The night before the promotion

Chapter 72 Smoke filled the air
The noise of propellers turning came from the sky, like dull and distant thunder. Faintly, one could see a huge black object moving quickly through the rain and fog.

On the ground, many police cars were parked on the side of the road, and the eye-catching parking lights formed a sea of ​​red light. Further out, people who were unaware of the situation looked at them curiously, talking and whispering to each other.

Some people talked about the explosion that had just occurred there. The flames shot up into the sky, and even from several streets away, the red sky could be seen. Others said that the Supervisory Bureau seemed to be arresting an extremely dangerous terrorist who was responsible for the previous explosion.

All kinds of speculations continued, discussed in real life and fermented on the Internet. People raised their mobile phones to take pictures. Amid the frequent flashes, reporters rushed forward like a group of sharks smelling blood.

Ruan Linrui pushed open the car door and walked quickly into the rain, ignoring the umbrella held up for her by her assistant. When fully armed inspectors tried to stop her from moving forward, she simply showed her work ID and calmly crossed the cordon.

As you step into the hidden alley, a feeling of heat suddenly emerges from the cold rain and fog. Even though the explosion has ended for a long time, the aftermath of the explosion is still brewing and fermenting in the hidden alley.

The sea of ​​fire spread from the center of the explosion to other areas of the hidden alley, burning through the rotten and old buildings, and was then extinguished by the strong wind and heavy rain.

In order to ensure the safety of the scene, a heavy transport plane rotated its blades and hovered at low altitude, dropping four tall iron soldier incarnations to the scene.

The Iron Pawn incarnations occupied various important positions on the scene, bringing the entire situation under their surveillance and shooting range to ensure that no accidents would occur.

Ruan Linrui arrived at the area at the center of the explosion, which was already filled with inspectors. Each of them was armed with a gun and their faces were covered by black helmets.

Among them, Ruan Linrui saw two familiar figures, Xiang Ji and Song Qiliang.

Xiang Ji was looking at something with a serious expression, while Song Qiliang seemed a little lost, sitting on a collapsed low wall nearby, not knowing what he was thinking about.

"I guess... you are Ruan Linrui, Ms. Ruan."

Suddenly, a voice broke into Ruan Linrui's ears. The voice sounded a little vicissitudes of life, like an elderly person.

Ruan Linrui turned her head and saw two black umbrellas, one in front and one behind, covering the owner of the voice in shadow. At this time, Ruan Linrui's assistant also hurriedly followed and held up the umbrella for Ruan Linrui to protect her from the wind and rain.

Ruan Linrui carefully studied the face in the shadow.

"You are……"

He was an elderly man, with years leaving deep marks on his face. His skin was slightly sagging, with a few barely noticeable fine lines around his eyes. His hair was grey and carefully combed into a neat back, revealing a temperament that was intimidating without him getting angry.

"Hello, I'm Dong Yuan, the director of the Supervision Bureau of Yanyan City," Dong Yuan showed a friendly smile, "This should be the first time we meet in real life, Ms. Ruan."

Ruan Linrui was stunned for a moment.

As Dong Yuan said, as the director of the Information Security Department of Shenwei Technology, Ruan Linrui did have a lot of exchanges with the Supervision Bureau, but because of the irreconcilable situation between the Supervision Bureau and Shenwei Technology in Yanyan City, Ruan Linrui had never seen Dong Yuan in person. Tonight was the first time.

Without waiting for Ruan Linrui to say any polite words, Dong Yuan's expression immediately became serious and he led Ruan Linrui towards the center of the explosion.

"Things are getting worse, Ms. Ruan, take a look at this."

Dong Yuan led Ruan Linrui through layers of blockades. In the center filled with smoke, Ruan Linrui saw the corpse of the giant.

Ucchusma's dark blue body was licked black by the raging flames and covered with a thick layer of carbonization and burning marks. The power of the explosion caused its armor to crack in many places, and some places even fell off completely, exposing the complex internal mechanical structure. Along with the crackling sound of electric shock, sparks appeared from the exposed wires from time to time.

All around, the flames and smoke caused by the explosion intertwined into a chaos, ashes and debris were scattered everywhere, and the air was filled with a pungent smell of burning and melted metal.

Dong Yuan stroked the hideous metal and said, "After analysis by the technicians and the report from the person involved, Commissioner Song Qiliang, this wreckage is an armed incarnation."

Ruan Linrui looked at Dong Yuan in disbelief, "Armed avatar?"

"Yes, but judging from the analysis at the scene, this armed avatar is not yet perfect."

Dong Yuan then introduced the situation at the scene. "According to Commissioner Song Qiliang, this armed avatar has extremely powerful firepower, and the explosion should be related to the fuel tank and ammunition box on its back. Someone must have managed to penetrate its protection and ignited the fuel tank, which in turn caused the horrific explosion."

"In theory, the possibility of explosion was taken into consideration when designing the armed avatar. Even if it could not escape in time, it would at least have a certain degree of protection. But it just fell down like that, so we infer that this armed avatar is still in the experimental stage and the design still has flaws.

At the same time, we also searched the database and did not find any armed avatar model that matched it, which further verified our idea. "

Dong Yuan's voice became sharper, and he asked, "Ms. Ruan, are you familiar with this armed avatar?"

Ruan Linrui naturally understood what Dong Yuan meant. She said without hesitation, "Do you think this armed avatar is from Shenwei Technology?"

She sneered, "Do you think Shenwei Technology would be stupid enough to expose such an important handle directly in the alley?" Facing Ruan Linrui's question, Dong Yuan just nodded slightly and replied, "I also think Shenwei Technology is not that stupid, so... it seems that the so-called Paradise has been forced into a corner by us."

Dong Yuan analyzed seriously, "In order to capture Zhou Si, they would rather send out a precious armed avatar and take the risk of escalating the situation to catch him."

He didn't understand why Zhou Si was so important. Is it just because he is the number one?

"I don't know. I guess Zhou Si himself doesn't know either." Ruan Linrui complained.

"Risks and benefits are equal. Since Elysium dares to do this, they obviously think the rewards are worth it," Dong Yuan sighed. "It's hard to imagine what they are planning."

Ruan Linrui interrupted Dong Yuan's thoughts and asked bluntly, "What on earth happened here?"

"Dr. Zhou got a clue about a city called Cloud City, and this clue was revealed to him by an intelligence dealer in the hidden alley."

Another voice interrupted the conversation, walked over to Xiang Ji, and continued, "Our action today is to meet with the intelligence dealer and see if we can get more intelligence."

Song Qiliang came over, looking dejected, as if he had made a mistake. "But before we found the intelligence dealer, we were attacked by these incarnation killers."

"I controlled the scout avatar and fought side by side with Doctor Zhou. At the end of the battle, the scout avatar was destroyed by the armed avatar. As for what happened afterwards, it is the ruins you see now."

Song Qiliang pointed to the wreckage of nearby buildings and recounted the entire battle in detail. Everyone could hear the brutality in it.

Ruan Linrui didn't care about the complicated battle process. She kept asking, "Not long ago, I received an alert from Zhou Si's artificial organ. He was bleeding and injured."

She took a deep breath. "But even if he was dead and blown to pieces, his artificial organs should still be sending out signals, but I can't find him now."

"Don't worry, Ms. Ruan," Dong Yuan said, "We implanted a locator in Zhou Si's body. After the explosion, we also lost contact with Zhou Si."

He looked at the ruins around him and continued, "We have also carefully examined the ruins. Given the uniqueness of Zhou Si's body, his body should be obvious and easy to find, but we searched around and found no clues."

"We infer that Zhou Si is not dead, but has been successfully captured by the Elysian Land. There is no need to worry too much about his safety for the time being."

Ruan Linrui clenched her fists silently without saying a word.

Song Qiliang took a few steps back silently. He felt that Ruan Linrui was a little scary at the moment. Xiang Ji also deliberately avoided Ruan Linrui's gaze to avoid looking into her eyes.

In the oppressive silence, there was only the sound of the rain and the noise above my head that was getting closer and closer.

The heavy transport plane turned its blades and slowly hovered over the wreckage of Ucchusma. Several hook ropes dropped down, and the technicians quickly tied them to the wreckage, then waved the indicator light, signaling the heavy transport plane to rise.

The hook rope was stretched straight and a creaking dragging sound was heard, raising clouds of rolling dust, but it was soon wetted by the rain falling from the sky, mixed into mud, and flowed all the way.

Ruan Linrui looked up at the huge black shadow above her head, and Dong Yuan's voice sounded just at the right time.

"We are going to transport the remains to Stone Fort, which is the consciousness center of Anyan City. We should be able to extract useful information from the remains."

Ruan Linrui ignored Dong Yuan's words and asked another question, "Where is Li Weiyun? Isn't he inseparable from Zhou Si? Since Zhou Si has been captured, what about him?"

There was a hidden anger in her words, as if she wanted to vent her anger on Li Weiyu for Zhou Si's capture.

"We found Team Leader Li on the street in Hidden Alley. He was shot and passed out."

Xiang Ji replied, "But fortunately, someone treated his wounds urgently and he is still being rescued."

Hearing this answer, Ruan Linrui said nothing.

She looked towards the distant end of the sea. The dark clouds were like an iron curtain closing in step with each other. The dazzling thunder flashed at the end of the darkness.

The Lin general is striding forward, carrying with him endless sea water, awakening huge waves and bringing storm to the world.

Wash away all filth.

(End of this chapter)