Volume 14: Devastation Chapter 695: Men's Restroom
The headquarters of the New Star Chamber of Commerce was not far from the traffic jam, and it only took ten minutes to walk there... but the closer they got to the target, the slower the relative distance between the three of them and the target was reduced. After all, they were openly here to participate in the ethnic clothing exhibition. If they walked straight to the headquarters of the New Star Chamber of Commerce, they would inevitably attract the attention of the spies planted by the remnants of the heretical sect.
When passing the intersection where the traffic accident happened, Ke Lan deliberately slowed down her pace... This was a rear-end collision. From the description passed down by word of mouth by passers-by, we can know that: the air compressor of a small air-cushion car broke down, and the weight of the entire car was suddenly pressed on the four tires embedded in the chassis... Generally speaking, even without an air cushion, an air-cushion car can still be driven as an ordinary car, at most it will be slower and consume more energy, but unfortunately this air-cushion car was seriously overloaded, and the intersection was paved with four rubber speed bumps.
The wheels of the hovercraft were embedded directly into the depressions between the speed bumps, and the entire vehicle was stuck in place.
Following behind the air-cushion vehicle was a dump truck coming out of the industrial park - the driver's seat of this type of vehicle is very high, and the area two or three meters in front of the front of the vehicle is completely in the driver's field of vision... The driver did not notice that the air-cushion vehicle in front had a malfunction. By the time he realized something was wrong and stepped on the brakes, most of the air-cushion vehicle had been crushed under the chassis of the dump truck.
Apart from two official managers in dark blue uniforms and orange vests, most of the people in charge of handling the scene were a group of civilians in gray-green windbreakers. This group of people quickly cordoned off a blockade at the scene of the accident. When Ke Lan walked here, they had just used hydraulic shears to cut open the deformed car body and dragged the dead and injured out of the crushed hovercraft.
But what puzzled Ke Lan was that this group of people did not even perform any temporary rescue work, nor did they stop the bleeding of the injured. They just stuffed the injured and their dead bodies into a black air-cushion vehicle and drove away from the scene in a hurry.
"What's going on?" Ke Lan couldn't help but frown and asked in a low voice using a hidden throat microphone.
"The hovercraft involved in the accident was owned by the Nova Chamber of Commerce... Although the identities of the people in the car are not yet certain, they are closely related to the Nova Chamber of Commerce. As for those people wearing gray-green windbreakers, they are also employees of the Nova Chamber of Commerce. Due to the shortage of manpower, the management department and the more powerful companies in the economic development zone have signed assistance management agreements, and these companies have sent people to assist official personnel in managing traffic and public security in the surrounding areas." Aya quickly replied in the communication channel.
"I see these people are in such a hurry to transport the dead and injured away... Could it be that among these people there are 'containers' of the seeds of erosion?" Ke Lan muttered softly.
"Is it possible... did you bring active ammunition?" Aya asked.
"Not much, but enough." After losing the living armor, Ke Lan no longer had the ability to tear apart a Seed of Corrosion with his bare hands. If he wanted to completely kill a Seed of Corrosion, he could either use active ammunition or melee weapons made from the stalagmite fragments.
He brought a total of thirty rounds of concentrated active ammunition, one of which was enough to "poison" a seed of erosion. In addition, there was a deer hunting knife with stalagmite fragments melted into the blade tied to the inside of Ke Lan's forearm, which could be unsheathed with a light push outside the sleeve.
"Be alert... From here on, the surrounding areas are basically all owned by the New Star Chamber of Commerce." Aya reminded.
"What about the ethnic costume exhibition?" Ke Lan asked again.
"That organizer has no direct relationship with the New Star Chamber of Commerce...but the exhibition venue is provided by the 'Tower of Babel', so we must not take it lightly."
"I understand."
The three of them walked around seemingly leisurely, and then turned into a department store just one street away from the Nova Chamber of Commerce headquarters.
The three of them were like complete strangers, taking three different elevators to the top floor. After Ke Lan and Asano Akira strolled around the men's clothing mall, they tacitly walked into the same men's restroom. Aya, who was following behind them silently, twitched her eyes slightly, and walked over with her head held high.
However, before she entered the men's restroom, she first asked someone from the information department of the Security Bureau to hack the camera on the top floor of the mall for ten seconds. Then she took out a sign from under the sink that read "This restroom is under maintenance, do not enter" and hung it on the door handle, then quickly locked the restroom door.
However, just as Aya turned around, she happened to see a strange man in front of the urinal, holding up his pants with both hands, shaking a few times with a look of satisfaction on his face.
The man heard the sound of the door closing, turned around, and met Aya's eyes.
He was stunned for a moment, then his eyes quickly swept up and down Aya's body, and finally fell on the locked toilet door... The next second, an indescribable strange look appeared on his face.
"Miss, this is the men's restroom. Excuse me..."
Before he could finish his words, he was hit hard on the back of his head and fell to the ground.
Ke Lan grabbed his ribs and gently laid him on the ground.
"Aren't you too impatient? You didn't even make sure if there was anyone in the bathroom before you just barged in..." Ke Lan complained.
"Why didn't you two tell me that there was someone in the bathroom?" Aya asked in return.
"But we didn't tell you that there was no one in the bathroom... So, what should we do with this person?" Ke Lan pointed at the unconscious man.
If it was someone from a heretical sect, this guy would have been dead for sure...but Ke Lan was not so cruel as to kill innocent people.
As for the Security Bureau, although there have been rumors among the people that they are a group of cold-blooded executioners who would rather kill a thousand people by mistake than let one go, there is still a big discrepancy between the facts and the rumors.
It is true that the Security Bureau's field agents do have a certain amount of "accidental killing quotas", but those who abuse this privilege recklessly will be held accountable... There are cold-blooded killers like those in the rumors, but their number is extremely small, and such agents are generally only sent to the wilderness to perform missions... After all, there are no "innocent people" in the exile settlement.
The vast majority of security agents still belong to the camp of goodness and lawfulness, and when performing tasks, they will try their best to avoid involving irrelevant people.
Especially Aya... In addition to being serious and responsible, she is also well-known in the bureau for her kindness.
