Azur Lane: I Crossed the Graduation Port Area

Chapter 523 The Black Snow (3000 words)
At nine o'clock in the evening, Huanyang City.

Thick clouds hang over the thousand-year-old capital of the United States of Oran, making it extremely oppressive and dull.

The cold wave of deep winter is about to approach the Eastern Continent, and the strong cold low pressure even makes this bustling city shiver.

The pier in Huanyang City is the largest pier in the Oran United States. Although there are a large number of Oran people and Liaozhou people coming and going on the pier even at night, due to the weather, it is no longer as lively as before.

Even the vendors who used to sell their goods enthusiastically closed their stalls and went home early because of the oppressive weather.

Except for the marine police with horns in hand to maintain order, most of the people on the dock kept their heads down and kept silent, busy with their own affairs.

Wearing a white winter coat, Zhao Heyan carried a suitcase in her hand, followed the flow of people on the passenger ship that came here from Hongye City, and returned to her familiar hometown.

But on her face, there was no excitement about meeting her family, but a deep worry.

When she was in college, Lin Lan speculated to her father that her temperament was very similar to that of a Siren.

And after that, the more she thought about it, the more she felt that this was the case.

Efficient, ruthless, targeting the Admiralty, advocating the abandonment of the seas, there was something very wrong with her father.

After finishing all the work of the student union, she returned to Huanyang City immediately, and was going to the headquarters of the Tianxing Consortium to confirm again.

If it is true as Lin Lan speculates, her father is a siren in disguise...

Thinking of this, Zhao Heyan couldn't help biting his teeth, unwilling to continue thinking.

In her memory, after her and her brother's mother passed away, it was Zhao Tianyi who raised her and her brother all the time.

If their father was really a Siren, wouldn't that prove that they were brought up by Sirens?

Sirens... Can they really have such delicate emotions and such a perfect disguise?

It was with these complicated emotions that Zhao Heyan took out her mobile phone to make a call to her twisted brother Zhao Hesheng after arriving at Huanyang Transportation Station from the pier.

Although she has always hated her brother's actions, and has basically not contacted each other actively in the past two years, but now she has to call to ask for more details in order to determine their father's identity.

But what came from the phone was an automatic answer that no one answered.

"At this time, he should be spending time and drinking in the nightclub of the consortium...why didn't he answer the phone?"

Zhao Heyan frowned. Before she returned to Huanyang City, she had already learned from her channels in the consortium that Zhao Hesheng should be in Huanyang City.

It's not Zhao Hesheng's style not to answer the phone.

Since Zhao Hesheng didn't answer the phone, Zhao Heyan ignored it and decided to go home and have a look.

Zhao Tianyi must still be in the Tianxing Building now. Ever since the third-generation robot went out of control, she learned from the employees of the consortium that her father almost never came home.

While waiting for the auto-guided car to arrive at the platform, Zhao Heyan was suddenly attracted by the conversation topics of the people around her who were also waiting for the car.

"Old Luo, I have been really unlucky these two days. The new mobile phone I just bought has not been used for two days, but there is often no signal for some reason, and the after-sales call tells me that the number of people in the queue has reached the upper limit. Isn't this nonsense?"

"Hey, don't tell me, my mobile phone has been having this problem recently. It happened to me when I was on the phone with a client today, and my business was in vain."

"Is there something wrong with the signal tower in Huanyang City? Those robots laid off many people before, but after the robots disappeared, the Tianxing Consortium recruited a bunch of new people to fill the positions."

"Damn it, it's unlucky to bring up that matter. The robots sold by the Tianxing Consortium almost scared me to death after they got out of control..."

Conversations like this one after another made Zhao Heyan, as the daughter of the Tianxing Consortium, lower her head unconsciously.

For the citizens of Huanyang City, the incident of the third-generation robot may be just a small episode, but for the people of Oran in other cities, it is simply a catastrophe.

And those robots will disintegrate themselves inexplicably, until now there is no definite statement.

One of the most mainstream claims on the Internet is that the Tianxing Consortium launched the self-destruct program of the third-generation robots, which is also the most credible one.

But some people say that Lin Lan, the winner of the Red Leaf Covenant of the new alliance, turned the tide and found a numerical control method to destroy the third-generation robot.

But compared to the first statement, Zhao Heyan believed in the second statement more in his heart.

Not only her, but also the students of Hongye Naval Academy.

In Hongye City back then, Lin Lan and his powerful ship girls brought them hope, and Ji Chenlin and several generals of the Navy Department all recognized Lin Lan's identity.

Perhaps, her junior really has the power to change Oran's future destiny.

After getting in the car, Zhao Heyan kept flipping through the latest news about the new alliance and Lin Lan on his mobile phone.

Although Lin Lan hadn't shown up since the emergency broadcast, the new alliance was very active.

The allocation of materials between cities, large-scale job recruitment, the signing of various cooperation agreements between the three consortiums, and the transportation of materials to the Western Continent...

And whether it is the commanders of the various port areas within the Ministry of the Navy, or those greedy city agents, they all fully cooperate with the implementation of the new alliance's policies.

It is hard to imagine that such a newly formed temporary alliance can handle all aspects of internal affairs in such a delicate manner.

Contrary to the thriving new alliance, after the Tianxing Consortium incorporated the Noah Dexin Consortium, it seemed to have disappeared without any action.

Not even a press conference was called.

As Zhao Tianyi's daughter, she keenly felt that this was very abnormal.

Looking out of the window at the bustling urban streetscape and the Pentium River reflecting the lights, Zhao Heyan always felt that something was wrong.

Why are there no boats on the river today?

She didn't see Huanyang City's announcement on the control of the river on the homepage of the news website. Logically speaking, there should be many sightseeing boats or cargo ships on the wide river.

But at this time, there was nothing on the river.

For some reason, she always felt that there was something terrifying under the river staring at her, as if it was going to swallow the whole city.

"Probably... it's a psychological effect."

Zhao Heyan didn't dare to continue watching, and quickly looked away from the river, sighing softly.

The Jiangmian control may have been released when the third-generation robot was out of control, and it has not been lifted. It is not too strange to see the announcement appearing on the homepage.

Compared to this, she should find clues about the Sirens from her father tomorrow, which is what she should be most worried about right now.

In this way, with deep worries, Zhao Heyan finally returned to the villa area built by the Tianxing Consortium, entered the community and came to her door.

But just as she dragged her suitcase and opened the door, preparing to take a good rest tonight, a rancid smell suddenly blew into her face.

"Cough, cough, cough!"

The disgusting smell made Zhao Heyan feel a strong retching in her throat, but she restrained it abruptly, held her breath and rushed into the house.

"This smell comes from upstairs. What is it that smells so bad?"

After Zhao Heyan scanned the empty living room vigilantly, he immediately judged that the source of the smell should be on the second floor.

And when she walked up the stairs quickly and came to the corridor on the second floor, her eyes widened suddenly, as if she saw a picture that made her soul tremble.

On the wall at the end of the corridor, hung the corpse of a man who had been dead for a long time, and his whole body was rotten.

It was her biological brother, the person Lin Lan hated the most - Zhao Hesheng!

"No...impossible, what the hell..."

Such a shocking scene made Zhao Heyan feel cold all over, and even felt dizzy.

Although she hated Zhao Hesheng extremely, despite his distorted personality and murderous nature, Zhao Hesheng paid great attention to his family.

The posture of Zhao Hesheng's death made Zhao Heyan feel even more terrified.

His neck had been severely deformed, and the reason why the corpse was hanging on the wall was because his neck was sunken into the wall by being smashed!

It was as if the murderer possessed terrifying brute force, grabbed Zhao Hesheng's neck, crushed it, smashed the wall with a punch, and embedded it in!

Zhao Heyan resisted the grief and fear in his heart, tremblingly took out the pistol for self-defense from the inside of the padded jacket, and came to Zhao Hesheng's body step by step.

When he saw that the wall had cracks like spider webs because of the dent, Zhao Heyan couldn't hold back any longer, and collapsed powerlessly on the ground, covering his face and crying bitterly.

Her crying wasn't just about Jo Hyuk Seung's death.

It was even more for her father, Zhao Tianyi.

In Oran, there are only three kinds of people who can kill Zhao Hesheng, who is the young master of the consortium, in this way.

The first is the out-of-control third-generation robot.

But the degree of decay of Zhao Hesheng's body was not very serious, and it must have happened in the time after the disappearance of the third-generation robot.

Second, those residents who came to Oran from the Natlan Empire and Liaozhou Nine Islands, some of them who still have transcendental power, may also have this ability.

But although Zhao Hesheng is a pervert with a distorted personality, he is not an idiot.

Those killers and bodyguards under Zhao Hesheng, and even the gatekeepers in the villa area where the identity is strictly checked when entering and leaving, don't they all eat free rice?

Then the only identity of the murderer is the third possibility...

Zhao Heyan's mind flashed back to the last time in the meeting room of Tianxing Building, her father Zhao Tianyi's indifferent eyes full of silent murderous intent towards her.

"Sirens!"

Zhao Heyan clenched his fists and confirmed all this.

Her face was covered with tears, and when she was about to get up to ask someone to collect her brother's body, her eyes were suddenly attracted by the scene outside the window on the wall where Zhao Hesheng's body was hanging.

Her pupils shrank suddenly, as if she saw some strange scenery.

It's snowing in Huanyang City.

But if it's just snowing, it's not enough to shock her who is in a deep heart.

The snowflakes that were supposed to be white drifted outside the window, but unexpectedly... they were black filled with terror and ominousness.

(End of this chapter)