"Kedong 5 sacrificed 5,000 people in this battle, including their adjudicator, the first founder of 'Shu'." Catherine said truthfully.Deng Huailing didn't agree to help her yet, and she didn't give her any tasks other than asking for certificates. She analyzed from the perspective of the mayor as usual, "If this is a scam, they paid such a heavy price.Lure you into the game?"

"Yeah, if it's a scam, Rosie is taking a huge risk." Robert was thinking ecstatically, "If all the bases, soldiers, and adjudicators in East 5 are his betting chips,Then what he wants is probably everything on the table."

"In your opinion, what are they trying to do to mislead you on purpose?" Catherine clutched the hem of the suit, her hands dripping with sweat.In the pocket of this deep black suit, the recorder was working. Robert's view on the battle situation was undoubtedly something useful to Deng Huailing.

"I'm still not sure that Rosie did it on purpose. He was severely injured in the tunnel of East 2 and was unconscious for three days. Maybe he was seriously injured to deal with the accumulated affairs, which made him make a wrong judgment." Robert hesitatedNext, his suspicious personality made him consider another possibility, "Besides, these things seem to be coincidences. The fall of Dong 2 cut off the track and greatly slowed down the deployment of troops, which also makes sense..”

He rested his arm on the armrest, and slowly pointed at the temples with his index finger, "It's just that it's really hard for me to believe that he would make such a mistake."

"As long as he is human, he will do wrong things. He is not a perfect god, so of course he will lose to the mayor." Catherine flattered with a frivolous expression, which has always been her best thing. "Now he has lost the originalComrade, I guess you will be even more distraught and make frequent mistakes, right? As long as our army advances steadily, the second district will be yours sooner or later, no matter how hard Rosie struggles, she will just dig her own grave."

Robert smiled. It was obvious that Catherine's words touched his heart, fueling his complacency and weakening his vague worries.Reason aside, in fact, he is always eager to prove that he really defeated Rosie, and his wise decision-making is the key to victory in the East 5.He sat up straight again smugly, picked up the pen on the table, unscrewed the pen cap and said:

"Did you know? Many years ago, when CyberRose was first established, I got rid of the chief scientific officer of another company. Rosie came to confront me. You can't imagine how embarrassed he looks like a ghost."It's like... Killing a stranger and making him hate it like that, I want to see his expression now, what kind of pain should he look like after losing the partner who started the business together?"

He had a look of joy at his revenge, and Catherine smiled cooperatively, trying to make her smile less rigid.At this moment, the tablet she was carrying beeped continuously, and news from many department heads flooded in, reporting to her the speech held in front of the East 1 Administrative Center.

"What's the matter?" Robert stopped the pen in his hand, turned his head and asked.He had already picked up the pen and planned to continue to approve documents and battle reports.

"Mayor, there is news that District 2 just held a memorial speech." Catherine stared at the tablet, her cheeks blushed when she saw the news.Her pupils constricted, and cold sweat rolled down her spine, "Rosie...announced the activation of the brain lock to deal with Cesina's bionics!"

Robert's face suddenly sank, and he was silent for a few seconds, not even noticing that the ink on the pen tip smeared on the paper.He never thought that Rosie would make such a choice, so he couldn't believe it for a while, and said in a distorted voice: "Where is the video of the speech? Show it to me."

Catherine connected the tablet to the wall display, and the quiet darkness expanded like a deep sea. In the dim dungeon, golden candlelight fluttered with the wind.The speech lasted about fifteen minutes. The incited people looked up at the leader on the balcony and shouted frantically. Tears flashed in Rosie's eyes, and she made a gesture symbolizing thyme, like a calm madman.

"Mayor, what should we do?" Catherine said tremblingly, "The bionics on the front line, should we withdraw..."

"Shut up." Robert interrupted her words with a gloomy face. The tip of the pen snapped when he unconsciously exerted force, and a large amount of ink burst out, soaking the paper black. "This is impossible, absolutely not.Possibly, even if the killer's death made him angry again, did he...don't care about the consequences of technology leakage? How could he let his anger interfere with his judgment?"

"Or, maybe he thinks that if he doesn't open the lock of his brain, he's dead. Instead of losing to the main city, it's better to give it a go." This is the only reasonable explanation Catherine can think of, "Rosie may have been reminded by the killer's death,If the second district is defeated, he and his people will die like this. As for the consequences of technology leakage, this is something that the winner needs to consider."

"You are wrong, he is not such a person." Robert calmed down a little, his tone was no longer emphatic, but still blunt, "Rosie has been a virgin who wanted to save the city since she was a child, if Cesina City is destroyed in his hands, he will notI will forgive myself. The death of the killer...has such a big impact on him? Is it worth him to betray his beliefs and incite the people, and open the lock of his mind again?"

Robert's thoughts were a little confused, and the confusing situation made it difficult for him to think.He seemed to see Rosie crossing her fingers and supporting her chin, sitting in front of the black and white chessboard, with a cold smile in her dark eyes, quietly waiting for him to move the next piece.

Over the years, they have never left the game of chess.From the narrow desks in the military academy to the present, they have enclosed the entire city in a sand table, attacking and killing each other with their living lives.And he is still the same as when he was in the military school, never seeing the reason for Rosie taking a certain step, and often when Rosie starts to close the net, he wakes up like a god, and the murderous intention has long been buried in that ordinary step.

Robert forced himself to be calm, picked up the framed photo on the table, switched to the photo of the three of them in military school, removed the red cross on Rosie's face, and gazed at the smiling face.In the photo, the sun was shining brightly. He stared at the memories of the shoulder-to-shoulder teenagers, trying to dig out some useful information from the decayed memories of many years.

There seemed to be many warm sunny afternoons when they were in the classroom, playing tactics, and Rose watched from her desk.He always loses more and wins less. Once he lost to Rosie for three hours in a row, resisting the urge to overturn the sand table, and said with a cold face that he would not practice anymore, but Rosie stretched, swept away the chess pieces and lay on the edge of the sand table, teaching nicely:

"Bob, do you know what is the most critical factor in determining victory or defeat on the battlefield?"

"...Is it strength?" The young Robert frowned, and didn't want to talk much.

"No, it's a choice." Rosie explained to him softly, "Although strength is also important, it only represents the starting point of both sides. Tactics are composed of countless choices, and different choices lead to different ends. Attack or retreatWhether to cross the forest or cross the sea, whether to strike with a scalpel or advance across the board, they will all have diametrically opposite effects."

He leisurely rolls over, exposing the other half of his face to the sun, his eyelashes glistening in the sun, “A wise decision maker makes sure his enemies make the wrong choice while making sure he makes the right choice every time.”.If you can do that, you can win the war, simple enough, right?"

"I can understand what it means to make the right choice," the boy in front of the sand table asked puzzled, "but how can we ensure that the enemy's choices are all wrong?"

Rosie smiled, a proud "you've finally come to ask me" smile at the corners of her brows and eyes, but it wasn't annoying.He stretched out his hand to reach the opposite side of the desk, covered his friend's eyes, and made the other party's vision dark, "—that's it."

Robert stood up suddenly, and the seat slammed back against the wall with a "bang", startling Catherine in the office.He raised his hand to cover his eyes, and then slowly released it. He repeated this several times, making Catherine almost think that he was too stimulated and his spirit was a little unstable:

"Mayor, are you okay..."

"This is a trap!" Robert pressed hard on the table, his low voice pressed into his throat, almost screaming, "Although everything is reasonable, they are the hand covering my eyes that prevents me fromJudge the attack direction of the other hand holding the dagger! If I can't shake this hand, Rosie will cut my throat!"

Catherine was shocked, even if she couldn't see the situation clearly, she understood that Rosie was secretly laying out a grand plan, but the structure of the plan was not yet clear: "Since this is a trap, what is Rosie's purpose?"

"I don't know, but I will figure it out." Robert frowned, and ordered darkly, "Catherine, let the front-line bionics stop attacking, reinforce the position and stand by, and then call the think tanks in the municipal center.Go to the conference room, I'll be there soon."

Deng Huailing pushed open the door of the silent room with his earphones on and returned to his seat.The capsule train during the war was extremely deserted. This was not a military train for transporting soldiers, and there were very few passengers on the seats.

He had left the black windbreaker on the back of the chair earlier, and now he was only wearing a shirt and a thin sweater. Rosie had cut his hair on his forehead, and it was messy, with a few strands touching his eyes.The headphone cable dangled, making him more and more like a melancholy student walking and listening to music. No one would have guessed that top-secret war information was playing in his headphones.

After the recording was played, Deng Huailing returned to his seat, leaned on the armrest and edited a text message to Rosie, reminding her that Robert had discovered an abnormality.Although Rosie's original plan was close to perfect and closely linked, the killer changed one of the links to save Rosie's life, and he activated the brain lock, which slightly reduced the credibility.

Rosie's acting skills have been brought to the extreme in the memorial speech. If it were any leader other than Robert, they would believe it without hesitation, but their opponent is an old friend who has been with Rosie for three years.The opponent's tactical talent is very mediocre, but they have a fatal advantage, that is, they know Rosie too well.

However, Robert suspects that Rosie's motivation for activating the brain lock does not mean that the "Song End Project" has failed.Rosie has poor information in his hands, so he has the initiative. As long as Robert doesn't know that the effect of the new imitation can last for ten days, he can't see through what Rosie wants to do.

Worst-case scenario, Robert would gather brains and come up with the hypothesis that Rosie used a knockoff.But so what?The understanding of imitation products in the main city is still at the stage of Chen Jinnian and his wife. After three or four days, when they see that the effect of imitation products has not faded, they will feel that their assumptions are wrong and return to the original point.

At that time, Robert must not have much decision-making time left. From his point of view, if Rosie really went crazy because of the killer's death and used a real brain lock, if the main city drags on, it will be too late.It will be overwhelmed.At that time, the cooperation between Deng Huailing and Rolla will be able to play a role, pushing Robert at a critical moment, forcing the other party to make a choice of electromagnetic shielding.

Deng Huailing thought carefully about the logic, wrote down these conjectures, and sent them to Rosie together with the content of the transaction with Rolla.After a few minutes, the other party replied "Got it", the words were very brief, and he was probably in the midst of directing or holding a meeting again.

But Deng Huailing knew that Rosie would never take his message lightly, so he stuffed the communicator into his pocket and closed his eyes to rest. After 20 minutes, the communicator rang again.The other party discussed with him a few times in the message. After all the points were clarified, Rosie's meeting just ended, and a voice message popped up in the chat box, which was obviously recorded secretly by Rosie hiding in the corner:

"Be careful on the road and wait for your return. I love you."

The gentle and laughing voice seems to be whispering in his ear, and there is an animated expression of the bionic wall dong administrator and a heart emerging from the heads of the two, which is one of the classic bionic series of expressions.

Rosie still had the energy to tease him.Deng Huailing's tense nerves immediately relaxed, he couldn't help but burst out laughing, his brown eyes brightened, and he looked at the screen thinking about how to tease the other party.However, the signal of the communicator suddenly began to fluctuate, and gradually weakened to an extremely low level as the train progressed, hovering between weak and zero.

He put away his smile and looked at the ceiling of the carriage.The capsule train is likely to be passing under the military base. On the ground hundreds of meters away from the train tracks, in the new bases in all jurisdictions that have not yet been occupied, the electromagnetic wave generator is running at full power, and even the train deep in the ground has been disturbed..

An invisible and powerful electromagnetic storm blew across the wilderness, hitting the android garrison site like a hurricane.They are like chess pieces scattered among the mountains and rivers. The sun, moon and candles illuminate the vast chessboard. The two monarchs sit on both sides of the chessboard, silently thinking about how to kill each other.

They are all facing the final choice, a mistake of a chess piece is enough to destroy everything.