Douban Diary: Purification (Part 1) Long text cautiously entered

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Chapter 1 – The Picture in your Mind

Chapter II : A History of Violence in the West End

Chapter Three - Lightning Baby Boy

Chapter 4 – The Conspiracy Emerges

Chapter 5 – The Path of the Top Fighters

Chapter Six – Becoming Odysseus

Chapter Seven – Crisis and Allies

Chapter Eight - Desperate Circumstances

Chapter IX - The Messenger

Chapter 10 - Nothing

Chapter 11 - Turning danger into disaster

Chapter 12 - Journalist Bai Ling

Chapter Thirteen - Stripping Away the Cocoon

Chapter 14 - Purification Bureau

Chapter 15 - Kuang Fu Hui

Chapter Sixteen – Surfacing

Chapter 17 - Escape from Death

Chapter Eighteen — The Truth

Chapter Nineteen (Epilogue) – Suspense Rises Again

In 2094, World War IV broke out, a nuclear war that killed nearly half of the world's population (4.3 billion) and devastated the world, turning several countries into barren lands.

After the war ended in 2097, the global elite rebuilt a nation on a giant artificial island in the western Pacific – neutrality. The neutral country prides itself as the pioneer of human society and regards the construction of a perfect world as the founding purpose of the country.

In just a few decades after the founding of the country, the neutral state has become highly civilized and has become the most developed country in the world, but after many years the crime rate has dropped to a certain extent, it can no longer be reduced, and all parties have put forward the goal of reducing the crime rate when running for chief consul, but no one has ever done it.

In 2158, a murder that shocked the whole country occurred in the bay area of the neutral capital, Star Moon City, and the only daughter of a five-year-old philanthropist who was revered by the people was brutally murdered. The murder sparked a great deal of public anger over criminal offenses, but then the people pointed the finger at the government and began mass demonstrations to express their dissatisfaction with the government's inability to reduce the crime rate, and the ambitious chief consul Zheng Zhijue, who had just been in office for less than four years, was even impeached and removed from office.

The new government has been called upon to tackle criminal offences once and for all, with a series of bills being introduced, and even extreme bills proposing the segregation of slums – according to neutral scholars, eighty percent of criminal offenders live in slums, so most people suspect that this is another slum crime. But in the end, the case was solved, and the perpetrator was a decent banker, a rich man with no criminal record.

This case is an introduction to the fact that if people want to completely eliminate crime, they must find ways to find a deeper level.

Thousands of years ago, the Italian criminologist Lombroseau proposed the theory of natural offenders, and as a prison doctor, he conducted anthropological investigations of thousands of prisoners and performed a large number of autopsies and finally concluded that criminals are variants of human beings, a phenomenon of human degeneration, determined by nature.

In 2162, Ouyang Muhe, a genetic scientist at the Institute of Human Genetics, invented the crime gene checker according to Lombroso's ideas, which can quickly check whether a person carries a crime gene, and the carrier of the crime gene will have a much higher probability of committing a crime than ordinary people who do not carry the gene.

This invention provided a chip for politicians, in order to completely eliminate crime, there were parliamentary representatives who proposed a bill that must be curbed from the source and directly imprisoned criminal gene carriers, which is obviously too extreme, the state has no legal basis to restrict the freedom of quasi-offenders who have not yet committed crimes, but even so, the bill has received a lot of support and is very likely to be passed.

The main objection to the bill was raised by the economist and jurist Hoth on the grounds that it was expensive. Holth then proposed a purification scheme: segregating the offender from the carrier of the criminal gene – according to Rousseau's theory of the social contract, the state was established on the basis of a contract between the state and the person, so the quasi-offender state that did not meet the social norms of the neutral country also had the right to terminate the contract with it. The bill was endorsed by the vast majority of people, who considered it a truly civilized and economical approach.

In 2167, five years after the invention of the criminal gene checker, the neutral national parliament formally passed the Purification Act, under which the government established the Purification Bureau, which on behalf of the State signed an isolation agreement with the offenders and the carriers of the criminal gene, broke the social contract with them, and exiled them to the quarantine area. The purpose of the Act is to purify mankind and ultimately to establish a perfect world free from all evil.

In neutral countries, all infants who have reached the age of one year will be genetically tested by the Purification Bureau, and infants sent to quarantine because they are found to carry a criminal gene are called quarantine babies.

2217, quarantine area.

Once the second largest city in the neutral country, Sun City is a circular island surrounded by the sea on three sides, and a curved giant artificial trench passes through the middle of the island, dividing the city into two districts, east and west, overlooking the entire city from a high altitude and some similarities with the ancient Chinese Taiji diagram. Schools, hospitals, farms, factories and mines, nuclear power plants, housing and everything else in the quarantine area are available, but fifty years later, most of the place is still the same, except for the dilapidated and dirty.

The sea around the island is completely blocked, only a bridge is connected to the neutral country, and there is a huge iron gate on the bridge, which is surrounded by neutral guards with live ammunition, and no one is allowed to go near it, and if someone in the neutral country commits a crime or there is an isolated baby, it will be sent into the quarantine area from this iron gate.

There is no good person in the quarantine area, the residents are all isolated criminals and criminal gene carriers, here the law of the jungle is observed, there is no order, everyone in the quarantine area knows a sentence: "If you want to defeat the bad guys, you have to be worse than them, if you die, because you deserve to die." "It is a place full of sin, a capital of crime, where a cold and dangerous atmosphere pervades the city, and from a distance the whole city seems to be shrouded in dark clouds.

The Golden Dome Theatre, located in the heart of the city in the exclusion zone, has not shown any plays in decades, but it remains the liveliest part of the city. Now it is the largest fighting arena in the quarantine area, and there are two fights in it every night, but only on the 15th of every month, there will be a top fighting staged here, and all the fighters who are eligible to participate in the top fighting are fighters above the tenth level, and the tenth level means that the victory and winning rate of the fighters have reached a considerable height, in layman's terms, that is, each of these fighters can fight one against ten.

On this day, it was the 15th. In the iron cage, the eight rounds of fighting have reached the seventh round, and a strong fighter with sharp eyebrows has the obvious upper hand. On his left chest there was a conspicuous purple-red lightning-shaped mark, an innate birthmark, his name was Ding Ao, and in the fighting arena, people called him lightning.

But his opponent Catfish did not give up, and kept staring at Ding Ao, looking for his flaws. Catfish is a heavyweight fighter who, although slow, is very strong in resisting blows and throws extremely powerful punches. He is good at dragging his opponent like a catfish to the last round without taking the upper hand in the first few rounds, and then defeating opponents who are already exhausted, which is also the origin of the nickname Catfish.

Outside the iron cage, there was an excited audience, often the lowest manual laborers in the quarantine area, who shouted for every punch of the fighters, and even some climbed on the iron cages and shouted at the fighters they bet on, cheered them on, or simply scolded them with vicious words, hoping to inspire the fighters' potential combat effectiveness. In the boxes on the second and third floors sat the most powerful people in the quarantine area, most of them drinking expressionlessly, calculating how many wins and losses this gamble would bring them.

In the past, Ding Ao always launched a series of critical attacks on his opponents in the fifth or sixth round, which was usually a short period of exhaustion after a high-intensity confrontation, but Ding Ao did not know where to get an explosive force, a force so powerful that even he could not control it, which could always make the opponent unable to resist and quickly defeated. Ding Ao is almost always a KO opponent, and needs to be stopped by the referee to prevent the opponent from being killed in the cage by himself, although no one will be held accountable.

But this time Ding Ao was not as eager to end the game as before, and he used the match with catfish as a practical exercise for him. He needs more physical exertion and is hit with more intensity, because after a month, his opponent will be the East Side Violent Bird, a king of East End fighting who weighs two hundred pounds, is one meter nine in height, and has a top undefeated record in fighting.

Halfway through the seventh round, Ding Ao no longer took the initiative to attack, and the catfish took Ding Ao's conservative strategy as a retreat, thinking that the time had come, and began to fight back. Ding Ao protected his head, and several punches smashed into his arm, such a blow would not cause any substantial damage to Ding Ao, but the blurry picture once again appeared in Ding Ao's mind: in the beautiful villa garden, a leafy plane tree put the whole garden in the shade, on the grass, a baby boy was toddler, and his mother was lying in front of him with a sounding toy duck to attract him, "Baby, come here." "The baby saw the toy and slowly took two steps ahead." This was his first step in life. The father said, he recorded this exciting moment with a handheld camera, "Come, come to Daddy." He handed the camera to his wife, crouched on the grass himself, held out his hand to the baby, the baby boy giggled, also held out his small hand, and staggered toward him, wanting his father to hold... But Ding Ao couldn't see everything in the picture, especially the couple, and he was desperate to see them.

Ding Ao saw this picture for the first time when he was eighteen years old in his first formal fight, and later when he was fighting, he would repeat this scene in his mind from time to time, but the picture was never blurred.

This time, however, the picture seemed to be gradually becoming clearer, he saw the white windows of the house, the blue curtains, the emerald green and lush foliage of the plane tree, the dazzling sunlight through the gaps in the branches, and even the wooden swing under the tree, and then he saw the shoes and clothes of the men and women...

In a trance, Ding Ao unconsciously lowered his arm, and the opponent finally seized the opportunity and hit him in the head with a full punch, Ding Ao felt a fainting like a high-voltage electric shock, and fell heavily to the ground. The referee stepped forward and began to count down, but Ding Ao was like an out-of-body ghost, deaf to all the sounds of the outside world, and the faces of the young couple in his mind seemed to begin to slowly become clear in the gradually slowing passage of time.

However, before he could see them clearly, Ding Ao would lose the game.

In the best box directly above the arena, the middle-aged man sitting on a wolfskin chair took off his sunglasses, revealing a face full of murderous spirits but lost his energy due to excessive indulgence, and he looked at Ding Ao, who was lying on the ground, as if worried about something. His name is Chi Huang, the ruler of the West End, the boss of the Red Flame Gang, and Red Wild is in charge of all underground business in the West End, drugs, brothels, underground casinos, and fighting grounds. The fighting arena was his biggest business, only because the people in the quarantine zone were extra enthusiastic about violence and bloodshed. Ding Ao was the top fighter he had trained.

There are many opinions about Chi Huang's origins, many people think that he is an isolated baby, sent to the quarantine area and adopted by the boss of the Red Flame Gang at that time, Red Flame, but this is not the case.

Chi Yan's adoptive father, Red Flame, was one of the first criminal quarantiners, and was the gang boss when he was in neutrality, and after entering the quarantine area, because of a group of original subordinates, Red Flame quickly established the most powerful gang in the West District, the Red Flame Gang.

Red Flame is a nervous and moody person, he has always wanted to annex the three peaceful gangs originally divided in The West 1 District, but the bosses of the three gangs do not give in, knowing that the strength is not good, but still resist with all their strength, and even find some trouble for Red Flame from time to time, their resistance completely angered Red Flame, Red Flame eliminated the three gangs and captured the families of the three bosses, Red Flame found that the three bosses all had a boy under the age of one, and Red Flame himself, many lovers but no children, he wanted to vent his hatred, After killing them and deciding to adopt the three children, "It doesn't matter if you refuse to give in, but in the future I will let your children call me father and willingly fight for me." ”

Akatsuki is the son of one of the gang bosses.

Beside Akahara, a dwarf stood in the shadows, wearing a half-black sheepskin mask on the right side of his face. He is the military master of Chi Huang, nicknamed the Little Villain, and Chi Huang later became the boss of the Red Flame Gang and had an inseparable relationship with him.

In the West End, his notoriety is known to everyone, and as long as the adults scare them with the name of the little villain, the child will immediately obey.

The little villain is a baby in isolation, he grew up in a bad monastery in the West End, the abbot of the monastery, Cade and several of his monks are morally upright pedophiles, who have long sexually assaulted the children in the convent and violently disobeyed them. The few nuns in the monastery also turned a blind eye to such evils, and some even willingly acted as accomplices, and the little villain once plucked up the courage to ask for help from the nuns he trusted most, only to be betrayed by her.

The little villain lived in the dark monastery until he was twelve years old, and finally found an opportunity to escape, wandering the streets begging for food, but because of his short stature, he was constantly bullied and humiliated by other homeless beggars.

After a few years of wandering, Red Flame's butler takes him home from the street, but instead of being adopted, the little villain is forced to perform funny and erotic dwarf dramas with some other dwarfs for Red Flame to watch. Red Flame has a special habit of watching dwarf plays while drinking and playing games with many of his lovers. Other times, villains are kept as pets in a villain country tailored for gnomes.

The little villain is favored by women because of his superb acting skills, and women like the melancholy temperament that he unconsciously exudes when he performs, especially Red Flame's wife Lin Lier, an old and fading woman who has lost her favor, and she likes him very much.

Lin Lier was Red Flame's wife when she was neutral, and was once a criminal lawyer, at that time she knew that Red Flame was a troubled person, but she always had a sense of superiority because of the existence of marriage, but since entering the quarantine area, especially after Red Flame unified The West 1 District, this sense of superiority has never been seen again, there is no marriage relationship in the isolation area, the union of men and women depends on the will of both, successful men can have multiple partners, and failed men often lose the qualification to reproduce. In the quarantine area, Red Flame seems to have become an ancient emperor, who can have three thousand harem beauties, but Lin Lier is not a queen, and from the moment she realized this, she can only live in a condescending way, looking for emotional sustenance from other aspects.

And this emotional sustenance is the little villain.

Lin Lier regarded the little villain as the safest and most reliable object to talk to, she talked to him everything, and even told him the secret about the origin of the three red wild brothers, and that time was the happiest time Lin Lier spent after coming to the quarantine area.

But their romance is still exposed, and Red Flame catches the little villain in Lin Lil's bed, and Red Flame scolds, "You disgusting slut who makes love to slugs!" He shot and killed Lin Lil in a fit of rage, "You disgusting slug! Red Flame grabbed the little villain and pushed his head down to the side of the heating fire, the skin and flesh grinned in the blazing fire, slowly melting in the fire like wax, the little villain kept screaming, the miserable sound was heartbreaking, but Red Flame twisted and laughed. In the end, he did not kill the little villain, and he wanted to torture him at any time. "Remember, you're just a slug." He threw half of his face on the ground in front of the mirror, and his voice was as frightening as if it were coming from hell.

"From now on," said the little villain in his heart, looking at the burned face in the mirror, "this is the face of the devil." ”

The little villain began to do everything he could to get revenge. He pressed the chips on the three "sons" of Red Flame, who were known as the Three Evils of the West District, and each of them had inherited the style of Red Flame's flying and wandering, and they had already become the most powerful cadres under Red Flame, just as Red Flame expected, he had made the children of these enemies call him father, and willingly gave his life.

Among these three brothers, Chi Huang was the most cold-blooded and fierce, and at the same time, he had the deepest contradiction with Red Flame—Chi Huang had always hoped that he could gain greater power, but he had always been subject to the authority of Red Flame.

The little villain tries everything he can to get close to Akatsuki, he tells Akatsuki the truth about his origins, and gives him advice to join his two brothers in a conspiracy to rebel.

When everything was ready, the little villain carefully arranged a show. While watching the dwarf drama by Red Flame, the little villain cleverly joins the bridge section of how Red Flame killed the opponent's entire family and how to adopt their children in a funny dwarf drama.

"It doesn't matter if you don't give in, but in the future I will let your children call me Daddy and willingly fight for me." When the villain utters this line and shoots the other person, Red Flame is stunned.

But before he could get up from his wolf-skin chair, he was stabbed in the chest by chi huang, and then his other two "sons" also inserted a knife in his chest.

While watching Red Flame slowly lose blood and die, the three brothers also realized that there was no blood relationship between them, and they worshiped their brothers at the suggestion of Red Flame, and then divided Red Flame's territory on the spot.

Since then, the little villain has become the confidant of the red wilderness, and after gaining power, the first thing the little villain did was to slaughter all the monks and nuns of the monastery, cut off their heads, and hang them at the door of the monastery. He killed in succession all those who had bullied him, and those who had only laughed at him, the little villains showed mercy to them, only to cut off their tongues and goug out their eyeballs. Since then, the reputation of the villain has spread completely in the quarantine area.

A few years later, with the help of the little villain, the Red Desert grew step by step, and he used a ruse to stir up dissension between the other two brothers, let them kill each other, and then reaped the benefits of the fisherman and reunited the West End again.

The little villain has always hoped that Chi Huang will make plans to annex the Eastern District as early as possible, but Chi Huang believes that the Eastern District is poor and unprofitable (the West District has more population than the Eastern District, the resources are more abundant, and the factories and power stations are mainly concentrated here), and the Little Villain reminds him to rectify his subordinates and be vigilant against the gangs in the Eastern District, especially the ghost gangs that are growing and developing, "Those gangs in the Eastern District are just a bunch of rabble-rousers." But he comforted himself with such words, indulging in an extravagant and profligate life every day like the red flame of the year.

Six years ago, the ghost gang controlled by the ghost master unified the gangs in the Eastern District, and since then the bloody struggle between the gangs in the quarantine area has become rare, but the ghost gang does not seem to show aggression, and the two gangs have coexisted peacefully for several years.

"The fourth time." The little villain slowly stepped out of the shadows, "This is the fourth time he's been knocked down in a fight for no reason." ”

"There must be no fifth time." Chi Huang looked at Ding Ao, who was still lying on the ground. He also noticed more than once Ding Ao's sudden loss of control during the fight, which was perhaps his Achilles heel in the battle against the Violent Bird a month later, the most remarkable match in the entire quarantine zone in recent decades, known as the Battle of the Century, in fact, it was also an ultimate contest between the West End and the East End, once he won, he could win a huge amount of money from the other side, and the West End Gang had already experienced a financial crisis in the endless splurge of these years of desolation. He was expecting Ding Ao to win the Great War of the Century to solve economic problems.

"The violent bird will not let go of any flaw in the opponent." The little villain reminds him, "If you don't want to lose our last bit of money, you have to think of something else." ”

Twenty-five years ago, The State And Moon Castle, the capital of a neutral country.

For several days, the whole city was shrouded in drizzle, the weather became particularly cold and humid, people reduced outdoor activities, and pedestrians on the road also tightened their clothes and lifted their collars to move forward. In the evening, a sharp siren broke the silence in the air, and a black official car with the word "purification" drove into a villa area on the southern outskirts.

The car was parked in front of a house with a tall plane tree in the front courtyard of No. 33 Luyin Road, which was the home of Ding Yi, a representative of the neutral parliament. Three people, a man and a woman, two septic officers in black uniforms, got out of the car and their job was to send the perpetrators and the quarantined babies into the quarantine area. Quarantine officers have always been unpopular in neutral countries, and people avoid them like plagues, closing their doors and windows whenever they appear, because seeing them in a residential area means that a family will lose their children forever.

Another woman, Du Wen, followed by two quarantine officers, was a reporter for state television.

This time, the tasks of the two quarantine officers were different from the past, and the quarantine babies they wanted to take were the children of Ding Yi, a representative of the national parliament (the national parliament is the highest authority in a neutral country). Three months ago, Ding Yi's child who just turned one year old was detected with a criminal gene in a routine genetic examination, which is the first time since the neutral country passed the purification bill twenty-five years ago that the children of the representatives of the national parliament need to be isolated, and Ding Yi is also a staunch opponent of the purification bill, he uses genetic review, application for medical extension and other means to delay the isolation time again and again, according to the purification bill, from the detection of criminal genes to the admission to the isolation area time must not exceed three months, and this day, is the final deadline, Journalists from major media gathered at the Purification Bureau to report on the latest developments while waiting for the final results.

Until then, headlines about the incident were mostly "The authority of the purification act has been challenged" and "the fairness and justice of the law is being tested."

Because Du Wen was specially authorized by the National Press Association, he could follow up and report and interview the parties throughout the process.

The three of them walked to the door, and the woman in black rang the bell.

After a while, the door opened, and the person who opened the door was a man in a suit and leather shoes who looked solemn, that was Ding Yi, who was not friendly to the eyes of the men and women in black, but when he saw the reporter Du Wen, he nodded with her. Unlike most journalists, Du Wen has reservations about the purification bill and has always taken the purification bill as a research direction, she holds the same political views as Ding Yi, is a voter of Ding Yi, and even quietly revealed information to Ding Yi after an interview, as far as she knows, someone is waiting for Ding Yi to refuse to implement the quarantine order, thus bringing him down politically.

In the room, a young woman looked at the newborn baby in her arms with a look of pain and reluctance, and her face still had undried tear marks. And the baby in her arms, unaware of what was about to happen, was laughing and making a sound, it was a baby boy with a purple lightning-shaped birthmark on his left chest.

"Aijia." Ding Yi turned back and said, "They are coming." ”

The woman didn't look up.

"Deputy Ding, don't urge your wife." The woman flashed a smile without temperature, "We are not in a hurry. ”

"Yes," said the man in black standing behind her, "we are not in a hurry. ”

The man looked at them with anger in their eyes, as if their words had provoked him.

"This is the original of the review result." The woman in black had long been accustomed to all this, and handed the man a document expressionlessly.

The man took the document and did not look at it.

"And this one, you need to sign it." The woman in black handed him a pen and a copy of the law enforcement confirmation.

The man took the confirmation and pen, and he hesitated for a moment, but finally signed his name on it.

Subsequently, the quarantine officer took the child away.

Du Wen stayed, she also had to do a routine interview with Ding Representative, Ding Yi took her to the study upstairs, Du Wen could feel when he went up the stairs, the whole house seemed to become empty and cold after the child was taken away, as if a person had lost his soul.

To Du Wen's surprise, in this interview, Ding Yi changed his previous tough wording of the quarantine ruling, saying that he had fully accepted the reality and would not file any complaints about the quarantine ruling. Du Wen was a little disappointed by his remarks, she thought Ding Yi should fight to the end, but she also thought, why should she ask a person who has just broken his family and is in despair, and the hopeless struggle will only exacerbate this despair.

"I know it's going to be hard to accept that reality," Ding Yi finally said, "but we have to do it." ”

"I'm sorry." "You know my attitude towards the Purification Act, but I can't do anything really useful for you and your family," Duvin said. ”

"You've done your best." Ding Yi said, "It's not your fault. ”

"Of course I am at fault," Duvin said, "the law is the collective will of the state, and as long as the wrong law is still being enforced, then everyone in this country is at fault." ”

Ding Yi looked at her and did not take the conversation.

Du Wen got up to bid farewell, and Ding Yi sent her to the door.

"No matter what, life has to go on." Du Wen said it was the only comforting word she could think of.

"I'll keep looking it up." Ding Yi suddenly said something like that to himself.

"What do you say?" Du Wen stood where he was, and it was obvious that this was not the same as Ding Yi's statement in an interview just now.

"Like you said, there may be people who expect me to refuse to carry out the quarantine order and thus bring me down," Ding Yi looked at her with a determined look, "and all this may have something to do with my opposition to the purification bill." ”

"You mean," Du Wen seemed to understand something suddenly, "that someone was deliberately framing him?" ”

"You are the person I trust the most." Ding Yi did not answer her positively, "Please don't write what I just said into your report tomorrow." ”

"Of course." She made a promise and turned away.

Ding Yi returned to the bedroom, Ai Jia sat in front of the dresser, she looked sluggish, her eyes were red and swollen, and she could see that she had just cried again.

The TV in the bedroom is broadcasting feature news.

"Deputy Ding Yi has signed the dissolution of the citizenship contract document on behalf of the person within the deadline and handed over the quarantined baby, and Jiang Xun, director of the Purification Bureau, expressed his appreciation for this, saying that this incident will create a better atmosphere for the implementation of the follow-up quarantine."

"Shi Xingxi, the country's chief consul, said that this is a victory of the law and the best embodiment of the spirit of the rule of law in a neutral country."

"Ouyang Muhe, president of the National Genetic Research Institute, made an exception and was interviewed by our reporter, and he said that Deputy Ding Yi's decision means that the criminal genetic examination system has received comprehensive and thorough trust."

Ding Yi stood behind her and put his hands on her shoulders to try to comfort her, and she took his hand and looked at him from the mirror.

"It's as if my heart has been emptied," Ms. Agya said, "and I feel like I've lost the courage to live." ”

"I'll get our kids back." Ding Yi said, "I promise you. ”

"How do I get it back?"

"I will think of a way, I will," Ding Yi looked at Ai Jia firmly, "do you believe me?" Well? Aijia? ”

A week later, Du Wen published an in-depth report in Social Watch entitled "On the Negative Impact of the Purification Act on Individual Families," which used Ding Yi's case as a starting point and integrated first-hand materials collected from years of investigation, and this informative report fully exposed the inhumane and inhumane side of the Purification Act. However, after the report was issued, it attracted a wave of one-sided criticism in public opinion, and people accused the report of being selfish, short-sighted, and deliberately ignoring the fact that the criminal crime rate has plummeted since the implementation of the purification act. The "Democratic Front" published a commentary article entitled "Perfect World Has Not Yet Been Achieved – We Are Still Threatened by Criminal Offenses", which was reprinted by various mainstream media, making the atmosphere of criticism rise again and again, and in order to consolidate the results, the people even set off a large-scale petition campaign in support of the Purification Act, and in less than a week, the National Parliament passed the "Purification Remembrance Day Bill" that will make the day of passage of the Purification Act a statutory holiday and will hold national commemorations on this day every year.

The social reaction after the article was published made Du Wen deeply distressed, and she could not afford to be sick, so she took a long vacation from the TV station and went to Cory Island alone for recuperation. Du Wen has no children, she had a marriage, her ex-husband was a nuclear energy engineer who loved fitness, but later became a staunch supporter of the purification act, the two divorced a few years ago due to "irreconcilable contradictions", after the divorce Du Wen has been living alone, not remarried.

During his days on the island, Du Wen became more and more depressed day by day, taking large doses of sleeping pills every night to fall asleep, until late one night a month later, Du Wen received a call from Ding Yi.

"Where are you?" Ding Yi lowered his voice and said, "I have something very important to find you." ”

Du Wen could feel that he was in an incredibly empty room at the moment, and she could be sure that he was not in her own house at the moment.

"I'm in Cory Island." She said, "What's the matter?" ”

"Regarding my son, his isolation is a conspiracy, but it is not a political enemy conspiracy that I thought before." Ding Yi said, "Now I can only say so much, the stakes are very high, we must interview." ”

It was not a conspiracy of political enemies, du Wen heard this sentence as if a glimmer of light appeared in the black sky, and years of journalistic experience made her keenly feel that this would be an explosive news

"Without further ado, you'd better come back overnight." Ding Yi said, "I am waiting for you at home, I have some materials in my hand, I hope you can report it, and now you are the only person I can trust." ”

"I'll leave now." Du Wen did not hesitate.

After hanging up the phone, Du Wen immediately packed his bags and drove back to Star Moon City. Currie Island and Star Moon City are at both ends of the country, even if it takes three or four hours to take the cross-sea highway, but recently because of the impact of Typhoon Medusa, the cross-sea highway has been in a closed period, she can only take the regular route, so it will take seven or eight hours (the speed of the automatic driving mode will be limited to the range permitted by law), Du Wen looked at the time, it is now four o'clock in the morning, in order to get to the place as soon as possible, she adjusted the driving mode to manual, regardless of the danger of speeding, the car drove fast. "Warning, warning, you have overspeed and the situation will be recorded in your personal credit history." The intelligent system in the car kept broadcasting safety tips, and Du Wen simply turned off the announcer.

In the end, it only took five hours, nine o'clock in the morning, Du Wen rushed from Curry Island to Star Moon City, but when she arrived at Ding Yi's home, she found that there were several police cars parked outside Ding Yi's house, the police lights silently flashed to show that they were on a mission, and the whole villa had been surrounded by a cordon, and an ominous premonition immediately hung over Du Wen's heart like a dark cloud.

Du Wen was about to enter the house despite the police's obstruction, "Let me in, I am a friend of the owner." ”

"Sorry ma'am, no one can enter the crime scene." A young policeman who maintained order patiently explained to her.

"I'm a reporter for state television." Du Wen showed him his press card and said in a strong manner, "I want to see the person in charge here." ”

The young policeman looked at her press card and said something to a policeman next to her, and the policeman entered the house.

"Please wait." The young policeman smiled and said, "He has gone to inform our leader." ”

After a while, a man in the shape of a police officer comes out of the house, he is tall and has a heroic face, and you can often see people with that face in the movie to play superheroes and win the final victory in the final confrontation with the evil.

"Chief, this reporter lady wants to see you." The young policeman said to him, and then went to maintain order on the other side.

The officer saw Du Wen and walked toward her as he took off his white gloves.

"I'm in charge here." The police officer-like man said to Du Wen, "I know you, Dr. Du Wen, and you are the reporter who interviewed Ding's representative exclusively." ”

"What happened? Officer Xue. Du Wen saw that the police sign on his chest had xue Shaocheng written on it.

"Unfortunately," said the police officer, "your friend Ding Yi and his wife have passed away, and the cause of death has initially been determined to be an overdose of sleeping pills, which can be ruled out as murder based on my personal experience." ”

"Impossible." Du Wen subconsciously said that last night they had just talked on the phone, Ding Yi wanted to meet her as soon as possible, to tell him about the conspiracy he had discovered about his son's isolation, and to give her materials, he could not commit suicide at this time. But she didn't say what was on her mind, "Impossible, impossible." She continued to talk to herself like a battered woman, while mentally quickly arranging the events of the event in order and organizing her thoughts.

"Maybe that thing hit them too hard." Xue Shaocheng said, "It's not good to put it on anyone. ”

Du Wen saw a white-haired woman in a wool shawl on the other side being interviewed by a TELEVISION reporter. "It was the neighbor who called the police." Xue Shaocheng said, "The old lady got up in the morning to water the flowers on the balcony, and the curtains in the opposite bedroom were not closed, and she found that it seemed that someone had fallen to the ground motionless. ”

At this time, two stretchers covered with white cloth were lifted out of the house, and Du Wen rushed towards the stretcher, "I'm sorry, you can't go near the corpse." A fat cop stopped her.

"I have to see my friend one last time." Du Wen said.

Xue Shaocheng nodded to the fat policeman, and he gave way, beckoning the person carrying the stretcher to stop.

Du Wen gently lifted one of the cloths, saw Ding Yi's blood-colored face, she covered her mouth, and opened another piece of cloth, Aijia did not seem to be dead, just fell asleep incomparably calmly, since she knew Aijia, every time she saw Aijia, she could feel the pain in her heart, only this time, Aijia's face no longer had traces of pain, maybe this is the real relief for her.

Du Wen covered it with a white cloth, and the fat police officer directed the people to take the stretcher to the ambulance and drive away.

"Dr. Du, I'm afraid some investigations require your assistance." Xue Shaocheng said in an official tone without personal grievances, "Of course, you don't have to worry, this is just a routine investigation after this kind of case occurs, not any suspicion of you, investigating the behavior of the suicidal person before suicide helps us determine the motive for suicide." ”

Du Wen suddenly realized that there was a murder machine hidden in the tone of the police officer in front of her, and it seemed that there was an unknown side behind his identity, she had already decided that Ding Yi and his wife had died of murder, obviously someone wanted to prevent him from telling some newly learned truth, and she must be vigilant against everyone before determining the identity of the murderer, otherwise she would also encounter danger to her life.

"Of course." Du Wen said she tried to be sincere, "You can ask anything you want." ”

"During our investigation, we found that Representative Ding called you in the early hours of this morning, and usually people don't call others at that time, what did he say to you?"

Du Wen was shocked, and sure enough, he mentioned the phone call that Ding Yi had called in the early morning.

"He said he had something very important to talk to me about." Du Wen still looked at him sincerely.

"What?" Xue Shaocheng stared at her tightly.

"He wouldn't reveal half a word on the phone." "But I suspect he discovered the plot of his political opponents to tell me that in previous contacts he had been suggesting to me that there were political enemies who wanted to take advantage of public opinion to bring him down," Duwen said. ”

"Do you believe him?"

"Even if Deputy Ding handed over the child, the subsequent public opinion has always been unfavorable to him, resulting in a decline in support, so I have no reason not to believe that possibility exists, but there is no evidence from the beginning to the end, so I am more inclined to think that it is his persecution paranoia, maybe he has too many enemies in politics, you know, politics is always full of dirty and sinister open strife and secret struggle." But I couldn't refuse his request to see me, I admired him, I've always been his voter. ”

"Where are you from?" Xue Shaocheng said.

"Cory Island, I've been recuperating there all this time."

"Cory Island, I just went there for a vacation last year, that place is far away from here, and the cross-sea highway has been closed during this time because of the typhoon, let me count." Xue Shaocheng said as he raised his hand to look at his watch, from the time you received the call, it only took you less than six hours to get here from Currie Island..."

"Five hours and ten minutes." Du Wen interrupted him.

"Well, I'm sure, this has broken our country's speeding record, how fast you should drive the car."

"That's it." Du Wen realized what he was saying.

"Since you don't believe his words so much," Xue Shaocheng said, "why are you in a hurry to go to the appointment?" ”

"I'm not in a hurry to go to an appointment," Du Wen said, "I just want to change my life a little bit, a little improvement, during this time I live like a walking dead, I just want to break something, shackles, rules, taboos or whatever, do something that I wouldn't normally do, find some stimulation, find some feeling of rapid heartbeat." ”

"If you had read the report I wrote last month, you probably understand it," Du Wen frowned and looked away worriedly, inadvertently showing a look of pain, thinking of what had happened after the report was issued, Du Wen seemed to have suddenly returned to every day and night when she fell into nothingness and darkness in Cory Island, and she reflexively lit a hallucinogenic cigarette for herself and took a deep breath, "I have never touched seaweed products before." She said.

"I've seen the report you wrote." Xue Shaocheng said that there was finally a trace of sympathy in his eyes when he examined her.

Du Wen didn't say anything.

"All right." Xue Shaocheng resumed his official tone, "Dr. Du, thank you for your cooperation, and please believe that if there is really any conspiracy involved in this, we will definitely investigate to the end, if you get any clues, please contact me at the first time, this is my phone number." He handed Du Wen a business card.

"Of course." Du Wen also quickly let herself out of the emotions just now, she took the business card and put it in her handbag, "If you need it, you can always find me, you can ask for my contact information." ”

"Okay."

"Mr. and Mrs. Ding Yi are good people, may they rest in peace."

Xue Shaocheng looked at her and nodded.

Du Wen turned and walked toward his car.

"Dr. Du." When she was about to walk to the car door, Xue Shaocheng stopped her.

"What?" Du Wen looked back, and the heart that had just been put down suddenly tightened again.

"Stop speeding."

Officer Xue watched Du Wen open the car door and sit in the cab, driving the car out of sight, his brow was locked, and there was a bit of forgiveness in his eyes, and it was difficult to distinguish between good and evil.

Xue Shaocheng's father was a criminal police officer who fought crime against the underworld and was also an idol in Xue Shaocheng's heart, and when he was six years old, his father died in retaliation for the red flame. Xue Shaocheng will always remember that scene, it was a sunny weekend morning, they were watching the cartoon "Martian Family" while eating breakfast, after breakfast, his father wanted to fulfill his promise a long time ago to take him to the sea world to see the beluga whale show, when there was a knock at the door.

"I'll open the door." Xue Shaocheng put down his chopsticks and said.

"I'll drive, you eat fast, and after eating we'll go and try to see the first show." His father said, "It could be my courier coming." ”

Father looked out through the cat's eye, a courier was standing outside the door with the box, he did not think much, opened the door, the courier hid under the box with a silencer pistol fired five shots at his chest, father did not have time to make a cry for help before he pounced on the ground.

Xue Shaocheng had not returned from breakfast, he called out to his father, no one responded, he went to the living room, saw his father collapsed in a pool of blood, the door was open, there was no one else at the door.

The year of his father's murder was the year of the invention of the criminal gene checker, and when the purification bill was proposed, Xue Shaocheng probably became the youngest supporter at that time.

Later, Xue Shaocheng went to the police academy, and after graduation, he became a criminal police officer in the criminal division of the Xingyue City Purification Bureau, he was not afraid of danger, brave and good at war, and in just a few years he sat in the position of a regional police officer, and he vowed to use his life's energy to fight crime and eliminate all criminals.

Du Wen's car drove away for a while, and Xue Shaocheng kept looking in that direction until the phone rang, which was a mysterious call that did not show the number.

"How are things going?" A hoarse, low voice on the other end of the phone said, "What does that woman know?" ”

"She doesn't know anything." Xue Shaocheng said, "It will not pose any threat to us." ”

"That phone doesn't look ordinary." The head said, "It is best to get rid of the troubles, you must remember that this matter is so important that I even skip your superiors to give you orders directly, and your judgment must be responsible for the organization." ”

"I have already asked, she does not know, not to mention that getting rid of her is bound to cause suspicion, after all, she and Ding Yi are closely related."

"You're going to vouch for your decision with your life!"

"Of course." Xue Shaocheng said, "Just in case I will keep a close eye on her." ”

After the isolated infants entered the isolation area, they would be sent to special isolation infant adoption institutions such as monasteries and orphanages, and Ding Ao was sent to one of the largest monasteries in the Eastern District. The Abbot, Sister Martha, is a legendary figure who was a nun when she was in the Neutral Nation, and is one of the few people who voluntarily break the social contract with the Neutral Nation and enter the quarantine zone.

Mother Martha's parents were immigrants from war-torn regions of South America, her father was a businessman, her mother was a housewife, both Catholic, and martha joined a Catholic children's charity at the age of 12, and since then she has set her life's ambition to help the weak.

At the age of 16, when Martha's family immigrated to neutral countries, she joined the local congregation to continue her charity work, officially became a nun at the age of 20, and two years later neutral countries passed the purification act, established a quarantine area, planned and built a number of monasteries and orphanages in the quarantine area to solve the problem of raising isolated infants, mainly from the reformed offenders to select suitable people to work as children.

At that time, Sister Martha realized that the children in the quarantine area needed her very much, so she applied to the authorities and voluntarily asked for the termination of the state contract and entered the largest monastery in the quarantine area, when she was only 22 years old.

Sister Martha loves these children from the bottom of her heart, doing her best to give them the best care and the best education she can, and she believes that these quarantined babies will be the future of the quarantine area.

When the children are older, they usually ask Mother Martha why they don't have parents, and Mother Martha will tell them, "Because you are children of God." Then lean down and kiss them tenderly on the forehead, and they can close their eyes and go to sleep.

But Ding Ao did not believe the words of God's child, and Mother Martha kissed him on the forehead, said goodnight to him, and prepared to leave.

"Nun." Ding Ao's eyes were still open, "Am I a virus?" ”

Mother Martha was stunned for a moment, and when she was sure that the sentence was indeed from Ding Ao's mouth, she sat down again by the bed, "No, of course you are not a virus," she looked at Ding Ao, "why ask so much?" child. ”

"Because I'm a virus, my parents don't want me anymore."

Mother Martha held Ding Ao's hand, and when her child felt sad, Mother Martha would hold his hand with her warm hands, and her hand made the child feel extremely stable.

"Your mom and dad didn't abandon you, they were very reluctant to you," she said, "but they have no choice, and I assure you that they miss you every moment." ”

"But I'll never go back to Mom and Dad, will I?" Ding Ao looked at her with those aggrieved but incomparably bright eyes, "They say that we can only be locked up in hell forever." ”

Ding Ao's gaze reminded Sister Martha of some past events, she had witnessed countless times such innocent eyes slowly becoming evil in the dirty dye vat of the quarantine area, which made her extremely sad, but the firm belief in her heart at the moment made her face show a natural smile. "We can't decide our birth, we can't decide the fate we begin," Said Sister Martha, "but we can decide to start the life after that, we were not born to be oppressed, to be imprisoned, not to struggle to live in hell, our mission in this world is to make this world a better place." ”

"Our mission in this world is to make this world a better place." Ding Ao said as if he understood.

Mother Martha smiled and nodded, and kissed him again on the cheek.

"Good night." Sister Martha said, gently helping him cover the quilt.

"Good night, nun." Ding Ao gently closed his eyes.

In the monastery, Ding Ao and his two other children, Quintai and Li Feng, lived in a room, and the three of them got along day and night, and soon became friends with brothers and sisters, Li Feng was the leader of the three children, he was smart and the most assertive. At the age of five they entered a school run by the monastery, which offered several courses in mathematics, reading, music, nature, and geography, with the nuns of the convent teaching and Sister Martha as principal.

Ding Ao likes to take reading classes, which are the lessons of Mother Martha, ding Ao likes to listen to Mother Martha's epic poems, especially fascinated by the story of "Odyssey". After the end of the Trojan War, the resourceful Greek hero Odysseus encountered storms, forgotten islands, cyclops, wind god islands, giants islands, banshees and other difficulties on the voyage back to his hometown, but Odysseus, with courage and wisdom, overcame many obstacles and finally returned to his homeland to reunite with his family.

The students in the school are not all isolated babies adopted by the monastery, and families in the neighborhood will also send their children there to study. At school, they became good friends with a little girl named Lan Li, a lively and cheerful girl whose father was the owner of the blackbird bar by the docks, a big man with a cheerful personality who was sent to quarantine because he was young in neutral countries for violating the criminal law in a brawl.

It was a very happy time, Ding Ao they found a secret passage in the monastery, at the other end of the passage is a long-abandoned indoor botanical garden, the indoor botanical garden has been broken, but now it has become a veritable plant paradise, where all kinds of tropical plants grow wildly, like a small tropical jungle. They set up a secret base in the botanical garden that belonged only to the four of them, and they would explore there every day after school.

That afternoon, early after school, after class, ding ao and they went to the botanical garden together with each other by code, and they built a "palace" in a hidden corner of the botanical garden with the golden thorn grass that was more than one person high, "the palace" was designed by Li Feng, the project had been carried out for several days, and on this day they worked together until the evening, and finally finished the work. The four children lay on the soft golden carpet of the "palace" admiring their masterpieces, and because they were too tired, they fell asleep unconsciously.

Several of the children slept until the moon rose, and they didn't wake up until Lan Li's parents came here with people shouting Lan Li's name all the way to here. Lan Li was taken home by her parents, and Ding Ao and the three of them followed Mother Martha back to the convent. Mother Martha was angry, she was worried that the children were being hurt outside, so she had always strictly forbidden the children to go out, and the three children were ashamed and all followed her far behind.

"I wish my parents would come to me one day." Along the way, the three of them were silent, and Li Feng suddenly said such a sentence, saying what Ding Ao had in mind.

"They didn't want to come to me at all." After a while Quintai said, "They abandoned me, and I hate them." ”

"Do you hate them?" Li Feng turned his head and asked Ding Ao.

Ding Ao thought about it and shook his head, "It's not that they don't want to come to us, they can't." ”

"They can't come to us, but we can go to them." Li Feng said, "Do you want to go to them?" ”

"Just like Odysseus?" Ding Ao suddenly became excited.

"Yes, just like him."

"Think." Ding Ao said, "But the nuns won't even let us out of the monastery." ”

"That's because we haven't grown up yet." Li Feng said.

"Then we'll go find them when we're older." Ding Ao said.

"Okay." Li Feng said without hesitation, "We have agreed." ”

"Are you going to come with us?" Ding Ao asked Kuntai.

"I'm not going anywhere." Quintay muttered, "There's nothing wrong here. There was another reason he said that, and that was that he liked Lan Li.

Except for not having his parents around, Ding Ao felt that there was nothing wrong with life in the monastery, but on the day of his tenth birthday, everything changed completely.

That day Mother Martha had a lively birthday for Ding Ao, Ding Ao also received a comic about Bruce Lee sent by Mother Martha, he liked that comic very much, at night the dormitory lights off everyone slept He was still on the bed covered with a quilt and a flashlight to sneak a peek.

Ding Ao read the comic until late at night, just when he began to be a little sleepy, he suddenly noticed a noise and screaming from the other end of the aisle, he felt that something was wrong, and quickly woke up Li Feng and Kuntai, the three of them quietly looked out through the crack in the door, it turned out that the red flame gang people were robbing children from room to room, they sneaked out of the room in a hurry, but they were still discovered by them.

"Run separately." Li Feng shouted loudly.

The three of them immediately scattered and ran away, but the gang had the advantage in numbers, and successively abducted Li Feng and Kuntai, and Ding Ao hid in a cabinet without anyone noticing, temporarily surviving the disaster. But it was there that he watched as the leading of the bad guys shot and killed Mother Martha, who had stopped him (he later learned that the killer was Chi Huang).

Ding Ao hid in the cabinet for a long time, until he heard Chi Huang instructing his men in the room to check the cabinets in the corridor one by one before he quietly crawled out of it. He planned to go to the botanical garden to hide until dawn, and then try to escape. From here to the Botanical Garden, you only need to go downstairs and cross a corner aisle to reach the secret passage that leads to the Botanical Garden. Ding Ao safely got downstairs, walked to the corner of the corridor, carefully poked his head out, through the moonlight could see that the long aisle was empty, just when he felt that hope was right ahead, he suddenly found that a black shadow under his feet was getting longer and longer. When he turned around, he found that the other party was just a small villain who was half a head shorter than him, and the little villain grabbed Ding Ao's collar and smiled, "Little guy, where else do you want to run?" ”

Ding Ao slammed his head into the head of the little villain, the little villain was knocked unconscious, let go of his hand, Ding Ao then gave him a right hook punch in the eye, knocked him to the ground, and then desperately ran to the secret passage.

"There's a kid here." The little villain shouted, "Come and catch him." ”

Ding Ao could feel that he was getting closer to hope with each step he took, and just when he was about to be able to open the baffle to enter the secret passage, a tall black shadow suddenly flashed out of the aisle next to him, and the black shadow picked him up and covered his mouth tightly with his hand, "Finally caught you, little bastard." ”

That night the Red Desolation snatched all the healthy children of the monastery over the age of eight, and he put them all in his devil training camp. Akatsuki believes that these children are destined to be criminal geniuses because of their criminal genes, and he plans to develop their criminal skills to train them to become crime masters to make money for him, and all this is the idea of the little villain. Ding Ao was trained as a fighter because he could easily beat children who were taller and stronger than him and wanted to bully them.

Red Desolation was cruel and cold-blooded, and if he did not obey him, he would be whipped with salt water, and he would be imprisoned in the dungeon without food or drink. In the fifth year of being imprisoned in the devil's training camp, Li Feng led everyone to secretly plan to escape from the clutches of chihuang, but unfortunately the escape failed, and chihuang tied Li Feng to the hot sun for seven days in order to kill a hundred people, did not give a little water to drink, and finally killed him alive and thirsty.

After that, Ding Ao began to train with great effort, he took all his hatred deeply to heart, and he vowed to one day seek justice for Sister Martha and Li Feng. Chi Huang also sensed Ding Ao's thoughts, and he once wanted to get rid of Ding Ao to put an end to the trouble. Once, according to the little villain's idea, Chi Huang first imprisoned Ding Ao in the dungeon in the name of training, did not give a drop of water or a single meter for three consecutive days, and then put a huge wolf into the dungeon on the third night. But his purpose was not achieved, after dawn Chi Huang's men opened the dungeon, and what happened afterwards stunned everyone, Ding Ao walked out of the dungeon in blood, and the evil wolf, lying upright on the ground, the blood was drunk, and a large piece of flesh was eaten.

But Ding Ao was also not lightly injured, and when he fought with the wolf, he was injured by the wolf's claws, which caused his left eye to be nearly blind.

Ding Ao was born a fighter, but he never enjoyed the joy of winning a fight, he hated violence but also relied on violence to release his pain, he knew that the explosive force actually came from his incomparable hatred for the world in his heart, from the unimaginable pain and torture he encountered in his childhood.

Chi Huang's greed made him temporarily let Ding Ao go, he needed Ding Ao to make money for him even more, Ding Ao had helped him make enough money over the years, and now he planned to use Ding Ao's value for the last time, and then get rid of this big trouble.

"Ding Ao! Wake up! Ding Ao! Quintai anxiously shouted at him through the iron cage, this child who grew up with Ding Ao, because of his agility, cleverness and cleverness, was trained to become a professional thief, when the fight began, Quintai always dressed in the crowd, when he wore a circle, the pocket will harvest a lot of good things.

At the last moment, when Ding Ao was about to see the appearance of the couple, Kuntai finally woke him up, and the blurry picture disappeared immediately, and when the referee counted to nine, Ding Ao stood up, and he koked the catfish without suspense, and the excited crowd shouted "Lightning!" lightning! ”

"Now we're going to find a place to celebrate, where do you want to go?" Quintai drove the car, looking at Ding Ao in the half-broken rearview mirror, with a proud look, as if it was he who had just won the race and not Ding Ao.

"How about we go back to Blackbird for a drink?" Lan Li, who was in the co-pilot, said that she had now become a charming girl, "but Ding Ao had to go home early today, he must have been seriously sleep-deprived lately." ”

"Yeah," Quintai squeezed her eyes at Lan Li, "otherwise how could I have slept so dead in the fighting arena just now?" The two laughed.

Ding Ao did not answer their words, he had already sensed Chi Huang's intention to get rid of himself, and Chi Huang promised him that as long as he defeated the violent bird, he could give him "complete freedom". Ding Ao looked thoughtfully ahead, and he knew very well that only death was complete freedom. Ding Ao also had his own plan, he planned to kill Chi Huang in the chaotic scene of the whole celebration after the final victory over the violent birds, but even if he eliminated Chi Huang by himself, he would definitely be hunted down and killed by his men. Maybe this is the way the world is, you can fight a specific person in the fighting arena, but you can't fight an evil and powerful force outside the fighting arena.

In the evening, the Blackbird Bar is crowded and bustling. The Blackbird Bar and the other bars in the quarantine area are different, where there are no irrational drugs and scantily dressed prostitutes, just music from an antique record player and the bar's own beer. Lan Li's mother's wine tasted mellow, and Lan Li's father was always able to easily settle all the disputes in the bar, so the Blackbird Bar became a gathering paradise for nearby workers.

Lan Li's parents were busy at the bar, "Bring a glass of wine to our King of Fighters." Lan Li said, taking her father's arm.

"What kind of wine does the King of Fighters need?" Lan Li's father smiled and asked Ding Ao.

"All right." Ding Ao said.

"You can try this wine." Lan Li's mother handed Ding Ao a glass of beer, "The newly developed cherry-flavored beer, Lan Li's favorite taste." She said and smiled at Lan Li.

"Mom, what do you think my dad would do if he went to a fight?" Lan Li said.

"Then I can't last three rounds." Ding Ao said that he had amused the whole family.

"Lan Li," Quintai smiled and leaned over, "why don't I have this treatment?" I'm the coach of the King of Fighting. ”

"Okay, coach, what are you going to have a drink?"

They chatted, Ding Ao took the beer to the side, watching the scene of Lan Li's family's happy and harmonious, and felt a sense of loss in his heart.

Ding Ao went up to the roof alone and drank beer toward the sea with a heavy heart. In the fishing port, there were several dilapidated fishing boats, which fell with the waves. These fishing boats can only fish in the near sea, can not sail far, the sea around the quarantine area is erected with countless white towers, the tower is equipped with an automatic identification system, once the isolation zone ships try to sail out of the sea outside the tower, will be destroyed by the laser emitted by the tower with the boat.

"Why are you hiding here alone?" Quintay walked toward him with a flushed face, he was a well-known love field master in this area, and he had just had a lot of drinks with the beautiful girls in the bar, "I'm looking for you everywhere." ”

"Come up and blow the wind." Ding Ao said.

"This wind is coming from the east." Quintay sat down next to him and looked at him with a smirk, "You're blowing the wind from the neutral country. ”

"It's just blowing the wind."

"Don't I know you yet?" Brother," Quintess wrapped his arms around his shoulders, "I know what you're thinking, you want to go back to your neutral home, you never felt like you belonged here, you never felt like we were, am I right?" Despite what he said, the tone was not to rebuke Ding Ao, but more like a joke.

"Don't you want to open that iron gate to the other side?" Don't forget, Quintiles, you are also an isolated baby, unlike me, who was born in the quarantine area. At this time Lan Li also came over, and she heard their conversation. In the moonlight, you can see the bridge connecting the neutral country on the sea in the distance, and the huge iron gate on the bridge.

"Why do you always help Ding Ao speak?" Quintessus teased her.

"Am I wrong?" Lan Li sat down on a wooden chair opposite them, cocked her legs, posed in a sexy pose, and lit a cigarette.

"I don't want to." Quintai smiled and said, "Why do you think we're being locked up here?" ”

"Because we're a virus." Lan Li smiled first after saying that.

"Wrong!" Quintai suddenly became serious, "Because we are jealous, we have the talent to sin, and I should not waste this talent." I love the quarantine zone, you see, the crumbling high-rises, the dark and dirty streets, which are simply a paradise for crime. I love this place, and what I want to tell you is that for rats, the sewers are heaven. ”

Lan Li was amused by his words.

"Seriously," Kuntai suddenly looked at Lan Li affectionately, "as long as you're here, I'm not going anywhere." ”

"Talk less to me." Lan Li said that, but smiled even happier.

Ding Ao was still silent, and there was a fiery beating heart under his cold appearance. He believed that the young couple he always saw in the fight were his parents, who had just turned one year old and had been banished to quarantine, wondering how he would remember them. Ding Ao had long realized that the thought of his parents would affect his concentration in fighting, but he was convinced that his parents were bringing him more powerful power in a place he had not yet perceived. The story of "Odyssey" has always inspired him in his heart, and he dreams of one day returning home like Odysseus and reuniting with his family.

When Chi Huang came to the boxing gym, Ding Ao was training, and there were still three days to play against the Violent Bird, and he was fully preparing for the fight. As usual, a few heavily armed big men could not leave the wilderness, and the little villain followed close behind.

Chi Huang walked over to Ding Ao, who was still hitting the sandbag, without the intention of stopping, and sweat rolled down his head one by one.

"You're working hard." Akatsuki walked around him slowly and leisurely before he said a cold word, "I've never had such a hard fighter as you." ”

"I've been wondering, why on earth does everyone want to win? Eager to be adored? Enjoy the cheers of the people? He stopped and said in his usual pretentious tone of indifference, "But where is the meaning of all this, winning one game, and the next one waiting for you, there can be no victorious general in this world, you will always lose." In fact, people are longing for you to lose once, including those who have supported you for a long time, and I dare say that they must have had such a thought in their dark hearts, wanting to see how a person who has never lost once would behave, people want to see your jokes, want to make you ugly, and even want to humiliate you on the spot. It's not terrible to lose, but real warriors don't care about it all, they get up and get stronger. ”

"Not only that," Chi Huang took two steps forward, close to Ding Ao, "if you lose, but you can bring greater benefits, that is also a win, a more advanced win." ”

"What are you trying to say?" Ding Ao continued to hit the sandbags.

"I've won a bit tired of winning, and three days later in the game, I want you to lose to the Violent Bird." Akatsuki said, "As long as you do it, the promise I give you will not change, complete freedom." ”

Ding Ao stopped and looked at him.

"I will take care of Lan Li for you during this time." There was no emotion in Chi Huang's tone.

Ding Ao clenched his fists and stared at Chi Ao with anger in his eyes, and several bodyguards beside Chi Huang were staring at Ding Ao's actions, their hands on the gun, and they seemed ready to beat Ding Ao into a sieve at any time.

"If you don't do it, Lan Li will die." Akahara turned and left.

"I suggest you do," said the little villain as he left, "for the sake of Blueley, you can see that she really loves you, and of course, for complete freedom." When he uttered the word complete freedom, a strange smile appeared on his face.

After Chi Huang left, Ding Ao and Quintai rushed to the Blackbird Bar, and the news was confirmed, and the bartender told them that Lan Li had been kidnapped from the bar by Chi Huang's people.

Lan Li's father had just received news and rushed back from outside, and he took out a shotgun from the warehouse, "I'm going to kill the bastard in the Red Wild." He said and loaded the gun with ammunition.

"No." Ding Ao stopped him, "You're just going to die like this, you can't even get close to the Red Wasteland." ”

"You can't just wait."

"So what do we do?"

Just when everyone was at a loss, a child walked in, the child lived nearby, and he handed a letter to Ding Ao.

"Someone asked me to give you this letter." The child said.

Ding Ao opened the letter, only to see that it said: Please ask Ding Ao to meet him at the back door of the bar.

"Who will have given this letter?" Quintai stopped him, "Beware of deception. ”

"I can't manage that much, let's go see it first." Ding Ao said, "You are waiting for me here."

Ding Ao came out of the back door of the bar and saw a black car parked there, it was a high-end car that was rarely seen in the quarantine area, and outside the car stood a person, who was wearing a black leather coat, and there was a knife scar running through half of his face in his left eye. Ding Ao knows some of his stories, and it is said that he was once a police officer in a neutral country and was exiled to the quarantine area because he was framed.

Seeing Ding Ao's arbiter open the back seat door, there was also an old man with gray hair sitting on the car, and the adjudicator helped him out of the car. The old man was tall but somewhat emaciated, dressed in an old-school vest suit, with a silk scarf, a cold gray trench coat, and a silver cane.

"This is a ghost." The adjudicator introduced. Ding Ao knows ghost master, but it is the first time to meet, ghost master is the boss of the East District, but also the first batch of criminal segregants in the neutral country, once a well-known fighter, very means to do things but also morality, he pays attention to rules, rewards and punishments, not nepotism, the East District Gang is responsible for maintaining social order under his leadership, protecting the safety of residents, never easily disturbing the people, the East District Gang is very supported by the residents of the East District. This is very different from the situation in the West End, Chi Huang is only interested in profit, he hopes that the situation in the West End is as chaotic as possible, the more chaotic, the more the gang can benefit from it, Chi Huang not only repeatedly raises the standard of protection fees, but even takes the initiative to create chaos, in the West End, even if a person pays a protection fee to Chi Huang, if someone pays a high price to get rid of this person, Chi Huang will definitely take over this business.

Ding Ao didn't know why the ghost master was looking for him at this time, although the East District Gang and the West District Gang did not violate the river water on the surface, they had always been opponents, nominally he was a red desolate person, which meant that he was the enemy of the ghost master.

Seeing that Ding Ao was wary of himself, the ghost master did not think so, but a smile of appreciation appeared on his face, "You don't know how many young people in the East District regard you as an idol." ”

"Although you helped Chi Huang win me a lot of money." The ghost master said, "But I never regarded you as my enemy." ”

"I never think about money." Ding Ao said, "I only know how to beat my opponent." ”

"Very good," the ghost master looked at Ding Ao appreciatively, "I never participated in martial arts for money, it was like this then, and it is like this now." You may not know, I began to pay attention to you very early, I have seen you a lot of fighting matches, I like your fighting style, and I am very similar to my old days, in you I am like seeing myself at that time, I can be regarded as your most loyal admirer in fighting, this thing Ah Yue knows. He said and looked at the arbiter next to him.

"We should have known each other long ago." Ghost Master said.

"Why are you looking for me?" Ding Ao said.

"Do you have faith?"

Ding Ao looked at him, not knowing what he was trying to say.

"If I remember correctly, you're twenty-six years old."

"Yes."

"Twenty-six," said the ghost master, "I entered the quarantine zone when I was twenty-six, that was 2167, fifty years ago, the year the quarantine zone was first established. At that time I still had unrealistic illusions about the quarantine area, thinking that it would become a hippie's paradise, at that time I was an anarchist, I liked tattoos, rock, drug addiction, sex, all the things that young people liked, I was lawless, uninhibited, hated the rules, advocated absolute freedom, for me, the quarantine area was my dream belonging, my utopia, so I robbed an antique record store with a gun, burned all the records I thought were garbage, I stayed by the fire, Waiting for the police to come and arrest me. But soon I found that the quarantine area was completely different from what I imagined, survival here was very difficult, and finally I found that only the fist could win me dignity, and then later, I established my own gang, and the power became more and more powerful, until the east side was unified, but I was not satisfied, and even many of my subordinates told me, enough, ghost master, you can stop, we have everything now, in fact, they don't understand what the purpose of my gang was. ”

Ding Ao looked at him and waited for him to give an answer.

"Order." Ghost Ye suddenly showed a resolute look in his eyes, "Everything I did was to establish order in the quarantine area." ”

"Order?"

"It's ironic, right, that an anarchist wants to establish order in a chaotic place."

"Why are you setting up order?"

"Because only order is the guarantee of human survival and development." Do you think humans live only to live and reproduce? Even animals, for the development and growth of the entire population also have their own order, human beings think they are smart, but they are the least orderly animals, looking at the world, I am afraid that only human beings, it is possible to exterminate themselves. Even war should pay attention to order, the Fourth World War caused the death of a total of 4.3 billion people around the world, the first countries to use nuclear weapons violated the order of war, triggered nuclear war, and eventually led to the destruction of dozens of countries by nuclear bombs. ”

"It's easy to establish order." Ding Ao said, "Unless you can unify all the gangs in the entire quarantine area." ”

"Yes, you can't imagine how hard it is." The ghost master said, "But little by little I am moving towards the target, and in the process, what supports me is fighting." ”

"Maybe no one knows," the ghost master continued, "fighting is the only pleasure of my life, fighting is the only thing in the quarantine area where everyone pays attention to rules, and it is the only pure thing, and it is my faith, so I have worked hard to cultivate invincible birds of violence, and likewise, you have not been defeated." ”

"I don't know if you've ever heard the old saying of self-contradiction," said the ghost master, "an indestructible spear and a shield that can resist everything, I have always imagined what would happen if I used this spear to stab that shield." ”

"Anything could happen." Ding Ao said.

"Whatever the outcome, this is the highest showdown in fifty years, and I don't want any external factors to interfere with this battle of the century." The ghost master lit a cigar, "I won't go around in circles, I recently found out that Red Wild is buying violent birds in the outer market, so I guess he will definitely want you to lose the game." ”

"Yes." Ding Ao said, "Chi Huang kidnapped Lan Li. ”

"That's why I came to you," said the ghost master, "to help you clear the interference." ”

"How do I remove it?" Ding Ao looked at him.

"We know where The Red Wild has locked Lan Li up." The Arbiter took over, his expression still cold, "We will protect her, I will let you confirm her safety before the game, if you can win the game, we know that you have always wanted to avenge Sister Martha and your brother, and the ghost master will help you get rid of the red wilderness." ”

"I still want to know." Ding Ao said to the ghost master, "Why do you want to help me?" ”

The ghost master looked at Ding Ao and was silent for a long time.

"I owe you." He said.

"You owe me?" Ding Ao was puzzled.

"Yes, I owe you," said the ghost master with a hint of guilt in his expression, "the monastery where the Red Desolation snatched you was on my chassis in the East End, and in fact, I am your protector." I should have taken on the responsibility of protecting people and snatched you back from the hands of the Red Wastes. But at that time, our ghost gang had not yet unified the Eastern District, and its strength was far inferior to that of the Red Flame Gang in the West District, in order to avoid prematurely triggering gang fires and for many years we had been adopting a Taoguang and obscure strategy for the Red Flame Gang, so even if there were residents petitioning after that incident, I finally chose to swallow my anger. This decision proved wise, and I succeeded in hoodwinking the red wilderness, and even the cunning and suspicious little villain was deceived into thinking that the ghost gang was just a small gang that was not enough to be afraid of timidity and weakness, and they let down their guard against us. ”

"I had to give up on you, and I know exactly what happened to you, but I would still make the same decision if I did it again." The ghost master said, "So I owe you." ”

The Battle of the Century on a stormy night, the whole world is dark and dead, only the fighting arena is brightly lit and the people are boiling. Tickets for the Battle of the Century are more than twenty times higher than before, but the arena is still overcrowded and television broadcasts live on the fighting. Everyone was talking about it, this was actually an ultimate contest between the two major gangs in the East and West Districts, but they didn't know that outside the fighting arena, a long-planned battle between the gangs was quietly unfolding, Akasa's men were all controlled by the East Zone Gang, and the Ghost Master's people even surrounded the entire fighting arena, and Akatsuki didn't know that he had already become a turtle in an urn.

Ding Ao kui sat in the passage, waiting for Quintai to bring back the news about Lan Li, the violent bird had entered, the deafening cheers of the scene came in from the passage, it was the opponent's biggest provocation to himself, the Ding Ao came on, but he refused to get up until the cheers had become noisy discussions, and then into a cajoling sound, he was still waiting, he closed his eyes, not letting anything from the outside world interfere with his heart.

At this moment, Quintiles finally returned breathlessly. "Lan Li was rescued." He said in Ding Ao's ear, "Now she's staying in a very safe place." ”

"Also I noticed that there were a lot of raw faces in the audience." Quintess said, "They all carry guns. ”

"It looks like the fire isn't on tonight." Ding Ao said, "You go and take care of Lan Li, and then meet at my house." ”

In the box, Chi Huang was also suspicious of Ding Ao's delay in appearing, and ordered his men to check the situation.

As soon as his men left, Ding Ao walked out of the passage, and he could finally concentrate on the fight. As soon as Ding Ao appeared, the fighting arena was filled with cheers, because it aroused people's expectations, and the cheers seemed to overturn the roof.

The tall and powerful violent bird was undoubtedly the most difficult opponent Ding Ao had ever seen, but it was not invincible, this time Ding Ao was not affected by other things, including the blurry picture did not appear, with his own powerful explosive force, starting from the sixth round, Ding Ao gradually gained the upper hand, and the excited crowd outside the iron cage began to shout "lightning". Ding Ao became more and more courageous as he fought, and the violent bird seemed to have no way to deal with it. "Hit him to the left." Suddenly a voice in the crowd shouted to the violent bird, "He can't see it in his left eye." It was the voice of a villain, and outsiders didn't know the secret of Ding Ao's blindness in his left eye.

The Violent Bird suddenly seemed to have gained a trick and began to attack Ding Ao's left half of his body frequently, and Ding Ao suffered several heavy blows throughout the seventh round.

At the beginning of the eighth round, Ding Ao's situation was always passive, and Chi Huang was even smiling. Halfway through the round, Ding Ao was hit by a heavy punch from the violent bird on his left temple, and fell heavily to the ground, and the moment he fell to the ground, the blurry picture finally appeared in his mind again, "Baby, come here." The young couple held out their hands to him, the baby boy giggled and held out his small hand, staggering toward them, wanting them to hold, taking a few steps but falling on the grass... But this time, he finally saw what they looked like.

"Stand up, kid." The woman said to him softly, "Stand up quickly." ”

"Don't lie down, child," the man said with a determined expression, "knock him down, and go home and be with us." ”

The baby boy, encouraged by his parents, got up on his own and continued to stagger toward them.

In an instant, Ding Ao gained an incomparably powerful force, and he stood up violently and knocked down the violent bird with his stormy fist. After that, Ding Ao was exhausted and was carried around the field by everyone to celebrate in cheers, but Chi Huang disappeared.

Ding Ao returned to the locker room to shower and change clothes, the little villain rushed in with a killer, the two shot at the shower, and ran out of bullets, but when the killer opened the bathroom curtain, there was no one inside, only the shower was spraying water. At this time, Ding Ao, who was hiding behind the door, closed the door and appeared.

"Kill him." The little villain commands his men.

The killer pulled out a dagger with a cold light from his shoe and stabbed at Ding Ao, Ding Ao flashed sideways, grabbed the dagger, and quickly stabbed in and out of the killer's left chest, this dagger was extremely sharp, one in and one out as if there was no resistance, this knife hit the killer's heart, the wound immediately spurted blood after the knife came out, the killer did not react at all, and fell to the ground.

Ding Ao wiped the blood off his clothes with the dagger, the dagger restored the cold light of the blade, he approached the little villain step by step, the little villain looked at Ding Ao who was holding the dagger covered in blood, and did not flinch, he took out a dagger with him and prepared to fight. When Ding Ao walked to a step away from him, he stopped, and the two of them froze for two or three seconds, and Ding Ao suddenly shot out between the electric light and flint, and the knife fell in his hand, and without a trace, he smeared a hole in the throat of the little villain, and the whole process the little villain did not even have time to make any reaction. A few seconds later, the blood gushed out, and the little villain covered his throat and fell to his knees, and he subconsciously stuck his dagger into the ground to support his body so as not to fall down, and finally he died on his knees with his eyes wide open.

Subsequently, the adjudicator drove Ding Ao to a suburban warehouse. There, the red wilderness that tried to escape was caught by the ghost master, and he knelt on the ground in a terrible state, and he could no longer see a little of the arrogance of the past on his face, he begged the ghost master for forgiveness, there was no bit of the momentum of the gangster big brother, but the ghost master did not look at him.

"He's back to you now." The ghost master said to Ding Ao and gave the adjudicator a look.

The arbiter handed his gun to Ding Ao, and Chi Huang turned to Ding Ao and prostrated his head to beg for forgiveness. Ding Ao took the gun and stepped forward to put the gun on his head, Chi Huang's face was pale and frightened, and when he heard the sound of Ding Ao opening the insurance, Chi Huang actually urinated incontinence and got wet under his body.

Ding Ao did not drag a little, and a shot resulted in him.

Everyone present looked at Ding Ao and seemed to think that this scene had not been seen enough, and everyone was full of emotion.

"Follow me." The ghost master said, "I admire a sentient young man like you." ”

"I'm not interested in gangs." Ding Ao returned the gun to the ghost master and turned to leave.

The arbiter reached out and stopped Ding Ao and looked at him viciously, and Ding Ao also looked directly at the arbiter, with no fear in his eyes.

"Let him go." The ghost master finally waved his hand.

"If you change your mind." The ghost master said to Ding Ao, "You can come to me at any time." ”

Ding Ao returned home, and Lan Li opened the door for him.

"What about Athai?" Ding Ao asked.

"Inside." Lan Li said that Ding Ao noticed that she did not have the look of joy on her face that should be when she had just escaped from danger.

"A Lady Duwen from the Neutral Kingdom is looking for you." Lan Li said, "She said there was something very important to tell you, about your parents. ”

"About my parents?" Ding Ao did not react for a moment, "How did she come from the neutral country?" ”

"She won't tell us anything else until you show up." Lan Li said.

Entering the room, Kuntai was also there, Ding Ao saw an old woman wearing a veil sitting on the sofa, holding a cup of hot tea, she looked very thin and weak, but her eyes were full of justice and determination, that was the look that Ding Ao had not seen in the quarantine area, in the quarantine area, the eyes of women of this age usually only had alertness or fear in their eyes.

Seeing Ding Ao, she trembled and put down the cup in her hand.

"He's Ding Ao." Quintiles said.

"You are, Ding Ao?" The old man stood up and said.

"Yes." Ding Ao said.

"Can I see the birthmark on your chest?" The old man's speech was slow and his voice was weak.

Ding Ao didn't understand what she meant, why did this old man who claimed to be from the neutral country come to look for himself, why did he have to look at his birthmark as soon as he saw him, how did she find herself, and how did she know that she had a birthmark on her chest? All the doubts were hovering in Ding Ao's mind at the moment. He pulled down his neckline, revealing the purple-red lightning birthmark on his left chest.

When the old man saw this birthmark, her emotions were suddenly excited, and she slowly handed Ding Ao a yellowed photo. "Some people say that only half of the baby in isolation will live to adulthood, and I was even prepared for the worst when I came, but now that I have found you, I have been through all these years and I feel that it is worth it." 」

It was a group photo of a family of three, in the background, blue sky and white clouds, garden meadows, under tall plane trees, a cute baby sitting on a swing, and a smiling young couple on either side holding him steadily. The baby was naked on his upper body, and in the same position on his chest, a purple-red lightning birthmark was clearly visible.

"They're your parents." The old man said, "Your father's name is Ding Yi, and your mother's name is Ai Jia." ”

It was a happy and warm family, Ding Ao stared at the photo, the young couple he saw during the fight and the person in the photo were completely matched, his eyes were like the woman in the photo, his mouth and nose were like the men in the photo, and some kind of emotion that had accumulated in his heart for a long time made him feel irrepressible excitement.

"But they're all gone." She said.

"What do you say?!" This news was like a thunderbolt on a sunny day, and Ding Ao's heart suffered a fatal blow. Parents used to be a concept for him, and now seeing their clear appearance, parents became within reach in his heart for the first time, and just when he was looking forward to the reunion of the family of three, the old man said that they were long gone, and this huge blow made him unbearable for a while.

"How did they die?" He asked with grief.

Du Wen told Ding Ao everything she knew.

"I've been being watched by unidentified people all these years, which makes me more certain that the death of your parents was a conspiracy, but I couldn't find out the truth, and it wasn't until recently that I found out that I was terminally ill for a long time, and I made up my mind that I must go to the quarantine area to find you, tell you everything I know, and let you find the truth." 」

"I'll find out the truth." Ding Ao's face was solemn, at this moment he had secretly made up his mind, even if he gave up his life, he would also find out the truth, if his parents really died in murder, then avenging his parents would be the only meaning of his future life.

"But how are you going to get into neutrality?" Lan Li said.

"There's always a way." Ding Ao frowned tightly and pondered bitterly.

"How did you get to the quarantine area?" Quintai asked Du Wen, "By crime?" ”

"I can't enter the quarantine zone by means of a crime," Du Wen said, "so that before I find you, I will probably have been wiped out, and I can only look for the possibility of secret smuggling." ”

"I've never heard of any smuggling routes between the exclusion zone and the neutral countries." Quintiles said, "How did you smuggle in?" ”

"Hallucinogenic seaweed." Du Wen said.

"I know that kind of thing." Lan Li said, "This seagrass is produced in an unusually cold water with complex terrain on the western coast of the quarantine zone, which is the raw material for extracting hallucins. ”

Lan Li said that hallucinogen is a drug that can make people have wonderful hallucinations at will, and it is said that the harm to people is relatively small. But the collection of this seagrass is very dangerous, because this seagrass only grows in the crevices of the reef on the seabed, and can only be collected by human deep diving, due to the cold and water pressure, many collectors will have serious deformation of the joints and cause paralysis, and even many people will die.

"I've seen that kind of colorful seaweed that glows at night." Quintiles said.

Du Wen told them that because of the low degree of harm, hallucinin is the only soft drug recognized by neutral countries, taking hallucinogen, people will have some good feelings, and the company even makes hallucin candy, hallucin tobacco, and hallucin beer sold in supermarkets. This hallucinogenic product is very popular with people in slums, and the hallucins they use are all synthetic. Rich people also like hallucins, but they only use all-natural ones, which are hallucinogens extracted from hallucinogenic seaweed. But this hallucinogenic seagrass is only suitable for growing in specific areas, and the most suitable place is in the cold seas west of the quarantine zone.

"There are people in neutral countries who specialize in this business," Du Wen said, "smuggling the best quality hallucinogenic seagrasses from the quarantine zone to neutral countries through a secret waterway, and then selling them to the rich at high prices, I found this road through the underground black market of hallucinogenic seagrasses, and then went to the monastery to hear about you." ”

"Can I smuggle out like this?" Ding Ao said.

"I'm afraid not." "They have Coast Guard people and absolutely can't allow the smuggling to be exposed, and although they didn't ask me to say why I smuggled, they only promised to sell me a one-way ticket for a lot of money," Duvin said. ”

"If you can get in and out," Ding Ao said, "I'll go early tomorrow morning to find out who is in charge of this smuggling route quarantine area." ”

"In order not to expose my smuggling purpose, I did not bring any information that would be helpful to you," Du Wen said and handed Ding Ao a business card, "after you arrive in neutral countries, you go to find this person, she is one of the students I admire most, she will help you." ”

Ding Ao took the business card, which read:

Bai Ling, National Observer reporter, Tel: [phone], personal mailing address: SA-3535, Freeport Apartment, Mercury Road, District 2, Xingyue City South

Purification (Part 2)

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