CHAPTER XXXI

In the center, everyone has their own individual space. The interior decoration and furnishings are very simple, with furniture from IKEA, not luxurious but comfortable. When Romen came to his room, his furniture had not yet been unpacked, and even the carpet had not been laid. He was tired, so he didn't assemble the furniture and asked someone else for a sleeping bag to spend the night.

In the early hours of the morning, the center's engineers began construction work on the center. The noise of the machine was so noisy that everyone couldn't sleep, so they all got up and washed, and if they had a job, they started their own work, and if they didn't work, they went to help the engineers. Luo Men, Ma Xibei, and Sasha have not yet recovered from their exhaustion, and after breakfast, they are still chatting around the table in the cafeteria.

"Where's ACE?"

Rommon rubbed the newly grown stubble on his chin and rested his feet on the chair next to him in boredom.

This place made him feel relaxed, not only was it comfortable, but it also had a special atmosphere that can only be felt in Unit 128. This was natural, because in one morning, Ro'men had already seen many acquaintances. Wu Xian, who hadn't slept well for a few days, just hurriedly said hello to him, and then took people to a corner of the center to continue his work. Everyone here is busy, but everyone is relaxed and comfortable, and they all seem to be confident and looking forward to the future.

"ACE NOW SLEEPS IN A DOWNTOWN HOTEL." Ma Xibei looked at his cow's 'milk' in a daze, and he didn't even change his clothes when he came back. "Didn't I tell you he lives with a French 'woman' now?"

"'Mixing' both business and 'private' matters sounds like ACE's style." Ro'men smiled knowingly and nodded. "He looks like he's the most physical of us. French 'women' don't live in the center? ”

"Not yet, the center is still a secret from the outside world." Ma Xixi stood up with his cow's milk'. "I'm going to sleep a little longer, if anything's going to call me."

"I love this place." Sasha looked around with interest.

Looking out through the transparent glass curtain wall and passing through the tall exit, you can see the blue sky and the sea in the distance.

Luo Men' noticed that some of the entrances and exits had been completely sealed off by steel plates, but the engineers did their best to preserve the beauty of the design, making the huge building feel transparent from the inside out, and they even designed rolling escalators at the entrances and exits, if you are tired of only being able to enjoy the natural scenery in glass buildings, then you can bring a cold beer to these escalators to enjoy the real sea breeze.

There's a reason Sasha loves it, and there's a strong personal touch to the dΓ©cor throughout. From an artist's point of view, it must be messy and unaesthetic, but for those who work and live here, this place is incorrigibly prohibitive and functional.

"I'm just going to change the furniture in my room." Sasha made a look of horror. "I'm not saying those things are bad, but none of them are anything I like. Even if I had to pay for it myself, I would have to replace them. ”

Romon remembered where she lived in the United States, and it was a cozy little nest. And this memory inevitably reminded him of those *** between them, strangely enough, he couldn't even remember the details of the time, but every time he thought about it, it made him feel especially excited. He even thinks that it was one of the most perfect experiences between him and the 'woman'.

"Don't forget to have some more beers like that in your fridge, and maybe we'll have a few bottles at your place when we have time." Are you going to put yourself in a big LCD TV? If Martha won't give it to you, then I'll give you one. ”

"Isn't your time for your own family?" Sasha looked at Ro' with a complicated expression. "I don't think you'll have time to drink beer with me anymore, and I don't think I'll have time to be as idle."

"Family is important, but so are friends." Ro'mon looked at Sasha earnestly. "No, to me, you're my family, because we've been born and died together, and that's more important than anything else."

"I don't know, Ro'mon." Sasha shrugged her shoulders. "I mean, I know what you're trying to say, but I need some time to convince myself to accept it. Let's not talk about these things, didn't Martha say she would be back this morning? If I have to wait too long, then I might as well go back and sleep a little longer. ”

"Hey, I'll introduce you to someone, and show you another part of this place by the way." Romen jumped out of his chair as if he had found something new. "This helps you get acquainted with the place faster."

They came to the basement. The first floor is the parking lot and technical workshops of the entire center, the second floor is the operation training center, which is dedicated to providing various tactical support for the operation team members in training, and the bottom floor has been built into an underground shooting range with a length of 300 meters, but only one target track can be used for the time being. The 'hairy' donkey and an engineer are debugging other equipment, and from the equipment they are debugging, it is clear that there is going to be something interesting here.

The little donkey motioned to his companion to stop what he was doing for a moment and came to Luo Men.

"I knew you were back yesterday, but I thought you might need a little more rest." He took off his gloves, wiped the sweat from his hands on his clothes, and reached out to Sasha. "Tell me who this beautiful 'girl' is."

Luo 'Men' briefly explained Sasha's origins, and as he spoke, he walked to a row of cabinets containing the personal equipment of the special operators.

These cabinets are embedded in the walls, and each weapon inside can be seen from the glass 'door' outside, and the bright and soft light 'shines' on these weapons that have been 'fine' made with modern craftsmanship, looking more like crafts than murderous guys. It can be seen that the 'hairy' little donkey has devoted all his efforts to his work, and he has made these gun cabinets as 'refined' as the windows of a store.

"This is the new recruit, and if possible, she will be our new sniper." Luo 'Men' asked the 'hairy' donkey tentatively. "Maybe she can use Shen Mao's cabinet."

"Come on, what a bad idea." The 'hairy' donkey shook his head in dissatisfaction. "Let's not mention that Shen Maopai has his own habits, the guns he used can't be changed back to the original, and it's also unlucky for this girl. Of course, a whole new collection was created for her. ”

Sasha looked at the row of cabinets marked with everyone's names with satisfaction, and she found that there was actually An Nianrong's name on one of the cabinets, and she couldn't help but smile on her face.

"Martha is not good at weapons, and she really wants you to prepare for her like this?"

The 'hairy' donkey looked at Sasha proudly.

"I don't take the initiative to serve others. I am an artist, and I will only provide such a service to a person when he asks for it and I think he is worthy of it. "The 'hairy' donkey gave his thumb to the engineer he was working with." He also wanted a cupboard, but he just wanted to look cooler, so I said to him,, people like him don't even deserve a rock. ”

Sasha laughed heartily. "What about me? Do I deserve my own gun cabinet? ”

"It depends on your talent."

The little donkey led her to the cabinet with her name written on it, which was also the largest cabinet and neatly placed all the major light weapons in the world today, all of which were prototype firearms that had not been modified in any way. The 'hairy' donkey asked her to choose a sniper rifle that she was best at and try it at the shooting range, and Sasha chose an M40A3.

Watching her expertly inspect the rifle, the 'hairy' donkey nodded repeatedly. Although many people think they know a lot about weapons, a true expert can tell how good a person is from the moment he picks up a gun. Absolutely do not believe that a gun is an empty gun, unless you have personally inspected it, which is the minimum mark of a good gunman.

"I thought you'd go for SVD." The 'hairy' donkey's affection for Sasha is rapidly increasing.

"Just because I'm Russian? I didn't pick it because I was too familiar with it. ”

Sasha smiled and put on her goggles and earplugs, and sat down in front of the 'shooting' ring. Instead of using the bipod of the rifle, she put the gun directly on the special sandbag on the 'shooting' table, which is a habit developed in actual combat, and she will not use the bipod on the rifle unless there is the most ideal environment for the 'shooting'.

The 'hairy' little donkey turned its head to look at Luo 'Men'. "It seems like there's nothing going on with you here, why don't you go up and make a phone call or something?"

"I just wanted to talk to ACE, so I'll 'hand' her over to you."

The 'hairy' donkey gave him a thumbs up and grimaced at him.

"I'm going to talk to you about *** inventory when I go back, but for now, I'll work hard for this girl first. We eat together in the evening? ”

"I don't know if I was still here at that time." Luo 'Gate's face was uncertain with 'confusion' and 'confusion'. "If it's the same problem you said last time, then you just need to open a list for me, although it's not like shopping in the supermarket, but I'll solve it as soon as possible."

Luo 'Gate' walked briskly to the elevator leading to the ground. Sasha looked happy, and that was what he was trying to achieve.

When he reached the surface, he saw ACE's jeep drive all the way to a stop in front of the entrance to the "Glass City".

Ace buttoned up his shirt and walked quickly after him.

"When are you going back?"

"Obviously, we can't decide until we meet Director An, and I realize that we can't have our own timetable in the future, because we have to follow her timetable." Luo 'Men' was unimpressed by An Nianrong's tardiness. "Know what I think? If I have to be late, I'll call someone to let them know. ”

"You say that, like a, you have a small belly and 'chicken' intestines." ACE LAUGHED. "Tell you what I think, if I'm a superior, then I don't worry about what my subordinates will think about my tardiness. It's the prerogative of the leader, you don't have it, so you don't feel comfortable anymore? ”

"What makes me uncomfortable is the smell of perfume on you." Ro'men frowned.

"So I'm in a hurry to come back to take a shower and change my clothes." ACE ran past the 'door' to his room. "I'm going to tell you about that French 'woman' later. I think I'm in trouble. ”

The trouble with ACE is that he will always easily fall in love with a 'female' person, and then he will always end his 'relationship' with this 'female' person for some strange reason that is difficult for others to understand. If he wanted to discuss Sophie's problem with himself, then ACE could only be disappointed, he didn't know Sophie as a person.

The trip to France was a 'mess' and 'chaos' for him. He was shot and fell into the Seine, woke up in the intensive care unit of the hospital, and then struggled to escape the police interrogation of him. The side effect of the 'coma' was that he could no longer remember most of the details of the battle at that time, and it was at that moment that he suddenly felt unwarranted fear. Assuming no one found him floating in the Seine, he would have been a nameless corpse in the icy morgue of a foreign land, and what was even more terrible, no one would have known what had happened to him.

Life can be so impermanent.

Rommon had encountered such a thing before, but this time his fear was particularly deep. His decision to quit was largely motivated by that concern, though he was reluctant to admit it. When he was just a person, he didn't need to think about any decision, but now he hesitates to make any decisions. This situation made Ro'm 'Gate' irritable. He's used to trusting his instincts, but now, the fact that someone is waiting for him to return safely has forced him to start suffering from gains and losses, and once you start to suffer from gains and losses, mistakes will follow. In his place, his mistakes can take a serious toll on his job and his peers.

It's time to 'surrender' the secrets you have to An Nianrong, Luo 'Men' thought. Now what he has to worry about is whether An Nianrong will be able to take on such a responsibility.

Perhaps it would be more appropriate to wait until the investigation of Sheng Muli was over to decide whether it was time to 'hand over' the secret. Luo 'Men' didn't dare to say that he had mastered the situation of the "oracle", but at least, after interrogating Lin Yongquan, he was able to narrow down the scope to a few people. The real "oracle" should know this, but he is not in a hurry to 'mess up', so Luo 'Men' believes that if there is no conclusive relevant evidence, he rashly raises suspicions about whom, and the first to be destroyed may be An Nianrong's thirteenth office. The struggle for espionage is complex, but it is nowhere near as complex as the political struggle.

The most difficult thing to grasp in the political struggle in real life is that even if you tell the truth, you must be strong enough to support your truth, otherwise, once black and white are reversed, you will become the sinner.

An Nianrong's tardiness gave Luo 'Men' time to think about how he should explain his opinion of the "oracle" to An Nianrong.