October 2, 2199, in the evening. The orange-red sunlight, which does not convey any temperature, gilds the pure white furnishings with a layer of false warmth. Ling Shucheng turned sideways, and the square artificial light source that mimicked the shape of the window was spread flat on the wall in his hand, and if he lifted it with his hand, he could easily touch the cold metal wall.

"Don't look around and avoid questions." Han Yue shook the ice cubes in the glass, "You have to explain to me why I was only out for two days before I was told that there was an extra teammate I hadn't met before." ”

"You need to explain one thing to me first." Ling Shucheng stretched out his hand, skimmed over the several bottles of wine arranged high and low, and pulled out the teapot from the corner of the plate, his tone was rarely unkind, "What did you say in front of him?" ”

There was no end to the question, but Han Yue quickly understood. He waved his hand and quickly cleared up the relationship: "I didn't say anything about you and that little girl!" I'm definitely against stuffing her into our group, so don't bite me back. ”

"Let Yuan Sui fill the long-standing vacant seat in our group, I proposed." Not wanting to see Han Yue's teasing expression at this moment, Ling Shucheng lowered his head and took a sip of tea, "But I was just not very hopeful about it, but I didn't expect him to immediately slap the table and agree." ”

"I don't believe it, you are such a chicken thief."

"That's why I asked what you told him in private." Ling Shucheng snorted and held his forehead with one hand, "As soon as I mentioned it, he immediately had a strange expression, wiped his eyes and said that I had finally 'grown up', and then agreed...... He also said that after waiting for a long time, he finally waited until today, and was able to blow the horn of breaking the ice between me and him with tears of emotion. ”

"Poof-" Han Yue choked and coughed twice, "What, what horn?" ”

"In memory of this moment, he decided to grant this willful little wish of mine with excitement and reverence." Ling Shucheng continued to relay in a steady tone, "To commemorate the day when spring returned to the earth, the earth was long, the wind and waves were long, the prodigal son turned back, and his head was bleeding." ”

"Hahaha." Han Yue lifted the tablecloth and wiped the wine stains on the table, "So why do you want your head to bleed?" ”

Ling Shucheng sighed and waved his hand. I don't know if I want to say "I don't know" or "I don't really want to admit that the person who said this is my father".

"He should simply play on the big screen at the entrance of the park, scrolling 'Now father and son are hand in hand, and in the future they will go together - warm congratulations to me and my son on reuniting'."

"That's not how to break the mirror and reunite......" Ling Shucheng said helplessly.

"Wait, so that's it, Yuan Sui joined our group?"

"You heard it right." Ling Shucheng replied word by word.

"This, this is too ......" Han Yue drank all the remaining wine in the cup, but still didn't hold back the second half of the sentence.

"In principle, graduates from the first class can directly join the army for formation, as long as there are vacancies in the group."

"Don't don't, since you took office, there have been two or three terms. In the past, the big guys of the group wanted to stuff people for you, but you have always been non-violent and uncooperative. I didn't make a sound at all, so I grabbed one of the hairy children who had just graduated and stuffed it into our group - and she was a girl, a girl who was still under suspicion, and a girl who was under suspicion who had private contact with you. Han Yue slammed his mouth twice, "This is not appropriate, is it?" ”

"I've thought about it." Ling Shucheng steadily added a little tea to himself with one hand, "Many of the parts she told me really can't be reported casually - it means that you can't use these to exonerate her." If it weren't for the direct intervention from my side, she would have had a problem graduating from the military academy normally. ”

"What you are doing now will not only not solve the problem at hand, but will also bury more hidden dangers for her in her future life." Han Yue stuffed two pieces of dry food into his mouth, chewed them crunched, and then continued, "Do you know how to kill?" I don't know how many people are staring at the location next to you. If you really can't control your love and simply want to help her, you shouldn't expose her to this environment where she faces pressure from all sides on a daily basis - oh, and because of her gender, she may be able to experience all kinds of foul language pointing and pointing fingers. No one dares to pick on you, but she's just a living gun, so why don't you continue to block guns for her? ”

"Whether you believe it or not, I didn't help her out of so-called 'love', and I didn't just leave someone around on a whim. But I really didn't take into account what you said about gender. ”

"Ha, some people have their backs and faces, you probably still don't know very well."

"If you strongly disagree, I will reconsider this matter after this mission."

"Poof, don't be. You've brought that kid out, and the announcement of the appointment has already turned around twice, so you should be having fun. ”

"If you are very unhappy with her, for the sake of teamwork, I, as the team leader, do have an obligation to coordinate this matter." Ling Shucheng put down the teacup in his hand, "But I suggest that you make a judgment after this mission." I don't think the existence of the Yuan Sui is a simple trouble for us. ”

"I'm not worried about trouble, it's my responsibility to solve the trouble you created. But can she really be trusted? ”

"There is no one you can trust forever. Even if it's to gain our trust in the short term, she's been working hard lately. ”

"You don't have to rush to explain. Your Lao Tzu has loosened his mouth there, and I'm still holding it here, isn't it not like words? Han Yue got up and flattened the folds on his suit, "I'm on the boat soon, remember that you are pretending to be my little brother tonight, keep a low profile." ”

As soon as Han Yue's head poked out of the hatch of the call, there was a long-lasting warm applause outside the ship, which made Ling Shucheng who followed him stunned.

Han Yue, as the "Pangu Special Dispatcher", stood in front with his head held high. Ling Shucheng stood in the shadows behind him, while Yuan Sui painted some light makeup, stepped on high heels, and stood on the other side of Han Yue in a European-style long skirt with a waist. A middle-aged man with little hair left took the initiative to offer flowers with a smile on his face, and was accepted by Yuan Sui, who also took the initiative to step forward. After the two sides laughed dryly for a while, the second link was Han Yue's handshake with a spring breeze. It wasn't until everyone routinely politely said that the three of them officially stepped into the territory of "颛顼".

Occasionally, when acting in small groups and participating in tasks involving negotiations with the outside world, Ling Shucheng's first priority is often to play the role of Han Yue's cold-faced bodyguard. Although Yuan Sui participated for the first time, and even met Han Yue for the first time, his acting skills were obviously much better than Ling Shucheng's, and the shouting of "Chief Han" was very cordial and natural.

"I came in too much of a hurry last time, and I left in a hurry. This time, bring two of your own people, lest I fight against you alone with a table of wine. Han Yue and the Mediterranean who stepped forward to offer flowers seemed to be quite familiar, and the two brothers hooked their shoulders for a while before walking side by side at the front of the line.

"Ah, that's just a joke. Last time, I was an ignorant subordinate, and your schedule is so tight, how can I ask you for a drink one by two. The middle-aged man smiled and touched his bare head, but after turning his head sideways, he swept around the faces of the group of followers around him with a cold face, full of warning.

Ling Shucheng saw the small movements of everyone present for a moment, and he was vaguely uneasy in his heart.

There was not a single familiar face among them. When Han Yue hurriedly returned to the ship to hand over the task, he mentioned that the "Zhuan Xuan" had recently carried out a high-level reshuffle in an inconspicuous manner, and the countermeasures group almost existed in name only, and the power was completely in the hands of the military.

Nominally, "Zhuan" and Ling Shucheng's "Pangu" belong to the same alliance, but they do not have any actual power to interfere with each other. Even though the public order situation in the "Zhuan" has deteriorated in recent years, and the excessively relaxed internal and external countermeasures have allowed a large number of dangerous elements to stay illegally in the name of business contacts, and even adversely affected the interests of the entire alliance, the powerful countermeasures group within the "Zhuan" has still been able to hold on to the situation as if it were walking on thin ice. And today, half of the so-called "countermeasure team" that came to receive them are old fritters who have just retired from the top of the military, and the other half are young faces who follow and thin mud. The expressions of these people looking at Han Yue were half flattering with fear, and half were full of gloomy greed.

Ling Shucheng lowered his head, and only nodded and shook his head in response to anyone's accosting.

It took three hours and a hot meal, and the three of them got out for the time being on the grounds of "visiting on the ship".

"It's impossible for the other party not to send someone to keep an eye on us, don't report too much hope of inquiry, just go with the flow." Han Yue was the first to step out of the elevator and whistled.

"I've heard my classmates say that the urban design of '颛顼' is different from ours. The second floor, which has the best lighting, is not all used for urban green space, but is arranged as a commercial street. Only between the streets, there are some small parks. Yuan Sui's tone was very excited, and his face was full of eagerness.

"Your classmates know a lot. Did he tell you what is the most prosperous business in the shopping street here? Han Yue glanced back at her, and his words were inexplicably unfathomable.

"Now is not the time to joke." Ling Shucheng suddenly spoke up, trying to interrupt the two people who might have gone off track.

"Are you still embarrassed to say? It's not the first time we've been here, and we may be here more often in the future. Han Yue pretended to wipe his mouth to hide his expression at this time, "It's just that the first official task after graduation is actually to investigate here, are you lucky or bad?" ”

"Of course, it's luck." Yuan Sui answered quickly, "In the future, when I talk about this topic at class reunions, everyone else is bragging about how long I have been lurking in or how many enemies I have killed, I will be different." Yuan Sui turned around, and just bumped into Ling Shucheng's stopped eyes, "I went to the red light district with the team leader!" ”

"Poof." Han Yue couldn't hold back his laughter, "Yes, yes, you seem to be very motivated to work." ”

Ling Shucheng took the lead in turning around, avoiding Yuan Sui's smiling eyes at this time, and sighed secretly.

At ten o'clock in the evening, it was already time for Ling Shucheng to fall asleep. But the city does not sleep in the embrace of the sea, but wakes up tired in the light and shadow of neon lights and the sound of street performers.

Yuan Sui jumped in front of his eyes, occasionally excitedly circling around the rare shops; Han Yue walked far ahead with his hand in his hand, looking down at the ID in his hand from time to time. Looking further on, well-dressed men rushed through the crowd with the smell of alcohol, inadvertently touching the cloud-shaped marshmallows that a little girl had just exchanged for a pocket of coins; At the door of the coffee shop squatted two young men in ragged clothes, one tall and one short, munching on the bread left by the customer; Under the red-glowing advertising signs, beautiful women who are inexplicably hideous against the background raise their heads slightly, leaning against the peeling paint walls and smoking.

Countless trivial one-act plays are being staged at night. The faint light of the stars could not reach the ground wrapped in various spots of light, and the sharp and gaudy words of passers-by filled everyone's brains, Ling Shucheng tried to distinguish them, and vaguely understood that the artist sitting on the edge of the flower bed was singing, "I came from the mountains with orchids and grass." Planted in a small garden, I hope the flowers will bloom early".

"Mr. Ling?" Yuan Sui held a marshmallow high and turned around to call him with a smile.

Ling Shucheng nodded at her to indicate that he heard it, and was about to walk towards her quickly, but he saw Yuan Sui dancing briskly bypassing several people, pressing his skirt and slowly squatting down. A pair of incompatible men and women walked hand in hand in front of Ling Shucheng, and when she saw Yuan Sui who was almost submerged in the crowd, the marshmallow in her hand was gone. The little girl who had lost the candy was giggling and running past Ling Shucheng with a new sugar, like a gust of wind, diluting the smell of a lot of tobacco and alcohol. Ling Shucheng turned slightly sideways to make room for the sugar, and when he looked up again, he saw the artist with the guitar singing, "Looking forward to the spring flowers, I can fulfill my long-cherished wish." The garden is full of flowers, adding a lot of fragrance".

Yuan Sui also looked at him, waved at him, and motioned for him to hurry up.

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"What are you two doing in the back?" Han Yue actually held a wine glass in his hand, "I'm done here." ”

"I'm experiencing life, and Mr. Ling is taking a walk after dinner to exercise." Yuan Sui replied with a smile, "Are you talking to the barmaid?" ”

"That's wrong, it's actually a male bartender." Han Yue rubbed the bottom of the glass on the back of his hand twice as if unintentionally, until Ling Shucheng nodded at him slightly to indicate that the ink on it had been wiped clean, and then put it back on the table.

The three of them walked slowly through the bright streets, until they came to a small deserted park, Han Yue took the lead and sat down, turned his back and glanced at his palm, and then took a handful of water from the pool and washed his face.

"The water probably won't be very clean." Yuan Sui reminded loudly.

"It's okay, I don't drink it." Han Yue wiped his hands on his suit very casually, "The people we arranged here have basically come to fruition." ”

"How?" Ling Shucheng asked.

"The bald man who had just eaten with me said that the owner of the hair used to belong here, but had moved to land. I asked him where he had moved to, and he was dumb. Han Yue said as he wiped his face vigorously, "It depends on our people here, he has always been able to get along with the people at the bottom." ”

"It turns out that there will really be people moving land." As soon as he finished speaking, Yuan Sui shook his head again and muttered, "The management here is really very bad." ”

"What's your name? Where did you move? Ling Shucheng asked.

"Dai Songpu, I used to teach painting in the school here, and I used to have a good life. Later, I don't know what was involved, the child was gone, my wife was crazy, and I didn't know exactly when, so I ran away with the merchant who went to collect rice and noodles on land. Our informant ran back and forth several times before someone said that he might have defected to some 'Liangxia City' along the land and coastal areas. ”

"What city? Did he go to Liangshan as a hero? "This is Yuan Sui asked.

"As a result, it doesn't seem like there's anything wrong with what you're saying. But I seem to have heard of this place, a small town between the mountains and beams, and two years ago smuggled tobacco leaves into several of our neighbors' ships. Isn't it true that half of the people who insist on staying on land are hiding in such a corner and doing such a thing? ”

"Shall we just go back and go where you said we are, or will we stay here for two more days?"

"Little boss decides." After speaking, Han Yue and Yuan Sui turned their heads left and right and saluted Ling Shucheng earnestly.

"I don't want to stay here any longer." Ling Shucheng said very frankly, "It's better to delay less time." We'll leave tomorrow for 'Liangxia City'. ”

After talking about the matter, Yuan Sui and Han Yue discussed the gossip on "Zhuan" with relish, from the worrying achievements of the current leader's own son, to which of his wives was the most beautiful. Ling Shucheng tilted his head slightly, he knew that at this moment, the two tails not far away were staring at them with a cold wind. I don't know what these people would have if they knew what the people they were guarding about were talking about at this time.

"These grandsons are still fucking running around, and I don't know what they're doing."

"I really think of myself as a person, phew, something."

The watcher's fragmented words fell into Ling Shucheng's ears. He straightened his cuffs for a moment, his eyes swept over the two dancing companions in front of him, and finally said nothing.