The suite was still quiet, and Deng Huailing's complaint did not receive a response.The heart rate monitor was beeping monotonously, Rosie's profile was sunk in the pillow, her crow-black eyelashes were tightly closed, and her long hair was disheveled like soft algae.The aura that belonged to the leader on that face disappeared in the deep sleep, the expression was like that of a naive bionic person, the corners of his mouth were slightly raised, as if he was sleeping soundly.

When Rosie gets enough sleep, she should wake up.Deng Huailing looked at the other party's sleeping face at close range. For three days, when he didn't deal with Yanling's affairs on the communicator, he would stare at Rosie like this. This face never bored him.Rosie didn't have time to accompany him some time ago, but now she has plenty of time for him to watch.

But... what if Rosie doesn't wake up?Suddenly an ominous thought slipped through Deng Huailing's mind, like a huge shadow under the surface of the night sea.Although intellectually he knew that the other party's injury was not fatal, he couldn't stop thinking about it, what if his brain was burned out by a fever?What if there is any internal organ damage that has not been detected?just in case……

He tapped his head and sighed.The calm and rational Deng Huailing didn't know where he went. At this moment, he was like a cat or dog circling around his unconscious master, anxious but unable to do anything.

Deng Huailing lay back on the bed, closed her eyes, and decided to use sleep to cut off the messy thoughts, and kill a period of anxious waiting by the way.However, even in the dream, the emotion of worrying about gains and losses did not let him go. He had the dream that he hadn't had for a long time. In the cold snowy day, he gradually drifted away from Rosie. A gunshot sounded indistinctly, and the other party fell to the roof.On, the blood spreads.

In the dream, he was still an eight-year-old child, kneeling in the snow and crying, crying tears of regret.But the dream suddenly became turbulent, the hazy sky broke through the wind and snow, someone kissed his eyelashes in a trance, kissed away a drop of water on his eyelashes, and said with a smile:

"Whose little brat, why are you still crying?"

Deng Huailing opened his eyes suddenly, and Rosie was looking at him with a smile, her face was bloodless, and her voice was still weak: "I wanted to sleep for a few more days, but I was always thinking in a daze, you will worryI……"

Before Rosie finished speaking, Deng Huailing embraced her. He wanted to hug her hard, but he loosened a little because he was concerned about Rosie's injury, but felt that he couldn't relieve the fear of emptiness in his heart, so he tightened it slightly.arms, and buried his face in the other's neck without any sense of security.

"I'm not a flower, are you afraid of breaking me?" Rosie was amused by the loose and tight embrace, put her chin on his shoulder, and said softly, "During the time I was unconscious, you were veryAre you afraid? Looking at the situation on the sand table, Dong 1 has lost two new military bases in the past three days, so the situation is not optimistic. Who is in command now?"

A holographic image of the sand table floated at the end of the bed, and two new bases were marked with red crosses behind the mountains.Deng Huailing predicted that Rosie would be worried about the war situation, so after Rosie finished the operation, he entrusted the logistics officer to transform the suite in the command center into a ward, so that Rosie could have access to all information related to the battlefield as soon as she woke up.So as not to worry in the hospital.

"I'm just afraid that you won't wake up." Deng Huailing said in a hoarse voice, "The killer rushed over from East 5. I made the decision for you without authorization and let him serve as the acting leader and commander. Yesterday Robert transferred from the main cityA large number of new bionics were sent out of the factory, and they violently attacked East 1 and East 3, and the killer lost two military bases before abandoning the car to protect the commander, and did not let the entire front fall."

"You are right, Piper has to deal with the battle situation in East 3, and among the adjudicators, only killers can take over my job." Rosie stroked his hair, and there was a faint smile in his eyes, but it immediately turned into worry, "East 1 lost most of its soldiers in the rescue operation, East 2 also fell, and it became very troublesome for us to transfer troops from other jurisdictions in the east. Although the killer is an excellent commander, the loss of two bases is an inevitable result."

"If you don't transfer troops from other jurisdictions, it will be difficult for East 1 and East 3 to survive? Li Ling once said to me before his death that he said that the second district can only last for a month and a half at most. Is it true?"Deng Huailing let go of Rosie's hand and stared at her.

"Maybe...maybe not." Rosie's fingers hooked her hair subconsciously, and after realizing that she was telling the truth, she pretended to stroke her long hair and vaguely changed the subject, "Huailing, call the killer for me.Come here, it seems that Robert is not launching a new round of attack right now, he should have time to meet me."

The two sides on the sand table temporarily entered a ceasefire state. Last night, the killer used the two bases as bait to severely damage the attacking bionic army.Although bionics do not need to rest, the army in the main city needs time to overhaul weapons, replenish ammunition, and dismantle the parts of casualties and bionics to repair bionics with minor damage. There are often pauses in the war.

"Well, I'll go find him." Deng Huailing got up, walked to the door but stopped.He turned back, looked deeply into Rosie's eyes with brown eyes, and said seriously, "Rosie, I want you to promise me one thing, will you take me with you when you plan to risk your life next time? I don't want to beYou left."

He didn't say the meaningless words "don't risk your life next time" to Rosie. If he can be indifferent in the face of the people's distress, then it is not Rosie.His lover is a character who will not give up even when he hits the south wall. Deng Huailing loves every bit of the other's character, and he just hopes that Rosie can take him with him when he is in danger.

"...Okay." Rosie's eyes flickered for a moment, and she looked away unnaturally.Deng Huailing's hand holding the doorknob was tight. He could easily tell Rosie's expression when she was lying. In just five minutes, the other party had already told two lies. This was something that hadn't happened for a long time.

The last time the other party showed a similar expression, it was to say goodbye to him in front of the floor-to-ceiling window pretending to have no emotion at all, hoping that he would not get involved in the muddy waters of the second district.Now that he has figured out Rosie's temper, he won't be deceived by the same acting again, but he still doesn't know what the other party is hiding from him.

Of course he could ask directly, but he had a hunch that Rosie would not tell him. As the situation worsened, Rosie's attitude changed, and some kind of vague omen seemed to be surfacing.

We must find out the reason for Rosie's abnormality, Deng Huailing thought.The bounty hunter's instinct made him act reflexively as soon as he noticed any doubts. After thinking for a moment, he quickly walked towards the meeting room where the killer was.

"Finally willing to wake up? You've been lying here for three days without worry, but I haven't slept much for three days." The killer pushed open the door of the suite, and as soon as he came in, he sat down on the edge of Rosie's bed and followed suit.With a scalpel drawn from the inside of his military coat, he grabbed an apple on the nightstand and peeled it.The apple peel quickly became a thin strip in his hands. The killer put the apple in the fruit bowl and cut it into several pieces neatly.

"Peeling some apples for no reason, you're not planning to poison me to death and take over from the acting leader?" Rosie frowned, with the expression of seeing a weasel giving a chicken New Year's greetings, and said cautiously, "Besides, your handsHow many corpses have been dissected with this knife, you don’t think it’s dirty, but I think the bacteria exceed the standard.”

As he said so, he still took an apple from the fruit plate.It's too easy for the killer to kill him. If the other party really has a different intention, there is no need to open the lead door, and there is no need to run all the way from East 5 to clean up the mess.On the contrary, the other party is the most loyal person he has ever seen to "Skill". As long as they still have the same goal, the killer will not rebel.

"When have you ever seen a scalpel recycled? Is it a one-time use?" The killer gave him a blank look. "I just bought tens of thousands of the same ones. Murderers also have to follow hygiene standards!"

"...Your work ethic is really noble." Rosie was speechless for a few seconds, but chose to go straight to the point, "By the way, last time we disagreed on the East 2 issue..."

"Stop, I don't want to hear your reasoning again, even if it's a calm version." The killer interrupted him, obviously still brooding over the last quarrel, "You know very well that we are in a certainsome things—disagreement on almost everything, never going to be good friends, you get mad at me for being unscrupulous, and I hate your indecision, and we've never been the same."

"I still don't understand how we set foot on the same path." Rosie took a bite of the apple and said vaguely, "It's not from the same path, but from the same path. Maybe it's because I littered or didn't care for small animals in my previous life., I just met you as a thorn, and I will definitely reform in this life."

"Don't be superstitious, I still think I will meet you when Mercury is retrograde." The killer said, "I still stick to my point of view regarding the decision of East 2. Your actions will harm the second district. I opened the lead door, justBecause I believe that you are the soul of 'Shu', if you die at this critical point, 'Shu' will become a mess, and we will definitely lose. Otherwise, you would have died in the tunnel long ago."

"Actually, you misunderstood just now, Ettore. I didn't intend to persuade you emotionally and rationally to make you agree with me. After so many years, the only feasible way of communication between us is to betAll the chips are wrestling with each other to see who can beat whom, and the rest will not work."

Rosie smiled and lowered her eyelashes, "I just wanted to say that our disagreement on East 2 reminds me of ten years ago when I couldn't manage Eleven. You all see me as aA soul figure, but doesn't care what this soul is thinking..."

The killer was stunned for a moment, and rarely said anything hurtful.Rosie went on to say, "You only support me when you need to appease the people and formulate a strategy, and when you encounter disagreements, you force me to make decisions. I am not so much a soul as a tool to maintain political stability? IfIf you respect a person's character but not his ideas, what is the difference between you and disrespecting him?"

"That's why I forced myself to be indifferent and calm so that I can calm down other people. But killer, you are different... You are the first person to know me, so you should know that the real me is not like this." Rosie laughed self-deprecatingly, "The real me is not a docile bionic person, not even a strong leader, before I met Huailing, I thought that this kind of me would not be recognized by anyone."

"So, I kind of remember what you were like in the past." The killer recalled, with a leisurely tone, "A speaker who has no airs or burdens, laughs and cries when he wants to. Robert's first timeAfter massacring the 'shu', you were crying in front of everyone, I thought at the time, it's over, I found a counselor to be the leader, I didn't expect that it would be crazy to go to the battlefield later."

"Do you remember it so clearly? That was probably the most difficult time for us." Rosie looked at the ceiling with a sincere smile on her lips, "Although it is very difficult now, at that time we didn't even have a room where we could hold meetings.I can’t afford to rent it, and there are often no bullets in the gun, but now I have a lot more money.”

He turned to look at the killer, "Ettore, we have gone through so many difficulties, this time is not bad. I need your approval, your help, it doesn't matter if you are not a good friend, I want itHe is a reliable comrade-in-arms. We will encounter many differences in the future, I hope you can recognize the real decision I made, and treat it as for the second district, okay?"

The killer sat on the edge of the bed, his eyes lowered in thought, and the look in his eyes seemed to be touched.It turns out that killers are not incapable of communicating, Rosie observed the other person's eyes, and thought with relief, if only they could have such a frank conversation earlier, if he had told these words to the killer ten years ago, maybe he wouldn'tBloody Christmas happened...

A feeling of dizziness suddenly rushed to her forehead, and before Rosie had time to think about what was going on, her eyelids began to fight uncontrollably, sticking to each other.He fell back on the pillow and fell into a deep sleep, or rather, a drug-induced sleep.

"Don't be stupid, Rosie, I will never reach a real consensus with you. You are right, I am indeed using you as a tool. Only you can defeat Robert and overthrow the rule of CyberRose. If I give in to you, and only for this reason.”

The killer stood up from the bed, looked at Rosie coldly, the emotion from the performance just now disappeared, "Sometimes I really doubt that a naive person like you who always opens up to 'friends',Can you lead 'shu' to victory... but who made me believe in you."

As he spoke, he inserted the scalpel back into the inside of his military uniform.A sufficient amount of sleeping pills was applied to the blade, which was the inspiration given to him by Deng Huailing. Rosie never defended against the food handed over by someone he trusted.

It was also Deng Huailing who found him a quarter of an hour ago and asked him if Rosie had some kind of self-destructive battle plan.The two discussed for a while the device that might house the plan, and eventually settled on the tablet that Rosie used to use in meetings.

The killer leaned over and opened the bedside table, took out the tablet, and connected it to his communicator.