When Yun Qian was sitting on a sofa asking questions, he leaned forward slightly and wrung his hands together. At such a close distance, the executive general looked even taller; he had that tough and steady look.
The momentum seems to carry an invisible weight, and even makes people have to hold their breath slightly.
"Well, the doctor said it's almost done." The young man sitting cross-legged on the bed responded. Just as he was about to raise his hand, he was stopped by Yun Qian - "You can't see, let me do it." He said as he stood up.
, cut a slit in the bandage on the back of the boy's head.
For such a tough guy, his movements were very meticulous; the white bandage loosened up in circles and fell on the bed, gradually revealing the thin scars on the young man's face, crisscrossing his once clean and fair cheeks.
Yun Qian bent down and looked at the young man's cheek carefully for a while. His breath sprayed on the skin, making the side with necrotic nerves feel a slight heat - "The color of these scars is much lighter than last time.
"Yun Qian straightened up and seemed relieved. "It seems that your skin will become the same as before before long."
"I'm not a girl, what does it matter whether my skin is good or not?" Ayun laughed, but still stretched out his hand to touch half of his face. "I wonder if Yan Qiu's blood stains have faded? That guy is not good-looking to begin with."
"I'll go take a look for you and convey your words to her." Yun Qian made a rare joke and picked up a jar of ointment next to him: "Is this what you want to apply?"
"Yes - Mr. Commander-in-Chief, I'm really sorry that you have been asked to take care of our three wounded these past few days."
"Now that there is an epidemic, everyone is not allowed to go out. Of course I, the only healthy evolver, have to do some work." Even when Yun Qian smiled, his hard facial lines did not soften at all.
He lifted the boy's chin and applied a layer of cool ointment on his face: "...I just hope you can get well soon."
"Thank you, Mr. Commander." Ayun raised his head without daring to move. Because of his excitement, his long eyelashes trembled and cast a shadow.
"Young people recover quickly," Yun Qian retracted his hand, tilted his head and glanced at him, "It's done! Don't rub it indiscriminately."
The young man smiled a little shyly, revealing a row of snow-white teeth in the plum red color. However, the nerves on the right side of his face were destroyed, and there was no fluctuation in his expression. Only half of it looked like a smile, and the other half was calm.
Wave.
Yun Qian's eyes stayed on his face for a few seconds, nodded, turned and walked towards the door.
Just when the chief executive was about to leave, the young man suddenly remembered something and hurriedly asked: "Master chief, is there any news about the evolvers who left the city?"
"An evolver has returned this morning." Yun Qian stopped half-opening the door and turned around to say.
The young man was taken aback and his eyes immediately lit up: "Great! Who is it and how is it?"
The Chief Executive frowned his two sword-like eyebrows: "I really have no impression of him. I have to go back and check the roster. He was seriously injured and fell asleep as soon as he came back. I don't know if he has any injuries yet."
Got the information...but no matter what, it's good that he can come back alive."
At this point, Yun Qian pursed his lips, paused, and then said: "If too many evolvers are lost because of this mission, I will be the sinner of Nine Cities."
Seeing that the chief executive had finished speaking and turned around to go out, Lin Sanjiu glanced at the sunset and exhaled - it seemed that today was another fruitless day. She quietly walked in the orange-red sunset light.
She crawled back to the attic along the outer wall, and she felt that she was about to go from peeping tom to pervert. It was okay that no one noticed at the moment, but once someone noticed, she wouldn't even have a valid reason to explain her behavior.
None.
As long as the puppet master is sane, Yunshou Nine Cities will be a relatively complete and normally functioning world. Perhaps it is because the information he learned afterward has been filled in his memory in disguise? Lin Sanjiu was sleepy and tired.
, thought vaguely.
She hasn't slept a wink since she entered the data body's territory - when she thinks of the data body observing her in the dark, she doesn't dare to let her consciousness blur even a little bit.
It was fine before, but in Yunshou Jiucheng, watching the sunrise and sunset every day, even her biological clock was assimilated. Both physically and mentally, it felt as if at least a month had passed.
Even an evolutionist couldn't bear to cook it slowly like this - Lin Sanjiu pinched herself hard and even suspected that this was the purpose of the data body: maybe they just wanted to make themselves sleepy and lose all resistance?
The slight pain on her skin didn't even have any effect. After she sat down in the attic, the surging sleepiness finally revealed its power: Lin Sanjiu felt that her head was getting more and more dizzy, and her eyelids were twitching.
The position was glued together, and every time she opened it again, it seemed that she had exhausted all her strength. Sleep actually released such a sweet temptation, making her just want to give up and forget about anything else. The puppet master
how……
She didn't know how long she struggled, but just when Lin Sanjiu slowly closed her eyes, a series of loud footsteps quickly approached from below, and there was a loud bang on the wooden floor. She was startled.
After waking up and listening, she realized that there was more than one person coming, and the destination seemed to be the attic - Lin Sanjiu stood up in a hurry, looked around, and quickly jumped out of the window.
The outer wall of the Governor's Mansion was flat, with almost no room for strength; she grabbed a handful of hanging green leaves with one hand and stepped on the edge of the window on the next floor to steady herself.
There was a "squeak" sound, which sounded like the door built into the attic floor was pushed open.
"Sir, sir," the first voice that sounded was A-yun's voice, "can I just put it here first?"
Could it be that she fell asleep just now and a long time passed unknowingly? Lin Sanjiu was startled, feeling that the puppet master's memory flow seemed to be faster and faster recently; she hurriedly adjusted the angle slowly and moved herself
I reached the bottom of the attic window and looked inside.
Although the attic of the Governor's Mansion was already very spacious, when Yun Qian walked in, it suddenly seemed cramped, as if it could not accommodate this steady and tall executive general; his back was to Lin Sanjiu,
Twilight shone in from the window on the other side, and people could only see his dark back.
Countless fine dust floated in the air, and together they were dyed into floating golden-red particles by the egg-yolk-like sunset. The young man named Ayun held something like an iron box in his hands, which seemed to be so heavy that even he felt
It was laborious; he gasped and put the thing on the floor with a thud, which immediately stirred up a layer of floating dust. He was choked and coughed, and a blush appeared on his face.
Yun Qian patted his back, "Are you okay?"
"It's okay, it's just that the right side of my body is not very flexible yet."
Yun Qian squatted down in front of the iron box and spoke softly, as if he was afraid of scaring it. He slowly stroked the surface of the box and said in an almost whispering tone: "No.
Wrong, this is it...it is it. I, I have been looking for it for a long time, but still failed...I never thought, never thought that one day I would really see it again..."
"Chief Commander, thanks to your persistence at that time, and thanks to Brother Gong for risking his life to bring it back." The young man also squatted down and showed a half bright smile to Yun Qian. He turned around
Looking at the iron box, his tone was a bit surprised: "But... can such an ordinary iron box really be used?"
Yun Qian slowly stretched out his hand, his fingers trembling constantly. He swallowed and seemed to have finally calmed down: "Of course, I just started it."
"Already -?" The young man was suddenly surprised again. He looked at the box carefully for a while, but saw nothing. "There wasn't even a sound... I always thought that the artificial intelligence command station should look very high.
Technology is the right thing, at least it has to have a screen, right?"
Yun Qian glanced at him and smiled softly: "Yes, it has everything."
But he didn't wait for Ayun to ask again, and suddenly stood up and strode towards the attic stairs: "Let's go - the time is not right now."
The young man was stunned for a moment and had no time to ask. He saw that Yun Qian had already gone downstairs. He hurriedly followed, and the sound of their footsteps was farther away again.
Lin Sanjiu went back into the attic. After thinking for a while, he didn't look at the box. Instead, he followed him downstairs quietly - this was just a world copied from the puppet master's memory. He didn't understand it.
Things cannot be completely restored; even if she went up to take a look, she would probably only be confused.
It's just that she originally thought that things were about to take a turn due to the arrival of the iron box; but in the next half day, there was nothing surprising at all. The chief executive went to see the injured man who had performed meritorious service.
Brother Gong talked with him until late at night; at the same time, Lin Sanjiu followed the young man Ayun, watched him do rehabilitation for a while, read a book, and then washed up and went to bed after dinner -
—Not only was it boring, but it also made her feel like a pervert.
A silver moon slowly hung in the dark night sky. After the young man Ayun fell asleep, Lin Sanjiu quietly returned to the attic. She didn't know if she could survive the night - she was too sleepy and tired.
.
Only in the dead of night could she hear the iron box in front of her constantly making a very light "buzzing" sound, as if there was some movement running inside. When faced with this unprecedented technology,
, Lin Sanjiu felt like an ancient person who saw a TV, and walked around it, but still didn't understand how this thing could become an artificial intelligence command station.
Just when she sat down on the floor again out of boredom, there was a slight sound of the door hinge turning, which immediately tensed her nerves.
The sound was so fleeting that she almost thought she heard it wrong. Lin Sanjiu waited patiently for a while, until she caught a footstep that was so subtle that it seemed as if it didn't exist, and then she jumped up.
, threw himself downstairs, and rushed over following the sound.
...The dream seemed to be entangled with the night, and it was hard to distinguish one from the other. Turning over in the chaotic and entangled sleep, Ayun vaguely heard his own breathing, which was echoing steadily and long in the night.
The right side of his face still seemed to be covered with a layer of biting ants, and his skin was numb and painful; then, something warm gently landed on his right side of his face, and he stroked it slowly.
Ayun dreamed of the chief executive's hand, slowly sliding over the iron box-like command post.
A hand also fell on his face, and he realized this in his daze.
This thought passed through him like an electric shock. As soon as he opened his eyes, his breathing suddenly stagnated - at some point, a tall black figure was standing in front of the bed.
"Who?" The young man was about to step back as soon as he propped himself up on the bed, his voice still sounded like he was just waking up. However, before he could move, the hand on his face turned like lightning and pinched his throat.
"Don't move." The dark figure said softly, and every word carried the weight of a high-ranking person, as if it could make people hold their breath to listen.
Ayun was so shocked that his body seemed to lose control.
"I have been to Yunshou Jiucheng several times before, during my inspection tour." Perhaps because of the darkness, the familiar voice sounded a little different, dark and hoarse. "Even if there is
Artificial intelligence, Ninetowns has still developed itself into a slum... In the eyes of others, there is no value in inspection at all. However, I strongly disagree, I have very good memories here. The poorer and more chaotic the
The better the place, the better I can find what I want.”
The young man listened motionless in the darkness, feeling that the big hand on his throat slowly let go, but gently held his neck without taking it away. The other person's body temperature was as cold as a snake's.
The ground was pressed against Ayun's warm skin.
"After the fall of a city, there are fewer and fewer humans around me. As soon as I show my head, all I see are artificial intelligences - even though they are humanoid, they are different." The voice became lower and lower.
, as if he was about to disappear into the darkness, but there was a frightening undercurrent: "Oh... people. I can assure you that there is no one who loves people more than me...
…Ayun.”
"General, Chief, you..."
"Shh." Yun Qian suddenly lowered his head and said softly in his ear, "I don't need you to speak, and I don't need you to take any action. Ayun, listen carefully, the artificial intelligence command station has already started.
It's working...AI has taken over all the defense and weapon systems of this city. To be honest, I'm a little surprised that it took over this city so smoothly."
The violent beating of the boy's heart could be heard far away in the night.
The cool hand gently touched his Adam's apple and went around the back of his neck. Touching the goose bumps that suddenly aroused in the young man, Yun Qian smiled softly and said: "You are sixteen this year... or seventeen
?The Adam's apple is not big, like a girl... Your evolutionary ability can only control dolls, right?"
His hand was also like a snake, but it suddenly stopped.
In the thick darkness, the young man's low sobs sounded intermittently.
"What, are you scared?"
Ayun gasped for air, and his vision, which was originally covered by the night, became even more blurred because of tears. He hated himself for crying, but he couldn't stop the waves of fear and confusion in his heart, which seemed to be about to swallow him up.
——Wanting to vomit and cry at the same time, the young man said hoarsely: "I, I saved your life..."
"Yes, I'm grateful for that."
"Then why did you-"
"Don't you want Nine Cities? If you want it to be good, you have to pay a price." Yun Qian's voice was still so light, "I can make Nine Cities the same as it was in the Golden Century... With AI,
You know I'm not lying."
The young man turned his body suddenly and punched the black figure in front of him; Yun Qian caught his punch and smiled lowly: "Didn't I say it? I don't need you to move."
"Fuck you!" When Ayun was about to jump up again, a hand was suddenly pressed on his shoulder. All the strength in his body was like a river flowing out of his mouth, and the waves surged from being held down by that hand.
The place where it flowed away, disappeared completely in the blink of an eye - his limbs suddenly became weak, and the young man could not even hold up his own body.
He was so anxious that he broke into a cold sweat, tears kept rolling down his cheeks, and his stomach seemed to tighten and shrink to the size of a pinhead - but no matter how hard he struggled, it was still in vain.
"Making the people obey is the power of the commander-in-chief."
The black shadow smiled slowly, "Since I activated the command post, twenty law enforcers, seventy engineering AIs, and fifteen mobile weapon mother stations responded to my orders this afternoon... Just now,
The first batch has arrived."
This did not reduce A-yun's resistance. It was his next words that made the young man suddenly stop moving.
"Your two friends are sleeping soundly under the eyes of the law enforcers."