Gene from the 13th Department of Bright City

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8:58

Lao Cheng took off all his clothes and wore a lot of flashlights and reflective tin foil on his body. He held up a wooden stick with a white flag covered with beads just made from the little girl's hands. He ran with all his strength.

"There are still children here, don't shoot. There are still children here, don't shoot."

The suffocating cold instantly deprived Lao Cheng of his senses. He ran out of the edge of the eastern city, stepped onto the rugged land, and ran towards the place opposite where the light gathered, shouting at the top of his lungs as he ran.

There was already a reddish light in the sky on the right. Lao Cheng had only one thought in his mind at this time, and ran to the other side to tell them that there were still children here.

"Mom, where are we going? It's cold here!"

The woman hugged Owen quietly. She had brought her son to the ground. At this time, both Owen and the woman saw that Lao Cheng ran out naked.

"It's okay Owen, you are a boy, you have to know how to be patient. We will be able to go to a warm place soon."

There was despair in the woman's eyes. Her consciousness was getting blurry and her body had no strength at all. Only the warmth of her son and the sick baby girl beside her kept her from falling in such a cold night. , the woman looked blankly at the large area of ​​red light coming from the right side. He smiled and used up his last bit of strength to raise his arms, hugged his son and baby girl, and pressed the two little guys under Under his own body.

"Mom, what are you doing? It's so heavy, so heavy."

The woman closed her eyes slightly, with a bitter smile hanging on the corner of her mouth.

"Please, don't shoot, there are children here, there are children."

In the desolate and cold wilderness, Lao Cheng was still shouting, getting closer and closer. His legs had lost all feeling, and his raised arms seemed to be petrified. His lungs, which had been burning at the beginning, were now I couldn't feel it at all, and my consciousness began to dim. Only the words coming out of my mouth were clear, and the breath exhaled from my throat was warm.

In Lao Cheng's mind, there was only the shadow of the woman struggling to crawl towards his children. He felt that he could run to the other side, he could run completely. He didn't know what was supporting him. He just needed to take one more step forward. He would fall and die, but at this moment Lao Cheng felt that he could do it.

"Mom, it's so heavy."

Owen finally broke away from his mother's arms, but at this time her mother was motionless. He shook her, but at this time he was attracted by the special red light in the sky behind him.

"Mom, look at how beautiful it is over there. Mom, please talk. Look at the sky over there, it's not black."

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Ling Hong's eyes widened, with red particles floating around her eye sockets. Her vision widened in an instant. She looked in disbelief at the sight in such a wilderness, with flashlights tied around her whole body and covered with tin foil, as if she was going crazy. The man running towards him was not wearing any clothes, and his pale body looked particularly clear in such a dark night.

Ling Hong looked at the man blankly, but after a few seconds, she noticed that what the man roared in his mouth was not anything crazy.

There are kids here!

The next second, Ling Hong looked at the light and shadow panel. The confirmation command on it would expire in 5 seconds.

Ling Hong instantly entered the command to cancel the bombing, the time stopped at 1 second, and Ling Hong raised her head.

Chuchuchu

The gun rang out. Ling Hong raised her hand and tried to move forward. The man was hit between her open fingers.

"stop"

Ling Hong had just uttered a word, and at this moment she looked at the man who had been hit in shock. The moment he fell, he stood on the same spot, still moving forward, and still shouting with his open mouth. The word child.

Nothing could be heard in his ears. Lao Cheng only felt that the strength in his body was drained out in an instant, and his whole body was stripped away. But at this time, the flashing red light in the sky began to disappear, and Lao Cheng showed a satisfied expression. Smiling, he fell to the ground, bright red blood pouring out from all parts of his body like a tide.

"Don't shoot!"

Ling Hong roared, her whole body was wrapped in red thunder and lightning, and she was ejected. Under the faint red light, a white flag dimmed. It was made of crystal beads and had the word "child" written on it. .

Ling Hong looked at this man in shock. At this time, some directors and squad leaders behind him came over, as well as some department members. Because nothing happened, the other side did not fire after the shooting.

"What on earth are we doing! What on earth are we doing."

Ling Hong clenched her fists, and the moment she stood up, she had already shot towards the opposite side. Many people behind her looked at the figure on the ground who had no clothes to cover her body. Her whole body was purple from the cold, and her back was riddled with holes. man.

The whole world seemed to have fallen silent. Ling Hong stood on the eastern outskirts of Jirigrad, close to the city. She looked around for any traces, but there was no movement around her.

At this time, Zijuan and other directors in the combat headquarters were all shocked to see what had just happened. The bombing order was lifted, and in the ruins, a crying child lay on the body of a woman. on the corpse.

"Tell Ling Hong the location of these two children!"

Zijuan pressed her forehead, closed her eyes, and handed over the bombing authority to Ling Hong. Maybe it was right, or maybe she could no longer bear the pressure.

"Mom, what's wrong with you? What's wrong with you? Talk."

Owen could no longer shed tears. He lay sadly on his mother's body, shaking constantly. There was a sound behind him. Owen turned his head at a loss. He was too scared to move. However, the next second Owen was no longer afraid. Yes, because the woman in front of me was crying, with tears already covering her cheeks.

Ling Hong couldn't look directly into the child's innocent eyes. She didn't know what to say, she didn't know how to explain, and she didn't know what to do next.

"My mother is sick, sister, can you."

"Your mother is dead!"

A man's voice came over, and Ling Hong looked at some of the guys surrounding him with vigilance. They were all armed. Everyone looked a little dull, but there was a trace of sadness in their eyes.

Ling Hong suddenly squatted down and caught the unconscious boy with both hands, as well as the baby girl who was like an ice cube in the boy's arms, but still breathing weakly. Ling Hong turned around and turned her back to the criminals behind her. .

"Please! Stop resisting."

Ling Hong said in a low voice.

"Take these two children away, they have nothing to do with this war."

A woman spoke, and then a man laughed.

"You can do whatever you want from now on. We will not surrender and we don't want to go back to prison."

Ling Hong was ejected instantly and closed her eyes. When she opened them again, big tears were floating in the air.

"It's very serious hydroabdominal fluid, but this little boy is fine!"

Under the bright light, Ling Hong stood aside absentmindedly, looking at a baby girl on the operating table with a bulging belly and dark skin. Her heart rate was very low, and she could not even hear her breathing.

Mo Xiaolan stood quietly at the door of the lift, looking at the absent-minded Ling Hong, and she looked back at everything behind her.

"it's all over!"

Mo Xiaolan closed his eyes in despair, and streaks of red light began to flash across the sky. Then Jirigele in front of him fell into a sea of ​​fire. The flames seemed to be spewing out from hell, lighting up the place mercilessly. A barren land.

The deafening sound like a tsunami echoed through the wilderness. Mo Xiaolan pressed the brim of his hat and walked into the elevator. The moment the shock wave arrived, he closed the door of the elevator.

Many tubes have been inserted into the baby girl's body on the operating table, and several doctors are trying their best to rescue her. The little boy next to her who has been placed on a constant temperature bed with a breathing tube in his nostrils looks weak and thin, but Breathing is even.

Ling Hong seemed to be praying for something, staring intently at the baby on the operating table. The baby's vital signs had almost disappeared.

9:11

Everyone in the Congress Hall silently looked at the sea of ​​​​fire on the light and shadow screen. The flames were still steaming. Some people had fainted. Freya stood up.

"That's enough!"

The light and shadow screen was turned off, and the hall of Congress fell into silence. Everyone had just witnessed the last scene of the man running and screaming. No one spoke, they were just thinking quietly.

Everyone who witnessed the whole process was extremely shocked by the kind deeds this man performed at the last moment of his life. This weak, middle-aged and elderly man used his last moment of life to exchange for the lives of his two children. life.

"The meeting is over for the time being! We will discuss the final follow-up issues and countermeasures for this Operation 3 at 8 o'clock tomorrow morning."

As the purple god spoke, he disappeared from the seat in an instant, and the other bodies also disappeared one after another.

At this time, Freya put her hand on her chest and bowed slightly, as if in silence. More and more people stood up, including the people in the business department and the MPs. Everyone stood up. They all closed their eyes, stood respectfully, put their hands on their chests, and were silently mourning something, but they seemed to be full of respect and paying tribute to something.

Deguna pressed her head and held a glass of wine with a stern expression. The people next to her said nothing.

"Ellie must have done something like this before!"

Tang Rao muttered, and Li Chu said with a bitter smile.

"There are so many fools in this world, so this world is extremely wonderful, isn't it?"

"Is the word fool a derogatory or a positive connotation?"

Gu Yi asked with a smile, his expression slightly bitter, and Victor nodded.

"It used to be like this. One of my students, at the last moment, chose to let me continue to live. If it weren't for her, I would have died in a rebel base on that prairie."

"What a coincidence! I have had a similar experience."

Tang Rao chuckled, and the six guys raised their wine glasses at the same time.

"Respect! This weak and ordinary criminal!"

9:23

Eddie clapped his hands, looked at some video information on the screen, and kept letting out high-pitched laughter. Next to him was a black face of flames, and his expression looked ferocious and terrifying.

"Sir Eddie! Even if we don't need to leak what happened in the barrier area, we can't hide it."

Eddie stopped laughing, wiped the tears that overflowed from the corners of his eyes, picked up the wine bottle on the table, took a sip, and leaned back on the soft sofa comfortably. All the anxiety and depression were instantly gone.

Jirigele actually has such a strong combat effectiveness. This is something Eddie has never imagined. The manufacturing and equipment of weapons were provided by Eddie more than ten years ago. Unexpectedly, in just ten years, they Eddie had never imagined that so many weapons could be produced.

Originally, the Hillman family's plan would be seriously frustrated and time would be delayed. The Angus family, which was about to be destroyed, finally survived because of Gene. However, Eddie had already figured it out. Tomorrow He would go to the General Affairs Department to accept the investment and construction of the orchard plan, and Prometheus revised the plan again.

In order to be able to transport the photon engineer in my hand smoothly, and subsequently build my own country in that barren land based on the Alatan Ula Mountains, it is no longer a dream. Many things can be transported out easily. .

It's just that Eddie will also negotiate conditions with Congress and only allow the Hillman family to participate in the orchard plan. The Hillman family will carry out the land recovery, the establishment of armament stations, the establishment of stable signals in the barrier area, water supply and heating, etc. The construction is now imminent. The gods should agree.

"What do you think they look like!"

Eddie pointed at Section 3 on the screen and asked, and Prometheus next to him answered.

"A pile of loose sand."

Eddie nodded again and laughed. Eddie was wrong at the beginning, and how wrong he was. Now Eddie finally understands that the organization of the Business Department is not something to be afraid of. Instead, Eddie's eight old classmates have to be careful. Just fine.

Fortunately, the management of the Business Department, as human beings, are all a group of top geniuses, a group of people with excellent personal abilities and valuable force. They can indeed control the city very well, and even consider a lot of things. A lot of things, but now they no longer pose any threat to Eddie.

This is the quagmire of power. Even a genius as strong as Alpha has now fallen into many internal problems caused by human hearts and is helpless. The same goes for other departments.

Duan Kong, the chief of Section 1, is obviously incompetent. Many of the policies he has promoted over the years that seem to benefit the people are actually causing trouble for ordinary people. The most typical one is that in order to make the lives of the people at the bottom better, he The qualification review for many industries at the bottom has been relaxed. As a result, a large number of items with unqualified qualifications have flowed into the market, which has had an impact on the overall market and indirectly aggravated the work of subjects 5, 6, 7, and 8. burden.

Although the qualification review was strengthened later, it returned to the original point after going round and round, but the whole process made the underlying economy even more chaotic, and secretary Julia was very cunning, always secretly controlling some speeches and Zhou Xuan originally wanted to balance the relationship between businessmen, families and congressmen, but ended up being unhappy. She was deeply involved without realizing it, especially CBV, the largest media at the moment. Although she was in Julie Under Ya's secret bridge, many untrue facts have been reported for the Acting Department over the years, but there is a price to pay if this continues, because no matter how stupid the people are, they will find out one day, and when they know, these Anger is sure to break out.

The entire Section 1 is now just a decoration. It is just an organization that handles professional qualifications. It has not played the role of the urban management section at all. Instead, it has squeezed the burden of urban management onto Section 5. The overwhelmed Section 5 will naturally have some problems within it. question.

The same goes for Section 2. The three guys R, C, and K were active in the city many years ago. Eddie also discovered them from some video data in the past. In the past, when crime was extremely rampant in the city, there would always be Some violent criminal gangs were massacred and massacred. Although reports stated that this was caused by conflicts between gangs, in fact it was the three executioners behind the scenes.

The simple and crude approach is to kill the problem directly after seeing it arise, without ever exploring the root cause or taking the initiative to solve it. It is like three obedient vicious dogs, faithfully performing the tasks given by the gods.

In the chaotic era of the past, their approach relieved the pressure on the management to a great extent, but it does not work in today's society. Section 2 has secretly arrested many people many times, forced confessions by words and deeds, and even fabricated Regarding fake evidence and so on, the only thing that can be shown is that the three of them are not capable enough, so they can only solve some problems in this way.

Although Guan Wei's matter has been settled, and a chess piece planted by Eddie in the prison has been destroyed, Eddie naturally knows that only Section 2 would think of this solution. Although it is clever, it is only Able to solve temporary problems.

This marching operation in the barrier area is an example. Eddie doesn't know what the operations department, which has always been known for its rigor, is doing after months of collecting intelligence!

Thinking of this, Eddie couldn't help but laugh out loud, because what Eddie heard was that the investigators led by K, after arriving in the barrier area, still did the same thing as before, killing them without asking the reason, because the investigators in the barrier area The situation is very similar to the chaotic era they lived in in the past. They naively thought that many problems could be solved by killing.

I naively believed that the criminals in the barrier area were vulnerable. According to Eddie's estimate, the casualties of this operation were at least three to four thousand, nearly half of the casualty rate. This battle was a failure without exception. The most important thing is Yes, they have paid such a heavy price without even clearing out half of the number of criminals currently entrenched in the barrier area.

Many things nowadays can no longer be solved using simple and crude methods, and will involve many problems.

In Section 2, the only one Eddie was afraid of was the woman named Mo Xiao. She was from the Mo family. Mo Xiao had noticed many plans over the years. In order to deal with her investigation, Prometheus was forced to adjust and modify The number of plans was more than 60,000 times before Mo Xiao caught something. However, her existence was a threat to Eddie. Fortunately, she was just an ordinary Section 2 member and had no right to stand. center of.

This is what Eddie worries the most about, and the plan to kidnap photonic engineer Hao Yu was started a few years ago. During that time, Mo Xiao had been wandering around these photonic engineers, and it was not until this period that he finally found the opportunity. , her human sense of smell was too sensitive, especially her sense of crime, which amazed Eddie. She had solved many big and helpless cases in the city.

It's a pity that rights have little to do with talent.

"What a pity! Although you knew that our family killed your father, you didn't say anything. It's not that you didn't know, but that you couldn't do anything at all."

Looking at Mo Xiao's appearance on a light and shadow screen, Eddie couldn't help but sigh.

"The three subjects with the most serious problems now should fall to the bottom after this time!"

Eddie turned off the light and shadow screen and no longer looked at the video data. He held the wine bottle comfortably and took another sip. After experiencing the turmoil of the extremely corrupt pauper faction, business faction and family faction in the past, the 3rd Division was considered a fire. Rebirth, directly dismissed more than 200 Section 3 officials from their posts, and many of them have been sent to prison.

It's just that the huge problems left over from the past cannot be solved by Qing'er and him. In addition, Osman, the chief of Section 3, has no talent at all. Although his wife Zijuan has some talent, in Eddie's view, this is not talent, this is This is something that any smart person can do after sitting in this position.

The city has long been criticized for wasting huge amounts of tax revenue as military expenditure every year, and the actual role of Section 3 has been completely replaced by Section 5, which has no place in the city at all.

However, through the problem of criminals entrenched in the barrier area, Section 3 has found the meaning of continuing to exist. However, it is obvious that this step has been too much and failed. This fall has already caused a bruise and swollen face. In a short period of time, the situation of Section 3 is probably The most serious.

No matter how much we rely on strong systems to control it, the dilemma faced by Section 3 was originally a quagmire. Having nothing to do was the biggest problem of Section 3. Now that they finally have something to do, it has turned into this tragic situation. Their Eddie can already foresee the future.

The internal situation will definitely begin to collapse. Osman does not have the ability to unite the three departments. Zijuan is just a woman. She does not have the temperament of a natural leader and cannot achieve cohesion.

There are now 12 departments, and the best situation is in department 4. Section Chief Akimi is very smart. He directly assigns people from department 4 to major hospitals throughout the city. Supervision and medical services are carried out at the same time, which is very good with the big hospitals. The hospital has established a good relationship, and Marcus manages the small medical market with a clear division of labor.

Even in order to provide medical talents to the city, Department 4 also opened a medical school, but all this was possible thanks to what Freya had laid down from the beginning, and Freya had done the bridging behind it. , the entire Brilliant City's medical system is now very complete, allowing medical care to cover every corner in such a short period of time, and the problem of medical difficulties has been solved.

But there is a problem, or hidden danger, in this. The nanomedicine that Section Chief Akimi has been promoting costs a lot of money, and the actual effect has been minimal so far. This has gone astray. Nanotechnology is not like ordinary people. It's so simple to think, and it will fall short if you are not careful. According to some information provided by AI4, Eddie can be sure that this plan has failed.

"Freya is really amazing, she is always like this."

Eddie held up the wine bottle and took another sip. He looked at the information about Alpha Angus on a light and shadow screen. Looking at this beautiful and determined woman, Eddie couldn't help but want to praise her.

Section 5 is the most efficient section among the current 12 departments. The current social environment in the city is so stable thanks to Alpha, but she only has one head, and she was born in a big family like Angus, so she is the princess of the city. She has the same existence, and her every word and deed affects everything in the city. From the bottom to the top, everyone talks about it the most, and the one who praises it the most is Alpha.

In the past, Eddie felt that Alpha was also a huge threat, but now Eddie doesn't think so. She is indeed a rare genius, and the talents she possesses are unmatched by anyone in the city today.

It is not easy to stick to one's own ideas, but at certain times, this idea may fluctuate slightly due to emotions. In recent years, due to the secret operations of some directors of Section 5, there has been a conflict with the area under their jurisdiction. It often happens that officials within the department amass money in private, but so far these incidents have not exploded.

Eddie knew very well that with Alpha's character in the past, even her classmates would not be merciful, but she is no longer allowed to do so. The city has become so stable. Although she can continue to stick to her own ideas, she has been dealing with problems in the past. Regarding her family's problems, her actions indirectly led to part of the Angus family's predicament. Coupled with the fact that she has a troubled, useless sister, and the current family problems, her ideas have been shaken, or perhaps Said it stopped.

This is the most fatal thing for an aloof genius. Eddie knows very well that he and Alpha may be the same type of people. If he had stopped back then, someone else would be standing here now, and he may not be able to do it for the rest of his life. You will be inactive, unable to do anything. You can only look up at the light of others and lament the miserable life.

Now Section 5 is the one with the heaviest workload in the city. Many problems from other subjects have been pushed to Section 5, and Alpha can't get out of it at all. As a secretary, Jill should have shared some things with her, but this The secretary is too ordinary.

Even this secretary couldn't even do his own job perfectly. Many things were handled by the General Affairs Department. Here Eddie began to admire Locke. If it weren't for him, the current affairs department would only be more scattered.

The layer-by-layer bottom-up problems have resulted in the current affairs department being like a piece of scattered sand, making it difficult to achieve mutual help and integration among the 12 departments.

"Humans are always such creatures. They can easily detect the problems of others, but many times they cannot see clearly about themselves."

Eddie stood up with emotion, and the light and shadow screens appeared in front of him. On the 12 light and shadow screens, there was the recent data of 12 subjects. Many of the data were low, less than 50%. These data surprised Eddie. The threat from the Executive Branch that had troubled Eddie for so many years had disappeared, because a lack of intelligence, misjudgment, and blind confidence in the barrier zone marching battle plan were all exposed.

"The throne's legs have begun to become fragile. It only takes one corner to collapse, and they will collapse as a whole!"