Chapter 21 Come With Me
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at the same time.
Gray patrolled the ground floor in power armor, making sure he was ready to fight when the rebels began to attack.
After walking to the largest room on the first floor, Gray was suddenly called. When he turned around and looked at the person calling him, he found that it was Lawn.
Lawn stood at the door, looking at Gray with a smile on his face: "Do you have time to talk?"
Gray frowned, feeling extremely disgusted in his heart, but he didn't know what he thought of, and suddenly nodded: "Yes."
So Lawn welcomed Gray into his room, closed the door, and then went to the table and poured a glass of wine for Gray himself.
"What's this?" Gray asked warily, staring at the wine glass.
"Wine." Lawn smiled, picked up the wine glass, and handed it to Gray with both hands.
"I've seen black wine and orange wine, but I've never seen transparent wine. I don't read much, so don't lie to me." Gray took the glass suspiciously.
Lawn smiled without saying a word, quietly watching Gray pick up the wine glass and put it in front of his visor to take a sniff.
Although he couldn't see Gray's expression under the visor, Lawn could guarantee that he must be very intoxicated.
Immediately, Gray opened his visor and drank the wine in the glass: "The Emperor... what is this... the Emperor..."
Gray was shocked and stunned by the deliciousness of the wine, and he timidly enjoyed the pleasure and dared not indulge in it.
"Poor man." Lawn shook his head with a smile. "It's just a wine made from fruit. It's an insignificant luxury. Of course, for a nester like you, it's still a delicacy that you can't even dream of."
After all, Lawn made a move that shocked Gray, and he gave away all the remaining half bottles of fruit wine.
"Thank you, sir." Gray took the fruit wine with both hands and carefully placed it in the jetpack.
At this time, the relationship between the two has become closer, and Gray doesn't hate Lawn as much as before.
Lawn first looked at Gray's attitude, and after thinking about it, he decided to go one step further: "Do you know that the governor's cousin's wife is my sister, I..."
"Why were nobles like you sold?" Gray interrupted Lawn, asking questions.
"It's all the Marshal's fault. He underestimated the enemy and rushed forward. This has nothing to do with the Governor." Lawn answered the question first, and then continued to say what he wanted to say: "If we go out from here, I will recommend you to be the general of the Planetary Defense Force."
Hearing these words, Gray raised his head and looked directly at Lawn, the eyes under the mask were full of longing.
Becoming a general is something that soldiers in the nest can't even imagine.
Gray knew that meant he could be a nobleman, take his family and friends out of the cesspit-like lower nest, and become a family in the clean and tidy upper nest area.
"But you understand." Lawn knew that Gray had already been persuaded, "This is an exchange of benefits, and you must also provide something, something insignificant in my opinion, but extremely important at this moment."
"What is it?" Gray asked.
"Loyalty." Lawn replied.
"..." Gray didn't continue to respond, he lowered his head in thought.
Seeing him hesitating, Ron was not at all in a hurry. As a nobleman who was proficient in intrigue, he had a hundred ways to euphemistically test out Gray's thoughts.
In Lawn's view, Gray is only limited by useless interpersonal relationships, unable to make rational judgments and decisions about his future.
All it takes is a little probing.
"You don't need to give me an answer in such a hurry." Lawn shook his head with a smile. "I'm going to inspect other positions and tell the soldiers on other positions that a person who can really accept the command of the entire defense line has appeared. That's me. I want them to know this clearly."
Gray listened quietly.
"If you want, you can take your power armor and other fighters like you and walk with me." Lawn continued.
After making the request, Lawn quietly waited for Gray's reply.
If Gray nodded in agreement, it meant that he longed for power and status. Although he was still unable to break away from the useless interpersonal relationship and made up his mind to betray Qin Mo, sooner or later he would stand with him.
Under the visor of the power armor, Gray had a complicated expression on his face. After thinking for a long time, he stood up and walked to the door.
Lawn was disappointed and thought that Gray wanted to reject him, but Gray immediately opened the door and made a gesture of invitation: "I should obey your orders, sir."
"Very good, soldier!" Lawn was very satisfied, and walked out of the room with a smile.
In the corridor, Lawn strode forward with his hands behind his back, and his aura became domineering because Gray followed behind him.
Lawn was so happy that he didn't notice and couldn't notice how fierce Gray's expression was under the visor.
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next door.
Riley also has a room of her own, which existed before the building was expanded into a fortress, with a bedroom and bathroom, and complete facilities.
Since the water supply is even maintained in the fortress now, just turn on the tap and the water that can be used for bathing will flow out. The water has a strong smell of filter agent, but what more can you ask for in this bottom nest?
Riley locked the door, took a bath and lay on the mat, recalling everything she experienced today.
Then Laili thought of the scene when Qin Mo took off his visor to reveal his true appearance when he was sent back by Qin Mo just now.
This man gave her a special feeling.
It's not spring heart sprouting, nor admiration or gratitude, but familiarity, I always feel as if I've seen it somewhere.
Out of the professional habit of an intelligence officer of the Ministry of Justice, Riley took out her personal information terminal and looked up the name Qin Mo in the information database of the Ministry of Justice.
There is only one such weird name in the Hive City, and the person who named it is in the information database of the Ministry of Justice.
[Name: Qin Mo]
[Prisoner number: No. 444. ]
[Reason for Arrest: An uncertified psychic trying to use psychic energy to murder others. ]
Under this string of information is a photo of Qin Mo, who looked very bad when he was caught and photographed by the people from the legal department.
"Number 444!" Riley gasped, and shut the information terminal forcefully, trembling all over.
She remembered where she had seen Qin Mo.
When arresting Qin Mo!
It was precisely because of her participation in the dangerous operation to capture Qin Mo that Riley was qualified to be promoted to an intelligence officer. When Qin Mo was captured, she was watching from the side, but she only saw it once.
"The Emperor is here!" Riley hurriedly put on her clothes and pushed open the door, and walked towards the room where Lawn was. He had to report to Lawn that Qin Mo was a prisoner.
But when he walked to the door of Lawn's room and pushed the door open, no one was seen.
"Lawn took Gray out." Grote, who took over from Gray to patrol the first floor, came over and looked down at Riley in the power armor.
"Good evening sir, can you take me to the head of the legion?" Riley asked very respectfully.
"If you have anything to do, please report to Qin Mo directly." Grote said.
"Sorry, but I really have something very important to do."
"Do you know where the leader of the rebel army is or what? Otherwise, don't talk nonsense, you guy from the Ministry of Justice has a lot of things to do."
"Please... sir..."
"..."
"Why don't you let me take you to find Lawn?"
A voice that sounded terribly frightening to Riley came from behind.
Riley turned around trembling, and saw Qin Mo.
Qin Mo smiled very gentlemanly, and stretched out his hand like a good man: "Come on, ma'am, I will take you to find Lawn."
"I'm not looking for the legion commander anymore." Riley shook her head vigorously, trying to pretend that nothing happened and walked back to the room.
But Qin Mo stood in her way and ordered in an irresistible tone: "You don't need to find Lawn, but you must come with me."