Byron's Blade

"Acquaintance? Are those two officers?" The woman opposite asked again.

Lan Ni took a sip of her coffee and said, "The one with the long hair saved my life four years ago." Her tone was flat, and she didn't seem to mention the savior at all.

"Hey!" The woman on the opposite side was startled, looked back again, and said, "I know her, is she the legendary 'Military Assassin'? Her name is...Mu Li, a Chinese of."

Lanny nodded.

"Aren't you going to say hello?" The woman opposite couldn't help asking seeing Lan Ni being so calm.

"Relax, Per. Today my time is for you. If I meet them, it will take up your time. But don't worry, I will see her again soon." Lanny replied.

Pell suddenly realized when he heard the words, and said: "I said, why did you come to Athena all of a sudden? It turns out that your training target this time is the unit where the savior is."

The smile on Lanny's face brightened, and she said playfully:

"It's not something I can choose. I was tricked by the old man when I came to Athena this time."

Pell let out a chuckle, and said, "Why is General Friesman, one of the seven-pointed star generals, so unbearable in your mouth?"

Lan Ni shrugged and said, "Who made him my father."

"I guess my father also knows about this. The two old men must have colluded." Pell covered his mouth and smiled.

Lan Ni teased: "The seven-pointed star who is in his prime - why does General Andres become an old man in your mouth?"

"You're here again, I really don't want to suffer..." Pell gave her a blank look, "It's rare that I took two days to come to Alta to accompany you, can't you treat me better?"

"I'm not treating you well, Miss Andres. Well, dinner is mine." Lanny laughed.

"There is also the bar in the second game, which has to be counted on your head." Pell pouted.

The two daughters were chatting happily, and Mu Li and Rui Qiao at the other end were also chatting happily.

"Ali, you haven't seen the scenery of Alta well, how do you feel?"

"That's right, it's very soothing and leisurely." Mu Li replied with a smile.

"Yes, I like Alta very much. It feels like home here." Rui Qiao said with a smile, looking at the street outside the window of the cafe and the people passing by on the street.

Mu Li recalled it in his mind, and said:

"You are from Sariel, right?" Sariel is the most northwesternmost urn city of the seven major city-states. It is the second-level city region that connects the city of Athena and the city of ice and snow. Its status is equal to that of Crimea. .

"Yes, the climate in Sarrier is dry and cold, which is far from here, but the style of the street is very similar. I haven't been home for six years. Every time I miss home, I will come to the street for a walk. I feel that it can solve the problem. Homesickness." Rui Qiao said emotionally.

Mu Li nodded, expressing his understanding.

"However, the people in Salir are very tough, but the people in Alta are very friendly and gentle. This difference is very big." Rui Qiao changed the subject.

"Really?" Mu Li became interested.

"Sarrier is a frontier, and the climate is harsh. It is the poorest place in the entire Federation. Our Chinese ancestors have a saying, 'poor mountains and evil waters create troublesome people'. It is a bit silly to use this word to describe our hometown, but it is true. That's right. People in Sarrier are basically engaged in heavy work such as military industry, heavy industry, and transportation industry. They like to drink strong alcohol. They have loud voices and rough hands and feet. But Alta is different. They are all delicate and gentle, when I first came here, I was not very used to them." Rui Qiao said.

Mu Li replied: "I don't see the characteristics of a Sarrier in you."

Rui Qiao smiled, with a sullen expression on her face: "I'm a cultural person, how can I be compared with unruly people."

Mu Li wanted to answer her very much, since you are a cultural person, why didn't you go to the city of Aphrodite, but you chose to serve as a soldier in the city of Athena.

The city of Aphrodite is also one of the seven major city-states. It is also known as the "City of Science and Technology Culture". It is the city-state with the most prosperous academic culture in the Federation. National facilities related to culture, such as the World Theater, the National Art Gallery, and the History Museum, are also concentrated there.Most of the few companies in the cultural industry in the Federation also set up their bases there.

While chatting happily, I suddenly heard a commotion outside the window. I looked up and found that in the northwest corner of the garden square outside the cafe, under a big tree, two rough-dressed men were beating two women.The two men were tall and round, with fleshy faces and fierce looks.And the two women looked extremely thin and haggard, their clothes were tattered, and there were patches.One of the women was about thirty years old, and the other one seemed to be in her early teens, a young girl who had just grown up. Mu Li guessed that they were probably mother and daughter.Although their clothes are tattered, they are not unkempt, and they are fairly clean.It's just that after being pressed to the ground and beaten violently, the face that was finally cleaned up was also unavoidably dirty.The woman in her thirties had been beaten so that she could not move on the ground, and the girl in her teens was still struggling desperately, trying to protect the woman in her thirties with her thin body.

As for the people passing by, none of them helped to pull the two strong men away. They all watched, whispering and pointing not far away.

Mu Li frowned tightly, feeling extremely uncomfortable.Regardless of whether the world is completely equal to men and women, at least in Mu Li's heart, she still retains the value standards of her era.Violence is not advocated, and a man who beats a woman is the most unforgivable, and it is also the most intolerable for Mu Li.Although the innate physical advantage of men over women has disappeared in this era, but judging from the current situation, the physical fitness of the opposing sides is obviously not at the same level. No matter what, such unilateral violence should not be done.

After enduring it for more than ten seconds, seeing that no one came forward, Mu Li propped up the table and stood up, ready to personally go to stop this unilateral violence.But just when she stood up, she was grabbed by Rui Qiao, who had a very serious face and asked:

"Ali, what are you going to do? Are you going to help those two girls?"

Mu Li stared at Rui Qiao with wide eyes, with disbelief in his eyes, and asked:

"Shouldn't they help?"

"Of course not!" Rui Qiao tightened her grip on Mu Li's arm, and the strength made Mu Li frown, "Didn't you see the circles on their necks, they are traitors! You helped them , will cause trouble for the upper body, don't you want a future?"

Mu Li was dumbfounded, and carefully observed the mother and daughter outside the window again, this time she found that they were indeed wearing something like a collar around their necks.

Mark circle?traitor?It was another word that Mu Li had never heard of.But she could probably understand literally what it meant.The so-called rebels are probably people who have changed camps, because of a huge change in their thinking, they have changed from one camp to another.And the marking circle is probably a marker used to identify such people, so that everyone can see their identities at a glance.Maybe there are other effects, but Mu Li can't know without checking the information.

"Ali, don't tell me that you don't know how troublesome it is to have a relationship with a traitor. We are soldiers, and we need to stand firm, otherwise the punishment in the army will be even more terrible. Reaching the rank of second lieutenant, the honor is not easy to come by, do you want to be expelled from the army and become a homeless person?" Seeing that Mu Li's sense of justice was suddenly bursting, Rui Qiao felt bad, and hurriedly continued to persuade.

But... Could it be said that people who change camps can be treated like this?Do you deserve to be bullied like this?Mu Li really couldn't understand.She pinched the edge of the table tightly with her hands, and she was in an extreme struggle.

"I know you are actually very kind, but this is not a good opportunity to realize your sense of justice. Calm down and sit down first." Rui Qiao's words continued, and Mu Li was a little dazed for a moment due to the sudden shock of his thoughts. Rui Qiao pushed back the seat.

Seeing that she sat down without resistance, Rui Qiao breathed a sigh of relief, and said in a joking tone:

"You really scared me to death. When did you have such a sense of justice? It stands to reason that you should be more disciplined than me. I didn't move. Why are you so excited? Could it be that you are actually an invisible neutral kind person? , with me?"

Hearing this, Mu Li suddenly got goosebumps all over his body. Thinking about it carefully, his words and deeds just now have indeed exceeded the scope of what a lawful and neutral person would do.Lawful and neutral, no matter what, law is the first.They will strictly abide by the laws, regulations, discipline and general morals of the society.The second is your own value concept, whether it is good or evil, in fact, the boundary is not obvious.To give the simplest and most extreme example, when a lawful neutral soldier needs to shoot an innocent child because of his mission.When the superior's order conflicts with his own view of good and evil, the soldier will eventually choose to carry out the order. Such a person does not care about good and evil, and the law is supreme. This is lawful neutrality.

There are strict disciplinary rules in the army, and no soldier is allowed to be involved with a traitor, otherwise there will be severe punishment.This is an iron law, but Mu Li ignored this iron law and acted according to his own values, which is why Rui Qiao was so surprised.However, Rui Qiao didn't know that Mu Li actually didn't know anything about this discipline, whether it was beyond the choice of his own camp, so far he couldn't draw a conclusion.

Rui Qiao herself is a member of the neutral and kind camp. Generally speaking, their own values ​​are above the rules of discipline.However, it doesn't mean that Rui Qiao will definitely ignore the rules and regulations.When the degree of interest is very obvious, they will inevitably seek advantages and avoid disadvantages, otherwise they are immature people.

Although it is said that the nine camps are divided, it is not a simple and rough way to cut the cake.People in each camp have individual differences and various biases.So in fact, there are more detailed indicators for camp division, called camp deviation value.For example, a ruler is drawn between law and chaos, the center of the two is neutral, the value is set to 0, law and chaos at both ends are set to 30, law is +30, chaos is -30, camp The deviation value is determined between ±30.The more neutral the value is, the closer the value is to 0. Between ±10, it is judged as a neutral camp, +10 to +30 is a lawful camp, and -10 to -30 is a chaotic camp.The same goes for good and evil.

The data of this deviation value is an important reference standard for describing a person's personality psychology.For example, Rui Qiao, she is +9 from neutral to law-abiding, and +13 from kind-hearted to neutral. Generally speaking, she is a type of person that the army is willing to recruit.And Mu Li has only just now known that there is such a detailed standard, and she still doesn't know about her own detailed values.

Mu Li sat at the table, licked his lips, propped his elbows on the table, raised his forearms, clasped his hands by his lips, looked through the brim of his hat, and watched the scene of violence outside, with an anxious expression on his face.She was hesitating, terribly hesitating, for the first time in her life, her creed of inner justice was at odds with practical interests.If it was the past, she must have rushed up.

Seeing her like this, Rui Qiao tried to talk to her to ease her emotions:

"In fact, although such things do not happen every day, there are quite a few. These rebels generally have their own living places and operate in a limited area. I don't know why, these two rebels appeared in the downtown area today District...Hey! Ali! Mu Li, come back to me!"

When Rui Qiao said this, one of the two men was grabbing the girl by the collar and dragging her to a less crowded alley, while the other man was actually tearing the mother's clothes, in broad daylight Under the circumstances, he actually wanted to do that kind of thing in public.The mother's clothes were already tattered, and they were almost turned into strips of cloth when they were pulled. She was completely naked, and large areas of her skin that had been beaten bruised and purple were exposed/exposed.However, the onlookers were still indifferent, and many people even shook their heads and left without caring.It seems that not looking at this kind of thing is their greatest charity.

Seeing this scene, Mu Li couldn't bear it any longer, and slammed the table hard. Regardless of Rui Qiao's shout, he got up quickly and rushed out of the cafe.

Rui Qiao secretly exclaimed that it was too bad, and hurriedly chased after her.

And the movement outside had already alarmed the guests in the cafe.At this moment, Mu Li and the others suddenly rushed out of the cafe and rushed to the scene of the incident. The people in the cafe were shocked. They never expected that there would be an officer willing to take care of such a matter.The guests who originally planned to ignore the matter, but because of Mu Li's unusual behavior, they became very interested and left the cafe one by one, intending to go to see the situation.

Lanny and Per, who were sitting in the corner, naturally saw the whole thing, and Per shook his head:

"I didn't expect that an assassin in the army who is known for being calm and good at fighting would be so impulsive. This is unexpected." She said this politely, but she was actually belittling Mu Li, thinking that she did not fit the image in the legend.

Lan Ni didn't express her opinion at the first time. Looking at Mu Li rushing towards the scene of the incident outside the floor-to-ceiling glass, she suddenly bent the corners of her lips and said:

"Isn't it very interesting, do you want to go and see it?"

"Lanny?" Per didn't understand what Lanny meant. Lanny had never been a person who liked to watch exciting things.

Lan Ni ignored her, swiped the id on her wrist on the sensor beside the table, paid for the drinks for the two of them, and then stood up calmly.Standing up, her slender figure was immediately revealed. Putting on her sunglasses, she stepped on her high heels and walked out of the store in a leisurely manner.The graceful figure confuses people's minds, and the unchanging aura of Mount Tai's collapse in front of him firmly catches everyone's attention.

"I'm going to leave you alone." Walking to the door, Lanny looked back and smiled at Per, then pushed open the door of the cafe and walked out.

"Wait for me!" Per picked up the bag and hurriedly followed.