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Chapter 341: Dream (Please Subscribe, Bookmark, and Vote for Monthly Tickets)

Chapter 341: Chapter 341: Dream (Please Subscribe, Bookmark, and Vote for Monthly Tickets)

Yoen rummaged through the medicine box for a long time before finally finding the wound medicine.

But as he looked at the medicine in his hand, he fell into a long silence again.

It wasn’t until the crisp knocking sound that he was roused from his thoughts.

He Ao, who had already bandaged himself, stood by the bedroom door, retracting the hand that knocked, and hoarsely said, "I’m leaving."

"Don’t... stay a little longer?" Yoen was taken aback, then he stuttered, "Where are you planning to go?"

However, right after he asked the question, without waiting for He Ao’s response, Yoen quickly said, "Go on, go on, you better hurry up and leave."

Then he pushed and shoved, urging He Ao to leave.

He Ao looked at him, fell silent for a moment, and then nodded lightly, walking out of the house.

Yoen stuffed the bottle, still half full of wound medicine, into his hand and then slammed the door shut with a bang.

He Ao glanced at the closed door, tucked away the medicine, and walked into the pitch-dark corridor.

Heavy breathing sounds came from behind the door, for Yoen had experienced significant highs and lows in this short span of time.

He Ao lifted the bracelet in his hand, on which the projected image was playing the emergency news.

The news featured a high-definition photo of him.

Half an hour.

The normal speed of the Federal Bureau of Investigation wasn’t that fast.

When He Ao killed that deputy director, he moved swiftly, and the latter had no chance to contact the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

When he destroyed the energy core, he also ruined the storage chips, so investigating He Ao’s personal information from those ruins would have been difficult.

What’s most important is, if the deputy director took bribes and intercepted He Ao alone, he wouldn’t have connected to the Federal Bureau’s intranet; he would have acted in secret, and the Bureau may not have discovered his death even in half an hour.

Now, the fact that not only the outcome of the incident was concluded within half an hour but the news had also been broadcasted.

This efficiency was not characteristic of the Federal Bureau’s standard protocol.

This indicated that the deputy director had been in contact with the Rock City branch of the Federal Bureau of Investigation all along, and the Bureau also knew what he was going to do, allowing them to lock down on He Ao swiftly.

People at a higher level within the Federal Bureau of Investigation must have been involved in this matter.

Above the deputy director were the director and the bureau chief.

The Federal Bureau typically doesn’t entangle too much with local forces.

The Federal Bureau in Dawn City wouldn’t fuss even over an attempt on the Mayor’s life.

If the Federal Bureau has been eroded to this extent, it means the local power must have fallen seriously ill.

This city is unlikely to have A-grade individuals, but there must certainly be B-grade ones.

The forces clearly confronting Nell are related to the mines, and these forces, entrenched together, form a massive entity overshadowing the city.

He Ao opened his personal attributes.

[He Ao (Nell)]

[Permission Level: Ordinary Player]

[Physical Condition: 267 (9)]

[Skills: Talent Sequences 272: Super Memory (Soul Binding) (D-level), Basic Firearms Mastery (Soul Component), Talent Sequences 40: Magician (D-level) (unusable)]

[Mechanical Modification: None]

[Martial Arts: Essence Refinement and Qi Transformation (D-level) (unusable)]

[Character Skills: None]

Physical condition at 9.

Relying on his current physical condition and being alone, even with his Super Memory and Divine Sense, it was still difficult to confront such a massive force.

He Ao leaned against the wall, skirted the main roads, and steadily made his way northward.

Rock City was built relatively late and has had almost no expansions since, the entire city being neatly divided into four sectors according to the cardinal directions.

Rock City’s economic pillar is mining, with most mines located outside the city.

Thus, going outside the city is a natural matter for the people of Rock City, a concept that causes alarm in other cities.

The residents of Rock City, more or less, all have a relative or acquaintance working in the mines outside the city.

However, the outlying mines are generally protected by small walls and security forces, so they are somewhat different from the pure wilderness.

The mines outside North City are the most numerous, as are the miners.

The miners can only enter and leave the city by taking the fully armed transport vehicles operated by the Mining Consortium.

This service is free only when miners first go to the mines; at other times, it requires a hefty fee.

It’s still very cold in Rock City in March, as it had just recently snowed heavily.

He Ao covered the bloodstains, walked into a 24-hour supermarket, bought a windproof coat with a hood, a box of milk, a sandwich, and an adult holo-projector chip that had just been released.

A person who sneaks around buying things is suspicious, but one who sneakily buys adult learning materials is less suspicious.

Rock City has a strong religious tradition, making the atmosphere overall quite conservative.

At least on the surface.

The supermarket cashier was a young girl who looked to be a student; she efficiently swiped He Ao’s card and rang up his items until she paused briefly for the adult chip, then quickly finished the transaction.

By now, He Ao had spent all the cash he had on him.

He finished the sandwich and milk, donned the windproof coat, pulled the hood over his head, and slowly disappeared into the night.

The news of his wanted status hadn’t yet spread, and even if it had, few people really cared.

Rather than a vicious criminal, people were more inclined to concern themselves with the variety of entertainment available.

Of course, the high reward for He Ao was bound to attract some attention.

Paired with the extensive search by the hidden force related to the mines, the city was sure to see a surge in efforts to find him over the next few days.

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At daybreak, He Ao arrived in front of the North City Gate.

However, he didn’t head straight for the gate.

From a distance, he could already see the agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigation checking people at the gate.

Usually, the City Defense Army would not cooperate with the Federal Bureau of Investigation; their internal information databases were not open to the Federation, so it was common for cultists wanted by the Bureau to sneak in or out of the city without the Army’s knowledge.

But the Bureau had its ways around this.

They might struggle to inspect those entering the city, but they could set up checkpoints to scrutinize everyone leaving.

Such checks were time-consuming and labor-intensive, often meeting with both overt and covert resistance from the City Defense Army.

It seemed they were really going to great lengths to capture him.

He Ao glanced at the checkpoint from afar before turning away and disappearing at the end of the street.

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Around nine in the morning, a lengthy convoy appeared at the North City Gate.

It was a Mining Consortium’s convoy heading to a mine.

At the very front were vehicles from the leading security company, followed by armed buses carrying the miners, with a continuous line of supply trucks bringing up the rear.

At that moment, He Ao was inside one of the trucks.

The convoy belonged to the mine where Nell’s father worked; Nell had accompanied his mother to see off his father as a child, so He Ao was well aware of the pick-up points for the convoy.

Blending into the truck was simple; find a corner, remember the code of the truck’s cargo hold while it was being loaded, and then sneak in when no one was around.

It just required a bit of agility and reflexes in the process.

The convoy was quickly stopped by the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s checkpoint.

The security company’s representative showed their pass.

Employees of the Mining Consortium stepped off the bus, following the agents for inspection.

The agents quickly finished with the miners and moved to the back of the convoy.

"What’s in this truck?"

The agent asked casually.

"Supplies for the mine; you know, with so many people eating and doing their business, we brought a bit more stuff," said one of the Mining Consortium employees cautiously.

The agent casually slapped one of the trucks and said, "Open it up, let’s see if there’s anyone hiding."

"Why would we hide anyone? These are supplies being sent out of the city," the employee said as he handed over a roll of banknotes discreetly.

"I said, open it up!"

The agent’s face darkened.

The employee’s smile froze on his face.

In the distance, a machine gun mounted on an armed bus was aimed their way.

"Are you suicidal? This is the Mining Consortium!"

Another agent quickly intervened, pulling the first one away and nonchalantly accepting the roll of banknotes from the employee, smiling, "All good, all good, you can go."

The employee’s smile returned as he climbed back onto the truck.

The convoy continued on, meeting no resistance at the City Defense Army’s checkpoint and proceeding smoothly.

Inside the truck, He Ao looked back at the ’supplies’ beside him.

These so-called supplies for the mine consisted of machine guns, laser cannons, and proximity mines.

All of these were in fact contraband, not permitted to be transported out of the city without authorization.

It was an open secret in Rock City that the Mining Consortium’s convoys were transporting banned goods out to trade with the Wilderness Wanderers for furs.

Despite this, the items were still contraband, not to be exposed to the light of day.

And no one dared to inspect a Mining Consortium’s truck.

Feeling the vehicle settle into a steady rhythm, He Ao slipped off his blood-stained cotton jacket, wrapped it around the broken sword, and held it in his arms.

A wave of intense drowsiness surged over him; after all, Nell’s body was that of an ordinary person. Having gone through so much and sustained such serious injuries, it certainly needed some rest.

The convoy’s first stop would be the Wanderer Camp, and it was a long journey away.

Cradling the broken sword, He Ao leaned against a box containing a laser cannon and slowly closed his eyes.

When he regained consciousness, a sudden rush of blood-red darkness enveloped his vision.

The world around him became surreal and bizarre.

He had been pulled into some kind of ’dream’.