Aaron and Phoebe, you and I have been piecing together the details of the story in a while.

Wang Gong listened in a fog on the side, and took advantage of the interruption of the conversation between the two to ask, "You mean, this school is selling wings on the black market?" Deliberately misdiagnose patients, then amputate them and sell them on the black market? ”

"Uh-huh!" Phoebe nodded, "And He Yingjie was bent on saving Evelyn and learned the truth of the matter by mistake." So he called Second Lieutenant Ito to tell the truth, and then he was silenced because of it. ”

"Later, they simply took He Yingjie's wings to the black market and sold them, and then stuffed his body into the freezer." Aaron put away the virtual keyboard, and the photo seemed to have been uploaded, "So that no matter who finds the body, it will be framed as a murderer, and then the school will come forward and take its responsibility away." ”

"That's why Nina said something - bait for rats...... Is it? Phoebe fiddled with the ice pack on the bed and watched as a faint puddle of water appeared on the sheets.

"Hey! That's the bed I slept in! Aaron turned to Phoebe and yelled, "Grab your ice pack!" ”

"Ahhh......h ”

"......" Aaron shook his head helplessly.

"Finished uploading?" Phoebe pressed the ice pack back into her face and limped over to look at Aaron's projection on the table.

I saw that the pop-up window on the screen said - under review.

"Hmm. In the past, the information after it was published was displayed directly in the forum, but today it suddenly needs to be reviewed. Aaron replied, "Maybe we made a big fuss yesterday and the Internet department started to control the content release." ”

"And can your photos still work?"

"If anyone sees it and deletes it." Aaron put away the virtual screen, "Anyway, as a wounded, can't you be honest?" Don't walk around with a limp......"

"Huh?" Phoebe was moving to the side of the bed when she heard Aaron ask and turned around, "You said me?" ”

"Do you see any other wounded in this room?"

Phoebe looked around and found that she was really the only one who was miserable, so she indignantly "hummed-" and said, "Okay, anyway, it's nothing to do here, I'll go back to sleep." Then he went out the door and closed the door from the outside with a bang.

The Shadow Owl was still watching the replayed battle video, looking intently at the screen of the video headset, as if the scene just now had never happened.

Wang Gong looked at the closed door, then looked at Aaron, and said with a mocking "hehe-" and said, "Aaron, I know what you want to do." But you didn't add points to that performance just now......"

"Huh? Miscellaneous...... What do you mean? Aaron was a little panicked, and quickly pushed his glasses to cover up.

Wang Gong clasped his hands in front of his chest, and said with the appearance of a passerby: "Phoebe is a good girl, she is beautiful and has a good personality, and it is normal for you to be a young man with strong blood and strength." But ah...... How can you be so close? ”

"Set, set whatever!" Aaron's voice trembled a little, "What did you say......

"Alas...... Don't pretend! Wang Gongyu patted Aaron's back with his big hand in the depths, and the huge force slapped Aaron forward, "You said that it is useful for you to pretend to be with me?" Brother has the heart to teach you, isn't it good to learn a little? ”

"I, I'm ......," Aaron muttered, and then suddenly lowered his head deep into his chest with determination, "I listen to Brother Wang!" ”

Twenty minutes later, Phoebe is lying on her bed studying the school map stored in the video headset when she hears a knock on the door.

She propped herself up vigilantly, thinking that she had said at the front desk that the room was undisturbed, and she inevitably felt a little panicked in her heart.

"It's me." Aaron's voice came from outside the house.

"Oh-" Phoebe breathed a sigh of relief and moved to the door and opened it, "Scared me, I thought I was discovered......"

"By whom? Oh...... People from the school won't come. After saying this, Aaron paused before asking tentatively, "...... Can I go in? ”

Phoebe looked into the room—the bed was flat and the table was clean, and she said, "Come in!" With that, he moved back to the bed and sat down.

Aaron walked into the room, still carrying a plastic bag in his hand. He put the plastic bag on the table, took out some medicine and gauze from it and said, "Does your foot still hurt?" I just went downstairs to buy medicine for you......"

A thousand kilometers away in the city of Winter, Eliza and Gu Yang, who were halfway through shopping, sat in an open-air café to rest.

The four members of the New Wing Band, except for the lead singer, all smoke, especially Gu Yang, who is particularly addicted to smoking. Don't look at the captain, who is usually cold and beautiful, but he is an out-and-out smoker in his bones. Except for not being allowed to smoke in class and not smoking during performances, he will never miss anything that can smoke at other times.

The two only sat in the café for a while, and Eliza only took two sips of a glass of juice when she saw Gu Yang use his white and slender fingers to take out a cigarette from the inside pocket of his coat, and smoke it as soon as he lit it......

“…… Let me try it too? Eliza reached for the cigarette in his hand. She didn't really want to smoke, she just watched it for fun.

Gu Yang raised his hand and couldn't help but say, "No." ”

"Hmm...... That's it. Eliza didn't insist, glanced to the side, and asked leisurely, "Senior, have you considered your debut?" When we were touring before, several times we met someone handing out business cards and saying that they wanted to send records to the band. ”

Gu Yang squinted his eyes and took a puff of cigarette, deliberately tilted his head before spitting out a smoke ring and asked, "Do you want to make your debut?" ”

"Hmm." Eliza nodded.

"Why?"

"I love singing."

Gu Yang smiled slightly: "I know you like it, but you can sing it without debuting?" Just like it is now. ”

Eliza shook her head: "I want to stand on a bigger stage and sing...... More - a big stage. ”

"How old?"

Eliza stared at Gu Yang's eyes, and there seemed to be a stream of light in her emerald eyes: "How big and how big it is, it's like standing on the top of a mountain facing the whole world." The sound does not hit the wall, but reverberates in the air, merging with the world like smoke, and even the gods can hear it. ”

Gu Yang listened carefully to every word she said, and took another puff of cigarette: "Eliza, do you know? There are many singers who can only live in the studio for the rest of their lives. ”

"Well......" Eliza was surprised, "yes?" ”

"Their voices have to go through repeated auditions, tuning, and even a lot of post-production revisions to reach the lowest level of commercialization." Gu Yang said, "And the stage is the grave of these people - the undecorated sound will make them lose a large number of fans, and then these singers who are not skilled will eventually lose even the recording studio." Their songs are constantly being covered, and no one remembers who sang them in the first place. ”

Eliza lowered her head: "Is the senior scaring me?" It doesn't sound like everyone is out of the right place to perform on stage. ”

"It's the opposite – my concern isn't that you won't be able to perform on stage, it's that you won't be able to make your debut by releasing a record." Gu Yang smiled, "That's why I've been hesitant to accept the invitation of the record company." ”

"I can't make my debut on a record...... What is the meaning? ”

"Your voice is special. How so...... Before inviting you, Virgil also proposed other singers to be the lead singers of the band, but it wasn't until we met you that we found out that there can be such singers in the world-" Gu Yang extinguished the cigarette butt in the ashtray, and when he raised his head, there was a look of excitement in his eyes, "As you just said, your songs are never sung to anyone, and you don't even care if anyone listens." I just want to sing. Just like instinct, people want to eat and sleep...... Very interesting. But what about being in the studio? This is not yet known. ”

Eliza was a little unhappy when she heard this. She didn't look over her head and looked at Gu Yang with her spare eyes: "Does it sound so professional...... I'm obviously studying vocal music, right? What to say instinctively......"

"It's not what you think." Gu Yang waved his hand, "This has nothing to do with being professional or not, it's purely a difference in talent." When it comes to pitch or performance level, you're already at the top of your vocal department. But whether the debut will be successful depends not only on the level of professionalism, but also on personal charm. ”

"So the senior is saying that I am not attractive...... Eliza narrowed her eyes reluctantly.

"Huh...... Of course not. But it's also unknown how many people will be able to appreciate your charm. Gu Yang smiled and beckoned the waiter to come over and settle the bill, "However, there is one thing that I have never told you - in fact, whether it is me as the arranger, Ziyin as the composer, or Virgil as the lyricist, I think it is very lucky to find a lead singer like you - it is great to have you sing the songs we wrote." ”

Eliza's eyes lit up when she heard this: "Really!?" ”

"Really. That's why I'm very cautious and want to hand over the band, to a qualified entertainment company. And I've been thinking about this for a long time, and I already have a few options in mind. ”

"What...... What kind of alternatives? Did you hand over your business card last time? Or something else? ”

"I can't say it yet." A waiter handed over an electronic bill, and Gu Yang scanned the payment with an imaging headset and signed an electronic signature, "But I think I will be able to say it soon." If you could answer me a question first. ”

"What?"

Gu Yang raised his head, looked at Eliza with dark amber eyes, and asked word by word, "When you stand on the stage, who do you want to sing to?" ”

Eliza didn't avoid his gaze, didn't even think, and her answer was really as natural as instinct: "The world." ”

That afternoon, they visited a lot of places again. Gu Yang bought a lot of clothes and accessories for Eliza, and she wanted to excuse herself as always, but she was rejected as always, and she used high-sounding reasons such as "for the band" and "for the lead singer's style......

"Do you know that every time you go on stage, you have to dress three layers inside and three layers outside, it's very tiring......" Eliza wanted to complain to Gu Yang like this, but in the end she didn't say anything.

As the sun sets, the shopping trip finally comes to an end. Kevin called a taxi for them back to the hotel.

On the way, Eliza felt as if she had fallen asleep in the back seat. In a trance, someone put a soft coat over her - the fabric was mixed with a faint smell of tobacco.

On May 6, the weather was fine.

The breeze is blowing and the sky is cloudless.

Aaron woke up because he felt the headphones next to his pillow vibrating.

He glanced at the clock on the screen - half past six.

- Who gets up early in the morning to disturb the quiet?

Struggling to get up and put on his glasses, he randomly pressed the headphones to his ears and turned on the projection screen.

A red notification with an important marker comes into view:

The photo you uploaded on the campus network has been deleted, please check the administrator's reply on the edit page.

"Whew......" Aaron had just called out a word when he suddenly realized that there should be someone else in the room. He turned his head to look at the Shadow Owl's bed—it was empty, had the fight maniac gone out for morning exercise in the early morning?

It doesn't matter if you're not there.

Aaron followed his gloves onto the T-shirt he had taken off the day before, walked to the table and sat down, projecting the virtual screen onto the table.

When I opened the editing page, the administrator's reply was actually a video-

An ominous premonition rose in Aaron's heart - maybe we should wait for the movie lord to come back and watch it together? But on second thought, the leader of this small team of four people is undoubtedly me, and there is no need to wait for anyone. So I moved my finger to the play button of the video and clicked on it-

Lei Yan's highly recognizable hair suddenly appeared on the screen.

This appears to be a video shot in a small, dark room. The camera pulls into the distance, and a hissing noise can be heard in the headphones.

Lei Wei appeared to be sitting on a rudimentary iron chair with his hands tied behind his back. His feet were tied to the two front legs of the chair, his eyes were covered with a thick cloth, and there were scattered blood stains on his clothes, but from the rhythmic heaving of his chest, he was not seriously injured.

"Let me guess...... familiar female voice suddenly sounded, and Nina's slender figure appeared in the camera, "It should be Aaron-san who is watching the video now, right?" Hehe...... How do I know? Isn't it because you posted a photo on the campus website, and you have your own image headset ID in the file information? Eighty percent of that photo was taken by yourself, right? In that case, I can still take care of taking pictures, and I have to say that the psychological quality is better than our assessment of you. ”

"Mental quality? Assess? Aaron gritted his teeth and said, "Cut...... Who do you think you are!? ”

"Ah, by the way, you have to get down to business." Nina walked up to the trapped Lei Wei and poked his head with her finger, "This guy should be your companion, right?" Would you be angry if I killed him like that? ”

"What!!" Aaron's eyes widened, "Kill, kill......?" ”

"Ah...... But even if I wasn't angry, I couldn't just kill him now. Because...... Mr. Boxing King also has important use value...... as a hostage. Nina said as she paced around the room, "After all, you guys are all talented people who can escape from school surrounded by pursuers to that extent." By the way, Wang Gong, the new recruit in the Ministry of Security, is also one of yours, right? In the end, he was the one who came to your aid loyally. Obviously, they are all uncle-aged, and they still join in the fun with the students......"

"Hey...... Aaron was sweating as he listened, "aren't you usually an iceberg beauty?" Why did you suddenly become so eloquent......

"Sergeant of the Third Army Corps, Wang Gong; Corporal of the Fourth Army Corps, Phoebe; Gaia's gladiatorial arena often wins generals and thunders; Lingxiao Yuxiang University top student, Lu Chao; Compared to your companions, you're an unexpectedly ordinary commander, aren't you? Hehe...... Or did we underestimate you in the first place? Perhaps this is a time for reflection. ”

“……”

"Ah, I digress again...... Serious business, serious business! Nina patted her temple in annoyance and continued, "So who is the main messenger behind you?" While we have several speculations at the moment, we are not sure for sure...... In short, no matter who instigated you to investigate He Yingjie's matter, we are willing to pay twice as much as him and invite you to join the gang. What do you think...... Think about it? ”