Even though Dr. Lingxi eventually became disgraced and chose to commit suicide, in the minds of many people with special abilities, these evil things were all caused by him being coerced by the cruel Gao Tong.

"I'm sorry, regarding this matter, Dr. Lingling...she can't meet people easily, I have to ask Lord Gaotong for permission." Liu Yun forced himself to remain calm, and while speaking, he calmly bit a gravel-sized emergency communicator between his teeth.

This emergency communication device is usually hidden in the back teeth. Once it is broken, the tower headquarters will be alerted and the last few words she said will be received.

Liu Yun wanted to delay Luo Xue and Celis here, and then notify the Tower Headquarters so that Mayor Gao Tong could be informed of the current situation to avoid any further trouble.

Unfortunately...

She was unable to bite the emergency contact device into pieces.

At this moment, Liu Yun saw Celis slowly picking up a small piece of metal with tweezers, with a smile in her narrow eyes.

"I'm sorry, Miss Liu Yun. I played the role of a dentist and helped you extract a diseased tooth."

Celis, who has been in the Federation for many years, is very familiar with these little tricks. Luo Xue might have ignored them, after all, she didn't even know such things existed.

"If you put it that way..."

Liu Yun's face darkened and he looked down at his fingers.

All her manicures had been removed and placed neatly on the bedside table next to her.

Without exception, all the miniature eavesdropping devices above were destroyed.

"The manicurist is only a part-time worker, so he's not very experienced." Celis said regretfully, "I wanted to help you change to a different style, but it's really too late."

Liu Yun finally realized that the other party was well prepared and this was a long-planned sneak attack.

But she didn't even remember the attack, and no evidence was left.

If the issues involved were not so serious, Celis and Luo Xue's action would have been flawless.

"Why do you want to see her?" Liu Yun calmed down a little and asked in a deep voice, "She is just Lingxi's daughter. Lord Gao Tong brought her back to take care of his old friend's daughter..."

"In order to take care of my old friend's daughter...is it necessary to kill an entire settlement of barbarians?"

Before Liu Yun could finish speaking, Luo Xue interrupted her.

Liu Yun was startled and his pupils shrank slightly.

Why...she even knows about this?

In the entire No. 132 Suspended Tower, only a handful of people knew about this matter.

"Xiao Hei, Ah Qi, Xingchen, Wang Lili..."

Luo Xue lowered her eyes slightly and said one name after another.

Memories of the past kept flashing through her mind, one smiling face after another that had long since blurred.

Luo Xue looked up at Liu Yun, with a hint of sadness in her expression.

"Their deaths are all related to you."

Liu Yun was silent for a while, sighed, and said,

"She is on the ninth floor of the Suspended Tower, being cared for by Lord Gao Tong himself...or rather, watched over."

Chapter 143 The Sun Also Rises

The ninth floor of the suspended tower.

This is the top of the entire suspended tower. Compared with the vast first floor, it can only be considered narrow, only the size of a village.

Over the years, the only people who could live here were Gao Tong and Ling Xi, and they were the best of brothers.

But after Lingxi committed suicide, Gao Tong rarely stayed on the ninth floor.

The ninth floor therefore remained closed until Ling Ling arrived.

After Ling Ling came to the suspended tower, she lived her daily life on the ninth floor. She was also the only person who could enter and exit the ninth floor at will without the mayor's order.

Qualcomm, on the other hand, didn't really stay here. Today he just decided to come up here for a short rest.

There is a lookout window on the ninth floor that can see the rooms outside. This is the only place in the suspended tower that can directly see the outside world except for the main control room.

Gao Tong sat in a wheelchair, hunched over slightly with his hands folded.

At this moment, he no longer looked like the omnipotent lord of the suspended tower or the powerful mayor of Qualcomm, but rather like a lonely old man.

That’s right, although Qualcomm looks like a middle-aged man, he is actually already an old man.

Another difference between people with special abilities and cultivators is that their lifespans are much shorter.

Gao Tong possesses combat power equivalent to that of a Jindan, but his lifespan is almost the same as that of an ordinary person.

A cultivator who is over ninety years old can still look like a teenager, while a person with special abilities who is over ninety years old already looks old and wrinkled.

"..."

Gao Tong looked out the observation window without saying a word. Endless darkness enveloped the entire earth and the clouds.

He looked over and saw endless natural disasters churning on the ground. Every time a disaster struck, a group of people were displaced and forced to embark on the journey of finding a new home.

It also means that countless lives will forever remain in natural disasters.

After the fall of the previous civilization, the new human civilization has gone through twelve days and nights, but...how much longer can it go? Can it go on?

Qualcomm doesn't know.

He just felt that he was just doing what he should do, regardless of whether others could understand it or not.

"Little Doctor, you're here?"

Gao Tong said lightly.

As soon as he finished speaking, a petite figure beside him jumped like a frightened white rabbit.

"ah!"

"Hmm... your footsteps have become much lighter, I almost didn't hear them clearly, could it be that you have awakened?"

Gao Tong turned around very slowly, and his calm eyes fell on the trembling little girl, and softened his tone, "Don't be nervous, I'm just asking."

There had been rumors that Lingxi had used normal awakening potions on her daughter, but only Gao Tong knew that this was a rumor.

Not to mention that the so-called normal awakening potion does not exist at all, and no breakthrough had been made in the research until Lingxi's death, not to mention that Lingxi wished his daughter was just an ordinary person to avoid being involved in these troubles.

In Lingxi’s own words, the so-called people with special abilities are just “patients”.

Lingling had been tested when she was born, and it was found that like her father and mother, she did not have the potential to be a person with special abilities.

Gao Tong has always followed the wishes of his old friend and has no intention of using the awakening potion on Lingling.

Therefore, if Ling Ling awakens her ability, Gao Tong would be more worried.

"No..."

Lingling hid slightly behind the wheelchair, not wanting to meet Gao Tong's eyes.

"Perhaps after arriving at the suspended tower, the food has improved and my physical condition has improved a lot."

Gao Tong smiled and didn't care about Ling Ling's vigilance.

He looked toward the horizon again, as if waiting for something.

Lingling stuck her head out curiously, but saw nothing. Looking out the window, there was only desolate darkness.

As if he had noticed Ling Ling's doubt, Gao Tong said slowly,

"Wait, wait a moment..."

What are you waiting for?

Before Lingling asked her question, she knew what Gao Tong was waiting for.

A sun emitting a faint golden color was looming, its light piercing through the fog covering the sky, and casting weak but tenacious sunlight on the observation window.

warm.

"Wow..."

Looking at this scene, Ling Ling couldn't help but be stunned.

She knew the sun, but it had never appeared during the Twelfth Night of her short first half of life.

The long dark night is the main theme of this world.

"The thirteenth day of the new civilization era... is coming soon." Gao Tong said lightly, "The sun now is the mildest sun... but when the time comes, it will be the most terrible natural disaster. Haha, you will miss the night."

"Oh..."

Lingling was still in a daze. She looked at the increasingly bright sun, as if she was seeing the most beautiful thing in the world. She greedily cherished every minute of looking directly at it.

"It is said that before the natural disaster, the ancient civilization had been using the power of the sun to drive these natural disaster engines. It was a prosperous civilization that is difficult to achieve today. It's a pity that we can't see that magnificent era anymore."

Gao Tong muttered to himself, as if chatting with Ling Ling, "I have always wondered why the new civilization era was able to survive the natural disaster that even such a great previous civilization could not resist. Is this considered a kind of luck?

"Does this mean that the New Era of Civilization is actually a civilization that is in danger of extinction? No matter how it develops, it will not be able to get out of the current predicament?

"If that's the case...is there any point in our efforts?"

Gao Tong muttered under his breath.

Although Lingling came to her senses, she couldn't understand what Gao Tong said at all.

So Lingling thought about it, activated the necklace slightly, and transmitted all these words.

Soon, the necklace responded and it appeared directly in Lingling's mind.

"Life will always come to an end one day, but we cannot rashly deny the meaning of life just because it has an 'end' and an 'ending'. Because the meaning of life does not just lie in 'length' and 'continuation', the brilliance of a moment is still brilliant, and human civilization... should be the same." Ling Ling blurted out.

Hearing this, Gao Tong suddenly turned his head and looked at Ling Ling. His eyes at this moment made Ling Ling feel unfamiliar.

"Uncle Gao, what...what happened?" Ling Ling shrank her head, "Did I say something wrong..."

"...I think it's wrong, but it's not wrong." Gao Tong's eyes flickered slightly, and he slowly leaned back on the wheelchair, "He thinks I'm wrong, and I think he's wrong, but we are still brothers.

"He believes in the power of life, and I uphold the heaviness of civilization. We are not on the same path... Perhaps the tragedy was destined when we met."

"Well..."

Lingling didn't dare to input these words into the necklace again, for she was afraid of saying something wrong again.

"Little Doctor... Thanks to you, I thought I would never have the chance to chat with him again in this life." Gao Tong had a faint smile on his face, but it contained a sincerity that he rarely showed in many years.

"...who?"

Lingling poked her head in.

"Your father." Gao Tong exhaled slowly, raised his hand tremblingly, and pointed to the horizon, "Look... This is the sun, our mother, the source of our disaster.

"In the face of such a magnificent existence, all the joys and sorrows of mankind are not worth mentioning."

The disagreement between Qualcomm and Lingxi lies in whether to achieve the goal at all costs. Lingxi's answer is no, while Qualcomm has been walking alone on an incomprehensible path.

Lingling didn't know what to say. She only knew that Uncle Gao was saying some abstruse words, which were difficult for her to listen to, let alone understand.

If we interpret it with the necklace, Uncle Gao will have that kind of expression...

However, if Lingling could really understand Gao Tong, Gao Tong would not have said these things in front of her.

Only in front of Ling Ling did Gao Tong dare to reveal the tip of the iceberg of his long and terrifying plan.

This is an absolute secret that cannot be mentioned.

The two of them stayed like this quietly for a while, watching the looming sun gradually become brighter. Even the weak sunlight had a bit of warmth. Finally, Gao Tong's curled up posture changed.

He sat up slowly, straightened his back, and had the majestic look of a general planning a strategy.

The cold and indifferent eyes were looking straight ahead, but not at the sun, but at the endless distance.

"Failed."

Qualcomm said slowly.

No one passed the news to him, no one told him that everything had been arranged, and no one reported the battle situation to him... Qualcomm already knew that they had failed again, and it was a more devastating failure than two years ago.

Two years ago, after Night Owl brought Ling Ling back to the suspended tower, the sealed information in the archives bureau finally came to the time to be destroyed.

Qualcomm himself is responsible for these files that record past events and secrets, and there is no possibility that they will be leaked.

Gao Tong thought that these secrets would be buried out of everyone's sight until the plan was completed, but he didn't expect that Ye Xiao actually got these files from Ling Ling...

After Ling Ling resonated with the necklace, some confidential memories that had not been processed were reflected in her mind, including some dusty past.

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