The metaverse, starting with a deadlock

In 2053, science and technology are advanced, and office automation has been fully implemented long ago, liberating various key government departments from the redundancy of manpower in the past, and the police station of the national violent organization is no exception.

Patrols and arrests are performed by tireless mechanical patrol officers, and advanced and rigorous cloud computing is used to detect and solve crimes. Police agencies at all levels fully implement an elite control policy. The official police station of the Binhai City Police Department in Nuoda has less than [-] officers.

Tonight, the office of the No. [-] Serious Crime Squad of the Binhai City Police Department was unusually brightly lit, and five policemen with dignified expressions were discussing the case.

"...Everyone, according to the comprehensive judgment, Bao Yabin's death is definitely not an ordinary gang vendetta!" The person who spoke was a policewoman who had been to the scene of the warehouse crime. Very sassy style.

A middle-aged police officer with a stern face put down the tablet computer in his hand and asked calmly, "Then according to what Police Officer Liang said, how should we deploy next."

The female police officer Liang looked around. Although she was the youngest member present, she was no less imposing than her predecessors. She said solemnly, "...I suggest digging deeper into the truth about Bao Yabin's death! This person's identity is sensitive. He has an indistinct connection with some wealthy people in the city, if we follow this clue and dig deeper, we may be able to uncover a few cancerous tumors!"

"Officer Liang, be careful!"

Before the words were finished, the middle-aged police officer immediately finished drinking. Officer Liang's face was suffocated, but he did not speak.

"Officer Liang has just graduated from the police academy and is full of motivation. Those of us who have been here can understand the feeling of eagerness to make some achievements, but please be clear to Officer Liang. As law enforcement officers, we must act in accordance with the law! Some subjective You only need to keep in your mind the imaginary idealistic sayings, but it will be unbeautiful if you speak them out.”

The middle-aged police officer spoke calmly, keeping his eyes on Officer Liang, "I personally think that the top priority is to bring the murderer to justice as soon as possible. We haven't had such a major vicious incident in Binhai City for many years. We must close the case as soon as possible to appease the public's feelings." panic."

After finishing speaking, he turned his head to look at the leader who had been silent all this time, and asked in an inexplicable tone, "Team Leader Ouyang, what do you think?"

Team leader Ouyang is a 27-year-old young man. He is the male policeman who arrived at the crime scene with Officer Liang last night and saw Yuan Chao's whereabouts at a glance.

Since just now, he has been immersed in playing with a pen in his hand, as if he was playing fish and being lazy, but if you look closely, you will find that the speed at which he is playing with the pen seems to be chaotic, but in fact it is a very strict and careful set of rules. There are a total of 180 nine movements in the whole set, and most people can't play it at all.

He made no mistakes in the whole process, going round and round, like a precision robot in human skin.

Hearing the middle-aged police officer's question, team leader Ouyang stretched his waist, glanced at the clock on the phone, and said with a smile, "Hehe, comrade old bone is a veteran policeman, he eats more salt than we eat rice , just do as he said, it's getting late, let's arrange the task instructions and leave~"

Officer Liang hesitated to speak, but finally held back his silence.

The main tone of the case was set, and the next step was the division of labor and responsibility. The police officers who participated in the meeting packed up their things and went to arrange work.

Officer Liang lingered at the end, and when everyone else had left, she gritted her teeth and returned to the office. She yelled at Team Leader Ouyang in the face, "Boss, why didn't you support me just now? Don't you think it's easy to get rid of buck teeth?" Is the umbrella behind Bin more deterrent than catching an insignificant murderer?"

Team leader Ouyang put down the pen when he heard the words, and said meaningfully, "Xiaoliang, you are a good comrade. I understand your mentality of killing harm for the people, but sometimes the work doesn't work like that. It's the same sentence, the old bone is the old man. Officer, he eats more salt than we eat rice, learn more when you have time, it won't do you any harm."

"You!" Police Officer Liang became impatient, wishing he could punch his boss in the face, he finally resisted the urge, and left angrily without even saying hello.

Team leader Ouyang looked at the night scene of the city with neon lights flashing outside the window, like an ancient well without waves.

……

After dawn, the people of Binhai City were surprised to find that mechanical patrols could be seen everywhere, and the main roads were strictly controlled, and they couldn't help feeling a little panicked.

At the suburban intersection leading to the northern mountain forest, Yuan Chao hid in the dark with a gloomy face, watching the mechanical patrols stationed there, feeling a headache.

A few years ago, the gang fought to the death and hundreds of people didn't have such momentum. Doesn't that make me think too much?

In order to catch me, even the road control was moved out, isn't it just that a few lawbreakers died, as for being so grand?

Exhaling heavily, Yuan Chao quickly walked away from the controlled main road with a sullen face.

Since the main road is impassable, we can only go to the small road!
After checking his backpack again, Yuan Chao quietly set foot on the rugged mountain trail.

The northern mountain forest covers a very large area. A Nanling mountain range winds across seven provinces and eighteen cities. It is also adjacent to three small countries. It is more than 700 kilometers long. There are towering old trees in the mountains, and the terrain is tortuous. The mysterious magnetic field storms often occur inside the mountains. Phenomenon, through the ages, I don't know how many lost passers-by are buried in it, and it has always had the notoriety of "eating people in the mountains and forests".

If he hadn't been forced into a desperate situation, Yuan Chao really didn't want to rush into the northern mountains. If he got lost in the mountains, he would definitely be more desperate than being buried in the sea.

In order to survive, Yuan Chao can't control so much.

As soon as he set foot in the forest, Yuan Chao felt as if he was cut off from the civilized world behind him, and a strong barbaric atmosphere came over his face.

There are many giant trees that block out the sky, weeds reach knees, and the branches of wild ferns are covered with barbs, which can be scratched if you are not careful.

What annoyed Yuan Chao the most was the ubiquitous mosquitoes, like a pervert who was happy to see a hunter, buzzing around his ears incessantly, making his already heavy heart even more irritable.

Yuan Chao opened the way with a machete in one hand and a wooden stick in the other hand to drive away any snakes and rats that might be hiding in the grass, advancing step by step carefully.

He only walked less than [-] kilometers in one day, and as soon as night fell, Yuan Chao didn't dare to move any more. He hurriedly found a tall ancient tree and climbed up, curling up his whole body under the cover of dense branches and leaves. Be alert to every move of the outside world.

"quack quack~"

"Woooooo~"

"Ow~"

The whistling night wind from the mountains, the unknown horrifying chirping of birds, and the deep roar of wild beasts, the whole world seemed to wake up, as if there were traces of wild beasts everywhere, which made the atmosphere strange and inexplicable.

Even though Yuan Chao has seen strong winds and waves in various virtual worlds, he still can't escape being frightened.

No matter how dangerous and realistic the virtual world is, it is still just a big dream, and it is a big deal to start all over again after death, but if something goes wrong in the real world, then all thoughts are really lost.

In fear, the long night finally passed. Yuan Chao stayed up all night, and hurriedly got down from the tree at dawn and hurried on his way.

He didn't want to stay in this damn place for a moment.

……

A week later, Yuan Chao, who looked like a savage with a shaggy beard and unkempt face, finally walked out of the vast forest. When he saw the dirt road traced by human activities again, he couldn't help but burst into tears with excitement.

What's the matter, the primitive mountain forest is not a place for people to stay at all, Yuan Chao is very sure that anyone who likes to play wilderness survival is so sick in their brains!

People who have never really been in the primeval forest will not understand what it is like, and it is not an exaggeration to say that they narrowly escaped death.

"Finally, I finally came out alive~" Yuan Chao murmured to himself with tears streaming down his face, wishing he could rush up and kiss the rammed dirt road immediately.

With a dirt road, it means that there must be people haunting the place not far away. Yuan Chao was so excited that he jumped up and rushed up the dirt road with his beam of light. gas.

Not long after walking along the dirt road, Yuan Chao was pleasantly surprised to see three figures from behind appearing in front of him, and hurriedly shouted hoarsely, "My fellow, please wait a moment!"

The three people in front stopped when they heard Yuan Chao's voice, and looked back suspiciously.

It was a family of three, two plainly dressed, middle-aged couples in the rural style of decades ago, leading a seven or eight-year-old dirty boy with dull eyes.

Yuan Chao jumped up and rushed in front of the three of them, gestured excitedly and said, "My fellow, how far is it from Taihe Village?"

Taihe Village is a remote mountain village close to the national border. Only by finding Taihe Village can one find a way to sneak across the national border.

Magnetic field storms often erupt in the northern mountain forests. Yuan Chao was unlucky and encountered two within a week. All electronic equipment such as mobile phones failed. If no one pointed out the direction, God knows when he would find it.

It's just that Yuan Chao was full of joy in return for the indifferent and vigilant eyes of the middle-aged couple.

The middle-aged couple looked up and down the ragged Yuan Chao, subconsciously pulled the little boy behind their backs, and said in a blunt tone, "We don't know where Taihe Village is, we are just visiting relatives, you can ask others."

Yuan Chao was slightly taken aback, feeling a strange feeling inexplicably.

visiting relatives?
In this unfeeling Nanling Mountains, according to official statistics, there are less than ten mountain villages, and each of them is distributed in every corner of the mountain range. There is no way to link each other.

It would be even more nonsense to say that people from the city visited their relatives. Every mountain village lived a primitive life isolated from the outside world. How could anyone go back to visit their relatives by climbing mountains and wading on foot after going out.

Moreover, the clothes of these two people are also out of tune with the people in the city, which is weird no matter how you look at it.

The most important thing is that these two people didn't seem to be lying when they said they didn't know Taihe Village, that would be too strange.

According to Yuan Chao's knowledge, apart from Taihe Village, there are no other mountain villages in the northern mountain forest.

Either Yuan Chao lost his way and went to a neighboring province.

or...

These two are weird!