"The 2178 Lunar New Year Gala will be broadcast live globally on the evening of January 17, 2178, and this is the seventh time that this event will be broadcast live globally. In this process, Li Min, the first president of the League, played a crucial role, although the director team of the Spring Festival Gala has been adding more European and American elements, but critics still believe that this behavior is tantamount to cultural hegemony, but with the help of the Neo-Renaissance movement, the popularity of oriental culture in the world has become a trend......"

-- New Year's special issue of the "Alliance Times", entertainment edition.

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"I'm back, Director."

Anderson's opening remarks were concise and easy to understand, and the middle-aged man looked at his boss who was sitting at his desk and was immersed in reading the text, and gave a military salute.

"Hmm."

The gray-haired Vice Admiral of the Confederate Army, David Morgan, 63, like Anderson, also served in the Alliance's submarine force, and more importantly, Morgan and Anderson served on a submarine, and Anderson, who was in his twenties younger, was once Captain Morgan's first mate.

"I read your report, and to be honest, the parliament is not satisfied, the air raids launched on the battlefield on the Eastern Front have caused Yan zhòng's losses, and the Ministry of Defense and the president are under great pressure."

Morgan raised his head, the old man who was called up in the middle of the night had a little bloodshot in his eyes, and he didn't have much aversion to temporary overtime - there was never a "work and rest time" on the submarine, but he had clearly felt the pressure from age.

"I don't want to explain too much," Morgan nodded, indicating that he understood the director's concerns, "but because of this chip we have lost almost all of South Africa, there must be a reason why the ACA has reacted so dramatically." ”

"Do you want to put the treasure on the enemy's actions? That's not what a good informant should do. Director Morgan smiled, and then stretched out his hand, Anderson took a few steps forward and handed over the metal box, Morgan did not open it immediately, but looked at the three-proof metal box.

"There's one more thing in your report...... Informal TF?"

"Considering the specificity and complexity of the task, I think there is a high probability of a leak if someone uses us." Anderson frowned, strictly speaking, the Secret Service is not against outsourcing, on the contrary, it works closely with many private military contractors and security companies, but this kind of task of getting to the core content is a bit inappropriate for outsiders to do.

"Do you suspect that there are traitors within our upper echelons?"

Morgan's expression didn't make much waves, but Anderson knew that his old boss had always been so calm, even when facing three ACA "Neptune"-class submarines with overwhelming performance superiority, his expression was not much different from now.

"That's right, the 'stapler' is the 'wedge' I put in the South African Bureau" Anderson frowned, and the hand holding the briefcase couldn't help but clench a little, "You know, the 'wedge' can be reported directly to me, bypassing the local organization, and my report is only available to people above the level of deputy head of the division. ”

"But if I'm not mistaken, this traitor's 'tape measure' is at the level of the deputy head of the division." Morgan picked up an electronic pen from the table, and the yellow electronic pen swirled in the director's hand, and he proposed another possibility, "And according to the reading records here, the 'tape measure' did check the document before the incident, using the network of a safe house in South Africa." ”

"It's a bit too coincidental," Anderson wasn't about to refute the director's argument, but it was his duty to ask questions, "It doesn't make sense why someone from the branch would suddenly visit our side of the library for no reason at the risk of being discovered." ”

"I'll keep an eye out," Director Morgan said after a pause, making a slight concession, but immediately emphasizing the conditions, "but I will not approve any purge or anything like that without further evidence." ”

"I understand this," Anderson understood that his doubts were over, and the deputy director who had fulfilled his responsibilities did not intend to continue to be stubborn, but gave an explanation for Ling Yu's matter, "As for the use of irregular TFs, it is because there are too many commandos involved in mobilizing us or the military, and the Ministry of Defense has installed tracking chips on each of our TFs, and that is a sieve, as soon as we make a move here, we will be able to make the headlines of ACA's 'Evolution Daily' tomorrow." ”

"Uh-huh" Morgan nodded, accepting Anderson's reasoning, he put the metal box on the table and straightened up, "Although the president and the secretary of defense shouted fiercely, but basically the thunder and rain were small, and the fact that I can still sit here means that they have decided to carry it for us, and it is not a big problem." ”

"Politicians who can only talk about their skins......" Anderson shook his head helplessly and complained.

"In short, I will take care of this chip, the priority now is to rebuild our network in South Africa, the Ministry of Defense is secretly preparing a high command, and there may be a big move this year." Morgan thought for a moment, "But it's not appropriate for you to do this kind of work yourself, you have also shown your face in South Africa, so let's refrigerate it for a while, and send a reliable person." ”

"Okay," the middle-aged deputy chief breathed a sigh of relief and showed a playful smile, "I've saved up a lot of vacations too." ”

"Have a great trip, and don't forget your work in South Africa before you go." Morgan, who had been expressionless, finally picked the corners of his mouth slightly, and showed a smile, "Go ahead." ”

Anderson didn't talk any more nonsense, gave a military salute and walked out of the room.

Director Morgan was still sitting at his desk, and the gray-haired lieutenant general watched Anderson leave, then took a deep breath.

"Closed office."

After the system verified his identity, a huge iron curtain fell from the doors and windows of the room, and Morgan picked up the metal box containing the chip, opened the lid, and poured the coffee-colored chip out of it.

The old director stood up, walked to the equipment in the corner, which was a shredder used to destroy confidential electronic documents, hesitated, threw the chip into the machine, and then pressed the start button.

The white machine flashes a yellow light of "processing", and in the process, the chips are first subjected to intense EMP cleaning, and then completely melted by the hot aluminum agent, even the chips of prehistoric civilization technology are not immune.

"Ding-"

Like a microwave oven, the finished machine made a crisp prompt, and the yellow light turned green, but Morgan didn't notice this, and the gray-haired general had already walked back to the table and closed his eyes.

***

"Good evening, Deputy Director Anderson."

As soon as Anderson stepped out of the Secret Service building, he had a thrill - not because Icarus, who was perennially 25 degrees Celsius, made him feel cold, of course, but because of a voice and the owner of the voice.

The bespectacled youth in a white lab coat stepped out of the darkness that the street lamp could not illuminate, his left hand holding his glasses, the yellow street lamp light reflected on his lenses, so that Anderson could not see his eyes.

Anderson subconsciously took a step back, it was not easy to make this middle-aged man from a submariner make this reaction, not to mention that the other party was only a young scientist in his twenties, but Anderson still felt the danger.

The dangerous aura of a viper in a hunt.

Han Fei...... What's up? ”

"Hmm...... Actually, it's nothing, just got off work, I came for a walk, and I walked and walked here, and I happened to meet you, the deputy director. ”

Han Fei took his left hand away from the leg of his glasses and inserted it into the pocket of his white coat like his right hand, revealing a harmless smile from humans and animals.

"That's right, that's a coincidence."

Anderson silently scolded, but still maintained a polite smile on his face - although it is natural for those IVF nannies from the Academy of Sciences to work until four or five o'clock in the morning, but the real yàn district is at least 50 kilometers away from the administrative district, and you still take a walk, so you can walk so far with your little body that is a little stronger than a normal person?

"Speaking of which, Ling Yu should have almost gone back already, if you had received him yesterday."

It's finally here - Anderson guessed the purpose of Han Fei's appearance here at this time, and this is also something he is having a headache for.

"That's ...... about Ling Yu?"

"Okay, I'm a researcher, not a politician, let's get straight to the point."

Han Fei put away his smile and shook his head, but quickly grinned again, "Actually, I know that it was he who left and not you didn't answer, so it stands to reason that I shouldn't say anything, and besides, I just received the news that he is safe...... Still, Brother Anderson, you still owe me a favor, don't you? ”

"I'll get the money soon...... It's normal for such a large amount of money to go for more than a month, and you don't want to attract the attention of the supervision department. Anderson quickly chose to surrender - this was promised to Ling Yu a long time ago, anyway, and the shrewd deputy director of the Secret Service chose to borrow flowers to offer Buddha.

"That's what you owe Ling Yu, and mine hasn't been paid back yet." But obviously, Han Fei saw through Anderson's tricks at a glance.

"Tell me what you want." Anderson sighed and shook his head gently, "Anyway, I guessed that you wouldn't have come up with a condition that I couldn't accept." ”

"The first time you saw me, you said I had the potential to be an agent, and I was just proving your eyesight." Han Fei stretched out his hand, shrugged his shoulders, and quietly patted Anderson on the back before stopping his statement.

The awkward silence lasted for about three minutes, but fortunately, Anderson, who was a submariner, was not short of patience, and finally, Han Fei licked his lips and said what he requested.

"I want one person's information, all of it, all the information that your secret service has collected, and what you may collect in the future, you have to give me a copy."

"Who? Confederate president? ”

"No," Han Fei shook his head, putting on a spine-chilling smile again.

"Jeunese Meele."

***

Monday, January 16, 2178, the twenty-ninth day of the Lunar New Year.

Ling Yu let out a deep sigh of relief, the artificial snow guns will not be activated until tomorrow evening, but the "Rimlia", which has been running close to the Bering Strait, no longer needs to run the air conditioning system at high power to create the feeling of winter.

This made Ling Yu, who had been in the southern hemisphere for more than half a month, a little uncomfortable - after being rescued from the desert island, Ling Yu slept for 70 hours - two hours and three days, and Jiesi was probably two hours away from dismantling the submarine, but fortunately, at the critical moment, Ling Yu woke up and grabbed Jiesi, who was almost rampant, but it could not change the fact that the submarine was heading to Australia, nor could it change the fact that it was thrown into the medical center under the Knights for examination for more than half a month.

In the past half month, Ling Yu's life, or the main task, is to bask in the sun on Sydney's Bondi Beach to pick up shells, and occasionally make a sand castle or something. Then he took a few hours a day to beat up the gym equipment and undergo some strange examinations, but this pig-like happy life made Ling Yu extremely depressed - because both the doctors, nurses and beach guards were all men, although Jess repeatedly said on the phone that this was the rule of the Knights, but Ling Yu would definitely not believe it.

"Aren't you afraid that I'll become a?! Believe it or not, I'll show you every minute! ”

It's a pity that our classmate Ling Yu can't really do anything powerful to resist other than shouting on the phone, and he also knows that Jiesi is trying to figure out how to analyze his body to make sure that he can really study the black mark clearly; While concocting a bizarre story to fool the Knights and the Alliance - for example, why does teleportation occur? Jiesi pushed all the qiē onto the "hollow" of the omnipotent left eye.

Although Ling Yu was skeptical that the higher-ups of the Knights would accept this kind of reason, no one with a normal IQ would accept it. But since Jesse slapped her towering chest and slapped the ticket, he couldn't say anything more.

It felt very uncomfortable to be at the mercy of others, even if he knew that the other party had no ill will towards him, Ling Yu also felt all kinds of uncomfortable, and as time went by, he became more and more worried about whether he could catch the Spring Festival in City No. 47.

After all, as an Oriental, this festival is still irreplaceable.

Finally, when Ling Yu was almost about to eat Australian lobster and missed the mapo tofu made by "garlic" that was not spicy at all, a service cavalryman finally sent a return ticket.

It turns out that the guys of the Knights can really look like angels.

Of course, until he was kicked onto a military plane bound for the Southeast Asian Military Region with a bucket full of Australian souvenirs, he still did not fulfill his promise to become a.

By the way, the souvenirs were not bought by Ling Yu, but prepared by the hospital.

After N hours of dreary transfers and flights, Ling Yu finally set foot on this familiar steel island again in the night.

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January 17th is indeed the Spring Festival of 2178, oh, I checked it with a perpetual calendar (why be so serious in such an inexplicable place!!) ）