National Juggernaut

Chapter 504 Meeting

Human beings are social creatures, and they will instinctively pursue order. If the government cannot provide order, there will be people and power to fill it in. But that may not be the "order" that everyone expects to see.

After the Shiqian city government gave up its jurisdiction and administrative power for some reason, various scattered gangs are the order here.

Even the Xiaohua in front of Zheng Li has a "fraternity" that sounds bluffing. But in fact, it is just a group of flower sellers and street children to keep warm and unite to avoid persecution from certain people.

Of course, this kind of organization is fragile, and there is basically no benefit at all, and it is not even worthy of trust in its performance in times of crisis, but at least it can prevent a few adults who have failed elsewhere from blindly venting their anger and incompetence in The tragedy of the "mongrel child".

".I know about other places, but there are still human traffickers here. Mixed blood like us can't be sold, but some black clinics buy us. They are our worst enemies. Last month, A Lang was arrested."

Where there is light, there is shadow, and where there is demand, there is market. The stricter the control in other urban areas, the more out of control in this unmanaged area.

And most of the residents here are abnormal people who cannot survive in other areas.

Zheng Li frowned. He didn't think his superiors would not know about this kind of thing, and he was probably unable to do anything due to the interference of many factors.

Leaving an autonomous safe zone for Iron Man is an unspoken rule recognized by major cities, which means that the door of human beings is always open to "return to Iron Man".

When the city was relocated to set up this area, the land was not valuable, and the decision-makers allocated a rather large vacant land in order to do more projects and engage in tourism.

This piece of land, which is similar to leased land, does not belong to Shiqian City politically. If the big city tries to take it back or take it under its jurisdiction, it will be hyped up by the Atel people, causing political and diplomatic disadvantages.

This is actually nothing, anyway, the relationship between the two parties is like this, but if it is compiled into "racial oppression" and "bloody case" by some existence, so as to hit the heart of the returnist iron man, this political cauldron, I am afraid that even The mayor can't afford it.

"In the final analysis, it is still a matter of development. It did not develop at the beginning."

Other Iron Man Autonomous Regions don’t have this problem. Although Iron Man is a silicon-based creature that has a very poor compatibility with the Spirit Blade system, it itself has Artel and Iron Man’s branches of psionic technology. After being armed, its combat power is not weak. Those giant Transformers only need to cover Sufficient psionic energy is a powerful fighting machine in itself.

However, the area of ​​Shiqian City was not developed at the beginning, and the iron men did not settle in enough numbers to form a stable order. Instead, it became an unmanaged area, attracting too much filth and special people, and became the city "Sloppipe Sewer".

Take back this area?It is impossible to make this decision politically, and most of the population here has not completed citizen registration, let alone paid taxes and fulfilled citizen obligations, and legally the local government has no jurisdiction and responsibility over them.

It's just that it has continuously absorbed the filth and darkness of the city. In fact, without this area, a certain peripheral area of ​​Shiqian City will also produce similar slums, which are relatively stable and safe.

Obviously, the normal operators here don’t have a lot of money, but all kinds of illegal transactions and cultists can sell Zheng Li on the street, which is an eye-opener. Products are placed directly on the stall.

"If you want it, don't buy it here. If the ones on the stall are not fakes, they will be replaced with fake ones when they are delivered. Once the money is revealed, you will be in trouble."

Xiaohua's Jianghu experience is probably more abundant than Zheng Li's.

But undoubtedly, she also revealed another fact.

".So, there's a black market for large amounts of contraband? Well, there's also smuggled goods."

"Well, this is the necessity of existence here."

Looking at the child's words, Zheng Li was a little surprised.

"Have you ever read a book?"

"I was adopted by a couple of well-meaning people before, and then my racial characteristics showed up and they found other children."

The girl said cruel words, but without any anger, she seemed to have accepted it, and was even used to being abandoned and betrayed.

"Don't get me wrong, those were the happiest days I've ever been born, but it was a little too short."

At this moment, Zheng Li was a little moved.

"Heh, if you sympathize with me, don't forget my reward. For people like us, this may be a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, and I will try my best to seize it. I am still young, and there is still time."

At this moment, Zheng Li was a little moved by the maturity of the girl.

He realized that the other party didn't trust him, and he didn't even feel that he was really a spy from the Ministry of Internal Affairs. There was no need to find such a low-level tour guide.

But this is an opportunity, an opportunity to get out of the quagmire, so she wants to seize it.

For a gray householder, an outsider, sometimes it is the presence or absence of an opportunity that determines the trajectory of the whole body.

The era of sword masters for all means that everyone can become stronger. But the premise is to obtain a sufficient foundation, complete a series of martial arts training before hunting, and reach a certain number of blades to be able to fight.

The most difficult thing is probably the very beginning. Jin Xiaohua, who got the first bucket of snowball, said that she was young because of this. She longed for this opportunity and the ability to hold her own destiny.

Then, Xiaohua also used practical actions to prove that Zheng Li's commission was not in vain.

From her mouth, Zheng Li has a deeper understanding of this city. What caused all this is not just a "political problem" that can be solved.

"This is the largest smuggling channel and contraband trading area. Many cross-city companies trade privately here. We call it 'Death Deal', because they may be 'cleared' if they encounter it, so there are a few abandoned buildings. We will not go."

"Us? What we have no value for is to pick the rest of the 'trash'. Everyone comes together in order to survive. The fraternity is this thing. Those who are beautiful, or may be beautiful, can be pulled to do it" Business'. If the awakened ability is above C+ level, there will be gang income, and if it is above B level, it may even leave here."

From Xiaohua's mouth, Zheng Li understood the environment here more and more.

In various senses, this place has become the dark area and sewer of the city. The city's law enforcement officers are well aware of this situation, but due to various reasons, they only adopt a governance method of truncated control.

That is to say, no matter what goes out, no matter what goes in, the decay inside is regarded as a small wound in the city.

The procedure to enter here is very simple, you can take the bus casually, and there are a total of four entrances to enter.

But if you go from here to a certain area outside, you have to go through several checkpoints, and you have to take out the items you carry for inspection.

In a sense, when the rot gathers in one area, it is convenient for monitoring. There must be real executors of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in this area to make sure that everything is not really out of control.

The unspoken rule is "you can play whatever you like inside, if you cross the line, the whole family will die."

If any of them cross the line, the Ministry of Internal Affairs will deal with it as simple and rude as ever. Several gangs successfully crossed the line and committed crimes, and the entire resident was bloodbathed. But as long as there are people outside, there are wanted criminals, smugglers and illegal According to the needs of traders, this "market" is still thriving, and the population is always increasing.

People like Xiaohua can't even be regarded as one of them. "Insiders" and "outsiders" don't intersect at all. Many people in the area are just unlucky ones who have lost everything. The ability and freedom, the cause of all this is outsiders who regard this place as a "garbage dump", "smuggling warehouse", "contraband exchange", and "cannon fodder mass production".

Seen the darkness?Understand the dark?Zheng Li was actually very calm. He had seen similar things in other big cities. If he hadn't met some people, he might have lived a similar life.

In Zheng Li's eyes, this is perfectly normal. Every city has its own special zone, but because of the existence of special zones, these rotten things are concentrated on these few square kilometers of land, making it especially dirty and smelly.

And the gang station that Zheng Li is now going to is the local residence of the Ater people. At this time, Zheng Li feels that the existence of these Ater people is particularly eye-catching here, as if a group of rich people forcibly lived in the slums, He collects protection fees every day and bullies little hairy children, and he stays there for decades.

"What is their main business? The real one, not the ones that are covered up on the surface."

"How could I know"

Zheng Li looked at her silently without speaking.

"There are often overloaded trucks coming in and out of their station. It may be smuggling. There are many gangs here who do this with outsiders."

At this time, Zheng Li nodded in satisfaction, "smuggling" is indeed quite possible.

There are always caught fish in the customs inspection of Shiqian City, and there are still some immigrants who did not take the normal way from the beginning.

If the prohibited people want to trade and store their goods, they naturally need a relatively safe area, at least to avoid the psychic trackers in the city.

Maybe these Atel people are part of a long-running smuggling route.

Thinking of this, Zheng Li's heart became a little hot. He understood what the so-called spiritual guidance was. Could it be that he was not far from the target? But soon, Zheng Li calmed down, and he had already seen the six layers Small building.

Compared with the crooked dilapidated bungalows around.These buildings are so luxurious that they look like palaces. Tall red jade stones cover the ground, and there are portraits of people made of precious stones on the walls. Although Zheng Li thinks that they are still fat faces made of stones, the owner's aesthetics is really good. Ugly.

Among the dilapidated shacks, this jeweled local tyrant building with a garden stood out, and Zheng Li had some inexplicable impulse to demolish it.

"Wait here."

Zheng Li took two steps and disappeared into the shadows. In broad daylight, there was no one there. Xiaohua was so frightened that she screamed, showing the expression of a child, but immediately covered her mouth.

This is undoubtedly a warning.

Xiaohua's face turned pale with fright, but she covered her mouth and said nothing. After turning pale with shock, she quickly showed joy.

Or, she thinks she hugged the right thigh this time.

But now, Zheng Li is in the shadows, circling around the wall, there is no way, the Atel people's technology is very strange, some stones are fine for them to step on, and it will automatically call the police when you get close.

But after turning around many times, Zheng Li didn't find the so-called "spiritual stone", let alone the legendary protective barrier.
"Tsk, they can't really be ordinary gems. Uh, so to speak, low-level Atel fighters don't seem to have much of this kind of technology, if they are just some ordinary Atel civilians who come to 'work'"

At this time, Zheng Li realized that he probably thought too much, and recognized the elite Altels he had fought against.

In a flash, he jumped into the building from the window. The next moment, he realized that something was wrong.

"Everything is inside"

When approaching the gate, Zheng Li was surprised by the absence of guards here, but now he found that they all died here together.

The corpses were lying all over the ground, most of them were local humans and aliens, and they seemed to be hired local thugs.

".Is it late?"

Thinking of this, Zheng Li gave up his plan to sneak slowly without hesitation, and galloped all the way in the mansion.

But they spanned several rooms, and there were still various corpses. When Zheng Li saw an Atel lying on the ground, he was sure that the situation was completely out of control.

And in the room of the owner of this building, the guild leader of the Iron Oath, 'Big Bear Monster', Zheng Li finally found the first living person.

The tall black stone man was lying on a chair, but his head was placed on the bed, and a man was touching the sky cover of his head.

"Who!"

The next moment, the battle was on the verge of breaking out, but Zheng Li clapped his hands and put the sword back into its sheath.

"It seems that we are all one step slower."

"Zheng Li? Why are you here?!"

Standing in the middle of this "murder scene" was Zheng Li's new friend who had just broken up today, the executor uncle who really came from the Ministry of Internal Affairs.

".Oh, I see. You followed the clues to find it. You are amazing. You are indeed an expert in finding objects. You came so fast. Obviously we have intelligence support."

Then, he also took the initiative to explain for Zheng Li.

Zheng Li looked at the detached corpse. This strange and familiar scene made him feel even more subtle.

"Did you do it?"

Zheng Li seemed to ask casually, but he was engrossed in waiting for the answer, and his hand had already touched the weapon.

"No, I'm late too. It looks like I've been dead for at least three days, so I might have been silenced long ago."

"Isn't he the boss of the gang? He hasn't gone out for three days, and his subordinates haven't come to look for him?"

"You haven't seen the basement, have you? All his men are in it, and they all look like this."

"So? What kind of beheading?"

When the uncle looked at the head on the bed, at this moment, Zheng Li understood.

"The corpses are piled up in a pile, and the heads are piled up together. The attackers are quite ruthless. The dead are almost all at the same time, the shortest two and a half days, and the longest three days."

"Wait, three days? According to the news I got, the 'target' came here three days ago, and has direct contact with this boss?"

"Even find out this?! Awesome, our people are still determining the exact time to meet them."

This time, even this intelligence veteran looked at Zheng Li with admiration. Without intelligence support, he was able to find out to such an extent. The investigation was done so quickly.

"What a powerful young man, why don't you continue entrusting him to investigate?"

(End of this chapter)