End of Mystery

Yang Jia always had a bad premonition.

Especially after seeing Xiao Xiao's gloomy face after communicating with Ye Bottom City and Lin Bo secretly laughing, but she also thought about the matter carefully, but found that she could not stop anything, after all, Xiao Xiao The fourth element Xiao needs is indeed in Yedi City, and after communicating with Mr. Ye, even if she is a little worried, she has no intention to stop anything.

The old president may have concealed something in some places, and Xiao Xiao also had some unexpected things.

However, Noah's plan needs to be completed no matter from any point of view, and the desire to take everyone away cannot be wrong.

Therefore, when she saw that Xiao Xiao had already started to think about how to go to Yedi City, she only proposed three conditions:

First, try not to use force to solve the problem.

Second, if you want to use force to solve the problem, don't kill people.

Third, if people are killed, don't destroy the entire night bottom city.

At first hearing the three suggestions put forward by Yang Jia, Lin Bo seemed a little dazed, but after thinking about it carefully, especially when he remembered that Xiao Xiao detonated the bomb with a blank expression at that time, killing hundreds of members of the hell organization The appearance, but also deeply.

I just want to teach Yedi City a lesson, I don't want to destroy the city...

Now Xiao Xiao is the new president of Heimen City. Although he positions himself as a puppet, at least Mr. Ye and Yang Jia, two people who are qualified to pull the line behind the puppet, have given Xiao Xiao a lot in many places. Xiao Xiao's great respect, just like this, Yang Jia expressed his approval, and Mr. Ye would never interfere with Xiao Xiao's decision inexplicably, so the business trip was settled.

Even without Xiao Xiao's knowledge, Mr. Ye set up a file on this matter and kept it.

[Event Definition: Friendly exchanges between Heimen City and the foreigner organization of the same city, Yedi City]

[Communication purpose: Obtain A-level special items without extinguishing the heart]

[Danger level: A level (for the opponent)]

【Participants: Xiao Xiao (President), Xiaosi (President's Secretary), Lin Bo and his staff (non-staff support)】

【…】

The choice of personnel for this business trip was the result of discussions between Xiao Xiao, Yang Jia, and Mr. Ye.

For today's Heimen City, after winning the confrontation with the Hell Organization, it is actually a very important period of development. The Hell Organization's defeat this time has enabled Heimen City to obtain a lot of resources and a very stable environment. Newcomers will also appear in large numbers. The foreigners in Heimen City need to find and guide these newcomers so that they can become the fresh blood of the foreigners.

Therefore, the contracts and Ruan Ruan of several knights in Black Gate City must not be idle.

Today's Ruanruan has become a real strengthening mentor in name, and will soon have his own people. Sister Dashe and Qiaodi Laozhou also need to train more newcomers to create a good cornerstone for the further development of Heimen City with conditions.

As for Yang Jia, she needs to stay in Heimen City to provide force guarantee for the stable development of Heimen City.

Of course, she didn't think so at first, and was planning to pack up her things and go on this business trip with Xiao Xiao.

But Mr. Ye talked to her once, and she was persuaded to stay in Heimen City.

Xiao Xiao didn't know what the two of them were muttering again. When Yang Jia just returned to Heimen City, she had a very good relationship with Mr. Ye, until she was tricked by Mr. Ye once, and she was so angry that she didn't even want to answer his phone, but After the intrusion of the hell organization this time, the relationship between the two seemed to be repaired again. Many times, she could be seen talking on the phone with Mr. Ye dignifiedly all day, talking a lot.

For Mr. Ye, it is necessary to carry out some necessary investigations and preparations for the old president's Noah plan.

Of course, to some extent, these investigations overlap with Xiao Xiao's investigation.

But at this moment, everyone tacitly agreed to investigate separately for the time being. Whether there is a need to exchange information afterwards depends on the specific situation.

After all, Mr. Ye also understood that when Xiao Xiao came back, it was probably when Noah's plan was officially advanced.

Because of this, Xiao Xiao and Xiao Si were the only people on a business trip.

There are only two people going to Yedi City, which is very unfriendly to outsiders. It seems a little rare, but even Yang Jia and Ruan Ruan couldn't help saying: "Obviously our waiter, It’s just a three-stage strengthening, or a line of insight that seems to lack confrontation capabilities, but why, in this exchange, are we worried about Night Bottom City?”

As for Xiao Xiao, he also made several preparations before the business trip.

The first kind of preparation is to arrange the daily operation and security work of the bar under his control.

After realizing his own peculiarities, Xiao Xiao had to consider that he could not care so much about money in the future.

If it turns out that I am also an aborigine, when I return to life, I need a source of income.

This matter is not difficult, firstly, the bar is backed by such a powerful force as the Pink Girl Gang, and secondly, he now has his own direct butler, the underground boss who would rather wear pink girl clothes in order to follow him, You can help yourself run the bar.

The other thing is their own special items.

Special items are actually a kind of strengthening elements inside the city, but they are more specific.

However, depending on the carrier, strengthening elements can be divided into three categories:

One is the intangible elements, such as the factor of violence, the eye of insight, and so on.

Such elements often only need to be parasitic on foreigners, and they can be used whenever they want according to their own wishes.

Second, it is parasitic on some special item.

Just like Xiao Si's belt, his soft whip, and Xiao Xiao's bloodthirsty pistol.

This type of element can be carried with you at any time, and it is also more convenient to take it out when you want to use it.

But the third category is a bit special. From the perspective of the city, he is a living creature.

It is this third category that Xiao Xiao has the most.

Just like the three dogs of thorns and the messenger of hell, they are also alive from the perspective of foreigners. Although they are absolutely centered on their owners, they also have their own will. Xiao Xiao can summon them to his side at any time in Heimen City , but if he leaves Heimen City, Xiao Xiao is not sure if he encounters problems in time.

Regarding this point, Xiao Xiao talked to Yang Jia to make sure that no one else had encountered this kind of problem.

In my heart, I slightly confirmed something:

"Perhaps this is evidence that summoned specials are essentially fantasy creatures?"

"Only things that exist in one's spiritual world will ignore the distance of space and call to oneself anytime, anywhere!"

"..."

Of course, it's just a temporary guess now, and you can only know if you try it yourself.

Of course, the most special thing is Miss Record Player.

For this mysterious thing, Xiao Xiao is sure that she is not simple, and may even have something to do with his past.

And she belongs to a more special thing. After all, its body is on the second floor of his neighbor's house. Xiao Xiao can't enter his house, and he can't bring this record player to Night City with him. It is also summoned to his side from the air, so Xiao Xiao is also very helpless towards it. He can only think that after arriving at Night City, he will try it and see the result.

There must always be one confession, so after thinking about it, he could only silently give her an instruction: "Work hard."

"When I come back, I hope to see that you have completed your strengthening."

"..."

"..."

"President Xiao, we are all old friends with more than 100,000 points. This time, we are also volunteering to help you find the fourth element. When we arrive at Night City, we will generously share all the information and information with you." Dante's connections..."

Before leaving, Lin Bo approached Xiao Xiao seriously: "So, the travel and board and lodging expenses for this trip are all covered by you, right?"

We are preparing mystical elements related to the fourth phase of the clairvoyant.

We are ready to negotiate with a foreigner in a city and even deal with it in the end...

...and now you're here to talk to me about the cost of board and lodging?

"Don't worry, Xiao Si has arranged everything..."

In desperation, Xiao Xiao also agreed.

Xiao Si is his personal assistant, so it's reasonable to entrust him with booking and paying the bill, right?

However, Xiao Xiao is also really curious about the style of this Dante organization. It is such a large organization, why can it be so short of supplies? The hell organization is much more generous than them... Thinking of this, I couldn't help but think of the bet. Everything was started because of Lin Bo. If he wasn't so poor, he would have earned hundreds of thousands integral.

I probably don't have to go to Yedi City to find it myself just because others are talking too much.

Of course, although his face looked relaxed, it was his first business trip after all, and Xiao Xiao was also very curious.

He saw how the aborigines were thrown into the light rail wrapped in a large amount of flesh and blood after they left the city, and went to another city in a deep sleep state. middle?

"Traveling between cities is a very dangerous thing."

When Xiao Xiao asked this question, Lin Bo showed a kind of pride and confidence in his own ideas: "Because for foreigners, the city is the place closest to their mysterious source, and it is also the place with the most sense of security. outside the city, there is a vast and endless sea of ​​mist, with all kinds of weird and twisted things, as well as mysterious sources with unknown levels..."

"If the city is our god, there are a lot of evil gods and unknown spaces outside the city."

"For foreigners, we have to be careful every step we take, like walking on thin ice, if we don't pay attention, then..."

"...could get lost."

"..."

Hearing what he said, Xiao Xiao also became serious: "Then what shall we do?"

Lin Bo said with a serious face, "obey the traffic rules."

"?"

Xiao Xiao's eyes at this moment seemed to be looking at a fool.

But Lin Bo was unusually serious, and said: "What I said is true, the aborigines' exchanges between cities are like a kind of material exchange, following strict rules and balances, we strangers in cities Traveling between times does not belong to this kind of material exchange, but we follow the principle of this kind of material exchange, which will also let us try to avoid getting lost and protect ourselves during the journey.”

Xiao Xiao had no choice but to agree.

Soon, Xiaosi went to book six high-speed train tickets to Yedi City, all of which were hard seats.

Originally, Xiao Xiao planned to change a soft seat by himself, but after listening to Lin Bo's advice, he also decided to be more careful, so he didn't intend to separate from them, and could only sit with these poor ghosts. In the narrow and cramped light rail.

Things are going well and everything is ready.

The day before his departure, Xiao Xiao had a meal with his mother and told him about his business trip.

Now my mother already knows that Xiao Xiao has changed jobs, and she was once horrified that Xiao Xiao, who works in a bar, can earn so much money, and even asked Xiao Xiao several times in a serious way if he did something to accompany drinks. He even persuaded Xiao Xiao earnestly: "A person can have no money, but he can't have no backbone. We don't want to do that kind of work..."

Xiao Xiao explained several times, but his mother never listened, so the day before his departure, Xiao Xiao simply confessed:

"I'm not a publicist or something."

"Let me tell you the truth, I'm starting to mess around now..."

"..."

My mother was terrified for a while, but after thinking about it, she let out a long sigh of relief:

"It's okay, this job is much more decent..."

"..."

"..."

When the time came to the next day, Xiao Xiao walked out of the house on time carrying the backpack he had packed.

As soon as he arrived at the side of the street, Xiao Si was already waiting for him in a van he had picked up from nowhere. Lin Bo and his three subordinates, together with a few large packages, squeezed into the back seat On the other hand, the co-pilot is reserved for Xiao Xiao.

"Let's go!"

Xiao Xiao sighed and gave the order.

Soon the car passed through the city and arrived in front of the light rail station. Xiaosi found a random place and parked the van without locking the door.

Xiao Xiao was a little surprised: "Aren't you afraid of being stolen?"

"What's there?"

Xiaosi looked at Xiao Xiao curiously, and said, "I stole it too..."

"..."

"It's also thanks to the city's will that it doesn't seem to care much about crimes like theft, and the deductions are less..."

Xiao Xiao thought about giving Xiao Si a moral education class when he came back, and entered the station together.

The seats of several people were in the same car, and they were next to each other. After sitting down, Xiao Xiao kept looking at the aborigines around him. They didn't know anything. They walked into the car with their luggage and sat down crowded. Someone said Talking and laughing, someone tilted his head against the car window and was about to go to bed. The workers on the platform also carefully checked the surrounding conditions until the sharp whistle rang several times.

The vehicle started to start slowly, gradually approaching the edge of the city.

Xiao Xiao did not let go of the opportunity to observe the city from this angle. He stared at everything with his eyes wide open. As the scenery outside the car window quickly pushed out of the city, all the real things around him also quickly became thinner. , From the real city streets, gradually turned into half flesh and blood, while the real buildings, and then the moment they left the city, they suddenly turned blood red.

The real city has completely disappeared.

Xiao Xiao saw the train he was riding in, and instantly entered a large piece of thick, twisted flesh and blood intertwined with thick blood vessels and nerve tissue. Looking at everything outside the train window, it turned dark red, filled with a vast mist, Even the earth no longer exists, only the weird bones wriggling in the distance, and the huge beating heart existing in the abyss.

As if the air was suddenly drawn away, he felt extremely suffocated, and the surrounding was quiet as if he had completely entered death.

Looking around, I saw that all the aborigines had fallen into a deep sleep at this time, no, not just a deep sleep, but more like death, or in other words, a shutdown, a living person suddenly stopped mentally and physically. all activities.

Just leaning back on his seat blankly, motionless.

Through the eyes of the clairvoyant, Xiao Xiao observed the entire train, and found that even the drivers in front and the service personnel on the train had stopped all activities, and sat quietly in a certain place as if they were turned off, but perhaps, Not all are the same, because Xiao Xiao saw the corners of their mouths, and could feel that they had slightly different moods, either happy or yearning.

"Is it because they are in a dream, going through a journey with different moods?"

Xiao Xiao thought silently, then turned to look at Lin Bo in the back seat: "During the whole journey, will they be like this?"

"right."

Lin Bo smiled bitterly and said, "They are much more comfortable than us. No matter what they find, there will be someone to take care of them on this flesh and blood train. In their respective dreams, there will be various travel details, and the interesting thing is that at the end, these details can even be compared."

"But we are different, we can only be tense all the time."

"We must pay attention to any changes in the train, to ensure that we are not affected by unknown dangers, and that we are not left behind."

"So, the journey is the most difficult, and it is too dangerous for us!"

"..."

Xiao Xiao wrote it down and turned around slowly.

Looking at the dead and silent carriages around, and the occasional flashing red lights, looking at the aborigines with different expressions and stuck in a shutdown state.

Suddenly, his heart moved slightly, and the eyes of the seer slowly drilled out of his body.

One, two, three...

Swaying faintly, floating in this dead and silent carriage.

Xiao Xiao tried hard to think, the eyes of the seer began to overlap each other, and tried to see clearly.

He once succeeded in fighting against the hell organization.

But this time, he tried hard, and after making many small adjustments, in the field of vision of the three eyes of the seer, everything around him began to change layer by layer, and he saw the distance outside the car window. The huge mountain of strange flesh and blood saw the dark starry sky and the permeating dark red mist, and saw the rhythmic wriggling at the place where this huge flesh and blood intersected.

But until he used his insight ability to the extreme, his eyes opened up.

Xiao Xiao woke up suddenly and looked around.

It was sunny, clean and tidy. He saw the passengers around him, sitting neatly in the carriage. Some people were whispering and laughing with their children. Start a drink.

"Sir, are you all right?"

The female flight attendant passing by seemed startled by Xiao Xiao's sudden awakening, and asked politely.

"fine……"

Xiao Xiao shook his head slowly, looked out of the car window, but only saw the continuous mountain peaks and the fields in the distance, and the occasional villages are located in a piece, looking from a distance, like a regular square, he saw the sky in the sky The clouds seem to be overshadowing the progress of the train, slowly changing shape, and seeing a car pass by from time to time on the intertwined highway outside, driving happily into the distance.

"I just think the scenery on this road is pretty good..."

"..."

Xiao Xiao tried hard to control himself, and a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth.

Turning his head, he saw Xiao Si beside him, and also saw Lin Bo in the seat behind him, and several of his members.

They all closed their eyes tightly and fell asleep at some point.

It's just that even in their sleep, they still pursed the corners of their mouths, frowned, and hugged their palms.

As if in a weird dream, he was always tense and vigilant.