top edge

When he woke up again, the sky had turned pale.

The flock of pigeons looking for food is still hovering in the sky, and the fierce dog that knocked on the door has disappeared at some point.

Lieutenant Shen Si straightened up from his seat and found that Kreiter was not by his side.Looking around the window of the aircraft, there was no one on the roof.

The vigil was supposed to take place alternately, but Kleite didn't wake up Captain Shen Si.

A bad premonition rushed into his mind, and Captain Shen Si hurriedly got off the aircraft, only to see Kreiter appearing at the entrance of the corridor holding a flashlight.

"Where have you been?" Shen Siwei asked.

"Turn around casually." Kreit walked to the front, looked at the engine status of the aircraft, "Let's go now?"

The flight engine has already completed self-cleaning and maintenance. If Crater didn't need to rest, he would have been able to start the aircraft and continue to the coastline.

Lieutenant Shen Si couldn't say anything, and he always felt that the "casual wandering" that Kleite said seemed a bit out of place.

But maybe Kreiter just loves museums, and there's nothing wrong with visiting them again.

"Let's go." Shen Siwei said.

Facts have proved that Kleite does not need to rest, and the rest of the trip will be Lieutenant Shen Si beware of the birds in the sky.

When the sun passed over their heads and gradually came behind them, the coastline finally appeared in front of them.

From a distance, the deep blue sea separates the city from the sky, like a blue horizontal line drawn freehand.There are no ships on the sea, and occasionally giant fish jump out of the water and attack the flock of birds hovering in the low sky.

Continue to fly forward, the coastline becomes more and more clear.

The beach is full of rubbish washed up from the sea, and colorful plastic surrounds the huge strange fish skeleton, forming a grotesque caricature.

Lieutenant Shen Si pulled his gaze back from afar, closed his eyes and meditated on Kreit beside him and said, "Do you think that is the aircraft of Amor and Li?"

On the roof of a building with more than 100 floors ahead, there is an aircraft that does not conform to this era.

Whether it is the color or the model, it is very similar to the one in the surveillance video.

Kreit waved his hand, enlarged the image on the windshield, and confirmed: "Yes."

Shen Siwei then operated the aircraft to go to the roof of the building: "Go and have a look."

There is a thin layer of ash accumulated on Amor and Li's aircraft, which should have been parked here for a while.

The two went nowhere, and Kreit simply broke the window and pressed the start button.

The screen then lit up, and the data showed that the last flight was a week ago, which matched the timeline of the two men's actions.

but--

"Not quite right." Shen Siwei glanced at the unused batteries in the back row, "Do you think they will stay here for a week?"

Kleite looked at the boundless sea, frowned and said, "Probably not."

If the two of them just came to see the sea, then at most half a day would be enough.No matter how much you like the sea, you won't be able to watch it for a week.

"Go down and have a look." After Shen Siwei finished speaking, he was about to go to the corridor, but at this moment Kleite suddenly pulled him back.

"This science and technology building has 110 floors. I don't know when we will find it together." Kreit said, "We will search separately. I will look for odd-numbered floors, and you will look for even-numbered floors."

It sounded like a very reasonable suggestion, but Shen Siwei frowned subtly.

Thinking of Krete's anomaly in the morning, he pursed his lips calmly, and said lightly, "Okay."

After parting ways with Kleite on the top floor, Captain Shen Si entered the highest even-numbered floor with a flashlight.

There is a huge revolving restaurant in front of you. Through the floor-to-ceiling windows, you can enjoy the "beautiful" coastline from a distance.

This high-tech building was the most technologically-sounding building of the year, with individual floors open to the public, taking into account the role of tourist attractions.

There was no trace of the two of them in the restaurant, so Wei Shen continued to go down.Clater's progress was much faster than him, and the light of the flashlight was several layers ahead of him.

Lieutenant Shen Si speeded up unconsciously, but he searched more than a dozen floors in a row, but still couldn't find Amor and Li.

Further down is the area on the last floor open to the public, and Wei Shen came to an open-air sky garden.

The garden had long been deserted, and there were no footprints on the dusty ground. Obviously, Amor and Li had never been here.

But Shen Siwei looked at the landscape here, and the long-faded picture was suddenly re-colored, making him unable to move for a long time.

He vaguely remembered that when he was a child, his mother who was an engineer often described to him the scene outside the tree of life, and the place where she worked appeared the most.

"Mom's office can see the sea, but if you really want to see the sea, the open-air garden upstairs is the best. The sea breeze can blow there, but the tree of life can't smell it."

If Shen Siwei remembered correctly, he had seen this garden in his mother's photo.

Going deeper into the memory, that place seems to be called "Technology Building".

——This should be the place where his mother worked.

I don't know if there is some guidance in the dark, Shen Siwei didn't expect him to come here.

He immediately turned around and went downstairs to an area of ​​the building that was not open to the public, and he found a certain design center.

At this time, it is no longer important whether the odd-numbered floors or the even-numbered floors are used.

Shen Siwei followed the signs to the engineer's office floor, and at this moment, he found a flashlight shining in a certain office.

"What are you looking for?" Shen Siwei turned off the flashlight, came to the door of the office, and looked at Kreit expressionlessly.

Kleite probably didn't expect Wei Shen to appear suddenly, and touched the back of his neck awkwardly.

Without waiting for his answer, Shen Siwei continued: "In the museum this morning, you were also looking for something, right?"

Kreiter didn't deny it: "Yes."

Shen Siwei frowned slightly, and asked: "So you follow me for some other purpose?"

Kleite should have sensed Shen Siwei's vigilance, he was stunned for a while, and then said with a smile: "I am indeed looking for something, but I didn't deliberately hide it from you."

Shen Siwei didn't answer.

"Really, I'm looking for an agreement." Kreit said helplessly, "I don't know if it really exists, and I didn't tell you, because I didn't want you to misunderstand me and talk about conspiracy theories."

"What agreement?" Wei Shen asked.

"The Tree of Life Development Agreement." Kreiter said, "It is rumored that when the ancestors of the Mago decided to build the Tree of Life, they signed this agreement with the engineers and workers' representatives who were in charge of the construction at that time. The agreement stipulates that all People have equal access to energy, regardless of social class."

Kreiter didn't look like he was making up a lie, Shen Siwei lowered his guard slightly and asked, "Why haven't I heard of it?"

"Because this is a legendary agreement, no one knows if it really exists." Kleite said, "Nightingale asked me to help find this agreement. I didn't want to help, but since I want to accompany you to the ruins, I want to Just take a look."

"So you chose the city center as your first foothold," Shen Siwei said, "and also to find this agreement?"

There are many important buildings there, presumably during the time when Shen Siwei fell asleep, Kreiter had gone out to look for them.

"Yes." Kleite shrugged, "but I didn't find anything."

"Then why do you think there will be one here?" Wei Shen asked again.

The ruins in the south were so huge that they couldn't even find Amor and Li, let alone a legendary agreement.

"Because the owner of this office is very special." Kreit said, illuminating the room with a flashlight. "As I said before, I like to explore around. About six or seven years ago, I came to this office. Found a blueprint."

"Design?" Shen Siwei asked.

"The design drawing of the deep-sea energy station," Kreit said.

Hearing this, a trace of surprise flashed in Shen Siwei's eyes.

It suddenly occurred to him that Molin wanted to ask Clater the way to go to the deep sea. The cause of everything seemed to be inseparable from the deep sea.

"You should know that there are giant monsters in the deep sea," Klett continued, "but in fact, he will not take the initiative to attack humans."

"Wait." Lieutenant Shen Si couldn't help interrupting Kleite, "It's common sense that giant monsters will attack humans, otherwise the military would never be able to enter the deep sea."

"No." Kleite shook his head, "They are not attacking humans, but lights. As long as you don't have lights on you, you won't attract their attention."

and so……

Is this why Crait can go to the deep sea?

Mo Lin has been trying to figure this out, but he didn't expect the answer to be so simple.

Some bits and pieces of logic gradually pieced together, Shen Siwei said: "You found the design drawing of the deep sea energy station here, and then you went to the deep sea alone, and repaired the core energy station?"

The tone is full of incredible.

Crater said: "That's right, because only one pipeline of the deep-sea energy station was damaged. After I repaired the pipeline according to the blueprint, I destroyed all the lights of the energy station. After that, no trolls attacked again. "

The tree of life was built more than 100 years ago, and the deep-sea energy station has been in operation since then.

Giant monsters should be creatures that evolved more than 50 years ago, and since their appearance, no human has entered the deep sea again.

But Wei Shen still felt strange.

"Are you that brave?" he asked. "How do you know trolls only attack lights?"

"Do you still remember the friend I mentioned?" Kreit said, "I was only five years old when he rescued me. At that time, in order to escape, I drifted from the artificial river to the deep sea. At that time, I didn't even know that there was a 'deep sea'. Trolls attack humans'."

"You..." Shen Siwei was stunned, "You went to such a dangerous place when you were five years old?"

"Because I do not know."

When he said this, Crater's tone was very casual, but after thinking about it, he knew how cruel it was for a little boy.

Even adults dare not go to the deep sea, but in order to escape danger, he went to that even more dangerous place without knowing it.

Shen Siwei couldn't help but secretly feel lucky, fortunately the troll only attacked the lights.

But having said that, everything makes sense.

Crater had been to the deep sea when he was a child, and perhaps he had been there several times later, to find out the habits of the deep sea monsters.

Later, when he came to explore the southern ruins, he accidentally found the design drawing of the deep-sea energy station in this office, and then went to the deep sea to repair the energy station.

Then, it was five years ago.

Mo Lin only knew that the deep sea energy station had been repaired, but he did not expect that the environment of the deep sea had not changed.He sent many action teams to explore the deep sea, and all of them were attacked by giant monsters without exception-because no one would turn on the light in the dark deep sea.

"Can you see the surrounding environment clearly in the deep sea?" Shen Siwei asked.

"Yes." Kreit said, "It's good to go during the day, I have good eyesight."

Kleite's physical fitness is very good, Shen Siwei is not surprised.

He was silent, and said: "You said that I found out that you repaired the deep sea energy station five years ago."

"Well." Kreit said, "Before the military ordered the bombing, you hadn't fully helped me."

"You also said," Shen Siwei paused, "the owner of this office is very special."

"Yes. If you can have the design drawing of the deep-sea energy station, you must have participated in the construction of the tree of life. That's why I came here to find an agreement."

Shen Siwei pursed his lips, looked at the words "Chief Engineer" on the door, and said slowly, "This is my mother's office."

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As mentioned earlier, in Lao Shen's memory, he signed up for the transformation by himself. He doesn't remember saving Lao Lei.