Chapter 1404

Ambella City, a clean and prosperous city.

In the perception of the outside world, the Sun Kingdom is a country with moral cleanliness; the people within the country are upright and incorruptible, unable to tolerate even the slightest filth or squalor.

Is that really the case in reality? Obviously not. In this era of war, apart from countries like the Geya Alliance that are crazily invading outward, the lives of civilians in most surrounding countries are somewhat impoverished.

If the residents of the Sun Kingdom were truly that upright and incorruptible, the middle-aged driver Su Xiao tied up earlier would not have taken his pocket watch and vintage car to flee.

In essence, the civilians of most countries on Blue Ocean Star are very similar. Compared to the national image, they care more about their personal families. They are just common folk; only when they are well-fed and clothed will they have the leisure to gossip about the affairs between great powers.

The high-level officials of the Sun Kingdom indeed have moral cleanliness, but it is not obvious among the civilians. The main roads of Ambella City are indeed spotless, but this city also has dirty alleys, slums, and the like; the crime rate is only about 2% lower than that of cities of the same scale in the Geya Alliance.

It is not that Ambella City is "spotless," but that the royal family and the Divine Court cover up the filth of this city, unlike the Geya Alliance where it is exposed, even leading to situations where there are no-go zones.

The morning sun slowly rose, and the residents of Ambella City began a busy new day. But before getting busy, they would pray at home or in factories, praying to their Goddess of Dawn. As for whether the Goddess of Dawn, whose "divine" incarnation had just been swallowed by someone, could receive it, that was an unknown.

Cooking smoke rose above the residential houses, the streets gradually became lively, the aroma of food wafted, occasionally a vintage car drove by, and the steam engines in the small workshops by the street roared, making the city even more bustling.

Su Xiao mingled in the crowd on the street. He held a paper bag in his arms; the paper bag contained freshly baked bread. The bread was very soft, but the taste of the jam inside did not quite suit Su Xiao's palate—sour, sweet, and astringent.

Su Xiao was strolling on a main road in Ambella City, or rather, he was looking for someone.

Beep, beep, beep...

A rapid electronic sound came from the signal receiver in Su Xiao's hand, which meant the assistant was nearby. After precise positioning, Su Xiao raised an eyebrow; the assistant was actually underground.

After walking a few hundred meters through the crowd, Su Xiao arrived directly above the assistant. The light dot representing the assistant was green, which meant the assistant was still alive.

Soon, Su Xiao entered an alley between two high-rise buildings, easily lifted the sewer manhole cover, and jumped into the sewer.

With a splash, sewage splattered. Su Xiao, who was chewing bread in his mouth, did not care at all. He could enjoy lunch while sitting on a pile of corpses, let alone in a sewer.

After dropping the empty paper bag in his hand and rubbing the bread crumbs off his hands, Su Xiao took out a thick tablet computer.

This world has no satellite network at all, so if Su Xiao wants to find the assistant, he can only rely on two-way signal reception. Fortunately, the signal transmitter swallowed by the assistant is an item notarized by Reincarnation Paradise, and the signal radiation range is very wide.

Su Xiao waded through the sewage and came to the concrete platform beside the drainage channel. A few rats were startled away; these rats were as big as house cats, and when gathered together, attacking humans was a common occurrence.

Su Xiao certainly wouldn't worry about being attacked by rats. Those rats turned and fled after seeing him, and some even dived into the sewage, motionless as if dead.

The underground drainage system of Ambella City is very complex. Supporting the drainage of a large city cannot be done by a dozen or dozens of sewers.

300 meters away from Su Xiao, in a low sewer.

"Cough, cough, cough..."

A dry coughing sound came. A frail figure was curled up in a thick iron pipe at the sewage outlet, and drops of blood seeped out from between her fingers.

"Huff, huff, to actually have an accident, what bad luck."

The one curled up in the thick iron pipe was the assistant. She had successfully entered the plane earlier, but because there was no good opportunity, she could only wait. However, when the plane landed in Ambella City, the landing gear broke during the taxiing process.

Dubo Yisi, who was in the front cabin, was fine, but the assistant in the rear cabin hit her head on the cabin door and passed out.

When the assistant woke up, several soldiers of the Sun Kingdom had just entered the rear cabin. After a brief firefight, the assistant killed eight people, was shot twice, and fled into the city. Fortunately, the assistant was clever enough; after entering the plane, she had smeared some colored branches on her face, and since it was nighttime, the enemies did not see the assistant's appearance clearly.

Even so, the assistant could not go to any medical institution for treatment. The whole city was secretly searching for her, making her afraid to enter the surface easily. She was a coordinate; even if she died, she had to die in Ambella City.

Blood dripped along the assistant's fingertips. Her hand reached forward, letting the blood drip into the sewage.

A few black beetles floated to the surface; they were attracted by the smell of blood.

"Good luck."

The assistant tore off a piece of clothing, grabbed those black beetles, wrapped them in the cloth, and gave them a rough cleaning. After finishing all this, the assistant pulled up the clothing at her lower abdomen and bit it with her mouth.

The assistant had two penetrating gunshot wounds on her abdomen, and the wounds were already showing signs of infection. She grabbed a black beetle and placed it on the edge of the wound.

Smelling the blood, the black beetle opened its mandibles, bit through the skin, and began to suck blood.

After placing several black beetles, the assistant let out a long sigh of relief. Although this Klieta beetle is a type of blood-sucking insect, the saliva it secretes while sucking blood has a disinfecting effect.

Just as the assistant was about to rest for a moment, slight footsteps came.

The footsteps got closer and closer. The assistant pulled out the pistol at her waist, turned off the safety, and stared straight at the entrance of the iron pipe. Severe blood loss made her vision somewhat blurry.

With a crisp clatter, something was thrown into the iron pipe.

"It's over."

The assistant gave a miserable smile; the enemy was more cunning than she had imagined.

Bang!

A white light suddenly appeared. The assistant, whose vision was a sea of white, was just about to pull the trigger when an irresistible pulling force came from her hand, and the gun was snatched away. The next moment, the assistant felt something wrap around her ankle, forcibly pushing her out of the thick iron pipe.

A dozen seconds later, the white light in front of the assistant faded a bit; the previous thing didn't seem to be a stun grenade.

"Judging from your vital signs, you won't die in the short term."

Su Xiao pulled up the assistant's clothing to examine her injuries. Hearing Su Xiao's voice, the assistant was surprised for a moment, then realized what was going on. If Su Xiao had poked his head out at the entrance of the iron pipe earlier, there was a high possibility he would have been shot.

"Sir, I have found the target's location."

The assistant lay on the cold concrete platform in a spread-eagle position, starting to doze off.

"Oh."

Su Xiao hoisted the dozing assistant up and stepped toward the sewer exit.