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Lu Ting stayed at the scene of the fire for 78 hours. During this period, three waves of search and rescue police officers, two teams of medical staff, and countless ordinary citizens who were looking for relatives came. Most of them were women and children. more desperate.Then the rain stopped, and those who came out basically turned into corpses.

Many people died in that fire because a large part of the stairs between the first floor and the second floor was burned, and the timid ones were trapped on it and did not dare to come down, choked to death in the thick smoke, or were crushed. He died under the beam of the house and jumped down boldly. Unfortunately, the marble platform used to dance pornographically became the execution ground for the clients who fell to death.

However, prostitutes were not the most serious group of casualties, and there were still survivors in the service team of Erebus—the men and women who were rented and sold as commodities in this store were wiped out.They didn't dare to compete with the guests for the escape route, and some didn't even dare to step out of the room where they had been imprisoned for many years. The bed was on fire, and they had to shrink in it. As a result, all their beautiful bodies were burned to dry bones, and the scorched black covered everything they had been alive. devastated.

In the end, the cause of the fire was not found.The source of the fire could not be found, and the fire alarm system of the entire building was also out of order. It seemed that the fire had exploded on such a huge scale in an instant.People seem to be endless. There are hundreds of rooms on the four floors, and a long series of secret rooms underground. The collapsed buildings make it difficult to rescue people inside. Corpses wrapped in plastic sheeting spread all over the place.

Lu Ting was not a police officer and was not assigned any tasks, but he did not leave until the police force withdrew.During these sleepless three days and three nights, he braved the fire to enter the club, the fire was extinguished, but he was still inside, layer by layer, one by one, Lu Ting rubbed three pairs of gloves, He searched every corner of the building—including other places where the police thought it was too difficult to search and rescue and put in a search and rescue robot, but actually gave up indirectly. He also fastened the safety lock around his waist and climbed up wobbly. .

There were still some results. He found fourteen neglected dead people and rescued two alive ones, but none of these were the ones he was looking for.Later, he went shopping on the morgue street, but to no avail, and then went to check the registration form for picking up the corpse.The well-known Erebus lost its name, and this incident caused a lot of trouble, attracting a lot of media.They were intercepted outside the isolation zone, swarming and chattering to surround the sheriff, and there were also cameras aimed at Lu Ting, did they recognize him as a member of the president's family?After that wedding, Lu Ting's ambiguous identity was no longer a secret.

Lu Ting squatted down, nestled at the foot of the registration table, and raised one hand to cover his face, ignoring the noisy problems in his ears.He silently flipped through the photos that were kept in the case.Although many of them were burnt beyond recognition, he was sure that he couldn't find a trace of doubt in his heart, and there was still no one he was looking for.

Whether it was intuition or resistance, Lu Ting couldn't tell. He just wanted to find Deng Mochi, and was afraid of missing anything, so he went back to the ruins.No. 60 hours into the search and rescue, people from all walks of life were about to retreat. They were about to clear the scene, but they didn't dare to disturb the murderous-faced famous family. There was a door with no electromagnetic seal attached.

Lu Ting searched for another eighteen hours alone among the ruined walls, every floor, every room, he walked again.There are no corpses trapped in them, they appear empty, and the continuous dead silence of the infrared thermal detector also makes this space a black hole, and there is no escape from the sound, the nose smells of dust, burning, but no rust taste.

Sometimes when he couldn't walk anymore, Lu Ting would find a corner to sit down, drink water, and eat his police rations. But when he lifted the boards and bricks, he bit the flashlight. After a long time, his jaw became stiff and he couldn't move. It hurts to get up and he has to eat very slowly.

Eating slowly is also beneficial. Lu Ting was able to calm down and think about his current situation repeatedly.

After thinking about it, I have to keep looking.

Finally, after searching the last basement, he was able to tell himself, admit it, you are the only one here.Climbing up to the ground with his head down, it was dark when he went out. Lu Ting looked at the watch left by his mother on his wrist. The time was close to two o'clock in the middle of the night.The victims were all cleared away, the media rushed away, even the stagnant water was almost drained, and the long street was empty.

The motorcycle that Dun Mochi had parked at the door before was also gone - of course it was gone.There was still no response to the dozen or so text messages sent to Deng Mochi and the nine calls that could not be reached.

The most recent message on the bracelet came more than an hour ago. Shu Rui said that R179 had undergone all operations and one leg was not saved, but his life was not in danger for the time being.

Lu Ting breathed a sigh of relief.It was right to call Shu Rui to pick her up at that time, otherwise, I don’t know what will happen if I put the child in the emergency center that can’t even provide emergency contraceptives and only two doctors are on duty.

Over the past three days, Lu Ting has slept for less than two hours, and Lu Ting can't move anymore.Maybe the motorcycle rental shop was not closed yet, he was taken there once by Deng Mochi, and he still had some impressions in his mind, so he left based on memory.Before walking a few steps, when passing through a narrow alley, he was suddenly nailed to the spot and could not move. The pale beam of light from the flashlight ended at a wall, and there was a little girl leaning against the corner, with her head bowed deeply, and her two braids. Hanging in front of the skirt of the red dress.

Lu Ting heard his heavy breathing like a bellows.He took at least a dozen deep breaths before he barely approached and gently lifted the girl's chin.

The corpse spots had spread all over her cheeks, and her eyes were cloudy, reminding Lu Ting of what they looked like when they were still in good spirits.Lu Ting stabilized his wrist, gently stroked her eyelids, trying to help her close them, but failed. R180 is really dead, Lu Ting predicted this a long time ago, but now he dares to admit it, he believes that Deng Mochi put her here, but why he left it, he doesn't know.He was suddenly very scared, afraid that Deng Mochi would have to leave his sister behind in an accident, and even more afraid that Deng Mochi was still in danger at this time, and he had wasted too much time.

But he didn't know where to go to find Deng Mochi. He had gone through the surveillance video of the entire street, but the flames affected the picture too much, and the figures were too chaotic, so he couldn't provide any clues.Lu Ting calmed down and picked up the R180 horizontally. The skin touched by the police gloves was already swollen by the rain. He couldn't let the child rot here alone. He opened the map to find the location, and Lu Ting ran quickly. After thinking about it, Mingyue City really has everything. He found a funeral chain organization and made an appointment to pick up the ashes.

Afterwards, he didn't dare to delay, and when he came to the motorcycle shop, it was true that it was not closed, but the boss frowned at the smell of his corpse, so he rented a suspension motorcycle with the highest speed specifications and went over the town. The view was very good, and the air after the rain It's still fresh, and the gas mask is still working, but Lu Ting still has difficulty breathing and doesn't feel refreshed at all.

He crossed the Saxon River and returned to the settlement of artificial humans.One-story houses still stood clustered like tattered cardboard boxes. Occasionally, a dim street lamp appeared on the corner of the street. Lu Ting passed them and returned to the sealed window of the small pale yellow house.

Deng Mochi's motorcycle was parked at the door, and there were traces of rainwater evaporation on the leather seat.

The door is hidden.

Lu Ting almost screamed. At this moment, he could feel his emotions again, and the bloody fingers in the glove also regained consciousness. It seemed that it didn't matter if he broke down and cried out immediately, because someone would help him clumsily. He wiped his tears and told him gently, it's okay, it's not your fault.It had been a long time since he walked so briskly. As he climbed up the stairs, Lu Ting rushed into the door, but was dazed by the darkness of the room.

"Boss?" He tried to open the chandelier, "Boss, are you there?"

The only answer I got was a mechanical female voice: "Customer B-12-3398, you have been in arrears for 15 days, 11 hours, and 17 minutes. Please go to the Android Power Supply Department to pay the electricity bill and arrears fines as soon as possible to ensure normal use."

What, it's fake, you hide and scare me at this time, you are too bad.Thinking like this, Lu Ting walked slowly through the living room.The big cake was still on the shoe cabinet, the carton was wrinkled by the rain, the fruit cream inside was sour and smelly, the thick layer of dust was still there on the ground, there were more footprints, and it was very messy.Lu Ting inspected the bedrooms of the two children, and there was nothing unusual. Then he went to Deng Mochi's bedroom. The fixed welding station and other equipment on the table were gone, and the computer was formatted. The photo is of Deng Mochi and his mother when they were young, and they are nowhere to be seen now.

It took Lu Ting a few minutes to accept the judgment in his heart——Dun Mo came late once, took some things away, and seemed not to plan to come back here again.

He didn't even bother to close the old door that didn't lock well.

It's good news, Lu Ting told himself, there should be no major accidents, and he should still be healthy.

He walked out of the house in a daze, helped Dun Mochi close the door, and then buckled the lock with great effort.Before stepping away, a black shadow pounced on his calf, Lu Ting subconsciously threw it away, and was startled suddenly when he heard the hum of "woo woo".It was the Labrador, which he bought at the pet store opposite the Roasted Whole Lamb Restaurant, and gave it to the children as a companion.

It's still alive.Although it was skinny and couldn't see the original whiteness, it was still alive.

Lu Ting squatted down, held it in a daze for a while, then put it on the motorcycle pedal, protecting it between his feet.

The positioning needle inserted into the "father"'s ear before was still working, and the wristband showed that the target was currently located at the Apollo bar.Lu Ting came there with the puppy, asked the clerk to buy some protein sauce and toast for it to eat, then took off the mask, just like Deng Mochi did a few days ago, he scanned the hall, and like At that time, he found the drunk man in the same dirty corner.

The man saw him clearly and lay down on the ground about to crawl away, like a wriggling worm.

Lu Ting kicked him back, and he handed the good beer he bought just now to the man, "Don't be so nervous, I just came to ask you something."

"You, you ask..." The man leaned against the corner and sat up a little bit, drinking out of breath.

"I scanned your ID code, have you worked in Erebus before?"

"Haha, yes... and that bastard's old lady are colleagues."

"You make it clear?" Lu Ting smiled.

"His mother, she was originally a chicken, and the batch of her was made for this function, is it clear enough? As for me, I am the security guard there," the man also raised his eyes with a smile, and said something like Coughing a mouthful of phlegm, "It was 2073. The artificial man rioted. I took her to escape. Later, she participated in some project and disappeared for a year or two. When she came back, she was pregnant with a child for more than a year and gave birth to such a wild child. kind……"

"I thought it was mine. I helped her raise it for so many years! A chicken is a chicken!" he yelled again.

"So you sold your daughter too."

"There's nothing you can do about it," the man said with a sad face, but what he said was neither human nor ghostly, "It's hard to find a little Omega at this age. With the new regulations, you have to have an ID number when you reach the age of 12, but she No, you can pretend to be a child of a natural person, otherwise they won't accept that kind of malnourished appearance."

"What did you say?" Suddenly, Lu Ting was dripping with cold sweat.

"I said, because she has a clean neck, she sold it for a good price." The man said slowly, raised his hand slowly, and stretched casually.

But Lu Ting understood at this second what it means to be heartbroken.

The person with the neck stamp has actually been here before, but why didn’t the R180, it’s because Lu Ting arrived in time to take out the family crest, and it’s because he thought he was good enough to stop him. Justice, it is a great blessing for her to know herself and be loved by herself.And later, when he and the person he liked were in heaven, but because of this lucky neck, the child was pressed into hell by fearful people.

Lu Ting lowered his head, the dark gray floor tiles rippled like cement, trying to suck him in endlessly.He knew that he was about to lose his footing, and the matter was not finished, so he forced himself to cheer up.

He fired a shot at the ceiling.

"Everyone!" he shouted again.

The man-made people who were drinking cheap alcohol were quietly watching. When the gunshots sounded, they each shrank their necks. As soon as the voice fell, they all stared at it.

"I have twenty bills with a face value of ten thousand," Lu Ting took out his wallet from the inner pocket of his leather jacket, and counted them unhurriedly. There was a rattling sound, "Now we need to find ten people to divide equally, but there are still some troublesome things to do before the division. Get this person." He threw a banknote at the drunk, and aimed at him playfully, scaring him. Crawling all over the ground, "Yes, that's him. Wheel him, chop off his limbs, scratch his face, and throw him into the Saxon River. Money and work are first come, first served. Anyone willing to do it?"

People gathered almost instantly, "Don't worry, don't worry," Lu Ting said with a friendly smile, "Come and line up here."

Lu Ting was very satisfied with the ten big men who squeezed in front. They all had bloodshot eyes like hungry dogs.

Lu Ting picked up the money on the ground, returned it to the wad, and distributed it one by one, two for each person, "Do it well, clean it up for me tonight, I might follow you to see the excitement, but you must not see it Me," he patted the leader on the shoulder, "I found out whoever is lazy, before dawn, whoever will die."

The big men were very motivated, so they rushed over to pick up the drunk who was trying to crawl away.

Lu Ting didn't want to watch this absurd drama, he put a disposable monitor on one of the ears, and walked out of the bar.The puppy had finished eating the sauce and toast, and was still waiting for him at the door. He picked it up gently, and staggered back to his spaceship parked near the pale yellow bungalow.

After setting the return route, Lu Ting began to vomit violently, throwing up all the dry food he ate for the past few days.He knelt under the operating table, took off the gloves that had been worn out long ago, and also brought off a little scabbed flesh, thinking that his face must be dirty now, with smoked ash, rain, blood and sweat, and acid water from vomit. , but the puppy came over, sniffed his hand, and licked his cheek.

I'm sorry, I'm sorry, Lu Ting kept saying and apologizing to it, the puppy would only cast wet eyes.He doesn't know what's wrong with him, Aldebaran, he wants to go back quickly, he needs to take a shower and sleep, eat a lot of high-energy food and breathe some fresh air in the oxygen chamber, he has to avoid a sudden collapse Go down and die.But he can't stay too long, he has to go out to find it.

He was almost out of breath.

The 72 hours have already passed, and there seems to be no difference if there are a few more 72. Lu Ting instinctively avoided making that decision.He continued to spend the next few days searching, thinking of countless routes that Deng Mochi might have passed, and looking for surveillance videos, but found that the cameras in the artificial human settlements were all broken, and there was no video uploaded at all. The last one was suspicious. His shadow appeared on the edge of Mingyue City, and he printed out the few frames that passed by in a flash, and put them by his pillow to look at them every day. The more he looked at them, the more hopeless he felt.Lu Ting also pondered for a long time where he might end up. He has searched and inquired about any place that Deng Mochi took him to. He even used his connections to check the consumption records of the account CTA9M83, and got Blank.

Finally, Lu Ting went out to sea and came to the remote island reef, where LastShadow should be dormant.

He dropped a lot of diving balls, and the data sent back showed that there was only sand under the sea surface, and the only metal was a discarded magnetic anchor.

The last phantom is gone.

Finally, Lu Ting still had to realize that Deng Mochi had left.

No greeting.

Of course Deng Mochi didn't die.Lu Ting has always believed in this, and the feeling in his heart is still there, just like that day, when he held Deng Mochi's hand and touched his heart in the sun-clear spaceship, he could feel his existence, their hearts They beat together. If Dun Mochi died, his remaining heart must have been broken.

Maybe Deng Mochi couldn't be said to have disappeared, but he couldn't be contacted temporarily.

Can he wait until he comes back to find himself?Will Deng Mochi give up?Thinking about this problem, Lu Ting felt that he was about to give up on himself.So no, don't wait around thinking about it, don't do such passive things, I'll just go find it myself, I want to apologize, I want to help him with whatever I can, I ask him not to leave me, Lu Ting repeated these thoughts and looked at that Can you tell me how to find it?He wanted to ask this question, but he could only make meaningless shouts.

He was certainly guilty, but how to atone for his sins, no god or devil gave him the slightest advice.

When it was evening when I returned to Aldebaran, Lu Ting did not dare to admit that his heart was ashamed, because if he admitted it, he would admit defeat, and he would never stand up again.He feeds the dog chicken, shuts himself in the bathroom, strips off his shirt while Lucy sweetly plays an Elvis love song, and turns his back to the mirror.

When he saw the tooth mark, he touched it cherishingly, because he suddenly realized that he only had it left.

Then he hesitated for a while in the address book, and chose the latter between his sister and Faxiao.

"Hello?" Shu Rui answered the phone quickly, and teased, "The child is already awake, you are so busy that you don't have time to take his brother to see it?"

"No," Lu Ting smiled, "I'll see it soon."

"Okay, what else do you need from me? I have a meeting later. Let's make a long story short."

"I remember that there is a kind of contraceptive injection. If the fertilized egg is inserted within [-] days, you will not be able to conceive." Lu Ting did not talk nonsense, his voice was very low and cold, "Is it true?"

"Well - there is indeed such a thing, but it takes only eleven to twelve days after conception for the blastocyst to implant into the inner membrane of the penis. In a sense, it can already be called an embryo, not just a fertilized egg. So that kind of injection is not so much a contraceptive, the boundary between the actual and early abortion pills is very blurred, and the harm to the body is greater than the abortion from the fifth week to the seventh week. The hospital is strictly controlled, "Shu Rui paused, " What are you asking this for?"

"Do you have it there?" Lu Ting asked.