Chapter 131 Aurora City’s Order
Xi Renjie quickly walked through the headquarters hall and entered the telegraph room.
There were two law enforcers on duty in the telegraph room at this moment. When they saw Xi Renjie coming, they all stood up from their seats.
"Sir..."
"Is there a text message from Aurora City?"
"Yes."
"Does anyone else know?"
"No, we will notify you as soon as possible...and the content of this text message requires your identity code to receive it."
Xi Renjie frowned slightly. He waved his hand and asked everyone in the telegraph room to leave. Then he locked the door and walked towards the special telegraph machine in the center of the room.
Han Meng did not come back, and Aurora City did not send reinforcements. But at this juncture, Aurora City suddenly sent a message to District Three, an encrypted message aimed at itself...
This shows that in fact, the thick fog did not hinder the transmission of the message, and the people in Aurora City also knew that the acting director of the third district was themselves. With a little thought, they could feel something was wrong.
Xi Renjie sat down in front of the telegraph machine and tapped the keys to enter his code. After a brief pause, a text message was automatically printed out.
Click...click, click...
The white paper rose from the top of the machine little by little, and lines of characters appeared in front of Xi Renjie's eyes.
"[Tail-cutting Plan]..." Seeing the four big characters at the beginning, Xi Renjie's heart was shocked. He stared at the characters that gradually appeared on it, and he couldn't hide the shock in his eyes!
This text message explained that Aurora City was about to give up the seven major districts. However, there was no explanation. Instead, Xi Renjie was directly ordered to lead the law enforcers on the list and take the train to Aurora City quickly.
Chen Ling's guess is right. Aurora City...is really going to give up on the seven districts? !
Xi Renjie suddenly felt that his mind went blank. He looked at the printed names one by one, and it was a long time since he came back to his senses.
Now that the destruction of the three districts has become inevitable, it is only a matter of time to persist. When Aurora City gave this list, it probably wanted to finally select some people from the seven districts to fill the vacancies in the city. But what puzzled Xi Renjie was... this There is no Chen Ling in this list.
Chen Ling is a law enforcement officer on the [Asura] path. Although he is only at the first level, his potential is not much worse. Even those law enforcement officers who are lazy all day long are on the list. Why can't Chen Ling?
As if to answer the doubts in Xi Renjie's heart, as the last name on the list appeared, another line of lonely characters popped up with a click:
[Order 2: Before everyone retreats, no matter what the means, kill the heretic Chen Ling! 】
The moment he saw these words, Xi Renjie's pupils suddenly shrank!
There is no reason or explanation. This line of command is the last text in the encrypted text message, like an undoubted line of Aurora City instructions.
"Heretic...Chen Ling?" Xi Renjie's face was full of confusion. He didn't understand why Chen Ling was a heretic, and why was he hunted down by Aurora City?
Xi Renjie immediately used the telegraph machine to send another text message to Aurora City, asking for the reason for killing Chen Ling. However, he waited in the house for nearly half an hour, and there was no response from the other side, as if he had lost contact again.
The noise and commotion outside the window became more and more noisy, and Xi Renjie couldn't sit still. He glanced at the telegraph machine one last time, stood up and pushed the door open.
"Sir, what took you so long to get in?" the law enforcer who had been guarding the door asked, "What did the Aurora City say? Are reinforcements coming?"
This law enforcer was Xi Renjie's confidant and he was a good person. However, under his anxious questioning, Xi Renjie could only fall silent...
"Sir, the situation outside is not good. Many residents have gathered at the entrance of the headquarters." Several more law enforcers hurried over. "They want to ask what is going on in the second and fourth districts. What is going on in the third district?" Is there any danger in the district meeting... They all seem to be frightened."
"Sir, some residents in the south said that there seems to be strange noises approaching in the fourth district. Could it be that the disaster that slaughtered the fourth district is coming?"
"Sir...what should we do next?"
More and more law enforcers gathered around Xi Renjie, their faces turning pale. Although they had been law enforcers for many years, this was their first time encountering such a battle. Like the people outside, they were a little panicked.
Outside the gate of the law enforcement headquarters, there were continuous noises and knocks on the door; inside the gate, the faces of many law enforcement officers looked anxious and fearful under the light of kerosene lamps.
Xi Renjie's eyes swept over these law enforcers one after another, and the hand holding the list unconsciously clenched...
"Tan Ming, come with me."
He struggled in his heart for a long time, but still spoke hoarsely, then pushed aside the crowd and walked straight to the back door of the headquarters.
The law enforcer named Tan Ming was stunned and immediately followed. The two figures opened the narrow back door in the night and disappeared into the thick fog... leaving only the other law enforcers standing there with their eyes open. Zhongman was at a loss.
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"Brother Jie, what happened?"
Tan Ming is a law enforcer who has been with Xi Renjie for many years. He is a good person and can be regarded as his confidant, and his name is on the transfer list this time.
Xi Renjie walked silently on the dim streets, passing through alleys. Through the gaps in the alleys, he could see that the gate of the headquarters was indeed surrounded by a group of people... They did not stop and walked further away silently. .
"Aurora City, we have to give up the seven districts." Xi Renjie said hoarsely.
"What?!" Tan Ming's eyes widened.
Xi Renjie directly handed over the text message in his hand. Tan Ming read it carefully, with deep shock on his face!
"Then... what about these people? There are 40,000 people alive in District Three now!" Tan Ming couldn't help but ask, "When we leave, are we going to leave them to fend for themselves?"
Xi Renjie's footsteps paused.
He looked at the many streets that were gradually lighting up, with guilt and struggle in his eyes.
"I don't know... Before Brother Meng left, he asked us to defend the third area... But it's impossible for us to defend it. If we stay, we can only die with them..."
"Then what's going on with this list? Most of the people on it are just a bunch of worms who eat and drink and do whatever they want! The truly capable law enforcers are not on it at all... What do Aurora City think? "Tan Mingyi said indignantly, "Are we really going to take away these moths and leave our brothers here to die?"
"...I don't know, I really don't know!"
Xi Renjie grabbed his hair with both hands, his eyes were bloodshot, reason and sensibility were fighting crazily in his mind.