Dark Light Chaser.

Chapter 541 Burying and Digging

When Ai Liang left home, she also took the equipment belonging to the hermit.

Firstly, it might be needed later.

Secondly, the risk of exposure is increasing when keeping these items at home, so it's time to find a new place to store them.

Ai Liang left the ground and flew into the sky.

The mental puppet that he had transformed into his own likeness was currently sitting in an internet cafe playing a single-player game.

Ai Liang's trip may take quite a while.

During this period, he relied entirely on this puppet to conceal his whereabouts.

The internet cafe is located in another county in Qianhua City.

Ye Qing needs to work, Yi Wenna needs to prepare for her final exams, and she needs to get to know her other classmates in class.

There's absolutely no need to worry about running into people you know.

Ai Liang took out a memory card and inserted it into the converter to read it with her phone.

It contains intelligence on various aspects of Nevada's underground forces, including information networks, intermediaries, and the black market.

Ai Liang herself actually has a similar card.

But his photo is an old antique from several years ago.

Looking around, the names on the contact list were all blank.

The reason is simple: Ai Liang used this card to find people back then, and he ripped off many of the people on the list.

In the years since the hermits retired, the black market has seen many die, flee, or relocate. The truly ruthless individuals who dare to risk their lives have all gone to other places to develop their careers.

Many of the people on the list are no longer in Nevada.

The current underground forces in Nevada are mostly new-generation individuals who haven't experienced the bloody era.

Fortunately, before leaving, Mu Si gave Ai Liang this new memory card, which saved him a lot of trouble.

At least we can re-establish contact with new forces without resorting to persuasion through virtue.

"Chen Shaodong, the middleman after Mu Si..."

Upon seeing the name and basic information, Ai Liang immediately searched the person's memories in the memory bank.

The results showed that no such person could be found.

"It seems he's not a local from Nevada."

Ai Liang put away her phone, her expression showing little surprise.

Mus was, after all, someone who had stepped into the strange world.

Even after vaguely guessing that Ai Liang might have read the memories of many people in Neva City, the fact that he still sent out this card means that the underground forces in Neva City have changed more than just a little bit compared to the past.

If Ai Liang needs to go back again for something, she might not recognize a single person.

His logistical preparations were as thorough as ever.

Above the clouds, Ai Liang sped towards the previously marked location.

Once he leaves the city, he can accelerate without any worries.

Ai Liang maintained a flight speed of Mach 3, emitting sonic booms along the way.

Ai Liang can now use telekinesis to interfere with electromagnetic waves at the microscopic level.

For him at this point, the radar was just a decoration.

All electromagnetic waves will "flow" away from the body, making it impossible for them to be detected.

Less than ten minutes.

Ai Liang traveled from Garden Road in Qianhua City to the outskirts of Neihua City.

Ai Liang landed on the summit of a mountain, surrounded by deep darkness, with a dazzling night sky of nebulae overhead.

Nevada was still brightly lit just past midnight.

For many, nightlife is just beginning.

Ai Liang gazed at the city illuminated by neon lights from afar.

Many years ago, beneath the surface of extravagance and prosperity lay bubbles and slaughter.

What now?
After the villains and scum were slaughtered, did things get any better here?
The answer is self-explanatory.

The only lesson humanity learns from history is that humanity never learns from history.

As long as desires exist in people's minds, driven by unseen interests, Nevada will eventually descend into chaos.

The younger generation has simply learned to be more restrained and is not as blatant as they were a few years ago.

Another point is that the territory of the Asian Union is simply too vast.

If North America had not gained independence from colonies, this political system would have occupied almost half the world's land area.

As the saying goes, a large forest has all kinds of birds.

The wider the geographical area, the more difficult it is to handle public security issues.

In order to maintain overall social order, a "prison" is needed to attract and house those lawbreakers.

Neva is the prison of the far east, and Winter is the prison of the far west.

Xia Qiyuan understood this point, which is why he chose to become a criminal police captain and refused all promotions.

Because of this position, which allows him to directly handle cases immediately, he dared not give up this position to someone else.

Otherwise, with Xia Qiyuan's resume and talent, he would have been poached by people from the capital long ago.

Ai Liang stood on the mountaintop for a while, looking at her hometown, before leaping off the mountain.

Of the two contact methods Dewey provided, one was out of service and the other was unreachable.

The cell phone signal for the number that couldn't be reached was coming from near this mountain.

Ai Liang arrived at the halfway point of the mountain and began to use telekinesis to search for traces of the phone and its owner.

In fact, as long as the phone hasn't been submerged in water, burned out, or had its battery removed, it can still be located even when the phone is turned off.

On her way here, Ai Liang dialed the unanswered number again.

But this time, there was no signal at all.

A cell phone that had a signal not long ago suddenly stopped working.

The phone owner either changed their number or encountered some misfortune.

Given that this is an emergency contact number, the possibility of something bad happening to it is higher.

Ai Liang had surveyed the surrounding terrain. The mountain was covered with trees, the air humidity was high, and the temperature was higher than outside, which was about to enter winter.

A body buried in such a place will decompose much faster than in the outside world.

But none of these are the key issues. The key issue is that there is no mountain path leading up to this mountain, so no one would come to a place like this.

Normally, if the murderer is an ordinary person who can be found anywhere.

Before burying the body, they would cut it into pieces and boil it in an aluminum pot so that it would decompose faster and become skeletons in a few days, thus obscuring the time of death.

Alternatively, adding some quicklime water can achieve a similar effect.

If it were a scavenger in the black zone, it would probably use something like hydrofluoric acid or piranha solution.

But can the guys who defected from the Haixin Society dispose of corpses the same way as ordinary people?

Ai Liang opened her eyes and flew toward a puddle a hundred meters away.

While searching for the eerie aura, Ai Liang was also investigating the structure of the mountain.

The mountain beneath our feet is mainly composed of rock, with hard soil and many rocks beneath the soil layer.

Not every faction has a countermeasures bureau with bizarre armor that can change form and cut rocks like tofu.

Even with digging tools available, people would still choose a location that is easy to access when digging a pit to bury a body.

For example, in places with water, the soil becomes much softer, making it easier to dig a pit.

Ai Liang walked to the edge of the puddle and casually lifted up a rectangular boulder that was more than half a meter high and more than two meters long.

Then, telekinesis was used to cut the soil layer below.

After digging a pit nearly thirty meters deep, telekinesis carried something wrapped in a metal membrane as it floated up from the pit.

(End of this chapter)