Chapter 20: Honkai II: Me and Freedom (No. 20) 2
"Yes. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info" Ye Kexin was a little silent, and her interest was not as high as before, but Ye Kexin still continued to ask, "Then, is there any news?" ”
"What else is the news?" Naoto Sakurai thought about it again, "Speaking of which, the biggest news is that the Hanging City in the Pacific Ocean has officially opened, and all the government offices of the Earth Federation have moved to the Hanging City. ”
"Huh?" Ye Kexin frowned slightly, "You said we could use the orbital strike to sink the Hanging City?" ”
"There is little hope, sir." Naoto Sakurai looked a little serious, "First of all, there is an energy barrier area about five hundred meters thick above the Hanging City, although it is not as dense as the energy shield of the Pilgrim battleship, but it is certain that a dozen electromagnetic railguns will definitely not be able to penetrate such a thick energy barrier. ”
"What else?"
"In addition, the latest cruise records show that there is a space station floating above the Hanging City, judging by the image, it should be the 'Cairo' space station that we have abandoned before, and the space station has been renovated and transformed into a space airport, in which hundreds of 'Hummingbird' attack aircraft and two Pilgrim frigates are docked."
"It's tricky, but soon, we'll be killing this so-called World Tree soon." A mysterious smile appeared at the corner of Ye Kexin's mouth.
"Sir, how do you know that Hanging City is called the World Tree?"
"Are you really a lonely man who doesn't know anything about the world?" Ye Kexin smiled softly and left the control room, and before the automatic door closed, a sentence floated into Naoto Sakurai's ears, "Hurry up and prepare, the last transport plane is about to take off." ”
When the morning glow was released in the sky, Ye Zifeng was spraying disinfectant into the body bag, and it was really not Ye Zifeng's character to dare to do such an unlucky thing when he got up in the morning, but there was no way, he couldn't let the corpse rot in the temperature of more than 30 degrees and release a foul smell, if it was breeding any virus, it would be bad.
Xia Lu sat at the table and carefully spread the cream boy on the slightly charred bread slices, and then added a slice of fried golden ham on top. Two clear orange glasses are already filled with milk. Originally, these things Ye Zifeng would not have been prepared in the refrigerator, but since they appeared here, it was naturally bought by Xia Lu at Seven-Eleven.
Pulling the body bag up, Ye Zifeng took a breath in his mouth, and the air was filled with the smell of formalin, but this was at least better than the taste of protein enzymes. Back in the living room, Ye Zifeng quickly closed the sliding door of the balcony.
"Come over and eat, and we'll go find Mr. Saber when we're done." Xia Lu beckoned to Ye Zifeng and motioned for Ye Zifeng to sit down at the table.
Ye Zifeng sat down while taking a sip of the milk on the table, and then picked out a sandwich that had been made from the plate and put it in his mouth to take a bite, it tasted good, at least it was much better than the baked soybeans he had eaten for breakfast in the army before.
"Yes, the craftsmanship is good." Ye Zifeng did not hesitate to praise it, and then stuffed all the remaining sandwiches in his hand into his mouth and drank milk.
"No one is robbing you, you eat slowly." Xia Lu smiled and cut the last piece of bread into triangles and put it on the plate, "The morning time is a little urgent, so I didn't do anything too time-consuming, that's all, you will eat it." ”
"Yes, yes, yes." Ye Zifeng waved his hand again and again, for fear that Xia Lu would misunderstand, "I didn't eat these before." It was nice to have meat for breakfast, how dare I be picky. ”
"It sounds like you've been abused." Xia Lu looked at Ye Zifeng with some curiosity, "What did you eat before?" ”
"There's something strange about your question." Ye Zifeng looked at Xia Lu helplessly, "I used to eat high-protein things, such as soybeans or squid, and vegetables like potatoes and lettuce salad and the like." ”
"Sounds pretty good, but how can you say that it's nice to have meat for breakfast?"
"There's a reason for everything, if you go for a meal, you'll know." Ye Zifeng frowned slightly as if he didn't want to recall.
Xia Lu didn't take it, nodded thoughtfully, took out a sandwich on the plate, put it to his mouth, and took a shallow bite to make a sound.
It's 5:20 in the morning, and the two of them get up at 5:00 a.m., wash up briefly, and start their work after assigning their morning work. Ye Zifeng set up a long table on the balcony, put the body of the attacker who escaped from the substitute last night and put it on the table, rummaging through the items on the attacker's body, trying to find some clues other than the northern mercenary group, but except for the half-smoked cigarette and two Zapper lighters on the side, he didn't find any other strange items. There were no spare magazines, no spare weapons, not even effective protective gear, just an M4A1 carbine, which had fired sixteen rounds.
Xia Lu didn't participate in the search, but ran downstairs with a basket to Seven-Eleven to buy some ingredients and returned to Ye Zifeng's apartment to make this breakfast. But strange to say, at five o'clock in the morning, the official time for the old people to practice in the morning, but in the square of the community, there is neither the old man who will enjoy the cool air gathering together to chat, nor the old man in martial arts clothes dancing the sword together. However, Xia Lu didn't care about these things, after all, this place was different from the environment she lived in before, and some incomprehensible things were completely expected.
"We'll leave at six o'clock, first to Saber's office to inquire about the specific arrangements for today's operation, and then to the 'Longinus' base, which should be used as a transit point for the Admiralty."
"But is it abandoned?" Xia Lu asked suspiciously.
"There's nothing wrong with that, but it's still worth using, and there's no more mutant infected people in the town above, so we can use it as a rallying point."
Xia Lu nodded.
"Do you think Saber will let you participate in this operation? Have you ever healed the old Shanghai? Xia Lu was a little worried, put down the sandwich in her hand, and looked straight at Ye Zifeng with her eyes.
"No problem." Ye Zifeng smiled slightly and waved his hand, "Also, the 'Stalingrad' heard that it was the largest ship in the Admiralty, and I really want to see it with my own eyes." ”
Xia Lu felt a slight pain in her heart, but she still forced a smile on her face.
"If you really can't do it, don't force it."
"What about you? What are your plans for this time? ”
"My movements are restricted at every turn, you should know that I can't leave the Shanghai area for too long, and the Defense Department is watching me all the time. It can be said that the Liancheng Detective Agency has developed into a secret agency of the Ministry of Defense, and providing detective services to the people is just a cover-up. Xia Lu was a little regretful when she said this, and lowered her head slightly.
"So you mean, you're not going?"
"Actually, it's not impossible to accompany you to Saber, as long as you don't leave Shanghai, there's no problem." Xia Lu hurriedly explained, but as soon as she finished speaking, Xia Lu seemed to remember something.
"By the way, it probably doesn't matter, but I still want to ask."
"What?" Ye Zifeng stuffed a sandwich to the end and drank the last bit of milk in the cup.
"You guys here, do you find an old man for morning exercise?"
"I don't really know about this, but there should be, sometimes you can see people moving in the square on the balcony." Ye Zifeng thought about it, but it had only been less than a month since he lived here, and Ye Zifeng was not very familiar with the situation here.
"But there is, but I didn't see it this morning." Xia Lu raised her head slightly and thought about it.
"Don't see? Don't see anything? Ye Zifeng asked suspiciously.
"The old man is exercising in the morning." Xia Lu replied with some surprise, "What is the content of our conversation?" ”
"Oh." Ye Zifeng nodded, "It doesn't matter how these things are, what does it have to do with me whether the old man exercises in the morning or not." ”
"But......" Xia Lu suddenly felt an interesting sense of incongruity, and there was a slight panic in her heart, "Do you feel it?" ”
"Feelings?" Ye Zifeng was stunned for a moment, not understanding what Xia Lu was saying.
"Something doesn't feel right." Xia Lu said softly, "Don't you think something is wrong?" ”
Ye Zifeng felt it carefully, there was no unusual feeling, the air was still hot, the furnishings in the room, and the angle of light intake were still ...... Wait a minute! Ye Zifeng suddenly sensed what Xia Lu was talking about the sense of incongruity.
"Voice." Ye Zifeng's eyes widened suddenly, "It's too quiet." ”
"And." Xia Lu motioned to Ye Zifeng not to make a sound, and then her little nose moved slightly, "The taste is not right, this taste is ......"
"What do you smell?" Ye Zifeng looked at Xia Lu nervously.
"Faint fruity fragrance...... Xia Lu frowned, her eyes slightly closed.
"Don't smell it! Cover your mouth and nose! After Ye Zifeng heard it, he immediately ripped off the food bulb on the table and covered it in front of his mouth.
After hearing the faint aroma of fruit, Ye Zifeng already knew what Xia Lu smelled.
Quickly ran to the closet and took out two gas masks that were available during the decoration, although they were not completely isolated like military gas masks, but it was better than the tablecloth in his hand, Ye Zifeng threw one of them to Xia Lu, and the two quickly put on the masks.
"Someone is releasing poison gas, who are they?" Xia Lu asked anxiously, while pointing to the gas mask on her face, "This thing can't handle it for long." ”
"It's supposed to be the same as yesterday's people, but the badge shows the Northern Mercenary Group." Ye Zifeng frowned, the current situation is extremely chaotic, yesterday the two sides joined forces to beat themselves to pieces, and today they will play with me to split. As long as Ye Zifeng does not take the initiative to attack the people of the Defense Department, then Ye Zifeng's ostensible identity is the captain of the Defense Department, even if the Defense Department knows that Ye Zifeng's secret identity is an 'external' member of the Admiralty, but Ye Zifeng will still not make a move on Ye Zifeng before he goes to use the value.
This means that this time the Northern Mercenary Group's attack on Ye Zifeng was just an act of the Northern Mercenary Group, and it had nothing to do with the Ministry of Defense. Although this is not accurate, it is certain that the Ministry of Defense did not intervene too much in this matter. In this way, a clearer idea was formed in Ye Zifeng's mind.
"There should be a big turmoil in the Northern Mercenary Group recently, and I suspect that the Northern Mercenary Group has disintegrated." Ye Zifeng said in a deep voice, the huge group that was established from the beginning of the Pilgrim invasion, the huge mercenary group that was formerly the backbone of the Russian gangsters, actually disintegrated, such speculation is really a bit frightening.
"But that's not the point." Ye Zifeng shook his head vigorously, feeling guilty for the loss of consciousness he had just had, "I'm talking about leaving here first." ”
"But how do we get there? There must be mercenaries outside the door, and we can't get out of here. ”
"Not necessarily." Ye Zifeng shook his head, a slight smile appeared under the mask, "We don't take the stairs." ”
Ye Zifeng ran back into the room and opened the curtains.
"Rappel quickly, and then wait for me at the back of this building." Ye Zifeng said quickly.
"What about you?" Xia Lu said a little nervously.
"Don't worry about me, I'll go find some escape tools." Ye Zifeng patted Xia Lu on the shoulder, took out an MP7 ********** from the suitcase in the closet and handed it to Xia Lu, "Shoot if necessary." ”
"Oh." Xia Lu nodded, she couldn't refuse what Ye Zifeng said at this time. Ye Zifeng found one of the two pistols in the holster on his waist, the other in the holster behind his waist, and then took a few spare rooms, Ye Zifeng turned around and left the room.
Xia Lu looked at the back of Ye Zifeng leaving, her heart was silent, she stepped onto the windowsill, grabbed the fast hanging and pulley on the outside window, and then jumped down. Ye Zifeng's body was close to the security door, the control panel on the wall at the door didn't know when it was destroyed, and the semi-intelligent environment immediately collapsed, looking out from the cat's eye, five or six mercenaries were fully armed and wearing chemical protective suits. Two people squatted at the door and connected a hose connected to a silver aluminum bottle to the security door, which should be a keyhole. Ye Zifeng took a deep breath, but found that all he had in his mouth was a faint sweet smell, Ye Zifeng hurriedly coughed twice to empty the air in his lungs.
Holding the pistol tightly in one hand, he gently put the other hand on the doorknob, silently reciting three two one in his heart, and then Ye Zifeng quickly pushed open the security door. The five mercenaries in the corridor obviously didn't expect someone to come out, and they were all stunned, but Ye Zifeng had already taken advantage of this opportunity to shoot. The first person to be hit was a mercenary leaning against the wall on the stairs, his temple was pierced by a shot, and he didn't even realize what was going on, and his eyes went black for a moment, and then he lost consciousness. The mercenary's body rolled down the stairs, and the other mercenaries also reacted, but Ye Zifeng didn't give them a chance to shoot, and quickly pulled the trigger, and Ye Zifeng knocked down all the mercenaries with one shot.
"Whew~" Ye Zifeng let out a sigh of relief, turned the hammer of the pistol back into the distance, and inserted it back into the holster. When Ye Zifeng wanted to go downstairs and leave, a soft white noise attracted Ye Zifeng's attention, and then a voice came from a walkie-talkie that was not too clear.
"Group A, what's going on? Please answer, over. ”
Ye Zifeng thought about it, took off the walkie-talkie from the mercenary's corpse, pressed the call button and said.
"I don't know who you are, but I'm sure no one will leave here alive today." Ye Zifeng said in a deep voice, "It's over." ”
The one face was silent for a moment, and then spoke in the same hoarse voice.
"You should already know who you're up against, someone paid for your head, and it's worth a lot of money."
"That guy last night was in the same league as you?"
"He's just a traitor who forgets his interests, and I'm glad you can help us get rid of him."
"Who made the price and how much?" Ye Zifeng thought about it slightly in his heart, sorted out the information he had just gotten, and then asked.
"You should be aware of our Code of Conduct, and we are not obligated to disclose customer information to you about our goals." The hoarse voice smiled hoarsely, "But it doesn't matter if you talk about it, it should be someone you know, the price, 100 million." ”
"Sounds like I'm worth a lot of money." Ye Zifeng laughed, "But you should know that this is not a good bone." ”
"But we're the bone-biting hounds."
"Hounds." Ye Zifeng snorted softly, "The 'Hound Dog' will actually find me, doesn't the Northern Mercenary Group need you anymore?" ”
"An organization that is too pedantic is not suitable for us to continue to develop, they restrict us everywhere, and we naturally will not mix with them anymore." The hoarse voice said with some anger.
"Hound", the number of the Northern Mercenary Group is twenty-three, this information was accidentally found by Ye Zifeng when he inquired about "Divine Arrival", the number of "Divine Arrival" is twelve, eleven rankings higher than "Hound Dog".
"If you don't want to say it, don't use anyone I know to quench my appetite." Ye Zifeng walked downstairs from the stairs, and the "hound" cut off the power supply to the building.
"It's true, if you don't believe it, forget it." The hoarse voice snorted heavily, "Forget it, the reply ends here, there is actually nothing to talk about between us, and it is already the limit to be able to talk so much." ”
The other party couldn't wait to turn off the walkie-talkie, but Ye Zifeng had already gotten the information he wanted to know.
He threw the walkie-talkie aside in his hand, pulled out the pistol on his waist and pulled the hammer.
Pushing open the door of the unit, there was a sound of a carbine being loaded, and a circle of mercenaries wearing black combat uniforms and body armor surrounded Ye Zifeng who was standing at the door of the unit. A person walked out of the encirclement, stood five meters away from Ye Zifeng behind his upper hand, and stood five meters away from Ye Zifeng, looking like he didn't have any weapons in his hand, but this person with polarized combat glasses looked like a combat commander.
- There's no time to spend here, Xia Lu is still waiting for me.
Ye Zifeng sighed helplessly in his heart, took off the gas mask on his face, and threw it aside.
"Captain Ye Zifeng?" The man said to Ye Zifeng in blunt Chinese, and his somewhat pale face showed that this was not a yellow man living in subtropical China.
"The 'hounds' can find me, it can't be the meaning of the Ministry of Defense, right?" Ye Zifeng threw the pistol in his hand at the commander's feet and shrugged.
"Of course not, the defense is not going to send 100 million for us to kill you." The commander said stiffly, and the large number of points and tongue curls showed his identity.
"Russians." Ye Zifeng thought for a while, "It seems that the split of the Northern Mercenary Group is real." How do you guys use American guns? ”
(To be continued)