Chapter 195 Chapter 193 Informant Investigator

The Viper Gang is gone. It was not the "strike against a social cancer" as the PCPD promoted, but it was completely eradicated. Every backbone member and core leader of the gang, every penny, was taken away by the mercenaries who were thirsty for money. It has been a long time since there was a proper commission. Everyone worked hard on this matter, and they were also very generous. They didn't mind taking some newcomers and finding reasons to pay them some wages.

Zhuang Xuteng was also counted among these newcomers - there was no way, he was the youngest among Lucy's men who could go to the scene. If he was not counted as a newcomer, what about some people who were slightly older than him but had no name? As a "scarecrow", he didn't earn enough appearance fees, but considering that he was just guarding the armored vehicle on the periphery and did nothing else, this was already a free pay.

Compared with the loneliness and boredom of Zhuang Xuteng, Ge Gongdao had a lot of fun. He and a group of people raided the safe house of the Viper Gang, demolished people and robbed things, and killed people everywhere. The supercomputing martial arts, Three Flashes, combined with his big body, produced amazing results. None of the opponent's thugs could withstand his attack, even if they had implants. The master was right. Except for the two types of implants with thick armor or extremely strong burst, the others would be restrained by supercomputing martial arts.

After guarding for a night, no fight was fought, and two thousand euros went into his pocket - this mission was quite suitable. In the early morning, Zhuang Xuteng met with Ge Gongdao and told him not to forget to check on Roubao every few days, lest the little guy starve to death. Ge Gongdao laughed, waved his big hand, and patted his chest to take care of this matter.

"You must serve Morgana well, don't be shy!"

Zhuang Xuteng pretended not to hear it, but he still prepared in advance, cleaned himself up, and then went to the agreed meeting place. This is a suburban bus station, right on the approach road next to the highway, and the surrounding area is very desolate.

The white beast stopped next to the bus stop, and the clean and tidy body of the car formed a sharp contrast with the old bus stop covered with red rust. There is a half-collapsed convenience store behind the bus stop. There are only holes in the doors and windows. There are no goods in the house, but some fallen ceilings. The sign of "Good House for Sale" is tilted on the side of the doorway, and most of it has been buried in the soil - it has not been sold until it is destroyed.

I heard that there was a village here, but now its traces can only be found in history. The bus stop next to it is the last glory of the village. It was established because it was "said" that the village would be expanded as a satellite city. Later, the town was gone, but the bus stop was still retained - there were not many cars every day, and it was on the way, so it would not delay for two minutes, so the bus company was too lazy to submit a report to cancel this station.

If no one gets off here, the bus will not stop. Zhuang Xuteng consciously stood farther away, so that the driver would not think he was going to get on the bus. Fifteen minutes before the agreed time, a silver-white luxury car stopped at the bus stop. The driver stabilized the car, got off in a hurry, ran around the car for half a circle, and opened the door.

Morgana got out of the car, waved to herself, glanced at Zhuang Xuteng, and her face was slightly red. Since the bus did not arrive on time, Morgana had to ask the family driver to take her. She was wearing a blue-black casual denim suit, gray hiking boots, and a company war-era military-style bag on her back - she looked like a wandering idler, totally out of place in the style of a luxury car.

The driver closed the door, took out a suitcase from the trunk, and handed it to Morgana respectfully. Then, he stared at Zhuang Xuteng carefully for a while, and his serious expression seemed to have thousands of words. Morgana coughed behind him, and the driver immediately got in the car and drove away without looking back.

Zhuang Xuteng walked over with a smile and asked her if she needed help to carry something. Morgana snorted and shook her head, so Zhuang Xuteng withdrew his hand. He opened the trunk of the white beast, waited for Morgana to throw the backpack and suitcase in, and then said: "I came too early, otherwise I shouldn't have seen the luxury car. What model is that?"

"I don't know, I didn't buy it." Morgana looked at the motorcycle in the trunk and asked: "Has anyone ridden it?"

"No one else has touched it. I rode it once, and I had to act separately with Dao Ge at that time. I don't know much about motorcycles, and I haven't ridden it much, but I can still feel that this car is very comfortable." Zhuang Xuteng smiled and asked: "Does your family sell cars and motorcycles?"

"No." Morgana rolled her eyes at Zhuang Xuteng and said: "If I say yes, you are so smart that you will immediately know that I am lying to you, so I tell you 'no'. Naike, guess what my family does?"

"I can't guess." Seeing that Morgana didn't believe it, Zhuang Xuteng said: "I really can't guess ! You think I'm smart because I can make plans quickly, but I don't know many people and have little experience, so I can't judge people. You spend money generously, Dao Ge and I will definitely be curious. Dao Ge has met many people, and he can't figure out your identity, let alone me. "

"Has your middleman Lucy investigated me?"

"As long as she is asked to do a commission, she will investigate. After all, she needs to know who is coming and whether the commission issued is a trap. The result of the investigation is: I don't know." Zhuang Xuteng invited Morgana to the cab together, and continued while waiting for the car to warm up: "She got some information, but she thought it was all fake. She calculated the cost of maintaining the cover information, and then stopped the investigation. She warned me that I must serve you well, you are a very important customer."

"What do you think? Do you want to serve me well?"

"Hey, you're thinking too much." Zhuang Xuteng shook his head and said: "During the commissioned task, I will give priority to the task and not consider serving others - the key point is that I don't have the skills in this area. I will take care of you and protect you. But this is the same for every mission partner. Maybe I can take care of people better than others, but I am not a servant. "

"Very reasonable and very good. So what about outside of commissioned tasks?"

"Outside of the mission? You are a pretty good girl, a rare good policeman in the PCPD. I have no discomfort with you, except for two things..."

"Which two points?" Morgana asked quickly.

"I don't know what your hobbies are, so when you are very serious, I don't know what to talk about. Besides, we all know that you are rich, but you never treat guests! Next time, bring a few bottles of beer, Brother Dao can You praise God."

"Just these two points? Okay..." Morgana smiled and then covered her mouth.

Zhuang Xuteng rolled his eyes and said: "Don't be so nervous. You don't even dare to laugh. I haven't heard of any profession that has such a requirement, and I haven't heard of any tutors that don't let their children laugh. Come on, learn from me. Louder: Hahahaha!”

"I can't learn, I'm too stupid." Morgana frowned, covering her mouth and shaking her head. Zhuang Xuteng shouted again, but she still shook her head. After a few quarrels, she took two deep breaths and regained her composure. Then she put down her hands and said, "Our family used to work for God."

"From the Church? Uh... Holy Light Witch is really from the Holy Light Church? Wow... I thought you were no longer there..."

"What does it mean that we are no longer there? Yes, there is no church now, and there are no popes, archbishops, and priests in various regions. It turns out that the statues and shrines have become calendar-like pendants. The church is gone, but we have not committed suicide along with it. !”

"That's right. If your boss runs away and the company is gone, you can just change your job. Well, it seems like the job change is a good one!"

Morgana nodded and said: "The gods are gone, and most of the magical arts are dead. However, with the development of shadow slaves, there are still some rune spells that can be used. The combination of the two forms new spells. School. The church originally had a monopoly on divine magic and gathered the strongest spellcasters around it. It no longer has a monopoly, but it has a lot of shares in the new school. I don’t know the details, and I probably can’t tell if I know it. , but to put it this way, can you understand it? "

Zhuang Xuteng nodded and said: "I understand. With the development of Shadow Cong, the money and technology spells have taken shape. You have made good investments, so you are living a comfortable life now. I think you don't need to hide it! Okay. Investment should yield good returns, seize the opportunity to make profits, and then live a good life, there is no problem at all.”

"Of course there is no problem! Whoever says there is a problem, I will worry about it! However, our ancestors who made investments in the past set the rules. We can enjoy it, but we must also abide by the rules, so we will not take the initiative to talk about it - unless someone has already told us about it. I see it." Morgana spread her hands and said, "We can't lie without telling lies. What if the god comes back again? What if it wants to judge and test our behavior and morality again? The requirements are still relatively high, not much different from when the church was strong, and they are sometimes called stubborn.”

"I see you're not stubborn!"

"I am the Holy Light and a witch. There are some differences between me and my family." Morgana waved her hand and said: "Let's stop talking about this matter. I am not used to being asked about family affairs all the time. This time I've said a lot. Naike, how did you come up with the idea of ​​becoming a mercenary?"

"I wasn't good at studying and was unlucky. Working in a factory was pretty good, but the factory was sold and I lost my job. When I was about to find my next meal, I met Brother Dao, so I joined him. OK. This opportunity is rare, I want to do it well, and I believe I can do it well." Zhuang Xuteng gave a thumbs up, blinked, and then said, "Since we are talking about mercenaries, what are we going to do this time? "

Morgana also wanted to hear more about Zhuang Xuteng's personal affairs, but she was too embarrassed to ask directly, so she returned to the topic: "By analyzing the impurity environment of that kilogram of blue crystal, we basically locked in the place where its raw materials were made, or It's its transport route - we can't fully confirm that yet."

"Us? Do you have a team?"

"We are you and me. I do the chemical analysis myself, but the instruments are all at home, as are the environmental data. You asked me before about my hobbies. I have two hobbies, one is fighting evil, and the other is studying witches. Spells. What are you doing with your eyes wide open? I use chemical instruments for analysis, not boiling witch potions in big crucibles..."

"I always feel that the witches in the story are all bad people and would not have the hobby of fighting evil - don't pay attention to me, I just said this nonsense." Zhuang Xuteng coughed twice, returned to seriousness, and said: "We now know The frozen fish factory is upstream, and it hands the blue crystals to the logistics company for transportation. We did not find the equipment to make blue crystals in the frozen fish factory, so the frozen fish factory is just a storage point. This time we have to follow the clues and find them. It goes home, right?”

"Yes, that's what it means." Morgana took out a piece of paper from her pants pocket and handed it to Zhuang Xuteng. "Here are the four most likely locations. Let's start from the most likely locations to see if there are any signs of transporting or manufacturing blue crystals. The mission this time is investigation and reconnaissance, not conflict. The purple one last time Leather Man… I don’t want to encounter him again.”

Zhuang Xuteng nodded and said, "Yes, the closer we get to the source, the stronger the enemy's defense will be, so we must be careful. Is this longitude and latitude written on this piece of paper?"

"Yes. Chemical environmental analysis uses samples from various places, and the standard data is a bit old. It is more accurate in places where no one is active in the wild, and the closer to people, the less accurate it is. Three of the four addresses are in the wild, and you can see that the match is 70%. The last one is close to the town, and the match is only 30%. Let's start with the highest one, what do you think?"

"Start with the highest one. Wait a minute, I'll find the map around Peicheng. I remember there are longitude and latitude on it, and I'll mark the address on the map." Zhuang Xuteng asked Morgana to lean back, then squeezed to the co-pilot side, opened the storage drawer and started to search. He quickly found a somewhat old brown paper map and carefully checked it with the help of the car light.

"Good landmarks, the four addresses are in the four directions of Peicheng, east, west, south and north. If so, I can also do a chemical analysis: they are around Peicheng."

Morgana asked: "Is there not enough coal powder in the car?"

"There is enough coal powder, don't worry." Zhuang Xuteng smiled, put away the map and handed it to Morgana, saying: "I also remember the route, let's go to the most likely place first. You sit down, you can take a nap in advance."

"I'm not sleepy." Morgana shook her head.

"It's not that you are sleepy now, but you should rest first and accumulate more energy." Zhuang Xuteng said: "There are only two of us in this operation, and most of the time we may be investigating and stalking, so we have to arrange the handover and take turns. I can't sleep while driving, and there is nothing to do at this stage, so you have to sleep, it's not a question of whether you want to sleep or not."

"That makes sense, I'll do as you wish and take a nap. Is there a blanket in the car? Oh, it's in the back, I'll get it myself."

Zhuang Xuteng drove the car as steadily as possible so that Morgana could have a good rest. She wrapped herself in a blanket, half curled up on the reclined seat, listening to the rhythmic clang of the steam engine, and fell asleep in a daze. When her blanket slipped off, Zhuang Xuteng covered her again.

The two met in the southwest of the city. The first location was in the northwest. They took the ring road first and then left the city. From the smooth and comfortable highway, to the undulating secondary highway, then the bumpy dirt road, and finally to the area without roads. Zhuang Xuteng drove according to the map in his mind and soon arrived at the area near the first coordinate.

This place is almost as desolate as the bus station. At a glance, there is no one around. Is this the right place?

PS: I adjusted the outline and wrote less. I will update it once today and make up for it tomorrow.