"Marionettes? You're referring to Pinocchio from Pinocchio, no, I don't think it's like it at all. ”

"I'm just using an analogy, I hate these cold pipes and cables, they trap me here, I can't move, they restrict my freedom", Ning Fei was irritated by the current situation, he tried, at most a meter away from the equipment.

Crescent Moon pointed to the things connected to him and said, "You have to thank these cold tubes, you know, you are like a robot that will turn off at any time, thanks to the power supply to charge you." ”

"Power? Then why don't you make a smaller one that I can hold in my hand so that when the Hellfire missiles are aimed here, it won't affect the escape. ”

"Don't worry about that just yet, if they're going to do it, the nuclear bomb in the sky will be enough to destroy the city several times, but Barton said that the council is preparing for active negotiations."

"Negotiations? What negotiations? Ning Fei asked suspiciously.

Xinyue suddenly remembered that Ning Fei hadn't known the latest situation on Hellfire's side, so he briefly told him what happened later, Hellfire had another Helicarrier with complete autonomous control.

Ning Fei couldn't sit still after hearing this, and immediately unplugged the sensor connection cable on his body, almost pulling out the metal tentacle on his abdomen.

"Hey! What are you doing? You can't go anywhere in your current state, you don't have any coping strategy now, it's better to stay here and heal your injuries first", Xinyue hurriedly stopped.

But Ning Fei still shook his head, and said with a straight face: "It is this situation that I am worried about, originally I thought that we would win the battle with great difficulty, who would have thought that this is not the case, we have always underestimated Felix, thinking that the Hellfire that lost Odor and Joseph Eugene is not a difficult character to deal with, so that we have entered such a passive situation." Felix knew that it was us who destroyed the mothership, and they negotiated with the council, and my biggest fear was that we would be a bargaining chip on the table. ”

As an outstanding scientific worker, although Xinyue has a super high IQ, Ning Fei, who has obviously not experienced the bottom of the society, understands the sinister human heart better, and Patton's previous reminder is more from the overall situation, and he will not say this kind of thing until there is no definite evidence.

"So according to your guess, after Hellfire masters the only Helicarrier, it will not necessarily directly engage in a large-scale war with the Alliance, but will be more likely to deal with us first, so as to prevent future trouble?"

Ning Fei looked down at the injury in his abdomen, and vaguely guessed that the condition of his body must be related to Felix.

Sooner or later, he said it himself. I can't lie here anymore, I have to get up, I've got to take me to the lab, I've got to put on my armor at all times, everyone has to get their weapons, the war isn't over yet. ”

......

Between Queens and Brooks, New York, near LaGuardia Airport, an escort van travels along a barbed wire highway to reach its destination.

It is home to the famous Lex Island Prison, which houses many suspects awaiting sentencing.

The escort van quickly drove into the prison, and a small squad of coalition police officers loaded their guns and escorted the important political suspect in the van.

The officer sitting in the passenger seat was the first to get out of the car and did the formalities with the prison guards at Lex Prison to verify the identity of the suspect.

"Freeman Fox, male, 59 years old, former member of the Union Parliament, member of the Council of the Union Parliament, was charged by the Public Prosecutor's Office with the crime of collaborating with the enemy and abuse of power, and was escorted to the Lex Island Prison."

Councillor Fox was able to recover a life from Hellfire's bladed missiles and the heavy interception of assassination units, and it immediately fell into Patton's hands.

Colonel Patton, who reinstated the powers of the intelligence chief, also resumed his previous vigor, handing over the evidence collected from history to the Coalition Prosecutor's Office, and at the same time, the Justice Department directly intervened, rejecting Congressman Fox's request for bail, and in a short period of time, he went from a high-profile political figure to a political prisoner.

And the only preferential treatment that this once high-profile dignitary received was that he was assigned to a single, clean cell with a good diet.

This may seem like a trivial privilege, but it is already quite rare here, as the Lex Island Prison is notorious for the violence and harsh conditions among its inmates.

Fawkes was taken to the solitary cell, and the sights he saw, as well as the tattooed, scarred prisoners, with undisguised unkindness and irritable gazes in their eyes, showed the notorious place.

The coalition's solitary detention of Congressman Fox is equivalent to a kind of protection.

And this kind of protection given to a jailed councilor, the real instigator behind the scenes is Colonel Patton, who protects Fox because he still has intelligence value.

Sure enough, within two hours, Fawkes had been in the solitary cell, and before he had even had time to sleep for a while, Barton arrived, still wearing his favorite pair of sunglasses, and looking almost the same as before.

Without the guards following, Barton opened the door on his own and went straight into the cell, not even going to the interview room.

On the one hand, he didn't know how else Congressman Fox could toss around in this place, and on the other hand, he didn't want some of the conversation to be known to a third person.

"Are you used to staying here? The warden said it was one of the best rooms in the prison. ”

Barton closed the door with his backhand, and looked up and down in the cell, which was only a few square meters.

"Thanks, it's good here......"

Fawkes knew who was coming, but he didn't turn around, just sat on the cramped bed and looked at the small ventilation window above the wall at the end of the bed.

"What are you looking at?" , Barton asked.

"You know, Colonel, this place, which I may be more familiar with than you, just a few months ago I came here to visit these prisoners and gave them a speech, even though they were temporarily or permanently deprived of their political rights, and in some way they were the same as the free citizens outside, of course, in a different capacity."

"It can be seen that politicians are working hard to get votes that are unimaginable to ordinary people."

Fox suddenly smiled bitterly, shook his head self-deprecatingly, and said, "So, it's a little hurtful, when the alliance is in a mess, and you still take the time to come here, it won't be just to taunt me, Colonel Barton?" ”

"I need you to help me find someone?"

Councilor Fox knew that Patton must have something to know from his mouth, and he thought that he should be asked to explain the inside story of secretly cooperating with Hellfire, but such a sentence suddenly appeared, which made Fox slightly surprised.

"Who are you looking for?"

Barton took off his sunglasses and placed them on the small table, seemingly ordinary sunglasses, shining an unusually bright light from the two small holes on the left and right sides of the frame, which were difficult to notice, and those rays of light were projected on the opposite wall, and the images and archival materials of a person were immediately displayed on that wall.

The man on the wall, as many people know, is Joseph Eugene.