At nine or ten o'clock in the evening, Harbin went from hustle and bustle to chaos. The power supply system in some neighborhoods has been cut off, so people put fuel in iron barrels on the roadside and lit fires to light up the streets and continue to revel, making the curfew ineffective.
Whether it is purposeful or purposeless, whether it is excitement or fear, in this atmosphere, there is no difference between the people on the street.
Those who are incompatible with them will lock themselves in their homes, cast their sights on the crowd through the cracks in the windows, and issue meaningless curses.
Of course, there are also some people who urgently need to make a living at this stage, such as the plump and cool-dressed street girls beside the road, whose status is somewhere in between.
She let go of the noisy and turbulent crowd, cursed softly, and lit a cigarette. She looked through the smoke and continued to scan the street. Suddenly she saw a young man with black hair and black eyes standing alone at the intersection of the opposite street, looking towards her curiously.
The girl standing on the street pouted at the young man and made a "three" gesture in the distance. Regardless of whether the other party understood it or not, she expressed her willingness to attract customers.
The young man scratched his head, hesitated, and came this way.
But after walking only a few steps, a man with short whiskers and a beard standing on the street where the street girl was stood rushed forward first. After muttering a few words vaguely, the two of them agreed on the price and hugged each other. Go past the alley behind.
The girl standing on the street glanced behind her. The black-haired and black-eyed boy stood still, not knowing whether to cross the street or not, with a strange expression.
Soon, the street girl was pushed and pushed by the bearded man into the darkest and narrowest area of the alley.
Perhaps under the stimulation of an increasingly passionate instinct, the man opposite him made a "ho ho" sound as if there was phlegm stuck in his throat, and his movements became more and more rough.
The street girl pushed her away with a slight complaint, then the bearded man suddenly raised his arms and grabbed her throat with both hands.
At this moment, the bearded body seemed to have grown in size. He couldn't wait to lean down, opened his mouth, revealing sharp white teeth that were staggered like a canine, and bit into the street girl's face.
It was really chewing, the kind that broke the skin and caused blood in an instant!
But that's all.
Because at this moment, the girl standing on the street suddenly spat out a slender purple-red afterimage from her mouth that seemed to be open due to fear and suffocation. The hair came first, and penetrated into the equally wide mouth of the beard first. Through the oral cavity, it reaches the medulla oblongata.
Bearded's body suddenly stiffened, and in the next moment, his entire body moved backwards and was thrown to the ground, but he also avoided a fatal blow.
There was nothing in front of the girl standing on the street. The tip of her nose was scratched by the sharp teeth of the beard. She was bleeding and looking miserable. But she didn't care about that, she just opened her eyes wide and looked a little further away.
The darkness obscured most of the details, but her pupils, which were already somewhat different from ordinary people, still caught the faint light and saw the young man with black hair and black eyes who had just almost made a deal with her across the street, standing there, There seemed to be a look of helplessness on his face.
At the opponent's feet was the bearded man who was knocked unconscious.
After being stunned for about two or three seconds, the girl standing on the street suddenly let out a scream. In the dark alley, someone rushed out following the shouting. Amidst the rapid footsteps, bright flashlights flashed randomly, and there was obviously the sound of a gun being loaded.
Logically speaking, there should be people at the entrance of the alley, but
There was no response at all.
"It's already organized!"
The young man sighed, and did not give this hunting organization with a special nature another chance to play its role. The two gunmen who rushed out of the alley and the street girl who acted as bait all rolled their eyes and remained silent. Lie down and lie down.
Counting the bearded hunters who had become prey, there were four in the alley, and there were two outside who were both lookouts and "blocking the door."
"The public security in Harbin City, as well as the proportion of aberration infections, are indeed more troublesome than simply looking at numbers."
Ronan murmured, knelt down, opened the beard's mouth, looked at his teeth, and did the same to the street girl.
"This kind of distortion direction seems to be somewhat similar..."
"Maybe he's too hungry. According to you, all hosts exist to absorb energy. In the case of food shortage, the digestive system will be distorted first, which is very logical."
Another person came in at the entrance of the alley and picked up Ronan's soliloquy. The visitor was wearing large colorful pants and a light top with his arms open, looking like a leisurely person.
Ronan didn't raise his head and continued to observe the relevant details. He just replied casually: "You found him pretty quickly."
"Who wouldn't feel nervous after hearing the news that you came to Harbin?"
"Mr. Blood Demon, aren't you?"
"If you've just said hello to Apollyon, you know how I feel."
The blood demon Zhuo pulled on his slippers and walked to Ronan. He also squatted down like him and extended his hand to signal: "I should say we meet again, brother Ronan."
Ronan smiled and shook hands with him.
The blood demon was right. The last time Ronan and he met and communicated, the whole process was a water vapor clone. Strictly speaking, it was just a "holographic video call."
"I didn't expect that you would observe from this position - I thought you would stand on the tallest tower in Harbin, watch a ridiculous parade show from a high position, and then draw a picture model of this city with a stroke of your pen. You Isn’t that what you came here to do?”
"...I'm sorry I didn't do this."
Of course Ronan would not say that he had already listed the standards for ladder distribution through magneto-optical mica all over the world, sketched a rough model of the global distribution of aberration infected groups, and had an accurate count that could be used at any time. Turn in your homework and fulfill your commitments at the summit.
As for the foundation and the global census, they are just ways for him to leave buffer space for himself and confuse others.
"It doesn't matter. My request to the old man from Miqi is to let him shape it for you and use it in the new issue of "Deck". Of course, this will have to wait until the replica is released."
The blood demon stared at Ronan as he spoke, his eyes bright.
Ronan was too embarrassed to pretend to be confused and could only say: "I will submit the manuscript as soon as possible."
The blood demon grinned and patted his shoulder.
Ronan ignored him and continued to observe the two infected people who had entered the third stage of distortion.
The blood demon didn't mind either, and just sighed:
"You see, sometimes, the results of living are not so wonderful. Life forms change, the form of obtaining life-sustaining resources changes accordingly, and the way of 'communication' between people will also change... A new order is born. But I think most people still don’t expect this.”
"
This is not order, but the stimulus that forces order. "At this moment, what Ronan thought of was the silhouette of the Tianyuan Empire that he had seen struggling in a vicious environment.
Therefore, he also felt something: "Under such stimulation, if you want to maintain the order of the past, you may need to be extra stubborn."
Instead of continuing to be sour, Ronan changed the topic: "Are you still following the live broadcast?"
"Of course, this is the current popular trend in the world."
The blood demon answered confidently. He leaned closer and whispered: "By the way, do you feel that someone is teasing you?"
"Um?"
"Whether it's the Internet public opinion related to Lake City that exploded rapidly today, or the reports from the Harbin media here this morning, they are all clearly inflamed..."
"Oh, maybe they all want to see me play BOSS." Ronan was not surprised at all.
"But you're here teasing the soldiers."
"Looking at the big picture too much will make you slow, so I need to pay more attention to details."
Ronan said something that the blood demon might not understand, but he soon revealed that he was also very concerned about Lake City and its related public opinions:
"Um...is there any direct connection between Lake City and Delta erosion?"
Ronan had learned relevant knowledge when he was studying geography class: the southern end of the Xiacheng administrative area, the satellite city Xiacheng, is connected to the Huaicheng administrative area, but a small part of it has penetrated into the delta area and has a small border.
In the past, Ronan would have thought that this was helping Huaicheng share the defense pressure, but after talking with Wen Huilan, he could understand that there was still some "distorted product resource sharing" in it.
In any case, the delta region is indeed one of the most persistent problems in East Asia after World War II.
After the era of distortion began, a large number of aquatic mutants were first hatched from rivers and oceans, and huge amounts of so-called "distortion viruses" penetrated onto land through various types of water bodies.
Any coastal or water area is a danger zone.
This is the general consensus.
During the construction of metropolitan area, Xiacheng conquered the dangerous zone and survived, but Haicheng, which also invested a lot of manpower and material resources, always stayed on the drawing board.
Ronan originally thought it was a matter of probability, but now it seems that there is another hidden secret?
"Don't expose your common sense flaws casually." The blood demon couldn't help but complain, "Even if you haven't been there, haven't you heard of the legendary 'Great Golden Triangle'? This is one of the regions with the most complex and rich types of aberrant products in East Asia. Now, how many people have a golden rice bowl in their hands? Not just in Hucheng, but also in Huaicheng in the north and Jincheng in the south, who is not there to make a living?
"Of course, sometimes teeth will break. After all, this is an area where there is definitely an extraordinary level 'nest'.
"For those three cities, this risk is worth it; but Anseong is very annoyed about this. Because the corruption situation has spread to the Central Plains, reaching the back of Anseong, and there is no middle settlement. Buffer, the central mountainous area has no natural dangers against the aberrations. They have been 'backstabbed' several times, and thanks to An Baizhan's good temper..."
The blood demon didn't explain it very systematically, but Ronan made a regional observation through magneto-optical mica, so he could probably understand it.
He touched his chin, feeling the touch of his growing beard, and suddenly changed the question: "Without maintenance for so many years, what is the traffic capacity of the estuary? Can 10,000 tons of cargo pass through?"
