Li Qingyan sat on a creaking bench at the door of a grocery store on the outskirts of the city and watched the sky.

Today is the 10th, the third day that the Desolate Soul Dragon King has come to Beishan. In the past three days, the North Mountain Barrier has been reactivated twice. Because when the barrier is in a state of imbecile, it can only last for twelve hours—each time, it makes the people in the city feel as if the end is coming.

This is because you have to create a high-energy point with a powerful weapon in the nearby wasteland, and then briefly attract the dragon king. Then the North Mountain Barrier closes and recharges. If it leaves, the barrier doesn't need to be opened again. But if it came back—every time it did—it would have to be delayed by the High Monks, and finally put it back after it had been closed.

It's not that there has been no precedent for a desolate soul to stay in the sky above the city for a longer time, but none of them are as powerful as the Dragon King. There is no one who is as persistent as it is, and it has to be found again after being lured away twice. People are scared and clueless. But Li Qingyan knew that this might mean that the promotion association's plan was already in the process stage.

There must be something in the city that attracts it and makes it reluctant to leave.

In the past two days, he had heard another rumor that if the Dragon King stayed longer, the higher-ups might choose to shrink the scope of the enchantment so that it would only be confined to the area within the Second Ring Road. In this way, the energy of the enchantment will reach a certain equilibrium, and there will be no need to restart it.

In fact, there are only two cities in the mainland that have enchantments. One in the capital and one in the North Hills. Kitayama was the first pilot enchantment, the capital built ten years ago and more technologically mature. It's not that without enchantments, people can't live. Jincheng, Hanyang, and Mukden have all had desolate souls transiting. At that time, it was just cutting off the electricity, and the desolate spirits wandered for a while before leaving.

Li Qingyan thought that the person who decided to open the Beishan Barrier should have taken two points into account. First, the dragon king is very strong, and he is a second-level desolate soul. Second, as the largest city in the alliance, Beishan City has an extremely special status and cannot be risked with it.

But that person should have regretted it now—the North Mountain Barrier blocked the Dragon Soul, but it also attracted it to a certain extent.

We can only get the matter of the promotion association as soon as possible, and maybe there is a way to drive it away.

If it can't be done, maybe a few first-level bosses will show up and try to eliminate the dragon king. It would be the first time since 1933 that humanity had tried to kill the desolate spirits.

He actually wanted to see how strong those first-level monks were. It is said that the last time a first-class monk struck, he took two atomic bombs with his bare hands and reduced the three aircraft carrier formations in America to steel. It was written in textbooks, but now some people think it was some kind of wartime propaganda by the government, and that the man should have died at that time.

The door to the grocery store opened, and Grave came out and sat next to him. Li Qingyan handed him the water in his hand: "How is it?"

Lao Yan drank two sips of water and got up: "Don't talk about it here." ”

The two crossed the street and found a dumpling restaurant opposite, which had only two kinds of fillings to choose from. One is meat filling, and the other is vegetarian filling. may be so hungry in Pei Yuanxiu's hands, Zheng Sheng ordered four taels of meat filling, and Li Qingyan only needed a glass of water.

It didn't take long for the dumplings to be served, and Lao Yan picked one up and blew it and put it in his mouth. After chewing twice, he frowned and sighed, and glanced at the name of the store on the signboard of the light box outside the store: Authentic Northeast Dumpling Restaurant.

But this minced meat is braised meat with bacon.

But I swallowed it anyway and ate another one. Then he said, "It is finished." They believe in me. I've been doing it for so many years...... There is a way for them to believe in me. ”

Li Qingyan held the water cup and watched him gobble up, and didn't rush to ask. Instead, he said, "Actually, I've always been curious, you have a family and a mouth—you had a grandson last year, right—you have a good job, and you're considered a middle-class person in Beishan, so why did you go to the Promotion Association? It doesn't matter if you are in the Promotion Association, why are you still a radical?"

Serious Sheng smiled: "Do you want to hear it? I can name several versions, all of them are very miserable, so that you think I have some deep hatred, so I joined in." ”

"But actually?"

"But really, nothing. "Seriously raw while eating while making himself minced garlic and soy sauce and made sauce," I just thought it was right when I went to the promotion association at the beginning. Feel like you're doing the right thing. ”

"Is it true that people and demons are not equal now? Should it be equal? I think it should be, even if I'm a human being. Speaking of this, two people with different views can debate for a day, each with its own reason. But people are like that, everyone has different thoughts. Even if there is power and high pressure, it can only make people not talk about it, but it cannot make people not want to. ”

He choked, frowned and stiffened his neck for a while, then began to eat again, and said, "You haven't been to other cities, have you?" But this is because Beishan is now relatively tolerant and open. ”

"If you go to another city, you will know that Beishan is not the whole world. The policy stipulates that the demon clan has the right to transform into a human form, right? That's not bad...... What's worse is that sometimes some natural enlightenment is found in the wild. What should I do about this? I should send it to a nursery or a reform class. But in fact, eight or nine out of ten were comforted - some nobles in Beishan felt that eating the meat of the demon clan with open wisdom could prolong their lives, and they ate that meat. It's all an industry now—you don't know anything about it?"

Li Qingyan thought for a while: "I've heard of it." ”

Serious raised his eyebrows: "Then you don't have any feelings?"

Li Qingyan smiled: "Because I still know what America is doing." The demon clan and the people on our side are nominally equal, but over there, the demon clan is the first race, and people are below the demon clan. The laws of America prohibit humans from eating meat, with the exception of demons. Guess what meat is most popular with the High Demon Clan? You know for sure, it's human flesh. ”

"It is not the flesh of 'inferior human beings' who should be destroyed because they are born with defects and disabilities, according to the laws of America, but the healthiest human flesh carefully selected. Li Qingyan sighed lowly, "If you want to say miserable, their side is even worse - even if I am a demon clan." Don't you know about that?"

Serious frowned and put down the chopsticks: "The boss will come here again." ”

Then looked at Li Qingyan: "I know." That's why I'm wrong - humans and demons should get along equally. It was when I knew these things that I had a good impression of the promotion meeting. What else will we do? Another three wars? We're all going to die. ”

Asia and America also knew that equal coexistence was the best option, so they ceased war and signed a declaration of the right to life. But neither side actually did that...... That's why we need organizations like the Promotion Association. ”

"Alas...... It's a pity that when it comes to actual operation, the people of the promotion association will also deviate. You ask me how I became a radical because I have been a moderate for many years, and I have slowly found that I am too tired and too tired, and too many friends have died. I'm numb...... The ideal is gone...... So I want to fuck it. ...... further back"

Li Qingyan nodded: "After that, it will become a personal grudge and a personal vendetta." ”

Serious and discouraged, he said, "Yes." ”

At this time, the proprietress brought the vegetarian dumplings. Serious asked her: "Boss, don't you have pork and celery filling?" Aren't you a Northeast dumpling restaurant?"

The proprietress asked suspiciously, "What kind of stuffing?"

Serious Sheng sighed and waved his hand. The proprietress frowned and walked away.

But the serious student seems to have lost his appetite: "Until now...... Okay. It's that I looked away, and I didn't see that you were from the Secret Service. This is over, and when I die, I can keep my family complete. ”

“...... Huh?"

Serious Sheng was stunned and laughed: "Your leader didn't tell you, if I don't cooperate, my family will be sent to West Africa." In the early years, I was not afraid of this. But now you're right, it's all a personal vendetta. Personal enmity is my own business, and it has nothing to do with my family. ”

Li Qingyan thought about it and realized that this should indeed be Pei Yuanxiu's style. When he brought star fruit into the city, he said that everyone has two sides. Pei Yuanxiu is a very good friend, but he is also a ruthless executioner.

The world doesn't give many people the opportunity to be the same.

He didn't want to talk about these emotional topics anymore: "Get down to business. What to do next. ”

Serious Sheng smiled indifferently: "I'm going to Quantai to recruit the old department, and I'll kill Yama with a banner of 100,000 - the council has a new task." Tell me to gather the people, find a place where I can gather a lot of energy in a short time, and try to lure Peberu over and kill him. ”

"You guessed it right, the target location for us is the steel mill of Long's Heavy Industries. ”

"This is indeed an intention to lure the desolate soul to the North Mountain. Then kill Peberu with the Desolate Spirit. Li Qingyan breathed a sigh of relief, knowing that if this plan really succeeded, it would not only be Pei Bolu who would die, but also all the people in Beishan.

This is a war without a righteous side – if it can barely be called a "war". The idea of the promotion association seems unrealistic to many, but Li Qingyan cannot say that it is wrong. The approach of Asia and America may seem cold-blooded, but it cannot be said to be wrong. Both races are here to survive and survive...... Against this backdrop, there will inevitably be tragedy.

Li Qingyan looked at Yan Sheng, and asked himself a question in his heart that he had just asked him: Why do I do this?

But he knew the answer. Not for Peberu, the Secret Service, Asia, not for the Demon Clan, the Promotion Association, and for America. What started as just a job turned into an inertia. Until now...... Let's avoid something.

There are people like Pei Bolu in this city, people like Zhou Yunting, and people like Pei Yuanxiu, Lao Fang, and Lao Wen. Some people deserve to die, some don't...... We cannot sit idly by and watch them perish together.

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It is not difficult to "recruit the old department". The operatives who died in the raid of the Secret Service a few days ago were not all members of the Facilitation Society's Kitayama Operations Division, but were only the "backbones" who were usually active. There are many other members lurking around the city, and many other points of contact have not been destroyed.

The arrival of the Dragon King also provided full convenience for this matter. Citizens took to the streets to grab shopping materials, and a large number of police and military forces were used to ensure order. In the midst of this confusion, contact and contact became extremely safe, and by night, Serious had found the seven people he needed.

In his words, it is expensive but not expensive, but Li Qingyan knows that he wants to implicate as few people as possible - if these seven people do not die in the next incident, they will all be taken away by the Special Intelligence Agency.

He didn't say anything, though. Activists of the Promotion Association...... Not all of them are "bad guys" through and through. Some have been involved in terrorist attacks – such as the one at the New Century Mall last month, which resulted in a large number of innocent casualties. Most of those people are backbones, "elite soldiers" in Lao Yan's mouth. So those people were killed by Zhou Lihuang in the pit, and he was just listening at the time.

Others are people like Lu Buxiu. Usually shouts loudly, and has the strength to die at any time. But that's because they never really carried out the "mission". Once you see death and blood in the "mission", your previous "beliefs" and "ideals" will be greatly impacted, and then you will have doubts and fears about yourself, and you will no longer want to participate in those things.

There are not a few such people. In the year that Li Qingyan has been dormant alone, nine of them plan to quit because of this. But he had a blood debt on his body, and he couldn't leave. Either they were "cleaned up", or they were turned to logistics, support work.

At 23:35 in the evening, nine people, including Zheng Sheng and Li Qingyan, avoided the guards of Long's Heavy Industry Steel Plant and gathered in the factory area. Each of the seven had a division of labor. Two electrical engineering specialists, two electricians, two former workshop operators of the plant, and one came with a suitcase.

There are three main factories in the factory area, and they are in room 2. The inside of the factory was empty and dark, and the huge equipment was still in place. The six men descended into the darkness as they were instructed by the grave student and began to inspect the power lines of the factory. And the one carrying the box was a strong man who didn't talk much. Li Qingyan had never seen it before, and he introduced it as a person sent by the chairman. His box contained the key equipment that would make or break the operation.

When the box was opened, Li Qingyan knew what it was.

It's about the size of a football, a lot like the spinning laser lights in a discotheque. There are 32 sides in total, and each side has a shimmering flow of light, making it look like some kind of cheap toy. But Li Qingyan knows this thing...... It is the key equipment that has made the residents of Kitayama City feel a little relieved for the past three days.

The generator of the Kitayama Enchantment.

To be exact, the prototype of the Kitayama Enchantment Generator. This thing is supposed to be kept in the National Museum of Kitayama under extreme protection. It is a perfect combination of modern technology and spiritual technology, and its construction was completed in 1971. At that time, Asia and America were still engaged in a war that seemed to have no end in sight, but several scientists sneaked back home with some of America's key technologies, including nuclear weapons.

Subsequently, while studying the "spear" of the atomic bomb, they also proposed to the high-level that they could try to make a "shield", that is, the Kitayama Barrier.

In those war years, many seemingly fanciful ideas could quickly become reality. The proposal was quickly approved, and it took only two years to build it.