"Your dishes have been served, please take your time."
In the small cubicle of the hotel, the waiter put away a bowl of pasta and cold dishes and left.
Zuo Dao said thanks.
The cubicle door was closed, Zuo Dao thought, and two paper spirits floated out from his chest. One floated in the sky and stared at the room, and the other looked around outside the door. Zuo Dao was eating pasta, which seemed to taste very good. It suits him.
Fifteen minutes later, the meal was finished.
"Nothing unusual."
From Zhi Ling's perspective, Zuo Dao confirmed his safety status, and his caution was evident.
Only then did he take out many things from his backpack.
An ID, a terminal about the size of a palm, a button the size of a keychain, and a silver cigarette case.
The certificate had a black cover. Zuo Dao opened it and found information about himself inside. This also meant that his initial goal was achieved, which made Zuo Dao feel a little happier.
In the past, he was sent to work as an undercover agent after not wearing his uniform for a few days. It really made people speechless and choked. But unfortunately due to special circumstances, in addition to his ID, he also wore uniforms like Tongyan, Quanhu and the others. Windbreakers were not issued.
Close the ID card and open the terminal. This is the internal terminal of the General Affairs Bureau. Nearby areas and police information will flash here. If there are matters to be dispatched, they will also go through here. At the same time, it has the function of checking personal files.
However, due to his current status, most of them are not authorized to be checked, and every application for access will be recorded. This is what Chang Ti also told him before leaving.
He put down the terminal and played with the small keychain-style button.
This is an alarm device. When you are in danger, or when you catch a fish with this bait, don't hesitate to press it directly, shake it, and then either hold on or hide it.
Just wait for the real "professionals" to come and deliver firepower. This technological product, Chen Jiu said in his introduction, can send out a signal even if he presses it during a similar ceremony.
Obviously, this world is not only mysterious and active, but also has not stopped the pace of research and integration in terms of science and technology. From the perspective of Zuodao, it is doing better than the previous world. In the past world, if someone encountered In a crisis, you really have to rely on yourself for everything, the kind that Tiantian should not respond to.
He put the other items away, put the terminal into his backpack, his ID into the inner holder, and the alarm device into the pocket where it was most accessible.
Finally, he picked up the silver cigarette case and opened it with slight interest.
There are five grooves inside for five cigarettes.
The words Zang Tiao said before leaving were recalled in his mind.
"This is a kind of magic technique. When you pick it up, it will be activated automatically and form a wind shield to protect you. The range is about three positions of you. Strictly speaking, even if you take a few howitzers, you will be fine. The premise is But don't take a shot when only the butt of the cigarette is left. At the same time, you should pay attention to the fact that the windshield forms a protective boundary for a moment, which will cut all foreign objects very sharply. It is recommended that there be no other objects near the boundary when the range is formed, otherwise it will Causing casualties.”
At that time, Zang Tiao handed the cigarette case to Zuo Dao.
"What can I say about your technique? It's a bit too simple and doesn't have enough protection, so I thought about it and this is the most suitable one for you..."
Zuo Dao closed the silver cigarette case and played with it with one hand, the corners of his mouth slightly raised.
"Hey...lack of means and simplicity."
He packed his clothes, opened the cubicle and walked out.
This restaurant was a place that the previous owner used to frequent.
Zang Ti allowed him to have free time and live life as usual.
Then... Zuo Dao decided to spend today according to the living habits of his former master, and this was also in line with his ideas.
Observe the world.
...
"Your purpose has been achieved."
In the car, the driver wearing white gloves stopped at the roadside and said.
"Thank you, master." Zuo Dao thanked him, looked at his destination outside the car, opened the door and got out.
In this world, there are also taxi-hailing apps.
Ahead is the school gate.
Huacheng No. 1 Middle School.
It is also the school of the former master and Zuo Dao.
It was Saturday. Normally, except for students who live on campus, there would be very few students coming. After all, the daily school work is enough to make people's blood pressure high.
But the previous owner was such an outlier.
Due to family influence, the former owner was very interested in reading history and other books, so the library of No. 1 Middle School was a place he often visited in his spare time. This world seemed to have less stringent requirements for full-time education, at least in middle schools. In this way, students can choose whether to live on campus or live outside.
Zuo Dao discovered that, perhaps due to the death of a middle school student, officers from the General Affairs Bureau on duty could be seen everywhere nearby.
While thinking, he walked towards the side of the school gate as "usual". Since it was not the time to go to and from school, and he was not a big shot, the electric fence would usually not be opened and teachers and students would pass here.
Zuo Dao entered the school through the automatic security check. Along the way, he seemed to spend a long time observing the campus aimlessly. Of course, he was not really running around. He was consciously observing the school environment through the spiritual vision of the paper spirit.
"There doesn't seem to be anything unusual." Zuo Dao said to himself.
In this way, he followed his memory and walked towards the library.
There were three documents that Zangtiao had asked him to look at before in the coffee shop. One was about himself, one was about his parents, and the other was a preliminary investigation report about the thing that could distort the world and bring people into the world of rituals.
Zuo Dao found in the documents that this was not the first time that a 'ceremony' with this characteristic had appeared. In the past ten years, there had been five of them, and they all took place in different places in Huacheng.
The strange thing is that this ceremony did not cause any casualties. Even when the operators of the Comprehensive Bureau were involved, the other party usually had the purpose of delaying, but this exception was in this "Comprehensive Ceremony Incident" "Exception" made.
Although the host of this ceremony still aims to delay this time, another ceremony has caused the death of several people.
Coupled with Zuo Dao's "confession" and the actual unabashed cooperation between the participants in the two different ceremonies, the General Affairs Bureau determined that this mysterious anomaly had the characteristics of a group crime.
As a result, the guidance in the document has obviously changed from investigation and investigation to the determination to find out and eliminate. This also shows that the General Affairs Bureau is decisive in killing. You can step on the line, but you can't violate the ban, otherwise you will die.
At present, the General Affairs Bureau will focus on conducting covert investigations in the main city area and Huacheng No. 1 Middle School. Although the person behind the thick fog ceremony has still not revealed the truth, the host of the other ceremony is not the same. As long as the person who hosted the ceremony for several times is found, The person who performed the ritual of the death of a middle school student, then naturally there is a very high probability of finding the person who presided over the mist ritual who had been hiding for more than ten years.
While thinking about it, Zuo Dao came to the library. He walked straight into the deserted library. Just when he was thinking about which book to read, he was suddenly stopped by someone.
"Xiao Zuo, I'm here to check out the books again." The old man, about sixty years old, with a librarian's work permit hanging on his chest, greeted him with a smile.
Zuo Dao looked for his voice, and the other party's information emerged in his memory. Before he could speak, he suddenly smelled a faint stench.
Corpse odor——
