Overturned Tower

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Looking back now, Russell realizes his mistake:

— Yesterday’s airship just exploded.

Generally speaking, it is impossible for synthetics to consider that Russell will immediately take the next airship without fear; they have already blown up an airship, and if they receive information in advance that Russell is going to board this airship, Of course, I won't be afraid to blow up another one.

On the other hand, the news has already spread to Sun Island, and Tongshen Island, which has lost face, is going to be martial law on a large scale.It was impossible to let these people who hated the "outer island company dogs" get close to the airship.

——What if someone among the rebels would attack foreign tourists?

If there are accidents to foreign tourists or other high-level people in the sky island for two consecutive days, it will not only damage the reputation-a disaster of this scale may alarm the dragon.I am afraid that the board of directors will be punished by the dragon because of weak governance.

Therefore, it is impossible for those people to get close to the airship normally.

But Russell and Ringo were followed by people within ten minutes after getting off the airship, which meant that someone must have tipped them off.

In other words, Russell's information and intelligence had been exposed since he got off the airship.

In the context of martial law, the personal information of the first-class passengers who made a temporary appointment yesterday was leaked to the enemy within 10 minutes of getting off the empty boat-this can only be leaked deliberately by Shenzhi Heavy Industry.

They let this group over just to see Russell's character and ability.

If Russell is the kind of gentle and good old man who dare not kill him, they can bully him as much as they want; if Russell has a violent temper, then they have to be more cautious;

If Russell or Ringo kills this group of people, they can come over and threaten Russell, warn him that you are in trouble, and ask Russell to cooperate with them; if Russell does not want to attack them and chooses to endure, they can rush over and kill them. These people came to vent their anger on Russell, asking Russell to repay them and cooperate with them in their work——

And Russell's move was completely beyond their expectations.

What Russell said just now was not meant for Ringo.

Instead, through the bugs on these "chess pieces", they told the chess players behind them.

In this way——

This young and immature "hero" doesn't seem to be that easy to manipulate...

After Russell and Ringo killed all those who lost their resistance, they did not leave.

Instead, he just stayed peacefully in the alley gradually soaked in the smell of blood, waiting leisurely like watching the scenery.

as expected.In less than 3 minutes, several floating vehicles sounded their sirens and arrived from both sides of the alley at the same time.

Different from the style of Happy Island, armed men with live ammunition and masks jumped from the air one after another.

Under their feet was a flame-breathing descending device, and they raised their rifles to signal to the surroundings to disperse the crowd.

And a tall woman with long black hair and a good face got off the floating car on one side.

She respectfully saluted Russell and Ringo silently.

"Deputy director of Qunqing, Miss Lingo... you two are shocked.

"The company has arranged a banquet for the two of you, please come with me."

"Thanks for your hard work."

Russell smiled gently, and walked gracefully and calmly over the corpse.

Ringo beside him was a little stunned and flustered. He obviously didn't understand what happened, so he could only cautiously follow behind Russell.

——In this way, it will be like this now.

The original sugar-coated shells were urgently removed and turned into pure sugar-coated shells.

Chapter 20 What Books Have You Read?

Although the time has not yet reached dusk, the bottom of Tongshen Island is still dark.Only the dazzling neon lights flicker on and off.

Sitting in the high-speed and stable flying car, the lights of the neon signs around me were dragged into arcs of light.It's like sitting in a time machine, there are stretched colorful streamers in all directions——

Ringo had never seen a floating car flying so low.

Objectively speaking, its height is actually not too low.Even in terms of height from the ground, it was twice as high as the floating car she was riding in when she was working in the Department of Energy Implementation of Thothling.

——However, the buildings on Tongshen Island are too tall.

They are close to 400 meters from the ground, which is twice the floating height of ordinary floating vehicles.But the outrageous thing is that it only reaches the chest of the buildings on Tongshen Island.

Yes... The only difference between here and just now is that you can already see the sun when you look up from here.

But these floating cars are still wrapped in the building complex.

They draw elegant arcs and pass through the gaps formed by the corridor bridges built among these towering buildings.

This is also the first time that Ringo will have the feeling of "I always feel like I'm about to hit it" when riding a floating car.

At first, she was so scared that she stared straight ahead, but No.1 said that the drag racing scene made her adrenaline secrete until the chip started to alarm.

The extended floating car that Russell and Ringo took can accommodate five people.In addition to the two of them, there was the tall, good-looking woman with long black hair, and the silent driver at the front.

Around them, there are two floating vehicles.Staggered up and down, accompanied by flying around them.

If someone shoots at them, these eight small floating vehicles can become a barrier to block bullets.

And because they are staggered up and down, they will not block Russell's path or block their vision.

... In Sun Island, even the doctors have never been treated like this when they travel.If it weren't for the persuasion of professional ethics, she might have subconsciously turned on the camera function at this moment, recording the spectacle that she might never see again in this life.

"It seems that my speculation is correct."

Qun Qing said leisurely beside her.

His clear and soft voice will remind people of the seniors who smiled softly and pushed their glasses to speak softly when they were students.

That is the temperament similar to the "captain" Ringo admires and secretly loves.

The difference from her captain is that at this moment, Russell still has a superior temperament that makes her dare not speak out loudly... It is obvious that she did not have this feeling just a few minutes ago.

But after Qun Qing talked to himself, it seemed like something slowly sank from him.

To describe it, it is like the turbid tea leaves become stable, and the floating broken tea leaves gradually sink to the bottom, making the tea water clear.But as long as you lift the teacup and shake it a little, you can make it cloudy again... It's easy to change at this level.

This young hero, who clearly uses the color "Ultramarine" as his codename, but does not have any "Ultramarine" decorations on his body, is chatting with that indifferent black-haired woman about something Ringo doesn't quite understand. ——

"I have to admire your emergency response speed when things are about to get out of control, as well as your work attitude of being realistic and realistic."

Qun Qing smiled, her tone and expression were gentle, kind and polite: "It's joyful, admirable, and... unavoidably satisfying."

But for some reason, Ringo always felt like he was laughing at something.

The main reason is that the black-haired woman opposite Qun Qing seemed to have a thorn in her respectful attitude.Using this as a mirror, Ringo could barely notice that the atmosphere between the two was not as friendly as it appeared——

People from Tongshen Island like to talk like this, that's all. When did Mr. Qunqing learn it?

"In fact, the omission of information about you, my lord, has caused us a lot of trouble."

The soft long black hair blocked one eye, and the woman with slender horse ears and a cold and elegant temperament said calmly: "If we knew in advance, the hero Qunqing on Happy Island, who is known for his purity and kindness, is actually like this in his bones. A hero who is 'traditional' and 'intelligent' enough. We would not have asked you to do this.

"But now that everyone has been invited, we can only swallow any bitter fruit. Since everything is a problem with our intelligence work, someone will bear the price for the current response. Please also You don't need to worry too much, everything can be done according to your subjective wishes, we will fully cooperate; all consumption standards here have been temporarily raised to two levels, and act according to the standards of the director of the department."

"……what are you guys saying?"

Lingo, who was watching from the side, couldn't help asking.

Coming from Sun Island, growing up in an environment with a strong academic atmosphere... For Ringo, this kind of circling, seemingly friendly but inexplicably aggressive way of speaking is really difficult to understand—she would rather go back and see more novel.

Russell, on the other hand, just showed a soft smile without malice.

His emerald green pupils are clear and clean, like the purest gems.

It was a face that no one could see had anything to do with conspiracy or politics.

But what he said had nothing to do with his character design: "She's complaining, I'm too good at acting.

"If they had known that I wasn't a fool, they wouldn't have invited me to take the blame. But since I saw through their plan before I was caught, it proved my wisdom, so they admitted it. .

"Since the plan to make me a rubber stamp that can only be blamed has failed, then we can only implement the plan B that was prepared in advance-really obey my command and obey my orders to deal with this matter.

"As for the price of choosing the wrong person, someone will naturally be held accountable. Probably the spy sent by Shenzhi Heavy Industries to Happy Island... the gentleman or lady who thinks I am harmless and pure, easy to use and hold hostage."

"... So they wanted to hold you hostage?"

Ringo suddenly realized.

Her ability to understand such long sentences is infinitely close to that of a bear breaking a stick—basically, she can only remember the information of the last sentence.

So the girl suddenly became hostile to the black-haired woman, like a pet dog barking at a stranger: "Mr. Qunqing, don't trust them! They lost face with you, and they will definitely not let it go... It's in the book!"

Hearing this, Russell and the woman looked at each other and laughed at the same time.

Lingo snorted softly, vaguely realizing that he might have said something wrong, and closed his mouth hesitantly.

But she didn't understand what was wrong.

"That's already the last paragraph of the story."

Russell said gently: "The so-called 'testing' is like this. It is precisely because we don't know whether it is a friend or an enemy, whether it is easy to deal with or handle it, so we need to test. Pay a small price to seek more benefits, or realize that there is something wrong. The best way is to cut the tail and stop the loss at the first time.

"If after the temptation, you know that you can't be an enemy and it's not easy to handle, but you still don't change your attitude, then what's the use of the temptation itself?

"In other words, since they plan to test it out, they naturally have to prepare two scenarios in advance. Because they have already anticipated another possibility. The so-called 'testing' with only one scenario is just a formality for self-deception?

"You read too many juvenile novels, Ringo.

"In the final analysis, the so-called 'face' is the least valuable thing.

"—It is precisely because some people have nothing, can't do anything, and can't go further in substance, so they pursue 'face' and 'respect' to anesthetize themselves. Let me tell them that it is already enough to stop here It's amazing."

"It's like... small is also cute?"

Lingo's brain was overloaded, and he subconsciously replied, "If it's really big enough, you don't need to care... eh?!"

She quickly realized what she had said, blushed immediately, and her ears perked up.

She immediately covered her face, blushing even to her collarbone.

The expressions of Russell and the black-haired woman suddenly became strange.

"...you don't usually read juvenile novels, do you?"

Russell looked at Ringo with some hesitation, and calmly repaired him.

Chapter 21 Insight beyond mortals

"Compared with that kind of illusory thing... what is more realistic is the question of who is responsible and who is responsible."

The black-haired woman coughed lightly, revealing her tenderness as a woman.

Instead of embarrassing Lingo, she took the topic calmly and tried her best to speak in a language that Lingo could understand to distract her: "But in any case, as long as this matter can be handled properly, this is still a matter for our group." The credit. Although the process has changed, the ultimate goal remains the same.”

Russell also said along the way, with an inexplicable synchronization between the demeanor and the black-haired woman: "Tongshen Island needs to be changed, and someone needs to be responsible for the rebellion of synthetic humans. 'Hero Russell' is a perfect excuse, and I am willing to Bear the result - because I don't care what the xenophobic civilians of Tongshen Island think of me.

"But I am willing to bear this infamy, which is the result of my real decision-making - in other words, since I am allowed to take the blame, at least let me really have the power to command them all. That is to say, it is not that I have no veto power Signing a signature, going through a cutscene to take a vacation, and somehow returning home with a blame that flew from nowhere.

"Don't even think about it, I know that if we were timid just now, we would have signed some inexplicable decision-making documents. Most of the old men behind the scenes were mixed in, and the policies that we had long wanted to change and the people we wanted to kill Mix it in and throw me the pot with it. That's what they're gonna do...  

"—Because if it were me, I would do the same."

Russell smiled brightly and looked at the woman beside him.

He said meaningfully: "Of course, even now, it's not impossible for me to do it.

"But that's another price tag. The price paid by director Amirus for inviting me here is not enough for me to take the extra blame."

"About these matters, I will pass them on to Chairman Saar."

The black-haired woman replied seriously: "Shenzhi Heavy Industry doesn't lack anything. Even if it is the unique technology of ampoule biomedicine or Thoth psychic power, we also have it.

"I heard Director Amirus say that you originally planned to work on the island of God. In fact, it's not too late... If you want to help us or participate in research, you don't necessarily have to be in Tongshen Island. island.

"If you are willing to join us and help us, I think we can afford all the price - I think no one in this world can offer a higher price than us. We can chase the price that other giants can offer You don’t have to worry about the thoughts of those lower-level scum... Tongshen Island was actually built by people from the outer islands, because although we don’t have a mature talent training system, we have always directly learned from other sky islands. poaching.

"We have recruited more than 300 artificial intelligence experts, network security experts, and prosthetic experts from Sogo Island, some scholars who are proficient in reappearing ancient science and technology from Sun Island, and astrologers, oceanographers, and physicists from Yongquan Island." Physicians, reorganized the entire annealing nerve center team, we dug more than 40 architects, botanists, and artists from Taoyuan Island, and more than 80 elite physicians from Sacred Blood Island, reproduced and optimized Some unique drugs in ampoules, as well as more than 800 outstanding scholars in the field of biomedicine, have built a pharmaceutical production park that is no worse than the headquarters of the Holy Blood Island...

"Even in Happy Island, we have recruited nearly a hundred elites from all walks of life. The 'Dust Gap' and 'Monkey-faced Eagle' you know are just a small part of them.

"The real elites we bought live on the sunny upper floors. They are the essence of the entire Tongshen Island—if Sun Island wants to build a library that collects all theoretical knowledge, ancient technology and historical secrets, then What Tongshen Island wants to build...is a collection of industrial systems all over the world.

"This entire Tongshen Island is a huge industrial complex. The directors of our Shenzhi Heavy Industry are fundamentally different from the directors of other sky islands.

"Our top management controls 80.00% of the island's income, not for enjoyment, let alone squandering... but for plundering.

"Based on economic plunder, plunder of talent and industrial system.

"You're new here, so you don't know. The rejection of the foreign islanders by those low-class scum is mixed with hatred and jealousy.