Chapter 19
Anna told me that because the temperature this winter dropped below the lowest level in history, the refugee problem is particularly serious. In the past, most refugees would flock to the A-1 or A-2 bases, but the A-1 base was attacked not long ago. After the news came out, the refugees had no choice but to choose other bases.
There are even a very small number of desperate refugees who come to the gate of the D-3 base. As we all know, the base is divided into four levels, D is the lowest level, and generally speaking, they will not accept refugees, but now there is really no other way.
When Jiang Fei saw that someone wanted to join the base, her first reaction was of course happiness, as this would increase the population of the base and the base could be upgraded. However, she changed her mind and, considering that there were still elderly people and children in the base, she had to first ensure that the refugees outside the door had no ill intentions.
Coin's idea was similar to Jiang Fei's. She first asked Gru to count the number of refugees, and then check their information through the optical computer.
"This winter might be the most difficult yet." Coin looked out the French window of his office as Gru's figure disappeared behind the door. "They've all been forced to seek help from the D-class base."
Coyne asked Jiang Fei, "You must really want to take them in, right?"
On the one hand, it was to develop the base, and on the other hand, Jiang Fei also considered that this might help him improve his reputation. "My opinion cannot determine anything. We still need unanimous agreement."
Gru sent a message saying there were 11 refugees at the gate, all unkempt and emaciated from hunger. Coin projected the message Gru had transmitted into the air, letting Jiang Fei and herself read it. She said, "Being kind alone won't make you a qualified leader."
Before being bound by this savior system, Jiang Fei never thought that she would become a leader one day. Whether in her student days or after entering the workplace, she has been accustomed to obeying the arrangements of others. Coyne's words pointed out her current conflicted heart.
"You are the one in charge of the base now."
"But who can predict the future? And I think you have great potential to be a leader."
Jiang Fei was PTSD to the promise, but Coin acted very sincerely, she replied: "Then I will give it a try."
The 11 people consisted of two elderly people, three children, three women and one man. Judging from the information, they had no criminal records and clean resumes. Jiang Fei said, "You can let them in first and give them a probation period, just like you treated me in the past."
"Let's do it then." Coin sent a message to Gru, "But the base's supplies will be a little tight."
Jiang Fei had thought of this a long time ago, "We can go to the tower again. The fuel we brought back last time is still enough."
Originally, the base would not send anyone out for the entire winter, and Jiang Fei wanted to find out the connection between the pollutants and the tower, so this was exactly what she wanted.
"Every time you go out there's a risk of death, but you never seem to be afraid," Coyne said.
"Hmm… high risk high reward?"
The second trip out of the base was scheduled. Anna had no objections when she heard it was Coin's decision. Gru, who had placed the refugees in the shelter, also clamored to go to the tower together. Only Lucian showed obvious disapproval. He was called out by Jiang Fei during the break. He rubbed his temples and said, "Winter weather is already very extreme, and if we don't accept the refugees, we have more than enough supplies. There's a limit to your being a pushover, right?"
“But Coin agreed.”
"Is idiocy contagious?" He spoke without mercy, even to the person in charge of the base.
“There are also children among the refugees we take in.”
"Don't think I like children that much." Lucian said coldly.
At this moment, a little girl with pigtails poked her head out from behind the classroom door and asked in a clear voice, "Mr. Lucian, when will you continue the class?"
Lucian's expression softened slightly, and he said softly, "I'll be back in the classroom soon. You guys take a break first."
He turned his head and met Jiang Fei's eyes, who had an expression that said, "See, I was right."
"Tsk, alright, alright. You've already made up your minds, so it's useless for me to say more, right?" He sounded a bit annoyed and angry. "Break time is over." Lucian glanced at the time, implying that he was urging Jiang Fei to leave quickly.
As one of the people who agreed to take in refugees, Jiang Fei was also responsible for part of the work of taking care of the refugees. The refugee shelter was a two-story independent building with a relatively remote location.
She came to take a look around and see if there was anything missing. She pushed open the iron gate outside the small building and saw three children playing on the first floor. The two younger children were an average of four or five years old, and the older child was probably nine or ten years old. They stopped when they saw Jiang Fei, looking timid, as if they were afraid that Jiang Fei would suddenly drive them away.
"I came to see you. What were you playing just now?" Jiang Fei didn't have a good impression of children. That was all thanks to the psychological trauma caused by the naughty children of her relatives. However, every child living in the end times was forced to learn to observe people's words and expressions, and had nothing to do with naughty children at all.
"Playing...hopscotch." The girl in the lead answered Jiang Fei's question.
So there's hopscotch in this world? A simple house pattern was drawn on the muddy ground with sticks. Some of the lines had become blurred from being stepped on. Jiang Fei walked over to the side and, following her childhood memory, put the sticks together and hopped over the entire house.
She turned around and asked the little girl in the lead, "What's your name?"
"Xinyue, the night my mother gave birth to me was a new moon." Compared to the other two children, she was calmer and more mature. She also introduced the children around her one by one, "Her name is Manyue, his name is Wangyue, they were both born on full moon nights."
"Your mother likes the moon very much." Jiang Fei said.
"Xinyue, who are you talking to?" Someone came down from the second floor. It was a woman in plain clothes. She was anxious to pull the child back to her side, but when she looked up, she saw Jiang Fei standing not far away. The woman forced a smile and said, "I'm sorry, my child didn't offend you just now, did he?"
She pulled Xinyue over and waved to the other two children to come over to her. "What are you doing here? If you need any work, I can do more. I'm very capable. Besides, these children are young and don't eat much."
She was worried that Jiang Fei would kick them out on the pretext of a shortage of supplies. "No, I'm not here for these things. Arranging work is not within my job scope. I came here to see if you need anything. You can tell me."
"I..." The woman looked at Jiang Fei uncomfortably.
"Luna! Luna! Where the hell have you been?!" A man's roar came from the second floor. Jiang Fei frowned, but Luna quickly said, "I'll go upstairs."
She hurried upstairs, her footsteps hurried. The man's voice reached the first floor, "I need some wine! Find me some quickly! If you can't do anything, just steal it! You're so useless! Useless bitch, are you laughing at me in your heart too? Huh? I know it!"
Jiang Fei released a small human-faced hawk moth to fly to the second floor. She "saw" the man raise his hand to slap the woman, and grab the woman's hair with his other hand. The slap was so severe that the eardrum would rupture. Jiang Fei immediately ordered the human-faced hawk moth to fly past the man's cheek and sprinkle hallucinogenic scale powder.
She couldn't control the hallucinogenic effect of the scale powder yet, but she was certain that what the man saw was what he feared, because he suddenly loosened his grip and trembled all over. "Ah, ah ah ah - don't come over! Don't, don't kill me!!"
He took several steps back, covered his face with his hands, and curled up, "Don't kill me, don't kill me!!"
Luna sat there in a daze. When she came to her senses, she wiped away her tears in a daze. Jiang Fei then ran to the second floor and helped Luna up. "He is your husband?"
"Well... he, he wasn't like this before, it's just that he didn't have any wine today." Luna said in a low voice.
"You are lying. The lack of wine is just a pretext. He just wants to vent his violence on you." Jiang Fei said, "I will have someone teach your husband a lesson." Gru will behave himself after a beating.
Luna suddenly became excited, "No, please don't kill him, he is the father of the child after all."
Why do we still have to deal with this kind of family dispute in the end times? Jiang Fei felt her patience was almost worn out. She pointed out pointedly, "If you just ask your own children, you will know whether they really want this father or not. Don't be too wishful."
Xinyue stood at the stairs, her face expressionless. She was used to this. Jiang Fei handed Luna a piece of paper and said, "Write down anything you need. I'll come back later."
She turned around again and Xinyue's figure disappeared from the stairs. She walked down the stairs and found Xinyue sitting on the first step with her knees hugged and her head resting on her knees. When she heard Jiang Fei coming down the stairs, she turned her head, didn't say anything, just looked at her quietly.
It was the first time that Jiang Fei saw such sadness and depression in a child. She walked to the first step and sat down next to Xinyue.
"You're right. I don't really need this kind of father. Mom always says she wants us to have a complete family, but in reality, she's the one who needs a 'complete family' the most. We're all forced to become actors to act with her." Xinyue spoke. Her skin was tanned, and her hair was the straw color of malnutrition, cut very short, almost like a crew cut. She noticed Jiang Fei looking at her hair, "I cut it short myself. If it was long, it would be easy for someone to grab it. I won't give him any chance to attack me."
"Is there anything you want?" Jiang Fei is not very good at comforting people.
"I want to become strong, just like Captain Anna, just like you. Then I can hold my head up and live proudly, and I can protect my younger brothers and sisters." Her eyes were sharp and full of determination at this moment.
"Okay, then I promise you."
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"So this is why you brought this little brat to the training ground?" Lucian put one hand on his waist. For some reason, Jiang Fei felt a sense of oppression from a teacher from him.
Jiang Fei coughed to cover up her embarrassment, "I just came here to exercise."
"Does that look like they're here to exercise?" Lucian pointed at Crescent, who was following behind Gru and lifting dumbbells eagerly.
Gru was also a tough guy. Seeing that the girl was interested in training, he immediately gave her 20-kilogram dumbbells. Xinyue was pulled down by the dumbbells and almost fell. Lucian couldn't stand it anymore and said, "Give her the lightest dumbbells. Yours weighs 20 kilograms!"
Gru scratched his head embarrassedly after being scolded. He apologized to Xinyue, "I'm sorry, I usually use these dumbbells to relax."
"Relax!?" Xinyue opened her eyes wide. Did she hear it right?
"Yeah, it feels good to relax your muscles when you're tired." Gru didn't know what shocking words he had just said. He moved his arms, and the muscle lines on his shoulders were very obvious.
"Don't listen to him. Go run laps to warm up first." Lucian said with a stern face. Xinyue obediently ran laps. Gru, who was left standing, shrank his neck. "Hey, I know you like children, but what I did just now was just a mistake! I didn't know ordinary people were so weak!"
Gru was born with great strength and had been accustomed to it since childhood.
Lucian pointed at Jiang Fei and said, "Haven't you seen how weak ordinary people are?"
Jiang Fei, who was suddenly ridiculed, said: No???
"Oh, that's right. She is weaker than Jiang Fei. Now I have an idea." Gru chuckled.
Don't just use her as a measure of your combat effectiveness!
Jiang Fei didn't forget to tell him about Luna's husband. When Gru heard about it, he wanted to teach that scumbag a lesson. He hated bullying the weak the most. "I said that man is not a good person at first glance. He should be fed to the pollutants!"
This actually reminded Jiang Fei that although the first pollutant black cat she subdued did not show any desire to eat humans, the second pollutant human-faced hawk moth kept muttering that it was so hungry, and she was annoyed by its nagging.
But eating humans is definitely not an option. Firstly, she can't get over it mentally, and secondly, where can she find human flesh?
It seemed the only option was to change its staple food. What do moths usually eat? It seemed they mostly sucked plant juices, or perhaps preyed on insects. The former was more difficult. Looking across the entire base, the only place with fresh plants was in the greenhouse, but those were Nona's experiments, so she couldn't touch them.
Gru rubbed his hands together, "Don't worry, Jiang Fei, I will take care of this matter."
"Ah...Okay."
"You were distracted just now. What were you thinking about?" Lucian asked. "We've already made plans for our outing. This time we're going to the Gain Tower again. Are you ready?"
"Yeah, everything is ready." These days she has been completing the syllabus she had listed earlier one by one. While writing the syllabus, she recalled the knowledge points. She can almost be said to have returned to her peak state in high school.
In order to prevent herself from being recognized by others when she went out, Jiang Fei deliberately changed her appearance. Of course, she did not have such superb skills, so it was Green from the office who did her makeup, as he had a lot of experience in makeup.
He said, "Makeup is more like magnifying a certain side of yourself, or you can say it's hiding your true self." Green has a box full of cosmetics and even several wigs, but he doesn't need the wigs because Jiang Fei cut her hair to ear-length shortly after returning to the base.
In addition to makeup, Green also took out a pair of dark green contact lenses. He introduced them mysteriously, "I bought these on the black market. They can completely change your iris. They really can conceal your true identity."
After coming to this world, Jiang Fei's eyes were no longer shortsighted. She put on colored contact lenses and blinked at herself in the mirror. There was no sign of disguise at all. Her facial features also became very ordinary, the kind that others would not be impressed by at first glance.
Jiang Fei was very satisfied with this. She appeared in front of everyone with her new image. Gru really didn't recognize her until Lucian reminded him.
"Really? I thought it was a different person, but I didn't expect Green to be so good!"
"Okay, hurry up and put on your protective suit!"
After changing into protective clothing, Jiang Fei sat in the passenger seat with ease and fastened her seat belt. They set off in the morning. Not long after the transport vehicle left the base, Jiang Fei released the hawk moth to collect information and report to her in a timely manner if any new pollutants were detected nearby.
The food problem of the hawk moth was finally solved smoothly. Jiang Fei found a basket of tangerines in the warehouse. She took some back to eat. Unexpectedly, the moth also liked them, so she peeled one and it ate half of it. However, after a few days, the hawk moth turned yellow.
Sure enough, whether it is a human or a moth, their bodies will turn yellow if they eat too many tangerines.
She quietly released the moths, but it was a good thing that they turned yellow, because as soon as they flew out, they blended into the background of yellow sand, and actually had an extra layer of camouflage.
"Aren't you eating tangerines today?" "Shut up, the master asked us to go out and gather information!" "Wow, but tangerines are really delicious."
The conversation of the moths spread intermittently in Jiang Fei's mind. Jiang Fei frowned and ordered them to be quiet.
They are clearly split from the same entity, but each little moth has a different personality, just like a split personality.
"I've met some fellow travelers." Anna had excellent eyesight and could spot the rear of the transport truck from a distance. Jiang Fei looked carefully for a while before realizing, "Are they also going to the Gein Tower?"
"It seems so, and it's probably a Class C or D base." Because when a Class B base is short of supplies, it will receive assistance from other bases of the same level, but Class C and Class D bases can't take care of themselves, so how can they help other bases?
"Should we wait then?"
"No, they're not going to the Tower. They're going to the Forsaken City." Lucian joined their conversation, and as he spoke, the transport truck suddenly turned and headed in another direction.
The so-called abandoned city is the ruins of a city before humans moved into the underground city. Now most of the landmark buildings are buried under the yellow sand. The tallest building that once represented the pinnacle of human development now only has the top few floors exposed, and it lies crookedly in the yellow sand.
In fact, there are some supplies left in these abandoned buildings, but the risk is too great. No one knows whether the building will collapse in the next moment and people will be drowned by the yellow sand.
Jiang Fei sent out a few more human-faced hawk moths to follow the transport vehicle in front. Not only could she "see" the people in the vehicle, she could also hear their conversations.
"Are you sure this will work?"
"This is the only hospital site nearby where we might find intracranial antihypertensive drugs. He's already suffering from intracranial hemorrhage, so we need to find them as soon as possible to prevent further vascular spasms. Let me repeat what we're looking for: nimodipine, mannitol, and recombinant factor VIIa."
Were they originally going to look for medicine? And someone in their base had suffered a brain hemorrhage?
"Even if he takes the medicine, he can't return to his previous state." A female voice said coldly.
"Are you asking us to abandon our leader? If it weren't for him, you wouldn't be alive today, you heartless thing!"
The woman's voice was calm. "I just don't want to waste manpower and resources on something that won't pay off. I also want you to be mentally prepared. Even if we do enter the hospital ruins, there's no guarantee they'll contain the medicine we're looking for."
"That's enough, stop talking!"
Jiang Fei collected her thoughts and said, "They are going to look for something in the hospital ruins."
"Yes, the abandoned city nearby used to be a medical center." Anna said. Since their destination was not the tower, she no longer worried about anything and drove straight to the "Gein" tower. The transport truck was soon left behind and gradually disappeared in the rearview mirror.
Once again coming to the "Gain" Tower, Jiang Fei felt a familiar yet unfamiliar feeling standing at the door of the tower. This time they had plenty of time, and Jiang Fei planned to write several more papers in one go.
Just as she expected, the questions in this tower were all about high school politics. Unlike the last time when Anna and the others were in a hurry and on the verge of despair, this time they had more time to study the questions. After the questions appeared on the slate, Jiang Fei took out the test outline and explained it, explaining the routine of answering the questions in points one by one.
However, the three people present were unable to understand it for a while, especially Gru. Listening to Jiang Fei's explanation of the problem was like a devil's voice filling his ears. He rubbed his head and said, "My head hurts."
“Is it time to grow some brains?” Lucian said lightly.
Jiang Fei sighed, "But answering questions is definitely not something you can learn all at once. I'll demonstrate it this time." After saying that, Jiang Fei sat on the chair. However, once the test began, the area extending from the table to one meter away was an area that no one else could enter.
This question is also very simple. It is to discuss the primary and secondary contradictions and the primary and secondary aspects of the contradictions. It is correct to write the answer in a general, specific and general way.
Jiang Fei's handwriting was neat. There was still a lot of time this time, so she was not as anxious as last time. After she finished writing, she checked the answers again before submitting the test paper.
"The papers are being graded..."
She shook her hands. Her hands would still feel sore if she wrote too many words at once.
"Loading grades..."
"Congratulations on passing the second level. Please collect your reward."
The door of the middle room on the second floor of the tower slowly opened. The room was not as small as it looked from the outside. Instead, it seemed like a different space. After walking in, it was discovered that the space had been expanded dozens of times. It was the first time that Jiang Fei had the opportunity to observe the internal structure of the room so carefully.
There were many shelves in the room, like a supermarket in modern society, and you could even find shopping carts. Jiang Fei pushed the cart and started shopping from the entrance.
The name of the items was marked on each shelf. They were mainly carrying food and daily necessities, which were consumed in large quantities. Jiang Fei's cart could not hold so many things. She walked all the way to the medical area. Some medicines were stored in containers, and some were placed in refrigerators. The magical thing was that she could not find the electrical wires of the refrigerator, and she didn't know how it was powered.
She took some commonly used medicines, almost a little of each kind, and her cart was soon full. Standing in front of the shelf, she suddenly remembered the conversation she had just "heard" from another member of the base team. They were also looking for medicines. She was careful and recalled the types of medicines they needed, which were pills and injections. She put them in a corner of the cart.
The success rate of searching for medicines in abandoned hospitals is very low, and they will most likely find nothing.
And if people are forced into a desperate situation, they can do anything. Jiang Fei had a bad feeling.
"Someone seems to be coming to the tower!" Gru, who had been busy moving food in and out, was the first to notice that there were other visitors to the tower. Anna gestured for him to lower his voice and she also looked down at the bottom of the tower. "It's the group from before."
Since they were all D-class bases, Anna had met those people a few times before, but she couldn't say she was very familiar with them. What's more, they chose to come when her team was transporting supplies, which made people even more suspicious of their motives.
Jiang Fei asked: "Are they here to answer questions too?" The conditions at the D-3 base were considered difficult, because other bases would always have three to five answerers to obtain supplies, and most of the other bases would stockpile supplies long before winter.
The only people who would come out to answer questions in the middle of winter were those from their D-3 base.
"No...it looks like they are here to steal something." Anna said with a serious expression.
Gru almost couldn't hold back his voice, "God damn it, they actually came to steal our supplies!?" Don't they know that D-3 Base is the poorest base in the North District! ?
Jiang Fei said, "I don't think they are here to steal food."
Anna thought the same as she did, because if they really wanted to steal the food, they could just hide in the dark and wait until they had moved the food before taking action. Why expose themselves so early?
"So they're after something else, not food, but medicine," Lucian pointed out. He looked with disdain at a shorter man in the group. "Hey, that guy's here too? I thought he was doing well after going to another base, but it seems that's not the case."
Jiang Fei followed his gaze and seemed to have seen the man's photo before. Oh yes, it was when she was in the research institute. The login interface of the computer she used still had the photo of the previous owner. Leon told her that a colleague had jumped to another base, so that should be him.
"Tsk, why is that traitor Eugene here too? What bad luck." Gru also discovered Eugene mixed in with the other team. He cursed angrily, "He should have died long ago."
Anna said, "Everyone calm down. It seems their captain wants to say something to us."
They belonged to the D-1 base. Their captain was a tall, burly man with a righteous look. "Captain Anna, we've met before."
Because they hadn't yet passed the first level, they could only stay on the ground floor. Jiang Fei and the others stood on the second floor, looking down at the team. Although both teams appeared calm on the surface, undercurrents were surging. Anna silently lowered her hand to the hand on her waist and the gun. "Captain Carl, we have met before, but let's put aside the unnecessary pleasantries and just tell me what you want."
"Captain Anna, you're still as outgoing as ever. I haven't seen you for a while. Have you added a new answerer to your base? Our base manager originally thought you might be short on supplies and was planning to provide assistance, but now it seems that's no longer necessary." The man looked at Jiang Fei, who was standing at the back. Seeing this, Gru immediately stood in front of Jiang Fei, completely blocking her view. He said to the man, "Yeah, it's our base's answerer who's been killed or run away. After all, it was the base that raised him. How can someone be so heartless!?"
Eugene was embarrassed by the insinuation, and even more infuriating was that no one stood up to defend him. The girl who had almost quarreled with the others in the previous conversation even sneered, "You are a loser who can only answer the first level questions. You can't please anyone. How pitiful."
Eugene glared at her hatefully, lowered his voice and gritted his teeth and said, "Bitch..."
Carl said, "We need some medicine. Don't worry, we won't touch your other supplies. I just need some medicine."
Anna was skeptical. She hadn't had much contact with the captains of other bases, but she was used to seeing people fighting over supplies in the apocalypse. "Really? Then how can I trust you? You have a team of people guarding down there, fully armed, and then tell me you have no other intentions? Don't you think it's ridiculous?"
"Please believe us, these medicines are very important to us. They are life-saving medicines." Carl said as he removed the pistol from his waist and ordered his subordinates, "You too, put down your weapons."
The girl with the tattoo on her cheek made an impatient "tsk" sound. "What if they attack us when we're not prepared?!"
"I said - put down your weapons, I order you in the name of the captain!" Carl raised his voice. The girl frowned and looked reluctant, but still did as he asked.
There were a pile of weapons on the ground. Anna could barely see their sincerity. "What medicine do you need?"
The rewards in the tower will become more diverse as the number of floors increases. For example, in the reward room on the first floor, there are only some simple medicines, such as cold medicines, while on the second floor, the types of medicines will increase.
Carl and the others were also very clear about this. The current test-taker in their base could only answer questions on the first level, and he couldn't actually be sure that the needed medicines would be available on the second level. He could only take a chance on this possibility. In this way, he was still a very loyal person, even willing to gamble his life for the seriously ill head of the base.
Carl told the name of the medicine he needed, which Jiang Fei had already put into the cart, but she still went back to the reward room to take out another one.
"Let me do it." Anna took the medicine and walked to the first floor. She had not completely let down her guard and her nerves were highly tense. She stopped at a distance from Karl, put the medicine on the ground and pushed it over.
Karl immediately bent down and picked up the medicine quickly. "We owe you a favor this time."
Anna took a half step back and said, "You got what you wanted. Now leave here immediately, otherwise I will think you have other intentions, and don't blame me for taking action."
Carl lowered his head to confirm that it was the medicine he was looking for. He packed up his things and ordered his men to leave first. He was the last one to leave, and when he left, he bowed deeply to Anna and the others.
"They're smart. If a fight really breaks out, I'll beat Eugene half to death first!" Gru stared at Eugene's back.
"You hate him so much?" Jiang Fei pushed the cart to the first floor. "What else did he do?"
"He and two other test takers came to the tower to answer questions, but when they were leaving, they encountered a storm. He only cared about himself and let the other two test takers die after being swept into the storm. When he returned to the base and saw that the base was in tatters, he packed up his things and went to D-1 base. He also took away a lot of the test documents!"
This matter cannot be viewed from a modern perspective. After all, in the end times, bases are the units, and each base is equivalent to a small country. What Eugene did is no less than treason.
No wonder Gru was so angry.
"He wasn't doing well in the other base, and the other players were bullying him," Lucian said. "That's what they call 'evil has its way with evil.'"
The material handling was completed quickly, and the rear compartment of the transport truck was filled to the brim, giving people a sense of security.
As they drove the transport truck back, a pitch-black aircraft flew across the sky. Jiang Fei looked at it curiously for a few more times. Anna said, "It looks like the case is solved."
"What?"
"That's the investigation team's special plane. After the A-1 base incident is resolved, the team will return to Sky City. I have to say, the new governor is very good at winning people over and giving A-1 base enough face." Anna looked up at the sky. The aircraft was flying very fast and soon became a small black dot in her field of vision. "The leader of the investigation team usually doesn't leave Sky City easily."
"Willing to leave and being unable to leave are two different concepts, right?" Jiang Fei was more inclined to the second answer, "He knows too many secrets of Sky City, so he can't leave."
"You could also say that besides him, there are three other people who rarely leave Sky City. He and the other four are the four pillars that ensure Sky City's stability."
"Are the other three people also psychics?" Jiang Fei learned from Lucian that the leader of the investigation team was the rumored psychic, so the other three people who could stand on equal footing with him were probably also psychics.
"Yes, they represent wisdom, order, truth, and kindness, respectively, but I'm not sure of their specific abilities." There was no trace of the aircraft in the sky, only a trail of cloud. "I heard... they've been alive since the founding of Sky City. Strictly speaking, they can't really be considered human, are they?"
The technological level of the Sky City compared to the Underground City is really like the saying, one is in heaven and the other is underground. People in the Underground City cannot imagine how far the technology of the Sky City has developed. Maybe it has already achieved immortality for humans.
The tail cloud was reflected in Jiang Fei's eyes. "Isn't that considered...human?"
The aircraft was operating smoothly. Sitting on the single sofa, Yan was reading the message from the Archon. A servant poured him some tea. "The Archon said he wants to see you when you arrive in Sky City."
"Okay, I understand." Yan's long silver hair was tied loosely behind his head with a headband, and a few strands of hair adorned his androgynous profile.
Although the attack on the A-1 base ended with a scapegoat, his intuition told him that the real group of people who carried out the attack were not that simple. Perhaps... they were people with special abilities like him. Thinking of this, he picked up the teacup and took a sip.
The aircraft landed directly on the top floor of Sky City, which is also the largest floor in Sky City, covering nearly 100 square kilometers. There are many buildings on it. People have been waiting at the tarmac since early in the morning. As soon as the aircraft landed and opened the door, the servants lined up and bowed to Yann in unison, "Master Yann, welcome back."
Yan's eyes flickered across the tops of the people in the row. "There are too many people. Only one person is enough to lead the way."
The leading attendant said, "The consul has said that your return must be greeted with the highest courtesy."
"...Forget it, I'll go see him myself." After saying that, he walked away. The buildings on the top floor of Sky City were mainly made of stone. The doorposts were carved with exquisite stone patterns. The craftsmanship was superb and could be called works of art. However, Ya En didn't pay much attention to it. He came here frequently, so he knew the route very well. He chose the shortest route, and at this time...
The consul should be in the garden. He walked along the path towards the garden. Not far away, he could vaguely see the top of the rockery and hear the sound of flowing water in the artificial stream.
Passing through an arched door, Yan finally saw the Archon sitting sideways on a recliner.
"Ah, isn't that Yan? Why did you come here alone? Didn't I send someone to pick you up? Could it be that they didn't do as I asked?" The Archon had long black hair, braided in a single braid and hanging down in front of his chest. "It seems they're still not obedient enough."
"No, on the contrary, they were already there before the aircraft landed. It's just that I wanted to come here alone."
"Hmm... is that so? Hey, you make me look so boring. I was planning a welcoming ceremony." He was young, perhaps only in his teens, with eyes of a rare golden color. Staring into them for too long gave one a feeling of inhumanity. "Since they're useless now, we might as well just execute them all."
He clapped his hands joyfully and beckoned to the maid beside him, "Bring me some paper and pen. Let me think of a better way to die."
Yan lowered his eyes. He knew very well that the person sitting in front of him was the governor of Sky City and a complete devil.
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