28 – World 11. Smooth Negotiation (2)
Callen looked around as soon as he reached a particular place in the float.
It was a street that seemed to have concentrated some negative emotions.
“No, chief. Why did you come from District 4?”
“Because starting here is the shortest route.”
In a word, he chose the path that could be completed as quickly as possible.
Callen couldn’t hold back the sigh that leaked out despite being his captain.
“It’s a long-awaited thing, so you can do it leisurely. I don’t even have a lover at home.”
Incidentally, Carlen preferred to take things slow by extending what could have been done in one day into a week.
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Due to the nature of the special investigation unit, there was a lot of waiting time.
There was also something that received a stinging glare every time I waited.
They were mainly criticized for taking a salary without doing anything, so-called.
Therefore, he thought of spending at least a month or two leisurely with this job, but his boss reduced the work as if he hadn’t even thought about it.
Callen found it very disapproving.
“uh? for a moment. Do you have a real boss house lover? So, are you trying to solve it quickly?”
Conversely, the woman who was called the captain looked at Calon with cold eyes as she kept mentioning her lover.
“Kalan, why are you so arrogant today?”
“Otherwise, let’s do this with all our heart. Because the captain has such an attitude, other departments are talking about reducing the number of people in the investigation team.”
There were only 7 members of the Special Investigation Unit.
Of course, the number of people didn’t mean much because I usually accompanied combat androids or drones, but that was enough.
What would happen if there were fewer of these seven?
Carlen, who cherished his teammates, couldn’t stand to see that happen.
“But if we found it in one day, there would be no mention of staff reduction.”
“under.”
Hearing the captain’s answer then, Carlan snorted.
“Leader. Calm down. How do you find the person who can remove the fog of death? If I pretend not to, can I find out?”
Of course you can find out.
Because the members of the Special Investigation Team were capable of identifying people’s lies at a glance.
However, Calen thought that the person who removed the death fog would never be normal.
“If you ask me, I can be honest with you.”
“If I were to be honest, I would have come to District 1 on my own. There was also a bounty on it. 10 million credits. Even so, they don’t want to appear, so they probably don’t want to show themselves.”
Callen explained step by step, but the woman moved toward the building in the 4th district with an attitude that she could not hear.
“Here you go.”
It was the building of a man named Hayden.
In the end, Callen gave up talking and began to focus on work.
“You built a very fort. Is it excessive even if it is District 4?”
“I must have bought a lot of grudges.”
“You speak so easily.”
“Because I don’t need to know that far.”
With that answer, the woman pressed the doorbell of the building.
beep-
[······Who are you?]
The doorbell rang and after a while a voice asked who it was.
The difference from before was that there was no light to scan the other person’s biometric ID.
“This is Tanesa from the Special Investigation Unit. An investigation is necessary, so please obey me.”
[·······.]
There was no answer.
It wasn’t that I didn’t respond.
rumbling-
When the steel shutters went up, the woman who found the door to enter the place, Tanessa nodded and said to Carlen.
“Let’s go in.”
“Yes. You start with George from the first impression.”
No matter what Callen said, Tanessa went inside first.
At the same time, Tanessa’s eyes quickly scanned the surroundings, gathering information.
‘You’re using electricity. It also faintly smells of food.’
Next, I saw mechanical parts piled up like a heap of garbage and a man with a height of more than 2 meters.
‘It’s big.’
It’s not just about being big.
It was faint, but I could feel the magic within my body.
Thinking that the player was clear, Tanesa had it engraved in her head.
‘And······.’
On the other side, he could see a man, woman, and girl staring at him.
Seeing that her hair and face were clean, she seemed to use even water freely.
At this point, it must have been a suspicious place for anyone to see.
It was because they were enjoying a standard of living similar to that of District 1 in a building in District 4 that was practically abandoned.
‘If it’s four people, I’ll be able to subdue it in case of emergency.’
He thought that it would be enough for him to take care of the tall man in front of him and Calen to take care of the other three.
Tanesa, who secretly grasped the surrounding information and the opponent, went straight to the main point.
“I came because there was a person who removed the fog of death here. Who is it?”
Tanesa found the person who finally got rid of the fog of death.
This is because the attitude of knowing everything like this was advantageous to the investigation rather than asking whether they knew the relevant information.
If you are related to the work or know anything about it, it will be revealed in the other person’s expression or eyes.
But the big man made a face that he didn’t like, then turned his head and pointed at the man on the other side.
“There he is.”
“…”
“…”
Tanesawa and Callan were momentarily at a loss for words.
I just asked to find a small clue, but the answer came out.
Thanks to that, the eyes of the two didn’t know how to leave the man.
The man then let out a small sigh.
“…!?”
“Uh, what?”
Suddenly.
I felt an intangible force engulfing my body encroaching on my surroundings.
* * *
‘I didn’t expect it to come so quickly.’
I couldn’t help but admire the woman I introduced as Tanessa.
How did you find out?
Even if I came out to the rooftop and took a picture, how many people would think of it as being related to magic?
I thought there would be very few of them, but seeing that I came here in person, I felt like I had underestimated them without realizing it.
That is the power of this world.
Anyway, now that things have turned out this way, I sighed and decided to move on as I shared with Karina yesterday.
It releases only a portion of the energy in my body and encroaches on the surroundings.
As a result, it was confirmed that the faces and bodies of the men and women immediately hardened.
“So, why did you come to see me?”
However, the two only let out a small moan of pain, but could not answer.
I had to talk about something to proceed, so I had no choice but to release my energy.
Only then did Tanesa answer politely with a slightly relaxed face.
“First of all, I apologize for coming so suddenly. The reason I came to see you like this is to serve you.”
“…”
I stared at Tanesa’s demeanor, which changed in an instant like flipping the palm of my hand.
The man next to him also looked at Tanesa, asking what he was doing.
Besides, he changed his attitude so quickly that nothing but suspicion arose.
If I follow this, wouldn’t various traps greet me?
‘Should I really do as Karina says?’
The conversation I had with Karina yesterday.
Karina said that if someone from District 1 came to visit, do not hesitate to destroy the shield, which is an essential facility in the city.
To put it simply, it was to destroy the facility that operates the shield and hold the entire city hostage.
If the shield is gone, the fog of death can only be solved with my magic.
‘It’s a shield…’
Of course, Karina kindly informed me of the location of the shield.
Security was tight, but that didn’t matter to me.
In other words, if you put your mind to it, you could break the shielding facility right now.
“Well. What if I don’t intend to follow?”
“There will be someone else besides me.”
“What if I told you not to come to me?”
“It’s not for me to decide.”
Looking at it, I felt like I had to bump into it somehow.
Should I also remove the shielding facility?
I nodded and at the same time said the ability I got in the 4th world.
With [Power of Shadow], he ordered 100 or so summoned beasts hidden in the shadows of the shielding facility to self-destruct.
“But it won’t be a bad thing. You are the benefactor who protected the city.”
Tanesa, who doesn’t know what I’ve done, tried to convince me to say something, but I didn’t listen.
Instead, within a few seconds, Tanessa and the man flinched and then began to see something by launching a hologram with their left hand.
Anyway, the situation was delivered very quickly.
I thought to myself and pretended not to know.
“Has anything happened?”
“······it’s nothing. Rather, let’s go to District 1 with us. I will see you.”
Tanesa answered again, showing imperceptible impatience.
Anyway, as Karina said, the shielding facility is broken.
All that remains is for each of us to get what we want.
Thinking, I nodded.
“If we have to meet anyway, we better meet now.”
“A great choice.”
In addition, the man next to him continued to glare at Tanesa with eyes he couldn’t understand, as if he was unfamiliar with Tanesa’s attitude.
Anyway, I got up and told Hayden.
“I’ll be back for a while.”
“Would it be okay to be alone?”
“There won’t be any big problems.”
Then, looking at Karina, he nodded as if he meant to do well.
However, yesterday’s Karina told me to break the shield and then use it to rip it off enough to scrape it off.
It was a word that bore resentment in District 1.
Of course, I had no intention of doing that.
‘I’ll just have to trade properly.’
The things I can do in this city are endless.
I thought that if I traded with it, I could get everything I wanted.
“egg plant.”
When I asked Tanessa to go again, she seemed to stare at me, then replied that she would find out soon.
“Yes. let’s go I have the car parked outside.”
When I actually went outside, a square car that looked like a bus was waiting.
Overall, it was a bit dark and dark green, so it was also a vehicle with a military feel.
“You can get on in front of me. Calon. Go and open the door.”
“Ah, yes.”
A man called Carlen quickly ran forward, opened the door, and smiled at me.
I didn’t know how things were going, but I had a strong feeling that I was following Tanesa’s words.
I got in the car watching Tanessa and Kalen.