Walk alone in the abyss

"Mr. Phantom, an order has come from the palace."

In the hotel room, the maid Hanyin turned her head to look at Yang Ming who was changing clothes beside the bed, her gaze unconsciously cast down, and she calmly moved her gaze away:

"Now we need to use the advantage of hiding in the dark to secretly investigate the case of the hovering car bomb.

"Your Majesty has activated the Imperial Guard system, and has found the direct murderer of the bombing. The Imperial Guard system has automatically dispatched a large number of police forces to arrest the target.

"This is the only clue. We must rush there immediately to find out the main messenger behind this murderer before he is silenced."

The direct murderer?

Yang Ming wondered: "Can't the Emperor Guard system directly lock the main messenger behind it?"

"If the other party does not communicate electronically, and the mission is released outside the Emperor Star, the Imperial Guard system will naturally not be able to find clues."

Hanyin embraced the two slender arms, and said seriously:

"We'd better do some camouflage now and get going.

"Based on our internal deduction, the chances of the murderer being silenced are almost 100 percent.

"In addition, His Majesty has already heard the news that you are not dead. His Majesty is very happy. After we send the murderer back to the palace, he will hold a grand celebration ceremony for you, announcing the white ghost's triumphant return."

Is this game really not done by the emperor?

Yang Ming was full of doubts in his heart, but he just shook his head with a smile:

"Give me the communicator, you can go back to the palace, and you don't have to worry about the rest of it."

"What? Is Mr. White Ghost looking down on my little maid?"

Han Xiangyin laughed lightly, her right hand shook slightly, a manicure flew forward like a bullet, and there was a thin silk thread behind it.

Snapped!

The manicure was directly inserted into the metal plate next to Yang Ming's ear.

Yang Ming frowned slightly, raised his left hand, and aimed at the little maid; in the latter's soft cry, her body was already suspended in the air uncontrollably.

Yang Ming pulled back with his left hand, and Hanyin fell directly on the big bed in front of him, and the water rippled for a moment.

The feeling of being bound by the air suddenly disappeared, and just as Hanyin was about to get up, a big hand was already on her forehead and pressed down gently.

"Miss Hanyin, it's not that I don't trust you."

Yang Ming smiled and said:

"This matter, I have decided to solve it in my own way.

"If the Elders Court bombed me, then I will bomb the Elders Court Legislative Court; if the military department bombed me, then I will bomb their general's spaceship.

"I believe His Majesty will not cut off his arm at such a time.

"But before the explosion, I did get an anonymous reminder, asking me to complete self-rescue within ten seconds, otherwise I would definitely be seriously injured. This anonymous reminder is too accurate.

"I borrowed your communicator for the time being. I saw you operate it before. Your communicator is still a kind of identity plate. It doesn't need to bind your own biological information. It should be a common communicator for you maids when you go out of the palace. Yes ?

"Besides, your kung fu of embroidering your legs...is really pretty."

Hanyin shouted in astonishment: "You!"

Snapped!

Yang Ming patted the palm lightly, and the mental shock was moderately released. The maid groaned, tilted her head and passed out.

There is a high probability that the concussion is in the 'late stage'.

Yang Ming nimbly pulled away her pendant and successfully activated the projection system of the pendant, but after a few seconds, a series of codes blocked her from exploring forward.

Embarrassed.

I can't get in touch with Li now, and he is not a master of deciphering, so I am really helpless for a while.

Without an ID card, it is difficult to move an inch in Emperor Star.

Yang Ming thought for a while, then stretched out his hand to touch the tip of Hanyin's nose, to make sure that she was still breathing.

Or, wait until she wakes up to talk about cooperation?

Is it too cheap to do so?

Yang Ming was struggling, when a line of small characters appeared in the center of the projection screen on the pendant.

[Approved, the identity password has been activated, and the guard knight Hanton has obtained Class B permissions. 】

The password page disappeared quietly, and Yang Ming successfully entered the normal control interface. Many functions of the pendant, as well as the information stored in it, were intuitively displayed before his eyes.

This is……

Huo, the emperor's secret garden.

...

Ten minutes later.

Walking through dark street corners, crawling through mechanically filled gaps.

Yang Ming lowered the brim of his hat, the mask and sunglasses on his face, and this hoodie were all the cover-up props he could find at the moment.

He is using public transportation similar to the subway, heading towards the module named 'Palace Logistics Support 003'.

It is already the "early morning" of Emperor Star, and the passengers in the same carriage are drowsy, and their tired expressions prove their hard work; What department are they from.

The emperor star and the main body of the empire are isolated from each other, which effectively avoids the phenomenon of "the prime minister's door boy and sixth-rank official".

Yang Ming carefully recollected all the information he saw in the communicator of the maidservant.

In fact, the emperor secretly established a private intelligence organization decades ago. If the emperor has doubts about the government affairs reported by the elders' court and the military affairs reported by the military, he will go through this intelligence organization for verification.

The intelligence organization is code-named [tentacles], and its scale is not too large, and its activities are limited to the emperor star and the dozen or so administrative stars in the emperor star circle, and most of its members are women.

Hanyin, the emperor's personal maid, has a high status in the intelligence organization, and is considered a vice bureau, and has won the emperor's trust.

Yang Ming accidentally learned through the organization's internal records that the previous archbishop was actually strangled to death by the emperor's order, and Han Xiang was one of the maids who secretly executed the archbishop.

The reason they executed the archbishop turned out to be that the archbishop did not respect His Majesty.

This made Yang Ming feel a little outrageous.

The archbishop of the empire's civilization development god religion is at least one of the top five powerful figures in the empire in name. If the emperor said he was strangled to death, he was strangled to death?

What is the crime of disrespecting His Majesty?

Of course, this has nothing to do with him directly.

Interestingly, Yang Ming also found several evaluation reports on the 'White Ghost Hanton' in the organization's archives.

The content of the report was fairly pertinent, pointing out Hanton's ambition to gain a title and extensive influence, and also highly praised the outstanding contribution of the white ghost to the empire.

These evaluation reports greatly affected the emperor's perception of Yang Ming.

Due to time constraints, Yang Ming just browsed through the intelligence organization's archives and saw a lot of interesting information.

The 'tentacles' intelligence organization has mastered many scandals of the great nobles, two-thirds of which are related to the relationship between the sexes, and there are hundreds of high-ranking nobles who have embezzled and accepted bribes, intentionally injured, embezzled the empire's state-owned assets, and illegally obtained huge profits. .

If the emperor wanted to clean up the elders' house and just throw out these evidences, almost one-third of the seats in the elders' house would be vacant.

It can be seen from this that the emperor's gradual pressure on the elders' house through the assassination of the prince is actually a relatively mild game method.

——It should contain a little bit of personal grievances.

The old emperor who said that he wanted to toss the empire, actually kept restraint.

"interesting."

Yang Ming glanced at the stop sign.

He has arrived at the residential area where the 'murderer' is.

However, Yang Ming seemed to be a step late.

As soon as he entered the side entrance of the residential area, he heard the piercing siren, and when he looked up, he could see more than a dozen police drones whizzing by.

The Sheriff's Office has already started an arrest operation.

...

The arrest operation initiated by the Imperial Guard system went very smoothly.

Yang Ming joined the crowd of onlookers and witnessed several policemen carrying out the stunned 'suspect' and putting them in an armored police car.

Yang Ming originally planned to use the pendant he had obtained to disguise himself as a member of the tentacles and sneak into the escort team of the public security station, but he quickly dismissed the idea.

Nothing else, there are actual [tentacles] members on site.

Two young girls dressed similarly to Hanxiang, after presenting their two IDs, boarded the armored police car where the suspect was.

Yang Ming's pendant was normally connected to the information exchange center, and soon two messages appeared.

[The target has been successfully captured. 】

[The target is being escorted to the palace module and is expected to arrive in twenty-two minutes. 】

Are these two young girls guarding the target, or are they killing them?

Yang Ming searched the pendant's function options for a while, then lowered his head and walked towards a suspended police car outside the police force.

He turned on the projection function of the pendant, projected a special certificate to the police car identification system, and obtained the permission to enter.

Yang Ming opened the car door and sat in the driver's seat. Under the suspicious eyes of several police officers, he put on his seat belt calmly, lifted the pendant on his chest, shook it, and casually showed a certificate.

The passing police officers looked away.

Before the original driver and passengers of the police car noticed the abnormality, Yang Ming pushed the switch to the end and chased after the convoy escorting the suspect.

On the way, the information exchange center of the emperor's intelligence organization began to continuously produce new news.

[Memory scanning has started, and the target memory has been backed up. 】

[The picture found in the target's memory completely corresponds to the information displayed in the module's memory, and it has been basically confirmed that this person is the direct murderer who planted the bomb. 】

[Damn it, a bomb killed hundreds of people, and the aftermath of this bomb will swallow far more than these numbers of lives. 】

[Stop being sentimental here, report the news up. 】

[The module memory has been compressed. 】

A video file appeared in the information exchange center. Yang Ming set the police car to automatically follow and read the video file.

This is the first time Yang Ming has come into contact with the 'memory' of the Emperor Star module.

The video is played in reverse, from the moment the explosion occurred, to when Yang Ming opened the door and got into the car, and then when the self-driving suspension car drove out of the automatic repair station, the murderer could clearly see the murderer enter the automatic repair station and place The whole process of shape bomb.

The video started to speed up, locking on to the murderer all the time, and began to show the trajectory of this person's activities in a few days.

This is a professional killer.

He has no fixed identity in Emperor Star, and there is a secret organization providing him with convenience.

Yang Ming couldn't help but have more question marks in his heart.

Yang Ming is not surprised that this guy can get a miniature shape bomb for ships, this thing can be found on the black market.

The question is, how did the other party carry the bomb and escape the security system of Emperor Star?

The most outrageous thing is, isn't the time when the other party placed the bomb too accurate?

After this self-driving taxi left the maintenance station, the first customer it received was Yang Ming... How could it be possible to predict his trajectory?

What about the detonation mechanism of the bomb?

According to the memory of the module, the murderer only planted the bomb and was not responsible for detonating it.

Not only did the problem remain unresolved, but more doubts arose.

Just when Yang Ming felt that he could not easily make any judgments to avoid being used as a gun, another group of photos appeared in the information exchange center of the intelligence organization.

The photo was taken five days ago.

The professional killer and a white-haired old man met in a corner of a park, and they chatted briefly.

The identity of the old man has been marked out, and Yang Ming had a relationship with this person once.

The Elder's House, the confidant of the Great Elder, Elder Pisen.

Yang Ming: ...

Grass is a green plant.

Is this group of old turtles really doing it?

Of course Yang Ming understood that the sudden appearance of such dense information might be the emperor planning something.

It is possible that his seizure of the audio communication device has already been exposed.

Now, after Yang Ming thought about it carefully, he found that he couldn't directly understand the twists and turns.

The corner of his mouth twitched slightly.

Why make it so complicated?

It has now been determined that the only person the murderer had contact with before the incident was Elder Pisen, and there is nothing to do with this matter.

Yang Ming slammed the square rudder, and the police hover car broke away from the escort convoy, and rushed towards the real-time location of Elder Pisen that he had searched for.

Made.

Fuck him!

...

Emperor Star Manor module 0024, surface area.

Building a few secret rooms in one's own house is a common hobby of the great nobles.

Although the honorary title of Elder Pisen is not too high, normally he is not qualified to settle in the Emperor Star, but he has also gained a place here by relying on the hard work he has accumulated for the senior management of the Presbyterian House over the years.

This elderly elder was drowsily passing the time in the aftertaste of a hangover;

The letter invitation sent by the elder of the Presbyterian House made Elder Pisen startled and immediately woke up.

Another chance to lick the Great Elder?

Cough, he has another chance to serve the Great Elder again?

Elder Pisen grabbed the refreshing spray and sprayed himself on the face a few times, then quickly connected to the video communication, and the bust of the Great Elder appeared in front of his eyes.

The latter's expression was as gloomy as water, as if a relative had died.

"Pearson!"

The Great Elder was almost yelling:

"You stupid, stubborn, smart bastard!"

Pisen was stunned by the scolding.

"Elder, what's wrong with me?"

"You still dare to ask! Don't try to pretend to be a fool! You are now being targeted by His Majesty's people!"

The Great Elder directly threw a few photos over, and continued to roar:

"This is the information I intercepted. You have to look carefully with your eyes wide open! Is this one of yours!"

Elder Pisen frowned and stared, hurriedly said: "This, this is a scavenger I was responsible for docking...Aren't these all a group of dead men raised according to your request..."

"Shut up! When did I ask you to feed the dead!"

"Yes, yes, you didn't, I made my own decision," Elder Pisen said hastily.

However, there are tens of thousands of such dead men and elders' homes. Most of them act as intelligence agents. The main area of ​​activity is the dozens of administrative stars in the emperor star circle. For the scavenger.

"What's wrong with him?" Elder Pisen asked tremblingly.

The Great Elder suddenly calmed down, and said coldly: "He planted the bomb. After contacting you, a few days later, he carried out the bomb plan."

Elder Pisen's old face instantly turned pale.

"Great Elder, I have never done it! I definitely did not give him such an order! These few photos... These few photos are when I contacted him and asked him to solve the problem of leaking the princess's private photos... Big Elder, you have to believe me! I can't do such a stupid thing! I, I don't know where I can get the bomb..."

"Pearson...Pearson!"

The Great Elder's face was gloomy like water: "Look at me!"

"Yes, Great Elder, I..."

"You know, things like keeping scavengers must not be exposed, and you have been targeted now."

The Great Elder said in a deep voice:

"I remember, you have two sons, a daughter, and four grandsons, granddaughters, granddaughters, right?"

Elder Pearson could hardly stand still.

"Elder, this is really framed..."

"That's not important! What's important is that you've been exposed now!"

The Great Elder stared at Pi Sen, as if his eyes could kill.

"You know the rules! We must use all means to safeguard the collective honor!"

Elder Pisen's breathing was a little unsteady, and the circles of his eyes became slightly red, but gradually, he regained his composure, looked down at his hands, and showed a miserable smile.

"I see."

"The person I sent will arrive at your residence in three minutes. You can have a drink. It's best not to write to anyone, otherwise..."

Nourishing, nourishing.

The bust of the Great Elder was slightly distorted.

Communication was cut off suddenly.

The lights in the room suddenly flickered, and the emergency lights were quickly turned on.

Boom!

Suddenly, there was a low vibration from the alloy door of the secret room.

Elder Pisen turned his head and saw that there was an obvious inner bulge on the thick alloy door.

Boom, boom!

It seemed that heavy objects were hitting the alloy gate one after another.

Elder Pisen subconsciously rushed to the desk with the laser pistol, but just as he took a step, the two alloy doors opened with a roar!

The figures of seven or eight guards flew upside down at the same time, screaming and flying past Elder Pisen, hitting the wall, their strong bodies almost twisted into a ball.

There were pools of blood on the alloy door, and more than a dozen corpses lay on the ground.

Yang Ming, who was wearing sunglasses, raised his head slightly.

Elder Pisen was frozen in place like a clay sculpture.