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The skin appears to be immune only to the sensation of pain.

The wet clothes stuck to his body made Shen Siwei feel uncomfortable, the coat didn't do anything, it just made him look less embarrassed.

There were only Kreiter and Captain Shen Si on the off-road vehicle.

After leaving Music Square, several off-road vehicles separated at the nearest intersection.The rest of them went to other areas in the city center, while Kreiter drove Shen Si into a familiar road.

It was the way Shen Siwei came.

"Where is this going?" Shen Siwei asked.

"Send you out." Kreiter's answer was not surprising.

Outside the car window, a large AI cleaning vehicle was dealing with the corpses of two refugees and scattered small robot parts on the side of the street. The owner of the shop probably felt unlucky and closed the shop.

Captain Shen Si knew that Kleite meant to refuse the negotiation, but it didn't mean he had to go back home.

"It's useless for you to send me out." Shen Siwei looked indifferently at the front of the road, "I'll come back anyway."

The little guy at the roadblock didn't dare to do anything to Wei Shen, let alone the uncertain factor of Bahn.As long as Shen Siwei thought, he could come back in various ways, unless Krete personally guarded the roadblock and stared at him 24 hours a day.

The huge off-road vehicle stopped suddenly, and the inertia made Shen Siwei's body lean forward involuntarily.

He thought that Kreit stepped on the brakes to speak harshly, but the man just lit a cigarette slowly, and then... looked at the red light ahead of the road.

There were almost no vehicles on the road. When we came here just now, Bahn was running red lights all the way.

To be honest, Captain Shen Si didn't think there was any need to wait for the red light here, but looking at it like this, Kreit seemed to be more law-abiding than he imagined.

"Did you enjoy what happened just now?" Breathing out a puff of smoke, Kreit held a cigarette in his left hand, rested his arm on the car window casually, and turned his head to look at Captain Shen Si.

None of the four windows of the off-road vehicle were closed, and the interior of the compartment was open.The oxygen mask cut off the faint smell of tobacco, and only the low voice of smoke came into Wei Shen's ears.

"I don't enjoy it." Shen Siwei said flatly, "But I have a negotiation task."

"Don't talk about it." Kleite threw down two words without shame, stepped on the accelerator and continued to drive towards the edge of the city.

"Why?" Wei Shen asked.

Crater: "It's not interesting."

Whether you talk about it or not, as long as you make a choice, you can convey a person's thoughts.

It was obvious that Crater didn't want to get any benefits from the upper echelon, or in other words, the upper echelon couldn't give him what he wanted.

There was another red light ahead, and this time Kreit stepped on the accelerator and rushed through.

Shen Siwei suddenly felt that his inference of "abiding by the law" just now was a bit funny. He dared to feel that this person stopped at the red light, but he just wanted to find a space to light a cigarette.

"You don't talk to me," Lieutenant Shen Si turned his head and looked at Kreiter's side face, with a hint of threat in his tone, "I'll just talk to Bahn."

Shen Siwei must stay in the city so that he can carry out the task of investigation.

Of course he didn't want to deal with Barn anymore, but if Clayte insisted on sending him away, he could only do so.

Judging from the atmosphere just now, Bahne should not be convinced by Clayt, the boss.And Kreit probably didn't want Bahn to contact the negotiator, so as not to cause him some trouble.

Sure enough, just as Captain Shen Si finished speaking, Kreit stepped on the brakes again.

But what Shen Siwei didn't expect was that such a tentative threat would make Kleite pull out a gun from his waist, and the muzzle of the gun was aimed straight in his direction.

——Why is this person so irritable?

Shen Siwei frowned slightly, staring at the movements of Kreiter's hands calmly, but something unexpected happened to him again.

The muzzle of the gun was not aimed at his temple as Lieutenant Shen Si expected, but was raised in front of him and fired a shot out of the car window.

The bullet casing was ejected from the barrel, and the fine air flow brushed against Wei Shen's cheek.

Shen Siwei, who has long been accustomed to hearing gunshots, didn't even blink his eyes. He subconsciously followed the trajectory of the bullet, and saw a woman holding a baby standing on the walking path a few meters away, and in front of her was a refugee. corpse.

The bullet hit the refugee's head, and blood mixed with brains sprayed on the woman's face, causing her eyes to widen in a daze, and her whole body to tremble uncontrollably.

The woman was holding a bag of medicine in her hand, and the child in her arms looked uneasy. Judging from the situation, she should take the child out to see a doctor at a risk.

As for the dead refugees, don't think about it, they must be looking for trouble with women.

"Pick up his gun." Kleite tilted his head, talking to the woman through Lieutenant Shen and the car window, "If anyone troubles you, shoot."

The woman obediently picked up the vagrant's gun, then continued to stare blankly at Kreiter, as if waiting for more instructions.

But Kreit obviously had nothing else to say, and said impatiently, "Why don't you get out?"

Only then did the woman wake up from a dream, and hurried away with the child in her arms.

Shen Siwei knew that Kleite was helping this woman.

But swearing after saving someone is the same as running a red light just now. Whenever Lieutenant Shen thinks that Kreiter might not be that bad, he soon finds out that he has no code of conduct at all and acts entirely on his own temper.

"What did you just say?" Kleite put away his gun, looked at Wei Shen Si and asked.

He didn't even hear Wei Shen Si's threat just now.

But at this moment, these things are not important to Wei Shen.

He looked away from the woman's back, frowned and asked Kreiter, "Is she holding a newborn baby?"

"Yes." Kreit flicked away the remaining cigarette butt, "What's the problem?"

The problem is big.

Originally, there were two core energy stations in the tree of life, one was built on the top floor where the Margots lived, and the other was built in the sea outside the wall of the eastern district.

Fifty years ago, the offshore core energy station was destroyed by a deep-sea giant monster. Because the giant monster would attack humans, the energy station could not be repaired and had to be abandoned.

The energy supply in the Tree of Life suffered a precipitous drop, and it was at that time that the upper echelon introduced a series of energy-saving policies, including suspending public transportation at the lower level after [-]:[-] pm.

On the other hand, due to the extension of human life span, the population has inevitably increased significantly.

The energy supply is reduced, but the population continues to expand, and a new round of energy crisis is almost foreseeable.

At this time, the Mag people stood up and advocated that all people sign the "Declaration of Refusing to Reproduce" to ensure that the existing human beings can use energy for a long time.

The current interests are obviously higher than the future interests of the race, and the top and bottom of the tree of life unanimously agreed to sign the "Declaration".Everyone is injected with sterilization drugs, and since then, no newborns have been born in the tree of life, and will never be allowed.

"How could she be pregnant?" Shen Siwei asked the question in his heart.

He thought that this kind of thing was the consensus of everyone, but he didn't expect Clater to show a surprised expression.He raised his eyebrows and joked, "Are you living in the last century? Negotiator."

Shen Siwei asked calmly: "What do you mean?"

"Newborns have been born one after another over the years, and the higher-ups are now formulating countermeasures." Kleite adjusted his sitting posture to observe Shen Siwei's expression, "How come you don't know about this?"

Crater's words contained a lot of information, and it was impossible for Wei Shen to ask directly, so he had to analyze it by himself.

——It seems that the human body is constantly adapting and evolving, and finally broke through the limitations of drugs.There are more and more newborns, and it is impossible for the upper echelons to directly order to kill them, and they can only discuss new countermeasures.

and many more.

Kill... newborns?

Shen Siwei's nerves suddenly seemed to be pricked by needles, and some extremely vague déjà vu appeared in his mind.

Before he was frozen, his life had nothing to do with the word "newborn", and he should be quite unfamiliar with this concept.

But for some reason, he always had the feeling that the newborn was on a timeline he remembered, very close to when he was frozen.

"Negotiator?" Kleite's voice pulled Wei Shen Si back to his thoughts.

Shen Siwei waved away the fuzzy fragments in his mind, and said lightly: "I don't pay much attention to these things."

Kleite nodded thoughtfully, seeming to accept what Shen Si said.But suddenly he asked, "Have you ever been trained in the army?"

The topic came too suddenly, Shen Siwei's thoughts had not been completely withdrawn from the newborn, and he denied it without much thought: "No, I am a civil servant."

"Is that so?" Kreiter looked at Captain Shen meaningfully, "Then you are quite used to gunshots."

suffered.

Only then did Shen Siwei realize that he had revealed his flaws.

Just now, Kreit shot right in front of his eyes. He was so calm that he didn't even move his eyelids. He couldn't be someone who hadn't touched a gun.

Before Lieutenant Shen Si could figure out how to make an excuse, Kleite suddenly stepped on the accelerator, turned the steering wheel, and turned the off-road vehicle around.

"Where is this going?" Shen Siwei asked.

"Take you to the hotel." Kleite glanced at Shen Siwei, and there was a hint of inquiry in his deep eyes, "Don't you want to leave?"

Fine.

Now Shen Siwei is very sure that Kleite has become suspicious of him.

But that's fine.

He made a mistake and exposed his flaws, making Crait doubt his identity, so that at least he didn't have to think about how to stay.

Not long after, the off-road vehicle stopped in front of a deserted hotel.

Shen Siwei got out of the car wearing Kreiter's coat, looked up at the signboard of the hotel, and found that it was a self-service hotel.

The hotel is dated, empty, and the lobby is dimly lit with neon lights, making it look cheap.

Shen Siwei couldn't help wondering, did Kreit think he didn't have the money to live in a good hotel, or did he just think he didn't deserve to live in a good hotel?

The thought flashed by, but Wei Shen didn't pursue it further.After all, Kreiter is a person who doesn't play cards according to the routine, and it is impossible to guess what he is thinking.

"Come here to register." Kreit walked to a LCD screen, wondering if he had an "old antique" impression of Shen Siwei, and asked intimately, "You don't need me to teach you?"

Of course, his sweetness sounded like sarcasm.

"No need." Shen Siwei was not really an old antique, he clicked the "accommodation registration" button on the screen, but then stopped operating, but raised his head and looked straight at Kreiter.

A queuing indicator line was drawn one meter behind Lieutenant Shen. People with a little bit of politeness would not just lean on the side and peek openly when others were registering their identity information.

Kreit was unconscious, raised his chin, and urged: "Go on."

Now Wei Shen finally knew that the reason why Kleite brought him to the self-service hotel was to check his identity.

The wrist was close to the scanning port, and there was a "beep", and the identity information of Shen Siwei immediately popped up on the screen.

—Of course it's a false identity.

"Ivan?" Kreit folded his arms around his chest, still leaning lazily against the screen.

He probably didn't see any suspicious information, and he didn't want to make the identity check look so serious, he looked at Wei Shen again, and said nonsense: "Hello, Ivan, my name is Krete. "

Shen Siwei was too lazy to play this kind of childish social game with Kleite.

He continued to select rooms on the screen, only to find that there were no other guests in this hotel.

This is not normal.

Perhaps some of the refugees have homes in City Z in the West District, but most of the refugees should not have a fixed residence and will live in hotels.

What's more, this is a cheap hotel without a defense system. Those who don't have self-awareness can live here without even paying.

"Why are there no guests here?" Wei Shen asked.

"It's normal." Kreit said, "There is no special service in the self-service hotel."

Shen Siwei was surprised: "Special service?"

Kreit raised his eyebrows, and showed his eyes looking at Old Antique again.

"Or," he asked, "you want to try a macho-themed hotel?"

Shen Siwei: "..." I see.Special services equal pornographic services.

He retracted his gaze expressionlessly, and continued to operate the display: "No need."