Chapter 3: 13 Special Subjects

Night

The lights in the dazzling city were brilliant, but the big sun above had disappeared, leaving only the black sky like a curtain.

The streets were still bustling with people. In the giant city with three floors, the lights in the middle and upper floors were the strongest, and only the lights in the lower floors were a little dim. Most of the people living here were poor. A white figure shuttled through the streets, and people around him cast malicious glances from time to time.

Gene walked on the street with a cigarette in his mouth. At this time, many people had followed him behind him. Gene smiled and turned into an alley.

Soon, the front and back were blocked by people. Gene took a puff of cigarette leisurely, and looked calmly at the people in front and behind who were smiling evilly and holding weapons with bad intentions. They were wearing very old clothes and looked poor.

"Boy, you look like you are from the middle level. Cigarettes are luxury goods. Lend your wallet to us poor people to buy some food!"

Gene looked at several people approaching him unmoved, and his eyes became cold.

"No matter what era or society you live in, there are always scum who want to get something for nothing!"

One minute later, Gene picked up his coat on the ground, dusted it off and walked out of the alley slowly. The man who was about to rob him had already fallen to the ground.

"Who are you?"

A guy on the ground looked at Gene painfully, and he threw his coat back.

"Gene from Section 13."

This is the fifth time he has been robbed in the lower block all night. Except for the police during the day, the order in the lower block is very poor at night. Congress has not found a solution for the time being, because there are all kinds of people here, and it is really difficult to manage.

Tonight, Gene received a secret report that there would be rioters attacking the entrance of South Bridge, so he came down directly and planned to deal with the problem. The mutant who could use fire caught today was one of the rioters, and the news was inferred from him.

It's just that the police don't plan to come and deal with it, because no one wants to get close to the barrier area. In the outer periphery of the three districts of Brilliant City, there is a barrier area that is in darkness all day long. There are abandoned and dilapidated neighborhoods of primitive humans, where many people who have been eliminated by the existing society live. Congress will give them some emergency food every month to maintain a minimum life, but these foods are in the experimental stage. The reason why they are allowed to survive is to allow people in the upper, middle and lower levels to live better.

In such a helpless world, the so-called fairness cannot be achieved at all. People with ability live under the sun, and people without ability can only live in the dark, because human society must move forward, and cannot stand still or retreat.

After the earth suffered a disaster, humans were in a state of extreme chaos for a long time. This is an order that was built with great difficulty. In Gene's concept, such an order is absolutely not allowed to be destroyed by anyone.

The smell of blood permeated the air. In front of him was a small town on the edge of a huge ravine. The South Guard Station had a high square wall. In front of the guard station was a bridge connecting to the barrier area. At this time, the guard station was dark and the soldiers inside should have been killed. Gene stood at the gate and looked at the door made of special materials in front of him. It needed a password to open it. If it was opened forcibly, Congress would receive an alarm in an instant, and a large number of troops would fly over to suppress it immediately.

There had been several bloody suppressions in the past, but each time they were suppressed by Congress. Except for the people at the bottom, the middle and upper levels did not know about it. This time, Congress did not want to make too much noise again, so Gene came alone.

In the guard station, a group of pale and thin people looked at the tied-up soldiers panting. There were many places where the bodies of dead soldiers were lying in a mess. A strong man with pale skin and a burly figure pressed the head of an officer.

"Tell me the password, or I will break your bones bit by bit."

On the long and wide bridge across the huge ravine, the residents of the fortress area have lined up in a long queue, and most of the people are staggering and pale.

The officer shook his head weakly.

"I really don't know. Only the chief of the 3rd Military Section knows the password. Let me make a phone call."

With a click, the commander's head was twisted off, but the big man immediately noticed a person in front of him. He looked over in confusion and saw a somewhat hideous face and a pair of blood-red eyes in an instant.

"Where are you kid?"

With a click, the big man's neck was twisted off by Gene. He didn't even see clearly how Gene came to him and twisted his neck, and he fell to the ground and died.

All of a sudden, people holding guns raised their guns and planned to attack Gene, but Gene in front of them disappeared.

Gene, who reappeared, was standing behind dozens of people. The guns in their hands were all broken in half. Everyone looked at the bizarre scene in front of them in horror, and the tied soldiers widened their eyes in surprise, but soon they cheered.

"I'll give you one last chance, go back to the fortress area."

Jin said, staring at the people behind him with an extremely cold look. He had already investigated very clearly that the guy he had just killed and the guy he caught in the city today were brothers. Both of them were mutants. They planned this action. The elder brother made a big fuss in the city and created chaos, while the younger brother cooperated with the insider in the lower block. They first seized the guard post and let a large number of people in the barrier area enter the lower block. After recuperation, they would seek other actions.

Waves of screams rang out, and everything in front of them made everyone shudder. Gene was like a killing machine, shuttling through the crowd. In just three minutes, more than 30 people had fallen in a pool of blood with their heads and bodies separated.

"Please, I"

With a click, the neck of the last person who invaded the guard post was twisted by Gene. He fell to the ground with his eyes wide open. Gene looked at the people standing on the bridge who were running back and forth, and showed a sad expression.

"What kind of guardian of the Brilliant City are you? You are Gene, the legendary Gene!"

A child in his teens suddenly broke free from his parents and rushed over. Everyone shouted in fear, and a uniform with the number 13 fluttered in the wind.

Everyone understood that this man was Gene from Section 13. Section 13 was a secret section that had been rumored to have existed for a long time. It was rumored that the man named Gene was a weak guardian and a good man, but most people had never seen Gene.

Gene looked at the child in front of him quietly, crossing the bridge and rushing straight towards him, waving his fist. Gene smoked silently and said nothing.

With a bang, a thin and dirty fist hit Gene, and Gene held it with one hand.

"Please, Master Gene, he is just a child, please let him go, please."

Outside the red line of the bridge, the child's mother knelt on the ground and begged, crying.

"You are not a good person at all, you are a devil. We haven't eaten for several days, and my sister is sick."

"So what?"

Gene stared at the boy coldly, stood up and suddenly threw the boy out, and the boy fell on the bridge.

"Let me pass, let me pass."

The boy cried and rushed over again, but at the moment of crossing the bridge, he hit Gene's body and fell back again. The mother hugged the boy.

"Just asking for it blindly and wailing blindly will not change anything. As long as the people living in the barrier area are still valuable, they can enter the sun. There are quotas every month. No matter what you can do, as long as you are still valuable, it's fine. Poverty is not your reason or your excuse. All people living in the city have their own value. What about you? Are you valuable?"

Waves of angry criticism sounded, but Gene turned around and walked over unmoved. After squatting down and saying something to a soldier, the soldier widened his eyes.

"Lord Gene, this is a violation."

Gene said after getting up.

"If anyone finds out, just tell them to find me at Section 13."

Gene patted the soldier on the shoulder. The soldier looked at the people on the bridge who were crying helplessly, gritted his teeth and gave an order, asking them to come and take away the food, water and medicine from the guard station.

Soon, many people on the bridge who heard about this returned, and under Gene's gaze, they began to carry food, water and medicine happily, as if they had forgotten everything that had just happened.

"Why, Lord Gene, this is putting the cart before the horse!"

The soldier stood beside Gene, watching all this. He didn't understand why Gene did this, was it a momentary pity or something, although the people coming over the bridge did not participate in the battle, they did not deserve sympathy, because many of them were self-destructive people, and they had no fighting spirit at all. Most of them were people who often caused riots and crimes in the city, and many people just wanted to get something for nothing.

"Maybe, but"

Gene looked at the little boy who was crying just now but now had a smile on his face.

"The child is innocent."

After the people in the fortress area left, Gene stood up and prepared to leave, and the soldier just followed him.

"Lord Gene, I have witnessed too many riots. Is there no way to solve it? Just like you said just now, the child is innocent."

Gene said with a smile.

"I will try it after I go back, but there is no need to expect it. After all, it is not only here, but also the upper floors. It stinks."

In the surprised eyes of the soldiers, Gene seemed to pass through the wall like penetrating mud and disappeared, and the wall returned to its original state.

"What is this..."

Before he finished speaking, the soldier's light and shadow mobile phone rang.

"Li Li, from today on, you are the supreme commander of the South Guard Station. The formal authorization order and reinforcements will be sent tomorrow. As for everything you saw tonight, please forget everything about Gene, otherwise you will be forgotten!"

Li Li's heart trembled. He looked at the number in shock. 00003. It was the chief of the military department of Section 3.

6:30 in the morning

Le Xiao opened her eyes under the light of the annoying alarm clock. She used to stay in bed, but today she was particularly energetic.

"There is no way out. I will be fired next month."

Le Xiao has decided that she will find Section 13. From the brief time they spent together yesterday, she felt that Gene was easy to talk to. When she came back last night, she had an idea to ask Gene to be her interview subject. This way, she would not be fired and could

When she thought of this, Le Xiao blushed and laughed.

On the new day, Le Xiao finally felt what hope was. Just like her mother had told her, as long as she basked in the sun, good things would happen.