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Chapter 14 Free Fighting Arena, 09:30 pm
"Rolla." Deng Huailing told the truth, knowing that lying would arouse the other party's suspicion.
"Oh, the proprietress of the Hunter's Bar?" The red-haired beauty's sharp eyebrows relaxed a bit, although she was still vigilant, her killing intent was not so strong, "So you are a bounty hunter?"
Deng Huailing showed his ID, put it away, and said: "Mary Ellis died on the night of the terrorist attack. The murderer has been arrested, but the insider who asked her to meet has not yet been found. If you have a memory pump or somethingFor anything related to Mary Ellis, make an offer."
"...She's dead?" The red-haired beauty's eyes widened in disbelief, and she muttered, "Mary's dead? She's a doctor's masterpiece!"
"What masterpiece?" Deng Huailing asked sharply.He watched every subtle expression of the other party, trying to read some clues from it, but the other party quickly put on a disguise, resumed his usual charming smile, and blinked his left eye at Deng Huailing.
"I don't know any of these things," he said. "I'm just a front desk girl. You need to ask a doctor."
"Little girl at the front desk?" Deng Huailing raised her eyebrows, put her hands on the counter behind her, sat on it leisurely, and said, "How can you not know this, after all, you are partnering with the 'doctor' to smuggle prosthetic limbs, The government has offered a reward of 50 million A-level serial murderers - code-named 'Killer', isn't it?"
The red-haired beauty was stunned for a moment, instead of being embarrassed and angry as expected, she laughed instead."I have been in the black market for ten years." He twirled a scalpel casually in his hand, flying up and down like a silver butterfly. "Except for Doctor, no one has called me by this code name for a long time. I miss it."
Deng Huailing glanced at the scalpel, and said calmly: "Ever since you asked us to see the doctor, you have made up your mind not to give me any information; not only that, but you also want to kill us."
"Yes," the killer admitted graciously, "I'm a serial murderer with no bottom line. You don't deserve to know about Mary Ellis."
"Only with this small knife measuring more than ten centimeters?" Deng Huailing said disdainfully.
"I took off the head of the highest military officer." The killer answered.However, his calm expression quickly turned to surpriseโโ
The bionic man who followed the bounty hunter was standing quietly beside him at the moment.The killer didn't notice someone approaching at all, and didn't even have time to see the opponent's movements clearly. When his hand was empty, the handle of the rapidly spinning scalpel was grabbed by the bionic man, and he took it out and weighed it in his hand.
For the second time in his life, the killer had his knife taken from him.It was originally a moment of life and death, and the bionic man might kill him at any time, but his thoughts drifted back to ten years ago: the former leader of "Shu" stood with him in the high place and chatted in the wind.Playing with the scalpel, the leader made a little joke with him, and somehow, the knife fell into the leader's hands.
Rosie looked at him quietly, with no killing intent in her eyes, because Deng Huailing didn't give an order.
The killer suddenly took a step back, bit his lower lip, and said in a trembling voice, "Take... off your sunglasses."
Rosie tilted her head in confusion, and looked at Deng Huailing.The killer was extremely impatient, and raised his hand to move the sunglasses covering his face, but his wrist was restrained by the bionic man, unable to get any closer.
"Damn." The killer cursed, turning his face away.He was almost sure who it was, the familiar... so annoying Rosie.
Deng Huailing jumped off the counter and nodded at Rosie: "If he wants to watch it, let him watch it." Although the promotional video made the whole city know Rosie's face, he had a vague guess in his heart that the killerThis look of emotion is obviously not because of the promotional video.
โ rather an acquaintance of Rosie's.Why does a combat bionic have someone he knows well?
He wouldn't ask, and the killer would never tell him.
Rosie obediently rolled down her sunglasses, revealing her eyes.No mistake, the killer looked at the face of the bionic man, thinking silently, that is the Luoxi he knew many years ago.
Time seemed to stop on the face of the other party.It's been ten years. During the ten years, he was expelled from the second district by other adjudicators, wandered around the city, and finally found the "doctor" here to change his face and hide.He has experienced changes over the years, but Rosie, who was declared dead ten years ago, stood in front of him alive, even her appearance did not change at all.
In just a short moment, the killer can roughly piece together some ins and outs, for example, why Victor announced to the second district that Rosie was dead; and for example, what the government did to Rosie.He embraced the bionic man's shoulders, rubbed his curly red hair against the other's neck, and said with a smile, "It's really not easy, you."
Rosie looked at him warily, and Deng Huailing stared at his hand on the shoulder of the bionic man, as if he was weighing which angle to cut off without hurting Rosie.Seeing this, the killer quickly put it down, stroked his red hair back, and clapped his hands:
"Back to the point. Since it's his words, if you want information on Mary Ellis, I'll sell it to you."
Deng Huailing was a little surprised, he didn't expect Rosie to have such great energy, which made the situation even more confusing.However, it is a good thing that the killer is willing to sell information to them: "How much do you bid?"
"Thirty million credits." The killer said, "It's not cheap, and it should be."
"I don't have that much cash right now." Deng Huailing wanted to negotiate, "How about paying the remaining two weeks as a deposit of 10 million?"
"No. Credit is never accepted, this is the rule of the black market." The killer flatly refused.He thought for a while, then walked to the front of the store, looked at the holographic advertising screen surrounding the Fire Loop and raised his chin, "Hey, isn't there a lot of bonuses there? You pay with black market credits, and you don't even have to worry about money laundering.".โ
"You want us to go to the free fighting arena?" Deng Huailing asked.
"Are you afraid?" The killer smiled sinisterly.
"I'm afraid that all the players will be disabled," Deng Huailing said word by word, "Your business is very good."
Having made up his mind, he waved to Rosie, gesturing for her to follow, and walked out of the shop.The bionic man hurried to catch up, but was stopped by the killer, who winked quietly: "If you encounter a situation that you can't handle, come back to me...Although I don't think there is anything you can't handle."
Rosie was stunned, and before the killer could explain further, she heard Deng Huailing saying beside her: "By the way, if I buy his information, how many credits will you sell?"
Deng Huailing put his hands on Rosie's shoulders, looking at the killer with a half-smile.This bounty hunter is indeed a difficult target. The killer frowned secretly. No matter what answer he gave, he would reveal a certain amount of information.
"Priceless," the killer could only say with a smile, "I won't tell you." This is actually equivalent to telling Deng Huailing that Rosie's identity is more important than Mary Ellis, Cecina's number one superstar.But he had to say that, if he kept silent, Deng Huailing would keep raising the price and observe his reaction through the price.
Instead of that, just say it outright.Deng Huailing raised the corners of her lips and said, "Understood."
The killer watched the two go to the free fighting field, and turned around when he heard the sound of the automatic door opening inside."Your 'operation' is over, doctor?"
A man wearing gold-rimmed glasses and a blood-stained white coat came out from behind the door, and said "hmm" indifferently.The killer went around behind him, grabbed his shoulders with both hands and said, "Respond! Didn't you also see Rosie through the surveillance?"
"I'm not his fan." The doctor finally spit out a sentence, "You followed him, and you were unlucky once ten years ago."
"Oh, are you worried that I'll cause you trouble?" The killer smiled, and followed the doctor's footsteps to organize the equipment on the shelf, "Don't worry, I hated this guy ten years ago. Just look at himLooking down and out, I can empathize with you and help me."
"No, I'm worried about you," said the doctor.The killer's noisy voice suddenly stopped, his eyes seemed to be hit, and they became like a piece of melted honey.However, within two seconds of being moved, he changed into that hippie smiling expression, chasing after the other party and chattering endlessly:
"Hey, doctor, what did you say? I didn't hear what you said just now. Say it again?"
"...Mary Ellis is dead." The doctor changed the subject.He had finished sorting out the surgical instruments, and commanded the mechanical arm on the wall to take out a memory pump from the secret compartment.It was a small dark purple polyhedron, like the black box of an airplane, faithfully recording the moment of strong fluctuations in memory.
The killer was completely quiet this time, staring at the memory pump silently.He said softly: "Sure enough, a person like you, doctor, who disregards human life, still cares about the first successful experiment subject?"
Fire Loop, the famous free fighting arena in the black market.
The crowd was like a colony of ants, densely packed into the circular auditorium.Bright lights shone on the spacious central field, reflecting the fighters' sweaty muscles like copper.
During the match, cheers erupted from all directions and reached the ears of the players in the center, causing an unreal feeling of dizziness.Rosie and Deng Huailing changed their clothes in the dressing room, walked out of the dark tunnel connecting the backstage, and arrived under the shining lights, and were immediately overwhelmed by the cheers of mountains and tsunamis.
Rosie nervously grabbed the corner of Deng Huailing's clothes.There were other contestants who walked out of the tunnel with them, most of them were topless, and a few were wearing the same white cotton short sleeves as them.According to the regulations of free combat, in a two-on-two match, each team is composed of one human and one bionic, and no one can carry weapons, and the modified part of the bionic can be kept.
Deng Huailing's black ring and Tang Dao have been removed, and a human being without a weapon should be as fragile as a snail without a shell, but he still stands there leisurely, and finds that Rosie is holding him by the corner of his clothes, smiling, andThe corner of the clothes was taken out of the opponent's hand, and then passed to his own wrist.
The bionics carried by other contestants have all been modified. Some have heavy machine guns embedded in their arms, some have power units inserted into their legs, and some are simply Humanoid Gundams.Rosie's appearance is no different from that of a human being, and she has no advantage in the face of these bionics, but Deng Huailing knows that Rosie is not nervous because of this, his little bionic is just... afraid of people.
"Ladies and gentlemen!" Suddenly all the lights went out, and a beam of bright light hit from the top, illuminating the host in the center of the venue, "Tonight's exciting second half-is about to begin!"
The crowd shouted wildly, including the names of several star players.Rosie was dizzy from these voices, only to hear the host pause for a while, and pretend to be mysterious: "Wait wait, we just received a big news. There is a heavyweight signing up for the second half of tonight. I believe everyone will appreciate him andHis bionic man can't hold back his curiosity either, he is the mysterious A+ bounty hunter who participated in Cecina's anti-terrorism promotional filmโ"
Deng Huailing was stunned for a moment, and quickly blocked his bionic man behind him.As expected, the next moment, a bright beam of light hit him.
"Deng Huailing! With his bionic partner, Rosie!"
This is equivalent to making enemies for them. In order to create a gimmick, Fire Loop specially emphasized their appearance, making other players extremely jealous.If they are injured or even die in this fighting match, Fire Loop can take the opportunity to publicize: the bloody level of the match, so that A+ level bounty hunters will fall here.
This is Cesina's black market, the flow of money devours people's lives.It is very likely that terrifying opponents are arranged in the fighting arena. After all, the transformation of bionics is unlimited, and there are countless ways to kill them.
"Contestant Deng Huailing, do you have anything to say?"
The drone dropped a tiny microphone on his hand.Deng Huailing caught it, then cleared his throat, smiled and said:
"Go fuck yourself."