Chapter 167 City-wide Manhunt
When Lu Yan came out of the storage room, he saw Xing Yuan sitting alone in his seat, exuding an aura that said "keep away from strangers", and it was obvious that he was still angry. He did not sit with Xing Yuan, but sat opposite him, took out his phone and sent a message.
【bite!】
Xing Yuan's phone suddenly rang. It was easy to be ignored in the noisy cabin. He subconsciously opened the screen and took a look. He found that it was an emoticon package sent by Lu Yan. It was a pitiful puppy with a swollen face due to being stung by a bee:
[(Poor) I was wrong, please forgive me, okay? ]
Daydreaming!
Xing Yuan pressed the block button fiercely, and made up his mind not to listen to Lu Yan's lies anymore. What he said was three-tenths true and seven-tenths false. Anyone who believed it was a fool.
Lu Yan sent a few more messages, but Xing Yuan simply closed his eyes and ignored them. The screen of his mobile phone was on for about a few minutes before it went dark again.
Seeing this, Lu Yan had no choice but to give up and put the phone back into his pocket. Xing Yuanduo was a proud and arrogant person, and it would not be easy for him to calm down after being deceived by him for so long.
Xu Pinyan secretly observed for a long time, and when she saw that Lu Yan finally stopped playing with his phone, she boldly stepped forward and asked, "Um...are you the exorcist Xiao Lu? The anchor who stole the Internet's attention?"
Lu Yan looked over after hearing the voice and found that it was the troublesome reporter: "Who are you...?"
Seeing that he was willing to pay attention to her, Xu Pinyan's eyes suddenly became hot. She excitedly went up to him and shook his hand tightly, saying, "Boss, my name is Xu Pinyan, Pin for Pinde, Yan for Yanyu. I'm currently working as a field reporter at the Sky City official TV station. I...I...I usually like watching your live broadcasts! We can work together if there's a chance!"
In Xu Pinyan's eyes, Lu Yan is not a human being, but a living hot IP. If he hires a reliable team to promote and market his show, he will have nearly 10 million fans. He was just worried about not being able to improve the show's data, and someone gave him a pillow when he fell asleep.
Lu Yan used some strength to pull his hand back. His mind was now full of thoughts on how to coax Xing Yuan back. He had no time to think about those cooperations. He casually said politely, "Thank you. Let's talk about it later."
Xing Yuan was sitting opposite him and raised his eyelids, only to see Xu Pinyan talking to Lu Yan in a flattering manner. He usually didn't watch live broadcasts or pay attention to things in the internet celebrity circle, but if Lu Yan was really a big anchor, he should not be short of money.
So the question is, if he is powerful and rich, why does he stay by my side as a mistress? Is it really like what Lu Yan said, that he fell in love with me at first sight?
No kidding.
Xing Yuan sneered in his heart, what love at first sight? He didn't believe in that. At best, it was just lust at first sight.
The aircraft flew in the night sky and soon arrived at the landing field of Sky City. When the hatch opened, Xing Yuan was the first to go down. Because he was in a bad mood, he didn't even say hello to his teammates.
Lu Yan wanted to chase after him upon seeing this, but he was entangled by Xu Pinyan and couldn't get away. After finally getting rid of her, Xing Yuan disappeared in the blink of an eye. The huge landing field stretched as far as the eye could see and it was dark at night, so he couldn't tell the direction at all.
Lu Yan touched the tip of his nose awkwardly, knowing that he was at fault in this matter, and Xing Yuan had already broken up with him, so it would be too shameless for him to move in and live in the other's house now. He might as well go back to the hotel and stay with Lu Xiaozhao for a night, and then think of a solution.
Lu Yan stared at the darkness in the distance for a while, then retracted his gaze and prepared to leave. However, he turned around and found Luo Yang and Chong Yuan staring at him. He paused and became alert in his heart.
Don't these people want to kill me?
Little did they know that Lu Yan had also frightened them. Chong Yuan subconsciously hid behind him and said nervously in a low voice, "He...he wouldn't want to kill us, right?"
Luo Yang glanced at him and said, "If I want to kill you, I'll kill you. I didn't say I wanted to kill you at the dinner table."
Chongyuan's eyes went dark and he almost passed out.
Only Yan Feng was a normal person. He took the initiative to walk forward and shake hands and say hello: "Lu Yan, thank you for today, otherwise we estimate that the loss is heavy. Are you going to look for Xing Yuan? Is there anything you need our help with?"
It is not advisable to extend a hand to a smiling person. Seeing Yan Feng was polite, Lu Yan did not deliberately cause trouble: "Thank you, it's nothing I can help you with. Even if I'm not here today, you can handle it."
Yan Feng said in a complicated tone: "To be honest, I didn't expect you to be a thunder type."
Lu Yan asked back: "Because there are rarely people with special abilities in Devil City?"
Yan Feng was vague: "Yes and no."
There used to be an unwritten rule in the Sky City that there could only be one user with lightning abilities. If there were two, it would be a fight to the death.
The specific situation can be seen from their battle. Once Xing Yuan made a move, the thunder element in the air would be sucked out completely, and Lu Yan would be unable to use his power. Once Lu Yan made a move, Xing Yuan would be suppressed. If the two of them met on the battlefield, as long as one of them made a move first, the other person would be in great danger. This is why Xing Yuan wanted to kill when he heard that another thunder element appeared in Sky City.
Powerful forces need checks and balances. Because there are so few individual cases, the research institute has not yet come to a detailed and reliable conclusion to this day. It can only preliminarily classify it as the lightning type being too overbearing and different from other superpowers.
Yan Feng didn't explain in detail, so Lu Yan naturally didn't know. But even if he knew, he wouldn't take it to heart. At most, he would just spend some points to redeem a teleportation card.
At that time, Xing Yuan was staying in the parking space in the south area, leaning against the car door and smoking a cigarette. His cold brows were immersed in the night, and he could not hide his irritability. However, he could not tell whether it was because Lu Yan had deceived him, or because the other party was the lightning-type psychic. Now he could neither kill nor let go. He was simply a tricky existence.
Suddenly, there were the sounds of footsteps in the distance. It was Luoyang and his group.
Xing Yuan looked up subconsciously, but did not see the familiar figure, and frowned slightly.
Yan Feng said meaningfully: "Don't look, everyone has left."
"If you're gone, then go. What does it have to do with me?"
Xing Yuan felt a little flustered as if his thoughts had been exposed, and he didn't want to admit who he was waiting for. He put out his cigarette and got into the car. He started the car and backed out of the parking space flexibly. He accelerated and disappeared into the darkness, leaving only a billowing cloud of dust behind him.
Luo Yang sighed: "Did he take the wrong medicine?"
Yan Feng shook his head: "He just didn't take the right medicine at the right time."
On the other hand, Lu Yan had already parked a car and went to the hotel to find Lu Xiaozhao. Fortunately, Xing Yuan had booked a double room for them, so the two of them could squeeze in for the night.
"Brother, have you been dumped by your financial sponsor?"
Lu Xiaozhao noticed that Lu Yan had been silent since he came over today. After taking a shower, he lay on the bed and kept fiddling with his phone. He looked absent-minded the whole time. Lu Xiaozhao suddenly had an idea and asked a question that was equivalent to dancing on a grave.
Lu Yan paused when he heard this and looked at him unkindly: "Who told you?"
Lu Xiaozhao muttered, "No one told me. I guessed it. With online scams, the truth will show up after a while. The deeper the contact, the easier it is to get into trouble. I told you not to meet in person, but you didn't listen."
Lu Yan: "Shut up, I don't want to hear any hindsight."
Lu Xiaozhao: "How can this be called hindsight? I warned you before you met me, but you've been kicked out, so just let it go. Anyway, you can make money now and don't have to rely on others."
Lu Yan also knew this was the truth, but it was not about money, it was because he felt uncomfortable. Although he had been cheating Xing Yuan because of his hard life, he had always been nice to him. Although Xing Yuan looked fierce, he was actually a person with a sharp tongue but a soft heart. Sometimes he was as innocent as a child. When Lu Yan thought of his angry look, he always felt like a jerk.
Lu Yan had no choice but to ask for help from the idiot Lu Xiaozhao: "So what do you say we should do?"
Lu Xiaozhao shook his head and climbed onto the bed: "I've never been in love, how would I know? But your top priority right now is to save your life. What if someone wants to take revenge on you?"
Lu Yan didn't care: "I can protect myself."
Lu Xiaozhao: "I know, I mean you don't implicate me."
Lu Yan: “…”
Tonight is destined to be a sleepless night.
Lu Yan sent several messages to Xing Yuan, but the other party didn't reply to any of them. Seeing that it was almost time to go to bed, he turned off his phone, got up and sat at the table to smoke a cigarette. Usually at this time, he would still be in bed with Xing Yuan, and he was a little uncomfortable going to bed early.
After staying in a high-end hotel for a few days, Lu Xiaozhao developed some bad habits. He said in a disgusted tone, "Brother, how can you smoke so late at night when I'm right beside you?"
Lu Yan asked, "Does it smell bad?"
Lu Xiaozhao nodded vigorously: "Yes!"
Lu Yan also felt that it was immoral to let his brother smell secondhand smoke, so he pointed to the door and said, "Get out, and come back in after I finish smoking."
Upon hearing this, Lu Xiaozhao immediately wrapped himself tightly in the quilt, shivering and shaking his head: "I won't go out. It's so dark outside and scary. Brother, you don't know that Sky City has not been peaceful recently. There are always vagrants rushing in at night, and the sound of gunfire never stops."
Lu Yan's eyelids jumped when he heard that, and he lowered his voice and cursed: "What are you afraid of? You are a wanderer yourself, and you should be afraid of me!"
Lu Xiaozhao: “…” It seems so.
Lu Yan finished the rest of his cigarette in three or two puffs, got up and prepared to go to sleep. He glanced inadvertently and suddenly found a small hotel outside the floor-to-ceiling window. Facing the window of one of the rooms, the glass was a little blurry because it was old, but it was not difficult to see that a lot of people were crowded inside. There were at least thirty people sleeping on the floor in the room of more than 20 square meters, most of them were women and children. It was so crowded that there was no place to stand.
From a distance, it looks like a fly or a mosquito, but not like a human.
This situation is not uncommon, because there are too many unexpected situations in life, and poor people often live together, so that if someone's health is low, they can get help from their companions in time, instead of dying quietly at home.
The lingering smell of cigarettes in the air was slightly bitter, and Lu Yan was absent-minded for a moment. He closed the curtains in silence, not taking the matter to heart. He turned around, lifted the quilt and went to bed, and spent the whole night with Lu Xiaozhao.
The next morning, they were awakened by a violent knock on the door. Lu Xiaozhao sat up from the bed in a daze, his hair a mess, and he was so sleepy that he couldn't even open his eyes: "Brother, who is it? It's so annoying so early in the morning!"
Lu Yan didn't sleep much last night. He got up and went to open the door. He found several armed patrolmen standing outside. He frowned and asked, "What's up?"
The patrolman's tone was cold but polite: "We now suspect that there are wanderers hiding in the Sky City disguised as humans. Please put on your clothes and gather in the open space on the first floor to cooperate with our inspection."
“Plop!”
It was the sound of Lu Xiaozhao falling off the bed.
The patrol soldier frowned and looked inside: "What's that sound?"
Lu Yan looked back and said calmly, "I'm sorry, it's my brother. He always falls out of bed when he sleeps. Thank you for your reminder. We will gather outside for inspection immediately."
The patrolman urged, "Hurry up, there are so many people queuing down there."
They turned around and left, holding the registration book and knocking on the next house. Lu Yan closed the door with his backhand, and his heart sank for a moment. Why would Sky City suddenly check for vagrants in the crowd? It would be fine if it was another vagrant who sneaked in, but what if they were targeting Lu Xiaozhao, then things would be serious.
Lu Xiaozhao was not sleepy at all this time, and was sweating profusely: "Brother, what should I do? Are they here to check on me?!"
Lu Yan remained calm at the critical moment: "You haven't done anything earth-shattering, why should we investigate you? Hurry up and get dressed and wash your face."
While Lu Xiaozhao was in a state of chaos, Lu Yan opened the curtain and looked downstairs. He saw several black special vehicles parked on the street outside. Several height-measuring instruments were placed at fixed checkpoints. No matter if it was a hotel or an inn, or an ordinary residence nearby, all the people living inside had to come out and be checked one by one, and then the records were made in the database. From a distance, it looked like a crowd of people, and there was no way to escape even if you wanted to jump out of the window.
Such a big commotion?
Although Lu Yan was not sure what method the patrol team used for the test, he knew that except for the time during the Red Sun, Lu Xiaozhao had basically not revealed any signs of anything. He had killed so many vagrants that he was 100% sure that Lu Xiaozhao looked like a pure human being without any unusual aura.
Lu Xiaozhao changed his clothes and came out of the bathroom. His legs were shaking with nervousness. "Brother, I... I'm done."
Lu Yan put on a black jacket and a baseball cap of the same color. Seeing this, he frowned and said, "You should be more confident and righteous. If you are so flustered, it's obvious that something is wrong."
Lu Xiaozhao cried and said, "I do have a ghost."
Lu Yan put his hands in his coat pockets and walked out the door: "Then you and I should go separately, so as not to get caught and implicate me."
Lu Xiaozhao quickly followed: "Brother, don't leave me, we are brothers, we live together and die together!"
The hotel entrance was filled with guests staying there, most of them were still sleepy and complaining.
"What are you doing? Are you annoying so early in the morning?"
"That's right. I'm still sleepy. What do you mean by a vagrant mixed in with the crowd? You must be kidding. A vagrant is not that powerful."
"They should send someone to come and do the testing at home. Why do they make us stand on the street?"
"I heard it's because there aren't enough machines..."
Lu Yan led Lu Xiaozhao to the queue intersection, where they saw a large crowd of people. Those who had completed the test would be given a special bracelet, which allowed them to return to the hotel. Otherwise, the front desk would refuse to let them stay.
Seeing this, Lu Xiaozhao breathed a sigh of relief and whispered to Lu Yan in a low voice: "Brother, there are so many people, it may not be our turn until dark, why don't we sneak back to Devil City at night."
As they were talking, a patrolman not far away suddenly walked over. He frowned and stared at Lu Yan and Lu Xiaozhao. His sharp eyes made people's hearts skip a beat: "Are you from Sky City?"
It's over. Lu Yan thought to himself, Lu Xiaozhao wouldn't be discovered so soon, right? He secretly pinched Lu Xiaozhao, who was about to fall to the ground, and pretended to be calm and said, "No, we just came to Sky City recently."
The patrol soldier continued to ask, "Is he a superpower?"
Lu Yan: "I am, he is not."
The patrolman suddenly blurted out: "Thunder system?"
Lu Yan's pupils shrank upon hearing this, and he raised his head subconsciously: "How do you know?!"
The patrolman saw his reaction and suddenly became excited and delighted. He pointed at himself and asked, "Brother, you don't remember me, but do you remember the person who forced you to take up your guns and shoot the vagrants on the defensive wall that day? It was me!"
Lu Yan then realized that the patrolman in front of him looked familiar. It was the irritable captain who had scolded him and Feng Xiangming on the defense wall that day. He asked uncertainly, "Are you... Chen Yan?"
Chen Yan didn't expect Lu Yan to remember his name. He grinned happily, showing eight neat white teeth. He looked silly and stupid, which was quite a contrast. "I am who I am. I didn't expect you to remember my name. I was very sorry for you that day, otherwise we wouldn't have been able to defend the checkpoint. My brothers and I wanted to express our gratitude, but you turned around and disappeared. I didn't expect to run into you here today."
Lu Yan was also very happy. He was worried that he would not be able to get through the test, but he unexpectedly ran into an acquaintance: "My brother and I were originally staying in this hotel, but unexpectedly, a few patrolmen came and knocked on the door this morning. They insisted that we go downstairs for testing, saying that a vagrant had sneaked in. How could we be vagrants..."
Lu Yan's tone was awkward, and he hinted wildly.
Chen Yan received the signal successfully and waved his hand: "Of course you are not wanderers, come on, don't queue here."
Before Lu Yan could be happy, he heard Chen Yan lower his voice and say, "There are too many people here. I will take you to the front through the special channel and you will be the first to be tested."
Lu Yan: “?!!!”
Lu Xiaozhao: “?!!!”
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