But sometimes, humans are not rational animals.
The homeless man’s face was haggard and filthy, wearing at least four or five layers of clothing, making him look bulky and dirty, reeking with stench.
"I used to live in the sewer, but that day my usual place got flooded, so I wanted to find a drier place inside to rest..."
"But because it was too dark, I accidentally slipped and fell down the sewer, completely pitch black, I don’t even know where I landed, but it was very deep."
"I broke my leg there, didn’t know how long it took to heal it, then I wanted to find a way up or at least to the seaside..."
In the sewer, you aren’t afraid of having nowhere to run, nor afraid of not finding an exit, it all ends the same, following the flow of water, you’ll eventually be swept out to sea.
It was only then that the others noticed his right leg was an unusually old joint prosthesis, not only lacking synthetic skin coverage but even older than the gray attire Lin Miao initially provided players, making walking quite difficult.
"I don’t know how long I’d been crawling in the sewer when I suddenly heard a noise..."
"It was the sound of a ventilation fan, but I knew very well there wouldn’t be ventilation down below..."
"I felt my way toward the source of the sound, thinking it might be sewer maintenance workers or maybe other homeless folks, hoping to follow them and see if I could find a way up..."
The underground is a darker place than the surface, a space where even the sun cannot be found, so this homeless man had no intention of going up to ask for help.
After all, who would care about a homeless person dying in the sewer?
"But when I found the place where the sound was coming from, it wasn’t maintenance workers or homeless people... it was a construction site..."
The three players were somewhat stunned, who the hell would conduct engineering underground?
Do they have too much idle money with nowhere to spend it?
Besides, they hadn’t seen any major surface construction projects around here anyway!
Full of confusion, they had to keep listening to the homeless man continue his story.
"I wanted to search a bit more inside, maybe I’d find a way up, or secretly use their elevator, even getting a piece of clothing would be nice..."
The homeless man swallowed, his eyes widened as if recalling a terrifying scene.
"I saw many dead bodies... so many dead bodies... at least hundreds piled up like a mountain..."
"They were all wearing construction workers’ clothes, piled up together... rotted for a long time..."
The homeless man hugged his arms, trembling violently.
Good brother was shocked, "What’s going on? Could it be reincarnated Qin Shi Huang conducting burial?"
Originally, he wanted to mention Bai Qi, but then thought that Bai Qi seemed to have killed only soldiers.
Lewis shook his head.
"I think maybe the people building the project didn’t want the news to get out, so they buried all the workers... also saving on wages."
This is why intelligent machines can’t be widely used in many industries.
Aside from being expensive,
Unlike humans, they are much more convenient, durable, and if you don’t want to pay them, you can just kill them.
"Such a big incident... I’ve never heard about it on News Channel 54... never."
Lewis frowned, he didn’t really want to get involved in this, until he found out it was connected to something he had investigated before.
Good brother scratched his head, "From what he says, the workers were killed before the project was completed... for what?" Content originally comes from novel·fire.net
The Truth Department spat out.
"Idiot, you have to kill them before completion, if it were finished and people scattered, wouldn’t it be harder to kill them?"
"Moment of vigilance, everyone would be on guard."
The Propaganda Department praised, "Truly the Truth Department of Super Earth, handling such things with great skill."
"Shut up," the Truth Department snapped back, "as long as you follow Super Earth’s management, it’s not your turn to die."
Even though Super Earth throws people away like cannon fodder, their living standards are really high, even causing the Milky Way Galaxy’s population explosion, hundreds of millions of casualties don’t bother them, un junk place Night City.
"But what could they be building that requires killing workers for secrecy?" Good brother grew more puzzled.
"It couldn’t be a secret experimental base, could it?"
"It’s a palace! They were building a palace!" the homeless man’s voice suddenly became very excited and urgent, clutching his pants, knuckles turning white, almost tearing that piece of rag apart.
"I walked past the pit of corpses and saw a palace, I’ve never seen such a beautiful place, prettier than the company plaza!"
"There are trees! There are flowers! Just like the European castles in books!"
"I also saw those people... they... they... they were throwing bodies into that pit!"
"Fresh ones... bodies still dripping with blood..."
"They... they... their stomachs were cut open, cut open!"
"Do you know what I saw on them?"
"I saw bite marks on them! Human teeth marks!"
"I can’t be mistaken! Those bodies have human bite marks on them! They are cannibalizing!"
"After I came up, I told many people about this, they all thought I was crazy, no one believed what I said... but it’s true! It’s true!"
The dark underground...
The splendid castle...
Bodies with bite marks...
It’s just like a medieval vampire legend.
Who would believe a homeless man’s story... even the three players felt maybe this homeless man was experiencing drug-induced hallucinations.
They looked at Lewis.
"Why do you think what he says is true?"
"A few years ago, I investigated a population smuggling case in Watson District... I discovered..."
"Besides the Tiger Claw Gang and Vortex Gang, there was another group smuggling people..."
"And besides smuggling, abandoned infants in hospitals sometimes vanished without a trace..."
"All the clues I found pointed to Watson District, but they were cut off due to human interference, couldn’t investigate further..."