It has been nearly five months since the attack on the Peace Foundation in the Four States around the Mountains in January. During these more than 100 days, the federal government's investigation into this vicious terrorist incident seems to have entered an uninhabited place. Known as the Swamp of Death.
No matter how precarious the people’s atmosphere is because of this incident, and the atmosphere of social stability has faded away, the government’s investigation has always been strictly controlled within a very small range, and confidentiality measures have been done extremely well. No one still knows what happened in the Foundation building that day, how the Medellin Congressman died, and who the murderer was.
All the information was hidden behind the shady screen, which made the eldest Miss Zou family, who was cold and arrogant in appearance, but sensitive and delicate in fact, smell something strange.
The shady scene may often represent two completely different directions. The government suppresses everything, perhaps to hide something, and let the two men involved die silently and can no longer speak, but it may also be To protect the two men.
Hearing Zou Yu's words, Li Xiaotong was taken aback, raised his head and looked at her quietly, with a hint of anxiety and warning in his usual gloomy eyes. He once liked the woman in red in front of him, and he seemed to be able to forget it after waving his sleeves, but he still cared about her after all.
Li Xiaotong has military status. Although he rarely wears that military uniform and rarely goes to work in the first military region, he is very clear about how strict the disciplinary measures of the federal military are, and the teaching content of the Ministry of Defense training base has always been kept secret. , What's more, if it really involves the surveillance video that day, it is definitely not the information that ordinary people can know, even if she is the daughter of the Minister of Defense.
"Your father shouldn't make such a mistake." He paused for a moment, lowered his head, raised the chopsticks in his hand for the first time, and put two pieces of white magnolia in front of him, but did not put them into his lips.
"I have my own news channel." Zou Yu smiled at him and said, "If there is momentum, I must prepare in advance, so I need your financial support. I know that you have spent the past six months at home. It is very difficult, but as I said before, only when Xu Le is alive can your investment appreciate in value. You should know that if Xu Le can survive, he has the potential for appreciation and development. Want to be the owner of a profitable family? Don't take some big risks , how can there be big benefits?"
"You're not a very good lobbyist, probably you rarely do this kind of thing in the past." Li Xiaotong replied calmly, ignoring the gradually indifferent expression on Zou Yu's face, he tapped the chopsticks with his finger lightly, and said: "I invested in Xu Le because I was optimistic that he would be able to break certain rules like the owner of this forest garden... Because my life must not follow the rules."
"But I never thought that Xu Le broke the rules so badly. Few people in the federation could endure the things he did."
There was a hint of sadness in Li Xiaotong's eyes, he laughed at himself, and said softly: "His first equipment, the workbench he threw outside the foundation building, was bought with my money. Four months The government has already checked my head. Yes, the elderly at home will definitely save me, but my investment has caused such a big trouble. My life at home for the past six months is not as you said. It's very sad, but... it's almost impossible to get through."
He waved his hand, motioning Zou Yu not to speak, his fingers detached from the chopsticks, resting on his knees, bowing his head and thinking silently for a long time.
"I still insist that even if the upper echelons of the government have any new ideas, things like money will not play any role in this matter. But if you insist on this, then when you need it, I will give it to you. ."
After breaking the silence, Lee Hyo-tong patted his knee lightly and replied with a smile. He looked at Zou Yu and said, "If you care, you are in a mess. You are in a mess right now. You should have been very clear that no matter how hard people like us try, it is impossible to rescue him from that little dark room whose exact location is unknown. You should go to the prince now. According to my information, he returned to Mochou Mountain two months ago."
Zou Yu sat on the cushion beside the dining table, looking out the window at the deserted forest, without answering Li Xiaotong's words, a trace of exhaustion and helplessness flashed across his calm and beautiful face. At this moment, she remembered so many things that Li Xiaotong didn't notice when he left.
She knew that Tai Zhiyuan had returned to S1, but in the past year, the relationship between her and Mrs. Tai has become weaker and weaker, and her prince brother has lost contact with him.
"I don't know where you two idiots are being held." A deep anger flashed in the corner of her eyes. The two guys who were secretly held by the federation didn't even know that they killed Medellin. How much trouble she had caused for the Federation in the past few months, and what made her worry about it.
After Li Xiaotong left, Zou Yu still stayed in this quiet residence. She held the small wine glass between her fingers, lifted her wrist to send it down, and drank it one by one. After a while, a blush gradually appeared. The cheeks, adding two more gorgeous, fully lined the appearance of a woman who is exuding a different style.
I don't know how long it took, the door was gently pushed open, a tall and thin man walked in, sat down opposite her very naturally, poured himself a glass of wine, and sipped slowly in his hand. The posture is calm and unhurried, revealing an air of control over everything.
From entering the box to sitting in the chair, this outstanding thirty-year-old man acted like a master returning to his home.
Of course, Lin Yuan was originally opened by him.
Zou Yu slowly raised his head, put down the wine glass in his hand, looked at the legendary figure in front of him who was admired by the children of the aristocratic family, smiled slightly, and said, "I told you about this last time, what do you think?"
Lin Banshan looked at this girl. Pregnancy before marriage is extremely rare among the children of aristocratic families. Although the Zou family is a new home, the daughter of the dignified Minister of Defense does not care about what happened to him in the previous year, and travels and socializes. It's so natural, it's really rare.
"I met Xu Le on the train. He was a very nice young man." He said with a smile, "However, in my past memory, the daughter of the Zou family was a cold-blooded person who could let his subordinates shoot and kill at any time. Woman, is it because of pregnancy that she has become so soft-hearted?"
Zou Yu laughed at himself and said to himself: "I have never been able to touch the truth about Xu Le's matter, but there seem to be different opinions on the presidential residence and the Parliament Hill, so I don't quite understand it. "
"I'm just a reckless person." Lin Banshan slowly sipped the wine in his glass, looked at Zou Yu with a hint of admiration, and said, "It's not something that people like me can imagine and explore, of course. , I always think those things are dirty, more dirty than the level we mix, so I don't want to intervene."
Zou Yu was actually a little nervous at this time. Although she followed Mrs. Tai to the tea party, she had met many powerful figures in the Federation, and she was no stranger to the children of the Seven Great Families of the Federation, but today she was facing the most famous traitor in the Federation. , the most famous unruly person in this circle, there will always be a little uneasy, but this uneasiness is well hidden by her.
She stabilized her breathing and said with a smile: "But as far as I know, the Foundation Building thing seems to have something to do with you. I don't know the specifics, but if they really did something for the Federation, wouldn't you? Think they shouldn't be locked up for life?"
Lin Banshan looked at her calmly. He didn't know how many ups and downs he had experienced in his life. Although he was nervous for several months because of the matter in Medellin, once the matter was over, his state of mind returned to the calmness and tranquility of mountains and rivers. It's just the words that Miss Zou's family suddenly said, but it made his eyes suddenly have a little more interest.
"I'm not Li Qishao. I know that it's impossible for your information channel to know about these things, at least it's impossible to know that this matter is related to me."
Lin Banshan stood up slowly, "If it is Minister Zou's intention, you don't need to go around so many detours. I will naturally do what I am supposed to do, but the federation has no unified opinion, but wants me to do this. It's not very appropriate for outsiders to do something."
Having seen through many things easily by Lin Banshan, Zou Yu could only respond with silence, but he did not notice that the outsiders mentioned in Lin Banshan's mouth were actually very meaningful. He is an outsider, so who is the insider who can really solve this problem
Lin Banshan said, "Li Xiaotong suggested that you find the Taizi's prince. If you don't mind, I also want to give you a suggestion."
Zou Yu raised his head and asked earnestly, "Please speak."
"Mad man Li." Lin Banshan walked out the door with a smile on his glass with the remnants of the wine in his hand, and said, "I remember you and him have a good relationship."
After President Pabble took office, as analyzed by policy commentators, Zou Yingxing, the deputy defense minister who was mainly in charge of logistics, took the position of minister. This general, who was only the director of the General Assembly Base of the Federal Ministry of Defense three years ago, has been promoted to three levels in a short period of time and has taken such a prominent position. It must be said that it is a very shocking phenomenon.
The Zou family still lives in the compound on the western outskirts of the capital.
Late at night, Zou Yu pushed open the downstairs door a little wearily and walked in. She glanced at her father who was reading the newspaper with eyes on the sofa, thinking of the things that Lin Banshan had seen through earlier, she wanted to say something, but she didn't know how to say it.
In fact, she also had doubts in her heart. A few days ago, her father was in the study and revealed to her some inside information about the incident in the Foundation building, intentionally or unintentionally, and then let herself contact those people, trying to rescue Xu Le and that guy... Father What factions of the military represent the will of doing so? Sitting in the key position of the Minister of Defense, he must be extra cautious in every move he does. Is this the real reason why his father watched him busy
The most important thing is, is the father doing this because of the influence of his wife, or is there any secret advice from the gentleman in the white mansion
"Father, I'm back." Zou Yu greeted very politely. Since the pregnancy, or after living together with Xu Le in Wangdu's apartment for a period of time, the temperament of this ruthless young lady has changed a lot. , her bones may still be the same as before, but at least she has become a lot more polite on the surface.
Minister Zou nodded, and didn't ask where his daughter went, who he met, or what he did, but was still reading the newspaper seriously.
Zou Yu knew that it was impossible to know more information from his father and walked upstairs. Minister Zou on the sofa raised his head and looked at the back of his daughter going upstairs. After a moment of silence, he did not ask, but lowered his head again.
Zou Yu's elder brother, Zou You, got married three months ago and is currently living in a certain unit of the S2 Second Military Region. It was dark at this time, the minister's wife was asleep, and the orderlies and waiters returned to their dormitory at the rear. In the big building, it was quiet and a little flustered.
Back in his bedroom suite, Zou Yu smiled and whispered something to the aunt with the child, and asked how the child was doing today.
Walking to the edge of the bed, she lowered her body, looked at the red face of the little boy in the crib, and couldn't help laughing happily.
Zou Liuhuo has been around for nearly ten months. Although he still can't speak, he can occasionally make a few monosyllable sounds.
The door of the suite closed, Zou Yu moved a chair, sat beside the crib, looked at his child quietly, and said softly, "You will also be a man in the future, a man, even if you can't stand up to the sky, To be earth-shattering.”
The corners of her lips were slightly raised, and a bright smile appeared. She tilted her head to look at Liu Huo and said, "Your two fathers have done an earth-shattering event."
On the little guy's birth certificate, the father column in the chip file records Xu Le's name, but his real father in the sense of blood is the guy Shi Qinghai, so Zou Yu said that they were his two fathers. It is also very suitable.
Pulling the soft cotton placket under the child's chin, Zou Yu stood up wearily and rubbed the soreness between his eyebrows. She really cares about those two unannounced guys. At first, she didn't know if they were still alive, but now, she was worried about their safety. Could they really be locked up by the federation for the rest of their lives
It was strange to say that she was thinking more about Xu Le. After all, the face of Shi Qinghai, who once had a one-night stand, was somewhat blurred in her memory.
Looking at the dark night outside the window, she thought to herself that Xu Le's stinky stone must be held in a small dark room alone in the federal high-security secret prison.
For months without the light of the sun, enduring loneliness or torture in the dark and damp, Zou Yu was worried, wondering if he could survive.
The most heavily guarded prison in the federal government is not the District Attorney's Office or the top four military detention centers of the Ministry of National Defense, but a military prison in Hulin Prefecture, S1.
Compared with this military prison, even the fox fortress felon prison in the fabled space has lost some of its deterrent effect.
Because the name of this military prison is Qingcheng.
In the era of the federal dynasty, there was an ancient poem that said that if you laugh at Qingren, then laugh at Qingrencheng. The military prison was named Qingcheng, but it did not care about this romantic literary atmosphere, but said that even if Qingcheng was used to save it, no one would be saved. To be able to rescue a person from this prison.
This military prison existed as early as 10,000 years ago during the dynasty era, when it was an important prison used by His Majesty the Emperor to imprison dissidents. In the past countless years, Qingcheng Prison has been continuously strengthened and repaired, supplemented by various advanced monitoring systems and powerful and ruthless professional military guards, which is even more sinister and terrifying than before. very important prisoner.
In addition to the high-ranking officers in the army who violated the criminal law, when the federal government suppressed the Seven Great Families, there were also countless high-ranking bigwigs who lingered here.
Those who were imprisoned in Qingcheng Prison basically had no chance to go out again, but occasionally there were a few people who went out. In the eyes of the federal people, this experience was their most proud capital. The federal people do not understand the essence of Qingcheng Prison, and even most people don't even know where the prison is, but this does not affect their cognition - only those who have been in Qingcheng Prison are the real big shots. .
Contrary to the imagination of the outside world, the heavily guarded Qingcheng military prison does not look so gloomy and terrifying on the outside. Several buildings are scattered on the wasteland beside the mountains without any regularity. Looking from the outside, there is no barbed wire connected with high-voltage electricity, nor any towering outposts or advanced monitoring networks. , even heavily armed soldiers are rarely seen.
But in fact, Qingcheng Prison is under the all-round monitoring of the federal central computer. In the seemingly peaceful prison, I don't know what kind of danger is hidden. For countless years, no one has been able to escape from prison successfully, which is enough to prove that this military prison's reputation is indeed true.
Qingcheng Prison, which occupies a huge area, has held very few felons in recent years. After all, the federal government is becoming more and more transparent in politics. Not so many big people will be imprisoned. The federal military has been facing the war with the empire. Nor would too many military felons be sent here.
The brilliance of the noon sun penetrated the transparent material dome at the top of the prison and fell on the ground. In the area divided by the high-hardness material, more than 30 prisoners in prison uniforms were eating lunch.
The nutrition for lunch is different. Dozens of felons, old or young, with gray hair or shaved heads, have various expressions on their faces. Some are lonely like a poet, and some are still angry. A poet, some calm and self-sufficient as a good poet.
The felons detained here, some murdering countless people, and some committing treason, no longer expect to be able to go out alive. During the meal, the atmosphere of the venue became a bit sparkling because of the long boring, but the people upstairs brought the atmosphere The ruthless soldiers with standard stun guns were suppressed, so they had to look at each other coldly, look around, and use their eyes to exude the smell of blood in their bodies.
Dangdang, two dull metal collisions sounded, and the felons in the cafeteria raised their heads almost simultaneously and looked towards the passageway at the entrance of the prison.
The electronically controlled alloy door at the passage slowly opened, revealing a group of people, four soldiers without weapons, as if they were facing a big enemy, nervously holding the black high-polymer material lasso in their hands, the front end of the four lassoes. , tied tightly around a person's neck.
A newcomer came to Qingcheng Prison, and the repeat offenders who were dining looked curiously over there. It has been a long time since there were no qualified prisoners in this boring prison. They looked at the new prisoner with a smile. One more person spoke, but the eyes of more people showed cruel and murderous emotions, thinking that there was finally a new person coming to bleed and cry, to pass this desperate time for themselves.
However, all the emotions in the eyes disappeared after a moment at the entrance of the passage, replaced by shock and inconceivable, as well as faint fear and fear.
The new prisoner whose neck was controlled by the black noose was a young man. Although the scribbled long black hair was draped over his shoulders like grass, making it impossible to tell his specific age, his smooth black hair and pale face still remained. The vigor of young people.
I haven't seen the sun for five months, my face is naturally pale, and my hair is naturally untreated. The new prisoner squinted and looked greedily through the transparent dome overhead, looking at the midday sun, seemingly not at all worried about the blazing sun burning his retinas.
His originally small eyes, because of squinting too hard, turned into two thin slits.
The four soldiers who imprisoned him saw the prisoner stop in place, and they thought of the severe confession from the superior and the rumored terrifying strength of this man, their hearts could not help shrinking nervously, and subconsciously, they simultaneously exerted their arms and pulled the black man. lasso.
The young prisoner, however, seemed to be rooting under his feet, and remained motionless. He still raised his head and squinted at the sun for a while, then lowered his head and used his hands to twiddle the messy hair hanging down from his face behind his head, revealing the pale With his face, he honestly followed the soldier's movements and took a step forward.
Just one step, there was a dull metal crashing sound at the foot of the foot. Under his feet, he was covered with electronically controlled magnetic shackles made of alloy. The shackles that reflected the metal light looked very beautiful, but they weighed 30 kilograms, especially When it came into contact with the silver channel on the ground, the strong magnetic attraction made the sound extraordinarily loud.
He also wears specially-made electronically controlled handcuffs on his hands, saying that the handcuffs may not be right, because the heavy metal rings, which are worn on his slightly thin arms, look very out of sync.
Heavy handcuffs and fetters, pale and thin prisoners, just like the weak boy in Schiller's play, bound in a gloomy hut made of iron.
As the soldier pulled nervously, the new prisoner frowned, moved his feet slowly, and walked forward. Every step he took, he had to fight against the strong magnetic force of the ground, making it extremely difficult to walk.
As he walked slowly, the dullness was mixed with the crisp metal crash, which kept ringing from under him, resounding through the entire Allure Prison.
Across a transparent material partition, the eyes of the repeat offenders moved with the movement of the new prisoner, and the emotions in their eyes had already become extremely shocked and fearful.
Who is the new prisoner? The prison authorities actually used magnetic restraints that had not been used for many years. Some prisoners felt even more chilled, because they could clearly see that in the heavy magnetic shackles on the newly arrived prisoners, the red light of the electronically controlled explosion was always on.