Enforcer's Handbook

"Why?"

Song Lan's sudden question made Lu Xiang stunned for a moment, and he subconsciously said, "That's right. Virtual reality technology is quite mature now."

"But, shouldn't virtual reality technology require wearing a corresponding helmet? Even if it doesn't work, you should also wear a pair of glasses?"

Song Lan was sitting in the last row of the theater, looking at the performers on the stage who were wearing masks and could not see their true faces. For a moment, she felt that the script and reality were overlapping.

Obviously the audience here thinks so too.

Although the theme and promotion of this show is a love story, Song Lan always feels that some details in the show are familiar to him.

The background of the story takes place on the eve of the outbreak of the third war, which was also the period when the Lingguang Theater was established. The heroine is a famous actor in the theater, and the hero is a young officer. These two identities alone are enough to survive in troubled times. Many sparks collided against the background.

It made people in the theater feel like they were back in an era full of gunpowder smoke. They seemed to be in the theater and witnessed all this happening.

In the play, the female protagonist more than once hopes that the male protagonist will leave the army and find a place away from the war to live in seclusion. Every time she invites the male protagonist, she will struggle between love and the sense of responsibility and honor as a soldier. When he finally had to make a choice, the third war began.

A nuclear bomb fell on their city.

They also seemed to really see the mushroom cloud rising into the sky and the heat wave that followed. At the critical moment, they and the heroine escaped into the underground shelter and became refugees in the shelter.

Maybe……

He had seen a similar plot in a certain Kolo Films movie before.

After all, there are quite a few movies with the Third War as the background. Among the rescuers they feature, there is also a genetically modified soldier who fell into a deep sleep during the Third War. He lay in a freezer at the end of the war. , as soon as I woke up, the outside world had undergone earth-shaking changes.

The thundering applause in the theater brought them back to reality, and the audience was already looking forward to the next performance of Lingguang Theater Company.

The show had an open ending at the end, and they were eager to know what happened to the heroine after she entered the underground shelter.

And Song Lan finally understood the reason why this performance was so popular. He silently apologized in his heart for his arrogance about the troupe's false propaganda.

Long after the performance ended, the audience still stayed in their seats and refused to leave.

Not long after, a staff member walked up to the two of them and said something in Lu Xiang's ear.

"He said that we were selected as lucky spectators by the troupe and invited us to go backstage to have a look."

Lu Xiang repeatedly observed the identity of the staff member and the work ID on his chest. After confirming the identity of the other person, he informed Song Lan of what the other person relayed to him.

The entire theater can accommodate hundreds of people, but the two of them became the lucky spectators, and there was no formal drawing of lucky spectators.

"That's right, you can ask them face to face what technologies they have adopted."

Under the guidance of the staff, the two walked through the corridor of the theater and came to the backstage.

Most of the performers in the crew were still on the stage and had not returned. There was only a woman in a long dress waiting for them in the huge backstage.

She also wore the same mask on her face as those of the performers, but it was easy to tell from the smooth skin on the back of her hands that she was still very young.

"Mr. Song Lan, Ms. Lu Xiang, on behalf of the Lingguang Theater Company, I welcome you."

Hearing this, Lu Xiang frowned, "Actually, we are not lucky viewers?"

If they were randomly selected by the theater company and given to the audience, the other party should not know their identity information. The two additional ticket registrations are Captain Doug’s information, not to mention that the ticket sales information should also be available to the theater crew in principle. confidential.

But this is District 17 after all, so it is not difficult to find out the identities of her and Song Lan.

Lu Xiang suddenly remembered some information about Lingguang Theater Company.

They came to District 17 two days ago.

That was almost the same day the events in District 1 ended, but she didn't connect the two events until she came to the theater.

"Don't be nervous, we don't mean any harm."

The woman wearing the mask said, "According to the process, the lucky audience members who were selected can ask me a question each. Of course, the scope of my answer is limited to the story of the show."

Before Lu Xiang could speak, Song Lan took the lead and asked, "Where does the voice that guides the heroine and troupe members come from?"

He enjoyed the full performance.

In the play, the members of the Emmanuel Theater Company call those voices “whispers.” It is precisely because of the appearance of whispers that this love story based on the Third War has some religious and mystical colors.

Some members of the troupe believed that those "whispers" were God's revelations to them. All the plots about the "whispers" that appeared in the plot had prophetic elements. It seemed to have predicted the coming of the catastrophe, so they decided to become " Whisper” believers.

If you connect the plot with reality, you can infer that the catastrophe predicted by "Whisper" is the third war.

That war almost destroyed the entire world and caused unprecedented changes in the world's structure.

Song Lan also realized that he seemed to be influenced by the performance of the play, and tried to find the mark of its real existence in the real world from a fictional love story.

The woman wearing the mask was in a daze. She didn't seem to expect that Song Lan would ask this.

After a long while, she said, "This is also what we are looking for... Do you believe in the existence of miracles?"

"miracle?"

"Those are the marks left by the existence of gods. As long as they are found, it is enough to prove that gods really exist."

The woman explained.

But this time, they have found ironclad evidence, which is why the troupe came to District 17.

"A few days ago, you should have witnessed the existence of a miracle just like us. At that time, the entire world's time came to a standstill, and all non-living objects were frozen in a certain moment."

"I know."

Lu Xiang did not deny it.

This incident has long been in the news, and the discussion on the Internet is still heated to this day. "The mainstream view is that it was the work of a powerful psychic."

"Psychics cannot do such a thing. It is a feat that only God can accomplish."

They couldn't see the woman's face under the mask, but they could easily imagine her excited expression at the moment through her tone of voice.

The woman said, "I have a hunch that God the Father is here."

Small theater one hundred and fifty-nine:

A certain day of a certain year, a certain day, a Monday, in the morning.

Lu Xiang came to Song Lan's office early that morning. She put her hands on the desk and looked at Song Lan who was leaning on the computer chair.

At this time, a movie was playing on the computer screen, and the atmosphere in the entire department could only be described as chaotic.

After being stared at by Lu Xiang for a long time, Song Lan finally couldn't stand the pressure and pressed the pause button.

"Lao Lu, if you have anything to say, speak directly."

"Do you know what day it is?"

"Today, could it be..."

"Not a wedding anniversary, not a date anniversary."

In order to prevent Song Lan from giving answers that would make him angry, Lu Xiang helped him rule out some wrong answers in advance.

"Today... today is Monday."

Eyes facing each other.

This stupid bird can always think of some answers that are astounding.

"Today is the annual day to promote generals. I just went to see the list drawn up by the council, and you are also on it."

The general system is a new system established by the council after learning from the lessons of the six-star rescuers. The three people promoted to generals only serve the council and the coalition government and are not affiliated with any family or company. The council has been thinking of ways to make Song Lan assumed the position of general.

"Last year you said you were seriously ill, what excuse are you going to use this year?"

"...The serious illness has not been cured yet?"

"I heard that the Council has been collecting your physical examination reports this year, and the reports show that you are in good health."

"What should I do? Lao Lu, please help me think of a solution!"

Lu Xiang glanced sideways at Song Lan. She took out a chip from the inner pocket of her clothes and waved it in front of Song Lan's eyes. "Think again about how to call me."