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"That's true. ±," Ye Zifeng's gaze fell on Bai Lanton's body here, and he nodded at the same time. Turning the information in his hand to the page that had just been marked, Ye Zifeng looked at the point he was more concerned about on the information again, "Then what is your opinion on this matter, Colonel Brownon?" ”

"Which thing?" When Brandton looked at Ye Zifeng, Ye Zifeng beckoned to him, motioning for him to sit down, and at the same time put the open information in his hand flat on the coffee table. Brandton stood up from the swivel chair, first straightened his chest, and then walked to Ye Zifeng's side.

"The investigation of the explosion of the nitrogen-3 storage tank, do you still have an impression of this matter? Ranch also participated in the operation, but I found out that for more than ten minutes during the operation, Ranch lost contact with the console, but the liaison officer was my sister Ye Kexin. The record doesn't say why, can you recall but what happened? Ye Zifeng raised his hand and clicked on a part of the information, which was marked with a red pen by Ye Zifeng, and made some notes on the side, Bolanton did it on the sofa on the side and picked up the information, raised his eyes from the pocket on his chest and brought it to his eyes, Bolanton squinted at the lines of words on the data that looked like the size of ants.

"Record of the investigation of the accident involving the explosion of the nitrogen-3 storage tank.

11:30 The action begins

11:45 Arrive at the mission site to start the survey mission

12:23 The survey concludes, no suspicious signs are found, and the return journey begins. ”

Seeing this, Colonel Brandton's pupils began to lose focus, which showed that Colonel Brownon was caught in a memory, and Ye Zifeng did not disturb Brownon's memory, probably noticing something noteworthy. Brandon struggled to recall the scene, after all, four years had passed, and it was impossible for anyone to remember the events of such a long time ago. However, there was an exception to this matter, after all, Colonel Brandton had walked before the ghost gate, and if he could forget even the urgent moment of life and death, then there was nothing that could make him remember this person.

"How could I not remember, of course I do. Remember it clearly. Berenc put the unfinished information in his hand back in front of Ye Zifeng, and after a long sigh, his hands trembled and he stood down and inserted his eyes back into the pocket on his chest, Berrank's eyes were full of fear, probably recalling this incident, "I remember very well that after the survey of the entrance passage ended, I was ordered to go deeper into the passage, and the accident still happened less than five minutes later. ”

"Accident?" Ye Zifeng was stunned for a moment, his brows couldn't help frowning slightly, and his gaze at Berlanke was slightly eager. However, Ye Zifeng still held back the anxiety in his heart and waited for Blanke's answer.

"Yes, it was an accident. The explosion of the nitrogen-3 storage tank blew up the floor of the passage, which could have been crossed with a simple jump, but when it was Lanch's turn to cross and collapse, a black object flew out from underneath the passage and pulled Lanchi down. ”

"What did you say?" Ye Zifeng's brows furrowed even tighter, and his eyes stared at Bai Lanton as if he wanted to see the scene directly from Bai Lanton's mind. "A black, unidentified object pulled Ranch to the lower level of the passage?"

"That's it, I remember it very well." Brandton's eyes were full of persistence. "I will never be mistaken, although Director Ye Kexin did not detect any objects with radiographic scanning later, but in the retrieval of real-time surveillance cameras, Chief Ye Kexin also said that she saw an incongruous shadow."

"The scan may not be able to produce results because it is hiding in a gap or clinging to something so that the xography does not recognize it, but what is this shadow?" Ye Zifeng's heart had a strong sense of perspective that had doubts in his heart, and he imagined the situation at that time. Ye Zifeng suddenly felt that the dark passage and the weird shadow were so familiar together, but this was not enough to prove anything, but this shadow was the key, and Ye Zifeng seemed to have found a breakthrough point. The identity of this shadow is clear, and many things can be explained clearly after that.

"And what happened after that, what happened after that?" After Ye Zifeng figured this out, he asked a little impatiently.

"After that I continued on alone, but the order to continue the search had been cancelled, as the retreat was sealed, so I had to find an exit ahead. Chief Ye Kexin directed me into the maintenance passage, where I saw something that did not belong in the Laurel Crown base. ”

As he said this, Brandton's face showed a slight horror, as if he remembered something terrible. Ye Zifeng saw the change in Bai Lanton's expression in his eyes, and couldn't help but be a little surprised in his heart, what could make a well-trained TSAS fearful? Ye Zifeng was curious.

"Something that doesn't belong in the base?" Ye Zifeng found the key to this sentence, and after repeating it in a low voice, it didn't seem like clearing what this "thing" in Bolandon's mouth was, "What did you see at that time?" ”

"I don't know, but I do know I shot him and was saved by Ranch." Brownon shook his head, saying he didn't know, "Because there was something wrong with my oxygen supply system at the time, and I was injured a lot by the damage to my space combat suit, I didn't see what it was, and the mission report didn't say what it was." ”

"That's the case......" Ye Zifeng frowned for the third time, raised his hand and pinched his chin, and couldn't help but fall into thought. What is the connection between the mysterious shadow that appears in the Laurel Crown base and the black object that pulls Ranchi to the lower passage? Or are they inherently a thing? And what happened in the ten minutes that Lanch disappeared?

There were more and more doubts in his heart, Ye Zifeng couldn't help but be a little irritable, and after letting out a heavy breath, Ye Zifeng stood up from the sofa and kept walking around the room.

"Can you think back to what changed before and after Lanch disappeared, even if it was a slight difference or a difference in language and behavior, as long as there was a little bit of it?" Ye Zifeng suddenly looked at Bai Lanton, who was sitting on the sofa and looking at the information, and asked quickly. Ye Zifeng's sudden question really jumped down, but he quickly adjusted his mentality. Brandton closed the papers and stood up from the couch.

"I didn't notice anything different, or I didn't notice it at all, Lanqi he was the same as usual, he saw someone injured......" Bai Lanton's eyes widened and looked at Ye Zifeng, Ye Zifeng didn't say that Bai Lanton didn't even notice, this is the difference. It took so many years for Brandton to discover this subtle difference.

"If I'm guessing correctly, Ranch dragged you into the passage and called for reinforcements." Ye Zifeng said his conjecture to Bai Lanton, in fact, it is not difficult to imagine that as long as it is different from the usual approach, as long as you use your brain a little, you can guess it. Brandton nodded slowly, a little speechless. Ye Zifeng looked at Bai Lanton, who was a little stunned, and couldn't help sighing, "That seems to be right, the usually meticulous Lan Qi will drag the chief into the passage instead of sending the chief directly to the infirmary." Knowing that the commander was seriously injured, he still called for reinforcements? This is already very abnormal, if it were me, I would definitely send you to the infirmary. This is where Ranch at this time does not fit the usual. ”

"So......" Although his heart was often full of shock, Brandton still spoke with difficulty, and his eyes full of surprise were also full of contradictions, "Sir, do you mean that Lanch has been dropped?" ”

"You can explain it this way, but it's not entirely true, the Lanqi you see is the original Lanqi, but it's just ......" Ye Zifeng hesitated. This conjecture of his own is too terrifying, Ye Zifeng really hopes that this thing will not happen. If this is the case, then there is absolutely no possibility of saving the Admiralty even by himself.

Ye Zifeng shuddered.

"Sir, what's it?" Bai Lanton raised his head and thought for a while, but he didn't guess what Ye Zifeng wanted to say, there was a trace of doubt on his face, and his eyes fell back on Ye Zifeng, but he suddenly found that something was wrong. The worry on Ye Zifeng's face disappeared without a trace. As if he had seen something terrible, his brows furrowed and his face was a little pale. Brandton was startled, and immediately stepped forward and quickly grabbed Ye Zifeng's shoulders.

"Sir, what's wrong with you? Sir! Brandton shook the leaf maple vigorously. Wake up Ye Zifeng, who was in deep thought. His eyes regained focus, and Ye Zifeng couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief when he looked at the anxiety on Bai Lanton's face in front of him. With a light sigh, Ye Zifeng waved his hand towards Bai Lanton, indicating that he was fine, and then did it on the sofa behind him.

Ye Zifeng felt a little headache, not the kind of heart-piercing pain, but grogginess, as if all his energy had been taken away. Ye Zifeng doesn't want to do anything now, he just wants to go home and sleep well until dawn tomorrow. The possibility in his heart is getting bigger and bigger, so that the pressure on Ye Zifeng's heart is also increasing, maybe he really can't save the overall situation, but Ye Zifeng will go back to the Admiralty and do something in the end, even if it is to pay tribute. However, Ye Zifeng found that he was now more than capable of strength, he was imprisoned in this huge steel prison floating over the Pacific Ocean and could not leave, and the outside world was as far away as another time and space. Ye Zifeng couldn't help but feel a little desperate, the Admiralty fell into the hands of his own generation, it was too sad, half a century of business was easily broken from the inside, and Ye Zifeng also felt that such an ending was too pity.

Bai Lanton looked at the stunned expression on Ye Zifeng's face, and vaguely sensed that Ye Zifeng might have guessed something. There are so many things that can be inferred from the ten minutes of Lan Qi's disappearance and the strange behavior after reappearing Bai Lanton couldn't help but be a little surprised, but now is not the time to sigh, seeing that Ye Zifeng is about to be depressed, Bai Lanton feels that he has the obligation to make Ye Zifeng regain his strength, and he must not be indifferent, he sits in front of him the future of mankind, although he looks like a young man of twenty-five years old, but the energy he contains is by no means comparable to people in his generation.

After calming down a little, Bai Lanton thought about what he should say and coughed lightly twice, and after reaching the sofa mountain opposite Ye Zifeng, Bai Lanton flickered with determination, and looked at Ye Zifeng's distracted face.

"Sir, do you know the story of the frog begging the king?"

"I don't know." Ye Zifeng shook his head, but Ye Zifeng set his eyes on Bo Lanton. He knew what Brandton was trying to do, nothing more than to cheer himself up. Ye Zifeng can say to Bolanton that I am very sober, but Ye Zifeng doesn't want to waste Bolanton's kindness, and Ye Zifeng really hasn't heard this story.

The story is from Aesop's Fable, about a group of frogs asking Zeus for a king, and Zeus granting their request. For the first time. Zeus sent a piece of wood, and the frogs were not satisfied with the fact that the king was floating on the water, so they asked Zeus again for the king, and this time Zeus was angry—he was an irritable god—so Zeus sent a water serpent a second time, and the next day, the water serpent ate all the frogs. Bearing Lanton, recalling the Aesop's Fables he had read when he was a child, he told Ye Zifeng his favorite story, "The original meaning of this story was to tell people not to blindly ask for domination, and to make their own decisions to make the best choice." It was also intended to conform to the city-state system of Greece as a whole at that time. Pursue democracy and let everyone decide their own future. But I didn't understand this when I listened to it, and I wondered why I had to let others rule over me, and even if there was no king, wouldn't the frogs be free? ”

"Do you mean that the burden on my heart is the king I have brought for myself, and one day it will swallow me whole like a water snake?" Ye Zifeng thought about it and then frowned slightly and said to Brandon, but then. A smile climbed the corner of Ye Zifeng's mouth, and the slightly frowning brows gradually stretched. "Thank you, and your story. Don't worry about me, I'm not going to be depressed because of this little hour, especially since it's just a guess and not necessarily a fact. But if it's really true......"

Ye Zifeng paused, his eyes showed a little confusion, but soon this faint layer of fog seemed to be blown away by a strong wind. Soon it turned back to clarity. As if he had determined something, Ye Zifeng's eyes were full of confidence when he looked at Bo Lanton.

"I can't do anything big, but I can do what I can for the Admiralty. Saving humanity or something is not something that can be done by one or two people, let alone verbally. It was a great and glorious journey that required countless people to have firm faith and determination to die. I'm just alone, and it's an exaggeration to always say that I can save humanity. Everyone can save mankind, but to save humanity is to save ourselves. ”

Ye Zifeng said and finally sighed lightly, shook his head slowly, and then stood up from the sofa with his hands on his knees. Clipping the materials on the coffee table to his armpit, Ye Zifeng came out from behind the coffee table.

"I want to borrow this information, if there is anything new to discover, please contact me as soon as possible." Ye Zifeng gently put a note on the coffee table, "This is my address and contact information, and I will destroy it immediately after reading it." Also, let your commissioners remember me, and at least don't knock me out when we meet again. ”

"I'm sorry, sir." Brandton stood up from his seat with a wry smile, raised his hand to the back of his head, and turned to Ye Zifeng head-on, "This matter is indeed my dereliction of duty, I should update your information before sending it to the commissioners." But I didn't expect the chief to settle in the Hanging City, I thought you would leave when the mission was complete. ”

"There was a little accident and I didn't go away. But it's not a big deal, and it's quite comfortable here. Ye Zifeng laughed, relieving some of the embarrassing atmosphere in the room, and Bai Lanton finally put his mind at ease, looking at Ye Zifeng's unrestrained smiling face, he did have some emotion in his heart. Brandton took out a card from his pocket, looked at the numbers displayed on it, and handed it to Ye Zifeng behind him.

"Take this, sir." Bai Lanton smiled and said to Ye Zifeng, "Just as it is an activity fund, it is difficult to move an inch without money in the Hanging City." ”

"Really...... Thank you then. Ye Zifeng hesitated for a moment and took the electronic money card handed to him by Brandton, glanced at the amount on it, and then instantly froze in place, his eyes widened, looking extremely surprised. Ye Zifeng looked up at Bai Lanton a little stiffly, and the corners of his mouth twitched twice, "That, Bai Lanton, did you take the wrong denomination, this denomination...... How so...... Isn't it a little too big? ”

"Anyway, it's useless for me to keep it, this is one-third of the activity funds left over from the last time the chief left, there should be about two million, and the rest of the money can't be given even if I want to, here's ......" Brandton raised his hand and tapped his temple. The chief should know that the Blue Book restricts my behavior, and I can't do it beyond my authority. ”

"That's right...... But this denomination is also true...... Well? Ye Zifeng looked at the numbers on the electronic money card in his hand a little helplessly, and sighed slightly in his heart, but after thinking back to Bai Lanton's words just now, a word caught Ye Zifeng's attention. What did you just say? ”

Ye Zifeng threw the electronic money card on the sofa beside him, quickly stepped forward and grabbed Blanton's shoulders with both hands, and an anxious dark color suddenly appeared in his eyes.

"What did you just say?" Ye Zifeng repeated the sentence, and Bai Lanton, who was frightened by Ye Zifeng's sudden move, woke up.

"What did I just say?" Brownon frowned slightly and thought for a moment, "I said I can't act ultra vires. ”

"Not this, the previous sentence." Ye Zifeng approached the answer, and he had a feeling that as long as he heard that word again, a dead knot in his heart would be untied.

"In the last sentence......" Bai Lanton said to Ye Zifeng after a sigh. I said the Blue Book ......"

"This is it!" Without waiting for Brandton to finish speaking, Ye Zifeng quickly let go of the hands that were grabbing Brandton's chest and took a step back, nodding his head constantly, "That's right, that's it, the Blue Book of the Admiralty, the code of conduct for members of the Admiralty." It's this place that's wrong. ”

Ye Zifeng suddenly understood something, just like what Brandton said. With the Blue Book's restrictions, ultra vires is impossible. But it is clear that the newly formed Supreme Admiralty Council of the Admiralty has broken through this barrier. Even if a supreme is added to the name, it does not mean that they are really the supreme, as long as they have authority higher than them, they cannot forcibly convene a new election of ministers. The same is true for the minister, Ranch has only been the minister for a month, and he has no time to go to Bermuda to inoculate the new effector protein The rules of conduct in the Blue Book have been updated, which means that Ranch cannot act more than a captain can do. And forcibly holding the power of Ye Kexin and all the high-ranking officials in the Admiralty in his hands is obviously an act of ultra vires. The feeling that something was wrong in Ye Zifeng's heart suddenly became clear now, but this also made Ye Zifeng recognize a very realistic and cruel problem.

"Where did those guys from the committee come from? Ranch ...... Minister Longde, where does his authority come from? And then there's ......"

Ye Zifeng muttered to himself as if he were talking to himself, and then there was a hint of fierceness in his eyes.

"Where does their confidence come from!"

"This amusement park was completed just a month ago. It is still in the trial operation stage, so the ticket price is relatively cheaper. I've always wanted to be here, but the boss said it was too dangerous outside so he wouldn't let me out alone. Xingli stood at the ticket gate, clutching the amusement park ticket he had just bought, his face full of excitement. This is the expression on the face of a girl of this age, but Xia Lu couldn't help but feel a little heavy when she saw this smile in her eyes. Maybe Xing Li hasn't shown such an expression for a long time, laughing from the heart and talking to others so freely.

Xia Lu suddenly understood the Admiralty's intention of sending Xingli to Hanging City, not to assist the Atrium Branch, let alone to monitor the actions of the executive commissioner, and the Admiralty did not arrange any tasks for Xingli, which meant that Xingli was only sent to a prison when he came here.

Looking at Xing Li, who kept fiddling with the bracelet on his wrist, Xia Lu and Lin Xiaoyao seemed to smile bitterly, and sighed at the same time.

I don't know why there are so many people, even if the ticket price is cheap, it will not come here to relax on weekdays, all ten entrance channels are open, and each entrance channel can pass two tourists at the same time, but even so, the passenger flow is still like a stream of water, Xia Lu turned his head to look behind him, originally thought that he was just the tail of the line here, but when he turned his head and looked at it, Xia Lu was really startled, and I don't know when there was a long queue behind him, these people have different skin colors, and even speak different languages, But everyone's face can not see the melancholy and indifference of the past, the smile is no longer like a luxury but seems to have become a necessity, and everyone can see a deep or shallow smile on their face.

"Why are these people so happy? Is it just an amusement park......" Lin Xiaoyao followed Xia Lu's gaze and couldn't help pouting, with a puzzled expression on his face.

"It shouldn't be an amusement park problem, if it's a word to describe it. This is supposed to be a haven of hypocrisy. A little pity appeared in Xia Lu's eyes, but this pity quickly disappeared, Xia Lu let out a long sigh, turned around and continued to move forward slowly with the flow of people.

"A hypocritical paradise?" Lin Xiaoyao was stunned for a moment, a confused look appeared in his eyes, and he looked at Xia Lu with a puzzled expression on his face. "What do you mean, I haven't heard of it."

"To put it bluntly, it's just self-comfort, suppose you carve out a piece of prison that is big enough, build a wall, and arrange the wall as a scene outside the prison, ordinary streets, full of buildings dominated by warm colors, so that the prisoners can blindfold and enter the walls without knowing it, so that the prisoners in the prison will give the prisoners the illusion that I have been put outside the prison. But in reality he was still in prison, just surrounded by two walls in the middle. Xia Lu made an assumption, which was almost exactly the same as the situation in Hanging City, and after hearing this, the confusion on Lin Xiaoyao's face disappeared, and he lowered his head and thought about it. This may be a psychological consolation, that this prisoner may still have the illusion that I have been released from prison if he knowingly enters this wall. The amusement park was clearly built to achieve the effect of a "hypocritical paradise", but it is known that they are actually in a circular prison.

"......" Lin sighed after a long while. Slowly raised his head, as if he glanced at Xia Lu leisurely. Then he raised his head slightly to look at the blue sky and white clouds overhead.

"Hey~" Lin Xiaoyao sighed again, with a hint of melancholy on his face, "Really, why is it sunny again?" I suddenly found that I was starting to hate the weather. ”

Lin Xiaoyao wanted to divert the topic, and the weather was naturally the best choice. After understanding the essence of this Hanging City, Lin Xiaoyao couldn't help but feel some emotion in his heart. The idea of a circular prison was developed by the English philosopher Jamie. A kind of architecture proposed by Bentham. It just shows the concept of "self-incarceration", and even when they are unsupervised, all prisoners will still feel that there is a pair of eyes watching them in the watchtower in the center of the prison, and they do not know when they are being watched, so the sense of constant surveillance will make the prisoners feel under great psychological pressure and will not mess around.

The Hanging City was built with this concept in mind from the very beginning. The Earth Chips have imprisoned tens of thousands of people in this circular prison, keeping them under constant surveillance. But what is this for? What is the purpose of the Earth Federation in setting up this circular prison? Studying the psychological changes of human beings living in groups, using hue scanners on the streets, in the circular prison, to monitor each resident? This is completely unsolvable, and there are more and more questions in Lin Xiaoyao's heart.

However, Xia Lu naturally couldn't know what Lin Xiaoyao was thinking, and after hearing Lin Xiaoyao's topic about the weather, she naturally raised her head and looked at the sky, but then, Xia Lu's brows furrowed.

"Listen to you...... It seems that something really isn't right. Xia Lu narrowed her eyes, not knowing why the sun in the sky was so dazzling, but she couldn't feel a trace of heat on her body. It may be that the energy film blocks all the energy transmitted by the sun, but it seems unlikely, and it ...... Xia Lu suddenly thought of something, immediately bent down, reached out and probed the ground, the temperature was not low, the closer to the ground, the higher the temperature, the turbid hot air gave Xia Lu a feeling of suffocation.

"What's going on...... Xia Lu whispered to herself after getting up, while frowning slightly, looking at the sun in the sky again but didn't find anything different. Every day is like this, the sun rises in the east and sets in the west, if you don't pay attention, you can't feel the slightest bit wrong, but if you look closely, the trajectory of the sun has not changed at all, since Xia Lu came to the Hanging City, the sun has been repeating such actions along this trajectory, and this is undoubtedly what makes Xia Lu suspicious. It is now the ninth day of September, and there are thirteen more days to go is the autumn equinox, and the sun will shine directly on the equator on this day, but Xia Lu looked at the shadow on the ground, and the shadow length was obviously longer than it should be at this time, which means ......

"We're not on the equator now?"

(To be continued) (To be continued.) )u