Back to five hours ago.
Downstairs of an apartment building on the edge of Jinling's Second Ring Road.
Standing in front of the cordoned-off unit building, Wang Peng looked up at the sky, then looked at the guard room next to him. He walked over and knocked on the window.
"Is anyone there?"
The window opened.
A living person poked his head out, glanced at Wang Peng, and asked.
"Rent a house?"
"I'm looking for someone." Wang Peng pointed to the cordoned-off unit next to him and asked, "What happened here? Why can't I go up? "
"Go up? Are you kidding me? The residents of the next building are about to move out, let alone here. As for the seal, it was posted by the police. You should have heard of the explosion that caused a sensation in the entire Yangtze River Delta city group some time ago. Don't tell me you didn't watch the news. "
"Explosion?" Wang Peng was shocked and immediately asked, "May I ask the occupants of 10012 households —"
“10012？ This number sounds familiar to me. "Touching his chin, a trace of realization suddenly appeared in the guard's eyes. He knocked on the table and said," I remember, it's the one where the explosion happened some time ago … Is that tenant your friend? "
"Where is he? How is he now? "With his hands on the window, Wang Peng asked anxiously.
"Him, he's doing pretty well … I heard that he asked a robot to pick up the package. Fortunately, it was a robot at the door. I heard that the entire living room was blown up by the package. Anyway, I didn't see any casualties on the news. He is either being secretly protected by the police now, or he has moved elsewhere. "
People in this era rarely bought houses, especially high-density housing in the urban area.
Most apartment buildings were publicly owned, and the local government entrusted the relevant rental companies to operate them and rent them to individual residents.
If something went wrong in life, for people in this era, moving was more common than drinking water.
Especially in this era where residential buildings were often one or two hundred floors, the average vacancy rate in the city center could reach 10%. There was no problem of not being able to find a house to live in.
"Thank you … I understand."
The guard waved his hand heartily and spoke.
"You're welcome. I can't help you here. You'd better ask your friend in person or go to the police station to consult."
Wang Peng thanked the guard again and dragged his suitcase back to the street. He wandered aimlessly on the street for a while.
When he got off the train at the Jinling maglev station, he tried to contact Captain Xing. However, no one answered the phone. Captain Xing must have gone on a business trip.
As for the other members of the Security Bureau …
He was a newcomer and didn't have their contact information.
Perhaps Xing Bian didn't expect that it would only take him a month to graduate from the training base, so he never thought that this would happen.
"This is a little difficult …"
If he could contact the criminal squad, it would be fine. The Security Bureau definitely knew where Lu Zhou lived.
But the trouble now was that whether it was Lu Zhou or Captain Xing, he couldn't contact either of them.
"Forget it … I'll ask Old Li."
Maybe he knows something.
Wang Peng tapped his index finger on the bracelet and looked at the holographic screen that popped up. He was about to open the address book to find Director Li's name.
However, at this moment, a black maglev car that slowly fell from the air and stopped on the side of the road attracted his attention.
It wasn't because of any special signs on the car.
It was because the four people who got out of the car carried a dangerous aura.
Thinking of the previous explosion that happened in this area, Wang Peng's eyes narrowed slightly.
Although his index finger did not stop operating the holographic panel, his attention had inadvertently drifted to the four men in black.
Without realizing that they were being watched, the four men in black followed a lady and a little girl who was holding her hand and quickly walked into an unmanned supermarket.
Wang Peng, who realized that something bad might happen, did not hesitate at all and quietly followed them.
From the moment he left the training base, his identity had become an agent of the Security Bureau.
Although he was not officially employed, he would never allow a crime to happen under his nose even if it was him in the past.
There was no other reason. He was a soldier, and this was China.
This had nothing to do with his identity; it was just a responsibility.
Sure enough, the moment he stepped into the unmanned supermarket, he saw one of the men in black take out a black pistol from his arms.
Seeing that the man had already raised the muzzle and aimed it at the young woman, Wang Peng no longer hesitated. He stepped forward and knocked the man away. At the same time, he grabbed the gun in his hand.
A figure smashed into it, and the shelves fell backward with a bang, like dominoes falling in a row.
The touch of the hard bones made Wang Peng slightly stunned. A flash of intuition told him that the identity of the assailant might not be a human.
Although he didn't know what the ALPHA virus was, from 100 years ago, he didn't have the boring concept of "robots will never commit crimes" in his mind. Therefore, not only did his movements not have the slightest pause, but he completely let go of his hands and feet because the other party was not a human.
There was no screaming, no helplessly running around. After seeing the assailant with the gun being knocked away, the young woman hugged the little girl next to her, calmly pulled her behind the counter, and covered her eyes with her hands.
At the same time, after the other three men in black saw their companion being knocked away, they quickly reacted and took out black pistols from their pockets.
Obviously, this was not an EMP weapon, but a real gun!
Wang Peng had already expected this to happen, so he didn't give them a chance to aim at him. He used the inertia to roll forward and flew to the back of the shelf.
With a few short gunshots, the shelves on Wang Peng's side were shot through, but the bullets did not hit him. Instead, they left a few deep bullet marks on the floor and walls.
Hiding behind the bunker, Wang Peng's mouth pulled a smirk. However, just as he was about to fight back with the EMP pistol in his hand, a harsh alarm suddenly sounded in the supermarket.
Obviously, the woman hiding behind the counter pressed the manual alarm.
In less than half a minute, two police drones had flown to the window of the supermarket, pointed the camera at the three men in black in the supermarket, and released a warning broadcast.
"Citizen, you have been surrounded. Please put down your weapons immediately. Your behavior has violated Article … of the Criminal Law. If you continue to resist, you will be severely punished by the law. "
For some reason, after hearing this warning, the movements of the three men in black suddenly stopped.
Instead of running away, they looked at each other, then put their hands into their arms.
At the moment when he saw their tacit movements, Wang Peng's pupils suddenly shrank slightly, and a bad feeling climbed into his heart.
Almost subconsciously, he raised the EMP pistol in his hand and fired a shot at the chest of the robot on the ground. At the same time, he shouted at the two ladies behind the counter.
"Get on the ground! Put your hands on your head and hide — "
Before he could finish speaking, his voice was abruptly cut off by the loud explosion.
The impact of the heat wave hit the shelves, pushing him and the shelves full of mineral water to the corner.
Thick smoke billowed out from the broken window, and the few pedestrians on the street scattered in all directions.
Amid the harsh alarm, the police rushed to the scene as soon as possible.
Firefighters wearing heavy equipment arrived at the same time and rushed into the messy supermarket with firefighting equipment.
Fortunately, the only two survivors did not suffer any serious injuries from the explosion …
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