City-wide ban

Chapter 52: Cheng Yun 04

northern suburbs.

It's the northern suburbs again.

Qi Luyao's brain has completely gone blank.When he stumbled to the window, the man had already been submerged in the dark and cold snowy night - he didn't want to chase him anymore.

Qi Luyao sighed, and leaned against the wall tiredly, the gunshot wound on his chest ached again.

The non-stop pursuit for half a day has exhausted Qi Luyao's scarred body to the limit. Now he believes that he will never be able to catch up with this person no matter what.

Qi Luyao leaned against the wall and rested for a while before gently pushing open the door of Owenlin's office, which had been violently demolished - he did not expect to find any major clues in Owenlin's office.

Obviously, before the masked Alpha left, he had already taken everything he wanted to find.

But Qi Luyao calmly checked Owen Lin's belongings - except for some daily trivial matters, even the wastebasket at the corner of the table was emptied.

Qi Luyao briefly glanced at the unnaturally tidy office, and logged into the office's electronic calendar with the general authority card for hospital staff.

Ou Wenlin's office is used by one person, so the electronic calendar is also set with the original password, which facilitates Qi Luyao's further investigation, and also facilitates the murderer's destruction of evidence.

On the display screen, every day before today? A few memos were added more or less, but today is empty all day—it was obviously deleted by someone.

Qi Luyao pondered for a moment, connected to the computer with the mentality of giving it a try, found the drive where the database file was located, ran the encryption command through the authority, and actually found a deleted record——

On December 77, 12, Lao Qin.

"Old Qin...?"

Qi Luyao stared at the name, and quickly searched through Owenlin's address book—Qin Dongchen?

If I remember correctly, this person should be a professor in the Department of Physics of Huangpu Institute of Technology, and also Xia Xinghe's doctoral supervisor. In my impression, he has no intersection with Ou Wenlin.

Xia Xinghe's doctoral direction is high-energy astrophysics, ordinary engineering problems, really? Do you need to contact him?

In doubt, Qi Luyao raised his eyes to check the time - it was almost twelve o'clock.

If he didn't leave, Qi Luyao would not be able to reach the northern suburbs before six o'clock tomorrow afternoon.

He pinched his watch, took out the memory card he carried with him, and quickly restored and exported the files deleted within today from Owen Lin's computer and calendar.

Qi Luyao's authority card is of a very high level, even the traces of deep cleaning can be recovered.

He looked at the progress bar that was spinning rapidly, and his brain also followed? It was running fast——

From the beginning to the end, this person didn't even hack into the computer by implanting a virus or similar means, but just cleared it manually. It seemed that he was afraid of being anti-tracked—a bit of a cover-up.

This masked man acted meticulously, but he did not delete the content in the database, which meant that he did not have the authority of the hospital staff, at least he was definitely not a hospital staff.

But? He can freely enter and leave the Yinheli community. The most residents in Yinhe, apart from the hospital staff of the Second Hospital of the Second Hospital, are the teachers and students of the nearby Huangpu Institute of Technology.

——Ou Wenlin, Lao Qin, the masked man, and the splashed-ink mask who led Beta...

What kind of connection will there be between them?

After the data was exported, Qi Luyao quickly embarked on the journey to the northern suburbs.

Qi Luyao watched? The terminus of the underground train, even here, is far away from the dirty garbage collection point.

"Northern Suburb..."

This place has appeared in Qi Luyao's samsara countless times, but because of Xia Xinghe, he always had the mentality of "holding back disease and avoiding medical treatment".

——Now it is really trying to drive ducks to the shelves, and there is no way to escape.

Qi Luyao repeated? This place name over and over again, while searching.

"Northern Suburb Second District, Xingyuan was established as the Rand Empire military experiment base in 2012."

"A major production accident occurred in Xingyuan in 2046. Unexplained explosions killed 242 staff members, and the place was also razed to the ground."

"After the accident, radioactive plutonium elements were detected to exceed the standard. After the government evacuated the surrounding residents, the site was completely abandoned as an electronic waste processing plant. Except for robot recycling workers, almost no one approached it."

"So far, the government still refuses to disclose the content of the scientific research it was engaged in on the grounds that it involves confidentiality."

Qi Luyao changed his mind, searched for relevant keywords in some forums of "folk talk", and used his advanced authority to restore some deleted web page data.

Sure enough, apart from the official's cautious and boring explanation, the netizens of Haoshi have always been full of curiosity about this place.

Qi Luyao opened a post dedicated to exploring weird rumors from various places:

"It's so dirty and messy. I didn't see any living people. All the workers are machines. Other than that, it's just an ordinary garbage collection station. I don't recommend spending more time on it."

"The nuclear radiation exceeds the standard, and I don't dare to stay too long in protective clothing. Apart from taking some photos, there is really nothing interesting."

Qi Luyao clicked on the photos in the post. This Po master photographer has good photography skills, and he took pictures of the messy garbage piles in a decadent and apocalyptic wasteland style.

——But the picture in that photo seems to be slightly different from what they saw.

Qi Luyao zoomed in on the picture with two fingers, and confirmed that the angle in the photo was taken from the outside of the door: the towering waste pile, the smoking factory building, and the huge recycling furnace...

He stared at the blank corner of the photo and pondered for a moment—if his memory serves him right, there was a relatively new cylindrical building here.

Qi Luyao looked at the time of posting—it was almost 9 years ago.

In this wasteland that has been completely abandoned by people, new buildings have been built in these nine years?

With doubts, he moved forward again? Flipped—and moved forward? The exploration density had reached a peak in Xingyuan 57.

The reason all came from an adventure blogger named "Mr. Tito", who completely lost contact after heading to the northern suburbs.

It is said that the blogger's family also reported to the police, but the robot police did not detect any signs of life in the local area, so two years later, he was pronounced dead according to the law.

What directly triggered the curiosity of netizens was the official news that the surveillance cameras in the northern suburbs were completely paralyzed that day, so there were no video clues about Mr. Tito.

"Did you discover some secret that was silenced!"

Such comments abound, conspiracy theories are overwhelming, but they are very uniform, and they were all cleaned up by the network administrators from the government shortly after they were published.

Since then, a large number of rebellious netizens have come to find out, but the results are all disappointed - this is really just an ordinary garbage disposal plant, other than that, there is nothing special about it.Hong Xing and Shao Xian are against the blockers

Some people speculated that he fell into a high-temperature recovery furnace and was burned to the ground. Others speculated that he died of sudden radiation sickness and was eaten by wild wolves and dogs nearby.

In short, this matter and this place were quickly forgotten by netizens, and since then, there has been very little news about it.

Qi Luyao sat on the armchair of the train, pinched his brows and sighed.

The last reincarnation ended without warning, which brought him endless panic and uneasiness.

He didn't have time to get in touch with Xia Xinghe of this world, which made him feel extremely insecure.

Although all the previous decisions and choices were made by Qi Luyao himself, it seemed that as long as Xia Xinghe was by his side, everything would be much easier.

He doesn't like everything now.

Qi Luyao touched the back of his neck irritably - he didn't like the time without Xia Xinghe.

After traveling along the way for more than half a day, Qi Luyao finally arrived at the northern suburbs at 05:30 the next day.

It wasn't until he stood under the familiar plaque that Qi Luyao felt a little ridiculous.

——He actually listened to the murderer's words and rushed back to the northern suburbs before six o'clock in the afternoon.

He didn't even know why he came or what he came for.Sure enough, without Xia Xinghe, would his intelligence decline seriously?

Qi Luyao tried his best to get rid of irrelevant factors from his mind, lowered his head, and concentrated on walking along the familiar route.

He didn't wear protective clothing. First, he didn't have time to buy it. Second, he knew that the so-called radiation was destined to kill him in the end.

At this time, the zombie catastrophe has not yet broken out, and the robots on the road are still busy and orderly working?

There is indeed no one around, the recycling furnace is still working as usual, black smoke is rising, and this place is as stable as a robot autonomous region.

Their programming is relatively simple, and everything other than work is almost automatically blocked. Qilu walks among them, like a transparent person who is ignored.

Of course, Qi Luyao had no intention of finding any presence in the eyes of the robot.Just quickly lock the target and head towards the newly built building 9 years later.

——It was a cylindrical building standing out among the rubbish dumps. A day ago, Qi Luyao seemed to have lost consciousness not far from here.

Thinking about it carefully, Xia Xinghe's place of death is also there every time...

Curiosity and fear led Qi Luyao to walk straight towards the building, but it wasn't until he walked around the building that he realized that the building had neither windows nor gates.

——Rather than saying that this is a building, it is better to say that this is just a tall cylinder.

Qi Luyao approached the smooth wall, and when he gently stroked its wall, he suddenly heard a very familiar voice from inside:

"No, there is no exit at all!"

Qi Luyao was stunned for a while, before shouting: "Yan Qing?!"

He hastily stretched out his hand and thumped the wall, but his voice didn't seem to be heard inside, and the noise continued.

Immediately afterwards, Qi Luyao heard Yan Qing whispering from inside the wall: "Xia Xinghe must be informed and told not to come over!!!"

Qi Luyao, who was completely confused about the situation, was standing there in a daze, and a familiar sense of oppression enveloped him again.

Looking back, a man covering his facial features and with a scar on his arm was approaching him step by step—it was the Alpha who killed Owen Lin and lured him here!

The beep of the watch to tell the time at six o'clock sounded, and the familiar violent vibration came from the ground again, tinnitus, headache, everything was about to tear his world apart again.

In the chaos, Qi Luyao fell towards the ground almost vertically. Alpha saw him lose his balance and greeted him instantly, as if intending to kill him completely with his own hands.

The next second that the man approached him, Qi Luyao's strong curiosity before dying suddenly ignited, he struggled desperately, and reached out to take off the man's mask.

He tried his best to adjust his sight, and in the midst of a whirl, he forcibly focused on the man's face...

"elder brother!!"

Amidst the loud bang, Qi Luyao's whole body convulsed.

In front of him was Xia Xinghe's anxious face.

Qi Luyao, who was almost out of breath, took a few breaths, and his whole body was in severe pain, and he managed to recover his eyesight.

Dilapidated recycling areas, towering piles of scrap, black chimneys.

——He came back again, back to the northern suburbs a few months later, back to Xia Xinghe's side.

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