Gantry outer ring, slums.
Valentine sat in a police car looking out the window, handcuffs on his wrists. Ansuo was sitting on the other side with a relaxed look on her face, and even hummed a tune leisurely. It seemed that being caught by the Guards Bureau would have no serious consequences for her.
In fact, this is indeed the case. As a thief, Ansuo has her own rules for stealing, which can be roughly summarized in one sentence: only steal food or cash, and never touch valuables. This code of conduct also ensures that the consequences after she is caught by the Guards Bureau will not be too serious. At most, she will be detained in a detention center for one to two weeks, and she will not be thrown into prison. Moreover, she can still have a place to live and free food in the detention center. Although she is likely to encounter some unreasonable police officers who will physically punish and abuse them, but compared to the life of having no meal in the slum, That being said, it's still much better.
If it were Sir Chen who arrested her, her life in detention might be more comfortable. Although Sir Chen speaks sternly to everyone, he is surprisingly caring, especially for little thieves like them who have to take the road of stealing. If they are caught in the middle of the night, Sir Chen will even take away their own midnight snacks. There were hours of counseling among the hungry guys.
For them, Sir Chen's tirade was probably the most painful thing after being caught, but it was nothing compared to the bed in the detention center and the three scheduled meals every day.
Like the two guys who were caught, Xing Yihuang got into the police car, but as a witness. Looking at the indifferent Valentine and the extremely relaxed Ansuo, she felt that the world she was familiar with was slowly changing.
Why are these two so easy to break the law?
Can the laws of this world be stepped on casually? !
"Why did you do that?"
Looking at Valentine who was admiring the scenery of Longmen with curiosity on his face, Xing Yihuang still couldn't suppress the doubts in his heart.
"What?"
Valentin turned around with a puzzled look on his face. He didn't understand what Xing Yihuang asked.
"Destroying other people's property." Xing Yihuang told Valentine's crime. After Sir Chen handcuffed him, Valentin confessed his crime very simply. Xing Yihuang was invited into the police car by the officers of the Guards Bureau without even saying a word, and he followed them back to the station as a witness. Make a note.
Fortunately, Valentin didn't say where the ax came from. He just said that he took it from the house and used it. Otherwise, he would have been charged with theft of public property.
As for why he sat with these two "criminal suspects", this was also Xing Yihuang's request. After understanding her relationship with Valentine, the Guards Bureau officers all looked regretful, and their attitudes towards Valentine became a little worse. Xing Yihuang clearly understood the meaning in their eyes:
"A good cabbage was eaten by a pig."
Although Xing Yihuang didn't know what these extremely bored operators were thinking, it was definitely not a good thing.
It's probably a bloody plot about a scumbag hooking up with an innocent girl to defraud money and sex.
…
"At that time, Ansuo had been cornered by us. Why did you still use an ax to chop down someone else's door? Couldn't you just open the door and get your wallet back?"
"Yes, yes!" The little rabbit who had been wandering around suddenly spoke up and agreed with Xing Yihuang, his tone full of dissatisfaction with Valentine: "Isn't it just stealing your wallet? As for using an ax to kill someone?"
She took out the wallet from her pocket and waved it in front of Valentine: "And there are only five hundred gantry coins in it. You are too poor!"
Looking at the wallet swinging in front of him, Valentin was about to raise his hand to take the wallet back, but Ansuo suddenly retracted his hand and put the wallet into his pocket again, and made a face at him.
"You look good in what you wear, but you're still a poor guy."
Hey, your mouth is not so poisonous in the game!
A fire suddenly lit up in Valentine's heart, and he selectively forgot that he was a doctor in the game and not a refugee from Checheng.
To Ansuo, he is now a stingy lunatic, chasing him for seven blocks for five hundred dollars, and even threatening his life with an axe.
Not only Valentine was angry, Xing Yihuang was also angry, because she was sitting between the two people who were messing around. This police car is a standard sedan variant, and the back seat space is not very large. Although it can seat three people, the space allocated to each person is very small, and it is not comfortable to sit. The "friendly scene" between Valentine and Anso just now "The interaction squeezed a lot of space from her.
so……
Xing Yihuang raised his hands and directly put his hands on their faces and pressed them on both sides, staring directly back at the good baby with sparkling eyes.
Now she probably understands why she was selected by Jiao Zhengyu to become Valentine's follower. It's because this guy is too jumpy and needs a suppressive measure.
Otherwise, Valentin wouldn't be able to go home, and she wouldn't be able to go back either. She would have to stay in the Rhine Life Laboratory and endure endless torture.
"You haven't answered my question yet." Xing Yihuang retracted his arms and crossed his arms.
Valentin glanced at Xing Yihuang and focused on the scenery outside the window again. It is the afternoon in Longmen, when most people go to work, and the road is relatively congested, so Valentine can observe this oriental city-state more carefully.
"The wooden door, the axe, and the trembling woman hiding in the corner. When these three are combined, all it takes is a madman."
He did not forget to answer Xing Yihuang's question.
Although Xing Yihuang understood every word Valentin said, when the words were connected, she didn't understand them at all.
"You can ask him." Valentine noticed the confusion on Xing Yihuang's face through the reflection of the car window, and pointed to his temple.
"Chinese culture is broad and profound, maybe you will get the answer in it."
He did not answer Xing Yihuang's question directly, but responded perfunctorily.
After all, the answer is useless. Xing Yihuang doesn't understand what "Geng" is.
"But this is an illegal act." Xing Yihuang glanced at Superintendent Long in the passenger seat and lowered his voice: "This is not Qicheng."
No one cares about them in Qicheng, but Valentine has never done anything illegal or criminal.
But now that they are in Longmen, they no longer have the power they once had, and they have to bow their heads when they are under someone else's fence. As a result, Valentine directly pokes at someone else's fence, in a particularly stupid way.
"My brain told me to do it, so I did it. I wanted to ask why, but my brain told me Just do it."
Valentine shrugged.
"Then I was arrested... Who would have thought that there was someone else in the house besides Hidden Cable? Who would have thought that Officer Chen from the Longmen Guards Bureau was leading a team to patrol nearby?"
Listening to Valentine's answer, Chen, who was sitting in the passenger seat, decided to change the patrol from twice a week to three times a week.
The refugees in Qicheng were more difficult to discipline than she thought...
Xing Yihuang stopped talking and looked ahead at the cars passing by on the road. Valentine did not look back, still looking at the tall buildings in Longmen in the distance. Ansuo yawned, and a wave of sleepiness hit her eyelids.
Ansuo didn't sleep well last night. The guy who lived with her was tinkering with some new Originium skills at night and was very noisy. She was too embarrassed to bring it up, after all, the guy provided her sleeping place.
Silence fell in the car.
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"Name?"
It was a familiar opening, but this time the person questioning him was not the HR of a certain company, but the superintendent of the Longmen Guards Bureau.
The police car did not drive to the headquarters of the Guards Bureau, but stopped at the Guards Bureau branch closest to the slums--of course, in the Lower City. Although Longmen's slogan is "freedom, openness, and tolerance" and the level of discrimination against infected people is much lower than that in Ursus, ordinary people here are not willing to come into contact with infected people in slums, including law enforcement officers. If Chen, a workaholic, hadn't become a senior superintendent, perhaps they wouldn't even bother to do this weekly inspection of the slums.
Valentine sat on the chair and looked at the newspaper in front of him with his name on it. After being pulled into the interrogation room, Valentine's handcuffs were removed, and the only person being interrogated at the same time was Chen, which made Valentine find it very interesting.
"gender?"
The same process, but this time Valentine wasn't angry, probably because he was used to it. He crossed his hands on his lower abdomen and adjusted his sitting posture to make it more comfortable.
"Male. And Officer Chen, if you have anything, just tell me. There is no need to go through these procedures. It is a waste of your time."
Valentine smiled.
He was only charged with destroying other people's property. The most serious charges were only fines and imprisonment. There was no need for Senior Superintendent Chen to interrogate him. Otherwise, what do the officers in the branch do for food and furnishings?
This can only mean that Chen definitely has something to do with him.
Chen raised his head and glanced at him, and Valentine nodded slightly as he met Chen's gaze.
This was the first time he looked directly at Chen in this world, and his appearance was not much different from the one in the game. However, Chen in the game is always frowning, looking a little unhuman. The real-life Chen is a little better than the one in the game, but only a little better.
Looking at Chen's back as she turned and left the interrogation room, Valentin felt that she looked very similar to Xing Yihuang.
After all, they all have a tail and dragon horns.
Ahem.
Chen came back soon, but this time she brought Xing Yihuang into the interrogation room. Looking at the two dragons in front of him, Valentine felt that they might be a pair of sisters.
He waved to Xing Yihuang and moved a chair to her in a gentlemanly manner.
"Valentin, Xing Yihuang. The former is the leader of the Chernobog Howlers, and the latter is his bodyguard. The two are suspected of being a couple."
Chen opened the blue book in his hand and read the contents.
"... He has more than a hundred lives in his hands, but he is a qualified entrepreneur. The properties under his name all pay taxes legally and there is no tax evasion. He has established several foundations to improve the status of medical staff and teachers in Qicheng. The rise provided support. When Checheng was invaded, it became the only resistance force, but was quickly wiped out. After the war, it joined Rhode Island."
This is a brief piece of information about Valentine and Xing Yihuang, telling what they have done in Qicheng during the past two years.
"Longmen is very concerned about us." Valentin looked at Chen who closed the book and nodded to express the authenticity of the information.
"But there are some small mistakes in it." He raised his hand and pinched his index finger and little finger, squinting his eyes: "For example, the section where Rhode Island was added at the end. I did evacuate Qicheng with Rhode Island, but because I saved I became their operator. Later, the employment report I submitted was rejected by Rhodes Island, just because of the bad things I did in Qicheng two years ago."
"So now I am just an ordinary refugee from Qicheng, trying to make a living in Longmen."
"But you broke the law on the first day you came to Longmen." Chen's brows frowned slightly, turning into the appearance of the game's portrait.
It's beautiful, but also awe-inspiring.
"Ah... do you understand the pain of losing almost everything? From the top of the pyramid to the bottom, some emotions cannot be helped. If you meet an Ursus without a right hand in the slums, please tell him for me. Apologize. If he hasn’t died of pus from the wound.”
Bullshit is what Valentin does best, and so is lying.
"You need to prove your worth to Longmen."
Chen didn't want to continue talking to him and got straight to the point.
"According to the information obtained, you and Xing Yihuang have been identified as 'dangerous elements with a certain threat' by the Longmen Guards Bureau. You must either accept the surveillance of the Guards Bureau or leave Longmen."
"But I'm just a medical warlock." Valentine looked innocent.
"A medical warlock with hundreds of lives in his hands?" Chen's expression did not change at all, making people wonder whether her words were sarcastic.
"Those guys are all scum. Qicheng's inner world is not as beautiful as it appears on the surface." Valentin excused his past behavior, although he felt that there was nothing to explain.
"Some villains who have committed many evil deeds are ignored by the Chicheng Royal Police. Those policemen will only take care of the nobles and businessmen in the middle city. So I helped the people in the lower city and slums clean up the garbage."
"You will threaten the safety of Longmen."
How can I threaten you once you move the city? Even Xing Yihuang may not be able to defeat you!
Valentine felt MMP in his heart, but still had a smile on his face.
"So how does the Longmen government want me to prove my worth?"
Just what Chen said just now, "You need to prove your worth to Longmen," made Valentine feel that the Longmen government was a gangster.
...That seems to be the right understanding.
"Help us deal with the gangs in the ghetto."
Chen gave her request directly.
"I know what you want to ask. The Longmen Guards Bureau is already very busy dealing with matters in the upper city and lower city. They were not even willing to step into the slums before I became the senior superintendent."
"But Longmen has reached an agreement with the leader of the largest gang in the slums, asking him to help Longmen maintain law and order in the slums. This person's code name is Rat King."
A photo slid in front of Valentine. He lowered his head and saw a mouse in a suit. The mouse seems to be very old, with long beard and eyebrows. He looks quite celestial, much more impressive than the former gang leader.
"The Rat King has made a lot of contributions to the stable environment of the slums, but there are still threats inside. Because of the special rules between the Rat King and others, the Rat King cannot directly attack those guys, so he needs someone without any background. agent."
Hearing this, Valentin understood what Longmen meant.
They need someone to help the Rat King kill some disobedient guys in the slums, but due to the rules between gangs, the Rat King cannot take action, and the Guards Bureau is unable to do anything, not to mention that the officers of the Guards Bureau don't want to set foot there. So Longmen needs a stupid young man with a clean background to kill those guys.
And Valentine is the stupid young man they like.
"Am I... working as a gunman for the government?"
Valentine threw the picture of the Rat King back on the table.
"If I die, will you make me a martyr or something?"
"If you fail in your mission, your body will be thrown into the crematorium and end up in a small box in an unknown cemetery."
Chen's face was expressionless.
"At least you finally have a family."
"The home in my imagination is not a small boxy wooden box, but a large villa built of reinforced concrete." Valentin gestured with his hands open, and his mind was full of his home in Chernobog. The appearance of the villa.
"And you have to smile when you tell jokes, okay? It doesn't look good for a beautiful girl like you to keep a straight face all the time."
"I won't be able to get married."
Chen's expression did not change, but his eyes darkened suddenly. Valentine smiled awkwardly and bowed his head slightly towards Chen.
"I apologize for my abruptness."
Chen in the game already has a favorability level of 200. That’s because she has been with “Dr. Valentine” for a long time. In reality, Chen's favorability score at this moment is about -1000, because she is not familiar with Valentine, but Valentine communicates with Chen in the same manner as talking to a good friend.
Just like he once talked to Gavel, Valentin has never been able to break this bad habit. But Jiaweier himself is very carefree and doesn't care about this, but Chen Ke is different.
Checheng Refugees: -20
Criminal: -100
Good attitude towards admitting mistakes: +40
Not rejecting Gantry's request: +40
A foul-mouthed man: -1000
Chen sent a diplomatic request: "Open the skylight and speak frankly."
Chen declares you his nemesis.
Valentin felt that if Chen had come to interrogate him behind Chi Xiao's back, the knife would have been placed on his neck just now.
"If you can complete the task, you will get the citizenship of Longmen and a house in the lower city."
Chen took back the photo of the Rat King with a bad tone, and it was obvious that she was not calming down.
"This is the maximum reward that the Longmen government can give you, and it is impossible to increase it. If you refuse, then you and Xing Yihuang will be deported directly."
"...Zhen Jue." Valentin glanced at Xing Yihuang, but the other party did not show any emotion.
"I accept this mission."
How could he not accept this nonsense! If you don't accept it, you'll have to go back to the wilderness to eat dirt... Oh, you should probably go back to the Rhode Island base and get scolded.
He was scared when he thought of Kelsey's face, and he didn't know why.
"It's up to you to decide how to carry out the mission. You can attack head-on or sneak in for assassination, as long as you can get rid of the few guys above." Chen threw a file bag to Valentine.
"The Longmen Guard Bureau and the Rat King will help you complete your mission."
"How can I help?" Valentin opened the file bag and poured the documents and photos on the table to check them one by one, mainly to let Xing Yihuang understand.
After all, she is the main output force, and Valentine is just a sucker.
"The Longmen Guard Bureau will ignore your illegal activities in the execution of the mission to the greatest extent. The Rat King will give you some target information and update it in real time."
"If it is later proven that the illegal behavior you committed during the mission was completely avoidable or the impact was too bad, the Guards Bureau will still arrest you and bring you to justice."
...I don’t know why Valentin feels that his future in Longmen is dark.
"My final question is, if I am really locked up after the mission is completed...do I still have the house and citizenship rights promised by the Longmen government?"
Valentine packed up the file bag and handed it back to Chen, while putting the USB flash drive inside into his pocket.
The USB flash drive contained all the files in the portfolio. Valentine could only take this with him because the portfolio was too obvious.
"The fact that you will go to jail is a sign of your citizenship rights. Because for those felons who do not have citizenship rights, Longmen will directly send them to the mines to work as laborers, or directly throw them into the wilderness and let them fend for themselves."
Looking at Chen's beautiful red eyes, Valentin felt that this sister would definitely not be able to get married...
"So, can I leave now?" Valentine was about to get up and leave, but was stared back at his seat by Chen. She opened the notebook in front of her and said in an unquestionable tone: "Finish the notes before leaving."
…
Valentine is convinced of this workaholic.
After ten minutes of questioning and half an hour of introspection, Chen finally finished recording Valentine's illegal process, and at the same time got a guarantee from him that he would never break the law again.
Looking at Chen who was about to pack up and leave, Valentin made his first request when starting the mission: "Can you release the secret cable? I have business with her."
Chen glanced at Valentine with some doubts, but agreed.
Watching Chen communicating with Ansuo, Valentine stretched and relaxed. This request of Longmen is similar to his purpose, and Valentine can also find a legitimate reason for his investigation of the integration movement.
Take the opportunity to vent your pent-up emotions.
Originally, he thought he could only be a good, law-abiding citizen in Longmen, but now it seems that he doesn't need to do that. Valentine closed his eyes and prayed in his heart.
For the sake of the scum who will die at his hands.
