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At three o'clock in the afternoon, the sun is just right in the west.

The sound of assembly line operations sounded in the huge factory building, and unmanned transport machines shuttled goods between the factory buildings.

In a large open space where no transportation machines passed by, several modified racing cars gathered around the periphery, and two men were discussing things in the center of the open space.

One of the men was wearing black tight short-sleeved sleeves and had a handsome and resolute face. He was the most wanted criminal on the military's most wanted list.

The other man was wearing a military green baseball cap, so he couldn't see his face clearly, but he was also on the military's most wanted list, and he was the new No. 2.

——To be precise, the so-called newcomers are only on the list for 10 minutes.

The front sight on the screen is aimed at the two, and the operator wearing the headset presses his thumb on the firing button: "Target found, request to shoot."

The reply "Permission to fire" sounded in the headset.

In the next second, a small missile was fired from under the UCAV, and flew towards the two people in the center of the open space.

"How do you ensure that the energy station is out of the upper management's control?"

"You only need to capture the energy station, the rest..."

Halfway through the conversation, a sound of piercing the sky suddenly sounded from above.There are few people in the industrial area, and the sound of factory operations is not noisy, so this kind of sound suddenly sounded in the sky, which sounds particularly ear-piercing.

The two people who were negotiating immediately looked up, and saw a missile trailing the tail cloud and shooting straight towards the ground, and it was expected that it would explode within two seconds.

Crater didn't hesitate, and quickly moved away from the center of the open space.

Lai Zhe cursed secretly, and immediately ran to the outside with a mask on.But before he ran far, the missile exploded behind him, and the air wave instantly lifted him to the outer wall of the factory building.

Fortunately, he was not directly hit by the missile, and Ledger could still withstand the impact.

He got down from the wall, shook his head to relieve the discomfort of the eardrums, and asked Kreit who ran to the other side of the open space loudly: "Is it trouble for you?"

Crait ducked fast enough that the missile missed him.He was about to say "no", but saw the drone suddenly lowered its height, and two gun barrels protruded from the sides of the fuselage, and began to chase him and shoot.

Was it really aimed at him?

Kleite couldn't help but wonder, why did the military know he was here?

At this time, Ledger on the other side set up a machine gun from the modified car, and shouted at Cleter: "Bring it here!"

Drones fly low enough to be shot down with machine guns.However, as soon as Leger finished speaking, the drone turned around and started shooting at the convoy.

A dozen or so people had to leave the modified car and hid beside the outer wall of the factory building, away from the field of vision of the drone camera.

After Klett over there stopped being chased and beaten, he began to follow the drone in turn and shoot with a pistol.Although it is good enough to hit one out of ten bullets, this is already the most efficient way to counterattack.

However, on the way to follow, Crater also discovered one thing, the target of the drone was very clear - Ledger.

In other words, the mission of the drone was to eliminate the two of them, and the operator must have found that Kreiter was not easy to catch up with, so he aimed his firepower at Ledger.

But how did the military know that the two met here?

After ruling out all possibilities, Cleter's eyes darkened, and he could only think of the blond figure.

Since he wanted to kill him so impatiently, why did he stop after driving away the desert wolf just now?

The drone fired another missile, which hit the supporting steel frame under the cooling tower.The cooling tower then toppled and hit the roof of the factory building. Ledger's men who were hiding at the base of the factory building had to find new shelters.

Dodging the shooting from the aircraft guns, Kreit ran across the open space in a zigzag, and joined Ledger behind the fallen steel frame.At that time, he had already fired all the magazines on his body, so he took out the only remaining fine steel dagger.

"You lead the drone over, and I'll jump over the cooling tower," Kreit said.

Ledger immediately understood Clater's intentions: "Have you installed a mechanical prosthesis?"

Crater didn't say much: "Yes."

"Okay." Ledger said, "Do you need a weapon?"

"No need." Kleite shook the dagger in his hand, as if he was about to climb up the fallen steel frame.

However, at this moment, Ledger suddenly grabbed his wrist, and his eyes fell directly on his hand: "Why do you have this dagger?"

Crater barely stopped his momentum of climbing upwards, looked at the weapon in his hand following Lai Zhe's line of sight, and said, "It's a gift from a friend."

"Friend?" Ledger looked at Clater in confusion, "This is my captain's dagger."

Hearing this, Kleite's nerves tensed up, and his heart beat like a steam train leaping forward at high speed. Even if he was besieged by ten desert wolves, his heartbeat never beat so fast.

He moved his lips: "...captain?"

"I used to be a member of the military action team, and I joined the Nighthawk for some reasons." Leger said, "The number on this dagger, 888714, is my captain's number."

On the top of the handle of the silver-black dagger, a series of small numbers are engraved.If you don't observe carefully, you won't find it at all.

The bullets fired by the drone hit the steel frame, making a crackling sound.Ledger lowered his head subconsciously, but Clater didn't respond.He grabbed Lai Zhe's shoulder firmly, stared at him and asked, "Where are the others?"

Ledger showed a bewildered expression, but he still sighed and replied, "He's already dead."

Hearing these words, Clater's eyes instantly enlarged, and his heart seemed to be hit hard by a hammer, making him even forget to breathe.

Ledger continued: "20 years ago, we went on a mission to hunt down newborns. At that time, the situation was a bit complicated. He was killed in an explosion to cover me."

Kleite squeezed out a few words in a daze: "...20 years ago?"

Ledger: "Yes."

Kleite couldn't believe it, that is to say, the moment they parted, that person was already dead...

The person who carried him through the flames in the dark and told him not to come back until he grew up, died not long after they parted.

He has worked hard for 20 years, trying to make himself stronger, just to go back to find that person when he grows up, and that person... died 20 years ago.

His body seemed to be drained of strength in an instant, and Klett had to hold the steel frame with his hands to relieve the dizziness in his head.

"Hey, are you alright?" Leger obviously noticed Clater's abnormality, "Why do you have my captain's dagger?"

Crater moved his lips, his throat was so dry that he couldn't make any sound.

"Don't you still want to shoot drones?" Leger said again.

Clayte worked hard again, and finally asked the question he was most concerned about: "What's his name?"

Leger: "Lieutenant Shen Si."

Dense bullets shot over again, and the closest hit was on the side of Ledger's face.He swears again, knowing that Kreiter can't count on him, so he can only use the walkie-talkie to call his subordinates: "Set up the gun and overturn it!"

Behind him was the sound of gunfire all over the sky and mud splashing everywhere, but Kleite seemed to be in another world, sitting alone under the steel frame and staring at the dagger in a daze.

Shen Siwei.

Claire moved her lips soundlessly.

You don't know yet, my name is Crait.

The dagger in his hand has been with Kleite for 20 years. Whenever he is about to lose his hold, he always thinks of what that person said to him.He's adjusted to living alone and learned to be strong, but his hero, the one who protected him, can't see that anymore...

After an unknown amount of time, the sound of gunfire in the open space finally disappeared.

After Ledger came to the steel frame with a high-velocity rifle, he found Kreiter sitting on the ground with his back leaning against the steel frame and smoking.

If Leger hadn't known what happened here just now, he might have thought that Kreiter had come to the industrial area to watch the sunset.

The drone was overturned, but the big brother didn't know what happened.

The two haven't gotten to know each other well enough to talk about their concerns, and now is obviously not the time.

"The military may send someone later." Ledger reminded, "We'll talk about it later."

Not waiting for Mo Lin's instructions for a long time, Shen Siwei wandered around the city doing nothing, and finally returned to Kleite's house.

Crater was supposed to be meeting with Nightingale, but there was no one at home.

Like a master, Shen Siwei took a comfortable bath, changed into clean clothes, then turned on the TV casually, and watched SpongeBob SquarePants that he hadn't finished watching last time.

I have to say that watching cartoons in my spare time is quite interesting.Don't think about anything, just give your brain a vacation.

It's a pity that the good times didn't last long. When Shen Siwei was watching with enthusiasm, Mo Lin's call suddenly rang through his communicator.

——Looks like I'm going back.

Shen Siwei waved his hand to pause the animation, and picked up the communicator: "It's me."

"Immediately evacuate from City Z in the West District." Mo Lin's unhurried voice sounded, "The military will launch a bombing in one hour."

The amount of information in the words was a bit large, Shen Si Wei had already expected that Mo Lin would ask him to go back, but he never expected that the military would take such a measure anyway.

"Bombing?" Wei Shen asked with a frown.

Mo Lin explained: "Just now we carried out a sneak attack in the industrial area, but we failed to deal with Clayter and the nightingale leader."

Before Mo Lin could continue, Captain Shen Si interrupted him: "Sneak attack??"

"I've been paying attention to the Nightingale organization, and I happened to find that group of people were meeting with Kreit." Mo Lin said, "Since you said that Nightingale wanted to murder the Maggots, it's only natural that you put them on the wanted list. Such a group of criminals gathered together, Did you miss this great opportunity?"

Mo Lin's logic was impeccable, and Wei Shen couldn't refute it. He took a deep breath, suppressed the anxiety in his heart, and asked, "Then why bomb this city?"

"The situation of the energy station has been investigated, and no one who knows about it can be left alive." Mo Lin paused, "Especially Crait."

"But we don't know how he repaired the deep-sea energy station." Shen Siwei unconsciously spoke to Kleiter, "Are you sure you want to kill him directly?"

"Since we already know that the problem lies in the deep sea, what's the use of keeping Crait?" Mo Lin asked, "The military will go to the deep sea to investigate the rest."

"But there are still many civilians in this city." Wei Shen said coldly.

"You can't guarantee how many people know about the deep-sea energy station." Mo Lin said, "It's better to kill by mistake than let it go."

"So you want to sacrifice ordinary civilians?!"

Here we go again, exactly the same as 20 years ago.

The mission of the action team was to hunt and kill the newborns, but Maureen didn't care and killed Sarah.

"The life of a commoner is not life in your eyes, is it?"

"Lieutenant Shen Si." Mo Lin lowered his voice and called Wei Wei by name directly, "Find out your position, do you know how much the exposure of the deep sea energy station will affect the tree of life?"

The common people are willing to accept the leadership of the Margots because the deep-sea energy station is destroyed, and mankind may usher in a new energy crisis.

If the core energy stations on the top floor and the deep sea can operate normally, and the Margots still rule the lower floors on the grounds of saving energy, then the common people will definitely rebel.

In any case, Shen Siwei did not want to see turmoil in the tree of life, because at the very beginning—his mother accepted the commission from the ancestors of the Margots and led the design of the tree of life.

He volunteered to join the army since he was a child, not for anything else but to protect his mother's hard work.

But now his values ​​are under attack.

The tree of life is built to allow humans to have a better living environment. If the lives of civilians are to be sacrificed, what is the point of guarding the tree of life?

Thinking back to the commoner couple he saw in the corridor, Shen Siwei quickly made a decision.

The last time he hunted and killed newborns, he failed to prevent the tragedy from happening.

But this time, he still has a chance.

"Understood." Shen Siwei said blankly, "I will evacuate."

After hanging up the communicator, Captain Shen Si did not leave Kleite's house, but immediately dialed Kleite's communication ID.

The long call tone made Shen Siwei even more irritable, but the tone sounded for a long time, but no one answered in the end.

He called again, but this time it turned out to be a good thing, and Kreit actually hung up on him directly.

"you……"

When the swear words came to his lips, Wei Sheng Shen Si swallowed them back.It suddenly occurred to him that Maureen had launched a surprise attack, and Klett must have thought that he had tipped off the news.Coupled with the previous series of events, it is understandable for Krete not to answer his calls.

But now is not the time to be angry with him?

Shen Siwei patiently dialed again, and this time Kreiter finally answered the phone, with a hoarse voice with a bit of impatience: "What's the matter?"

"The military is about to launch a bombing." Shen Siwei said, "Hurry up and come back to me!"

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Lai Zhe puts the lid on the pot: I don’t know wow..._(:з」∠)_