A silver-white ball as big as a human head spun around on Badou De's finger, just like a basketball player showing off his skills before the end of the world; it was just that there was still a gap between his finger and the silver-white ball.
A thin line of air separated them.
"I'm not afraid to tell you the truth. They are messaging stations that only belong to me. My combat power is not high, so this ability is special. I can currently produce seven in total, and when I can produce the eighth,
, it will be time to change its name to Jiudude."
As Badou De raised his finger, the ball slowly floated up and landed on the two people's heads out of thin air. Through the thin bamboo curtain around them, the figures, legs and feet of the residents of Fanjia City came and went in a hurry, shaking the sunlight from the opposite window.
Broken into pieces, the color of bamboo in the room rippled.
Even though he is a famous person, his residence also only occupies a piece of land next to the road. It is separated from the neighbors by walls on both sides. On the side facing the road, two large bamboo curtains hang down as the door. This residence is really real.
It's simple; but sitting next to the flowing crowd, under the wave-like skylight, it feels particularly warm and peaceful.
Lin Sanjiu sat cross-legged on the thin carpet, with a cup of tea placed on the rough stone table - this kind of special item that can be refilled after eating and drinking is not rare in the Twelve Realms; he sat down and said
Within a few words, two thirsty children came to ask for tea with cups in their hands.
"I became an anchor because of my interest, and I was born to do this." Batoude explained, "The information flowing out from my seven heads can be connected to any system that transmits information through signals. From this system
Then it is transmitted out. So, even if I have not become a registered anchor in any communication system, you can still hear my program on, for example, the Huanger system."
Any communication system?
As soon as Lin Sanjiu had an idea, Batou De had already expected it. It seemed that he had been asked many times: "Yes, even if the internal communication system of the spacecraft happens to pass by, my program will be transmitted. Your pre-apocalyptic society
, is something called a mobile phone, right? If I am willing and have enough signal, my voice will be heard from everyone’s mobile phone.”
Lin Sanjiu realized that the help Batou De could bring to her search was far beyond her expectation. As long as there was any signal transmission around Yu Yuan, she would be only an arm's length away - she
Only later did she realize that the subject of this sentence that passed through her mind was Yu Yuan, not Ji Shanqing.
"Why not just become a registered broadcaster in the communication system?"
Badou De waved his hand. "It's too troublesome. It's just for ordinary users. What the anchor wants to broadcast must first be checked and approved by the system. If the content is not what they want, I have to change it again until they agree. I just take it for a ride.
, they can't do anything to me, and now they have acquiesced to my existence.
"These heads themselves can also be used directly as broadcasters, and they are very advanced broadcasters that can broadcast at fixed points within a certain range." Batou De suddenly laughed, circled his fists, and said something silently to the tiger's mouth——
Outside at least five or six houses along the street, Badou De's vague voice suddenly sounded in the distance: "Old Ding, there is an extra person for the task tonight, please be prepared."
If you close your eyes, it sounds as if Batou De himself is standing dozens of meters away talking.
"The mission for the night?" Lin Sanjiu leaned over and asked.
This should be the purpose of Batou De hiring her - it sounds like the fight has turned into a group fight.
Badou De's smile slowly fell. As soon as he raised his hand, the silver-white ball stopped moving and its color dimmed, as if it was "closed".
"I hope you can stay for a few days and join our patrol. At twelve o'clock tonight, you, me, and the other thirty evolvers we have organized will keep vigil in Fanjia City in different areas." He
He took out a simple map with strokes from some storage device and spread it on the stone table. The folds on the map were very deep, and Lin Sanjiu was obviously not the first person to see it.
Fanjia City was simplified into an irregular shape and divided into eleven blocks. Batou De clicked on the fifth area, indicating that this was the area that Lin Sanjiu would patrol. There was something else written on the paper.
Both names, including himself, were members of the patrol team of the Fifth District.
"To protect against someone?" To be honest, as long as Batou De can help her find gift bags, she can protect herself against nuclear bombs.
But Badou De's answer was something she didn't expect.
"...I don't know." This broad and strong man replied in a low voice. After a pause, he said, "I guess he is a fallen species."
"you guess?"
Batou De glanced outside the bamboo curtain, and the shadows around him were still flowing as usual. "In the past month, many people in Fanjia City have disappeared. They were often there the day before, discussing with their neighbors the business of transporting vegetables.
, quarreled with my lover, signed up to join Guihe... and disappeared the next day."
Lin Sanjiu frowned.
"It's easy to explain the sudden disappearance of the evolvers. It's either teleportation or a great flood. We are almost used to the latter." Batou De is worthy of being the anchor and is very well-informed. "But how do you explain the sudden disappearance of ordinary people?
Woolen cloth?"
He breathed out. "Walking in the clouds, those who would attack ordinary people would be degenerates after thinking about it, right? Our highland was piled up from the top of the mountain under the haze layer. If occasionally a few degenerates sneak in
It’s normal to climb up and hunt.”
"In that case," Lin Sanjiu immediately realized what was unreasonable, "Similar incidents should have happened before."
It’s not that Badou De has never thought about this problem. He scratched his stubble-covered chin a few times, and was also very distressed: "Perhaps the fallen species have become smarter? In the past, they attacked everywhere regardless of the target.
The alarm will be triggered immediately and the evolvers will kill them. Now they may have learned to sneak up at night and capture one by one."
"Has anyone heard a warning or a cry for help?" Lin Sanjiu raised an eyebrow and asked. "Are there any traces of struggle or remnants of the fallen species?"
"...None of them."
Lin Sanjiu glanced at him and he became discouraged: "So... one of the goals of the patrol is to confirm what is going on."
As long as Batou De can help her find the gift bag, she doesn't care what her goal is - everything she does now is just to find her way back to the gift bag; as for what happened to strangers in this strange city,
There may be some regrets, but there is no need to say how much worry and concern there is.
With the same attitude as her, there are also many evolvers hired by Batou De to do things for money - such as Zhong Qing, the evolver on the same team as her, a thin man with shoulder-length hair tied casually in his head.
young man behind.
In Fanjia City late at night, the people who supported its operation during the day closed their eyes, just like the body that softly sank into the sheets while sleeping, rising and falling slightly in the darkness.
Lin Sanjiu walked in the narrow passage that echoed with the sound of steady breathing, and stood behind Batou De and Zhong Qing.
From behind the city wall somewhere, the sound of graceful and swaying music came; in the ambiguously changing light colors between the windows, there was an unknown person's dance steps; occasionally in the open night sky above their heads, young girls suppressed their laughter.
There was a sound, and I jumped over on my skateboard - just like a dream in Fanjia City.
The light in the night under the skylight seemed to be softened by the heat on people's bodies; in such a quiet and peaceful night, it was hard to imagine that there would be any danger.
They took a few glances out of a window. Outside, there were countless layers of dark city walls stretching out along the hillside. For a while, they couldn't even tell where the edge of Fanjia City was.
The people of Fanjia City must feel at ease sleeping among so many companions every night, right? Even if someone goes missing, they don't feel the atmosphere tightening.
After patrolling for almost two hours, neither Lin Sanjiu's intuition nor consciousness caught anything strange. After walking for a long time, even Badou De gradually relaxed his vigilance - indeed nothing happened, and sometimes
I can meet people who are up late at night and greet them softly.
"Still on patrol?"
A woman was leaning against the window and smoking a cigarette. The smoke was so thick that Lin Sanjiu couldn't tell whether she was an evolved person or an ordinary person. "You have more to worry about than Guihe. Guihe doesn't care about anything except collecting taxes.
"
Badou De said a few polite words.
"I don't know what you want to prove." She crushed the cigarette butt and threw it out the window. She is an evolutionist. "We who live here every day haven't discovered anything? Let me see, maybe that rumor
It’s true. Are you spending money to hire people and patrolling every night because you don’t want to admit it?”
Badou De didn't want to say anything more and walked over with a stiff face. When Zhong Qing came to her, he stopped and asked, "What rumors?"
The woman smiled softly, and the lingering smoke and light lines disappeared from the corners of her eyes. She glanced at Zhong Qing for a few times, obviously unwilling to say more, and just smiled at him in a low voice: "I just like people like you.
Skinny and short young boy. Don't die, otherwise it will be a shame."
Zhong Qing shook his head. In front of him, Badou De also stopped and turned around, as if to urge the two of them to continue walking. Zhong Qing looked back at Lin Sanjiu and asked, "You also noticed something is wrong.
Bar?"
Lin Sanjiu said nothing.
She wants to find the gift bag and Yu Yuan, so any risk she takes is worth it.
"The target of your suspicion is indeed not the fallen species at all," Zhong Qing whispered to Batou De: "If you are worried about the fallen species, then what is the use of us patrolling the depths of Fanjia City, with them
The outer edge that can be climbed is too far away. I lived in Fanjia City for a few days, and I did hear some rumors..."
Badou De's face suddenly darkened, and the woman by the window slowly straightened up; everyone could feel that their bodies had tightened due to vigilance - at that moment, the word "trap" suddenly appeared from Lin San
Wine flashed through his mind.
She realized after a moment: the two of them were staring closely at something behind her and Zhong Qing.
