Right on Target

At dusk, the town is sparsely lit and very deserted. 7-006 followed Xie Zhenshu into the small town, where the doors and windows of every house were closed, and there was no one there. They followed the road signs and found the police station. The guard box at the door was broadcasting.

"At 6 o'clock yesterday morning, three travelers were attacked in the suburbs, and their death was horrific. One of the corpses was dismembered. There were bite marks on the arm left at the scene, and the whereabouts of the head is unknown..."

Xie Zhenshu knocked on the glass of the sentry box.

The security guard who was dozing off listening to the radio trembled and was woken up by the sound of knocking on the glass. He opened the window and asked, "What are you doing!"

7-006 said: "Surrender yourself."

Xie Zhenshu said: "Borrow the night."

The security guard was over fifty years old, with an unshaven beard and the smell of alcohol. He cleared his throat a few times, wiped his blushing face again, and said loudly, drunkenly, "What? Explain clearly!"

7-006 said: "I am a liar, I surrender myself."

The security guard said: "You are sick!"

7-006 was fruitless, and I changed it to thank you. Xie Zhenshu stepped forward and took out his ID, saying, "The combat troops in the port area."

The security guard took a rough look at the certificate, his red nose was angry, and he snorted coldly: "Your red badge is crooked, and it is clearly a false certificate. Do you know that it is a serious crime to pretend to be a combat unit? How dare you come here?" This is deceitful. If you know what you know, go, go!"

After finishing speaking, he retracted his head and closed the window, with a "bang", leaving the two of them outside.

7-006 was overjoyed, and said, "It turns out that you are a liar, disrespectful and disrespectful. But the security guard is also strange, seeing two strange faces, he doesn't ask where they came from."

Xie Zhenshu put away his documents, grabbed 7-006's sleeve, turned around and left.

7-006 said: "Don't pull, like walking the dog! Where are you going? I won't sleep on the street tonight."

Xie Zhen didn't turn his head back, and said, "Hotel."

There was only one hotel in the town, like an old-fashioned guest house, and they found it after walking around twice. The hotel is hidden in the depths of a winding alley, and there is a shabby pink light board hanging on the dark staircase, with the seven words "High-end Hotel in Corn Town" written on it, blinking every now and then.

Two people entered the door, and the front desk was busy eating instant noodles.

7-006 knocked on the glass with his forehead and said, "Open the house."

Looking at the people at the front desk, I didn't expect it to be two men, and they held hands. He sucked half his face, his eyes widened, and the plastic fork gestured in the air, asking, "Are you two dating?"

7-006 said, "Yeah."

The front desk said: "Live in one room?"

7-006 asked back: "No?"

The front desk quickly moved the instant noodles away, pulled out the hotel registration book from a pile of sundries, and said, "Yes, yes, show your ID, and I'll check in for you two."

7-006 turned his head and whispered to Xie Zhenshu, "Give him the money."

Xie Zhenshu took out a stack of banknotes and put them on the cabinet.

With bright eyes and a smile on his face, the front desk stuffed the banknotes into his pocket and said, "Okay, I will help you register, and I will arrange a super king room for you. Hey, here is the key. Keep it and go up the stairs." Turn right, Room 888."

The two turned around.

The front desk picked up the instant noodles, then remembered something, and shouted as if asking for credit: "The room provides hot water 24 hours a day!"

Xie Zhenshu led 7-006's empty sleeve upstairs, turned right and entered the corridor. The corridor was dark, several wall lamps were broken, the floor was covered with half-worn carpets, and melon seed husks and cigarette butts could be seen everywhere. He found Room 888, opened the door, and was greeted with a smell of dust.

7-006 sneezed several times when he entered the door. He looked around and saw that the room was poorly furnished, broken and small, so he picked the only thing he could boast about, and said, "This bed is so big."

This bed is not only big, it almost takes up three quarters of the room.

7-006 was worried about the posture last night, and said, "You and I can sleep on each side tonight without disturbing each other."

Xie Zhenshu closed the door and checked it habitually after locking it. 7-006 sticks behind him, he takes a step, 7-006 also takes a step. By the time he finished checking the room, 7-006 was almost stuck to his back.

Xie Zhenshu turned around: "?"

7-006 presses his chin against the collar to show his face. He flicked his empty sleeves twice and said, "Take it off."

Xie Zhenshu was unmoved: "Take it off yourself."

7-006 said, "It's really unreasonable. My hands are still handcuffed. Should I take them off with my feet?"

Xie Zhenshu didn't answer, but "Please" was written in his eyes.

7-006 understood it, and immediately said: "I won't, I can't, I don't want to." He said "No" three times in a row, and seeing that Xie Zhenshu didn't respond, he wanted to say something cruel to scare the other party. After thinking about it, he blurted out: "Thank you, brother!"

He was whimsical and shouted casually, but Xie Zhenshu took a step back and looked at him as if he was looking at a scourge.

- Oh, there is a play.

7-006 lost all that bit of shame, pinched his jaw with his thumb, and said, "I ignore me when I call you by name, but I respond when I call you brother, so you want to be my brother? But think about it carefully, You are indeed older than me."

He used to come and go without a trace, and the southern intelligence team never knew his real age. But he can pretend to be a student with gold-rimmed glasses, thanks to his deceptive face. He is a bit cold when he is not smiling, but laughing is the easiest way to soften one's heart. He is very good at grasping this scale, Xie Zhenshu has learned it on the train.

Xie Zhenshu said, "Don't move."

7-006's feet are not moving, but his upper body is approaching. He was still confident and said, "Don't move, don't move."

Xie Zhenshu watched him approach.

7-006 said: "This brother, beautiful brother, beautiful and serious brother, you have taken advantage of it, help me undress quickly."

Unexpectedly, not only did the Xie Pillow not take it off for him, it also tied a knot on his sleeve and tied him to the head of the bed.

7-006: "…"

At this time, there were footsteps at the door, and someone knocked on the door.

Xie Zhenshu asked, "Is there something wrong?"

It was the front desk who came and said: "It's me, I just forgot to give you the safety manual. I left it at the door, remember to take it in and have a look. There is a war recently, and it is not safe anywhere. be careful."

He not only gave it to them, but also sent it to all the residents on this floor according to the room number. Xie Zhenshu heard that he went downstairs, opened the door just now, and took back the safety manual.

This booklet is hand-painted and simple in appearance. It should be made by the small town police station.

Xie Zhenshu opened and saw strange things drawn on it.

7-006 was very interested in these gadgets. He was too lazy to stand up, but he couldn’t see when he sat down, so he had to tilt his body, look at the booklet with his eyes, and said, “This drawing is pretty good, and it’s half as good as mine.”

This man is so narcissistic.

Xie Zhenshu turned the page, and under the words "safety warning", he saw something even more strange and abstract.

It was a little monster pieced together from discarded mechanical parts, with a stooped figure and a burden on its back, it looked like a little beggar after a long time. Its face was blackened, and the manual artist marked the words "danger", "biting", and "do not approach" with a red pen in the blank space beside it. In order to highlight the horror, the artist also painted the remains of severed limbs all over the place.

7-006 said: "Wow, it's scary, I can't even sleep. Of course, if you can uncuff me, I think I can be braver."

Xie Zhenshu said: "You are dreaming."

7-006 had no choice but to have fun, reading the safety manual as a comic strip. He looked at it several times and said, "I see, it turned out to be it."

Xie Zhenshu had never seen this thing before and asked, "Who is it?"

7-006's jaw dangled in his collar, and he said, "Just now, what was put on the police broadcast said that it went out at 6 in the morning, bit people, dismantled their bodies, and lost their heads."

Xie Zhenshu also remembered, but he took what happened on the radio as a vicious murder case.

7-006 didn't pay much attention to this booklet at first, and only regarded it as a novelty-oriented bedtime reading material, but the more he read it, the more he became suspicious, and said, "You guys on the southern front are not doing some secret experiments, are you? This thing is like weapons of war."

Xie Zhenshu said, "No."

The Northern Route Alliance is technologically advanced, and there is a place called the light track area, where light-based vehicle traffic has been realized. It is said that everyone has an exclusive family system. They live in towering buildings, wear multi-functional portable in-ear communicators, and are served by intelligent robots every day. They are regarded as the utopia of today's world. In the Southern Alliance, people are still using horse-drawn carriages and landlines, so in comparison, this thing is more like a war weapon developed by the Northern Alliance.

7-006 thought about this, and said, "I solemnly declare that I have never seen this thing before."

Xie Zhenshu said lightly: "I didn't mention you."

7-006 said: "I got telepathy, you doubt me."

Xie Zhenshu said: "I don't."

7-006 asked suspiciously: "Really?"

Xie Zhenshu gave a "huh".

7-006 suddenly raised the corners of his mouth, and said, "You can't listen to what a person thinks, you have to watch him do it. Since you don't doubt me, then let me go."

Xie Zhenshu seemed to have expected it, and raised his hand to untie the empty sleeve tied at the head of the bed.

7-006 was speechless, his teeth itching with hatred: "I'm talking about handcuffs!"

Xie Zhenshu said, "That's next time."

What next time, how can there be a next time!

7-006 rolled down on the bed, shook the handcuffs, and said, "You should not be judged by your appearance. Do you have any special hobbies, such as confinement and restraint?" Without moving a bit, she rolled to the edge of the Xie Pillow book, put her hands on her face, and said, "What are you doing, are you interested in this thing?"

Xie Zhenshu said: "Indeed."

7-006 knows what Xie Zhenshu is thinking, this thing kills people everywhere, he is a good young man in special forces, he can't just sit idly by. So 7-006 lay down very considerately, covered himself with a quilt, and said, "Oh, then go check it out, I'll wait for you here. Bye, I'll go to sleep after listening to the tape recorder."

Xie Zhenshu turned over the safety manual, and the back recorded the number of recent victims and the location of the victims. He memorized it at a glance, and took a look at 7-006 as well.

The meaning of that look is very clear.

7-006 said: "Don't, this matter has nothing to do with me!"

Xie Zhenshu said with certainty: "Yes."

7-006 clutched the quilt, very unconvinced: "Where is it? How come? Please expand and explain."

Xie Zhenshu put away the booklet and took off his jacket. He unties his tie in front of the mirror, his eyelashes are half-drawn, casting a shadow, making him even more intimidating. After a while, he said, "My heart aches when you leave."

7-006: "…"

He didn't expect that Xie Zhenshu still remembered the stupid words he said in the morning, so he put his hands together and sincerely apologized like a Buddha: "I'm sorry, it was a dream, forget it before it's too late. That's it, good night baby, I'm going to sleep."