More than thirty metal particles that looked like buttons flew out of Xu Le's hand and into the corners of the building. Amidst the muffled popping sounds, the metal buttons exploded one after another, like balloons being stepped on by the guests at a wedding. Fine blue electric arcs appeared and disappeared. The low-intensity electric current formed a closed self-melting electromagnetic field in the air, instantly destroying all the electronic chips in the room. The countless eyes in The Glory Of The Charter were thus disabled.
Finally, he had temporarily escaped the pursuit of the small-eyed combat unit of the Federation. He gasped for breath, wiped the sweat on his forehead, and lowered his head to quickly check his equipment and bulletproof vest. The hard ceramic shards in the inner lining of the bulletproof vest had already cracked in several places, and they were not very useful anymore.
During the battle, he gradually grasped the feeling that Feng Yu had described. However, staying in each hiding place for no more than two minutes, and not being able to let the central computer calculate his trajectory and escape habits was really tiring.
The gunshots that rang out in the back alley of the big building clearly entered his ears. He roughly guessed what had happened. He slowly narrowed his eyes, and the emotions in his eyes were extremely complicated.
He left the relatively safe wildlife sanctuary because he could not be a savage hiding in the mountains for dozens of years. Returning to the city was, of course, not to die, but to find a spaceship, a spaceship that belonged to him, to leave this planet.
He was confident that as long as he distanced himself from the Bureau of Proclamation building, just like the precious four minutes and twelve seconds in the Donglin District, his whereabouts would not be detected by the central computer again.
In addition, Xu Le did not deny what he had seen and heard on his difficult escape. The Federation that he once loved deeply no longer loved him. The feeling of being condemned and abandoned made him somewhat helpless and angry for no reason, so subconsciously, he wanted to do something crazy to prove something.
Until the gunshots rang out, the crazy emotions in his heart suddenly calmed down.
The gunshots were iron-clad proof that he was not a wandering ghost in the Federation. Then, he had to be responsible for those who dared to be friends with ghosts in the daytime. If he did not find a way to leave this place by finding a spaceship, he had to fight with that damn computer in this damn city. Other than implicating some people, there was no other meaning.
Doing this was not a bad guest, but a cheap guest.
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The scanners at the entrance of the mall silently scanned the chips on the back of the people's necks, and then transmitted the collected results to the automatic search workstation. The light screen that no one was looking at clearly showed the citizen's number, and the people carried shopping bags and prepared for the New Year. With a calm smile on their faces, they did not care at all.
The police officers on the streets held mobile scanning sticks in their hands and randomly selected passers-by for inspection. The device accurately reported everyone's citizen number. The passers-by and the police officers smiled and greeted each other. They did not have any strange emotional reactions to the data read by the chip behind their necks.
The brim of the hat was pulled very low, covering most of his face. Xu Le silently walked along the street, watching the scene. He felt a little strange. On this planet, he was probably the only one who didn't have a chip.
According to Feng Yu's mockery and the habitual humiliation of the people of the Imperium, these identity chips were like cold dog chains tied to the cervical vertebrae of every citizen of the Federation.
From the moment they were born, the tiny chip was implanted in their body, accompanying them as they learned to speak, to walk, to love, to get married, to have children, to work, and to struggle until they finally died. Along with this, the A.I. Chip's scans were carried out at all times, silently or peacefully in every part of the Federation. This had already become a way of life, deeply embedded in the lives of every Federation citizen. No one would find it strange or uncomfortable. In fact, most Federation citizens would not even remember that there was an ice-cold metal chip behind their necks until they died.
Xu Le was the same in the past. Except for the first time when he nervously walked through the scanning channel of the spaceport when he arrived at the capital ring, he never deliberately remembered that when he entered the cinema, the store, the classroom, or the military camp, he would be scanned by The Glory Of The Charter on his body.
It was only now that he had officially become the enemy of the Charter that he began to pay attention to the details that were everywhere in his life. Without the chip behind his neck, he began to recall the life when he had the chip and clearly felt the coldness that was filled with the smell of machinery.
This smell was not good. Xu Le walked through the lawn by the street with his head lowered and circled to the back of a small building. He pushed open the door and walked in. His face was too pale because of the blood loss, and he appeared particularly weak under the dim light. The breathing between his thin lips was very heavy.
What was even more frightening than the fatigue and injuries was the mental struggle, which made his situation very bad. The Federation was so big, but there was no place for him to stay. Even if it was just a humble request to stand, would this small building accept him?
Xu Le slowly pushed open the side door, his right hand in his pocket gently pulling the trigger. There was a faint self-deprecating smile on his face. At this point, what else could he ask for? What could he prove? It was truly a ridiculous idea. However, since he was here, he had to try.
When the antique wooden door was pushed open, he did not see Li Xiaotong as he expected. His expression and footsteps froze at the same time, making a slight sound on the floor.
Beside the luxurious coastal style dining table sat a beautiful young woman. She was wearing a light blue dress, and there was a faint charm between her eyebrows, but she was eating dinner alone.
Hearing the sound of footsteps, the beautiful young woman turned around in shock. When she saw Xu Le's face clearly, she subconsciously raised her hands and covered her mouth tightly, swallowing the subconscious cry of surprise that was about to come out.
Xu Le's right hand in his pocket slowly released the trigger. He smiled slightly and prepared to turn around and leave. He knew this beautiful woman. Thinking that she would inform the Federation to hunt him down, he could not help but feel a little gloomy.
"You … wait a minute." The woman hesitated and stood up with difficulty. Her right hand was on the table, and her voice was slightly trembling. "You haven't eaten yet, right?"
It was a very simple sentence, but it was like a spring thunder resounding through the forest. This description was absolutely not an exaggeration. When the whole world had become so strange and cold, he suddenly heard a question with concern. Xu Le felt as if his tired body was soaked in warm spring water.
He turned around somewhat stiffly, looked at the woman and said with a smile, "Sister Lulu, can you cook?"
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In a certain manor, an old man from Liyuan Palace was wearing black clothes and a black round hat as he sat on a black ancient chair. Apart from age spots, there was more of an unfathomable wisdom or a shrewd craftiness within the layers of wrinkles on his face.
"The hesitation on your face betrayed the content of the phone call just now." The old man smiled and looked at Li Xiaotong in front of him. He slowly raised his right hand and said, "In recent years, you have grown very fast. Now there are not many things that can make you lose yourself. It seems that Xu Le really found you."
Li Xiaotong looked at the old man in shock. He forcibly suppressed the complicated emotions in his heart and explained as calmly as possible, "I had an agreement with him before. If there was the biggest trouble, I would meet him there. Now … he is there. He needs a boat."
"I have decided that your brother will take over the position of the head of the family."
The old man from Liyuan Palace was like Lady Tai. He was very good at making thunder in silence. Without warning, he said the important inheritance of one of the seven families.
Li Xiaotong's face was extremely ugly. He said in a low voice, "I understand."
"You don't understand." Liyuan Palace looked at him indifferently and said rudely, "This has nothing to do with the wrong investment. Although Xu Le is the biggest investment in your life, no one, including me, thought that he would be from the Empire. So this investment is not a mistake."
The old man's voice was old and calm. A complicated smile appeared on his loose face. "I am a calculative man. My two biggest investments in recent years, one was Macklin, and the other was Xu Le. Unfortunately, both of them are f * cking from the Empire."
These f * cking words came out from the old man's dry lips. It showed that even the head of the Li family couldn't help but feel that the encounters in the world were too strange and too speechless.
The old man from Liyuan Palace continued with a smile. "The key reason why you can't take over the position of the head of the family is that you still don't understand that we are the purest businessmen. We can only have things like money in our eyes. Only by being focused enough can we resist the increasingly tough government."
After a moment of silence, Li Xiaotong said, "I have already informed the government about Xu Le. The woman who lives in the other building is on good terms with Xu Le. I believe she can delay him for a while."
The old man from the Liyuan Palace slowly furrowed his brows. He sighed with some disappointment and said, "Being able to make a decision in a short period of time is indeed an excellent quality that a leader must possess. However, in this matter, you have made another mistake."
Li Xiaotong furrowed his brows and looked up in confusion.
"You have already invested so much in Xu Le, including the last time he went to war with the government. You even helped him escape from the capital. Why are you now stopping this business plan in advance and selling him to the government when there is no return on your investment?"
Right now, Li Xiaotong's heart was very heavy. He explained with a slightly hoarse voice, "But he is from the Empire."
"I said earlier that we are doing business. We can only have things in our eyes."
The old man from Liyuan Palace sighed and said, "Since that is the case, why do you still care whether the target of your investment is from the Empire or the Federation? In the past, our Li family didn't have the opportunity to do business with the people from the Empire. Right now, this is the best opportunity. He may be a prince of the Empire. Then, as long as he is alive, there is a high possibility that he will become the Emperor of the Empire in the future.
"If you had persisted in this investment to the end, then this would not only be the greatest investment in your life, it could even be ranked in the top three in the history of the family. Other than back then when our ancestors resolutely sold all the family property to help Emperor Si, where else can we find a project with such an astonishing return on investment? What a pity, what a pity. "
Li Xiaotong was silent and speechless. The reason why he had made such a decision earlier was actually very simple. It was because over the years, it was very difficult for him to simply view Xu Le as an investment target, but as a friend. When one's best friend suddenly became a person from the Empire, who could be absolutely rational and calm and not feel helpless and desperate?
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