This high-end-looking car drove from one end of the southern suburbs to the other, then back, and then turned around again, seemingly wandering aimlessly. But suddenly, the car stopped on one side of the street, opened the door, and a young man who was obviously drunk poked his head out, mumbling.

"What? There is nothing here. Where did this urban legend come from?"

While yelling, the man sat back in the car and put his arm around his heavily made-up girlfriend who was sitting next to him.

"That's right. Ayuan was bragging, saying that you must not enter the southern suburbs after midnight, or you will encounter evil ghosts. Hahahaha, where did the ghost come from?"

The young man sitting in the passenger seat also laughed, his face flushed and smelling bad, obviously he had drunk a lot of alcohol.

"I, I'm just talking, just some stories, don't take them too seriously, okay, let's go, don't stay here."

The young man sitting on the other side of the back seat, almost huddled against the door, spoke timidly, seeming a little embarrassed.

"Don't take it seriously? Isn't it you who said that, Yuan? Are you kidding us?"

However, the man wearing black sunglasses who was driving behind him cursed, took off his glasses, turned around and looked at him with an unhappy expression.

"No, no, Brother Heng, I..."

The man called A Yuan became more and more embarrassed and seemed a little at a loss for a moment.

"You can't drink or smoke, and all you do is read your storybooks all day. You're really a spoiler. We came all the way here, and you said there was nothing left when we got there? You're kidding us. Come on, get off the car, and bring that evil ghost to me so I can take a good look at it."

As the man driving the car spoke, the dissatisfaction and disdain on his face became more and more obvious.

"Alright, alright, Brother Heng, don't be angry. Hasn't Yuan always been like this? If you really ask him to go find a ghost, he'll probably wet his pants. Hahaha, there are no ghosts in this world. We need science and materialism."

The man in the passenger seat spoke with a grin, looking at A Yuan with undisguised contempt.

"Even if you say so, Afeng, he is still a real spoiler. Wouldn't it be nice to have a good time tonight? Fuck!"

Tuk Tuk——

The young man driving the car, called Brother Heng, wanted to say something else when he was interrupted by a knock on the window.

Turning around, I saw a skinny old lady standing outside the window on the driver's side. One of her eyes was cloudy and white, and it seemed that she was blind. The other eye was green and seemed to have some kind of disease.

The car was parked on the side of the road with the headlights on. One could clearly see that there were empty houses all around, but no one noticed when the old man appeared.

As a result, the old man who suddenly appeared silently scared everyone in the car. Brother Heng in the driving seat couldn't help but curse, then he rolled down the window and looked at the other party with an unhappy face.

"You old woman, you didn't sleep well in the middle of the night and came out to pretend to be a ghost to scare people, right? What's wrong with you?"

As Brother Heng spoke rudely, he smelled a foul odor on the old man, and the expression on his face became even more disgusted.

The old man just remained silent, and slowly scanned the five people in the car with his green eyes that seemed to be able to see something. Then he turned back and looked at Brother Heng in front of him, who already had an impatient look on his face.

[Young man, it is easy to get lost in the southern suburbs at night, so hurry up and leave]

A hoarse and vague voice sounded slowly. The old man seemed to be looking at Brother Heng, but also seemed to be looking at nothing. He just spoke slowly.

At this moment, A Yuan suddenly shuddered. For some reason, after the old man started talking, he always felt that the temperature around him seemed to drop a little.

"So you old bastards are just nagging. We young people can play wherever we like. When is it your turn to speak? Be careful or I'll hit you to death. You look so fucking disgusting. Go get your eyes treated."

Brother Heng cursed, closed the car window, and without bothering to pay attention to the old man on the street, he continued to drive forward.

The atmosphere in the car seemed to quiet down for a moment.

It was bustling and lively just now, but suddenly everyone didn't want to talk, as if the appearance of the old man just now had changed something.

slam-la-

The rain curtain is still flowing.

A Yuan had already raised his head, and his pupils shrank slightly.

"Brother Heng, let's go. It's not fun here. Let's go somewhere else."

A Yuan had sweat on his forehead, not knowing what he was thinking about, and pleaded with Brother Heng who was driving.

"You can go, but why are you hesitating? Just say what you want to say."

Brother Heng turned to look at Ayuan with some confusion, slowed down the car and asked rudely.

"No, nothing, I just feel bored here..."

A Yuan gave a forced smile, and seemed reluctant to say it out loud.

"Ayuan, why do you always keep everything to yourself? This is not good. If you have anything to say, just say it directly. We are friends after all."

The young man who was sitting in the back seat with A Yuan and was touching his girlfriend pouted and reached out to slap A Yuan twice on the face. He didn't use too much force, but still made his face red.

"not me……"

"Why are you pretending so much? If you don't want to talk, just get off the car and walk back."

"No...really..."

"Why are you always so nagging? It's so boring. Just be straightforward. Are you trying to say that old bitch was a ghost? Hahaha."

"Maybe... not... mainly..."

It's mainly because of the story I heard. In the southern suburbs of the closed city late at night, if you encounter an old man who warns you to leave quickly, you must get away from the southern suburbs as quickly as possible and never go any further, otherwise...

A Yuan really wanted to say this, but he couldn't.

He knew that as long as he said this, his friends would definitely not leave.

They would continue to go deeper into the southern suburbs, and would deliberately do the opposite. After all, they were the kind of people who enjoyed being different and doing this kind of thing. And I was forcibly dragged out because I happened to be their college roommate. In a sense, people like me were probably just jokes that they could make fun of at will.

So he didn't speak.

Therefore, he did not cooperate with these friends, which caused even stronger dissatisfaction from Brother Heng.

"This is so boring. Get off the car. You should exercise properly, you chubby boy."

"Ah, Brother Heng, I..."

"Brother, get out of the car. Brother Heng is doing this for your own good. Stop talking nonsense."

"Hey, wouldn't it be nice to get off the car and cool down for a while?"

"Then I'll make a video for you later. Let's call it the Fool Running in the Rain, hahahaha."

As he was speaking, A Yuan was really kicked out of the car and kicked down by A Zhu who was sitting in the back seat with him. He had to stand alone in the semi-abandoned southern suburbs street shivering in the heavy rain at 1 a.m.

How did things turn out like this?

The car was moving slowly beside Ayuan, and everyone in the car was laughing at his joke.

Brother Heng called him to run, Afeng pointed at him and laughed, Azhu leaned on his girlfriend and took a video of Ayuan while laughing.

This kind of prank has happened before, and A Yuan, who is often treated like this, has become somewhat accustomed to it. However, tonight seems to be different. In this dilapidated land, there seems to be something that makes everything different.

We have to leave here.

I have to leave here as soon as possible.

Such a thought could not help but arise in A Yuan's mind.

He turned around and ran towards the exit of the southern suburbs.

Behind him came the sounds of friends laughing and cursing and the car starting. It seemed that they just wanted to drive and watch Ayuan running in the rain.

If it were their normal time, it should be like this.

But this time they didn't follow.

After running in the rain for a while, A Yuan did not hear anyone catching up with him.

The car's engine did not sound.

The splashing sound when the car is driving is also non-existent.

His friends, who should have caught up with him, fell silent at this moment, without a sound at all.

Feeling a little strange, A Yuan stopped and turned around, discovering that he seemed to be the only one on the dark street, and the car had disappeared.

what happened?

He was a little confused about the current situation.

Is this a new prank?

Or did they find something worth caring about and get away?

A Yuan hesitated a little. He thought it would be best for him to leave without looking back, but his friends suddenly disappeared, which made him very worried. He felt that he had to go and check what happened.

While the young man was thinking this, time had passed quietly.

He turned around and walked back to where he had just left, to the place where he was kicked out of the car.

There seemed to be nothing unusual around, only buildings shrouded in darkness without any light.

There were no street lights, no noisy voices, only the rain that kept pouring down.

And it was in such a rain that Ayuan raised his head and looked into the distance.

I just looked towards the depths of the southern suburbs, towards the deepest part of this dark land.

"what……"

Then, he saw the thing.

He saw that thing in the darkness, something that once he saw it, he would never forget.

That is……

Chapter D-02: Intelligence: Si Shi

Lin Yi opened his eyes.

What appeared before him was a street.

It's bustling with traffic and looks like a very normal, ordinary modern city.

Humans are human beings, not much different from normal humans, and belong to the normal human structure under the disturbance of multiverse information.

Hmm, is it a yellow person? Finally, a more friendly skin color appeared. The previous tasks were all various foreigners.

And not only that, these characters... are they Chinese characters?

Lin Yi's gaze lingered on a billboard.

I can understand the voices of passers-by around me, and I can understand them directly without the help of the translation function of the Savior System. The language used by the people in this city is basically the same as my mother tongue, with only a few differences in individual words.

A Chinese-like country in a parallel world? It's really rare to encounter such a situation.

Lin Yi, feeling a little emotional in his heart, activated the teammates' coordinate function and immediately found that all his teammates were far away from him. He seemed to be separated and teleported to a place far away from other companions.

It seems that we have to act on our own for a while. Then where is the abnormality in this world?

On the surface, it seems to be a completely normal world, which means that the problem should be hidden. In addition, this is a volunteer mission where things have not yet developed to the worst situation, so it may not be so easy to locate the root cause of the problem.

[Iino, have you completed the network scan? ]

In the interval of thinking, Lin Yi did not forget to ask his assistant. Although Gu Mingji Jue did not come to participate in the volunteer mission this time, Iino Miko, who was the system assistant, came with him. At this time, she was following Lin Yi in a quantum state, and had activated her own abilities to detect and analyze the situation in this world.

[The level of Internet development is very poor, probably only equivalent to the 05 level in the world we live in. Even developed countries and regions have not yet completed the popularization of electronic technology. Um, sorry, Mr. Lin Yi, my network control ability may not be able to play a role in this mission.]

Iino's voice was filled with a hint of frustration. The girl was obviously in a bad mood because she didn't meet the technological civilization that she was best at.

[You can support me in more ways than just electronic warfare, and it’s just the beginning, so it’s far from clear what will happen next. Well, let’s collect some basic information based on this city, and I’ll investigate nearby.]

After a rough division of labor, Lin Yi casually walked into a nearby alley, then jumped lightly to a height of ten meters, stepped on the wall and quickly moved upwards, crossing several air-conditioning units and directly climbing to the top floor of the building which was more than ten stories high.

At the end of the fourth rescue mission, after being hit directly by Lily's light cannon, Lin Yi's physical fitness has been greatly improved. It can be said that he is now on a completely different level than before. He can now be considered the top level among F-level rescuers. If he is a little worse, he might be classified as an E-level rescuer.

However, despite this, Lin Yi's means of output are still quite limited. Apart from punching, kicking, and external objects such as guns, he seems to have only mastered a very long pre-swing, similar to a mutual destruction energy resonance move, and the body cannot move when preparing this move. He must find a way to get some effective extraordinary weapons that can match the current situation. For this reason, he originally planned to discuss with Li Xiang to see if he could get those gloves and foot gear of Atreus, but because of Xiaowu's matter, he was delayed and did not do it yet.

Well, forget it. These things are not what we need to think about right now. Let’s first determine the basic situation.

Lin Yi stood on the roof and looked around.

This prosperous city, according to Iino's data collection results, is called [Fengdu City], a coastal city in Huasheng Country. It has been an economically developed foreign port since a long time ago. However, more than ten years ago, as the facilities in the old city became old and could not keep up with the development needs, the top management of Fengdu City established the "New City Plan" and gradually built a new city area adjacent to the old city area, which is the current extremely developed city area.

In contrast, the old city area, located on the southern outskirts of the new city, has gradually become a dilapidated ruin with almost no one in the area as the number of residents continues to decrease and the maintenance of facilities becomes increasingly backward. Now basically 90% of the buildings there are abandoned, and only some elderly people are willing to live in that area.

The place where Lin Yi was teleported to was right near the transition area between the old city and the new city. It was hard to feel it on the ground because there were tall buildings everywhere. But when he got to the roof, he could clearly see that to his south was a low and dilapidated building area, while to his north was a very prosperous city area. The difference between the two sides was like heaven and earth.

"The new city and the old city?"

His teammates had not yet joined him, but Lin Yi was not in a hurry. After thinking for a while with his head down, he came up with another idea.

[Iino, can you hack into the database of the Fengdu City Police Department and check how many cases involve the semi-abandoned old city and what proportion of various types of cases they account for? It would be best if it involves more serious cases such as smuggling, drugs, and gambling.]

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