"But what I heard outside is..." Aaron couldn't accept it for a moment. He took huge risks and took reckless actions, and even risked a living person's life to get here, and now he was told

All your actions are completely meaningless?

"No matter what you heard outside, what you heard is just a guess deduced by some people in District 9 using the one-sided information they have. It is far from the real situation." The old district chief said to Aaron coldly.

He was interrupted, "I understand that you don't want to accept the cruel reality, and it's a pity that the reality will not change because of your refusal. There is nothing I can do about it."

Aaron stared blankly at the old district chief, unable to utter even a single word for a long time.

The old district chief was too lazy to say even a word of comfort. He ignored him and picked up the book he had put down. This time Aaron saw clearly the text on the cover, which read the name "Capital in the Twenty-First Century".

But at this time, Aaron no longer had the extra mood to pay attention to the name of the book. A strong sense of powerlessness and self-doubt occupied all his thinking threads, regarding all his actions after waking up and even before all these changes happened.

The correctness, or at least the positive self-identification, has been shaken.

If the Ninth District is an island without redemption, then it can be said that he was the one who forcibly dragged the Special Investigation Team into the Ninth District. He is the sinner buried with the Special Investigation Team in the Ninth District. He failed to win the late victory for his father.

Even his impartiality failed to expose the truth behind the scenes. All he did was drag other people who could have been saved to accompany him on this path of self-destruction. For example, he had a happy family and had always regarded himself as a relative.

Ling Chong, who treats him like a son, is like Lan Tian, ​​who originally had nothing to do with him, and even had a personality that was not so dealing with him, but he still believed in his own judgment in the end.

If this is the case, what am I?

Lifting the cup and taking a sip of the hot tea, the old district chief shook his head at the stunned Aaron. Just as he was about to return his attention to the book in his hand, a surprised girl's voice sounded on the stairs behind him.

"Brother Long?" The girl who came down from the second floor looked tired, her clothes were stained with blood and became dirty, but she still exuded a vigorous breath of life from the inside out.

"Xiao Xiao?" Aaron stood there in a daze and rubbed his eyes, almost unable to believe what he saw.

"Brother Long, why are you here?" After confirming that the livid-faced man below was indeed Aaron, Ling Xiao came to him in three steps and then two steps.

"I want to ask you the same thing!" If Aaron were asked to make a list of people he least wanted to see in the world right now, Ling Xiao would definitely be in the top two. Putting her in such a dangerous situation in the first place was

Aaron had to try his best to avoid it, and then he didn't know how to explain to Ling Xiao that he had lost his father.

"Me, am I unlucky?" Ling Xiao scratched his head in confusion, "When those prosthetics started going crazy and killing people on the street, I was trapped on a high-rise building in a shopping mall, and was rescued from the rooftop by a team of soldiers.

When the plane came out, it was shot down inexplicably when it passed here on its way back, and I also made an emergency landing here with the soldiers."

"Um..." Aaron didn't know how to evaluate Ling Xiao's fantasy experience. He should have been underground at the time and had no real feeling for the chaos on the ground. By the time he regained consciousness, District 9 had become a dangerous place.

In ruins.

"Brother Long, why are you here? Is my dad here too?" What is supposed to come will eventually come, and Aaron cannot escape this question.

"I came to the Ninth District to investigate the case, and Uncle Ling...he is also here with me." After a brief moment of entanglement and hesitation, Aaron told the truth.

"Did something happen to my dad?" As Aaron knew, Ling Xiao was a very smart girl, and as the daughter of a police officer, she was especially good at observing people's emotions.

"I, I don't know." Aaron lowered his head and did not dare to look at Ling Xiao, "The situation was too chaotic at that time. I have no memory of what happened after I lost consciousness. When I woke up again, it was already yesterday.

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"Brother Long, don't think too bad about things." Ling Xiao, who was supposed to be comforted by Aaron, now comforted Aaron, who was about to have a nervous breakdown, "That's my dad, he's so powerful and nothing can stop him."

Yes, he must be alive and well somewhere now and looking for us."

"...Yes, you are right." Aaron's old face heated up when he suddenly realized that he was being comforted in turn. The shame made him temporarily forget his depression, "Uncle Ling has experienced so many dangers, he will definitely be fine this time."

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"That's right, he usually likes to pull me to brag about his 'great achievements' when he was young when he was drinking at home. Now that he is really in trouble, if he dares to cause trouble, I will despise him for the rest of my life." Ling Xiao said half-jokingly.

"So you two know each other." The old district chief next to him seemed to think that these two people were noisy, so he put down the book again.

"Do you remember Officer Ling who came with me? She is his daughter." Aaron introduced to the old district chief with a wry smile.

"It turns out she is his daughter, no wonder." The old district chief nodded, "This kid has helped a lot in the past few days. She is better than those soldiers. Those soldiers know that they are isolated from the outside world, so they follow each other.

It’s like he’s lost his soul, does he deserve to be called a soldier?”

"Uh." Aaron grinned and did not comment. After all, he was not very far away from losing his mind just now. If Ling Xiao hadn't appeared, he might have really collapsed.

"It's better to have an acquaintance beside you than not at all. But you came all the way to my place. Isn't it to find this kid or to be in a daze?" Ignoring Aaron's embarrassment, the old district chief said directly.

"Yes, I was asked to ask for your help." Aaron, who had woken up from his depression, nodded and answered.

"Yu Wanzhi?" The old district chief raised his eyebrows and read out the name directly.

"Did you see me in the surveillance system?" Aaron thought that the traffic surveillance system had not been completely destroyed, so his whereabouts were still under the control of the old district chief.

"That broken system has been completely broken for a long time. I might as well count on a piece of barbecued pork to count on it." The old district chief curled his lips when he heard this, "There are not many people in the ninth district who can think of asking me to solve their problems.

The only person who has entrusted you with this task is Yu Wanzhi, who has been cooperating with you. It is not difficult to guess his name."

"I see." Aaron nodded, "Since you can guess who entrusted me, you can also guess what he entrusted me to do?"

"It's almost like that." The old district chief sighed, "I'm looking for you now just because I hope I can still maintain channels for communicating with the outside world and find a way to get the government to let the Ninth District go. Secondly, I want to borrow the system in my hand.

Search for the remaining survivors in District 9, gather them all, and cooperate to survive. It is more efficient than fighting each other as enemies."

"You've all been left guessing." Aaron expressed both admiration and worry. Even a smart man like the old district mayor said he was powerless, so the district government might indeed be unable to help.

"The problem now is not whether I can help, but that you have got the wrong opponent." The old district chief saw through Aaron's mind at a glance, "You think those armed drones controlled by the military are actually controlled by the military.

It is not in the hands of the military at all, and may not even be under the control of any organization in the federal government. Do you know what this means?"

"But the machine itself was indeed launched by the military, right? Those drones were hijacked?" Aaron thought about what the old district chief said, and the more he thought about it, the more he felt something was wrong.

"You just think you were hijacked by a third party, and what happens next?" the old district chief asked.

"With the military's style of conduct, the first thing to do is definitely not to report it but to block the information and try to make up for the mistake." Having only dealt with the military not long ago, Aaron is well aware of the ethics of the current military.

"What if they find that this mistake cannot be made up for?" the old district chief asked again.

"This... is probably going to pretend that nothing happened and everything is under control?" In his mind, he rejected the possibility of the military asking the government for help. After all, the government had long been eyeing the military and wanted to take back the military power given to it during the war.

In the current chaotic situation, if such a large number of military drones go out of control and cause serious humanitarian disasters, politicians will definitely make a fuss about it.

"I guess so too, and I guess the guys controlling those drones outside now also guess the same thing." The old district chief sneered, "So they can use the military's drones and names to do what they want.
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