under the tower

The days passed smoothly for a week, and on the next weekend, Yan Yi had a day without class, so he decided to take Ji Xi to the Wuchang factory.

So Ji Xi asked Yu Chengyuan for leave.

The Weapons Factory is the largest weapons manufacturing department in the base, and it also serves as a weapon selling function. It occupies a large area and is located in the Aibo District on the western outskirts of the base.

Aibo District is a huge industrial area, full of factories, and a few technology development centers, almost no civilians live here.

Soldiers wearing military uniforms and carrying heavy rifles patrolled the open and flat roads.

Because it is an important military area, Ji Xi and Yan Yi have to undergo strict inspection before entering.

"What are you doing here?" the officer in charge of the inspection asked with a straight face.

"We are mercenaries." Yan Yi replied, "Come here to buy some weapons."

"Do you have a mercenary certificate?"

"Yes." Yan Yi took out a plastic-sealed card in a black card case from his pocket.

There are several lines of basic information on the card.

Name: Yanyi

Age: 27

Height: 189cm

The name of the mercenary group that belongs to it: Cangmen

Level: First-class mercenary (deputy head)

The officer pointed to Ji Xi again: "What about him?"

"He's my younger brother." Yan Yi said, "He's still a trainee, he doesn't have a certificate yet."

Seeing Ji Xi's good-looking face, the officer didn't make too much trouble, but said: "You need to register to enter, and you all need to be searched, and any dangerous items that may cause fires or other accidents are not allowed to be brought in. "

The smell of saltpeter and gasoline filled the air of the entire Abbo District.

In the weapons factory, large and small guns and weapons are arranged in a huge rectangular display cabinet, with various models, cold weapons, hot weapons, grenades and mines, etc., everything.

"I'll buy you a gun by the way." Yan said to Ji Xi, "You should know how to use it?"

"Yes." Ji Xi said, "But it's not necessary. It's too expensive."

"Fortunately, the family still has some savings recently." Yan Yi said, "Buy it, it's also good for self-defense, you will always need it in the future."

Ji Xi paused, he had a sentence hovering in his throat, but he didn't know how to say it.

In such a huge world, the relationship between him and Yanyi, between people, must rely on something to maintain it.

What are they linked together?

pity?A natural need to hug for warmth?or something else?

Whatever it was, there was no blood relationship between them, no connection, no connection between their past and probably never in the future.

What about "later".

Ji Xi raised her eyes and changed the subject: "How do we find someone?"

Yan Yi replied: "No one cares about buying small things here. After all, everyone has the need for self-defense in the last days, but if you purchase heavy weapons, you need to report to the military for approval. This should be done to prevent civil unrest. I think Since we need to find someone who has the opportunity to contact the military, we can use this method to pretend to buy a large number of weapons, and it will naturally be noticed."

"This is my idea. But after all, I have no contact with anyone in the military, so I can only send you here, and you need to talk about it yourself." Yan said, "Have you thought about how to tell them?"

"Let's adapt."

Yan Yi didn't say anything else, he thought that Ji Xi might have some confidential things to tell him, since he was just a mercenary after all, so he shouldn't know too much.

So, according to Yan Yi's plan, they asked the staff to buy three heavy machine guns, new bombs, small artillery and so on.

"What do you two want to buy these for?" The man frowned, "Wait, I can't handle this order, I need to ask my superiors for instructions."

Yan Yi said politely: "Please go ahead."

After a while, a man in uniform came over and said to them: "According to the regulations, when ordinary base residents purchase weapons that exceed the scope of their own use, our chief needs to personally review and interview them. Come with us."

They were taken to a building near the military factory. This was an office area for military officers. There were several block letters engraved in gold letters on the door—Headquarters Office of the Equipment Branch of the United Front Work Force of Beicheng Base.

Everything went exactly as Yan Yi expected, even... a little too smoothly.

The two walked into an office on the second floor. There was a door plate on the door of the office, which said the name and military rank of the officer in this office.

——Bai Qihuan, executive director of the Armament Department, colonel.

"Commander Bai, he's here."

"Please come in." The man's voice was quite young.

Entering the door, a desk and a chair were facing them. A man in a dark blue military uniform folded his hands. He looked about 30 years old. He was relatively handsome and thin, and he had no sense of coercion. Appears very approachable.

But Ji Xi knows that in the last days, appearances have long been untrustworthy. Advances in technology have slowed down the aging of human beings. His own parents always look like they are only about 30 years old, but their real age is nearly half a century old.

To some extent, this is also a means to confuse others.

Ji Xi keenly felt that the moment they entered the door, and the moment the Commander Bai saw them, there was an unusual airflow fluctuation in the room.

Ji Xi saw that the corners of Bai Qihuan's eyes moved almost imperceptibly.

However, in such a short moment, the strange fluctuating feeling disappeared, as if it was just Ji Xi's illusion, and Bai Qihuan had a polite but warm smile on his face, as if he was wearing a perfect mask.

"Who are you?" he asked. "Why are you procuring so many weapons?"

Yan Yi took out the draft prepared in advance: "We are mercenaries, this time we are purchasing weapons for our mercenary group."

Holding the pen, Bai Qihuan moved his hands a few times, probably recording: "Show me your mercenary card."

Yanyi handed over the card in the black leather case as before.

Bai Qihuan took it and looked at it. For some reason, Ji Xi had an illusion that he watched it extremely carefully and cautiously, so this routine link seemed to be a few seconds or a few tenths of a second longer than before.

So just a few lines, what's so good about it?

After reading it, Bai Qihuan returned the certificate to Yan Yi without expression, and pointed to Ji Xi: "Where's this one?"

"This is my younger brother." Yan took out the previous rhetoric and used it again.

But this time, no one expected that Bai Qihuan would hold on to this point.

"No." He said firmly, "I don't recognize you without a document, please go out."

Ji Xi and Yan Yi never expected this development: "...What do you mean?"

"Irrelevant personnel, please leave." Bai Qihuan said loudly, "Isn't what I said clear enough?"

Yan Yi tried to explain to him: "He came with me..."

"But you are the only one who asked to buy weapons, aren't you?" Bai Qihuan said, "Judging from the materials you provided, you are the only one who is a mercenary."

"So my interviewee is only you, Mr. Yan." Bai Qihuan repeated, "Please leave this office with your companion and wait patiently outside."

Ji Xi and Yan Yi were thrown into disarray by this unexpected difficulty, they looked at each other, and in a blink of an eye, Ji Xi looked at Yan Yi with questioning eyes, and Yan Yi nodded slightly.

Ji Xi: I leave it to you, can it be done?

Yanyi: Yes.

The two quickly reached a consensus, and Ji Xi bowed and left the office.

Originally, their plan was to sneak in and find an opportunity to find Wu Qianshu's whereabouts, or if they were lucky, they would find someone directly. Ji Xi would mainly execute it, and Yan Yi would be in charge of covering.

But now the situation has changed, Bai Qihuan's attitude is obviously very tough, and there is no point in defending Ji Xi with him, so as not to attract too much attention, he can only play by ear.

Ji Xi sat alone on the chair outside Bai Qihuan's office, the sound insulation effect of the door was very good, he couldn't hear what happened inside at all.

He looked around, and there were few people passing by in the corridor, and there were few people patrolling.

That being the case, then use the most stupid way to find it.

He stood up and looked for the door numbers of the office in the corridor along the wall one by one.

Wu Qianshu... Wu Qianshu...

At the same time, in Bai Qihuan's office——

Bai Qihuan's tone changed completely, the change was as big as if he had suddenly changed from a programmed robot to a living person with independent thinking.

——"What are you doing here?"

An inexplicable expression appeared on Yanyi's face. He remembered that he had answered the exact same question a few minutes ago. Doesn't this person remember?Or some new interrogation technique?

He repeated the same answer as before: "Procure weapons for our mercenary group."

"I don't have time to play charades with you." Bai Qihuan interrupted him speechlessly: "Looking for someone? Or getting information?"

Yanyi:? ? ?

"Varied……"

Yan Yi was really surprised. He thought that he hadn't revealed any flaws since he entered the door. He didn't even start to implement the routine steps they had planned before. Bai Qihuan found out now?

Yan Yi's reaction fell directly into Bai Qihuan's eyes, making him suddenly realize another possibility: "...you don't remember?"