Chapter 168 He Can Save Me
"No, no, no, no! This is too much trouble for you, there's really no need!"
"No, no, no! We can just queue up at the back. We're not in a hurry anyway!"
When Lu Yan and Lu Xiaozhao heard what Chen Yan said, they both broke out in cold sweats and waved their hands like wave drums. What a joke! They didn't even have time to hide, how could they possibly be the first to experience it? Wouldn't that be courting death?
Chen Yan thought they were embarrassed, so he grabbed one of them by the left arm and the other by the right arm, and dragged them towards the detector: "Why are you embarrassed? You are the heroes who saved Sky City, so it's okay for you to enjoy some preferential treatment. Listen to me and use the special channel quickly, otherwise there will be so many people and you will have to queue until dark!"
Lu Xiaozhao was dragged forward by Chen Yan for several steps and was about to cry: "Really, there's no need, please let me go!"
Just as the two of them were arguing, a burst of gunfire suddenly rang out from the hotel next door. The window on the second floor shattered, and a white shadow jumped directly from the window. The patrolman who went up to search exclaimed, "Catch her! A wanderer was found!!"
There were also psychics in the team this time. Two gold psychics' faces changed when they heard that, and they immediately conjured up several sharp spikes that shot over. The white figure was already injured by the gunfire, and was suddenly pierced through the shoulders by the metal spikes. He fell heavily to the ground like a kite with a broken string, and let out a painful groan.
“Wow!”
The crowd that had just gathered together immediately dispersed in shock, forming a vacuum circle in the middle. The wanderer was actually a beautiful young girl. She was wearing a white dress that almost reached the ground. Although she looked very human, the black mist under the hem of her skirt, like a snake's tail, still exposed her identity.
Chen Yan's face changed when he heard the commotion, and he immediately rushed forward and pushed through the crowd to check the situation. Lu Yan and Lu Xiaozhao looked at each other and followed behind.
Chen Yan: "Make way! Make way! What happened?!"
When the patrolmen saw Chen Yan coming, they raised their hands and saluted, saying, "Captain, we just found traces of this wanderer in a room on the seventh floor of this hotel. She was about to escape, but we found her!"
Catching a wanderer should have been a happy thing, but for some reason, Chen Yan's expression looked solemn and complicated. He stared at the girl on the ground with a painful expression, and finally turned his head away, raised his hand and gave an order: "Take her away!"
"You can't take her away! She has never hurt anyone! She really has never hurt anyone!"
A dozen women and children suddenly ran out of the hotel. One of them was a short-haired, slightly plump woman in her forties who stood in front of the wanderer and protected her tightly behind her. She put her hands together and pleaded with red eyes, "Leader, Arou is a good girl. Although she is a wanderer, she has never hurt anyone. She works with us every day to earn money. Nothing has happened to her in the past few years. Please let her go!"
One of the gold-type psychics sneered, "What a joke! She is a wanderer, and wanderers will eat people when they are hungry. You say she is a good person, but does that mean she is a good person? Take them all away!"
Chen Yan's face changed slightly when he heard this, and he said in a deep voice: "They are all women and children. Now that the wanderers have been caught, why did you take them away?!"
The psychic said as a matter of course: "Birds of a feather flock together. Since they are speaking in favor of the wanderer, they might be his accomplices. We must bring them back for investigation."
Chen Yan was visibly angry: "Chang Xin, you are simply making a fuss!"
The status of a psychic is much higher than that of a patrolman, so this gold psychic naturally didn't take Chen Yan seriously: "Chen Yan, stop yelling at me. Minister Liu's son was attacked by a vagrant last night and died at home for no reason. The higher-ups have been urging us to close the case. Now that the murderer has been caught, the accomplice must not be let off. You have been patrolling this street, and you haven't discovered that this hotel has a vagrant hiding in years. You can't escape responsibility!"
Chen Yan was furious: "You!"
Chang Xin gave the order directly: "Take the people away for me, send the wanderers to the monitoring institute, and detain this group of people in the patrol bureau for investigation!"
He turned and walked away, but a little girl next to him suddenly rushed over and bit his calf hard, like a ferocious little beast. Chang Xin screamed in pain and tried to shake her off twice but failed. Finally, he raised his hand in anger and wanted to slap her. The wanderer saw this and suddenly broke free from the patrolman's grip and rushed over with strength. She snatched the little girl away and held her tightly in her arms. Her originally black eyes turned scarlet and she let out a warning roar from her throat.
Chang Xin cursed in a low voice: "She is indeed a wanderer! If we don't catch her, she will kill countless people. What are you doing standing there? Hurry up and catch her!"
When Lu Xiaozhao saw the delicate and frail girl with gunshot wounds and wounds from supernatural powers all over her body, he turned pale with fear and grabbed Lu Yan's sleeve tightly: "Brother, I'm scared."
Not sure if it was an illusion, but Lu Yan always felt that the nearby high-rise buildings were filled with a black mist and a lingering smell of blood, while the captured wanderer was clean and obviously not stained with blood. He frowned and said in a deep voice, "You are never not afraid. Stay where you are and wait for me. Don't come over."
He walked past the crowd as soon as he finished speaking. At that moment, the patrolmen were trying to separate the wanderer and the little girl by force. The scene was extremely chaotic. Chen Yan had no choice but to walk forward and forcibly hug the little girl away. He squatted in front of her and said sternly, "Little girl, stop making trouble. If you continue to make trouble, you will all be locked up..."
"puff!"
The thin little girl stared at Chen Yan with her dark eyes, and suddenly spat at his epaulettes without warning. Her malnourished face was full of stubbornness and defensiveness, and she shouted crisply, "You are bad people!"
Chen Yan frowned: "We are the ones who protect you."
The little girl spat again, her eyes, which should have been as pure as white paper, were burning with shocking anger, and even hid a bit of hatred: "You are the bad guys!"
The woman next to her hugged her and covered her mouth tightly, begging, "Girl, stop talking, stop talking!"
The little girl struggled desperately, and after hearing that, she couldn't hold back her tears any longer: "They are bad people! They are bad people! Sister Xiaorou works every day to earn money to treat our illnesses, and she has never hurt anyone. Why are they arresting her? They will kill Sister Xiaorou!"
Her childish cries pierced the hearts of everyone present: "You are all bad people! Every day you drive those who don't have enough time out of the city. They will die if they are driven out! You kill more people every day than the wanderers! You are the murderers!"
The patrol soldiers turned pale upon hearing this, and even Chen Yan's face looked a little ugly. The little girl's words seemed to have become a heavy hammer, hitting their hearts hard. It was hard to tell whether it was shame or guilt, and even the crowd was silent for a moment.
There were more than 30 women and children living in the single room of that small hotel. They were dressed in plain and shabby clothes, which was out of place in the Sky City. They were most likely "relocates" from the Devil City. Some of them were missing fingers or had leg disabilities. It looked like a refugee camp.
The owner of the hotel chose to turn a blind eye to the crowded room. Chen Yan might have discovered something wrong during his daily inspections, but he also chose to turn a blind eye.
It was not until later that Lu Yan learned the truth from Chen Yan. The people living in that room were all critically ill patients. The medical facilities in Devil City were too poor, so they could only come to Sky City for treatment. The time they spent was earned by the girl named Xiaorou, who secretly hunted wanderers at night to gain time, and worked like ordinary people during the day. As a result, her identity was accidentally exposed because of the full search.
It is hard to imagine that the truth behind this incident could be like this, a wanderer with intelligence doing his best to help the weak, while humans raise their knives to kill their fellow men.
The sun was extremely hot today, and Ah Rou was already injured. She fell to the ground, whimpering in pain under the scorching sun. She was like a fish that had been pulled out of the water and exposed to the sun, barely able to maintain her human form.
Lu Yan came out at this time. He first took off his coat and covered Xiao Rou with it to block the glaring sunlight. Finally, he looked around and fixed his eyes on Chang Xin. He asked, "Excuse me, can I ask, what are you going to do with this wanderer after you capture him?"
Chang Xin said without thinking: "Of course he was killed!"
Lu Yan nodded: "Wanderers devour humans, so they should be killed. But if this wanderer does not harm anyone, but is helping people, will you kill it too?"
This question is not easy to answer. Whether answering "yes" or "no" will cause trouble. Chang Xin tactfully avoided the question: "Who said she didn't kill anyone? We received news yesterday that a single man was found dead at home. His body was incomplete. It was obviously done by a vagrant. The crime scene was only two blocks away from the hotel. If she kills someone, what's wrong with us arresting her?"
Lu Yan smiled and said, "But you don't even have any evidence. It's just speculation. How can you say that she killed the person?"
Chang Xin thought this question was stupid and asked impatiently, "So many people have been tested, but she is the only one who is a wanderer. If she is not the murderer, who else could it be?"
Lu Yan suddenly looked up into the sky and said something that no one could understand: "Maybe there are other wanderers, but you just haven't found them yet."
Chang Xin frowned upon hearing this. He was about to ask Lu Yan what he meant when he suddenly raised his hand and attacked behind him. A bolt of lightning flew out without warning and rushed to the back of a distant commercial building. With a loud bang, a cloud of dark red mist flew out and let out a painful scream. It was another Wanderer!!!
"Oh no! It's a wanderer!!"
The patrol team was all shocked when they saw this. They immediately loaded their guns and fired wildly at the sky. The crowd screamed in fear and rushed out of the small shops on the street. The dense gunfire made their ears numb.
"roar--!"
The black mist was obviously of a very high level, black with a hint of red, and had a blood-soaked color. The bullets could not hurt it at all. The attacks of the two gold-type psychics made it angry and irritable. It dived down at high speed and directly knocked over the team. Its scarlet mouth opened wide and bit Chang Xin fiercely, scaring him and shouting in panic: "Help! ! ! Save me! ! ! "
Lu Yan's speed was much faster than that of the other gold-type psychic. He shot out a bolt of lightning from the air, which directly entangled the black and red mist, and then tightened it fiercely. The opponent spat out Chang Xin in pain, and angrily changed his target and rushed towards Lu Yan.
The level of this Wanderer was around T3, and Lu Yan could have killed it with one blow, but he suddenly remembered that Xiao Rou was slandered for murder, so he changed his moves and instead shot out a dense lightning net, directly trapping the black mist inside. The opponent rushed forward and fell heavily to the ground, fighting in vain.
The patrol soldiers around saw that the black fog was trapped, so they bravely formed a circle and slowly approached it. After confirming that it really would not break through the power grid, they hurriedly urged: "Quick, quick, quick! Bring the restraining cage!"
It was obvious that they were well prepared for this raid. Soon someone unloaded a huge restraining cage from the patrol car and used tools to trap the black mist inside.
Chang Xin had a large bloody bite on his waist, and his face turned pale with pain. He stood up with difficulty with the help of his teammates, and looked at Lu Yan with shock in his eyes: "You are a lightning-type esper?!"
He had heard a long time ago that a thunder-type mutant who was as powerful as Xing Yuan had appeared in Sky City. The president had tried to recruit him several times but failed. He didn't expect to meet him on the street today, and the other party even saved his life.
Lu Yan stood not far away. He was not surprised even though he had just subdued a third-level Wanderer. This kind of thing seemed normal to him, as easy as crushing an ant. "It doesn't matter whether I am a psychic or not. What matters is that there must be more than one Wanderer hiding in the Sky City. You also have wounds on your body. It's best to compare the marks with those on the corpse yesterday to see who did it. Don't wrongly accuse anyone."
Chang Xin's face turned pale and ugly: "Even if she didn't kill anyone, Sky City will never tolerate the existence of a wanderer!"
This is indeed a problem. Even if Xiaorou has never harmed anyone, it will still cause panic among the crowd. Before Lu Yan could say anything, the little girl next to him suddenly ran up and said, "We won't stay in Sky City anymore. Let's go back to Devil City by ourselves. Please don't kill Sister Xiaorou, okay?"
Lu Yan squatted down upon hearing this and asked in a low voice: "You finally came to Sky City, wouldn't it be a pity to go back?"
How many people in the Devil's City have spent their entire lives trying to get a pass, and she just gave it up so easily?
The little girl pursed her lips and looked at him stubbornly: "Sky City is not good at all. I don't like it here. They drive out the poor people who are dying of illness every day. There are more wanderers here than in Devil City."
In her heart, those cold-blooded compatriots might be no different from wanderers, and some might not even be as kind as the wanderer Arou.
Lu stretched out his hand and touched the little girl's malnourished hair: "But Devil City is very dangerous. You should stay in Sky City for the time being to recover. If Sister Xiaorou has never harmed humans, we will all help her."
The little girl seemed a little unconvinced: "Really?"
Lu Yan hummed: "Of course it's true."
After the interruption, the testing on the street was forced to stop. Chen Yan stepped forward and looked a little embarrassed: "I'm sorry, I may have to trouble you to go back to the Patrol Station with us to make a record of what happened."
Lu Yan also wanted to know how they were going to deal with Xiao Rou: "It's okay, I'll go with you guys, it's just my brother..."
Chen Yan didn't expect him to be so easy to talk to, and he was visibly relieved: "It's a small problem, I'll ask someone to go to the hotel to say hello, he will be waiting for you in the room."
They left in a patrol car, and even the women and children in the hotel were taken away. Seeing this, the crowd around them came out from their hiding places in twos and threes. A few sharp-eyed young people muttered, "Hey, did you notice that the man in black just now looked very familiar, and he could shoot lightning with his hands, just like the popular anchor before."
"Yes, yes, yes, I remember his hat. Xiao Lu also wore the same hat!"
A little girl suddenly stamped her feet and screamed, her face flushed with excitement: "Ahhhhhhhhh! He is actually Xiao Lu?! He is so handsome!! I saw him wearing a mask every time he live broadcast, and I thought he was inferior because he was ugly!!"
On the other side, Lu Yan had already boarded the car bound for the Patrol Bureau. He refused Chen Yan's request to change seats and insisted on sitting with the cage that held Xiao Rou. The metal spikes on his shoulders had been removed, but two horrible wounds were still left. Strings of black mist emanated from it, like the blood of a wanderer.
Xiaorou looked at Lu Yan with a pale face, her fingertips tightly grasping the cage railings, and begged in a voice that only the two of them could hear: "Please...save me...I didn't kill anyone...the girls have to go to the hospital for treatment every day...if I'm not here, no one will take care of them..."
Lu Yan asked in a low voice: "But you are a wanderer, why do you want to help humans?"
Xiao Rou stopped talking. She closed her eyes and leaned against the cage, as if she remembered something painful. After a long time, she uttered a few words in a hoarse voice: "Can you do me a favor... help me find a man named Xing Yuan... He should be able to save me..."
Lu Yan looked surprised.
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