Chapter 181: Trapped in a desperate situation, he actually dared! ...
Nan Qi has been away for three days, and Bai has been staying in the command center almost every day these days.
When he was tired, he would take a nap in his own office at the command center. When he was hungry, he would take a couple of nutritional supplements. In Murphy's words, his living standards had plummeted.
Bai didn't care and devoted himself to the next battle deployment.
The afternoon after Nan Qi left, they discovered that the thieves who had been honest before began to make moves again. In the past two days, they launched small breakout activities from time to time, but all of them failed without exception.
Murphy found it strange. The thieves' actions were like moths to a flame; it was completely meaningless. It wasn't so much that they were trying to break out, but rather that they were testing something.
What are you testing? Murphy frowned, and Bai felt the same way.
Apart from the first time, Bai also had a vague bad feeling in his heart, because he had not received any news from Nan Qi for a long time. The last time was when Nan Qi told him that he was about to enter the black market. After that, there was no news from either Nan Qi or Lunke.
Bai was very worried, so he contacted Keppel overnight and asked Keppel to go to the black market to find Nan Qi and confirm that Nan Qi was safe.
Keppel went there and confirmed Nan Qi's safety from the owner of Fengshengheli Tower, but he did not see Nan Qi, only Lunk.
So, even though he knew Nan Qi was safe, he still felt a chill in his heart for no reason.
After dealing with another small group of thieves who broke through, Bai sat on the chair and rubbed his forehead tiredly, while Murphy sat in the seat next to him and cursed.
Lawson, the representative of the plant tribe, rolled his eyes at Murphy. If it weren't for the etiquette ingrained in him, he would have gone up and covered Murphy's mouth. It was too noisy.
Lina, the representative of the Illusion Clan, patted Lawson's hand, signaling him to calm down. Then, looking at Bai, who was in the main seat, she spoke softly, "Admiral Smellid, this situation is clearly abnormal. Should we send troops to investigate further?"
Bai thought for a long time and shook his head. His voice was a little hoarse from lack of water due to long-term command. "It's still too dangerous inside. Our goal is to force them out. Guard all entrances and exits, and they won't be able to do anything. Interrogate the newly captured thieves in a hurry. I don't believe they don't know everything. And-"
Bai took a deep breath, his eyes growing more profound. "The technical support team has been on high alert lately. All systems must be frequently verified and inspected. If anything seems amiss, immediately disconnect the intelligent system and switch from automatic to manual."
The captain of the technical support team was a Zerg. When he heard his admiral say this, he looked at him in surprise at first, then he carefully wrote down Bai's request and immediately passed the order to start executing it.
Murphy seemed to have guessed something from Bai's series of orders, so he stopped cursing and sighed softly.
Looking up, he saw all the other representatives looking at Bai with puzzled eyes. Murphy coughed and said, "Alright, that's about it for today. Go back and rest. The commander-in-chief and I will be here."
With these words, he silenced the questions raised by the representatives of various countries. Then he pulled Bai up and said, "Come on, my brother has some delicious food today. Let's go to my office and eat together."
Representatives from various countries were all elites. They knew that they could not get anything out of them, so they did not insist and left the command center one after another.
Kunba, the representative of the Rock Tribe, took a few quick steps to catch up with Lawson, the representative of the Plant Tribe, and Lina, the representative of the Illusion Tribe.
The people of the Rock Tribe are kind and don't have many cunning thoughts. There are some things that he either can't understand or he wants to hear other opinions. The Rock Tribe is on good terms with the Plant Tribe and the Illusion Tribe, so now he wants to hear what Lawson and Lina think.
The representatives of the three tribes went back together tacitly. Representatives from other countries also went together with representatives from their friendly countries. They all had doubts about what had happened in the past two days and Bai's orders.
They did not forget the email that passed through the United Army's shielding system and was sent to their private mailbox. It was very likely related to the order Bai gave to the technical support team today.
Entering Murphy's office, Bai was sitting on the sofa, looking exhausted.
Murphy poured a glass of warm water in front of Bai and sat opposite him. "Those guys are very smart. They must have guessed something as soon as you gave the order."
Bai took a sip of water, which moistened his dry throat, and his voice became less hoarse than before. "It's good that you guessed it. I've had enough of their ambiguous attitude."
Bai said this very emotionally, and although he still had a cold expression, Murphy saw disgust under this cold expression.
Murphy was startled. Bai always had a calm and composed face, making it impossible to see his emotions, let alone what he was thinking.
Murphy was a little overwhelmed for a moment when he suddenly showed such obvious emotions.
"Brother Bai, you..." Murphy chose his words carefully, "Um, are you worried about Nan Qi? Brother Nan Qi is smart and capable, he will be fine."
Hearing Nan Qi's name, Bai's hand holding the water cup tightened reflexively. With a click, the beautiful transparent glass cup shattered, and the warm water flowed all over Bai's hands.
"Ouch, let go quickly, don't cut yourself." Murphy quickly stood up to get a towel, mumbling like an old woman, "You, hey..."
Murphy didn't know what to say, so he handed the towel to Bai. The housework robot rolled over and cleaned up the broken cup and the water on the floor.
Bai silently watched the little robot busying around. After a moment, he whispered, "Sorry."
"Why are you apologizing to me? It's just a cup." Murphy poured another glass of water and placed it in front of Bai, pretending to be relaxed. "Brother Nanqi might be back in two days. Don't worry too much. I'm on duty tonight. You can go back and have a good rest."
Bai didn't respond, but instead asked Murphy, "Aren't you curious why I gave such an order to the Technical Support Team?"
"Curious." Murphy smiled. "But since we are allies, I believe you won't harm me without considering the interests of both parties. So whether I can know or not depends on you."
Bai Chen said frankly: "I can't tell you the specific reasons now, but I can tell you my concerns."
"Sure," Murphy said. "I'm all ears."
Bai took a deep breath and slowly expressed his concerns: "The thieves have been unusually probing us these past few days. It's very likely that they have already obtained some information, so they are using a small force to test our strength."
"Wait, I don't quite understand. They should be aware of our strength. Why are they still testing us?"
Murphy frowned. "Could it be that our strength has declined in the past few days? You told the technical support team to be careful because you're worried he might hack into our intelligence system and disintegrate us from within? How is that possible?"
The intelligent system they use is a derivative version of the main brain. Even though the human race does not use anything derived from the main brain, with the terrifying existence of No. 7, it would be easy for them to invade.
Therefore, with a great god like No. 7 around, how could they allow those thieves to invade their intelligent system?
You know, at this time, Number Seven was still their ally.
The reason they are now trying to kill the thieves is because the thieves played a very important role in the information about those experiments provided by No. 7.
Now Bai's intention is clearly to fear that the thieves will attack their intelligent system. How could this be possible? The thieves would not be stupid enough to take this route.
"Bai, have you been too tired and overthinking lately?" Murphy looked outside the door, stood up and closed it, whispering, "With that person here, how could it be possible?"
Seeing Murphy's confusion, Baitou felt even more pain. He didn't know how to tell Murphy what Hoover Walker wanted to do to Number Seven, nor did he know how to explain to Murphy that if something happened to Number Seven, Nan Qi would most likely be implicated.
He could only suppress this in his heart, nodded, and replied in a low voice: "I'm just being cautious. We still need to be a little wary of Number Seven. Don't you humans have a saying - it's better to rely on yourself than on others?"
"You're right." Murphy agreed. "Okay, I'll pay more attention here. After dinner, go back and have a good rest. I'll let you know if there's anything."
As if afraid of Bai's refusal, Murphy continued, "If the small-scale raids these past few days are really a test by the thieves, I estimate that they will soon launch a major attack. At that time, we will have to rely on you, the commander-in-chief who understands the experimental subjects, to take charge. In the meantime, you should rest well."
Bai nodded and accepted the concern of this burly man with a rough but delicate mind.
Murphy finally felt relieved and asked someone to bring up the lunch he had prepared.
"These foods aren't as delicious as Brother Nan Qi's, but they're still better than your nutritional supplements. Those are only for emergencies. Eating them regularly will turn your face green."
Bai smiled helplessly: "It's not that exaggerated."
Murphy shook his head firmly: "Yes, Brother Nan Qi is not here, so I have to take good care of you on his behalf. If he comes back and sees that you have lost weight, he should blame me. Eat more."
"Okay." Bai nodded.
After finishing the meal, Bai returned to his tent, which was still as deserted as before. He sighed silently, hung his coat on the hanger at the door, walked silently into the living room, and threw himself into the soft and comfortable sofa.
This sofa did not come with the tent. Nan Qi found it from somewhere and put it into his space ring.
Holding the guarantee in his arms, Bai looked at the Star Brain on his wrist. He stretched out a finger with his other hand and poked at the Star Brain, but the Star Brain did not show any incoming calls or new messages.
Sighing again, Bai got up and walked to the bathroom to take a shower and rest. Nan Qi must have his reasons for not contacting him, and he couldn't hold Nan Qi back.
*
Black market, the backyard of the building is full of rumors.
Lenk and Keppel sat in the living room of the small building that belonged to the owner, O'Connor, staring nervously at a room on the first floor, as if there were some monsters inside.
Although O'Connor was also worried, seeing the two of them like this, he suddenly wasn't so worried anymore.
"You two..." O'Connor just started to speak, and Lenk and Keppel turned their heads to look at him, which made O'Connor feel uncomfortable. He said awkwardly, "I just wanted to ask if you two were hungry. I don't need to eat, but you two haven't eaten for a day."
Lenk looked at Keppel. It was okay for him not to eat, but Keppel had just recovered from a serious illness and had to eat.
Keppel shook his head. He really couldn't eat right now. He had only been entrusted by Bai to check on Nan Qi's situation, but he hadn't expected to encounter such a situation.
After listening to the explanations of the original poster O'Connor and Lenk, he finally understood the whole story and why he trusted Nan Qi so much when he first met him.
It’s not because Nan Qi is the heroic leader of Bai, but because he and Nan Qi have known each other for a long time.
Looking back on what happened that day, Keppel felt like he was dreaming.
That gilded transparent object was not an unknown energy crystal at all, but the true origin of Nan Qi and the real core of the controlling main brain.
Fifty years ago, Nan Qi went out and came back with a body of flesh and blood. No one knew how he extracted the origin and sealed it in that gilded transparent body.
Because his origin was extracted and converted from a huge string of data into a flesh and blood body, Nan Qi was extremely weak. He fell into a deep sleep after explaining everything.
O'Connor was afraid that the news of Nan Qi's sleep would leak out and cause turmoil in the black market, so he had to keep it secret and didn't even dare to tell the waiter below.
But even so, fifteen years later, that is, thirty-five years ago, Nan Qi suddenly disappeared in the secret room where he was sleeping and his whereabouts were unknown.
For so many years, O'Connor has been trying to find Nan Qi's whereabouts. It was not until the familiar mental power data from the mental power detection center on Porter Star came that he learned of Nan Qi's whereabouts again.
"So, you deliberately gave Nan Qi those documents related to the Harberson Psychological Research Laboratory?" Keppel's face was serious, staring into O'Connor's dark blue eyes. "What exactly is Nan Qi's connection with the black market?"
O'Connor smiled slightly: "Old people are always wise. Mr. Lunke was too worried about Nan Qi to ask me these questions."
Lunk was speechless. He hadn't expected O'Connor to "pull him down" at this moment. He looked at him speechlessly, and received a blown kiss from O'Connor, which made him want to vomit.
Keppel didn't try to stop their "interaction." After Lunk completely ignored O'Connor, he continued asking, "So, besides being your 'father,' what other role does Nan Qi play in the black market?"
O'Connor choked, as if he hadn't expected Keppel to be so protective. He laughed meaningfully and said slowly, "Your Highness should be familiar with Nan Qi's true identity. After all, you were able to survive such a strong poison thanks to him."
Keppel's calm expression finally cracked. He looked at O'Connor in disbelief: "Nan Qi is the boss of the black market?!"
O'Connor shrugged: "Yes, I guessed it right!"
Lunk was also shocked and muttered, "What a great man we picked up."
O'Connor admired the two bugs' expressions and continued, "Now, in order for Nan Qi to recover his memory and possess the ability to fight against Number Seven, he must reabsorb the essence. However, he is no longer in data form, so he will be in danger."
"He cannot be disturbed during this period, so you guys will take care of the outside world."
After saying that, O'Connor walked away with his hands behind his back.
From that day on, Kepper went to the black market every day when Aiyou went out, and went back before Aiyou came back, acting like an underground worker.
Today is the third day since Nan Qi entered the secret room to absorb the origin. O'Connor said that Nan Qi should have entered the critical absorption stage.
This stage was extremely dangerous, so they were all very nervous, fearing that something might happen to Nan Qi, and they had no mood to eat.
Just when Lenk was about to persuade Keppel to eat a little, a loud noise suddenly came from the direction of the secret room.
"boom--"
A burst of hot air, accompanied by the sound of the secret room door being blown open, hit Keppel's eardrums. A sharp tinnitus exploded in his mind. Keppel's eyes went dark, and when he opened his eyes, he had already left the small building.
Lunk protected him and looked vigilantly at the small building that was about to collapse into ruins.
O'Connor, who had been grinning the entire time, stopped smiling. His dark blue eyes flashed with a cold jewel-like light as he spat out a single sentence: "Fuck, rubbish! He actually dared!"
Keppel's tinnitus hadn't subsided yet. He watched O'Connor's mouth opening and closing. He grabbed O'Connor's arm and asked anxiously, "What's wrong? Did Nan Qi fail? What are you talking about? What exactly happened?!"
O'Connor didn't say anything, but squinted his eyes and clenched his teeth, as if he was resisting something.
At the same time, Bai, who was sleeping on the stationed planet of the Kron Galaxy, was suddenly awakened by a rapid ringing of the bell.
He immediately stood up and answered the call, then heard Murphy's furious roar from the other end of the terminal: "Bai, the intelligent system has truly been hacked! All detectors are now paralyzed, communications are blocked, the shielding system has completely failed, and the armory door is locked. It can't be opened anytime soon!"
"Most importantly, the thieves are out in full force, ready to fight us to the death!"
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