Chapter 188
"Azhe!"
Leslie suddenly rushed over, put his arms around Rong Yuan's neck, and said happily: "Anyway, I have nothing to do today, let me, your senior, take you to appreciate the customs of our Liukasao!"
Rong Yuan put down the cup in his hand and said, "Is that okay? What if there is a temporary mission?"
"It's okay. There are still so many people at the headquarters anyway!" Leslie said nonchalantly, "Besides, our Supervision Department is not like those ordinary departments that work from nine to five. The working hours are very flexible. When you have nothing to do, you can go out as long as you apply to the first-level inspector."
"Oh." Rong Yuan thought about it and nodded: "Okay."
He has been staying in the Supervision Department, so some people who want to contact and test him have no chance. It is better to go out and see what the monsters and demons on all sides are like.
“That’s great!”
Leslie cheered, turned around and ran to Ao Hengchuan to ask for permission to go out. Rong Yuan shook his head, slowly sorted out the things on his desk, and then followed.
The Supervisory Department has been very idle recently. About half of the people have gone home. Their homes are right next to the headquarters anyway, so even if they gather temporarily, it will take less than two minutes.
Leslie successfully obtained the permission to go out, but he also had to listen to a series of admonitions from Ao Hengchuan: for example, he should not act recklessly and cause trouble like before, he should not shout about his identity as the Supervisory Department to avoid trouble, he should not be so busy having fun that he forgets to take care of the newcomer Rong Yuan, and he should not lose face for the Supervisory Department even if he hides his identity, etc. When the two left, Leslie's eyes were almost rolling.
"Oh my god! Senior Ao Hengchuan is good in everything except that he is too long-winded! He is too long-winded! My head is about to explode!"
Leslie held his head and staggered as if he had suffered a severe blow.
Rong Yuan smiled and asked curiously, "Why is Senior Ao Hengchuan always at the headquarters? Doesn't he ever go home?"
Whether it's morning, afternoon, or evening, weekdays or holidays, even if you need to go to the Supervision Department in the middle of the night, you can always see Ao Hengchuan. If he's not there one day, he must be on his way to a mission. He is like a sculpture that always stays in the Supervision Department, never resting, never slacking off.
On the contrary, General Manager Todd often appears and disappears mysteriously, and no one knows where he has gone. The closer it is to the general meeting, the harder it is to see him. Even it is not easy for Rong Yuan to find him to discuss some things.
Leslie's smile suddenly fell. He was silent for a moment, sighed, and said, "Senior... no longer has any family."
"I heard that Senior Ao Hengchuan was not like this before. He used to have a wife and two daughters, and his personality was carefree. Once, when he was on a mission, his visor was accidentally knocked off by someone, exposing his true identity. It is said that at that time, apart from our own people from the Supervision Department, there were only a few occupational safety officers from the Fighting Department. Originally, he thought it was nothing. But later... about half a year later, he took his family to the eighth floor to play, and they were blocked by dozens of people..."
Leslie was silent for a while before continuing, "The elder's wife and daughter all died tragically in front of him, and he was the only one who managed to come back alive. Since then... he has never smiled again, and almost never comes home... He has also become particularly verbose, always repeatedly emphasizing safety regulations to us. He has said the same thing thousands and tens of thousands of times..."
Rong Yuan looked back at the building of the Supervisory Department. The jade-white building was inlaid with some warm-colored painted bricks. It looked quiet, beautiful and peaceful.
The people in this building all look strong, fierce, and frightening. In the eyes of outsiders, they are executioners with blood on their hands and demons spreading death. But wrapped in that layer of black and red armor, they are actually ordinary people. The stronger they appear, the more fragile they are inside. They seem to be feared by everyone, but in fact, as long as their true identities are exposed, most people here will not survive for long unless they hide in the headquarters forever.
But the headquarters that is like the Garden of Eden to them is actually the scythe of death that can take their lives at any time!
All the information about the identities, appearances, names, origins, families, etc. of all the people in the Supervisory Department are under the control of Ochi, that is, under the control of Mapu and Liuka. If they want all the people in the Supervisory Department to live, they can make them live majestically and arrogantly; when they want them to die, they don't even need to do it themselves, as long as they release some of the information in their hands, they can destroy their families and make their lives worse than death.
Rong Yuan lowered his eyes and said nothing. Leslie also fell silent because he thought of Ao Hengchuan.
The two took the elevator to the eighth floor in silence. As soon as they came out, they were hit by the noise and heat!
Outside the door of the access management office on the eighth floor was a wide street, which was so crowded that there was almost no place to stand.
A parade was slowly passing through the street, and directly opposite was a seven or eight meter high float decorated with colorful lights. On the float stood hundreds of performers wearing strange costumes, gorgeous masks, and painted with oil paint. They sang, danced, performed acrobatics, and led the audience on both sides of the street to sway their bodies with them, raise their arms and cheer loudly. The crowd was almost losing their minds because of the atmosphere. They crowded around the float and walked forward, and the screams from time to time almost penetrated the dome of this layer.
There were countless floats in front and behind this one, forming a convoy that seemed to have no end. Almost every place on the street was packed with people , as if all the people in Liukasao had come here.
Rong Yuan suddenly didn't want to go over there anymore, and he began to back away unconsciously. But Leslie grabbed his arm and pushed him into the crowd, cheering and waving his arms and screaming with them -
"Afra--Afra--Afra--"
Rong Yuan looked up in the midst of his busy schedule and saw a graceful, elf-like girl standing on the top of the nearest float. She wore a bright wreath on her head and a pure white dress. Under the light, the surface of the dress reflected a magnificent and dazzling brilliance.
On the steps of the float below her, more than a dozen girls in white were dancing. The girl named Aphra just stood there quietly with her eyes closed, her hands on her chest. Suddenly, she opened her eyes and sang: "Ah - time is flowing... The starry sky never changes... It's not that it has never changed... I sigh that my life is too short..."
In an instant, it seemed as if a beam of light exploded before the eyes, and as if a bird rode the wind straight up, penetrated the clouds, and soared freely among the stars, circling, circling, sprinting, and hovering, it flew and wandered with everyone's hearts.
Her clean and clear voice, with its powerful resonance and unparalleled penetrating power, even drowned out the noisy screams and shouts of countless people, making everyone involuntarily sing along with her, shout together, cry together, laugh together, and let out angry shouts and roars of venting together!
Rong Yuan, who finally squeezed to the side of the street and stood against the wall, felt as if he was witnessing a large-scale cult scene of group hypnosis.
He looked at the girl singing on the top of the float, and at that moment, the girl's eyes fell on him. She looked at Rong Yuan, stretched out her arms and sang, with a meaningful smile on her face.
Rong Yuan frowned slightly.
Aphra's float passed by him quickly, carrying a large crowd of people. The float behind was much quieter than the one in front. Although there were still many people, at least there were gaps in the crowd for people to pass through.
Rong Yuan found a quieter restaurant, ordered a signature cocktail called Bulbulno, and waited for Leslie to calm down before coming over.
"Eh? Mr. Muzhe? What a coincidence to see you here."
A voice sounded beside him. Rong Yuan looked up and saw a familiar robot standing beside him holding his Bulbuno with a happy expression on his face.
"Aheiro?"
Rong Yuan was also a little surprised. He didn't expect to see the robot on the third floor again on the eighth floor.
"Yes, it's me, Mr. Mu. I'm glad you still remember me." Ah Heruo smiled and respectfully placed Rong Yuan's cocktail on the table in front of him.
"Why are you here?" Rong Yuan couldn't help but ask.
"Oh, because there's a carnival going on on the eighth floor recently, and the income from working here for a few days is equivalent to working for a month or two somewhere else! So I came here!"
——So robots have to work so hard to survive?
Ah Heruo bent his fat body down and said, "It's a pleasure to serve you again, Mr. Muzhe. If you need anything, just press the bell and I'll come right away."
"OK, thanks."
As he watched the little robot's back, Rong Yuan felt a subtle sense of happiness. There might be millions of people gathered on the eighth floor at this moment. Among millions of strangers, he happened to meet someone he knew before... well, a robot, this kind of coincidence makes people feel that life is really wonderful.
He sipped the wine slowly while looking at the crowded crowd outside the window. He seemed to be doing nothing, but in fact he was thinking about it almost every moment - the situation in Liukasao, the special and dangerous ability to extract vitality, the different personalities, attitudes, positions and abilities of the generals, the mysterious eighteenth floor, and so on.
But this silence did not last long, as it was interrupted by a burst of laughter. Rong Yuan looked up and saw several adventurers sitting at a table not far away, eating without paying attention to the people around them. Some were clapping their hands on the table and laughing, while others took out their short knives and slammed them on the table, making a loud "bang bang" sound. Just a few people made this quiet restaurant as noisy as a vegetable market.
The people at the surrounding tables looked at them with dissatisfaction, and some called the waiters to ask them to find a way to make the adventurers quiet down. But within a few minutes, the adventurers played a prank on each other and made one of them look bad, making everyone in the restaurant laugh. The energy, confidence, frankness and enthusiasm of the adventurers were very contagious, and soon everyone in the restaurant became happy because of their presence.
Adventurer...
Rong Yuan muttered to himself, lowered his eyes, and then turned his gaze to the window.
In the parade outside the window, another group of people seemed to appear - some were honest, some were silent, some were cunning, some were open-minded, and some were cold...
They walked past Rong Yuan one by one, some running and jumping, some walking briskly, some walking leisurely, some walking gracefully, and some walking in high spirits. They greeted each other, laughed and walked past quickly.
Walking at the end was a young man with slightly curly black hair. He followed the crowd with a smile on his face. Suddenly, he turned around and his eyes met Rong Yuan's.
Then, he curved his eyebrows and revealed a bright and warm smile. He waved at Rong Yuan, turned around and walked farther and farther away with the others, his figure dissipating in the illusory light like bubbles.
Rong Yuan watched silently, picked up the wine glass and drank it all!
