Hunting Game [Interstellar]

At two o'clock in the evening, Seventeen followed the master's instructions and began to set up a firewall against reverse tracking. Cang Xingyun sat beside Su Shichuan, smoking with him, and listening to him explain the detailed plan.

Nearly four months have passed since the last plenary meeting. At that time, Su Xingchuan's plan was only in its infancy, and there was no specific implementation plan. He only asked if they were willing to go to the alliance with Xifa instead of him. Help him establish a firm foundation in the new environment.However, this time, Su Shichuan's deployment has been refined to the evacuation plan.Cang Xingyun was silent the whole time and listened very carefully, but he couldn't help but marvel in his heart!

This is the third year with Su Shichuan. He has carried out countless missions for him and assassinated countless targets on the list. It stands to reason that he should have gotten used to this man's way of thinking long ago, but every time he listens to He is still invariably shocked by what he conceives.

That person seems to be omnipotent, his thinking is never constrained by conditions, he can conceive the whole thing before the time is ripe, and then perfect the previously missing parts bit by bit.On the day of actual implementation, all the impossibilities and uncertainties he imagined and expected, all of which have already become reality.

For an assassin like Cang Xingyun, "God created the world" is an extremely absurd statement, but he has to believe that Su Shichuan can create everything he desires.

At the National Day dinner three years ago, he was full of doubts about him, but only three years later, he put the facts before his eyes.

"This is just an ideal state. In actual operation, there will be many factors beyond my control, as well as various unforeseen emergencies." Exhaling the last puff of smoke, Su Shichuan pressed the cigarette butt and looked sideways at Cang Xing Meteor, "What do you want to say?"

Cang Xingyun forgot the cigarette in his hand halfway through hearing it, and now he suddenly came back to his senses, only to realize that the smoke had already burned out.

"It's still the same adventure." He put the cigarette in the ashtray, watching the last spark flickering, "If one day the Third Highness finds out the truth, and he doesn't understand or forgive, what are you going to do then?"

Su Shichuan smiled, as if he knew that he would ask such a question a long time ago, instead of answering the question directly, he said: "Xingyun, have you found that your thinking is becoming more and more emotional?"

Cang Xingyun was stunned suddenly, noncommittal, and did not answer.

"I can't remember when it started. Your answers are no longer limited to 'yes' or 'bad'. Instead, you will care about me." Su Shichuan leaned back on the back of the sofa, with long legs Overlapping, squinting at Cang Xingyun's eyes revealed a somewhat unclear meaning, "As a companion, this is indeed good news, but as a person who plans the future, unnecessary worries will only affect your judgment. "

"You're right." Cang Xingyun said, "But you can't always think about yourself."

Su Shichuan let out a "hmm", accepted the concern from Mr. Assassin, thought for a while, and replied: "I'm not sure if I can keep the secret all the time, let Xifa simply believe what I saw and experienced with my own eyes, This is so self-deceiving. I do envision the day he learns the truth, and I think he might not forgive me, but again, as a person, this is the last thing I want to see, but as someone who plans the future , which seems so insignificant."

Cang Xingyun stared at the wisp of smoke floating in the ashtray with lowered eyes, and after a long time, he suddenly said: "That day in the study of the church, the Emperor mentioned to you the plan, he mentioned that the researcher of the subject itself was Yuna Si," retracting his gaze, he finally turned his head to meet Su Shichuan's eyes, and asked very sharply, "Is this the real reason why you hijacked the doctor?"

As soon as these words came out, the other two people in the conference room were stunned at the same time. Seventeen looked up from behind the optical brain, and in a completely different tone from before, he reminded: "This is not what you should care about."

Cang Xingyun glanced at him expressionlessly, and said casually: "It seems that you also know?"

Seventeen's eyes narrowed: "I've been with Master from the beginning, so of course I will know things that you don't."

"What I mean is," Cang Xingyun raised the corners of his mouth in a rare way, teasing a simple intelligent body that doesn't know much about human beings, "You know, it just means that I guessed it right."

Seventeen: "..."

"You!" Seventeen was furious.

"Okay." Before the intelligent body exploded, Su Xingchuan hurriedly stopped him, and said calmly, "I didn't expect Andrew to summon me for this matter that day, otherwise I would arrange for you to avoid it in advance. It’s an important secret of the empire, and even Cisse doesn’t know about it.” He looked at Cang Xingyun, “This opportunity is rare, so just ask any questions you want.”

"Master!" Seventeen said eagerly, "Do you really want to tell him?"

Su Shichuan smiled casually: "Actually, it doesn't matter. After all, Xingyun is not an outsider, and it's better to tell what he guesses than to think about it in his heart with a half-knowledge."

"Will you answer?" Cang Xingyun looked at Su Shichuan with a scrutinizing gaze, "I don't have to know the truth, but I don't want you to 'convince' me through language skills like you treat the mission target."

"It seems that my image in your heart is not very good?" Su Shichuan teased, and after a while, his face became obviously serious, "You are no longer my mission target, of course, I will only correct your guessing mistakes The part that confirms your thoughts, and the content that is not involved will not be disclosed, is this okay?"

"Okay." Cang Xingyun said happily, "Did you already know about that plan?"

Su Shichuan was slightly taken aback, his eyes immediately became playful.

This question is very skillful, because it is general, so it involves a lot of content.However, extremes lead to opposites, the more you want to use one sentence to open up the whole situation, the more likely you will be choked back by a cunning opponent with one word.

Su Shichuan's answer is: "Yes."

Mr. Assassin frowned slightly: "That's all you want to say?"

"Obviously you only asked these questions." Su Shichuan looked at him calmly.

"Okay." Cang Xingyu breathed a sigh of relief, "The hijacking of the doctor is to prevent the plan from proceeding?"

"Correct."

"why?"

"This doesn't belong to your speculation." Su Shichuan said calmly, "Can I not answer?"

Cang Xing fell silent, and after thinking carefully for a while, he spoke again: "The emperor only spoke half of what he said that day. You made an important report, and then whispered something to him. Judging from the expression, what you told him should first be It is related to the plan itself, and secondly, the related content is beyond his expectation, am I right?"

"You are very careful." Su Shichuan commented objectively.

Cang Xingyun said: "To be honest, if I hadn't been by your side, I'm afraid I would never have heard of such a wild plan in my life - he actually wanted to give the future a chance to restart and let one person change the fate of the world. At that time I was surprised and found it inconceivable, but once this inconceivability is connected with you, I suddenly found that some of the mysteries in your body seem to have finally found the answer, for example, hijacking Dr. Yunus."

"Another example..." He paused, "Your smart mech is built on an unpopularized technology."

The smile in Su Shichuan's eyes deepened, and he said lightly, "Go ahead."

"For a long time, my biggest doubt about you is your ability." Cang Xingyun seemed to have grasped the point, and his thoughts suddenly became bright, "I am an assassin, and what I do is to collect money to kill you. I think I know it well. I have seen all kinds of employers and the mission goals they hope to solve, but I can't see through you."

"You give me a very complicated feeling. Your insights and thoughts are beyond your age. Your ability to predict is terribly accurate, and your ideas for solving problems emerge in endlessly. It's not that I haven't seen powerful guys, but those people have long been in high positions. The reward list on the black market corresponds to an attractive price, not someone who suddenly appears outside the prison where I am being held one day, who is unknown but will overthrow the empire as soon as he opens his mouth."

"Su Shichuan," he looked up at him, his calm blood-colored pupils rarely trembled slightly, as if he couldn't believe what he said next, "do you... not only know that plan, and also... participated in it personally?"

After he finished speaking, the entire conference room fell silent.

Seventeen silently sighed, and continued to bury his head in completing the final firewall deployment.

Su Shichuan's eyelashes drooped slightly, and he was silent for more than a minute, before he said unhurriedly: "Xingyun, it's been three years, and you are the first person to see through my identity."

Hearing this, Cang Xingyun was beyond shocked: "Who the hell are you?"

"I am me." Su Shichuan said warmly, "That plan is called the 'hunting plan', and the ones sent back to the past can be understood as souls, or brain waves with memories. Three years ago, I He woke up in his body, replaced his past self, and met Seventeen who was affected by the plan and started the initial program, this is the truth."

Cang Xingyun stared at him blankly: "Then you came back... because..."

"Because the empire is dead." Su Shichuan said numbly, "We failed to resist the alliance's offensive. Facing the disadvantages, Xi Sai chose to abandon the country and flee. Xi Fa and Rex died together. The plan was launched. The doctor put me alone. People sent it back."

"No wonder you chose to support His Highness the Third Highness from the very beginning." Cang Xingyun shook his head with a smile.

The strange thing is that when he learned the so-called truth, he didn't feel the relief he expected. Instead, he became a lot heavier because he changed to the perspective of an insider.Looking at everything that happened in the past three years again, Cang Xingyun suddenly discovered that the so-called "omnipotence" he thought before was actually brought back by Su Shichuan step by step. He suddenly understood why he didn't To think for himself, and understand why the more he was injured, the crazier his plan became.

"Remember to keep it secret." Su Shichuan reminded.

"En." Cang Xingyun thought for a while, then asked, "Does anyone else know?"

Su Shichuan lit a cigarette again, relaxed, and said: "At present, only you and Shiqi know the whole content. The doctor only knows that I am the one who participated in the plan to come back, but he doesn't know my current identity. Perry has a premonition 'My soul is from the future', and the rest of us don't know anything about it."

"Where is Your Highness the Third?" Cang Xingyun asked, "Do you really intend to hide it from him for the rest of your life?"

"There should be a day when I tell him, but not now." Su Shichuan smiled, "I'm an agent, it's okay to lose my life, but it's not okay to reveal the secret. Being discovered by you is already out of the plan, reminding someone to 'remember "Secrecy" can be barely accepted, and if there are too many people, the secret will lose its value as a secret."

"And your situation is quite special. I judged it based on the content of my conversation with Andrew. I don't need to explain too much. However, Xifa is different from you in terms of situation and position. It is easy to make him hate Cisse. But hating him is not the same as making an enemy of his country, nor is personal hatred enough to start a war."

"It's not easy for a person to leave his homeland, join a completely unfamiliar camp, start from the beginning, build a foundation bit by bit, climb to a high position, and finally attack back?" Su Shichuan couldn't help laughing, laughing very self-deprecatingly, "War is killing, and killing is a crime. How many people dare to shoulder the burden of dying? Don't think about it too easily."

At this moment, Seventeen, who was busy behind his head, looked up again and said, "Master, my side is ready. When do you plan to contact the alliance?"

Su Shichuan raised his wrist to look at his watch, and said, "Right now."

"It's so late..." Seventeen looked at him hesitantly, "I'm not sure if I can contact Rex."

Su Shichuan put on the headset, entered the encrypted personal ID, and said without looking up: "The lateness is of great significance, and Rex will pay attention to it."

After the words were closed, he raised his index finger to cover his lips, signaling for silence.

The notification tone in the headset and the radio waves of the Seventeen Optical Brain were displayed at the same time, and the voice application was approved.

At the same time, the distant galaxies, the Union Emperor star, and the Sirius star.

The news of the assassination of the emperor of the Luo Yin Empire has already been passed on here, and the security deployment of the distant galaxy has obviously changed during this period.Different from Andrew's steady and steady approach, Cisse's arrangement was obviously aggressive, with continuous conflicts for many days.

After finishing the last military report, Rex leaned back in the armchair, pressed his forehead as if tired, and rubbed it vigorously.Suddenly footsteps came, which was very clear in the silent palace. He heard the guard at the door stop him, and the volume of the conversation had already made it clear that the person was in a hurry.

After a while, there was a knock on the door, and the guard reported: "Commander, someone from the Intelligence Department is here, and they have something important to ask for your instructions."

Rex slowly opened his eyes and replied, "Let him in."

Guard: "Yes."

After the words were lost, the study door was opened from the outside, and a young man in military uniform walked in quickly, stood still in front of the desk, and bowed to Rex.

"Commander, I'm very sorry for disturbing you late at night," the man said.

The person who came was the chief of the Alliance Intelligence Department. His name was Brandt. He had the rank of general and was one of the first batch of old departments that followed Rex to leave the Rhine Empire.

"Why did you come in person?" Rex realized the seriousness of the problem, sat up subconsciously, put his elbows on the table, "sit down and talk."

Brant didn't sit down, but took two steps forward, and put a communicator and matching headset on the desk: "Do you still remember the special agent we arranged to enter the Imperial Military Academy three years ago, who was the same professional as the Third Highness?" Is it?"

"Song Xiao." Rex narrowed his eyes sensitively.

"Yes, it's him." Brant spoke quickly, but enunciated very clearly, "The last winter military exercise was the last time we got in touch with him. At that time, you hurriedly evacuated from Fort Hagrid. Song Xiao disappeared. So far His whereabouts are unknown. According to reports from other agents, the military academy gave the statement of 'retirement for recuperation', so our side directly registered the death according to the identity exposure."

Rex looked at the communicator on the table and said bluntly, "What's wrong with him?"

"Just ten minutes ago, the communication ID we used to get in touch with Song Xiao received a voice request." Brant said, "Reverse tracking can only roughly confirm that the other party is on Baidi Star, but cannot confirm the exact location. "

"Are you connected?" Rex asked.

Brant was silent for a few seconds, and said: "Considering the possibility of Song Xiao's survival, I allow my subordinate to pass the other party's voice request."

"say what?"

"The other party came to you by name, and he said he was a 'crow'."

Rex was stunned, with a rare surprise showing between his brows and eyes. He took the headset and put it on, then turned on the light screen of the communicator, hesitating for a few seconds at the voice communication in the "waiting" state, and finally "Continue" was selected.

"Long time no see, Commander Rex."

The young voice belonging to the "crow" sounded, and Rex was impressed by him, and almost immediately corresponded to the guy in his memory wearing a tactical mask and hood.

"The half-year agreement is about to expire, and I'm here to fulfill my promise." The other party said with a smile.

……

Three days later, on the White Emperor Star Kate Continent, the Imperial Military Academy.

It was the afternoon training time, and the student dormitory was empty.

The teacher who was waiting to check attendance left, a window at the end of the corridor was slowly pushed open, and then an upside-down figure quickly turned in.

Austin had just returned from the training ground. He was still wearing a camouflage training uniform, and his forehead was covered with fine layers of sweat.He took two deep breaths to calm down his violent heartbeat, walked around around, and after making sure that there was no one else on this floor, he quickly walked towards the third-to-last door.

The door of the student dormitory is equipped with a clear lock and a combination lock. Austin skillfully opened the lock cylinder of the Doming lock with a piece of metal wire, then clicked on the communicator, and entered the corresponding password according to the message prompt.As the last number was entered, the green light representing "Entry Allowed" came on. Austin pushed the door and flashed into the room, and then gently closed it with his backhand.

The dormitory for two people is uniformly furnished and very simple. The bed on the left is neatly covered with bedding, and the bed on the right is covered with a dustproof cloth. The luggage has already been arranged and neatly placed beside the desk.Austin stepped forward with a clear goal, put down the largest box, opened it, took out the optical computer, turned it on, and clicked into the personal mailbox.

The owner of the optical brain obviously has the habit of emptying the inbox regularly. Out of caution, Austin still browsed through the few emails that had not been deleted.After checking all the main accessories, he brought the hard disk connected to the optical computer, and used a recovery program to restore the deleted parts one by one.

The progress bar advances slowly, and the restored emails will not leave any traces in the mailbox, but will be saved in the mobile hard disk.

While paying attention to the movement in the corridor, Austin casually clicked on a few to check.

Soon, he noticed a hidden sender, and the text of the last email sent by Xifa to the other party had only one date—5.31.The attachment is the security deployment of the Double Moon Hall.

Austin's heart was beating fast, and he could hardly contain the excitement of discovering the secret. He clicked on the light screen of the communicator, and directly sent a voice request.Ten seconds later, the other party connected, and Austin said: "Teacher, I found a few deleted emails through the program you sent. The other party hid the IP address, but the content should be correct from the alliance!"

"Well done," came Su Shichuan's voice, "You must go back as soon as possible before the training is over."

"Yes!" After the progress bar finished, Austin no longer looked at other parts, put away the hard drive, restored the luggage to its original state, and then exited silently, "What should I do now? I noticed that he put the Double Moon Hall The security deployment was sent to the other party, and the content mentioned the date of the new emperor's enthronement, the alliance may take action on that day, do you want to tell..."

"I don't think so for the time being." Su Shichuan said, "After the last military exercise, the defense barrier of Baidi Star outside the atmosphere has been greatly strengthened. It is unlikely that the alliance will introduce new undercover agents in the short term. Their actions just show that There are still lurking agents inside, this is a good opportunity to catch them all in one go, and early preparations can easily scare the enemy.”

Austin opened the window and left the dormitory, his heart beating much faster than when stealing secrets: "Then what is your plan?"

"Want to know?" Su Shichuan did not answer the question, but said meaningfully, "This is an important military aircraft. I told you, so you have to keep it secret for me."

"I can!" Austin said eagerly, "I am willing to help you!"

Su Shichuan said: "My plan is similar to the National Day dinner three years ago. On the surface, I will keep the original deployment unchanged, so that the enemy will think that we have not noticed it, and secretly plan another one. Adapt to the opponent's actions, as long as we stay Live, and we can ask a lot of things."

"What about Cifa?" Austin reminded, "This time the evidence is convincing. As the future regent, he has a secret alliance and intends to assassinate His Majesty. He can no longer hide it!"

Su Shichuan remained silent, and Austin couldn't wait for the other party's decision, so he couldn't help urging: "Teacher?!"

"I need to think about it." Su Shichuan said hesitantly.

"What are you still hesitating about?" Austin couldn't understand at all, "He has already..."

"Stop talking." Su Shichuan interrupted him, "I still have things to deal with, so I'll hang up first."

After the voice fell, the beep sounded in the headset, Austin stopped, stood in place for a while, and then continued to walk towards the training ground as if nothing had happened.

On the other side, Cang Xingyun watched Su Shichuan take off the headset, and said indifferently, "Why didn't you just hint him to submit the evidence?"

"I'm already hinting, but it's just a psychological hint." Su Shichuan picked up the teacup and blew on the hot tea inside, "I want him to feel my favoritism towards Xifa, and make him feel that I want to hide it, so that He will struggle between the two options of 'telling the truth' and 'obedience to orders', and finally make his own decision."

Cang Xingyun frowned slightly, remained silent for a few seconds, and asked again: "Then how can you be sure he will say it?"

"Austin's growth environment determines that he will be unconditionally loyal to the Empire and Cisse, and the alliance's surprise attack will only strengthen this belief." Su Shichuan took a sip of tea and said with a half-smile, "But in the 'defying my will' It is very likely that he will hide the fact that 'I participated' out of two feelings of guilt and protection, which is what I want."

"You took advantage of his trust in you and his loyalty to the empire, and asked him to hide the fact that he was guided by you." Cang Xingyun smiled, "You are really scary."

Eyelashes drooping, Su Shichuan stared at a piece of tea swirling in the cup, and his voice could not help but sneer: "I think so too. But you are the only ones going to the alliance this time, in order to make Cisse feel bad for me. Doubt, have to do it."

"I don't blame you." Cang Xingyun explained.

"I know," Su Shichuan curled the corners of his mouth inconspicuously, "I really look down on myself now."