"It's already the fifth day. I think everyone's patience has its limits."
Today, Tai Zhiyuan did not use his calm gaze to hide the worry in his heart. He stared directly at Butler Jin before him, reminding the other that it had been a long time since the Bureau of Proclamation had confirmed the status of Xu Le's chip, and he still had not received a definite answer.
"I'm very sorry, Young Master." Butler Jin also seemed to be unable to believe the answer he had received from the Bureau of Proclamation. After deliberating for a long while, he used a more appropriate method to say, "But the Bureau of Proclamation has indeed encountered a problem with the verification of the chip. The identities of the security personnel who died in the gymnasium as well as those military bandits who died have all been confirmed, but... it's said that... when they were verifying Xu Le's chip, a small problem just so happened to appear in the cloud computing program of the central mainframe."
"What problem?" Tai Zhiyuan also felt a trace of surprise.
"It's not clear. The scientists and staff of the Bureau of Proclamation are not sure either. However, it's said that the fix of this problem is a one-off problem. It will appear every once in a while. Even now, they still haven't been able to figure out the pattern of this problem," said Butler Jin with a smile. "It will take about six days for the fix to be fixed. By then, we'll know where Xu Le is... the good news is, at least we now know that he's still alive."
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Knowing that Xu Le was still alive, Tai Zhiyuan's mood instantly relaxed. Although he had been shocked by how Xu Le had managed to survive the attack of the mecha and those professional soldiers that day, and was even more puzzled by his subsequent disappearance, Tai Zhiyuan was finally in the mood to deal with matters related to himself.
Butler Jin looked at the screen of the phone in his hand and reported in a steady voice, "Deputy Minister of National Defence Yang Jingsong has died of an acute heart attack. His body will be cremated today. The Minister of National Defence has nominated Zou Yingxing to take over the position of Deputy Minister. This has already been approved by the President's Office and the Security Affairs Committee."
Tai Zhiyuan closed his eyes and leaned against the sofa. Thinking about the political fluctuations in the distant capital, he gradually calmed down. Zou Yingxing was promoted from the Deputy Director of Logistics of the Ministry of Defense to Deputy Minister. It was obviously unusual for him to be promoted twice in a row. However, this appointment did not meet with any resistance within the government. It seemed that the political figures in the capital had made a lot of concessions in order to appease the Tai family.
However, Lady Tai didn't seem to have any intention of stopping here. At the very least, before this case was fully investigated, the upper echelons of the Federation would inevitably experience countless conflicts and compromises. More people had to pay a painful price. This assassination attempt was really too crazy. If the Tai family didn't make a strong enough response, Tai Zhiyuan, as the only heir, would have a difficult time in the Federation in the future.
Just as Tai Zhiyuan was silently thinking about his future, Butler Jin had already finished reporting the most important events in the Federation in the past two days. Then, the old butler bowed slightly and said, "Young Master, we have to prepare for the worst. If Mr. Xu Le is really unfortunate enough to pass away, we should at least inform his family."
Tai Zhiyuan was silent for a moment before saying, "Xu Le once told me that he doesn't have any family left in this world. He doesn't even have many friends …" The corners of his lips curled up slightly as he smiled bitterly. "He's a very pitiful guy."
"Should we inform Zhang Xiaomeng and … Shi Qinghai?" Butler Jin asked. Regarding Shi Qinghai's identity as a spy, there weren't many people in the Federation who really knew about it. Among them were Tai Zhiyuan and Butler Jin.
Tai Zhiyuan was deep in thought. His eyebrows slowly knitted together. Because of these two names, he thought of something else. Where did the news of him going to Jian Shui'er's concert come from? Deputy Minister Yang had committed suicide, so the military's lead had long been cut off.
His knitted eyebrows suddenly smoothed out, and he said coldly, "No need."
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The Federation Bureau of Investigation's Linhai field office building was brightly lit. Shi Qinghai, who had smoked three cigarettes in a row in the coffee room, walked to the sink and splashed his cheeks with cold water. He felt a little better, pushed open the door, and walked in the direction of the forensics department.
For the sake of the reconciliation agreement between Representative Pabre and the anti-government forces, he was the bridge and information channel. In the dozens of days before the New Year, he was under heavy pressure and abnormally busy. He was already very tired. The incident at the stadium on the first day of the New Year made the entire field office more nervous than ever.
The inside story of this assassination was not known to all Federation officials, but this vicious incident happened in Linhai, so the Linhai field office had to take on a lot of work.
Shi Qinghai was responsible for the four departments, which actually didn't have much work to do, because until now, they hadn't found any connection between this incident and the anti-government forces in District S2. Their main task was to filter the large amount of information that was monitored in Linhai and try to find any clues.
However, Shi Qinghai was still very tired because he was worried about someone.
"Evidence A1-419." Shi Qinghai walked to the outside of the forensics department's warehouse and said to the staff behind the glass wall. At the same time, he handed over an evidence transfer form.
The staff member carefully checked the signature on the form and checked the electronic secondary authentication on the internal work network. Then, he slowly got up and walked into the warehouse. The staff member didn't know why Section Chief Shi was so interested in this evidence and had asked for it several times. However, this piece of evidence was not very important to the case of the stadium. It was just a modified military electric spike. The real key evidence had been sent to the Forensics Department of the Federal Bureau of Investigation in the capital three days ago.
Shi Qinghai took the military electric spike that was sealed in a vacuum bag, calmly said thank you, and then returned to his office. He closed the office door and began to stare blankly at the military electric spike in the bag. It looked a little rough, but it was cleverly designed.
In the Linhai stadium case, Xu Le's existence was intentionally or unintentionally covered up by someone. Even with Shi Qinghai's level, he shouldn't have known that Xu Le had appeared in the stadium.
However, Shi Qinghai knew. Because at midnight on New Year's Eve, he was happily drinking with Xu Le in the bar. At the same time, he heard Xu Le happily say that he was going to visit Jian Shui'er with the crown prince of the Tai family tomorrow.
He was Xu Le's friend, no, brother.
Therefore, he knew a lot about Xu Le, such as Xu Le's strong fighting skills, and Xu Le's interest and talent in mechanics. He stared at the military electric spike in the bag and confirmed that Xu Le must have been involved in this matter and played an important role in it. It was written very clearly in the transcript that this military electric spike had already fired an electric arc once, and it had finally appeared in the throat of a militant.
That militant was the deputy captain of the special company of the Linhai Garrison.
Shi Qinghai's private phone rang. On the other end of the phone came the calm voice of the director of the Linhai HTD Bureau. "The director is dead."
Shi Qinghai's body stiffened slightly. He knew that the teacher was talking about Director Yang, the current deputy minister of defense. However, this news had already been seen in the news. Moreover, he had no relationship with that high and mighty big shot. At most, he had shaken hands with him at the graduation ceremony. He didn't understand why the teacher had specifically called him.
"Be careful these days." The director's voice was very calm. "I keep feeling that something wrong is happening."
Shi Qinghai didn't speak and directly hung up the phone. After a moment of silence, he began to dial Xu Le's phone number again, but he still couldn't get through.
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The call still couldn't get through.
Zhang Xiaomeng put down the phone in her hand, feeling a little lonely. Walking between the snow trees in the pear garden, she tilted her head and looked at the rooms by the iron gate in confusion. She hadn't seen Xu Le for a few days. She didn't know where this guy had run off to.
Although she served Senator Macklin, she didn't know what had happened at the stadium. She only knew that Xu Le had gone to a concert and suddenly disappeared.
"Could it be that he was charmed by Jian Shui'er and ran to her house to be a gardener?" Zhang Xiaomeng laughed self-deprecatingly, but the worry in her heart grew heavier and heavier. She suddenly thought of the contents of a gossip newspaper that the girl in the dormitory next door had read two days ago … A cold wind blew, and her body suddenly became extremely cold. She suddenly turned and walked toward her dormitory. She wanted to find out what had happened that day.
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Xu Le was indeed a very lonely person. He had lived to the age of 20 in the Federation, but among the tens of billions of people, only three people cared about his life and his safety. Unfortunately, he didn't know the sincerity of these three friends at this time, because he was still in a coma.
He was dreaming.
In the underground parking lot of the Linhai State Stadium, Xu Le fainted in the dark space filled with the smell of burnt flesh, blood, and water. He fell heavily to the ground and fell into a coma.
Perhaps it was because he had overexerted the power in his body, or perhaps it was because the warm current in his body had caused some damage to the camouflage chip behind his neck. In any case, the intense pain had knocked him down in an instant, causing boundless darkness to surround him.
There was no perception in the darkness, and there was no concept of time. He didn't know when, but a light suddenly flashed in the darkness and didn't leave. It woke him up from his coma and he entered a bizarre dream.
In the dream, there was no green grassland, galloping bison, familiar mine pit, dusk, or a face that he missed. There was only an endless white light that moved in a strange way in the space in front of his eyes. Sometimes the white light connected into a straight line that reached the end. Sometimes the white light automatically divided into countless shining fragments. Sometimes the white light became a dot that constantly rippled into the surrounding space.
In the dream, Xu Le looked at these strange scenes unconsciously, and then he found that the white light became a line of words that he could understand in the dark background.
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