"What? Something missing? A tall and thin old man with gray hair and strong spirits hurriedly walked through the corridor in a white coat, and the automatic cleaning robots in the corridor avoided one after another, but there were still two who were kicked over by the old man and rolled around on the ground to suspect the machine.

But the old man didn't care at all, still holding the terminal in his hand and asked loudly, "Why is it gone?" How can something good be missing? Who was on duty last night? Tell them all to come to the scene! Already all there? Good! I'll be there soon! ”

After hanging up the phone, the old man's face was full of iron, and he kept walking towards the depths of the corridor, walking with the wind.

Finally, at the end of the corridor, the old man got out of the lifting compartment, fell to the bottom floor, and then used his terminal, fingerprints and pupils to brush open a safe door with "confidential" written on it, the safety door opened, and the sixteen bolts on the door were shrunk into the wide door panel.

The old man walked through this door, and went directly to the deepest part without even closing the door, and after opening two more doors, he saw the researchers coming and going.

"Professor Li!"

"Professor Li is here!"

The young researchers greeted each other, but when they saw the expression on the old man's face, they immediately choked their necks and didn't dare to speak out at all. Since the morning, they have vaguely heard that not many people can enter the deepest part of the secret section, and they have lost something, which has caused the whole laboratory to panic.

Professor Li came to the deepest part and opened the last door, and saw a middle-aged man and several young researchers standing in the hall, surrounded by various high-end instruments and various materials, and in the middle was a prototype platform.

But what was originally placed on the platform is obviously gone.

Professor Li's face became even more gloomy, and after closing the door, he asked, "Old Wu, what's going on?" ”

The middle-aged old Wu's face was also ugly, and he said: "After I arrived here this morning, I wanted to debug the experimental furnace according to the parameters that were not completed yesterday, test whether the new parameters meet our requirements, and explore the limit value of the experimental furnace, but this is what I saw after entering the door." ”

"You were on duty yesterday?" Professor Li asked loudly.

The three young men wanted to add a big jump and nodded. Lao Wu said: "The three of them were on duty in the entire secret area yesterday, two were on patrol at the gate, and one was specifically responsible for monitoring. ”

"Tell me, what's going on? How did things disappear? Is it that when they carried something so big, you didn't see anything? Are you all blind? Or is it ...... Who among you is complicit in this? ”

The three young people were shocked, and the young man who managed the monitoring said: "Professor Li, I am only responsible for managing the monitoring, and I stayed in the monitoring room all night, but the monitoring here has always been inside yours, and it can't be connected to the outside, I don't know anything!" ”

Professor Li naturally knows in his heart that the latest research in their laboratory has never been open to the public, and I am afraid that others will not know what they are researching, but this project is related to the rise of their institute, and they can't help but be nervous.

Their research institute has fallen behind after the advent of the mecha era, and has been studying the large-scale space machinery technology that prevailed in the empire between the advent of mechas, but after the advent of mecha technology, their space technology quickly declined, and the entire research institute began to lose most of the empire's support.

And the one they're working on right now, a modified version of the formal Space Grinder, they've designed a new Space Grinder's kernel furnace. If the experiment is successful, it will be possible to reduce the cost, consumption and danger of the space crusher by almost 30%.

It can be said that this is a landmark research, and Professor Li has dedicated almost his whole life to the furnace body of this experiment, so the innermost laboratory, even the entire research institute, does not have much clarity on what it is for, and the surveillance video is also internal.

Professor Li asked, "What about the internal video?" ”

Lao Wu shook his head and sighed: "I have already seen it, all the lines have been damaged, and I didn't see anyone's shadow before they were destroyed." ”

Professor Lee's face became more and more ugly, and he felt more and more that this matter was a premeditated theft, and the target was their experimental furnace. But their experimental furnace is a secret at all, and not many people even above the empire know about it, so who else would be interested in it?

"What about you?" Professor Li looked at the other two young men.

The young man's face changed drastically, and he hurriedly said, "Professor Li, we don't know anything!" Last night we went to work as usual, patrolled as usual, and never let up at all, but really no one came in or left here, let alone brought anything with them. ”

Another young man added: "Surveillance video can prove it. ”

The two of them looked at the companion in charge of the monitoring halfway for help, the man was entangled for a while, and finally couldn't bear it, and said: "Yes, Professor Li, I didn't see anyone passing by in the corridor yesterday, if you don't believe it, you can directly ask people to investigate the monitoring content." ”

After listening to their words, Professor Li pondered for a moment and waved his hand to signal that they could leave.

The three young men bowed to Professor Li and Lao Wu as if they had been granted amnesty, and left the laboratory in a hurry, leaving only Professor Li and Lao Wu in the laboratory.

Lao Wu watched the three of them go out, and waited until the door of the laboratory was closed again, then he looked at Professor Li and asked, "Professor, do you think someone may have done this thing?" ”

Professor Li walked to the side of the experimental platform, looked at the platform, and said, "If my guess is correct, the one who came to steal this time is likely to be a master of the laws of space." ”

"What?" Lao Wu was startled, and hurriedly walked to Professor Li's side and whispered, "Professor, the master of the control of the laws of space, that is the master of the Grandmaster realm!" And with the laws of space, I'm afraid there aren't many people in the entire empire, I think it's still ......"

"Do you think anyone other than the master of the law of space can pass through such a heavily guarded laboratory and come here and take away something as big as the experimental furnace without knowing it?" Professor Li asked.

Lao Wu was stunned for a moment and said, "I heard that the ink of the gray rope is ......."

"The ability to point ink is shadow control, if you want to take something away, you must have a shadow, and no one has ever seen him carry such a big thing at the same time, at most he can only bring two people, he doesn't have such a big ability at all."

Lao Wu was also silent, thought for a long time, and asked with a tangled face: "Otherwise...... Alarm? ”

"Call the police?" Professor Li sneered and said, "For such a big matter, they were not optimistic about our experiment in the first place, so after calling the police, would the people above just have an excuse to ban us?" The people above have long been greedy for our assets! ”

Old Wu sighed.

But Professor Li immediately said: "What they stole is just an experimental furnace, not to mention that the data is not stable, and if you are not careful, it will explode, and the power of the explosion will almost destroy a building." If they do blow up, we won't have any good fruit to eat. ”

Lao Wu was in a cold sweat: "Professor, you mean to hide all the news this time?" ”

"Give all the researchers a vacation, and say that the test shows have leaked. You hurry up and build a new experimental furnace, and no one is allowed to know about it this time. Go and give those three people hush money, a big hush money! ”

"Got it." Lao Wu nodded again and again, turned around and went to do things.

An Xiaoyu came to Ma Shengshi's house early, Ma Shengshi rubbed his unkempt white hair and walked out, holding a cup of hot cocoa in his hand, and said: "You young people are hot, but don't toss my old thing early in the morning, okay?" ”

Looking at Ma Sheng's appearance, An Xiaoyu knew that he had been very tired from being busy with the affairs of the northwest city these days, but he did not show the slightest mercy, and said directly: "You plan to guard this acre and three points of land in the northwest from now on?" ”

"Or else? I'm old! The world will be yours in the future! Why do you think I've been so eager for quick success all these years? Isn't it just to prevent no one from falling into trouble after I leave? Take the benefits into your own hands as soon as possible. "Ma was born like a person who was really going to retire.

However, An Xiaoyu didn't believe it at all, rolled her eyes and said, "Only if you believe in it will you have a ghost." ”

Ma Sheng took a sip of hot cocoa and shook his head, indicating whether he loved it or not.

An Xiaoyu didn't have anything to do with him, and asked directly: "So do you plan to do another big one?" I'm going to open up the technology of satellites to the alien side. ”

Ma Shengshi sat on a chair and asked, "What are your plans?" ”

"I plan to first use Huang Wuyi's relationship to call the representatives of the imperial family to the imperial capital for a meeting, and then discuss things about satellite technology and interracial cooperation. Of course, I'm not saying that I want the royal family to cooperate with the Empire, I just want them to show that they are not against it. ”

"Then you can negotiate with your loved ones about the lease of satellite technology?" Ma Shengshi looked at An Xiaoyu's smiling face, said to the little fox in his heart, and immediately asked, "What big thing are you doing behind your back?" ”

"Hahaha! What's the big deal? It's just a simple business. ”

"How do you get the Empire to agree to the satellite lease scheme? Satellites are a new strategic resource for the Empire, so can you use them casually for other races? Ma asked when he was born.

An Xiaoyu said with a smile: "In the past, our information technology could not reach the alien race, and the alien race did not allow the construction of the base station, so the diffusion of technology was restricted. But now that the coverage area of satellites has become so wide that they can be directly used in foreign races, do you think that after those local buns of different races use information technology, can they still stop? ”

"Cultural export, technology kidnapping...... Old cliché. "The horse scoffed when he was born.

"Do you want to cooperate anyway?" An Xiaoyu asked directly.

Ma Shengshi shook his head again and again: "It's still those few words, I'm old, and the world will be your young people in the future, so I won't get involved in your matter." But I know what you mean, I owe you before, and now I should pay it back to you, and I'll do the work over there. ”

"That's a good feeling!" An Xiaoyu smiled.

Seeing An Xiaoyu leave, Ma Shengshi sighed and returned to his office. He knew that An Xiaoyu didn't come this time to pull himself into the water, but just for his influence in the court. Of course, he doesn't mind making some long-term investments in An Xiaoyu.

What big things she's planning? Ma Shengshi didn't care, picked up his phone, and called out one by one.

Huang Wuyi is still quite interested in the empire's satellite technology, since the empire's satellite strategy was opened, Huang Wuyi has been paying attention to the situation here, and now with such an excellent opportunity, he naturally will not let it go.

An Xiaoyu found a gentle person to take a relationship, and attached this cooperation to the Military Commission and the General Alliance of Cultivation, and the court was also relieved under the activities of Ma Shengshi, and said that they must be given a piece of the pie, plus the three thousand plum blossoms also said that cultural diffusion is imminent, so everything is a matter of course.

Of course, due to the particularity of both parties in this cooperation, An Xiaoyu and Xinfan Group are not called the main body of cooperation, but have become a subordinate institution of the empire, nominally using the shares of imperial technology as the undertaker of this cooperation.

Therefore, all the negotiation process will not be in charge of An Xiaoyu.

Of course, An Xiaoyu is also very happy, the negotiation with the eight royal families, in the final analysis, is just to let the royal family express its position, and they will not refuse to understand the scientific and technological content of the empire, in addition to some high-ranking and dignified things, An Xiaoyu is not interested.

When the door to the conference room closed, An Xiaoyu immediately found Rose and asked, "Are you ready?" ”

Rose sighed, "It's ready, it's all ready." I can tell you! Over the years, Tinglei has never been involved in a conflict of interests, but this time I struggled to get the help of the elders in the organization. ”

An Xiaoyu said with a smile: "Don't worry, there is absolutely no next time, next time my power will be formed, and I don't need your help." Besides, this time I helped Zhang Shujie escape from the organization to avenge you, are you just watching the organization that wants to attack you happy? ”

Rose rolled her eyes and didn't speak.

The representatives of the eight royal families came quickly, the meeting ended quickly, and the news was full of some friendly and cooperative rhetoric, but obviously the eight royal families were not interested in such rhetoric, and the video of them walking out of the conference room was filmed and directly transmitted to the Internet, gloomy and solemn.

An Xiaoyu also saw the clansmen of the Eight Imperial Clans for the first time, but none of them directly showed their true faces like Huang Wuyi, they were all wearing the same clothes, covering their bodies and faces, it seemed that for them, it was a shame for them to be seen by low-level creatures.

But it doesn't matter, An Xiaoyu quietly ordered, and the dark waves in the imperial capital were turbulent.

At the invitation of the Empire, although the Eight Imperial Families refused the Empire's request to cooperate in the development of satellites, they still stayed in the Empire for two days to see the appearance of the Empire and appreciate the rapid development of the Empire over the years.

At this time, a piece of news spread.

Just a few days ago, during the construction of Zhenjiang Tower, the empire captured a half-blood with the blood of the Yu clan on his body, and he was locked in the secret detention place of the Imperial Military Commission.

Although I don't know where this news came from, but the news spread quickly, and with the joint efforts of Tinglei, Mingshi and Zhang Shujie, the news blew like a hurricane throughout the imperial capital, and of course it also blew to the embassies of the eight royal families.

The representative of the Yu clan, a young clansman, was furious when he heard the news, and expressed his anger at the fact that the empire had imprisoned the Yu bloodline, even if it was a half-blood.

They immediately found the Military Commission and the Imperial Pavilion, and demanded the release of the bloodline of the Yu Clan, and all matters related to the Yu Clan were handled by the Yu Clan themselves, even if they did anything within the empire, they should return the people to the Yu Clan.

This matter caused an instant uproar in the imperial capital, and the people of this empire were all denouncing the alien race. So far, they still think that the collapse of Zhenjiang Tower is something that Gu Lao did in Zhenjiang Tower, but they don't know that it is because of the energy cannon.

So this matter gradually rose to the level of a diplomatic conflict, and even Huang Wuyi began to intervene to adjust.

But the process of mediation was very difficult, whether it was the Yu clan or the empire, their attitudes were quite tough, insisting that Gulao should be handed over to them to deal with, and both sides insisted on their own words, which was very angry.

In the end, due to the Empire's occupation of the home field and the Yu tribe's containment by the Huang clan, the Yu clan's proposal was eventually rejected by the empire, and Gu Lao continued to be held in the secret detention center of the Military Commission, and no one knew where he was held.

Of course, this is not absolute.

Zhang Shujie sat on the platform on the roof, looked at the building in the distance, and asked, "This is the prison where Gulao is held?" ”

"Uh-huh!" An Xiaoyu was also sitting next to Zhang Shujie.

Zhang Shujie dialed out a phone and asked, "Are you ready?" ”

"Ready." The man over there replied.

"Let's get started!" Zhang Shujie's order came.

One of the twelve captains, the woman who was good at the laws of space disappeared in an instant, and at the same time as her, there was a huge sphere shrouded in a black curtain.

Gulau's memories were sealed by himself, and he was still in a vegetative state with various tubes attached to his body.

The woman stretched out her hand and pulled back the curtain, sneering and said, "It's not just the organization that wants to kill you. ”

Gu Lao's face instantly turned gloomy, and in the moment before he died, he realized that he was also used as a pawn, and even if he died, he would not let him die peacefully.

The experimental furnace was activated, all the parameters were adjusted to the highest, and the woman tilted her head slightly, smiled at the camera, and disappeared into the room.

The lamp on the furnace turned from green to red, and the red light illuminated Gulau's face with his eyes closed.

A roar resounded through the night sky of the imperial capital, and huge mushroom clouds rose with smoke and dazzling fire. An Xiaoyu and Zhang Shujie sat in the distance, as if watching brilliant fireworks.

"Beautiful!"