Chapter XXIV
Dock parking at the port. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info Street lamps cast a few patches of white light in the area. A plastered queue of empty tank tanker trucks parked opposite Lu Qi. A cool breeze whipped up dust in the light. Lu Qi walked on the cracked asphalt road that was leaking with oil stains. The wildcat, who was picking up garbage, freely slipped through the rusty half-topped barbed wire fence and jumped onto the mound of concrete, casting a dark, wary gaze at him.
The night in Tamyun City is like a bottle full of liquid binders. It looks like it's easy to break, but no matter how hard you try, you can't stir up this extremely tense surface. Commercial buildings are a barometer of the economy with dazzling lights. Cheongin Street is full of shops full of people. The foreign tourists who got off the bus followed the guide into the splendid welcome hotel. Tired and confused-looking Canadians threw buntings on the side of the road. On the elevated road between Ba Cheng and Danyun City, most of the time it is between traffic jams and slow traffic. The queue lasted until late at night. The children who came out of school chased each other all the way, and the night stalls had just put up their stands. Buses stop at the entrance of the city's wetland park, and night runners run past under sensor street lamps in the shape of dead trees.
Lu Qi fastened the cufflinks at his wrists. The night sky by the sea was gray and gloomy. The gray clouds were like silt, and the pieces were sealed and piled up in the sky, which could not be wiped away, and the moonlight was impervious. The woman came from the shadows behind him, and a black Acura SUV was parked not far away. "Director." Lu Qi spotted her and walked quickly into the shadows outside the street lamp. The woman wore a long trench coat with a light-colored bow on the cuff of the low-top women's shoes.
"You don't have to call me that, it's time to get off work."
"Sister Nuo." Lu Qi lowered his head and changed his words.
"It's been a long time since we've seen each other, Captain Luqi." The woman sighed.
"I guess we haven't seen each other for at least eight years."
"Time flies," she said, raising her head, "that kid who was always left behind back then, now, you also have a heavy responsibility on your shoulders, Lu Qi." ”
"Yes.... It's my responsibility! Ill-conceived and ill-prepared, events spiraling out of control. I'm fully responsible. Lu Qi was admittedly prepared, and after he finished speaking, he closed his lips tightly and waited for her to dispose of it. The woman nodded, held it with her open hand, and pondered for a moment. "How much information does your group have about this investigation now?"
"It's not much, it's slow, it's always slow; Maybe I have to say, maybe we've been kept in the dark. ”
The woman looked in the direction where the whistle came from and was silent for a while, "You should understand that because of his trust in you, the minister will bypass your boss and find you alone." ”
"I know." When Lu Qi felt that these three words were still in his throat, he trembled with excitement and shame from the bottom of his heart.
"However, you and your team are not alone in Mr. Pan's case. Other departments are watching the situation. So far, the minister is fairly happy with you. Just because of the difficulty of the matter, your investigation will also encounter many difficulties. So," the woman took a deep breath and put her hands in her pockets. "Big dog, you have to be more firm in your beliefs. We have decided to give you more support. From now on, you and your group will be given greater privileges, and no one can deny you the right to investigate, justified or unjustified. You will have the right to deploy all our resources and forces. You don't have to take responsibility for the wrong leadership alone, to break through the difficulties in front of you, we will stand behind you and support you. ”
"Yes....."
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In the middle of the night, the wind became stronger and stronger, and dense dark clouds, which had been stagnant for a long time, hit the sea.
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Stop. The LRT train does not take a break at this point, so you can take a break after opening the door. All inbound and outbound pits are compressed and utilized every second. Busy people go up and down the various elevators that flow. A quartz clock on the platform controls the entire progress.
Aaron was lying on the glass railing, eating his lunch gluttonously, two boxes of soup dumplings in his hand. The Danes watched the travelers in the station hall. "Hey, Keith, do you want to eat?" Aaron picked up his chopsticks and swallowed another. Emaciated whites eat buns with unskilled chopsticks to attract more attention. His colleague sat solemnly in the wicker chair where the traveler rested, and closed his eyes and said nothing. Aaron shook his head boredly and threw the leftover buns into the trash.
"Are you looking for an executor?" Aaron finally sat down and said. He had too much energy and walked back and forth in the hallway for two hours. Keith still didn't have any change in his expression. The nerves in the face seem to have been frozen for centuries.
"I've heard that your ability to hack into communications systems was military in the past. Even a computer can't analyze your computational mind. And you can use the implanted chip to completely disintegrate Microsoft's system programs in a matter of minutes. Even the NSAA and the Pentagon use you as a nemesis? ”
Keith was still holding Erlang's legs crossed, indifferent.
"Until you, in Russia, encountered a virus that was almost nerve gas, and then was in a coma for three months." With that, Keith opened his eyes and moved his jaw, which was sunken like a block.
"How do you know?"
"I'm more interested in knowing, as a biohacker, what you're thinking when you're in a state of being infected with a virus in your brain; And memory and thinking? Aaron was a little smug at making this big, robot-like guy have a look.
"The brain is not poisoned, but the virus passes through the chip, which makes the body feel uncomfortable. Neuronal thinking is not programming. ”
"Just discomfort? You fell asleep for three months, and everybody thought you were dead. You're still a sequelae-lae sufferer! "Aaron would love to try and crack the message virus.
"He's coming." Keith put on his sunglasses and stood up.
"What, where? How I didn't feel it. Aaron frantically followed Keith. Oh see! Aaron looked through the glass railing and saw a man coming up in an escalator.
PfizerSmithKline investigators are waiting for him.
Aaron was busy digging out a pair of silver-rimmed glasses from his breast pocket. The frame is printed with a faint logo, which is straight to the hourglass. Database glasses. In the virtual field of vision, leave to filter out the face portrait of the man. Aaron continued with consciousness. The glasses capture the air breathed by the man on the elevator, then freeze it and perform a biometric analysis.
"It's him, free radical."
Keith hurried downstairs. Stand in front of the exit of the escalator. Free radicals appear in front of their eyes little by little along with the elevator.
"You must be the one we're looking for." Keith stood in front of him from afar. "So, you're the ones who want to pay me?" Free Radical took off his sunglasses and looked at the person who stopped him with dark blue eyes. His eyes lost some of their light-sensing function and stared at them vacantly.
"Can we find a place to talk first?" Keith pointed to the hall exit. Aaron noticed that he was not carrying a suitcase.
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"Can you let us know that what you have entrusted to us is still in good condition?" Aaron pondered for a moment and spoke. Free radicals gobbled up the suspect and ate two plates of fried rice. Free radical kept his head down and gnawed around the exam before pulling out a tissue in his hand to wipe his mouth.
"I can't." Free Radical shook his finger and said, he didn't relent because the investigator paid for a meal.
"If you want to know, that means you don't know. Since you don't know, it means that my employer doesn't want you to know. If He allows you to know, there will be ways for you to know. And let my subjective consciousness tell you that it is my will; It's certainly not his will, so it can't. "He speaks at the speed and logic of a robot.
Aaron narrowed his eyes deeply and looked at Keith.
"He's right." Keith nodded to Aaron as well. "But Mr. Free Radicals. We're not the one to pay you, your employer, and we're not telling us that. ”
Free radicals put down the drink in your mouth. There was a moment of silence between him and Keith. The world outside of them was forgotten at this time, and time could not hinder their communication.
"I see it." Free radicals spoke first. "It doesn't matter, everything has a trajectory, and the ending hasn't changed." He silently pouted, got up and left.
"Is he a 47-body?" Aaron watched as the distant back of the free radicals blurred in the sea of people.
"He can foresee much farther than I do." Keith folded his arms in thought.
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