Love and passion, cutting up the wasteland.

The clouds dispersed, the sun shone, the storm subsided, and the Lagoon Town in the Depression was sunny again after a long time.

Chief Mechanic Wolfe had accurately predicted the time when the weather would clear up as always, so no one was surprised. Everyone was prepared for it as if it was an ending that was supposed to come.

The rainstorm brought not only destruction. In fact, as the water level rose, it not only diluted the poison pools in the Thousand Lakes to a certain extent, but also submerged the land and connected all the waters into one, making it possible for merchants from outside to come by boat.

Otherwise, no one would prepare their own ferry at the dock.

However, as per usual.

There are still many people waiting for the response from the Depression Lagoon Town. If they are lucky, they may be able to catch a glimpse of the rare ironclad battleship named Reef in the world.

It's also a spectacle.

In order to respond to people's expectations, the Lake Town Technology Hunter in charge of this matter got up early in the morning and went out to make preparations in advance.

He Zhuan stretched lazily. As an ordinary grassroots member, he had not joined the organization for long and had not even participated in a serious exploration mission.

Strictly speaking, they are not considered technology hunters in the eyes of the world.

However, there are always some people in the world who have talents in other areas. A mature organization actually needs grassroots personnel to maintain its operation. He Zhuan is busy all day long in Huzhen and has never been idle.

He Zhuan knew that people like him actually made up the majority of technology hunters.

Those glamorous and magnificent stories are not false, they just won’t happen to you.

He did not feel any regrets. In fact, compared to the precarious life in Ai Mine Town where he had to struggle hard just to survive, He Zhuan was quite satisfied with his current life.

"Dong dong dong."

At this moment, there was a knock on the door outside his dormitory.

"Are the law enforcement team here?"

He Zhuan's heartstrings subconsciously twitched, and he recalled the rumors in recent months.

He believed that he had not done anything that violated the organization's regulations, but this could not protect him from being investigated and harassed by the law enforcement team.

Once at the door.

No one knows what the outcome will be.

In the best case scenario, you just need to spend money to avoid disaster, but if you are alone and have no one to support you, you may never come back.

Many people have complaints in private, but they never dare to spread them publicly because this could become a handle in the hands of the law enforcement team.

"Is it finally my turn..."

He Zhuan had never encountered such a thing before. He often reflected on whether it was because he was prudent enough to protect himself and summed up his experience... In the end, he could only regretfully admit that maybe it was just because he was small and transparent enough.

Even if we arrest someone, we can't remember him.

When the time came, He Zhuan only felt trembling with fear. The knocking on the door outside the house continued, and it was obviously not his illusion.

But listening to the sound, he suddenly realized that, unlike the ostentatious impatience usually displayed by the law enforcement team, this knock on the door was rhythmic, neither light nor heavy, just enough to ensure that the person inside the door could hear it clearly.

Not like the previous style.

"coming--"

He Zhuan opened the door with a hint of trepidation and saw the other person's appearance clearly.

They were a man and a woman. Surprisingly, they were not wearing the white robes of the law enforcement team, but just an ordinary standard tactical uniform.

However, after seeing the emblem of a huge furnace on their chests, He Zhuan was still shocked: black scratches?
"Hello, I'm from the inspection force of Black Scratch Town, and I'm also the adjutant of Black Claw." The man showed his ID and introduced himself in a rather polite manner.

To some extent,
This is more terrifying than the law enforcement team coming to your door.

"You, you you...you guys..." He Zhuan was a little incoherent. He knew that the headquarters had issued a notice in advance. However, looking at the activities of the law enforcement team in recent days, it seemed that this Lake Town was their Achilles' heel and anyone who touched it would die. How could they allow the inspection team from the Black Scratch Town to enter the city so openly?
"Surprised, huh?" The man said with a bit of complacency, "But don't be too surprised... We already know what you did."

"You are under arrest."

Click.

Before He Zhuan could react, his hand that was pulling the door sank, and a beautiful silver bracelet was hanging on it.

It’s a pity that the two pairs are connected.

"Wait, Inquisitor, what does this mean!?"

"Intentional murder, trafficking in contraband, embezzlement of relay station property... a total of 52 charges, all with irrefutable evidence, so don't deny it." The man sneered and looked around: "Sir, am I remembering correctly?"

"Ah."

The woman next to him had a slim figure, and her slenderness exuded a sense of capability, but she had been silent until now, as if she was thinking about something.

It was not until he heard his deputy's words that he nodded.

He Zhuan was so anxious that he was about to cry.

He was not frightened by the long list of crimes listed by the man. As a grassroots administrator, he was most familiar with the organization's regulations, and secretly, he knew many people who had done these things.

but.

If I had done all these things... I wouldn't have ended up in such a mess!

The law enforcement team secretly publicized that once the prosecutor from the Black Scratch Town came to the Depression Lagoon, the entire lake town would be in unrest, and fabricating false charges and wrongly convicted people were just basic operations... These words were particularly convincing when they spoke, and He Zhuan was mentally prepared.

But it really happened to me.

I haven't done it, but I still have to take the blame...

What a loss!
Looking at the almost paralyzed tech hunter, the man smiled, but was also surprised why this operation went so smoothly.

The other side didn't put up any resistance.

According to the intelligence, that guy should be more like a vicious desperado...

Otherwise, it would not be their turn to appear.

"Wait." At this time, the woman spoke. She looked at He Zhuan's face, then took a step back and looked at the sign outside the house. "Are you... sure this is area E116?"

"Of course..." The man looked up subconsciously, and then paused.

The old doorplate had been almost completely rusted, but if you looked closely... the number on it was 118.

“……”The two looked at each other.

"Ahem... just a joke," Zhou Jing quickly pulled He Zhuan up, and in an instant the handcuffs disappeared like magic, "You have passed the first test. It seems that our Huzhen brothers have very strong psychological qualities, haha..."

"Remember this once." Zhou Jing: "..."

"Having said that, the procedure still has to be followed." He Zhuan was still confused when Lin Ji walked up to him, took out a needle and stabbed it in his wrist before he could retract it.

As the skin broke, a small amount of blood was sucked into the tube by the vacuum.

“…What is this for?”

"Routine physical examination to ensure good health." Lin Ji shook the blood and watched it undergo a series of reactions with the medicine on the tube wall that he couldn't explain, and finally slowly changed color: "Also, to make sure you are not something else."

She raised her head:

"He Zhuan, right? I've read your profile, and to be honest... it's pathetically thin."

Less than half a page.

When the clerk was copying, he felt a little sorry for the paper.

"But it's good to keep going like this. Continue your work." She smiled. "Every extra sentence you write may mean more storms you have to go through."

"Too much, the heart can't stand it."

He Zhuan walked to the balcony in a daze and watched the two inspectors from the headquarters leave. Before leaving, the inspector held her deputy and apologized.

It didn't take long.

Suddenly, there was a burst of almost crazy laughter in the corridor, followed by the man's warnings and scolding, and finally the sound of wind and the splatter of blood.

“…” He Zhuan took a deep breath.

Then a sincere smile appeared on his face.

He doesn't understand anything else.

However, no matter whether it was the law enforcement team or the prosecutor who came to your door, the greatest happiness in the morning was to find that the person they were looking for was actually next door.

sunny.

A faint sound of an air whistle was heard over the lake.

The foreign merchants who had been stranded for a long time finally got their wish and arrived at this town built on the platform of an ancient abandoned oil well.

But when they reached the depression lagoon, they found that they were no longer greeted by the stern and solemn white-robed law enforcement team.

Instead, they are another group of technological hunters who appear gentle but are still murderous in nature.

The furnace is burning, black clothes and black crossbows.

The Depression Lagoon has been completely taken over by the Black Claws.

It can be said that the vast majority of technology hunters in this lake town do not have any special stance, and when facing the Black Claw investigation, people with an open mind will not have any resistance.

In fact, because they came from the headquarters, they felt that this was natural.

The only ones left were those members of the law enforcement team who had not yet died in the central community, those who had already surrendered, those who knew that their mistakes were unforgivable, and those who had simply had their brains damaged by drugs and were still resisting.

Perhaps it would be difficult for the Black Claw to quickly defeat and wipe them all out with its own strength.

But this is a depression lagoon.

It is a relay station for technology hunters.

These hunters themselves are the best mercenaries in the world, and as an investigator, Lin Ji can mobilize headquarters resources in advance and issue missions.

In the past, Qin took advantage of this.

But now, with the Watcher "stepping down", the Inquisitor has the highest authority.

As for those who really know the inside story.

I'm afraid he could not bear the pressure and committed suicide even before he learned the intelligence.

At least some of its reputation can be preserved.

The black scratches did not mean to cut through the depression lagoon. After all, Lake Town was the largest relay station besides the headquarters and the base of the entire southern technology hunters. Many of the disputes and conflicts were not suitable to be put on the table.

The organization of technology hunters is loose.

But I also want to gather people's hearts.

And the adjustment process of all this will probably continue for a very long time.

But these.

It’s not something Lu Meng cares about.

He stood in the greenhouse, looking at the various plants growing lushly - it was clearly late autumn now.

Before, there were heavy rains and cold winds in the depression lagoon, but here it is mild.

Now that the sun has risen and the clouds have cleared, the steel platform is emitting a hint of warmth, but the greenhouse seems to be getting cooler again.

It’s as if the changes in the outside world have no impact here at all. No matter how turbulent the world is, or how the world changes, the world here will always remain the same.

It will never have anything to do with them.

He smiled.

This is of course an illusion.

In fact, its owner had intervened in his battle with Qin not long ago, and even played a key role to some extent.

Let alone the whole world, even if the depression lagoon underwent drastic changes, how could a small artificial greenhouse remain immune?

"Sorry for the long wait. I was a bit busy at work." The young mechanic wiped his hands and walked out of the laboratory. "Welcome, Nameless."

Wolfe.

The chief mechanic of Lake Town always looked unkempt in the past, whether he was facing the general public, his respected disciple Lu Dai, or the actual guardian in charge.

I go my own way.

But today, his hair was neatly combed... The young man clasped his hands together, looking embarrassed.

(End of this chapter)