Chapter 244 NO00f3: Jim's Past (I)

Chapter 244 NO.00f3: Jim's Past (I)

Love is like murder. People always have the deepest impression of the first time.

Even after so many years, Jim Ritter often recalls the time he spent with Eloise Haenel.

At that time, he was not completely a drunkard.

They met at the police academy in the New Eden resettlement area, and eventually worked together in the police station there for several years. The resettlement area, which was ruled by Apollo creatures, still retained a lot of the local work atmosphere of the AD era: in addition to the free coffee and donuts during work, there was even administrative leave after the law enforcement killed the criminals.

In a relatively relaxed environment, the two were at an age that allowed them to have ideals. Therefore, whether it was their views on the world, their attitudes towards love, or their future, they both had an unexplained optimism. In the words of their boss, they came to work every day with an expression that had never been bullied, which made people inexplicably angry.

But it was also the innocence and enthusiasm at that time that made the two of them quickly become the new star detectives in the New Eden resettlement area. They worked together to put the company executive who killed his wife into prison, cut off the cross-regional smuggling route of addictive drugs, smashed the "Cripple Gang" that trafficked women to undergo transformation surgery to become sex dolls, and even caught a malicious program that used "Steed" to sneak into the base reality by chance...

The emotional progress of the two of them was also rising rapidly like their career prospects - these were the original words of Jim's boss.

It was not until Jim was discouraged and chose to leave the New Eden resettlement area alone that he figured out the irony of the old bastard.

Just like the beginning of countless crime films, their tragedy originated from touching something they shouldn't have touched.

It was an ordinary police mission, and they killed a mother and son with their own hands: Jim shot the child who was less than five years old, and Hanel pulled the trigger at the mother.

The real criminal they really needed to arrest at that time was actually the son's father, a Japanese sashimi chef. The man had recently bought a very suspicious new kitchen knife prosthesis on the black market.

It was a semi-finished product that had not been risk tested, or some companies intended to let it flow into the black market to test their own products. Generally speaking, such things are advanced and cheap - so cheap that some people are willing to take risks for it.

And it was the abnormal discharge of the synapses in this prosthetic hand that caused the father's cognition to be disordered.

In a sleepwalking state, he mistook his wife and children for bluefin tuna and made them into sashimi called "Sea Taste" - this luxurious dish requires a life-support device to maintain the activity of the tuna, and then cut the fish sashimi into pieces for the guests to eat.

After waking up, the father died of adrenal poisoning due to excessive shock. Jim and Hanel, who arrived late, helped end the suffering of the mother and son after struggling for a long time.

Murder is like love. A bad experience can often destroy all patience. Because of this case, they spent the most depressed administrative leave in their lives.

No, this is not the beginning of our separation.

Jim thought, shifting his gaze back from the horrible bodies of the mother and son.

If it were normal, he would most likely need to inject himself with sedatives to suppress this uncontrollable traumatic flashback - seeing ghosts from the past when emotionally excited is the curse of the Orphic Path Adjusters.

But fortunately this time, Jiang Zhou, who was far away in Tartarus, anchored the coordinates of time for himself and dispelled the influence of the curse. Let himself be calm enough to re-examine what happened at that time.

After the administrative leave ended, the two returned to the police station indignantly, intending to find out the mastermind behind the resale of the problematic prosthetic hand. But they just started, and were pressed by an invisible hand - all the clues disappeared cleanly. Not only was the black market in that area closed, but the seller of the prosthetic hand died of suicide.

If Jim and Hanel were incompetent enough, perhaps the matter would have ended here, but they were too good.

They continued to investigate along the broken clues, and even used a lot of dishonorable means. After eliminating countless dangers and difficulties, they finally dug out the mastermind behind the scenes half a year later.

However, the black humor is that at this time, the so-called mastermind behind the scenes has jumped out by himself - as one of the Olympus companies, Apollo Bio suddenly announced its entry into the catering market. Among the first batch of 432 products launched, there happened to be a similar kitchen knife prosthesis.

Until now, Jim still clearly remembers the feeling of powerlessness - he is not even powerless because he can't stop the tragedy caused by that prosthesis, but powerless because he doesn't even know how many similar tragedies the remaining 431 products have caused.

How many people died even more absurdly.

In the end, he and Hanel drank wine all day, made love all day, spent all his savings, and left a last word to all his friends.

However, this battle that they planned to fight to the death has not even started, and it has ended.

They think they are playing chess against the company, and at worst, they are just pawns at their mercy. However, in reality, they are just collecting dust on the chessboard.

But the next day, their boss. They were carefully kept in advance, and everything that only the two of them should know was shown to them. Then, like a teacher reviewing a graduation thesis, he told them one by one where the chain of evidence was wrong and where their investigation was wrong - in fact, they were all holes dug by him on purpose.

Although their final conclusion was correct, their investigation in the past six months was actually guided step by step by their superiors - if their "flawless" reporting materials were really made public, their reputation would be tarnished and they would be punished. People who rebuke and accuse falsely will become them.

The two sat at the desk in deathly silence.

"Tell me, how much money did you make selling your conscience to Apollo Creatures?"

Jim asked after a while.

"Apollo creature? Hahahahahaha."

However, in response to Jim's ridicule, the other party seemed to have heard a joke and laughed loudly.

"You misunderstood. I am not the priest of that god. As for investigating him, the sun god never noticed you from the beginning to the end - it was I who misled you in the direction of your investigation, which prevented you from entering. In His sight.”

The boss's words caused the two of them to fall into a dead silence once again.

"Otherwise, do you really think you can still be alive and talk to me?"

he continued.

"Then what are you going to do with us? Are you going to kill us?"

Hanel asked directly.

"Why should I kill you?"

Their boss seemed confused.

"Because even if I have investigated this pile of waste paper in the past six months, I will still continue this investigation after walking out of this office - this matter will not be finished until I die or justice is served."

Hanel said coldly.

When Jim heard this, he took off his police badge and threw it on the table - this is why he fell in love with that girl, she was always one step ahead of him and made the choices he would make.

"Me too...the only way you can stop it is if you don't let us out of this office."

Their superior did not directly take out a gun or anything else, but leaned forward to look at them, and then lowered his voice and asked:

"So, don't you want to ask why I went to such great lengths to mislead your investigation?"

Jim and Hanel looked at each other and said nothing.

"This is actually a trial to test whether you are the talents the resettlement area government needs."

He said, lying back on the armchair again.

"Fortunately, you have all passed and are eligible to become a member of the 'Skyfire Mobile Team' in the Eden Resettlement Area. Don't refuse in a hurry..."

He said, raising his hand to interrupt what Jim wanted to say.

"Whether you believe it or not, the 'Skyfire Mobile Team' is an important pawn used by the Eden Resettlement Area Government to play a political game with the Apollo creatures."

Without any qualifying words, he directly used the most naked statement.

"Depending on the situation and situation, maybe one day, the resettlement area government will directly sell you as abandoned children to Apollo Creatures... But let me tell you, compared to the meaningless death you are doing now, joining the Skyfire Mobile Team, you at least have a chance to actually do something meaningful.

"By the way, all the members of the Skyfire Mobile Team are just like you. Either they have a blood feud with the company, or they are willing to give their all for a belief... And we are taking advantage of your nobility or stupidity, and using you of anger and hatred to win slightly better conditions in the game with the company.”

Even Jim had to admit that his words were sincere enough.

"Then what can we get in Tianhuo?"

Hanel asked.

"Power, real power. Adjustment and transformation with an upgrade path—according to your talents, everyone will be adjusted and transformed from depth 1 to depth 3."

The man replied cheerfully.

Hanel turned to look at Jim. Unexpectedly, there was hesitation in her eyes.

Hanel had a huge difference with himself regarding his attitude on whether to join the "Skyfire Mobile Team".

It wasn't until today that Jim realized belatedly that this might be the beginning of the two of them going their separate ways.

I had a low fever the day before yesterday and a high fever yesterday. I thought it would be better today, but it turned out to be even worse. I bought a kit to test and it turned out that I was positive again.

The updates I owe recently will be made up later - I will definitely make up when my health improves.