“…… Under the halo effect of the successful handling of the Cambridge crisis, the problem of the joint defense command has been ignored intentionally or unintentionally, this system of all people does have quite strong defense and control capabilities in wartime, which can minimize the danger of the ACA's infiltration of special operations, but on the other hand, from the perspective of power constraints, this is actually very terrible, as long as the joint defense alert state is not lifted, then the joint defense command has almost unrestrained unrestricted power in a large areaHowever, whether or not the state of joint defense alert is lifted is also decided by the local command, so this is undoubtedly contrary to the spirit of the alliance......"

-- Comments on the Internet by scholars who oppose the joint defense command system.

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"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? ”

Sunlight poured into the room through the huge floor-to-ceiling windows, Xia Fengyan crossed his waist with one hand, frowned, and looked at the lazy girl on the bed slowly squinting her eyes, nodded, and then shook her head.

"Our task is to get back the actual number of the project, and if necessary, use non-lethal means to prosecute the relevant personnel, and order not to harm Lawson. Professor Boken, my people...... All very well done. ”

Xia Xuefei closed her eyes again, turned her body slightly, lay flat on the bed, stretched out her white arm to block her eyes, and explained in a rare long sentence, "I don't know about ACA." ”

"That's not what I meant." Xia Fengyan shook his head, "What is your goal?" Why is this used to retrieve the data, and what is going on here? ”

"This information is the property of Rohmins, I don't know what Professor Boken wants to do, but the intelligence shows that he intends to destroy it as soon as the final completion is completed, and I am ordered to protect the property of the Rohms Group."

Xia Xuefei's voice was a little blank. There is no expression on his face.

"Why did Professor Boken destroy it in the first place, what the hell was it? Is it dangerous? What did that guy want to do when he got this thing? Do you know?! ”

"I don't know."

Xia Xuefei still closed her eyes, and put her fair-skinned abnormally slender arm on her forehead to cover her black bangs, "I'm just carrying out orders, we all are." ”

"Don't you have a little bit of your own judgment?!" Xia Fengyan gritted his teeth. Subconsciously raised his voice, "That's what that guy says, you never ask why?!" ”

"I'm a soldier and I don't need to judge myself."

Xia Xuefei's voice was lazy, but she didn't close her eyes, her pupils stared at the ceiling, "You too." ”

"That's why I left the house and left that guy!"

Xia Fengyan directly smashed his fist on the wall next to him, and the concrete wall was smashed by the angry girl with a shallow dent. It took some effort on the girl with the gloves to keep the fire in her hand from burning.

"He only has chess pieces in his eyes, everyone, everything is his 'resource', all are stepping stones on his way to success, and they are all variables in his conspiracy, even so, you have to continue to mess around with him. Until you fall victim to him?! ”

"I don't think you have a position to teach me a lesson."

Xia Xuefei, who was lying on the bed, did not have any emotional fluctuations because of the angry Xia Fengyan. "What have you done all these years? Have you found your reason to fight? Or is it like a hamster on fire, messing up everything, and then falling into infinite confusion? ”

"I—"

Xia Fengyan was directly choked by Xia Xuefei's words, she was stunned for a moment, and looked at the girl lying on the bed. I opened my mouth, but I couldn't say a word.

"What is ambition? Does ambition have to be evil? Is President Francis' desire to end the war considered an ambition? Is the Alliance's desire to establish a civilized order on a global scale ambitious...... Even you, my dear sister, want to find a battlefield where you can feel guilt-free, isn't it an ambition? ”

Xia Xuefei said very slowly. But it seemed that with every word he spit, the temperature in the room dropped by one degree, and in the end, an invisible, but equally suffocating cold snap filled the small ward, completely freezing the air between the two.

“…… Well, you're right. ”

After a long silence, Xia Fengyan closed her eyes, she put down the hand that was inserted in her waist, but her clenched fist did not let go at all.

"I'm sorry," Xia Xuefei's lips twitched, she closed her eyes, as if she was asleep, and opened her mouth.

"Come back to reality, sister, this world is not so simple, there should be a limit for girls to chase stars, you are nineteen years old, you should understand that this world is not so simple."

"Also, I'll tell you one more thing."

Seeing Xia Fengyan open her lips, as if she wanted to say something, Xia Xuefei gently raised her hand and stopped her.

"You should know that if I had been there, it wouldn't have ended like this."

"But you were stopped by that MI6 TF."

Xia Fengyan had read the report that Romney used a device that could interfere with TF's reaction speed in Bokenshi's room, but it didn't have much effect on Xia Xuefei, who didn't use reaction speed as the main means of controlling the enemy at all - she only needed to use the ice shield to defend against the opponent's attack, and then turn the temperature up to death, which was enough to force Romney away and get a few jù.

Of course, Xia Xuefei didn't know about Romney's existence at the time.

"No, it wasn't Charlotte who I stopped. Cromwell. ”

Xia Xuefei shook her head, and then spoke word by word.

"It's him, the name that will never be included in the report."

Xia Fengyan's eyes instantly opened to the maximum, and her incredible gaze poured out like a tide, and a few meaningless syllables came out of her slightly open lips, as if someone was about to suffocate to death by someone's neck, and she could only make strange sounds.

"The reason why I stopped it, not me, is because of the report I gave." Xia Xuefei tried her best to pretend to be indifferent, but Xia Fengyan's surprise and doubts infected her in an instant, and the girl sighed. Xia Fengyan, who said something that she was very grinning would not notice, was a subtle change in her words.

"Ling Yu and Helis. Ivanova is also interested in this program, if this program is really as dangerous as you say, then I will certainly not let them get it, I don't think I need to repeat to you the Queen Margaret and Greenland, now him. It's not the glittering soldier on the podium in Paris, it's a revenge ghost who will stop him. ”

"But in the end, this program still fell into the hands of the ACA!"

Xia Fengyan took a step back, his voice was a little out of tune, as if he wanted to defend something, but he couldn't find a reason.

"I am not a prophet, and I admit the mistakes of the reconnaissance, but the biggest threat we had to face at that time was not the unknown Romney. It's him. ”

Xia Xuefei shook her head slightly, and then nodded inexplicably, as if admitting her mistake, but she didn't think it was wrong, she was silent for a few seconds, and spoke again.

"So, let's get back to reality, sister. Everyone grows up, whether it's me. You, or him. ”

"Ling Yu is a threat...... It's that guy suing you about this. ”

Xia Fengyan lowered his head, closed his eyes, and suddenly released his clenched fist gently.

Xia Xuefei was stunned for a moment, and her right eye, which had been closed, seemed to open for a moment. But his eyes immediately closed again, and he didn't seem to hear Xia Fengyan's words.

Or maybe it's a default.

"Perhaps, I'm the one who can't recognize reality."

Xia Fengyan took a step back, suddenly grinned, and a sunny smile appeared on her face again. The girl spread her hands and shrugged her shoulders, then walked to the side, tore a piece of grapefruit from the bedside table, and put it in her mouth.

"It's so sweet, I'm really good at buying things."

"Come, open your mouth."

Xia Fengyan tore off a piece of grapefruit again, leaned over and sent it to Xia Xuefei's mouth, Xia Xuefei opened her eyes, looked at Xia Fengyan with a relaxed smile with a tentative gaze, and slowly opened her mouth.

This time, Xia Fengyan did not stuff a large piece of fruit into his sister's mouth in one go, but moved gently as if she was taking care of the baby's mother.

"So."

Xia Fengyan took out a tissue from the bedside table and wiped his hands, "Do you remember what your mother said?" ”

"Never put all your eggs in one basket."

Xia Xuefei sighed softly, but immediately added, "But sister, you don't have to ......"

"Thank you for your concern, but I really can't sit still."

Xia Fengyan waved his hand, declined Xia Xuefei's kindness, and then turned around his sister's bed, walked to the door, and gently patted the button of the electric curtain.

"I'm only 19 years old, at least let my dream of chasing stars be a college graduate."

"Rest well, I'll come to see you."

"When I'm free."

When the thick curtains blocked the last ray of bright sunlight, Xia Fengyan walked out of the ward, Xia Xuefei turned her head, glanced at the paper bag left by her sister on the table, turned over and curled up, like a baby, and seemed to feel cold, hugged the quilt, and closed her eyes.

***

"Hey, Locke, what are you doing with a plane?"

Xia Fengyan walked out of the elevator door of the underground parking lot, walked straight to a fiery red motorcycle next to him, raised his hand and put windproof sunglasses on his eyes, pinned the in-ear headphones to his ears, and dialed a call.

"This line is not safe, miss, do you want to change it?"

A deep male voice came from inside the headphones.

"It's okay, it's not work," Xia Fengyan skillfully started the fuel motorcycle, which is basically out of print on the market, still using gasoline instead of electricity as the main power source, is one of Xia Fengyan's private collections, "I just want to ask you how your vacation in Alaska is prepared?" ”

"Oh, that thing has already been done, you can go whenever you want." Locke's voice didn't make any special sense, "It's just that how long are you going to take a vacation this time?" ”

"I don't know, take a break until I'm satisfied." Xia Fengyan erected an alarm light for the Special Investigation Bureau from the storage box, "Sue that guy, the old lady is gone, and there is a job for him to find someone else." ”

"Okay."

It seemed that he was accustomed to Xia Fengyan's impoliteness to his father, and Locke replied bluntly.

"See you later."

Xia Fengyan hung up the phone, and without waiting for the door of the underground garage to be fully opened, he twisted the accelerator, and the front wheel of the motorcycle was raised high, and then slammed back to the ground, facing the direction of the sun.

An old newspaper rolled aimlessly in the air in the smoke from the tires, and the front-page photo showed the smiles of President Francis and Xia Xun, the national security adviser standing next to her, stamped with a black tire crush. (To be continued......)