under the tower

The amount of information covered here is too complicated, and countless other possibilities can be established.

For example, are Chang Huai and his Lao Tzu one mind?Does Chang Huai represent the Chang family, the army, or himself?What's the past between Chang Huai and himself, a junior from the Lu family?What does he want himself to do?

Ji Xi found that a huge mystery was gradually emerging as he went deeper, and the intricate relationship among them was far more complicated than he imagined.

Chang Huai acted very relaxed, as if he just called Lu Xi over to say hello: "Oh, it's nothing." He said in a very casual tone, "I'm going to Mingyue District to meet my fiancée tomorrow, and you happen to be in , Speaking of which, you are still my future brother-in-law in name, I have never been to your house before, you can go with me tomorrow."

Ji Xi's heart moved slightly, he knew that he had no right to refuse, instead of pushing back and arousing suspicion, it is better to agree to it smoothly, he said softly: "Okay, but at your command."

Chang Huai smiled: "We are all a family, so don't be so polite, are you afraid of me?"

Ji Xi shouldn't, people like them are moody, and if they are not careful, they can drag him out and kill him, Ji Xi knows it very well.

"Okay, it's boring. What a handsome guy, he looks like a dumb guy." Chang Huai sighed a little disappointed, "Then you go back, I will send someone to pick you up tomorrow."

Ji Xi backed out silently, without any superfluous expression on her face, she didn't look at anything she shouldn't look at, and didn't ask anything she shouldn't ask.

Outside the door, the patrolman was no longer there, and he was the only one in the empty and magnificent corridor.

Ji Xi breathed a sigh of relief, not because he was afraid of what Chang Huai would do to him, but if it was indeed Chang Wentao who wanted to see him just now, it would be really difficult.

Looking back, it was a close call, but Ji Xi didn't feel too flustered when he entered the door. At that time, he only wanted to see the tricks.

Ji Xi adjusted her breathing without a trace, looked ahead, and walked towards the elevator at a leisurely pace.

It's hard to guarantee that there are no cameras monitoring his movements at any time in this kind of military aircraft, and Ji Xi dare not relax too much when he goes out.

At a certain moment as he walked through this long corridor, his footsteps paused indistinctly.

From the corner of Ji Xi's vision, he inadvertently caught a glimpse of a half-length photo of a middle-aged man in a standard military uniform hanging somewhere on the wall, with a few lines of block letters written brightly underneath——

Wu Qianshu

2057 - Present

Chief of United Front Command

Honorary General in 2095

……

Ji Xi's footsteps just stopped for a while, and then walked forward with a normal expression.

At the end of the corridor, he noticed that the last photo frame inlaid with gold was completely blank. There was no photo of anyone in it, nor any biographical overview. It was empty, and there seemed to be a little unnatural trace under the frame .

It's as if something has been deliberately stripped away.

After Ji Xi came out, he sent a message to Lu Mingxiu.

Ji Xi: The one who saw me was not Chang Wentao, but Chang Huai.

Lu Mingxiu: Oh, it's him, it's okay, it's okay, it scared me to death.

Lu Mingxiu: Chang Huai is fine, what is he, what should you do, ignore him.

Ji Xi: He said that he will come to Mingyue District to meet his fiancée tomorrow, so I have to come with him.

Lu Mingxiu:?ah?

Lu Mingxiu: He wants to come to Lu's house to meet Xiao Rong?All right, let him come let him come.

Ji Xi:? ? ?

Ji Xi: What's the situation between you and Chang Huai?

Lu Mingxiu: In-laws, more relatives.

Lu Mingxiu: But I'm not very familiar with him personally, and he seldom showed up in the past. It feels like he's completely at the mercy of Chang Wentao. He will fight wherever his father dictates.

Ji Xi: Why do I feel so wrong?

Lu Mingxiu: What's wrong?

Ji Xi: I can't say for the time being, Chang Huai feels a little tricky to me.

Lu Mingxiu: No, Master Ji, although Chang Huai's status in Beicheng is about the same as yours in Shencheng, but he is only paralyzed and can't even walk, what are you afraid of him?

Ji Xi: Did you know that he threw sixty recruits at me in one go?Or was it Chang Wentao who did it?

Lu Mingxiu: Oh, I don't know about this, I'll look it up later, but there is no difference between what he does and what his father does.

Ji Xi: Check it out first, I can't tell you the details.

Ji Xi: Also, tomorrow you'd better inform me about your arrangements in advance. I haven't been to Lu's house, so Chang Huai might see it and worry about being in trouble.

Lu Mingxiu: Okay, I will pick you up in person tomorrow, so nothing can go wrong.

After Ji Xi left the headquarters building, he went straight to the information office next door.

Every officer has a certain authority to check information, and there is no need to report. Ji Xi walked into the unmanned inquiry hall and entered the words "Commander of the General Command".

A few lines of basic information about Wu Qianshu immediately popped up on the screen, including his office number, reception time, and office contact number.

Ji Xi looked at the half-length photo of the man on the screen, as well as the weathered face, and finally found some traces of familiarity in it.

He vaguely understood the reason why his grandfather insisted on asking him to come to Beicheng to find him at the last moment of his life.

Ji Xi remembered that he should have met this man a few times when he was very young, if his memory is not wrong - Wu Qianshu should be an uncle on his mother's side who has a distant blood relationship with him.

This Ji Xi's distant uncle should have developed alone in the Beicheng base in the early years. He hasn't been back to Shanghai for nearly ten years, but he has always kept in touch with Ji's family.

Ji Xi wrote down the contact address and phone number at the top of the screen.

Wu Qianshu's office reception hours are every Wednesday from 1:2 pm to [-]:[-] pm.

Today is Saturday, Ji Xi intends to go back and try to see if he can be contacted by the military intranet communication means.

Ji Xi's luck this time is really amazing - there are more than a dozen different departments in the United Front Army, Lu Mingxiu just randomly put him in one of them, and coincidentally, Wu Qianshu is his direct leader.

As a newly appointed officer of the General Command, Ji Xi took time to visit his immediate superior after he took office, and had a lot of connections with him. This is a very normal thing, and no one would suspect it at all.

This is really even God is perfecting him.

Ji Xi edited a polite sentence on the smart assistant, checked it twice from beginning to end, made sure that there was no risk of exposure, and then clicked send.

Communication methods using the official intranet will be monitored by the military's investigation department throughout the entire process, so extreme care must be taken.

Soon, the system issued a beep, indicating that the information has been submitted.

After a while, Ji Xi heard a ringing sound in his ear, his heart was pounding, he touched the smart assistant in his ear with his finger, and the message was read out in his ear with a cold mechanical voice.

However, the person who sent the news was not Wu Qianshu, but Yan Yi.

Yan Yi: I have something to do tonight, so I can't have dinner with you.

Yanyi: Also, the ice cream is delicious, thank you.

Ji Xi silently listened to the mechanical voice reading these two sentences, imagining how Yan Yi would say it with his unique deep magnetic voice.

The man seemed quite restrained most of the time, and the message he sent seemed a little too polite.

Ji Xi thought, after spending so many points and sending two boxes of ice cream over thousands of miles, he probably didn't just want to hear Yan Yi say thank you coldly.

So what exactly does he want.

Ji Xi himself didn't seem to understand.

That night, due to Yan Yi's absence, the message he sent to Wu Qianshu also fell into disarray. Ji Xi was quite idle, so he held a discussion meeting with Wang Cheng and Chen Guangda online, and settled the results of the first assessment of their company on the same day. Out.

Yan Yi is unquestionably ranked number one. Cross-country and wrestling were approved by Ji Xi, so it's no surprise that Yan Yi's theory test is also full marks, with an extremely excellent score of 300/300, which is the best among all the others.

According to Wang Cheng, Yanyi also handed in the paper half an hour in advance when he took the theory test. He didn't have to think about the equations for calculating certain weapon parameters. What he wrote was exactly the same as the standard answer. As soon as he glanced at his paper, he was shocked on the spot.

Even a professionally trained officer may not be able to do this. He is even familiar with those unpopular constants and calculation formulas. How does a mere mercenary do it?

Ji Xi frowned slightly when he heard Wang Cheng say this.

The score of No.2 is only 277. In fact, this is already quite good. According to statistics, the average score of the first assessment of the entire army over the years is 185, the median is 176, and the highest score is generally 275-280. this range.

That is to say, according to the experience of previous years, it is common for No.1 to score around 277 without major adjustments to the scoring standards, while Yanyi's score is abnormal.

Even excluding the influence of Ji Xi's personal emotional factors, Yan Yi's performance in the two events of weight-bearing cross-country and boxing is evaluated in the most objective and traditional way, and his performance fully meets the standard of absolute perfect marks.

If anyone were to be the chief examiner, he would not be able to find any faults in him, and he could only be evaluated as "perfect".

This itself is also abnormal, because people are not machines after all, and people will make mistakes sometimes.

While reporting to Ji Xi, Wang Cheng sighed: Deputy Lu, we have found a treasure this time.

And that night, at the same moment, the sick wood area.

At the back of the bustling farmers market at night, there is a dilapidated shack, the alleys that have been left unattended all year round are full of potholes, complicated wires are entangled together, and several street lights that are often cut off are constantly flashing, and the surrounding area is silent. Few pass by.

In the hidden depths of the shed, there is a small restaurant. The entrance of the restaurant is a plastic baffle, and a bowl-shaped oil lamp is lit in front of the house. The entrance is a movable wooden door, which is covered with traces of mold. At this time, the wooden door was locked, and a small sign saying "Closed Business" was hung.

The thick and clumsy wooden door completely blocked the voices of several people inside.

There is only one long bar counter in the crowded restaurant, and the shelves behind the bar counter are filled with self-brewed drinks with various labels, including cloudy rice wine, red wine, and yellow rice wine.

There are only three people in the whole store, two men and one woman sitting in front of the bar——

It was Yan Yi, the minister Bai Qihuan who I had met in the equipment department, and a beautiful woman who was about 30 years old, with dark red waves, nails dyed the same color, heavy makeup, and sky high. .

The three of them clinked their glasses and drank the wine in the glasses.

The woman swallowed a sip of wine, and said exactly the same words as Lu Mingxiu to Yan Yi.

"Chang Wentao is not in Beicheng right now, so if you want to do something, now is the time."