Chapter 51: Violation

What is this? Yan Yu did not know why, but after reading it, a sense of fear surged from the bottom of his heart!

This ticket seemed to be saying that he had just been driving without a license? It was true that he did not have a driver's license, but...

And what did this "Penalty currently in progress" mean?

Thump, thump, thump!

Just then, a knocking sound suddenly came from the car window, startling him into a shiver. When he turned his head to look, he realized it was Ding Mo calling him:

"Yan Yu, Yan Yu? What are you doing? Gu Zixu is about to assign the Task."

"Oh... oh, okay!" Yan Yu was stunned for a long moment before he came back to his senses, opened the car door, and prepared to get out.

He held the slip of paper in his hand, seemingly wanting to show it to the others.

Ding Mo watched and only felt it was strange.

What was up with this guy Yan Yu all of a sudden?

But just as Yan Yu stepped out of the car... a police car suddenly drove up!

No one knew where it came from; it was as if it had appeared out of thin air! Like a mad bull, it slammed into the open driver's side door and Yan Yu!

Yan Yu was stunned—he had been completely caught off guard that a speeding police car would suddenly emerge in this deserted place!

So when he got out of the car, he hadn't checked the rearview mirror! He had been completely unaware of it!

Bang!

A dull, shattering sound and a violent collision echoed in everyone's ears in an instant!

The police car roared past, almost leaving a blurred afterimage, knocking the open car door and Yan Yu away together!

The hinges of the car door snapped, a rain of blood sprinkled down from the sky, and a twisted corpse was thrown high into the air before slamming heavily onto the ground.

Thud—!

In the terrified gaze of everyone, Yan Yu's face, which had been deformed from hitting something, revealed a twisted look of terror!

His eyes were wide open, as if even he himself could not believe that a person could just die like this.

Ding Mo was the closest and saw it the most clearly. He gasped and subconsciously took several steps back.

It had taken no more than a second; Yan Yu, who had been perfectly fine just a moment ago, was now no different from a piece of pork that had been struck by a sledgehammer—dead as could be!

And that "police car," after doing all this, drove only a short distance before it eerily vanished.

Looking around, there was not a trace to be seen, as if it had never appeared at all and everything had been a collective hallucination.

Yet, as the few of them looked at Yan Yu lying on the road with blood flowing everywhere, this still-warm corpse told them that everything was real!

They had been attacked!

... About 7-8 minutes later, the few who had hidden finally regained their composure.

Beside a small car parked on the side of the road.

"... It, it didn't continue to attack us?" Zhang Yunfan swallowed a mouthful of saliva, constantly looking around.

But the road was incomparably quiet, and nothing happened.

"Perhaps," Ding Mo, who was beside him, hesitated before saying:

"Is it because he unknowingly violated some rule? And we did not?"

Otherwise, why would they have been suddenly attacked?

Just as they were talking, Gu Zixu, who had been hiding elsewhere, seemed to be bold due to her high level of skill; she was the first to walk out from cover and stand on the main road.

One minute, two minutes... she stared vigilantly at the end of the road.

But there, apart from deathly silence, there was nothing but deathly silence—nothing happened.

"Danger cleared, everyone, come out."

Fine threads of rain dyed their hair into crystalline treasure trees, and the cold light of the sky reflected off the pearls of the treasure trees.

Beside Yan Yu's corpse, the group gathered in a circle.

Looking at it, their expressions all carried a degree of gravity.

Yan Yu's experience seemed to be telling them that even if one were laughing and chatting the moment before, the next moment one could die on the spot, without even having time to let out a sound!

—This is this city!

"Killer No. 2, you were the closest at the time; did you witness the course of events?" After signaling for the couple to keep watch on the side, Gu Zixu asked.

"I... I saw it, but..." Ding Mo frowned.

He also could not explain where that "police car" had come from; there had been no warning at all before it happened.

When the others heard this, they could not help but fall silent.

A steel monster that appeared and disappeared like a ghost, ready to crush people into meat paste at the slightest lapse in attention, a bizarre and inexplicable shop, a crazy old man...

What else was waiting for them in this city?

"Hey, look at this!" At this moment, He Xiang and Tang Chen, who were keeping watch, seemed to have discovered something; they ran over and handed over a slip of paper.

It was exactly Yan Yu's "driving without a license" ticket!

"So that's how it is..." Ding Mo understood.

Yan Yu must have violated the last item of the "Basic Rules" in the "Immigrant Life Code":

-) Others: Please consciously abide by the basic order of the city; do not destroy or violate it. Otherwise, bear the consequences yourself!

After sharing his thoughts with the others, Zhang Yunfan suddenly said:

"Then later, when we are searching, if we enter private residences without permission, or places that are not open in principle, such as restaurant kitchens, then..."

"Does that count as violating the basic order? If it does..."

Seeing the expressions of many people change several times, Zhang Yunfan bit the bullet and said:

"Then, are we still going to search or not?"

His words were precisely the key point that everyone was worried about.

"..." In the stifling atmosphere, Ding Mo let out a long sigh and said:

"I think we are worrying a bit too much. If the person we are looking for is alive, as long as it doesn't cause conflict, we don't necessarily have to break into these places."

"That's right, Black-faced Assistant, when an assassin is in action, they don't necessarily have to enter the target area to obtain information," Gu Zixu also said.

Ignoring the unpleasant nickname Gu Zixu had given him, Zhang Yunfan could only nod with difficulty upon hearing this.

This Task, they were afraid they had no choice but to do it.

With the capabilities of the Processing Bureau, even if they could truly escape, they would soon be wanted nationwide; there was no getting away.

The solution was right before their eyes, so they might as well take a gamble.

Ding Mo also noticed how terrible his expression was.

Actually, it wasn't just him; Ding Mo felt somewhat heavy-hearted as well—

His worries were more specific, for example: if violating traffic rules on the road would result in a "traffic accident" and death,

then what about other places? For instance, if one violated rules in a store, what would happen?

In this state of anxiety, the group finally finished dividing into teams, preparing to continue searching for the person.

After all, they were people who had experienced at least one or two "Typewriter" Tasks; they weren't so scared that they couldn't walk.

Ding Mo and Zhang Yunfan, the couple, and Gu Zixu were in their own group, totaling three groups, heading in different directions, agreeing that no matter what, they would gather here in two hours.

Although everyone knew that splitting up in a horror scenario could be considered quite suicidal,

at this very moment, in order to leave this city as soon as possible, this was the only way.

Hope everything goes smoothly... Ding Mo thought to himself.

Although he knew that was impossible.

Five minutes later.

Ding Mo pulled open the grand, imposing doors and looked up.

In his eyes, a massive Shopping Mall, spanning tens of thousands of square meters and nearly ten stories high, was reflected!

The most eye-catching things were several three-meter-tall figures in the central plaza of the Shopping Mall, almost reaching the ceiling of the first floor:

Children's mannequins!

They were dressed in brightly colored outfits, looking naive and cute, with kind smiles on their faces, facing the entrance.

At first glance, it seemed as if they were welcoming guests who had come to visit.