Chapter 182 The Nameless Corpse (7)
However, the sea surface had been covered by the boulders, making it impossible for them to return the way they came.
Moreover, if they chose the sea route, it would take nearly five days, and by then, Pigne might not know how things would have turned out.
The fastest and safest way to travel right now is by airplane.
She went back to discuss it with Xiao Jiang and Lian Na.
Rennagi said, "Pingyi has its own air routes, but the airspace management is in the hands of Pines."
Shu Ningmiao suddenly asked him, "Can you fly a plane?"
"Are you kidding me?" Rennagi waved her hands frantically, then suddenly stopped: "No, that's not right."
He actually seems to be able to drive.
By simply removing the navigation system made by Weston and installing it on the aircraft, and then using his supernatural abilities to directly connect to the central control system, one can bypass the complex instruments and operate the aircraft directly.
"But where do we get planes? There's no place to buy or sell them here; transportation is all controlled by the government."
"Of course, we'll rob it," Shu Ningmiao said calmly.
...Just as I expected! He knew it!
She looked at Shu Changyan: "Do you have a gun?"
Shu Changyan seemed to be genuinely considering the feasibility: "No, but I can assemble it if I have the parts."
Rennagi was truly impressed by this extraordinary brother and sister duo. She put her hands together and said, "Wait, don't rush to come up with a solution. Let me think about how to do it."
He forced himself to think, afraid he wouldn't be able to figure out how these two would pretend to be hijackers and try to steal the plane. Xiao Jiang was also eager to try—these people really had no scruples.
“How about this?” Rennagi’s gaze lingered on Xiaojiang: “Aren’t you an operator? Pine’s operators have special privileges and the authority to dispatch aircraft. He’s wanted, but you aren’t. Even if Pine has deleted your identity, Pingyi’s network equipment is outdated. I can try to tamper with it.”
Shu Changyan said, "Her identity is still valid."
"How did you know?" Xiao Jiang's face showed a hint of dissatisfaction: "Maybe Zhao put me on the wanted list the moment I left."
"No, he won't." Shu Changyan's voice was unhurried, which made her furious: "He won't abandon you. Among the current agents, no one is more suitable to partner with him than you."
Zhao's superpowers, as a concept, have almost no upper limit. The only drawback is his relatively weak body compared to other superpowered individuals. After being outmaneuvered and severely injured by Shu Ningmiao last time, he needs people he can trust even more.
Therefore, Shu Changyan knew that Xiao Jiang would not be punished at all if she returned to the United Building now, because even if she harbored resentment and doubts towards Zhao, she would never stab him in the back.
This is an obvious flaw, but also her greatest strength.
“You… you know him quite well.” Xiao Jiang gave him a complicated look.
"Has the impact of his powers on you lessened since you left Pinheit?" Shu Ningmiao recalled this incident and her actions over the past few days: "You seem to have learned to recognize a few words recently."
“I don’t know about his special ability, but now that you mention it, it seems so. I haven’t paid attention to it before. I can only write a few commonly used characters. Learning languages is so boring, and I don’t want to read books.”
Xiao Jiang's eyes had a clarity untouched by knowledge. She poked at the sand with a withered twig, and finally wrote a distorted character for "wind" in Pinheis's script.
Shu Ningmiao also picked up a twig and squatted down next to her to neatly write Xiao Jiang's name: "The more you see, the more naturally you'll learn."
The airstrip in Pingyi is located on the outskirts of the city, close to densely populated areas, so Shu Changyan needs to disguise it again.
Given the limited resources in Pingyi, Shu Ningmiao simply had him take off his shirt and wrapped him up and down with emergency bandages from the boat, almost turning him into a mummy. This way, even his conspicuous eyes could be covered.
Xiao Jiang swaggered off to the airport tarmac with her group of people, without bringing any identification. But there were only so many agents in Pinne, and no one dared to impersonate her. Pingyi would cooperate with her to verify the information in the database.
Just in case, Rennagi hacked into Pingyi's system to ensure her information was correct.
"So simple?" Xiao Jiang was incredulous as she boarded the small plane without any hindrance: "Shouldn't there be several procedures and waiting for the leader and the leader's leader to sign and approve it?"
Rennagi walked to the cockpit on her own initiative: "Once you actually take the plane away, the next pilot won't be so simple."
If he hadn't heard from Shu Ningmiao that Pine was about to cause chaos, he wouldn't have dared to take such a bold approach. By the time news of Pine causing the outbreak of Manla disease spread across the planet, the national security department probably wouldn't have had time to deal with these trivial matters.
He turned on the navigation system and waited for it to integrate with the aircraft's central control system: "Get ready."
With a roar of the engines, the plane began to take off and taxi. After circling several times without any problems and confirming that everything was normal, Rennagi's confidence increased greatly.
The next second, the nose of the plane rose high and it tilted as it swooped down into the sky.
Xiao Jiang felt like her scalp was being ripped off: "Are you really capable of driving?! At this angle, it's practically a rocket!"
Gray clouds rushed past the porthole, and Rennagi, drenched in sweat, couldn't spare a moment to reply.
Operation is one thing, technique is another.
Shu Ningmiao sat in her seat inside, slowly rotating with the plane's tilt. She felt that if she didn't move, she might be embedded in the wall.
A sensational crash, a whoosh.
The aircraft, with a loud thud, lurched and lurched through the clouds as it hurtled toward Phineas.
Xiao Jiang pressed himself against the window and looked down. The islands gradually receded into the distance and became small dots. On the surface of the sea under the wing, the distinct boundary of the rock formation could be clearly seen.
Rennagi breathed a sigh of relief: "Thank goodness... at this speed, it will probably take about six hours to get to Pinne."
These few hours passed much faster than sitting at sea. Apart from Xiao Jiang sitting energetically by the porthole looking at the scenery, Shu Ningmiao and Shu Changyan were both properly fastened in their seatbelts and closed their eyes to rest.
After an unknown amount of time had passed, Xiao Jiang's voice broke the silence in the cabin: "Look!"
Shu Ningmiao opened her eyes in a daze and pulled open the blackout curtain. The plane was already descending, and the edge of the new land could be vaguely seen. However, Xiao Jiang wanted them to see something else, the area near the sea in Pinne.
There were dark things surging in the sea, which looked like living creatures, trying to climb upwards.
Xiao Jiang asked, "Is this a contaminant?"
There were no contaminants near Pine before. These contaminants either fled towards Pine because they were suppressed by the Stone, or they were attracted by the microorganisms that were in Pine.
Fortunately, this pollutant is manageable for ordinary people, and climbing ashore won't cause too much chaos.
Rennagi, distracted, asked her, "We're almost at Pine, where are we going to stop? Do you have a place to park an airplane at your house?"
Shu Ningmiao unbuckled her seatbelt and walked towards the driver's seat, moving with ease inside the tilted fuselage.
She didn't answer his question, but placed her hand on the back of the driver's seat: "There's a helipad on the top floor of the Union Building."
"Haha, you don't expect me to drive straight into the Union Building, do you?"
"...No!" After a two-second silence, Rennagi completely broke down: "We'll be riddled with bullets as soon as we get off the plane."
This is blatant provocation!
"No," Shu Ningmiao said. "There are four of us, so there's nothing to be afraid of."
"The four of us surrounding the Union Building..." Rennagi smirked expressionlessly. "No, it's the three of you."
"Don't underestimate yourself at this time." Xiao Jiang patted his shoulder.
Rennagi really wanted to punch herself and just go to sleep.
How can two people with completely different personalities be so similar in their ways?
In the end, he could only weakly say, "Don't bother me anymore, or the plane will really crash!"
Xiao Jiang was taken aback by his words and sat back down. Shu Ningmiao was still staring at the driver's window, watching him operate the controls.
"Just drive straight in," Shu Ningmiao said.
Obeying her seemed to have become an instinct, a subconscious act. Rennagi gritted her teeth as the plane engine roared shrilly.
The silhouette of Union Tower rapidly magnified in the field of vision.
A fierce wind swept through, and the plane swooped down, cutting in at an astonishing angle before anyone could react, and landed on the tarmac.
The landing gear sparked loudly as it rubbed against the ground.
In an instant, all the bullets rained down on the plane, but at a distance of one meter from the fuselage, they seemed to hit an invisible wall and bounced off, creating ripples in the air.
Rennagi felt a chill run down his spine as he listened in the cabin. Even though he hadn't been hit, he instinctively covered his head.
Amidst the chaos, Shu Changyan unbuckled his seatbelt, stood up, and glanced out the porthole at the situation.
He heard Shu Changyan speaking to Shu Ningmiao intermittently: "I'll hold Zhao off, you go do what you want to do... It's okay, his superpowers won't work on me."
On the tarmac, a dark mass of soldiers surrounded the plane in a semi-circle, their guns pointed at the cabin doors, and the clicking sounds of gun safety being released could be heard continuously.
The cabin door opened, and everyone made way for Shu Ningmiao behind them.
On the top floor of the Union Building, the number of parliamentarians had drastically decreased, and most of the seats in the chamber were empty.
Some people claimed to be ill and stayed home, some resigned, and some fled the capital of Pines overnight. Even those who stayed behind had somewhat evasive eyes.
All of Pinhes's government policies were forced to a halt, and everything came to a standstill at the moment the truth was revealed.
Originally... everything was still under control. Who could have imagined that Wei Sheng Qian Heng, who had been missing for a long time and was almost forgotten, would suddenly reappear in such an earth-shattering way, catching them completely off guard.
This so-called holy son of the church, who is all-knowing and all-seeing, ruthlessly exposes every secret that the church has painstakingly concealed and embellished.
This is truly bizarre!
He told everyone that the culprit behind the Manla disease, which swept through Pinne, was Pinne, the very country they depended on for survival and were once proud of.
Zhao sat silently in his seat, the documents laid out in front of him untouched.
He could clearly feel that he had become a sitting duck.
The reputation of war heroes, once built on flowers and glory, was instantly tarnished.
The greater one's former prestige, the more piercing the hatred that surges forth now.
The backlash from his glory brought him even greater calamity.
He could feel the gazes coming from all directions.
Anger, fear, urgency.
One member of parliament slammed his fist on the table during the meeting: "You must be held accountable for this!"
The implication couldn't be clearer.
Someone has to be held responsible for this disaster, and Pigne must give an explanation to the angry humanity.
Zhao stood up alone and walked to the floor-to-ceiling windows of the circular council chamber.
The setting sun dyed the city blood red, and the protesters in the streets held torches, winding like an angry fire dragon. His smiling face, which did not reach his eyes, was reflected in the glass, as well as the politicians with different expressions behind him.
Outside, in the distance, someone lit the Pigne flag, the flames shooting into the sky and illuminating his eyes.
Inside the council chamber, someone pushed open the heavy door.
A figure stepped in against the light streaming in from outside, ignoring all the gazes directed at him. He walked to the center of the council hall as if no one else was there, and with a flick of his arm, casually plunged a heavy sword into the center of the hard floor.
The broken floorboards pushed upwards, forming an irregular, shallow pit.
The newcomer spoke gently, but showed no respect whatsoever to the flustered councilors: "You may leave now."
Hearing the familiar voice, Zhao slowly turned her head, but did not see the person she expected.
His gaze fell on the man in front of him, whose entire body was wrapped in bandages and who was wearing a white trench coat. His eyelids twitched: "Big brother... who are you?"
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