Hunting Game [Interstellar]

At zero o'clock that day, the small town of Modo, [-] kilometers away from the imperial capital.

In the ancient Sirian language, "Modo" means a free land without barriers.

This is the last area to be renovated around the alliance imperial capital. There are no modern buildings, and the land is sparsely populated. There are less than fifty aboriginal households in the whole town. They live by traditional flower planting, and their way of life is very simple.If you look at the satellite map, Modo is like an ordinary frosted stone, which is very abruptly inlaid next to the bright stars created by modern technology. It is a black spot in the radiance. No.

The long night is deep, covering the sleeping town.

The hovering vehicle drove quickly through the only street in the town, startling a feigned cat under the flower stand to prick up its ears uncomfortably, watching the scarlet taillights dragging out a strip of light and disappearing into the distant darkness.

The blurry street scene of the town passed by outside the car window, and was quickly replaced by a large flower field. Su Zhanchuan supported the car door with his elbow, rested his chin with one hand, and stared at the scene outside the window with his eyes absent-mindedly.

"It's almost there," Sifer said.

Hearing this, Su Shichuan withdrew his gaze and turned his head slightly: "I thought you would keep them by your side, but I didn't expect you would arrange them so far away."

"Rex did have a suggestion to let them stay in the Seven Star Hall, and he also promised to arrange a suitable position in the military department." Xifa focused on driving and said without squinting, "But Xingyun's suggestion to me is to at least let them Some of them are far away from the power center of the alliance, and they cannot all be restrained, otherwise it will be very inconvenient."

Su Shichuan said with a smile: "The task I gave them was to assist you with all my strength. In this way, it is actually a good result to go deep into the military headquarters and perform their duties. But Rex's purpose is not difficult to guess. He wants to use the military The duties of the Ministry are distributed to the 'nameless people', and they are monitored and controlled one by one to avoid unnecessary trouble."

As he spoke, he lowered the car window to let the warm wind blow in, and lit a cigarette: "Xingyun is very comprehensive."

"Sometimes he looks like you to me." After finishing speaking, Xifa was silent for a few seconds, and then added, "I'm only targeting his way of thinking about certain things, but he doesn't look like you at all."

"That's right." Su Shichuan flicked off the cigarette ash, "He was born as a Starfall Assassin, and he only killed people at the beginning. In order for him to replace me, I spent a lot of time on him during that time."

"I thought you would trust Seventeen more." Xifa turned his head to look at him.

When the eyes met, Su Shichuan smiled: "It has nothing to do with trust. Seventeen is an intelligent body. His intelligence foundation comes from artificially coded programs. His data analysis ability is very good, but his perceptual thinking is simply a mess. If the job is handed over to him, I'm afraid I won't be able to rest assured that you will leave for ten years."

Xifa also smiled: "Sounds like it's not bad?"

After a while, the hover car turned onto a path close to the woods and stopped in a relatively flat open space.

The two opened the door and got out of the car, Su Shichuan glanced at the dark forest: "Where the hell is it?"

"There is a church behind this forest. It is not too big. It is said that it was abandoned shortly after the alliance settled in." Xifa waited for Su Shichuan to come over, and walked into the forest with him, "Rex is very anti-religious and does not allow aborigines With beliefs other than imperial power, there seems to be a lot of conflicts in the early stage, but this is just an asteroid after all, and gradually no one will resist under the power."

"Rex probably considered that under the original system of the empire, the church divided up part of the imperial power, and the archbishop had the right to dictate to the emperor, so he cut off the foundation of religion in the alliance first." Su Shichuan objectively commented , "It's just that the means are too extreme."

"Hmm." Xifa agreed with his analysis, remained silent for a while, and asked, "What do you think?"

Su Shichuan said with a smile: "I am a soldier without faith, and my understanding of the church is not objective enough after all. Otherwise—" At this point, he paused slightly, raised his eyelashes, and smiled with meaning in his eyes, "Otherwise that day In the Cathedral of Light, I will not easily get rid of Bishop Charles."

Xifa was stunned, and suddenly felt the deep meaning in these words, and Su Shichuan's move seemed to clear the way for him.

But... the time is wrong.

At that time, he was still the third prince of the empire, so it was impossible for him to foresee the day when he would turn against the empire, right?

For no reason, Xifa suddenly recalled the assassination at the coronation ceremony.

For a long time, he regarded everything that happened that day as a self-directed and self-acted act of framing, because it was in line with the situation of the year, and it was also a possible method for Cisse.However, in contrast, there can actually be another explanation!

This idea quickly popped up in his mind, Xifa paused slightly inconspicuously under his feet, the two of them were staggered, and he looked up at Su Shichuan's back.

The parking lot is not far from the church, and the outline of the courtyard wall can already be seen now.Su Shichuan felt that this place was chosen with great care. Although the nature is different, to some extent, it still has some similarities with the old theater in the past.

His thoughts drifted away, and he didn't notice Xifa's strangeness, so he asked, "What is your final arrangement for them?"

Xifa, who was asked the question, suddenly came back to his senses, hurriedly took two steps to keep up, and said calmly as if nothing happened: "Actually, Rex first took a fancy to Yunus's technology related to artificial intelligence, because of this he will take the initiative Get in touch with your subordinates, so the doctor went to the research center of the alliance, which was the first to be settled and the smoothest."

"He should still have his eyes on Xingyun, right?" Su Shichuan said.

Xifa looked at him slightly surprised: "How do you know?"

"The black market does not distinguish between camps, and the value of Xingyun has long been reflected in his worth," Su Shichuan said lightly, "not to mention that there is no one in power who is not interested in assassins. An easy-to-use blade can sometimes outperform thousands of troops.”

Xifa gave a "hmm" and said, "He wanted to arrange Xingyun to join the intelligence department, but he was rejected. I didn't understand why at first, but I understood after listening to you."

Su Shichuan gave Xifa a look when he heard the words, meaning, go on.

Xifa replied truthfully: "He is the Leader after you, the real fake crow, he must be free and cannot be restricted by his identity."

"Yes." Su Shichuan said.

"However, he took this opportunity to recommend Ji Yue to Rex, so Ji Yue is now in the air combat team, and it seems that he is already a colonel." Xifa said with a smile, "I guess you should ask them about it, I only asked Brant specifically during the day."

"You are quite careful."

During the chat, the two came to the courtyard gate of the church. Xifa quickly took two steps and actively pushed open one of the wrought iron gates, then took a step back and let Su Shichuan go in very gentlemanly.Su Shichuan calmly accepted all kinds of care from Xifa and walked into the courtyard.

The church has been abandoned for a long time, and it is spring when everything grows. At this time, the courtyard is full of weeds and shrubs, and there is no place to set foot.The fountain in the center has been dry for some time, and the statue of the Virgin holding the clay pot has been eroded and incomplete. A nest of sparrows has built a nest in the pot, and the newborn cubs will occasionally make a chirp or two.

The star river is brilliant at night, the full moon hangs high, and the slanting white moonlight casts a matte-like slightly shiny texture on the courtyard.

Su Shichuan stopped by the fountain, looked up at the towering spire of the church: "Does Rex know this place?"

"Of course I know." Xifa stood still beside him, "I just never came here." After speaking, he turned his head to look at Su Shichuan.

The moonlight was extremely gentle, and under the moonlight the man's gaze was like a pool of deep spring water, reflecting the stars all over the sky, like a shimmering mist.

All of a sudden, Su Shichuan opened his mouth and said in a low voice: "There used to be an old opera house in the outskirts of the imperial capital. I would go to see them occasionally and assign new tasks along the way."

It wasn’t long before the truth about the “crow” was confessed, and the two hadn’t had a chance to communicate in depth. It was the first time that Xifa heard Su Shichuan mention such a trivial part. He was curious and at the same time could not help but notice a bit of weirdness——from his tone, it seemed that it was not In recollection, combined with the special atmosphere of the church, Xifa suddenly had a strange feeling that he was mourning.

"Is that opera house still there?" Xifa answered subconsciously.

"It's gone." Su Shichuan sighed softly, "I went back to light a fire after you left White Emperor Star, and I never went there again."

Xifa couldn't understand: "You can keep it if you don't use it anymore. If you burn it, it will easily attract the attention of the military."

Su Shichuan: "Because there was a companion who trusted me very much, that night for..." He paused for a while, then changed his words after a while, "Did for me."

"I didn't have time to prepare too much, so I used that method to pay homage. After I calmed down and thought about it, my actions were indeed impulsive, but at that time, you were already safe, and I was the only one in the empire, so it didn't matter." Shut up, Su Shichuan stopped talking and stopped, and walked towards the church.

The church is small in size, with only one floor on the ground, with a chapel in the front and living rooms in the back.

Unlike the previous opera house, the church itself has not undergone any transformation, maintaining the original structural layout, without adding any security measures at the entrance and exit, and the space is completely open.Of course, except for Xifa and two other non-resident members, no one else will visit.

At this time, the divided conference room was brightly lit, Cang Xingyun stood by the window, raised his wrist to check the time from time to time, and most of the time he was looking at the sled dogs on the sofa.Shi Qi did not transform into a human form, the whole dog lay lazily into a single line, half-closed its eyes, the thick fur tail behind it swayed once and for all, and a metal mask representing "crow" was placed beside it.

Cang Xingyun stared at the tail, and continued to silently count the number of times the dog wagged its tail.

"Did the Third Highness say what he was going to do here?" Finally, Seventeen couldn't help asking.

"No." After answering, Mr. Assassin moved his eyes up and landed on the sled dog's hairy buttocks, and then frowned calmly, wondering if the dog had become too fat!Will the intelligent body also gain weight?And all fat on the mimicry image?

"Speaking of which, you seem to have gone out once a few days ago." While talking, Shi Qi stood up abruptly, turned his head to look at Cang Xingyun, licked his nose and said, "Is there any news?"

According to Su Shichuan's deployment that day, there should be news, but the military department kept it completely secret, and he didn't know the specific progress. The most important thing was that Su Shichuan didn't mention whether he could disclose it to others.Cang Xingyun is well versed in this dog's temperament, and knows that he is usually quite calm in situations, but when he meets someone related to his master, he is prone to fall ill, as naive as a child, so he dare not rashly call "meet Su Death River" told him.

Of course, getting sick is secondary, the main thing is to worry about this guy jumping up and hitting people.

Mr. Assassin said very calmly, "I'm going out to do something."

"what's up?"

"Private business."

Shi Qi was instantly shocked: "You actually have a private matter behind my back?!"

Cang Xingyun couldn't help raising his eyebrows when he heard the words: "Impossible?"

"No, it's just that you're not here, I'm bored by myself." Shi Qi was discouraged and continued to lie on his stomach, "If only I didn't have to pretend to be the master, the third highness can arrange me to enter the military department, so It’s better to collect more information than being able to do nothing under the identity of ‘crow’.”

"To be honest, the 'crow' you played is full of flaws." Cang Xingyun said.

"Of course," Seventeen sighed, "According to the comprehensive analysis of the system, the master is the one with the most complex personality, which is much more difficult than simple facial paralysis like yours."

Cang Xingyun: "..."

Cang Xingyun stood up straight calmly, turned back to look at the window, and quickly conducted a self-examination with the help of the image on the glass, thinking, is the face paralyzed?

The Mr. Assassin in the mirror had a cold expression on his face.

At this moment, footsteps sounded in the corridor.

The hearing of the two of them was far superior to that of ordinary humans, and Cang Xingyun turned around almost instantly and gave Shi Qi a wink.Seventeen didn't need him to remind him at all, he immediately changed back to human form, picked up the mask and put it on, crossed his legs and adjusted his sitting position, lowered his voice suspiciously: "Did the Third Highness mention that he would bring someone over?"

The footsteps are still far away, but the auditory system of the agent can make the most accurate judgment.

Cang Xingyun completely believed in Seventeen in this point, he did not doubt that there was him, and said in a deep voice, "No."

After a while, two visitors came to the door.

Seventeen grasped Su Shichuan's behavior and quickly entered the role, and the whole aura changed drastically in an instant.He picked up the cup on the tea table, lowered his head and blew on the already warm tea.At this moment, the door of the room opened from the outside, Seventeen looked up, and smiled unhurriedly and said, "Tonight, His Royal Highness——"

Before he finished speaking, his voice stopped abruptly, and his five fingers unconsciously clenched together, crushing the cup directly.

Cang Xingyun: "..."

It's over, we have to step aside, the stupid dog is sick.Mr. Assassin meditated.

It all happened in a matter of seconds. As soon as Su Shichuan stepped into the meeting room, he saw a giant snow-white dog flying towards him in the next second. As a result, he was thrown out intact before he could stand still.

Xifa: "..."

The sled dog was covered in fur, with snot and tears streaming down his nose, and he put his long face into his owner's chest, crying like a two-hundred-pound child: "Woooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo Right?!"

Su Shichuan was hit hard by the chest, the wound was torn, and he couldn't help gasping for breath in pain.He lowered his eyes to look at the coquettish sled dog in his arms, stretched out his hand and stroked the huge dog's head, and couldn't laugh or cry: "Xingyun lied to you, why don't you settle with him?"

Mr. Assassin who was decisively sold his teammates: "..."

"Wooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooow!" Sniff, suddenly startled, "Master, you are injured."

"Small injury." Su Shichuan said.

Shi Qi hurriedly got up, opened his mouth to grab Su Shichuan, but felt that it was inappropriate when he opened his mouth, so he turned back into a human form with a "swish", and hugged Su Shichuan without saying a word.Shi Qi completely ignored the other two people at the door, and went straight back to the conference room, put him safely on the sofa, and then skillfully pretended to be a well-behaved and cute fox dog, and jumped onto his master's lap, making sure that he could act coquettishly but not Compress the wound.

"Where is the injury? Is it serious?" Seventeen wagged his tail courteously. After speaking, his attitude changed immediately. He gritted his teeth and asked again, "Which bastard did it? I'm going to abolish him!"

Xifa: "..."

Xifa watched his man being taken away by the dog, and didn't know how to react for a while. After a few seconds of silence, he still felt angry, and then turned his head to look at Cang Xingyun: "Is there a bug in the program? Why? It doesn't feel normal, has it been like this?"

"It may be that the dog mimicked too many times, and the behavior was out of balance, which led to the deviation of the program." Cang Xingyun said expressionlessly, "Just get used to it, come first."

Xifa stared intently at a person and a dog in the room, and frowned slightly: "Can it not climb Shichuan's thigh?"

Cang Xingyun followed his gaze and looked over: "That depends on His Highness's ability."

The author has something to say: After writing this chapter, a small theater was finally opened——

Xifa: Your dog took my wife away.

Xingyun: Su Shichuan sold me without saying a word, what did I say?

Sifer: That dog is going to kill me.

Xingyun: I can't control it.

Xifa: I said you were beaten by dogs all the time, why didn't you resist?

Xingyun: ... (silent)

Xifa: You said that if the news about "the greatest assassin in the interstellar world" is afraid of his henpeck, will your price drop on the black market?

Xingyun: ……………