The more Gao Ming thought about it, the more plausible it seemed. Xinhu Blood City had to be hiding another secret.
Shrill police sirens rang in his ears, interrupting his thoughts. Police cars drove past him one after another. Rather than entering the Eternal Life Pharmaceuticals building, they headed into nearby homes.
Smart Brain had identified the criminals. All the police needed to do was verify the findings and make the arrests.
In Xinhu Smart City District, every citizen's likelihood of committing a crime had been quantified. No criminal could escape capture here—unless the killer wasn't human.
The citizens had long since grown accustomed to all the conveniences Smart Brain provided. Often, even thinking was unnecessary. Smart Brain kept the entire city meticulously organized, and "it" seemed incapable of making mistakes.
"Number Zero has 'kidnapped' the Smart City District. It uses a special method to make people walk onto the sacrificial altar of their own accord." Gao Ming had no desire to meddle in Number Zero's plans, but there was one person he wanted to pull out of the mire of Eternal Life Pharmaceuticals.
Gao Ming didn't know how to face her, either. She was one of the people who had carried out all those schemes, and one of the reasons behind all those changes. She was both a tormentor and a redeemer. In her, Gao Ming had seen the full complexity and unpredictability of human nature.
"Go see her."
Compared with the other Blood City Lords, Gao Ming was perhaps a little lonelier. There was something about him that seemed utterly at odds with this world. Perhaps it had something to do with his very presence in Hanhai having been both a conspiracy and an accident.
He reached into the Execution House and took hold of her photograph. Searching