Arknights, the Angel of Justice is waiting for level 16

Ji Luo looked at Ye Ban's pitiful expression, and the anger in his heart gradually dissipated. He reached out and held the girl's soft hand, and his emotions finally calmed down.

"It's midnight. I... never thought that I would end up with such a big mess. The downtown area is now so rotten that it's beyond repair. If we want to change everything, we have to kill people first. Killing people with rivers of blood. But does this... really make sense?"

"Ji Luo, I've been in the downtown area for so long, do you know what my biggest feeling is?"

In the middle of the night, she suddenly lowered her head, and in her deep black eyes, tenderness and attachment rippled like water waves, so beautiful that it was intoxicating.

"There are too many people here... They all deserve to die."

Chapter 98: Nine has entered the darkness

Ye Ban's words should have been spoken in a cold and emotionless tone, but her expression was full of emotion. The emotions contained in it... were anger and sadness.

"Ji Luo, saving and being saved always requires a price."

"I understand, I always understood.

Ji Luo nodded vigorously. He thought of the faces that had passed away and the soldiers who were buried in the cold snow.

They fight for the ideals and beauty in their hearts until death.

Tuk-tuk-tuk!

There was a sudden knock on the door. Ye Han broke free from Ji Luo's hand, stood behind him neatly, and greeted the person who walked into the room.

That was a petite girl named Pero. Her code name was 'Eleven' and she was the person Nine trusted the most. It was she who made the call to report the incident.

"Boss, I found something here."

"Did you tell Nine?"

Ji Luo did not listen to Eleven's report immediately, but asked her about the order of reporting. The petite Pero was stunned for a moment and answered "no".

"Nine ordered me to consult you first before anything else if you were present."

"That's not necessary. You can report to Nine first and let her come and talk to me. I don't have no trust in her, and I don't want to manipulate her."

Ji Luo knocked on the table, and Pero immediately answered that he understood, but Ji Luo still did not listen to her report. Instead, he led her and Yeban to find Jiu first.

Nine acted quickly and had already reorganized her team. When she saw Eleven following Ji Luo, she knew something was happening again.

"Tell the first and second groups to get ready. There will be a mission later."

Jiu's order was quickly passed down, and she walked towards Ji Luo and the other two, her expression still as calm as ever.

"Ji Luo, what happened?"

"Ask Xiaoyi. I haven't heard her report yet."

Ji Luo's words made Nine look up. She sighed, nodded with a smile, and gestured to Eleven.

The petite Pero came closer and told them in detail what the scout team had discovered.

"Ji Luo, what do you say we should do?"

"Nine, you are a professional. I will leave all matters concerning the Lower Town to you. I will listen to you."

Ji Luo was not shocked by what Eleven reported, but it was still very annoying to encounter such a thing.

Jiu did not refuse this time, but acquiesced to Ji Luo's words. She said, "Let's go," and then began to arrange the battle.

Compared to Ji Luo's rashness of just going and doing things as he said, Jiu is professional and clear. She can easily handle personnel arrangements, equipment preparation, terrain research, situation preparation, and emergency response.

——This is a real war rehearsal. It is not at the same level as Ji Luo's one-on-one fight and the fierce fighting with gangs.

As time passed, the sky turned into dusk, and the clouds in the distance looked splendid and majestic with burning colors...

Ji Luo found a mound to sit down on, and for the first time saw Jiu doing pre-war mobilization. Jiu was professional, and his ability to keep the army spirits high and maintain high morale despite the thunder and rain was really amazing.

The ancients said: He who has thunder in his chest but a face as calm as a lake can be appointed as a general.

Ji Luo admitted that he couldn't do it, and he had never even seen anyone who could do it. The only person who was similar was probably the patriot.

However, the Patriot's unshakable composure, his stubbornness, like his antiquity, can only make him the best battlefield commander of Ursus, but not a real general.

Jiu is different from him, she is someone who can really become a leader. Her guilt for the dead, her sympathy for the infected, and her anger towards the downtown area make her raise the flag and become a candle burning with faith.

Ye Ban stood beside Ji Luo, looking at Jiu with some envy and admiration. She had never had a good impression of Jiu, but now, she had to admit that she was far inferior to her.

"Ji Luo, Jiu... is really amazing."

"Isn't it amazing? He can be a senior superintendent of the Longmen Guard Bureau. What do you think?"

Ji Luo laughed complacently. Although it was a matter of chance and taking advantage of others' misfortune to have Jiucheng become his apostle, he had to admit that this was definitely the most worthwhile investment for him.

"It's midnight, this is just the beginning. You haven't seen her true strength yet. She is strict in discipline, enforces the law impartially, has a mission in mind, and is fully responsible. If one day we can have our own city, she can be in charge of justice."

"..."

When she heard Ji Luo's words in the middle of the night, she couldn't help but glance over. She had heard Ji Luo fantasize before that they had their own city, where the infected and the poor could have a corner. It was mostly a joke at the time, and she didn't take it seriously.

But now, Ji Luo said this in a serious tone for the first time, and his optimism towards Jiu was almost authoritative and affirmative, just like a monarch evaluating his subjects.

"Yeban, why are you looking at me like that? Don't look at me anymore. You can only be my secretary for the rest of your life."

"Okay~ I'm willing to follow you forever."

The straightforward confession in the middle of the night stunned Ji Luochui. He reached out and touched the girl's hair, then stood up and led her towards Jiu.

The preparations for the war had already reached their final stage, and Ji Luo actually had some estimates for this operation. If he went there alone, he would be able to kill all the enemies, but there would be some innocent casualties.

Jiu's preparations seemed a little too cautious, a typical example of wasting talent and using a sledgehammer to crack a nut. However, Ji Luo not only did not stop him, but was even more delighted.

——War is a matter of great importance to a state. It is a matter of life and death, a road to survival or destruction. It must be carefully considered.

Jiu, who understands this principle, will launch a dimensionality reduction attack in the lower city area. Ji Luo never worries about my victory in her battle, but...is the problem in the lower city area really that simple?

With worries in his heart, Ji Luo got in Jiu's car and headed towards his destination in the darkening night.

There are no street lights in the dilapidated downtown area. The vehicles passing through here are either big shots from gangs or tough guys from the upper city, and no one dares to be rude.

However, some drug addicts are not smart enough and actually try to stop cars by staggering, risking their lives to commit fraud.

Bang-!

Jiu, who was driving, did not disappoint him. The Fidelian girl stepped on the accelerator and knocked the skinny drug addict away.

A pool of blood sprayed on the car window. Jiumian pressed the wiper with an expressionless face, letting the red color spread and then blur...

Seeing this scene in the middle of the night, she quietly held Ji Luo's hand. Ji Luo turned to look at her, put his arms around her waist, and let her put her head on his shoulder.

"..." "..." "..."

From beginning to end, the carriage remained silent, as if the person killed was not a human, but a mantis reaching out on the side of the road. Ji Luo turned his head, sniffed the fragrance of midnight hair, and cursed in a low voice.

"What a fucking world."

Chapter 99: Under the Filth

In the deep night, the car stopped beside a pile of ruins. In the area near the city's drainage system, the air was filled with a rotten smell that made people sick...

Ji Luo and Ye Ban, wearing masks, watched Jiu directing and arranging the scene. They divided the two teams, a total of twenty-four people, into different batches of three to cover the attack from all directions.

Midnight caught a glimpse of Jiu's gloomy face in the dim light, and he shook the crossbow in his hand with an unwilling tone.

"Ji Luo, don't we need to take action?"

"Not for now. The number of enemies is small. They are all guards left behind."

Ji Luo was much more serious than before. He observed Jiu's arrangements and silently memorized them in his mind.

Because he had made a plan before coming, Jiu arranged it very quickly. In less than five minutes, everyone except Ji Luo and the other two disappeared into the darkness...

"Ji Luo, do you want to wait here until the end?"

Jiu was unexpectedly relaxed at this time. Having seen all kinds of big scenes, she didn't take enemies of this level seriously at all.

——Even so, she still planned and prepared carefully to make the operation perfect.

"If you don't want to wait, we can take a longer route and it should be over when we get there."

"Then let's go for a walk."

Ji Luo was actually very curious about what the edge area of ​​the mobile city-state looked like.

Strictly speaking, the reason why the Lower City is called the Lower City is closely related to the location of this drainage system.

Jiu was not familiar with the surrounding area, but through the route remembered in her mind, she still led Ji Luo and Ye Ban to accurately find the entrance to the sewer.

Walking in the spacious pipe in the middle of the night, I sniffed around curiously and found that the smell here was actually better than outside.

"Hey, it's not as smelly as I thought."

"The city's drainage system is not all mixed together. Many pipes have specific functions. For example, this one is used to drain rainwater."

Jiu walked at the front of the team, holding a fluorescent stick in her hand. As she moved forward, she checked for possible traps.

"Those sewage pipes can easily breed viruses and bacteria. If someone were to live there, they would die in no time."

"Which gang does this node belong to?"

Ji Luo also had a glow stick in his hand. Using the holy flame foolishly in a place like this could easily cause an explosion.

"The Jingnan Gang is considered a large to medium-sized gang in the Lower City. Their main business is smuggling people, and they also do human trafficking on the side."

"Now, how much does it cost to sneak a person in from outside the Dragon Gate?"

"One thousand Longmen coins."

“The price is more reasonable than expected.”

Ji Luo thought about the cumbersome procedures and processes he went through when he came in, and actually felt that the thousand yuan was worth it.

"Heh~ Rather than calling it justice, it's more of a trap. The people they bring in are not easy to mess with, but if they have no ability to resist, they will simply become 'commodities'."

Jiu obviously knew about these things, but the Lungmen Guards could only protect the Upper City. They were powerless to do anything about the darkness and filth here.

"There are many gangs doing this kind of business, and the Jingnan Gang is just the largest and most unscrupulous one among them."

"The Rat King doesn't care?"

Wandering in the wilderness in the middle of the night, the managers of the towns will ensure the safety of their people no matter how harsh they are.

"Manage? How can the Rat King manage? Aren't places like the Lower City the places for this kind of business~"

Ji Luo had no good feelings towards the Rat King, and at this time he was even more ruthless and went straight to the essence of the matter.

"There are so many gangs that need to grow, and so many people that need to be fed and drunk. What he wants is to manage the downtown area, not to be an enemy of everyone. He can only choose to compromise."

"What does the Rat King manage? He's even worse than the hyenas patrolling their territories in the wilderness!"

"At least...he only allowed this kind of thing to happen in the downtown area."

Ji Luo has studied the bottom line of the Rat King. He never cares about the lives of outsiders, but he still takes good care of the local residents of Longmen.

"Perhaps, in the eyes of the Rat King, even being sold as merchandise is better than dying in the Lower City."

"What do you mean?"

Ye Ban heard the deeper meaning in Ji Luo's words. She turned to look at Ji Luo and poked his cheek with the glow stick in her hand.

"I mean, a large part of the human trafficking goes to the Uptown area!"

"what?"

Yeban was about to ask in detail, but the Jiu in front of her suddenly stopped and made a gesture to keep quiet.

"Wait a moment, I'll go deal with the guards."

As Fidelia, Jiu had a very strong night vision. Without any extra words, she pulled out the dagger for assassination and sneaked in silently.

Holding a crossbow in the middle of the night with an unhappy look on her face as if she really wanted to shoot something, Ji Luo couldn't help laughing as he looked at the girl's restless appearance.

Ye Ban glared at Ji Luo fiercely, then covered Ji Luo's mouth with his hand to prevent him from making any sound.

"..."

Ji Luo was also happy about this. He simply pressed his whole body on the girl, as lazy as if he had no bones.

In the darkness, Ye Ban hugged the lazy Ji Luo and vaguely felt that the reason why he was like this was actually to soothe her emotions...

"It's been solved, come over here."

Jiu's voice came from a little further away. Ye Ban pushed Ji Luo away and was about to run over, but Ji Luo grabbed her and held her hand tightly, and walked into the hell on earth ahead -