Early in the morning, on the outskirts of Moscow.

Even Zhou Zhen, who has been mixed in the rain of bullets all his life, has to feel creepy about the surrounding scenes.

Sleet, the raindrops are pouring blood, the snowflakes are burning stumps, the internal organs and corpses float in the river of blood, Zhou Zhi is standing in the middle of the river of blood, the blood is not over the surface of the feet, and the feet are sticky and difficult to stand firm.

In front of him, a man who was blown off by a waist-length explosion, sitting against a stone pillar, he was still alive, saying something to Zhou Qian, Zhou Zhen struggled to pull out his legs from the blood river, as long as he advanced one meter, as long as one meter, he could hear what he said...

The moment he woke up, Zhou Zhi's eyes were dark, but his mind was blank.

"Another nightmare? It's a hassle to get old. ”

There was a woman's voice complaining beside her.

"Hmm."

He replied hesitantly, unable to remember where he was, except that the mattress beneath him was soft, and there was the smell of wine and perfume in his nose.

"Natasha?"

He asked softly, and the woman seemed to roll over and kicked him off the bed.

"Nonsense, is there any other woman in A28 who can take a fancy to you old drunkard?"

Zhou Zhen was woken up, and his eyes became clear, the familiar ceiling, the familiar feather bed, and the familiar process of getting up...

Sure enough, it was Natasha, the proprietress of Du Kang's wine shop.

Zhou Zhen stood up on the floor, gave a conscious command, and relieved the hangover with the help of the parasitic system, and then felt a rush to urinate and rushed into the toilet.

"We did it last night?"

When he went to the toilet, he found that he had traces of operation, which was a pity and he didn't remember it at all.

"It's not us, it's me who operated you, you slept like a dead pig, I'm tired after the operation, otherwise you should be sleeping on the street now."

Natasha replied lazily.

"You... How? I'm broken..."

Natasha didn't answer him, which made Zhou Zhen have an ominous premonition, a few seconds later, he heard the boot music of the portable terminal, and after a few seconds, the premonition came true, the parasitic system suddenly activated, and Zhou Zhen's half-sprinkled urine actually retracted.

"Hey! Stop playing! It's going to explode! ”

Zhou Zhen's horror was no less than the nightmare he had just now, Natasha laughed on the bed, kicking the mattress with both feet, until Zhou Zhen was so red that he let him continue to release water.

"How's it going, I got this remote control program? The experiment was successful just last night. ”

Natasha walked naked to the toilet door, holding the door frame with one hand and shaking the portable terminal with the other.

"Specially designed for your parasitic system, but unfortunately I haven't fully understood how it works, and now I've only done the most useful part, which is to control your urinary and reproductive systems."

"What? Delete this kind of thing! ”

Zhou Zhi finished panting and rushed to grab her terminal, Natasha stretched out a kick and tripped him to the ground.

"Wash my hands!"

...

A28 is a tree-like three-dimensional city, the city is invested and designed by Shennong Group, the whole is built of nanomaterials, the height of the city is nearly 10,000 meters, divided into ten floors, each floor is inhabited by millions of people, the top floor is located Shennong Group headquarters and the office of the enterprise alliance.

Natasha's Du Kang Liquor Store is located on the second floor of A28, the most densely populated area in the entertainment industry.

The restaurant is small in size, but it is overcrowded every night for two reasons: it is the only bar in the city that uses electricity all night, regardless of the cost, and has not only a lighting system, air conditioning, but also a beer machine, an ice machine and karaoke equipment.

Another reason is that Natasha is indeed very beautiful and very good at getting into trouble, Zhou Zhen once asked her, you are a white man, why did you open a Chinese-style bar, Natasha replied that she has one-eighth Chinese ancestry, and she is an out-and-out Asian like him. Later, when she chatted with other men, Zhou Zhen heard dozens of different versions: one-eighth African ancestry, South American ancestry, Japanese ancestry, and so on.

But Zhou Zhen doesn't really care about her bar business, for him, Natasha is not only a dangerous bed partner, but also a technical partner of the Armored Squirrel Company, his colleague.

Now he was lying on the operating table in the basement of the bar, which in addition to storing alcohol was Natasha's office and laboratory, and on the adjacent operating table lay another man, both of whom were plugged in with tubes and wires, connected to a bunch of complex instruments.

This is the last step of preparation for Oshima Jiro's mission, Natasha wants to take out Zhou's ID chip from the heart and replace it in the heart of the person next to her for temporary storage, and then officially replace Zhong Xiaoguang's ID chip into Zhou's heart, replacing the temporary measures made by Zhouzhi before.

"It's going to hurt a little bit, and you have to don't use the parasitic system during the operation, otherwise the life-support equipment here will be short-circuited and you'll die."

Natasha picked up the scalpel and pointed at the instruments around her.

"It's okay, I know you're reluctant to let me... Yes! Don't you use any anesthetic? ”

Before Zhou Zhi's joke could be spoken, he felt a sharp pain in his chest, and Natasha cut his skin accurately, and the incision went deep into the ribcage tissue.

"Didn't you just drink a bottle of whiskey? The narcotic is a controlled commodity, and I only got the amount of one person and gave it to that guy. ”

Zhou Zhi died in pain, but the instruments kept stimulating his brain to make sure he didn't go into shock.

"Who is he? Why did the damn give him anesthetic. ”

Natasha spread her hands.

"I don't know, the one sent by Hayes should be a gangster, and there is no ID chip in his body."

"Then you gave him the anesthetic?"

Zhou Zhen was almost angry.

"Because I want to talk to you."

Natasha touched his head to comfort him, and Zhou Zhi's own blood covered her face.

"Hmm... Talk,,..."

Zhou Zhen was so painful that he couldn't say anything anymore.

"By the way, I forgot to tell you, your parasitic system has lost a part, a little, about one percent to be exact."

Natasha explained slowly while operating.

"The parasitic system is composed of more than a thousand parasitic robots, each robot is only the size of a carbon molecule, made of femtomi materials, these little guys have a single individual function, but the cooperation is equivalent to opening a fully functional private hospital in your body, the government's scientific and technological capabilities were really powerful, and the enterprise alliance was stupid and lacking scientists, so far they can't even see the internal structure of these robots, let alone imitate, even me, I have only figured out a part of the command receiving system."

"Hmm..."

Zhou Zhen was not interested in these things at all, he just hoped that the operation would end quickly, but Natasha continued to explain unhurriedly.

"But I don't know what's going on, the last time I tested for you, there were 1,330 parasitic robots in your body, and when I tested them just now, there were only 1,318 left, although 20% of these robots were originally kept as backups, which did not affect the function, but I don't understand how you lost them."

"I, I don't understand, isn't it, you lost it for me when you operated last night."

Zhou Zhen gritted his teeth and made a joke, and then immediately regretted it, Natasha's hand shook a few times when she laughed, and it hurt so much that his eyes were full of stars.

The operation lasted half an hour, and after the operation, the wound was restored with the help of the parasitic system.

From now on, in the ID database of the enterprise alliance, he has officially become Zhong Xiaoguang, and the man next to him who has not yet woken up will temporarily keep Zhou Zhen's identity for him.

Thinking of Zhong Xiaoguang, Zhou Zhen felt panicked in his heart, so he decided to dredge it, he walked behind Natasha, who was washing her hands, picked her up, and threw her on the operating table stained with his own blood.

"This time, I'll operate you!"

...

In the afternoon of the same day, Zhou Zhen submitted his resume to Shennong Group, and the position he applied for was a security officer, and the probability of this position being in contact with the senior level was relatively large, but the level belonged to the bottom, as a young talent who had passed the internship assessment of the Armored Mouse Company, it was almost difficult to apply.

Then Zhou Zhen went to a hotel on the third floor of the city to open a room, he decided not to live in Du Kang's liquor shop, for fear that he would drink too much in the store and expose his identity, he was very addicted to alcohol, although the parasitic system can quickly decompose alcohol, but what is the point of drinking alcohol?

Two days later, the interview notice arrived.

That night, Zhou Zhen received a message from Natasha and asked him to go to Du Kang's wine shop to talk.

Pushing open the antique wood door of the bar, Natasha was standing in the bar, flirting with the guests while bartending, and when she saw Zhou Zhen coming in, she put down her work and gave him a look, and Zhou Zhen would walk towards the bedroom on the second floor.

After walking into the bedroom, Zhou Zhi half lay on the bed, picked up the wine bottle on the bedside table and looked at it, hesitated for a moment and put it back.

After a while, Natasha also came up, she carefully closed the door, and then leaned in front of Zhou Zhen.

"Hey, you don't have to be in such a hurry, do you? There are guests downstairs..."

Zhou Zhi said as he reached for the button of his shirt, and Natasha slapped his hand open.

"You know what? Two days ago, on the night of your surgery, Hayes sent someone to pick up the guy who had temporarily stored your ID chip. ”

"What's the fuss about, it's just a routine, the ID chip temporary depositors have to be sent back to the A21 Armor Mouse company headquarters for protection."

Zhou Zhi hugged Natasha nonchalantly, but Natasha broke away again, took her portable terminal, and threw it on Zhou Zhi's lap.

"When I was bored just now, I checked your information in the ID database, and you can see it yourself."

Zhou Zhen picked up the terminal and took a look, and suddenly felt that his heart was about to stop beating.

The ID data on the screen showed: "Circumference, the chip did not detect vital signs for more than 24 hours, and the system determined death." ”

Zhou Zhen threw away the portable terminal.

"What's going on? Did you test after the staging person woke up? ”

"I've never done anything like this..."

Natasha shrugged her shoulders, then slapped Zhou Zhi in the face.

"Nonsense! How could I not have tested it? Are you insulting my professional competence? ”

Natasha can always effectively help Zhou Zhen refresh his mind, and after this slap, he calmed down a lot.

"Can you locate my ID chip?"

Natasha was still angry, grabbed the portable terminal, swiped a few times on the screen and threw it back.

On the digital map, she had already marked a pin, a place he was familiar with: the light of technology.

Zhou Zhen recalled Jiro Oshima's own energy card and Steve's confession, but those doubts were not related to the current situation.

"Maybe it's been attacked by gangs or unemployed people in the light of technology?"

Zhou Zhen guessed all the possibilities.

"Who's going to pick him up, from Nunn Logistics?"

Jiro Oshima's mission is top secret, and the plan of action is not even known to the customer, so no one knows the details except for the three partners and Zhong Xiaoguang, who is a necessary cost, and according to the plan, the ID temporary depositor is a black account who takes money to do things, and the delivery person is Nunn Logistics, which has cooperated for many years.

"Yes, but do you think they dare to mess with Nunn Logistics? That's one of the big four companies, and if you move them, the entire old city will be razed to the ground, not to mention that I have also checked the system of Nunn Logistics, and there are no reports of the robbery of the transport team. ”

Natasha had something to say, but Zhou Zhen really didn't want to think deeply, because it would involve a conspiracy, and apart from him and Natasha, there was only one person left who could create a conspiracy.

"I'm going to ask Hayes."

Zhou Zhen took out his portable terminal,

"Actually, you're not..."

Natasha seemed to want to stop it, and when she saw that Zhou Zhen had already made Hayes's video call, she stopped and hid from the camera.

Dozens of seconds later, the video was connected, and the environment on the opposite side was very dark.

"Brother, it's late."

The camera shook violently, Hayes's voice was very low, and Zhou Zhen frowned.

"Brother, aren't you at home?"

"Shhh

The camera flickered to the dark, and then suddenly lit up again, apparently Hayes lit the candle, under the candlelight, his face was pale without a trace of blood, Zhou Zhen felt a desolation in his heart every time he saw this face, they had fought side by side for fifty years, and now the old comrade-in-arms was an old man who could only walk in a wheelchair.

"You have a bad face, brother."

Zhou Zhi sighed, Hayes zoomed out the camera, and he saw the infusion stand, the ventilator and the hospital bed.

"Shhhh

"Brother, I..."

The words that Zhou Zhen wanted to ask were in his throat, and he couldn't ask at all, and then the door of the ward was opened, and the camera dimmed again, followed by a quarrel, and Zhou Zhen vaguely heard the woman's scolding:

"Mr. Rhodes, until your heart rate returns to normal, you must rest and not be stimulated in any way."

The video hangs up.

"Hayes was admitted to the hospital the day before yesterday, and he probably didn't know it yet..."

"You trust Hayes a lot. Rhodes? ”

Natasha interrupted him in a low tone, and Zhou Zhi felt like someone had punched him in the chest.

"He saved my life on the battlefield, and if he hadn't pulled me to do the Armored Rat Company after the war, I might have died drunk somewhere."

Natasha looked him in the eye.

"But you didn't answer my question."

Zhou Zhen avoided her gaze.

"Yes, I trust him a lot, we've been fighting together for fifty years, he was still young when I was young, now you look at me, look at him again, he doesn't have any motives, and my ID chip is not worth it for a while."

Natasha sighed softly, sat down beside Zhou Zhi, and rested her head on his shoulder, Zhou Zhen remembered, she seemed to have never been so gentle.

"I've known you all for ten years, you're like a glass of water, you can see the bottom at a glance, but Hayes, I don't know what he looks like, I don't understand, but I don't like what he often says about survival, so I choose to stay in A28 and stay away from him."

Zhou Zhi lay down on the bed and did not speak for a long time, and after a while, he asked Natasha.

"Tomorrow morning, can you help me go to the light of science and technology?"

Natasha stood up and looked at him with desperate eyes.

"You're still going to assassinate Oshima? Your own ID status is already dead, and this Zhong or something ID will become a murder suspect, and you will have no way out after the mission is completed. ”

Zhou Zhen also stood up, picked up the wine bottle on the bedside table, and uncorked it.

"Well, like it or not, I only know one way to survive."