A huge engine roared. When the plane landed, the slight shaking finally woke Chen Xiao out of his reverie.
"Here we are."
Lao Tian beside him smiled slightly and cast a comforting look.
Chen Xiao looked out the window at the airport...
This is Sydney Airport, Australia, in the Southern Hemisphere.
It only took less than four days for all passports, visas, etc. to be processed. Chen Xiao, accompanied by Lao Tian, came to Sydney, Australia, a country in the southern hemisphere.
Walking out of Sydney Airport, Chen Xiao turned a blind eye to the endless stream of blond and blue-eyed white people around him—in fact, Chen Xiao has been in a low mood recently and has gradually stopped talking.
Before setting off with Lao Tian this time, after he returned home, he locked himself in his room, dug out all his parents' relics, and looked at them for a whole day and night, as if he was trying to find clues from his parents' relics.
"... I hope he lives under a blue and free sky."
In that diary, the last words of his parents flashed before Chen Xiao's eyes repeatedly in the past few days. Some things that he would not believe in the past seem to have revealed more and more doubts in his heart in the past few days.
I... really
…
Although it was the first time in his life to come to Sydney, an internationally famous tourist city, Chen Xiao was not in the mood to visit at all. Naturally, I wasn’t in the mood to go sightseeing at the Sydney Bridge, and I didn’t even go to see the Sydney Opera House.
Even when he came out of the airport and sat in a taxi, Chen Xiao was always sitting in the back seat, tilting his head and looking out the window in a daze - obviously, his eyes were unfocused.
After a day in a Sydney hotel, the service agency arrived.
The person who came was an old acquaintance of Chen Xiao: Hong Qi.
When Hong Qi walked into the room, Chen Xiao immediately stood up from his chair and looked at the woman warily. After all, this woman was the first guy to show his supernatural powers in front of him!
Chen Xiao will never forget that it was this Hong Qi who threw a car out with a scream - and almost killed himself too!
"Long time no see, young man. You look good. I heard you did a good job with Lao Tian and the others."
Hong Qi smiled easily. She was still wearing a red suit, but the style of the clothes was different from what she had seen before. But - were all the clothes of this woman red
Chen Xiao was hesitating how to say hello, but Hong Qi had already walked over and hugged Chen Xiao warmly: "Welcome to Sydney!"
Chen Xiao seemed a little uncomfortable being hugged by her. After all, Hong Qi was a beautiful woman. Although she was much older than herself, Chen Xiao's face still turned red when she was suddenly hugged hard by such a woman.
"Haha." Hong Qi smiled and looked at Chen Xiao: "It seems that you are in a low mood. I know you have a lot of questions now, but I can't answer these questions - naturally someone can give you a satisfactory answer."
"Okay, Hong Qi." Lao Tian said with a smile: "He must be in a bad mood, so don't say this."
As soon as he took out a box of cigarettes, Hong Qi snatched it away. He held the cigarette box and smiled: "Uncle Tian, I remember that you have quit smoking - more than once!"
"I've broken the precept more than once, so it doesn't matter if I break it once more." Lao Tian suddenly smiled and seemed to shake his hand, and the cigarette returned to his hand.
Hong Qi glanced at Chen Xiao and pondered for a while: "You guys take a rest for a while, I have made arrangements. There will be a ship to take you out to sea tonight."
"Going to sea?" Chen Xiao was stunned for a moment: "The headquarters of the service agency is not in Sydney?"
"Did we tell you that the headquarters is in Sydney?" Hong Qi glanced at Lao Tian, and then looked at Chen Xiao: "The headquarters is not here. You just need to follow my arrangements... Moreover, many people in the headquarters can I’m waiting to meet you, a genius with special abilities.”
Wizard... hmm, "monster" would be more appropriate.
When she saw Hong Qi this time, she still had that faint smile on her face. But even when this woman was smiling, her eyes didn't have much warmth. Probably because of this feeling, Chen Xiao didn't seem to have a good impression of Hong Qi.
At night, Hong Qi personally drove the car and took the two of them to a private yacht dock. There is a yacht here that is already ready to go to sea.
Hong Qi did not accompany them on the boat, but just sent them to the side of the boat.
"Isn't she with us?" Chen Xiao asked Lao Tian.
Lao Tian smiled slightly: "Well, the F1 Australian Grand Prix is about to open recently, and this girl still has her own things to do."
F1? Australian station
Chen Xiao didn't understand, but didn't ask.
There were only two people going out on the yacht, Chen Xiao and Lao Tian, and there was no one else on the boat.
Fresh water and food have been fully stocked.
Lao Tian, who was born in the Ming Dynasty in ancient China, can actually drive a yacht. The two of them headed east and sailed on the sea for a full day and night.
Chen Xiao's geographical knowledge told him that the South Pacific is all the way east.
"The location of the headquarters is an island. From a geographical point of view, theoretically, it should be located within Australia's territorial waters. But..." Lao Tian said with a mysterious smile: "However, the world map of any country in the world , or on all official maps or tourist maps of Australia, this island can never be found!”
Chen Xiao raised his eyebrows.
Lao Tian pointed to a blank spot on the navigation map.
"This location is our 'home'!"
"home?"
"Yes, that's the name of the headquarters." When Lao Tian mentioned "home", his eyes were a little complicated.
…
According to Lao Tian’s introduction.
This island located at the junction of Australia's eastern territorial waters and the high seas of the South Pacific - this island called "home" is where the headquarters of the Service is located.
This is an island with an area of about two square kilometers! But this island does not exist on any official map published by the government!
In other words, for the vast majority of people in this world, this island "does not exist"!
"You know, the Service Society has a long history, more than two hundred years... Well, Australia was still a British colony in the past. Very early in the year, the Service Society bought this island from the British government. This is a huge sum. A secret deal. Because it is absolutely impossible for the British government to admit such a thing to the outside world: The British Empire sold its own land? That is simply the biggest scandal."
Lao Tian smiled strangely: "Do you know how much it cost the Service to buy this island from the British government?"
Chen Xiao thought for a moment... An island with an area of more than 2,000 square kilometers is equivalent to the area of a medium-sized city. Such a large piece of land must be worth a lot of money... not to mention it was bought from a country!
"One pound." Lao Tian said the answer with a smile.
Chen Xiao finally widened his eyes: "... One, one pound?!"
"Otherwise, how many do you think it will be?" Lao Tian smiled easily: "Chen Xiao, although ordinary people do not know our existence for organizations with special abilities such as service societies, for high-level governments in some countries —They are not blind or deaf! Since two centuries ago, organizations like ours have had various contacts with the governments of some countries. There have been frictions, struggles, and cooperation. However, with the changes of the times, Today, a situation of non-interference has basically been formed. They acquiesce in our existence - as long as we do not interfere with the normal operation of the world."
After a pause, Lao Tian smiled faintly: "Even if they want not to acquiesce, they can't. An A-level superpower can transform into the most terrifying warrior or the king of destruction in the world if he wants to. No country is willing to do so easily. Provoking a big supernatural organization."
"So... the British government gave you this island of more than 2,000 square kilometers for one pound two centuries ago?"
"Well, it is indeed a 'gift'." Lao Tian shrugged: "But the British government is very face-saving. I heard that the deal back then was very interesting. They had to give us such a place, but they needed a good excuse internally. In the end, the British king had to write a highly confidential canonization decree, canonizing the leader of the service society at that time as a noble, and then gave him the 'home' island as a private territory in this way."
After a pause, Lao Tian continued: "But of course, there is absolutely no record of this canonization decree in various public documents. It only exists in the highly confidential files of the British royal family and the British government."
At this moment, after a night of sailing, it was already getting dark. Lao Tian checked the instrument and confirmed the location of the ship.
"Well, we are almost entering the realm of home."
After saying that, he suddenly ran to the cabin at the back, rummaged around for a while, and finally pulled out a metal instrument.
This thing looks a little tattered and even a little rusty. It looks like a small TV satellite device, an umbrella-shaped satellite that is turned upside down like a pan, with a circular base underneath. Chen Xiao clearly saw that there were rust stains on it, probably because of the humid air on the sea.
Lao Tian carefully placed the thing on the bow of the ship, and then pressed a button on it. Soon, a display light under the satellite came on, first a red light, and then quickly turned into a green light.
"Okay. The signal is connected and we can enter our home." Lao Tian also looked a little happy: "I haven't been back here for a while."
"Uh... what is this?" Chen Xiao couldn't help but ask.
"This? This... is an ID card for entering the house." Lao Tian said lightly: "After all, it is the headquarters of the service society. Can any boat approach the home island? Only when this thing is turned on and the signal is connected to the home island, can They will be recognized as one of their own and can enter their home waters smoothly."
"What if... there is no such device?" Chen Xiao couldn't help but ask.
Lao Tian seemed to have some disdain in his tone: "Don't worry, if we don't have this thing... Humph, even if the US military sends an aircraft carrier group, they won't even think about getting close to our home!"