Chapter 389: The Lost Dog
At nine o'clock in the evening, the moon was bright and the stars were sparse, and the night breeze was blowing gently.
The city's night life has just begun, with bright lights, bustling hustle and bustle, and the blood of money flowing in the streets and alleys of the city.
"brush--"
Two black figures, one in front and one behind, shuttled between the tall buildings in the city, like two ghosts.
After both parties confirmed their identities, the tense atmosphere disappeared.
No matter what, the two are in the same camp and have the same purpose for coming to Conch City this time.
If it were any other tavern member, they might want to take off Su Xia's head in exchange for countless honors and money, but Zhuang Ren didn't care about that at all. He had long since stopped caring about the tavern's affairs.
"Are you Iron Fist Golden Wolf?" Zhuang Ren suddenly asked as they walked.
"No." Su Xia shook her head.
"Well, your eyes look very young, it shouldn't be him, what a pity for him..."
“Am I similar to that guy?”
Su Xia was very confused. Many people thought he might be the Iron Fist Golden Wolf. Even Zhuang Ren, the legendary creature, asked such a question.
Are they really that alike?
"You all have the ability to control metal."
Zhuang Ren sighed, as if he remembered something. He looked at the night sky in the distance and said, "He is also a person who would rather break than bend. He is never afraid of anything. He is straightforward, resolute and resolute. He is one of the younger generations that I am very optimistic about."
Su Xia asked, "I heard that he disappeared at sea?"
"Missing..."
Zhuang Ren was silent for a moment and did not answer.
As a level five creature that can control metal, how could it be so easy to disappear?
Even if he really encountered a shipwreck, he could control a piece of iron sheet of the hull and fly back from the vast ocean.
No matter how bad the situation is, it should be okay to just wave your hands and create a small metal boat, right?
In recent years, the disappearance of many advanced creatures seems very strange, confusing, and untraceable, as if there is an invisible big hand controlling everything.
"Do you think it's the mechanical race?" Su Xia asked him.
"It should be."
Zhuang Ren didn't say much, his eyes were calm, and he ended the topic.
In this world controlled by the mechanical race, what would it matter even if the truth was known? Many things were better left unsaid, and it was best to let time bury them.
"With your status and ability, why don't you just buy these fish?" Su Xia talked about the fish theft.
"Do you think you are the only one wanted by the Mechanical Clan?" Zhuang Ren asked back.
"It seems that you are not really going to retire, but are forced to do so." Su Xia said.
"Huh, who do you think is you?"
Zhuang Ren snorted coldly and said calmly: "In the battle of Seahorse City, even level 6 creatures couldn't escape, but you escaped. You are a natural nemesis of the mechanical race, so you have the capital to be arrogant."
In other words, although he is a level six creature, he simply does not have the ability to confront the mechanical race head-on.
How can a flesh and blood body withstand the heavy artillery fire?
If it were him, facing the heavy siege from Seahorse City, he would have been blown into a pile of minced meat long ago, and there would be no possibility of survival.
Therefore, people like him can only hide in the dark to save their lives.
He also wanted to use his public identity to buy these fish, but he encountered the same problem as Su Xia - registering his identity!
So he also chose to steal directly.
"I left in a hurry and didn't bring any valuables with me. I can't barter like you did, so I had to do this." As a legendary figure, Zhuang Ren also has to save face and knows that this kind of stealing is very embarrassing.
His original plan was to wait until the storm had passed, and then anonymously send items worth more than 10 million to Yuanhang Fishing Company as payment for the nine fish.
"Before coming out, my bastard apprentice asked me to look after you." Zhuang Ren said.
"Yeah?"
"Nonsense, he only told me two things, one was to find fish, and the other was to find you!"
"I'll give him two bottles of good wine later."
"That bastard..."
Zhuang Ren cursed, "In this situation, you are much better at protecting yourself than I am, and yet you still want me to look after you. You don't even care about my life as your master!"
Su Xia smiled: "You are a legendary figure, and you are also his master. In his heart, you are omnipotent."
"Stop talking nonsense and leave now?"
Zhuang Ren didn't want to waste time and planned to leave Conch City immediately and return to Coral City to ask that bastard pharmacist named Su Xia to make a life-saving potion.
But Su Xia shook her head and said, "I have something else to do here. I will go back after I finish it."
"Then give me the fish and I'll take it back first."
“You can’t take it back.”
"What's the meaning?"
"The whole city is under martial law now, and you don't have a special space to store items." Su Xia glanced at him, "How are you going to take these nine fish and the fish tank out of the city?"
"This is a problem! Those damn mechanical creatures..."
Zhuang Ren looked up.
In the night sky, several mechanical creatures of special shapes flew by, buzzing, inspecting the situation of the city below.
The situation is becoming increasingly serious. There are flying machines patrolling almost every area in the city, and the entire city is filled with the roar of machinery.
The eyes of the mechanical race, like the eyes of God, cover the entire city and monitor almost every living thing.
"When are you going to go back?" Zhuang Ren was obviously anxious. "If you don't leave now, once the stand device is installed, you won't be able to leave even if you want to."
Apparently, after the battle at Kaiba Castle, the power of the Stand Device had spread throughout the world.
No one dares to underestimate this device anymore.
Those blue light pillars that shot up into the sky were like huge shadows, suffocating all psychic creatures around the world.
"We should be able to leave tomorrow night." Su Xia estimated the time and it was time for him to go back.
"What else are you going to do here?" Zhuang Ren asked.
"There was some friction with an organization called 'Left Eye Security Group'." Su Xia replied.
"I've heard of it. It's just a small organization. Why should we care about them?" Zhuang Ren asked again.
"It may seem like a small organization to us, but it may not be the case for ordinary people." Su Xia answered him, "This organization has committed many sins and killed too many people."
"Nonsense, which organization doesn't kill people nowadays?"
Zhuang Ren’s mentality is different from Su Xia’s. He doesn’t know the inside story of this group and doesn’t understand Su Xia’s behavior.
Let’s not talk about anything else, just take the Zero Point Tavern as an example, almost every member’s hands were stained with blood.
In this era, human life is the least valuable thing.
"The targets of this organization are almost all women and children," said Su Xia.
"Innocent people?" Zhuang Ren frowned.
"Um."
"Then we should destroy it." Zhuang Ren said, "When should we start? I will act with you, and we will go back together after we destroy it."
"Tomorrow morning, there are still a few hours left. I will indeed need help. We may face the mechanical tribe then."
"Damn it, why do you always go against the mechanical people?"
“…”
Su Xia really couldn't answer this.
Zhuang Ren added, "You bastard are faster than me. After fighting the mechanical tribe, you will have no problem escaping. Where are you going now?"
"To get to a port, I have to do one thing first."
"Stealing?"
"No, it's about a batch of arms..."
Su Xia began to talk, patiently telling Zhuang Ren his findings.
This legendary figure has much more experience and knowledge than him, and his views on the world situation are also quite mature.
After listening, Zhuang Ren frowned, pondered for a while, and slowly sorted out every word Su Xia said in his mind.
If what Su Xia said is true, then wouldn't the human race be facing a large-scale civil war?
The human race is in this state now. If there is another civil war...
Well, the results were certainly devastating.
"Why are you telling me this?" Zhuang Ren suddenly spoke, seemingly indifferent, "I'm not interested in this kind of thing. I've been retired for several years and I'm not interested in dealing with these troublesome matters anymore."
"Don't forget, you and your disciple owe me a favor."
Su Xia mentioned "human feelings" again, which made Zhuang Ren very uncomfortable.
"You bastard, do you want me to help you fight the human civil war?" Zhuang Ren was angry. "Tell me, which large gathering place leader do you want me to kill? If I kill him for you, we won't owe each other anything!"
"Not really, it's not to the point of killing someone yet..."
Su Xia smiled and told Zhuang Ren to relax.
It's not easy to get a legendary figure to owe him a favor, and he must make good use of it.
"So what do you want from me?"
“I haven’t thought about it yet.”
"Fuck you, you bastard must have bad intentions." Zhuang Ren cursed, "I didn't check the almanac before going out today, how come I ran into you!"
"Calm down, you are a legend, you should be magnanimous." Su Xia smiled faintly.
"fart!"
Zhuang Ren glared at him and said, "You'd better die soon, you bastard. If you die, you won't have any favors anymore."
Su Xia shrugged: "I want to die, but the mechanical people are not very strong."
“…”
As he owed a favor, Zhuang Ren had no hope for his retirement life for the time being.
Under the cover of night, the two of them, one in front and one behind, rushed to the pier on the seaside.
Soon, the sound of the sea floated into my ears, the waves crashing, the waves forming, the seaside at night is particularly charming.
The dock is piled with containers, the workers have not yet rested, freight trucks are coming and going, industrial sounds are buzzing, day and night, and a few whistles can be heard from time to time.
Several cargo ships were unloading. Large containers were lifted up and then placed on trucks on the shore for transportation to designated locations.
This was Su Xia's first time watching unloading up close. Standing in front of these huge cargo ships, she felt a shocking sense of insignificance.
These huge cargo ships are mechanical creations condensed from human wisdom.
He stood quietly on the dock. Workers kept walking by and loading and unloading trucks passed by him, but no one noticed him, as if he didn't exist at all.
On the side, Zhuang Ren stood in the shadows, also unnoticed.
"How long will it take?" Zhuang Ren asked him.
"have no idea."
"You don't even know the exact time?"
"The Mechanical Tribe will seal off the city. There is no exact time." Su Xia replied, "It will probably be two in the morning, but it may be delayed by one or two hours."
"Okay..."
Zhuang Ren stopped talking and waited quietly.
As time passed, the temperature at the seaside gradually dropped, and the sea breeze swept past the two of them, shuttling back and forth on the pier.
…
At two o'clock in the morning, several whistles were heard in the distance.
“Woo-woo-woo—”
Another cargo ship entered the dock.
Su Xia narrowed her eyes, looked into the distance, and saw the code and numbers printed on the freighter.
This was the ship he was waiting for, the same one Andrew had described.
After entering the port, three cranes are responsible for unloading the cargo ship. The total process takes about 12-15 hours.
Wearing "life sensing glasses", Su Xia's vision penetrated each container and saw each life.
"Andrew said that the kidnapped people on this ship should be at the bottom of the cargo hold." Su Xia whispered, "Now it seems that they are not at the bottom. They are still using traditional containers for smuggling."
“Container stowaway?”
"Yes." Su Xia nodded. "It's one of the most traditional ways of smuggling. It's cheap and convenient. As long as you can pass the inspection, it's fine."
“How many containers are there?”
"There are only about a dozen containers with people in them. The others are probably filled with the arms."
"What do you want to do?"
"We can't do anything now. Wait until they unload the goods, then intercept them halfway and rescue these people."
"Aren't you going to get on board?"
"The time has not come yet..."
Above the dock, mechanical flying insects made up of nanorobots flapped their wings and flew towards the freighter under the control of Su Xia.
After boarding the ship, these small mechanical flying insects began searching the ship for the person in charge of the cargo ship.
Su Xia checked the situation on the ship through shared vision.
Soon, Xiao Feichong checked the deck department, affairs department, engine department and other departments one by one.
The employees of these departments were all exposed to Su Xia's vision.
After a while, Su Xia sighed, shook her head and said, "Forget it, there's no need. The employees on this ship only belong to the ocean shipping company. They don't have the person I want to find, so I can't get any information."
Zhuang Ren was surprised: "How did you know?"
Su Xia replied: "I have seen it."
"Have you been up there?"
"Um."
After receiving a positive answer, Zhuang Ren did not ask any more questions.
Everyone has secrets, especially psychic creatures. Advanced psychic creatures basically have special abilities.
On the other side, unloading had already begun, and the first items to be unloaded were the dozen or so containers containing the kidnapped people.
Specialized transport vehicles take these containers away and drive them to the terminal freight station.
"I'll go and take a look, you stay here." Su Xia said.
After saying that, he floated his body and followed the transport truck at a moderate speed.
In a dark corner of the freight station, more than a dozen container trucks were parked quietly.
Next to the front truck, several people were chatting.
"Is it someone from the Left Eye Group?"
Su Xia's heart moved, and after floating closer, she heard what they were talking about.
One of them seemed to be the driver. He stood outside the cab and whispered, "It was a close call. Fortunately, the mechanical tribe did not block the dock or check the containers this time, otherwise it would be over."
Another person whispered, "It's all because of that masked man. We were almost in trouble!"
"I heard that the bases in Kaiba City were destroyed by the masked weirdo."
"Yes, those idiots in Kaiba City, I don't know how they got in trouble with that killer..."
“…”
Obviously, these people are employees of Zuoyan Group, responsible for loading containers here.
They looked nervous and spoke in low voices, looking at the freighter in the distance as they talked.
This time, they were indeed lucky.
If the mechanical people want to open the box and check the goods, it will be a big trouble.
It doesn’t matter if the kidnapped people are found. Once the arms are found, the entire southwest base may be finished!
"The group has been having a rough few days. We've barely made it through the mechanical race. We don't know if that masked stranger will come." One of them whispered, with some worry in his voice.
"What are you afraid of?" asked another person.
"How can you not be afraid? Even Andrew was scared and ran away! He left us low-level employees behind to attract attention!"
"Do you really think Andrew managed to escape? He was destroyed yesterday afternoon, not even a trace of him was left!"
Several people talked about Andrew, with different expressions.
The news about Andrew has spread, and many people know that running away means death.
No matter who you are, once you leave the group, the final result will be destruction.
"Don't worry, the masked man doesn't dare to come. He is being chased by the mechanical tribe like a stray dog. Now we don't know whether he is dead or alive."
"Really?"
"Of course, I heard it from Lord Frank himself. He used to be Andrew's deputy, but now he has taken over everything of Andrew..."
The few of them chatted like this, talking about recent events and their own thoughts.
They had no idea that the masked man was now standing next to them, quietly listening to everything they discussed.
