Reborn in the end of the world, I scavenged in the empty city and bought for free

The murder of the president of the "Success Guild" was kept secret, but it did cause a great impact in the guild. The remaining dozen or so guild members looked at each other, and saw fear in each other's eyes.

A Kuan's face darkened slightly. He looked at the bloodstains on the ground for a long time without saying anything, until a captain of the security bureau nearby came out with a cigarette in his mouth, and the smell of the cigarette slightly dispersed the bloody smell in the room.

"Captain Luo, this shouldn't be a simple burglary, right?"

The Security Bureau had just determined that it was a burglary. The only witness, the pale-faced woman in the corner, said tremblingly that she only saw two men in black rushing in. Because the lights in the room were not on at the time, the woman could not see the man's appearance clearly. She could only vaguely recognize that there were two people. Then, she didn't know what was going on, and she fainted. When she woke up again, there was only Hou Cheng's body beside her.

"There are signs that the first and second floors have been searched. We've asked someone to confirm that some supplies have been taken away. The murderer would not have stayed in the building for more than fifteen minutes." A member of the Self-Defense Force reported the current situation to Captain Luo.

Ah Kuan stood nearby and listened, his eyes moving around the room. The blood in the room was not serious. Hou Cheng's fatal wound was in the throat, but his wrist was directly pierced and cut across by an object. The blood had not completely dried up, proving that he had not been dead for long.

After taking a deep breath, Ah Kuan said to Captain Luo, "Captain Luo, our guild leader was on the phone with me before he was killed. I guess the guild leader should have noticed that there were criminals breaking into the room at that time."

"What time did you make the call? What was your president doing at that time?" Captain Luo asked carefully, but his eyes were fixed on A Kuan's face, as if he had regarded him as one of the suspects.

Although Ah Kuan was uncomfortable with being looked at with scrutiny, he could only hold his breath at this moment. "Around 1:15, I had a work situation to report to our president. I just checked the duration of the call, and it was only two minutes. Then I heard a noise coming from the exhibition area, and then the call was disconnected."

"Apart from these, are there any other sounds?" Captain Luo wanted to know more clearly.

"No, then I heard a woman screaming, but the situation was too urgent, and I couldn't contact our president after the phone call was disconnected."

As soon as the interrogation was over, a member of the Security Bureau who had just finished collecting evidence downstairs ran up and said, "Captain, we found these things downstairs."

What the man handed over was something that looked like a black seal, but it was actually just a black round iron sheet with a sun-shaped mark engraved on it.

"F?"

Captain Luo recognized this mark. The Security Bureau has already received a document from the government, which states that the newly emerged organization "Illuminati" has been identified as a cult. Several previous terrorist attacks were also organized by members of this cult.

The current notice issued from above is that any incident involving this organization must be reported to the higher authorities as soon as possible, and this incident must be handled as an emergency with priority.

Captain Luo has extensive experience in handling cases, having been a member of the criminal investigation team before the apocalypse. After the apocalypse, he awakened his light abilities and is now a mature C-class ability user. He has also been involved in several "Illuminati" incidents recently, so he recognized that the piece of iron was the so-called identity symbol of the members of the "Illuminati".

The real source of this nameplate was actually left behind by Yan Fan on purpose. After all, Hou Cheng had not yet decided to join the "Illuminati", so it was impossible for him to own this round nameplate. The one that Yan Fan got was taken away from Yang Feng.

In fact, even without this name card, if Hou Cheng had really come into contact with people from the "Illuminati", the Security Bureau would have traced the matter back to the "Illuminati". However, this name card now makes the Security Bureau certain that this matter is related to a cult.

When he heard the words "Illuminati", the veins on A Kuan's forehead couldn't help but twitch.

In fact, some people in the guild had long known that Hou Cheng had had private contact with a certain organization. During that period, Hou Cheng always went out early and came back late, and when he came back, he would sit in a daze in the office. He even asked A Kuan and Lao Shu about their opinions on using drugs to forcibly upgrade the body's superpowers.

At that time, the two people found Hou Cheng's abnormality strange, until one night Hou Cheng brought back two people who were ragged and looked quite embarrassed. Not only did he serve them with good food and drinks, but he was also extremely flattering in his attitude.

Later, A Kuan and others found out that the two men were the cult members for whom the government was currently offering a bounty, and they were also the suspects in the terrorist attack the day before yesterday.

Hou Cheng took the risk to bring the two back just to find a place to hide them, or to give them some time to rest and adjust.

"Have you retrieved the nearby surveillance footage?" Luo Cheng then asked the person in his hand.

The team members looked embarrassed. "We have checked everything. Since the power cuts, we can't watch the surveillance in the block ahead. The surveillance of the company here seems to be affected by something. We can't find the surveillance footage."

"It seems that the other party came prepared. By the way, think carefully about whether your president has had any contact with anyone recently. I mean some strangers you have never met, or has he had any unusual behavior."

Captain Luo's sharp gaze was like a knife on A Kuan's neck. Finally, A Kuan had no choice but to speak to Captain Luo about the two people he had met a few days ago under pressure.

Captain Luo suddenly thought of something, so he asked someone to bring a tablet computer and swiped on it a few times. Two faces immediately appeared on the screen. They were Yang Feng and Brother Zhao, the fugitive cult members who were currently being rewarded by the base government.

After confirming the identity, although Captain Luo still had some doubts about Hou Cheng's death, he still had to wait for the forensic doctor to conduct further examination on the body to get the final clue.

***

In the dark and hot night, in a small two-story house, Gu Tongwan and Yan Fan had just returned home. They both cleaned their dirty clothes at the same time and took a shower.

Because the smell of blood on his body was so strong, Aoao immediately let out a low roar at Yan Fan. Fortunately, Gu Tongwan was there, so Aoao didn't dare to bite Yan Fan.

After all, Aoao and Yan Fan are not familiar with each other yet. If Yan Fan shows any threatening aura, Aoao and Tutu will attack him at any time.

Twenty minutes later, Gu Tongwan, feeling refreshed, walked to the stairs and called out to Yan Fan downstairs.

When Yan Fan went upstairs, Aoao and Tutu, who had been baring their teeth at him like ferocious beasts, now lay obediently at Gu Tongwan's feet and let Gu Tongwan stroke their heads at will.

"Now that you're here, take a look at this thing. Is it the new drug you mentioned before that can instantly turn ordinary people into superpowers?"

It was only then that Yan Fan noticed that Gu Tongwan was holding a tube of liquid that glowed red under the light.

Yan Fan's pupils suddenly contracted, and then she took several quick steps forward, clenched her hands at both sides, and nodded vigorously, "Yes, this is what I saw Yang Feng drinking before. Did you bring it back from the 'Success Club'?" Did she go downstairs just to find this thing?

"I found it in Hou Cheng's study. I guess this thing must be very important to him, otherwise it would not be locked in the safe." He had been trying to open the safe in the space for a long time but couldn't. In the end, he had no choice but to let Aoao use his lightning power to blow up the lock of the safe. Fortunately, he had been keeping a close eye on Aoao and didn't let it destroy the inside of the safe, otherwise the whole safe would have turned into a pile of scorched earth if he wasn't careful.

"Take a look. If it's something from the Illuminati, there should be a sun mark under the test tube." Yan Fan carefully recalled the appearance of the potion bottle before slowly reminding him.

At the very bottom of the medicine bottle, there was a slight bulge somewhere on the glass. When I picked it up and looked at it along the light, I found that there was indeed an inconspicuous sun mark engraved on it.

"Can this potion really help one break through the original level of supernatural powers immediately after drinking it?" Gu Tongwan was quite curious about this. After all, although she had heard of it a little bit at the end of her previous life, she had never really come into contact with it.

"Yes, after Yang Feng and his friends drank it, their A-level psychics immediately broke through to S-level. I had already escaped at that time. Before I left, I could clearly feel the powerful psychic fluctuations."

Yan Fan's eyes passed from the potion and then looked back at Gu Tongwan, "However, this potion should not be a true evolution, but a forced breakthrough of one's own level in a short period of time, strengthening the superpowers contained in the body to the maximum extent and then bursting out in an instant. It is a bit similar to the [Nutrient Solution] launched by the base, but compared to the [Nutrient Solution] whose effect is not so obvious, the effect of this new potion is at least several times that of it."

"What are the side effects?" Gu Tongwan pursed her lips and put the medicine in her hand back into the velvet box.

"I don't know about this. Yang Feng and the others kept silent about it, but it should cause a disorder in the supernatural powers. If not handled properly, it may cause the body to explode. But I didn't see it with my own eyes, so it may not be accurate."

Gu Tongwan knew that Yan Fan had no need to hide anything from her, so she changed the subject, "You must be hungry. I'll go get some midnight snacks."

"I'd better build the house in the backyard first. Besides, I'm not tired yet." Yan Fan planned to use the evening to finish the small house at the back door as soon as possible. After all, living in the living room on the first floor made him feel awkward. Although he couldn't tell where this awkward feeling came from, he had been self-reliant since losing his family. Even though Gu Tongwan said that she was using him, Yan Fan always felt that what she gave him was more than worth using.

"But the temperature outside is at least 52 degrees, especially the surface temperature is very hot." When driving back, although she had put on a [tight suit] in advance that could automatically adjust her body temperature, the hot wind blowing on her face was as hot as being slapped in the face. She originally thought that the wind blowing outside in the middle of the night would at least be room temperature, but she didn't expect the evening wind to still be hot and sticky.

Who knew Yan Fan would just say casually: "It doesn't matter, I can use my special ability to control my body temperature to around 27 or 28 degrees. As long as I'm not exposed to the sun for a long time, this temperature at night is basically nothing to me."

Gu Tongwan forced a smile on his face which could not be described as pretty, but he was extremely envious in his heart.

Seeing that Yan Fan had already gone to the backyard, Gu Tongwan simply went back to his room, saying that he was preparing a midnight snack, but in fact he was just taking out food from the space.

There was also bird's nest stewed with pear in the space, but she deliberately scooped out most of the bird's nest and added some ice cubes before serving it to Yan Fan.

"I guess you plan to be busy until dawn. Here is some bird's nest with rock sugar and snow pear. This is my best product. I see you have been busy all day, so just treat it as a good meal to calm your nerves."

Yan Fan glanced at the bowl and saw that it was indeed filled with plump sherry, and occasionally there was something similar to bird's nest under the clear soup.

Now he would not be surprised at anything his "employer" came up with. From her determination and decisiveness in clearing out the "Success Guild" and her cautiousness in doing business, Yan Fan knew why she could live so freely in the apocalypse alone. She had the ability to do so.

He took the bowl of bird's nest without any courtesy to Gu Tongwan, and for the first time, he sincerely thanked Gu Tongwan: "Thank you, Gu...Boss." He really didn't know how to address him afterwards. He couldn't keep addressing him as "hey, you". After all, they would be living together for a long time, so he was suddenly troubled about the issue of address.

Sensing the awkwardness of boys of this age, Gu Tongwan crossed her arms over her chest, looking lazy and wanton with a faint smile on her face, "Okay, I see that you are about seven or eight years younger than me, so you can just call me Sister Gu, or Sister Wanwan, it's just a name anyway, whatever you want."

Who knew Yan Fan thought about it seriously, then looked at her and said, "I'd better call you Sister Wanwan. Sister Gu looks a little old."

His mother taught him that after entering society, anyone under 30 years old can be called "little sister", those under 40 years old can be called "sister", those around 40 years old can be called "sister", and those over 50 years old can be called "auntie".

Not only was he educated like this at home, but he could also see his father always smiling in front of his mother from childhood to adulthood. If it weren't for the end of the world, Yan Fan might still have a happy family.

However, this emotion quickly passed. Yan Fan had learned to control his emotions. Whenever he missed home, he would look into the distance and tell himself that since he was able to survive, he should live in the present and live well in the remaining hour, day, or month, instead of thinking about the distant future, but also not stopping at the memories.

The next morning, Gu Tongwan woke up as soon as the scorching sun rose. Looking down from the bedroom on the second floor, he was shocked to find that the outline of a small house of about ten square meters had been formed in the place where bricks were originally piled in the backyard.

As expected of Chinese people, the speed of building houses is really amazing.