Chapter 367: Attraction in the depths of the church
The small truck drove through a series of dark alleys, heading north. The route was so complicated that even He Ao, who had turned off his super memory, could not remember it clearly.
The actual route should not be so complicated. The driver deliberately took some detours in order to avoid possible tracking.
But even so, the speed of the small truck was still very fast, drifting continuously in the alleys, and it didn't take long to reach its destination, a small drug store with the lights on.
He Ao, who was a little dizzy while driving fast, supported his fourth brother, raised his head, and looked around. The surrounding environment was extremely dilapidated, with dilapidated old buildings everywhere.
The original beautiful walls of the old building have corroded away, exposing the pitted cement walls. The once delicate glass windows are also rusty. The windows of some houses have been completely broken and have been boarded up with wooden boards.
"The houses here are basically sixty or seventy years old. They have long exceeded their designed service life and are at risk of collapse at any time."
The bloody middle-aged man was staggered up by the people around him who still had strength. He looked at He Ao looking at the old buildings around him and explained softly, "But the people living in this building can't afford a new house.
They can barely live in it, but some people have not yet paid off their loans, and there are also some tenants who live in these buildings in order to get cheaper rents."
"Um."
He Ao withdrew his gaze. The moment he withdrew his gaze, he noticed that further inside the drugstore, at the deepest part of the street, stood an old small church. The door of the church was closed, but the street lights in front of the door were dimly on.
But he didn't want to explore more. He picked up his fourth brother and followed the strong men into the pharmacy.
Only then did he realize that the driver who had been driving only had one hand, and the other hand only had a shoulder that was wrapped casually and soaked in blood.
He Ao had been sitting on the roof of the car just now, and the driver was in his blind spot.
Everyone walked in all the way.
The drug store is not big, with a dazzling array of medicine cabinets. The medicine cabinets are crowded with various small medicine boxes without labels. In the deepest part of the drug store, there is a thin man sitting, who is cooking some kind of medicine on an induction cooker.
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The man listened to the footsteps and said without looking back, "The aphrodisiac is on the counter on the left hand side of the door. A bottle costs 200 yuan. Take one pill thirty minutes beforehand. My medicine is well managed and can be used all night. It can also be pounded into mud."
Granite, no matter how hard you try it, even the wildest dancer in Milani will kneel down and beg for mercy."
"Ahem."
The bloody middle-aged man glanced at He Ao and coughed slightly.
Nell is only eighteen years old. If she were to study, she could barely be considered a freshman.
Although he is an adult and has just shown his prowess, people around him still regard him as Ivo's younger brother and as a child.
First impressions often influence a person's judgment for a long time.
Hearing the cough, the man preparing the medicine turned his head.
He has a thin face, short and messy hair, and is wearing a somewhat shabby white shirt, but his eyes are as bright as pearls in the dark night.
He glanced at the injured and disabled people, sighed, and stood up slowly, "Why is it you again?"
For some reason, He Ao always felt that this tone was somewhat familiar.
"Have you used all the life-saving medicine I gave you?"
However, the pharmacist only sighed with emotion, and then began to check everyone's injuries one by one, "I can't squeeze so many people here. When things stabilize, everyone should go to the church next door."
"Okay, okay, I've used it all."
The bloody middle-aged man said quickly.
"This life-saving medicine can only hang their lives, but it still depends on their luck if they want to save them,"
The pharmacist glanced at the dying ones and shook his head slightly, "These are difficult to deal with."
Then he stopped in front of Ivo, whose consciousness was completely blurred, and said, "This can still save someone."
Then he took out different types of medicines from the medicine cabinet, mixed the medicines on the spot, and melted them into a syrup.
At this moment, Ivo was unconscious and unable to swallow on his own, but the pharmacist seemed to have prepared something other than oral medicine.
He took out a shelf from somewhere, poured the syrup into a bottle of glucose solution, mixed it, and connected Ivo to an intravenous drip.
Then he went to work on another person without looking back.
"Doctor, my brother..."
He Ao stood aside, looked at Ivo, and then at the pharmacist.
"I'm a pharmacist, not a doctor,"
The pharmacist raised his head and glanced at He Ao. The young man in his eyes was a little immature, but he was covered in blood, exuding a fierceness and madness that was completely inconsistent with his age. He lowered his head again and looked back at the patient in front of him, "I can
Everything has been done, it’s up to your brother whether he can wake up or not."
He Ao found a chair for Ivo, leaned in the corner, and waited quietly.
Ivo seemed to be immersed in some kind of nightmare, and even with medical help, his life was slowly passing away.
Ivo's hand suddenly grabbed the armrest of the chair, and veins popped out on the back of his hand, "Nel, Nel is still here, I can't, I can't leave!"
Click——
The wooden armrests of the chair were pinched into gaps. Ivo's body froze, and then he let out a long breath, his body softened, and he fell asleep again.
His breath of life gradually stabilized.
"Good luck," the pharmacist walked around behind He Ao and said, "This is someone who wants to live."
He Ao raised his head and looked at him.
"Medicinal stones can only save people who want to live," the pharmacist said, gesturing for He Ao to look at the dying people, "but they can't save people who want to die."
Some of the people in this house have a blood feud with the Ice Wolf Gang and Vincent, and I am the only one left in the house, alone.
Now that Vincent is dead, the obsession in these people's hearts has disappeared, and they have nothing to miss in this world, and there is no need to miss him.
He Ao just sighed softly and continued to look at Ivo, whose breathing was gradually calming down.
"Extraordinary?"
But at this moment, the pharmacist seemed to have finished his work and had some free time. He looked at He Ao and asked softly.
"Well," He Ao nodded slightly and then asked, "You too?"
The pharmacist nodded, said no more, and continued to treat other wounded people.
Looking at his back, He Ao was thoughtful.
The pharmacist seems to care about the name pharmacist, and his talent sequence may be related to medicine.
Thinking about it this way, Roger doesn't seem to want others to call him 'pharmacist', preferring the title 'doctor'. His talent sequence may be related to 'doctor'.
Not all talent sequences are related to combat.
Not long after, an old man wearing old work clothes, with gray hair and wrinkles on his face rushed to the pharmacy. He led some people whose injuries had been stabilized to the small church nearby.
He Ao stared at the old man's face. He vaguely felt that the old man looked familiar, but he couldn't remember who he looked like for a short time.
Because Ivo's injury had stabilized, He Ao followed the old man to the church.
The church door was locked, and the old man took the key and opened the door.
The group of people entered the church and moved the chairs inside. The old man entered the side door on the right and pulled out simple mattresses to spread out for everyone.
By the time everything settled down, it was already past two in the morning.
Ivo's breathing gradually became steady.
The pharmacist came over, changed the medicine, treated Ivo's wound, and applied trauma medicine.
Then he said that Ivo would wake up around 8 or 9 o'clock tomorrow morning, so that He Ao could make his own bed and have some rest.
It's late at night and the moonlight is like water.
The wounded in the church had almost closed their eyes and rested. The old man who brought He Ao and others into the church was sitting on the chair at the front of the church and taking a nap.
The old man is already quite old, and his body is covered with a few dark age spots.
He Ao sat next to the old man.
"Are you Nell, Ivo's brother?"
As soon as he sat down, the old man asked softly.
"Um."
He Ao nodded slightly.
He began to recall where he had seen cheeks that looked like the old man's.
"Ivo is a good boy," the old man glanced at Ivo lying in the middle of the church, the moonlight shining through the window on the blood-stained gauze, "I remember he was like this when he first came here two years ago.
He looked seriously injured."
"Can you talk to me?"
He Ao said softly.
After disappearing two years ago, Ivo never returned home and his family had no news about him.
The old man seemed to know this. He sighed softly and began to tell what happened to Ivo.
The thing itself is not complicated.
After his father died in the mine two years ago, Ivo impulsively went to the mining consortium to 'ask for an explanation', but was stopped directly at the door and was not even allowed to enter the mining consortium.
Then when he went home, he was followed by the Ice Wolf Gang, was seriously injured, lost consciousness, and was sent directly to the crematorium in the name of a homeless man.
He was lucky. When he was sent to the crematorium, it was already late at night and the employees had already got off work. He was simply placed in the morgue.
During the night when he was parked in the morgue, he got up, staggered out of the crematorium, and finally collapsed in front of the pharmacist's pharmacy.
The pharmacist saved him.
He also met people from the Miners' Mutual Aid Association here.
Those who join this organization are basically those who are oppressed by the mining consortium, or have had their families killed by the mining consortium, and are sworn in with the mining consortium.
The leader of this organization is the old man next to He Ao, who is called the "Old Foreman".
The old foreman was not prepared to take Ivo in at first. He knew that Ivo still had family members and persuaded Ivo to return to his original life.
But after experiencing life and death, Ivo realized that he alone could not resist the mining consortium, so he was determined to join the mutual aid association.
At that time, the mutual aid association was already wanted by the mining consortium. Joining the mutual aid association meant that you could never go home again, otherwise you might turn the attention of the mining consortium to your family.
The Mining Consortium and the Ice Wolf Gang never talk about morality. If the threat of arresting your family members is effective, they will definitely arrest your family members.
Since then, Ivo has 'disappeared' in front of his family.
After joining the Miners' Mutual Aid Association, Ivo showed great talent in mecha training, so the old foreman used his connections and spent money to send Ivo to the Federal Military Academy in Irons to learn how to pilot mechas.
He had been away for nearly two years, and it was only in the past few days that he was called back by his old foreman.
"He's a good kid."
The old foreman looked at the cross in the church and sighed softly.
In fact, the people in Nell's family all have similar personalities. They are unwilling to compromise and will not compromise.
The eldest brother has to take care of the whole family, and his responsibility is greater than his own will. The second sister is crazy and can't act with exact logic.
The third brother, the fourth brother, and the fifth sister are actually all planning to find the truth in their own way and fight against the mining consortium.
Even Nell is a similar person, but he hasn't found the right channel.
From the beginning, the family's fate was doomed.
He Ao did not continue this topic, but looked at the old foreman and asked slowly, "Do you know Locke?"
He finally matched the old foreman with someone he had vaguely seen.
In the video of the massacre of workers in the mine, the mine manager ‘Locke’ sympathized with the miners.
Hearing this question, the old foreman stiffened, took out a cigarette shakily, lit it, and bit it in his mouth, "That's my son."
He Ao fell into silence.
He vaguely realized something.
The old foreman didn't seem to expect that anyone would ask him about 'Locke'.
It had been a long time since he had told anyone this. He was silent for a moment and then began to narrate.
Locke's story is actually very simple. Although he is the person in charge of the mine, he has always sympathized with the miners and hated the consortium's brutal repression. Sometimes, he would even use his power to protect some miners who organized demonstrations.
Under his protection, many people died in the mine.
But the good times didn't last long.
His behavior was reported by a money-grubbing miner, and he was fired from the mine.
After losing his job, he was forced into debt by the banks under the mining consortium. The price of his only residence was maliciously lowered, making him insolvent. He eventually jumped from the building next to the mining consortium.
And his wife took the children and left the city.
When this incident happened, it was ten years ago. At that time, the mining consortium handled matters in a somewhat 'gentle' way.
At least he saved his family.
Locke is the only son of an old foreman. After Locke jumped off a building, the old foreman's wife died in depression.
The old foreman originally didn't want to live anymore, but miners who Locke helped during his lifetime often came to visit and chat with the old man.
After a long time, the old man put these people into a chat group, thinking of helping each other, and gave himself the nickname "Old Foreman".
Later, he realized that many people in the group had lost family members because of the mining consortium, and more and more people joined the group.
Then they began to be blocked, suppressed, and arrested by the mining consortium.
More people who were at odds with the mining consortium also joined in, eventually forming the current Miners' Mutual Aid Association.
"A lonely old man with no wife and children, leading a group of lonely lunatics."
The old foreman finished smoking one cigarette after another.
He Ao quietly listened to the old foreman's story.
The old foreman has been holding back for too long and needs a quiet listener.
After everything was said, the old foreman stood up slowly, picked up the cigarette butts on the ground one by one, and held them in his hands. "The side door on the left is the bathroom. You can walk around the church as you like. God loves the world, but please keep quiet."
As he said that, he walked slowly towards the side door on the right.
He Ao touched the dried blood on his face, looked at Ivo who was sleeping peacefully, stood up slowly, and walked to the side door on the left.
The light in the bathroom was dimly on. He Ao turned on the faucet, scooped up a handful of water, and scrubbed the blood off his face.
At the same time, information flashed rapidly in his mind.
He realized that he had fallen into a misunderstanding. Most of the videos in the storage chip that Fifth Sister gave him were things that happened recently, and some of them were dated within the past year or two, which made him subconsciously think that everything happened recently.
But the old foreman's son Locke has been dead for ten years.
In other words, the video with Locke is from at least ten years ago.
The fifth sister's video was obtained from Vincent's son, and it may be the video that Vincent himself saved.
Why did Vincent save a video that is more than ten years old in his computer?
And this video obviously has nothing to do with Vincent.
Is there any more special meaning?
He Ao began to think about that video. That video was indeed the most special. Some of the other videos were named after time and some were named after places, but that video had neither time nor place, and only had a single 'm' in its name.
'.
What does ‘m’ stand for?
And does Vincent really not care about the video in the chip?
In fact, not necessarily. If he really didn't care, he wouldn't be searching the whole city, sending people into the wilderness, and mobilizing the FBI to arrest him.
The communications consortium was bribed to effectively block the video, but they couldn't catch He Ao's plan.
Moreover, Vincent alone will definitely not be able to defeat the Communications Consortium. Each of these large consortiums spanning the entire federation is a behemoth. It will not be easy to deal with them. It will require the entire Rock City Mining Consortium to mobilize.
We still need the power of Rock City City Hall.
But can Vincent mobilize the full strength of the Rock City Mining Consortium?
He himself is being killed by the forces within the mining consortium. If He Ao was Vincent's enemy within the mining consortium, he would definitely not pay for Vincent's mistakes, and would even publicize it in order to completely bring down Vincent.
Unless the contents of the chip involve the interests of the entire mining consortium, the forces within the consortium have to unite.
He Ao drank a handful of water and rubbed his face again.
In fact, being blocked by the communications consortium is not a problem. Back then, the former mayor of Chenxi City, Wente, was backed by the Nord Consortium and was supported by the Medical Monopoly Alliance. He also blocked the scandal video, and He Ao also got rid of his scandal.
As long as you figure out who is your friend and who is your enemy, everything will be easy.
He Ao raised his head and looked at himself in the bathroom mirror. The blood on his cheeks had been washed away, revealing a somewhat childish face.
The cool moonlight shines through the glass and onto the corridor of the church.
At this moment, He Ao suddenly felt his heart throb.
He raised his head and looked deep into the church.
Something is attracting me.
The last time he felt such attraction was when he met a dancer in Chenxi City.
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When I was typing last night, I fell asleep, emmm, a little later.
