Section IV. Negotiations
"I'll take care of the rest." Lightson took over.
"HELLO, ZERO, MY NAME IS LIGHTSON, AND THIS IS THE FIRST TIME WE'VE MET, BUT BEFORE THAT, YOUR NAME IS THE ONE 'WE' HATE TO HEAR BUT ALWAYS HEAR. If...... Today's negotiations are not valid, and this will be the last time we will meet. ”
"I think you've received a warrant from the World Government about me, do you still need to negotiate with me on this premise?" Ling asked.
"It's because we know about the wanted warrant that we want to negotiate with you, haven't you heard? The enemy of my enemy is my friend. ”
"Are you enemies of the world government?"
"Haha." Lightson sneered. "My father is Ley." Lightson watched Ling's reaction when he said this.
Ling frowned slightly. "You're still alive?"
"yes, I'm alive. Someone saved us when my father was killed. ”
"You guys?" Ling heard the contradiction in what she said. Because in the report received by the headquarters of the Hunters' Association, it only stated that only his son in the Ley family was missing, and all the others died, and the Lightson in front of him was indeed 'us'?
"Your Hunters' Guild has received a report that 'all but my son Liteson is missing, everyone else is dead', but just as my uncle didn't explain my father's existence to the World Government, my father didn't explain to outsiders that I had a younger brother. When my father learned that he might be assassinated, he had already asked me to lead my brother out and stay in my uncle's 5th arrondissement. ”
"Do you have anything to do with the two-faced man in the Third Circle?" Ling asked.
"Huh? Why use doubts? Not only the third protection circle, but also the second protection circle also has my participation, which is very pleasantly surprised, isn't it? ”
"What's your relationship with the man in the cloak?" Ling was almost certain that there was a connection between them, but she still wanted to hear him prove it himself.
"It was the man in the cloak who saved me and my brother." Leterson said.
"So what are you going to talk to me about today?"
"Don't worry, I'm not done yet." Lightson beckoned to the inner room. "Brother, come out."
Then the door of the house was pushed open, and out of it came a machine...... Person? The man known as a robot has a pair of mechanical arms, a pair of mechanical thighs, and the torso of his body is also wrapped in mechanical armor, and only those clear eyes can distinguish him from real robots.
"First meeting, ZERO, I'm Ley's youngest son, and my name is Letwin." The robot walked up to Ling and said.
"You led the people out of the siege of the first district and left them a flute?" Ling remembered a man she had mentioned to herself in the first district.
"Since the World Government doesn't go to the rescue, of course I have to take action, we are not as cold-blooded and ruthless as the World Government and the Hunters Association."
"Now that everyone is here, the next thing is the point." Lightson asked his brother to step aside.
Ling and Zhuge Xun looked at each other, and then listened to what Lightson was going to say next.
"My brother Letwin has suffered from congenital hypochondria since birth and is accompanied by muscle atrophy, limbs atrophy and can't stand, my father may think that my brother's existence is very shameful, so he wanted to end my brother's life, but was stopped by my mother, my brother Xiaowen's IQ is very high, my father decided to use a machine to transform my brother's body after discovering it, this plan is slowly underway, so my brother's existence is hidden by our family.
However, the difficulty of transforming people into cyborgs is difficult to achieve even now, and at this time, the people who had participated in the development of the 'brain' have died one after another, and my father realized that this may be the intention of the World Government and the Hunters Association, so he sent us two brothers away, and let us come to Uncle in District 5, but on the way, I met people from the Hunters Association, and when my brothers were captured and wanted to be sent to the Central Circle, they were rescued by the 'Man in Cloak', and then sent us to the side of District 5.
Thanks to my uncle's support, I perfected the mechanical parts of my brother's body and made him the perfect person he is now.
Don't you think it's a great invention that can change humanity? The success of cyborgs represents the arrival of new humans!
The turmoil in the Third Circle of Protection is the work of our alliance with the Man in the Cloak. At that time, there were a lot of resources in the third circle that we needed, and the third circle was also the most hated protection circle in all civilian areas, squandering valuable resources excessively, so that the civilian areas that were already struggling to survive the day and scarce resources had to allocate resources to the protection circle, so we targeted the third protection circle. It was the first time we teamed up with 'that adult', but it was very tacit.
In fact, the third protection circle was finally given up by the 'adult', because we have already obtained useful things, and the resources and the support of the man in the cloak and the adult from the third protection circle have made me have more funds and technology to transform the robot.
After that war, there were many innocent people who were implicated, physically or mutilated, but with my skills, they were able to live like normal people, so the redeemed people were willing to give their part for me. This is also the origin of the army led by my brother. ”
"I see. It seems that one is being used by you, but I have a question. Ling asked.
"You can ask. Because if we want to negotiate, there are some things that have to be said face to face. Leterson said.
"In the third circle, the information that the Hunter Guild has is that the 'Two-Faced Man' is the leader, and the 'Cloaked Man' is the support, but there seems to be a person called 'the Lord' behind it, who is that person?" Ling has been investigating the matter of 'the adult' since the third lap, but there has been no progress.
"I haven't seen the 'man' either, we don't know if it's a man or a woman, all his instructions are given through the 'man in the cloak', and the brain code during the three laps is also told by the 'man in the cloak' to the civilians who attacked. My robot troop has only done a small favor in this. ”
"So, those robot units that happened to the Third and Second Circles are now in this Fifth Sector?" Ling asked.
"You can do that."
"And what do you want to talk to me about?" Ling knew that now was not the time to get angry, and that these people wanted to negotiate with her, indicating that they could still make sense.
"It's simple, just let you join us." With that, Lightson observed the expressions on the faces of Ling and his companion.
"Join you?" Ling glanced at Zhuge Xun beside him. "This one doesn't seem to be ......"
"Why? The World Government and the Hunters' Guild so what about you? You are the hero of this world! But now he's become an 'outsider', oh no, he's already wanted. To tell you the truth, the way that Schelle died was instructed by 'the sir' and the cloaked man, and the purpose was to frame you, don't you know? Why do you still have to work for those people? Lightson was puzzled.
"Sure enough, then said Edla. Xia and Heroy. Seton is in the same league as you? Ling asked.
"It seems that you are not stupid, you have already investigated. We have a dream to bring the world back to the way it should be, what are you laughing at? Lightson asked Zhuge Kaoru.
"Are you a child? Putting the world back in what it should be? So what kind of posture is what it should be? And on what basis do you decide?
As long as there are creatures like people in this world, it will inevitably develop into the current result, fair? Freely? That's just the most common phrase used by those in office to deceive the people!
Human nature is good? Hmph, ridiculous, it just didn't touch its own bottom line.
You're trying to win over ZERO, and if your negotiations are successful today and you come to an agreement, what are your plans for the future? Overthrow the Hunters' Guild? Overthrow the world government? And then what? 'That war' has brought deep fear and despair to people, do you want to deepen the wounds on people's hearts?
Before the war, people wanted to live a better life through the baptism of war, but the result is the way it is!
Also, do you know the man in the cloak and 'the man'? Are they genuinely for the people or are they motivated by their own selfishness? In my opinion, you are nothing more than pawns for them to use, and since you can get rid of that 'two-faced man', you can get rid of you.
This fifth civilian area, although it is a civilian area, but life is not much worse than the protection circle, and there are many unnumbered civilian areas in this world, and the difficulties of life there are beyond your imagination.
Your district is now self-sufficient, but have you ever wondered if a war with the World Government would turn it into the next Third Ring of Protection? Zhuge Xun looked at these humans who were younger than him and didn't know how many years old.
"Who are you?" Lake looked at Zhuge Xun, who was still tied.
"He's just my friend, but what he said, that's what I'm going to say, I'm grateful that you can help other civilian areas deal with aliens, but if you want to deal with the World Government or the Hunters' Association, I won't join forces with you, and after today, if I let me know that you're going to attack other civilian areas and protective circles, then I'm sorry, even if it's just me, I'll be on the opposite side of you." Ling said. "Lake, do you agree with what he said?" In the past, Ling knew that Lake was a very self-interested person, and he shouldn't be involved in this kind of thing.
"I ...... I can't forgive the world government for my brother's death! Lake replied.
"ZERO, DID YOU CHOOSE TO GO AGAINST US? Now you're wanted. If you don't agree to our negotiations, I can hand you over to the world government. Lightson asked.
"Our starting point is the same, we all hope that people can live well, and I am doing my best to help those in need, but I can't agree with your approach, the current world needs peace, not strife, people can no longer withstand a new round of war, if your ultimate goal is also to hope that people can continue to live on this planet, give up the plan. This fifth district of yours, as well as the second district of Hattith, are all about the quality of life comparable to the protective circle, don't destroy it. Ling said sincerely.
After listening to Ling's words, Lightson and Lake in the room looked at each other. "Take the two of them to the back room to rest first, they are not allowed to leave without my order!" Lake commanded the soldier standing in the doorway.
"Yes!" The soldier took Ling and Zhuge Xun out, arranged them in a room converted from a shipping container, and untied the ropes on the hands of the two people, but locked their legs with the iron bed in the house, the length of the chain allowed the two to move around the house, and after the soldier went out, he locked the door from the outside.
"Has the world come to its end?" Ling said to herself.
"Not really. With the current technology, the earth is the whole of human beings, but human beings are not all of the earth. Therefore, no matter what the future holds, it is the path that human beings have chosen for themselves. You, me, Kate, Miss Red Moon, and perhaps the others who will live in this pavilion in the future are all people who can't interfere too much in this world, because none of us are really human. Zhuge Xun sat on the bed and said that looking at the chains on his feet, this kind of thing couldn't lock the two of them at all, and Ling should still not think about it.
"Hmm...... Kaoru doesn't seem to be the same as when I first met you? Ling simply collapsed on the bed and looked at the empty roof.
"I didn't tell you, it was the vampire blood in my body that made me more irritable."
"Then the current Zhuge Xun is the real Zhuge Xun?"
"Yes."
"Then Zhuge Xun is very powerful now?"
"What are you going to do about the Fifth District?"