Chapter 354: Escape Journey
Death is the best silence.
Living people can speak, but corpses cannot.
However, some things were not buried with Wu Hong's body.
What appeared before Su Xia's eyes at this moment was all the information he had exchanged his life for.
“Crash…”
Su Xia gently turned a few pages, silently, and read quietly, memorizing all the information in the document.
At the side, Ding Can was also flipping through the book, reading it very carefully.
Wu Hong's parents did not disturb them. The room was so quiet that only the noise of the mechanical equipment fans could be heard.
While browsing, Su Xia discovered that this matter could be traced back to a very long time ago, and the timeline was quite long.
It has existed for centuries.
In that era when science was just emerging, people were already conducting similar experiments.
The most common practice is to remove the internal organs of young people and transplant them into the bodies of elderly people. Later, there were also bone, blood, spinal cord transplants, etc.
Moreover, Wu Hong was not the only one investigating this matter.
At that time, someone was investigating.
However, in that era of steam and brass pipes, people’s eyes were blinded by the billowing smoke of industry, the whole world was moving slowly forward on dark gears, and information dissemination technology was not as mature as it is now.
Therefore, some people who know the truth write what they know into novels, mostly detective or suspense novels, using novels to reflect reality, hoping that their readers can perceive something.
Some of those novels have been passed down to this day and are still talked about today.
The masterminds behind the scenes also noticed something was wrong and began to release some true and false messages.
How to deny something?
In the materials, Wu Hong raised this question.
In the next line, there is his answer.
[Deliberately turning this into a conspiracy theory, releasing a lot of false information to make this a joke, and making ordinary people think that those who believe in this are crazy]
Yes, the best way to hide the truth is to turn it into a joke.
Telling the truth in a joking way will not arouse suspicion.
There is a classic example in Wu Hong's information - more than ten years ago, an elderly wealthy businessman was invited to a show. When the host asked him how to stay young, the businessman smiled and said, "Of course, it's like what they say on the Internet, absorbing the life of young people." This made the audience laugh because they all thought it was a joke.
After the birth of the Internet in this world, similar news often circulates on the Internet.
But everyone who saw it thought that such news was a joke and that such a thing never existed.
Ordinary people don’t care about it at all and rarely talk about it. Even Su Xia had never heard of it before.
[If such a thing doesn't exist, where do all the people who disappear every year go? ]
Wu Hong wrote these words in the document, as if he was questioning himself.
He has done some research and found that the number of disappearances each year does not match the number of items being sold on the underground network at all.
Children, young people, women, etc. who are sold in the underground world account for less than one-tenth of the disappearances every year, and the other nine-tenths seem to have evaporated from the face of the earth.
“Damn it, there are people doing this kind of business in Seahorse City!” When Ding Can saw this, he became angry and clenched his fists.
Kaiba City was his and his father's territory. His father had worked very hard to run this city, making it prosperous as never before.
You know, this city is a rare model city that has been praised by the mechanical race.
During the years that Ding Can had been active, he thought he had thoroughly investigated all the dirty deeds in the city, and even knew the number of people, leaders, and scope of activities of each street gang.
But what he couldn't imagine was that there were so many transactions beyond his sight.
"I'm not strong enough right now." Ding Can whispered to himself, "Next time I go home, I'll talk to that old bastard. If he..."
As he spoke, Ding Can's heart suddenly tightened and his expression changed slightly.
Considering his father's control over this city, it is impossible that he doesn't know about these things.
In other words , his father acquiesced to those transactions.
"Governing a city is not that simple. There are too many things to compromise on." Su Xia suddenly said, "So you can't take that position now. Your father knows it, and many people in this city also know it. You are too young."
"But I don't want to compromise!" Ding Can said with clenched fists.
"good!"
Su Xia looked relieved, nodded slightly, and didn't say much.
The old couple also looked at Ding Can with complicated eyes, seeming to be happy and a little worried.
Time passed quickly, and before Su Xia finished reading the information, it was almost midnight.
The more he watched, the more he understood what Wu Hong’s mechanical friends said—what he was doing didn’t make much sense at all.
There are many people who know the truth, but how many are willing to speak it out?
At this moment, Wu Hong's father suddenly looked at a surveillance camera and whispered, "Someone is coming."
"Um?"
Su Xia put down the information in her hand, turned around and looked at the monitor screen.
Someone is indeed coming.
However, the other party went to the bait room and was unaware of the existence of this place.
It can be seen that outside the bait room 102, there are two black vans parked, and six or seven men in black clothes get out of the vans.
The other party didn't know where Su Xia and the others had gone, but just guessed that they might be looking for the reporter's parents, so he rushed over to check.
But to their disappointment, there was no one in the room.
“Boom boom boom…”
Someone was standing at the door, knocking.
At the same time, there were people hiding on both sides of the door, fully armed and looking focused.
Some people also took life sensing instruments and explored around the house.
Soon, the man shook his head and gestured for them to evacuate - there was no one here.
One of them seemed to be the leader. After seeing the gesture, he nodded in agreement and waved to the others.
They're going to look somewhere else.
"These are the people!" Wu Hong's father said to Su Xia while looking at the monitor.
"Yes, with the same logo."
Through the monitor, Su Xia saw that there was an eye-shaped mark on the clothes of those people.
Obviously, these people are from the "Left Eye Security Group", the same company as the previous landfill security guards.
On the side, Ding Can said, "Sir, how about I find a new car? The previous car has already left an impression with them."
Su Xia nodded: "Okay, the protection ability cannot be weaker than the previous car."
"Don't worry, I know."
Ding Can was trustworthy and quickly sent a message to his subordinates, asking them to prepare a new car.
At this time, on the monitor, those people had returned to the car and drove away in another direction.
Looking at the surveillance footage, Wu Hong's parents had hatred in their eyes. It was those people who caused the car accident, killed their son, and even killed their daughter-in-law.
If the successive deaths of the entire family had not been so strange and easily attracted attention, the two of them would most likely have not escaped.
"These unscrupulous scum, don't they have any conscience at all?" Wu Hong's father's voice trembled, filled with hatred and sadness.
More likely, it's just helplessness.
They had already read the information left by Wu Hong and knew that they could not do anything alone, but they still persisted and quietly collected more information.
Su Xia whispered, "Mr. Wu, you are right. That man probably has no conscience."
“How could that be?” Wu Hong’s father didn’t understand . As long as a child grew up in a normal environment, he would have some empathy when seeing those sufferings, right?
"They could be clones."
"What?"
"I'm just guessing."
Su Xia had such a guess when she saw the description given by the security guards at the landfill.
The personal descriptions of those security guards were too simple, just one short line.
There is not even the most basic information like "name".
In the past, even a homeless person on the street could allow Su Xia to see a lot of descriptions and personal information.
therefore……
Su Xia guessed that those people might not have names at all, only code names.
They have no real parents and are manufactured in birth factories like assembly line products. They have no contact with the outside world when they are young. They are indoctrinated with knowledge imparted by the group from an early age, turning into emotionless flesh and blood machines that only know how to follow orders.
Those people's worldview is simply incompatible with the outside world, so naturally they have no empathy.
Of course, this is just Su Xia's guess.
No one can be sure of the specific situation until they see the truth.
"If this is true, could they have a clone army?" Ding Can suddenly thought of this question.
"No." Su Xia shook her head.
"Why?"
"The Mechanic will not allow a clone army to exist."
"That's true..."
The discussion on this topic has been temporarily stopped.
The two continued to look through the previous information, trying to find the next breakthrough.
In the information, Wu Hong wrote down his speculation about the death of singer An Shen.
He felt that An Shen was killed because he didn't want to be tied into a community of interests by those people and wanted to expose the matter.
Through his investigation, he found that An Shen was not the only star who died unexpectedly in recent years. Many celebrities died inexplicably, and most of them were found to have committed suicide.
Some are forgotten soon after their death, as if there is a hand secretly erasing their influence in all directions.
Some people's impact is so great that it is impossible to eliminate them, so they are thrown all kinds of dirty water on them and will be slandered even after their death, such as "having special sexual fetishes".
After all, the dead cannot speak or refute.
All kinds of slanderous news are flying around, and there are always some people who believe it.
If someone speaks up for the dead, they will also be criticized, and it won't be long before someone reveals dirty laundry about them, leaving them overwhelmed and their reputation damaged.
"These clues are too complicated and are scattered all over the world. We can't investigate them one by one." Ding Can said as he flipped through the documents. "Even if we find those people, they may not tell us the truth."
"Yes." Su Xia agreed.
"Sir, why don't you go first and put this matter aside for now."
Ding Can once again persuaded Su Xia to leave.
Seeing this, even he agreed with what those mechanical creatures said.
He was only worried about Su Xia's safety and hoped that Su Xia would leave the city as soon as possible. As long as she was still alive, he would be able to investigate the matter clearly one day.
But Su Xia shook her head and said, "Wu Hong is right, even if it's just the tip of the iceberg."
"Sir, leave the follow-up matters to me. I will lead a raid on the landfill and make things clear with my father!"
"No, your people are no match for them."
Su Xia was very clear about the strength of both sides, and Ding Can was still too weak.
The city lockdown doesn't start until 6am, so there's still time and no need to leave now.
This mission is related to the "anti-position device". Even if it is not for the truth, but just for this device, Su Xia cannot give up.
He continued to look through the remaining materials, sorting out the details in his mind.
Time passes slowly...
Finally, in the second half of the information, Su Xia finally saw a useful piece of information.
Those mechanical friends told Wu Hong that if he only wanted to solve the problem in Seahorse City, he could go and investigate [Ace Villa], where a key person lived.
The villa is located not far from the landfill, less than 20 kilometers away.
[Task Tip: A special mountain villa. You may find something great there.]
The task also gives hints.
[The mission map has been updated in real time]
【Click to view】
Another small red dot appeared on the map, waiting for Su Xia to explore.
At that time, Wu Hong met with a car accident before he had the chance to investigate the villa, and his parents were also unable to investigate because the area was private and heavily guarded.
The old couple tried many ways but couldn't find much information about the villa.
"Where are you going?" Wu Hong's father asked worriedly, "It's very dangerous there. There are patrolling security guards everywhere."
"Don't worry, leave it to us."
Su Xia stood up immediately without hesitation.
With his ability, if he can't enter the villa, there should be few people who can enter this Seahorse City.
"If you really want to go, take this with you."
The old couple had nothing else to offer, so they gave Su Xia and Ding Can each a lucky charm, which they had obtained from a temple.
Sadly, they were both firm believers in science.
But ever since their son and daughter-in-law got into trouble, they gave up everything they had before and even began to seek help from mysterious forces, whether they were true or false, and whether they were useful or not.
Su Xia and Ding Can accepted the lucky charm and then said goodbye to the old couple.
Due to previous arrangements, Ding Can's men had already prepared another car, which was now parked not far away waiting for them.
Pregnant Suki was also transferred to that car.
After the two went downstairs, someone immediately called them: "Boss, come this way."
"good."
The two walked over and got into the car one by one.
It doesn’t take too long to drive from here to the outskirts of the villa, at most forty minutes.
Ding Can was still the driver. After giving a few instructions to his subordinates, he started the engine and drove towards the destination.
It was late at night, and as the lockdown approached, the atmosphere in the city became increasingly tense.
During the time they were looking through the materials, the entire city had undergone considerable changes.
Ding Can drove towards the main road in the city, thinking that the road was wide and he could drive faster.
But after he drove into the main road, he found that there were many cars from other places in front and behind, and they were all heading out of the city. The dense headlights formed a string, making the main road a little crowded.
“Ding ding—ding ding—”
There was a constant honking of horns on the road, and it seemed that everyone was in a hurry.
Ding Can rolled down the window and asked the driver of the car next to him: "Hey! Brother, why are you all running out?"
The driver of that car replied: "Don't mention it. The mechanical tribe has gone crazy. If they really want to close the city, are we going to be killed if we don't run now?"
I don't know who leaked the news.
Given the sensitivity of the Zero Point Tavern to information, it naturally learned about it at the first moment and even knew the exact time of the city lockdown.
Everyone comes here for the bounty, but they don't want to lose their lives here.
"Don't hesitate, run now!"
The convoys leaving the city formed a long queue, the scene comparable to a holiday trip.
In the long convoy, Su Xia also saw several familiar cars - the special cars of Zero Point Tavern.
The cars are just behind on the right.
The driver of the car in front was actually the bartender Afeng.
Su Xia found it strange. This guy was a contracted member of the local pub. Could it be that he was going to run away too?
He asked Ding Can to slow down and drive parallel to the other car, then rolled down the window and asked A Feng, "Why are you guys running out too?"
"Huh? Brother, are you running away too?"
When Afeng saw Su Xia, his eyes lit up, then he shook his head and said, "No, I just saw off a few friends and sent them out of the city."
"You're not going to run?"
"Of course I won't run away!" A Feng patted his chest, "Brother, you may think there are a lot of people here, but in fact, less than two-thirds of them have run away. At least one-third of them are still in the city."
"Aren't they afraid of the position device?" Su Xia asked.
"What are you afraid of? They all want to see how powerful the stand device is!"
