Void Jigsaw Puzzle

It was late at night and the surroundings became extremely quiet. Only the sound of a flowing river could be heard in the night sky.

The entire City God Temple area has been tightly guarded. From time to time, people on night shift walk by. Their footsteps are light, but they still make a rustling sound on the soft mud.

The road leading to the city has been blocked by the Jigsaw Team with roadblocks, and it has been set up several hundred meters away from the City God Temple itself, keeping it within sight while providing sufficient buffer for the entire base.

Amidst such a tight deployment, a car was parked on the side of the road and was in the starting state.

The car was idling, the engine making a low "humming" sound, and in the cold weather, white smoke kept coming out of the exhaust pipe.

There were two men sitting side by side in the driver's seat and the passenger seat of the car, one was middle-aged and the other was not young.

Because everyone else had fallen asleep and there were no small rooms inside the City God Temple, they had to go to the car to avoid disturbing others when discussing the issues.

Old man Liu scratched his head. There were not many hairs left on his scalp, so he rubbed his scalp directly with his fingertips.

He quickly lightened his strength, fearing that he would accidentally damage more of the few remaining hairs.

Zhong Chenmu has not returned to the base yet, but he gave Guo Ling and him a task: to find weapons.

Not only is the goal to find weapons that can better consolidate the base, but also to find out where Pierce and Pu Yue's weapons came from and whether there are more.

They had tried hard to recall the situation, but found no clues, either in their own experience or in the books they had read. They had even hoped that Zhong Chenmu, working in the library, would have read more books. However, the young man said that while he had read a lot, his actual experience was too limited. He had never experienced real life, and what he learned from books alone could not be directly applied.

Therefore, the task fell back on the two of them.

After all, they are the oldest.

And now the demand for weapons has never been more urgent.

"We don't want to fight them, but we can't stop them from coming to our door. If that's the case, we can't just rely on slogans like 'we want peace,' or rely on Lord Liang or even the Hydrogen Clan to mediate. We can only arm ourselves, use our weapons to defeat theirs, and end the war with war."

Old Man Liu once read this passage in a book, and he felt that it was extremely appropriate for the current situation faced by the Jigsaw Team.

"Where can I find weapons..."

In the end, he still got nothing and just stretched.

Guo Ling put his hands on the steering wheel, as if he were driving. "How about we use the process of elimination?"

"Process of elimination?"

"Yes, we've listed all the places we've visited in Nameless City over the past few months since the 'Singularity Moment'. We can assume that no weapons will be found in these places. So, we only need to search for weapons in places we haven't yet visited."

“It feels like looking for a needle in a haystack…”

"Can you think of a better way, old man? A stupid way is still a way, even the last resort."

"Okay..." Old man Liu nodded.

So, the two of them talked one after another and listed the places they had been to.

Guo Ling found a crumpled piece of paper and a half-broken pencil in the storage area between the driver's seat and the passenger seat, and wrote them down one by one in the dim light of the street lamp outside the window.

People's Square, Riverside Square, Library, City God Temple, Ma'anshan, Guandi Temple, Sanduping, Linjiang Tower, Leyou Pavilion, Cuiyun Corridor Entrance, Ciqikou, Fule Palace...

"I didn't expect that we have been to so many places." Guo Ling sighed.

"Thanks to you, brother, for this car. It's a great achievement."

"If we can really get out of the nameless city, find our lost relatives, and allow our civilization to continue, we should erect a monument for it or put it in a history museum for people to admire for all time." Guo Ling raised his face, his face full of longing.

"Wake up..." Old Man Liu patted Guo Ling on the shoulder: "Let's continue looking for weapons."

He pulled Guo Ling back to reality.

"Based on this list, and combined with Captain Zhong's statement that he's heading to Future University, let's assume there are no weapons there. There are only two areas we need to pay special attention to: Cuiyun Corridor and Nitou Mountain beyond it. The other is Ciqikou, which we didn't fully explore last time."

Guo Ling recovered quite quickly and his thoughts were still clear.

After hearing this, Old Man Liu thought for a moment and agreed: "There is no other possibility. Brother, you're right, your method of elimination is really good!"

Guo Ling smiled bitterly and said, "The next thing to do is the challenge. That is, how do we find..."

"Isn't that easy? Now that the target location has been locked, you'll definitely be the one leading the charge, even going deep into the search alone. Who better than you to lead the charge?"

"What about you?" Guo Ling rolled his eyes at him.

"Me? I'm already this old, and you want me to go deep into Cuiyun Corridor and Nitou Mountain to look for weapons? Do you have any sense of respecting the elderly and loving the young?"

"..."

......

Zhong Chenmu looked at the crowd of people, but there was no sign of Feng Yue on the podium, and his heart couldn't help but beat fast.

"We clearly agreed to hold an on-site vote, and then replicate the arrangement between the Rain Moon and Snow Moon teams. Feng Yue would convince everyone on the spot to accept the surrender of some members of the Snow Moon team and station them at Future University. Then Feng Yue and I would return to People's Square to accept the surrender of the Snow Moon team..."

At this time, a middle-aged man walked out of the crowd. He was tall and sturdy, and was balding, but his temperament was still very sunny and positive.

Zhong Chenmu recognized him. It was Fengyue's assistant Huo Zhenqiang.

When he walked in front of Zhong Chenmu, Huo Zhenqiang still had a smile on his face, but there was an unconcealable trace of anxiety in his eyes.

"Captain Zhong, I'm so sorry. Captain Fengyue was here just now. She said she was going to the bathroom and never came back. I asked my colleagues to check the bathroom, but she wasn't there..."

Huo Zhenqiang whispered. Apparently, this situation was only known to a few people.

"Suddenly disappeared?" Zhong Chenmu frowned.

"You could say that... I can't think of a more appropriate way to describe it."