"Have you been to see the princess?" The colonel looked up, and the middle-aged man pushed open the door to the office, took off his hat and hung it on the coat rack at the door, and came in and sat down on the sofa.

"yes." The middle-aged man nodded.

"How is she?"

"Everything works."

The existence of the supercomputer and the nuclear reactor at a depth of fifty meters under the academy was known only to the two people sitting in this office at the moment, and the colonel claimed to the outside world that all the electricity used in the safe zone came from solar energy, and that the server room of the LAN was located on the top floor of the library, and the vast majority of people in the safe zone were convinced of this, but if there was an electric energy expert among them, he would have found that the solar panels generated only enough electricity to boil the bath water every day.

There is only one energy specialist in the academy, this middle-aged man, and his title is "mechanic".

The colonel and the middle-aged man hid the existence of the computer from everyone, including the executive department and the hummingbird hunting team, the supercomputer was codenamed "Ω", "Ω" was the code name of the computer, and it was also the name of the virtual personality, and the LAN of the entire security zone was established by Omega, which meant that all the information and data flow in the entire academy was under the surveillance of the virtual girl.

The Colonel was more accustomed to calling Omega a princess, because once upon a time, her nickname was "Snow White", which translates to Snow White.

The middle-aged man sat on the sofa, felt in his pocket, and only took out a lighter, he had no smoke, and he just realized that the last cigarette on his body had been smoked in the elevator.

"Give me a cigarette." The middle-aged man turned his head and stretched out his hand to the old man.

Sean didn't move.

"Give me a cigarette." The middle-aged man repeated, "Okay, okay?" ”

Sean pulled a Chinese from under the table and tossed it.

The middle-aged man lit a cigarette, took a sharp puff, and coughed violently, and he leaned over the couch and retched, coughing so violently that it almost seemed like he was going to vomit out his lungs.

"If you keep going like this, you'll die." Sean frowned, "You should pay more attention to your body. ”

"It's okay, I'm a small strong person, and I won't be able to die for a while." The middle-aged man straightened up and sat on the sofa with a smile, "It's the same whether you pay attention or not, when you don't deserve to die, God can't accept me." ”

Sean was silent for a moment, then took out a form from the drawer, put it on the table and pushed it over, "Your physical examination report has come out, and the cancer cells have begun to spread." ”

The middle-aged man leaned over to take the report, glanced up and down, and the parameters on the table were marked in striking bright red, which indicated that violent lesions were occurring inside his body, large swaths of tissue had begun to die, and organ function had begun to be lost, and there was an English phrase "carcinoma of the lungs" on the conclusion column at the bottom of the table.

The phrase means lung cancer.

The middle-aged man crumpled the report and threw it on the coffee table, "How long do I have left?" ”

"It's as short as half a year, but not as long as a year." "You're going to die from respiratory failure, or other complications caused by the spread of cancer cells," Sean said slowly. ”

The middle-aged man was stunned for a moment, looked up at the ceiling, and sighed.

"I still made an appointment with a little girl that I won't die." The middle-aged man smiled, "It seems that I am like this, and none of the promises I made can be fulfilled." ”

He knew that he was going to die, lung cancer was an incurable disease, even in the era when human society was not destroyed, lung cancer was almost incurable and terminal, not to mention suffering from cancer in this last age when there was a lack of drugs and extremely bad medical conditions...... It is almost equivalent to being sentenced to death, this disease has been the great enemy of mankind for thousands of years, and countless people have died of various cancers since ancient times, compared to them, the doomsday virus is a small generation.

"Stop smoking, it's going to prolong your life a little bit." Sean said.

The middle-aged man shook his head, "Since time is running out, then we can't waste time, how do you say it?" Do we want to devote our limited lives to unlimited service to the people, let's get down to business...... I went down and asked the princess about Lu Xun and Zhao Gao. ”

"What result?"

"For the accident that happened to Lu Xun, the princess speculated that it was an attack by a killer." The middle-aged man replied.

"A new killer?"

"I don't know, we can't confirm this speculation for the time being, Lu Xun is still in a coma." The middle-aged man said, "Zhao Gao has disappeared again, and the witness to the whole incident is the car, but we can't let the car speak." ”

The old man nodded.

"The second thing, the murder case in the school hospital, the princess's conclusion is consistent with Anna, judging from the evidence left at the scene, Zhao Gao is undoubtedly the murderer." The middle-aged man said, "The murderer can avoid all the surveillance cameras and sneak into the school hospital silently, then he must be a person who is very familiar with the monitoring system, but no one else approached the school hospital on the night of the crime, everyone has an alibi, and the only person who may commit the crime is the missing Zhao Gao." ”

"Why did Zhao Gao kill Albert?"

"The princess speculates......" the middle-aged man hesitated, "all this may have something to do with that incident four years ago. ”

The colonel's body shook.

"This is a murder that dates back to four years ago, and if we want to investigate this case, we must first find out what happened on that rainy night four years ago." The middle-aged man whispered, "This murder is just a consequence, and the cause of this result is ...... It may have been planted four years ago. ”

The two of them looked up together, and they both saw the endless black rain in each other's eyes.

The middle-aged man came up and patted the old man on the shoulder, "Old man, this matter is not simple, I can have a hunch that there are still some terrible things that have not surfaced in the darkness, I am afraid it will be difficult for you to deal with it alone, now that the academy is worried about internal and external troubles, you and I don't want to encounter the nightmare like four years ago, we have to solve this case as soon as possible...... While I still have time to help you. ”

The middle-aged man turned away and took off his hat from the coat rack.

The phone on the old man's desk rang suddenly.

Both of them were stunned, the man stopped and turned his head, and the colonel picked up the earpiece.

The call was short, and in a matter of seconds, the old man hung up, and then he hurriedly stood up.

"What's wrong?"

"Notice from the hospital." The colonel's answer was just as simple, "The Land Patrol is critically ill." ”