My slow journey to infinity

What is the most valuable thing in Midtown?

Freight that keeps moving? Or is it the transportation environment in which goods circulate? And the jobs created because of production?

Is it clean water and food? Or a stable living environment?

In Zhongcheng District, most residents are still pursuing material pursuits. They just want to have some entertainment capital besides food and clothing.

For Aqua Regia, apart from the valuable commodities themselves, the other thing that is more precious is the abundant energy here.

[Emotional energy] specialized from "psychic energy".

[Soul energy] naturally condensed and grown from the "miracle of life".

[Life energy] squeezed out by the "desire for survival" and "fresh flesh and blood".

As long as there is a sufficient population, there will be no shortage of these three energies.

Aqua Regia is extremely sensitive to these energies, because when the latter two are combined, he can obtain his exclusive [Philosopher's Stone]. Only with this special substance can he use the complete [Alchemy of Truth] ability.

Aqua regia is not the only one who needs this energy, many high-level beings are extremely thirsty for these things.

Wang Shui foresaw many possibilities, but he still walked into the rainy night.

Amidst the patter of rain, Wang Shui's long windbreaker was quickly soaked to the surface, and the rainwater with impurities slid down his mask.

Wang Shui passed by the street that had just become lively, and entered an area with few lights under the watchful eyes of many people.

Soon, the excess attention was left behind by Wang Shui.

The rainwater only had some impurities and no pungent smell, but it also did not freshen the turbid air.

The flow of the air is disrupted, which will seriously affect many tracking capabilities. Of course, Wang Shui does not rely on the sense of smell. He can still clearly feel the location of the spatial beacon.

The other party is not always moving.

He would occasionally stop and spin around, occasionally jump to the top of a building, and occasionally get into the back door of some shops. In short - he was in a hurry.

The other party stopped again, this time for a long time.

Wang Shui took out the [Traveler]-themed secret card, but after a moment, he put it back.

The [Space Secret Text] of this set of secret cards is currently used by [Ruby] clone "Benjamin", and he needs to do something more public now, so it is not suitable to leave such an obvious question.

Although there is a high probability that Dulin City's [Space Stabilization Device] will not keep an eye on Shui Wang all the time, he has been careful for so long and there is no reason for him to be so rash all of a sudden.

Fortunately, the target was not far away from him, and Wang Shui arrived at the scene with a few quiet rises and falls.

Where he settled was a narrow window sill, just big enough for Shui Wang to sit there carefree.

Wang Shui didn't hide very deliberately, but the three people below didn't seem to notice Wang Shui's existence.

In other words, they may or should have noticed it, but they subconsciously ignored it.

This is the charm of [psychological invisibility].

"I brought it here, where's the balance?"

There were three people below, two of them were standing, and one was leaning against the damp wall with an air of anger. Even without checking the injury, Wang Shui could tell that this guy wouldn't live long.

The person asking for the final payment was a sturdy man in a windbreaker. The other person's clothes were somewhat similar to hunting clothes, but the style was more fancy and fashionable. It was paired with a long-brimmed hunting hat, revealing a capable temperament.

Wang Shui met Ma Ji and others from [Silver Bullet Detective Agency] and passed through.

This kind of attire seems to be the "urban hunting attire" that detectives prefer. Functionally, it is more complex than ordinary hunting attire and is suitable for urban combat.

The guy being questioned is Wang Shui's tracking target.

In the "temporary command center" before, when he pushed Wang Shui away and went out, Wang Shui put the space beacon on him.

To be honest, it was her.

This was a young student. In the dim environment, Wang Shui could clearly see the fatigue on her face with the help of low-light vision. She was too easy to understand.

Different from the fatigue caused by work among residents in Zhongcheng District, this student showed such fatigue only after he had severely and repeatedly exhausted his physical strength.

"about to die?"

Although the question seemed to be asking for a price, the young student threw a small cloth bag towards the private detective while asking the question.

Her cheerfulness made the tall detective scratch his head in embarrassment and explained:

"This guy is well hidden by his companions, and I can't kill his people on [Bone Chop Knife]'s territory, so I can only use a heavy hand to intimidate him.

Let me tell you, this guy has been interrogated by you two or three times, and he has already vomited all over, so you don’t want to really kill him..."

"I will judge for myself."

The young student interrupted the detective with a hoarse voice. The latter could only spread his hands helplessly. Anyway, he had the extra money, so he turned around and left the dark alley.

The footsteps disappeared in the faint sound of rain, and the dark alley returned to silence, but the young student didn't seem to want to change the interrogation place.

Her powerless eyes burned with quiet fury at the dying man beside the wall.

"I...I told you...you also found..."

The other party seemed to recognize the young student, and there seemed to be only fear in his somewhat cloudy eyes.

The young student reached his right hand to his waist, took out two identical medicines, and put them both into gun-shaped syringes.

puff.

She fired a shot at the gang member beside the wall. With a slight explosion of gas, a professional pharmaceutical pellet hit the opponent's neck.

After a second or two, the dying man visibly regained his vitality, and even his cloudy eyes became clear and powerful!

The other party seemed to be a little at a loss, and just subconsciously used the wall to stumble to his feet.

He saw that the young student was still standing there blankly, even his eyes were a little dull, so he immediately ran away!

Tsk - Zheng - plop -

The sound of flesh and blood being torn apart and the clang of sharp weapons sounded at the same time. The gang members who had just been rescued fell into the water on the ground again.

"Don't scream. The medicine has suppressed your pain perception. You will definitely not feel pain for 3 hours and 58 minutes."

In fact, the hoarse voice of the young student frightened the gang members more than the disappearance of the pain.

"I...I've already said it all! The people who killed your friends were also arrested! That's all I really saw! I had no involvement! Not at all!"

The expensive drugs gave gang members clear thinking, and he even knew to lower his voice to explain.

The young student did not answer immediately. She shook her right hand and retracted the slender blade whip. With a slight sound of metal bites, the soft and tough blade whip converged into a delicate silver-white cane.

This kind of cane is usually a decoration for gentlemen, but today's young students really need to lean on this cane to maintain their balance.

She raised the gun-shaped syringe in her left hand and injected the same medicine under her collarbone.

This "subcutaneous drug pellet" only needs to slightly break the skin to quickly release the drug. With the dispersant mixed in advance, it can help most drugs take effect quickly.

But the young student did not regain her energy like the gang members. She still leaned on her cane and still exuded the tiredness of her body.

"Do you want to live?" The young student's interrogation style was somewhat direct.

The gang member nodded. His current mental condition is quite good and his thinking is quick. He has never been so clear-headed and smart. This feeling of health makes him want to live even more.

"Ever seen this thing?"

The young student took out a bronze metal badge from his pocket, the size of a coin, with a pattern of many runes surrounding a flask.

In order for the gang members to see clearly, she also used energy to construct a weak light ball that lingered around her hand.

"No... never seen it."

Although he seemed to be stuttering a little, the other party's tone of voice did not hesitate, and his eyes did not change.

If he is pretending not to know, then this kind of disguise ability can already be regarded as a supernatural ability.

At the moment when the other party said that he had never seen it before, the young student had already finished loading the bullet with one hand. The next second, another projectile hit the gang member.

The potion takes effect, and the opponent immediately becomes excited.

The gang member's eyes had not left the badge. This time, his eyes suddenly turned a little confused, and then a pained expression.

After a few seconds, he spoke with some difficulty:

"they are……!"

boom--

The dull sound of flesh bursting sounded, and the turbulent air waves rushed out of the alley, and even the water on the ground was blown away in an instant.

Gang members covered a wall, and young students had no time or space to hide.

Like a rag doll, she was slapped against the wall and then slid heavily to the ground.

But from beginning to end, she kept her calm expression, as if she was not the one who was injured and vomited blood.

Without much delay, the young student immediately wanted to stand up, but his body did not obey her orders, and the cane formed by the blade whip was thrown far away.

The medication blocked the sensation of pain and interfered with her control of her body.

Fortunately, her left arm was not seriously injured. She held a gun-shaped syringe in her left hand, and there were many potions on her belt, many powerful potions.

"Atonement?"

A man's voice suddenly sounded in the silence after the explosion.

The young student who was still sober immediately concentrated on searching, and then effortlessly discovered the person not far away in front of him - he seemed to have been standing there all along.

It was a guy whose whole body was wrapped in clothes. He was neither tall nor short, neither fat nor thin. The silver-gray patternless mask added some special mystery to him.

A deliberate sense of mystery.

The other party didn't seem to have any ill intentions, so the big-hearted young student continued to work on her own. She tried to use a gun-type syringe to hit the quick-release module on her belt.

But now, her limbs are not easy to control.

"[OA3·Blood of Origin] is a Class A powerful recovery potion, but if you inject it directly, you will die immediately after 12 hours - your body cannot provide enough life energy."

Wang Shui reminded him kindly, then turned around to check the flesh and blood on the wall.

The young student glanced at Wang Shui and wanted to say something, but she immediately noticed something strange about herself - her mouth was full of blood and inexplicable fragments.

There was no time to wonder if that was a blood clot or something else.

The young student quickly blew a few breaths, and felt relieved after feeling that his breathing was still smooth.

The body strengthened by alchemy allowed her to keep her respiratory system open. At least her nasal cavity was not blocked and her lungs were not completely paralyzed.

Then she started trying to reload again.

"It smells like [Zhuoyuan], but it's not just crazy and interesting. You can't make such a good thing in a laboratory."

Aqua Regia, who quickly finished examining the broken corpse, put a sealed crystal reagent tube into his arms, and then turned to the young student.

Wang Shui squatted down and carefully confirmed the other party's appearance.

In addition, out of curiosity, Wang Shui also used [Zhenyuan] (qi energy) to check the opponent's body.

"A good news and a bad news, which one do you want to hear first?"

The other party's eyes did not change, he still just looked at Wang Shui calmly, but Wang Shui generously forgave the other party's boredom.

"As usual, let's talk about the bad first. The bad news is that your body is hopeless, and your soul has been irreversibly damaged due to long-term use of semi-finished dangerous medicines. You don't have to replace your body. You just have to wait for death."

The young student remained calm and she knew her body very well.

"The good news is, you can take medicine now!"

Wang Shui reached out and snatched the gun-shaped syringe from the opponent's hand, and also took out an [OA3·Blood of Origin] medicine pellet from her belt.

Then, slowly fill it in front of her.

Aqua regia did not inject her directly, but maintained a crouching position and pushed the opponent's chin with the muzzle of the gun, making her raise her head and look at his silver-gray mask.

"Tsk tsk tsk, confused soul, if you can't forgive yourself, then even if you risk your life, it's just meaningless atonement.

No one will be redeemed, not you, not your classmates, not everyone.

Now as long as I pull the trigger, you will regain mobility within five seconds, but your life will also immediately enter a countdown.

How much can you find out in twelve hours of activity? From the look of you, you don't even know what you're dealing with. "

It was only then that the young student finally showed a trace of hesitation in his eyes.

She was still forced to raise her head by the aqua regia, and tears burst out, and then accumulated in front of her eyes, blurring her vision in an instant.

The loss of most of her senses exacerbated her helplessness and confusion. Her complicated mood made it impossible for her to think, but it did not prevent her from hearing Wang Shui's suddenly serious voice.

"I can save you, at least let you live for a while longer. I can help you continue to search for your classmates and help you complete your redemption, but -

Mia Kalila, as a price, I want everything from you. "

Wang Shui used his right hand wearing a tactical glove to roughly wipe away the tears from Mia's eyes so that their eyes could meet.

But unfortunately, Wang Shui only saw doubt, confusion and bewilderment, not the compromise and surrender he expected.

However, this is normal.

After all, this classmate Mia is a star student in the sixth grade of [Origin Tree High School] and a certified [Origin Star] by the school.

Her extraordinary attributes, which are close to the fourth level, coupled with her tenacious soul, have created her extremely persevering mind.

Up to this point, she still remained quite rational.

However, there are not many opportunities to break through the psychological defense line. For the success rate of [Thinking Lock], Shui Wang has no choice but to do it forcefully.

puff--

The gun-type syringe is activated and releases the pressurized gas to the side. This resistance to the injection is naturally considered in the design of the syringe.

Hearing the familiar exciting sound, Mia's heart beat faster.

But then, she did not recover as quickly as she imagined. Instead, she lost consciousness and fainted.

Mia's vision has always been poor, not to mention that her eyes have been covered for a while. Aqua Regia secretly changed the medicine pellets when he lifted her chin.

Wang Shui lifted the muddy Mia with one hand, like grabbing the back of the neck of a sleeping kitten.

Now, he needs a quiet place to treat the crazy cat in his hands, but his appearance, coupled with Mia's condition, may attract unnecessary attention.

Wang Shui raised his head and looked at the window sill where he had been hiding. No one seemed to live there.

As for how to get in, there are many ways.

A few ordinary locks and bolts cannot stop the master of alchemy.