Merit Book·Xinghai

Diss took a cup of hot tea, leaned against the window, his eyes were empty, thinking about his thoughts.

He thought of his divorced wife and the two children with his wife, and thought of his job that he couldn't go home to take a look at all year round.In fact, work is a good job, with more money and less work. It is a good place to retire. The only disadvantage is that it is too far away from home, and the control is strict, and the requirements for confidentiality are too high. It is impossible to spend more time with family members.

As an elderly bachelor, Diss' life is still very quality, all thanks to his family's nanny robot Renee who has taken care of him since birth, and Diss loves it more than his parents and wife.But Renee is very old, it has long been unable to keep up with the changes of the times, and recently there have been some minor problems with program errors and sudden shutdowns.Diess decided to take it to upgrade the system again during the break next month, and several parts on it should be replaced, so it should be done at once.

Thinking of Renee, Dees thought of the leftover half-box of the limited-edition volcano ice cream that Renee had bought him in the refrigerator.This kind of ice cream is hard to come by. Although Diess loves it badly, he often fails to buy it once in ten days and half a month, so every time he buys it, he will cherish it and eat it in two or three times.But this kind of ice cream will go bad after a long time, so he'd better eat the remaining half box after get off work today.

Recalling the wonderful taste of ice cream, Diss mouth began to secrete liquid.He swallowed, happily looking forward to the end of the day.

There seemed to be something slipping across the snow in the distance.

Diss blinked, retracted his empty gaze, and stared intently at the snow outside the window.

The heavy snow that fell from noon yesterday to this morning has stopped, and the snow reflects the sun, making it blindingly white.However, Diss's windows were equipped with light filters, so they were not affected.He looked at it for a while, but found nothing. He wondered if he had been dazed for too long, so he turned away from the window, walked to a chair and sat down.

Diss didn't see that the moment he turned around, a gust of wind blew outside the building, and a thin layer of snow on the ground was blown up, but the security robot outside the building seemed to be unable to withstand the wind, "crash" With a bang, it broke into a pile of fragments and scattered all over the ground.

But as soon as Diss sat down, the bottom of his buttocks jumped up like a spring.

Throughout the building, harsh sirens sounded.

"Invasion warning! Invasion warning..." The electronic voice of the female voice was only repeated twice before it stopped abruptly, as if it had been cut off abruptly.But the sharp alarm bells did not stop and rang through the entire building.

"Report! Report! There is an enemy invasion! Ah——"

The emergency communicator rang suddenly, then ended in a scream.Diss rushed over, pressed the intercom and asked, "Hey, how are you? What happened? Hello?"

After a while, a timid and very sweet voice came from the intercom. Diss remembered this voice, which belonged to a little girl who was about the same age as his daughter, and that girl was the clerk in charge of communications on the first floor.Her voice full of fear said: "The intruder has left, he has gone underground..."

The emergency call is on all channels. Diss knew that the underground floors must be ready to defend against the enemy at this time, so he didn't give more instructions, but continued to ask: "How are you? Others... are they still alive? ?”

"...Yes, they are still breathing." The girl said tremblingly, "He didn't kill anyone."

"He?" Diss noticed the name and asked incredulously, "How many intruders are there?"

"One, male. The speed is very fast, I... I didn't see clearly..." The girl said tremblingly. In fact, she didn't see the male and female clearly, but she saw the cloak thrown by the door.

The large man's cloak is a relatively rare silver-gray color, thrown on the snow casually, the effect of reflecting sunlight is similar to that of snow, and it will be ignored if you are not careful.

Diss wanted to ask again, when he suddenly heard another man's voice coming from the intercom: "He's coming! I saw him... Ah!"

After a short exclamation, there was only the heavy muffled sound of flesh hitting the ground in the intercom, and Diss didn't even dare to ask any more questions for a while.

A few seconds later, a new voice came from the intercom——

"Report! The intruder has broken through to the second basement! We will organize—"

"boom!"

After a loud explosion, there was only a "rustling" sound in the communicator. Diss kept the half-bowed posture when he pressed the communicator, feeling cold all over.

"Report, an enemy has been found on the third basement level..."

"Fourth floor Nelson, request for support, request for support..."

"He has reached the fifth floor, what should we do, please instruct! Please instruct!"

There was a burst of exclamation and screams in the intercom every ten seconds. The enemy broke through the ground at an increasing speed. Others who had not encountered the enemy just listened to the voices in the intercom. I couldn't help trembling with fear, my hands and feet were cold.

There are [-] floors underground in this building. Judging from this speed, there is not much time left for Diss.

In this tight time, Dis ignored the panicked shouts from the communicator, and spent tens of seconds sending a luxurious blank.

——He remembered a legend passed down by the mouth of a few people, and a secret order received a long time ago.

Dies staggered to the front of the seat, staggered and fell, his fingers trembling, and pressed a very hidden button on the armrest of the seat.After this slight movement, he completely collapsed on the seat, sweating profusely.

A desperate cry came from the intercom: "We are on the No. 12th floor of the underground...he is here!"

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In order to celebrate the Queen's enthronement, grand balls will be held every night for three consecutive days in the Landia Palace and in all cities, big and small.In the Ice Palace, many big figures who are rare to see at the top of the empire and bigwigs who rule a star system have come to congratulate the queen on her coronation. It is also brightly lit all night. Citizens try their best to decorate the side of their homes facing the street, and put a lot of drinks and food outside the door for people to take for free. At night, there are many people on the balcony, on the street, and in the square. There were singing and dancing in the parks and parks, some people carried homemade lanterns for a parade, some people wore exotic costumes, drank and had fun, and the entire imperial capital turned into a sea of ​​joy.

Amidst all the laughter and laughter, one person suddenly frowned and quietly retreated to a dark place that cannot be illuminated by lights. He glanced at the message he had just received and frowned. Please tap your bracelet and lower your voice. Said: "Lancao, is the news true?"

As if he had received some reply, he glanced at the center of the ball, then looked up at the sky, and sighed, "I should have known earlier that he wouldn't be killed so easily." , start Apollo."

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After a while, the man straightened his collar, put on a smile again, and stepped onto the brightly lit dance floor.

At the same time, in the distant space above Imperial Star, a satellite with a strange shape, like an open flower umbrella, slowly turned its direction. The "umbrella handle" was aimed at a white egg-shaped building on the surface of the planet, and then the tip of the umbrella handle Brighter and Brighter... Brighter and Brighter...

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Diss poured out the residual tea in the cup, and then poured himself another cup of tea, but heard a soft "crack" sound, frowned, and found that the teacup in his hand was trembling and knocking on the cup holder. That's why he made such a disturbing sound.

He clicked his tongue, threw away the cup holder, and took a sip of the teacup with both hands.The cup kept shaking, and the tea spilled out, wet most of the front of the clothes.

Diess put down the cup, pressed the wristband, and called a communication number. Unsurprisingly, there was a rustling sound that could not be connected.

The emergency call has not rang for half a minute.Half a minute ago, the No.18 underground floor, that is, the first and last personnel at the bottom floor also received the last news, and then they all fell silent.

But he knows that this does not mean that the battle is over, on the contrary, the underground battle is probably the most intense stage at this time.The incident happened so suddenly that many people did not react.But now, combatants and weapons throughout the base are concentrating underground toward the intruder's entry.The fierce battle even made their building, which can withstand magnitude [-] earthquakes and volcanic eruptions, tremble slightly. I don't know how many powerful weapons they used.

Diss only felt sad and slightly angry, but he didn't know who it was directed at.

He pressed the communication number on the bracelet again, and still got a monotonous "rustling" sound in response.

He smiled wryly, looked out the window, and stared blankly for a while.

Then, he saw that the sky, which had already started to darken, became brighter and brighter at this time, as if the sun suddenly jumped out of his window, white light and heat waves rushed towards his face.

—I still have half a box of ice cream left!

Diss thought with some regret.

"boom------"

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On the Lige hills, Luoer and his party opened their mouths wide in surprise, watching a beam of light connecting the sky and the earth in the far distance, and it disappeared in a flash.

"Then, what is that?" Lol asked in astonishment.

"Apollo." Semilian whispered.