Standard Places for Finding Clues

Tom didn't pay attention to these details, so Li Zexin invited him to dinner not to talk about Ni Peiyun's past. He was waiting for Li Zexin's message.

Li Zexin nodded and continued, "Paying off the debt before moving out of their original residence is the safest approach for many debtors, because they are afraid that we will come back and find an excuse to take money. This matter was originally over here, but a while ago, Zhang Chengjiang suddenly asked his brothers to find the whereabouts of Ni Peiyun."

Ouyang Haotian shook his head and said, "If you want to find someone, just go to the sales department and check everyone's recent consumption records to know which area they are active in. The sales department has a computer specifically designed for this purpose, and I don't believe Zhang Fatty doesn't have to do it."

Li Zexin smiled and said, "Ou Shao, if we could find out, Zhang Chengjiang wouldn't use this kind of wide net casting method to find people. Since the day she paid off her debt, she hasn't gone to any sales points to buy anything. You know, she drinks every day, and there is a tobacco and alcohol sales point that she visits every day."

Ouyang Hao was shocked and said, "If you don't buy it yourself, let someone else buy it? Did she borrow money from the bank to pay off her debt? She owes you money from the black market, so you don't have to be beaten. She owes money to Haiwei Mini Industry, so as long as you don't consume it, you're not afraid. But the problem is, if she's an alcoholic, how did she get alcohol? Go to the black market?"

Li Zexin laughed heartily and said, "Ou Shao, you forgot. We are running a black market."

Ouyang Haotian originally looked down on Li Zexin, but now he feels very satisfied when he snatches Bai Dun. But he is not a person who is impulsive. Judging from Li Zexin's posture, there must be a clue from Ni Peiyun. This is related to Tom's sister's whereabouts, and he won't rashly interfere, so he endured it.

After all, Li Zexin has experienced life and death, and he has become much more cautious in his speech and actions, no longer as arrogant as before. After clarifying Ouyang Haotian's blind spot in his thinking, he smiled briefly and immediately returned to the main topic: "Brother An, I also have a few younger brothers responsible for casting a net. Coincidentally, a confidant discovered a special clue. Although it is not certain whether it is Ni Peiyun, if you want to find her, you can try it. I have temporarily suppressed this matter. Before Zhang Chengjiang found out, you have three hours."

As he spoke, he pushed a folded piece of paper towards Tom.

Tom took the note and nodded, standing up. "Okay, thank you for your intelligence and help! Li Zexin, you don't owe me anymore!" He turned around and walked out. Ouyang Haotian quickly got up and chased after him. Only Li Zexin sat alone in the private room, lost in thought as he watched the dishes on the table.

On the side of the road, Tom rudely opened the car door of Ouyang Haotian and sat in before opening the note.

"Hello," Ouyang Haotian sat in the driver's seat. "It's suspicious that Li Zexin has nothing to do with his attention. Don't you worry that this is a trap set by Zhang Chengjiang, with the aim of luring us over and killing them all in one go?"

Tom patted the level 2 red crystal in his pocket and said, "So let's go pick up Liu Lian now. His sonic radar can tell us if this is an ambush."

"Brainstorming, haha!" Ouyang Haotian laughed and slammed on the gas pedal, causing the car to skid a few times towards the security department.

Liu Lian, like Ouyang Haotian, is a member of the temporary investigation team of the Security Department. However, Ouyang Haotian is good at socializing and drilling. Although he wears the identity of a temporary investigation team, he often gets involved in the work of the Security Department's patrol guard.

If it were an ordinary person, it would be a bit difficult to enter the security department, but Ouyang Haotian was familiar with the security guard and couldn't do it. He said hello, and the angry purple electric four wheeled car drove Tom into the courtyard, heading towards an inconspicuous building on the right.

Due to the grounding of the Jingwei spacecraft, the number of outdoor exploration operations in the shelter has decreased. As a temporary search team assisting in exploration, it is really leisurely. Due to unknown reasons, Liu Lian, like Tom, was unable to join the special training department's special ability team. So, like many team members, he stayed idle in the office building.

Ouyang Haotian ran in and called him out. The three of them took a car and ran to the address provided by Li Zexin.

The internal area of the shelter is 3800 square meters, which is equivalent to expanding to 2.18 million square meters for the shrinking population. This area is already very large for people. Taking the Forbidden City as an example, the Forbidden City covers an area of 720000 square meters, and the shelter at this time is equivalent to the size of three Forbidden City.

Although there are currently over 90000 people in the shelter, and most of them have been designated as Hope Town. But people still haven't filled the entire town of hope.

With the promulgation of population migration regulations for shelters, residents are being systematically resettled to vacate excess buildings.

But in order to avoid conflicts, the migration work is relatively slow. Some people who are unwilling to migrate will still stay in the place where they were initially placed when they first came in. The shelter refused to relocate them but was not in a hurry, reducing food and electricity supply, blocking transportation hubs, and requiring most of the supplies to be purchased in concentrated commercial areas. These measures are enough to make many survivors give up stubborn ideas and submit migration application reports obediently.

Even so, there are still many people who stay in sparsely populated areas, jokingly known as the old city area. At night, the lights are dark and there are very few free foods, just like the slums in the city.

Zhang Chengjiang is looking for Ni Peiyun, and his first thought is here because it is the area with the weakest personnel monitoring.

Li Zexin's confidant discovered a suspected clue here and immediately reported it to Li Zexin.

Whether it's modern cities or fantasy or fantasy, all the urban slums are dirty, messy, and poorly maintained places, and they are also the best stage for the protagonists to gather clues and cause a big scene.

Even if humans shrink and their turtles shrink in shelters, the situation here is no different.

The area surveyed by Li Zexin's confidants is more remote and can be said to be the edge of the resettlement area.

"I've been here before." Ouyang Haotian closed the car door and looked at the old and dilapidated wooden houses filled with graffiti in front of him. "This is the earliest place to pick up survivors and place them, over there... not right... it's this way, there's a gate leading to the outside at the end. As more and more people came later, the shelter started the resettlement building, and the entrance and exit gates here were also closed."

As one of the earliest people to evacuate and avoid the shelter, Ouyang Haotian had a lively mind and went to the shelter, doing nothing and making new friends everywhere, building a new social network. I have done a lot of free errands and am familiar with the surrounding environment.

These large makeshift houses are all temporary resettlement houses from the beginning, and many survivors who have just been reduced in size, panicked, and bewildered are being resettled here.

Tom had already memorized the address written on the note given by Li Zexin. He looked at the peeping eyes that shot out from behind the prefabricated house and said, "A8-63 partition."

Ouyang Haotian walked up to a sign on the roadside and said, "This is Area A8. Let's find where 63 is."

Tom grabbed him and turned his head and said, "Liu Lian, it's up to you."

Liu Lian was still in the car, and upon hearing Tom's words, he immediately squatted down and activated the sonic radar's ability. He doesn't want the red light from his ears to catch the attention of those around him.

After a while, he jumped out of the car and whispered in Tom's ear, "The personnel distribution is very chaotic, the layout is not dense, at least there is no ambush."

Ouyang Haotian looked at the curious people who peeked out and snorted, "Not many people, three or five gunmen hiding in the corner and shooting black guns is enough."

Tom knew his concerns, but for the sake of his sister's clues, the adventure was worth it. So he said, "Just be careful, let's go. Let's go find where number 63 is first."

Ouyang Haotian naturally took on the task of asking for directions, caught a person, and with a few words and a few contribution tickets, he knew the location of Concentration Room 63.

A row of three people walked through rows of houses, took a few turns, and finally arrived at a row of centralized board houses, which is A8-63 on the address.

According to the note, a woman in her forties who is suspected to be Ni Peiyun appeared nearby. So Ouyang Haotian took out the photo of Ni Peiyun that he had obtained from the personnel registration office and began to ask for help.

The survivors here have tattered and stiff clothes, and they are clearly a bit wary of outsiders. Ouyang Haotian asked for a while, but found nothing, and finally returned to Tom sitting beside him.

Liu Lian occasionally activated the sound radar to ensure that if someone gathered towards them, he could detect them in the first place. Seeing Ouyang Haotian running back with a smile, he couldn't help but sneer, "Haha, even the sharp tongued Ou Shao may feel exhausted."

"That, that," Ouyang Haotian hinted to the people next to him with his eyes, "is lying. Those two are lying, and one ran away ten minutes ago. It's estimated that someone will soon find us."

Liu Lian's face changed when he heard this, and he immediately hid behind Tom to activate the sound radar again. "To the west, there's someone with five or six coming towards us," he said

Tom smiled and stood up to move his muscles. "It seems we're asking the right way. It's my turn to do the work now," he said

Two minutes later, a thin man led five tall and burly people over, and one of them, who was covered in tattoos, looked up and down at the three of them. "What are you doing here?"

"Find someone to inquire about something."

The tall man gave a fierce smile and said, "Hmph, there's no one you're looking for here. Where do you come from? Go back where you know."

"Judging from your nervous demeanor, I think I've found the right place."

"You're not leaving, are you? Then stay!" The tall man put on his tiger finger and moved his shoulder, punching Tom.

Tom now has 20 strength, twice the strength of an ordinary person. He was tall and burly, with considerable strength, and the fist he swung out with all his might was caught in one hand.

"A power of around 13?" Tom was quite surprised, as this guy indeed had some strength. He remembered Zhao Xin from the psychic team saying that the strongest person in the shelter was No. 42 from the Special Investigation Department, with a strength of 15. The tall man in front of him seemed to have considerable strength.

People become smaller, and the power gap between individuals is shortened for unknown reasons. The difference in strength between a person who is not diligent and neglects exercise in the past and a person who frequently does physical work is no more than twice. But according to Zhao Xin, according to statistics from the Ministry of Scientific Research, people who used to have great strength, especially No. 42 from the Special Investigation Department, are now only half as strong as ordinary people.

So the power of 15 is already very strong for today's little people. Except for security personnel from the Special Investigation Department and the Security Department, most survivors have a strength distribution between 4-8.

The tall man knew that his strength was the strongest in this area, but to his surprise, Tom's strength was even greater than his. But accidents are accidents, his reaction is not slow. Fist caught, another fist hit again, but still caught by Tom.

The basic data has improved, and Tom's reaction speed is not bad. He firmly grasps both hands of the tall man and cannot move.

"What are you still doing in a daze? Fuck me!" The big man became angry and immediately asked the people following him to take action.

The people behind couldn't bear it anymore and pulled out their knives and sticks from their waists, rushing towards Tom and others.