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"Can I have a cigarette?" Lu Ting asked suddenly.

He Zhensheng handed him his cigarette case, the black seven-star, and there was only half a pack left, with a small box of matches stuffed in the gap.Lu Ting's hands were shaking faintly, so it was not easy for him to take out the cigarette, bite the cigarette holder, and light the fire. By the time he sucked out the white smoke, the cigarette case had already been pinched by one corner.

"I'll see you off." He Zhensheng stuffed his pockets and went back to the box.

Lu Ting followed behind him, closed the door forcefully, and sat back in his chair forcefully.He stared at the light screen that resumed the news broadcast without saying a word. The smoke was so strong that his forehead had already been choked with blue veins.

He Zhensheng sighed, and said helplessly, "Hey, relax."

"Have you seen it all?" Lu Ting took two sips of black tea and pushed the cigarette into the cup with a snort, "I can assure you that the entire capital city was captured just now!"

"It's the whole world," He Zhensheng raised his eyes, and lifted the tablet towards Lu Ting, where the explosive social network presented, texts, pictures, and videos, almost all discussing the same thing, "From the Brazilian plateau to the Indonesian archipelago, Dun Mo Chi probably called every screen that was still working, and I don’t know how to do it.”

"Anyway, he did it, even if he wanted to hack all the communication satellites into his own, he did it." Lu Ting lit a cigarette again, "It's a scam, can you guess it?"

He Zhensheng smiled and remained silent.

"This is a gauntlet," Lu Ting began to cough, but his eyes revealed ecstasy, "Is it against my dad? To the entire federal government?"

"It seems that you very much hope that there will be someone who challenges the authority." He Zhensheng lowered his head, sipping his sparkling wine, "although you yourself are part of the authority."

"I hope to find the truth. Boss never acts on a whim, and he must have found the evidence for his challenge."

"Evidence for what?"

Lu Ting was stunned for a moment: "About some, I don't dare to guess randomly, there are big problems."

He Zhensheng was quiet for a while, the last sun had set, and the milky white and gray fog filled the world outside Vanilla, blurring the dimension of space, making people feel that they were in a sealed fish tank, slowly sinking into the sea and rising up seabed.

After a long while, when Lu Ting smoked his fourth cigarette as if he was looking for peace, He Zhensheng put down his empty glass and said suddenly: "I don't know much about Deng Mochi, but as you said, I knew him early, so I might know him." Knowing something you missed, I may forget it after a long time. Now it seems that I should really tell you."

"Thank you." Lu Ting raised his eyelashes, and the shadows under his eyelids dissipated.

"In the beginning, he gave me the impression that he was not from Earth." Ignoring the slight surprise on Lu Ting's face, He Zhensheng continued, "I have not ruled out this guess until now. At that time, I fell into the fourth area with the escape aircraft I didn’t completely lose my consciousness on the rubbish mountain. I knew that the iron shell outside me was on fire. It was caused by the friction of the atmosphere, and it was bound to catch fire. But someone braved the fire to get me out, and saw me with the electric arc knife. Broke my crushed arm."

"You mean, he's not afraid of high temperatures?"

"Haha, it's more than that. He told me that he would hurt when he touched the fire, but there was no burn on his skin." He Zhensheng smiled, "And later, when I woke up and failed in suicide, I wanted to kill the person who saved me. Man—wait, you won't fight me when I get to this point, will you?"

"..." Lu Ting folded his arms.

"Don't worry, I want to finish talking about the stupid things I've done." He Zhensheng's expression suddenly became more serious, "I've worked so hard to find him, this meddling and nonsense brat, He was in the [-]th Ward, picking up junk with his four-paw, and I tried to hit him with a heavy speeder."

Lu Ting's eyebrows were already furrowed, the tobacco rod had a gap, and it was about to break in his mouth, so he took it out and snuffed it out with his hands.

His fingertips jumped in pain.He suddenly felt a little ridiculous, he was not Deng Mochi, he didn't even have Deng Mochi by his side, how could he be so overconfident.

"But as soon as I got close to a distance of about 50 meters, my car ignited spontaneously. He stepped on the brake and was still sliding. He didn't hide, so he turned his head and watched me burn quietly. Maybe I was hallucinating. He was It seems that the face is covered with blood, the blood is flowing from the nose, the corners of the mouth, and even the eye sockets." He Zhensheng paused, "Finally I stopped about ten meters away from him and rolled down. The car exploded soon, and he ignored it." I, go by myself."

Lu Ting still didn't speak, got up and stood by the window, putting his empty hands in his trouser pockets.

"One more thing. I'm in business, and I'm very familiar with the black market. I heard that in the Blood Cube—you don't need to know too much about the Blood Cube. Simply put, it's—"

"I know," Lu Ting turned back halfway and looked at him sideways, "He took me there."

He Zhensheng was slightly surprised, and said: "Then you also know the origin of the black bones?"

"Those perverts who tried to trick him and didn't want him to go out were all burned to death and turned into black bones."

"That's right." He Zhensheng nodded, "There are three known fires, and the Erebus one a while ago."

And when he was younger, the night his mother passed away, Lu Ting thought about it silently, but didn't say it out loud.

"So fire is an uncontrollable oxidation reaction for us, and it may be more like a weapon for brother Deng." He Zhensheng continued, "He used some method, even consciousness... to use it freely .”

Lu Ting rubbed his chin against the collar of his denim jacket, "It's better to say it's protection, when he feels great danger."

"really."

"You saw blood on his face..." Lu Ting recalled Deng Mochi's headache after helping him "revenge" at the Pusopei Hotel, and the crimson dripping on the palm of his hand.There was a throbbing pain in his heart, even if hypnosis and nameless fire could be used as weapons, then Deng Mochi hurt himself when he used it, just like a child who hasn't learned how to hold a knife and was killed by someone. Forced to use a dagger for close combat.After so many years, I don't know how much Deng Mochi has learned about himself, and how many times he has bled.Lu Ting didn't intend to have such a deep chat with He Zhensheng, and simply said: "He may not even know how he got burned."

"Maybe." He Zhensheng laughed again, "We have to find the person and ask him himself."

"Now the whole world is looking for it." Lu Ting observed his expression.

He Zhensheng was also staring at him, his eyes didn't blink for a moment, as if he wanted to calm down and make a prediction for the next conversation, "Do you think you can find it?"

"Of course those idiots can't, but I can."

"you can."

"Because he doesn't want to be found by them," Lu Ting suddenly frowned, the madness just now was extinguished in an instant, leaving only a sweet smile, but it seemed much more persistent than wide-open eyes, as if he had suddenly figured it out What, "But he must want to see me. I used to think that he was angry and didn't want me anymore. It turned out that he just went to the dangerous thing by himself and didn't want me to share it. I blamed him."

He Zhensheng was speechless for a while.With his back against the dense fog, the boy standing in front of him looked like a red-eyed white-haired rabbit with no survival experience the last time he met him. Looking boring and annoying, he turned out to be the one who would kill people if he was unhappy. It looked like it didn't take long.He has a prominent family, a lot of young people, he is obsessed with a missing person who is full of mysteries and challenged by the whole world, and even crazily acquiesced that he is about to participate in the rebellion that the person is suspected to be preparing-all these seem a little neurotic , but reasonable.

"But I'm not going to look for the boss right now. It's too rash, and I might cause him trouble." Lu Ting returned to the table, looked down at He Zhensheng, and added, "I have to think about what to do next. I think, and thank you for telling me what you just said, although to be honest, it's useless."

He stretched out his right arm and offered it out for another handshake.

He Zhensheng got up and shook hands with him twice, "You can contact me anytime you need help. I don't have a big problem with some things that the police can't contact on the surface."

"You agreed to cooperate?" Lu Ting raised his eyebrows.

He Zhensheng leaned forward to pick up the cigarette case, and there was only one left. He lit the fire and said, "At least I don't regret it now."

There was only one rest day, and Lu Ting returned to the police station early the next morning, and was called to the security department of the special zone for a meeting.He came late. The emergency team had been set up for more than ten hours, with only one goal - to find out the person or organization that caused the farce the night before.All TV stations, advertisers, and signal terminals with functions of sending, receiving and displaying were attacked by viruses at the same time, and broadcast speeches that caused panic among the people, and the scope spread to the whole world. This is really a heinous crime.

There were also various speculations, and the voice hidden in the screen was given a unified name: the mysterious person N.Conspiracyists and orators have varied accounts of his purpose, and speculation about what he meant is eye-opening.Although the relevant discussions were banned and blocked soon, Lu Ting still intercepted a lot, and he couldn't help laughing.

Some of his colleagues in the same group are very busy and have used too many methods for positioning, from the simplest IP address traceability to the difficult spaceflight calculation of longitude and latitude by using Doppler radar and satellite transponders... More than 100 experts After two weeks of calculation, the source of the virus was found. It was indeed a near-Earth communication satellite, but the person who poisoned it seemed not so easy to find.

Disagreement quickly broke out, about who can enter the highest-secret space-related systems, and where is he, and how to catch him.The experts came up with different calculation results, such as a small Pacific island, a canyon in North Africa, Antarctica, and the Caucasus Mountains, which are as frozen as Antarctica.A day later, they changed their conclusions one after another, replacing them with some even more unbelievable coordinates. They all said that they were just guesses and needed to be verified on the spot.

From Lu Ting's point of view, this seemed like a trick of the Dunmo Chimeng people, but the government spent a lot of money and sent troops to every reasonable destination.Although Lu Ting didn't worry too much, and laughed at their hard work and futility in his heart, he still couldn't look at this matter with the mentality of watching a drama, and completely let himself watch.He remembered Deng Mochi's virtual address, the one that was used as a backup when he found the parts information in Pusope last time, so he sorted out all the suspected areas delineated by the emergency team and sent them over, although he hid himself The address and path of the file, no one can find out that he has uploaded these files, and the recipient will not know who he is, let alone reply to him or contact him.

But Lu Ting just hoped that Deng Mochi could see it, nothing more.

He didn't want to do irreversible impulsive things just because of his trivial thoughts.

He also held the tiny fantasy that Deng Mochi would come back to find himself at a certain moment.Maybe at Aldebaran, Lucy detected the intrusion, the moment he raised his gun, the door was pushed open, and Dun Mochi hugged him silently and forcefully into his arms.

At the same time, as the sheriff of the lower-level police station, Lu Ting joined this group. In addition to organizing the usual stability maintenance, Lu Ting also had another task, which was to follow Lu Bingyi to give lectures.In response to the growing doubts from the society, Mr. President believes that only one press conference is not enough, so he set the route of lecture tour. There are four lectures in Lu Ting’s jurisdiction alone. He needs to attend every one to maintain The order of the scene and the safety of the tour team.

Well, in fact, it was just wearing a bright and bright police uniform, standing at the corner of the open-air high platform, a few steps lower, Lu Ting and the little secretary in charge of logistics stood together, looked at the front left and sat with his back to him A row of officials, his father is standing in the middle, how shocking, this is not a projection - just now in the RV used for lectures, his father sighed wearily, and took a heavy shot his shoulders.

Lu Ting also stood under the stands, and those who stood together crowded together, blocking the squares and streets as far as they could see, until the haze and dust piled up, blocking the figures of people further back.This is reminiscent of a forest farm that has just gone through the logging season. The fast-growing poplars are densely planted, and only stumps are left, which are made into things like disposable chopsticks.

Or zombie siege?These people are about to climb up and gnaw their brains.

Lu Ting felt a little bored, and was thinking about those scenes that he had only seen in documentaries and movies.He obviously does not belong to that world. People's sci-fi vision of the future a hundred years ago is also very different from the reality a hundred years later.The reason was that the audience was too quiet, tens of thousands of people crowded together, but only his father made a sound. Under the black holes and the armed helicopters that surrounded the entire venue, every strand of human hair was submissive.

So Lu Ting stood here in person after arranging the security work, it was just a beautiful show.

Going through three lecture tours in a row, watching his father's impassioned speeches, and watching the commoners tremble with fear, he always felt that he was rapidly growing wrinkles and hiding them under his dignified face.Because lives are being wasted.The same was true for the fourth scene. Lu Ting counted the time until the end of the performance, and stared coldly at his father's hunchbacked figure.The dark clouds were gathering just now, and now it was raining heavily. The secretary rushed up to hold an umbrella for the president, but was pushed away, and stood back beside Lu Ting angrily.

He put the umbrella handle into Lu Ting's hand, but was also rejected. Lu Ting stood two steps away from him, wiped away the rain from his squinted eyes, and listened to the conversation on and off the stage.It's time for the questioning session. Perhaps because the rain has blurred everything, everyone in the audience has become a little more courageous, especially the media personnel who are crowded in the front. Gradually, some sharp questions that have not been asked in the previous three games have been raised. .

"You mentioned that the Mysterious Man N incident was an organized and deliberate virus spread operation, the purpose of which was to disrupt social order. Has the federal police been effective in its search and arrest?"

Lu Ting's immediate boss replied: "The search and arrest team has already photographed it, and it is currently in the confirmation stage. The specific progress will be announced in time on major platforms. Please don't listen to rumors. Everything is subject to official information."

"Would the wanted arrest anger N? Is there any hint in what he said 'what I do depends on what you do'? What is the government's attitude towards the 'secret' that will be released?"

The Minister of Security replied: "This is the purpose of N, to trigger a storm of public opinion and create panic. The government is a public institution supported by the people and serving the people. There will never be secrets. This is our attitude!"

"Mr. President, before this, some people have claimed that the Mars immigration plan is the biggest scam in the 21st century. Since the Mars research projects of non-governmental organizations all ended in failure, and only the government monopolizes this situation, this situation is suspicious. After the N incident, there are even more such cases. Voices appear intensively, may I ask whether it will affect the progress of the Mars project? Will the No.19 batch of immigrants depart as usual?"

Lu Bingyi replied unhurriedly: "The applications for the No. 19 batch of immigrants have been reviewed, and the launch time will be announced soon. We will continue to uphold the principle of voluntariness and escort them to Mars to start a new life and reunite with their families."

Numerous flashlights were turned on and off, aiming at Lu Bingyi's smile, which also pierced Lu Ting's eyes.Questions continued, Lu Ting was full of thoughts, doubts, beliefs, which one was obvious but so difficult to choose, he warned himself to concentrate on listening, but there was noise on the live broadcast, it was lightning, and the rain became more and more violent Jumping up, while interfering with the signal, it illuminated the dome with ice-white light, and this light also splashed down, penetrating the heavy rain curtain and the turbid air, breaking the sky and breaking the earth. ground.

The rain kept rolling into the collar, flowing through the Adam's apple and the teeth marks on the back of the neck, soaking the close-fitting clothes. Lu Ting felt cold, but the sneezing suddenly got stuck in his nose. His whole body was stuck, and he covered When I opened my nose, something flickered by in the corner of my vision.It was the upper half of a person's face exposed outside the gas mask. He was tall and stood a few rows behind the media group, near the front. People around him were also illuminated, but they were all gray. He is snow-white, with a pair of thick eyebrows and blue eyes on the snow-white.

Bi Yan was looking at Lu Bingyi's direction intently, watching his speech.

how so.Lu Ting suddenly felt that he was falling, and the steps under his feet turned into mud washed away by the rain. He felt that he was wrong. This matter should never have happened. Why are those eyes green? , Attracting him like poison, forcing him to dig out the deepest and most painful impression in his heart, holding it up to overlap with those distant eyebrows and eyes, trying to overlap.

He didn't dare to show any strangeness, didn't dare to take a big breath, bit his lip unknowingly, he begged God to send down a few more lightning bolts, a little more light, just a little bit, this is just a simple wish of a night-blind person at this moment, but Request to no avail.Only a few seconds passed, and the thunder was much slower than the lightning. After the square returned to darkness, it rumbled and came late.