Chapter 577: The Man Who Stabbed His Eyes Blind

The Mercedes-Benz off-road vehicle moved forward quickly, and the cool night wind blew across He Ao's cheek.

The storage chip recording Ned's negative information flipped between his fingers, swimming between his fingers like a spiritual snake.

The other storage chip was caught between his fingers.

His eyes fell on the front. Haixi called two cars in total, and Desank was sitting in the car in front.

At this moment, He Ao was sitting on the roof of the car behind him, his eyes following the moonlight as he scanned the surrounding decaying buildings.

The Zarot neighborhood is located in the West End near the North Wetterland district and is one of the earliest components of the West End.

From Plant District to Zarot District, you need to walk vertically through the chaotic West District. Sitting on the roof of the car can give Heao a better view and prevent crises hidden in the crowd or nearby buildings.

Although the federal traffic regulations are generally similar, there are many differences between different cities in details.

For example, in Chenxi City, passengers in the car are not allowed to extend their limbs outside the car, and they are not allowed to sit on the roof of the car. If they do, they will be fined.

The city of Wetterland does not have such detailed regulations. Passengers can ride however they want, and can even stand upside down on the front hood of the car.

However, if an accident occurs in this situation, the insurance company may refuse coverage.

In Wetterland, Ho's behavior of sitting on the roof of the car is legal.

While looking around, He Ao was also reviewing today's situation.

The mysterious man sent Vader to kill Desanke and Haixi, and it was Vader's own arrangement to lure Ho Ao into the game.

In other words, the mysterious man's original plan was not to attack He Ao directly. This was because when He Ao was in the mental hospital, the mysterious man asked the FBI instead of sending someone to take the incomplete It can also be seen that the B-level genetic medicine was used to deal with He Ao.

Even if there is that kind of B-level genetic medicine, the mysterious man should still have concerns now, either because he doesn't have enough manpower, or he has other arrangements.

Judging from the mysterious man's previous operations, he is a very conservative person. He surrounded and killed D-class Jace in an alley, sent a mercenary team, and also sent a C-class one.

When chasing He Ao, he took out dozens of D-level genetic medicines and three C-level genetic medicines. From Vader's words, it can be inferred that the mysterious man also sent C-level ones to support those mercenaries. , I just went late and didn’t meet He Ao.

If it weren't for the encounter in the abandoned small building being led by He Ao, who caught the mercenaries off guard and quickly completed the battle without giving the mysterious man a chance to mobilize more power.

Otherwise, He Ao might not be able to walk out of that abandoned building.

After these two sieges, the mysterious man showed great caution in attacking He Ao. Especially after He Ao killed Allent in the mental hospital and took away the wooden box, the mysterious man would most likely be even more cautious.

Therefore, He Ao estimated that as long as he did not take the initiative to enter a place where the mysterious man might lay a trap, such as going home, the mysterious man would not take the initiative to mobilize people to surround and kill him in the short term.

Vader, a C-level assassin, came to carry out an assassination mission this time, and there were no subordinates around him. Even if there was one of his subordinates following him, Vader would not be able to make his own decisions and lure He Ao over.

He Ao had a hunch that most of the mysterious man's trustworthy subordinates, those middle-level combatants, might have been killed by him.

In this case, the mysterious man will be more careful in his actions. After all, it is not an easy task to gather a group of elite subordinates who can fight hard.

And if He Ao's guess is correct, there will be a lot of room for maneuver.

However, although He Ao judged that the mysterious man would not send people to attack him in away games, he could not make a big mistake, and the mysterious man's target was not just him, Desank was also one of the targets.

Even if you can't deal with Ho Ao, you can still find a sniper to kill Desank.

A slender arm stretched out from the passenger window. Haixi poked her head out from the passenger window. She reached out to hold the door, turned over and jumped onto the roof of the car.

She raised her head and looked around, "Will it be cold in here?"

"fine."

He Ao pulled the fur coat on his body.

He just bought this coat on the roadside. He didn't feel cold, but after the previous battles, his clothes were in disarray.

I synchronized the chat history. Did you rush over after seeing the location that Vader sent you using my bracelet? "

Hai Xi sat next to He Ao and said softly.

"No," He Ao shook his head, "When I saw you promising me that there was no problem, I rushed here. Even if Wade doesn't send me the location, as long as you persist long enough, I can still find it. come over."

"ah?"

Hai Xi was stunned. She raised her head and looked at He Ao in surprise, "You are me. How did you know you were in danger?"

"Huh?" He Ao glanced at her doubtfully, "You have planted your flag so obviously. When you and I left the Huiermei Medical Building before, you also said that there was absolutely no problem in the West District."

Haixi:······

"That was an accident," Haixi argued. "There was no problem when I got the information you asked for this time. It was just when I handed it over to Desank that something went wrong."

"Is there a possibility," He Ao pondered, "that Wade has been following you, and he only took action when you and Desank handed over."

Haixi:······

This guy has a damn venomous tongue.

But she knew that He Ao was joking. She and He Ao both knew that Wade was unlikely to follow her to find Desank.

She started from the Zarot block and took several small roads. With her rich anti-detection awareness, it was unlikely that Wade would catch her. On the contrary, it would be much easier for Wade to follow Desank, find her, and finally catch them all.

The scene was quiet for a while.

The quiet night breeze blew across the woman's fair cheeks, "Anyway, thank you today."

"You're welcome, just help me waive the commission fee."

He Ao smiled.

Hai Xi turned her head and stared at He Ao. She smacked her lips, "Okay, no more jokes. If there is anything you need me to do, just say it."

"Okay."

He Ao nodded gently.

The night breeze slid across the cheeks of the two at the same time. In this quiet wind, it seemed that a gentle woman gently said, "Thank you."

At this time, Hai Xi seemed to see something, "Wait for me."

She jumped out of the car directly and ran into a nearby convenience store.

A minute later, she ran out, holding two bottles of sparkling water in her hands, ran to catch up with the off-road vehicle, and jumped onto the roof.

"Try it," she handed a bottle of sparkling water to He Ao, "I see you like this kind of sparkling water at the dinner." "Thank you." He Ao took the sparkling water, opened the lid, and took a sip. The expanding gas exploded in his throat in an instant. He smiled and looked at Hai Xi, "Not bad." "You have to believe in my vision." Hai Xi sat down and opened her bottle of sparkling water. She looked around, "Sometimes you are so professional that I can't remember you are a professor." The position He Ao chose happened to be the place with the best view. "People always change," He Ao smiled, he took another sip of sparkling water, and looked at the surrounding buildings, "When I was a child, I was a good kid. My grades were not bad, and I didn't dare to do anything out of line. At that time, I longed to sit on the roof of the car. It felt very cool." "I thought that when you were a child, you would be the kind of top student with outstanding grades and everyone yearned for." Hai Xi smiled. "Everyone has different talents. People with good scientific research talents may not have very good grades," He Ao looked at the road ahead with dim lights flashing. The streets in the West District have not been maintained for a long time. There are potholes everywhere and it is very bumpy. "My parents rarely scold me for my grades." Jace's father hardly requires Jace to get first place. He just asks Jace to "not fall behind." Every time Jace almost stepped on the line to enter a good school, then maintained a mid-level level in school, and stepped on the line to enter the University of Wetland. "It's great." Hai Xi curled up his legs, hugged his knees, and looked at the bright moon in the sky. Under the bright moon, at the end of the city, is the Zarot neighborhood where scavengers live. He Ao also looked towards the end of the building, "You have a bank card and a social security account number, you are not a scavenger, right?"

"Yeah,"

Hai Xi was silent for a moment, took a sip of water, the moonlight shone on her eyes that were shining with a faint glow, and then she slowly said,

"I originally lived in the Plant District. My father was a worker in a nearby factory, and my mother was a domestic cleaner. We rented an old building near the industrial area and shared a large three-bedroom apartment with two other tenants.

"When I was in school, I had good grades and often got A. Every time I showed my mother my transcript, she would be very happy. She always thought that I would be able to go to college in the future, move to a better place, and even afford to rent a single-family apartment by myself. ”

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After saying this, she paused and drank a sip of water quietly.

He Ao sat quietly beside her, looking around.

After a short pause, Hai Xi spoke again,

"When I was a child, I always thought that this was my future life, but when I was ten years old, everything changed.

"My mother was diagnosed with a malignant tumor, and the treatment required high costs. Even the cheapest special medicine is not affordable for our family.

"My mother signed a temporary contract with the cleaning company, so the cleaning company does not have to buy medical insurance for her, and we need to bear all of my mother's medical expenses. The family savings will soon be gone.

"After my mother was diagnosed with a tumor, her health got worse and worse. She soon couldn't work and was bedridden.

"In order to earn money for special medicine for my mother and to maintain the family's life, my father worked overtime crazily, sometimes working night shifts for one or two weeks in a row. At that time, I didn't realize anything. I only knew that the bread at home was getting worse and worse, and my father came home later and later.

"It was like this originally. Although life was difficult, it seemed that we could get by. But one day, my father's factory called my mother and said that my father had passed away. He was accidentally rolled into a machine while working the night shift. Nothing was left except some torn clothes.

"The factory said that my father did not buy accident insurance and did not pay compensation. Out of humanitarian spirit, they gave us 5,000 federal coins.

"They packed up some of my father's belongings and gave them to us. On the day of receiving the belongings, my mother got up from the bed, dressed for a long time, and took me to the factory. It was my first time there. I only remember that the factory was very large and luxurious.

"The staff who took us in said that the landscape tree at the entrance of the factory cost 5,000 federal coins each.

"Later I learned that the factory was one of the largest factories under the Huiermei Group.

"After my father passed away, my mother's health became worse and worse, and she spoke less and less. One morning, when I woke her up, she never woke up again.

"The tenant who rented with me helped me call a car from the funeral home and took my mother away. The rent of the funeral home, labor costs, transportation fees, cremation coffins, and service fees all added up to more than 6,000 federal dollars.

"But at that time, I only had 5,000 federal dollars given to me by the factory. Among them, I spent 500 federal dollars to buy medicine for my mother, leaving less than 4,500 federal dollars. My parents' credit card had been maxed out a long time ago and was used to buy medicine. I can't borrow any money either.

"The staff at the funeral home looked at me pitifully. They raised money to help me advance a lot of money. In the end, I only gave 3,800 federal dollars. I couldn't afford a cemetery or an urn, so the staff at the funeral home found one for me. A small wooden box containing my mother's ashes.

“Shortly after I returned home, people from the apartment management company came to collect the rent arrears, which totaled 600 federal dollars. I couldn’t pay the next month’s rent and was kicked out of the apartment.

"That year, I was ten years old, sleeping on the street with my mother's urn in my arms. At first I was in the Plant District. Later, when the neighborhood was being cleaned up, I and the homeless people around me were kicked out by the neighborhood management staff. My mother's urn was also snatched away by adults in the chaos.

"I only recovered a small handful of ashes. I kept those ashes and later sealed them in artificial amber."

At this point, Haixi paused and said, "Sorry, my story is too long."

And He Ao just said gently, "I'm listening."

Haixi paused and turned to look at He Ao, looking at the gentle cheek stained with blood under the moonlight. For some reason, the tension in her heart relaxed a little.

She turned her head and continued to look around, "Later, I lived in several places, and were kicked out by the neighborhood or apartment management. Finally, I arrived in the West District. No one drove us away, but there were gunshots everywhere, every day. Someone died.

"I formed a group with some similarly homeless children. We helped each other, went to gang-managed restaurants to steal food, picked up garbage on the streets, and sold it to cleaning companies or machinery modification shops. I gradually became the boss of the children.

"Unfortunately, the good times did not last long. The surrounding gangs gradually noticed us. One of our children was caught stealing food at a restaurant managed by the gang and had his leg broken. I took people to the restaurant to cause trouble in revenge. The result was Trap, I was caught by the gang boss while covering other people’s escape.”

The off-road vehicle passed a streetlight, and the dim light reflected on Haixi's twinkling eyes, "The boss said my eyes were beautiful, and then he blinded my eyes and broke my hands and feet, and then I fell into a coma. passed.

"When I woke up, I found myself thrown on a street I had never been before. There was nothing around me. I couldn't see anything. I just felt weak. I thought I was going to die."

"You met the scavengers?"

Ho asked.

"Um,"

Haixi nodded slightly, "I met the priest who was a scavenger buying medicine outside. He is a C-level transcendent, 'Talent Sequence 71: Pharmacologist', I call him grandpa.

"Grandpa took me back to the Zarot neighborhood and cured my body, but my eyes couldn't be cured because they were discovered too late. He replaced me with a simple mechanical prosthetic eye, which helped me partially recover. vision.

"Grandpa had no children, so the two of us depended on each other. That period was the happiest time in my life. Grandpa taught me many things, from astronomy and geography to pharmacology and arithmetic. Every time he went out, he would bring me delicious food. It’s fun and brings me interesting books.”

A faint smile appeared on Hai Xi's cheek. This was the first time He Ao saw a smile on her cheek since she told the story.

"Grandpa has a strong appeal among waste pickers. He often leaves the Zarot neighborhood to contact other consortiums, city council members, and mayoral candidates in the name of buying medicine, trying to fight for the rights of waste pickers. His greatest ideal in life is to allow scavengers to live like normal federal citizens.

"He has been busy for this all his life, but he has achieved nothing. No one is willing to help him. Even if a new consortium is willing to contact him, it just wants to get a piece of the cleaning company alliance. If they get the benefits, they will immediately cut off from Grandpa. relation.

“Grandpa is unhappy every time he comes back, but he will try to avoid me.

"But it all ended when I was seventeen years old. My grandfather was assassinated by a cleaning company when I went out to buy medicine. They could no longer tolerate my grandfather. Although he returned to Zarot alive in the end, his body suffered a lot. seriously injured.

"He gave me the best prosthetic eye at the time, bought me a lot of beautiful clothes, and asked a former acquaintance to find me a good job in the Saint-Lot district. He wanted me to leave."

Haixi's eyes flickered, and she smiled, "Actually, I knew why grandpa adopted me from the beginning. I have a grudge against the Huiermei Foundation. Although I was a street child, I was registered at birth and had my own social security account. , is a federal citizen with status.

"The scavengers themselves have worked hard for many years, but still have not entered the society of Wetland and found their own allies, so grandpa placed his hope on me, hoping that I can realize his ideals and those of the scavengers of previous generations.

"But this old man hesitated in the end. He didn't want to put this burden on me. Especially after he was assassinated, he began to fear that I would repeat his fate."

"But then you convinced him?"

He Ao said slowly.

"Um,"

Haixi nodded, "After my grandfather died, I became the priest of the scavengers and inherited his talent sequence. During the period of gradual promotion, I began to use my status as a normal federal citizen to build my own power in the Western District. , and finally got to where we are now.”

She turned to look at He Ao, showing an apologetic smile, "Sorry for making you listen to such a long story."

"So what happened to the gang boss who stabbed your eye out?"

He Aoxiao asked.

"He did a lot of bad things. I also blinded his eyes and broke his hands and feet. But instead of throwing him on the street, I threw him in his base camp, in front of his The face left."

Haixi smiled, "When I went to see him the next day, he was already dead. His body was covered with wounds, including knife wounds and gunshot wounds. His younger brother said he didn't know what happened last night, but there were all kinds of wounds on his body. Stained with blood."

"It seems he is really unpopular."

He Ao nodded slightly.

His question suddenly eased the awkward atmosphere just now.

The flowing wind blew through Haixi's short burgundy hair. She turned to look at He Ao, "So what about you? You are obviously a professor..."

"Do you still remember the Class C that caught up with us in Huiermei Medical Building that day? Do you think there is anything wrong with his ability?"

He Ao did not answer directly, but asked slowly.

"His power is weaker than that of a normal C-level, and his control is not very good," Haixi recalled, and said slowly, "It looks like he was promoted with the help of some external force, and he was in a bad state when he died. It’s also a bit weird.”

"Gene Potion,"

He Ao reached out and held the pendant on his chest. The entrance to Zarot Street had appeared in front of him. He looked at Haixi and said, "Can you lend me a gun if you have one?"

"Um?"

Haixi was stunned for a moment, then she quickly took out a powerful pistol from her jacket and handed it to He Ao.

"Thanks."

He Ao put down the sparkling water, took the pistol, and continued, "Please turn the steering wheel of the car in front to death."

"good."

Haixi immediately picked up a walkie-talkie and repeated He Ao's words into the walkie-talkie.

At the same time, He Ao raised his pistol, turned around, and pointed it at the old building behind him.

The off-road vehicle in front made a left turn towards the edge of the street.

boom--

The scorching bullets pierced the cold night sky, grazed the frame of the off-road vehicle and hit the road ahead.

If the SUV hadn't turned left, the bullet would have hit the back of DeSank's head, who was sitting in the back seat.

At the same time, Ho pulled the trigger.

boom--

Accompanied by a roaring gunshot, a sniper lying on the edge of a sniper rifle in a small building in the distance stiffened and fell backwards, with blood covering his cheeks.

He Ao turned around and looked at the stunned Hai Xi. As if nothing had happened, he handed the gun to Hai Xi and continued softly,

"The person behind the scenes, in order to study something that can enhance the power of extraordinary beings, my father was killed, my mother was killed, my wife was killed, and now, he wants to kill me, it's that simple."

Haixi slowly closed her mouth. The people on the off-road vehicle in front were rushing out of the car in panic. She looked at He Ao, looking at this gentle and elegant man with a trembling madness hidden under his appearance, "So , what are you going to do.”

"My thoughts are the same as yours," He Ao said with a smile, "Let the person who pierces the blind eyes be pierced blind."

He slowly released his hand holding the pendant, and the chip containing Ned's negative information and the flow direction of the raw materials of the genetic medicine lay quietly in his palm.