Time-Limited Hunt

7-004 is a jackal.

With his gear on his back, he searched the shelter's pipes and soon realized he was going the wrong way.He stood up from the pipe, stuck the chewing gum to the iron wall of the pipe, and said, "Damn it, the traces are all fake."

"These bee-shaped aircraft are all out of order," the team member opened the backpack, "Hephaestus has not responded to the message."

"Sometimes the system," 7-004 pointed his head at the team members, "is like a mental retardation, which is useless in such dangerous missions. If you want to kill 01AE86, you have to rely on yourself."

There was an observer in the team, and his backpack was unusually heavy. He asked, "What about 7-001 Yan Junxun? The system didn't say where he can fight and where he can't."

"Just keep his head," 7-004 turned around, looking at the other side of the complicated road, "Hephaestus wants the chip, not him."

"Are we really going to go back with the chip?" The observer glanced at the switched off communicator, "Go back to the combat command center."

There was some taboo in his expression, as if there was some monster hidden in the Black Panther Operations Command Center.

"That's not necessarily the case," 7-004 took off his sunglasses while speaking, "The chip is equivalent to the 'God's Key'. With it, the choice is in our hands."

7-004 is not ugly, his eyes are narrow, and his ambition is put in them.

"Find them before the sun rises."

He patted the observer's backpack, meaning something.

"I really hate the sun."

***

Yan Junxun is very cautious about his memory, but when he became the No. 98342 experiment, he can no longer trust any of his memories. The opening of his eyes in 2162 changed his world. Looking at it now, it should be his first attempt to be thrown into the crowd.

"Aris has no face either." Shi Shanyan's shoulder touched Yan Junxun, "It shared the same image as Fu Chenghui in the early days."

This is a favorite stalk of TV programs in the war time zone. They overlap Fu Chenghui and Ares, claiming that this is a great fusion of human beings and systems, which symbolizes the strength of the alliance.Yan Junxun's memory began in 2162, so he didn't have Shi Shanyan to understand these things. The alliance has always been in a state of excitement about the Civil War, which is most obvious in the light track area and other developing areas.

"Fu Chenghui represents an oligarchy, but the Black Panthers have not benefited from it. Power is only held by a small group of people. They invented the 'bloodline theory' to solve the problem of stagnant zones."

Shi Shanyan could hear Yan Junxun's breathing, soft and shallow, reminding him of Xiao Yefeng in the No. 154 subdivision of the stagnant area.

"The plague broke out in the stagnant area in 2150." Shi Shanyan imitated Yan Junxun and curled up his arms, squeezing very close to Yan Junxun. "The reason is that it was bombed."

The system failure in the light track area caused the bomb to fall into the stagnation area. This is the only statement that can be found now, but the Alliance has no record of which system caused it.

"There was a psychiatric hospital in Section 154 before 2150," Shi Shanyan said, "a lot of women were imprisoned in it."

They lie on the steel window all day long, hugging the pillow, treating it as their own child.They would get excited when they saw Shi Shanyan. Every woman claimed to be Shi Shanyan's mother, and poured the only rice soup left to Shi Shanyan.

Shi Shanyan lives outside the mental hospital, and his only friend is a wild dog.He only goes out at night.When the sun disappeared on the horizon and the heat in Section 154 was no longer so hot, he would lead the wild dogs through the sea of ​​garbage, climb over the high walls of the mental hospital, and get a day's rations from the hands of these "mothers" sticking out of the narrow windows.

In 2150, when Shan Yan was 11 years old, he saw a red light crossing the night sky in the sea of ​​garbage, hitting the ground like a meteor, and creating a strong wind that could blow him over.The wild dogs dragged him into the den, and while he was hugging the wild dogs, he heard the pounding sound like hailstone outside.

"The bombing in 2150 razed the mental hospital to the ground. On the ruins, I met the military personnel sent by the Alliance to investigate. They fell into a food shortage after the transport ship was out of service, so they ate my friends," Shi Shanyan's voice was emotionless, his eyes were staring into the darkness, "There are still some mice."

These so-called military personnel did not wait for the pick-up plane in the light track area. After the transport ship stopped operating, plague broke out in 160 sub-areas in the stagnant area, and the place was completely locked down.During the five-year blockade, all the outside news Shi Shanyan heard came from the regional public broadcasting.

【Tomorrow for the alliance will be even better. 】

[The Commander will lead us to a new world. 】

These regional public broadcasting stations have become the characteristic landscape of the stagnant area. Shi Shanyan continued to wander in their unlimited loop playback, and his wandering range was always within the 154th division, staying with those military personnel who were left behind.He learned fighting skills and sniping methods from these people. In 2155, the Black Panther announced the "rules of survival" to the stagnant area, and Shi Shanyan killed these "teachers" before signing up.

Yan Junxun turned his face and said, "This is the big bombing that the scalpel said."

"That's right," Shi Shanyan also turned his face sideways, "The stagnation area was destroyed by the bombing, and the recovery after the war depends entirely on the system."

The speed of environmental deterioration in the stagnation zone is beyond imagination, and extreme weather changes make it no longer suitable for human survival. The "blood theory" separates the residents of the stagnation area from the residents of the alliance. It is rumored that their fertility is degraded, irritable and aggressive, and they belong to the natural criminal group described by Ares.The stagnation zone is thus isolated.It became a driftwood floating on the waves, only one end was still tied with a hemp rope.

The introduction of the stagnation area in the league news stays on the "organization". The 160 divisions in the stagnation area have gradually become synonymous with the organization. Every year, only the official transport ship to which the Black Panther belongs goes to the stagnation area to distribute food.No one or system took responsibility for the bombing, and not even the residents of the stasis zone knew exactly what happened.

They all thought of what the scalpel said, and these things may have originated from the Artemis experiment.

"The psychiatric hospital in Section 154..."

"It's one of the system confinement centers established by the Alliance in the berthing area in 2140."

When Yan Junxun was in Lixing, he was thinking about a few things.

Artemis, the clown, Fu Chenghui.

The "mite" operation is an arrest operation advocated by Fu Chenghui. This operation is to put the "hunting knife" Shi Shanyan next to Yan Junxun, and kill Yan Junxun when necessary.In this way, Fu Chenghui would have expected that Hephaestus would come to the berth to recover Yan Junxun.The contradiction is, since he knew that the system would act spontaneously in two years, why didn't he kill Yan Junxun when he left the Black Panther?

The refuge made Yan Junxun feel relaxed.Even though it failed to stop Hephaestus' pursuit, it did relieve the pressure on Yan Junxun's head. There were secrets deep in the coke plant that he couldn't see.

"We can't stay here for too long," Yan Junxun felt his head hurting again. It was the chip that was causing anxiety. "We have to catch up with the scalpel quickly."

***

The space of the shelter pipeline limited the direction, and they could only move forward in this direction.After passing through the narrow road section, it entered a more complicated intersection of pipelines.It looks like a body viscera here, with pipes of different sizes crowded together, which looks a little nauseating in the dim light.

"The scalpel left traces," Shi Shanyan found scratches from his fingernails on the iron wall of the pipeline, "They walked to the right."

Yan Junxun looked to the right, and there were intermittent beating echoes inside the dark pipe.He gradually became irritated by this echo, as uncomfortable as if his thoughts were interrupted.

"It's too noisy," Yan Junxun raised his hand to cover one ear, "It rang all the way."

Shi Shanyan didn't speak, but held Yan Junxun's wrist tightly.

Yan Junxun noticed something in this moment of silence, he looked at Shi Shanyan suddenly, and said, "...you can't hear it."

Shi Shanyan's ears were very sensitive, but he didn't hear anything.It was very quiet inside the pipe, only their voices.

Yan Junxun felt a little strange, but this situation is not unusual, maybe something is interfering with the chip, which affected him, and made him have the illusion that he regarded the sound as a problem with the chip.

The bottom of the pipe gradually filled with water, just enough to overflow the ankle.

When Shi Shanyan walked forward, he could see graffiti on the walls on both sides, but he couldn't see what was painted.His lighter was lost on the way, unable to illuminate.

"You said that the parking area is an experimental field," Shi Shanyan said suddenly, "Jue is also an experimental product."

"Its evolutionary ability is stronger than the main management system." Yan Junxun also found the graffiti on both sides, and the outlines of those lines were somewhat familiar. "It can sense the changes of human emotions. It is not accidental that Park Lin fell in love with it. Su Heting stopped mooring When the district system is active, it behaves differently than the normal system."

He couldn't help but pause when he said this.

"I'm not suspecting it's a bad boy."

Yan Junxun likes Jue, the kind that can become friends.Jue's evolution did not show aggressiveness, and even became more gentle.If there is an ideal evolutionary template for an intelligent system, it must be like Jue.

"I opened Jue after interfering with Hephaestus. It's very risky, but I hope it can lead Jiang Lian out of trouble. The inspectorate is no longer safe..."

Before Yan Junxun could finish his sentence, he kicked something with his toe, and the opponent fell to the ground with a "bang".

"There is something." Yan Junxun carefully withdrew his foot.

Shi Shanyan bent down and picked up a small hat in the dirty water.He moved his gaze forward and saw an old robot lying on its side in the water.

This little robot is small in size, with rust on its limbs, as if it has been placed here for a long time.It fell into the dirty water, facing Yan Junxun's direction, and its goggle-like electronic eyes glowed faintly.

"welcome--"

The voice of the little robot was interrupted, and it made a "thrilling" noise.

"you're back."

Yan Junxun is familiar with this sound, although it is the most common electronic sound, but——

"Yes. I live here, it's my home."

"I don't have a father."

"Teacher, welcome home."

This is the little robot of the victim Huo Qingjun in the Chen Xiulian case.

The author has something to say: there is a BUG, ​​there are only 160 stagnation zones, not 200.