New York is divided into four sectors of equal size. Blade's four teams are each responsible for a sector and use UWB triangulation to survey the New York underground. At 13:10 that day, Lao Yang and the third team discovered Agria's second base at a depth of 200 under the riverbed of Flachen Bay.

Its size is no different from that under the coalition government building. It is identical to what the Hebrews described, except for life-sustaining potions and large instruments for recording data, and rows of people who are held upright and have needles stuck in their bodies.

Three minutes later, Caroline found a third base 200 meters below the New Yankee Stadium. It was twice as large as the second, and in the middle there was a huge platform that resembled a Colosseum, reminiscent of her previous scenes on the court.

"The rest shouldn't be a good thing." Rustling footsteps came from different directions, and after a while, she saw a group of people with snow-white hair, steel claws, and red eyes coming out of the 2-meter-high ramps one after another, surrounding them.

It was destined to be a scorching battle. In the struggle with the submen, Caroline could feel that the speed and strength of the subhumans were many times stronger than those she had encountered before. In an instant, some of the team members were killed by the sub-people, and some of the team members were frightened after a few rounds of fighting, and ran out in a panic.

Jayne and Lisa rushed over to relieve the siege, and at 17:10, the battle finally came to an end.

Caroline was wounded. She turned on her phone and learned about Nodia, but she was still 2 minutes late when she arrived.

After taking care of her wounds, she went to Nodia's frequented places to find them everywhere, and now all that was left was the artificial riverbank island of the Worths Island resort. There is a villa in the middle of the island, and on the west side of it, near the river, there is a paulownia tree, which they planted together 10 years ago, and is now a towering tree.

When the weather is nice, the two of them sit by the river, set up two fishing rods, and enjoy their leisure time while fishing.

"Looks like there's a boom missing." Caroline's voice rang out.

Nodia didn't respond, and continued to lie on her back on the wooden platform, her eyes slightly closed.

Caroline sat down beside her and looked at the sparkling river: "I remember that a year ago, I also came here to fish with you, but I didn't catch any of them. ”

"Don't worry, I'm fine." Nodia opened her eyes slowly, "Is the situation going well over there?" ”

"There are good and bad. Two other bases were discovered, and a large number of people who had not yet become subhumans were rescued, but dozens of improved subhumans were encountered. Their strength and speed were no different from those of the heavy robots, and the second team suffered heavy casualties as a result, and Sina died trying to save me. ”

Nodia opened her eyes and sat up: "He is Lao Yang's cousin, so Lao Yang didn't embarrass you, right?" Also, if you're injured, take care of it, don't run so far over. I'm afraid I won't be able to open it. ”

"At most, say a few nasty words, and listen to it and it will pass." Caroline handed the phone over, "Because of old Alan, you just threw the phone away, not yet!" Jill has called you a lot. ”

"When he learned about my brother's death, his first reaction was to block the news, for fear of bringing him negative public opinion. My brother asked for a tree burial, and he refused. In a fit of rage, I threw my phone in the trash can outside the bar. ”

"Before I came here, I called old Allen back, and the matter of the tree burial has been solved for you. Maybe you should take a chance to sit down and have a cup of coffee and have a good conversation. ”

"I'll never be able to get together with his time." Nodia lay down on her back on the wooden platform again.

Caroline got up.

"That's it? I'd like to ask you to stay for a light meal. Nodia closed her eyes and said.

"It's never too late to ask for a free time." Caroline turned around and said as she walked, "Remember to say hello to Hebrew for me." ”

On the way back, as she passed Penile Street in Lower Manhattan, Caroline saw a group of Chinese expatriates walking down the street with tired expressions, holding low signs in their hands that read against U.S. tariff barriers and the like. In this eventful season, she sincerely hopes that the situation will not continue to expand, and that it can "turn small things into small things".

Jain gave Caroline two days off to recuperate.

Caroline agreed. She wasn't completely idle, keeping an eye on Aglia and Manhattan's Chinatown.

She came up with the idea and sent a message to Fernando to help retrieve and compare the information of all the marchers to see if they were related to the Ink Gang. Five seconds later, Fernando replied that he had gone to Florida in search of a high-conductivity material, and that he was on his way to Honda Beach in Bahia — the only place in the United States where the sun remained high — and that he would not be back in New York until the next afternoon. So, she could only ask Li Sha for this matter.

Lisa agreed.

After retrieving information about the parade members, Li Sha encountered a problem, no matter what means she used, she could not find any information about the Mo Gang. She didn't expect that the Ink Gang did not enable the information base, that is, all the information of the Ink Gang was recorded with paper and pen. Zhao Ye, the leader of the Mo Gang, is really an old antique.

However, it is not without gains. In the list of retrieved personnel, there is a rather familiar name, Su Yuan, who is the younger brother of Su Fang of the first team of the Blade Squad. Perhaps, some information can be obtained from him.

At 15:22, she told Caroline the result.

Caroline checked the schedule of the first team, and tomorrow happened to be the internal training of the Soviet side twice a month. The next day, in the indoor training playground, she found Su Fang; He's running with weights.

Caroline stood at the finish line, waiting for the Su side to run over: "Rest, I'll talk to you about something." ”

Su Fang nodded while panting, and followed Caroline to stand next to a smart air circulation column.

"I'm here to know something about your brother Su Yuan." Caroline turned and stood facing the Soviet side.

"Did he do something?" Su Fang asked. He tried to calm his breath and not look so tired.

"Nope." Caroline said, "It happened to be at the parade on the Upper East Side two days ago, and your brother happened to be there, so I just wanted you to make an appointment with him and ask him something in person." Just today, okay? ”

"I ...... Give it a try. Su Fang took out his mobile phone, sent a message, and waited for a while and said to Caroline, "It's an appointment, half past two in the afternoon, at Millo Cafe on Kenny Street." ”

"Thank you." Caroline turned her back and said as she walked out of the training ground.

Caroline arrived at the café 5 minutes early and ordered two cups of specialty black coffee. The coffee had already been served, and it was 5 minutes later than the scheduled time, but Su Yuan still did not show up. She wasn't going to wait any longer, and was ready to get up and leave.

As soon as she stood up, she saw Su Yuan walk in through the door of the café.

"As you can see, I have trouble with my legs, so I can only say sorry." Su Yuan dragged his somewhat bulky and strange left foot step by step towards Caroline. Under Caroline's silent gaze, he sat down in his seat on one side.

"Unfortunately, I've quit coffee." Su Yuan pointed at the wall of the coffee cup with his left index finger, "I didn't want to come, but even if I refuse a thousand times, you can find me a thousand times." Also, I don't want to embarrass my brother. ”

"Then we'll talk." Caroline sat back in her seat.

"You know Lisbon, right? The big celebrity of the Economic Development Bureau can be seen in the economic newspaper every once in a while. I have a deep feud with him, an indelible feud. I'm going to ruin him! Six years ago, Lisbon was just a small minion of the Mo Gang, and the gang leader was not Zhao Ye at that time; Six years later, Lisbon became a big celebrity in the newspapers, and Zhao Ye became the leader of the Mo Gang. What happened in between, you can probably make up for it, right? In order to facilitate the collection of evidence, I joined the Mo Gang, and I did a lot of bad things because of it. I must not let my efforts go in vain, and when necessary, I will take extraordinary measures. ”

"There's another possibility, work with me." There was a strong but suppressed evil aura in Su Fang's body, which made Caroline feel a little uncomfortable. But it's uncomfortable and it's really nothing.

"I'm not used to working with strangers. However, for the sake of the Soviet side, I can reveal a message to you, Lisbon will ask Zhao Ye to regularly transfer a sum of money to his account and an account with the name 'reserve', and the amount of each money is not small. You can check this account. Su Yuan stood up, no longer glancing at Caroline, and walked towards the door of the café step by step.

Caroline watched Su Yuan leave. She picked up her coffee and watched the traffic on the street and the flatiron building rising from a cluster of tall buildings in the distance, the sunlight reflecting on the curtain wall and scattering it into a golden glow in the sky. The glow looked dazzling and warm.

When I came back to my senses, the coffee cup was empty. She was about to leave, only to see Nodia striding towards her.

"You're here for coffee, too?" Caroline asked curiously.

"No, I'm here for you." After Nodia sat down, she pushed the coffee cup in the center of the table to the side.

"By the way? In other words, you've found something, right? ”

"I found a guy named Charlie, who was Chinese and the owner of the house where my brother lived. Previously, it was inconvenient for my brother to go out, and he gave me all the drugs. He himself was addicted to drugs, and he used to rely on my brother for some supplies, but now he can only barely make ends meet on the big arena in the upper city. On the night of my brother's accident, he uncharacteristically did not appear in the arena, but in the vicinity of the public cemetery in Brooklyn...... It's a person, and you will feel strange. ”

"You suspect he showed up at JA last night?" Caroline was surprised.

"But it's just a suspicion, and you need to find him to verify it."

"Why did you piggyback on me?"

"The big arena is a lively place, you are idle now, why don't you go over with me and have a look."

"Okay, let's take a look."

Located in an ancient building at the junction of Pengang Street and Disclosure Street, the arena is divided into three floors, with a total of nine venues that resemble underground boxing rings. The people inside are mixed, and most of them are contestants, and they are accompanied by armored robots of different models. When there are more people, the environment is naturally noisy, and even if the two of them stand close to each other, they have to raise their voices by several decibel to talk to each other to work.

Caroline and Nodia found the registration office and spent $50 from the administrator to find out Charlie's Venue A on the middle floor. By the time they arrived, Charlie had already won two games in a row with his black axe robot, and the third game was against a cool girl with short purple hair, a graffiti mask, and a black gown, controlling a half-human-tall robot equipped with weight wheels and double rollers.

In three rounds, Charlie's big axe robot was defeated, and the battle between them was not unclean.

"She's so cool that you do." Nodia leaned gently over Caroline.

"Not at all. Let's go and intercept them. Caroline chimed in.

When she turned around, on the high platform of Field C in the distance, Caroline vaguely saw a familiar figure, and after repeated confirmation, she concluded that it was Jill.

"Why did Jill get here at this time?" Nodia muttered.

"I'll go take a look. Charlie is up to you. ”

The three sites on each floor are arranged in a triangle and are interconnected. The moment Caroline showed up on the C field, Jill was already aware of it. He was silent, waiting for Caroline to approach him.

"Why are you here?" Caroline said to Jill as she watched the battle between the two robots in Field C.

"It's time to rest today, so come and have a look." Jill took Caroline's hand and walked to the entrance of the stairs, and when the surroundings were quieter, he continued, "Actually, Boomley sent a reformer named Vargas to live with me in order to make it easier for him to talk to us. He told me that the robots here are boring, let's check it. ”

"When you say that, the green robot I saw in Field C just now is a little familiar, as if I have seen it somewhere." Caroline struggled to remember.

"It's the mechs in the Rhombus experiment."

Caroline was stunned.

"Before going to the C field in the middle layer, I saw similar robots in the A and B fields in the lower layer. Although the appearance of those robots has been greatly changed, there is more or less a shadow of mecha. I think there must have been something else going on with the explosion at the base under the coalition government building that night. ”

"I know who it is." The two words Su Fang immediately popped up in Caroline's mind, but when she thought about it, some nodes of the incident could not be straightened out. She didn't think much about it, but went on to tell Jill what information she had and why she was there.

At the entrance and exit of the Colosseum, Nodia stood in front of a huge and majestic stone lion waiting for them.

"Didn't work out?" Caroline asked.

"The guy was cunning and promised me but slipped away halfway through." Nodia said. He was still a little annoyed before, but after waiting at the door for a while, his anger disappeared, and he had already figured out a way, and he would definitely snow the "shame" he suffered this time.

"I know you've got an idea." Caroline also has her own plan, that is, to find Su Fang immediately and ask some things clearly, "Jill is in your charge." ”