Zhou Lin

December 3, Central Europe.

Crystal County has been known as the "Roof of Europe" since ancient times.

This place is connected to Black Eagle County to the north, Oak County to the west, Crown County to the south, and Eagle County to the east. The entire territory is dominated by plateaus and mountains, with a comfortable climate, abundant resources, high terrain, and clear boundaries.

There is no doubt that this is a good place to put down roots, so in this era, it has naturally become the center of power of the federal government.

20% of the residents living in this county are people related to the federal government. Most of them are concentrated in Bern, enjoying the best living environment, business services and public security on the planet, and are protected by the strongest military force.

Of course, they also bear (with taxpayers’ money) prices and housing prices that are on par with the moon.

Although many people cannot understand this, there is nothing they can do about it, because those people's "class" is there.

In this world ruled by the Federation, "class" is a very important thing.

Although the official has never said that people should be divided into three, six or nine classes, and has always preached that everyone is created equal, everyone knows... this is fart.

People are born unequal, and no matter how fair the system is, it cannot change this.

Even if human beings one day discover some kind of super resource that allows every individual to obtain material satisfaction without working at all, and on this basis, a set of relatively fair and just systems can be maintained to the maximum extent. A system of harmonious coexistence between people... People are also unequal.

Unless the individual differences of the human species are completely eliminated, comparing any two people together will definitely lead to superiority and inferiority in some aspects.

Therefore, from a certain perspective, there is nothing right or wrong in "categorizing" people, because it is inevitable.

This behavior is everywhere and happens to all of us.

In early childhood, we are passively divided into cute children and ugly children, smart children and dull and dull children.

When they are students, children actively divide into small groups based on their interests, but teachers in schools often classify them based on their grades; in more complex environments, family background will also have an impact on this, and over time As time passes, age increases...the connection between children with hugely different family backgrounds will eventually be stripped away.

After entering society, "classification" becomes more and more complex and even dangerous; colleagues in the same unit will be divided into factions based on their place of birth, college they graduated from, their positions, bad habits, etc. .

In many cases, driven by "interests" and changes in circumstances, people's "class" and "position" will also change, causing people to reclassify themselves and take sides.

The so-called "equality" and "neutrality" are nothing more than the hypocrisy of the superiors and the desires of the weak.

Everything the society we have built teaches us, our studies, our efforts, our contributions, our struggles... in the final analysis are all to make ourselves "unequal" to others.

Because this "inequality" is the real "fairness".

However, the "class" system under federal rule is another kind of "inequality", an "unfair" "inequality".

This system allows many stupid, greedy, mediocre people who lack awareness and vision to occupy too many resources, and allows many sinister, shallow, shameless and selfish rats to unscrupulously suppress the interests of good people.

Today, a group of vested interests who are above this system and occupy the highest position have gathered here... gathered in the new city of Bern on the east bank of the Aare River - "City Christo".

In this small "half city", in addition to the federal "cabinet", there are also FCPS (Federal Public Safety Commission), EAS (Superpower Supervision Bureau), supervisors, EF (Evolution_Factory, evolution). Factory), and PUT-OID (Parallel Universe Traveler Observation and Intervention Bureau), the administrative headquarters of five special departments under direct jurisdiction.

Of course, today's matter has nothing to do with these five departments.

These big guys came from all over the world to the federal cabinet office building because of a "shattering case" that happened a week ago.

The story of this case is not complicated at all, that is - an organization of unknown origin conducted a mysterious gambling game on a cruise ship in Sakura House, and invited a large number of "high-level federal officials" The second generation went to participate, but on the night of the game, the ship and the people on the ship disappeared collectively.

That night, there were several "frigates" following the cruise ship. They were basically private armed forces invited by the "guests" on the ship, and most of them were mercenaries; after all... On occasions like this, call a warship over The escort was not appropriate.

However, someone still used their family connections to find a team of military personnel disguised as mercenaries, carrying federal weapons and equipment and driving a ship provided by a third party.

It was the military recorder on this ship that provided valuable evidence for the detectives who came to investigate afterwards.

Unlike ordinary civilian equipment, this kind of recorder can withstand external pressure without being damaged even if it sinks into the deep sea, and the signal it emits will only be searched by the military's special receiver; after the power is cut off, Within 72 hours, the recorder will continuously send out high-intensity and clear positioning signals. After 72 hours, because the built-in battery begins to weaken, the device will automatically enter a dormant state, with the preservation of internal information as the top priority.

Although the images captured by this recorder are very valuable,... the actual investigation progress has not been accelerated much.

On the morning of the day of the incident, Sakuranofu's navy received the signal from the recorder. They immediately sent out manpower to salvage it, and it took half a day to fish out the instrument.

But after the thing came out of the water, because everyone in charge was unwilling to peel the hot potato, the rights and responsibilities of who would "receive", "inspect" and "investigate" were not clear for nearly 48 hours.

Don't think that this takes a long time. In a group where bureaucracy is entrenched and bureaucracy is rampant, it is normal for this kind of thing to be delayed for ten and a half months. Unless someone above is willing to actively take over the matter, otherwise...let alone such a big case that is likely to get you burned, even if you plan to apply for a mouse for the office, it will take you three or four days... Don’t blame the purchaser. When they receive your application, they will most likely have to get a bunch of documents and collect the signatures of seven leaders before the matter can be done.

Just like that... a very urgent matter was kicked out by a group of local bureaucrats in Sakura Mansion for two days. Finally, the relationship was sorted out and a middle-level commander from the civilian class was found. As the "temporary person in charge", he led a group of local ordinary soldiers to investigate.

The commander is also very aware of his situation. This case... has been investigated. The main credit goes to the leader. The most he can do is drink the soup while others are eating meat. If the investigation fails, then he will take the blame. For temporary workers, the specific posture to use depends on the severity of the incident.

It's a pity... Even if he thinks clearly, he has no choice but to go.

On the third day after the recorder came out of the water, the investigation team finally looked at the images recorded inside. Generally speaking... this is a maritime version of "Cloverfield"; in this video, you can see ships Flying around in the sky, you can see living people being torn into pieces by telekinesis in mid-air. You can even enjoy a section of the seabed scenery through the night vision lens after the shaking camera and intermittent screams.

The commander in charge of the operation only watched it for a while before an idea came to him - "It seems that the suspect has a lot of magic power. Let's notify EAS!"

Once the pot was thrown away, half a day's work was wasted again.

To make a long story short, the best opportunity to investigate this case has been missed from the very beginning. No matter who takes over the case, EAS or FCPS, nothing will be found.

A week passed in circles like this, and it was almost time to find out who was missing even if there was no video. The parents of the missing persons finally gathered in Bern and held this "emergency meeting."

At the meeting, the emotional participants denounced everyone they could attack or wanted to attack.

"You are in charge of security, this is your problem!"

"You are in charge of shipping. How dare you say you don't know where this ship has gone?"

"You are in charge of gambling, do you dare to say that you haven't heard anything?"

...It's all nonsense.

Everyone here is in charge of something and operates something. Each of them has very strong connections, financial resources and other resources; but... they really don’t know about this matter. If they knew, how could they do it? How about letting your loved ones put themselves in danger?

In fact, more than half of them don't even know that their missing children have gone to Sakura Mansion. We are all busy people, who has time to care about where their little ancestors go to spend their days and have fun?

Therefore, the "speeches" at these meetings are either simply venting the anger and anxiety about the disappearance of their children, or they are relatively calmly using the disappearance of their relatives as bargaining chips to achieve their own political goals.

In short, there was no order or efficiency in this meeting where the upper class gathered. The level of chaos was probably between that of the Parliament of Nobles in ancient Greece and the meeting of the British House of Lords during World War II.

Even Shinichiro Arai, one of the ten assistants of the cabinet who presided over the meeting, could not control the situation. When he found that rational speech and guidance were completely meaningless, he was exhausted and simply took off the glasses on the bridge of his nose and pretended to rub them. Jingming point, lower your head...start to close your eyes and rest.

According to his estimation, this "meeting", or this disaster, will undoubtedly be long; considering that smoking is allowed in the conference room and drinking water is provided, these guys can at least make noise until the next meal.

Fortunately... after the argument lasted for more than an hour, something happened.

Who would have thought that at this moment, in this place where security is so tight that "not even a fly can fly in" in theory and practice, an uninvited guest would break in.

It was a woman, a woman who could dwell "in the shadows" and move through shadows.