Chapter 41: The Sunken Sea (8)

There is almost no "rebellion" in the imperial capital.

Because there is Guiyi, the symbol of "order", who serves as the defender.

No one can avoid Guiyi's "eyes".

But this does not mean that exceptions do not exist.

- The slums.

A refuge mixed with crime and dark transactions that everyone knows how chaotic it is.

Guiyi certainly does not care about it.

Even in the imperial capital, no matter how bright and beautiful the surface is, it cannot cover up the decay and decay inside. Sewage seeps out and flows into the upside-down and ruined world. The boundary is so clear.

The imperial capital is full of high-level awakened people, but it does not mean that there are no low-level awakened people and ordinary people.

Similarly, poverty relative to wealth still exists.

The upper class of the imperial capital certainly needs the supply of labor.

District 13, the jurisdiction of the Night Doves. Eleanor, wearing a pitch-black hoodie, walked past low-rise houses of varying levels. Those houses were so dilapidated that they could not be called residences at all. They seemed to be randomly pasted together with cement and worthless bricks. Garbage was everywhere on the dirty road, and mosquitoes were flying everywhere.

Eleanor covered herself up tightly, deliberately reducing her presence so that almost no one would notice her. She continued to pull down her hood without changing her expression, walked towards a closed wooden door with a clear purpose, and raised her hand to knock.

No one responded. Eleanor played with the small ring in her hand, and did not leave, just standing there motionless.

"Squeak--"

The old wooden door was pushed open with a precarious sound, revealing a dark gap, like a silent temptation and invitation. She stared and walked straight inside.

The sharp sound of the wind broke the silence, and the tip of the dagger brushed the side of her face, almost piercing the corner of her eye. She easily grabbed the sharp weapon full of venom, and the shadow under her body turned into a spike to press against the fragile throat of the person in front of her. She asked with an interested smile: "Your leader asked me to convey a message. Don't you want me to come in and sit down?"

She showed the ring again in front of her and successfully entered the inner room without causing any casualties.

Eleanor looked at the serious man sitting on the chair. He should be the temporary agent mentioned by Black Goat and the second person in charge of Huiying, "Dead Leaf Vine".

"Good evening... Oh, it should be morning now, don't worry, your leader is fine."

"Me? Ah, that's so rude, I even forgot to introduce myself, no wonder you are so defensive. Relax, we should be considered companions."

"After all, no one is more like-minded than us."

She said slowly, while taking off the hood that was pulled down very low, removing the supernatural power to cover her face, her appearance was completely exposed, she was "White Crane", the leader of the "Tracing the Origin" organization in District 15, which was known to everyone.

She had long disappeared in the legend.

"Isn't it?" She

is also the teacher of "Black Goat", the leader

of "Echo". Withered Leaf Vine frowned, still retaining a skeptical attitude. She appeared here without any warning, wearing the ring that symbolizes the identity of the leader, and in the appearance of "White Crane". It was too coincidental, as if everything was filled with calculations.

He stared at "Bai He", observing the subtle changes in her expression, "Really? But I heard that the disappearance was just fake news, and the top management of Tracing Source has been replaced."

Bai He smiled nonchalantly, "Maybe."

"I understand your distrust, but what if I can bring the Black Goat back?" Bai He brushed the inverted cross earring on her right ear and turned her head away, "Does identity still matter?"

Ku Ye Teng was silent for a while, and when she spoke again, her tense voice calmed down again, "It's not important, but I am willing to believe it, because probably only Bai He would be willing to do this."

"You haven't come here just to tell us this. What do you want?"

Bai He took out two tiny chips from his pocket and handed them to him. "Do you have personnel arranged in the executive building? Stick these on the clearing capsule."

Clearing capsules are expensive. Just one requires a lot of materials and funds. The imperial capital has currently built two, which are placed in a separate space. If they hadn't found high-level people who could strip their memories to serve as low-cost labor, they probably wouldn't be willing to build even one.

This chip can interfere with the operation of the clearing capsule. Kuye Teng didn't quite understand her intentions, but thinking that You Bai would be going to the executive building for an internship soon, he roughly guessed her purpose.

"It's easy to be discovered, and there are surveillance cameras everywhere in the executive building." Kuye Teng felt strange. She shouldn't be unaware of this. Perhaps Bai He had another way, but he didn't dare to take the risk. After all, it was their people who were killed in the accident.

He wanted to refuse, but he was suppressed before he could express it, and he couldn't say anything for a while.

"Don't rush to refuse, I haven't finished yet."

Bai He took over his reluctant action and stuffed the chip into his palm, then continued: "I will help you to place the members, and no accidents will happen. And don't you want Black Goat to come back?"

She avoided the specific content of the chip and blocked his refusal with a tempting enough promise.

This sounds like an extremely hypocritical trap. Dead Leaf Vine knows it, but no matter what the price, they must find their leader back, and the only person they can trust is probably White Crane. And they do have the same goal.

"I hope you can fulfill your promise as scheduled." Dead Leaf Vine still swallowed the words that he hadn't said. He nodded slightly at the person in front of him, "For the leader, we are willing to give up everything. If you don't rescue him in the end, Huiying will regard you as an enemy."

Quite loyal. Before White Crane came, he was prepared to be rejected outright. After all, no one can guarantee that Huiying's deputy will not have ambitions to rise to the top.

He seems to be wholeheartedly devoted to Black Goat. I hope he is not acting.

"Why did you leave then?"

Bai He stopped walking when he heard this before he left, but he didn't make any more unnecessary moves, just silently waiting for Kuye Teng's next words. He

looked like he was leaving after hearing it.

"This is what the leader has always wanted to ask, but he can't say it."

"Black Goat trusts you very much." Bai He suddenly stopped being anxious. She found a chair and sat down. As a guest, she asked him if he had any tea. She took a leisurely sip under Kuye Teng's indescribable look, "Don't you welcome me?"

"...No."

Bai He: "That's good."

Dead Leaf Vine: "..."

He recalled that when Black Goat mentioned the leader of the Tracing Source, he described Bai He's gentle temperament and thoughtfulness, and seriously suspected that it was the filter of his own leader.

"Sorry, I can't tell you the reason." Bai He knew that this was not what Black Goat wanted to ask. Although she never revealed it, he could guess it himself.

Because the death of Jiuyue was not a secret in the Tracing Source.

The death of the awakened will cause the disappearance of supernatural creations. Four years ago, the Tracing Source headquarters and important bases suddenly experienced a large-scale data collapse. They could only urgently repair the crashed program while investigating, but found that it was because the most core initial code was lost.

The most important heart is missing.

Even though the collapsed power was quickly replaced by the backup plan and the chaotic data was restored, there was still something vaguely that could never be found again.

That was their irreplaceable and unique companion.

Bai He returned to the fifteenth *7.7.zl area that day, and it was also the last time. She found Yu Bufeng and told him about the deal with the chief of the Inspection Institute, and she would never come back again.

She handed "Tracing the Source" to him, and she even thought that she had been killed as well.

At that time, Yu Bufeng just stared at the open book in his hand in a daze. He did not turn another page, but just looked at it for a long time before he looked at her again. He blinked his sour eyes and nodded softly. His and her final destinations were different.

Bai He can vent her pain wantonly in the imperial capital and disturb everyone, while Yu Bufeng must be rational and calm. Even if he is so sad that he feels sick, he has to swallow his passion and appease the organization.

Only by bearing all the pressure can Bai He continue in the imperial capital. He always knows what she needs.

He has been accompanying her in this way.

Yu Bufeng has never asked her why she insisted on taking such a dangerous road. It's not that she can't wait for a better way, why she doesn't want to stay. He is also very sad and even scared. But he doesn't want to create new pressure for her.

Bai He knows that she knows very well that they are companions who understand each other best and family members who most hope that each other can be safe.

She owed Yu Bufeng a hug for a long time.

Death may be her end, but it will never be a missed opportunity or the end of tracing the origin.

Black Goat probably wanted to ask these questions as well, or perhaps about the days she spent in the imperial capital, but he would not say it out loud. Bai

He turned the white ring with the aura of a plunderer in her hand, and her eyes traced the lines on her palm. She avoided the question with a very faint smile: "Besides this, is there anything else you want to know?"

The withered vine did not miss this opportunity. After thinking for a long time, she estimated and asked: "Since you are safe, then the 'Gathering the Moon' that has also disappeared should be safe as well?"

Bai He stopped playing with it out of boredom, and she looked up, "You seem to be very interested in tracing the origin."

"As our partner, I must pay attention to Suyuan so that I can help them at the right time."

During the years when Bai He was away, Suyuan, which had been badly damaged, was reorganized. It was with the help of Huiying, who came later, that it was possible to seize the time and develop as much as possible.

Since she is still the main person in charge of Suyuan, of course she needs to express her gratitude and repay her.

But Huiying just needs the Black Goat to return smoothly.

Withered Leaf Vine glanced at his companions around him and said, "All members of Huiying have received help from Tracing Source in the past, so basically no one objects to the leader's request to help cover up Tracing Source, because they are willing to do so."

"Suffering is the norm in the Fifteenth District. Poverty, disease, and alien species. We all hope to change all this."

Withered Leaf Vine felt mocked. They came to the Imperial Capital from the Fifteenth District, but what they witnessed was still misfortune. They could only do their best to protect themselves.

This topic is too heavy, and it is not appropriate to continue discussing it under the current circumstances, so he deliberately avoided it: "But the inquiry about 'Gathering the Moon' comes from my sincere heart, and it is purely personal emotion." "

The Imperial Capital deliberately raised the prices of cheap products and sold them to District 15, especially technological products. A chip that needs to be repaired many times can be increased in price tenfold, and people can only grit their teeth and buy it, because most technology companies are controlled by the Imperial Capital."

"A small company promoted an affordable product that broke the monopoly at the time." The dead leaf vine looked at her, "Great value for money, and the company's electronic products went from being ignored in the beginning to being a successful hit later, and the supply was almost in short supply."

"That was developed by the Tracing Origin Research Department, right?"

The deputy leader of the Tracing Origin Organization, "Gathering the Moon", is also the director of the Tracing Origin Research Department.

"Pursue quality and sell at a low price."

It's like doing charity, just short of giving it away directly.

"It's the overall style of the source, and it's more in line with that person's style. I've always been curious about what kind of person Jueyue is."

The brown tea leaves sank to the bottom of the cup, a little floating on the slightly turbid water surface, drifting along with the swaying tea liquid. Bai He lowered his eyes and stared at the dry tea leaves absent-mindedly, listening to him continue: "Many people say that she is kind and friendly, but I always feel that she is a little superficial."

Bai He's eyes turned back to Kuye Teng, and her casual attitude was put away. Only then did her attitude change subtly.

Kuye Teng showed an appropriate smile.

"Because as an excellent person in charge, she is not just the heart of the tracing organization."

"She is also the nerve vein that District 15 cannot lose."