Psychics don't die from gunfire

Chapter 79 Meeting Again
"Resist brain-computer interfaces! Reject virtual reality! These are all conspiracies of governments and companies!"

In a corner of the street, a man with his upper body naked held up a cardboard painted with oil pen and shouted at the top of his lungs.

"Accessing virtual reality! It means sending your own soul into it! Those rich people rely on stealing our souls to prolong their lives! Everyone! Please listen to me--"

Other people on the street turned a deaf ear to him. Even if a few people glanced at him, they quickly looked away and walked away.

Such scenes are not uncommon in the Deep Moss Area. Compared with slogans such as "Drinking motor oil can prolong your life", "Hahaha, I am the king of the other world. Now V me 500 credit points and I will let you reincarnate and have a harem", "I am me and I am not me but", etc., this man's words are not surprising.

The sight moves upwards from this man to the old TV screen hanging outside the shop. A burly man with hideous implants all over his body and a muscular body is laughing wildly, being interviewed, and making harsh words to his next opponent. In the background picture behind the burly man, all kinds of explosions are heard, blood and flesh are flying, knives are whistling, guns are ringing, and there are also fierce cheers from the audience that almost blow up the stadium.

This is a league for a certain ball game in Ultimate Competitive Sports. The strong man is a recently famous Ultimate Competitive Sports star. With a pair of modified triangular elbow prostheses, he set a record of elbowing seven opponents in a row. It is said that many companies are considering asking him to be their product spokesperson.

Song Shi turned his eyes away from the TV.

He was standing on the street, wearing a graffiti hooded long shirt, a fluorescent mask, and a steel crow wrapped in a long polyethylene cloth hanging on his back - this kind of outfit is very common in the Deep Moss District.

Three days have passed since the ambush and murder of Dennis.

During this period, they only had a very brief conversation with the Enlightened One. After confirming that both parties had evacuated safely, they temporarily hid themselves in all aspects to avoid the limelight and trouble.

——At least avoid it for the short term and then get in touch again.

Song Shi could feel it.

The day after Dennis' death, the entire Palose became much more solemn than it had been the night before. Even the patrolmen from the Security Bureau rarely entered the Deep Moss area and began their regular patrols. As a result, there were fewer gunshots on the streets in the past two days.

At least according to Song Shi's observation, the convenience store two streets away from where he lived had not encountered any thugs trying to rob for three whole days.

But for Song Shi, these days are actually safer than before.

"Sparkling Star" is the most powerful hacker among the Enlightened Ones of Palose, and the only member of the Enlightened Ones First Action Team whose true identity has not been exposed so far. After reaching a cooperation with Song Shi, the two sides exchanged some basic information, and the former also helped to forge a new identity and cover up the tracks again.

Theoretically, the official identity of "Song Shi" now is a person named "Fang Shi". All records from birth to the present can be checked and are absolutely genuine.

With the accumulation and deep cultivation of "Flash Star" in Palose over the years, after she takes action personally, even Emerald Pharmaceuticals will not be able to detect the flaws in a short time.

"——Rampant blood."

Song Shi thought as he bought a piece of genetically modified roasted corn at a street stall.

If he wanted to defeat the Emerald Pharmaceuticals branch in Plosser, killing everyone from top to bottom would of course be the most direct and efficient method. But if he really wanted to do that now, it wouldn't be considered "using the weak to defeat the strong" - he had to do it step by step.

"Rampant Blood" is one of them.

During his communication with Harold and others, Song Shi confirmed that his idea was correct - the largest gang in Palose was indeed supported by "Emerald Pharmaceuticals", acting as the latter's agent in the Deep Moss District, assisting in management and control.

When necessary, "Mangxue" can even be responsible for some of Palose's business wars. For example, some local diehards who are unwilling to cooperate with Emerald Pharmaceuticals will be slaughtered by vicious gangsters wearing masks and breaking in at night.

Such tragedies always make the anchors of the news the next day sigh with sadness.

Therefore, the "reckless blood" part of the power is worthy of attention, and we must find opportunities to reduce it in advance.

".What a coincidence?"

Then, looking at the scene not far away, Song Shi couldn't help but raise his eyebrows.

Suddenly, three people appeared shoulder to shoulder at a street corner about thirty meters away. They were wearing leather jackets, metal skull pendants, and slightly exaggerated prosthetic implants that seemed to show off. The most eye-catching thing was the tattoos that spread all the way to their necks.

The tattoo pattern is "a dagger inserted into blood".

This is exactly the gang symbol of Mangxue. These three people are qualified to have this tattoo. They are all official members of Mangxue.

At this moment, the thinnest of the three was holding a child in his hand - the child looked to be in his early ten years old, with blood all over his face and a look of fear. He did not struggle and let the former hold him.

Song Shi calmly swallowed the last bite of genetically modified corn, threw the skewer into the sewer, and followed the three people from a distance.

Along the way, when pedestrians along the street saw the tattoos on the necks of these three people, most of them changed their expressions slightly and deliberately avoided them, causing the former to push each other and laugh out loud.

After a while, they turned into a remote, abandoned building, threw the child to the ground, and sat down, obviously waiting for someone.

Song Shi also sat down.

He climbed up another nearby building and, with the help of a gap in the broken wall, observed the scene from above.

I didn't have to wait too long. A figure emerged from the gravel ground covered with weeds and garbage outside the building and walked towards me quickly.

But when he saw the appearance of the person coming, Song Shi straightened up and a rare look of surprise appeared on his face.

He was a middle-aged man who looked to be in his early forties.

He was still wearing an old but clean, loose coat that wrapped his whole body tightly.

In a sense, this is a strange "acquaintance".

——The person who came was actually “Maren”!
In the memory of "Song Shi from the Welfare Home", there is the volunteer who has been shuttling between various welfare homes in the deep moss area over the years!
But at this moment, the other person's face was not as gentle as the last time they met, but his lips were tightly pursed.

"Ohhhh! Here it comes!"

Seeing Maren, the shortest of the three stood up, whistled, and said with a smile: "I thought it would be your dean! I didn't expect it to be you. Of course, I don't know who you are, hahaha!"

Maren gave the dwarf a forced smile.

“I can represent Megan.”

Then, he looked at the child first. When the latter saw Maren, his eyes suddenly widened and he subconsciously tried to get up, but was stepped on by another member of the Mangxue group and fell back down.

"Ugh"

The dwarf sighed in boredom: "Okay, let's talk about compensation."

He pointed at the child, then at his own pants, which had a noticeable oil stain on them. "Well, your child is blind. While I was eating, he ruined this co-branded item from 'Purple Clothes Shop'. It's worth more than 10,000 credit points! Tell me! What should I do with you!"

Of course, it is impossible for a member of a street gang like this to wear such expensive things. Listening to the other party's words, Song Shi understood the situation a little bit. It was probably another extortion.

"Yes, I apologize to you on behalf of this child." Maren said immediately: "Yes, he should be compensated, these two thousand credits."

"Two thousand?" another person shouted, "That's just a small amount of money? Are you fucking insulting me? Didn't you hear what I just said? Ten thousand!"

"This"

Hearing this, Maren's expression changed slightly. When she was about to say something, she saw the dwarf raised a work boot with an embedded steel plate and pointed it at one of the child's hands as if he was going to step on it.

Maren subconsciously stepped forward, and the tallest of the three men pushed forward directly - the moment the two men collided, Maren used the force to dodge and actually bypassed the other party, but then a black muzzle of a gun was pointed at him.

"Oh, what, you still want to do it?"

The last man, the thinnest one, waved his gun and spat, "How ridiculous! Are you trying to bully us?"

But then, the man shook his head and nodded to the dwarf, causing the other party to pick up the child and push him over: "But we are kind-hearted! We are willing to write you an IOU! So, you transfer the two thousand first, and the rest is what you owe us."

Maren hugged the frightened child, first squatted down and patted the child on the back, then stood up and swiped the credit points without saying a word.

"Hey!"

Looking at the back of the middle-aged man who was about to leave, the dwarf laughed and raised his voice: "Go back and tell your dean! Give that old man a good talk!"

"The location of your welfare home is so bad! And someone is willing to buy it, this is a great thing! Don't be ungrateful! Otherwise, we can't guarantee that there won't be any more accidents! Hahaha——"

The middle-aged man paused subconsciously, but did not look back and walked out of the building silently.

"Ha ha ha ha--"

Twenty minutes later.

"……ha."

The cold tip of the knife was against the thin man's throat. In the corner of his eye, he saw his two companions lying on the ground, and his life or death was unknown.

"Let's talk about the acquisition."

Song Shi raised the Steel Crow and looked down at the other person who was leaning against the wall.

"——And how much do you know about Maren?"

(End of this chapter)