The small truck drove through a series of dark alleys, all the way north, and the route was so complicated that Hyper-memory and He Ao could not be remembered clearly.
The actual route should not be so complicated. The driver deliberately took some detours in order to avoid possible tracking.
But even so, the speed of the minivan was still very fast, drifting continuously in the alleys, and it didn't take long to reach the destination, a Small Pharmacy with the lights on.
He Ao, who was a little dizzy while driving fast, held on to Fourth Brother, raised his head, and looked around. The surrounding environment was extremely dilapidated, with dilapidated Old Building everywhere.
Old Building The original beautiful wall coverings have corroded away, exposing the pitted cement walls. The once delicate glass windows are also rusty. The windows of some houses have been completely broken and have been boarded up with wooden boards.
"The houses here are basically sixty or seventy years old. They have long exceeded their designed service life and are at risk of collapse at any time."
The bloody middle-aged man was staggered up by the people around him who still had strength. He looked at He Ao and Old Building around him, and explained softly, "But the people living in this building cannot afford a new house, so they can only live in it. Some people have not yet paid off their loans, and there are also some tenants who live in these buildings in order to get cheaper rents."
"Yeah."
He Ao withdrew his gaze. The moment he withdrew his gaze, he noticed that further inside the drug store, at the deepest part of the street, stood an old Small Church. The door of the church was closed, but the street lights in front of the door were dimly on.
But he didn't explore more. He picked up Fourth Brother and followed the strong men into the pharmacy.
Only then did he realize that the driver who had been driving had only one hand, and the other hand only had a shoulder that was wrapped casually and soaked in blood.
He Ao had just been sitting on the roof of the car, and the driver was in his blind spot.
Everyone went all the way in.
The drug store is not big, and there are a dazzling array of medicine cabinets. The medicine cabinets are crowded with various small medicine boxes without labels. In the deepest part of the drug store, there is a thin man sitting, who is brewing some kind of medicine using Induction Cooker.
The man listened to the footsteps and said without looking back, "The aphrodisiac is on the counter on the left hand side of the door. A bottle costs RMB 200. Take one pill thirty minutes beforehand. My medicine is good and can last all night. Mud can be pounded into granite. No matter how hard you take it, you can think about it twice. Milani The wildest dancer will kneel down and beg for mercy if she tries it."
"Ahem."
The bloody middle-aged man glanced at He Ao and coughed slightly.
Nell is only eighteen years old. If he were to study, he could barely be considered a freshman.
Although he is an adult and has just shown his prowess, people around him still regard him as Ivo's younger brother and a child.
First impressions often influence a person's judgment for a long time.
Hearing the cough, the man who prepared the medicine turned his head.
He has a thin face, short and messy hair, and is wearing a somewhat shabby white shirt, but his eyes are as bright as pearls in the dark night.
He glanced at the injured and crippled people, sighed, and stood up slowly, "Why is it you again?"
I don't know why, but He Ao always feels that this tone is a bit familiar.
"Have you used all the life-saving medicine I gave you?"
However, the pharmacist only sighed with emotion, and then began to check everyone's injuries one by one, "I can't squeeze so many people here. When things stabilize, everyone can go to the church next door."
"Okay, okay, I've used it all."
The bloody middle-aged man said quickly.
"This life-saving medicine can only hang on their lives, but it still depends on their own luck to save them."
The pharmacist glanced at the dying ones and shook his head slightly, "These are difficult to deal with."
Then he stopped in front of Ivo, whose consciousness was completely blurred, "This can still save someone."
Then he took out different types of medicines from the medicine cabinet, mixed them on the spot, and melted them into a syrup.
At this moment, Ivo was unconscious and unable to swallow on his own, but the pharmacist seemed to have prepared something other than oral medicine.
He took out a shelf from somewhere, poured the syrup into a bottle of glucose solution, shook it, and connected Ivo to an intravenous drip.
Then he went to work on another person without looking back.
"Doctor, my brother..."
He Ao stood nearby, looked at Ivo, and then at the pharmacist.
"I'm a pharmacist, not a doctor,"
The pharmacist raised his head and glanced at He Ao. The young man in his eyes was a little immature, but he was covered in blood. He exuded a fierceness and madness that was completely inconsistent with his age. He lowered his head again and looked back at the patient in front of him, "I have done everything I can. Whether your brother can wake up depends on him."
He Ao found a chair for Ivo, leaned in the corner, and waited quietly.
Ivo seems to be immersed in some kind of nightmare. Even with medical help, life is slowly passing away.
"Dad, Mom? Eldest Brother? Second Sister?!!! Old Five??? Don't go, don't go..."
Ivo's hand suddenly grabbed the armrest of the chair, and veins popped up on the back of his hand, "Nell, Nell is still here, I can't, I can't leave!"
Click——
The wooden armrests of the chair were pinched into gaps. Ivo's body froze, and then he took a long breath, his body softened, and he fell asleep again.
His breath of life gradually stabilized.
"Good luck," the pharmacist walked around behind He Ao and said, "This is someone who wants to live."
He Ao raised his head and looked at him.
"Medicinal stones can only save people who want to live," the pharmacist pursed his lips, motioning He Ao to look at the dying people, "It can't save those who want to die."
In this house, there are more or less blood feuds with Ice Wolf Gang and Vincent, and I am the only one left in the house, alone.
Now that Vincent is dead, the obsession in these people's hearts has disappeared, and there is nothing to miss in this world, and there is no need to miss it.
He Ao just sighed softly and continued to look at Ivo, whose breathing gradually stabilized.
"Transcendental?"
However, the pharmacist seemed to have finished his work at this moment and had some free time. He looked at He Ao and asked softly.
"Yeah," He Ao nodded slightly and then asked, "You too?"
The pharmacist nodded, said no more, and continued to deal with other wounded people.
Looking at his back, He Ao was thoughtful.
The pharmacist seems to care about the name pharmacist. His Talent Sequence may be related to pharmaceuticals.
Thinking about it this way, Roger seems not to want others to call him "pharmacist", preferring the title "doctor". His Talent Sequence may be related to "doctor".
Not all Talent Sequence is about combat.
Not long after, a Old Man wearing old work clothes, with gray hair and wrinkles on his face rushed to the pharmacy. He led some people whose injuries had been stabilized to Small Church next to him.
He Ao stared at Old Man's face. He vaguely felt that Old Man looked familiar, but he couldn't remember who he looked like for a short time.
Because Ivo's injury has stabilized, He Ao followed Old Man to the church.
The church door was locked, and Old Man took the key and opened the door.
The group of people entered the church and moved the chairs inside. Old Man then entered the right side door and pulled out simple mattresses to spread out for everyone.
By the time everything settled down, it was already past two in the morning.
Ivo's breathing gradually stabilized.
The pharmacist came over, changed the medicine, treated Ivo's wounds, and spread trauma medicine.
Then he said that Ivo would wake up around eight or nine tomorrow morning, so that He Ao could make his own bed and take some rest.
In the dead of night, Moonlight is like water.
The wounded in the church had almost closed their eyes to rest. Old Man, who led He Ao and the others into the church, was sitting on the chair at the front of the church and taking a nap.
Old Man is already quite old, and his body is covered with a few dark Old Man spots.
He Ao sat next to Old Man.
"You are Nell, the younger brother of Ivo, right?"
As soon as he sat down, Old Man asked softly.
"Yeah."
He Ao nodded slightly.
He began to recall where he had seen cheeks similar to Old Man.
"Ivo is a good boy," Old Man glanced at Ivo lying in the middle of the church. Moonlight was spread on gauze stained with blood through the window. "I remember that when he first came here two years ago, he was also seriously injured like this."
"Can you talk to me?"
He Ao said softly.
After disappearing two years ago, Ivo has never returned home, and his family has no news about him.
Old Man seemed to know this too. He sighed softly and began to tell what happened to Ivo.
The thing itself is not complicated.
After his father died in the mine two years ago, Ivo impulsively went to Mining Consortium to "ask for an explanation", but was stopped directly at the door and was not even allowed to enter Mining Consortium.
Then when he went home, he was followed by Ice Wolf Gang. He was seriously injured and lost consciousness. He was sent directly to the crematorium in the name of Homeless Man.
He was lucky. It was already late at night when he was sent to the crematorium, and the employees had already got off work. He was simply placed in the morgue.
During the night when he was parked in the morgue, he got up, staggered out of the crematorium, and finally collapsed in front of the pharmacist's pharmacy.
The pharmacist saved him.
He also met the person named "Miners Mutual Aid Society" here.
Those who join this organization are basically people who have been oppressed by Mining Consortium, or whose family members were killed by Mining Consortium, and who are sworn in with Mining Consortium.
The leader of this organization is Old Man next to He Ao, known as "Old Foreman".
Old Foreman was not prepared to take Ivo in at first. He knew that Ivo still had family members and persuaded Ivo to return to his original life.
But after a life and death, Ivo realized that he alone could not resist Mining Consortium, so he was determined to join Mutual Aid Society.
At that time, Mutual Aid Society was already wanted by Mining Consortium. Joining Mutual Aid Society meant that he would never be able to go home again, otherwise Mining Consortium's attention might be diverted to his family.
Mining Consortium and Ice Wolf Gang never talk about morality. If the threat of arresting your family members is effective, they will definitely arrest your family members.
Since then, Ivo has "disappeared" in front of his family.
After joining Miners Mutual Aid Society, Ivo showed great talent in Mecha's training, so Old Foreman relied on his own connections and spent money to send Ivo to the Federal Military Academy of Aines to learn how to drive Mecha.
He has been away for nearly two years, and it was only in the past few days that he was recalled by Old Foreman.
"He's a good kid."
Old Foreman looked at the cross in the church and sighed softly.
In fact, the people in Nell's family all have similar personalities. They are unwilling to compromise and will not compromise.
Eldest Brother is because he has to take care of the entire family and his responsibility is greater than his own will. Second Sister is because he is crazy and has no precise logic to act.
Third Brother, Fourth Brother, Fifth Sister, are actually all planning to find the truth in their own way and fight against Mining Consortium.
Even Nell is the same person, but he didn't find the right channel.
From the beginning, the family's fate was sealed.
He Ao did not continue on this topic, but looked at Old Foreman and asked slowly, "Do you know Locke?"
He finally matched Old Foreman with someone he had vaguely seen.
In the video of the massacre of workers in the mine, the mine manager "Locke" sympathized with the miners.
Hearing this question, Old Foreman stiffened, took out a cigarette tremblingly, lit it, and bit it in his mouth, "That's my son."
He Ao fell into silence.
He was vaguely aware of something.
Old Foreman didn't seem to expect that anyone would ask him about "Locke".
It had been a long time since he had told anyone this. He was silent for a moment and then began to narrate.
Locke's story is actually very simple. Although he is the person in charge of the mine, he has always sympathized with the miners and hated the consortium's brutal repression. Sometimes, he would even use his power to protect some miners who organized demonstrations.
Under his protection, many people died in the mine.
But the good times didn't last long.
His behavior was reported by a money-grubbing miner and he was fired from the mine.
After losing his job, he was forced into debt by the bank under Mining Consortium. The price of his only residence was maliciously lowered, making him insolvent. In the end, he jumped from the building next to Mining Consortium.
And his wife left the city with their children.
When this incident happened, it was ten years ago. At that time, Mining Consortium was a little "gentle" in handling things.
At least he saved his family.
Locke is the only son of Old Foreman. After Locke jumped off the building, Old Foreman's wife died in depression.
Old Foreman originally didn't want to live anymore, but miners who Locke had helped often came to visit and chat with Old Man.
After a long time, Old Man pulled these people into a chat group, thinking of helping each other, and gave himself the nickname "Old Foreman".
Later, he realized that many people in the group had lost family members because of Mining Consortium, and more and more people joined the group.
Then they started to be blocked, suppressed and arrested by Mining Consortium.
More people who were sworn in with Mining Consortium joined in, eventually forming the current Miners Mutual Aid Society.
"A lonely old man with no wife or children, and a group of lonely lunatics."
Old Foreman finished smoking one cigarette after another.
He Ao quietly listened to Old Foreman's story.
Old Foreman I have been holding it in for too long and need a quiet listener.
After everything was said, Old Foreman slowly stood up, picked up the cigarette butts on the ground one by one, and held them in his hands. "The side door on the left is the bathroom. You can walk around the church as you like. God loves the world, but please keep quiet."
As he spoke, he walked slowly towards the side door on the right.
He Ao touched the dried blood on his face, looked at Ivo who was sleeping peacefully, stood up slowly, and walked to the left side door.
The light in the bathroom was dimly on. He Ao turned on the faucet, picked up a handful of water, and scrubbed the blood off his face.
At the same time, information flashed rapidly in his mind.
He realized that he had fallen into a misunderstanding. Most of the videos in Storage Chip that Fifth Sister gave him were things that happened recently, and some of them were dated within the past year or two, which made him subconsciously think that everything happened recently.
But Old Foreman's son Locke has been dead for ten years.
In other words, the video with Locke is from at least ten years ago.
Fifth Sister's video was obtained from Vincent's son, and it may be the video that Vincent saved himself.
Vincent Why do you want to save a video that is more than ten years old in your computer?
And this video obviously has nothing to do with Vincent.
Is there any more special meaning?
He Ao began to think about that video. That video was indeed the most special. Some of the other videos were named after time and some were named after places, but that video had neither time nor place, and was named with only a single "m".
What does 'm' stand for?
And does Vincent really not care about the video on the chip?
In fact, not necessarily. If you really didn't care, you wouldn't have searched the whole city, sent people into the wilderness, and mobilized Federal Bureau of Investigation for wanted arrests.
The communications consortium actually blocked the video, but they couldn't catch He Ao's plan.
And Vincent alone will definitely not be able to defeat the Communications Consortium. Each of these large consortiums that span the entire Federation is a behemoth. It is not that easy to deal with them. Rock City Mining Consortium must mobilize as a whole.
It also requires the power of Rock City Hall.
But can Vincent mobilize the full strength of Rock City Mining Consortium?
He himself is being killed by the internal forces of Mining Consortium. If He Ao is Vincent's enemy within Mining Consortium, he will definitely not pay for Vincent's mistakes, and will even publicize it in order to completely bring down Vincent.
Unless the content in the chip involves the interests of the entire Mining Consortium, the forces within the consortium have to unite.
He Ao drank a handful of water and rubbed his face again.
In fact, being blocked by the communications consortium is not a problem. At the beginning, Dawn City, the former mayor Vent, was backed by Nold Corporation and was supported by the medical monopoly alliance. He also blocked the scandal video. He Ao also got rid of his scandal.
As long as you know who your friends are and who your enemies are, everything will be easy.
He Ao raised his head and looked at himself in the bathroom mirror. The blood on his cheeks had been washed away, revealing a somewhat childish face.
The cool Moonlight passes through the glass and spreads on the corridor of the church.
At this moment, He Ao suddenly felt his heart throb.
He raised his head and looked deep into the church.
Something is attracting me.
The last time he felt such attraction was when Dawn City met Dancer.
------Digression-----
When I was typing last night, I fell asleep, emmm, a little later.
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