old dream

Chapter 94
Almost from the beginning of this life, the war in Senal has been stalemate.In my impression, I lived in an ordinary Sindhili village most of the time after I was born, maybe that can be counted as my "hometown" in this life.Most of the neighbors work in a sulfur mine, which was still emitting a strong stench and dusty everywhere until I left.Walking a few extra steps outdoors can make you look ashamed.

Colin still remembers that most people always had mud stuck to their clothes, shaped or not.And no matter how diligent the women were, they couldn't wash them, because the water from the sulfur mines made the river dirty.

The whole atmosphere is grey, people are short of money and often hungry.

None of my parents were around, but there were always two "outlanders" taking care of me during that time.They're all different people, teaching themselves things that work and things that don't work.This is of course very unusual, but there is nothing to ask.

The clothes of these "teachers" never seem to get dirty, because they are likely to be transferred before they wear out the clothes they brought.There were also a few people who stayed for a long time, and they naturally became covered with dust.But whenever Colin tried to recall their faces through the dust, he found that he couldn't remember anything. Perhaps everything about them had been erased along with the sealed memory.

These people didn't come here specially for themselves. According to Colin's guess, they were more likely to avoid the limelight, because most of them left with a look of relief.

Sometimes a dozen or so people would squeeze in a month, and sometimes none at all.Apparently they took care of Colin just incidentally, maybe they were entrusted by someone, not ordered by anyone.Sometimes Colin wondered if he would have been lost long ago if he was not a time traveler but an ordinary child.

And then those people would start imparting knowledge, but obviously on a whim.Because no one really expects a four or five year old to learn anything.But after finding that the effect was good, it became one of the few items that they used to relieve boredom when they were bored.But if there were more people, they would have left Colin for poker.

The "teacher" is always changing, the whole training is not systematic at all, and a lot of content is taught and taught again.It takes a lot of time, but the efficiency is actually very low.

From the things taught, Colin can somewhat guess their identities: ballistics, intelligence analysis, Ankh, and how to pick locks, forge documents, make false accounts and escape from military service... although some parts are really strange , but these people are clearly related to the military or spies.

Later, Colin was also led away from there.Then, for the first time, he met his father in this life, Lenz D'Allozzo, and was introduced to him like a visitor.

It was said that he had died more than a dozen times in various newspapers, but all of them were rumors intentionally released by the colonial authorities.It is said that Lenz used to live in no fixed place and would not stay in the same place for more than three days.The later days can only be said to be relatively safe, but each period of time still has to move between several battlefields, just like being in several different factions of the National Front and holding positions at the same time.

It was also during that time that Colin understood for the first time what a real battlefield looked like since the Second World.Although he can only watch through the battlefield communications and binoculars to a limited extent, the feeling of suffocation can still take away all the strength in a person's body.

War is like a huge machine, extremely efficient.Large-caliber machine guns easily shredded human bodies, flamethrowers burned everyone in the bunker to death, and some soldiers were driven out of the bunker with their bodies on fire. Their screams could not be heard through the telescope, and it only made people feel that they were running. Not like a human but more like an animal, and then fall and never get up again.

The later memories are more broken, and the part between the ages of seven and ten can barely sort out a few unconnected events, and compare which battles they are from related books.But when it comes to the pictures behind, there are almost no details.

I don't know why, but I may have been on the battlefield myself.Because in one or two sporadic pictures, I am not tall and I am still wearing a small-sized military uniform, which is just the equipment of ordinary soldiers, and I am somewhat intimate with the stranger beside me.

It felt like looking at someone else's photo.

After trying a small-scale deciphering ceremony with Ji Lian two years ago, a small amount of memories were stolen, most of which came from battles that had already been sorted out.Maybe they're on the fringes of the memory seal, considered relatively unimportant parts.

But there are more and more images related to the flames, soldiers screaming in the purgatory burning.Scenes of this kind reappeared repeatedly in Colin's dreams.Some of the flames in memory are obviously not the scale of a flamethrower, which makes people suspect that it is a large-scale weapon, or the effect of a super-large ritual.

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It is said that on the night of the accident in the underground bar, the police detective had just left, and Mr. No. [-] had already investigated the traces of Colin's fight with the wizard, and then personally inspected the body of the wizard Ziyuetian.

Because Juliou on the core list is on the scene.

Colin didn't know what conclusion the Lantern Keeper came to in the end, whether he found out that his fangs had concealed coordinates from him, and began to use unconventional witchcraft from foreign lands in private.

Since Mr. No. [-] has not come to him so far, let's be optimistic about the result.

Under the cover of darkness, it is not impossible for "Colin" in the eyes of Mr. No. [-] to kill Zi Yuetian.

It's just that the requirements for luck are more stringent.

Every day after he came out of the underground bar, Colin wiped his body with clean salt, in order to get rid of most of the remaining traces of spiritual essence on his body.Of course, all these net salts come from Ji Li'an.

The scale of Vajra Technique is not large, especially since its main body is limited to the caster, so most clues can be covered up with this primitive and simple method.

Colin used all the means he knew to cover up the traces of witchcraft to the best of his ability.Considering that the corpse could speak, Colin also shot the wizard in the head to destroy his memory.

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In the past two days, Colin also placed object-finding tracking markers on two corners of Stade City, using them as a coordinate system to confirm the location of the tracking device.It has been explained to Ji Li'an before that she activates the main body of the object-finding technique every half an hour, and then shuts it down immediately after activation to avoid being noticed by other wizards.

The results of the tracking marks have all been recorded by the starry sky in Ke Lin.

Spread out the map of Stade on the desktop, and Ke Lin marked the two locations as the coordinate system.They are the steel bridge over the Seber River and the Stade Museum in the old city.

Then he closed his eyes and sank into consciousness. After years of constant practice, his control of the "stars" had reached an outrageous level.The fixed light spot is the basis, and the position of the series of recorded results is measured, and finally the position is marked on the map with a ruler and ruler, and the time is marked.I got the movement trajectory of the batch of wine boxes in these days.

Originally, after hearing that the police detective went to the underground bar first, Colin no longer had much expectations for the results of the tracking device.Because according to common sense, it is estimated that it will either be located in the evidence room, or in a place like a liquor store.

But what he didn't expect was that the wine boxes were indeed transported to the police station that night, but on the second day, several tracking marks were scattered, and after going around the city, they were transported to several different police stations. in the warehouse.

And as of last night, those batches of wine started from warehouses in various parts of Stade one after another, and were gradually concentrated in a four-hectare farm in the northern suburbs of the city.

Colin marked the locations of the warehouses and farms. After hesitating for a while, he wrote a note of "distribution center" on the farm.

After thinking about it, Colin went to find some thumbtacks, and nailed the map to the wall.Because the effect of using the tracking device this time was a bit unexpected, he had a hunch that this map would come in handy in the future.

Enrich all the information on it, and you will be able to see this mysterious underground bootlegging market more intuitively.

What happened in the police station a few days ago?I'm afraid they handed over the wine to bootleggers, and even traded it not far from the police station.Maybe get some money out of it.But heck, it was the gangsters who took their lives to clean up that speakeasy, and the detectives who were supposed to be doing it were working with the bootleggers instead.

For a moment, Ke Lin felt that this city was so magical and weird. Even in another world, the capitalist society was so decadent and hypocritical.

It's no wonder that Stade is known as the "City of Sin" in the hinterland of the alliance.

At the same time, they didn't just deal with one bootlegger, and the result was that the batch of wine was scattered all over the city.But in the end, they were shipped to the same distribution center.

I am afraid that someone bought all the wines hidden in the city of Stade on that farm, and then distributed them to various underground bars.

They should have a strong dominance right now, otherwise these bootleggers who were being tracked would not all choose to go to him to sell their stolen goods.

In other words, through that farm, you can light up the map of most of the underground bootlegging market in Stade.

However, it happens to be in the north...

The territory of the Five Hands is concentrated in South Stadt, while the Old City in the north and the surrounding suburbs are the territory of the local Ankh gangs and other immigrant gangs.

Compared with the Five Hands, they are much immature in all aspects, and their scale is even smaller. They can only be regarded as some simple hooligan groups and mutual aid associations of individual people, and they are still scattered as a whole.

However, a distribution center that quietly radiated to South Stade appeared silently in the northern suburbs.It means that those guys in the old city are likely to have devoted themselves to the bootlegging trade without reservation, and have even completed certain mergers in just two weeks, giving birth to a force of scale.

Can such an organization be nurtured by a sporadic bootleg liquor market?Colin frowned, no, it can't be so fast.Even if it has started to make profits now, it will take time to turn profits into strength.

The bootleggers alone might not be able to do such a thing.

That is, an alien force has seen an opportunity and has speculatively intervened in the Old City's underworld.

And they will be the most threatening enemies for himself and the five hands.

(End of this chapter)