Chapter 14
The journey of an evidence (1)
“How do you know that I am in the state university?” Sheilor lowered his head and asked. Levi didn’t pay attention of the heavy mood of his companion, he said with a smile, “you enter into the repair shop, now a lot of people have already known, I think although this thing shouldn’t have any trouble, but it’s the thing which you work hard to make after all, I should let you know anyway.”
No trouble? Really? Sheilor asked himself about this in the heart, but he couldn’t find out what the answer was. There were some military system technology used in that electric shock stick, if the police station really wanted to look into it, would they check on him at the end, and then check on uncle Fengyu, so that they would uncover his identity of the army deserter?
He should be angry that Levi lost that electric shock stick, because this was the thing which he had repeatedly exhorted in advance, however, when he saw Levi that satisfied and tired face right then, Sheilor had his heart supple and didn’t say anything. He heard that in the past one month, Levi that group of orphans had been scrambling for the territory, and he was probably tired.
The weapons went to the black market from the military should be a lot, that electric shock stick was hidden in the scroll crystal screen, although it was very ingenious, but it may be assumed that it won’t cause too much attention. Sheilor comforted himself in the heart like this, he patted on Levi’s shoulder and said seriously, “you just took yourself that you have never seen that thing before, but… It’s still those words, don’t always think about killing, you should get a real job in the future after all.”
“What else the decent jobs have in the East Forest now? Haven’t you seen today what the students paraded on the street to make the noise for? The unemployment rate has been to thirty percent, it has still not counted those elders who were arranged after the Crystal Mineral United company was bankruptcy.” Levi had a touch on his that slightly curly hair, he said stiffly, “I want to be somebody, I don’t want to live on the welfare all my life.”
“Parade?” Sheilor had a shock, the East Forest Region always rarely had people who had the interest in politics, the last time that thing on the Bell Tower Street had already been counted as a big event, how come there were students not studying nicely, but going to the parade instead.
“A lot of people went to watch the scene of the bustle, it is said that it was organized by the veteran association.” Levi took over the heavy books from his hands, walked down to the street, and explained at the same time, “as if it’s said that the election of the Capital Planet Circle had something wrong, the opposition party thinks it’s unjust, so it organized the big parade in the whole Federation.”
“Oh.” Sheilor was worrying in his heart at the time, he answered with a sound very casually.
He and Levi these orphans knew nothing about the political aspect, stayed at a respectful distance from it, didn’t want to touch it, and didn’t even had any interest in it. Although there were inequities really existed in the federal society, for example, the upper class of the society led by the seven big families, they always possessed all the things nicer than the ordinary people had, those gloomy oppressions were always hidden under the promising coat of the law and justice… But what the relation it had with them? They this life exactly grew up in the inequity originally, they had already gotten used to it, and it’s hard to get their blood warm.
Got back to the repair shop on the fourth block of the Vanilla Avenue, Sheilor told his boss Fengyu the news, about which the electric shock stick was intercepted by the police with some hesitations. To his surprise, uncle Fengyu didn’t have any worries, it seemed like that he felt his that defect military mechanic identity wouldn’t be exposed definitely.
The truth was such like this indeed, in the next more than ten days, except for the shock by the federal parade in the East Forest Region, there was nothing new happened. There were military system weapons used in the gang fights, this could be just the small thing happened in the federal society any time and any place, no important person would have the free time to cast the sight on this small repair shop.
However, Sheilor still would be cautious, he always felt to have a kind of feeling which made him hard to be peaceful, he always felt that the went to the police station electric shock stick would bring him some kind of trouble, but he just didn’t know whether this kind of trouble would be big or small, so he began to enhance the practice of that set of movements on his own, he often came back to the mine to accompany with those wild cats, and then he kept doing the stiff dance.
One day, Fengyu looked at the sweating him and said with the irony tone, “don’t you always think that the individual physical strength is no use in front of the metal machinery?”
Sheilor closed his eyes to feel the tremble of every muscle in his body, and those trembles were having the more and more apparent trend, he was trying to find out the real effect of this tremble. He bit his teeth and replied with the shiver voice, “until now, I still haven’t changed my mind, but the problem is, once the police station really come to catch us, and you don’t have the money to configure the mecha for me… Of course, even I have the mecha, I still don’t know how to use it neither. Besides to get myself a little bit stronger, what kind of way else could I have?”
“You are still worrying about that electric shock stick?” Fengyu wrinkled his eyebrows, he didn’t understand why this child would be inborn so timid and overcautious, he said with smile suddenly, “don’t forget that chip behind your neck, in the splendor of the First Charter, if the police station really want to arrest you, where can you escape to? Surely it doesn’t mean that you want to go to Bermuda to be the refugee, or go to the empire to be the betrayer?”
Throughout the whole federal society electronic monitoring network, theoretically to say, could achieve to control all the occurrence of the criminal behaviors. Sheilor wasn’t flustered after he heard these words, he said seriously, “the gangs are still existing, you this military fugitive are still alive nicely, I believe that you must have your way.”
“It’s really a whacker tone indeed, if someone in this world can remove the chip from the body and not alarm the federal monitoring network, then he surely could get the Nebula Award.” There were some taunts in Fengyu’s smile, “you just had your sixteenth birthday last week, how come you become so cautious, you are even more excessive than me this half old man, it’s really very ridiculous.”
Sheilor recriminated, “don’t you forget your that full mouth of rotten teeth, just for the new dental record, not arrested by the government and the military region, you paid the horrific price like this, you still have the nerve to taunt at my discretion.”
Fengyu could not help but shook his head, and he didn’t refute.
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It’s getting calm day by day, even Sheilor began to think whether he himself was too timid. The two people of the repair shop didn’t know, just in this same city, there was one man same as them, fell into some kind of agony. This man was the deputy director Paul Long of the second police station, since he let the Governor Office got into the awkward situation a few months ago, his influence in the police station was greatly weakened.
“It needs to file a report incredibly even just to ask for an evidence, and it incredibly took two months to examine and approve for this report.” The deputy director Paul Long looked at the metal shaft in the vacuum bag which was on his desk, he laughed with a self-mockery. With his position, if it were before, there were no need to have these troubles.
Once he thought of this, the hate to those orphans was getting thicker in his heart. If not for that event happened on the Bell Tower Street, his asking for transfer report should have already been approved, and his family in the Capital Planet Circle also couldn’t go so far as to show no interest in him for this long. But these days, he had been afraid to revenge on those orphans, because he was not so
clear, the face covered by the hat that night, whether was a real federal agent.
Wearing the gloves, took out that metal shaft from the bag, Paul Long narrowed his eyes, looked at the delicate current generator inside, thought to himself, what’s the relationship between this and the electric shock stick that federal agent held. Even though there were a lot of this kind of military system weapons wandering about destitute in the black market, but the price was very expensive, those orphans should not have this kind of financial resources.
Silenced for a long time to think about this, the deputy director Paul Long decided to keep investigating on this thing. Of course, he would not dare to investigate by himself, but aimed at this electric shock stick, he would like to have it confirmed, whether there were really the federal agents went into the West River state.
In the Capital Planet Circle, the deputy director Paul Long had several comrade-in-arms in the research institutions, they should be able to help him out for this. Filled out the recipient address on the cover of the public affairs mail, the deputy director Paul Long commanded the secretary to take out this evidence, and mail it to the identification branch of the Seventeenth Research Institute in the Upper Forest Region.
This lost power and influence deputy director just wanted to make this thing clear in the instinct, but he didn’t expect, his this little trick, however, would have what kind of tremendous influence to the future of the Federation.