"I'm back!" The Melona people have not yet arrived, and the voice has arrived.

Seeing Alfred and Phoebe sitting at the table and feasting, the person who came back frowned and said, "Are you two starving ghosts reincarnated?" Don't wait for me? ”

"Isn't this waiting for you while eating?" Phoebe sipped the black tea from her cup.

"Hmph...... It seems that you have not yet figured out your situation. Melona sat down at the table, picked up Phoebe's snack with her fork, and took a bite, "Hmm—that's good!" ”

"Situation? What situation? Phoebe stopped in alarm.

"Why did Eliza suddenly ask about 'Rongwan' just now, don't you know?" Melona teasingly ruffled her hair, "It has something to do with your favorite little brother!" ”

Hearing "my favorite little brother", Phoebe's heart suddenly skipped a beat, but she still pretended to be calm and said on her face, "What little brother...... I don't have a favorite right now. ”

"Huh? Don't you like that Shadow Lord? Melona said lightly.

"Huh!? How can you ......" Phoebe looked at Melona in surprise, and then at Alfred, who was trying to swallow the snack with a sip of tea so as not to burst out laughing.

Phoebe said in frustration, "Is it so obvious......"

"Ah, what is in the heart of a girl in love...... "Melona made a gesture of a passerby, "it is as obvious as ice cubes floating on Coke." ”

"That'...... Did Eliza see it too? Phoebe couldn't help but worry.

"Nope." "It's not so much 'no,' it's that I don't care about the gossip at all." The top priority of people now is in Hengyin's debut, and other inconsequential things don't care at all. Besides, it doesn't matter if she knows, right? I might even be able to help you out. ”

"Huh?"

"Because the two of them are masters and servants." Alfred also stepped forward and added, "Helping your servant marry a good girl is probably like helping your own puppy find a mate...... So be it. ”

"Little ...... The puppy ......" Phoebe was red-faced, "Mr. A, you are too much......"

"Haha!" Melona stretched out a finger and shook it in front of her, "All I can say is - very vivid!" Fei Xiaowang. ”

"Get out!!"

"Okay, don't talk about those who don't." Melona said, "You know, that shadow owl was brainwashed. What is it called in their empire...... Fragments? ”

"Broken code......" Phoebe continued, "I know." ”

"Hmm. It's not my turn to say that, but ah...... Phoebe, even if you can become boyfriend and girlfriend with Shadow Owl one day, he is a person whose memories have been tampered with after all, and no one knows what he has done before...... The risk is too great. ”

"Meimei, don't say that." Alfred stopped, "This is the time for free love. Even if they can't get together in the future, you can't help but let the family experience it, right? ”

"Well, I'm going to get away." Melona continued, "The reason why Eliza asked about 'Rongwan' is to help Shadow Owl recover his memories before he was brainwashed. It is said that he sold goods to the empire and bought them from Rongwan. ”

"What!?" Phoebe sighed, "Even the Shadow Owl is a victim of the Rongwan smuggling industry? I've wanted to say that for a long time...... Are your Blaze laws ornamental!? ”

Alfred shook his head: "The Gray Triangle refers to Blaze, the Qingyun Empire, and the Human United Alliance, where the three kingdoms meet. It is the so-called three-way zone, which is the most likely to breed all kinds of gray trades, and this is how the name 'gray triangle' comes from. As the only prosperous city in the gray triangle, 'Rongwan', because of the particularity of the region, even if you want to manage it, it is not easy to manage. For example, if the police in Blaze heard about the existence of an illegal activity in the Gray Triangle and went on duty, the criminals would cross the border to take refuge in the Empire or the Alliance. The same is true for the other two countries. ”

Melona added: "If you want to put an end to the chaos in the gray triangle, the best way is for the security forces of the three countries to work together, but this is almost impossible. As you know, the relationship between the Empire and the Alliance has only slowly begun to ease since five years ago, but it is still too impractical to send the police forces of the three countries to jointly enforce the law for the sake of the Gray Triangle. ”

"So our approach is to compromise the control policy in the gray triangle to a certain extent, but to increase the police presence in the surrounding cities and strictly investigate and deal with them." Alfred continued, "...... such words"

"In this way, we can not only obtain a large amount of tax revenue from the huge annual transaction process in the gray triangle, but also save patrol police force, and lock illegal transactions in the gray triangle to prevent the spread to surrounding cities." Phoebe also understood, "Killing three birds with one stone, your country is a thief......"

"To put it mildly, it's not principled." "Somewhere like ours, sandwiched between two great powers, is built on neutrality and flexibility. As long as it remains neutral and not dependent on alliances or empires, a flexible foreign policy can be used to maintain national autonomy; And if you work around...... To put it bluntly, don't worry about money. A full treasury is the basic condition for the people to live and work in peace and contentment. ”

"Okay, okay, I'm not here for a politics class." Phoebe waved her hand and said, "And then?" Even if I knew they were going to Rongwan to find the merchant who had purchased goods back then, what could I do? ”

"Come along!" Melona spread her hands.

"Huh? What am I going to do? Phoebe looked confused.

"Don't you like Shadow Owls? Don't you want to know about his past? ”

It is the so-called obsessed with the authorities.

When Melona broke this, Phoebe had a look of realization on her face.

"Mei Mei means that if he was a big traitor before he was brainwashed. For example, murderers, kidnappers, etc...... You don't think about him anymore. The nature of bad people is difficult to change, and it is inevitable that they will continue to do evil after brainwashing. Alfred added, "But if he was an ordinary person before he was brainwashed, then there was nothing to worry about." ”

"Uh-huh, I see." Phoebe nodded and thought for a moment, then asked, "But how do I know when they're going to Rongwan ......?" ”

"Don't we have their headphone numbers?" Alfred pointed to his headset, "As long as their master and servant are in our country, I have permission to track them by number." ”

"Ouch?" Phoebe squinted her eyes and glanced at Xiao Ah, "You look quite decent, but you don't hesitate when it's time to start." ”

"I'm just a little bit of a private right." Xiao Ah scratched his hair, "What's wrong with helping a friend?" It's not a bad thing. ”

"Okay, you have a reason for what you say."

"I'll tell you when they leave." Alfred patted Phoebe on the shoulder, "So—it's time to get down to business, while Mei Mei is there." ”

"Uh-huh! Mr. A, you said. ”

Alfred stood up and walked over to the bookshelf and pulled out a note-taking pen. and a palm-sized megaphone, connected to the headphones with a wireless signal, and said: "I have asked the professionals about the 'Black Wing Man' you mentioned earlier. He sat back down at the dining table, a virtual screen projecting into the air in front of him.

A preview of what appears to be a male human in a white lab coat in his over-the-top armor is sitting on a chair with his mouth slightly open as if to say something.

Alfred clicked the play button on the picture, and the video played, and an old and majestic voice sounded over the loudspeaker: "As far as I know, the wings of the winged people are white. I've never heard of a winged man with black wings. But just as human hair can be dyed, feathers should also be dyed from the perspective of the beauty industry, right? So what you call the Black-Winged Man, I think the biggest possibility is that the Winged Man with dyed wings. It's like dyeing your hair blonde, pink, or something like that. ”

"But my friend said that she had indeed been attacked by the Blackwings, and that the strength of the other party was far superior to that of ordinary Wingmen." Alfred's voice can be heard on the recording. It seems that he is seriously playing the role of the questioner.

"I think it's probably the illusion that your friend was frightened by a winged man. This question is easy to explain - for example, if you are an honor student, walking on the side of the road and suddenly threatened by a delinquent teenager dressed in strange shapes, and you are asked to pay for it, will you be very scared? The elder in the white coat said, "It is true that that bad boy may not be more powerful than you, but with a murder weapon in his hand, you will naturally feel that you can't beat him, and even think that this person may be more powerful than others." ”

Even if the other party was just a video, Phoebe couldn't help but glance at the screen and muttered in a low voice, "You're just delusional......"

"That means that our Blaze Kingdom doesn't have the technology to make Blackwings?" Xiao A's voice in the video added, "Of course, if this issue involves a confidential part, you can also not say it, and I will delete the video." ”

The interviewee shook his head: "Some of the things that have been done cannot be said, but the things that have not been done can be said." No...... It's not so much that we haven't done it, it's that we haven't thought about it at all. Listen to what you mean, the difference between the Blackwing Man and the Wingman is only that the color of the wings is different, just like the difference in the color of the skin of the people is a truth. Will there be a huge physiological difference between people with different wing colors? I'll give you an example. Are you a Caucasian who can jump 2.5 meters in the standing long jump and 5 meters in the yellow race? Schoolchildren know that this is impossible. Therefore, it is pointless to study the Black Winged Man. ”

The screen goes black, and the recording ends here.

"How?" Alfred asked.

"Who is this old man who talks dick......?" Phoebe was dismissive.

"Let's be regarded as the leader of my country's wingman research community." Xiao A said, "It's not an expert to meet easily, but you're still willing to sell me a few thin noodles." ”

Phoebe frowned and said, "In other words, neither the Qingyun Empire nor Blaze are the makers of the Blackwing Man. ”

"So it can only be made by the United Human Alliance, right?" Melona asked.

"Alliance!!" When these two words were spoken, something faintly stabbed Phoebe in the heart, "Alliance......

She lowered her head, and there was a faint anger in her tone: "Didn't you say that you would control genetic technology!" If another kind of winged man were created, wouldn't the world fall into war again!? ”

"Phoebe......" Melona called to her.

As if she hadn't heard her friend's call, Phoebe clenched her small fist and hung down angrily on the table with a muffled 'bang'. She roared angrily, "Isn't it enough that humanity has learned the lessons of the Daybreak War!? ”

"Phoebe, calm down!" Melona took her hand and spread her clenched fist, "It's not something you can control. ”

Seemingly recovering from her anger slightly, Phoebe shook her head sadly, slowly leaned down on the table and said, "Father and brother...... Who is it that has gone to such great lengths to maintain the status of the 'Genetic Control Act' in the laws of the League...... I can't see world peace like this!? ”

"Well......," Alfred sighed, "to blame only the benefits of war, which are just as impressive." ”

The atmosphere was silent for a moment.

Melona glanced at Alfred, then at Phoebe lying on the table, and asked, "Do you regret it?" ”

Phoebe squeezed out a "Huh?" from between the gaps in her arms. ”

"Get involved in investigating this kind of thing." Melona said in a deep voice, "Abandon your studies and infiltrate the empire in order to investigate the news of the so-called 'Black Winged People', and live this precarious life. Actually, no one asks you to do that...... Don't regret it? ”

Phoebe got up and rubbed her eyes, and said firmly, "No regrets." ”

"Even now, all the evidence tells you that it was the United Alliance of Humans that created the 'Blackwings', and you don't regret it?" "Have you ever thought that if you hadn't intervened in the investigation at the beginning, although you might never know the truth in your life, maybe nothing would have happened in the end?" Maybe someone is silently dealing with these abnormal things out of your sight. It doesn't matter if you don't do anything, isn't that good? ”

"You are not in a position to ask me such a question. Mei Ye ......" Phoebe shook her head, "Everything you have earned is earned by yourself." You should know better than I do that there is no future for those who sit still. ”

"yes...... But the road you will take is unpredictable and unpredictable. Melona lowered her eyelids silently, "Just as before the Dawn War, no one would have expected that the Winged People would raise the flag against the Human United Alliance, and no one would have imagined that after the war, a new nation would be born under the rule of the Winged People. If the 'Blackwings' you're investigating are a non-existent species, that's fine. I wish they were just ordinary winged people with black wings. ”

"But if the Blackwings do exist, it's not fun." Alfred also said, "Because of the existence of the Qingyun Empire, it can be said that the humans and the winged people are still in a state of parity. The mutual deterrence of force maintained peace for a long time. But if the 'Blackwings' also exist, and they are on the side of the humans, the balance will be upset. The United Alliance of Humanity may have an armed force that surpasses that of the Qingyun Empire......"

"We can't let that happen." Phoebe interrupted him, "Mr. A, what about the arms export documents of the Windwind Society?" When we met the Blackwings in the Empire, we confiscated a number of firearms they had used. The shipper's firearms exports are well documented, right? The one who bought those guns must be the one behind the arming of the Blackwings. ”

"It's a trade secret among trade secrets." Alfred sighed, "I can get it, but I can't do it these days. It seems that something happened to the Windwind Society a few days ago, and several insiders I know well have gone on a business trip to Rem Fortress...... I'll have to wait until they're done with it before I can speak. ”

"Okay...... That looks like we'll have to wait. ”

"Don't be too anxious, Phoebe. Take a break over the weekend and wait for my news next week. Xiao Ah motioned to the maid to refill the tea for all three of them, and then said to her, "Don't think too much." Take 10,000 steps back, and even if there is a real war, you can come to our Blaze at any time and apply for political asylum. ”

Phoebe shook her head: "There are eggs under the nest?" If war does break out between the Alliance and the Empire, it will not be so easy for the Kingdom of Blaze to stay out of it. ”

Melona and Alfred looked at each other. Both of them are smart people, so they naturally know that Phoebe's words are true.