~(＾◇^)/The sky is big and the earth is big, eating is the biggest
After Annie was assassinated for the second time, Shi Qiang disappeared for two full days, and he didn't know why he was there.
Then it wasn't until the dusk of the third day that he appeared again in the huge Jiangnan garden in the mountains, which was like a city park. He appeared in front of Annie and became her bodyguard again.
Here comes the attendant and life manager.
"??"
(.)
When she saw the other party reappearing at the door, and then looking at the exhausted look of the other party who had not woken up, Annie, who was originally playing a console game with a game controller in the Chinese-modern and antique-style hall, couldn't help but
Curiously, he pressed the pause button and turned to the other party and asked:
"What's wrong?"
(_)
"Uncle Shi, what have you been busy with these past two days? Why are you back now and looking so bad?"
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Anne was just asking, she had no intention of approaching him.
Because, the other party had that strong smell of cigarette smoke, and that was the reason why the other party was just leaning against the ancient door made of precious mahogany, and did not run into the living room and sit down with a wink.
one.
"well--"
"What else can you do?"
"The female sniper who assassinated you the day before yesterday went to attend and interrogate. She came back at noon, and then took a little sleep before coming to see you."
As he spoke, Shi Qiang couldn't help but yawned. Shi Qiang, who seemed to have not slept enough, took out a cigarette and bit it, then took out a lighter and was about to light it.
"..."
But he quickly remembered something, and turned to look at Annie's little figure who turned back to play the game, and then he put away the lighter with some regret.
However, although he did not light the cigarette, he still bit the filter paper and took a strong puff, as if that would refresh him and relieve his craving.
"What did the trial reveal? Did she confess?"
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(゜-゜)
Hearing that this was the case, Annie suddenly turned her head and glanced at it and asked, then turned back to nervously operating her game character.
She had heard about it at that time. It was said that the person who assassinated her was a beautiful girl riding a motorcycle?
It's a pity that the opponent failed to escape successfully and was intercepted and knocked over by an armored vehicle on the way. If the opponent hadn't been wearing protective gear and a helmet, he would have died on the spot.
"Of course I told you!"
"It wasn't that difficult. She was just a young man in his twenties, who thought it would be cool to be a killer with good marksmanship. But in the end, we just gave her a few scares, but she didn't show any real intentions and she used all her moves!"
After playing with the cigarette in his hand that he didn't dare to light and putting it to his nose to smell the rich fragrance, Shi Qiang shook his head and continued:
"But that's no use!"
"There is no valuable information on her. The person who hired her should be a senior executive of ETO, but she ran away long ago and was not caught!"
"I guess Tomoko tipped off the other party in advance, right?"
"Tsk!"
"Anyway, our people rushed to nothing. Hundreds of people were dispatched, but in the end we didn't catch a single hair!"
"What a damn bad luck!"
Having said this, Shi Qiang couldn't help but cursed and lamented.
"I don't know how many sophons the Trisolarans have put on the earth. I'm afraid every move we make is under the surveillance of the other party. This is really too passive!"
"If Tomoko hadn't tipped off the other party, at our speed, we would have been able to capture at least one or two important people in ETO, right?"
"What a pity..."
"I don't know if there are those things watching here. It's terrible just thinking about it..."
At this point, Shi Qiang suddenly stopped. He didn't bother to smell the cigarette to relieve his addiction. Instead, he glanced around the living room and outside with a solemn expression, as if he wanted to find traces of the existence of the 'Sophon'.
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But unfortunately, it is no easier for him to use his mortal body to see microscopic particles like sophons than it is to find a bacterium with his naked eyes.
Therefore, even though he opened his eyes and looked at every corner, he still found nothing unusual in the end.
"Don't worry!"
(｀)
"Stop looking for me, Tomoko doesn't dare hang around other people's houses!"
(゜▽^*)
After noticing the other party's movements and random glances, Annie turned her head once again and gave Uncle Shi a playful expression and comforted him.
"I hope..."
"I hope it's really afraid of you!"
Shaking his head, Shi Qiang didn't completely believe it, but he didn't completely disbelieve it either. He still had that solemn expression on his face.
"Right!"
(˙o˙)
"Uncle Shi, since you are back, can we go out to play now?"
(ì_í)
"I've been staying here and playing games for the past two days, and I'm getting a little bored!"
┐(‘～`；)┌
"Let's go out and catch some game!"
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With that said, Annie threw away the game controller and turned to look at Shi Qiang impatiently, hoping that they could go out together to have some fun in the deep mountains and old forests.
She discovered a group of wild boars a few days ago, and she didn't know if they were delicious or not. Since she was free today, of course she was going to try them.
"ah?"
"Still going out?"
Hearing this, Shi Qiang was startled, and then he couldn't help but hesitate.
"But……"
"It's almost time for dinner now..."
Although he said that, he didn't dare to refuse Anne's request, so he had to persuade her like this with some embarrassment:
"Besides, I can't guarantee that if I go outside, I won't encounter assassination from those madmen from ETO again..."
"They're just afraid they haven't given up yet?"
The previous serial assassinations coupled with the previous sniper attack, anyway, Shi Qiang did not think that ETO and Tomoko would give up easily and would not launch a third attack on Anne.
"Is it almost time for dinner?"
(﹏)
"!!"
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Hearing this, Anne quickly looked towards the exquisite decorative clock in the hall, and then she saw that the current time was almost 18:30!
"Yeah! It really is!"
(ノ△.)
"I forgot to check the time."
(_-)
She had just been focused on playing games, but she didn't expect that so much time had passed without her realizing it. It was almost dinner, and it would obviously be inappropriate to run out at this time.
"All right!"
ε=(ο｀*)))Alas
"Then let's not go play today!"
(▽`)
So, between going out for fun and having a delicious dinner, thinking of the almost different dishes prepared by those top chefs, Anne chose the latter without hesitation, preparing to enjoy a good meal.
After all, it would be the same if we eat wild animals or something another day?
"Not just today!"
"It's best not to run around during this period."
"Annie, to be honest, I can't even imagine what kind of assassination the other side will do next time!"
"Maybe the other party will get a group of drones?"
While speaking with some worry, Shi Qiang couldn't help but stand up straight, and then looked around at the sky from the eaves outside the hall door, as if he was worried that he would really see a large group of suicide drones heading towards them.
He rushed here desperately.
You know, today's civilian drones are very advanced and can basically be purchased by individuals in China. With ETO's organization and production capabilities, it is definitely possible to modify some touch-detonated soil bombs or even TNT.
It’s not too difficult, and with Tomoko’s help, he wouldn’t be too surprised if a group of black drones flew from the sky one day and razed this place to the ground!
"Drone?"
|˙˙)
"But don't the military bases outside have electromagnetic suppression capabilities?"
(.)
"Don't worry, Uncle Shi, the drone will definitely not be able to get in!"
╮(╯▽╰)╭
Annie said that when she went to play a few days ago, she seemed to have seen the kind of electromagnetic suppression defensive weapons that were disguised in the woods like radar vehicles. Since those things were there, it was definitely impossible for drones to mess around.
came in and carried out suicide attacks and bombings on her.
"I know!"
Shi Qiang shook his head and found nothing unusual, then walked back again, and continued chatting with Annie by the door, leaning against the mahogany door that exuded a faint fragrance.
"But I'm still a little worried."
"What if Sophon has a way to circumvent our electromagnetic suppression?"
Yes!
What Shi Qiang knows, and even most people on earth know, is that in addition to its powerful interference ability, sophons can lurk in particle accelerators, accept impacts on behalf of target particles, and output erroneous and chaotic results, thereby interfering with human beings' understanding of the microscopic world.
Exploration, thereby locking down the technology of earth civilization, preventing human physics from ever entering beyond the particle level, and also having terrifying real-time monitoring, communication and the bizarre ability to display certain 'miracles'.
Anyway, in Shi Qiang's opinion, he wouldn't be surprised at all if Sophon could interfere with electromagnetic suppression and control a large number of drones to break through the defenses and fly in, especially now that the garden where Annie is located has been basically completely exposed.
?
However, he had also heard that the National Missile Defense System successfully conducted a test exercise to destroy sophons deployed at low latitudes?
He doesn't know if it's true or not. If it's true, maybe the people on earth won't be so desperate soon.
Of course, but even if it was true, Shi Qiang felt that the method of destroying Tomoko was best not to be too common, because it was said to be a nuclear bomb, and he didn't want to eat Tomoko directly after finding out that Tomoko appeared near him.
The last tactical nuclear bomb or something, that was simply terrifying!
"Oh!"
"It must be possible, right?"
As he thought about it, Shi Qiang couldn't help but laugh a little, feeling that his worries seemed a bit unfounded. After all, it seemed that those things shouldn't be thought too much by a big-headed soldier like him?
"Impossible!"
(ˉ▽￣~)Cut~~
However, Anne had a different point of view.
"Didn't someone just say that!"
(ˇεˇ))
"If this person is here, Tomoko will definitely not dare to approach him!"
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You know, Anne had crushed a sophon with her own hands, but now the other party only dared to stare at her from a distance or use some indirect means to monitor her, directly monitor her at close range or even control a drone.
They probably wouldn't even dare to borrow some courage from the other party.
"No……"
"It's always good to be careful."
"You are out of tune. There is nothing that those crazy bastards from ETO wouldn't dare to do."
However, Shi Qiang still shook his head bitterly, not agreeing with Annie's statement. Instead, he spoke of another matter with a solemn expression.
"Those traitors are no longer human beings!"
"To be honest, Anne, you are really lucky to have escaped several assassinations!"
"You don't know, before, I was ordered to secretly protect a university professor. He was not as lucky as you. His girlfriend was killed on the spot. She was a very beautiful and well-behaved girl."
"What a pity..."
Thinking of something, Shi Qiang finally couldn't help it anymore. He took out the lighter again and lit the cigarette. Then he wisely retreated to the corridor outside the door to prevent his second-hand smoke from drifting into the hall and disgusting Annie.
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"I don't know how he is doing now. He must be feeling bad, right?"
"A good girlfriend flew away and was knocked away..."
While smoking, Shi Qiang sighed.
He still remembered that the professor was really depressed at the time, and he didn’t know what the situation was like now. Anyway, he was later urgently dispatched to N City to perform a mission, and then stayed with Annie. As for the one who was also pursued by ETO
He was a little unclear as to where the professor he killed was now and what state he was in.
But no matter what, he himself also knew that those who could be chased by ETO should be those who pose a threat to the Trisolaris. And Anne, whom he was now ordered to protect, had been assassinated twice and three times, and the other party even did not hesitate to send
The sniper approached the military base and carried out long-range sniping. She must be the one who poses the greatest threat to the Trisolaran. It made the Trisolaran and ETO a little hysterical, right?
The more the Three-Body Problem and ETO were like that, the more Shi Qiang felt that he should protect Annie. After all, an alien from a third party seems to have mastered the technology that can make the earth's technology soar. That is indeed very important.
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"Seriously!"
"Annie, forget it, but for someone like him, I really don't understand why the Trisolarans can't tolerate him. I still haven't figured out what's so special about him."
"He's just an ordinary university professor soon. He doesn't study scientific physics. I heard he's talking about sociology?"
"I've never heard of it!"
"What threat does that thing pose to the Trisolaris?"
"I don't understand!"
Then, Shi Qiang couldn't help but start muttering.
Although he has little education and a low academic diploma, at least in his opinion, Annie, a little alien girl with advanced technology, is better than a university professor, or even countless professors?
To him, those who teach sociology, psychology, or philosophy are just like a group of cheaters. He, Shi Qiang, has always looked down on those useless things.
"have no idea!"
∠(　∠)＿
"Maybe the other party accidentally discovered some secrets or weaknesses of Trisolaran society?"
(0`)
Annie, who was lying on the cushioned mahogany sofa, obviously didn't have time to speculate with Shi Qiang about other people's affairs, so she just answered casually, stretched her waist, and then
I waited a little boredly.
It's still a little short of dinner time, and she's tired of playing the game just now, so her state is naturally a little weak at this time, and she doesn't know what to do next.
"What secrets could threaten the Trisolarans?"
"Even if you know the weakness and don't have enough force to fight back, it's all in vain, right?"
"Is it possible that you just rely on words?!"
Shi Qiang sneered with some disdain.
Yes, for Shi Qiang, who was once a soldier and participated in actual combat, no matter what conspiracies and tricks are useless, in the end he has to rely on real guns and live ammunition to fight, and weapons and technology are obviously the only way.
The best and only way is to physically damage or completely eliminate the three-body system. Others are useless, useless and a waste of money!
"I don't know..."
(′～`●)
"If you want to know, just ask yourself..."
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Anne didn't want to talk to him, after all, she didn't have to worry about a guy she'd never met!
In comparison, she is more willing to discuss the next 19:00 dinner, such as how many dishes are there, which faction's top chef made it, whether it is half and half meat and vegetables, or five dishes and one soup, and what?
Is there any thick fish soup or something?
Anyway, Annie was very satisfied with the three-fresh soup made by frying wild crucian carp last time, then filtering the fish meat and bones, adding wild mushrooms, fresh meat and tofu.
The chef's craftsmanship is really amazing, it's so fresh and sweet, she's still drooling just thinking about it!
(…)
(●￣￣●)
"ask?"
"I do think so!"
"But I'm just a nobody. Who have the authority to ask that kind of thing?"
Shaking his head, Shi Qiang felt a little dumbfounded, saying that he didn't even dare to think about it.
"I……"
"?!"
However, before he could continue talking to Annie, he suddenly heard a sudden vibration in his steps, as if there was a call coming from him?
"Hello?"
"It's me!"
"What's the matter?"
"right!"
"I'm here, she's in the middle hall of No. 3..."
"Nothing's wrong, I'm just lying down to rest!"
"ah?"
"What?"
"Just now?"
"are you sure?"
"good……"
"I, I know!"
Soon, Shi Qiang, who had finished communicating with someone, put away the walkie-talkie with a solemn expression, then flicked the cigarette in his hand to the pebbles in the courtyard before striding in.
In the hall.
"Annie!"
"Let's go!"
"There are new orders from above and you need me to take you somewhere immediately?"
"The high-speed transport aircraft and escorting fighter planes and troops at the airport outside are all ready."
"Let's go now!"
With that said, Shi Qiang signaled Annie to get up quickly and set off with him.
"Going somewhere?"
(.)
"Why?"
!!!∑(Дノ)ノ
"Don't go!"
()
There was no surprise. After being surprised, Anne flatly refused without thinking.
"I have to finish dinner first, so no one can be invited now!"
()
Then she hurriedly said: The world is huge now, and she, the head of state, Anne, can eat the most by herself!
Before she had enough to eat and drink, it would be useless even if I came, she would not listen to anyone's words, and no one's orders would work!
If you piss her off, she might let her little bear bite someone!
(…)
(●￣￣●)
"ah?"
"this……"
"Well..."
"Okay!"
"Just wait!"
Opening his mouth, Shi Qiang, who knew what Anne was like, hesitated, then remembered a previous order, that is, the order that required him to unconditionally obey and meet Anne's needs. He quickly took out the walkie-talkie and walked to the door.
He was reporting something in a low voice to a certain superior.
"..."
()
But unfortunately, it was useless for him to report to anyone, because Anne was very sure that she really would not go anywhere until she had eaten and drank enough, and the other party's superiors could not control her!
You can’t even go to your superiors!
In fact, if the other party hadn't entertained her with good food, drink and accommodation here, she might have gone to other places to play by herself, and she would have stayed honestly within the scope of the other party's surveillance, as if
Being placed under house arrest?
"alright!"
"The superior agreed!"
"I'm going to go to the kitchen and dining room right now to urge you to finish your meal before setting off?"
As he spoke, he looked at the watch on his wrist and found that there were still about ten minutes until dinner. Shi Qiang quickly picked up the walkie-talkie and said something to the kitchen and some related staff in the restaurant, as if to inform them.
Make meals in advance and so on.
"Let's go!"
"Shall we go to dinner now?"
Then, after he finished speaking quickly, he waved to Anne, indicating that he could go to the dining hall now.
"Yeah!"
ヾ(^^)°
"Let's go have a meal!"
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Things like starting meals in advance would certainly not be rejected by Annie, a little foodie.
So, without needing that shitty uncle to lead the way, she cheered, grabbed her little bear Tibbers and ran outside, and quickly disappeared along a certain corridor as if she was having fun.
(…)
(;￢￢)
"Ha ha--"
"It's really..."
"never mind!"
"I'll go rub it in a little bit too..."
Seeing this, Shi Qiang, who was following behind, shook his head in confusion at first. Then, feeling that he was a little hungry, he thought for a moment, and quickly followed, ready to eat something good too.
Otherwise, if he gets hungry later on the road, he may have no choice but to eat those military compressed biscuits that can break his teeth. And he was injured by eating those kind of things before, but now that he has a choice, it is better to eat less.
It’s better to eat a little.
"Hello!"
"Annie, wait for me"
"No one will rob you -"
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Chapter completed!