Gunfire, Punk & Necromancers

Chapter 665 Chapter 661 Dream Program
It had been seven months since his resurrection. Zhuang Xuteng believed that he had completed the preparations and walked out of the Wall of Sighs. Outside the wall, a ten-man pioneering team was drilling. The enhanced people among them sensed something and turned their heads to look over. Unfortunately, Zhuang Xuteng had already entered the invisible state, and with a short burst, he was out of their sight.

The new body does not contain any shadow slave accessories or implants, so functions such as high-speed and high-burst bursts no longer require shadow slave energy, and can be completed with mana and resentment. Now, Zhuang Xuteng no longer has to worry about shadow slave energy signals after high-speed and high-burst bursts, which greatly improves the concealment of actions. Only if he is not afraid of the company's wide-area scan, Zhuang Xuteng dares to leave the Wall of Sighs and try to return to the company world.

Following the instructions of the Lich Master, he went straight ahead and found the company's mine 3,000 kilometers away, which was the exit of Peicheng. Zhuang Xuteng stopped here and carefully observed the defense of the mine. Then, he used the shadow cover to blend into the shadows of buildings and terrain, and quietly jumped into the transmission channel when a truck carrying minerals passed by.

Accustomed to the air in the Wall of Sighs, the dampness, stench and fishy smell of Pei City became particularly obvious, making him a little uncomfortable. Shadow from the channel city side was in the evening, the sky gradually darkened, but the street lights were not on yet. Zhuang Xuteng hid under the truck, used his sensory tentacles to find the passage and shelter, and slipped out of the transportation center when no one was paying attention.

The factory was full of execution puppets. Their daily workload was much higher than that of ordinary workers, but they could not do more. Even if Zhuang Xuteng walked past them, they would not react as long as they did not delay the work of the execution puppets. However, stealing was not allowed here, because the execution puppets had extremely accurate statistics on production tools, and they would find out if a glove was missing. The robe Zhuang Xuteng wore was from the Lich Master, and it was ten thousand years old. With the erosion of the decaying power of the Shadow World, it had begun to disintegrate. When Zhuang Xuteng left the factory, he was already naked.

In order to avoid wrapping himself in cardboard and plastic found in roadside trash bins, he could only cover himself with Shadow Servant, but it was not warm at all. Zhuang Xuteng didn't know what year it was, but he was sure it was winter, probably early winter. A sleet was gradually intensifying, and the cold water droplets robbed Zhuang Xuteng of his body temperature from all angles. It seemed that this world did not welcome him at all.

Zhuang Xuteng came at the wrong time. As the main work of the mine was handed over to the execution puppets, the shuttle bus was cancelled and there was no commuting. The road from the mine to the city became empty and dark. In order to save money, the city government simply turned off the street lights and cancelled the buses. Anyway, the execution puppets can see at low light levels at night, so the lack of street lights has no effect on them. But for Zhuang Xuteng, he either had to walk all the way back in the freezing rain or rush back at high speed and high burst.

As the air was still filled with energy fluctuations from the shadow detection network, Zhuang Xuteng decided to walk back. There were no street lights, so he walked in the dark. He hoped to be lucky enough to catch a bus back to the city. The sooner he returned, the sooner he would know the current time and the situation in Peicheng.

Looking at Peicheng from afar, it was still brightly lit, with huge projections of men and women walking through the steel forest, always in coquettish gestures. Zhuang Xuteng remembered that there was a time projection above the city government building, which would display the current time of the day, month, and year and the names of holidays every night. He searched for a moment, but did not find the projection where he should have seen it.

"It's a bit weird." Zhuang Xuteng added another layer of ghost servants on top of the shadows, just like wearing a raincoat. He kept waiting for a ride but couldn't get one, so he had to walk all the way back to Peicheng.

The sensing tentacles entered the city earlier than him and quickly determined the current time. It had been more than a year since his battle with Anzu. It was mid-autumn then, and now it was early winter of the following year.

"It's been the one year anniversary... why is this shadow overlay system still on?"

Zhuang Xuteng was sure that the shadow energy system that permeated the world was activated to locate him. The cost of maintaining such a large-scale shadow energy was not a small amount even for the company. More than a year after the battle ended, the energy system was still open, which only showed that the company was still cautious, and Zhuang Xuteng had to act carefully.

"It's not necessarily aimed at me, right?" Zhuang Xuteng never thought that he was the last person in the world who could pose a threat to the company. The theory of the "threshold" of the world's will and "the company will win from now on" was absolutely untrue. Since he dared to return to Peicheng, he must have found and possessed a way to deal with the company.

A naked ghost came to Peicheng. He quickly put on the stolen clothes, changed his face, and entered the city controlled by the company in disguise. Entering the city from the direction of the mine is the industrial new area, and after crossing the Pei River, it is the river embankment area. The surrounding environment will become more and more familiar. He soon found the place where he had hidden before, and it was empty as expected.

The door was open, and the yellow seal wrapped the door frame like a mummy. The things inside had been turned upside down, and now they were covered with dust and mold. This was the wrong starting point for the decisive battle. Zhuang Xuteng's thinking and judgment were wrong. He didn't even help Zhuang Feifei and Ge Gongdao leave first, and hurried to fight with Anzu. It was really irresponsible.

There was no damage from the battle in Boss Suo's house, nor was there any blood. The box Dao Ge and Fei Fei used to "escape" was also not there, which meant that they had at least gotten out from here. Where would they be? Did they escape the company's pursuit? Zhuang Xuteng certainly hoped that they succeeded, but from a rational point of view, this possibility was too low.

Zhuang Xuteng found some warm clothes from the warehouse and nearby houses, covered his face with a scarf and a hat, and continued his search. He first came to the Dawn District, where Lucy's music restaurant had completely changed its appearance and turned into a social public work station with a cafeteria and bathroom. Zhuang Xuteng did not see anyone who had worked for Lucy, so he asked the nearby residents what happened.

"The mercenaries started a fight, which caused a huge fire and burned the restaurant to the ground." An old woman who was selling dream fog machine trial programs said to Zhuang Xuteng, "Later, the municipal government funded the demolition of the ruins and turned it into a social public work site. You can use the work point card to buy the trial program from me to enjoy a discount. I can give you an extra level: What level are you now?"

Zhuang Xuteng had no idea about the hierarchy, and he didn't have any money. Waving goodbye to the shop owner, he walked deeper into the alley. There were many new surveillance cameras installed in the alley, so Zhuang Xuteng created shadows to block their view. He found several warehouses that Sister Lucy had used, and found that all the doors had been pried open. There was really nothing left inside except traces of solidified oil on the ground. The only thing that was not moved out of the middlemen's warehouses was a heavy truck, but it also lost all its tires and lay helplessly on the dark ground waiting to be completely rusted.

As a senior mercenary under Lucy, Zhuang Xuteng has an exclusive warehouse, which contains the things he looted from the gang bosses. When he and the Nightingale and Rock Sparrow sisters "separated", the two chose to turn the spoils into cash. Zhuang Xuteng was not short of money and was not in a hurry to sell, so he asked Lucy to store his things in a separate warehouse far away. Only Zhuang Xuteng knew the password there, and perhaps the things inside were still there.

The warehouse door was closed, which was a good start. Lucy's warehouse was designed to prevent scanning, including oil interlayers and lead plates. Zhuang Xuteng found a hidden switch in the corner, connected the external power supply, lifted the cover and entered the password on the keyboard. The system prompted that the password was wrong, and Zhuang Xuteng entered it again, but it was still wrong.

It's impossible. Only he knows the password. No one can change it. If the warehouse is exposed, the company will definitely empty the things inside. If it is left here as a trap, it is impossible to change the password... Zhuang Xuteng thought about it and decided to go in and take a look. He put his hand on the electronic lock, and the ghost jelly went deep into the inside to find out the structure of the lock, and then the disintegration effect destroyed it at a fixed point.

After the locking structure was destroyed, it didn't matter whether there was a password or not. Zhuang Xuteng opened the door, and the smell of rotten excrement and garbage rushed over, making his brain ache. The space inside the warehouse was about the same size as a container. In the corner, Zhuang Xuteng found a curled up, pale figure. "Meteor?" Zhuang Xuteng was shocked. Meteor was lying on a bed made of cardboard, with a dream mist experience machine covering her head and an oxygen circulation device connected to her mouth and nose. Apart from that, 20% of the warehouse was various supplies, and 80% was garbage. She was immersed in the fantasy created by the dream mist experience machine, and she didn't know that the warehouse door had been opened and Zhuang Xuteng came to her side.

Liu Xing's physical condition was very bad. She was extremely weak and lacked nutrition, and even had "living spots" on her skin: fungi began to eat her flesh and blood. Zhuang Xuteng pressed the emergency shutdown button of the dream mist machine, then picked up Liu Xing, took her out of this filthy environment, and used necromancy to supply her with vitality and maintain her vital signs.

It was easy to find a place to stay. Any hotel would have an empty room. He could use his ghost tentacles to open the window and jump in from the outside. The better the hotel, the bigger the windows. The higher the quality of the room, the richer the inventory. About ten minutes later, Meteor slowly opened her eyes and looked at the dark room in confusion. She smelled the smell of food, but the reason she was awake was because her philtrum was still in great pain.

Zhuang Xuteng used the Ghost Jelly to carefully check Liu Xing to make sure that her head had not been replaced or a chip had been inserted. "Liuxing, your environment is too bad. If I hadn't found you, you would have died in there, and no one would have even noticed. Come, come and have something to eat?"

Liu Xing was still a little confused. She turned over, facing down, and then propped herself up with her arms, slowly crawling to the cup of steaming water. There were no tableware in the room, so she could only use the cup instead. Fortunately, there was hot water in the basin, so she could heat up the porridge made by the endless spoon through the cup.

"Eat something first, then take a shower." Zhuang Xuteng said to Liuxing, "I will protect your safety, don't worry. I stole some medicine from the pharmacy downstairs, which can improve your resistance."

Liu Xing nodded as she ate, but she never spoke. Her movements were slow, as if she was old, and it took her almost half an hour to finish a cup of porridge. Then, she climbed up with her hands on her knees, took off her clothes in the middle of the room, and staggered towards the bathroom.

Hiss… something is not right with Meteor! Zhuang Xuteng was afraid that something might happen to her, so he used his sensing tentacles and the ghost servants to watch over her to prevent her from getting bumped. He found that all of Meteor's movements were like those of a zombie, full of recklessness and lifelessness. She had no interest in cleaning herself, and she didn't even adjust the water temperature herself, and had to rely on Zhuang Xuteng for that.

Fortunately, there were still undead servants, and Zhuang Xuteng finally took good care of Liuxing. He sat in front of Liuxing, applied ointment on her skin, sprayed her with healing potion, and bandaged her. He personally fed her medicine and gave her an injection, and then carried her to bed and covered her with a blanket. "Go to sleep, you can rest assured here."

As soon as Zhuang Xuteng finished speaking, Liuxing's mouth shrank. She then sighed, put her hands beside her ears, and made an upward push. Seeing this, Zhuang Xuteng finally understood: "You are not in a dream. I have long ago set up the dream mist experience mechanism."

Unexpectedly, Liuxing tilted her head and muttered, "The usage has exceeded? Can the version be upgraded?" She pondered for a moment, and then began to issue instructions. Zhuang Xuteng didn't understand those instructions, but he could guess that Liuxing was canceling some functions of the Mengwu Experience Machine.

"I don't know how to prove that you are not in a dream now..." Zhuang Xuteng was completely stumped. Fortunately, Liuxing operated in the air for a long time and found that the situation did not change. He began to take the initiative to verify whether this was a dream. She got out of bed, checked her body, went to the bathroom and looked at the mirror for a long time, and even wanted to go out. Zhuang Xuteng hurriedly stopped her.

"The corridor is monitored. I came in through the window. You can only move around in the house for now."

"It's amazing that you can make a quick judgment. If it's fake, it means that I have been caught by the company and connected to the execution puppet computing network." Liu Xing carefully looked at Zhuang Xuteng in the light outside the window, then shook his head and said, "Your intelligence is still not accurate enough. This face looks like him, but there are still many differences."

Zhuang Xuteng scratched his head and said, "You are right. There were times when I looked into the mirror and felt strange. I don't know how to convince you that this is reality, but I will definitely take good care of you. In addition, I have to ask you a few questions."

"Humph! I won't tell you anything. You will never be able to pry open my memory database!"

"Uh... I just want to know how everyone is doing, Morgana, Zhuang Feifei, my parents, Dao Ge, Boss Suo and others. I think I have implicated a lot of people, right?"

Meteor snorted, closed his mouth and said nothing.

"Okay, you probably still think I'm a bad guy." Zhuang Xuteng shrugged and said, "Since I'm a bad guy, I order you to go to bed and rest. Don't even think about resisting. It's meaningless. You can't be my opponent."

Liu Xing raised his head, stared at Zhuang Xuteng and said, "Then you take good care of my body, at least wash it as clean as it is now. This program is pretty good. If you run it for a while, I might confess."

"You can run it as long as you want in this life..." Zhuang Xuteng said: "This world will not be destroyed for a hundred years. It will run for you."