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When receiving Ling Lan'er's communication request, Ke Xia was sitting in the study, looking thin and gloomy.

Ling Lan'er was startled when she saw his thin cheeks and bloodshot blue eyes: "What's wrong with you? Xia?"

Ke Xia said: "It's nothing, the people below said that you have something important to ask me."

Ling Lan'er said: "Yes, Shao Feng asked me to find you. He said that this matter is very important and I need to tell you as soon as possible."

Ke Xia raised her eyes, and Ling Laner said: "I will have a Skynet program every week to communicate with fans. In the program, I will answer some questions with fan postcards selected by the management company, and sing songs ordered by fans."

Ke Xia listened silently, Ling Laner said: "But few people know, even now, I still maintain a habit of reading all postcards from fans. Since I was still a silent and scandal-ridden The singers started and kept going until now. Then before this episode, I saw a strange postcard."

Ling Lan'er held up the electronic paper screen in her hand and showed it to Ke Xia. Ke Xia seemed to have a premonition and looked up, and then suddenly stood up.

Ling Lan'er looked at him, with tears in her eyes: "This is Du Yin's handwriting, although he seldom writes, and his signature is different. You told me that he went on a mission, and I haven't seen him for a long time. He, but Xia, this song was originally what he asked me to sing to you. In addition, when he came out of the fire on Kibera Street, the thing that impressed me the most was that he spread the golden wings on his back, We were rescued from the raging fire!"

Ke Xia stared at the random words written on the postcard, Ling Lan'er's voice trembled slightly: "This postcard was sent to my mailbox together with countless fan postcards. Many people are ordering this song, But no one mentioned the fire on Kibera Street! And this word, he was sure that I would read it, because he knew that I would rather control the number of sales than change the habit of reading postcards in person. Shao Feng asked me to contact You, he said that this is Du Yin reporting your safety. Although I don’t understand why the report of safety brought up the past that only a few of us know, I still called you immediately.”

She looked directly into Ke Xia's eyes: "Is he carrying out a very dangerous mission? Can he be brought back? Both the Alliance and the Empire have signed a peace treaty, why should he be troubled?"

Ke Xia's thirsty throat seemed to be on fire, and he finally spoke, but his voice was hoarse: "I see, you send me this postcard, and I need to use your mailbox, we need to organize security experts to study Track where the mail came from."

Ling Lan'er looked at him with some disappointment: "Young Master Feng has already asked for it from me, and he is organizing personnel to investigate. Your Majesty, you have always told me that Du Yin is very good and he lives in peace. Why did he use Such a cryptic way to return to safety? Xia, can you guarantee that he will come back safely? He has paid enough!"

Ke Xia whispered, "I promise."

Ling Lan'er looked at him with tears streaming down her cheeks: "Don't let anything happen to him."

Ke Xia closed his dry and painful eyes: "He has something to do, I will be buried with him."

Ling Lan'er trembled slightly, and became even more worried, but she still took a deep breath to suppress her emotions: "I'll wait for your news... If you need me, whether it's money or anything, as long as it's me You can tell me anything you can do.”

Ke Xia said, "Okay, thank you."

Ling Lan'er took a deep look at him: "Then I'll hang up first, and look forward to the good news. Also, if he comes back, please let him talk to me."

Ke Xia said, "I will tell him."

After Ling Lan'er hung up, Hua Jianfeng's call came in: "I believe you have passed the phone call, at least Jun is safe now, and if you can still send postcards, I can't ask Ling Lan'er what was the last thing she did when she left the fire. What is the important impression, I have to let her contact you."

Ke Xia closed his eyes: "The fire surrounded us, he spread the wings on his back and brought us out." I still vividly remember that moment, the golden wings spread out, holding them across the raging flames.

Hua Jianfeng said: "Wings? Ah, that's the same as the time you saved me and fell into the crack? What does this mean? Fire, wings..."

Ke Xia opened his eyes, and his voice was exhausted: "Seraphim, the angel who came out of the fire, he is in the hands of Seraphim, as we judged, but as you said, he just reported our safety, which is consistent with the information, The Seraph’s fireworks that rose from the Governor’s Mansion that night, as well as the previous hacking methods that could silently destroy all security systems, should be the Seraphim who took him away.”

Hua Jianfeng sighed, and looked at him sympathetically: "At least we have confirmed that he is safe now, but in the hands of a hacker expert who is good at network disguise, I am afraid we will not be able to find anything even if we get the mailbox, at least Up to now, the security experts in my organization have not been able to crack the specific address of the email."

Ke Xia's blue eyes are calm: "Contact Estin and the others. In theory, as long as hackers have operated on the star network, they will inevitably leave traces, especially in a network with very strict control like the Empire. There is only one answer. If Skynet is used to transfer, there must be traces on Skynet, if it is someone else, there may be no way, but he doesn’t know that we can check, please check Mr. Estine and Mr. Rodin.”

Hua Jianfeng's eyes lit up: "I'll go right away."

The communication was hung up, and Ke Xia sat in the dark study room, covering his eyes with his hands, feeling his heartbeat, one by one, forcing himself to calm down, but he couldn't help the heat in his eyes—great, still live.

Shao Jun, who was alive and well, was boiling water and slipping his noodles into the water. On the other side, the cooked scallion oil exuded a strong fragrance. Several students surrounded him salivating. The door was pushed open, and Luya stood at the door, Seeing a group of people crowded in the kitchen, the vigorous aroma immediately whetted the appetite.

He smiled: "I didn't expect you to cook."

All the students stood respectfully and bowed their hands: "Teacher."

Shao Jun turned to see him: "Are you cured? Would you like a bowl of noodles?"

Luya sat down at the dining table: "Okay, thank you, I need some more soup."

The other students all held their breath and said in a low voice: "We still have class, let's go first... Goodbye, teacher!" They all ran away.

Shao Jun filled a big bowl of noodles with scallion oil and handed it to Lua: "They are very afraid of you."

Lua smiled: "Because I ask them to recite the code every time, even if they make mistakes, and also for rewards, so everyone is afraid of me."

Shao Jun thought for a moment: "That's pretty scary."

Luya looked at him gently: "You have amazing talent, if you want to learn, I will teach you everything I know."

Shao Jun handed him the tableware: "I'm not good at these. To be honest, I'm not very good at all subjects, and I've never been exposed to computer codes. You've found the wrong person, and I think your There are quite a lot of students, you should teach each of them with all your heart? Is there no one who can learn from you?"

Lure said: "Gal is not bad, but in our line of work, you need to control your desires, his emotions are too strong." He took a bite of the noodles and smiled with satisfaction: "It seems that I was ill for a few days , The delicious soup sent by the kitchen is all made by you, right? I heard that Gal and the others make it difficult for you, it is my fault, and I have told them not to make it difficult for you."

Shao Jun was very curious: "What do you mean by having too strong feelings?"

Luya said: "The strong need to control their own body, otherwise it is easy to be captured by the body in turn. Gal is easy to be emotional, you are very restrained, when you shoot and snipe vehicles, you can easily penetrate the heads of those people , but you just shot through their tires. It's rare that you're so young."

"We travel through the star network, and most of the security defenses are like fakes for us. Once we become greedy, we will have no scruples, and thus be manipulated by our own desires. Most of the hackers will end up badly. "

Luya's dark green eyes looked at him gently, his face was still very young, but his eyes revealed the fact that he was no longer young, Shao Jun thought for a while: "No, Mr. Luya, I think you are more mature than them." greedy."

Luya was surprised, and Shao Jun said: "You want more, so you can restrain others. You take in so many children, and then where do they go when they grow up? If I'm not wrong, they should all go to the alliance Yes, it is relatively simple for you to give them an identity in the alliance, so you hope to rescue all the slaves, you steal energy, you build bases, and you train successors endlessly, hoping to find someone like you , who can unconditionally protect these slaves and continue your career. With all due respect, your request is far more greedy than your students."

Luya also smiled: "You are right, so are you willing?"

Shao Jun said: "I don't want to."

Luya patiently said: "You are still young, if you stay by my side for a few years, you will gradually feel the sense of happiness and accomplishment of saving others and completely changing people's destiny, which is better than those vulgar people who eat, drink and have fun. Happiness is nobler."

Shao Jun thought for a while: "You have a painful childhood experience, so you make up for your childhood trauma by constantly saving slave children who have similar experiences to you. This is a compensatory mentality. The more you save, the more you The greater the psychological satisfaction you get, this is why you can immerse yourself in this career and never tire of it.”

Lua smiled: "You look young, but you didn't expect your thoughts to be very mature and clear. I like you even more."

Shao Jun shook his head: "Their new life is based on your saving like the hand of God. It is too difficult for you to save endlessly and hope that your successors can do the same. This is too big. I completely lost myself, walked in the dark for a long time, became a wanted criminal in the alliance and the empire, and lived for others all my life. Without myself, I don’t think you can find the next heir.”

"Your organization is called the Angel of Freedom. It looks like it is freeing the slaves, but in fact, the operation of the entire base and the entire organization is based on the sacrifice of the organizers who have completely lost their freedom. It depends on your selfless dedication. With you alone The freedom of others is exchanged for the freedom of others, and the next successors will also be bound by the organization and lose their freedom. It is great to sacrifice the freedom of one person in exchange for the freedom of so many people, but most of us are just mortal."

Lua smiled: "Are you so sure that you won't be touched by me in the future?"

Shao Jun said frankly: "I have a lover who is full of vitality and has great ideals. He also hopes to change the status quo of the empire. My love has already been given to him."

Lu Ya looked at Shao Jun for a long time and stopped talking. Shao Jun asked him, "So can you let me go back?"

Luya smiled, and said gently: "No, since you are here, it is impossible to let you out. I lied to you when I told you to go back."

There was no surprise on Shao Jun's face, he just looked at Luya and asked after a while, "Why are you in such a hurry?"

Lure's eyes flashed: "What's the rush?"

Shao Jun said: "You have been able to persist for so long. You are both bold and cautious. I believe that you must have done it voluntarily in the past, but now you have brought me back without knowing the details. You didn't even have time to ask for my opinion. Find out. My bottom line, you are in a hurry to find an heir, why are you in such a hurry?"

Lu Ya looked at Shao Jun and smiled: "You are very sharp, with extraordinary talent and a calm mind. I have met many, many people, so I can be sure that you are the most suitable for me shortly after meeting you. , don’t be too anxious to judge, you will find fun, I think you have integrated well during this time? Everyone likes you very much.”

Luya stood up, still patiently said: "Thank you for your face, you can come to me if you have anything, and if you are really not interested in codes, don't force it. Gal has also learned a lot in terms of data. What I need is a strong, calm and committed leader, and he's not enough."

Shao Jun said: "It's cruel, if you don't want to, you will give up and seek the next goal, so in order to get your approval, Gal can only persevere, give up ego, give up personal freedom, don't you think this is very unfair to him? Cruel?"

Luya narrowed his eyes: "Your thoughts are really beyond your age - I have tested your bone age, and you are not even 19 years old. I don't quite understand who taught you these things, your lover? ? Ke Ye? He doesn't seem like someone who can teach a student like you."

Shao Jun looked at him with a gentle expression, but his eyes seemed to see everything clearly. Luya nodded slightly, turned around and walked out, pushed open the door and saw Gal standing at the door, obviously heard their conversation, but did not avoid it. open.

Luya asked Gal: "Do you think I'm cruel to you?"

Gal said: "You gave me everything, and I am willing to dedicate my life to the Angel of Freedom."

Luya reached out and touched his brow bone, and Gal closed his eyes, as if seeing the little Gal coming to his side for the first time, he sighed: "Is it my fault?"

Gal opened his eyes, his dark green eyes were almost the same firm and calm: "The teacher can't be wrong, what's wrong is that the students are incompetent, and they can't make the teacher feel at ease."

Lure said: "Be nicer to Jun." He walked out, the windbreaker on his body was raised, his tall back was still straight, but there was an indescribable loneliness, Gal turned his head and looked down to eat the noodles. Shao Jun, who no longer cared about them, turned around and followed Luya closely.

In the peaceful Peach Blossom Valley, the peach blossoms are still falling colorfully, which is extremely peaceful.

High in space, invisible to them, satellites beamed relevant pictures back to a unit's headquarters computer.

This army is very peculiar, including both alliance soldiers and imperial soldiers, the only thing in common is that they are all elites brought by Ke Xia.The entire army has been quietly scattered at different points that are convenient for attack, and has been hidden.

Frost Crow watched carefully in front of the light screen for a while and said: "The oasis base set up in the vast and inaccessible desert is unexpected. It has a very clever hiding technique. It should be an anti-satellite detection energy field, not an additional means to locate Skynet. It is almost impossible for us to find them. In the past so many years, there have been battles with Zerg here, but they still hide themselves well. It can be confirmed that there is only one passage leading to the base. This passage must be heavily guarded and easy to guard It is difficult to attack, and it takes a very high price to attack. Simple and crude bombing will only cause fearless sacrifices, and I suspect that they will have other emergency escape routes leading to the sea. I have deployed the navy there, but still not Good prediction."

Ke Xia stared at the thin orange field on the map, and finally said slowly after a long time: "You can't attack by force."

Frost Crow looked at him in surprise: "No way, you spent so much effort to locate their lair, why don't you rush in?"

Ke Xia said: "No, Jun is in their hands. If they accidentally hurt Jun or they get angry and hurt Jun, I can't bear the consequences. I want Jun to come back safe and sound, [-]%."

Frost Crow said: "Then for a showdown negotiation?" He rubbed his nose: "In the early years, I had a relationship with Seraphim. If we come forward to negotiate, we can probably negotiate terms."

Ke Xia said: "Negotiations require bargaining chips, and I don't like to be threatened by others - negotiating hastily will only scare the enemy, and you are not a master of negotiating, but it will expose our fears."

Hua Jianfeng said: "I'll find a way to sneak in and investigate?"

Ke Xia continued to veto: "It's too slow." He couldn't wait.

Huajianfeng was speechless, and Ke Xia said: "The base they set up in such a remote place must have urgent requirements for material reserves and energy reserves. This is why they stole the new energy that I brought with me on patrol. Now the new Energy is not cheap."

Ke Xia's blue eyes were stern: "I can only lure them out." He pointed his finger at the small town on one side: "Ge Luo City, release the news that Prince Ke Ye has smuggled a batch of energy and precious The new medicine will pass by here."

He said slowly: "I'll just wait for them to come out. It would be best if Seraphim came out in person."