The two men were silent, Theo didn't know what to say, and Lloyd was thinking hard about Lancet.

Suddenly, Jonah's voice came.

"Hey, the kitten seems to have appeared!"

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Pour the black tea into a clean white porcelain cup, and the white air rises.

The surroundings are all incomprehensible metallic colors, which make this white mist seem to be "dirty".

Inside the puppet workshop, You Zheng handed the freshly brewed black tea to Noelle.

"Ah, thanks."

I subconsciously thanked him. Noelle took a sip of tea. It's not that he's thirsty or wants to drink black tea, but he simply doesn't know what to do, and being in the same room with Ling, the executor of the body-devouring snake, makes Noelle extremely nervous. There is also a presence that seems to be a guardian or something, and the white-bearded old man is swinging the parts of the doll in his hand.

However, it was the ...... that made Noelle feel the most stressful It's almost one with the wall, a fuchsia behemoth.

It was a cyborg that seemed to be about ten times magnified in the form of a stocky human. The shoulders were huge, and it could be inferred from the outstretched barrels that it should be shoulder-mounted turrets.

Just looking at this appearance, Noelle felt a visceral fear. She has mastered one more skill than the average soldier, and that is driving. In order to drive a cutting-edge machine and a guide car, she had to learn the basics of the guide force, so she understood better than anyone else how terrible the existence of this thing was.

The technology that could drive this thing to move, the association's technology was at least five years ahead of the Epstein Foundation. However, Noelle immediately comforted himself: maybe there are a lot of super powerful things hidden within the Epstein Consortium, but in fact, the association is not so strong.

According to what Yu told her before, this station is called Mom and Dad (Patil?) Martiel's airframe, not only has good artificial intelligence, but also has the ability to fly, the particle cannon on both shoulders is hugely powerful, and the outer armor is very strong.

In this way, the words to Cross Bell are simply a victory of crushing degree......

The more he thought about it, the more his face turned blue, and he smiled, reaching out and touching Noelle's head.

Then he was caught by Noelle and twisted it directly in the direction of the counter-joint.

"Don't take advantage of the chaos, you guy."

"It's okay to just touch your head, right?"

"Shut up ......"

Seeing Noelle's somewhat vexatious appearance, You's smile became even brighter. However, Ling pouted a little dissatisfied.

"Big brother can't favor one over the other! Ling doesn't have black tea here yet! ”

"Ah, I see."

handed Ling a cup too, and then Ling tasted black tea elegantly like a daughter somewhere.

"What are you doing?"

You noticed that Ling had been lying on the edge of the guide terminal, and if it was a normal time, Ling would have come over to pester herself or tease Noelle.

But today, Ling has been lying in front of the guide terminal, which is a little strange.

"Oh, it's a hacker! It seems that someone is playing tricks on Ling ~ It's really interesting~~ So, let's play a game that you want to catch and indulge~"

"Hackers?"

Noelle clearly didn't understand the word. After all, she only studies basic guidance knowledge, and at most she can repair a car, and professional things like the guidance network are not something anyone can figure out.

"It's probably the tipster in the underground space~" (Rei)

"It's a profession that steals information by unfair means in the channeling network." (Tour)

According to their different understandings, the two gave different answers to Noelle.

"Isn't that a crime!"

"It's a crime." X2

"Isn't this dangerous?"

"It's dangerous." X2

"You two...... You're just kidding me! ”

"That's right!" X2

Noelle was speechless, and blew into the cup angrily, making a gurgling sound, staring at the two people who were very tacit with eyes as if they had been betrayed.

"You two are really ...... together"

Noelle muttered.

"Hmph, the relationship between Ling and the eldest brother is something that no one can separate, right?"

"Of course, because there is no emotion at all. If there is a conflict of interest—"

At some point, a huge golden scythe flew out from under Ling's skirt and slashed towards You's neck, and You's hand had fallen on Ling's neck at some point, with the blade between his fingertips.

"That's how we have a relationship."

As she spoke, You took the lead in putting away the blade, and Rei also put away the scythe, as if distorting space, and disappeared.

Noelle was speechless.

Is this okay too? Looks like a sworn enemy, huh? Why can we understand each other even though they are enemies?

Seeing through Noelle's doubts, You patiently explained to her: "For human beings, there are no eternal enemies. To win, to take advantage of everything, is what works efficiently - albeit in a very undisciplined way. If you have to give an example, let's talk about empires and republics. Obviously, he wanted to let the other party destroy the country all day long, but he still pretended to be calm and smooth for Liber's guidance technology. Hehe. ”

The lobby was for a tripartite agreement proposed by Liber, whereby Liber provided the high-tech technology - the engines of the guided spacecraft - which the Empire and the Republic would have to ensure that no war would be triggered if they wanted to accept it.

To be honest, Noelle felt that Her Majesty Liber was naïve. It's not that I can't understand her feelings, but I still feel that the means are too simple.

For the sake of victory, take advantage of everything?

Noelle savored this sentence repeatedly, for the sake of Cross Bell, can I use enemies, even friends?

She quickly shook her head to keep herself from falling into a cycle of thinking.

On the other hand, the relationship between You and Ling is rising rapidly.

"Then, big brother, do you want to try it?"

"Try it?"

Reacting to the word, Noelle was a little strange.

"Hmmm! If you're a tactician, you're sure you'll be able to design a pretty enjoyable stage play, right? ”

Ling smiled without a hint of malice.

She is just chasing pleasure, no matter how much suffering her pleasure will bring to others.

However, if it weren't for such a character, I wouldn't have joined the association.

"That'...... Let me command. A pawn called the Angel of Annihilation. ”

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In Theo's eyes, the kitten was "completely" hit.

In order to lure the kitten out, Jonah spread a lot of bait information on the Internet, and now, all the bait information has traces of the kitten's visit.

It's weird. It's like, there is a mouse in the house, and in order to catch him, the owner puts a lot of mouse traps, and generally speaking, the mouse should be caught by the mouse. And now it's happening, all the mousetraps are crackling.

It's not a trick, it's ...... Provocation?

Tio immediately understood what the other party meant.

"Damn! How dare you be so arrogant! Watch me teach you a good lesson! ”

Jonah's voice came from Aenigmari, and although he didn't see anyone, Lloyd always felt an image of Jonah jumping up and down in front of him.

"Jonah......

"Ahh The other party jumped! Is the target a database for the police station? Catch up! ”

“…… It's a bait......"

Before Theo's warning could be finished, Jonah was completely provoked by the kitten.

Lloyd, who was on the side, looked at Theo with a wry smile, he didn't understand anything, he could only look at her and tell her to be anxious.

Listening only to Anigmari, Jonah's voice kept coming, "What, was deliberately discovered by the alarm?" "The abominable disappeared suddenly" "Jump and jump again!" Don't run! "Damn, what's this, multi-line access?"

……

It feels like he is completely led by the other party...... A cold sweat ran down Lloyd's forehead.

"Looks like he can't count on it."

Theo said coldly, and couldn't help but sigh.

"Brother Lloyd, can you help me?"