When dusk approached, Dan Tu was brought to the control room once more.
When he saw Silin and the others again, Dan Tu was no longer as fearful and surprised as before. Other than looking at Huimao a little cautiously, he was much calmer than before.
It had to be said that this young man's mental fortitude was quite good. Perhaps it was due to the environment he lived in, but he was much calmer and more mature than his peers from other peaceful planets. However, Dan Tu's calmness crumbled when he saw the projection in the center of the control room.
There was a table in the center of the control room, and on it was a projection of the entire city that Nikki had sent out when a patrol team was returning to the city.
After entering the city, the miniature detector split into several smaller parts and scanned the entire metal city from different directions. After scanning, the information would be transmitted to the flying craft to form a comprehensive map. The metal city's outdated defense system would not be able to detect any external detectors sneaking in and transmitting information to the outside world.
Even after living in this city for more than ten years, Dan Tu had never seen the entirety of it. But now, he was seeing it in front of an alien. Even if the city's landmarks were shrunk several times, Dan Tu would still be able to recognize them at a glance.
Dan Tu was afraid that Silin and the others would really harm the people in the city. The difference in technology between the two sides was too great. If a battle were to break out, even if they won in the end, they would have to pay a heavy price. Those who would become cannon fodder would definitely be the isolated people living at the bottom of society. Like Dan Tu and the lonely old man next door, Grandpa An.
Nikki saw Dan Tu's reaction and smiled, "We're not that interested in this city. We just want to find someone in it. This person is hiding in your city, and he has the same technology as us. He was the one who told us to come. Otherwise, we wouldn't have paid attention to a poor little planet in a corner of the Empire."
Dan Tu relaxed a little when he heard Nikki's words, but he was also very curious about the person Nikki was talking about. Just what kind of person would hide in their city and do something like this? At the same time, Dan Tu also had some understanding of Nikki's goal.
"I don't know the person you're talking about, and I've never heard of anyone in the city with high-level technology," Dan Tu said.
"I don't expect you to know," Nikki pointed at the projection on the table, "We'll look for him ourselves, but I hope you can help us with something."
"What is it?"
"We need to borrow your place," Nikki stopped the rotating projection and moved it in front of Dan Tu.
Dan Tu pursed his lips. After a moment of silence, he looked at the people around him. "Will you hurt the people in the city?"
Sediya chuckled when he heard that. "We're not begging you, kid. We can find another solution even without your help, but that might hurt other people in the city. You don't want your compatriots to be hurt, do you? Hurry up, we don't have that much patience. There's a cunning fox in the city waiting for us to catch it. "
We Shan Tu Tu ", and" we "is.". " Chi Lafang purposely emphasized on 'killing the innocent'. If the people they ran into weren't 'innocent', then they couldn't be blamed. They had no choice but to be cautious when it came to Black Viper, or else they would be the ones to die.
Dan Tu hesitated for a moment before walking forward and pointing at his place on the projection. It was a poor area of the city, and most of the residents were widows and widows. Dan Tu lived in a six-story metal building. The area of each house was very small. The largest was only about 30 square meters. Dan Tu's living area was only about 10 square meters. It was not even one-third of the size of their control room.
Rent was a big problem. Dan Tu and the others could only afford the rent there. Buildings of higher quality, sturdier, and better security would cost them an astronomical sum.
Dan Tu told them the exact location of his place, and the surveillance device hidden in the city quietly flew in that direction. It didn't take long for it to arrive at the building Dan Tu had mentioned, and the situation of the entire building was clearly displayed.
The neighbor to the left of Dan Tu's place was drying dried meat and talking to a few other people standing in the hallway. Their conversation could be heard clearly.
As for the neighbor on the right side of Dan Tu's house, the door was closed, and Cillin didn't know what kind of person he was. However, he could tell from Dan Tu's eyes that the person who lived there was very important to him. Dan Tu didn't seem to care about the other people who appeared in the image, but the moment the image was displayed, the first thing Dan Tu looked at wasn't his house, but the neighbor's house on the right.
Fortunately, there weren't many patrols there. Since it was a poor area, patrols didn't often appear there. Most of them were around the high-class residential areas to ensure the safety of the people living there and prevent flying beasts from attacking them.
Nikki stopped asking Dan Tu questions after she was done with her investigation. Instead, she watched as Chi Lafang and Sediya studied the so-called high-class residential areas in the city. They would have to wait until the sky was completely dark before they moved out. Because of the environment, most people in the city wouldn't go out at night. Only the patrols would roam the city.
No one paid attention to Dan Tu, but he didn't run away either. It was because he knew that he had no chance of escaping from these people.
Whoosh — —
A flying car model flew into the room, and there was a cat standing on top of it. The cat was holding a box in its mouth.
Dan Tu wanted to dodge out of reflex when he saw Huimao, but he was attracted by the flying car model again. The difference in technology made Dan Tu very curious about flying objects like this.
Huimao flew the flying car model to Silin and put down the box. "Assemble this too, Silin!"
Inside the box was one of Silin's prizes from the flying car race. It was one of the two flying car models Fleka had made based on Vege-Fritter, and the other one was in Naimi's possession. Although it couldn't have Vege-Fritter's complicated and diverse internal structure, it was still quite extravagant for a toy model. A small toy model like this was enough to buy a flying car that was about the same size. Of course, luxurious flying cars and racing cars were an exception.
There was still some time before the operation anyway, so Silin took the box, sat down and started assembling the flying car model.
Huimao lay on top of the flying car model and watched it with his tail wagging. From time to time, he would shoot a smug glance at Ruble and Armadillo who were lying on the other side of the control room. Ruble and Armadillo were so angry that they gritted their teeth and thought, So what if you have a toy!
Dan Tu was very curious about the flying car model. It was probably the flying car they were talking about on TV. It looked a little different, but they were all similar. He didn't expect to see such a small toy.
Dan Tu wanted to get closer to see Silin's assembly, but he was very wary of Huimao. After pacing back and forth for a while, his curiosity won over his fear and he inched closer to Huimao. Huimao only glanced at him once and then ignored him. Dan Tu let out a sigh of relief.
Silin's assembly speed wasn't fast, but it was rhythmic and practiced. Every part was assembled precisely. Dan Tu grew more and more fascinated by the round, pancake-shaped object that was slowly taking shape in Silin's hands. It felt like a whirlpool was sucking all of his attention into it, and he was more than happy to be sucked into it himself.
"Do you have your own flying car?" Silin asked. His voice was low and slow.
Dan Tu shook his head as he stared at the model in Silin's hands that was slowly taking shape.
"I'm assembling a flying car model right now. This kind of flying car was despised by people for a long time, but after a race, everyone changed their opinion of it …" Silin explained a few things while he was assembling the model. Then, he asked, "What would you do if you had your own flying car?"
Dan Tu looked very puzzled. Then, he started thinking, "I would fly Grandpa An around the city and show him how the city is doing. The city has doubled in size, and a lot of new places have been built."
"Grandpa An?"
"Yes. Without Grandpa An, I wouldn't have lived until now."
Dan Tu's mother had passed away a long time ago, and his father had gone out to hunt when he was seven and never returned. Less than a fifth of the hunting party had made it back to the city alive because they had encountered a Galas beast, one of the strongest of the sharp-clawed beasts. Dan Tu had no ability to hunt alone, and the people around him did not help him, because there were too many such examples in the city, so many that everyone was numb. When Dan Tu was about to starve to death, he rarely went out, and Grandpa An, who was not familiar with everyone, gave him food. Grandpa An's savings were left behind by his children, but after they passed away, the old man seemed to have become a lot quieter and rarely left the house. Because of his disability, he was always in a wheelchair with no one to take care of him.
Everyone in the control room listened to Dan Tu's words. Chi Lafang and Sediya exchanged a glance. If their guess was correct, Silin had hypnotized Dan Tu! Why else would the vigilant little guy talk so much?
Dan Tu's expression softened a lot when he talked about what happened after he met Grandpa An, but when he mentioned that Silin and the others wanted to borrow Dan Tu's house in the city, Dan Tu's face contorted as if he was resisting something. Big beads of sweat rolled down his forehead, and Dan Tu abruptly raised his head to glare at Silin. The fury and madness in his eyes made Silin feel like the little guy was going to swing a knife at him the next moment.
"What did you do to me?!" Dan Tu huffed and puffed. His fingers curled into fists, but they were shaking uncontrollably. He had said too much just now, and he was bound to slip up!
Silin smiled and assembled the last part. Then, he passed it to Huimao and told it to play on the side.
"Your willpower is not bad," Celine commented.
"You … you can't hurt Grandpa An, you can't!" Dan Tu roared at Silin.
"I didn't say I was going to hurt him." Cillin stood up and patted his thighs. Then, he walked out of the control room, but stopped after taking two steps. He turned around and said to Dan Tu, "You smiled when you were telling me about your relationship with that Grandpa An. Someone once told me that blinking when you smile means that you are truly thinking of something that makes you happy."
Dan Tu loosened his clenched fists, then clenched them again.
Indeed, there was a time when Dan Tu felt very happy. Although he was already an orphan at that time, he had Grandpa An by his side. He was the old man who always sat in a wheelchair and told Dan Tu stories that he had never heard before. He taught him how to hunt and how to protect himself.
Dan Tu's wish was that one day, he could hunt enough things to exchange for enough currency in the city. Then, he could pick up Grandpa An from next door and live in a sturdier and more spacious building like a fortress, and live a better life …
Before it was completely dark, the last hunting team that left the city returned to the city. It was the hunting team that Dan Tu was in.
The hunting team did not see Dan Tu within the allotted time, and Dan Tu's communicator could not be contacted. So, according to past experience, Dan Tu had either met with an accident, or he was lost somewhere. Either way, it was the same result, because in both cases, the chance of surviving alone was close to zero. Moreover, Dan Tu was only a fifteen-year-old boy. Even though he had nearly five years of hunting experience, he was still lacking in many aspects. He could not compare to the experienced hunters.
When they were about to return to the city, they still could not contact Dan Tu. Finally, the hunting team gave up and returned to the city with the results of today's hunt.
However, when the hunting team entered the city gate, no one noticed that there was a person hiding in the pile of Croc beast corpses. There was a small protrusion in an inconspicuous place on the armored vehicle.
"Very good, Silin has successfully entered." Inside the aircraft, Nikki said as she looked at the image sent back by the transmitter on Silin's body.
Behind Nikki, Rubu and Armadillo were both in the control room. They did not go out like the others. Dan Tu sat quietly to the side, nervously watching the extraterrestrials' movements.
Not far from the city, Sediya and Chi Lafang were lying in ambush. Only Silin and Bai Ye had entered the city. Bai Ye and Silin's group had entered the city. Bai Ye's target was the mayor's residence, while Silin went to Dan Tu's residence first. Everyone split up.
The equipment in the city was much less advanced, so they could not detect Bai Ye and Silin at all. As for Huimao, they could not detect him at all.
After Silin entered the city, he found an opportunity to leave the hunting team and hide in a secluded place, waiting for night to fall.
When the sky was completely dark and everyone was hiding in their houses, Silin snuck towards Dan Tu's residence.
Most of the hunters in the city were experienced hunters, and they were very sensitive to danger and changes in their surroundings. There were many things that could not be faked with technology. That was why both Silin and Bai Ye were very cautious in the city.
The layout of the entire city was deeply imprinted in Silin's mind, so it did not take long for Silin to arrive at the building where Dan Tu lived.
With Celine's hearing, he could hear a few families talking about the Dantu. Today, the hunting team had brought news that Dan Tu had not returned to the city. In the eyes of these people, Dan Tu was definitely not coming back. However, from their tone, it was obvious that these people only treated the Dan Tu as a topic to kill time after a meal. They did not feel much sympathy or regret for him.
Because they were numb, they were indifferent. The relationships between people here were just like the city, filled with the cold light of metal. In this special environment, no one would criticize others for being right or wrong. Here, the living were always right.
Silin arrived at the floor of Dan Tu's residence. There was no one outside the building now. There were always unknown dangers lurking in the dark, and it was the safest place for the people here to hide in their homes at night.
When he passed by Grandpa An's house that Dan Tu had mentioned, Cillin paused for a moment and shot a glance at the house whose door was tightly shut and completely devoid of light. It was only then that he stood in front of Dan Tu's house, took out the key that Dan Tu had given him and opened the door. However, the moment he opened the door, Cillin sensed that there was someone inside the house.
Inside the aircraft, the image on the screen in front of Nikki began to stutter and then completely cut off. The received signal had been jammed.
Electromagnetic interference! How could there be electromagnetic interference at such a high level?!
That person was there!
This was the first thing that came to Nikki's mind. She quickly contacted Bai Ye and Chi Lafang and Sediya, who were outside the city.
Silin went on high alert the moment he sensed that there was someone inside the house. He dodged the incoming wind and blocked the opponent's punches and kicks. Then, he leaned to the side and used the ground to bounce off the ground. His other hand unsheathed a longsword and pointed it at the opponent.
The image that Silin sent to the aircraft was only cut off for a moment. Huimao's interference was removed, and the image was restored.
There was no light in the house, but Silin could clearly see the person in front of him through the faint light that seeped in from the outside. The aircraft could also clearly see the person standing in front of Silin through the night vision filter.
After seeing this person, the person who reacted the most was not Nikki and the others, but Dan Tu.
Dan Tu rose from his chair in agitation. His eyes were filled with disbelief. "Impossible! How could it be her … Didn't she already … "
"That woman looks a little familiar," Chi Lafang, who was somewhere outside the city, said after seeing the image that Nikki sent them.
Nikki shook her head. "I don't remember."
"I saw her not too long ago. Although we didn't talk, I remember that she was one of the people who participated in the same race as that kid, Silin," Sediya said as he watched the image.
Dan Tu's house.
The person in front of Silin didn't continue to attack. In fact, she didn't show any killing intent just now. It was precisely because of this that Silin didn't kill her. Otherwise, he would have slashed her down a long time ago.
Silin pointed the tip of his blade at the person in front of him. Truth be told, he didn't expect to see this person here.
"We meet again, Qiu Xu."
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