People are in the ark, but the system is chosen below

The child was mumbling incoherently, and the hand that was tightly gripping the blade was held tightly by Li Xiuyuan. He tried his best to control the child and prevent him from making any large movements. At the same time, he quickly tied up the child's other free hand with vines.

But even so, this small body was still twisting desperately, and its eyes were still filled with piety towards the so-called God of Originium.

He wanted to sacrifice himself to the gods.

Every time he spoke, a lot of blood flowed out of his mouth.

The twisting even caused the blade to pierce into his neck. Li Xiuyuan had no choice but to clamp the blade with his fingers. This also resulted in the blade sinking into Li Xiuyuan's fingers with every shake, as if digging into the flesh on the side of Li Xiuyuan's fingers.

The pain continued to come, but Li Xiuyuan did not let go.

"Doctor! This is Operator Li Xiuyuan. Someone's injured! The wound is on the neck! Requesting emergency medical services! Requesting emergency medical services!"

“Request emergency personnel!!!”

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"Li Xiuyuan."

"Li Xiuyuan!"

"Li Xiuyuan!!!"

"Hmm? Officer Chen?"

Li Xiuyuan raised his head and looked at Chen Huijie who was calling his name in front of him, with a simple bandage on his hand.

Now I'm back in the Guard Bureau.

During the process, first aid personnel will naturally provide simple emergency response.

The supporting layer is not a place for people to live.

The distance from the second-to-last floor at the bottom to the top ground living area is long enough and bumpy enough.

The child died in the end.

The blood on my hands had long since dried up, like thin strips of tape stuck to my skin. Every time I moved, I would clearly recall the warmth of the blood.

He has killed many people. Just like humans will not remember how much bread they have eaten, Li Xiuyuan has also somewhat forgotten how many people he has killed.

He should have been numb to the death of life, or even accustomed to it.

This was just the other person's own choice... I also tried hard to save him...

"Are you OK?"

Chen Huijie held Li Xiuyuan's face with both hands, looked into Li Xiuyuan's eyes, and asked again.

"good."

Feeling the warmth from the other person's palm, Li Xiuyuan said absentmindedly.

"No matter what, it's not your fault. This sudden situation was something no one could have anticipated. Your immediate action in pushing that operator away was correct, and your subsequent actions were consistent with your role as a member of the Imperial Guard and the responsibilities you shoulder.

You have done very well.”

Facing Li Xiuyuan's casual answer, Chen Huijie spoke very seriously.

"Should I say thank you at this point?"

Now it was Li Xiuyuan, who was concerned about the situation, who felt a little at a loss.

Are you blaming yourself for not being able to save the other person?

Or was he laughing at himself, having killed so many people and not even being able to save one?

At this time, a voice came from the side.

"Officer Chen, Li Xiuyuan, I have some different interrogation results. Can you come over and take a look... Eh? Should I not disturb you at this hour?"

Wang Quanhao walked over with the interrogation record and spoke. He looked at Li Xiuyuan, whose face was held by Chen Huijie, and then looked at the floor.

"No, it's okay. What were the interrogation results?"

Chen Huijie let go without changing his expression and asked Wang Quanhao.

"Perhaps it would be more accurate to listen to his own speech."

"Okay, lead the way."

Under the leadership of Wang Quanhao, Li Xiuyuan and Chen Huijie came to the interrogation room. Sitting opposite the iron railings was a Pero believer.

"I, I confess, I confess everything!"

As soon as he saw the members of the Royal Guard, he immediately put on a cooperative attitude.

They were clearly willing to hide in the uninhabited support layer for a month, but after being caught by the Guard Bureau, they became spineless.

Human beings are really strange creatures.

"Now you can repeat what you think is strange about the cult."

Wang Quanhao said, knocking on the table.

Li Xiuyuan and Chen Huijie listened quietly in the back.

"I... I actually noticed something strange... some people who wanted to leave the sect disappeared...

The kind that doesn’t even have a home is gone.”

"Your sect silences those who leave the sect?"

Chen Huijie asked.

What's so strange about this?

It's become quite common for the cult to do this.

"No, it's definitely not killing. Our sect only imposes this kind of punishment on traitors.

There is a ceremony for leaving a sect, and there will be special people to lead the ceremony.

Every time the person who took them away came back, there was no trace of blood, not even a trace of blood smell!

I have a very sensitive nose!

It just disappeared!"

The Pelo believer said seriously.

"Are you sure he's not dead but missing?"

Officer Chen asked a little confusedly.

But Li Xiuyuan, who was behind, thought of something and asked first.

"Your Order's funds."

"what?"

"Is the funding for your sect raised by your followers?"

"We are a branch of the sect, and the amount of money we raise is very small, but every month we receive an additional amount of money, which is said to be sponsored by someone."

"Do you always have a few people disappearing every month? Let alone those who want to leave the sect."

Then Li Xiuyuan asked again.

"Is there...is there? Well...it seems so..."

At this point, the believer seemed to have thought of something, his eyes widened, but he couldn't speak.

"You actually know where those people went, right? You just don't want to say it."

If it’s not death, or simply disappearance, then what else could it be?

they.

It was sold...

Is someone trafficking people with Originium disease?

Why do they even sell it to people with Originium disease?

No, that's not right.

The real puzzlement is, in this land where Originium disease is regarded as a scourge and people with it are discriminated against, why would anyone buy people with Originium disease?

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268

Chapter 268 Possibility and Investigation.

Carrying the latest recorded confession, which was also a clue, Li Xiuyuan and Chen Huijie walked out of the interrogation room.

As for Wang Quanhao, he is good at interrogation. After arresting so many people, there must be some who have not been interrogated yet. Now there is a public requirement not to use violent interrogation, so the process is naturally complicated. After all, he has to put on an act of public interrogation first.

Now, the case has come to the most troublesome part, analyzing this clue that has just come out, which is also the so-called doubtful point.

Since they participated in the operation, the doubts involved after the operation are naturally things that the police officers who participated in the operation need to investigate clearly.

"It's a headache. Why would anyone want to buy an infected person?"

At the public coffee machine, Li Xiuyuan complained while taking out two insulated paper cups from the side of the coffee machine, poured two cups of coffee, and handed one to Officer Chen who was also thinking nearby.

"No sugar, no cream, just plain coffee, right?"

"Ah."

Chen Huijie borrowed the coffee from Li Xiuyuan's hand and took a sip.

The bitterness spreads in the mouth along with the mellow aroma of coffee, and the slight scorching heat stimulates the touch, making people feel a little more alert.

Coffee should have this original bitter taste, which is the best way to make people feel refreshed.

Shi Huaiya obviously didn't know this, and added various ingredients to dilute the original bitterness of the coffee.

How can it still be coffee? It's just a slightly sweet drink.

As his thoughts turned, Chen Huijie glanced at Li Xiuyuan's actions.

I saw that Li Xiuyuan also added brown sugar and milk foam to the drink like someone else.

Chen Huijie silently looked away and kept silent.

forget it.

"Tell me, are there any differences between those infected by the cult?"

Li Xiuyuan couldn't help but ask after taking a sip of hot coffee.

"I don't know, but since they're all infected, there shouldn't be much difference."

Chen Huijie shook his head.

It's impossible that the infected within the cult are okay, but the wild ones are not, right?

A southern orange will not grow in the north?

Aren’t they all infected by Longmen?

"Then why would they buy infected people? They can't be buying them for labor, right?"

That's really funny.

Just kidding, the price of Originium mines in the slums is less than a quarter of that of normal workers, but the infected are still rushing to do it.

The city of Longmen looks bright on the surface, but in fact the urban area of ​​Longmen and the slums of Longmen are two different worlds.

The slums are home to not only the infected, but also those in distress from other countries.

The available labor force in a region itself depends on the young and middle-aged population who are able to work in the region, and this working population is naturally also affected by the overall population.

What the slums lack the least is people.

Those who work in normal jobs are also refused to do so in order to prevent infection and it is impossible to employ infected people.