Chapter eight hundred and seventy-four: kite string
The golden elevator opened, and the winding and deep corridor appeared in front of us. The warm yellow light was cast from the ceiling light, and a circle of halo appeared after three steps. The figures of Lin Nian and Chu Zihang who were walking in the corridor suddenly dimmed.
Suddenly, the green orchid cinnamon trees on both sides of them were bright green.
This is the fifth floor of the "Senior Xi Luck Overseas Chinese Health Water Club". It is also the first safe harbor established by Kassel College under the cover of the "Bath Center" in the coastal city in accordance with the "Safe Harbor Agreement" of the Executive Department.
It has been operating stably for more than ten years and has protected numerous specialists in emergencies.
There is a light brown security door every five meters or so on both sides of the corridor. What is posted on the door is not the house number, but a uniform silver half-dead world tree. Silver electronic fingerprint locks are encrypted. Behind each security door
They all correspond to emergency measures for different situations. Not to mention arsenals, emergency food reserves and the like are essential. Even if you crawl into the safe harbor with blood all over your body and being disemboweled, you can even find a room here.
Let the doctor operate on you in a sterile operating room.
Of course, in addition to the special emergency rooms, there are also normal room types for the specialists to rest and use. The specifications are normal hotel specifications, and everything is available, but for more, you can only go to the Regent Hotel in the CBD area next door to enjoy it.
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Su Xiaoqiang and Lin Xian were arranged here by Lin Nian earlier. It is considered the safest place in the city. It has implemented perfect confidentiality measures and spent ten years lurking at the roots of the city.
, from the company resume to the business license, etc., no problem can be found. At most, the name of the key supervision target can be seen on the public security anti-pornography list.
Lin Nian and Chu Zihang stopped in front of a security door in the middle and rear of the corridor and knocked on the door, rhythmically three times fast and one slow. The figures flashed behind the peephole. After seeing the faces of the two people outside, the door lock immediately opened.
It was Lu Mingfei who opened the door. After seeing the complete Chu Zihang and Lin Nian, his expression was a little strange and his eyes were a little evasive.
"Well, let me tell you something. Don't be impatient." Lu Mingfei hesitated for a moment and stood at the door without getting out of the way. Instead, they started chatting at the door.
"You let the orthodox 'S' class go?" Seeing Lu Mingfei's look, Lin Nian guessed that something bad had happened, so he immediately assumed the worst case scenario.
"No, she didn't run away, she was inside." Lu Mingfei looked back at the spacious suite inside, without any intention of moving away.
"If you were kidnapped, just blink." Lin Nian stared at Lu Mingfei and said that he could faintly hear the sound of a TV program playing in the room. If he were a thief who broke into the safe house, he would definitely choose to turn on the TV.
Hide your heartbeat and breathing.
But after saying this, Lu Mingfei opened his dark eyes and stared at Lin Nian.
Lin Nian knew something must have happened, so he stopped delaying and took a step forward. Before Lu Mingfei could react, Lin Nian disappeared like a frame skip, leaving only Chu Zihang in the corridor in front of him.
, he turned around in surprise and saw Lin Nian walking into the suite at the back.
This suite is the largest and most complete in the safe house. The surrounding living room is filled with dark blue plush carpets and fully furnished. The surrounding floor-to-ceiling windows are blocked by opaque beige velvet curtains, hiding in the
The LED wall lights at the edge of the wall provide a gentle and bright light source, allowing people to see all the layout of the living room clearly at a glance.
The first thing Lin Nian saw when he walked into the suite was Li Hueyue. After being treated with blood transfusion therapy led by the blonde girl, she temporarily lost her blood. She now behaved quite calmly and honestly, sitting behind the blue glass coffee table with her hands folded on her knees.
She was looking at the TV on the curved couch. Yes, she was watching TV. The comprehensive channel on the LCD TV was broadcasting "Animal World", which was showing the process of polar bears hunting seal cubs.
Li Huoyue raised her head and glanced at Lin Nian without saying anything. Her eyes fell on the paper document that was being held. Her eyes stayed on the torn seal for a moment and then moved away.
"Where are my sister and Su Xiaoqiang?" Lin Nian asked.
"Um, is Su Xiaoqiang in the room?" Lu Mingfei, who was not far away, twitched his lips slightly and pointed to the brown-red door deep in the suite.
"Are they resting?" The safe house seemed safe so far. Lin Nian didn't think much about it and just glanced at the closed door over there.
"I guess so?" Lu Mingfei said dryly, and then immediately changed the subject, "Compared to this, I have your phone number." He quickly walked to the edge of the coffee table and picked up the one that had been covering the table.
The landline microphone was handed to Lin Nian.
"Who's on the other side?" Lin Nian didn't answer the phone.
"People from the academy."
"I know it's someone from the college. I'm just asking who it is. If it's the school board, just hang up."
But before Lu Mingfei could answer, Lin Nian heard the familiar hoarse voice on the phone, "Lin Nian, this is me. With your hearing, you should be able to hear what I said."
The voice of the director of the executive department is always so identifiable, so no matter how chaotic the scene is, the commissioners always only need to find the only hoarse voice.
Lin Nian looked at the phone receiver in Lu Mingfei's hand for a long time, and finally sighed softly, reached out and took it and put it to his ear.
"This is Lin Nian." he said.
"This is Schneider." On the other end of the phone, Executive Director Von Schneider said softly, "You should know the main reason for this call."
"Know."
"Then we need an explanation. The college headquarters needs an explanation. You led the team away from the operation for more than half a day, more than fifteen hours. Your memory is very good. You should know all the regulations in the "Execution Department Specialist Manual"
"Leaving the mission without authorization is a sign of loss of control, and when the situation is bad, it may even be characterized as defection," Schneider said solemnly.
Lin Nian suddenly exhaled, raised his head slightly and looked at the ever-brightening LED wall lamp in the gap at the top of the wall of the suite, "Okay, then consider me a defector."
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"Two 'S' classes, two 'A' classes, and a teacher who defected together. I think the school board's expression will be very exciting when they learn about the situation, right? The hunting commissioner coming to hunt us will be the principal himself.
Or is it the entire 'Owlbird' team that's being compiled?" His tone was very light and filled with a sense of boredom.
The suite suddenly became very quiet. The only thing that could be heard was the deep magnetic voice of the host in "Animal World". Lu Mingfei and Chu Zihang didn't speak, even though Lin Nian put the word "defection" on it.
Of them, the former still had a bit of confusion in his eyes.
"Don't be so childish," Schneider said.
"Don't treat me like a child."
"I never treated you as a child."
"As the head of the executive department, of course you don't. It's the school board that treats me as a child. This phone call should be recorded, right?"
"Yes." Schneider, who was in the central control room of the headquarters, nodded and looked at the silent Manstein beside him.
"Then, let Norma seal the task of handing over to the South Railway Station and put it in storage. The executive department can also contact the school board to tell them that the task is over." Lin Nian said calmly.
"An hour ago, the Logistics Department informed us that we had received a request for help from the frontline commissioner, and that Tower A of the city's Twin Towers had been sealed off. It seems that you have successfully recaptured the document?" Schneider's tone became solemn.
"No, there was some accident. The documents were destroyed during the retrieval process. The enemy's resistance was surprisingly strong."
With that said, Lin Nian casually threw the document bag in his hand on the coffee table. Next to him, Lu Mingfei's facial muscles were twitched hard a few times, then he licked his tongue and turned around to follow him on the sofa from the beginning.
Li Huanyue couldn't take his eyes off and watched "Animal World" together.
"Destroyed?" Schneider was quiet for a while and said, "Are you sure it was destroyed? Did you see the document destroyed in the battle with your own eyes? In some way, there will always be some fragments left, right?"
Lin Nian glanced at Chu Zihang, who nodded calmly, then turned his head, "The indiscriminate release of 'Junyan' caused the documents to be directly burned to ashes, including the enemy's corpse.
You should know the level of Chu Zihang’s speech spirit during the temperature difference test. There should be nothing in that document that can withstand high temperatures better than copper and iron."
"Okay. The 'SS'-level mission will be officially sealed from now on. Due to the special nature of the mission, the mission report can be skipped. Instead, Norma will keep the file based on all the information you have provided before. The phone recording will also be reported to the report truthfully.
School board." Schneider was silent for a few seconds and then answered calmly.
The answer on the other end of the phone was so straightforward, but it made Lin Nian suddenly frown. He was originally ready to sit down and argue with the execution department or even break it up, but the other party suddenly relented. According to his understanding, Schneider was
If you don’t have the authority to do this, could it be that the other party has received new instructions from the school board behind the scenes?
"By the way, have you seen the details of that document?" Schneider asked, "Of course, I mean before the document was destroyed."
Lin Nian paused and looked down at the paper bag on the table. He did not read the contents of the document. All he knew about the document now was that it was a plan from the 'Solomon Temple Society'.
It involves a plan called 'utero', and a name that shouldn't be in the plan appears on it.
He was going to read the document in the paper bag, but just because the situation had been changing before, he temporarily suppressed the impulse. He planned to take out the document at a suitable time, a "frank and honest" time.
If it hadn't been for this phone call from Schneider, he might have pulled out the documents inside.
"No." Lin Nian replied, "What's wrong?"
On the phone, Schneider took a breath and suddenly changed the subject, "Lin Nian, I noticed that you have been very calm since you answered the phone until now."
"Shouldn't I calm down?" Lin Nian frowned slightly, not knowing what this sentence meant.
"Um, Lin Nian." Lu Mingfei suddenly spoke. With the distance he was close to Lin Nian, it was not difficult to hear Schneider's voice on the microphone, so now his expression finally became a little unbearable, and the palms and backs of his hands were bleeding.
sweat.
Li Huanyue, who was sitting on the sofa, slowly turned her attention to a few people at this time. It seemed that a more attractive plot than "Animal World" was about to unfold.
"Um, didn't you ask me just now if your sister and Su Xiaoqiang were the same?" Lu Mingfei said stutteringly.
Dong Dong.
As Lin Nian watched intently, Lu Mingfei was halfway through his words when a knock on the door of the safe house suddenly interrupted him.
Almost instantly, everyone in the suite turned their heads and cast their gazes like knives in front of the open door, where a fat boy was knocking on the door leaning against the wall.
A Ji Ling stood up straight, "Excuse me, I'm looking for Lin Nian?"
Xu Miaomiao.
This name came up in the minds of Lu Mingfei and Lin Nian in the room. No one knew this fat boy except the two of them. But why would he appear here? He could appear anywhere, including pizza at a class reunion.
The gymnasium, the swimming pool of the gymnasium, the basketball court on the street, and even the bath center below the fifth floor of this building, but he should never stand here, in front of the door of this safe house.
Before anyone could react, Xu Miaomiao looked at the environment and people in the suite and thought that the standard of the suite in Foot Washing City was okay, but what was wrong with a group of handsome men and beauties sitting in the room watching "Animal World"?
Or was he out of date and unable to keep up with the taste of the new era? But after making sure that he had not broken any "business", he looked at the coffee table and suddenly saw Lin Nian holding the microphone, "Lin Nian"
Lin Nian?"
"Yes, I am. Are you Xu Miaomiao? Why are you?" Lin Nian didn't have a deep impression of this boy, but he would never forget it. With his memory, he could clearly remember even the faces of passers-by who happened to pass by a few years ago.
stand up.
"Your sister asked me to bring you a message." Xu Miaomiao said quickly after confirming Lin Nian's identity.
"What did you say?" Lin Nian was stunned.
He looked at Xu Miaomiao. Even if it was him, his mind could not turn around for a moment. He subconsciously looked at the door where Lu Mingfei said Su Xiaoqiang and his sister were resting.
"No, Xu Miaomiao, shut up! Lin Nian, listen to me, you must calm down." Lu Mingfei became anxious when he saw Lin Nian turning his head. The lead was always important, but he wanted to ease it up.
, it’s definitely not like Xu Miaomiao suddenly getting in and throwing a torch into the gunpowder pile!
"Shut up! I really came with a verbal message. Do you know how difficult it was for me to find this place?" Xu Miaomiao was choked by Lu Mingfei and retorted angrily. He never had a good temper towards Lu Mingfei. After that,
Then he looked at Lin Nian, compiled his words, and ignored Lu Mingfei who jumped up to push him, and said quickly, "Lin Nian, your sister asked me to tell you that she has some things to deal with and can't take you with her.
Go, I have to go on a long journey alone so that you don’t have to go find her. Oh, by the way, she also asked you to be careful when you go out. Don’t be deceived by pyramid schemes when you go out. Be careful and wait.
She said, Lin Nian, why are you going?"
At the door of the suite, Xu Miaomiao was stunned when she saw Lin Nian dropped the phone receiver in his hand. The phone cord tore down the entire phone and cut off communication. The boy turned around and rushed inside like the wind.
Xu Miaomiao hurriedly took a few steps forward and poked her head in. She saw the boy walking quickly to a brown-red wooden door deep in the suite, and stretched out his hand to open the door!
Behind the brown wooden door, Lin Nian, who was holding the door handle, saw Su Xiaoqiang sitting blankly beside the bed. There were still some water marks on her cheeks, which should be tears.
Did she cry? But why did she cry? Lin Nian didn't know, but at this moment, he finally knew what the bad premonition in his heart was.
After the door opened, Su Xiaoqiang looked up and saw Lin Nian. The two looked at each other. The air was as heavy and thick as gelatin that filled the lungs when inhaled through the nose, making one breathless.
"I'm sorry." Su Xiaoqiang stood up from the bed and looked at Lin Nian with red eyes, "I couldn't keep her, I really tried my best."
Lin Nian didn't hear her speak. He just stood at the door and looked in blankly, but Su Xiaoqiang was the only one in the whole room, and he couldn't find anyone else.
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For the first time in many years, the emotion that the boy thought he had long forgotten and abandoned came back.
Just like when a kite gets tired of the sky and decides to plunge into the sea without hesitation, the little boy who has been running forward on the ground suddenly feels a light touch in his hand. When he looks back, he realizes that the kite string is broken.
On the grass, the little boy looked up at the sky with a look of confusion on his face.