Chapter 23 Take the Initiative to Find Experts!
Flick!
The sound of pages flipping had been ringing in the ears of the newsstand owner for several minutes, gradually reaching the limit of his patience. He looked at a black-haired boy in front of the stall with countless dissatisfaction in his eyes.
There were many people who read newspapers for free, but he had never seen this boy go so far. Others took a newspaper to read the content they were interested in, but this boy came over and flipped through it randomly. It was said to be flipping randomly, but it seemed that he read every page.
But is there anyone who reads newspapers like this? He can finish reading a page in less than ten seconds. Isn’t this making trouble?
"Ahem!"
The stall owner thought he was a good-tempered person, so he couldn't hold back. He coughed and walked out. Just as he was about to say something, the black-haired boy suddenly looked up and glanced at him: "That's right, boss, I want all these newspapers."
Lu En pointed to a thick stack of newspapers at hand and looked at the newsstand owner calmly: "There are 29 copies in total. The Economic Daily and City News are a little more expensive. The others are between one yuan and eighty cents. I'll give you 45. You don't need to change the extra two yuan and three yuan."
Lu En took out four ten-yuan bills and one five-yuan bill from his pocket, put them on the table, rolled up the stack of newspapers, stuffed them all into his schoolbag, and walked away.
"This?"
Before the stall owner could react, he saw Lu En squeeze into the crowd and quickly disappeared. The expression on his face was very vivid. Suddenly, he found a computer and started calculating.
Strange things that happen in a city, whether it is a murder or anomaly, or simply some strange stories, even if most people living in it don’t know about it, the police may know more, but the one who knows the most is undoubtedly another group - reporters.
From national affairs to economic trends, from political trends to celebrity gossip, these uncrowned kings are omnipresent. They are the group of people who get the most intelligence in the entire city, and what Lu En lacks most now is intelligence.
There are dozens of newspapers in a newsstand, and the news in them is true and false. After removing the completely useless part, Lu En still has 29 newspapers left in his hand. He gets news from the corners of these newspapers, the main content or the supplements, and then merges and offsets them. In the end, he gets all the abnormal things that happened in Lucas in recent days.
Including the strange drowning of school students and teachers, the tragic extermination of a family of seven that happened last night, the strange disappearance of children in downtown and slums in recent days, various accidents near the city, gas leaks, car accidents, jumping from buildings, robbery and murder, etc., all appeared in front of Lu En one by one.
In fact, there is more abundant information on the Internet, but it is mixed with good and bad. Moreover, the Internet in this world has not yet developed to the level of Earth. On the contrary, the newspaper industry is prosperous. Lu En's spiritual attributes are amazing now, and it is easy to screen.
Now Lu En has some experience. Whenever monsters appear, they will inevitably pose a threat to humans, as if these monsters are born to be the natural enemies of humans, with incomparable malice. More importantly, they are powerful and weird. Ordinary people are vulnerable in front of them and can hardly resist them.
Therefore, Lu En specifically looks for some bizarre and strange events. After analysis and investigation, he selected several places where monsters may appear and explored them one by one.
Now that he is powerful, he is not afraid of going home at night. In the past few days, some evil people who appeared in the lower city at night have been taught a lesson by him. There are rumors of faceless people. Because Lu En changed a pure black mask with only eyes exposed, it may become an urban legend in the future.
This is the first location.
Thinking, Lu En got off the taxi and looked at the dilapidated residential building in front of him. He had 100,000 yuan in his hand. Although he couldn't give it to his family, he could use it for himself. Lu En had already taken out some cash to use.
This residential building looked abandoned, and the surface of the tiles outside were all detached, but in fact Lu En could see swaying figures in it. Some poor people who couldn't even pay the rent lived in it. They were basically the bottom of society, or illegal immigrants and drug addicts.
The Glory Federation is powerful and has a strong output of cultural values to the outside world. Therefore, many foreign residents are very yearning for it, thinking that it is really a paradise on earth with opportunities everywhere. Every year, countless illegal immigrants are repatriated, and of course, more people are smuggled in, which is difficult to stop.
However, these naturally have nothing to do with Lu En. He came here because a strange case happened here a day ago. A whole floor of more than a dozen people suddenly disappeared. No one was alive or dead. A small reporter reported it as a strange story, but unfortunately no one paid attention to it.
Most federal residents have no good feelings towards these illegal immigrants or drug addicts, and they wish they would all disappear.
Lu En went straight upstairs, and no one came to stop him, but he still noticed some eyes secretly observing him. He soon came to the floor where the incident happened. As expected, it was empty, and the ground was a mess, as if several brown bears had danced on it. There were even some huge cracks on the wall.
What is this? !
Lu En's expression suddenly changed. He took a few steps forward and kicked a piece of wood. An inconspicuous round hole appeared, with a charred edge, but Lu En knew what it was, a bullet hole!
There had been a battle here!
Lu En checked carefully. In addition to bullet holes on the ground, walls and even the ceiling, he also found cracks in the ground in the corners, as if they were caused by something. He even found some strange claw marks, but they were obviously cleaned up. Lu En did not find any other useful clues.
There are indeed monsters here, but they have been dealt with.
Lu En exhaled and thought of the people he saw this morning. There is no doubt that these official people are not vegetarians. In a sense, they are his competitors.
These people killed monsters to protect citizens and maintain order, while Lu En needed these monsters to refine the food spirits and enhance his own strength. The purposes were different but the results were the same.
What a pity!
Lu En turned around and left, and then explored three or four places in a row. Either there was nothing unusual, or they had been cleaned up like this, and he found nothing. In order not to worry Lu Guang, he could only take the bus home as the sky was getting dark.
If only I could get the police's internal intelligence, Lu En thought while holding his schoolbag. The bus kept going up and down along the uneven ground, stopped at a station, and a man walked up.
Hiss!
At this moment, all other thoughts in Lu En's mind disappeared, and a strong sense of crisis enveloped his heart. His heart trembled suddenly, just like a rabbit suddenly saw a tiger, and all the hair on his body exploded!
This was a man with a ditch nose and a gloomy face. He walked up and the car started before he sat down. Suddenly there was a bump, but this man seemed to have roots under his feet. His feet were stable and not affected at all. He found a place to sit down and closed his eyes.
Danger, extremely dangerous!
Lu En felt an unprecedented crisis, and his brain was frantically warning. There was a strong bloody smell on this man, which ordinary people could not detect, but Lu En was so sharp that he seemed to see the corpses piled up like a mountain and blood flowing like a river behind this man. This was a temperament that could only be cultivated after killing countless people and ending countless lives.
This was a top master whose strength was no less than Barn!