirm it.
Unfortunately, Ji Yu didn't know that most of the people he had found were encountering the K-type creatures for the first time.
Of course, the bad news is that most of the people here are met for the first time, but the good news is that there is also She Mochu here.
The guilty explorers suddenly felt justified when they thought of She Mochu in the team.
Investors who witnessed the whole process in the barrage mercilessly exposed everyone's psychological activities:
[What's with that smooth little combo where you first felt guilty, then looked at She Mochu, and finally raised your head with confidence? ]
【Everyone really has their feelings written on their faces. 】
【The seven of us are really amazing.jpg】
【Laughing.】
According to Ji Yu, more and more people have come to visit Tang Xingyu recently because he suddenly changed his personality.
But as everyone got closer and closer to the residence of this little boss, the surrounding atmosphere became less and less like the atmosphere of a large number of residents from urban villages coming to seek refuge.
Instead, there is something weird about it.
Everyone we met on the road looked at us with a vigilant and dangerous look, as if they were on guard against something.
Ji Yu also noticed this abnormality.
He paused and heard She Mochu's voice behind him: "Someone has followed us all the way."
He also felt that someone was following them all the way.
What's going on? Didn't they say Tang Xingyu changed his gender?
What's going on with this solemn atmosphere now?
They exchanged glances, and Bai Jinshu slightly raised his chin towards Wei Ye.
This guy has been a host for a long time and has developed a set of skills that allow him to get close to people at any time.
Si Panxuan was worried that if he went alone, he might say something wrong and be eaten alive by the eager residents of the urban village, so he gave Shi Liqun a slight push, motioning for him to go along.
Before Shi Liqun could take a step, Bai Jinshu's hand blocked his way.
"Let Wei Ye go alone," he moved his lips slightly, "You and Si Panxuan are too obvious."
It is difficult for people who have served in the military to conceal their upright temperament, especially these two people, who are simply sitting ducks.
Wei Ye has been to all corners of the world as a host. He has the kind of friendliness that allows him to blend into the local community anytime and anywhere. The fact that they didn't take any action when so many people were staring at them just now is enough to prove that these people are also checking and balancing each other. Adding Shi Liqun to this situation is like pouring cold oil into a hot pot.
The moment it falls, the pot will explode.
After being stopped, Shi Liqun showed a confused expression, but still stopped his actions obediently: "Oh."
Wei Ye found the most friendly-looking person in the crowd and went up to talk to him. The two people were far away from the crowd, so he couldn't hear what they were saying. He could only see that Wei Ye's expression froze for a moment.
Jia Li next to him also exclaimed "Fuck".
He had good ears and must have heard what the two men were saying.
Jia Li did not keep the secret, and after a brief moment of shock, he quickly said, "Tang Xingyu is dead."
Now everyone is the one who is shocked.
People living in the urban villages cannot show their shock too obviously, so the investors in the barrage do not have to suppress their shock.
[What happened? Why did the person die? ]
[Isn’t it that medicine? ]
[If you take this drug, your personality will change drastically and you will die? ]
[Is it possible that he was killed by his subordinates? ]
[That shouldn't be the case. If you say that he was killed by his subordinates before, it's understandable, but now he has changed his personality. Killing him again would be impolite, right? ]
[The enemy killed him? ]
[That’s hard to say.]
…
During the discussion on the barrage, everyone quickly recovered from their shock and listened to Jia Li retelling Wei Ye's conversation.
The person Wei Ye was looking for was a tall girl. She probably thought that they were other subordinates who had divided the area after learning that the small leader had died. She told him rudely that the territory had almost been divided up by everyone. Those people on the periphery could be more friendly. If they went further in, they would most likely be beaten to death by the murderous men who regarded them as opponents who came to seize the territory.
When Wei Ye asked about the cause of Tang Xingyu's death, he was met with a sneer.
"Who cares about that?" The girl twirled the blade in her hand, skillfully letting the sharp blade fly up and down in her hand. "Does it matter?"
For those who were eager to grab territory, it didn't matter how Tang Xingyu died, who killed him, or whether he left a will on how to distribute the territory before his death.
But for Ji Yu who came for him, this was bad news...
This means that the clue to the mysterious drug, the clue to the evil cult that is most likely hidden behind the drug, has been lost again.
What made him even more unacceptable was that this person died last night.
Wei Ye came back after talking with the tall girl. When he saw everyone's faces, he knew that Jia Li had already relayed what he had said before to everyone.
Although everyone had no hope of finding a killer creature from the clues of this drug, it was still a bit unpleasant to lose a clue for no reason.
Now the people under the small leader Tang Xingyu are busy fighting for territory, and probably no one is willing to investigate the cause of his death and track down the murderer, so this matter will definitely be left unresolved.
Ji Yu took a deep breath and led everyone out of this area. The fatigue on his face was revealed: "Thank you for troubling me today."
Everyone quickly said it was no trouble.
As members of the Foundation's exploration team, we have all encountered situations where we went into an unknown space and ended up investigating in the wrong direction, or where clues suddenly disappeared halfway through our pursuit.
This only wasted the entire morning and noon, which is really nothing.
Besides, I didn't have any hope in the first place.
"I'll go back and think about where to start..." Ji Yu rubbed his hair, his voice tired, "You've made a wasted trip, I'll treat you to a meal later."
"No need to do that later," Bai Jinshu crossed his arms and raised his eyebrows slightly, "I do have a possible clue here, do you want to check it out today?"
"What clue?" Ji Yu was stunned.
"In exchange for your life." Bai Jinshu moved his lips and uttered a word that Gu Qiang had mentioned before.
"Life can be exchanged for money, so for those who owe a lot of money and have nowhere else to go, it is indeed possible for them to exchange their lives for money!" After he mentioned this, everyone remembered what Gu Qiang had said before.
Gu Qiang advised them not to sacrifice their lives, saying that this was a business that would only cost them money and would leave a mark on their souls, so it was not worth it.
The three dead were all after money. Is it possible that their common point was not that they met the man handing out pills at the door of the loan shark, but that they went to pay with their lives?
After all, this seems to be closer to their final outcome, which is that all of them died a violent death.
If you pay with your life, doesn't that mean you're dead?
"I didn't find any evidence that they have a large amount of funds from unknown sources..." Ji Yu said quietly, "and how is this technically possible?"
"Science may not be able to achieve it, but cults may not be able to achieve it." Zhang Lu said softly.
"You're right, it's possible!" Ji Yu raised his head, his face showing excitement again, "Let's go to the place where they sacrificed their lives!"
The deaths of these three people are not right. There must be some mysterious power involved. There are things wrong with the pill and the place where they died!
The leader regained his spirits, and everyone else also became energetic.
After all, compared to the so-called "drugs", "paying with one's life" sounds much more likely to be related to the evil church of Krishna.
If we follow this line, we will definitely find something.
It's already past noon. No matter how excited everyone is, they have to eat before continuing the investigation, so that they will have strength to escape if something is uncovered later.
Ji Yu was a little anxious after discovering the new clue, but he also knew that he had to eat before running away. Although he was anxious, he generously invited everyone to have dinner at the restaurant in the urban village.
Compared to the clean high-tech restaurants in zone 08 where mechanical arms and robots run all the operations, the small stalls in the urban village have a more down-to-earth feel to the exploration team members.
Ji Yu looked a little guilty for treating everyone badly, but the exploration team members adapted well.
Just as everyone was sitting here waiting for the boss in the kitchen to cook the noodles, Jia Li suddenly moved his ears.
"Someone outside is calling Brother Feng." He said.
Brother Feng is the boss of the largest area in the urban village who suddenly returned and caused Tang Xingyu's temperament to change drastically.
It seems that Gu Qiang is also one of his subordinates.
Everyone looked at each other, and were a little curious about who this Brother Feng was.
Bai Jinshu sat at the table, waiting for his meal attentively, oblivious to what was happening outside. However, several members of the exploration team beside him could not sit still and walked a few steps outside, wanting to see what this big guy looked like.
Zhang Lu was a little worried that Brother Feng's appearance here at this time was because Gu Qiang had said something to him, so he followed him out.
Jia Li’s hearing was amazing. Everyone followed him for half a block before they reached the place where the man had just called out “Brother Feng”.
When they looked up and saw "Brother Feng" for the first time, everyone was stunned.
"Oh my god," Ming Qingrong said in a somewhat incredulous voice, "Wen Qinqin?"
This "Brother Feng" actually refers to "Yang Lifeng"!
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