under the tower

Looking at the name, Ji Xi couldn't regain consciousness for a long time, only feeling her heart beating almost jumping out of her throat.

The brain is blank.

Yan Yi... Yan Yi...

Who else but him?

no wonder... no wonder...

It was him.

Ji Xi couldn't believe it, he watched a movie for a full three hours, and the protagonist of the movie was actually downstairs in his house right now!

Ji Xi didn't know what to say for a moment.

Is there anything more dramatic, more coincidental, in the world than this?

For a moment, he could only think of himself taking Yan Yi to participate in the "plan".

Such a high-standard "bodyguard"...

God.

Ji Xi felt that his whole body was dizzy.

When Ji Xi went downstairs, Yan Yi and Mao Hei were sitting at the dining table, gesticulating with this picture that he couldn't understand. The whole person fell down the stairs.

Fortunately, Yan had a quick glance and quick hands, and caught him, so that Ji Xi would not be able to win the battle, and fell into a half-crippled first.

Yan Yi frowned slightly: "What's wrong with you? Did you hurt your leg yesterday?"

Ji Xi froze for a moment, then hurriedly said: "No, it's fine."

Yanyi let him go.

Ji Xi originally wanted to find a chance to have a few words with him alone, but thought he might have to wait until night.

He was too shocked, and he still hasn't fully recovered.

Everyone sat around and ate a delicious and hot dinner.

Tonight they cooked spaghetti bolognese and a roast chicken with a browned and crispy crust.

Ji Xi kept his favorite things in his home. He almost forgot when he bought this roast chicken, but Mao Hei and the others turned it up.

Dishes with delicate shapes and attractive colors are placed on the long table, as if celebrating some major festival.

It was completely dark outside, the light beige curtains were drawn automatically, the warm yellow light illuminated the whole house, the automatic dishwasher was working silently, and the star stone ceiling in the living room moved slowly in a circular trajectory It is like a universe in which planets revolve around stars.

Chang Huai rested for an afternoon, and then started to play games enthusiastically again. He and A You sat in front of the screen like elementary school students. The strange thing was that A You could play games with Chang Huai even though he couldn't see it. The wind was blowing, and the two people pressed the handles crackling.

The noisy voices mixed together, but it seemed a bit lively.

Everything exudes a rare, fragile tranquility.

At this moment, a loud noise exploded from the ceiling, and the whole house vibrated frantically as if it had been hit by something.

The ceiling above the head shook violently, making tinkling noises, and the white wall ash fell like snow.

There will be a storm.

Not a second after the first loud bang, another cannon hit the outer wall of the upper story.

"Kang-dang--"

The violent vibration caused the vase on the table to shatter on the ground, and the immortal violet wind chimes lay in the shattered pieces of white porcelain. Water splashed everywhere, and the beautiful flowers that were originally in full bloom turned into a puddle of mud.

Chang Huai put down the handle, and Ah You carried him on his back.

Ji Xi said decisively: "Go downstairs."

Yan Yi and Mao Hei immediately took their backpacks, which contained the food they had packed long ago, as well as the weapons they had brought.

Ji Xi opened the secret door of the living room, and they walked into the tunnel one by one in an orderly manner, the same way they came here.

The bombardment upstairs was still going on, and the sound of objects being broken and destroyed was endless.

They walked through the wine cellar. The wine in glass bottles was constantly shaking in the shaking of the house. Some bottles had been broken, and the purple-red mellow liquid flowed all over the floor. The whole cellar was surrounded by a strong aroma of wine.

Ji Xi didn't even look at it, avoided the water stains, went straight to the exit, and opened the reddish-brown wooden door on the ground.

They entered the tunnel, but did not go through the upper floor. At a very unnoticed fork in the dark, Ji Xi squatted down, and pressed a few stone bricks beside the wall and under his feet according to a specific pattern.

"Rumble..."

An ancient large-scale mechanical movement made a sound of friction, and then another narrow downward staircase appeared in front of everyone, the bottom was dark, and there was not even a ray of light.

The ground under his feet shook again.

The situation was urgent, Ji Xi immediately squatted down and walked down the stairs: "Follow me."

Mao Hei turned on the flashlight, indicating that he would hand it to him, Ji Xi waved his hand, his dark blue eyes showed a faint light in the darkness, like cat's eyes.

"I don't need it," he said.

Mao Hei was shocked and clicked his tongue: "Outrageous."

Ji Xi didn't care about him, and got down the narrow stairs with a cat waist, and the others came down one after another.

They descended to the bottom of the ground, surrounded by circular curved pipe walls, and there was a puddle of water under their feet, which seemed to be an abandoned sewer.

In the dark round hole, the sound of water dripping can be heard from time to time, and the loud noise of the artillery bombardment above the head can be heard endlessly.

Ji Xi gestured for them to follow quickly.

The foundation of this place is not solid, if it is bombed again, I am afraid that the entire tunnel will collapse soon.

Relying on his memory, Ji Xi skillfully walked through the huge maze-like sewer pipes, leading everyone forward in a winding way.

Mao Hei asked, "Where are we going?"

Ji Xi replied: "Didn't you say you were going to the Central Laboratory?"

"...I dug this road secretly back then, and it directly leads to the Pearl Tower." Ji Xi glanced at Yan Yi behind him with a gloomy expression, and paused, "...no matter what you want to do, I will... Willing to assist."

Mao Hei was startled: "You..." He opened his mouth, "Master... do you know what you are talking about?"

Ji Xi asked strangely, "What's wrong?"

"You brought us into the tower directly?" Mao Hei had an unbelievable expression on his face, "You sent us in with your own hands, can you allow us to blow up your old nest?"

Ji Xi was startled for a moment, and said: "It doesn't matter."

"...It was never my home, it was just the place where I was born and grew up." Ji Xi narrated calmly, "I have no extra affection for it."

As he spoke, he uncontrollably turned his head to look at Yan Yi, his eyes hidden in the darkness were full of endless and complicated affection.

He said in a very soft voice, "I only had a real home in Beicheng..."

After saying this, he turned around quickly as if fleeing, not daring to look at the man's expression.

He was terrified of being rejected again.

But there was no sound behind him, maybe the words that were close to confession were just not heard.

... luckily not heard.

Led by Ji Xi, they successfully followed the underground pipeline and sneaked into the Pearl Tower from the bottom.

A circular steel valve lay in front of them.

Seeing this, Mao Hei immediately stepped forward to pick the lock, and Ji Xi reached out to stop him.

The Pearl Tower is the hub of the entire Shencheng base, and it is also the most heavily guarded place. All the door locks are connected to a real-time monitoring information network. If there is an improper attack, an alarm will be issued immediately and patrol soldiers will be called.

Ji Xi turned on the intelligent system in the spine, and the blue numbers kept beating in the retina, showing that it was restarting and loading.

He turned on all the functions except positioning and mobilized the maximum authority to hack into the internal information network of the Pearl Tower.

Fortunately, after a while, the information in front of him showed that Ji Xi's administrator status was still there and had not been cleared.

"Although my authority is very high, I'm not sure if my operations will leave traces. Maybe they have updated the information system." Ji Xi said.

"To be on the safe side, we must leave within two hours after opening the door."

"it is good."

Ji Xi opened the door, and at that moment, a red alarm light flickered in front of his eyes, indicating that the operation encountered an abnormality, the firewall of the information system bounced back a warning, and the intelligent system sensed the danger and issued a warning to dissuade him from leaving the place immediately .

Sure enough... the current Shencheng is no longer the base of Shencheng when Ji's family was there. A year ago they let Ji Xi escape from under their hands, so how could they not guard against him at all times.

Ji Xi squinted her eyes, said nothing, only said: "Okay, come in quickly."

Yan Yi asked: "What's wrong?"

"...It's okay." Ji Xi led them in, and still opened the elevator with his authority, and said, "The central laboratory is on the 88th floor, you go up, I won't go with you."

"The 111th floor is the apron. If there is an emergency, go from there. I will open the access to all helicopters in advance."

Everyone stopped, Yan Yi stared at him with heavy eyes.

Ji Xi smiled with a relaxed expression: "Don't worry, it's rare to come back, I just went to meet an old friend."

Yan Yi didn't say anything, but grabbed his wrist and pulled him in before the elevator door closed.

The man said in a deep and dangerous voice: "If you want to be bait, you have to ask me if I agree."

Ji Xi paused for a moment, only to see Yan Yi take out a black fingernail-sized sheet and stuff it into a small socket for internal communication in the elevator.

The indicator lights on all floors were all on, then all off, and then flickered chaotically and crazily as if there was a malfunction.

Ji Xi was dumbfounded: "This... what did you put in it?"

Mao Hei chuckled: "It's just a virus program, the whole system should have crashed now."

Good guy.

Ji Xi exclaimed: "So you have already prepared?"

After saying these words, he suddenly felt a little frustrated, lowered his head, thinking that before Yan Yi came, he had already made a perfect plan, and he didn't help at all, but accidentally triggered the alarm of the firewall, it was really unnecessary .

Yan Yi patted him on the shoulder, only said: "Together."

Ji Xi raised her eyes suddenly, and looked at him flickeringly. Under the dim light, the man's perfectly curved profile was like a resolute and stern statue.

Ji Xi suddenly remembered that in the last scene of "The Killing Game", the man wearing the golden emblem of the commander also looked down on the entire base and the bustling humans at his feet with such an expression.

It seemed to be a twisted image of a peaceful and prosperous world, but this man watched all evils with kind and compassionate eyes.

There is a strong sense of sadness on his body, and his tall and straight back looks lonely and lonely, like looking up at a vast desert.

Ji Xi's heart was shocked, and he didn't know how to describe his mood at this time.

This person is now standing in front of him alive.

A god, a hero... his lover.