Melissa didn't believe in love at first sight, and she scoffed at the popular love themes on the Internet, and she felt that instead of immersing herself in a fantasy world, it was better to study some practical things and things that would help her life.

For example, the Anatomy Guide.

This is a must-read textbook for everyone in the Terrorist Task Force, which can help them deal with prisoners effectively.

However, during an operation a few days earlier, their target hit her heart, and after a multi-faceted investigation, she found out that the target was Rob Lucci, the executive officer of MI7's highest operational unit.

He fully fits her vision of a lover who is handsome, mysterious, and powerful.

Since then, she always thinks of each other in a daze, she looked up some information on the Internet, people call this symptom lovesickness, the only fly in the ointment is that her lover does not know her existence for the time being.

Today's counseling went on very well, and after setting up the automatic navigation, Melissa sat in the passenger seat and read "A Love Tip of the Day" given to her by Dr. Lucy, and even the passers-by on the side of the street and the city seemed to look much more pleasing to the eye.

The Terrorist Squad is not a good place to fall in love.

Although there is no explicit prohibition of love in the team, as far as Melissa knows, every couple of lovers who appear in the bureau does not end up well, ordinary people can't stand their work, and the few couples who fall in love within the department ...... Missing arms and legs are common, and they sometimes even have to make temporary police trips to attend to the crew's household chores.

When Melissa returned to the bureau, she found that the atmosphere in the office seemed to be somewhat unusual.

Without the relaxed and cheerful atmosphere of the past, when the team members saw her enter the door, they pretended to bury their heads in their work, and their hearts were so weak that they didn't dare to look at her at all.

Although their relationship is subordinate and subordinate, they usually get along more like friends.

Good friends who share a common hobby.

The kind of people who are so close that they can cut people together and deal with the scene together, they deal with criminals every day, and dealing with cyber maniacs is no different from licking blood at the tip of a knife.

Maybe one day we can go into the morgue together, and we can even go on the road together.

"Are you secretly orchestrating me behind my back?"

Melissa put the book Lucy had given her into her drawer and asked.

She doesn't plan to hide her love from the rest of the bureau, but now she hasn't even held Rob Lucci's hand, and the Internet says that this kind of thing needs to be done gradually.

"How so? How dare we be in the queue long? ”

The team member who has the closest relationship with her on weekdays joked that in the past, other people in the office would be commotional, but today no one answered, and the team member who joked also lowered his head slightly in embarrassment and stopped talking.

"What the hell is going on with you? If you haven't received a case this afternoon, there's no need to be so depressed, right? ”

Melissa was a little upset by the atmosphere in the bureau, and she couldn't read the book, "According to the recent momentum, the case will happen sooner or later, and it should be a day off." ”

"No, Captain, you misunderstood."

"Why is that, because I went to consult a psychiatrist? Rest assured, my business won't affect the work deployment. ”

"This ......"

The team members stopped talking, and finally the team member who had just joked said, "It's Ulan, he has an accident." ”

"Ulan?"

Melissa was stunned, she looked around, only to realize that Ulan was gone.

They also saw it during the day.

"Did a cybermaniac do it?"

For the terrorist mobile team, "something happened" can basically be understood as death, and Melissa understood the strange atmosphere in the bureau.

Ulan is one of the oldest members of the Terrorist Task Force, and she joined the same group of people, a total of more than a dozen people were fished out of prison by the lawmakers under the promotion of the bill, and only three are still in the post.

In addition to her and Ulan, another also became the captain of the 3rd Operational Detachment.

Ulan is definitely a good hand at this, he has dealt with dozens of cyber maniac incidents, and it is difficult to find someone more experienced in the coalition government.

"It's not a cybermaniac, it's ...... Ulan himself, he has been a little abnormal these days, I don't know what stimulation he has received, that guy's mood is too abnormal, we just let him go back to rest first. ”

Melissa was stunned for a moment, then frowned and said, "You can finish it in one breath next time." ”

She was mentally prepared for Ulan's sacrifice just now, and was ready to attend the other party's funeral, except for their colleagues, no one else would care about the life or death of a former cyber psycho, and the family members basically cut off contact with them when they were in prison.

"Captain, his situation is a bit complicated, he spread some inappropriate remarks after you left, but that shouldn't have been his intention, he may just be under too much pressure lately."

The team members said good things about Ulan.

Almost all of them who later joined the Terrorist Task Force were cared for by this old-timer, and among the many former cyber psychoses, Ulan was definitely the most amiable.

"What did he say?"

"This ...... Captain, you better wait until you get off work and ask him yourself, we'll let him go back first. ”

Melissa has always been a straightforward personality at work, and the most unbearable thing is that the people under her staff are riddlers on key issues.

So she got up directly, explained her work to the others, and then went straight to Ulan's apartment.

The apartment is located in the old town of the 1st arrondissement, which is one of the few residential areas on this street.

He was a local, and the apartment was left to him by his long-deceased parents, who survived the Third War but didn't catch up with the good old days of using technology to prolong their lives, and the coalition government left shortly after it was established, and Ulan occasionally invited the good people of the bureau to their home for a barbecue party.

It is said that the skill of barbecue was taught to him by his parents.

Take the elevator to the fourteenth floor, the corridor is surprisingly quiet, a deserted and dilapidated scene.

The people who lived here are leaving, and Ulan always says that it may not be long before the residential building will be demolished and replaced with a new office building, and in recent years the company has been trying to get unrelated people out of the first district.

Melissa knocked on the door.

The sound of "knock knock" echoed in the hallway for a long time.

"Ulan, open the door, I'm Melissa, I know you're at home, and you can smell the wine through the door."

She stood in the doorway and yelled at the inside.

It was about a few minutes before the drunken Ulan opened the door, carrying a half-drunk empty bottle in his hand, and through the hidden door, Melissa saw the mess in the living room.

Empty beer bottles are everywhere.

You can also see e-magazines, clothes, and bullets left on the ground.

Sleepy-eyed, Ulan wore a white vest that looked one size smaller, the vest was tired of his muscular contours, and his exposed arms were covered with mottled scars.

He was also a veteran of operations "The Outside", and these wounds were left in battle.

"Won't you invite me in and sit down?"

Melissa asked.

The messy scene in the living room is enough to prove that Ulan is in a bad state now.

He is a clean-loving person, and he used to keep the house in order every time he came to the apartment, and every time his friends ate a barbecue, he would drive him crazy by throwing bottles and barbecue sticks after eating a barbecue.

She didn't expect that after she had just gone to see a psychiatrist, she would come to help the team members solve their psychological problems.

"Oh, yes, please come in."

Ulan's voice sounded much duller, and he didn't forget to pour himself a sip of wine when he invited Melissa in.

This is also extremely unusual.

How is it possible to pour down a veteran who fought in the war "from the outside" with a few beers?

Ulan was also among the best in terms of alcohol consumption among all of them.

"I heard you've not been in good shape lately, so come and ask."

"Not in good shape? No, I've been in really good shape lately, but it's better to say that I've been awake for the first time in a long time. ”

Ulan returned to his original position, on the side of the coffee table in the living room, which was the angle he had carefully chosen, and the sky outside the window was not completely obscured by the tall buildings, where he could sit and enjoy the process of getting dark while drinking.

Melissa didn't refute the other party, and sat down on the couch where there was no place to sit on the couch, and she suspected that Ulan was squeezed by these clutter and had no place to sit, so she simply sat down on the floor.

"They said you gave a speech in your office today, and I missed it."

"It's just a feeling."

Ulan still looked at the sky outside the window, and said without looking back, "Melissa, you also participated in the war in the 'outside world', you should be able to understand my feelings. ”

The war was caused by the Coalition Government's discovery of a large-scale virus weapon in a small country where the rebels were entrenched "outside", and launched a war under the banner of "humanity" and "justice".

At that time, they also entered the war with enthusiasm, but when they arrived at their destination, they found that there were no virus weapons there, and it took less than a week to defeat the resistance, and for the next six months, they were looking for a newfound energy source.

They have also witnessed civilians being shot on the spot on suspicion of being rebel spies simply because they are unwilling to cooperate with the search.

These things have become classified, and for those who remain within the coalition government, they have only seen the news that the coalition frontline troops have defeated the rebels and defended justice.

And when they finally survived the war and returned to the coalition government, what awaited them?

Endless psychological assessments, as well as occasional reviews by counterintelligence services, to ensure that they don't slipped the tongue out about what was happening "from the outside".

Later, there was a problem with that batch of implants.

That was the first time most people realized the horror of cyber psychosis, but Ulan suspected that the so-called cyber psychosis was mostly inseparable from the endless investigations of the counterintelligence services.

And until now, they have been tools in the hands of the coalition government to deal with those they don't like.

"Melissa, I investigated the recent case."

After a long time, Ulan spoke, "Those are not cyber lunatics at all, they are just ordinary people who have been crushed by their work. ”

Without any professional training and no combat effectiveness at all, in the face of the heavily armed terrorist mobile team, there is only one end of being beaten into a sieve.

"The people who are really crazy are not them, but the ones who give me orders."

(End of chapter)