"What's in the suitcase?" 9527's tone gradually became colder, and he no longer looked good.
Commander Nanami's voice became softer and quieter: "Nanami can't say... it has something to do with β-level secrets."
"Okay!" Brother Qi quickly got out of the car and pulled Jiang Xueming and Bu Liuxing out of the car - asking the two passengers to avoid these sensitive topics for the time being.
She took another suitcase from Xueming, returned to the car with two "bait bombs", closed the door and windows, and had a relatively private environment.
Immediately afterwards——
——9527 began to talk nonsense about the station, followed the procedures, and showed his ID.
"I am a waiter at the Jiujie Station of the Abyss Railway General Administration. My job number is 9527. This is my ID. Ms. Asaka Nanami, I request to go through the unlocking process of sharing information with you - according to the regulations of the station, the same level When you are in communication or when your superiors ask subordinates to unlock information, you need to show your ID, crew ID, employee ID and Braille security card without reservation. As a waiter at the station, I have made two formal requests to you, asking you to show Your own papers. This is my ultimatum."
[Name: Bai Zijin (QingQing·Bai)]
[Age: twenty-one years old]
[Brief name of the position: Jiujie Station Clerk·Retired Waiter]
[Staff details: Ms. Bai Zijin was born in Shanwei and has lived with her father since she was a child.
Her mother was once a passenger and went to study at a business school. She is still doing some small business at the commercial transfer station of the Seventh Transportation Department. The couple spent less time together and more time apart. When Zijin was seven years old, his parents divorced due to extremely different family environments and careers.
When Ms. Bai Zijin was fifteen years old, she embarked on a journey to find her relatives alone. Her transcendent inspiration allowed her to find a ticket. She was a clever little ghost with outstanding talents and vicious methods, and successfully completed the investigation mission.
The thing that gives me, the BOSS, a headache is that no matter how powerful the panacea is in the world, it cannot heal the rift in a family.
Ms. Zijin's mother had already reorganized her family in the underground world, and she didn't look good when she saw her daughter.
This fiery little girl started causing trouble in the No. 7 Traffic Department. She changed her name to Bai Qingqing and found a job as a newsboy nearby. She provided people with half-truths and half-false gossips, and also liked to steal things.
She has very deep connections in the mixed factions of the underground world - she tried her best to get her arrogant mother to look at her, even if she used some unconventional violent methods.
She directed and acted on her own, and she and her friends set fire to shops on two streets, and asked people from the fire department to help put out the fire. When she rescued her biological mother from the fire like a hero, she successfully got the answer - that woman seemed to only Care about her new husband and another child.
After this operation, Ms. Bai Zijin also successfully sent herself to the reclamation team. As a tainted witness, she found many illegal and criminal armadillo hunters for the station, as well as bad guys who secretly sold hallucinogenic drugs and contraband.
She worked with the engineering team to build various infrastructure deep in the desolate underground. During the four years of her sentence, she performed very well and completed basic high school and college courses.
Her rich experience in the underground world allowed her to learn multiple languages, and she also took the IELTS exam.
When she occasionally went home to visit her father, she was accompanied by her former armed employee 3301, and there was no sign of any violent resistance to the law.
After a rigorous evaluation, we finally decided to let this young girl take the important position of waiter - after all, the network of contacts she built in the 7th Transportation Department is too complicated, and it is very dangerous for her to stay away from the jurisdiction of the station and regain the freedom of passengers. matter. Maybe one day we will see her continue to play with fire with her old friends.
She has gone through three [transformations] and has contact information of eight VIPs. One of the VIPs and the accompanying waiter once personally guided Ms. Bai Zijin on how to use pyroxene and sticks correctly - according to the VIP log investigation report we received , that was [DATA EXPUNGED] and [DATA EXPUNGED].
To this day, she still works as a waiter at Jiujie Station. ]
[Hello, if you see this ID, please be kind to the waiter. This means that she has completely let down her guard against you, or has performed an information unlocking procedure on you - be sure to tell all the information you know frankly. Tell this experienced and shrewd waiter. ]
[Although she seems a bit lazy, the long-term leisurely life after becoming a waiter, and mobile games have made her unmotivated. ]
[But I have to remind you that Ms. Bai Zijin is not a very talkative person. Don't try to deceive her. She has heard many more lies in the underground world than you think. ]
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After showing the staff ID.
9527 then took out his security card.
[Examiner: Bai Zijin]
[Polarizing sextant·Review results]
[Verification time: July 19, 2024]
[Inspiration: Off Spec]
[Spirit: A+]
[Combat Skill: Out of Specification]
[Crazy index: A]
[Will to Survive: Out of Specification]
[Intracranial Contraband and Spiritual Disaster Concentration: 78%]
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9527 put away the card, took out his mobile phone and turned on the recording function, and ordered in Japanese: "Give me all the clues you know, including the information about this suitcase and your employee ID."
"Everything?" Nanami licked her dry lips and teeth, feeling ashamed.
9527 hugged each other, began to study the two suitcases, and casually explained: "There are no other passengers here, you don't have to worry about the things involved in the confidentiality agreement, the function of the summons bell is to help passengers solve problems. I’m here to help you, not to solve you.”
Nanami took out two large iron boxes from her clothes. They were her annual security inspection cards and the employee's updated certificates.
"Then let me... let me think about it."
"Think slowly, don't make a mistake, don't make a mistake."
"Well, Mr. Waiter, you make me feel... very warm and handsome, even though you are so much younger than me..."
"No small talk during working hours, thank you."
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The armed employee hesitated for a while and finally said, "Actually, I'm not Nanami... I'm Jessica."
9527 didn’t understand what he said. It was so confusing that it was hard to understand.
"Expand these two names and tell them in detail."
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This Tooth Sakura girl pointed to the suitcase with a complicated expression: "The real Asaka Nanami is in this suitcase. And I am her sister, so I should be called Jessica."
9527 was stunned for a moment——
- She wasn't ready, not ready to open the box. Although I have thought of something before, I haven't had time to confirm it yet.
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Jessica handed over her employee ID and security card, which were two large iron boxes. From 1990 until today, all documents are kept inside.
The last security check was on July 14, 2024, not long ago.
After handing over the things, Jessica felt relieved and breathed a sigh of relief, as if she had handed over a time bomb.
"The Death Puppet Agency was not originally called this name. Sir Waiter, this matter must start from the initial accident - as you just mentioned, I will also tell you about the contents of the confidentiality agreement."
9527 looked out the window——
——The two passengers sat obediently on the edge of the curb, motionless and very self-conscious.
"You continue, I recorded it, the station's censorship agency will make a judgment based on the actual situation, don't worry."
Jessica nodded and recalled the very beginning of the story.
"A long, long time ago, this place was not called the Death Puppet Agency. It had another name, called [Ancestral Palace]. Do you know the history of this city? Sir Waiter?"
9527 shook his head: "I never heard rumors about this place when I was a child. It seems that the station's confidentiality work is very good."
Jessica pointed to the runes on the outer road and the city lights further away.
"This was originally a huge group of ruins - the city was built on the ruins, and it was called [the palace of the ancestors]."
The city seemed to be breathing. Under the age-old ultraviolet headlights, the majestic mountains and the deeper foundation stone structures were illuminated.
"There are runes here, which are a very magical power. Earlier, the Soviet Union and NATO had been competing for the development rights here - many, many people came to settle here under the introduction of the General Administration of Railways.
There are passengers and ordinary people. According to different identities, different positions will be arranged at the station. The information obtained is also very limited and has been kept confidential. When Nanami and I were born, we were already the third generation of baby boomers. It was 1961. "
When 9527 heard this, he suddenly raised his hand and interrupted: "In other words, you are actually sixty-three years old this year?"
"Yes - I am also a [desperate], but it's just different from the people in the family building of the ironworks." When Jessica talked about this matter, her mood was very stable, and she even pressed her hand on the hand-shaped steel plate of the Crazy Index , to prove one’s innocence: “I am sober.”
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"Tell me the reason." 9527 saw the real ages of Jessica and Nanami on the employee ID, and his eyes stayed on the [Age: Unconfirmed] column.
"Nanami and I are of mixed Japanese and Russian descent." Jessica told the truth: "We are a pair of abandoned babies. We were originally going to be thrown into the steel-making furnace and burned to death in the factory of the 16th Iron Works."
"Why?!" 9527 suddenly became emotional.
"Because our parents don't want us." Jessica said based on the work record of the uncle who was on duty at the factory: "They are not from the same work unit. They are from different countries and speak different languages. During the chaotic Cold War period, for To relieve the psychological pressure of not being able to see the sun for a long time, we were looking for people to have fun and sleep with. It was a complete accident that my mother gave birth to us - at that time, abnormal phenomena had begun to appear in this palace."
Jessica recalled the past, recalled the story of growing up with the two sisters Nanami in the cadre building of the steelworks, and recounted all of it.
"According to our uncles and aunts, before we were born, earthquakes would occur around the palace every half month - a lot of supplies could not be supplied, and the newly repaired railway system would be paralyzed due to earthquakes. This includes medical supplies.
I heard from my uncles and aunts that our mother probably wanted to give birth to us and throw us into the steel-making furnace because she missed the best time to take medicine to induce labor and did not dare to report this newborn of mixed Japanese and Russian blood to her respective organizational units. They went there and destroyed the body so no one would know about it - and they wouldn't be punished. "
9527 was silent, and she felt very uncomfortable.
Jessica was very, very calm when describing these things, but the colder her tone was - like the coldness of Brother Qi when she heard Xueming recount the past, the more sad it made her.
Jessica waved her hand quickly, skipping these unimportant things, and talked about the serious business of [Ancestral Palace].
"That kind of earthquake lasted for twenty years, like a heartbeat, like the heartbeat and breathing of a huge mountain. It wasn't until the station developed stronger materials and railway structures that this relatively closed big city began to open to traffic stably. ——So Nanami and I volunteered to go to the station and find a formal job. The people of the 16th Iron Works raised us, and the two of us wanted to do something for them, no matter what. ..At least..."
Speaking of this, Jessica gritted her teeth and clenched her hands: "At least let us feel that our coming to this world...should be better than turning into steel...turning into steel, a little better...Just so so, just a little bit.”
9527 hugged this "little girl" who looked young but could be her mother and grandmother, and held her tightly in her arms. She could feel the unwillingness to grit her teeth.
Jessica did not shed tears, but her eyes became watery, and the dark blood belonging to the desperado spread out, revealing the brown eyes of Slavic origin again. The mottled and messy golden and black hair on her head made her look like an exquisite doll at the mercy of fate, a dead doll.
"Master Waiter, Nanami and I ran to the Skydome Station in London -" Jessica pulled out the earliest security check card from the iron box, "- we don't have much inspiration. If we don't have it, the BOSS is not willing to let it go. We take rides to earn money and they don’t want us to go to other places. We are not discouraged at all! Not at all! Because BOSS is a good cat! He said..."
Speaking of this, Jessica became happy.
"It says our blood smells of iron! We can be armed employees! We can protect the people in the ironworks!"
"Nana and I are having fun! Ta-ta-ta-ta! Ta-ta-ta-ta! Very happy!"
"but..."
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The car suddenly became silent——
——Only Jessica's sobbing voice was left.
Tears wet 9527's coat and tie.
"But the disaster has come." Jessica buried her head in Brother Qi's chest and whispered hoarsely: "The disaster has come...I am useless...The disaster has come. While everyone is still preparing for the New Year— — Nanami and I were working shifts, and suddenly the sky fell."
"More than 40 firefighters from the entire seventh division ran onto the street. They shouted - earthquake! Earthquake!"
"Then I ran to the street and looked. More than a dozen blast furnaces in the fourth and seventh districts rolled out, molten iron flowed into the cracks in the ground, and many chimneys collapsed. I was so stupid that I forgot to escape."
"I also heard sirens and people shouting loudly. Someone went to the royal court in the ruins and stole runes. I don't know where the royal court is, and I know only a little about runes. That's not what I, an armed employee, should do. What I know - the last thing I saw was the water tower collapsing and burying me. I thought I was going to die, right?"
9527 rubbed Jessica's hair and responded softly: "Well, you are still alive."
"It's half dead." Jessica raised her head, turned on the tactical flashlight, and showed the injuries on her neck. They were originally hidden in the hair, and it was difficult to detect the flush cuts: "Since that day, there have been no earthquakes, and there have been no earthquakes. There was no new disaster. People buried the dead in the ground, and corpses would crawl out. I crawled out too - many people were afraid of me, but Nanami was not afraid of me. I was smashed into a puddle of mud. There was only one head left, and Nanami said that she couldn't see anyone now, so she gave her body to me."
"Jessica... I'm not giving it to you, I'm lending it to you." Faint words came from the suitcase.
"Yeah! You lent it to me!" Jessica cheered up and told 9527 about the goodness of the BOSS: "The people from Tianqiong Station are here, but they don't care about us. We pester the BOSS and fight it every day. Call him and tell him our story. He cried once a day, and then mercifully performed a head transplant for us! What a great cat! LuckyDA☆ZE! He did a great job! He did a great job!"
Jessica picked up her suitcase and shouted energetically: "We change it every six months and take turns being bait bombs! This way we can protect each other well. We are Jessica! We are also Nana Mei!"
"Can't the panacea cure your injuries?" 9527 regretted it as soon as he asked - according to the boss's temperament, if there are such a pair of little sisters harassing you on the phone every day, the panacea can cure the disease. , it has been cured a long time ago. This cat can hold a grudge and will never leave any lingering worries.
"It's useless..." Jessica was in a low mood: "I'm afraid BOSS also wants to know what Rune is, and also wants to control this terrifying and great power. It makes us half-dead, as if everything stops when a disaster occurs. At that moment, all the life in this city remained on December 31, 1990. A panacea is of no use - just to perform head transplant surgery on us every six months would cost BOSS a lot. With less effort, the equivalent it proposes is asking us to stay on duty at the station for fifty-five years.”
"Won't you be affected by this weird rune?" 9527 asked about the situation in the community: "The creatures in this family building cannot escape, but you can..."
"Nanami is put in this body. Sometimes when she is unhappy, she will be taken back." Jessica explained: "But I can't. I think it should be after this body is replaced with a head, Lu Well, you can’t recognize me anymore.”
"The boss wants you to continue to be the passenger safety officers. This is a good idea." 9527 thought about whether to tell Jiang Xueming all these things.
——This place was originally a deserted ancient ruins, but because Rune turned into a prosperous metropolis, it eventually became a city of the living dead.
Judging from Jessica's memories, someone once came here to steal Rune's power and wanted to use this secret that even the BOSS could not control for their own use, which was why this horrific natural disaster occurred.
The subsequent confidentiality agreement was also to protect the passengers and prevent them from having evil thoughts and touching these ancient mysterious creations.
Just at this time--
——Nanami in the suitcase spoke.
"I want to read comics...Jessica, I heard you say...A passenger brought the latest "Chibi Maruko-chan"..."
The voice was very weak.
"Okay! I'll show it to you!" Jessica immediately opened one of the suitcases.
Inside the box was a complete head, wrapped in various shock-absorbing fillings - Jessica and Nanami looked exactly the same.
It’s just that Nanami in the box is listless, has lost the support of her cardiovascular system, and her brain has been in a state of incompetence for a long time when working. It seems that the other box contains Jessica’s body that was crushed to pulp due to a natural disaster. .
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When the sentimental Seventh Brother saw this scene, he suddenly cried for no reason - just like an air raid siren.
Nanami in the box seemed to have triggered a long-standing memory, and she woke up for a moment.
"There's another earthquake!?"
"It's not... Nanami, it's the waiter who is crying." Jessica opened the comic book and pointed the flashlight at the roof of the car to let the strong light reflect diffusely and not be so dazzling, illuminating the title page of the comic book.
"Why is it still "Taro Tomita" this time... It's already 2024, why are the people on the ground and the new passengers still reading this..." After reading the title of the comic book clearly, Nanami felt very Boring: "Forget it... I won't read anymore. I'll continue to sleep. If you need anything, call me... Good night."
"Good night..." Jessica closed the lid of the box, turned around, and took out her handkerchief to comfort the young waiter 9527.
"Don't cry, don't cry! Don't cry! Don't be sad!"
Brother Qi just kept sounding the alarm, almost crying until he lost his breath.
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"[ALL IN ALL·In short], this is what I want to tell the waiter..." Jessica wiped the tears of Brother Qi while emphasizing: "Although everyone is not very good now, it is not like before. If they become so lively, they will often turn into monsters and go crazy when they find that the things in their hands are no longer good, old or broken.”
"But Sir, can you please please don't erase the runes on the 16th Iron Works building? After the disaster, many people wanted to repair the city as if nothing had happened."
"We live as usual, exercise as usual, find clothes as usual, work hard, eat, and then spit out the life we have eaten."
"Just like Chef Enrique and other chefs whose skills are getting better and better, I will often bring ingredients to them, but I can't bring living things in, because living things may increase the concentration of spiritual disasters."
"Aunt Li is sweeping the floor in the corridor, and the speed of cleaning is getting faster and faster. Things often break, so I promised her to always bring her new cleaning tools."
"Everyone, everyone... the people who have taken care of me, the people who raised me, my good friends, my biological sister..."
9527 grabbed Jessica's clothes and kept wiping her nose and tears: "Stop talking, stop talking...don't kill me!~I can't listen to these words!~~"
"Neither Tianqiong Station, Nine Realms, nor Jushan Station in Reykjavik will send new supplies here." Jessica described worriedly: "The table tennis rackets in their hands are... , the tennis rackets are rotten, and occasionally I will buy some back, so that they can be happy for a long, long, long time without turning into monsters. But I only have one person, and I can’t carry so many, and I can’t keep buying them. Some people want to smoke, and I like to smoke too, but cigarettes are so expensive at the trade transfer station, and I can't go to the ground to buy them. The boss won't let me go - no one else comes to help me, only passengers come occasionally. ....."
Having said this, Jessica looked out the window at the two "little guys" on the curb. To her, these two weirdos were old enough to be her grandchildren.
"Mr. Bu Liuxing is the first person to bring so many delicious and fun things, and also brings me cigarettes. Other passengers, like Mr. Jiang Xueming, also like to bring some strange explosives. But..."
Speaking of Jiang Xueming, Jessica was still very happy.
"They are very good-looking, really good-looking, and they can also make brooms. Aunt Li must like him very much, LuckyDA☆ZE!"
"So I want to ask the waiter." Jessica turned to be serious and petitioned Brother Qi: "Don't deduct my salary. I will work very hard to continue buying things for them, and I will not let them hurt the passengers. If the passengers listen to me and don’t run around or talk nonsense, there will be no danger - don’t let the lights in this building go out forever, okay?”
Brother Seven then asked: "Didn't you tell BOSS about these things?"
"We have troubled BOSS many, many times. I am afraid that good cats will turn into bad cats because of these things..." Jessica drooped her eyelids and looked listless: "I want to do what I can, and we are thinking about it. , just one community is almost emptying our little heads. A good cat has to take care of so many stations and so many people...it must be very hard."
"Yeah!" Brother Qi just took a breath and almost started crying again when he saw Jessica's expression of love and sadness. "Don't worry! I'm a righteous person who can't just sit idly by! Hey, wait a minute..."
Following Brother Qi's gaze, Jessica looked over.
"What is that?"
On the edge of the car window, there is a disposable paper cup.
That was the sample Jiang Xueming chose for the takeaway packaging of the future cafe - it was made of cotton thread threaded through the bottom plate and hung on the car window, just like the paper telephone receivers we played with when we were children.
The other end of the cotton thread was held in Jiang Xueming's hand.
Two young men were sitting on the edge of the curb, holding this receiver. Bu Liuxing was holding a large roll of toilet paper, not knowing what to say, and kept wiping his tears and nose.
Jiang Xueming remained silent, but when he heard there was no movement in the carriage, he said something to the paper tube.
"Brother Qi, I'm sorry..."
9527's quick eyes and hands quickly cut off the recording, fearing that Jiang Xueming's voice would be recorded, and then sent the entire message back to the station.
She grabbed the paper tube and was very angry: "You are playing with fire! Employer! Don't be discovered by the boss! If you eavesdrop on secrets, you will go to jail... I will also go to jail. I don't want to become a pure prison with you. The ceiling!”
"But based on the situation you described..." Jiang Xueming had an idea: "If you want to effectively solve this problem in the long term, I'm afraid you won't be able to do it alone."
Brother Qi kept scratching his head: "Then...what can you do?"
"I'm a life person. From what Chief Jessica said, I want these residents to continue to live their lives without going crazy casually - isn't this my professional field?" While Jiang Xueming was writing and drawing in his notebook, he said to the paper tube: "Brother Qi, please go find something and bring it over. As for the expenses, just deduct them from my account. Sorry for causing trouble to Chief Jessica." ”
"What are you going to do?" Brother Qi didn't even open the car door. She felt that talking on paper tubes was particularly ceremonial and romantic.
"That's my β-level secret, how can I tell you casually? Miss Bai Zijin, oh, I'm sorry... maybe you prefer me to call you Miss Bai Qingqing." Jiang Xueming tugged hard: "Hang up first, something's wrong Let’s meet and chat.”
——The cotton thread of the paper tube broke at the sound.
Xiao Qi saw that in a dark corner above the carriage, Ah Xing's pink mobile phone was covered with double-sided tape. He also had a Bluetooth video call on and took pictures of everything just now.
Xiao Qi's face turned red all of a sudden.
"This little clever guy..."
