Blonde hair, parted hair, handsome, with the last name of Kennedy.
All the characteristics point to this male passenger eating a hamburger being a being hailed as a legend by Umbrella intelligence agents——
Lyon.
But the "legend" just woke up and seemed a little hungry, so he didn't chew much and swallowed the burger in three to five times.
After eating, he picked up the tissue on the table, wiped his hands, balled them up, and threw them into the trash can not far away.
"~"
The paper ball fell into the bucket in a perfect parabola.
The way Leon eats and his actions after eating are no different from ordinary people, and his every move is not as meaningful as the new employees imagined.
After throwing the paper ball, he turned to look at the porthole with a beautiful view.
The "sparkling" blue light shines into the cabin through the portholes, and also reflects on the steak, which has long since dissipated.
The space outside the window is a luminous "tunnel" shaped like water droplets falling on a calm lake, causing ripples.
The civilian cruise ship Lyon was on was undergoing a jump voyage, as the stewardess and purser had talked about.
The inner wall is like a "tunnel" with ripples of water and light, which circumvents the limitations of the real universe, allowing humans to cross the fault space of the star system.
"Rookie." At this time, the door of the master bedroom was open, and Miss Wang approached the dining table and said in a frivolous tone:
"You actually ate without waiting for me. We are a very loving couple. It seems it's time to confiscate your salary card so that you can remember it for a long time."
"That's just a fake identity to cover up..." Upon hearing the other party's words, Leon's brows suddenly frowned.
He withdrew his gaze from admiring the fault space, turned to look at Miss Wang, who had short black hair that didn't reach her shoulders and was wearing red pajamas, and said slightly tiredly:
"I have worked for the company for more than 40 years, so I am no longer a rookie, right?"
She likes to wear red clothes and is called Miss Wang by Leon, which shows that she is also one of Umbrella's top intelligence agents, Ada Wang.
But Ada is not as famous as Leon among the company's intelligence agents. After all, she always performs espionage-type tasks, and most files are not accessible to even A-level employees.
"A rookie in his sixties does sound a bit awkward, but I can't think of a better term, so I'll stick with rookie."
Ada sat across from Leon, cut the steak into small pieces, put it into her mouth, chewed it quietly and swallowed it.
"..." Leon was speechless.
He originally wanted to reply, "You are an old woman who is almost seventy years old," but after thinking about the consequences, he swallowed his words.
Moreover, the two parties have cooperated many times, and their tacit understanding is far better than other colleagues, so Leon knows that the woman in front of him just likes to tease him.
As for age…
Leon, who was born in 1977, is now sixty-five years old in 2042.
Thanks to the delaying medicine and the company's cutting-edge nanomedicine, he is a young and handsome husband in the eyes of the stewardess and flight attendant.
However, he and Ada used fake identities and had a fake relationship as husband and wife.
In addition, knowing that behind the current peace, there is an alien space and the threat of alien races, even though his body is still young, Leon is really too lazy to think about starting a family and devotes himself to work.
And Ada sitting in front of me...
Leon shook his head slightly and shrugged his shoulders, indicating that after living for almost seventy years, he still couldn't understand a woman's thoughts.
"Dear passengers, please pay attention." When Ada was about to finish her steak, the two of them heard the captain's voice coming from the broadcast placed in the passage:
"I am the captain of the Poseidon, Kurt Ramsey. On behalf of the entire crew and crew, I would like to say hello to everyone. This flight is expected to arrive at its destination, Arcadia, in forty minutes.
The surface temperature of District 07, the city where Star Port is located, is 32°C. The time is 1:10 pm on June 13th. There is a six-hour time difference from the Earth's Atlantic time. It is a good weather to go to the beach to cool off, haha.
One more personal suggestion to all passengers, that is, after packing up, rush to the nearest panoramic cabin as soon as possible, so that you can directly watch the beautiful scenery of the ship leaving the fault space and reaching the near gravity range of Arcadia.
Finally, all passengers please check your personal luggage, do not leave your belongings behind, and be ready to disembark, thank you."
"It took less than twenty-four hours to cover a distance of more than a hundred light years. The Poseidon is indeed the third fastest civilian cruise ship." Ada picked up a tissue and wiped the corner of her mouth.
"There are still forty minutes." Leon took out the thin phone he kept in the side pocket of his pajamas and asked, "Have you finished packing your luggage?"
"Of course." Ada folded the oil-stained paper towels and threw them into the trash can behind her. Her expression was no longer as frivolous as before, but she said slightly more seriously:
"Leon, what do you think of the strangeness of the Acadia colony?"
"Not sure."
Leon placed the unlocked mobile phone flat on the dining table, then called up a small three-dimensional star map, shook his head lightly and said:
"Everything needs to be investigated locally to determine whether Arcadia is a regular case or a potential anomaly that we are not aware of."
While Leon was talking, the three-dimensional star map showed the entire Milky Way to the two of them.
He continued to debug, zooming in on the Orion cantilever where the solar system is located, and then presented a full view of the Arcadia colonial galaxy, as well as brief written information.
Through star maps and information, the two of them can understand Arcadia's information more intuitively.
If the star map is viewed as a plane, then the galaxy where Arcadia is located is on the "left" side of the solar system, about 160 light-years away, and belongs to the remote colony on the edge of human territory.
The star is 1.4 times the mass of the sun, so Arcadia, which is located in the fourth orbit, is in the habitable zone of this galaxy, making it convenient for humans to modify it.
The first batch of colonial fleets arrived in 2024, and it took only seven years for the Arcadia environment to be terraformed.
Because the surface gravity is 1.03 times that of the earth, it helped the colonists save the cost of building artificial gravity facilities.
Knowing that Acadia's pleasant environment, even the most marginal colony, still attracted a large number of colonists to come to open up wasteland, live and live.
After nearly two decades of development, Arcadia's population is approximately 270 million, accounting for one percent of the total human population.
Today, Arcadia has become a planet rich in food and tourist attractions, and its GDP has long been among the top twenty colonial planets.
It's just that the Arcadia metropolitan area seems to be a little unstable recently.
In a city with 130 million people living there, there are some differences in mortality and disappearance rates.
In fact, this kind of fluctuation is normal for a metropolitan area of this size, but the local Sheriff's Department has no clue about most cases, which arouses Umbrella's concern.
Although, like the main planets of all colonized systems, a large relay station has been set up that uses fault space for communication and is guarded by Krieg, there is still a delay in the connection between Arcadia and Earth.
Moreover, Umbrella has less investment in Arcadia, and Krieg, who is good at combat, is also unable to investigate anomalies.
Therefore, in order to confirm whether the deaths and disappearances were still normal cases, and to avoid alerting others, the company dispatched Leon and Ada, who have rich experience.
At this time, Leon waved his hands outward, expanding the star map until it locked the northern hemisphere of Arcadia, showing Ada a large-scale urban area with a regular layout, and then pointed to the northernmost side.
Said: "This is where the Krieg 087 Regiment is stationed. The Red Queen has secretly notified them to assist us in our investigation and provide fire support when necessary."
Then he pointed to the west and said: "This is where the UNSC 203rd Infantry Division is stationed. They take over the defense of the entire metropolitan area.
Considering confidentiality, the 203rd Infantry Division does not know about our visit, but if the situation goes beyond expectations, they can also provide sufficient assistance."
"Yeah." Ada nodded and asked softly: "So what is your plan?"
Hear the words.
Leon did not reply in a hurry, but with a slight swipe of his right hand, he switched the star map to the file of a deceased person in his early thirties.
Said: "This guy's body was discovered three days ago in the man-made river of the drainage channel by workers responsible for cleaning the underground sewage system in District 04. This is what he looks like today."
After Lyon's words fell, the automatically played file showed Ada the photos of the deceased being transported to the morgue of the Sheriff's Department and taken by the forensic doctor.
The deceased, who originally looked pretty, had his face swollen as if soaked in hair, all his hair fell out, and his skin was covered with green and yellow pustules.
Ada had browsed the deceased's file before boarding the Poseidon. Even after eating, she didn't feel too sick, and she even observed the details of the corpse up close.
Lyon explained to her: "The medical examiner said that the deceased had no obvious trauma, and the cause of death was presumed to be sudden death.
However, the forensic doctor pointed out in the report that the deceased had undergone a physical examination before his death. Except for high blood sugar, all indicators were within a healthy range, and there was no reason to suspect sudden death.
Moreover, those who died mysteriously recently were left unrecognizable after death, with their bodies festering."
"I know." Ada sat back down and continued: "And when the Public Security Department mobilizes personnel to conduct a large-scale investigation, this kind of case will disappear in an instant, but once the Public Security Department relaxes its vigilance, someone will die again."
"So we have to investigate as civilians to make the real culprits behind the scenes relax their vigilance. As for your plan..."
Leon closed the file screen, picked up the phone and left the seat, turned around and walked towards his bedroom, shook his left hand holding the phone and said:
"It's about adapting to circumstances. After all, no matter how much information the company provides, it's better to rush to the city to investigate in person. Okay, change your clothes and get ready to disembark."
"good."
Ada agreed with Leon's words and then returned to her bedroom to change clothes.
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…
Shortly after.
The first-class cabin area of the Poseidon is like a large panoramic cabin in the sky garden, with more than two hundred passengers of different identities and ages gathered.
Several younger children were chasing each other, and there were also teenagers who were just playing handheld games.
But more passengers are viewing the beautiful scenery of the fault space through the curved portholes on the cabin roof, even like traveling outside the ship.
One of the "young couples" was Leon, who was wearing casual jeans and a white shirt, and Ada, who was wearing a red cheongsam that highlighted her figure, holding Leon's left arm with both hands, and smiling happily.
Lyon also showed a light smile that didn't look fake, and perfectly blended in with the tourists coming for vacation.
After all, acting is one of the basic skills of an intelligence agent.
!
Suddenly, a dazzling white light flashed by
"Look!"
"What a nice view…"
Immediately afterwards, there were sighs from the crowd, and the scenery outside the cabin also changed from the fault space to a universe full of stars.
The most intoxicating thing for people is that in the universe, the atmosphere reflects light blue arc light, just like Arcadia on the second Earth.
The Poseidon sailed out of the fault space and began to sail using conventional power, gradually approaching the sunny side of Arcadia.
"First class passengers, please pay attention." The steward's reminder came over the broadcast: "The Poseidon is expected to arrive at the star port in six minutes, and the ferry boat prepared for you is ready."
After saying the reminder.
The three gates at the end of the panoramic cabin unfolded, and the elevators behind the gates lit up with soft lights in sequence.
"Everyone, please come with us."
"This way, this way, don't push."
The flight attendants who were also in the panoramic cabin were divided into three groups to guide all the tourists.
"Let's go, my dear husband." Ada put her lady's satchel on her back and took the first step.
"Hey, woman..."
Leon shook his head and smiled, holding their suitcases with both hands, and followed Ada and the crowd into the central elevator.
The elevator then took everyone to the hangar in the belly area of the Poseidon, and the corridor bridge was directly connected to the entrance and exit of the elevator, allowing Leon, Ada and others to transfer directly to the ferry boat.
Outside the ship.
The Poseidon, which is 1,500 meters long and painted white, has entered Arcadia's atmosphere.
Descending height.
Through the clouds.
Then it flew at a low altitude on the reflected wave light, the color of which was biased towards the turquoise sea surface, and the urban area at the front of the ship's bow also appeared within the visual field of view of the bridge.
The Poseidon passed by the crowded beach, and then passed by different urban areas filled with towering giant buildings, and a large number of airships shuttled between the buildings.
At this time, the Poseidon began to slow down until it reached Area 07, a bustling area, and finally hovered above the airport in the center of Area 07 with other cruise ships and cargo ships.
After the Poseidon came to a stop, dozens of ferry boats left the hangar, carrying passengers and checked baggage, and landed on the airport apron.
…
More than twenty minutes passed.
In the square at the north gate of the airport.
Leon, with the blazing sun above his head, pushed a cart filled with luggage, and walked with Ada, who was using her mobile phone, towards the end of the square where the fence was installed.
Out of the corner of his eye, he caught a glimpse of the word "rent" on the screen of Ada's mobile phone, as well as thumbnails of various vehicles and civilian airships. Leon immediately stretched out his left hand and gently tugged on Ada's right arm.
"What's wrong?" Ada stopped.
She was a little confused at first, but when she saw Leon's smiling expression, Ada instantly understood what this "legendary" intelligence agent was thinking.
"No way..." She locked the screen of her phone and said helplessly: "Do we still need to take a taxi?"