Capítulo 3: Rat
"What are you prepared to do with this?" Roland rearranged the remaining books and brought the psychology books to the Floor of Psychology.
"Honestly, I don't know." Avesta sat on the chair without the slightest intention of working. "It was not long ago that I was able to take on responsibilities."
"Had all four limbs broken, half dead and half alive, stuffed into the library?" Roland asked in an exaggerated tone.
Avesta laughed at his appearance, stood up, and walked forward to hug his shoulder. Just as he was about to say something, Angela teleported in front of them.
"U, I didn't expect you guys to have a good relationship," Angela said coldly.
"Don't get me wrong, I don't like men either." Roland hurriedly moved away from Avesta's arm and explained.
"Do you have anything to do with us?" Avesta just smiled and didn't pay attention to Roland, but instead asked Angela who suddenly appeared.
Angela nodded and began to speak, "The invitation letter to the library has been sent out. There will be distinguished guests coming to the library soon. I hope you are all ready."
"Wait! Do I have to go too?" Avesta asked, but as soon as he finished saying that, the text appeared before his eyes once again.
"Mission: First reception: Rat
Mission requirement: Get the Rat Page
Mission reward: Physical strength strengthened once."
"How? Don't you want to go? " Angela glanced at Avesta.
"Willing, willing, 100% willing!" Avesta flattered and smiled.
Angela snapped her fingers and all three people appeared in the hall. Angela sat in her chair, placed the invitation letter in her hand on the table, a light screen shot out from the invitation and began to emit images:
In the scene, two men and a woman with frightened faces raised a limp man and ran into a small alley.
"Hey! Hurry up and scrape them up, now! Those Zwei goons might arrive any second!" Among the three, there was clearly a male leader who urged the girl who was using a knife to cut the unconscious man's abdomen, the leader was Pete.
And the Zwei Association in their mouth is specifically responsible for policing and maintaining peace. Compared to fighting, this association is more knowledgeable about policing and protection.
Mainly responsible for designated security areas, the Zwei association area of responsibility is more defensive than other areas.
However, the price offered by the Zwei Association was not low and it was difficult for individuals to bear the burden, so they were also entrusted by the Wings of the World to be in charge of the safety within the area.
For Zwei association fixer, protecting others is always at the highest level of priority.
The organ harvesting girl called Lenny. Even though she looked young, her cutting technique was very skilled, quickly cutting open the man's abdomen, "I'm doing my best here! I just can't seem to get a clean rip of his guts, the contents of this guy are weirdly different." Lenny frowned and picked through the rotten entrails "i've never even heard of a body modification procedure that does this..."
Hearing Lenny's words, Mang-chi also came closer to look, "No matter what angle you look at, something's off about these organs. They're looking really strange...."
"... Damn it! I could already hear their footsteps!" Pete stuck his ear to the ground and could hear Zwei association footsteps not far away. "Forget about clean cuts, just pull 'em out and take 'em! At this rate, our heads are gonna get nicely chopped off of our bodies!" Pete stood up and spoke urgently, all three people's foreheads were covered with cold sweat.
Under Pete's urging, Lenny was no longer careful, but when she saw that the organs were relatively complete, she put them in a box. Suddenly she stopped and took out an invitation from the man's body "Why does he have this kind of stuff in his body..."
Pete tapped his forehead, took a step forward, grabbed Lenny's tools, and put all the things and harvests in "Whatever, just take 'em, we're out of time!" Pete and the others simply tidied up the scene and then ran away again, "It's really unlucky! It's the first time we've done this this month, and we've already encountered this matter...." Pete cursed in a low voice.
The three people ran all the way, going to their hiding place behind the alley.
Mang-chi sat on the ground facing Pete and said, "You're a bold one, Pete. Going for a gut-harvest in a territory managed by the Zwei"
Pete breathed heavily, waving his sleeves, "These are the only jobs we have left. We have to climb up by any necessary means. Whatever it takes...." When Pete talked about his dream, the tired look in front of him seemed to have been wiped out. "You know my dream, right? To become one of the Fingers of the Backstreets."
Mang-chi laughed. "I'll admit, it's rare to see someone with a dream these days." Having finished speaking, he stood up and sat next to Lenny, "Let's sell off these guts we hauled first. We gotta prepare enough cash to offer to the Stray Dogs"
"True." Pete nodded once, "This could be our chance to join an Urban Legend-class Syndicate." Pete took out Lenny's bag. "Alright, time to check out the harvest."
The so-called Urban Legend-class Syndicate are organizations that have resulted in a hundred or more deaths and disappearances. Such objects are very attracted the attention of the association, especially in charge of maintaining security Zwei association, is the main business objective of low-level and mid-level office.
Pete excitedly opened the bag, but they only saw rotten meat, and only a few could vaguely see the shape of internal organs.
"Hey... Is this a joke? You sure you scraped up the right stuff?!" Pete looked at the object in the package and the sound was a bit trembling.
Lenny reluctantly explained and said, "I told you. This guy didn't have a single proper organ inside him!"
Pete dropped the bag and covered his face. "I expected innards soaked in drugs like Enkephalin at worst. These are damaged too badly. It's almost like someone already blew them up."
"We only do used him with anesthetics. Didn't do no harm." Mang-chi said.
"This doesn't make sense... How could he have even walked around with these messed up organs...." Pete said.
Mang-chi seemed to think of something terrible, saying in a low voice "What if it's one of those? Y'know, rumors say there's a guy who skewers and threads people alive to turn them into dolls..."
"Yeah, i've heard of that, too...." Pete held a bag in his hand and threw it on the ground, pointing at it and saying "But look at the state of these things! Not the case at all. I hear those dolls are made by threading flesh and bone together. But this son of a bitch didn't have any scars or stitches showing outside!"
"Now that I think about it, there was a round orange symbol on the back of his neck..." The more Mang-chi spoke, the worse he spoke.
"Symbols? Tattoos? Damn it, please don't tell me we poked the wrong beehive..." Pete felt his head hurt a bit, this time it wasn't just Stray Dogs whose protection fee was no longer there, the whereabouts may lead to even more terrifying existences.
"Besides that..." Lenny glanced, squatted down in the bag and searched for a while, pulling out a gold-plated invitation "He also had this envelope in his body."
"What the hell is an envelope doing in a human body?! This keeps getting worse... Gimme that!" Pete received the invitation using a limited number of words and read the words above: "An invitation to a library? What's this about?
A Mang-chi also came closer and looked, "Books? We can get books from the library? What a bunch of nonsense."
Still squatting on the ground, Lenny kicked the bag in front of her, she sat on the ground "It was a flop after all.... The payment is due tomorrow. We've got 7 hours, to be exact. That's too little time for another run of gut-harvesting"
Pete thought and said "We're heading to the library as the invitation said. I don't know what this 'book' thing is, but we're out of options. We gotta take any chance we get"
"Isn't this just suicide? We don't know what kind of place it might be." Mang-chi objected.
Pete raised his hand to signal them to stop talking. "Can't be any worse than dying to the Stray Dogs or the Zwei Association; we're screwed anyway! Shut up and follow me if you want to live!"
The last scene is the 3 Rats signing their signatures on the invitation, the image also stops here.
"What was that we just saw...?" Roland asked.
"It should be the image of the guests coming here. Help us better understand our guests' stories." Avesta said.
Angela nodded in agreement with Avesta's view.
"Didn't take you guys for a peeping tom..." Roland cursed.
"It's more convenient to know what kind of guests will visit us in advance, isn't it? Besides, this is the invitation's will, not mine." Angela said.
"They look very hasty and agitated." "Maybe it has something to do with the mark and the invitation that suddenly appeared," Avesta said.
"I've never encountered this type of situation before. Perhaps some crazy person found a crazy toy from the ruins."
"Ruin?" Angela always feels curious about new things.
"I don't really know what the ruins are..." Without waiting for Roland to finish speaking, Avesta spoke.
"The ruins are a chaotic area that cannot be controlled effectively and is an extremely dangerous area that has broken wings and then newly regenerated wings. May contains the singularity technology of the previous Wing. As a consequence, various finishers are competing to explore opportunities, which are accompanied by risks. Even if there is an immeasurable buried treasure, what you have to pay for is equally precious. Places like that are often taken advantage of by all kinds of people, for power, for money, or both, after all, in this City, everything can be taken advantage of." Avesta explained, "Now the location of the library can be called a ruin."
"I don't think you understand so much." Roland patted Avesta on the shoulder.
"Of course, I used to be a civilian employee in the nest." Avesta quickly changed his identity to cover himself up.
"I didn't expect you to be a civilian employee. You're really lucky." Angela said emotionally.
The library was slightly shaken.
"The guests have arrived. Please prepare the reception well." After speaking, Angela clapped her hands and disappeared without a trace.
Avesta stretched out a hand to Roland, smiled and said, "Happy cooperation."
Roland also took it and said, "Yes, happy cooperation."
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