Sinmonger Chapter 1: Surveillance video

Venice, a city destined to be extraordinary from the day it was born. It is an important renaissance town, a center of industry, commerce and trade, and the most prosperous port in the Mediterranean. In the history of Europe before the 20th century, this place experienced several times of prosperity and decline, and what was left in the end was a beautiful and poetic water city.

But those are all things of the past.

Nearly a hundred years ago, the rule of the Empire changed the landscape here.

In the turbulent times when the rebels were everywhere, frame-ups, assassinations, and occupations happened in every corner; it didn't take long for religion to become the next target that had to be cleaned up, and the actual power of all religions in the world was almost completely eliminated. Abolished; and in the end, business was also involved. Since then, behind every big deal on this planet, the nobles and royal families can get a share of the core interests.

Venice is just one of the countless historic cities affected.

Today, the seven churches here are all accessible by buying tickets. Some are basically open to the public as museums, while others are simply used for tourism. The "priests" and "nuns" in the churches are only in the Just playing the clergyman, maybe going straight to the nightclub after get off work. Hundreds of palaces and mansions along the Grand Canal are also bounded by the empire. The quintessence of these ancient European architectural arts has now mostly become the offices of the imperial government, and a very small part is still used as a private residence, but the people living in it are basically those who work in the palace next door during the day and return home at night. Character sleeping in his mansion.

After such a long time, under the glitzy water surface, rotten silt will inevitably accumulate.

Venice in 2101, part of Crown County, one of the five western European counties of the Empire. There is not much feeling of romantic water town here, and the glory of the past is difficult to reproduce. The population is mainly composed of five categories: port workers, seafarers, service workers, tourists and self-employed persons. Bars and nightclubs are everywhere. These business places that are incompatible with the European artistic atmosphere are the only way for the commoners who live here to talk and comfort.

January, the off-season for tourism, is the coldest and rainiest time of year in Venice.

In front of the copper parrot bar, a yellow warning line was pulled, and several police officers blocked the onlookers from the outside.

In the dark of night, a man came silently.

With a high-necked trench coat and an old-fashioned peaked cap, he seems to be playing an old-school detective in the era of black and white movies.

After showing his ID to the police officer, he walked towards the bar. The warning line in front of him distorted and rose without anyone touching it, allowing it to pass smoothly. This scene is only short. For two seconds, no one noticed that his hands had been stuck in the pockets of the trench coat without moving.

His name is Elot Ness, thirty-three years old, "strong", a legend of the Venice Police Department, and the villains in the city call him "Paper Man".

Paper Xia likes this title very much. His point of view is that no matter how loud the name was at birth, it was given by his parents, but the name of Paper Xia was earned by himself. Just like Superman is called Superman not because he has super powers, but because he has helped and saved a lot of people with his super powers, if he does nothing, he is just Clark.

"Hey, you're finally here, Ellot." The potbellied Sheriff Deacon beckoned to the paper man; "You have to come and see this, haha, just now a rookie vomited after watching it. ."

Paper Man walked to Deacon's side, took the PVP670 in his hand, and clicked play, "Is this a surveillance video?"

"That's right, you see, the suspect is the big guy on the left side of the picture, the one who's sitting at the bar drinking... Look there, three thugs are harassing the waitress, she knocks over the wine on the tray and spills it. On the big man's clothes." Deacon pointed to the player screen in the paper man's hand and explained, "Then... buddy, you have to take a good look at this..."

The suspect in the picture is over 1.90 meters tall, with a physique like a water athlete, with a short head, and wearing sunglasses in a dimly lit bar.

When the waitress accidentally knocked over the drink on him, he slowly turned his head, took off his sunglasses, and said something to the group of thugs. Under normal circumstances, this sentence is likely to be "stay away from her", and then a heroic rescue of beauty will be staged. However, in the next scene in the video, he grabbed the head of the waitress with one hand, lifted her whole body, and threw it out.

The paper man raised his head slightly and glanced at the location that was not captured in the video. Following the direction the waitress was thrown, he saw a messy wine cabinet against the wall.

"How is the waitress now?" Paper Man asked, his eyes returning to the video screen.

Deacon replied: "She is still alive, with multiple cuts on her body, soft tissue contusions, and serious neck injuries, but not life-threatening. She will be discharged in half a month. Lucky for you." He said and pointed to the PVP670's screen again: "Look, this is the first person to die."

I saw the big man in the picture punched the gangster closest to him, the fist entered from the left chest, the back stretched out, clean and neat, like a sharp knife penetrating a piece of fat as smooth and unobstructed.

"I think that scene woke up every drunk in the house at the time, and after about 20 seconds, we lost all the witnesses who moved faster than they ran away from the fire. ' Deacon took a chocolate from his jacket pocket and ate it to himself.

The paper man frowned deeply. The punch in front of him was so terrifying. If the five fingers were put together in a palm gesture, a blow from the fingertips would be understandable. Pierced through the body, and no broken internal organs burst out from the back of the deceased, indicating how amazing the strength and speed of this penetration.

In the video, the other two gangsters stood for two seconds and tried to run away, but the big man grabbed the back of one of them before he left the surveillance camera. Judging from the expression on the gangster's face, the big man His hand tightened and tightened. In just a few seconds, a lot of blood overflowed from the gangster's mouth. This scene was like a tube of toothpaste being squeezed to death from the middle. His neck was pinched and deformed, and his face was purple. Rolling his eyes, his entire face began to swell.

In the end, the big man grinned and slammed the gangster's head into the hard bar. That scene, like a bulging pustule, was punctured by a needle, and the splashed liquid could fly far...

The paper man raised his head again and looked at the direction of the bar: "Okay, this explains the smell that has been pervading since I walked in..." He turned off the PVP670 and handed it back to Di Ken, then asked, "What about the one who escaped the camera?"

Deacon said: "I was caught by a big man when I ran to the door~IndoMTL.com~ You can't imagine what the murder weapon was." He tilted his head in the direction of the pool table.

Paperman asked half-jokingly, "What? He made skewers of 'barbecue' with a club?"

"Ha!" Deacon didn't laugh, but just pretended to laugh dryly: "I said you can't think of it." The billiard ball was stuffed into that kid's eye socket."

"Oh? I thought the diameter of that thing was bigger than our eye sockets."

Deacon shrugged off the Paperman's snarky joke: "Yes, that's why the deceased's brow and cheekbones were shattered, and the murderer was like forcing a puzzle into an inappropriate slot, filling in Take a look at the brain volume of the deceased, needless to say, we have collected some brains that spilled out of the nostrils and ears, and the coroner will find an eyeball in a mess of mashed brains, the funniest thing since the New Year's party Isn't it?" He tensed his face: "Okay, the joke is over, this matter will be handed over to you from now on, I don't want to go into this muddy water."

Paper Man said: "I know, you are only responsible for the part that takes credit when the case is closed."

"Hey! Listen, know who's doing your **** copywriting..."

"Okay okay, you and your people, continue to clear the field, I have to go out and get some air." Paper Man interrupted Deacon's nagging, turned and walked away, passing a green-faced young policeman He smiled and said, "Hey man, do you like cheese sandwiches?"

The moment the other party heard the words, he turned around and bent over and vomited.

I just heard Deacon's roar from behind: "Bastard! I said just now, find a paper bag!"