top edge

"I will leave."

In the end, Wei Shen still chose to compromise.

The mask returned to his hand, and Shen Siwei sat motionless on the sofa, staring at Kreiter who was washing dishes by the sink, and began to think about the possibility of success in extorting a confession by torture.

In short, knock Klett unconscious and tie him to a chair.

When he can no longer bear the torture, return the line to him: "Answer my question obediently and I will let you go."

The probability of success in the first step is very high.

But if the rogue leader would rather die than submit, then there will be some trouble.

The sound of water in the kitchen stopped abruptly, Shen Siwei immediately put away his gloomy eyes, brushed away the cruel picture in his mind, and looked at his microcomputer pretending not to care.

"I bought clothes, and I will go when they are delivered."

"Go by yourself?" Kleite wiped the water on his hands, "Are you sure you can leave City Z safely?"

"It's you who said that daytime is relatively safe." Shen Siwei said, "It should be fine."

The day drove away the night, and the city fell into dead silence instead.Outside the window, there was no other sound except crows, as if this was not a city, but a remote wilderness.

Perhaps it was Wei Shen who finally agreed to leave, Kleite seemed to be in a good mood.He didn't argue with Wei Wei about safety or not, he just said: "How long will it take for your clothes to be delivered?"

Shen Siwei said: "Half an hour later."

Kreit looked at the time: "I'll send someone to pick you up in half an hour."

There was no room for negotiation, but Shen Siwei was not annoyed, because Kreit added "I still have something to do".

He simply sat on the sofa and watched the news, and waited for Kreit to leave after a while.

Ten minutes later, the urgent delivery drone landed on the balcony.

Shen Siwei put on the khaki overalls he bought and a dark wool cap, his aristocratic aura was completely hidden. At first glance, he thought he was an ordinary working boy.

If the drone had arrived a few minutes earlier, maybe Captain Shen Si would still have a chance to follow Kleiter.But now, they can only go to the energy station to investigate according to the original plan.

Looking at the time, it was still more than ten minutes before Kleite sent someone.

There was no surveillance in the dilapidated apartment, and Shen Siwei came out of the house unhurriedly, unexpectedly bumping into Noke who was sorting garbage in the aisle.

"Brother Negotiator," Noke put down the garbage bag in his hand, and looked at Wei Shen's clothes in puzzlement, "Where are you going?"

Shen Siwei naturally wouldn't tell the truth: "Go back to heaven."

Noke blinked his eyes wide: "I heard that you can see the snow-capped mountains outside the tree of life in the sky, is it true?"

"Really." Shen Siwei rubbed Noke's head, squatting down beside him, "Is this someone else's garbage?"

"Yeah!" Nock nodded, "I'll sort them out, and they'll give me pocket money."

Wei Shen was inexplicably distressed. Regardless of the dirty juice, he helped Noke sort the last few bottles, then stood up and gave him ten yuan.

"Take it to buy a drink."

"Thank you brother!"

There was no one on the street, and the shops were closed.

It is estimated that Nock can only wait until the evening to buy drinks.

Shen Siwei walked through the intricate alleys to the energy station, and met no one else except for a few drunken refugees lying on the side of the road.

The number of refugees guarding the energy station has not decreased, but most of them are dozing off with guns in their hands.There are a few sober ones, either watching videos or playing games. It seems that they all feel that it is daytime and there is no need to be vigilant.

Lieutenant Shen Si stayed nearby for a few minutes, and while a refugee was going to the bathroom, he sneaked into the energy station without anyone noticing it.

The part below the fifth floor is the energy distribution device of each block, which is not of much exploration value.

And Lieutenant Shen Si had already prepared his identity card, and when he was about to go to the fifth floor, he saw that the access control by swiping the card had already been destroyed, and Kreit obviously broke in by force.

Not only that, the main monitoring in the energy station was destroyed. Obviously, Kleite didn't want anyone to see what he did after he came in.

——Then look for more passive places, and you should be able to see some clues.

The central part of the sixth to tenth floors is hollowed out, and a huge cube-shaped energy receiving device is placed.

The device was in an independent magnetic field, and Wei Shen had to press the mask on his face tightly and approach the instrument panel carefully, for fear that the mask would be demagnetized or sucked away if he didn't pay attention.

Everything on the instrument panel is as usual, the energy signal light is always on, and the fault light is not on.

Shen Siwei called up the control system connected to the top-level core energy station, and found that the software had not been hacked.

Then why is the energy supply of City Z in the West District uncontrolled?

Shen Siwei couldn't find anything suspicious, so he could only try to restart the control system.However, during the restart period, according to system rules, the entire energy station will be powered off.

In other words, once restarted, Shen Siwei is likely to be exposed.

But on the other hand, if this system rule is still in effect, it means that restarting is feasible.After the restart is complete, the top floor will be able to regain control of the energy station.

Shen Siwei quickly made a decision that this risk was worth taking.

He called up the restart interface two or three times, then waited patiently for the warning page to close, and then pressed the "Restart" button.

The expected magnetic field disturbance did not appear, and Shen Siwei, who was ready to escape, returned to the instrument panel and found that the control system was indeed restarting, but the energy station was still powered on.

--what happened?

Assuming that the control system fails due to unknown reasons, if you still want to cut off the energy supply here, there is only one way left - start with the hardware.

Lieutenant Shen Si didn't stop at the instrument panel, and went straight to the negative floor through the hidden escape stairs.

Different from the bright environment upstairs, the lower floor is full of intricate pipes.

Shen Siwei called up the pre-prepared map in the microcomputer, and quickly found the huge central energy receiving pipeline.

The energy that overflows from the top floor is transported to energy stations in various regions through this pipeline.

No matter what Kreit did, as long as Shen Siwei destroyed the pipeline in front of him, City Z in the western district would come to a complete standstill.

When the time comes, Klett will definitely lead someone to rush to repair this pipe, so that there is a high probability that Shen Siwei can take advantage of the chaos to find out what Klett has done.

Thinking of this, Shen Siwei jumped over the pipe.

Breaking a pipe is not the same as restarting a system, which will definitely set off an alarm.

But Captain Shen Si couldn't care less, he punched down suddenly, and hit the outer wall of the pipe heavily.

——If Clayte hadn't snatched his mask just now, he could have let the rogue leader feel the force.

There was a dull sound from the pipe, followed by a flashing red alarm.

Shen Siwei punched with all his strength, and the cracks on the outer wall of the pipe became bigger and bigger.

For the last time, Shen Siwei jumped up high, and then jumped down forcefully, only to hear a "bang", and the pipe interface was directly separated from the receiving device.

Shouts from the refugees sounded all around. Shen Siwei quickly opened the map and came to the abandoned lift gate leading to the city's sewer system. He also used brute force to destroy the lift gate and hid in the more complicated sewer.

After walking for about ten minutes, Shen Siwei found a remote corner, lifted the manhole cover and climbed out of the sewer.

He was relieved for the time being that there was no sign of refugees chasing after him.But at this moment, he saw the AI ​​cleaner working hard not far away.

--How is this possible? !

Shen Siwei was shocked. After the energy station stopped operating, the entire city's network would be paralyzed. How could the AI ​​cleaners still be working?

He quickly found a self-service car charging station, and found that things were as he had guessed—the energy station was still operating normally.

"Colonel, it's me." Lieutenant Shen Si wandered around the city, paying attention to avoiding surveillance, "I can now confirm that the energy station of City Z in the West District has completely escaped the control of the upper echelon."

After explaining the situation clearly in a few words, Mo Lin on the communicator was also quite surprised.

"You mean that energy station can also generate large-scale autonomous power?"

"It looks so."

Mo Lin fell silent, and spoke in a serious tone when he spoke again: "I will report to the higher-ups first, and you continue to investigate Kreiter's background."

"Okay." Captain Shen Si had nothing else to say, and was about to cut off the communicator.

But at this moment Mo Lin suddenly asked: "You go out during the day, why don't you ask me to change your hair color and eye color?"

Shen Siwei choked suddenly.

The last time he went out to investigate was at night, and it didn't make much difference whether he changed his hair color or eye color.

But this time he went out in broad daylight. From a safety point of view, he should indeed contact Mo Lin to change his appearance.

But Shen Siwei just didn't want to contact Mo Lin.

He wasn't used to Mo Lin's ambiguous tone when talking to him, and he didn't like the feeling that his body, hair, and skin were being manipulated.

Pursing his lips, he said, "No need. There is no one on the street during the day."

There was silence again on the communicator.

"Okay." Mo Lin changed into a soft tone, "Be careful."

Walking aimlessly on the road, Shen Siwei couldn't help reflecting on himself.

If he and Maureen were really lovers, wouldn't it hurt him to say that just now?

Things like falling in love have never been involved in Shen Siwei's life, and he doesn't know how to face the existence of "lovers".

But then again, why would he fall in love out of nowhere?

...and still with my boss.

Folding his arms and trembling, Shen Siwei only realized now that his skin could still get goosebumps.

There are too many question marks in my mind, but at this moment, none of them are as important as investigating Kleite.

So who the hell is this person who can transform the regional energy station?

the scientist?Mechanical maniac?Makeover master?

Originally, Lieutenant Shen Si had planned to lurk quietly in the city for the next few days, but now it seems that he still has to go back to Kleite.

Without knowing the password to the door, Captain Shen Si couldn't go back to Kleite's house through the main door.

He had to go to the building next door, jump to the signboard of the adult products he hated and observed for a while, and after making sure that there was no one in the room, he returned to the place he left through the balcony.

The items in the room have not changed in any way, even the folds of the sofa are still the same as when Shen Siwei left.

He relaxed into the sofa, leaned the back of his head on the back of the sofa chair, and looked up at the ceiling.

Perhaps it is necessary to understand all aspects of Crait.

This person is like a hard bone, no matter whether it is negotiation or investigation, if you don't put in some real effort, you will never be able to find a breakthrough.

Thinking of this, Shen Siwei raised his head again and observed the messy items in the room.

The stones of the Desert Wave, the poisonous needles of the Mutation Scorpions... He seems to be very good at hunting monsters.

His gaze scanned every corner of the room, and finally fell on a row of CD racks.

There are many discs on the shelves. In this day and age, few people still watch movies on discs.

Shen Siwei's intuition told him that these discs must not be ordinary discs, and there may be some important information recorded in them.

However, when he walked to the CD rack, picked up a disc, and looked at the cute cartoon cover on it, a deep confusion flashed across his face.

"Sponge... baby?"

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