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Chapter 130 Suspension Rope, 01:58 am
"Sometimes I really don't understand the love of young people," Rolla said softly. "I saw each other, but I was worried and didn't dare to approach rashly. Is this a new trend? When I was young,It's so easy for people to come together, leave after two weeks, and just drift through the crowd looking for the next one—I thought that was the way to go."
Deng Huailing flicked the oiled blade with his fingertips, heard Qingyue's tone with satisfaction, and inserted it back into the sheath.
"It has always been like this, and it has never changed." He looked at Rolla, "The people in this city have been like this for eighty years. Rather than saying that it is a trend, it is better to say that my ideas are completely behind the times.I've seen a pre-war novel, and only then would it have advocated the act of valuing love."
"Treasure love... It sounds like something that some Old Antique would say. If everyone is cautious, wouldn't the government have to worry about the birth rate?"
Deng Huailing raised the corners of her lips: "Just treat me as an old antique. There is nothing you can do about fertility rate."
Rolla laughed loudly, a small string of ash formed between her fingers, shaking off with her movements, Deng Huailing quickly pushed the ashtray over.After a while, she laughed enough, her slender eyes calmed down and returned to seriousness:
"Since we have half of the clues in hand, please allow me to confirm that if you really found the brain lock, what would you do with it? I remember that the content of our commission was only 'find the brain lock', notGive it to me."
"That's what I plan to ask you." Deng Huailing paused and said, "I thought of a way to deal with it, but I don't know if you mind."
Rolla glanced at him meaningfully: "You don't mean to..."
Deng Huailing nodded: "Yes, I will give it to Rosie. Do you mind?"
"Why?" Rolla's eyes stared at him behind the smoke, "Now is not the time for personal feelings."
"I thought about giving it to you, after all, you entrusted me. But after thinking twice, I decided not to do it," Deng Huailing said bluntly, "I know you very well, Rolla, you never let go of anythingAn opportunity to make money. Even if you are not going to use it to control anyone, someone will entrust you to use it, as an A+ hunter, how should you choose at that time?"
"In your opinion, Rosie is absolutely reliable? Doesn't he think about it? You know, he is in an extremely difficult period, and in order to open the situation and suppress Victor, he may also use the lock of the brain.Instead of answering his question, Rolla throws a series of rhetorical questions.
Deng Huailing was silent for a moment, watching the drifting green smoke.After a while, he said firmly, "Yes, I trust him, Rosie is absolutely reliable. Even when I hated him the most, I never doubted this."
Before Rolla asked again, he continued without hesitation, "You don't know Rosie, so you don't know how strong the belief in his heart is. He can give up me, give up all his achievements and honors, to protect himThe people of the world will not be destroyed, just like what was done at Bloody Christmas. It is the only choice to leave the lock of the brain with him, and only he can give me complete peace of mind."
Rolla looked at him cautiously, as if judging whether his remarks were based on emotion or reason, but she did not notice a trace of being confused by love in Deng Huailing's eyes.He believed in Rosie, not because he loved her deeply.
"Okay," Rolla agreed, "I trust your choice. As long as it doesn't fall into the hands of the Cecina government, everything will be fine."
She sighed a long time, "You hide here, you don't know that the weather outside is going to change. Every morning and evening, there are parades hovering downstairs in the Civic Center, protesting the search for the lock of the brain. At the beginning, it was ordinary people, and later joined other political parties and members of the Chamber of Commerce, and even bounty hunters were involved, but Robert Dillane was still going his own way."
"Is there going to be a fight?" Deng Huailing said with great interest, "If there is a fight, count me in."
"Don't be crowed, I still want to do business!" Rolla's forehead twitched with veins. "In short, the opinion of the guild is that all hunters should unite temporarily to prevent the government from obtaining the lock of the brain at all costs."
Deng Huailing suddenly understood: "No wonder a group of hunters came out last time and asked me to command them. Those old guys in the guild are not as weak and incompetent as I imagined."
"You can mobilize them to help you charge," Rolla said as the smoke in Rolla's hand burned to the end, and she skillfully pressed it out in the ashtray, "there are two other locations that are heavily guarded by the government troops.You can’t rush in. The war has already started, and there is no war without sacrifice in this world.”
"Let's talk about it at that time." Deng Huailing was not enthusiastic about Rolla's proposal, "I don't like directing other people's actions, it always makes me feel that the blood debt on my body will increase...Besides, before entering the rest of the place, IThere's still something to do."
"What's the matter, do you need my help?" Rolla asked sharply.
"Need." Deng Huailing turned on the communicator and sent a detailed list to the other party, "I want to go to the data storage center tonight, and I will trouble you to prepare the things on it, Rolla."
"Are you really going? Although the surveillance cameras in the whole city are still disabled, maybe the security system in that place has been repaired long ago?"
Rolla and Deng Huailing stood side by side in front of the window, the curtains that hadn't been drawn for a long time were suddenly opened, and the bright moonlight came in.Under the window is a dark and silent alley. According to the requirements on the list, a hoverbike prepared by Rolla is leaning against the wall.
Hunters at this level of Rolla have already memorized the types of items required for various operations. Deng Huailing listed equipment for high-altitude diving missions, such as suspension motorcycles, suspension ropes, downhill gear, and some conventional weapons.This kind of mission is usually extremely dangerous. Rapid descent from the air is like reaching into a snake's hole to fumble randomly, and you will be bitten if you don't pay attention.
She didn't understand why Deng Huailing suddenly decided to sneak into the data storage center, which was tantamount to putting himself at risk, so the man briefly explained that he had an idea that needed to be confirmed.Although Rolla was still a little worried, she knew that Deng Huailing was a man of measure, and would never gamble on insignificant things. She must have discovered clues in the Lost City, and she had guessed.
"If you want to go in, now is the best time." Deng Huailing was carrying a guitar bag, with slender fingers resting on the black ring, and the wind was surging outside the window, "The government obviously concealed important information. If it is not monitoring and repairingIf you get it before, you won’t have a chance in the future.”
"But how can you be sure... hey, I haven't finished asking!" Rolla said halfway, the person in front of her suddenly disappeared, and a black shadow fell from the window on the second floor, disappearing in the boundless night.
"It's just a guess." The sound of the engine starting from the motorcycle came, and Deng Huailing's voice was as cool as the night, "If I can find evidence, I will explain it to you."
A dark blue streamer lit up in the darkness, and amidst the deafening roar, the hoverbike rushed out of the alley, dragging two dazzling tail flames, and quickly rose to the sky.Deng Huailing still wore sunglasses to cover his face. In his slightly dim vision, he lowered his eyes to look at the familiar bright lights. The river flowed across the city, like a whole piece of crystal illuminated by the light.
He hadn't breathed outside air for a while, and the reason for coming out this time was to find out what happened to Cesina and Dashawn.A few days ago, Rolla used all means to hack into the government intranet and found the following information:
Cecina had indeed had an affair with DaShawn—both he and Rosie knew about it—but the brief fling ended within two years, and it ended cleanly.Since then, Cecina has never seen Dashawn again. She lived harmoniously with her husband Qin Se until she was 53 years old and died of intestinal cancer induced by long-term radiation research.
Cecina seemed to be aware of Dashawn's betrayal, and was completely disappointed in him, and finally returned to the family.The business card that Piper found in the bar also confirmed this fact.If DaShawn, as he said, never served multiple customers at the same time, why did he carry around a stack of business cards when the relationship between the two was so stable?
There is no other possibility except to solicit customers without telling Cesina.For a smart woman like Cecina, it is not difficult to detect the strangeness of her lover, and then give up completely. The logic chain seems logical.
Deng Huailing discovered a fatal loophole.Everything in the Lost City is not like it was created by Cecina during her passionate love period, full of cruel and cold details, such as the stack of business cards, but more like she built it based on her memories after the relationship ended.
If she insisted on explaining Cecina's motives for doing this, perhaps it could be said that she stumbled and wanted to remind herself never to trust such people again.However, she buried the jewel of her lifelong research result - the lock of the brain in the Lost City, which undoubtedly shows the importance of Dashawn in her mind.
If she still had feelings for him, she wouldn't always stay by her husband's side and break up with Dashawn.True love cannot be cut off easily, Deng Huailing thinks so, just like Rosie and he will be jealous of each other, fight and quarrel, but after the resentment subsides, he still feels that Rosie will return to him one dayaround.
The bounty hunter's intuition told him that there was something wrong with the information Rolla found.The information presented by the government on the intranet may be bait to lure them astray, and Robert's bionic army guards the remaining two locations at every step, protecting key information.
However, Robert never expected that there is reality beyond the virtual.The vicious fish saw through the trap, climbed ashore and bit the man.
Deng Huailing stood on the roof of the data storage center, with a motorbike parked beside him, and the wind blew through his hair.He took off his leather gloves, breathed on his cold fingers, and then took out the suspension rope:
"Rosie, help me..."
As soon as the words came out of his mouth, he was also taken aback for a moment, as if someone waved a baseball bat and hit him hard on the forehead.The outstretched fingertips were still hanging in the wind. He looked at the empty darkness around him, and the innocent smiling face of the bionic man vaguely appeared in front of his eyes.
Habits are probably poison too.He somewhat understood why Rosie was jealous. The gentle version of Rosie was so perfect that she could be called the dream lover of all men and women.
Deng Huailing has to admit that he sometimes thinks of the time when Rosie was Rosie, but it doesn't mean that he is nostalgic for this unequal relationship.In that relationship, he didn't completely treat his bionic person equally. For example, he dispatched Rosie casually just now. It is undoubtedly disrespectful to do the same thing to Rosie.
So it was difficult for him to understand why Rosie was so concerned about Rosie's affairs. Obviously, the name "Rosie" was the starting point of an equal relationship. From then on, Rosie had the right to choose freely.It is based on two-way choice, rather than simple dominance and domination.
While he was confused, he fixed the suspension rope, buckled the buckle of the downhill device, and gently fell back to the edge of the building and slid down.
Maybe there will be a chance to act with Rosie in the future.Deng Huailing stared at the night sky and smiled. At this moment, he really wanted that indifferent and shy person to be by his side.