kill dawn

Under the management of the tower, there is no real disappearance, unless a fatal danger is encountered and the tower area cannot be contacted temporarily.Or, because they are in an information shielding area, their vital signs cannot be captured by the Tower of Dawn.

However, in Jiang Bieqiu's eyes, the word "missing" would never be associated with Fang Jue anyway.

His first reaction was, could Fang Jue just temporarily leave the identity of executive officer and go about his own business?

But Lewis gave the answer.

"He's a man... how can he have his own affairs... At most, he will go to the battlefield ruins to see the little guide when he is not in a good mood."

Louis on the other end of the holographic communication sighed faintly.

It's been a long time since I last saw him, his beard stubble came out, and there was a faint blue-gray under his eyes. It was obvious that he didn't have enough rest, and his face was full of burnout.

Hearing the little guide again, Jiang Bieqiu's mood was much calmer.

Louis was somewhere, against a backdrop of desolate dust, his face flickering in and out of the dim light, making it hard to see clearly.

"I'm looking for him, don't worry, it should be fine."

Jiang Bieqiu keenly grasped something: "Are you looking for it alone?"

"..." Lewis paused and nodded helplessly.

"Where is Ms. Zhang Yuting? Where are the managers of the Twilight Tower? The executive officer of your tower area has disappeared, and they have no response?"

The answer to Jiang Bieqiu was silence.

Jiang Bieqiu twitched the corner of his mouth: "I see."

Communication hangs up.

Time goes back to the beginning.

In the data records of the Tower of Dawn, Fang Jue is currently the strongest sentinel in the human base.Since ancient times, people who have been crowned with the title of "the strongest" are all the trump cards of this group or the key protection objects.

But since Jiang Bieqiu met Fang Jue, it seems that all major and minor matters have been done by him, a person who only needs to sit in a high position and give advice.

Maybe it's because the management of the Twilight Tower likes to shirk when things happen, or maybe under the halo of Fang Jue's "omnipotence", no one can really believe that Fang Jue will be in danger.

Including his biological mother, Ms. Zhang Yuting.

Of course, these are just guesses made by Jiang Bieqiu based on Louis's reaction.

In order to find out what was going on, Jiang Bieqiu decided to go to the Twilight Tower.

Not long ago, he swore that he would never see Fang Jue again.But now, when he stood on the arch bridge again, he couldn't help laughing at himself.

People, you should be a little self-aware about your own self-control.

He walked down the arch bridge, crossed the sea area of ​​​​the midnight area, and stepped into the tower area of ​​the Twilight Tower.

On the way, Jiang Bieqiu called Louis again.

It took a long time to connect, and the data was loaded one by one. Just when Jiang Bieqiu thought that the other party would not answer, the cursor flashed, and Louis' projection appeared.

After just one day, Louis looked more and more haggard.Leaving aside the tiredness, the depression and impatience on his brow could almost condense into a sharp blade of attack even through the communicator.

Jiang Bieqiu originally tried to talk in a sideways manner, but changed his mind the moment he saw Louis.

Although the two of them had a bad relationship because of the window of the bar, they had also fought against the S-level guide together, so to speak, they had a fatal friendship—whether Louis himself admitted it or not.

So Jiang Bieqiu asked straight to the point: "Where are you?"

Louis didn't answer immediately, but looked at Jiang Bieqiu carefully for a while before asking, "Why?"

Jiang Bieqiu: "No matter where you are, you need to use the guide element immediately, or let the guide comfort you mentally, otherwise your state will get worse and worse."

At first glance, Louis' state looked like he was overtired, but Jiang Bieqiu had been in contact with many sentries who were on the verge of mental overload, and he could tell at a glance that something was wrong.

He originally thought it was Louis' mental overload period recently.It's just that Fang Jue disappeared just at the same time, so I didn't have time to worry about myself.

But Lewis said: "My mental overload period just passed the other day."

Jiang Bieqiu was taken aback.

Ordinary sentinels have a peak mental overload period, that is to say, if they just pass the mental overload during the cycle, there will be no major mental problems in the short term.

Unless, there is something outside that affects the sentinel's mental power.

Louis should still be looking for Fang Jue at this time, so his location is at least not far from where Fang Jue disappeared.Combining the two, Jiang Bieqiu vaguely felt that Fang Jue's disappearance might be related to this thing that affected the sentinel's mental power.

He said decisively: "Louis, I have two questions, I hope you can answer me, can you?"

Louis rubbed his eyebrows: "Speak."

"First question, where was Fang Jue before he disappeared?"

It stands to reason that the Twilight Tower is the only living management area of ​​the human base, and its safety is unquestionable. How could Fang Jue, an executive officer, suddenly disappear for no reason?

But Louis still didn't seem to want to say more.

He hesitated, and his joking face became more and more gloomy against the background of dim eyesight.

Jiang Bieqiu smiled: "Then let me ask the second question, have the people from the Twilight Tower looked for him?"

Louis opened his mouth and shook his head bitterly for a long time.

He said, "Since you can ask me these two questions, doesn't it prove that you have the answer in your heart?"

Jiang Bieqiu was unmoved: "Louis, speculation is not the truth after all."

In the confrontation between the two, there is only the wind.The night in the twilight zone was quiet and boundless, but the wind behind Louis was like a desert storm, rolling up huge waves.

Still and moving, fragmented and chaotic.

After a while, Louis finally spoke.

When Fang Jue came back from Midnight District, he was carried to the conference table with wounds all over his body.The managers in the Twilight Tower area ignored his injuries, and asked, "Mr. Fang, where is Li Dawn?"

In such a situation, it seems that the person standing in front of them is not a living person, but an artificial intelligence like the Tower of Dawn, who can get the desired answer after entering the password.

But Fang Jue was obviously not.

So he just glanced at the man indifferently, walked around and sat down on the other side, rubbing the inside of his wrist with his head down.

His father died in the war many years ago, and his mother, Zhang Yuting, became one of the top managers of the tower area.The capable and calm lady stepped forward, raised her head and said, "Mr. Fang didn't find Lixiao."

As soon as these words came out, there was an instant burst of bangs in the seat.

Someone complained, "Didn't Fang Jue swear that there must be dawn there?" Some people were eccentric, "It's really easy for this officer to be so easy, and let everyone accompany you to work hard and lose money!" Some people directly questioned, " Can Fang Jue do it? Are you kidding us?"

There are different opinions, but none of them are good.

Zhang Yuting cleared his throat, and said coldly: "The existence of Lixiao is always an invisible crisis for the human base. If we didn't find it this time, we will continue to look for it next time."

Someone scoffed lightly: "Yeah, the people in the tower area have been going up and down for more than half a year, but in the end they couldn't find it and dismissed it lightly. Cooperating with us is a tool to show your leadership."

Fang Jue sneered inwardly.

The Twilight Zone is not like the Dawn Zone, which is led by the Dawn Tower, so it won't be too chaotic.And these people standing high inside the Twilight Tower area have not faced the cruel world where dawn exists. Life and death, sorrow and joy, love and hatred are like distant legends-they don't even believe that there is such a thing as dawn.

Zhang Yuting raised his hand to stop the man from facing Fang Jue's dissatisfied gaze, and said, "Then what do you want?"

The man glanced at Fang Jue and said with a smile, "Don't dare, Mr. Fang has done so much for us, how dare I have the idea of ​​accountability?"

Accountability.

After talking for a long time, I still want to ask Fang Jue's responsibility.

At this time, Fang Jue was finally willing to raise his eyes to look at him, and also at all the indifferent people: "Since it is about accountability, why don't you let me go to the white room?"

"White House?!" Hearing this, Jiang Bieqiu couldn't help interrupting, "Fang Jue went to the White House?!"

"...No." Louis shook his head, his brows were still full of anger, "White House is a place where the senses can be enhanced, and the sentries will die if they enter, even Ah Jue can't handle it."

"Those people are pretending. Although they want to use this to frustrate Ah Jue, they are not to the extent of letting him go to the white room. So... a compromise was adopted in the end."

The so-called compromise is to let Fang Jue go to the battlefield ruins to complete the mission.

There is still a high degree of pollution left there, and the superhumans have entropy to resist, but after a long time, it will be affected psychologically.As a "little punishment" for Fang Jue's arrogance, it is perfect.

"He agreed?"

"Well, I wasn't there at the time. When I heard the news, I thought Fang Jue wanted to go and see... that who, after all, he died there." Louis paused, seeing that Jiang Bieqiu didn't make any expression, and then continued Said, "It wasn't until he lost contact that I realized the seriousness of the matter."

Fang Jue went to the war relics area, but within a few days, he completely lost contact with the tower area.

Up to now, more than a month has passed.

At first, the people in the tower area were actively looking for it, but this kind of endless search day after day became a burden after a long time.

Until one day, the tower district began to choose the next executive officer.

"Actually, Fang Jue's disappearance this time may be a good thing for them... because they want a more obedient..."

Jiang Bieqiu couldn't take it anymore.

He turned and left, with the towering Twilight Tower behind him.

Under the icy night, even the lamps in the world have no warmth.

"Louis."

"what?"

"Send me the coordinates."

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