On the second floor of the changguan mansion, facing the direction of the small square, is a very spacious balcony. When holding meetings, succession ceremonies and other activities, the mayor or chief executive officer will stand on this balcony and accept the congratulations of the people and the records of the media.

It is now 10:30 p.m., which is the time when yunshou Jiucheng should gradually enter sleep. However, the deafening waves hit the carved handrail of the balcony slightly - "we want to see the chief officer!" "Chief officer, are you all right?" "Find out the scum!"

A Yun stood behind the balcony door, and the curtain covered his figure. Holding the thick curtain in one hand, he looked at the dark crowd downstairs. The moonlight coldly sprinkled on the balcony, reflecting the snow-white ground, which was a bit dazzling.

Half of the boy's face was white and glittering by the moonlight, and the other half sank in the dark shadow. No matter which side, there was no expression.

"What did you tell them?"

He asked suddenly.

The shadow paused not far behind the boy, and it seemed that he was a little surprised that the other party found him. After being quiet, he sighed softly, "I just said the truth."

The boy turned slightly and twisted half of his mouth. "Facts? What part of the facts?"

"What does it matter?" The shadow gently advised, "anyway, they all think they have mastered the whole truth."

"What the hell are you doing?" A Yun clenched his teeth and asked.

The dark figure raised his head and glanced at the curtains that were trembling slightly.

"I just want to help you." His voice did not change, and he sounded sincere. "You didn't attack me... Did you finally figure it out?"

The teenager smiled coldly, "I didn't attack you because I couldn't attack you. If I could, you would have rotted with Yun Qian."

The shadow sighed. "I just removed the shackles and burdens for you one by one. You will understand later."

"What the hell are you doing here?" A Yun's voice suddenly snapped.

The shadow did not speak, but squatted down; With a "crash", something crossed the wooden floor and slid to the boy's feet.

In the moonlight, a Yun just saw its appearance clearly, and immediately his face was shocked; He raised his eyes in surprise and doubt. "What do you mean?"

"It doesn't mean anything. I said, I'm just helping you." The shadow smiled, "take it, even if you immediately try to attack me with it. But after this useless attempt, how you like to use it, it will serve you."

The young man couldn't believe it - he held the black flat plate with the length of his palm, and for a moment he began to doubt whether what he saw was a real object. When he reacted with an inspiration, he found that the shadow had gone without a trace.

He clenched his back teeth tightly, glanced around, his fingers jumped quickly on the flat screen for a few times, and then listened with bated breath for a while. However, except for the shouting outside the house, there was no abnormal noise in the magistrate's office - the boy didn't sigh or be disappointed. Obviously, he had expected that the man had left a hand for himself.

He pursed his lips and straightened his waist.

Lin Sanjiu stood by, quietly watching a Yun step by step onto the balcony.

In the moonlight, the thin shadow of the young man was cast on the snow-white tiles, all the way into the house, and finally melted with the darkness. The cry outside the house suddenly stopped. No one seemed to expect that ah Yun should show up like this. After the surprise of the people lasted for a few seconds, a sharp female voice suddenly cried, "where is the chief officer? Where has the chief officer gone?"

This scream immediately caused a cry that was more intense than before. For a time, various voices came and went, making people unable to hear anything clearly.

The boy held the railing with one hand and the black flat plate with the other. The bright powder around his eyes gradually sank into a dark gray, and his lips didn't look bloody under the moonlight. He quietly looked at the people under the balcony without making a sound.

"Please come out and meet us, chief officer!" There is a voice that quickly attracts echo in the crowd; This sentence was repeated again and again, becoming stronger and stronger, "please come out to meet us, and let us know that he is OK!"

"Why did you come out? Did you really do that?" In the corner near the bottom of the balcony, someone shouted and scolded, and then a dark figure flew up - a boot that had just been taken off rowed past the boy's face, knocked against the balcony door, and startled Lin Sanjiu.

A Yun's face was still calm. He looked around and walked to the corner of the balcony, where hundreds of ceremonies had been held. The radio and sound system had already been set up for each mayor and chief officer.

"You respect Yun Qian very much."

This sentence of the teenager immediately spread all over the square; The cries of the people gradually subsided, leaving only a little scattered noise.

"It's not that I don't understand you." A Yun sat on a chair in the corner and put up his legs on the railing. The boy looked at the small clip microphone at his fingertips, and his tone was light and almost whisper, as if he was just talking to himself.

"You... Also came from despair. Yunqian brought you hope. Your life is getting better and better... You don't have to do anything. No matter what you want, AI will be ready for you. It's like going back to the golden age."

"Yes, so what!" A voice shouted. "This is all from the chief officer!"

"How did the golden century end? Did you forget it so soon?"

"The chief officer is different! He is one of us!"

"That's loyalty." Young a Yun smiled and still didn't look at the crowd under the balcony. "I'm really moved. There's just one unfortunate thing: I killed him three hours ago. Although he hasn't died completely until now, it's sooner or later."

As soon as this sentence was uttered, the noise breaking out from the square could simply push people back several steps - Lin San was shocked, and he couldn't understand why he deliberately provoked the public. She subconsciously rushed to the balcony, trying to pull ah Yun in before the angry mob hurt him; It was not until the moonlight fell on her that she suddenly remembered that she had long been disconnected from the world.

"Be quiet and see what I have." The boy stood up and shook the black plate in his hand. He didn't care at all about the people closest to him, who were about to grab the railing and climb up; He just lowered his eyes and looked at his fingers. His expression was even a little boring.

The angry people paused slightly.

"That... That is..."

"Manipulator," the boy sat back on the chair, as if very tired. "The operator of yunshou Jiucheng urban defense system and artificial intelligence system."

As his voice spread to every corner, the square quickly quieted down. With a few thuds, the mobs who wanted to climb up fell back to the ground.

"I'm also a man from nine cities, and I'm not unreasonable. Now you have two choices. First, you let me become your new chief officer, and your life will not change, but no one is allowed to mention the word Yun Qian in the future. For those who violate it, I'll directly throw it out of the city to feed the dog. Oh... And while he's not dead now, I hope you can carry him around the city and let everyone -- listen, It's everyone who sees him with his own eyes. "

It seemed that there was suddenly no one who could talk in the square, and it was silent.

"The second option is that I kill for my life. I took the initiative to commit suicide and set fire to myself. You can see it if you want. * * * tonight, next to your beloved chief officer." Speaking of this, the boy paused. Everyone knows that his words are not finished yet. At this moment, everyone held their breath.

"... take this operator with you."

Lin Sanjiu closed his eyes, turned and walked out of the balcony.

She didn't need to read any more. She had guessed faintly. She went into the hallway and sat down on the steps.

Lin Sanjiu thought that she would feel unbearable and sympathetic - but she sat quietly for a while, only to find that her heart was blank and there was nothing. She just sat here, numbly waiting for something to happen.

Oh, it should be said that it has happened - after all, this is only the memory of data volume reproduction.

Somehow, she suddenly thought of Xue Yu and the girls in the garden of Eden, and then she thought of the Lou brothers and sisters. Finally, she thought of Nuwa.

The noise outside the house, like a wave, came into the house one after another. A Yun said very few words, only a few words, but each sentence can arouse thousands of waves.

She held her chin and waited. Time seems to be extremely long.

After I don't know how long, the boy's sentence clearly broke through the noise and passed into Lin Sanjiu's ears. By magic, she stood up and turned her head to the balcony.

"Although the people present are less than half of the population of the nine cities, I'll confirm it. Then... According to the old rules, what should you say?"

Outside the house, there were scattered voices one after another, messy and out of tune.

"What? I can't hear you clearly. Say it again."

Finally, those voices slowly gathered together and became a clear and thick cry. Thousands of neat voices, together penetrating the air, rang through the night sky: "I wish the new chief good luck!"

The boy breathed and turned off the microphone.

"When we go to war, it's the same kind of toast... I'm really unwilling to pay attention." He said a word to himself gently, crossed his finger from the flat, and then turned into the room.

When the scream sounded, the dazzling white light also lit up the sheriff's mansion at the same time. Lin Sanjiu narrowed her eyes by the dazzling light. In the chaos, she only vaguely saw the black shadow of the teenager and walked in her direction in the white light - the white light lasted for five minutes. When it finally darkened, the world was silent.

It was completely dark in the government.

Yunshou nine cities are also completely dark.

Maybe the underground wires were destroyed by the white light... Lin Sanjiu sat in the dark and thought silently.

A Yun died tonight, and only the puppet master survived.

The footsteps of the Puppeteer stopped not far away, then slapped and pressed the handrail of the stairs. He slid slowly to the ground, silent. Lin Sanjiu listened to the sound behind him and said softly, "I know you can't hear my voice... But I still want to say."

"... I guess what you need a gift bag for. You don't have to ask for a gift bag, because I know that person."

"His name is Gong Daoyi."

"I can help you find him... I'm willing to."

Behind him, there was no response. Of course, she is just a non-existent spectator in this world. The real Puppet Master probably didn't hear this sentence at all.

When she thought of this, she suddenly looked up - slowly, bit by bit, twisted her neck.

The boy's expressionless appearance was right in front of her incredible sight. He had nothing in his hand, but it was this "nothing" that penetrated Lin Sanjiu's chest.

There was no blood flow, and it didn't even hurt much - everything around was rapidly deformed, spent, and turned into countless color patches, flying from front of my eyes; The teenager also lost his body in all this, and finally became nothingness with the world.

The world compiled by the data body collapsed, and all substances dissipated in an instant; When Lin Sanjiu felt her consciousness again, she had returned to the void.

Countless wisps of white light spread out from around, in this nothingness, endless. She could see nothing but the white light - including her own body.

"Here is... Data flow management library?" She murmured to herself, "I... I'm back...?"

"What a surprise," an idea in the form of words, It directly appeared in her mind: "in the face of a dilemma full of crisis, your barrier can hardly be broken. On the contrary, it is the replay of a non dangerous and irrelevant memory, which makes us finally get what we want. Your human nature, whether good or bad, is a huge burden. In other words, if you like, we can delete this part for you."

"Puppet Master... He..."

"Since the end of the convenience store, we have compiled the two puppet masters you see."

Lin Sanjiu was stunned, as if he had just reacted.

"You said you could delete my humanity -?"

"Yes. Thank you for your information. We have all got it."