The conference room was a bit lively. But this kind of "liveliness" looks cold to Li Zhen.

Dai Bingcheng's back was in front of him, quite generous. He sat up straight, his black uniform stretched out like a thick wall. In this peculiar atmosphere, Li Zhen suddenly felt that some things could be forgotten.

When he first joined the Secret Service, he was still an ignorant newcomer, but fortunately, the collective quickly accepted him. Whatever the reason, Dai Bingcheng was really good to him, and it was only later that he realized that Director Dai had a habit - most people had to stand at his desk and reply.

However, on both occasions, he sat in the chair in front of him. The person who had revealed the "secret" to him was no longer there, but he was still a little excited when he learned about it.

After that, he went to Shennongjia to carry out a mission - after experiencing nine deaths and a lifetime, he managed to survive and did things that he could not have imagined. He gave something, got something that maybe wasn't what he wanted, and he had more secrets.

If he had been a nimble young man with no knowledge of the world, then since that incident, the cold and cruel consciousness in his mind has turned him into a different person—a vague consciousness that has experienced killing, betrayal, prosperity and decay for an extremely long time.

It is also because of this obvious change and the "gaffe" at the end of the incident that the relationship between Li Zhen and Dai Bingcheng seems to have become slightly strained.

However, that tacit estrangement made Li Zhen much calmer when facing this Director Dai. In fact, it was not without another thought in his heart - there were only two internal service executives in the northern base. And he is the absolute main force...... It seems that I do have the capital to be a little more "presumptuous".

This is not a complex psychology such as coercion, but only a judgment of the actual situation and the feelings that arise from it.

But now, he felt as if he could forget something.

Because Director Dai, who has always made him unable to see clearly, clearly showed his attitude at this time - he was under great pressure, firmly guarding in front of him, and did not retreat half a step. So those estrangements and suspicions in the past disappeared at this moment, and Li Zhen felt that he seemed to have regained the feeling he had when he first joined the northern base.

The deputy chief picket of the gendarmerie headquarters was still waiting for Dai Bingcheng's answer, and his question had clearly made Dai Bingcheng extremely angry. So much so that the embarrassing silence was maintained for quite some time.

The assistant to the prosecutor general, who was presiding over the meeting, coughed. He said, "Director Dai, you can say what you think. ”

But before Dai Bingcheng could speak, the chief finally spoke.

The old man looked up at the crowd. Then he said, "Rest easy. ”

Among the attendees. He is a real minister. Therefore, even if this meeting is somewhat of a grand feast. Everyone was quiet. The old man, who had been silent, tapped lightly on the table: "Lieutenant Li Zhen." ”

"Yes." Li Zhen tensed his face and stood up.

Is it finally my turn?

"You've seen the day, now let's talk about it." The chief did not look back. But Li Zhen felt that the other party was staring at him, "Speaking with convincing facts." ”

"Yes."

After Li Zhen stood up, a slight commotion sounded in the conference room again. In fact, many people have heard rumors about him for a long time - in fact, the battle footage has been studied by many people for a long time. At this moment, the executive officer with incredible power in the video appeared in the venue, and everyone looked at him with different eyes.

Because this "Lieutenant Li Zhen" does look young, it doesn't look like a species capable of taking out extremely murderous in any way - although their understanding of that "murder" is far from clear.

Li Zhen looked at the few people who had asked such ridiculous questions with a blank face, and felt that from such a condescending perspective, his face looked plain and unremarkable, and there was nothing outstanding about it. But in fact, each of these people is worthy of the title of "high-ranking official", but at the moment there is no trace of awe in his heart.

Maybe it's because of the anger in my heart.

He thought for a moment, looked at the deputy picket, and said indifferently: "Some people don't have time to watch the battle video, and some people don't understand what kind of existence the species is - then I'll speak with facts here." ”

The phrase "some people" is clearly rude - still from the mouth of a lieutenant. So someone frowned and interrupted him: "I think we know enough. You can answer the pickeant's question directly. ”

But the chief said lightly: "People who feel that they know enough can leave this conference room temporarily." Come back on to the next topic. ”

The old man who had been silent made a clear stand for the first time, and everyone in the audience froze slightly. The host was stunned and tried to ease the atmosphere: "Hmm, Lieutenant Li Zhen, please continue." ”

Li Zhen smiled slightly mockingly, and said, "Do you really know enough?" I think something intuitive is more convincing. ”

He looked inside, his eyes fell on a stainless steel stand in front of the projection screen, and then walked around his chair.

People watched his every move, not figuring out what he was going to do. However, with the lesson of the previous one in mind, they did not try to question it again. After all, it seems that His Excellency the Commander-in-Chief, who was present at the meeting, was unusually tough today.

So Li Zhen stopped on the other side of the conference room, stretched out his hand and flicked the thumb-thick steel bracket, and then turned slightly sideways so that people could see his next move.

He grabbed one of the forks and said, "This thing is stainless steel." For the average person, the hardness is high. ”

Then he slammed his arm and pulled his arm down quickly.

There was a crisp sound. The fork of the steel was ripped off the weld by him.

"For some of us, however, it's no different from plastic. And the strength I have shown is not the strongest among those who have died. ”

Li Zhen looked at some people with surprised faces and smiled in his heart. In many cases, no matter how realistic the video data is, it is not as shocking as the facts.

He then walked to the other end of the table, holding the pole, facing the host. Everyone could see what he was about to show next—even the absent-minded entourage seemed to cheer up. Perhaps to them, the power that Li Zhen displayed was more like a show – even though it was used not so long ago to save and protect something.

He held the ends of the steel pipe with his hands, straining slightly in full view of everyone. The steel twisted like a plastic pipe, and twisted in the middle as his wrist turned, until it was split in two like a ham. Fall on the table.

It's like a good magician who whets the audience's appetite before performing a show. He looked around again, then leaned down, grunted, and put his hands under the carpet. Then it was done again. An entire marble floor tile was ripped out by him. With crumbs of cement concrete. Rested on the table.

Then he put two twisted iron pipes on it.

But it is true that no one asks him "what exactly he intends to do". Even the chief had a slightly curious look on his face. Obviously, the strength shown by Li Zhen has already made many people secretly frightened, but that is only the beginning.

Li Zhen raised his head and said in a deep voice: "Someone asked a question before. Are we exaggerating the resilience of the species? So let me answer this question first. ”

He stared at the man and raised his right hand, rubbing his fingers together.

There was a muffled sound, and a flame appeared out of thin air.

Orange-red, fist-sized flames floated in the air at a height of about five centimeters from his fingertips. It doesn't rely on any combustibles, just floats in the air, but magically doesn't burn Li Zhen's fingers.

The scene was far more real than any picture, and there was a murmur in the room—but mostly from the mouths of those who accompanied them. The bigwigs have more or less been in contact with the able, and the scene in front of them is not enough to make them lose their temper.

"Flame control, A-class psionic energy." Li Zhen said, "At the moment, the temperature of this flame in my hand is about 900 to 1100 degrees. ”

"However, I can also make it hotter, for example, 2,000 degrees." His hand trembled slightly, and the flame let out a low roar, and the orange outer flame quickly turned pale yellow, and then from pale yellow to a white blue.

The heat was transmitted through the air to his surroundings, and even the farthest person, two meters away from him, could feel the burning on his face. However, in order to maintain his image, the man only frowned slightly and leaned out quietly.

"2000 degrees, just a number." Li Zhen smiled, "Just like the names of those sacrifices, they are all symbols." Many people may not have an intuitive impression. Then we can see for ourselves what a 2000-degree flame can be used for. ”

He closed his fingers, and the flames in the air disappeared in an instant. Many people were slightly stunned, but Li Zhen had already lowered his head, took a few steps back, and pointed to an iron pipe on the marble slab: "Please look." ”

At this time, people noticed that one of the iron pipes quickly turned dark red, and then changed from dark red to bright bright red.

After only a few breaths, the iron pipe, which was still strong and shiny just now, showed a tendency to soften, and then it slowly deformed and collapsed in front of people's eyes like a high-temperature plastic, turning from an iron pipe to a piece of iron, and then from a piece of iron to a semi-melted molten iron...... Then it flows slowly down the surface of the marble. The stone beneath it was evident that it could not withstand the heat, and the blue-black slate began to turn white and brittle, and a pungent smell appeared in the air.

Li Zhen put down his hand, then picked up a cup from the side and poured the water inside.

A thick cloud of smoke rose and was quickly sucked up by the ventilation equipment. However, the molten iron did not completely cool down, and the vultures emitted a dull dark light.

There was a slight silence in the conference room right now.

Li Zhen waited for a while, and only then shook his head when they deeply imprinted the scene just now in their minds: "This kind of temperature can melt steel in a short time. But guys, this is for the species. Far from enough. Perhaps humanity will be reduced to ashes in this flame, but the high temperature of 2000 cannot destroy the activity of the species. ”

He looked at someone who was a little stunned, and added, "So I've answered the previous question - are we exaggerating the resilience of the species?" ”

"Then we can also answer another question - why do we want to completely eliminate Chiyou."

He took a few more steps back, raised his right hand from afar, and pointed to another iron pipe with his five fingers slightly open: "If you want to completely inactivate the species, you need at least a high temperature of more than 6,000 degrees. This temperature can temporarily limit its activity, which can then be partially broken down at higher temperatures. My approach is to discharge electricity at high temperatures. Arc light is generated. Under the action of high temperatures of nearly 10,000 degrees. Some parts of the species' body will be converted to a plasma state - so that they cannot be reborn. ”

Some people seemed to realize what Li Zhen was planning to do, and turned their eyes to the second section of iron pipe. Then the chief picket exclaimed, "...... That's enough! ”

But he said it too late.

Raging flames rose from the steel pipe, and a loud boom rang through the air. The air currents pushed away by the heat storm swept through every space in the room. The warm wind blew the hair of the last few people into a mess. In the face of this compelling heat. The few people who have been there lately have been unable to keep their composure any longer. Instinctively, he leaned to the side, as if intending to move farther away from the slate.

But the next moment, a bright arc of electricity shot out from Li Zhen's fingertips. Like a golden serpent, it struck the surface of steel. So at this moment, a fiery red "water vapor" rose from the contact point. Along with the vapour rose was the bright red fluid beneath it—magma that had been vaporized directly by extreme heat.

Bursts of bang sounded, the wooden door of the conference room was slammed open, the guards on the periphery rushed in with guns, and the thermal sensing equipment on the ceiling also sprayed a column of water accurately in the first time - but the water column turned into a burst of white fog in mid-air, and the early warning system was activated again, and the icy cold air column sprayed out again.

Although Li Zhen had already withdrawn, the high temperature still inevitably ignited the wooden table under the stone slabs. The flames rose a dozen centimeters high almost as soon as the red mist rose, and then sped further ahead—half of the tables were burning as the participants on either side screamed in panic and ran around their seats and ping-pong to the other end of the room.

The venue was completely chaotic. The previous demeanor and calmness all disappeared, and the people in the whole room crowded to the host's side, and opened a distance of more than ten meters from Li Zhen. And the half of the table in front of him was shrouded in billowing gases - the early warning system spewed liquid nitrogen when the water could not lower the temperature.

Although the liquid nitrogen was vaporized in mid-air, it was able to extinguish the small fire and quickly reduce the temperature in the room. The ventilation equipment is at its maximum power, with several probes with stands sticking out of the ceiling to absorb nitrogen near the conference table as quickly as possible, while spraying purified fresh air.

An efficient emergency system extinguishes the flames in the room in more than ten seconds, and the indoor air composition returns to normal. It was only at this time that the panicked people finally calmed down temporarily, and the current scene seemed a little ridiculous.

The vast majority of people were huddled together at the other end of the room, and the bigwigs who were skeptical and even dismissive of the Shennongjia incident just now looked at the half-scorched conference table in shock. The guards stood there with guns in their hands, not knowing what to do.

Because there were still a few people still sitting behind the table.

Commander-in-chief, Dai Bingcheng, a major general of the army system, and a colonel of the army system.

I couldn't tell if they were just as alarmed, but the expression on their faces was calm. Regardless of the attitude of the Army to the meeting, the two officers did show extraordinary courage. Right now, they were staring at Li Zhen gloomily, and only their slightly trembling hands indicated that their hearts might not be as calm as their faces appeared.

As for Dai Bingcheng......

A slight mocking smile tugged at the corners of his mouth, and he looked with interest at the chief picket, who was trying to straighten his hair.

There was a palpable anger on the host's face, and he pointed his finger at Li Zhen, about to say something to the guard in front of him, but the chief had already spoken.

The voice was quite calm, but calm and powerful: "What are you panicking about." How will this be opened? ”

Then he looked at Li Zhen again: "Lieutenant, you will scare people like this." ”

Li Zhen is still in place. Move your body slightly to recover from the biting chill of the nitrogen. Then he smiled: "I missed." However......"

He retracted his expression and looked at the people in front of him: "If you don't want to waste time watching the footage of our battle carefully, this is the only way to answer another question. ”

"Those who die in battle are afraid of war, lax, and worthless. This kind of scene — this kind of scene that makes you feel terrified is the scene that we are going to face on that day. Ten times more sinister than now—and my comrades-in-arms at that time were fearless and generous to death. If you're sitting in an office with a sofa and an air-conditioned room, and you can't really appreciate what kind of enemy we're facing from the characters and images, then I think you should have a general idea by now. ”

He paused, taking a deep breath. Suppress the emotions that are surging in your heart. And he said, "But I want to warn you of one more thing. The Chiyou that was eliminated in this way was still just an incomplete species. It was almost a skeleton that day, and for some reason more powerful abilities didn't work. If it returns to its heyday after a while, then even I don't know. Can I just do it completely? ”

"And right now. I have reason to suspect that somewhere in this world. The third species is awakening. I'm a small person, and I can't change anything. I certainly can't interfere with you continuing to sit down and continue to argue in this meeting. Spend a few days or a dozen days dwelling on the details that should be unquestionable. ”

"I would like to remind you, however, that you would do well to pray that the species that might exist will die of its own accord during this time, or that it will be able to kindly inform us of its location when it is fully awakened, and then stand motionless on some sparsely populated island in the Pacific Ocean and wait for us to send it into the western sky with a multi-million-ton nuclear bomb."

"My life is not very important. However, you seem to value your own lives. So what you should do after that, please measure it yourself. That's the end of my explanation. ”

After saying this, Li Zhen let out a sigh of relief and stood still.

The people on the other end looked at each other, and their faces gradually became solemn. And the assistant prosecutor general blushed, hesitated for a while, and still let out a low shout: "Arrest him!" ”

Dai Bingcheng slapped the table and stood up: "Who dares!" ”

At swords' points.

The chief snorted coldly: "Xiao Dai, you sit down for me!" ”

glanced at the assistant prosecutor general again: "The people in the secret service system are not your turn to take charge." ”

He is telling the truth. But this fact really made the assistant unable to get off the stage. So he took a few breaths and waved his hand violently: "Adjournment!" We'll talk about it tomorrow! ”

Li Zhen breathed a sigh of relief and looked at Dai Bingcheng. And the latter nodded to him with a calm face, so Li Zhen realized that what he had done was not excessive.

But he wasn't sure if anyone would get hurt - even he was a little frightened by the heat in that moment, let alone ordinary people. Maybe it will cause burns, right?

But according to the thickness of those people's skins...... Maybe it's completely okay to survive.

It was also at this time that he figured out what happened before - Jinghu Villa and his party, Ying Gong's special care for him. Before entering the venue, the one suddenly appeared. In fact, they are all sending a message to him - you can "come nonsense".

But he didn't grasp the meaning behind these things at the time—it seemed that those people were overestimating their sophistication. However, it is also crooked...... Li Zhen was not a dough that could be kneaded by anyone.

It will be the first time in the South China Sea. So obviously there's no way to do it – at least not today.

However, just as the people were about to leave the scene in anger, a man appeared at the door.

As soon as this person appeared, not only those people at the door, but even Li Zhen was stunned.

As before, he may not know who the governor of his province is, or who the governor of his city is, but the face of this one is all too familiar to him. In fact, more than half of the people in the entire world can recognize this face.

Prime Minister of the Reich.

The room fell silent for a moment, probably no one expected the prime minister to appear here. Then there is only one situation - in fact, he has been closely monitoring the progress of the meeting.

The prime minister is quite thin and has a slightly elongated facial contour, but fortunately, the high bridge of the nose attracts most of the attention. In fact, this prime minister was a beautiful man when he was young - photos of him from his college days have been circulating on the Internet, and it is said that he was in a sense a "prodigal" at that time.

But now he is over fifty years old, and he is the most calm and sophisticated age of a man. Even if you stand alone in the doorway with your hands behind your back, some invisible momentum will radiate - perhaps because of his personal charm, or because of people's perception of him.

But in any case, the atmosphere in the venue was strangely calm because of his appearance.

Then the prime minister glanced at everyone, his knife-like sharp eyes stayed on Li Zhen's body slightly, and said, "This meeting has to be opened." Change the venue. ”

After a pause, he added: "It's time to get down to business." (To be continued.) )