Chapter 24
The initiative contact from an unknown
“It’s already the fifth day, I think, every people’s patience has his limit.”
Today Charlie Tai didn’t use the calm eyes to conceal the anxiety in his heart, he directly stared the steward Ken in front of him, reminded the other party, the time limit for the Charter Bureau to confirm Sheilor’s chip state had already passed for a long time, but he still didn’t get the exact answer.
“I’m very sorry, master.” steward Ken seemed to can’t believe the answer which he got from the Charter Bureau, considered for a long time, then he said with a more appropriate way, “but the chip confirming work over the Charter Bureau there really had some problems, the identity of the sacrificed security personnel and those died military gangsters in the gymnasium, have already been confirmed. But… it’s said that… when they were confirming Sheilor’s chip, the cloud computing program of the central computer just happened to have a small problem.”
“What’s the problem?” Charlie Tai also felt a little bit of surprise.
“I’m not sure, the scientists and the staffs of the Charter Bureau also are not sure. But the repair of the problem is said to be oneness, probably it will appear once in a period, they still can make clear the objective law of the happening of this problem… but the good news is, at least now we know that he is still alive.”
Charlie Tai knew that Sheilor was still alive, his mood became relaxed suddenly. Although he was shocked for how Sheilor could survive in the attack of the mecha and those professional soldiers in that day, and he even felt puzzled about his missing after that, but Charlie Tai finally had the mood to deal with the things related with himself.
The steward Ken looked at the cell phone screen in his hand, reported with the very stable pacing, “the vice-minister of the Ministry of National Defense Jason Young died of acute heart disease, he will have his remains cremated today. The Defense minister nominated Young Chow to take over the vice-minister position, and it had already had the recognition by the President Office and the Security Affairs Committee.”
Charlie Tai closed his eyes and leaned on the sofa, thought of the political fluctuation in the far away Capital in these several days, his mood calmed down gradually.
Young Chow was directly promoted to be the vice-minister from the deputy director of the Defense logistics department, promoted two level in succession, obviously it’s so unusual. However, this appointment didn’t have any resistance within the government, it might be assumed that the politicians in the Capital, to quell the anger of the Tai family, made a great concession on these aspects.
However, lady Tai seemed that she didn’t have the meaning to just stop like this, at least before this case is checked completely, the federal upper level will inevitably have countless conflicts and compromises again, more people must will pay the terrible price. This assassination event is really too crazy, if the Tai family doesn’t have enough strong reaction, as the sole heir Charlie Tai, the future days in the Federation, will presumably be relatively hard.
Just when Charlie Tai was thinking about his own future, the steward Ken had already organized the most important events happened in these two days in the Federation into clauses and finished the report, and then this old steward bent his body slightly and said, “master, we must have the worst plan, if Mr. Sheilor really leave the world unfortunately, we should notice his close relatives.”
Charlie Tai silenced for a moment and then said, “Sheilor once ever talked to me, he doesn’t have any relatives in this world, even doesn’t have too many friends as well…” he had a wry smile on the corners of his mouth, “he is a very pitiful guy.”
“Do we need to leave a message to Charming and… Shielding there?” the steward Ken said. About the spy identity of Shielding, actually not that many people really know about it within the Federation, but Charlie Tai and the steward Ken were among the people knew about it.
Charlie Tai fell into meditation, his eyebrows approached together slowly. Because of these two names, he thought of another thing, he would go to watch Jane Sue’s concert, how on earth this news was leaked out? The vice-minister Young committed suicide, the clue on the military that aspect have already broken.
His locked eyebrows got flat and even suddenly, and he said coldly, “no need.”
The office building of the FBI Coastal field service was brightly lit, Shielding smoked three cigarettes in a row in the coffee room, and then he walked to the front of the water tank, patted the cold water on his face, let his gaunt spirit feel a bit better. He pushed open the door and walked to the direction of the identification division.
For the settlement agreement between the senator Palmer and the anti-government army, the responsible as the bridge and information channel him, in those tens of days before the New Year, the pressure was heavy, he was very busy, and his spirit had been very tired. But that event happened in the first day of the New Year, let the whole field service office have the unprecedented nervousness.
The inside story of this assassination event, not all the federal officials could know it clearly. But after all this evil event happened in the Coastal state, thus the Coastal field service office must take a lot of work.
Actually the works of the Section Four which Shielding was responsible for were not that many, because until now, they still couldn’t find out this event have any relation with the anti-government army in the S2 Region. Their main task was to filter vast information and intelligence before this event, and tried to find out any clues from it.
But the spirit of Shielding was still very poor, because he had been worrying about someone.
“Evidence.” Shielding walked to the outside of the identification department warehouse, said to the staff behind the glass curtain wall, and handed him an evidence requesting table.
The staff scrutinized the signature on the table once, and then checked again the electronic authentication on the internal network for the second time, then stood up slowly and walked to the warehouse.
This staff didn’t know why section chief Shielding would be so interest to this evidence, and he came to ask for it for several times. But this evidence, for that gymnasium case, doesn’t have any significance. It’s just a been reworked military electric thorn, and those real key evidences, as early as three days ago, had already been sent to the verification room of the Capital FBI central office.
Shielding took over the sealed by the vacuum bag that military electric thorn, said a thank you to that staff calmly, and then walked back to his own office. He locked the door of the office, and then began to stare in a daze at this in the bag somewhat rough appearance, but extremely clever design military electric thorn.
In the files of the Coastal gymnasium case, the existence of Sheilor was covered by some people intentionally or inadvertently, even by Shielding’s level, he still shouldn’t know about that Sheilor had once appeared in the gymnasium.
But Shielding knew about it, because at twelve o’clock of the New Year, he was drinking happily in the pub with Sheilor, at the same time, he heard that the other party said happily, he would go to watch Jane Sue with that prince of the Tai family the day after.
He is Sheilor’s friend, no, but brother.
So he knew many things about Sheilor, such as Sheilor that intrepid combat strength, and such as Sheilor the interest and talent on the machine maintenance aspect. He stared at that military electric thorn in the bag, confirmed that Sheilor must be involved in this event, and he had played the abnormal important role. Because it’s written very clearly on the record, this military thorn, had already sent the electric arc once, and it appeared in the throat of a militant at the end.
That militant was the special company vice-captain of the Coastal garrison command.
Shielding’s private phone rang, on the other end of the phone came the insipid voice of the Coastal field service office director, “the dean is dead.”
Shielding had his bo
dy a stiff slightly, he knew who his teacher talked about was the dean Young, now the Defense vice-minister, but this news had already been on the newspaper, and he didn’t have any connection with that on the high position big shot. At most when he was in the graduation ceremony, once shook hands with the other party. He didn’t know what meaning his teacher made this call specially was.
“Be carefully recently.” the voice of the director was very calm, “I always feel as if something wrong is happening now.”
Shielding didn’t open his mouth to speak anything, then he hung up the phone directly. Silenced for a moment, he began to dial Sheilor’s phone numbers, but it still was the sound that it’s not available.
It still was the sound that it’s not available.
Charming somewhat lonely put down the phone in his hand, walked to among the pear trees in the pear garden, slanted her head, and looked at those rooms by the iron gate confusedly. She had already not seen Sheilor for several days, and she didn’t know where this guy ran to.
Although she served for senator Medellin, but she didn’t know what happened in the gymnasium at all, she just knew that Sheilor went to watch a concert, and then he disappeared suddenly.
“Couldn’t be captivated by Jane Sue, and then ran to her house to be the flower grower?” Charming had a self-mockery smile, but the worry in her heart was getting heavier and heavier.
She suddenly thought of the contents written on a gossip newspaper, which she read from that girl student next door couple days ago… a burst of cold wind blew by, her body suddenly felt extremely cold. She suddenly turned her body around and walked to her own room, she wanted to try to find out, what really happened in that day.
Sheilor really was a very lonely people, he had almost lived for twenty years in the Federation, but in the tens of billions huge crowd, only three people cared about his life and death, or his safety. But very unfortunately, at this time he didn’t know about the sincerity revealed from these three friends, because he was still in a coma at this time.
He was dreaming.
In the underground parking lot of the Coastal state gymnasium, in that full of burnt flavor, bloody smell and water wet breath dark gray space, Sheilor fell down in faint, fell down to the ground heavily, then he fell into coma.
Perhaps he used the power in his body excessively, or perhaps that final hot stream in his body caused some damage to that disguise chip in his nape, in short, that kind of severe pain, knocked him down instantly, and let the boundless darkness surround him.
In the darkness, he didn’t have the concept of feeling and time. Didn’t know since when, suddenly a light flashed in the darkness, came suddenly, and didn’t leave any more, woke him up from the coma, and brought him into a bizarre and illusory dreamland.
In the dream, there were no green grassland, the running buffalos, the familiar mine, the murky twilight, the concerned faces, there was only the endless white light, turning and moving in the space in front of his eyes with some strange way.
Sometimes these white lines would connect into a straight light passed through the dead-end; sometimes these white light would break into countless shining fragments; and sometimes these white light would become one spot, surged up the amplitudes to the space around.
In the dream, Sheilor was unknowing and senseless to watch these strange pictures, and then found out that these white light, in the dark background, gradually became a line of characters which he could understand.
“Establishing the initiative contact, whether to accept?”