Puppeteer [Interstellar]

"What the hell happened!?" Inside the base, the alarm sounded for almost a night, and everyone could not sleep peacefully, because the roar of the Zerg that occasionally came from outside deeply damaged everyone's nerves , keeping them in a state of high tension all the time.

Someone in the base was screaming questions about the status of things, but no one answered him.At this time Al was sitting in his room, and he could clearly hear the sound of someone pacing back and forth in the corridor outside through the door panel. He knew that the patrolling and guarding soldiers must be on alert, and they would keep the outside All the guys who were still hanging out hurried back to their rooms.

The courses in the academy are basically suspended, and those who have a little fighting power will be called away by the higher-ups of the academy. They will rush to the outermost layer of the entire base, and face the bugs at close range through the defensive network. Various traps and reinforcements to defend against Zerg that may rush in at any time.

Those who have no combat power temporarily shrank in their rooms and guarded, just like Al now.

It's not that Al has nothing to do, he leans leisurely on his sofa, he opens his personal terminal, quickly enters and writes command programs one by one, and then invades in a very short time The monitoring system of the base of the Puppet Master Academy.

Al's hacking skills are not perfect, but they are much better than some guys who boast that they are top hackers. After all, the Hawk family has the most advanced security system in the league. Al has been trying to overcome this system for so many years. He has done a lot of technical study and repeated many experiments, so that for him now, dealing with the level of security system of the Puppet Master Academy is simply a piece of cake.

So he easily entered the college's monitoring system, and he used his personal terminal to call up the monitoring screens of the surveillance cameras in every corner of the college, so as to observe everything that happened in every corner of the college.

Most of the monitors are images of soldiers patrolling, and there are also images of some people in the academy rushing past. Al watched the personal terminal for a while, then he reduced the virtual screen of the terminal and fixed the terminal on his wrist. , covered it with his sleeves, hurriedly put on a coat, opened the door of his room, and went out.

As soon as he went out, he started to turn left and right. He avoided the images captured by the surveillance, and looked at the surveillance camera on his wrist at any time to see if there were any patrol soldiers around, so that he could predict and avoid them in advance. Soldier.

He made a big circle around the base in this way, and finally Al managed to get to the destination he wanted to go - outside the door of the base's high-level central control room.

Lyle and his party, who left the base for polar survival training, have not yet returned.

So earlier, the senior management of the base held a joint meeting and contacted some student representatives to discuss it. During the discussion meeting, Principal Gaia agreed to a set of plans. They will open the blocked safety passage door in the evening of this afternoon. Open it again, and let Major Gary, who is leading the team, bring back all the freshmen who are training outside.

However, although Principal Gaia agreed to this plan, some people in the base still expressed objections.

The Puppet Master Academy has a strict hierarchy, and the distinction between superiors and subordinates is obvious. Except for the most powerful principal, Gaia, only the teachers have the right to speak.However, in this cruel academy, students are not completely passive and beaten. Students also have the right to speak out, but only "student representatives" have this right.

Al wasn't the only student representative.

In this puppet master academy, there are four student representatives in total. The newly enrolled freshmen will elect a freshman representative after two months of physical training, but this freshman representative is basically useless, just a vain job. For the determination of many important matters in the college, freshman representatives do not have the right to vote.

Students who have successfully survived in the academy for one year and are entering the second year are no longer freshmen, but are included in the scope of old students, also known as second graders, and the representatives selected from these second graders are also It is the second grade student representative.

In the future, there will be student representatives from the third and fourth grades.

But there is no fifth grade, because there are no students who can stay in the academy for five years.

As a second-year representative, quite a few people in the college think that Al can sit in this position entirely by relying on the influence of his father Rain. Of course, this cannot be denied by Al. Rain's influence.

Al is a person who knows how to be flexible in certain things. If he wants to achieve certain goals and can take shortcuts, Al will definitely take shortcuts. After all, being able to take shortcuts is also one of the abilities of that person. There are many people who have no shortcuts.

It's just opportunistic behavior that will always cause dissatisfaction or jealousy from some people.Many people in the academy felt that: Al didn't have much ability, it all depended on him having a strong father!

They have identified this unfounded fact, and they are clever enough to accept it as the truth.

Immediately afterwards, the eyes they looked at Al began to be full of irony and disdain. Even though they were still flattering and flattering on the surface, how could the sensitive Al not feel it?

Al didn't bother to point this out, he was rarely willing to take other people's thoughts into consideration...except when dealing with Lyle.

At the discussion meeting held by Principal Gaia, almost most people did not agree with the plan of opening the safe passage gate of the academy base again to welcome the freshmen back.

In their thinking, opening the door of this passage means letting in the bugs from outside, and letting the bugs in is equivalent to killing the members of the base in disguise, which is very unwise.

But I don't know what Principal Gaia is thinking in his heart. Although so many people voted against it, Principal Gaia still forcibly approved the proposal.

Of course, Al hoped that Lyle could return to the base. At that time, so many people voted against it. He sat in the meeting and felt cold for a while. He immediately pondered in his mind whether there were other ways to achieve Let Lyle and the others come back?But the result was beyond his expectation.

Although the principal forced a vote to confirm the plan, this self-assessed decision aroused great objections from many people. Al knew the psychology of those people, and they would definitely try their best to prevent the door of the safe passage from opening.

Those who can stay in this school are actually not good people.

Al adjusted the virtual screen of the personal terminal in his hand, and he checked the interior of the central control room, where a few sneaky guys seemed to be planning something.

Modern surveillance cameras are very keen on capturing sound and image. If there is no intentional cover, then every shot captured by the surveillance camera can fully expose the essence of some people.

For example, there are a few people standing inside the central control room. The surveillance camera that Al saw clearly captured the figures of these people.

Al recognized these people. These people were the ones who raised strong objections to the proposal of opening the safe passage at the discussion meeting. They were several teachers and representatives of the third-year students in the college.

At that time, they even stepped forward to stop Gaia after Principal Gaia forced a vote to pass the plan, and babbled on Gaia's side for a long time, hoping that Principal Gaia could withdraw this decision.

Of course, the principal did not withdraw his decision in the end. Gaia just sneered at those people and said: "The safe passage has adopted the construction principle targeting Zerg since it was first established, and its walls and floors have special anti-reconnaissance The anti-sonic material is equivalent to saying that this channel is the "blind spot" for the bugs. As long as no one deliberately attracts the bugs, opening it will not attract any bugs to sneak into our base, I think you are really making a fuss."

"But don't be afraid of [-], just in case, if any bug runs into that passage..." One of the teachers who disagreed, trying to change Gaia's mind, said, "Even if it's only one in a thousand probability, we should not take this risk!"

Gaia said: "Oh... To be honest, instead of believing in the one-in-a-thousand chance, I might as well believe that some of you will deliberately introduce bugs into that passage and kill all of our poor freshmen. ...After all, there is a thorn in the side of this group of freshmen, and you can't wait to have the thorn in your side, don't you?"

After Gaia finished saying this, he walked away on his own. After he left, everyone who heard his words turned around and looked at Al who was sitting on the chair in the conference room with unclear eyes. .

Al understands the thinking of these people. In the eyes of outsiders, Al and Lyle are a pair of 'good brothers' on the surface and 'enemies' secretly.

It's not surprising that others would have such a view. Ever since Rain announced Lyle as his next heir at his family banquet, and finally asked Lyle and Al to conduct that final audit to test them, the outside world Those guys who were afraid that the world would not be chaotic came forward one after another and divided into two groups to please Al or Lyle respectively.

They were like desperate gamblers, putting all their wealth on these two teenagers.

They choose whoever seems to have the best chance of winning between the two teenagers.

For example, Lyle, who owns a puppet, has successfully signed a formal contract with the puppet at a young age, and everyone does not have to doubt the fact that he will become a puppet master in the future. It is just that Lyle became a monk halfway, and there is nothing he can do for a while. Get the support of so many people at once.

But when it comes to Al, after all, Al has been trained by Rain as his heir for so many years. His connections and methods are among the best, and his background and influence are stronger than Lyle's. Although whether he can succeed in becoming a puppet in the end Teacher, is still unknown.

The two prospective heirs each have their own advantages and disadvantages, and how to judge can only be left to these gamblers themselves.

However, at present, there are still many more people who are optimistic about Al than Lyle. These people always think that Al and Lyle are definitely in a relationship that competes with each other and never ends.It is natural for them to think so, because according to Ray's usual style, in his hands, the loser is tantamount to death. If neither side of Airel wants to die, they can only start a life-and-death struggle.

In order to win, the brothers will definitely do some "dirty tricks" behind each other's backs.

It's always best to start first.