I have to get lucky right away.

Chapter 173 Lena is taking action
"breathe……"

After leaving the No. 6 assembly point, the girl in a tight leather jacket that outlined her perfect figure took two deep breaths. As her thoughts gradually cooled, light and shadow flickered.

After just a few steps, her appearance changed, from a playful and cute rebellious girl to a mature woman with dark circles under her eyes.

She slightly adjusted the way she wore her leather jacket. Although it was less revealing than before, it seemed a little more embarrassing when paired with her demeanor.

After confirming that the new identity document had been replaced, Lena walked along the path back to the downtown area. If she had changed somewhere else, such clothing might have attracted some attention, especially since she was so beautiful.

But in the Risuku district, where there are brothels everywhere, there are people who are more eye-catching than her now.

It was still some time before noon and far from the peak period of the sex industry. Lena was like a tired tea master who had just got off work. She wandered around and found a ramen shop with good business.

Although it was strange for women to go to ramen restaurants alone in old Neon, now that Neon has become a concession, few people have the time to read the so-called air.

Here, repression and indulgence go on simultaneously, and high salaries are accompanied by an extremely high-pressure working environment. Under the deliberate guidance of the Hexing people, this land, now known as the He Concession, has become a deformed society with high income, abundant entertainment, but extremely low happiness (Note ①).

Lena glanced at the already occupied bar seats, chose a seat by the window, and without waiting for the waiter to approach, she ordered:
"Soy sauce pork bone ramen, light and slightly firm."

"Okay, there are a lot of customers, please wait." The young waiter quickly wrote down the order in the book, then tore off a receipt and handed it to the girl.

"Nishirisuku 5-chome?" Lena looked at the number on the receipt, but did not leave. Instead, she waited quietly for the ramen to be delivered.

Although it looked no different from the past, she had discovered a large number of plainclothes police along the way. Not to mention those on the streets, she found a group in this ramen restaurant alone.

Although the other party's acting skills are very good, Lena, who is well versed in this, can keenly detect their temperament that is different from ordinary people -

There is no pressure on them.

"Dog-man rapist!"

Lena cursed inwardly, but she could only suppress her anxious mood until she finished her bowl of ramen, then she paid the bill and left.

Although it was delayed for half an hour, Lena was not in a hurry. The fact that she was able to leave a secret code meant that Xiaoye should be safe at this time. If it was a trap, there would be no need to consider the time issue.

He walked all the way from Higasatojuku to Kabukicho, and then crossed Kabukicho to Nishigasatojuku. He changed at least six or seven faces along the way. Finally, he arrived at his destination with an ordinary face, like a corporate slave returning home after a night shift.

In Nishi-Shinjuku, it is difficult to find clean walls. Except for the interior walls of private houses, most places are covered with graffiti. While they seem chaotic and disorderly, they are also great places to hide secret codes.

"Is there really one?" Lena's eyes, shrouded by dark circles and looking exhausted, had already locked onto the two housewives chatting at the alley entrance. Although the area was smaller than where Xiaoye had disappeared, the surrounding radiation area was still a key target for surveillance!

Although she secretly sighed at the trouble, it did not prevent Lena from making out the graffiti on the wall. When a small, tongue-sticking ghost face came into view, Lena felt a little relieved.

"It's good that she's still alive... It looks like that thing is still there too. It wasn't drawn by Xiaoye herself, but by someone who saved her? Wait, why is there a number? Forty-seven million? Currency... money? Why would they ask for money? Was Xiaoye kidnapped? But her bounty is almost two hundred million now. If she was kidnapped, why didn't they just hand her over to those alien bastards?"

For a moment, Lena couldn't even make out the content of the graffiti, but she knew she couldn't stay there any longer. She used a pinhole camera to record the entire graffiti, and then dragged her heavy feet, moving step by step to her safe house in Xilisu... Well, ostensibly, it was the home of the identity she was currently using.

Because the aliens' technological power is too powerful, almost all networked electronic devices cannot be trusted. However, in this era, if a person does not have access to the Internet, it almost clearly means that there is something wrong with him. Therefore, even in the safe house, Lena left many devices that can serve as "cameras" for the enemy.

"thump!"

Lying headfirst on the bed, Lena was like a real office worker. She didn't even have the energy to change her clothes, and fell asleep on the bed. But in fact, she had already entered the "faith space" and started to manipulate intelligence.

"Faith" is a power system developed by humans with the help of gods. Compared to the alien debris that absorbs brain waves on their own, the consciousness that radiates outward from humans is the basis for providing power to gods.

However, now that the gods of Japan have been completely eliminated by aliens, the anti-He front can only rely on the technology they have summarized from years of research, using their own faith-generating technology, and cooperating with equipment donated by foreign friends disguised as tourists, to barely find a chance to breathe under the high-pressure rule of the He people.

However, compared to the gods who have the power of many, the power of a single individual is too weak. It is almost impossible to defeat the alien technology head-on. This is why the anti-He front still craves gods even though it clearly has a certain amount of power.

"Compared to three days ago, there are thirty-seven more graffiti. Twelve of these are from collaborators trying to keep the graffiti up to date, twenty are just ordinary graffiti following the trend, and the remaining five are probably Xiaoye's secret signals."

In Lena's mind, she deciphered the codes one by one, but the results made her very confused.

In order to avoid being deciphered, the secret codes of each member of the organization are independent and unrelated. Basically, everyone lists common words and sentences according to their own habits using specific graffiti that will not look out of place when painted on the wall, and each symbol will be updated after multiple uses.

Of the five symbols on the wall now, three—survival, vital supplies, and funds (following the figure of 47 million)—are easy to understand, but the rest...

"I remember this symbol was supposed to be a doctor... Does it mean he's been saved by a doctor? Or is he currently receiving treatment? Or is he hiding in a hospital? What does this last one mean?"

Lena looked at the last strange symbol and couldn't remember what it was for a long time. She could only enter into meditation and retrieve the information "stored" in her faith space. Her expression became more and more strange.

"Is this a rumor or legend? But what does Xiaoye mean by writing this now? Shouldn't it be conveying her specific location?"

(End of this chapter)