As soon as the door was opened, Xiao Tang walked in holding a yellow-brown file bag that looked like metal.

She looked at Lao Li with a smile on his face helplessly.

"You are smoking again, Mr. Wei Guo told you to."

"Then he's not here."

Lao Li chuckled, and waved his hands indifferently: "Don't be so rigid, just treat it as a little hobby of veteran cadres. I have always done the post-processing perfectly, so there will be no peculiar smell."

"...But Mr. Weiguo also told you that if you find you are smoking again, you should explain it to him in time."

Old Li froze.

"Little, little Tang, this..."

"But I'm really busy today. If I can have a senior who is skilled in business help me, maybe I won't think about so many things when I'm resting."

"Come on, if you want to talk about senior qualifications, if my old Li is second in a subject, then no one can say first!"

Twisting his fat waist, Lao Li stood up from the swivel chair, and reached out to take the document bag that Xiao Tang handed over.

He glanced at the label of the document bag, and a subtitle N came into view in jet black.

"Oh, is this a newcomer application?"

"That's not true. In fact, a suspected natural awakener who was accidentally discovered appeared in our jurisdiction."

"Have you gone through the process?"

Lao Li raised his eyebrows, checked the hidden lock on the file bag with his fingerprints with great interest, closed the accidental self-destruct mechanism, and pulled out a small stack of paper-like documents from the file bag.

"Sanke quickly minimized the possible impact of the awakening of the opponent's ability. Fortunately, when the awakening event occurred, the subject was in a restaurant box, and the awakened ability was not a direct large-scale destructive ability. It just caused the coma of all the people in the restaurant."

"Oh? It sounds like a talent in the second department. Old man Liu is willing to put this thing in my eyes, and he just took him in without trying?"

As he said that, Lao Li reviewed the contents of the document: "Let me see, Chen Jiuniang, thirty years old, is she still a girl? She is a fashion designer by profession, unmarried, born in the Sunflower Orphanage, has no experience of being raised, and is an adult After half-time work-study to obtain a master's degree and began to officially enter the workplace...a pretty girl, oh, I once had an ex-boyfriend..."

After seeing the content written in the column of ex-boyfriend in the relationship, Lao Li's eyes changed from interest to pity, and subconsciously softened a lot.

"...It's not easy for this girl."

Xiao Tang nodded. This little girl from three subjects is very emotional. She had already secretly wiped away tears once when reviewing this document.

"The background and background are all innocent, but I didn't see that she applied to join the bureau in the personal information?"

Lao Li frowned and shook the list in his hand.

"About this...in fact, after the inspection by the fourth department, it was discovered that this Ms. Chen's ability is really rare. In addition, her background is innocent and she can be confirmed to be a naturally awakened person. The second department..."

"whispering sound."

Lao Li scratched his hair and opened the inspection report from the fourth department.

Word by word, with gradually dignified eyes, Lao Li frowned for a while, then raised his head to look at Xiao Tang.

"Old man Liu, that idiot didn't work hard, did he?"

Xiao Tang was stunned for a moment by his boss's sudden spit, before he realized what Old Li was referring to.

She shook her head: "Section Chief Zheng insisted on letting Ms. Chen decide for herself. Although Section Chief Liu and Section Chief Zheng had a little dispute, they still didn't go to see this Ms. Chen in the end."

"Old Zheng is still reliable."

Nodding appreciatively, Lao Li stared at the report and hesitated for a moment: "Indeed, this kind of mythical possession ability is too rare, and it is even rarer to have this kind of versatility. I can understand Liu The idea of ​​the old man. But one size fits all, we are not a group of smiling tigers in the United Federation, the happiness and stability of the people is our core priority."

"If he keeps going like this, maybe one day the cart will be turned upside down!"

As if he was reprimanding, or teaching the young people in front of him in this way, Lao Li waved his hand angrily, put away the document and locked it again.

"This matter, let Lao Zheng handle it, we—"

"Woo! Woo! Woo!"

The prompt sound representing an emergency message sounds from the door. This prompt sound means that the person outside the door has emergency authority to directly open the door. If no one in the room answers and unlocks the door, the person who comes in can open the door by himself.

Lao Li frowned, pressed his palm against Xiao Tang, and then looked at the ID verification on the display screen.

He remembered that this was the ID of Corey's veteran clerk Zhong Yan.

Sure enough, as soon as the door was unlocked, a middle-aged man with round eyes, casual clothes and a crew cut rushed in.

Seeing how he was panting and sweating profusely, he was able to become like this in a situation where the air conditioner was not working well, it was obvious that he really ran over in a hurry.

Lao Li didn't hesitate: "What's the situation?"

As a clerk of the first division of the Super War Bureau, this Zhong Yan has also undergone considerable basic physical training. After adjusting his breathing a little, he pushed his eyes and said in a deep voice: "Captain Li, something happened, the superior and the third division over there Surveillance has a new trend!"

Hearing this, Lao Li's lazy atmosphere suddenly froze.

In fact, he could already guess what the old man wanted to say, but he had to hear Zhong Yan speak clearly with his own ears.

From the change in Lao Li's expression, Zhong Yan actually understood that the old boss in front of him already knew what bad news he had brought.

"Worst case, [Iris] didn't turn."

With a serious face, Zhong Yan took off his glasses that had fogged up in the air-conditioning.

"It's coming straight this way."

"Where is it expected to land? Are we here?"

"No, based on the joint determination of the three subjects and the above."

Zhong Yan shook his head.

"The landing site is the coastline of the neighboring city—that is, the area under the jurisdiction of the girl from the Liu family next door."

——

"Oh, I've already gone halfway to the venue..."

Rubbing the center of his brows, Zheng Yi felt a little bitter.

When taking Xiao Hei to activities, although he still couldn't escape some group photo requests, after each group photo, there would always be a few fat brothers who would pat him on the shoulder with encouragement and say something like Such strange words.

This made Zheng Yi dumbfounded.

I looked up at the large screen placed in the venue. There will be a Vtuber timekeeping for the invitation of this comic exhibition, and the current time will be interspersed in various publicity.

In fact, it has been almost half an hour since he took the child to the venue.

That means the appointed time is coming.

"After a while, I'm afraid I have to send you to the Lost Center to ask."

Having said that, Zheng Yi was just about to continue to hold the silent and well-behaved child to continue moving, but suddenly felt a weak pull from Xiao Hei.

The child stopped suddenly.

Zheng Yi looked down.

Xiao Hei was tilting his head, looking at the position diagonally above, with serious eyes.

At first Zheng Yi thought that Xiao Hei had seen an acquaintance, so he was more or less on guard.

But soon Zheng Yi realized that his judgment was wrong.

Because Xiao Hei is not looking at anyone in that direction, or even looking at anything in this venue.

That kind of gaze is more like wanting to pass through the layers in front of him and look at something far away that is not here.

Realizing this, Zheng Yi immediately stopped and squatted down.

"Xiao Hei, are you—"

"——Festival, very happy."

For the first time, Xiao Hei actively spoke to Zheng Yi, instead of passively responding to Zheng Yi's questions.

Immediately afterwards, Zheng Yi felt a familiar smell suddenly blooming around him.

Some noisy voices in the venue stopped abruptly, and even the flow of air-conditioning stopped. Zheng Yi is very familiar with this sudden silence.

From the corner of his eye, he saw the people around him who had stopped all movement.

It's a stop in time—at least something like a stop in time.

When becoming one with Homura, Zheng Yi almost always fights in such a world.

And the source of all this, as well as the mellow taste of the power of time, all come from the child in front of him.

This was the child whom Zheng Yi called Xiao Hei within less than an hour.

Zheng Yi's body instinctively radiated scarlet thunder and dark fog, but these terrifying things just didn't come out.

Because Zheng Yi didn't feel the threat and hostility from Xiao Hei, it was just that his body unconsciously affected some instincts of struggle when facing a powerful force.

"I see it, my boy."

Turning a blind eye to the terrifying visions on Zheng Yi's body, Xiao Hei raised his hand and gently rubbed Zheng Yi's cheek.

This little guy who had always been cold suddenly showed an unreserved smile to Zheng Yi.

That kind of sincerity made Zheng Yi unable to raise his hands that were supposed to stop Xiao Hei.

"This festival seems to be a festival held by the children for you... I saw it. Although I can't remember many things clearly, and maybe I can't keep up with your times, I can see from you that apart from pain and sorrow s things."

Pressing his forehead against Zheng Yi's, Xiao Hei murmured softly with his eyes closed: "In the future, because of my mistakes, you may experience long pains, but don't forget in that darkness...the so-called darkness is in the eyes of the unknown. It is fear, but in the eyes of those familiar with it, it is also the tenderness that embraces all things."

"Zheng Yi, good boy..."

"Only today's tenderness must not be forgotten."

"if that's the case……"

"It must be us who win in the end."

The warmth is like the hazy warmth in the arms of mother and father when I was a child when I couldn't remember much.

Zheng Yi couldn't describe this feeling well.

The next moment, when Zheng Yi didn't have time to feel the temperature any further, and didn't have time to say a word, the child in front of him suddenly disappeared.

It's like the characters in the painting being erased neatly. If it weren't for the residual temperature on his forehead, even Zheng Yi himself would doubt whether he had just experienced a dream that lasted for tens of minutes.

The noise returned to the surroundings, and people continued their words and deeds.

Time began to flow again.

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