Absolute Zone Zero: I survive in Liufen Street

"You're back!" Chef Qiao Pu, who was standing behind the operating table cooking for customers, placed the ramen he had just finished in front of the customer.

Looking up, he saw Bai Yu and Fu Fu walking towards him on the side of the road. When he saw the uniformed sheriff behind them, Master Qiao Pu was stunned for a moment before coming to his senses and greeting them happily, "Isn't that Susan? Long time no see. Are you still so busy with work lately? Even if you're still young, you should take care of your health."

"Long time no see, Master Qiaopu! Well, work. The Public Security Bureau is always like that all year round, so how can it not be busy?

My job is okay, mostly just resolving trivial matters between neighbors, so it's okay.

Those colleagues who run field work every day have it hard." Susan said this with a nonchalant wave of her hand as she sat down with Bai Yu and Fu Fu.

"Going out on field duty has its own hardships. It's also very hard for a sheriff like you to mediate conflicts and help residents solve their problems in life!" Master Qiao Pu did not agree with Susan's words.

“Well, with residents like you who think this way, our hard work has not been in vain.

We all live to make a living. My duty as a sheriff is to help protect the residents of Eridu so they can work and study normally.

Okay, okay, let’s not talk about this anymore.

"It feels like some kind of public safety awareness campaign. I'm almost getting serious now," Susan said, covering half her face with the menu and making a coy expression, which made Chef Qiaopu burst into laughter.

"Master Qiaopu and Susan, so they know each other?" Bai Yu, who was sitting next to them listening to their conversation, asked in surprise.

"Of course I know them. Susan and Susie used to come to the restaurant to eat noodles.

It's just that she's been getting busier and busier since joining the sheriff's office, so she rarely comes around here anymore." Chef Qiao Pu explained to Bai Yu while busy preparing the meal.

“Chef Qiao Pu’s Koi Ramen on Liufen Street has always been famous.

My former school was very close to here, and I always came here to play when I was in school.

Especially before exams, many of my classmates and I absolutely had to have a bowl! "Please pray that we don't fail the final exam." After choosing her noodles, Susan put down the menu and smiled as she shared interesting stories from her school days with the curious children.

"I see." Bai Yu nodded, but secretly thought in his heart, since Susan knew something about Liufen Street, then did she also know something about the hidden business of the shops on Liufen Street?

Bai Yu thought so and turned his gaze to Chef Qiao Pu. Chef Qiao Pu received Bai Yu's gaze and seemed to understand what he wanted to ask. While serving the food to the customer next to him, he quietly shook his head at Bai Yu, indicating that he had not said anything to Susan.

After seeing this, Bai Yu thought about it and felt that it made sense.

After all, Susan was just a student when she came to eat noodles, and later she became a sheriff.

If I really understood this...

Bai Yu squinted his eyes and imagined the situation, thinking that doing so would be no different from turning himself in. He then threw this ridiculous idea out of his mind.

"Susan, who is the Susie that Master Qiaopu was talking about?" Fu Fu tilted her head and looked at Susan, pretending to be curious and asked.

Bai Yu glanced at Fu Fu without saying anything, intending to see what Fu Fu wanted to do.

As early as the first day she met Susan, Fu Fu hacked into the Public Security Bureau's database and checked all of Susan's information and files. Of course, they knew the situation in Susan's family.

Asking this question now may be because he knows something that Bai Yu hasn't thought of yet and wants to verify it.

"Susie? She's my sister." Susan answered without thinking when she heard Fu Fu's question.

After saying that, she took out her cell phone, looked through the photo album, found a group photo and handed it to them.

The two girls in the photo are face to face, smiling brightly and making scissors hands towards the camera.

The Susan in the photo looks much younger than she does now, and the other little girl who looks somewhat similar to her in terms of eyebrows and eyes should be Susie.

Both of them were wearing casual clothes and looked very young and beautiful. It was this girl named Susie who made Bai Yu feel a little strangely familiar.

"So cute~ Susan looks so little now. Your sister is cute too!" Fu Fu leaned on Bai Yu's shoulder and looked at the photos on the phone. She looked back and forth at the difference between Susan herself and the photos, and said with a smile.

"Yeah, yeah! I used to be the class belle!" Susan said proudly with her chin raised, but soon she touched her face in frustration and said in a vicissitudes of life: "It's a pity that no matter how delicate a flower is, after the torture of work, it will become a pathetic office worker.

Youth is gone, it will never come back. Alas! How sad!

"Hahaha~" Everyone laughed at Susan's funny look.

Bai Yu took his phone and carefully looked at the girl who made him feel strange. He asked tentatively, "Does Susan's sister also work in the Public Security Bureau like you?"

"No. Susie is still in school, but she does have a part-time job. Maybe you've seen her before."

"Why do you say that?" Bai Yu felt that he was about to know the answer to the question.

"Because she works in a toy store on Liufen Street." Susan smiled and looked at Bai Yu meaningfully.

"Ah?!!" Bai Yu stared at Susan with wide eyes. He never expected to get such an answer.

"Fufu! Did you already know this?"

"No, it's just that I compared Susan and Susie's appearances and found some genetic similarities. That's why I guessed that. I thought they had the same name before."

Bai Yu covered his face weakly, feeling that he seemed to have become accustomed to Fu Fu's situation, who was sometimes reliable and sometimes unreliable.

"Why are you so surprised?" Susan snapped her fingers in Bai Yu's ear to bring him back to his senses.

"...I just didn't expect that we would be so destined to meet." Bai Yu didn't know how to explain it. He was now skeptical about whether Susan knew that his sister was working for the owner of a weapons store that resold Yin Qing.

Yes, that’s right, the weapons store manager.

The toy store on Liufen Street only resells sound engines in the game, but sound engines in the game are weapons. So it's normal for the store to also sell cold weapons, guns, and ammunition in real life, right?

Maybe he thought things were too simple.

Bai Yu reclassified all the clues and thought about them again. Originally, he just thought that the toy store owner was just an ordinary arms dealer with channels.

After all, the game setting requires such a store, but in reality, important strategic materials like Audio Engine should not flow into the black market easily.

In addition to the constant updates and upgrades of Audio Engine, ordinary people have no channels to get the latest generation of products from the research institute.

As for the audio-visual store that cooperates with YinQing, the owner of the store uses military-grade equipment.

Now I want to go back to Susie. The sister of my shop assistant is a sheriff, and Susie's performance in the game has made many players wonder whether she is really confused or just pretending.

But regardless of whether it is true or not, how could a store manager doing shady business hire the sheriff's sister as a clerk and add unnecessary risks to himself?

Thinking deeper, do the Public Security Bureau or higher-level government officials really know nothing about the dark business on Liufen Street?

Both the "hole robbers" and the old residents understand that this is an unusual neighborhood, and there is even an unspoken rule of "not being curious about the secrets of the neighbors."

The implicit message behind this made Bai Yu gasp in shock.

Perhaps the water behind Liufen Street is deeper than he imagined.