District 57 is a fairly ordinary district in Emerald Paradise, so ordinary that it couldn't be more ordinary. With relatively sparse apartment buildings, even some green spaces and parks, and a wide range of services, quality but not so expensive, all in all, this is a typical middle-class urban area.

A middle-aged man, dressed in simple but clean clothes, walked out of the apartment building, and when he walked out of the door, he said hello to the old man sitting at the door.

He walked across the street, where there were several restaurants and bars, each with its own characteristics, and a favorite dining spot for the residents of the neighborhood. As soon as he crossed the street, two men in long gray trench coats appeared at the door of the apartment building, blocking the old man guarding the door.

"Are there any unfamiliar faces in this building lately?" asked the man on the left.

The old man looked at the gray windbreaker on his body, showed a frightened expression, and said: "In the past three months, a total of 4 families have moved in, and two of them are relatives of the people in the building, I have seen them. Other than that, there was only a young woman and a middle-aged man. The young girl seems to be studying at a university in the city, and the middle-aged man doesn't know what he does, and most of the time he doesn't go out much, he just goes out to buy things every day, and he just goes to the restaurant bar to eat. ”

Another man in a gray trench coat wrote down the old man's words in detail and said, "We will go and verify what you said." Once we find out that you lied, you know the consequences. ”

The old man hurriedly smiled: "I have been doing it for decades, I have always been loyal, and my eyes are the most alert, no stranger can escape my eyes." ”

The two men in gray nodded, and turned to leave.

In the bar, the middle-aged man ordered half a pizza and some snacks, and browsed today's news while eating. He reads a lot of news and doesn't have any special preferences. He looks like a person who doesn't have to worry about food and clothing and doesn't want to work for the time being.

At this moment, a short-haired man walked into the dining room, he was extremely strong, and his face seemed to be full of muscles. After entering the dining bar, he walked straight up to the middle-aged man and sat down across from him.

The middle-aged man looked up at the strong man and said, "I don't seem to know you." ”

The strong man said, "It doesn't matter if you don't know me, I know you." I'm Baroque, Kaba Baroque. ”

The middle-aged man's pupils shrank slightly, and he said, "There doesn't seem to be a Baroque among my friends. ”

"Surely none of your friends are, but it would be strange if you didn't have my name on your list. ”

The middle-aged man put down the pizza in his hand and said, "Okay, baroque ......"

"Call me Your Excellency. ”

"Your Excellency Baroque, are you looking for the wrong person for me?"

"I wouldn't mistake Mr. Leeves, the Federation's famous Super S-class killer, even if he has a different face and a skin. Baroque had a mockery in his eyes.

The middle-aged man sighed and said, "It seems that I am not breaking the law by doing this, and even if it is illegal, it doesn't matter." ”

"Under normal circumstances, whatever you do, as long as you don't go overboard, it really doesn't matter. But this time, you've crossed the line. ”

Reeves calmly wiped his mouth and said, "Where did you cross the line, tell me about it?"

Baroque sneered, "Where I am is the line." When you appear in front of me, that's the line. ”

Reeves didn't argue about who came first, but just asked, "So what do you say to do now?"

"Whatever you originally had in the background, you can now let it go. Take your people out of Emerald Paradise, and I don't want to see any more people with you appear before dawn tomorrow. ”

"That seems a little unkind," Reeves said. ”

"Already very polite. ”

"One of my men has been arrested here, and I don't know her whereabouts. ”

Baroque interrupted: "Then let her fend for herself." ”

Reeves gave Baroque a deep look and said, "I hope you know what you're doing." ”

Baroque snorted and said, "I know exactly what I'm doing, this is the Community, and the Federation can't threaten me." Besides, if I don't want to offend the Federation, then I don't want to offend the dynasty either. So don't try to put that on me, leave immediately, it's your only choice. ”

Reeves put his knife and fork aside, leaned forward slightly, and said, "How can we stay?"

Baroque also leaned forward, looked into Reeves' eyes, and said word by word: "I want a copy of the thing you got!"

"It can't be. ”

"Then leave, immediately!"

The two confronted each other for a while, but Reeves withdrew his gaze first, stood up, and said, "Okay, I'll leave before dawn tomorrow." ”

"Reeves!" Baroque stopped him, leaned over, and whispered, "I heard that you fell into a trap while saving your subordinates and were slightly injured?"

Reeves remained silent and said, "The other party's arrangement is indeed very clever, and I will study hard when I go back." ”

Baroque looked at him and said slowly: "You are old, I knew that you were old when I won you two years ago! ”

Reeves didn't say anything, he went out of the diner, turned into the middle-aged man who was a little down, and slowly walked away.

Baroque also left the shop and boarded the roadside flying car. A person in the front row of the car turned around and asked, "My lord, I don't think that old guy will leave so honestly." ”

"He will. can hurt in the hands of an unknown little guy, he is no longer ordinary old. ”

"Then let him go like this? They used such a big squad to steal from us, that thing must be a big deal. Do you want to rob him?"

Baroque pondered for a moment and shook his head slowly, "I heard that that thing represents a certain technological direction in the future, that is, even if we get it, most of it will not be used." Those guys at the Institute for Advanced Study are also old. ”

"Then you have to do something good, right?"

"Sending them away is a benefit. Hmph, many of the old guys above are from the Federation, and they're so close to the Federation that they're almost forgetting that they're from Rockset. Now that the Federation is constantly meddling in our affairs, if we continue like this, I'm afraid we will become the 310th member star of the Federation. ”

The people in the front row kept nodding their heads, and then asked, "My lord, will we go back now?"

"No, get ready for battle, go here first. "Baroque sent an address.

"How many people do I need to transfer?"

"Just you and me, as usual, you're outside watching and covering, and I'll go in. ”

"What's there?"

"The two shadows that the old thing laid down just now. We went and plucked him, lest he should go in a hurry and forget to take them with him. ”