Chapter 58
The real identity of childe Shielding
Shielding this man was very intriguing, obviously he didn’t think about to inquire about other people’s secret, but didn’t know it’s whether the stubborn instinct or the nature of the work he was engaged in, let him always couldn’t help to stop the curious thought.
Well, since people all liked to hear about the adventure, Sheilor had to make up an all new adventure as well, otherwise he really couldn’t explain in front of the nightclub gate, how he could defeat a military ace.
Once he thought of this, Sheilor would have some headaches. He found out that he still didn’t have too many experiences to conduct himself in the society, in order to explain one thing, he always had to tell more lies. And he also thought of one very terrible problem, that was the identity which uncle boss arranged for him, that native place in the far remote urban area of the S1, whether he should find some time to go back there once to take a look?
The all new adventure story was not that much difference from the story he told that fat captain on the Antique Bell, but this time Sheilor was a bit more cautious, arranged that none-existence group leader to be a fuzzy face good hand in a hidden world.
“What’s the last name of that leader?” Shielding seemed to not believe in his words particularly, had a “Ha Ha” laugh and asked.
Sheilor had a move slightly in his heart, purely had a name popped up in his mind subconsciously, and said with a curious coincidence, “seems like… Lee?”
Shielding still had the care-nothing-for on his face, but then he seemed to think of something, had a twist on his forehead, and fell into the deep thinking. He thought about this name in his heart, but somewhat didn’t dare to connect it to that direction in the mind. But if Sheilor told the truth, that would explain all of these, but he didn’t hear about Philadelphia that family had any juniors wandering outside in these years… Shielding looked at Sheilor’s back figure and shook his head, now he somewhat believed in his quirky encounter. He had a smile and thought in the heart, it’s afraid that even this boy himself would be not sure what’s the background of that genius, the one who taught him the fighting skill.
Since he had the decided opinion in his heart, fulfilled the curiosity, and had some worthy of thinking fun things, of course Shielding would change the topic naturally, “are you ready to be a porter in the Pear Garden University all the time? Even the retired soldier office of the Ministry of National Defense arranges you a job at random, it still will be a bit better than this.” As far as he was concerned, Sheilor this young man had the very outstanding character, although he didn’t know what else special skills he had in other aspects, but just with his fighting skill, entered into the subordinate security firm of the police station, or even found some relations to go into the police system, it’s also not the impossible thing.
“I’m a guest student of the Pear Garden University.” Sheilor turned his body around, looked at him and said, “I have some spare money with me anyway, I will put it off some time later until I finish these two years courses.”
“But the guest student can’t get the diploma.” Shielding grabbed the rumpled cigarette case from his trouser pocket, held one in his mouth, and threw one to Sheilor, said vaguely, “no much prospect, do you know it clearly what you really want to do in the future?”
Sheilor took over the cigarette and the lighter, lit it up and took a smoke deeply, tried to learn uncle boss’s way in those days and tried to blow out some perfect smoke circles, but the result was that he blew out some scattered vapor like coming out from the humidifier. He coughed a couple times, looked at Shielding, had a laugh and thought in the heart, the other party clearly didn’t know what he was going to do in the future himself, and how come he would ask him the same question?
“I used to want to become a machine maintenance assist officer of the battleship, but… I changed my mind afterwards, now I want to pass the exam and have the machine maintenance certificate, and then look for a job in a big manufacturing company in S1. No matter what position I will be promoted to in the future, as long as I can be engaged in the thing I like, that will be nice.” Sheilor looked at the smoke scattered and disappeared in front of him, and said with somewhat mind wandering.
This was exactly one of his worldly ideals, but said it out from his mouth at this moment, it already had some ridiculous and not self-confident flavor. Since he implanted the disguise chip, maybe his life would be doomed to be not that happy and peaceful long ago. The youngster actually always had a big shadow cast on his heart, a shadow couldn’t be seen by others, he wanted to find out the real inside story of that thing, but with the status and ability he had right now, let alone uncovering the inside story about uncle’s death, even that he wanted to get close to that piece of black cloth, would be a wishful thinking.
Shielding could tell the heaviness and sadness in his eyes, he silenced for a moment and then said suddenly, “try to finish your worldly ideal nicely, if you have anything need me to help in the future, just feel free to ask.”
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The development of the situation was not beyond Shielding’s expectation, over seven o’clock in the morning, the Coastal police headquarters received the direct order from the superior, opened the door of the detention house, released them two people out. Those holding the coffee cup to refresh themselves police had the very mean jokes with Shielding, Shielding scolded a few words back, in this kind of conversation, the listened quietly by the side Sheilor, knew what’s going on roughly.
The Chad family really employed the relationship as expected, forced to press down the conflict which happened in front of the nightclub gate, the people of the Third Military Region had the clash with the people of the Coastal field service office, and even pulled the guns out, if this affair was made use by some men of intention, it certain would involve the Ministry of National Defense that boss, the Chad family wouldn’t watch this scene happened helplessly, so they would rather downplay this affair.
Sheilor walked out of the police station door, faced the blowing slightly cold morning breeze, couldn’t help to shake his head, the known as democracy and freedom federal society, the social classes actually were still this strict. A not so well-known Chad family among the people, could stretch out their hands into the police system to depress some certain malignant case, and let the shooting in front of the nightclub Thirteen come to naught…
Shielding drove Sheilor back to the backdoor of the Pear Garden University, leaned on the car and looked at those not many doing morning exercise female students, stared at their close-fitting gym suits, but he said the very serious words in his mouth, “lately these days, don’t come out of the school, and everything need to be careful.”
The Chad family pressed this affair down from the official side. But humiliated ruthlessly by two small potatoes, how would the childe and Miss coming out from this kind of family swallow down the anger. The coming next, surely would be the secret and ruthless revenge from the other party, Shielding had some worry to look at him and said, “you don’t need to worry about me, even if I got fired, I am still an excellent student came out from the First Military Academy anyway, in the academy those rank high enough to scare people professors, surely could protect me.”
“I don’t know why you want to have the conflict with that couple brother and sister.” When Sheilor was going to walk into the iron gate, he suddenly stopped his steps, turned his head around and asked seriously, “maybe you have your purpose, but that couple brother and sister are really not some good stuffs. So this time I will let it go, and don’t try to have it next time.”
Shielding that holding in his mouth cigarette inclined downward a bit, just like the frosted leaves. His face was calm, but the mind had some feelings. He thought in his mind, his this little brother’s eyes were really sharp, and he still couldn’t outsmart him.
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The spring of the Constitution Calendar year sixty-six, seemed to be a little bit hotter than the past years. But the weather at the end of the April, let people to feel the midsummer came ahead of the time.
The integrated air conditioning system inside of the Coastal state buildings had already been turned on long ago, to supply the wonderful cold and refreshing air for those busy working people.
In the gentle hot twilight, on the rooftop of the tallest Coastal state building, there were two people having the conversation defying the height and the heat. One of them the age was about forty or so, had the serious face, the eyes were gentle with some majesty; the other one had the rancid smell all over and had some leftover wine fumes, that rumpled suit was even more disgusting than that rumpled cigarette which he held in his mouth.
“005 from A to Z series electronic spy satellites kept wandering in the space five hundred eighty eight kilometers over our heads… You always let me to meet you in this place, don’t you think that it’s silly? The rooftop is really tall, forty something floors, no need to worry that people will see my face with the telescope, but the problem is, do you know how hot here is in the summer? How cold in the winter? And you don’t allow me to use the elevator, how tired it will be to climb up from the stairs? And how no creativity it is for this kind of meeting place?” Shielding looked at this middle-aged man in front of him and said as sick as mud.
The forty something old man didn’t turn his eyes a bit, looked coldly at Shielding’s face, suddenly opened his mouth and said, “you have not complained about anything in these two years, today you know that you did something wrong, want to hold the mental superiority first? Give up this kind of thinking, don’t forget that it’s me who taught you the psychology.”
Shielding had a self-mockery smile, put the cigarette in the mouth and took a smoke, turned around to look at the city in the twilight, felt that this city was more and more like a monster, if he couldn’t escape from it, he was afraid of only one thing, someday he would be eaten.
“What’s the matter of last night?” That middle-aged asked severely, “to keep your job in the FBI, don’t you know how many relationships the organization has employed? Not to speak of not letting other people to know about it, thus the expended price, was even sixty percent beyond the budget!”
Shielding had the cigarette which he was holding in the mouth trembled slightly once, and he didn’t turn his head around, heard that he didn’t get fired, that pair of beautiful eyes revealed a share of thick sadness and disappointment.
When he turned his body around, these emotions in his eyes all disappeared, he said calmly, “the Chad family brother and sister had the good relationship with the prince before, they come to the Coastal state this time also for meeting the prince. Since my goal is to prevent the Ministry of National Defense to build the good relationship with the prince first, the action of last night, of course was exactly for this, so you don’t need to blame me.”
The supreme leader of the Federation was the president, to the related budget employment non-discrimination act would have the more than three hundred senators of the Management Committee, to the hearing and judgment of the case would have the judicial system. The once occasional turned up monarchy in the long history, had already been declared end as far back as thirty-seven Constitution Calendars ago, of course there was no emperor in this society, of course there would impossible what prince existed.
The prince what Shielding and that middle-aged man talked about obviously was just a code name, of course, it’s impossible that they were talking about the prince of the Empire, it’s said that the present emperor of that distant interstellar Empire only had a daughter. But… What kind of character could let the Chad family brother and sister to come a long way to the Coastal state, just only tried to see him? What kind of character could be called prince by Shielding?
The middle-aged man lowered his head and thought for a moment, seemed to accept Shielding’s explanation, suddenly opened his mouth and asked, “who’s that guy called Sheilor? What’s the purpose you get close to him? Do you need to put it on records?”
Shielding wrinkled his eyebrows slightly, spitted out the cigarette in his mouth, the flaming cigarette butt splashed out the sparkles on the ground, he narrowed his eyes to look at the middle-aged man, and said very seriously, “that’s my personal friend, I’m warning you.”
Maybe Shielding’s warning played a role, the middle-aged man didn’t continue to ask this question, but his tone became extremely severe, “many years ago, when you were willing to join this great cause, you had already made a promise, you don’t have the qualification to have a friend, and you also can’t have a friend!”
“I didn’t understand the friendship at that time.” Shielding didn’t care about him, and not care a scrap to reply.
The middle-aged man looked at him quietly, suddenly opened his mouth and asked, “you opened fire last night, whether you want to quit the FBI? I know that you work very hard all these years, and in these two years, you began to resist the orders of the organization passively, but you can’t forget about this, the future of the Federation, need you these young men to strive for it, and make the effort for it.”
Shielding silenced for a long time, and then he said in a low voice, “Yes, chief.”