Section III. The Lake Family
"Kaoru, I'm not sure about the situation here right now, so maybe something will happen to us, and please be merciful, as long as we leave." Ling said to Zhuge Xun beside him.
"Hmm."
The two of them followed the navigator as they walked away, moving away from the building they had just seen. The navigator was flying in the air, and there was no obstacle, but the two people on the ground walked harder, and the weeds that were one person high drowned the figures of the two people, and the two of them could only move forward while pushing away the weeds with their hands. After walking for about 20 minutes, the navigator finally stopped moving forward and stopped in mid-air in a circle.
"This should be it."
"Here?" Zhuge Xun glanced at the feet of the two.
Under the cover of weeds, there is a manhole cover on the ground, which can be about a meter in size.
At this time, a red light was emitted from the navigator hovering in the air, and it turned out that there was a receiver the size of a finger cover above the manhole cover, and it could not be found if you didn't pay attention to it, when the receiver received the light from the navigation, it sounded twice, and then saw that the manhole cover first sank a palm or so, and then slowly retracted to the side, until a black hole was revealed.
Zhuge Xun glanced at Ling.
"This is our entrance to District 5 this time." Ling just wanted to jump, but was stopped by Zhuge Xun.
"Let me explore the way first." Zhuge Xun had already pinched the paper figure in his hand.
"No, it'll be fine." Ling said that although the entrance to the cave is dark now, when it senses that something is falling, the sensor light on the cave wall will light up, and although the vertical distance from the ground to the first layer of the 'sewer layer' is about 30 meters, there will be an elevator at the entrance of the cave about 5 meters above the ground to transport people from the hole.
"It's not the same as it used to be, so let's be careful." Zhuge Xun threw the paper figure in his hand into the hole with a flick of his hand.
Sensing an object entering the cave, the dark wall of the well instantly emitted a faint yellow light, but then disappeared.
Zhuge Xun sensed the breath attached to the paper man, and the paper man did not descend a long distance, it should only be about 5 meters. Later, the paper figure was recovered, and there were no obvious scars on it. Zhuge Xun glanced at Ling.
"Rest assured, this hole is one of the entrances used to pass, the distance from the ground to the first floor that receives us is 30 meters, there is a special material safety net about 5 meters below the hole, only through the manhole cover opened by the navigation above, we can safely fall into the net, if it is a forcible opening of the manhole cover, then the safety net below will be full of current, see that your paper man is not damaged, that is, there is no problem below. I'll go down first, even if there is a problem, the current will not work for me. You wait for my news before you come down. Ling said to Zhuge Xun.
"Be careful." Zhuge Xun is not a timid person, and he cares too much about Ling because judging from Hongyue's attitude, Ling seems to be very important to her.
Ling jumped into the well first, and the wall of the well flashed with a faint light. "I'm fine, you can come down." Ling's voice came from the well.
"Hmm." Zhuge Xun also jumped into the well.
Sure enough, I stopped about 5 meters away from the wellhead, and there was a large net under my feet, and with the cushion of the net, my body did not feel uncomfortable.
"Let's go." Ling motioned for Zhuge Xun to follow him......
When both of them left the net and stood on the platform next to the net, the manhole cover closed by itself, and the well lit up with a faint light just enough to clear the way. Zhuge Xun followed Ling and walked down 5 steps from the platform next to the net, and then stood by a cage surrounded by iron bars on all sides. Ling opened the iron door on one side of the cage, and the two walked in, and after closing the iron door, the cage began to slowly descend.
"The distance from here to below is about 25 meters, and at the speed of this iron cage, we can get below in about 5 minutes, and there should be someone below to pick us up."
After a while, the iron cage stopped steadily, and there were four people standing in front of the door of the iron cage, one of whom was the person who had just spoken.
"You're here." Will helps Ling open the door to the iron cage.
"This is my friend Kaoru." Ling introduced.
"Is there something you're here for?" Will asked.
"I'm coming from Hattith's second district, there has just been an earthquake there, and Hattith is afraid that your side will be affected as well, so I asked me to come and have a look." Ling replied. However, Ling felt that there should be something wrong with Will, as if he was very unwelcoming to himself.
"Just because of this?" Will asked.
"Hmm. However, I saw the departure of the first team of executors when I came, and although we didn't see each other, if it was inconvenient for you here, I wouldn't go down. Ling said.
"Have you ever heard the name Lightson?" Will asked.
Ling thought about it for a while, and was not familiar with the name. "I don't remember this person, what's wrong?"
"Okay, I got it." After Will, he pressed the small communicator hanging on his ear, then turned to Ling and said, "Uncle asked me to take you to meet him, please come with me." ”
"Hmm." Ling whispered to Zhuge Xun beside him, "His uncle is the district chief who is now in charge of this fifth district, Lake. ’
An electric car stopped in front of the three people, a soldier helped the three open the door, the three got into the car together, the car was closed, sitting in the car is not able to see the outside scene, about half an hour later, the car stopped in front of a more formal room converted from a container.
Already soldiers helped open the car door, and the three got out of the car.
"Inside, please." A man who looked like an officer said to Ling.
"Man, I've already brought Ling, I'll go back." Will said to the officer.
"Okay."
"Manr is Will's younger brother." Ling whispered to Zhuge Xun.
As soon as the three of them entered the door, Ling felt that the atmosphere here was very unusual.
"Shall I say welcome to your arrival?" Behind the desk on the left side of the room sat an old man, who was watching Ling and Zhuge Xun as they came in.
"I know you've never welcomed me, so I try not to come here, but something just happened on Hattith's side, and he's worried about you, so let me take a look, after all, he's also your elder." Ling replied. "If you don't welcome me, then I'll take my leave, and see that nothing is going on here."
"Come as you say, leave as you say, you're so free." When the old man had finished saying this, he saw the people who had been standing on either side of him blocking the door to go out.
"Lake, what do you mean?" Ling asked.
"It's not interesting."
"It seems that you have received a wanted notice from the Central Circle about me? Want to hand me in? Yes. Ling raised her hands to indicate that she would not resist. Before, Ling couldn't guess Lake's actions.
"Then I'll do it." When the people on both sides saw the old man waving, they stepped forward together, some blindfolded, some tied their hands, and tied Ling and Zhuge Xun in a moment. "Take them away."
Ling and Zhuge Xun were pushed out of the room. Because Ling had confessed before, Zhuge Xun didn't resist, although his eyes were blindfolded, but his snake eye could see the scene, and the two were now being led to a downward lifter, and it seemed that they were going to go down. It's nothing to be there, Ling should be fine, even in case, there is still Kate's spirit to support it. However, he quietly put a paper man sealed with a 'protective enchantment' on Ling's body, and when the paper man felt the existence of murderous aura, he would automatically open the enchantment by Ling's side, just in case, and at the same time order his dog-like god to follow Ling.
The lifter went down slowly for a long time, and finally stopped, and the two of them continued to be pushed forward. I walked for a long time before finally stopping. Through the blindfold, Zhuge Kaoru saw that there was a room in front of him, which seemed to be a secret place. Zhuge Xun gently touched Ling beside him with his hand.
The crowd entered the house, and then they heard Lake say to a man:
"I brought him here, and the man came with him."
"Take the cloth off their eyes, we should see it too, after all, we've been dealing with each other since the third protective circle." A deep voice spoke.
"I've admired the name for a long time, and it's an honor to meet you today, the strongest hunter ZERO in the past."
Ling glanced at the man in front of her who was talking to her. "You ......"
"Letson, if you still can't remember, what about the name Ley? Don't say you're not impressed. The man said.
"Ley?" Ling just felt that she had heard the name somewhere, but she couldn't remember it.
"Why don't we sit down and talk slowly, Komori, there is always a result today." Lake motioned for the rest of the room to move chairs for Ling and Zhuge Xun.
"Ling, you also feel that my attitude towards you is very cold, it can be said that I hate you, do you know the reason?" Lake asked.
"I feel that you should have misunderstood me, but I really don't know the reason for this, I must have offended you unintentionally." Ling and Zhuge Xun's hands were still tied. "I don't know what you're trying to talk to me about this time, but it doesn't seem like you're trying to negotiate, at least untie me and my companion's hands?"
"That's not good, everyone knows your ability, and we don't know the outcome of our negotiations." Leterson said.
"Okay, that's okay, let's get started, can you explain the current situation first?" Ling didn't resist too much.
"I'll tell you, but where to start......" Lake said.
"From the beginning of your relationship with this gentleman, Mr. Lightson, I don't seem to know him as far as I can remember." Ling said.
"Okay. You know I'm the grandson of Hattitz, the boss of the Second Civilian District, and my mother, Agey Marie, is the fourth daughter of Hattith, and this Fifth Civilian District was established by my grandfather with the help of my father and mother after 'that war'. Later, because of the death of my father and mother, I was in charge of the Fifth Civilian District.
Then let me say that the members of my family, who reported to the Central Circle and the Hunters Association in the early days, are:
Me, my two sons, Loko and Loton, and my daughter, Lomia.
My twin sister Aeglia and brother-in-law Fraser, and my sister's two sons, Will and Man.
My little sister Ajay Shanni and brother-in-law Char, and their son Sith.
The juniors are all working in this fifth district. ”
Ling didn't know what Lake meant by suddenly talking about his family, but she kept listening.
"However, in addition to these people, I have a brother whom no one knows before. My brother, who showed a talent for electronics from a very young age, was admitted to a world-renowned science and technology college before the war, and left home at the age of seven to live alone, but he didn't expect that the school to become the focus of other national attacks, and it was at that time that my brother lost contact with my parents, and my parents thought that my brother had died during the war......
It wasn't until five years ago that my brother, who had escaped the war, found us through various methods, and he had already become a member of the Hunters' Association through his own efforts, when he was in charge of science and technology at the headquarters of the Hunters' Association, and it was also thanks to his experiments that the use of the central brain was improved, so that the robot was one step closer to autonomy. ”
"Are you talking about 'L. the Betrayer'?" Ling asked.
"'L' the Betrayer doesn't even have a name? In fact, at that time, the development of the 'brain' in the various protective circles and the central circle had reached a limit, but due to my brother's experiments, the 'brain' that had been identified to the limit broke through this limit and evolved to a higher realm, but maybe it was because the 'brain' was too important to the protective circle, so in the eyes of the protective circle, my brother was a threat, and the solution to the threat was used a lot by your hunter association......
"I don't know very well about 'Betrayer L', I was out dealing with alien things at that time, and I only heard later that the scientist surnamed L, who was known as a scientific genius in technology, tried to use the control of the central brain to control the protective circle, and after his ambition was discovered, he was secretly executed by the Hunters Association. He's your brother?
There is no evidence of your brother's innocence in this matter, if it is really like you said, he holds the secret of the 'brain', then he is a threat to the protection circles, after that war, the space for people to live is very small, because the damage caused by that war to the earth is immeasurable, and now people can continue to live on this planet, almost thanks to the 'brain', even if it is your civilian area, you can't do without it' Brain's support, so the importance of the brain is self-evident, and your brother, we have also served together for a while, although I don't comment on him, but he is really proud and arrogant, and his interpersonal relationship in the association headquarters is not very good.
I've listened to you, and I can understand why you hate me, and I don't have anything to defend myself. ”
"For my brother's death, because it has passed, we don't judge too much.
The reason why I speak to you today about my family is to explain to you his relationship with us. Lake looked at the man named Letson.