First there was a statement, and then there was a United Nations Supreme Conference, and the people understood that the war between the coalition government and Aglia on the 20th was a sure fact.

On the 17th, a third of New Yorkers packed their bags and drove through the Bronx or the underground highway north of Staten Island. They all seek refuge, but they choose very different ways, some go home to the countryside, some take annual leave to go on a road trip, and some decide to sell their property in New York at a low price and settle in another city of their choice.

If you look down from a high place, you can see that the self-driving car and the upside-down train converge into two torrents, which is quite spectacular.

The lesson of a month and a half ago is still vivid, Agria used a supercavitating centrifugal bomb to penetrate the predecessor of the US government's proud UX-TMX, destroyed the laser cannon and the upper right part of the Gesen Building, as well as the rooftop, and used electronic barriers to jam and suppress the American Patriot missile, destroying nearly half of the area of Starteng Island under his own fire...... In addition to the military-technical response, the city government used its vast underground transportation network to secretly rebuild five underground bomb shelters to serve as shelters for the remaining two-thirds.

Tomorrow, the Los Angeles National Junior Swimming League kicks off as scheduled, and Gunnari is among the participants.

As the coach of the swimming team, Ina had to travel together.

Out of selfishness, she wanted Jill to go too. Before contacting Jill, she received a message from Beckett, which read: "Ina, Jill will be on the same flight as you to Los Angeles. He has promised. ”

Seeing it, Ina's first reaction was apprehension. Ever since she knew that Beckett was behind the separation between her and Jill, she had been struggling, until she found out that Jill had not lost her memory a few days ago, and under the persuasion of Caroline, she decided to cut off the tension of reason in the depths of her heart. And the reason why she was nervous was because she was afraid that Beckett would repeat her old tricks and make some moves to them.

She told Jill about her worries. Jill replied to her relieved, followed by a smile that they often shared between them.

They arrived at Albany International Airport in Troy, New York, and boarded a 14:30 flight to Los Angeles together. The sky in Los Angeles is clear, and the temperature is at least about eight degrees higher than in New York, so there are quite a few pedestrians wearing short sleeves on the streets.

After settling in the three team members, Ina and Jill go to an Italian internet celebrity restaurant called "Bestia" in the Central Market.

It was quite lively with people coming and going.

Los Angeles doesn't have New York to close at night. When the lights are on, the market adds a glitz.

"It's been a long time since I've been to a night market." Ina smiled as she walked through the crowd side by side with Jill.

Looking at the happy smile on Ina's face, Jill felt warm in his heart. At the same time, he looked around from time to time to see if Beckett had sent someone to follow them quietly, but he didn't notice it for the time being.

"Bestia" is located on the basement level, and the red brick walls and the tin foil drain pipe on the top merge into the warm yellow lighting, which makes the whole restaurant particularly flavorful. After waiting for half an hour, they sat down and ordered one of the most popular Italian sausages, fruit salads and pasta specialties in the store.

The fruit salad had yellow peaches in it, so Jill didn't dare to take a bite.

"There is your favorite yellow peach in this fruit salad, why don't you eat a bite?" Ina asked, puzzled.

"I'll eat it last." Jill distributed a small portion of fruit to Ina's plate, "You eat first." ”

Ina smiled at Jill.

Leaving the central market, Jill and Ina are passing through a crossing at a T-junction paved with tram tracks, when two black hovering locomotives are speeding towards them from the direction of the vertical road at great speed. Pedestrians on the road panicked and dodged to the sides. They all wore helmets; There was a man on the locomotive in front of him, two people in the car behind, and the one sitting behind him held a semi-automatic repeater in his hand and fired twice in succession at the man in the locomotive in front of him, but he avoided it.

Five seconds later, the locomotive in front of it was the first to enter the right corner. Another locomotive followed.

Jill could clearly see that the man was raising his repeater, but this time it was Ina who was aiming at it.

At the same moment that the steel needle crossbow arrow sped out of the crossbow path, he reacted quickly and strode forward to the left. As he leaned forward and pressed down, the bolt avoided the heart and pierced his third rib on the left.

The pain made him instinctively bend over.

Ina was preoccupied with Jill's condition, unconcerned about her exposed form and the repeater that was aimed at her again.

"Ina, get on your knees!" Jill stared at the rapidly raised repeater in the man's hand and shouted at Ina.

The man prepares to pull the trigger. Just before the trigger was pulled, a normal black car burst out of the left side of the crossing, crashing the locomotive into a clothing store on one side along with two men.

The other locomotive was much better, but it scraped against the corner of the car and slid out 3 meters away. The man above immediately straightened the front of the car, turned around and glanced at the clothing store hurriedly, and drove away.

At this time, the passenger door rolled down, and Boomley leaned low to the right: "Get in the car, I'll take you to the hospital." ”

Jill hesitated for a moment before being helped into the car by Ina. The car moves forward. Through the front windshield, he saw a man staggering to his feet, picking up another man and trotting away.

"They're from the Ink Gang. Yesterday afternoon, I was leaving the Mural Gang's Los Angeles stronghold when I bumped into a guy on the phone and happened to hear him mention you and Ina's names. I hid and listened to a sentence or two. They discuss putting on a gang chase scene, and you are the actors on the whole stage. You should be able to guess who the employer behind it is. Boomley said.

"I know, I just didn't think he would have anything to do with the Ink Gang." Jill was silent for a moment, looked at Ina and then looked at Boomley, "What are you here in Los Angeles for?" ”

"There's a clue that needs to be confirmed, and it just so happens that this clue is related to someone from the Ink Gang here, but this person is dead or has changed his face. I'll have to go back to New York tomorrow. Boomley said.

"You don't mind being with me." Jill said. Suddenly there was another pain in my left chest.

Ina gently took Jill's hand, her gaze soft.

"I wouldn't mind." Boomley deliberately looked into the back seat through the interior mirror.

Boomley took them to the hospital and left. At the time of diagnosis, the doctor looked at the CT scan and said "lucky" to Jill twice, because as long as he moved down one more inch, his life would be confessed. After that, after half an hour of minimally invasive surgery, the steel needle crossbow arrow was removed.

Back at the hotel, Ina stayed in Jill's room until 12 o'clock and waited until Jill fell asleep before leaving.

The next day, Ina didn't say goodbye to Jill and left the hotel with three members of the swim team for the Los Angeles Natatorium. Gil went to the airport to meet Boomley and board the plane that would land at Albany International Airport at 7:15 on the 18th.

After getting off the plane, Jill followed Boomley to a private shipyard west of Troy.

Fifteen hours earlier, Boomley had found the shipyard through the black market and had purchased a mini-submarine under a pseudonym and for a significant fee. According to his requirements, the submarine was equipped with a remote control device in the center console and an anti-sonar coating on the outside, which is one of the important reasons for the high cost.

They boarded a submarine and sailed downstream down the Hudson River.

At 2:35 p.m., they arrived at Pier 55 in Queens. Built on the River East, this is a new concept wharf that integrates art, community space and transportation, and is composed of 36 blocks of ground that are shaped like single-headed bamboos. Normally, it would be a place where all sorts of people would gather to enjoy their leisure, but now it was empty.

There is a station 100 meters southwest of the pier, where Gil can take a direct reverse train to the JA headquarters building.

Boom uses remote control to sink the submarine to the bottom of the river. For the next 57 hours, he decided to continue being an invisible man, which would cause Boakiye to temporarily forget about his existence.

"I guess you're thirty years old, right?" Coming out of the docks, standing on a straight forest avenue, such a question suddenly jumped out of his head.

"Do I look that old?" Boomley raised his right hand and touched his face, "I'm twenty-seven, the same age as you." ”

Jill was a little surprised, but it didn't show it on his face.

"Who do you want to win this fight?" Jill changed the subject and asked again.

"I'm not a big fan of the assumption of hope. If I had to say one, it would be you. Boomley replied. With that, he waved his iron arm, then turned and walked towards the right side of the road.

Five years ago, New York City has fully implemented the automation of buses, subways, and upside-down trains, which run 24 hours a day, so there will be no inconvenience for people staying in New York if they want to travel. Stepping onto the train, Jill looked like a warrior returning from a long journey, causing the passengers scattered all over the carriage to pay attention.

Instead, they continue to play with their phones down or sit with their eyes closed.

When the train arrived at the next station, passengers boarded the train one after another, and everyone also paid attention. Two more stops, the one before the final station "JA Company", there was only one passenger left on the train.

On the 17th, JA officially announced that from the 17th to the 20th, the headquarters staff union will work normally. During this period, in order to ensure safety, the headquarters building will be closed management, and all employees will be uniformly allocated food and clothing, but they will enjoy the highest freedom in the building. At the same time, each of them will receive a generous bonus.

As a result of this announcement, the value of JA shares fell by only 5 points.

Jill understood that this was nothing more than a recalculation by Beckett. At this moment, he stood at the bottom of the building, took out his mobile phone and dialed Beckett's number, and after dialing, he handed the phone to the security guard who stopped him. The guard answered "yes" on the other end of the phone, then respectfully returned the phone to Jill, and said, "Director Rockefeller Jr., I'm very sorry. Come in. ”

"That's where the responsibility lies." Jill walked through the open passage guarded.

When Jill walked into his office on the 103rd floor, Beckett was buried in signing papers. He sat down in the chair opposite him and stared at it for a long time before Beckett raised his head, and at the same time slowly screwed the cap of a black gold-rimmed fountain pen on, and his expression relaxed: "Shouldn't you stay in Los Angeles?" ”

Jill was silent, her hands crossed on her laps, her eyes grim, like frost in winter.

"In the past half a month, you have been in the limelight. I dare to conclude that you have been blacklisted by Boakye. The slack on Beckett's face immediately disappeared, "I wanted to use his hand to get rid of you, but the declaration of war on the 20th suddenly appeared in the middle, so I had to run aground." ”

"Come at me, I'll do it in front of you, it's not the first time you've done it anyway. But why did you want to do it to Ina? As he spoke, Jill leaned forward.

"Why? What is a great shame for a man? It's the woman who calls your lawful wife lying around, but you can't even move a finger. Two months, I haven't touched Ina in two months! Each sentence was a little louder than the previous one, but it didn't make Beckett seem very excited.

"yes, that doesn't match when you got back to New York. It wasn't until the 14th that I heard your conversation in the room that it dawned on me why her attitude towards me had changed 180 degrees. ”

No, Jill was sure he'd checked and rearranged everything.

"I put the bugging in the fruit bowl." "You didn't have amnesia from the start, and the best way to verify that is to let you move around where I can see." Haichao is a good opportunity, so I took the initiative to find you, let you come back to the company, and help you get back your shares. I have to say, you played very well during this period. On the afternoon of the 15th, James privately approached Beckett to transfer his shares, and revealed to him that Jill was secretly negotiating with the shareholders during the negotiations, so he said "played well" ironically referred to this matter.

"I thought about how I could get you to move back to Sturet, but I didn't expect you to offer it. During this time, I saw that Ina brought you fruit once, so I had to take advantage of it. ”

"I'd rather destroy what I can't get! This way, you will be more miserable. As he spoke, Beckett's pupils dilated, and his hands, which had been crossed into fists on the desk, spread out into palms in anger.

"You're still as self-righteous as ever." He had rehearsed such scenes and dialogues no less than five times on the way here, and even then, a wave of anger that wanted to kill him could not hold back from his heart. For the next two minutes, neither he nor Beckett said a word, but looked at each other, as if they were going to execute each other with their gazes.

In the corner of his eye, he caught a glimpse of Beckett's right hand quietly moving backwards.

"You're going to shoot me at gunpoint?" As Beckett's right hand was about to leave the table, Jill said, "If you do that, New York and even the whole of America will immediately see the news that Beckett, the president of JA Corporation, killed his brother in the office of the headquarters building." ”

Beckett was forced to put his right hand back in its original position.

"Now it's my turn to say something." Jill put her hands on the armrests of her chair, "First, I've reached an agreement with several shareholders, and together with their stakes, it's enough to impeach you from the board. You promise to come down now, and you may be able to leave decently. Second, you must divorce Ina and promise not to do anything to hurt her in the future, or I will kill you before then. ”

Beckett stood up, turned and walked to the large window, and after standing by the window for a moment, he suddenly burst into a sinister smile.

"Enough? The day before yesterday, James had transferred all his shares to me, and I now own 27 percent of the shares! Solang must follow his neutral style, so with Grim's shares, you're only twenty-six percent of your shares, one percent lower than mine. The rest of the shareholders are all grass on the wall, and you don't want to count on it. Beckett turned, his eyes sharp, "Let's talk about Ina." I thought, you know what kind of answer I'm going to give? ”