into the sheath

After parting with Qiao She, Tang Heng returned to his dormitory.

As soon as he opened the door, before he could take a step, he saw a black and yellow streak rushing past him.The cub, who had been holding back in the mental image for a long time, showed his figure in the real world again. It flicked its long tail and walked leisurely forward. With a light leap, it jumped onto the only single sheet in the room. bed.

The huge animal's paw stepped on the white sheet, not to mention the black stain, not even a slight wrinkle.

The cub yawned lazily for a long time, then got down on the ground, filling the bed with his body.

Tang Heng stared: This bed belongs to me!Come down for me!

Hearing this, the cub who was about to rest opened his eyelids and glanced at him.As if it had done enough ideological struggle, after a long silence, it moved its front paw, and it was extremely difficult to vacate a small space for its own sentinel.

Cub: Well.

Tang Heng: ...

Tang Heng: Can't you get off? !

Cub: No more.

After finishing speaking, Dui simply stretched out the retracted forelimbs again.This time, it didn't hold back its presence, stretched out and pressed, and its claws, which were as big as two palms of an adult, printed a dirty gray plum blossom on the bed sheet.

Seeing this, Tang Heng's face darkened even more.He closed the dormitory door gently, then sneered, gritted his teeth and walked forward.

Tang Heng: You won't come down, will you?

……

Fifteen minutes later, one person and one tiger slumped on the bed panting.

The originally neat sheets were crumpled and the pillows were pushed to the ground. It is not difficult to see that there has just been a "battle".

After this "combat", Tang Heng finally snatched back half of his bed, but the cub who had to nest at the end of the bed could only change to squatting, and snored unwillingly for this.

Tang Heng simply ignored its accusation.

Tang Heng: There is so much space in Lao Tzu's mental picture, isn't it enough for you to lie down?

Cub: After staying for a long time, it seems that it looks like that.boring.

Tang Heng: ...

He choked on these words and almost forced it back into his mental image.

It was hard to suppress this impulse. After a brief silence, Tang Heng sat cross-legged, squinted at the cub for a moment, and then remembered another thing.

Tang Heng: Speaking of which, you have been hiding inside for half a month, no matter how I shouted, you couldn't come out—what's going on?

Dumb stopped yawning in the middle of his yawn.It blinked, then turned its head to the side.

Cub: What, what's going on?

Tang Heng: Still pretending to be stupid for me?

Cub: No!

Tang Heng: I'm not joking with you.Tell me honestly, did you not want to come out during that time, or was it because of my rage that you couldn't appear in reality?

Zaizi: Oh, it turns out that you were sick, and I asked why I couldn’t get out at that time...

The voice stopped abruptly.

Kid: I didn't say anything.

Sure enough.

Tang Heng: ...I heard it.

Du Hu, who felt that he had missed something, froze, then quickly got down on the ground, closed his eyes and covered them with two big paws if it was not enough.

The cub's sudden lying down made the small space even more crowded.Tang Heng hurriedly grabbed the edge of the bed to stabilize his figure, so as not to be pushed to the ground by the bump.

Duhu didn't notice the danger that he was about to be beaten up again.It lied on the ground for a while, and when it realized the abnormal silence, it peeked out through the gap between its paws, but because of the angle, it could only see the back of the sentry bowing slightly.

Seeing this scene, the cub suddenly felt a little uncomfortable.

Cub: Hello.

Kid: Why do you ask this?

Zaizi: Then I can come out now, does that mean you are healed?

The tiger didn't receive a response to the three consecutive calls, and the tiger was a little panicked. It called a few more times, but seeing that there was still no response, it immediately stood up and put its head in front of Tang Heng.

Kid: what are you looking at?

Tang Heng was not surprised by the boy's answer, Jiang Feng had said similar things to him before, and now he just wanted to confirm it again.

The boy's anxious reaction was unexpected.

Seeing how heartless Duhu became nervous for him, Tang Heng suddenly felt teasing.He pursed his lips to suppress the smile, and pretended to be silent without replying.

While waiting, his eyes glanced at the terminal on his wrist inadvertently, and he remembered that he had deleted Jiang Feng's communication number just now, so he turned on the screen and entered the string of numbers that he remembered so well in his memory.

Then, just as Tang Heng finished typing the string of numbers, before he had time to press the button to save, his hand was slammed by the tiger.The cub poked his big head in front of him and fixed his gaze tightly. At the same time, his fingers hanging on the screen shook——

"drop."

Hearing this prompt tone, Tang Heng was taken aback for a moment, and dialed out without expecting it.Just as he was in a hurry to cross the cub's barrier and hang up, the communication was connected.

The screen appeared after a flash.Tang Heng met the man's gaze, and under his slightly frowning gaze, his expression was blank.

"what's up?"

The man on the screen asked in a low voice.

……

This afternoon, Jiang Feng had just returned to Target City from the light source, and Zou Bingxuan also arrived almost at the same time.

Prior to this, Jiang Feng had had a little communication with the commander from the western division, and he knew that this person was cold and hard-headed. After a short communication, the two reached a consensus to save the tedious reception procedures. 37 Target city's inner city meet.

Zou Bingxuan's aircraft landed on a berth in the inner city 10 minutes later.

Knowing the identity of this sentinel was special, Jiang Feng only called two guides to follow him, and Zou Bingxuan was the only one there.

"coming?"

Zou Bingxuan nodded.

Without too many pleasantries, Jiang Feng directly led him into the central building of the inner city.Before entering the first passageway, Jiang Feng asked: "[-]% of the data center sentinels here account for [-]%, you won't have any problems, will you?"

"It's under control."

"it is good."

The data center is more busy than usual, perhaps because of the urgency and pressure, the voices of the operators are also louder, and the concentration of false guide pheromones floating in the air is dangerously stepping on the upper limit.But after Jiang Feng and Zou Bingxuan appeared, all this noisy and chaotic scene quietly froze for a moment, and then, like coals thrown into an ice basin, the appearance quickly extinguished into a layer of dead ashes.

It didn't take long for the data center to be completely quiet, only the small noise of the machine running, and only the false guide pheromone with the same concentration to prove the existence of the hustle and bustle just now.

This change was caused by Zou Bingxuan.

The moment he appeared, all the sentries on the scene felt a threat—more precisely, a kind of coercion, as if the king's absolute dominance over his subjects made those sentries feel awe and fear from the bottom of their hearts , and then fell silent involuntarily, and affected by this, the rest of the guides also restrained their movements.

Seeing this, Jiang Feng's eyes couldn't help but sink.

This sentinel is an outstanding student who graduated from the training list. He was selected as one of the three division commanders two years ago, and since then, his reputation in the tower has continued unabated.But Jiang Feng knew that he was a powerful rising star on the surface, but in fact, he was the only sentinel who could appear in front of the public again in the past 20 years since the military department secretly implemented the "Dark Sentinel Training Program".

Jiang Feng said in a loud voice: "Continue to monitor the real-time data, everything is business as usual!"

Like a thunderclap on the ground, after another short sound vacuum, the chilling silence of the crowd was finally broken.

Zou Bingxuan said, "Sorry."

The expression on his face was consistently flat, and there was not much apology in his tone.

Jiang Feng didn't show any displeasure, but he didn't respond to the apology either. After a short pause, he said directly: "According to the model's estimation, the outbreak of the bug swarm will be ten days later. The third lair, 'Holly', is the starting point, heading east directly."

Jiang Feng pointed to a red line on the model map, "The plan is to use the target city to change the advancing direction of the bug swarm, and then light up the light sources one by one in the order of 'three one two', and then we can advance from this position——

"Smash 'Holly'."

The model deduced and changed according to the pre-set parameters, and when the voice fell, it happened to be the moment when the red color symbolizing density in the Zerg nest was at its deepest.

Zou Bingxuan listened to all Jiang Feng's explanations in silence, and wrote down all the contents.

"I see." Zou Bingxuan said, "I can stay here for up to two weeks. What do I need to do?"

Jiang Feng said: "I need the No. [-] light source to guarantee at least seven hours of operation."

Before that, he had received personal data about Zou Bingxuan from the military department - the average time to eliminate a hundred races was stable within 10 minutes.A staggering achievement.

"Okay." Zou Bingxuan replied, and the speed of answering the words even made people suspect that he was talking nonsense.

But Jiang Feng didn't doubt it.

He paused, and rearranged his words about the current situation of the target city in his mind. He was about to speak when he caught a glimpse of the reminder light on his terminal lighting up out of the corner of his eye.

Not an official letter or text message, but a request for video communication.

His side has set many restrictions on receiving signals, and the one who can directly send video communication to him...Jiang Feng immediately guessed who it was.

The expression in his eyes moved inadvertently, and after another momentary pause, Jiang Feng called his name and said: "Mr. Zheng, you can introduce the current situation."

After finishing speaking, he nodded slightly to Zou Bingxuan, and then walked out of the data center.

This is a 20-meter enclosed corridor that connects the data center at one end and leads to other spaces in the building at the other end.At this time, there was no one in the corridor, and the alloy doors at both ends were closed according to the order, and the white parallel light was sprinkled from the light source above the head, so that the shadows could only curl up around the feet.

With a touch of nervousness that he didn't even realize, Jiang Feng pressed the connect button.

On the flat screen, after the first flash of the connection, a huge tiger head appeared in front of the camera, and the word "King" on the forehead took up nearly one-third of the screen. In the crystal eyes, The pupils converge into a thin line.

Jiang Feng couldn't help frowning.

Not long after, the big tiger was pushed away, and the slightly embarrassed face of its owner appeared on the screen.

"what's up?"

Beneath the cold words, there was a secretly relieved sigh of relief.

……

Tang Heng saw the guide on the opposite side asking questions expressionlessly, and after a moment of stupefaction, he felt a little embarrassed belatedly.

"Eh..." Tang Heng paused, then pushed away the cub who was desperately trying to come over to take a look, and explained, "My Quantum Beast accidentally made trouble just now and bumped into it."

"Roar--!"

Dahu, whose face was covered with palms but couldn't see anything, let out a dissatisfied cry.

"it is good."

After this sound, the communication was directly hung up.

Tang Heng looked at the blacked-out screen, and the old monk stayed there for a long time as if in a trance, and the cub finally noticed something was wrong from this silence.

Dumb made a gesture to go for a walk, but in the next second, Tang Heng grabbed his neck and dragged him into his arms.

As if venting his anger, Tang Heng gritted his teeth and rubbed the cub's head for a while. The cub struggled to escape, and the man and the beast immediately messed up.

At this time, the sentinel secretly turned red at the tips of his ears, but no one noticed.

Jiang Feng returned to the data center in silence.

Seeing the man come back, Zou Bingxuan glanced in his direction.

"Military notification?"

Jiang Feng replied: "No."

Zou Bingxuan didn't ask any more questions about it, and Jiang Feng didn't intend to explain it further.He glanced at the data interface at this time, and after sorting out the progress of the business introduction, he continued with a normal expression: "The next deployment is like this..."

……

After the video communication was hung up, Tang Heng was always worried. Judging from the frighteningly cold face of the guide at that time, maybe he would be taken out and taught a lesson.

So, that night, when the door of the single room in Tang Heng's dormitory was knocked, he was taken aback.

Tang Heng grabbed the cub's tail to prevent the Quantum Beast from sneaking back into the mental image, and opened the door cautiously.

"It's you?!"

Seeing the person coming, Tang Heng breathed a sigh of relief, but quickly glared and said, "What are you doing here? Aren't you in another target city?"

Li Qing took half a step back, pushed his glasses with his middle finger, and said with a deadpan expression: "The chief has something for me to bring to you."

As he spoke, he stretched out his hand towards Tang Heng. On his flattened palm lay a small transparent bottle and a pellet wrapped in plastic.During the movement, the white pill in the bottle hit the wall of the bottle, making a small "crash" sound.

Tang Heng was taken aback for a moment, then quickly reached out to take the two things, and when he spoke again, his tone was much softer, "Cough. Is there anything else?"

"Gone."

After finishing speaking, Li Qing turned around and was about to leave, but Tang Heng stopped him before he could take the steps.

"Then what?" Tang Heng's expression was a bit tangled at this time, "I'll ask you a question."

Li Qing turned around in response, adjusted the frame of his glasses again, and waited silently for the next sentence.

"That's...Jiang Feng, Chief Jiang, whom you always talk about, is he very powerful?"

Li Qing: "..."

Tang Heng also realized that he was talking nonsense, so he hurriedly took two steps forward, blocking the person who was about to leave with his body.

"No, listen to me." Tang Heng pulled his hair, "He is so powerful, why is there no sentinel willing to combine with him?"

Li Qing paused as he was about to leave, looked at him and said, "Who did you hear that 'no sentinel is willing to combine with him'?"

Tang Heng heard the sarcasm in Li Qing's rhetorical question, and frowned, "No, before he..."

"It's not that there are no sentries who are willing." Li Qing interrupted Tang Heng's words, and when he spoke again, the sarcasm in his tone was fully revealed, "It's the chief himself who doesn't want to. 'Seat guides cannot be combined with sentries', this is an unwritten word in the tower Regulation."

Hearing this, Tang Heng was taken aback, never thinking about such a reason at all.He murmured: "But I think those sentinels are all combined with the guide, don't they?"

"Yes. 'The seat sentinel must have been combined with the guide', this is also a rule."

"...What kind of bullshit rule is this."

Li Qing said with a smile: "If you have an opinion, you can go to the Military Commission and the people in the House of Representatives."

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Before I opened the document, I thought I could finish it before twelve o'clock; before I opened the document, I thought this chapter was only [-] words ORZ