“…… The paramilitary groups affiliated with the Rommens Group acted as an irreplaceable complement to the Alliance in this ambush operation, and they worked closely with the Allied military to lure out the ACA agents who had infiltrated the East Coast through their ingenious layout and fearless sacrifices, and they were able to catch them all......"

-- Star TV

“…… From this point of view, the space force's exercise itself also had the intention of paralyzing the ACA attackers, making them think that the exercise was a good opportunity to launch an attack, so all the pressure was focused on the Rohmens group, but judging by the results, they gave a satisfactory answer......

-- Liberty TV

“…… There is no doubt that this is a victory for the Joint Defense System, and the Romans Group has proved with their actions that the civilian armed forces can be an important addition to the Allied Armed Forces - unlike the former Kronos, this victory will completely change the unspoken rule that the civilian armed companies are not responsible for internal security, which is not only necessary but ......effective in the face of the danger of the ACA's increasingly frequent and indiscriminate attacks."

-- Allied State Television

***

Three days later, the Rommens Group's comprehensive nursing home in the southern suburbs of Boston.

"Here."

The girl in jeans and a red biker vest stopped for a moment in front of the TV on the wall before walking to the front desk, holding a paper bag in her left hand, handing her ID to the polite nurse at the front desk with her right hand, and then raising her fingers and lifting her windproof sunglasses, revealing her black pupils to facilitate the face scan by the security guard next to her.

"Thank you for your patience, Miss Xia Fengyan."

The scanning lasted for more than ten seconds, until the security guard next to him, who was wearing an exoskeleton with the logo of the Rohms company, nodded, and then handed the document and a pass in his hand to Xia Fengyan, "This is your pass card." ”

"Thank you."

Xia Fengyan took the pass and his own documents. Stuffed it into her pocket casually, and then walked directly to the door of the ward not far away, two Rohms security guards who were on guard stood up and saluted her, and their personal computers had been synchronized with Xia Fengyan's personal information.

A Special Investigation Service agent with Rommes' highest external access.

This status may sound more or less strange, but private companies will always have some outside cooperation with the government, and after the American Civil War. Such large companies that are closely related to national defense and security usually have a large number of government administrators, and even intelligence agency personnel, to facilitate communication with the government on the one hand, and to supervise on the other hand, so as not to repeat the mistakes of the past.

Xia Fengyan walked down the long aisle, and the Romans Group security guards and cleaners stopped from time to time to watch the live broadcast and expert commentary that was going on on the screen.

Three days have passed since the MIT attack, and the matter has been sorted out in its entirety - the entire conspiracy was entirely orchestrated by the ACA, which has concentrated its efforts to divert the power and attention of the alliance from the New York attack. However, the alliance did not take the bait, on the one hand, concentrated on the search for the ACA remnants in New York, and created the illusion that they had been tricked, and at the same time secretly ordered the Rohmens Group to send capable TFs to track down the ACA attackers all the way to MIT, and after a short exchange of fire, all four ACA attackers were killed on the spot. Two TFs of the Rohms Group were killed and one was seriously wounded. But it ensured that no people were injured, and the only victim, MIT artificial intelligence titan Rosen. Professor Boken was trying to protect the Allied military's key research numbers, and at the last minute, along with the important numbers in the main engine room, the ACA's plan was completely ruined.

Similarly, the attack on the Rohms Group branch in Boston was interpreted as sabotage by the ACA attackers. The reason for this is that the ACA attackers wanted to break into the main engine room of the Rohms Group through guò to contain the security forces of the League and the Rohms Group in Boston, but the League and the Rohms Group were not fooled, but instead laid a wide net near the Boken Silly room.

The last of the last, Rosen. Professor Boken was posthumously awarded the League's Golden Olive Branch Medal, the League's highest award to civilian personnel, while the Romans Group was honored and rewarded for the dead and wounded. Shares of the Rommmons Group soared, the military-led Confederate Command was proven superior and reliable, and the president gained approval for successfully fending off a possible large-scale invasion with few civilian casualties.

And the ACA got what they wanted.

It's all a lie.

Xia Fengyan looked at the Rohms staff who were proudly listening to the commentators' touting words in the news, frowned, took out an apple from the paper bag, and took a big bite like a vent.

There are many things that cannot be justified in this hastily made up statement, such as why the ACA attacked the Rommons branch in Boston if it did not know that the Rommons Group was involved, and if so, how did Rommons lay a wide net...... None of that mattered, though, there were no civilian casualties, and even almost no property damage was enough to make the easily satisfied allies feel that the old lady on Icarus was better than her predecessor. The sales of Rommers Group's products exploded in the market for a while, and countless allied people invested a lot of money in things they simply did not need with a "gratitude" mentality, and Rohms marketing team seized this opportunity to shear a handful of wool.

All are winners, at least on the surface, and who cares as for justice and truth?

Xia Fengyan walked out of the elevator with a stinky face, the voice of the announcer in the elevator gave her a headache like Tang Seng's tight spell, and she directly bumped into a security guard as if venting her anger, Xia Fengyan walked to the door of her destination.

Calm down, calm down, big beauty, these things are your business.

Probably really...... It's none of your business.

Thinking of some personal things, Xia Fengyan was melancholy for a moment, and then shook his head like a puppy trying to shake off water droplets, stretched out his right hand and rubbed his face, rubbed the depression on his face to the floor, took a deep breath, put on a relaxed smile, and pushed the door open.

"Good morning!"

Xia Fengyan walked directly into the intensive care ward. With a loud greeting, the door of the hospital room closed behind her, and the girl walked around the hospital bed, walked straight to the curtain of the floor-to-ceiling window, pulled the curtain open, and then turned her head to look at the girl on the hospital bed.

Harsh sunlight pours into the room. Pouring on the white hospital bed, a girl with long black shawl hair with bangs lay on her side on the hospital bed like a sleeping kitten, wrapping herself tightly in the quilt.

"Don't sleep, Sleeping Beauty, I'll kiss you when you sleep again." Xia Fengyan put the paper bag of condolences on the bedside table, and lowered his head to smell the lilacs in the vase on the bedside table, "It's so fragrant, who sent it." ”

"Dad."

Xia Xuefei's lips twitched, and a word popped out. But he didn't mean to open his eyes at all, on the contrary, he tucked the quilt again, and there was a tendency to fall asleep again.

"That guy......" Xia Fengyan shook his head, avoiding some embarrassing topics, and then walked to the side of the bed and changed the topic in a loud voice, "Get up, get up!" I'm going to lift the quilt if I don't get up again, don't think I don't know you have a habit of sleeping naked! ”

"Wear a hospital gown in the hospital......"

Xia Xuefei replied weakly. However, he grabbed the quilt with his hands to prevent this sister with excellent mobility from really lifting the quilt.

"Hey, hey. You're not seriously injured at all, are you, is it really good to waste public resources like this?! Xia Fengyan rubbed his head a little frantically, "You have to know that in Tehran-"

"This is Boston, not Tehran." Xia Xuefei rarely directly interrupted Xia Fengyan, "Unfair and fair came to the world." ”

"Say it again." Xia Xuefei opened her left eye slightly—in fact, from Xia Fengyan's point of view, it was no different from closing it. "TF was injured and bedridden for a week is the company's rule, I can sleep 168 hours, and I only slept 74 hours and 23 minutes."

"!!!!Are you really asleep?"

Xia Fengyan directly kneaded his head into a chicken nest, and once again lost to his sister, who was not cute at all.

"No fireworks."

Xia Xuefei stretched out a finger from the quilt and pointed to the top of Xia Xuefei's head. A smoke detector was flashing green, "I don't want to be a chicken with you." ”

"Alright, alright, alright."

Xia Fengyan said three yes in a row, one lower than the other, she took a deep breath, and then prepared a strategy straightforwardly.

The girl in the motorcycle vest turned around and fumbled with the paper bag she had brought, then pulled out a huge grapefruit and placed it on the bedside table.

"Look, my sister brought you something delicious."

"You're only twelve seconds older than me, don't call yourself a sister."

Xia Xuefei still routinely retorted, but her nose twitched, and then she opened her left eye, "But it's so fragrant." ”

"Of course, I asked someone to bring the pomelo from Asia." Xia Fengyan selectively ignored Xia Xuefei's sentence of snatching white, then peeled off the grapefruit peel, tore off a piece of his finger wrapped in a heat-insulating glove, and put it on Xia Xuefei's mouth.

"Come, open your mouth, ah-"

"Ahh

"You're going to have to make an inch!" Xia Fengyan stuffed the grapefruit in his hand directly into Xia Xuefei's mouth, "Get up and do it yourself!" If you want to eat and don't bother to do it, are you going to degenerate your limbs?! ”

"The one who sued me for the rails (you told me to open my mouth)."

Xia Xuefei, who was completely unconscious, opened one eye and chewed the grapefruit vigorously while retorting.

"Well, what can I do to get you out of bed!" Xia Fengyan's eyes began to burn, and she circled around the room like an ant on a hot pot, but was suddenly stunned for a moment, then cleared her throat, turned around and walked to the side of the bed again.

"Why don't you change your clothes first when I go out?"

Xia Fengyan closed one eye, and his tone softened a lot.

Because she saw Xia Xuefei's hospital gown on the clothes rack next to her, that is......

"No, I haven't slept enough."

Xia Xuefei finally stretched out her hand, took out a tissue from the bedside table next to her and wiped her mouth.

Xia Fengyan looked at her sister's snow-white collarbone exposed because of this action, and sighed, fortunately she didn't really lift the quilt.

But didn't we still take a bath together when we were kids? Really, my daughter can't keep it when she's older.

"So you're here to bring me grapefruit?" Being troubled like this, Xia Xuefei didn't seem to be sleepy, she crumpled the paper towel into a ball, threw a long throw into the trash, and then put her hand back on the quilt, and carefully opened one eye of the girl who was tightly tucked in the quilt.

"Ah, even if it's it," Xia Fengyan was silent for a moment, as if he didn't want to go into the topic yet, "It's not just grapefruit, but there are other things." ”

"But you've already eaten more than half of it on the way over, right?" Xia Xuefei narrowed her open left eye and saw her sister through directly.

"Don't worry about the details." Xia Fengyan shook his hand, acquiescing to the accusation, and then opened his mouth to defend, "At least Yuzu left you intact." ”

"Hmmm......"

Xia Xuefei did not continue to choke on her fiery sister, and chose to remain silent.

"Well, okay."

After being silent for a minute, Xia Fengyan chose to open his mouth to break the silence, in fact, for more than 20 years, Xia Fengyan has always played the role of actively breaking the silence.

"I have a question for you, about you, that guy, and the assignment from three days ago."

Xia Fengyan took a deep breath, and then put away his smile.

The "guy" in her mouth, that is, the "father" in Xia Xuefei's mouth, refers to the leader of the MIT operation three days ago, the national security adviser, and the chairman of the Rommens Group, Xia Xun.

"I've heard that this is not the case in itself, and that the order you received was to capture Rosen. Professor Boken's research, right? ”

Xia Xuefei was silent for a moment, first nodded, and then shook her head. (To be continued......)