Chapter 66
"The news didn't specify the pollution level. It's probably because the pollutants haven't settled yet and can't be measured."
"However, considering the scale of the contaminated area and the severity of the tidal surge, it is at most level one pollution."
Just in case, Yuan Xu had already carried his mecha suitcase. He always wore two mecha suitcases when traveling, one black and one white. The black one couldn't be seen by others, but it had more functions than the white one. This time, he simply used the black one.
The mecha Xiang Jia bought temporarily was only a B-class one, and its interior was already badly damaged, so Yuan Xu gave her the white mecha.
At this point, both of them were fully equipped with their mechas. Yuan Xu activated his reconnaissance system, observing the pollution outbreak in the distance.
Xiang Jia's chaotic memories seemed to settle, and he continued, "Each of the four central star regions has deployed no fewer than 100,000 mecha soldiers. At any given time, there are over 100 mecha teams patrolling and controlling pollution. And that's just the troops stationed there."
She paused and looked at Yuan Xu: "This is what I learned in my previous life. I wonder if it has changed now."
Yuan Xu spread his hands and said, "That's about right. Anyway, as long as there's no major pollution, the Central Star Region will be perfectly safe. People outside the contaminated area can do what they need to do."
Xiyue's thoughts were elsewhere: "Is it possible that Bo Yucheng's residence is in that contaminated area?"
This woke Yuan Xu up: "You mean..."
The doorbell rang, interrupting him.
Inside the room, a colorful line appeared on a wall, fluctuating continuously with the sound of an electric bell.
Yuan Xu pressed a button on the wall.
A voice from the front desk rang out: "General Yuan, General Leng Chengzhou from the Secretary's Office is here to visit."
Yuan Xu and Xi Yue exchanged a glance. Of course, the metal mask obstructed Xi Yue's view, so she couldn't see his expression. But she nodded to him.
Yuan Xu: "General Leng, please come up."
The communication was disconnected and the colored lines disappeared.
Yuan Xu closed the mecha box and said, "Leng Chengzhou is the deputy director of the secretariat. He has been a big hit with the commander in chief for the past year and also serves as the commander's adjutant..."
After a pause, he widened his eyes slightly and looked at Xiyue again.
He remembered what Xiyue had said before: Gong Mao called Xiyue the commander-in-chief.
Xiyue's image of Gong Mao's astonished and aged face resurfaced: "You...you are the new commander?!"
"Perhaps," Yuan Xu said thoughtfully, "the matter of the supervisory order became too serious, and Bo Yucheng, who was in charge of it, died. Leng Chengzhou had no choice but to take over and deal with this problem?"
Xiang Jia didn't know about this yet, and seeing Xi Yue remained silent, he didn't ask for details.
Xiyue was in deep thought.
She was desperate and decided to break the window paper. If the existence that was secretly monitoring everything really existed, it must have known that Yuan Xu and Xiang Jia were awakened.
And if her guess about Gong Mao's words was correct, the commander-in-chief was also the god of pollution.
So the question before us is: Is the commander the existence itself?
Even if it wasn't, the commander, as the supreme ruler of the galaxy, must have that person standing behind him. Leng Chengzhou was the commander's most trusted right-hand man, so he might not have come here just for the supervision order.
It seems that the danger that Yuan Xu was worried about did exist, it just came too late.
As I was thinking about this, the doorbell rang.
Yuan Xu lowered his head and glanced at his sweat-stained shirt. Just as he was about to take off the mecha box kit jacket, Xi Yue held his arm.
Xiyue shook her head at him.
Yuan Xu understood and sighed secretly. Forget it, it has come to this, why bother trying to whitewash it?
He carried the mecha box over and opened the door.
"General Yuan."
The receptionist smiled and nodded, her eyes filled with pink bubbles as she looked at the two young admirals, but she tactfully did not stay any longer and turned to leave.
The farther her footsteps got, the more tense the atmosphere between the two men behind her became.
Yuan Xu rested his elbows on the door frame, not letting Leng Chengzhou in. His eyes inadvertently moved to the steel shoulder straps of Leng Chengzhou's mecha box, and asked with a smile: "General Leng, you are visiting me late at night. What's the matter?"
Leng Chengzhou said indifferently, "The public opinion sparked by the No. 33 Legion Supervisor's Order is fermenting very quickly. I need General Yuan and Miss Xi to go to the secretariat with me."
Was he really here for the supervisory order? Yuan Xu wasn't sure.
"Wasn't the supervision order issued by General Bo? Why did General Leng suddenly take over?"
"General Bo has died."
"Sacrifice?" Yuan Xu pretended to be surprised. "So sudden, what happened?"
Leng Chengzhou: "It has nothing to do with General Yuan."
He raised his eyes and looked over Yuan Xu's shoulder into the room: "Please follow me immediately, this is an order."
Yuan Xu remained motionless. "Then may I ask, did General Leng issue the order as the Deputy Director of the Secretariat, or as the Commander-in-Chief's Adjutant? If it's the former, I'm afraid the Secretariat doesn't have the power to issue a mandatory summons, right?"
His thinking was consistent with Xiyue's.
If Leng Chengzhou is acting according to the commander's wishes, it can be basically determined what role the commander plays in the interstellar world.
But Leng Chengzhou did not answer him.
There were dense footsteps coming from the direction of the elevator hall, and Wan Bing, deputy director of the Public Security Headquarters, was approaching aggressively with a group of people.
Yuan Xu's eyes darkened and he subconsciously looked back at Xi Yue, but saw a hint in Xi Yue's eyes.
He suddenly raised his hands and retreated into the room, shouting exaggeratedly, "What's General Wan doing? Bringing so many people here to catch criminals? This is the S Hotel, and there has never been any crime. Isn't that too much?"
Wan Bing cursed in his heart.
Even if Bo Yucheng hadn't died, he and the director of the secretariat would not have mobilized such a large force to arrest people. But as it happened, Bo Yucheng died, and the supervision order became a hot topic on the Star Network.
This meant that once the principal offender was dead, all that was left was for him, the accomplice, to be held accountable. If he had delayed his attempts to curry favor with Leng Chengzhou, he might have even lost his position as deputy director.
So when Wan Bing learned that Leng Chengzhou had come to S Hotel, he guessed that he was coming for Yuan Xu, and immediately brought people over.
Trying to make amends.
He stood behind Leng Chengzhou, looked at Yuan Xu coldly, and said nothing.
Leng Chengzhou didn't seem surprised by his appearance. As Yuan Xu walked back into the room, his eyes fell on Xi Yue.
"Miss Xi," he said, "the order was issued by the secretary, but the public opinion is caused by you."
The implication was that it was only natural to go back with him to the secretary's office to resolve the crisis.
Leng Chengzhou mentioned the supervision order several times, which made Yuan Xu begin to believe that the other party really came for this matter and it had nothing to do with exposing his awakened identity.
The wise thing to do right now is to take it one step at a time and go to the secretariat to find out the situation first.
Unexpectedly, Xiyue said something shocking again: "Funny."
Leng Chengzhou frowned slightly, and Wan Bing immediately rebuked him: "What did you say?! Do you know who is standing in front of you? General Leng, Director of the Central Secretariat, and the current adjutant of the commander-in-chief!"
He was smart enough to call him "Director" instead of "Deputy Director". It would be the same sooner or later anyway, so what difference did it make if he called him "Director" earlier?
"You're a rubbish citizen, spouting nonsense online, tarnishing the reputation of the Central Committee and undermining interstellar security. It's a blessing we haven't arrested you! And you even dare to speak so brazenly here!"
Wan Bing's saliva flew everywhere, but Xi Yue still smiled and repeated: "Funny."
"you!"
"Is the supervisory order fake? Without it, Admiral Yuan and I would have to rush to the Central Star Region to complain? Without the Central Star Region's ridiculous rule prohibiting trashy citizens from entering, would I have resorted to such a desperate measure and put this online? And in the end, all the blame is placed on our 33rd Legion. Isn't that ridiculous?"
Xi Yue questioned with full force, and without waiting for anyone to react, she turned her eyes and stared at Wan Bing.
"You're even funnier. Isn't the galaxy governed by the Code? Why bring up Admiral Leng's status? Is there any rule in the Code that forbids saying the word 'funny' in front of the Chief of Staff or the Commander-in-Chief?"
She sneered, "Look how anxious you are, like an old dog with all its teeth gone and can only bark."
Not to mention Wan Bing, even Yuan Xu and Xiang Jia who was hiding in the bedroom were stunned.
Is Xiyue crazy, or is this really Xiyue?
Looking at it this way, Xiyue’s previous life… had to endure it too hard…
Wan Bing had never been scolded like this in his life. He was so angry that his nose was crooked and his eyes were squinting. Even though Leng Chengzhou didn't say anything, he couldn't help but point at Xi Yue and shouted angrily: "Catch him! Catch this piece of trash!"
The security guards strode towards Xiyue, stretched out their hands, and their faces changed at the same time.
No finger could touch Xiyue at all.
Before they could react, Xiyue immediately expanded the pure space, and the invisible barrier slammed everyone in all directions.
The sudden change happened too quickly, and Wan Bing was a little dumbfounded, but Yuan Xu and Leng Chengzhou had already raised their heads and looked at the ceiling.
There, the spotlights and chandeliers were covered with a very light film, distorting the light. Almost immediately, a shrill alarm sounded.
Pollution outbreak!
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Star Sector 29.
The level 5 pollution that occurred in the remote southern area did not even alarm the detectors, so naturally there would be no mecha star team from the 33rd Legion to eliminate the pollution.
Even the few residents living around Xipo, such as Fernhead and Yaya's parents, did not notice the contaminated area because they were helping the photosynthetic technology technicians build barriers on the ground.
Instead, it was Chen Yu's heart-wrenching cry that attracted some people.
He held Chen Yilan's body, his mind was blank. No matter how his brother Chen Rong shook him, he could not utter a complete sentence, let alone explain the cause and effect.
After all, even he himself doesn't know the cause and effect.
Fentou and Yaya were taken home by their parents. Xipo, Xiyao and Hanyi stood outside the crowd. Although the two siblings empathized with Chen Yu's experience, since it concerned their eldest sister, they had no intention of going forward to comfort her.
A rare expression of worry appeared on Han Yi's little face.
He tugged at Xipo's sleeve once more and looked up at the dark sky: "Looking for Mom."
Xipo looked up in the direction of his gaze, was silent for a moment, and showed him the message on the computer.
"My eldest sister said we need to wait."
The Mecha Academy is located in the central star zone. He naturally understands that trash citizens cannot enter the center and need to wait for an opportunity.
Give garbage citizens a chance to get in.
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Near the Central Garrison Headquarters, the entire building of the S Hotel was shaking and emitting a sharp alarm.
If you get closer, you can even hear the sound of dense and heavy metal plates moving.
The guests staying in the hotel evacuated quickly under the guidance of the hotel staff. The two mecha star teams that came from the garrison headquarters quickly set up control and were about to rush in when a mecha soldier hurriedly flew out of the hotel control room.
"The situation is not good!" He flew in front of the two captains and projected the image he had just captured. "Captain, the pollution level is very high!"
The light screen shows a real-time monitoring image of the S Hotel's pollution isolation and containment device. After switching to holographic mode, one can see thick polluted gas slowly but steadily spreading outward with a certain room as the center.
As a top-tier luxury hotel, the containment system is naturally the most advanced and rigorous. Not only is each room individually isolated, but even the corridors are segmented. If the metal plates successfully isolate the contaminant, they should appear green in the image. However, at this moment, several metal plates have turned red.
They have all been corroded and destroyed by polluted gases.
The two captains looked at each other, and one of them said, "Start calculating!"
"Yes!" The mecha soldier immediately input the holographic image into the reconnaissance system.
Based on a series of indicators such as the metal plate's anti-pollution performance and the area of the polluted area, the reconnaissance system quickly fed back the results: the pollution level is at least level one!
The expressions of the three people inside the metal masks changed at the same time.
Another level one pollution!
A level one pollution zone just broke out in the Central Xinghui Villa District, and it has not yet completely settled. The mecha star team that rushed over to support has not yet been able to start the elimination battle, and another level one pollution zone has broken out here!
It is unprecedented that two level one pollution zones appear simultaneously in the same star region so close to each other!
"Lift the blockade! Contact the police station and evacuate all citizens within a five-kilometer radius!"
"Call for backup, at least 20 mecha squadrons! Clear all living creatures within a five-kilometer radius!"
It won’t be long before the entire S Hotel’s enclosed facilities will be corroded by the polluted gas. Then the suppressed tide will erupt again, and even the garrison headquarters will be submerged in the gray fog!
At this moment, the hotel manager, who had been paying close attention to the situation here, suddenly changed his expression and hurriedly led the receptionist over.
"Oh no, sir, there are still a few guests who haven't escaped!"
He nudged the receptionist, whose face turned pale and her voice trembled, though her words were still clear: "It's General Yuan and General Leng. The center of the contamination is near General Yuan's room..."
The two captains were shocked: "General Leng, which General Leng?!"
"General Leng Chengzhou... before the pollution outbreak, he happened to come visit General Yuan Xu... Oh, right," the receptionist said with increasing nervousness, "and General Wan Bing from the Public Security Headquarters, he also went in with a group of people and hasn't come out yet!"
The receptionist mentioned several names in succession, but the two captains' attention was always on Leng Chengzhou.
"You said General Leng Chengzhou from the Secretariat is in there?"
Amid the anxious gazes of the hotel manager and the receptionist, they unexpectedly breathed a sigh of relief.
"That's great."
"Cancel support immediately. However, as a precaution, the evacuation of citizens will proceed as usual."
"All team members, immediately seal off the hotel and support General Leng."
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The hotel manager and the receptionist looked at each other in confusion. The former asked tentatively, "Sir, why did you cancel the support?"
This is a level one pollution area in a building.
A captain let out an electronic laugh: "That's Admiral Leng, one of only two super S-class mecha war gods in the entire galaxy..."
Before he could finish his words, the reconnaissance system captured a fleeting flash of light.
Then, another mecha soldier hurried over: "It's gone! It's gone! The polluted gas is no longer corroding the metal plates!"
He didn't need to say it; others who reacted quickly also noticed it: the dense and high-pitched pollution alarms in the hotel suddenly stopped, and under the night sky, the surroundings were extremely quiet.
After a brief silence, a Star Team captain chuckled, "See, Super S-Class is Super S-Class..."
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