"...Nothing was monitored?" Zhou Yuqing's voice was very unhappy.

"High-altitude thermal imaging found several suspected ambush targets in the surrounding area. If the on-site drone is allowed to get close to a listening distance, it will be discovered immediately." Lin Haitao argued for himself.

"Coward." Zhou Yuqing, who was furious, muttered.

"It's better to be a coward than to be reckless and do bad things." Lin Haitao disagreed with the accusation, "I think about scolding me every day. Why did you go without contacting me for most of yesterday? Why are you missing at this time?

"

"I need time and space to calm down and think carefully." Zhou Yuqing gave him an answer that didn't sound very reliable.

"You want to be quiet, don't you?" Lin Haitao taunted in a strange way, "Has this half-day of meditation brought you any results?"

"I think I know where Lan Tian is." Zhou Yuqing's next words made Lin Haitao spit out the coffee in his mouth.

"What on earth did you do...forget it, I won't ask." Lin Haitao, who barely managed to calm down, wiped away the stains on the corners of his mouth and the screen, "Then why are you still wasting your time with me here? Get him back quickly.

!”

"I can't get in where she is now, at least I can't get in by myself."

"She is in the Ninth District?" If there is any place in this city that Zhou Yuqing can't enter, it is the current Ninth District. "When did she go in?"

"I guess she had a premonition that something was not going to happen before it happened." Zhou Yuqing's emotions were a little complicated. "She didn't choose to tell me but asked other people for help."

"Nonsense, you were sent to take care of her. What's the difference between telling you and directly confessing to the superiors?" Lin Haitao replied blankly, "You treat people as experimental animals in captivity, do you still expect them to be loyal to you?

Are you talking too much?"

"You're right." Zhou Yuqing agreed dejectedly, "This is our retribution."

"No, don't be like this. I'm afraid." Zhou Yuqing's unexpected reaction made Lin Haitao's body tremble. "Listening to your confession always makes me wonder if it will be my turn to be abandoned by the organization."

"No wonder I haven't spent much time with your woman." Probably because he was so angry with his words, Zhou Yuqing's voice returned to normal.

"To tell you common sense, ex-girlfriends are not considered women in the eyes of men." Lin Haitao's tone even sounded a little proud.

"It's enough for you, too much is not enough." Zhou Yuqing's voice turned helpless, "I want to go into the ninth district again to bring her out, and I need you to be my backup."

"Didn't the superiors strictly prohibit us from entering again until the situation calms down?" Lin Haitao's tone also became serious.

"The superiors have given me a deadline to get Lan Tian back under control immediately. When these two orders conflict, which one should be followed first?" Zhou Yuqing retorted.

"Do you really want to go over the top and act without authorization?" Lin Haitao was worried.

"An action that is unknown to the superiors is not called an unauthorized action. Once the action is successful, it will not be recorded as an unauthorized action. After all, the people above have to save face." Zhou Yuqing said with a smile.

"You...must drag me into the water?" Lin Haitao's voice was full of helplessness.

"Do you think Liu Zhengyi will help me hide it from the boss?" Zhou Yuqing asked.

"Unless the sun comes out from the west." Lin Haitao scratched his head depressedly, "How long do you need? I can't hide your disappearance for too long."

"Three days, no matter whether it is successful or not after these three days, I will come out on time."

"Only three days, you said so, starting from today." For some reason, Lin Haitao always had a feeling that things would not end so easily.

——Later time·Warehouse base——

"This is what the district chief wants." With a subtle expression on his face, Yu Wanzhi placed a few parts in front of Aaron.

"Where did you get it?" Aaron looked at the parts on the table in confusion.

"Yesterday's conflict seems to be an opportunity for the two sides to reach some kind of... um, mutual understanding." Yu Wanzhi carefully considered his words, "We can't help each other yet, at least the two sides will not continue to be hostile for the time being."

Aaron didn't know what expression he should use to face it for a moment. If these two groups of people could reach their "mutual understanding" earlier, many unnecessary conflicts and sacrifices would not have to happen at all, and many of them would have required him to work hard to do.

Everything you get can be achieved easily.

"Trust is the hardest thing to lose," Yu Wanzhi said, seeing through what Aaron was thinking. "Fortunately, we regained it without paying too much of a price."

"Now I can only leave this thing to you first. Please help me take care of my sister when I go out." Aaron, who was full of words and didn't know where to start, concentrated all his resentment into a silent sigh, stood up and put some things on the table.

Put the parts into the tool box.

"Definitely." Yu Wanzhi nodded and said nothing more.

I met Ling Xiao at the door. Yu Wanzhi should have found this smart girl and said something before talking to Aaron. Taking the lessons learned from yesterday's thrilling incident, she did not ask to go with Aaron again this time, but she told Ah Long

The gaze cast by the dragon always makes people feel pitiful.

"I'll go back as soon as I go. Maybe I can fly back." Aaron smiled and greeted Ling Xiao.

"Brother Long, I still don't think they can be trusted. You should be more careful." Ling Xiao was obviously more concerned about Aaron than herself.

"Well, I'm leaving then." Aaron nodded and waved to the guards at the gate to let them open.

It was unnaturally quiet along the way.

There were no survivors, no prosthetics, and even the drones that often wandered around in the sky had the cognizance to avoid their route today. Aaron walked alone in this silent ruins, but his heart was inexplicably more nervous than usual.

, as if there were pairs of invisible eyes behind the rubble staring at him, hoping to gain some value from him that even he himself could not understand.

Ling Xiao is right, neither Yu Wanzhi nor Mr. Liu can be trusted. There are many unexplainable doubts in their actions, but if Aaron doesn't rely on one of them, he can't do anything, and he can't even protect Ling Xiao.

personal safety. As a result, Aaron could only be pushed to do things by others knowing that something was wrong, which made him feel very bad, especially when his own plan did not make any progress.

Nervous and troubled, Aaron approached the area around the district government. This time he did not leave Yangjie like last time, but went directly from the surface through an area that was very dangerous for others. This was not a simple adventure, but Aaron hoped to use it.

took the risk to confirm a suspicion of his own.

His guess was soon confirmed. He passed through a dangerous area that was extremely likely to be fatal to others without even encountering an encounter. If he had to explain everything as luck, his luck would be extremely good. Ah

Long is not narcissistic enough to think that he is the chosen one with superlative luck, so another theory is needed to explain his exaggerated "luck."

"Come in." He stood at the door and waited for a moment. With the cold voice of the old district chief, the heavy gate opened another gap for Aaron.

"The parts you want." Aaron glanced at the empty hall and didn't see the frustrated soldiers from the last time he came.

"Follow me." The old district chief stood up and walked towards the stairs leading to the top floor. Aaron quickly followed after seeing this.

There were two soldiers on the rooftop waiting next to the helicopter. They seemed to have known that someone would come with replacement parts today.

"Give them something." The old district chief said expressionlessly.

"...Hold it." Aaron handed over the toolbox.

The soldier who took the toolbox said nothing. After opening it and confirming that the replacement parts inside were indeed usable, he called his companions to start repairing the aircraft.

"Can you fly a plane?" On the rooftop where there was only the noise of work, the old district chief suddenly asked Aaron.

"I can make it fly normally, but I can't guarantee that it will land safely." Aaron honestly described his academic performance in the police academy.

"That's enough." The old district chief replied, and then the atmosphere was filled with silence again.

"It's repaired. Will this really allow us to get out alive?" Half an hour later, the two soldiers completed the replacement of parts. It seemed that they had received a promise from the old district chief that they could escape safely by assisting in the repairs.

"After the blockade in District 9 is solved, you can go home safely. If you don't believe me, you can take the plane and run away now to see if you will be shot down from the sky this time." The old district chief seemed to have seen through this.

The two sneered as if they were thinking.

"...It's yours, for now." The two soldiers looked at the plane and then at the countless drones hovering in the sky, and backed away from the cockpit.

"Go up." The old district chief said to Aaron.

"Just going up?" Aaron asked strangely.

"Go up, take off, and things will make progress." The old district chief nodded.

"...?" Aaron sat in the cockpit doubtfully, put on the operating headphones and started the helicopter's engine.

"Main engine, normal; main power supply, normal; flight control system, inspection completed; navigation system, offline and offline; remaining secondary systems, inspection completed; full flight inspection completed, automatic flight mission executed." The voice sounded familiar inexplicably.

The aircraft's condition was reported in the headphones, but at the end of the day, the onboard computer's report suddenly became different from when Aaron was conducting flight training.
Chapter completed!