This small county town is hundreds of kilometers away from the bustling city center of Itai City. After Yilin and Oulele walked out of the underground network exit, they quickly opened the map to confirm their location.
Yi Lin quickly determined a location on the map downloaded in advance on her phone.
"The destination should be near here."
Ou Lele didn't know Yi Lin's destination in advance. After all, Yi Lin didn't tell her before the operation started. She just looked like a fool and kept saying, "Follow me."
Taking a closer look, Ou Lele looked slightly startled: "Ah this? Isn't this place abandoned long ago?"
Yi Lin said with a smile: "It is better to hide people if it is abandoned. Otherwise, do you think there are so many missing people, where can they hide in broad daylight? If the 'Dawn Psychological Counseling Center' is the place where the victims disappeared,
Then they must have a way to smuggle these people out of the city."
"If you take the ordinary path, you must swipe your personal ID. Even if they have Cao Anbang as an insider, they cannot omit this step. After all, Cao Anbang is just a small policeman, and he will not be able to bypass this step. It is still common practice
There are monitoring equipment along the national highway. If they were walking on the ground, they would not be able to blatantly take this route."
"As for the air... it's even more impossible. Today's air traffic control is so strict that it is almost impossible for private individuals to obtain the right to drive a low-altitude helicopter. A low-altitude helicopter passed by in a swaggering manner over Itai City. Isn't it telling everyone that I'm so damned
has a problem?"
Ou Lele quickly called up the latest monitoring equipment, placed it in front of Yi Lin, and said:
"According to what you said, it's impossible to take the waterway? After all, if you want to transport a few living people by waterway, you can only go through the canal in Itai City. At nine o'clock this morning, this five-seater car didn't have the license plate yet.
The car departed from the Dawn Psychological Counseling Center and left the public surveillance area at about 9:42, so this should be it?"
Yi Lin took a look at the picture that Orele brought up. He didn't bother to ask when Orele hacked into the city surveillance system of Itai City, and smiled: "If there are no accidents, this should be it.
The car is low-key enough and the windows are treated to prevent prying eyes, so it is very possible."
After speaking, Yi Lin looked around and said: "Since they want to avoid everyone's sight, there is only one way at present without using space transfer props or abilities. Haha, and if the other party
If you really have some kind of space transfer ability or prop, there is no need to build a car, which is superfluous."
While talking, Yi Lin walked to the parking space on the roadside and parked neatly next to a car in the grid.
O'Lele's face changed slightly: "It's not that outrageous, right? Isn't it just an illegal religion?"
"It's hard to say. But it's probably unlikely. There's no such thing as 100% certainty in this world, right?"
"According to the idea you mentioned, if we exclude the underground network, national highways, waterways, and air... Then the only way they have left to transport victims can only be to 'abolish roads'?"
Roads that have been abandoned are called abandoned roads.
"Hehe. Now, it's time for you to appear."
Yi Lin smiled and patted the car door.
"What?"
"Drive."
"What the fuck?" Ou Lele opened his mouth wide, and the lollipop in his mouth fell to his feet, breaking into several pieces. Ou Lele's face changed slightly, and he stammered: "Ah this... this,
Isn’t this bad? What if we find out? Is this considered car theft? "
"Steal? Who told you that I was going to steal." Yi Lin shook her head: "Just think of it as expropriation. The system in the car should have the owner's personal registration information. You can send a message to the owner later and let him go later.
Just receive compensation for the vehicle. Compensation will be based on the highest market price, and a new car will be replaced for free. The car owner will be happy before it’s too late.”
"It makes sense." Ou Lele thought about it, and there was nothing wrong with it. He stretched out his hand and pressed his small palm on the edge of the car door.
Sizzling——
Orele's mushroom head, her hair was slightly raised, as if a weak electric current was passing through her.
A few seconds later.
"Welcome back to me, please drive safely and do your best to protect yourself, dear!"
"Fasten your seat belt, happiness for you, me and him."
The car in front of me started quickly, and a charming and magnetic female voice sounded softly.
O'Lele: "..."
Yi Lin: "..."
The car was lit up with cool ambient lights of various colors, and as the AI started to operate, the latest flirting music was played in the car. There was a sense of ambiguity and passion everywhere in the car.
"The car owner has really bad taste."
Yi Lin sighed: "Why did you choose this one so casually?"
"Should I change it?"
"Forget it, I'm in a hurry."
"Okay." O'Lele took advantage of the fact that he could still connect to the Internet and quickly dealt with the follow-up matters of renting the car: "By the way, what should I say to the message to the car owner?"
"Just send Zhao Yulong's phone number and information."
"???"
“Every injustice has its owner, and every debt has its owner.”
"This, isn't it good?"
"Hurry up." Yi Lin looked at Ou Lele with squinted eyes and a kind smile.
"Okay, Ou Le, let's go!"
Oral Lightspeed gets the job done.
Twenty minutes later.
Yi Lin drove this car borrowed from the roadside and drove out of Jiaozhou County.
This is already the suburbs.
Desolate everywhere.
At the end of the road, the car stopped.
To say it is the end is actually wrong.
In fact, there is still a way to go forward.
But a row of iron nets as thick as a little finger completely blocked the way forward.
This scene is no stranger to Ou Lele and Yi Lin.
Ahead is the "waste road".
Ten years ago, after the Night of the Fallen Stars, many of the hardest-hit areas were simply abandoned due to difficulties in reconstruction and remote locations, and the survivors were resettled in nearby cities.
Or perhaps, the roads that originally led to certain tourist areas and scenic spots were abandoned and simply blocked because the scenic spots and tourist areas were destroyed and the existence of the roads lost their meaning.
On that night ten years ago, the world completely changed.
Yi Lin got out of the car.
"It seems to be locked."
Ou Lele stepped forward and took a look. He was using the oldest mechanical lock cylinder, which was beyond his capabilities. He was helpless.
An iron gate locked the road ahead.
After studying for a while, Ou Lele gave up. He held up the heavy lock and said, "Are you sure they passed here?"
"Don't forget, Cao Anbang is a police officer of Itai City Police Department. No matter what method you use, it is not difficult to get the key here."
As Yi Lin spoke, he flicked his right wrist, and a short knife appeared out of thin air. Yi Lin concentrated for a moment, raised the knife, and with a click, cut off the rusty lock head.
Yi Lin looked down and found that although the door was rusty, there were fresh scratches on the ground.
Apparently, they just passed through here not long ago.
He locked the door again and pretended that he had never been there.
"They set off early and we took the underground network. Although the underground network was faster, we were still a step slower."
On the abandoned road, there were no restrictions. Yi Lin stepped on the accelerator and raced crazily on the abandoned road.
Because of its age and disrepair, the abandoned road was covered with cracks and covered with a large number of yellow leaves, branches, and garbage. But after all, he was not driving his own car, so Yi Lin ran over the abandoned road at high speed without feeling too distressed.
Ou Lele stopped talking after entering the wasteland.
His eyes were fixed on the scenery outside the window.
The hills on both sides are lush with trees.
But the desolation of the abandoned road gives people the illusion of driving on a doomsday street.
——Although Ou Lele has never really seen the end.
But the scene of the sky filled with fire ten years ago was not far from the apocalypse in science fiction movies.
"Where were you on that night when the stars fell?"
Ou Lele suddenly asked in a low voice.
"forget."
Yi Lin looked forward with an indifferent expression.
"Actually, I don't remember clearly. I was still young at that time..." Ou Lele lowered his head and played with the tablet while saying, "I only remember that that day, there were a lot of fires falling from the sky, and I was in the park.
Playing in it, bang... the whole city exploded."
"My parents are gone too. Although I don't even remember what they look like, every time I see the traces left by the starry night, I can't help but think of that day. Oh, by the way, this kind of parents suddenly
You can’t understand the feeling of missing time, right?”
Yi Lin: "..."
Yi Lin actually wanted to say that he understood it very well.
But I thought about it.
This was his secret, so he remained silent and concentrated on driving.
Ou Lele raised his head, the gloom on his face was wiped away, and he said with a smile:
"Hehe, but it doesn't matter. My parents are very good to me now. Apart from forcing me to go to school all day long, the contents in the textbooks are obviously very retarded. Oh...the Internet is disconnected here."
As Ou Lele spoke, he suddenly put the tablet into the schoolbag behind his back in frustration.
A tablet computer that cannot connect to the Internet is as boring as a beautiful woman who has come to visit her aunt.
The car drove all the way.
The two of them said nothing.
The atmosphere started to get weird.
In the scenery on both sides of the abandoned road, you can occasionally see the craters left by satellites when they crashed.
After ten years of wind, rain, and soil burial, these traces have become less obvious, but you can still faintly distinguish... This place was once hit by the debris of a satellite.
I don’t know how much time passed.
The road in front of us is getting narrower and more bumpy, and the car is getting bumpier and bumpier.
Suddenly.
Yi Lin stopped.
Because the Internet was disconnected, Ou Lele, who was looking down and playing with his fingers, was suddenly startled.
"Arrived, arrived?"
Yi Lin smiled slightly and pointed forward.
Next to the abandoned road, there was a new car parked, the kind without a license plate.
The four doors on both sides were open, and the car was parked on the side of the road without even turning off the lights. The exhaust pipe was still spewing exhaust gas from time to time, turning into a continuous white mist in the cold air, puffing on the ground.
Squirting.
Yi Lin parked the car behind the car, about ten meters away, and the two quickly got out of the car.
It was deserted on all sides, not even the chirping of birds or insects, it was eerily quiet.
Ou Lele swallowed his saliva subconsciously. He suddenly regretted boarding the pirate ship Yi Lin.
He is not good at fighting and killing, and in the trial, he could only barely protect himself. Now in this wilderness, Ou Lele's ability is of little use. If something happens... it seems true.
No one came even though I yelled at my throat!
The more Ou Lele thought about it, the more she regretted it, and her intestines started to throb with pain.
Yi Lin silently held the knife and stepped forward to check.
There was no one in the car.
Yilin thought for a moment and reached out to touch the seat. The soft artificial leather seat still had residual warmth in the depression.
"They must have just left not long ago, and we barely caught up with them."
Yi Lin quickly came to a conclusion.
O'Lele shrank her neck and looked around: "But there are no road signs anywhere. How do we know where they went? There's no way to track them?"
"Yeah, it's very distressing that I can't track it."
Although Yi Lin said this, his expression had nothing to do with "distress". Instead, a faint smile appeared at the corner of his mouth.
A few seconds later.
Yi Lin patted his head and seemed to remember something: "I suddenly remembered that Sheng Chunrou seemed to have accidentally said two words when she was unconscious."
Ou Lele was stunned, why did she feel that Yi Lin's expression was weird.
Yi Lin ignored Ou Lele's doubts and said those two words: