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"Now that we have finished what we needed to do recently, how about going to the bar for a couple of drinks?"
Jack extended an invitation to George.
"alright."
Two S-rank investigators went to a bar.
After simply ordering two glasses of wine, the two began to sip.
"Come to think of it, you are still as optimistic as ever. How can the pope of an evil cult not be tainted by the evil of the world?"
After a glass of vodka, Jack asked jokingly.
"I'm not optimistic, I just have no choice. Instead of thinking about the worst, I might as well think about the best."
George sighed and shook his head.
"How about we pick a spy and plant him there? See if we can do something good for the cult and climb to a high position to influence the kid?"
Jack asked.
"Oh, do you think they are fools? Ordinary investigators can't climb to the top, and if someone holding a holy relic joins them, they will definitely be suspicious."
George sneered.
"Then make a pledge. Give them money and help them kill people. Sooner or later you will gain their trust."
Jack smiled and stared into the glass of wine.
"Haha, who would go? Being an undercover agent means you'll basically be killed if you're discovered."
George drank the wine in his glass in one gulp.
"I'll go."
George was stunned by Jack's words.
"Even if your hands are covered in blood, can you still keep your heart from being polluted and corrupted?"
George was not optimistic about Jack's plan. His relic could make him very powerful during the day, but very vulnerable at night.
"Compared to the entire city's population, it's just a few people that were killed. I don't even need a scale to make a judgment."
Jack poured himself a glass of wine and downed it again in one gulp.
"If you join their cult, you may also witness the true face of the evil god. The crazy prophet is the best example. Do you want to become like that?"
George began to persuade.
"Are you looking down on me? George, you and I are both S-level investigators. We have seen those nameless horrors before, and we have survived until now."
"We only watched for a moment at that time. If you join that cult, one day you will have to confront that Outer God for a long time. Facing such an existence, the human spirit has its limits."
"So you plan to let the child grow up freely? I don't like such an unsafe deal. If she encounters evil once, it may eventually bring devastating disaster to the entire city."
Jack sneered.
"You are one of the only eight S-rank investigators. The evil cult is not the only one. Without you, the special investigation team will lose a great deal of its combat power."
"You should think about it carefully again."
George sighed. He had already fought with Elena, so it was impossible for him to go undercover.
And if Jack goes undercover, maybe one day the two of them will turn swords against each other, and based on their positions, neither of them can give in, and he doesn't want to see that day.
"I will report my plan and see how the higher-ups make the decision."
Jack pulled out his wallet and took out a few bills and put them on the bar.
"I'll treat you to this meal. In the future... maybe we won't have the chance to drink together."
"Jack...you're an excellent investigator."
George raised his glass.
"Ha, then you say goodbye."
Jack left the bar.
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Novoslav Republic.
Its daybreak.
C-MS woke up from hibernation, and AEK999 was standing on the edge of the rooftop observing the situation on the ground.
"What new information have you discovered?"
C-MS yawned lazily, opened AEK999's backpack, took out a bag of biscuits, tore them open, and started chewing them.
"I can't say I have any intelligence, but I found some zombie types that we'd better be careful of. Like the small one, it's very fast and its claws are very sharp. I saw him easily scratch the skulls of other zombies with his bare hands. Those are the hardest bones of humans. I guess it wouldn't be nice if we were scratched by it."
AEK999 pointed to a small black spot on the ground and said seriously.
"Well, if we really run into each other, we'll have to fight. If we run into each other, just consider it bad luck. Let's find something to eat in this building before we leave, shall we?"
C-MS doesn't care much about AEK999's analysis.
"That's true. If it really targets us, we can only fight it. But we have to be careful when encountering this kind of zombie. It's better not to provoke it."
AEK999 nodded.
"Provoke? You sound like you would actively provoke any zombie. Killing them doesn't give you any experience points, and even if they do give you money, there's no place to collect it. Only someone with a mental disorder would go after them and kill them."
"........."
AEK999 didn’t know what to say for a moment. Although this little ancestor was very lazy, what he said seemed to make sense... There was no way to refute it.
C-MS carefully pushed open the door to the rooftop, looked around, and then waved to AEK999.
"I'll lead the way, you cover, and try not to shoot."
"Let me do it. At least I have a knife."
AEK999 pulled back the C-MS and drew his dagger.
"It's up to you, but I can't guarantee that I can save you."
C-MS shrugged and gave AEK999 a heads-up in advance.
"It doesn't matter if you can't save him. Remember to find that radio station and broadcast what happened here."
AEK999 smiled bitterly. She knew how dangerous what she was about to do was. Crossing half the city to find the radio station was much more difficult than escaping from the city. However, her factory setting, the command to protect humanity, ultimately drove her to carry out this action to save the world.
"I don't want to. If you die, I will just sneak away to another city and steal potato chips. If you want to save the world, then you have to survive."
C-MS curled her lips. Firstly, she didn't like such troublesome things. Secondly, it was rare to have a companion who she could talk to, and she didn't want her to be scrapped so soon.
So she gave AEK999 an inescapable sense of mission.
AEK999 sighed, holding the dagger and carefully walked down the rooftop.
"By the way, is there food in the office building? Isn't this supposed to be a place for work?"
AEK999 suddenly asked.
"There's always someone hiding some snacks, right? I heard about this from the owner of the gun shop. At worst, there's always a water dispenser, right? We also need coolant to circulate and cool down."
"Right."
AEK999 thought carefully and decided that searching here would be safer than wandering around outside.
Soon, the two found the door to a VIP room.
There were bursts of banging sounds coming from behind the door, but there were no zombies around. Apparently, the only zombies here were probably those in the VIP room.
Judging from the sound, there should be no more than two zombies inside.
AEK999 made a gesture to C-MS, who immediately understood and came to the door, pushed it open violently, and AEK999 rushed into the VIP room.
On the ground was a bloated zombie that had been hit by the door.
Before he could get up, AEK999 stabbed the dagger into his head.
A red shadow flashed by, and a well-built female zombie knocked AEK999 to the ground.
AEK999 quickly grabbed the female zombie's neck and twisted it to the side. The female zombie who was struggling to bite her stopped moving.
"Tsk, what bad luck, there's only red wine and cigarettes here."
"What a bunch of humans! There are only so few things in the VIP room. How can we entertain others?"
C-MS walked in next and closed the door of the VIP room. He then took a bottle of red wine from the wine cabinet, broke the bottleneck with a knife, raised the bottle and poured a sip of red wine into his mouth.
"Pah, this grape juice is so damned disgusting, it's not even as good as the fat otaku's happy water."
C-MS spat out all the wine that had just been poured into his mouth.
"Come on, if this stuff is just used as a coolant, it's actually fine. If you can't find water later, just drink this."
Pushing the motionless body of the female zombie aside, AEK999 took a few bottles of red wine and stuffed them into his backpack.
"You can drink it if you want, but I don't drink this shit anyway."
C-MS threw the bottle of red wine directly into the corner.
After leaving the VIP room, the two went down a few more floors and finally stopped at a blind spot in an office.
"I think these ordinary employees must have some snacks hidden in their drawers."
C-MS said in a low voice.
"Then we can't deal with so many zombies without branding weapons. Once we open fire and don't leave here in a short time, all the zombies in the building will be attracted here."
AEK999 said with some embarrassment.
"I have a way to lure them here one by one, and you can kill them one by one in a while."
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AEK999 looked at C-MS suspiciously as he took out a rope with a rubber ball tied to the front end from his pocket.
She had no idea what this little ancestor wanted to do.
C-MS waved his hand and gently rolled the bouncy ball out, and the bouncy ball soon entered the field of vision of an employee zombie.
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