The artist pulls out a weeping willow tree

Time returns to evening.

Hong Peilu led his men down to the laboratory and collected all the bodies of outsiders and the items they brought with them. However, they did not touch anything that originally belonged to the underground laboratory. Instead, they conducted a simple inspection of the entire underground laboratory.

"Is this the joint laboratory of Guan Shuangleng and M? It's actually built here..." Hong Peilu was playing with a doll made of special materials.

The doll's eyeballs are made of gems, which sparkle under the lights of the underground laboratory. The bottom of the gem is a little messy, but if you look closely, you can see that it shows a capital letter M.

"…It has been confirmed that this place was first invaded a hundred years ago." A man in plain clothes walked over, his eyes narrowed dangerously.

"A hundred years ago..." Hong Peilu raised his head slightly and said in an ambiguous tone: "...That's right. Are there any other discoveries?"

"Except for today, the last time this place was visited was probably thirty years ago..."

"The next time is not far away..." Hong Peilu said softly, with a cold arc at the corner of his mouth, as if he was wearing a smiling mask.

"... Leave some gifts for them and then let's go." Hong Peilu put the doll back on the table, then turned and walked out.

The remaining people looked at each other and smiled maliciously.

The plainclothes man who spoke earlier said, "I think they will definitely like this gift..."

After returning to the lakeshore, Hong Peilu immediately opened the light brain. The last message was from Jixiang, which was Jixiang's attempt to remedy the situation after sending Hong Peilu away.

Looking at the white giant in the photo, Hong Peilu couldn't help but hum softly, and said, "...good taste." It's unclear whether it was praise or compliment.

The man in plain clothes looked over when he heard the voice, his brows slightly raised.

"Don't waste your energy. I already know what that thing is." Hong Peilu raised his wrist to signal.

Because Jixiang and his team had intended to protect the scene, they were able to infer from various traces that there must be something at the location of the empty white beast. They just didn't know what it was. Although they were very sure that this thing was taken away by Jixiang and his team, they still couldn't easily draw a conclusion. After all, the War Star No. 9 had become someone else's backyard, so what else was impossible to happen?

"...Xiao Jixiang?" the man in plain clothes asked with a smile.

"Ah... it's her." Hong Peilu's eyes were filled with smiles. "Once I finish the things at hand, I'll take her out to play..."

"Tsk...Is she going to destroy our nest?"

"Go ahead, whatever she wants." Hong Peilu shrugged indifferently, with a hint of anticipation in his tone. After he finished speaking, he changed the subject and said in an almost inaudible voice, "One day she will understand..."

After saying this, Hong Peilu concealed the strange light in his eyes.

"...Running pretty fast." Hong Peilu muttered while video messaging Jixiang.

However, the video call request was never connected.

"Sorry, the user you requested is busy, please call again later..." Ten minutes later, Hong Peilu hung up the video call, thought for a while, and then called Guan Qingyue and the other two again. Without exception, the result was the same.

The other three may like to hang out on video calls, but Jixiang doesn't. She prefers to hide from the Internet because she said she had been cyberbullied. As a result, she is not only very wary and distrustful of all kinds of online information, but also doesn't like to rely on the Internet for communication. There is no one in the school, no one in the planting base, and the four people are strangely communicating, so... there is only one possibility, that is, something went wrong!

"...It seems that there are guests here again." Hong Peilu's brows were gloomy, but he was not too worried about it.

The plainclothes man frowned upon hearing this and said, "I'll go check it out now!"

"Yeah." Hong Peilu responded, opened the special communication system and began to issue instructions.

As a result, the heads of the patrol team, law enforcement team and patrol team received the same message at the same time: there was a visitor.

The night on Planet No. 9 was no different from the previous ones. The patrol team members were still riding sidecar motorcycles around the city, with a few law enforcement team members occasionally passing by on balance bikes.

Planet No. 9 is a very special planet. It is closed to protect the military academy students on this planet, but it is not so closed because the planet is very large and its operation and development also require the presence of non-teachers and students. Hundreds of years ago, Planet No. 9, no, the entire Watch Star Region, only had students, teachers, soldiers and researchers in various fields belonging to the War University. It is a pure military academy star region!

To be honest, life in the Overwatch Starfield at that time could be described as an ascetic life. The cadets seemed to be locked in a cage, with only a limited amount of time each year to see the outside world. The reform came unexpectedly, but it should be said that it was long-planned.

In short, in that year, under the call of all the military academy students in the Watch Star Region, these military academy planets were injected with new vitality. They were still closed, but there was a fresh breath of life. New ordinary people began to operate various commercial places... Occasionally, these ordinary people would bring their children who were not yet of school age here.

This is a dangerous thing, but even in a completely closed past, danger cannot be completely avoided. When we lose something, we can also gain something. While actively changing, the Watch Star Domain also discovered and cleaned up a lot of "garbage".

Moving forward in a crisis is actually a good choice. Moreover, we must always give people hope and opportunities so that when they make mistakes, they will not be desperate and will not choose the most extreme outcome.

Just like marching in battle, after surrounding the enemy, you have to leave a hole for them to escape. This hole will keep them yearning for life, so they will not develop the morale of risking their lives due to despair and anger at death, and will not fight to the death, but will choose to hold back.

The lowest and highest points of human nature can be switched seamlessly. In many cases, there is not much difference between the two. Because humans are complex animals, extremely complex...

Hong Peilu looked at the seemingly calm surface of Planet No. 9 with a hint of mockery in his eyes.

Whether it is the Zerg or humans, their essence is greedy species. In the past, yes, in the past, when he was on the Zerg battlefield, his biggest enemy was the Zerg. Later, he left the Zerg battlefield and joined the war. His enemies still included the Zerg, but not only the Zerg.

It's like a comedy in full costume, where everyone plays their roles with all their heart and soul. But as the performance goes on, one suddenly realizes that people like him are more like clowns in the play, clowns who are fooled.

The audience laughed with their mouths wide open, but he couldn't hear or see them because they were a little far away. But he could see their mouths laughing wildly, with the corners of their mouths easily pulling out a huge arc, a smile as dark as the abyss...