Tiandu, HighestLaws, the highest headquarters of the Empire.

With tens of thousands of square meters of administrative offices, huge facilities deep into the interior of the floating islands, the most elite members of HL selected from all over the world, the most powerful combatants, and military capabilities, a world that civilians will never be able to reach.

In November 2100, fifty-five hours after the gunsmith's disappearance.

In a large conference room, Joseph Nolan sat alone at a long table, typing on the keyboard of his laptop, waiting for someone, but he didn't want to be idle, so he went to do some work on the written report.

At this time, someone opened the automatic door of the conference room with a magnetic card and walked in, it was a man with a wide body and a fat body, who looked less than thirty, although he was wearing an HL uniform, but he was a flowing virtue.

As soon as he entered the door, he said, "I said, why do you come together today, why do you come together today, isn't this Lord Shishi, what's the wind? What kind of wind blew the deputy director of EAS to us?"

Shi Shi knew who it was when he heard the voice, he didn't plan to put down what he was doing at all, stared at the screen intently, and replied, "The boss sent you to see me?"

The man's face was visibly displeased: "What? Do you think Colonel Ben's rank is not enough?"

Shi Shi didn't answer this question, but said calmly, "Isn't the 'Tea Fairy' in the headquarters?"

"The Seventh Prince went to Australia on business, besides, with his identity, is it a person like you who was born in a pariah who can see him?"

Shi Shi's tone was still very calm, and he replied as he typed: "Then, Colonel Claes, please go and call someone of the rank of general to speak to me." ”

Claes stepped forward and grabbed the waiter's collar and lifted him up from the back chair: "Bastard, who do you think you're talking to? Don't think you're strong, believe it or not I can kill you right now!"

The waiter replied quickly, decisively, and clearly: "I don't believe it." ”

"Okay, Master Claes, you can let him go, since the two of you don't talk speculatively, just don't meet each other, let me talk to him. A middle-aged man in his forties and fifties walked into the conference room, this person had gray hair and gray hair, a burly body, and an extraordinary aura, and he knew that his rank was higher than that of Claes by looking at the style of his military uniform.

"Bah......" Claes let go of his hand, straightened his clothes, and glared at the waiter viciously before leaving in a huff.

"Hello, General Ju. The waiter sat back in his position, but did not continue to report.

Ju Shengguan worships the lieutenant general, but he is very polite to the waiter, and the two seem to have a good relationship: "That eldest young master seems to have been looking at you very unpleasantly, you have to be careful, Marquis Claes is very influential in the court, you are still young, and you have a long career in the future." ”

"I have no time to improve my relationship with this waste, his father is old and overdrunk, and I surmise that his 'time' is running out, and as for Colonel Claes himself, if the opportunity is right, he may consider killing him once and for all. ”

"Hey, hey, don't say it to my face, I didn't hear anything. Ju Sheng hurriedly said that although he had heard that EAS would dare to assassinate anyone, he never wanted to get involved.

So Shi Shi changed the subject: "I heard him say just now, the tea fairy went to Australia?"

Ju Sheng replied, "Go and catch a guy called the 'Divine Key', have you heard of that person?"

Shi Shi said: "No, and I'm not interested." ”

"Huh...... You're also good at choking people to death with a word. Ju Sheng smiled: "You are here this time for the sake of that weapons consultant, right?"

"Charles Rohr, twenty-seven, a former arms dealer, brilliant scientist and gunman, and a man of equal ability, known as the 'gunsmith', was recruited by the Empire a year ago to pardon all his past crimes. The waiter paused for a second, as he was next talking about the point: "It's been more than forty-eight hours since I received the news of his disappearance, and I want to know how HL's search is progressing." ”

Ju Sheng did not immediately answer the other party's question, but said: "Is this person very important?

The attendant replied: "His value as a weapons advisor doesn't mean anything to me, I think that's something you need to consider, but the EAS side, including me personally, strongly recommends that the Empire must know the whereabouts of this person, whether he lives or dies." ”

Ju Sheng said: "What do you mean...... His ability is very valuable, but he is just a person of equal ability. ”

"I know I'm overstepping my authority, and even if you've searched, you won't tell me the progress. This time, the waiter answered the question: "So I came this time, in fact, I just made suggestions...... You'd better find him. He closed the laptop on the table, picked it up and left.

"The search and rescue team had already set off ten hours ago. Ju Sheng's voice sounded from behind Shi Shi, causing the latter to stop: "The above means that the search for the gunsmith cannot be handed over to the local office, and must be carried out by the headquarters, so it will take time to rush from Tiandu to South America to investigate when, where, and why the plane he was on fell." ”

Shi Shi replied: "Thank you." Then he immediately said, "Goodbye." ”

"Hey, help me say hello to your director. ”

"My vacation period is approaching, and I don't want to see the old man for nearly two months, lest I be seriously injured by his whims. The waiter did not shy away from dismissing his superior, and then repeated: "Goodbye." ”

............

At the same time, in the jungles of South America, thousands of kilometers from them.

The gunsmith's foreboding soon became a reality, and as he and John reached the middle of the river, the current suddenly quickened, and the improvised wooden oars in their hands immediately lost their meaning.

They then gave up the struggle and let the raft run down the river, and John looked at the sun that was sinking to the horizon behind him, and said helplessly: "This feeling of resignation is terrible. ”

"It's clear that there is an unknown force that doesn't want us to leave this rainforest," the gunsmith said. ”

"That power can even control rivers?" John asked.

The gunsmith replied, "Who knows...... Perhaps the heavy rain is not a coincidence. ”

John looked at the sky, "Do you believe that there are gods?"

The gunsmith smiled: "If you believe, please tell the god you believe in, and let him stop in moderation." He could only smile bitterly at the moment, for he could see that the river in front of him was getting wider and wider, and farther ahead, there was a whirlpool in this not too deep river.

John saw this, of course, too, and picked up the oar again, "Quick, Charles, we need to get this raft moving, even if it moves a few more meters towards the shore." ”

The gunsmith was indifferent: "I don't think that at this speed of water, this will do anything, the centripetal force of the vortex will still sweep us in." ”

John shouted, "What about jumping into the river?" ”

The gunsmith replied: "It seems to me that there is no difference, such a fast rapid, swimming and rowing are the same result." He abruptly changed the subject: "Don't you think it's a bit too coincidental that there is a whirlpool right here and now, just in the path of our runaway raft?"

John snorted coldly, "I've been unlucky for a week anyway. ”

Seeing that the raft was getting closer and closer to the spiraling current, the gunsmith, instead of stabilizing himself, stood up, raised his bone gun, and pulled the trigger towards the center of the whirlpool. God knows what's going on in his head.

Shortly after the gunshot, there was an explosion underwater. The huge force overturned the raft, and a wave of diffuse water passed, and the range of the whirlpool became even larger.

On the vast expanse of water, both the gunsmith and John were gone.