Returning from the abyss

Chapter 203 Halfway
Lu Ning still has confidence in her memory, just like she never needs to look through her task records to see what tasks she needs to complete.

However, after Mo La finished speaking, she felt a little uncertain.

"Remember...but..."

"You can't remember all this, can you? I'm impatient to repeat it to you again, tell me, what do you want as a reward for helping me cut off this guy's head?" Mo La knocked on the glass ball .

Lu Ning had no choice but to keep her doubts in her heart. She knew Mo La's temperamental inner character very well, and there was no need to offend her because of this.

"I met the agent of 'greed' yesterday. The other party can drive part of the power of greed. As far as I can see, it should predict the future after a short period of time. The specific situation is not clear..."

"Huh? And then? You just come to me, trying to get the same power?"

"Of course not, I think you look down on that kind of power from your heart. After all, you... are refusing."

Only then did Mo La nod her head.

"I hope you don't regard me as the same level as the inferior power of predicting the future, that will make me unhappy. It seems that you also know where my bottom line is, don't you?"

"So I don't need any ability, I can find out their true identities by myself. However, the problem is that in my situation, even if I find the other party, I can't ensure continuous tracking, and accidental encounters are more likely to happen. Although you Part of the ability given to me can passively protect me, but I still hope that there is a way to actively call you."

Mo La's face became slightly serious.

"Do you know what you're talking about?"

"I am certain."

"Although I am completely proud of my own strength, I don't think that the entire vice city can't find an opponent who can match me. An opportunity to call me, if you rely on this to set a trap, I will be no different from you. put yourself in danger."

"But what about the benefits? At any time, risks and benefits coexist. I won't say please believe me. On the contrary...do you believe that I can find all the rest of the council members?"

Mo La's finger moved, and it hit the glass ball, making a dull sound.

"In addition, with your ability, you can confirm in advance. A confident person like you should be able to bear this level of risk."

Lu Ning continued to persuade the other party.

"Your eloquence is not bad." Mo La stared at her, "And I can't find a better agent than you at the moment... Even so, I still have to explain something in advance."

"please say."

"It has nothing to do with me no matter how life or death is fought between you and other agents. The target of my action can only be the holder or former holder of the source of evil. If you call me to leave for a small matter Blame me for not responding. In addition, you should also pay attention to your own tasks, don’t worry about the problems of those agents, and find out the members of the council, this is what you should do.”

"I see."

"Then I'll give you three chances."

As Mo La spoke, she raised her hand, and some dark purple silk thread came out of her sleeve, crawled into the palm of her hand, coiled and condensed into three small and exquisite purple gemstones. He pulled out a thin thread, twisted it long, passed through the three gems, and tied the golden thread in a knot.

"You wear this necklace, because you have part of my ability, so you can send me a signal when your thoughts are triggered, and I will go to where you are. If you use these three opportunities to my satisfaction I'll give you new gems. Also, don't expect to use this if you use that body-replacing trick again. My ability is bound to your current body. Without this body, you can't activate the necklace. "

Lu Ning walked to Mo La's seat, took the necklace and put it on her neck. The gem had a cold and even a bit cold touch, which made her shiver uncontrollably.

"Hehe, not used to it? Although you have done a lot of evil, are you still not broken to the bone? Forget it, let's go." Mo La waved her hand, telling Lu Ning to leave her face quickly.

Lu Ning had no choice but to leave.

This evening, she returned home.

As soon as he walked to the door of the house, Lu Ning smelled something burnt.

"what's the situation?"

She quickly took out the key to open the door, and walked into the room. A strong smell of burning incense and burning paper came to her face, which made her cough several times.

When things got a little better, Lu Ning realized that rows of candles had been lit from the corridor in the house, white streamers were hung on the walls and roofs, and fire and smoke were coming out directly from the kitchen.

"Ten characters Ye Nai!"

She opened the kitchen door, and saw Shi Wenwen squatting in front of a brazier throwing a few papered gold ingots into it. There were many sacrificial items piled up beside it. There was a black and white photo of herself on the dining table, and a small incense burner was In front of the photo, the three sticks of incense had been half burned, and judging from the ashes in the incense burner, it was not the first stick of incense.

The tearful Shiwen Ye Nai raised his head and saw Lu Ning when he heard the sound, his expression froze immediately.

"..."

The two looked at each other speechlessly and fell into a silence.

In the end, it was Ye Nai who spoke tremblingly: "That... I remember... the first seven... are the returning souls..."

"I have spent money with you, and you still think that kind of explosion can kill me?"

"Live?"

Ye Nai walked over boldly, touched Lu Ning's hand, and jumped back immediately: "It's cold!"

"I came back at night! You lit a fire in the house! Who do you think has a lower body temperature?"

Lu Ning scratched her hair helplessly, walked to the table and put down her "portrait", and saw Ye Nai giggling when she turned her head.

"I……"

"You're back! I was very worried about you! I knew I would have gone with you, but I want to help the door opener find the evil code. After all, I am closer to her... I'm sorry."

"Haven't you ever thought about it?"

"I... I'm not good at thinking..."

Ye Nai lowered her head as if she had done something wrong.

"I'm very reckless. I just do what other people say, that is, I can roughly tell what is harmful to me and don't get involved. Many people came to talk to me at first, and then gradually alienated. Many scenes are... ..."

"But you survived."

"I think they originally wanted to make friends with me, but I'm a bit stupid. The door opener...can accept me like this, but sometimes she also feels headaches because of some things I do. This time she Get rid of me and act alone, I know she has a special mission, and I don't want to disturb her..."

"I mean you survived." Lu Ning interrupted her.

Ye Nai showed a puzzled look.

"There is no standard template for survival in this place. What skills must be mastered, or who must be like someone to be resurrected... No one has ever given such a rule. Being able to survive the scene is the truth, even if you think It's reckless to be yourself, but if it works it's the right path."

"Do you... think so?" Ye Nai smiled with some difficulty, "But because of the recklessness of teammates, killing intent and death, no matter who will have complaints? accident..."

"You call that a plan?"

Lu Ning raised her eyebrows.

"Let me call myself an intellectual tourist without self-effacing. In the circles I have contacted, including myself, there is one principle that we all agree on. That is, if a teammate appears under your arrangement If there is any accident, it means that the consideration is not thorough enough or the backup plan is not prepared enough. If you don’t have this awareness, then don’t come out shyly and plan the layout for the whole team, because this kind of person doesn’t even have the courage to bear the fate of the whole team. No."

There are always winners and losers in confrontation, and failure is always inevitable, but the bitter fruit has to be swallowed by oneself. If you always blame the failure of your own plan on the mistakes and omissions of others, this person is fundamentally not worthy of anyone's cooperation with him.

"That's all I'm talking about. You can pack up your things. I'm going to sleep."

She shook her head and walked upstairs, she didn't know why she suddenly preached to Shiwen Ye Nai.

Perhaps, she was a little touched when she saw someone offering sacrifices to her own death.

"Ah, that..."

Ye Nai was a step slower when rushing out of the room, Lu Ning had already gone upstairs.

immediately--

"What are these things?"

Ye Nai who hurried upstairs saw Lu Ning looking at her bedroom with a puzzled expression. Now her comfortable big bed was filled with a pile of sundries. There were seven or eight pieces in total, all of which were like statues and wooden boxes. thing.

"I, I thought you were dead, no one would use the room, and there was no place to put these things..." Ye Nai rushed over to tidy up in a hurry.

"These are all evil codes, right?" Lu Ning reached out her hand to stop her.

"Uh... yes..."

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The patter of rain began to fall, and dispersed the people on the street.

For most, it was another Sabbath for nothing, just a bit of fun hunting for bad codes and a holiday.

However, for Kashiwagi Kazuki, there are too many variables in this day.

First, the two intended allies left without saying goodbye, and then he suddenly received a package at his residence, which contained the head of his only teammate, Yuichi Kobayakawa.

It would be fine if it was an ordinary way of death, but on this person's head, Kobayakawa's eyes were slightly opened, but his mouth was wide open, showing a very strange and terrifying smile with bared teeth.His skin was still the same as before, not as cold and stiff as it was after death. All the blood vessels and bones on the severed neck had turned into a jelly-like soft state, but the gap was blocked.

Almost immediately, Kashiwagi and Takahiro fled his residence.

His identity does not have any intersection with Kobayakawa Yuichi in this world. Although the two met several times to confirm each other's identities, they have been in contact with each other by mobile phone since then.The other party can accurately send the package to him, which means that he has found out the relationship between them.

This feeling is as if the god of death has already held a sickle and is standing behind him laughing at himself.

The rain wet his face and made him a little more awake.

Looking left and right, he unexpectedly ran to the place with the most people.Even a rainy day can't dampen the enthusiasm of the people here in the Seventh District, and there are still many people coming and going on the street.

When he was at a loss, he suddenly felt a slight darkness on the top of his head.

"Sir, do you need help?"

An umbrella had already reached the top of his head, and Kashiwagi and Gui turned his head to look, and found a handsome young man who was holding up an umbrella to cover his head.

"Who are you?" At this moment, he couldn't help but increase his vigilance.

"My name is Saxiu, and I just got off work. Oh, I get off work at Zuimenghongzhuang, you must have heard of it." The other party turned back and pointed to the building not far away, "I saw that you didn't hold an umbrella and stood there blankly. Are there any troubles on the street? Maybe we can help you?"

"I... I heard that District Seven is very good at hiding a person?"

Kashiwagi Kazuki suddenly thought of this and asked hurriedly.

"It can be said that we can do plastic surgery, makeup, including some common means of cross-dressing for you."

"That's probably not going to help much."

Bai Mu and Gui Ke didn't think that would be all right, if the other party could find their own home, that little change might not be hidden from the other party.

"Is there any more thorough change? Even disfigurement, sex change and the like are fine!"

"Sir, are you in any danger?" Sa Xiu couldn't help asking after hearing this request.

"Just tell me if there is!"

"If you want to get out of danger, it depends on the situation."

"I want to get away from other people's surveillance! I need the kind of plastic surgery that can't recognize me! Aren't you working in Zuimeng Hongzhuang? It should be the most developed place in the Seventh District, right?"

Sa Xiu thought for a while, and finally nodded.

"Please come with me."

Feeling uneasy, the two took the elevator and went straight to the 28th floor, just below the top floor.

"The purpose of the Seventh District is to provide services that make people feel happy. The requirements of the guests must be met as much as possible. If you seek asylum, we will do our best to help you."

Saxiu took out his identity card and swiped open the doors.

"You are flustered now, and you can't even describe the extent of change you want, but I think you must have encountered a life-threatening situation, right? This is not uncommon in cities. Many people don't know I didn’t realize that I offended someone, and then I was intimidated and fled here before being hunted down. But many people understand that if they are targeted by capable people, no matter where they flee to in the world, it is not safe.”

The last door opened, and it was dark inside, Baimu and Gui subconsciously walked in, followed Saxiu and turned on the light at hand.

Some dim lights illuminated the room.

Countless huge glass containers are placed here, many of which are already filled with green solution. What is soaked in the solution is the brain and a small section of spine. Numerous spool devices protrude from the bottom of the container and connect to this place. On the small organ, it looks inexplicably strange.

Only then did Kashiwagi and Gui come to his senses, and he turned his head abruptly.

"—a brain in a vat."

Saxiu put the ID card into his shirt pocket, put his hands in his pockets, and said with a smile.

"Although it is an illusion, it is indeed the level that science can achieve. Most of the external reflections sensed by a person are completed by the brain. As for many remaining organ functions in the body, they can be replaced by machines. Compared Because of the biological structure of human beings, which is like an exquisite machine, replacing it with a machine will undoubtedly be much larger. We have to divide the entire 27th floor to store the "guts" of the machine, but don't worry, they are all alive. "

Kashiwagi and Gui took a step back, their eyes widened.

"Even if you are hunted down, it will not be endless. As long as you hide here, no one will be able to distinguish you, let alone hunted down. It is really unfair to say that it is obviously split from the same embryo Only the brain cells have a long lifespan, and the rest of the organs have to be discarded. But, in theory, you will get 'eternal' peace of mind and life here."

Sa Xiu opened his hand and slowly revealed a gentle smile.

"I swear by my ability, I will make each of you happy."

(End of this chapter)