Chapter 150: Strife
Terra Calendar 1589.11.2.
Evening: 21:56
Berlin Region Leipzig-Lindenstrasse.
"Woo choke ~ woo choke ~ woo choke ~"
The siren of the ambulance sounded like a whimpering cry, and at this time, many first responders in white robes pulled up the reclining frame to carry the seriously injured victims into the ambulance, and those in critical condition could only be given first aid on the spot.
The old Hero Nimus was looking at the ruins of Linden Street with a sad face, when a young man with blond hair and golden eyes took off his top hat and placed it on his chest, and he came to Professor Nimus's side with a solemn expression.
"I'm sorry, but it looks like I'm a step too late after all."
Professor Nimus shook his head.
"Your mission has been completed very well, if you hadn't discovered the mine point in advance, it is estimated that things will only become more troublesome in the future."
Professor Nimus's vicissitudes of life were now covered with deep exhaustion.
"Abraham, can you answer me a question?"
"You say." The blonde young man bowed his head.
"Does the Kingdom of Heaven give you an order?"
“··· No. ”
"That's right..."
Professor Nimus's figure became more and more slumped.
"Did [the Thirteen Branches] tell you anything?"
"They need me to sign the Information Blocking Regulations."
“··· yes. You've completed the final assignment this time, and I still have some things to deal with. ”
Professor Nimus turned and walked out of the Linden Street, while Xia Xiu watched her back silently, and after Professor Nimus had completely left his sight, he slowly walked into the dilapidated neighborhood.
By this time, most of the wounded and dead had been transported, and the structure of the riot had been removed, and the splattered blood and sizzling stumps of the structure on the ground all told the story of what had just happened.
"Hello, are you Mr. Abraham?" A young [Thirteen Sections] clerk stopped Xia Xiu.
"I am."
"Please sign the "Information Blocking Regulations" with us, and at the same time, in view of your help to [Thirteen Branches] this time, our company will prepare a generous thank you gift for you in the future." The young clerk said to Xia Xiu with a hat.
"Where's Wendell?" Xia Xiu squinted his golden eyes and asked the young clerk.
"Captain Wendell is dealing with some emergencies."
"Yes..." The corners of the blond-haired youth's mouth showed a mocking smile.
"Take me to sign the ordinance."
"Okay."
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Thirteen Branches, Department of Alien Affairs.
"I'm sorry, I shouldn't have used it, I let you down." [Cornflower 002] was lying flat in front of a special instrument as she retrieved the golden [Mimu Cleanser] from the prosthetic storage in her right hand.
Wendell took the cleaner from 002's hand and fell silent.
For 002 that has been contaminated by an unidentified mother, the [Thirteen Branches] will not eliminate the complicated mother for it.
Destroy her and directly call the new [Cornflower] for the previous post, so that it is the most cost-effective.
"I would like to ask, is my "self-choice" only due to the contamination of [Red Branch]'s mother? ”
At this point, the device had begun to be destroyed in the intracranial procedure, and 002 asked expectantly.
"Neither [Asimov's underlying law] nor the think tank link in your mind is locked."
"I'm sorry to tell you the cruel truth, any construct that may violate [the thirteen branches] or produce its own logic will be directly erased."
Wendell continued in a somewhat heavy tone:
"However, the constructs infected by the Mi virus can jump out of the obliteration limit, the Mi Mu virus is a terrifying existence that can even distort the rules of the world, and some constructs contaminated by the Mi Mu virus can indeed avoid the erasure of the lineage on the premise of generating self-will."
"However, you don't have an ego will, because your underlying laws don't even show signs of locking up once·······"
Wendell looked at 002 in anticipation and said slowly:
"You're just contaminated with the Miyovirus."
"Yes..."
The corners of 002's eyes began to grow heavy.
"I thought it was my own free will, and although it made me do something wrong, it was my own decision·······
"I didn't..."
Procedure 002 was destroyed, and she closed her eyes completely.
Other [Cornflower] constructs appeared, and they uneagerly zipped up the body bag, grabbed it in both hands and carried it upwards, leading their companions to the incinerator.
"Captain Wendell, the authorities have given you new instructions, and they need you to go to a meeting." A clerk walked up to Wendell from a distant passageway and reported.
"What about the Hohenzollerns?"
"They said they'd take care of it."
"What about the angel of heaven?"
"He left [the thirteen sections] after signing the ordinance."
Wendell was silent for a moment, then he continued:
"Did he get paid?"
"Nope."
"I see, take me to the conference room."
"Yes."
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This was the last time Xia Xiu saw Bryce, and he was dying.
In the white room filled with the smell of disinfectant alcohol, the young man who should have been a child was lying on the hospital bed full of life, his right eye had a terrible hole, and his left eye was lifeless.
"I'm sorry, I'm late."
"Big... Brother, I... Dying. Bryce just said this to Xia Xiu in an empty tone.
The blonde youth stood silently beside him.
All the organs in Bryce's body had been distorted by a large amount of EVE particle radiation field, and if it had been an hour earlier, Xia Xiu would have been sure to use [Flesh Shaping Technique] to hang his life, but he was really late.
"Those... [Cornflower] is really out of control. Bryce asked the blonde youth in a hoarse voice.
The blonde youth recalled the Miyovirus he had felt from the slain structures, and then replied to Bryce:
"Technically, yes."
If such a big event occurs, the [Thirteen Branches] of these killed constructs will inevitably be preserved, otherwise they will not be able to face the pressure of public opinion from the outside world.
"Yes..." Bryce heard Xia Xiu's voice.
"I should have listened to you and left the Berlin area early..." The corners of Bryce's mouth pulled into a smile that was more ugly than crying.
"But this is my home, where can I go?"
"A lot of times I wonder, what would the world be like without the Veil?"
"In terms of benefits alone, if everyone accepts the abnormal, various technologies under normal conditions will be several times better than now."
"Strange as it may seem, where did the concept of 'anomalous' come from?"
"If there were no normalcy maintenance organizations like the Kingdom of Heaven and the [Thirteen Branches], all of humanity would probably have to come into contact with anomalies sooner or later, and then they would have learned how to deal with and deal with them, as we are now...... It's easier to keep it a secret than to let the world know about the anomaly. ”
"Removing anomalies and containing anomalies doesn't mean that the world can't do it if they know about it, and it even saves the manpower and material resources that need to be consumed to cover people's eyes and ears."
"Isn't this kind of cover-up self-deceptive in the long run?"
In the face of Bryce's questioning, the blonde youth remained silent.
And Bryce, as if after the first flashback, asked the other party in a tired and breathless voice:
"Big... Brother, the curtain will always exist... Is it going down? ”
The blond young man stared into those sad eyes.
"The curtain will be torn open, but not now."
"Yes... Hmmm..."
Bryce closed his tired eyes, and the blonde young man took off his hat and placed it on his chest in silence.
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Three days later.
Linden Street Victim Memorial.
Xia Xiu placed a bouquet of white chrysanthemums under the monument, while next to him stood Wendell, dressed in black civilian clothes.
"Collective Mimu pollution, [Thirteen Branches] is really a bunch of waste!"
The blonde youth smiled and said to Wendell beside him. Strangely, he was obviously smiling, but he gave people an unusually cold feeling.
"yes, yes, a bunch of trash." Wendell looked down and muttered to himself.
"It seems that they haven't revealed too much information to their own people, and they don't want to get their hands dirty. Oh, I've heard that you've killed the president of the Hohenzollern Group, and that's probably the only thing that surprised you. ”
In the face of the blonde youth's taunts, Wendell silently smoked a cigarette, and he didn't care what taboo it would be to smoke in front of the dead.
"You actually guessed it more or less, and the kingdom of heaven didn't respond······ Everyone is actually the same. ”
This time, Xia Xiu smiled self-deprecatingly:
"yes, it's all the same. There are too many people who are hostile to us, and good and upright people regard us as enemies. People of pure faith also don't like us, they see us as the enemy of the masses, a danger factor. Of course, you should be glad that they despised us and they just laughed at us as a harlequin. ”
"There is no such thing as spotless, each of us is sucking in the dust."
"But that doesn't stop us from doing things better."
After the blonde youth finished speaking, he turned and left, and only Wendell was left smoking a cigarette, he looked at the departing back, bowed his head and whispered:
"The road to hell is paved with good intentions... We're all in hell. ”
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"Obrian is dead!?"
A light and cute voice asked his head in an unusually surprised tone.
"Be quiet, I'm getting deaf." Charlotte covered her ears and reprimanded Lori beside her.
"Isn't that surprising?"
Lori looked at her head aggrievedly and said.
"His death was an accident, as unexpected as a caged bird." Charlotte said with a deep look in the direction of Berlin.
"Commander, what's the difference between that caged bird and those standardized constructs, how do I feel that the [Thirteen Branches] constructs are even more rubbish than I imagined, and once infected, it's a lot." Lori continued to ask her head of the regiment with some confusion.
"Jasmine, the caged bird is certainly not the same as those standardized constructs." Charlotte stroked Jasmine's head.
"And those standardized constructs are not as simple as you think, we can infect them just a wish to fight and suffer."
"You know, everybody likes to wear gloves when they're doing dirty work."
"It's like the [Suppression Division] of the Kingdom of Heaven and the [White Gloves] of the Immediate Burial Force [White Gloves] in the hands of the Resolution Assembly member who killed his wife and son."
Charlotte smiled sarcastically.
"Speaking of heaven, it seems that there are really no annoying angels to track us this time." Jasmine said, touching her head.
"Heaven is not a great being, they will always only seek the greater good for mankind in their eyes, and they don't care what the process is."
"They're not a rope within themselves, and the thirteen Resolution Assemblies are divided into several factions."
"Tear open the veil, directly intervene in all the countries of Terra, establish a unified human government, and ········ the Great Expedition"
"There are many supporters of these radical ideas within the kingdom of heaven."
Jasmine was stunned when she heard this, how could this heavenly kingdom sound even crazier than she imagined.
"Believe me, if an opportunity arises that meets the above conditions, they will not hesitate to carry it out, and when the time comes, we may be able to see the real hell."
The corners of Charlotte's mouth turned up.
Some people are born with a love to watch the world burn.
·········
Kingdom of Heaven, Unknowable Land.
"0-02, we are an inspector directly under the Ethics Committee."
"Get the nearby [White Glove] members to step down!"
Charles Vernal, the chief executive of the Ethics Committee, looked at the members of the nearby burial agency team with a gloomy face, and he angrily scolded the stout old man with a cane in the main hall.
Each member of the Resolution Rally has their own burial agency squad, and [White Glove] is a troop that even the Ethics Committee finds intractable and annoying, they only obey 0-02, and they will make the 0-02 annoying people "disappear".
"Stand down." The old man waved his hand nearby.
The guys who were making Charles feel troublesome temporarily retreated, and 0-02 came to Charles, his bold eyes looking directly at each other.
"CEO, what are you here for?"
"Why did you interfere with Eden's instructions without permission, and also, we found out that you secretly read [Yahweh]'s "Salvation Sequence Plan", don't you know that it is a top-level sequence that no one can access privately? If secrecy is not in place, the Scarlet King and the Aether Monarch will know about the sequence······"
"Utopian Plan." 0-02 interrupted Charles's words.
Charles was stunned for a moment, then reacted sharply, and he looked at 0-02 in horror.
"How dare you!?"
"It doesn't matter, this plan is not part of the non-disclosure agreement."
0-02 stared at the CEO in front of him.
"As a partner, you should be good at speculation and silence, you definitely don't want to see everything through, you should watch in your dreams what your waking partner is doing. If you are willing to turn your pity into suspicion, you will know if your partner needs your mercy, maybe he just needs your indomitable eyes and eternal gaze. ”
"What the hell are you ······"
"The kingdom of heaven will usher in a powerful sun, and he will abandon this cumbersome parliamentary system, and a terrestrial utopia will be established—"
"Son, we need a monarch who belongs to Heaven."
Looking at the old man with burning eyes, Charles could feel the madness in the other party's bones.
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Terra 1589.11.5.
[Announcement of the 1345th Committee of the Kingdom of Heaven]
Contents: 0-02 Reviewed by the Ethics Committee.
Reason for review:Interfere with the operation of Eden without permission.。 Accessed ■■■.
The result of this audit: not guilty.
The first volume is coming to an end, and the name of the next volume is teasing: "Ensemble Interpretation".
The original character in this chapter was supposed to be 02.,I'm code 09.,Now it's changed back.。
(End of chapter)