After the cleaning, Qian leaves the room. Xiao is lying on bed, relaxed. He is waiting 'Thirteen' comes to him. "I need more power" Xiao is clear that to impair the Sprout needs his power. The help from six nations is a short cut but won't get a high evaluation for the mission. Besides, the attention from 'Thirteen' can only and truly be caught by power.
At the moment, there is no other missions or battles. The only way to gain experience is technical work. To make machine needs money. Luckily, there is a lot of opportunities in West capital. There is a long way to go to transfer that into his own power. There is still half year before new players joined the game. He needs to prepare for their coming too.
After a short nap, Xiao goes back to the basement. Qian is working before a lathe. She is fixing some appliance. The curves of her hot button can't be hidden by her short jeans. A pair of jewellery white legs attract Xiao's eyes. Qian notices Xiao and uses a towel to wipe the sweat, "The orders are in the drawers." There are many sheets in the drawer. Qian is the only one working on them which is not enough. Thus many orders are left here unfinished. Xiao picks up a simple one and starts working before another lathe. They work until 7pm when the shop is closed.
Qian changes into a white dress and releases her ink black long hair which makes her even pettier. She looks kind like a sister. There is some patches on the dress which shows that she is not rich. Geezer Lu only appears at dinner time. He has locked himself in the room for a whole day.
"Dinner is ready!" Qian shouts from the kitchen. The curly long hair indicates that Lu is not a house man. Qian does all cooking. Xiao picks up a nice bouilli and put it in the mouth. It is so delicious! Forget about the cookies in the forest, now he finally eat some real food.
"It is good, isn't it" Qian smiles. Xiao doesn't answer, he is too busy eating.
"No rush, there are more." Qian is happy that Xiao likes her dishes. After a while, Lu suddenly queries, "Who are you indeed?" Xiao pauses eating, "I am a normal people." "Liar, tell me the truth." Lu sneers.
"What if I say no?"
"Say no?" Lu raises his voice and swings his hair around. Dandruffs fly at Xiao like a snowstorm. Xiao reacts quickly and jumps back several steps. Qian's smile changes from a kind one into a mysterious one. She hits the table once with her chopsticks, says, "Sit down, dinner is ready." They two back to the seats in a sec like nothing had happened.
West capital is a big city which is divided into eight districts plus three satellite cities. All are connected with railway. First district is the core which locates all official buildings. Citizens is only allowed to enter with certificate. Six nations are allies when they are against the Sprout. Other than that, there are only conflicts between. Assassination attempts on leaders has never ended. Although most assassination are attributed to terrorist attack by the Sprout or racist. But their intelligence institutes are aware that at least seventy percent are conducted by other nations.
The underworld of blue planet consists of six nations' agents, the Sprout, stragglers warlord, munitions merchants, intelligence merchants, international criminals, assassin organisation, hackers etc..
Dragon Horn Tower is the symbol of Stardragon government, where the leaders works. It is said that missile interruption system protects this tower all the time. Any unknown flying objects getting close would be destroyed. People won't know that the true secret institutes are actually under the tower.
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Dragon Horn Tower, underground, elevator without layer mark. Thirteen, the department of strategy and defence of Stardragon.
Several dozens of giant black screens are hanging on the wall. Great amount of intelligence are gathered here. Many agents are busy working in the lobby. They are the gears of 'Thirteen', which is the ear and the knife of Stardragon. "Sir, the location of Zero is confirmed." A smart secretary with glasses knocks on the door to the office of the chief of intelligence department. "Come on in." "Zero is hiding in a maintenance shop in seventh district."
The chief turns to his favourite painting - De sterrennacht, and thinks. A while later, he looks at the secretary, "The leaders ask us to be mild." "How?"
"Zero came to West capital which means he wants a shelter. It is highly likely he wants cooperation. Take two measures, start the informant protection. Don't let the spy know his existence. Let hackers intercept all trace of Zero here. In the mean time, send people to sound him out, to check if he is a spy from the Sprout. No engagement before confirmation."
"There are tow kinds of betrayal from the Sprout. Either he has key intelligence or he is a powerful super power. Or both. Be cautious. I don't want same action like catching the 'black spider' happens again. You guys blowed up two street! The principal blamed me for it."