Chapter 206: Crisis of Confidence
The high-end office building standing next to the bustling street in the center of the city is the core stronghold of the Thunder Dragon Brigade of the Ministry of Disasters. It's just that due to the special situation of S City at present, it has lost its former transcendent status.
In the room where Shangguan Shanshui's blood was spilled not long ago, a man like a giant elephant was lying on a huge custom-made sofa, reading the newspaper with relish. Nowadays, when electronic reading is becoming more and more popular, there are not many people who are still good at this kind of (ài). In his own words, he prefers the heavy texture of holding in his hand to convenience (xìng).
He is a man who is very partial to weight (ài), both in reality and in the symbolic sense.
"Brother Xin, you littered your clothes again." The plump girl walked in angrily, holding a huge plastic basket in her hand, which was full of two pieces of clothing.
The complained man grinned, still curled up in the sofa and did not move, taking the girl's complaint as a deaf ear.
The girl was also quite helpless about the man's cheekiness, and asked instead, "What are you looking at?" ”
"Watch the news and see if there's anything new in the city lately." Xiaoxin raised the newspaper in his hand, and said with surprise, "Look at this, there was a vicious dog injury incident in the XX community, and he was killed by the security guard on the spot." As a result, the dog owner ran to the property to make trouble, and now these dog owners, tsk. ”
“…”
"Eh, what are you doing with the basket?" was a little weak by the girl's speechless eyes, and Xiaoxin had nothing to say to relieve the embarrassment.
"Wash your clothes, you take off your clothes and throw them all over the ground, and you don't clean them up or wash them."
"Why wash it, it's called a cleaner." Xiaoxin pouted and said, "You're too idle." ”
"It's just too idle, so I can only find some work to do by myself." Su Xiaoyu sighed and said, "What do you think we're here for?" A while ago, I went on a few missions, but now I can't get through to the phone. If it weren't for the regular delivery of supplies from the ministry, I would have thought we had been forgotten. ”
"Isn't that good?" Xiaoxin couldn't understand Su Xiaoyu's worries, "You just think we're here for a vacation, wouldn't it be good, easyeasy, relax (qíng)." ”
Su Xiaoyu sat on the sofa next to him with a plastic basket, and said with a sad face, "Now that the situation in S City is so moving, is it really good for us to be so leisurely?" ”
"What's so bad about that." Xiaoxin's face was full of indifference, "The body of the pseudo-god ran to ask for the special authority, to put it bluntly, don't you just don't trust us." He would rather use the Inhuman who had just come up with the Inhuman Autonomous Guild than come to me, which shows that in his mind, we are no different from the Adventists. That's just right, and I'm still happy. ”
"Can he solve all the problems on his own?"
"He can't hold it anymore, so naturally he will come to us. If you don't look for us now, it means that you don't need it yet. "Xiao Xin found a good reason for himself to be lazy" Besides, I don't want to get too close to him, every time I see the body of a false god, I feel very uncomfortable. ”
"You've seen him before?" Su Xiaoyu asked curiously
"It's not just that I've seen it, I was in Tazigou back then..."Xiao Xin stopped talking abruptly and didn't continue.
"Tazigou? What is that place? ”
"It's nothing, anyway, although he doesn't know me, it's not the first time I've come into contact with something related to him (qíng)." Xiaoxin vaguely confused the topic, "To be honest, if I can, I don't want to have anything to do with him at all." If he sees through my independent reality, I am not sure that I will take him down. ”
"Is he really that strong?" Su Xiaoyu asked with some skepticism, "Looking at the information in the department, it is indeed very exaggerated, and I have never doubted his terribleness." But I feel that aside from the point of view of vitality, I still think that at least he is not like a knight
Terrible, right? ”
"You're just too young, he's been locked up for ten years, so you newcomers don't even know what he is." Xiaoxin said proudly, "You must learn to admonish your predecessors and respect them." ”
"Aren't you much older than me?" Su Xiaoyu said dissatisfiedly, "How do you know? ”
"This is a secret, anyway, if you can take a break in your busy time, I don't think the progress of things (qíng) will always be so easy. Actually, I can understand the concerns of the pseudo-god body, you think about it, but before we arrived, the guy named Rock was poisoned. Xiaoxin shrugged and said, "If it were me, I don't think there was anything wrong with this." ”
"What about them? Didn't they have a side of it? Su Xiaoyu said, "It's all messed up, but we're just incompetent, right?" ”
"Who knows, anyway, I only have two plans right now." Xiao Xin put up the newspaper again, and said lazily, "First, stay away from the body of the false god and try not to conflict with him as much as possible, and second, return to the Northeast alive." I couldn't ask for anything else. I can only pray that the body of the false god will not have a hair on the head (rè), and make it..."
However, before he could finish speaking, the communication station suddenly rang loudly, and a screeching sound interrupted the conversation between the two. Su Xiaoyu and Xiaoxin glanced at each other, and hurriedly ran forward and pressed the answer button
"Hello, this is the headquarters, I'm Liu Wei, do you hear?"
"I can hear it, this is Su Xiaoyu from the mercenary team, please speak."
"The ministry received a report (qíng) that Ren Yuan had hidden a young man in Building X, XX Community. You are now dispatched to collect (qíng) reports to determine whether there is a possibility that the act may be harmful to the interests of the Ministry of Disaster. ”
"Wait a minute." Xiao Xin asked out loud: "Now the supreme commander of S City is the body of the pseudo-god himself, right?" Do we have the right to investigate his actions? Who is authorized for this operation? ”
"The authorized person for this operation is Shangguan Hongzhenshou." Liu Wei's indifferent voice came from the other end, "Just because I have opened up my authority to him doesn't mean that he can do what he does." It doesn't mean that he can jump out of the system and do illegal things in secret. The necessary supervision is responsible for the safety of the people, comrade mercenary, do you still have any questions? ”
"One more question." Xiaoxin was silent for a moment and asked, "Is this your opinion or Commander-in-Chief Zhang Changxu's opinion?" ”
"This is my proposal, and it has been approved by Commander Zhang and Shangguan Zhenshou, is there any problem?" Liu Wei asked in a cold tone
"No, I've already received the task." Xiaoxin's face darkened and he responded.
"Very good, the relevant information will be sent to you, then I wish you two a smooth operation and success."
Immediately afterwards, without waiting for Su Xiaoyu and Xiaoxin to respond, Liu Wei unilaterally turned off the communication. Suddenly, the room fell into calm again, but under this calm, there were monstrous waves churning in the hearts of the two.
"Why is it so fast..."Su Xiaoyu's face was very embarrassed, and his tone was full of worry
"From the day Shangguan Zhenshou arrived in S City, I felt that things (qíng) were about to change." Xiaoxin sighed, "I originally thought that Shangguan Zhenshou should go back after reading his daughter, but I was still too optimistic." No matter what, it is impossible for the ministry to trust the body of a false god, I should have thought that this would be the situation. ”
"Will we clash with Ren Yuan head-on in the future?" Su Xiaoyu said uneasily
"The prejudice against strangers in the ministry has long been ingrained, so I said that it is impossible to be so relieved of Ren Yuan." Xiao Xinyu was helpless, "But so soon, I will investigate him with open fire, but I am afraid that there will be sparks if there is no problem." ”
"He also concealed this matter first, right?" Su Xiaoyu said tentatively, "We got the approval of the above, even if we were bumped into by him, there was a defense, didn't we?" ”
"It's not a question of who's right and who's wrong." Xiaoxin patiently explained, "Since the special permission is opened to the body of the pseudo-god, then it's just."
His plan of action should not be questioned. The ministry's move clearly puts distrust on its face, and if it's someone else, it's fine..."
"But the body of a false god..."
"Yes, but he's a false god." Xiaoxin said with a wry smile: "It can only be said that the ministry's opinion of him cannot be said to be prejudice. I suspect we're going to find out something he doesn't want the ministry to know (qíng). By that time... It is said that the ministry released him, which was originally an act of using a flood to extinguish a wildfire, and the fire was built before it began to be extinguished. What the hell are the big guys in the ministry thinking? ”
At this time, Su Xiaoyu, who was staring at the system information, suddenly exclaimed, pointed to the screen and said
"Didn't Captain Liu just say that Ren Yuan was hiding a male (xìng) youth? But isn't this a girl? ”
After returning to the Zoroastrian base, Medusa made a beeline for her lab. Although she is only a mid-level C-rank Inhuman, she has an extremely transcendent status within the sect. With the exception of Bishop Prometheus and the three high priests, she was the first person in the sect.
And the reason why she is vaguely qualified to compete with the bishop and the three giants is because she is in charge of the huge experimental institutions within the sect. In fact, there is a good guess about the disaster department, behind the continuous movement (sāo) in S City, it is indeed related to the battle around the No. 3 heretology ten years ago, but the connection is far from being as simple as the remnants of the Zoroastrian sect.
For example, Medusa, whose shēn was very related to the academic sect of the four Advent sects at that time, so her joining the Zoroastrian sect was not only to add a mid-level alien to the sect, but also to bring a huge body of knowledge and a complete laboratory system belonging to the academy. This established her supremacy within the sect and gave her a pivotal position in Prometheus' plans.
Soon she found Larry in the lobby of the lab, who was busy working on various records. As an assistant selected by Prometheus to assist Medusa in managing the laboratory. This man, known as the "Mortal Star", is not only tasked with assisting Medusa's work, but is also the third person expected to pass on Medusa's knowledge.
Sensing that someone was approaching her, Larry turned her head alertly to meet Medusa's smiling gaze. Hurriedly put down the things in his hand, bent down and said respectfully
"Your Excellency, you're back."
"Well, how's it going?" Medusa waved her hand to signal him to rise (shēn) and looked down through the massive tempered glass of the control room. More than a dozen cultists dressed in heavy chemical protective clothing were shuttling back and forth in a pile of huge transparent jars, tending to strange biological tissues soaked in various colored liquids.
"Generally well, the situation of the eight and twenty-four (qíng) is a little unstable, and the direction of the anomaly of the other nineteen is a little different from the estimate...", Larry reported, handing the record to Medusa with both hands
"Who restarted the single-digit tank?" Medusa asked, glancing at the record
"This," Larry said, a little embarrassed, "it was the Bishop's order, saying..."
"Okay, since he told me (qíng), don't tell me." Medusa interrupted Larry's words with a wave of her hand, and suddenly said softly, "Larry, you look up. ”
"Yes, sir."
Leyry didn't know why, and listened to the order and straightened up (shēn) body. Medusa looked up at him, stretched out her hands and gently stroked his cheeks, and whispered
"You're not mad at me, are you?"
"The subordinates don't dare." Larry is accustomed to Medusa's moodiness and has a respectful face as usual.
"Do things well, I'm more optimistic about you than my two predecessors." Medusa smiled and straightened his shirt for him, and after some encouragement, turned (shēn) and left the lab.
However, what Larry didn't know was that at this moment, Medusa was holding a small object that had been pulled from the collar at the back of his neck...