Chapter 271, The Demon Hunter of Blackbird City
Elan Byrd looked up at the dark building in the rain ahead, took a closer look, and saw a small sickle symbol.
In this way, I feel more at ease.
He pulled down his hood to block the rain and walked under the eaves.
On the side, I found a small door and knocked six times in a special rhythm.
The door opened a small crack, revealing an orange light.
A child who looked to be only five or six years old poked his head out timidly.One of his eyes was normal, but the other had a large hole dug out from the orbit and a mechanical prosthetic eye embedded in it.
The child looked up at the unfamiliar face under Bird's hood, wary that he was not a familiar person, and quickly wanted to close the door, but Bird raised his hand to stop it.
How can a five- or six-year-old child have the strength to compete with adults?
With just a slight exertion, Bird pushed the door open enough for him to pass through.
He quickly stepped in and closed the door.
The child fell to the ground, looking at him with fear on his face. He opened his mouth to scream loudly, but Bird quickly leaned over and covered his mouth.
"Shh..." Bird covered the child's mouth and made a gesture to silence him, but he only heard the click of a gun being loaded behind him.
"Let him go!"
Bird's hand movements stopped.
The child broke free and crawled behind the visitor on his hands and knees to hide, with only his head exposed, looking at him in fear.
Elan Bird raised his hands and said: "Calm down! Calm down! It's me!"
"Bird?" The man behind seemed to recognize his voice, but he didn't dare to confirm it.
"It's me, Tim, don't get excited." Ellan Bird said, turning around again.
He thought he would see a handsome face.
Tim Winter is the most handsome one among their team of demon hunters.When they took it together, they often teased him, saying that he looked too conspicuous and was not suitable to be a witcher agent.
However, when he turned around and saw the face of his comrade, he was shocked.
The handsome young man's face had disappeared, leaving only a face covered with scars.From under those scars, Bird could vaguely discern the appearance of Tim Winter in his memory.
"What happened to you?"
Tim Vent slowly put down the gun in his hand and sighed: "Bird, you shouldn't have come."
"How could I not come? The five of you entered Blackbird City, and then for more than a month, no news came out. It was originally agreed to exchange information every week, but we waited at the intelligence point outside I haven't heard from you for a long time. Instead, I summoned the guards of Blackbird Heavy Industries and almost exposed myself..."
"It's not that we don't want to pass on information..." Wente stopped mid-sentence.
He first leaned down, said something to the child hiding behind him, and let him go. Then he said to Bird: "Let's go and rest in the back first, drink a cup of hot water, and let's talk in detail."
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Elayne Bird and Tim Vent, both of them are members of the Alliance Demon Hunters organization, and both can be regarded as the first members.When the Demon Hunter organization was first established, one of the two teams recruited went south to fight corruption, and the other was the team the two of them belonged to.
They set off with the caravan and headed west. They stayed in many oasis settlements in the Western Desert for a while, collected some information, and then continued westward to the west of the mainland.
Their ultimate goal is to collect information about Blackbird Heavy Industry here on the west side of the continent, so as to make efforts for the alliance to regain the last piece of land on this planet.
Now, the only enemy left by the Alliance on Angry Owl is Blackbird Heavy Industries.
There is almost no need to pay much attention to the many desert oases in the Western Desert and the settlements built around pre-war plantation factories.They have neither a unified organization nor a strong enough military force.After the great harvest in the Qinggu area, even the strategic resource they originally considered important: food, is no longer important to the alliance.
The only obstacle to regaining the West Desert is that they have a turbulent relationship with Blackbird Heavy Industries.
When they arrived at the west side of the mainland, at the area actually controlled by Blackbird Heavy Industries, they saw a completely different landscape than they had imagined.
The natural environment here is still very harsh, and people's lives are still quite difficult. They are no better than the many settlements before they were liberated by the Alliance, and they are not at all comparable to the Alliance's current per capita living standard of E5 level and above.
However, what is completely different from the settlements before they were recovered by the Alliance is that the west side of the continent has complete and unified governance.
Based on their nearly one year of living and exploring this land, they felt that the Blackbird Group was a big company—of course, they were—and the 500 million people living here were all employees of this company.
There is a strict relationship between the upper and lower levels, there are task indicators broken down to each person, there is an organizational structure of departments, and there are clear management levels...
An order issued from Blackbird City, the headquarters of Blackbird Heavy Industry, can really be conveyed to a specific person.
Blackbird Heavy Industry will issue its own internal currency as salary and pay it to everyone: there is no basic salary, only commission based on workload and work performance.
Similarly, they will also open supply stations in various places.Residents can use their wages to buy their own daily necessities...
This kind of social structure has brought a lot of trouble to Bird and other demon hunters who are new to this place in the process of collecting intelligence.
They are new faces. In this huge 'company', there are relatively few connections between departments, and they are all relatively familiar faces communicating with each other.
At the beginning, they caused a lot of trouble, exposed their identities, and were hunted down.
But gradually, they soon found some tricks.
In a large company like Blackbird Heavy Industries, there is a common problem among many large organizations: there are too many people, which makes the organization more difficult and it is difficult for everyone to know each other.
They rely more on identity plates and codes to identify each other.
Ambush, capture, interrogation, torture... They obtained a lot of information, and gradually understood how to disguise themselves, and gradually began to feel like a fish in water.
And soon, they were no longer satisfied with just collecting intelligence from the periphery.Their eyes began to focus on Blackbird City, the headquarters of Blackbird Heavy Industry.
However, there is another world.
It's mysterious and closed, and they can't even find a way in. It's as if the entire huge city, with an estimated population of 700 million people, doesn't need to communicate with both inside and outside.
(End of this chapter)