As the bright light subsided, the man's voice no longer appeared in Zhou Jinru's ears, and the lighthouse blocked all his subsequent words.
Two hundred years ago, Victoria was an era of both barbarism and civilization. It was inevitable that there would be some supernatural phenomena. The luck-changing dice is the best proof.
For unknown things, the best solution is not to think, not to guess, not to be curious, just give it a bullet when it jumps in front of you, use the mysterious side ability to disturb yourself, and give it a beacon.
Zhou Jinru collected the documents and did not stay any longer. He wanted to go find the two remaining survivors and have dinner with Chen after everything was over.
Even in Londinium there are still slums until the evening sun shines on them and the misty hunters in top hats leave the slums amidst the thanks of the washerwomen.
"It's getting late."
The light of dusk was extremely short, and it was about to fall into the night. He walked quickly on the muddy path. After dark, a layer of mist would appear in Londinium, which fit the description of a foggy city.
"ah!"
Suddenly, a soft cry came from not far away. Zhou Jinru immediately stopped and looked in the direction of the sound. A girl in a student uniform was squatting on the ground, staring at his leather shoes eagerly.
Zhou Jinru knew this childish face, Snow Pheasant, who was still a guest in Rhode Island. Was she still a student in the sitcom?
Snow Pheasant was the second group of members to enter Londinium following Dupin.
After Zhou Jinru came back from Yin Hui in the morning, he had not had time to talk to Du Bin, nor had he greeted the second batch of arriving operators, so he had basically no understanding of the roles they played.
"First, sir."
Xue Pheasant covered her mouth with one hand and made a trembling sound.
Zhou Jinru took off his leather shoes and saw a coin buried in the shallow soil. He bent down and picked up the coin under the envious eyes of the snow pheasant.
It's such a pity, but this penny will probably not be buried.
Xue Pheasant thought to himself.
"May I have your name?"
Zhou Jinru held the coin in his hand and asked casually, even though he knew Xue Pheasant's real name.
Xue Pheasant looked at the man in front of him, using the last ray of the setting sun to see his appearance clearly, and shook his head hard: "It's better not to say anything, sir. Goodbye."
She had just taken two steps when a man's deep voice came from behind: "If I were you, I would never walk into the fog. It's foggy now and it's very dangerous."
I don't know when, a light mist filled the streets, making the already humid environment even worse.
Snow Pheasant stopped abruptly, with those terrible folklores popping up in his mind from time to time. He flattened his mouth and looked like he was about to cry.
Well, bullying a little girl was not his intention.
Zhou Jinru suppressed the guilt in his heart and took out a simple lantern from his pocket: "Let's go together. I am a mist hunter and I will not harm you!"
Xue Zhi stood still. She was not sure whether she could believe the words of the man in front of her. Subconsciously, she refused to believe others.
But as time passed little by little, the last trace of natural light disappeared, and night fell. The cold night wind blew in Londinium in winter, plus a layer of mist, so that the thinly-clad girl couldn't help but hug her. With arms and vigilant eyes, he walked towards the man.
Let's just believe him once. I have no more choices.
Snow Pheasant thought a little frustrated.
"Hold on to my clothes, or I'll carry you away."
Is this really good?
Xue Zhi was shocked and could not accept being hugged by a strange man no matter what. She quickly grabbed the corner of his clothes and held it tightly in her hands, not daring to let go.
Zhou Jinru looked at Xue Pheasant's reaction with satisfaction. She had not yet come out of the last incident, and her mental state was always on high alert, so she did not believe that this was normal.
But it's so late. When a thin girl faces a strong adult man, no matter how vigilant she is, it's a normal reaction, right?
He didn't say much. He held a simple lantern in his left hand and took out the revolver from his pocket with his right hand. He pressed the hammer while walking forward. The purpose of holding this gun was firstly for self-defense and secondly to warn those with evil intentions. Don't act rashly.
It was dark and foggy, and the road was difficult to walk. Zhou Jinru had to carry snow pheasants with him. Zhou Jinru walked very slowly, thinking to himself that Sir Chen had finished his official duties and thought he would go find him. But he was let go. He must be very unhappy. .
The two people walked for a while, and suddenly a large light spot appeared in front of them, and it kept getting closer.
Xue Pheasant hugged Zhou Jinru's waist from behind in fear, while Zhou Jinru was not nervous at all, because there were always police patrols in Londinium at night, and it was very likely that they would meet the patrol officers on duty near the slums.
In less than a few minutes, those light spots came to them. The leader raised the lamp and asked loudly: "Who is in front of you?!"
"A person in a hurry, and a lost student."
Seven or eight lights came over. Each patrolman was wearing a thick uniform and carrying a weapon. They carefully looked at Zhou Jinru and the snow pheasant behind him.
A tall and muscular patrolman asked: "It's so late, why are you still out?"
Zhou Jinru immediately took out the previous documents and recounted the story he had thought up. When the patrol officers saw the clothes he was wearing and the documents, the tense atmosphere relaxed.
"Go home quickly and rest. Don't stay outside."
The patrol officer looked past Zhou Jinru and looked at Xue Pheasant. The little girl said nervously: "I was delivering class notes to my classmates, and I happened to meet this gentleman, so we left together."
"What happened to your classmate?"
"Her father accidentally became an infected person and moved from the city to the slums, so she could only stay in the slums."
The patrolman did not ask any more questions and waved his hand, signaling Zhou Jinru and Xue Pheasant to leave quickly.
Xue Zhi, who was granted amnesty, hurriedly let go of her hand. After she realized how embarrassing her behavior was, she lowered her head and refused to say a word. She just grabbed Zhou Jinru's clothes and followed behind.
Zhou Jinru frowned: "You said that your classmates were forced to leave school and stay in the slums because of their families?"
"Yes, no one can prevent this tragedy from happening. Factory owners are unwilling to accept infected people because they think they will take greater risks. Moreover, the threat posed by infected people has always existed recently, so Londinium issued a decree The new law requires all infected people to stay away from urban areas."
All tragedies are the same. They lose their jobs due to accidents, and their families lose their source of income and have to move into slums. There are very few job opportunities there, so they fall into an endless cycle.
Zhou Jinru thought of the six documents in his hand. Two of them were infected. Although they could still live in the slums, they had actually lost hope for life. Only four people who were not infected still had hope of returning to dignity. hope for a civilized world.
"No wonder after the destruction of Siesta, various countries began to establish communities of infected people. It turns out that such prototypes existed two hundred years ago, but why did they do this after two hundred years of persecution?"
The establishment of a community of infected people will accelerate the separation of the worlds of infected people and non-infected people. They are like two races and two societies, and the conflicts caused by them will become irreconcilable.
Zhou Jinru said something similar when he first arrived in Rhode Island. He didn't know at the time that Tallulah took Chernobog's core city and several plots of land and ran to the no-man's land in the south to farm. Later, she and Frost Star After the encounter, I learned that a large number of infected people began to stay away from their homeland and defected to the integration movement, and I couldn't help but have an illusion:
Tallulah was no longer her original self. It was as if she had been replaced by someone with sharp skills who came to change the course and forcibly turned the situation from a dead end into a way of survival.
Although Shuangxing refused to say anything, Zhou Jinru could still find the answer from her emotions.
It was at that time that the tyrant convinced the eldest brother and let the undead go, and everything changed.
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"Okay, you're already back in the city when you get here. You can go home by yourself. Is that okay?"
No matter how arrogant Snow Pheasant was, there was no way he could let a strange man know where he lived. The little girl nodded quickly, like a chicken pecking rice, said thank you, and disappeared at the end of the road.
After watching Xue Pheasant leave, Zhou Jinru looked away. He began to think about another thing, how to face Sir Chen who had been let go.
Should I hug Sir Chen tightly and apologize sincerely, or should I kneel in front of her, hug her thighs, and cry with snot and tears... Zhou Jinru began to have random thoughts in his mind, and before he knew it, he had come to the east In front of the police station in the district, the lights are bright inside, and through the windows you can see the police officers on the night shift sitting around bored and playing cards.
Zhou Jinru pushed the door open and walked in. Everyone stopped what they were doing and turned to look at him.
"What's up?"
"I'm looking for Sir Chen."
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A few minutes later, Zhou Jinru walked out of the police station with a puzzled face. The police officer told him that not long after he left, Sir Chen left and did not come back. There might be something important.
"Chen has been processing documents. She told me that she would have time to have dinner together after processing the documents, but she left early...
"None of the police officers were alerted. It seems that Chen Sir's departure was an unexpected incident and had nothing to do with the case. Otherwise, she should have filed a record and took a few more people away.
"There are very few people who can lure Chen away, and the excuses are quite limited. She is not an easy person to be fooled, although she usually looks a bit silly... I seem to know who it is."
Zhou Jinru flipped his fingers, and a business card popped out between his fingers. He quickly found a phone booth and started dialing. Not long after, a mature and steady voice came from the other side: "Is it Zhou?"
"Where is Chen?"
"She ate my cake."
Zhou Jinru looked outside the phone booth: "How much does the cake cost? I'll pay for it."
"Haha," a cheerful laughter came from the other side of the phone, "You are such an interesting person. No wonder she is willing to take wedding photos with you and wants to spend the rest of her life with you. I told her that you are here with me and you can't bear it. Injured, she came immediately and is now my guest.”
The voice on the other end of the phone emphasized the word "guest" very hard, for fear that Zhou Jinru would not understand the meaning.
"Ms. Xingxiong, just say whatever you want."
"Come on, I'll give you a chance, come to me, it's that simple."
Xingxiong gave his address and then hung up the phone.
When Zhou Jinru walked out of the phone booth, he still couldn't believe his ears. Such a bloody plot happened to him. That idiot Chen, did she believe everything others said?
"Should I call the police?"
This ridiculous idea was dismissed by him as soon as it emerged. Since Chen can be the person in charge of the region, she has her own talents. I understand that Xingxiong would not dare to hurt her even if he had ten courages. This is different from street fighting, kidnapping and collecting protection money. There is a big difference. Chen's identity is an official of Londinium, and hurting her means taking the initiative to challenge the Londinium officials. It suddenly changes from a civil case to a criminal case, the nature of which is very different!
As the spokesperson of a large family, Xingxiong would definitely not do such a stupid thing.
But this way, Zhou Jinru couldn't figure out her real purpose. He didn't hear Chen's voice, so he didn't know whether it was true or false.
The address of Xingxiong Newspaper was in a remote warehouse in Dongda District, which was quite consistent with her behavior. When Zhou Jinru, wearing a black windbreaker, appeared, the two men guarding the door took the initiative to open the door and let him in.
The warehouse was well ventilated and there was no smell at all. When Zhou Jinru stepped into the warehouse, he immediately saw Chen tied to a chair. She was staring, with a towel in her mouth, making a whimpering sound.
Xingxiong, you really know how to play. When the sitcom comes out, let’s see how Sir Chen deals with you.
Zhou Jinru almost lost his expression and ignored Chen's voice, his eyes falling on Xing Xiong.
The spokesperson and double-flower red stick wore a ferocious ghost-headed mask, raised his chin, and said coldly: "You are indeed here."
"Shouldn't I come?"
"I said you would definitely come, but Chen said you shouldn't come. She was worried about your life."
Zhou Jinru couldn't understand the plot and asked: "So the reason why you tied her up was for me?"
Black leather boots walked in front of the mist hunter. Xing Xiong put one hand on the handle of the long knife hanging behind him: "I don't understand why you suddenly ran away two years ago and now you are back. That fool still Totally devoted to you."
"Because of love."
"Oh, love."
Xingxiong's eyes were filled with murderous intent: "If you beat me, you can take her away, or if you let me chop three times, you can take her away."
Zhou Jinru's figure disappeared instantly and appeared five steps away. He lowered his head and stared at his black windbreaker. A long slender cut tore the fabric open.
What a fast knife!
But isn’t Star Bear reinstalled? !
He suddenly remembered something. The star bear in the game had a skin, which included the action of wielding a sword. Could it be that she was like Ceria, picking up the shield, not revealing anything, and putting down the shield, which is the real thing? she? !
"The speed is good."
Under the mask, Xing Xiong's voice of approval came out.
But in Zhou Jinru's eyes, a sword light suddenly appeared!
