It's been a long time since it's been more than 3000+.

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ECC building, brightly lit. In fact, the eternal darkness outside is in stark contrast to the 24-hour work that makes everyone who enters feel a solemn atmosphere.

In order for a group and organization to maintain its unity and cohesion, it can only rely on two points: one is the iron law, which is unshakable, and the other is the interests, which are sufficient and sufficient to drive every member of the group to strive for.

Here, it doesn't apply.

ECC has no interests, only iron laws.

It's an inexplicable phenomenon, where staff are not paid very well and are desperately doing a much more than ordinary workload, but none of them quit. Every decision of the Human Alliance is issued from here, like a huge brain, manipulating the operation of the morning and dusk worlds.

About what I said above. ECC has no interests, only the iron law, if you really believed it just now, well, good, pure enough.

No group can run without profit, not even ECC.

But here, the benefit is not what we usually think of as money, but an accumulation of rights.

In the First Battle of Canton, we said that in order to commend the heroic performance of the soldiers who participated in the war and to give adequate pensions to the victims, the Allied Government decided to grant all soldiers who participated in the war the first-class citizenship status, and to grant the sacrificed soldiers posthumously the second-class citizenship status, which could be collected by one of their relatives.

This is not a kind of spiritual praise without practical benefits, but a real reward for benefits.

In the Human Alliance, all citizens are divided into certain ranks, from ordinary citizens at level zero to citizens at level nine, the highest. The higher the rank, the more power and privileges can be exercised.

For example, if two ordinary citizens fight on the street, the inevitable result will be that they will be detained by the police, fined, ideologically educated, squatted for a month, and then released.

But if a first-class citizen fights in the street with an ordinary citizen, the result is different. As a result, ordinary citizens are criminally detained, fined, ideologically educated, and released after squatting for a month, while first-class citizens can be taken back to the police station to drink tea, chat for a while, and be released after an hour.

This hierarchy is not innate. All are born ordinary citizens, and there is no such thing as hereditary. As long as they contribute to the Human Alliance, they can increase their level according to the situation. Of course, paying taxes aggressively is also a contribution, and as long as you pay more, the level will become higher and higher.

However, this upgrade method is not affordable for ordinary people. Because upgrading from an ordinary citizen to a first-class citizen requires 10,000 bright coins (you can understand it in RMB), and the funds required to pay for each level of promotion in the future need to become ten times the original.

Based on this calculation, it is necessary to pay more than 100 million Bright Coins to upgrade from the fourth level to the fifth level. The Union government has formulated a series of rules to maintain social stability, and in order to curb the excessive privileges of the special rich class, it is stipulated that the maximum level of the fifth level can be promoted by paying money, and the corresponding contribution is required above the fifth level.

It has to be said that this is indeed a good way to pay taxes, ensuring that the Union government has sufficient financial reserves. This money can also be used to maintain expensive military expenditures.

Of course, there is one thing you have to say. This is still a society governed by the rule of law, and it is natural for you to kill someone to pay for your life, even if you are a ninth-level citizen who kills people on the street, you will not escape death.

ECC promises to accumulate the work achievements of each employee, settle the settlement at the end of the year, and award the corresponding grade. In this way, driven by huge privileged interests, ECC's strong work efficiency and emergency response capabilities are ensured.

Getting back to the point, there was a rare mess of voices in the ECC command hall at this time.

The white-haired old man sitting on the command platform was still the detached appearance of Mount Tai collapsing in front of him and not changing his face. He gently blew on the steaming tea, unconcerned about the rare noise coming from the hall.

"My lord, three minutes ago, the cruiser Sea Soul lost contact with the headquarters 98 nautical miles northeast of Shanghai. The ship is loaded with three powerful incendiary bombs to be destroyed, and we have tried various ways to contact them, but there has been no response. ”

The white-haired old man took a sip of tea without showing a trace of anxiety, as if the matter had nothing to do with him.

"Xiao Li, what kind of tea did you use for the tea you made today?"

"It's the kind of ordinary green tea you ordered that was a little overcooked. ”

The old man shook his head, his cloudy eyes seemed to lose focus, and the whole person fell into a state of being as if the old monk had settled down.

Secretary Li has followed the old man for nearly seven years, and still has not fully figured out the old man's habits. He thought to himself, maybe all the high-ranking people in the world are like this.

Time has given men taste, ruined women's faces, and made the old man unfathomable.

The old man waved his hand and motioned for Secretary Li to leave. It seems that he will not be able to make a decision for a while, and he must analyze and analyze this matter.

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Shanghai stronghold, 350 kilometers southwest, a deserted village.

The proximity of the village to the highway may have been caused by the development of the expressway. After years of desertion, the houses of the entire village are basically covered with lush bryophytes and vines, which looks a little eerie.

However, the house is not too damaged, and although the houses built in the thirties and forties of the 21st century are not as strong as they are now, they are still not a problem with a service life of more than 100 years.

The Wave Rider slowly stopped in front of the village monument.

"This place was originally called Linglong Village, the scale is not small, there are more than 300 households, some of them withdrew during the Great Nirvana, and the remaining more than 200 households were killed by the beasts. Ye Yuxiao said lightly. They've seen so much slaughter that they really don't feel much about this past where hundreds of people have died.

After several people got out of the car, Haiyue ran to the village monument carved from a huge block of marble, picked up a branch from the ground, and pulled aside the vines and mosses on it. A few people didn't pay attention to her, the second princess was a little ADHD, everyone understands this.

After sixty or seventy years of wind, sun, rain and snow, the marble, which is not very corrosion-resistant, has lost its edges and corners, and the three red characters of "Linglong Village" that were originally engraved have also been seriously faded, and the grooves carved in the shade have almost been filled with ash and dirt.

"Haiyue, let's go!" Ye Yuxiao beckoned to Haiyue, and several people walked towards the village.

Haiyue hurriedly turned around and ran a few steps forward, when suddenly her feet fell and she almost sat down.

Haiyue thought to herself, how could she carry it like this, the more she could almost fall down when she ran on flat ground, if she fell, it would be really embarrassing, she would inevitably be ridiculed by Dongfang Bai, if Lu Chen was here, she would definitely be extremely sarcastic with Dongfang Bai.

Haiyue angrily kicked at the grass there.

"Bang-" Haiyue felt as if she had kicked a piece of metalwork, making a crisp sound.

Haiyue squatted down, groped around in the grass, and finally found what she had just kicked away.

"Ah——!!!h

Hearing Haiyue's scream, several people who hadn't gone far quickly returned. "Haiyue, what's wrong?"

Haiyue took a few steps back in some fear and pointed to the grass in front of her. Hai Yu stepped forward, and several people saw Hai Yu's brows furrowed, and they each speculated in their hearts about what it was.

I saw Hai Yu squatting down and picking up the ......

Several people frowned in disgust, it was a string of rusty keys, stained with still dripping blood, and the key ring was actually covered with a human finger. Judging by the shape, it should be the index finger of the right hand. The index finger had been severed from the first tarsal bone, the end was covered in dirt, and a long strand hung in the air, which was the nerve tissue that had been peeled away.

"What does this mean?" Dongfang Bai asked. He pondered all of the following scenarios in which such an outcome might occur.

First of all, the blood stains have not completely dried up, but are colloidal, which means that no matter how humid it is, this thing will definitely not appear here for more than twelve minutes.

Secondly, it is very technically difficult to pierce a phalanx without causing a crack, and if a person cuts his finger first and then pierces it with his other hand, it is almost impossible to complete it perfectly due to the severe pain.

This means that the finger was forcibly severed by someone else. Moreover, just a moment before the arrival of several people.

What does it mean for this strange key to appear here?

"Since the keys are so strange, if not painstakingly designed, there is no need for the person who made them to throw them away. But now that it's here, it only means that the people who made the keys want us to see it. Ye Yuxiao analyzed. The brows of several people became tighter and tighter, and the more they listened, the more panicked they became, and it was not good to have a pair of eyes staring at them behind them.

"There is only one conclusion, and the meaning of this set of keys is - warning. Ye Yuxiao came to the final inference, "This is just a small paraphrase question. The pronunciation of 'finger' is the same as 'stop', which means that we want to stop there. ”

"Do you want us to stop here? Could it be that there is an ulterior secret in this village?" Haiyue said with some excitement, "Great, let's go in and have a look!"

Hai Yu sighed and said helplessly: "Haiyue, you stay, don't go anywhere." ”

Haiyue convulsed, and instantly turned into a pitiful look again: "But I myself will be scared here." ”

Several people are very helpless, it is estimated that now that Haiyue enters the village alone, she may not be able to say a word of fear.

"Don't be afraid, I'll stay to protect you!" Dongfang Bai said in a righteous manner. In fact, everyone knows that this thing is because they are afraid, so they found a good-sounding excuse to stay outside.

"Then you can stay and protect Haiyue and Lin Hao. Ye Yuxiao said, "Uncle, Haiyu, the three of us go into the village to have a look?"

The uncle came up with an old dry cigarette gun out of nowhere, and smoked it decently. The uncle nodded, and spat out a very gorgeous smoke ring.

Hai Yu didn't respond, which usually showed that he had agreed.

"Dongfang Bai, you must protect the two of them. Ye Yuxiao still told with some relief.

Dongfang Bai patted his strong chest muscles: "Don't worry." ”

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