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"Mother?"

Hearing these two words, Kleite, who was leaning casually on the desk, immediately stood up straight, a trace of confusion flashed in his eyes.

Although the nameplate had been removed and there was no photo on the table, Shen Siwei knew that this was his mother's office.

"She is the chief engineer here," he said, "in charge of the design of the Tree of Life energy station."

"So that's how it is." Kleite thought about it, "No wonder you were born on it."

Shen Siwei's thoughts began to diverge unconsciously, and he suddenly thought that maybe many things were already preordained.

Even if he didn't choose to join the army, given his background, he would probably choose to join politics.

Perhaps in the parallel world, his identity is a negotiator, and he will still meet Kreiter.

"Ivan?" Kleite tilted his head, interrupting Lieutenant Shen Si's trance, "Come help me find it together?"

Shen Siwei put away his thoughts, turned on the flashlight and walked into the office: "Are you sure you have that agreement?"

"Not sure." Kreit went to the bookcase and rummaged through it, "But there is a high probability."

Shen Siwei opened the desk drawer: "Why?"

"You probably don't remember, there's a guy named Ives in Nightingale. He's a hacker. He hacked the monitoring system of the Christon Hotel in order to assassinate you."

Shen Siwei did not remember: "And then?"

"He looked for this agreement on the Internet, and every time he was about to find it, he would find that the information was missing." Having said this, Kleite stopped his movements, and said, "Where the information is lost, there are traces of the military."

Shen Siwei closed the empty drawer: "You mean that the Margots deleted this agreement from the entire network?"

In order to save paper, people nowadays are used to saving things online.If the network authority level is high enough, it is indeed possible to do things behind the scenes.

"Ivis guessed so." Kreit squatted down and continued to rummage through the scattered documents.

"But what about people's memories?" Shen Siwei was puzzled, "If this agreement was really signed back then, wouldn't anyone remember it?"

"Because the first-generation residents of the tree of life have basically passed away." Kleite stopped searching, put his elbows on his knees, and looked back at Wei Shen in a squatting position, "Your mother..."

"En." Wei Shen replied softly, indicating that what Kreit said was correct.

Due to the rapid development of the medical level, there is a gap in the life span between the first-generation residents in the tree of life and the later-born residents.

Like Shen Siwei's mother, who died of illness when she was in her 70s, Shen Siwei, who is also in her 70s now, still maintains a youthful appearance.

"And the rule of the Margots didn't start with the construction of the tree of life." Kleite picked up the file and continued to rummage through it. "It was after the deep sea energy station was destroyed."

"You want to say," Shen Siwei continued, "before that, people used to live with the Mag people on an equal footing."

In such an environment, naturally no one would mention the agreement.

This is like all peace treaties in history. As long as the two sides do not break out in conflict, no one will deliberately emphasize peace.

Over time, the first-generation residents of the Tree of Life slowly aged and passed away, while the new-born residents did not understand that period of history.

"I haven't experienced anything before." The documents on the ground were worthless, and Kreit stood up again, "but Malkan said that there was a time when there was a wave of admiration for the Mag people in the tree of life."

"I remember." Shen Siwei pondered, "Young people imitate the dressing of the Maggots and regard the Magagians as their idols."

Not only Shen Siwei remembered it, but it was also mentioned in Amor's diary.

In the beginning, the Margots were just like ordinary people, everyone was just ordinary people.But I have to admit that the Magos are more beautiful, taller, and physically stronger.People at the bottom began to yearn for the high-level people, and a trend of admiring the Mag people formed in the society.

Amor said that people's ideology began to change subtly from then on.

Later, the deep-sea energy station was destroyed, and the tree of life may usher in a new energy crisis.

Most of the people who signed the agreement at the beginning have passed away, and people have formed the idea that "Mags are more noble". If the Mags cannot lead everyone, who else can lead?

"That's why Nightingale's change is very difficult." Kreit said, "It is impossible to change the status quo without changing people's thinking."

"If there is such an agreement," Shen Siwei frowned, "it will indeed win them the right to speak."

"But there is none here." Kleite shook the room with the flashlight again, "I have searched all over."

The design drawings of the energy station were left in this office because Shen Siwei's mother was the designer.

But she is not the drafter of the agreement, she is just a participant, so the paper version should not appear here.

Wait, participant?

Shen Siwei's eyes suddenly moved to the wall, and he saw an electronic photo frame hanging there, but because the photo frame had long been out of power, the photos inside were not displayed.

"Have you ever used this kind of thing?" Shen Siwei said, took down the thick glass screen, and searched for the socket on the outer frame.

"Large mobile phone?" Kleite held the screen for Wei Shen.

"It's a bit like it, but it's not." Shen Siwei touched the outer frame and took out a small memory card. "This is an electronic photo frame, which can read the memory card and display the photos inside."

Kleite looked at the things in Shen Siwei's hand, and said in disbelief: "Is there really a memory card?"

"Maybe the power was cut off when my mother came to pack things, so I forgot about it."

Shen Siwei said as he took out the reader from his backpack. Although this memory card was an antique more than 100 years ago, the data inside it was well preserved.

There are not many photos, less than a few dozen. Except for the scenery of the seaside, most of them are related to work.

"Is this your mother?" Kleite asked, looking at a woman who always appeared in the photos.

"En." Shen Siwei nodded lightly.

His mother always wore business attire and silver-rimmed glasses, which hadn't changed in decades.

"She is very beautiful." Kreit said and looked at Shen Siwei, "My mother is also very beautiful, do you want to see her photo?"

Shen Siwei was about to say "yes", but at this moment a big group photo appeared on the screen, which attracted the attention of the two of them.

"The signing ceremony of the Tree of Life Development Agreement?"

After Klett read the words on the red banner, the two frowned in unison and looked at each other.

In the group photo, there are about 30 to [-] people standing in a row smiling and applauding.The two people in the middle were holding something that looked like a certificate. The person on the left was Shen Siwei's mother, and the person on the right was Miller, whom he had seen before.

He zoomed in on the certificate they were holding up, and the content about equality was clearly visible on it.

"...The tree of life belongs to all individuals, no matter which layer the individual lives in, they all have the same rights..."

Kleite read the text on the photo.

"So there really is this agreement." Shen Siwei put down the reader and muttered in a daze.

Although there have been speculations just now, when this agreement actually appears, it still feels shocking.

As early as more than 100 years ago, designers had anticipated that residential and administrative areas would be divided according to height, which might lead to inequality in the future.

They signed this agreement, thinking that it would be guaranteed, but they didn't know that time buried all of this.

This is a lost past and a lost history.

Shen Siwei could almost imagine how big waves would be caused in the tree of life when these things were exposed.

"What do you think?" Claire asked suddenly.

Kleite just asked Shen Siwei yesterday how he would choose between equality and safety.

At that time, Shen Siwei chose to be neutral, because in his subconscious mind, he would still put the stability of the tree of life first.But now looking at the things in his hand, he has a new answer in his heart.

"Send it to Nightingale," he said.

After leaving the design center, Shen Siwei sat on the corridor, staring at the photos of his mother before.

He still remembers that when he just woke up, even thinking of his former family and friends, his emotions would not fluctuate.But now it's different, he can feel the sadness and longing, and his frozen heart seems to be warm again.

Is it because of Claire?Shen Siwei was not sure either.

But he found that his emotions seemed to only ebb and flow when he was around Crait.

Kleite came back from the phone call quickly, walked up to Wei Shen and asked, "What are your plans now?"

"Look for Amor first." Lieutenant Shen Si put away the reader and adjusted his mood. "His and Li's aircraft is here, and the two must be nearby."

Now that he has been traced to this point, there is no reason to give up.

"Okay." Claire said.

Shen Siwei stood up and continued to walk down the corridor, but at this moment, he stopped abruptly because the light of the flashlight cast a strange black shadow.

"There's someone." Kleite obviously also saw the black figure. He walked up to Wei Shen, walked down a few steps, and then turned back to Wei Shen, "It's a corpse."

When the two came to the platform in the middle of the corridor, they saw a person who had been shot several times and fell in a pool of blood. Looking at the state of the body, the time of death was about a week ago.

Shen Siwei squatted beside the corpse and looked at it, and said to Kreiter with a solemn expression: "It's Li."

Although the handsome face has turned blue and purple, and the original appearance cannot be seen, judging from the clothes and attire, the dead person is indeed Li.

Kelet frowned: "How could he die here?"

Shen Siwei scanned the surroundings, picked up a bullet casing from the ground, and said, "It's a military bullet. It's for the action team."

Things suddenly got weird.

It's not that Captain Shen Si never imagined that Amor and Li would be attacked by aberrant monsters and die on the way.

But he never expected that there would be an action team here.

"Could it be that people from the military have taken Amor away?" Kreit asked.

Shen Siwei could only think of this possibility.

It has been about a week since he set out to perform the mission, and Lieutenant Shen Si's action has always been a week behind Amor.

In other words, when Captain Shen Si came here, Li had already been killed by the action team last week.

At that time, Captain Shen Si was just about to set off.

It is naturally impossible for the members of the action team to kill Amor, they will only bring him back to the top of the tree of life.

That being the case...

Shen Siwei frowned deeply: "Then why did Mo Lin send me down?"