Sir Chen, your wife is missing!

The operators came out of their drowsy state, picked up their weapons, and walked along the outer perimeter of the city wall according to the instructions.

There was less than an hour left until dawn, and time was running out. The infiltration process was troublesome, but the combined strength of the Rhodes Island ships was like an egg hitting a stone to fight against the defenses of Londinium.

Feng Qingyu had read the history of Victoria's development and knew that it had once been the economic center of Terra. No country's army could successfully break through Londinium's external defenses, not even the Ursus Empire's high-speed warships.

It is a solid fortress that will never fall, unlike Chernobyl which has so many weaknesses that a forced landing would only result in loss of one's own strength.

The entrance to the underground infrastructure is hidden near a drain outlet. Its structure is similar to that of the drain outlet, but it has a door leading to an underground passage that is usually not discovered.

The lock at the entrance was badly rusted and looked like it had never been used.

"It's here. If you want to get in, you have to break the entrance lock. Normally, no one will notice this place, and those Sarkaz don't know the underground structure of Londinium. This is the safest way to sneak in."

Rusty, an engineering operator in Team A, was the proposer of this infiltration operation. He was also a physically strong man named Vaifan. He directly opened the toolbox and used a wrench and some lock-picking tools he had never seen before to pry open a person-high iron plate.

The thickness of the iron plate is comparable to that of a mobile phone. This is just the door of the underground structure entrance, not the outermost and strongest parts. Several operators worked together to move the iron plate away, and after the team members entered the passage, they moved it back to its original position to cover the entrance, so that people could not see the doorway from the outside.

The passage was dark and gloomy, not a single light could penetrate, and everyone had to use flashlights for lighting.

The smell of rust mixed in the stuffy air made everyone feel a little uncomfortable. Especially the doctor, she immediately covered her face and coughed, and it took a few minutes for her to gradually adapt. Victoria has a humid climate, and the smell in the underground passage is certainly not very pleasant.

In addition to the smell of rust, there is also some smell of motor oil.

Discarded metal parts are piled up in the passage, and in the corners you can find weapons and toolboxes left by engineers who built the wall. They prepared in advance to escape from here one day in the future, but they didn't expect that this could also become a passage for external forces to enter Londinium.

Feng Qingyu was deeply shocked and impressed by the precision of the underground infrastructure design of Londinium. Even the top mobile city engineers in Colombia may not be able to reach such a level.

The cell phone in my pocket suddenly vibrated and made a buzzing sound.

The passage was very quiet, and the vibration of the mobile phone was particularly obvious.

The doctor next to him stopped.

"what happened?"

“It’s spam.”

Feng Qingyu only took it out and glanced at it. The person who sent the message was still an unnamed guy. This time, the mysterious person even knew the location of Rhodes Island.

She felt a chill down her spine and couldn't help but look behind her.

There was no one behind.

6. Risky moves

As things developed to this point, Feng Qingyu became more and more scared.

The person who sent the message is like a ghost following you. You can't get rid of it with ordinary methods. The only way is to face it. Maybe the content of the next email will be something like "Please look back, I'm behind you."

It feels like shooting a horror movie.

When the protagonist of a horror movie turns around, all he sees are things that need to be covered with several layers of thick mosaics. The audience will be so scared that they can't sleep all night, their bodies will be cold, and they dare not turn off the lights when they go to bed.

Speaking of ghosts, Feng Qingyu could only think of the Shenchi ghost army that came and went like shadows.

But what is the relationship between me and Shenchi?

She had never met anyone from Deep Pool. Most of her intelligence came from the Internet and oral or written information from operators in the Rhodes Island office in Londinium. Deep Pool was an organization with a greater order and scale than the Reunion Movement, like a ghost lingering in the dark of Victoria.

If the person who sent the message is really from Shenchi, it would be really scary.

Feng Qingyu didn't want to have anything to do with any strange organization. If someone from Deep Pool made her an offer and invited her to leave Rhodes Island and join Deep Pool, that would be a very interesting scene.

The doctor frowned, realizing that something was wrong. Feng Qingyu stared at his phone longer than the average time he spent looking at spam emails. If it was spam, he could tell with just a glance.

Unless it's news worth paying attention to, I won't watch it for that long.

In short, she was lying.

People were absent-minded when the mission began, and were distracted from time to time. The doctor was good at observation, and he found at a glance that there was only one person among all the operators who was wrong, and that was Feng Qingyu.

A rational commander would not allow uncertainties to ferment within the team because of personal feelings. She needed to find an opportunity to talk to Feng Qingyu.

If you speak directly, other operators will hear you, so you have to wait until the first rest.

"Operator Rust, is there a rest area in the infrastructure?"

"There is one about 200 meters ahead. Victoria's workers would regularly put some food with a long shelf life into the secret compartment. If you're lucky, you can have a meal. When I was chased by the Victorian army, I left through another similar passage, but I wasn't so lucky. There wasn't much food left in the secret compartment. I hid in the passage for a few days before I escaped."

Vaifan, who was leading the way, spoke with fatigue in his voice.

The workload of the engineering department operators increased dramatically during this mission to Londinium. Rhodes Island was known as a "recycling agency for waste industrial equipment from mines." In order to make it look more convincing, they had to disguise themselves as staff members and recycle items at the mines along the way.

Most of them were useless, and the intact parts were moved to the Engineering Department for processing and minor repairs, as waste. The operators in other departments were all laymen and could only help with the transportation, which resulted in the Engineering Department's operators not being able to rest properly for a period of time.

Feng Qingyu also felt drowsy. The effect of the antipyretic was very strong, and the sleepiness it brought was invading her body all the time. The doctor suddenly suggested that everyone rest where they were, and she was secretly delighted.

There were some dry food hidden in the secret compartment on the wall, but they had been expired for a long time, so no one dared to eat them casually. Even if they were not expired, the operators of Rhodes Island would follow Kal'tsit's instructions and would not eat anything carelessly.

Only dry food with the Rhodes Island mark is truly safe and harmless, and the operators all keep this in mind.

The doctor suddenly took Feng Qingyu's hand and walked towards the dark passage ahead.

"Operator Kuroba and I have something to discuss in private. You guys rest where you are. We'll be back soon. Also, no eavesdropping."

The operators looked at each other, but didn't know what to say.

Everyone knows that the relationship between Operator Kuroba and the Doctor, Dr. Kal'tsit, is special, and there may be some kind of hidden love triangle between the three of them.

Feng Qingyu has been entangled with many female operators of Rhodes Island. So far, no one has been able to count the exact number in detail because the number is constantly increasing.

The Doctor certainly didn't call her away alone this time to cause trouble. It is the Doctor's principle that personal feelings and private affairs should never affect efficiency during a mission, and he never changes this principle for anyone.

The footsteps of the two gradually faded away, and the doctor let go of their hands only when the operators' voices could no longer be heard.

Her face and expression could not be seen clearly in the darkness. Only the disordered breathing and the friction of clothes pressed on Feng Qingyu's nerves at all times.

"Doctor...what can I do for you?"

Feng Qingyu's voice trembled a little.

Now was the perfect opportunity to confess the email from the mysterious person. She felt like a student who had failed an exam and was standing at the door of her home, holding the test paper that needed her parents' signatures, but not daring to knock.

She knew she had to be honest. There was only one chance, and if she missed it, there would be a rift in the trust between them.

"Actually, I have something I need to explain to you."

Before the doctor could ask, Feng Qingyu took out the mobile phone from his pocket and opened the email interface.

"I received several strange emails from people who claimed to know more about my background, and I have no idea what they meant. They are all here, and I haven't touched any of them, nor have I responded to any of them."

The doctor frowned, took the phone, and read the emails carefully.

"I have to say that the person who sent the email was quite sincere. He even told you the secret passage into Londinium. I knew from the beginning that something was wrong with you. You must be hiding something from me. I didn't expect you to take the initiative to confess to me. I am very relieved."

"Because, we are comrades, right?"

Hearing the doctor's voice without any blame, Feng Qingyu's tense nerves finally relaxed.

Being suspected by her friends in Rhodes Island was not pleasant. She had nowhere to go except Rhodes Island, and she didn't know where to go. The gang life in Longmen was no longer suitable for her. The mansion in Duolun County had become a wasteland, and she was no different from a wanderer.

I suddenly felt a little sad.

The Doctor walked towards her and hugged her, carefully avoiding the wound on her back.

"I lost control of my emotions tonight, I'm sorry. I heard from Amiya that you killed your... uh, your father last night."

"You don't need to apologize for that kind of thing. Feng Tiancheng deserves to die. The longer such a person with evil intentions lives, the more mistakes he makes. I just did what I had to do. He killed my mother, and he deserved to die in my hands."

"What is your mental state now?"

"I'm fine. I'm just worried that the person who sent the email will threaten Rhodes Island's plan. So, Doctor, I hope you can let me leave the team temporarily. I have to go meet that person."

Feng Qingyu is ready to face all dangers alone.

Today, maybe not.

I didn’t sleep well yesterday, and due to some force majeure, I may have to update tomorrow. That’s all.

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7. 114514 servings of fish and chips

"I see."

The doctor cleared his hoarse throat and loosened his arms around Feng Qingyu. The stuffy feeling around their bodies dissipated, and both of them felt calm.

There were no tears, no passionate words, and what remained in each other's hearts was only expectation and anxiety about the future.

"I allow you to leave the team and find the truth. It would be meaningless to tie you to the team. Your heart has already flown to the place that mysterious man mentioned. Staying here will only distract you."

"I'm sorry, at such a critical moment I still..."

"Alright, Operator Kuroba, that's enough apologies."

The doctor covered Feng Qingyu's mouth to stop her from saying anything that would spoil the mood, lest everyone lose control of their emotions and their tear glands collapse.

"Rhodes Island will not hinder any operator from staying or leaving, but the door of Rhodes Island will always be open to you. Now that you have decided on the next path to take, then work hard to achieve your goal. I hope you will not let me down."

"I promise that I will finish what's going on over there and come back as soon as possible. So... once I get out of the underground infrastructure tunnel, I have to rush over to meet that guy."

The uneasy feeling was like a sticky and cold hand, reaching into the collar from behind and reaching the back. The strange chill penetrated the body through the pores and permeated every part of the body.

There was clearly no threatening language in the email, but she could smell an unusually pungent smell of sulfur. Maybe it was an illusion, maybe not. She was not feeling the itch of the night before a date, but the pins and needles and restlessness before a storm.

The doctor's understanding eased his irritability. Feng Qingyu stuffed himself with some painkillers and followed the doctor back to the team.

The other operators were in tacit agreement, and no one asked what they had just talked about. The team then moved forward faster and faster, as no one wanted to stay in the underground structure without sunlight.

While Feng Qingyu was concentrating on getting on his way, he was imagining who he would meet in the cafe at No. 17B, District 221, Londinium.

The unknown makes explorers curious. When she was studying, she was not even one tenth as curious as she is now. The boring knowledge in books only makes people sleepy, whether in the previous world or Terra.

After nearly two hours of traveling in the underground structure, I finally saw the long-lost light behind one of the metal structures. Victoria has ushered in a new morning, and it is now eight o'clock in the morning.

When the engineering staff in the team opened the exit, fresh air from the outside rushed in, and Feng Qingyu suddenly felt relieved from her stuffy chest and chaotic brain. She greedily breathed in the air from the capital, even though the air here was not as refreshing as the air in the suburbs.

The whole of Londinium can be described as a mess.

The streets were deserted and littered with debris. The glass of the shop windows was broken into countless crystal-clear fragments, and the goods inside were looted, leaving only some empty packaging boxes. The doors of the remaining shops were closed, trying to avoid the disaster in this way.

The nearby residential areas were also closed. It had been several years since the Sarkaz entered Londinium, and the people living in this land were living in torment all the time.

The Rhodes Island team did not dare to move around the city openly and had to avoid the Sarkaz sentries patrolling the city.

The first time she came to the former economic center of Terra, she saw a desolate scene, which made Feng Qingyu a little sad. This country is her root, the birthplace of the red dragon blood in her body. It should have been a magnificent and prosperous place, but now it has been ravaged by the Sarkaz and is unrecognizable.

The ancestral home of my family seemed to be in the same situation and could not escape the iron hoof of the Sarkaz.

The Victorians living in Londinium probably have the same feeling as her, hoping to drive these Sarkaz out.

Feng Qingyu took a deep breath of the morning air, letting the cool air enter her lungs. After the Rhodes Island team met up with the operators from the Londinium office and took a short break, she would go meet the person who sent the email.

Not long after, she received another new email.

[I know you are coming. I will wait for you in the cafe. See you there. Let's have lunch together when we meet.]

The tone was so light and casual that it was like meeting a friend for a holiday, without any sense of urgency. Maybe in another situation, I could still happily go to the meeting without any psychological burden.

Rhodes Island's office in Londinium is hidden in a deep alley. It uses the disguised identity of "Rhodes Island Fish and Chips Pharmacy". It looks like an ordinary comprehensive store that sells both medicine and fast food. Behind the scenes, it is a hidden chess piece planted by Rhodes Island in Londinium. It usually observes the situation and trends in Londinium, and uses the money from selling French fries to subsidize Rhodes Island and pay the salaries of the office operators.

The chip shop was not open today and had a "Closed" sign hung up.

The doctor stood at the door and knocked on the metal door downstairs according to the code: three long and two short, three short and one long. The person upstairs asked in standard Londinium: "What are you doing here? The store is closed today."

Then, the doctor recalled the second contact code Kal'tsit had said. If he couldn't answer the code, the office operator would not open the door.

"114514 orders of fish and chips, and 1919810 orders of tea. All of us here are 24-year-old university students."

"Please wait."

The tone of the people upstairs changed obviously. They were very nervous when they first asked, fearing that the person coming was someone sent by the Sarkaz to test them. After hearing the doctor's answer to the code, the person in charge of the office immediately went downstairs to open the door and let the operators go in as quickly as possible.

Everyone looked relieved that they no longer had to hide in the streets of Londinium.

Even if this moment doesn't last long, at least now I can take a break.

The person in charge of the office is a man in his thirties with short grey hair, untidy beard and messy hair like a bird's nest. He may have just woken up and the sleepiness on his face has not yet gone away. His appearance fits the image of a clerk in a fried food shop open all night.

"I'm sorry... Are you the Doctor?"

The person in charge held the doctor's hands and yawned loudly.