Chapter 512: Let some people survive until next week (super large chapter
Lani has been to Oak Street before?
Was she attracted? Or was she looking for someone?
He Ao's thoughts were spinning rapidly. He chose a bottle of water and said, "Boss, how much does this cost?"
"Five yuan," the boss glanced at He Ao, "Young man Ruo Dan speaks well."
"I just learned it and I'm not very good at it yet," He Ao paid and waved the water in his hand, "Thank you, boss."
Then he turned and walked toward the end of the street.
At this time, a young man came over. He had the appearance of the Tia Empire, spoke fluent Tia, and asked the boss for a pack of cigarettes in Tia.
He took out a cigarette and lit it in his mouth, looked at He Ao's disappearing back, and thought in a low voice, "That person..."
"Fifty in total, what happened to that man?"
The boss looked at it doubtfully.
"His back looks like that of a hero on TV,"
The faint smoke covered the young man's face, and he smiled, "It's a pity that heroes don't live long."
He casually took out a fifty note, threw it on the ground, smoked a cigarette and walked back to the depths of Oak Street.
The boss knelt down, picked up the money on the ground, patted the dust on it, and put it into the money box.
He raised his head and glanced at the notice posted on the stall that said, "If you encounter any suspicious persons, please contact us immediately...", he reached out and tore it off and put it under his buttocks.
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rue villante
This is an old street in the west of the southern city of Ellen City. The area where the common 'secret' of Lani and Gad determined by Li Le is located near this street.
When two people enter this area, they will basically cover up with makeup, and they will not enter this area at the same time.
Villante means gardenia in the Ruodan language. It is also one of the most chaotic streets in Ellen City, with people from all kinds of religions and schools mixed in. Li Le's people cannot fully display their skills here.
Moreover, Rani and Gade have very strong counter-reconnaissance capabilities, so the people Li Le sent to investigate several times were lost every time.
Furthermore, Li Le doesn't dare to expose his existence. After all, the institute is not very powerful here and he needs to be cautious in everything he does.
In fact, these two people did not threaten the interests of the institute, so Li Le did not spend more effort investigating the secrets of these two people.
This also led to the fact that the information obtained by He Ao did not include detailed information on the secrets of these two people.
Although He Ao now has a rough guess about the secrets of the two people through the information and previous investigations, he still needs to get a definite answer to see if there are any other clues.
You should be able to find out if you spend some time looking for Li Le, but to investigate this kind of thing, it may be more reliable to look for local snakes.
The more chaotic the place, the more invisible order there is. There are always people standing in the shadows to maintain this chaotic order.
The so-called chaos is just that the people here do not obey the apparent order.
He Ao picked up his cell phone and called the gendarmerie captain.
Half an hour later, a thin man with shaved hair on both sides, hair standing up in the middle, and scars on the side of his face came over.
He looked at He Ao, smiled and said hello, "Are you Brother He Ao? Captain Antwi's friend?"
Antwi is the name of the military police captain.
He Ao glanced at this man and nodded slightly.
"Captain Antwi's friends are my friends,"
The man smiled and walked to He Ao. He took out a cigarette, glanced at He Ao's young face, took it back, and said with a chuckle, "Are you here to find someone?"
He Ao opened the photos of Rani and Gad to the man and looked at them.
"Hey, young couple?"
The man smiled and said, "Leave this matter to me. Looking for a heinous bastard in Villante is as troublesome as looking for a drop of water in the sea, but looking for someone who looks like a serious person.
It's as simple as finding a lotus flower in the mud.
"Brother, leave your contact information and wait for me for a while."
He Ao took out a new local mobile phone he had just bought on the road and exchanged contact information with the man.
Then the man left.
He Ao wandered around the area, turned on his mobile phone, located near the Trunk area, and began to search for information in this area.
The Trunk area is where Li Le identified the Ruodan branch of World Tree. This area is very large, covering an area of tens of square kilometers. There should not be many people in World Tree here. The core members of the branch should be
Less, and the divisions won’t be too big.
So it is not easy to find branches of World Tree in this area.
He Ao quickly flipped through the pages, browsing the introduction to the landmark buildings and various streets in the Trunk area.
Time passed by, and after about two hours of separation, the skinny man contacted He Ao.
Ho and him met at the entrance to Villante Street.
"Brother, I found it," the skinny man said with a smile while holding a cigarette in his mouth. "The two people you are looking for are quite good at disguise. It took me a little effort, but their temperament is so eye-catching, just like in the dark.
The lights were bright and eye-catching, and many brothers raised their heads and stared at them.
"But those two people haven't shown up for a day or two, and their house hasn't been vacated yet. Do you want to go take a look?"
The Ruodan word "turn over the head" is found in the dictionary, and it refers to thieves who break into other people's houses and steal.
"Then thank you for your hard work."
He Ao took out a roll of banknotes from his pocket and put it into the man's hand.
"It's not hard, we are all friends, as it should be."
The man responded with a smile and put the money into his pocket naturally. The smile on his face became a little warmer, "Their house is in the building in front. Brother, come with me."
With that said, he took He Ao and walked deeper into the street.
He Ao followed quickly.
The two walked for about ten minutes, entered an old building, and stopped at the door of the innermost room on the fifth floor.
The man took out a key from his waist and inserted it into the keyhole. Then he turned back and smiled at He Ao, "I sometimes do some 'intermediary' work, helping people rent out houses, or '
Clean the house, after all, some tenants are not so happy to move out,"
He turned back and smiled at He Ao, "This room happens to be within the scope of my business. Speaking of which, the lease of this room expired yesterday, and it is time to clean it up today. It is like this here. The rent is paid weekly, no
People know whether they will be alive next week."
As he spoke, he raised his head and glanced inside the room.
The warm white light shines on the neat floor, and the even light shines on the warm decoration in the house.
"Hey, they even changed the light bulbs and put up floors, which is not common in Villante,"
The skinny man looked around and said with a smile, "This young couple is quite good at getting along. Are they planning to stay here for a long time?"
He Ao's eyes also crossed the door and entered the house.
This is just a small apartment with one bedroom and one living room, but the whole apartment is extremely neat and tidy.
The brand new and clean carpets and spotless table tops all prove that the previous occupants of this room put a lot of thought into taking care of it.
Even if no one has come back for a few days, it still feels like the owner just left.
"Brother, do you want to come in and take a look?"
The man walked into the house, looked back at He Ao, and asked softly, "If you don't come in, I will just pack these things and throw them away."
He Ao followed the man into the house.
The decoration in the living room is very simple. There is an intimate photo of a couple on the shoe cabinet at the entrance, which is a photo of Rani and Gad.
As Li Le guessed, these two people were secret lovers.
Generally speaking, love is not allowed between intelligence personnel from such foreign countries, which can easily interfere with the mission due to other factors.
He Ao continued to walk inside.
Although the whole room is clearly decorated with care, there are actually not many things in this room. There is a huge photo board hanging on the wall behind the dining table, with various thumbtacks pinned to it.
Photos of two people dating.
Behind the photo board, there are some old walls, which belong to the original color of the house.
There was nothing of note in the living room. He Ao opened the bedroom door in front of it.
The bedroom decoration is a little more cozy than the living room. This bedroom has a large balcony, and bright sunlight shines through the balcony on a small low table in front of the balcony.
Confusing manuscripts and photos were piled messily on the table.
He Ao walked directly to the table.
There are many photos on the table, and a plastic sealing machine is placed next to it.
Most of these photos are sealed with plastic film for long-term storage. Behind each photo, there are lines of text written in black ink.
This script is neither Tian nor Rhodan.
He Ao opened the translation software and scanned the text behind the photo.
Recognized as the language of the Republic of Ika.
He Ao took these photos and opened them one by one to read.
Most of the photos show scenes of Lani and Gad dating, and there are also some photos Gad took of Lani, and the words behind them are commemorative words similar to diaries.
The text behind these photos basically describes the progress of the relationship between the two people, and is not very effective information.
However, He Ao discovered that in the early photos, there were too many personal photos of Gade and Rani, and a tall building frequently appeared in the background of these photos.
He Ao just read the information about that building. It is the Ellen City TV Tower, one of the landmark buildings in the Trunk area.
He Ao selected all the photos with TV towers and scenes in related areas and laid them out on the desktop.
The intelligence information given by Li Le showed that Lani and Gad had completely different disguises, and one was in the west and the other was in the east. It was completely impossible to come into contact with them in daily life.
In the early days, when the two of them had not yet fully established their romantic relationship, the only place where they could 'meet' each other was at their common workplace, where Yggdrasil's Ruodan branch was located.
Based on the angle at which these photos were taken, He Ao began to roughly estimate the distance and direction between the photo shooting location and the TV tower.
He quickly built a rough three-dimensional model in his mind.
Then he opened the map Street View and began to follow the model he built to find the shooting location.
The street view of Ellen City on the online map is what it looked like almost five years ago. However, Ellen City has basically not changed much in the past five years, so He Ao can still easily find the general area where the photo was taken.
Two or three streets near Twisted Street.
All the shooting points were scattered in the far areas around Tike Street, but no photos were left on Tieke Street in the center.
It is unlikely that the two of them took pictures at the entrance of the Ruodan branch. They still had to stay at a certain distance before taking pictures.
Therefore, He Ao speculated that the Ruodan branch of the World Tree is most likely located in Dirk Street and some nearby buildings.
He Ao put away these photos and placed them neatly on the low table.
However, he did not leave. Instead, he briefly activated his super memory and scanned the entire room.
There is still one question that remains unsolved about Rani’s death: why did she ‘escape’?
Before the shadow approached, there was no danger other than some terror, and no large-scale sacrifices broke out at that time. Those who died that night basically died at home without realizing it.
So how did Lani realize the danger of the power of gods? And how did she know that she would be 'hunted'?
Soon, He Ao discovered uneven bulges on the pillow at the head of the bed.
He walked to the head of the bed, groped around for a while, then unzipped the pillowcase and took out a stack of blank photos from the middle.
The photos were not sealed, and some had dried blood on the edges.
When He Ao swept the house just now, he had already checked that the whole house was clean and there was no trace of blood.
This blood stain can only come from other places. These photos may not have been placed here originally, but were brought back from other places.
The backs of these photos had lines of text written in scrawled notes.
[Something is not right in the branch today. Everyone’s eyes are a little strange. They said in the group last night that there was a strange sound in the sky. But when I asked them today, they all said they didn’t know. Even though the chat records were still there.
Now, I don’t know why the minister summoned us.]
[No, I have to call Lani and ask her not to come over. The situation is a bit weird. I seem to have fallen into a vortex. I have to write this down.]
[They are all crazy! What are they worshiping! Hehan was captured by them!]
[Is that mass of flesh and blood that He Han? Damn it, all the exits are blocked. I feel something terrible is approaching. They invited me to join the worship. What should I do? He Han is already dead and will not participate.
, I will be next]
[There is no signal, and the minister seems to be still trying to summon those who are living outside to come back.]
[Saw Rani at the window, damn, God, don't let her in.]
[Lani is gone, good news, but she is so close, so she won’t be affected by that thing. I don’t want to participate in that weird worship. I feel like I am becoming less like myself. It is far away from me.
Getting closer.]
[I know, this kind of worship is something similar to that kind of classical religious ceremony. Everyone who participates in this ceremony will be eroded by that thing at an accelerated rate. It is getting closer and closer to me. After getting completely close,
What will I become, a blur of flesh and blood like Hehan?]
[Jenoson is dead. He said that he dreamed of the shadow sticking to his back. Damn it, he will die even if he participates in this worship. As long as that thing comes close, we will all die.]
[The deputy minister came over to dance. She is such a cold person, but her dance is so beautiful. But after watching the dance, the thing approached faster.]
[I seem to have lost a lot of memory. I can’t remember exactly what I just did. The black shadow is approaching me, but I don’t seem to be dead.]
[Great￥&*&**&%￥#! You are the master of the eternal night!]
At this point, the blood-stained photos are gone, and He Ao only has the last clean photo with a different color from the other photos.
He turned the photo over and stared at its contents.
The person who finally wrote the text behind the photo seemed to be in an abnormal mental state. His handwriting was so scrawled that it was almost unrecognizable. He Ao could only copy it, input it into the translation software by hand, and try to translate it.
[Damn... Rani was also lured here by them... She was deceived... drove Rani away... so many people...
·They seduced a lot of people today... The more people die, the faster the thing will come... I should be dying... Lani...
[No...I can't stay here...Headquarters can't be contacted, the communication was cut off by the minister...Moonlight and C-class...I want to go
Looking for moonlight...]
The whole paragraph ends abruptly here.
The next content should be that the person who left these photos hid the photos and left the house.
Then he never came back.
These words should have been left by Gade.
As He Ao speculated, there is indeed something wrong with the Ruodan branch of the World Tree. Judging from the content described in these words, the director of the Ruodan branch should indeed be contaminated.
Likewise, these words verified some of Ho's guesses.
The 'ritual' of the Shadow Club can accelerate the approach of the shadow in the dream. The Primitive Church does not take the initiative to kill people. They only accelerate the approach of the shadow in the dream. These innocent people will directly become the 'sacrifice' of the 'mysterious shadow'.
After absorbing these lives, the arrival speed of the mysterious shadow will speed up.
However, when the shadow is completely close, it does not necessarily become a 'sacrifice'. Some people with 'qualifications' will be transformed into their own 'servants' by the mysterious shadow. Gade is such a person.
Rani was lured to the club the night before, where she met Ged who had been transformed into a 'servant', awakening part of Ged's self-will, and was then driven away by Ged.
Starting from Oak Street, the shortest straight-line distance from Nancheng was to pass near the martial arts gym, so Lani collapsed near the martial arts gym. She listened to her 'boyfriend' and ran all the way out of Nancheng, but she did not leave the Primitive Church in the end.
control.
Judging from the performance of the black shadow, she has been under the control of the primitive church and may have been affected by the ritual long ago, so Gad did not actually save his girlfriend.
Gad himself mentioned that Rani was deceived.
However, this incident exposed another problem. Lani did not sleep and kept running away, but she still died.
So the 'shadow' is not just approaching in dreams, it is always approaching, and it can only be observed in dreams.
These are all things that happened before Ho Ao arrived.
Gad couldn't contact the World Tree headquarters and wanted to go to Moonlight for help, but he failed in the end and became a puppet 'welcoming guests' at the entrance of the Shadow Club.
Seeing the bloodstained photo in He Ao's hand, the thin man standing behind He Ao seemed to understand something.
He took a cigarette, held it in his mouth, and slowly lit it with a lighter, "That's how it is in this city. You never know whether you can survive until next week. Everyone is the same. Kingdom Age is
This is how it is now,”
A faint smoke filled the room, "I'll come back to clean this house in two days. Maybe someone will remember them and come and collect their things."
"There will be."
He Ao put the photo in his hand on the table, turned around and walked out the door.
"Brother, where are you going now?"
The thin man followed He Ao and reached out to close the door.
He Ao turned to look at him, put his phone in his pocket,
