He hasn't changed much since the last time we met. It's just that his temperament is always more angular when he is outside than at home.
"Did you ever think of coming here again?" Jiang Qi said casually to a person beside him after taking off his mask.
The man also took off the mask while cutting his hair, and said with emotion: "I can't say that, when I secretly built this place, I still thought that it would end things here, but who told us to do that? Dianback was bombed to death! I can only hope that later people will inherit their legacy, but I didn't expect that there will be a day when they will stand here again."
It was a small man with reddish brown hair, with a shrewd look and a freckled nose. He picked up the corner of his mouth at Jiang Qi and made a helpless and self-deprecating smirk.
"What is it?" Tang licked his ears, feeling that he might have had auditory hallucinations, "By what? Killed?"
Chu Si did not show a surprised expression, but frowned, looked away from Jiang Qi, and landed on the freckled man's face. As a specially trained person, Chu Si's memory of human faces is still very good.
The freckled face looked very familiar to him. It only took him less than a second to remember where he had seen—
"Barneysburg Incident..." Chu Si said.
Don was much younger than Chus, and he was probably just born when the Barneysburg incident happened.
Shao Heng was about the same age as Chu Si, so he frowned after hearing what he said, "Is he involved in the Barneysburg incident?"
The Fort Barney incident in 5667 involved a large number of rebels who colluded with the military headquarters and the general government. During the whole process of the purge, more than 400 people died, including the rebels and the suppressing army. , innocent people involved, etc... It was the largest casualty incident on the planet in thirty-five years.
Because Jiang Qi died in this incident, Chu Si paid special attention to the information related to the Barneysburg incident for a long time. Some volumes have been turned over many times. So this face he will never miss, it is on the death roll of the Barneysburg incident.
"No way, who made the other party's eyes poisonous, we all pretended to be so unfamiliar." A tall lady with pale blond hair also answered next to her.
Chus had an impression of the mole at the corner of her eye—this one was also on the death roll for the Barneysburg incident.
He suddenly had a hunch...
Most of the group of people in the video lifted their masks, and Chu Si looked at them one by one...
Shao Heng glanced at his face and realized something. He opened his mouth and asked, "Could it be that there are a lot of people in the Barneysburg incident?"'
Chu Si nodded, "It is conservatively estimated that more than 50 people died in the Barneysburg incident."
Among them are the military department, the general government, the security building, some elderly people with gray hair, and a few young people. They are all fixed in the age of fifty years ago.
"I saw the old man!" Shao Heng pointed to the other corner of the screen. The old man was combing his hair that was messed up by the protective mask with his fingers. Among this group of people, he seemed to be more relaxed than usual, not so much. serious.
When Jiang Qi turned around, his eyes just met him, and the expressions of the two became complicated in an instant, and they seemed to have many emotions.
The last time they met, Jiang Qi was still stepping on the tail of the prime, and the old man Shao had just stepped into the middle-aged head. This time, when they met again, Jiang Qi was still stepping on the tail of the prime, but the old man Shao was already gray.
There are a few faces in the group, which can vaguely overlap with the one in the graduation photo of Mr. Shao, but the temperament has changed a lot, and they are more mature and calm, and they will no longer make trouble like a joke in the photo. In a group.
It can be heard from the few conversations just now that these people were not eager to communicate with each other during those years. Under many scruples and disguises, they may be more like strangers than strangers, but standing in this secret In the underground space, they are all friends.
"If—" Shao Heng said, "if these people are on our side, I have a terrible guess."
If he didn't say it, Chu Si also knew what that conjecture was, because he was also thinking about this question—
Could the so-called Fort Barney incident be a pretense at all? The purpose of the whole incident may be to wipe out this group of people. The so-called implication may not be an accidental injury at all, but a precise strike.
If that was the case, the situation might be a little worse than he thought. Because in the original Fort Barney incident, even a military general died. After that general died, Merton, who was originally a lieutenant general, was promoted to the position of general because of his achievements in cleaning up the rebellion and became one of the three heads of state of the military.
At that time, Medela in the graduation photo was at the same level as Jiang Qi and was also a lieutenant general. Medela was not promoted to the rank of general until 5707, when an admiral stepped down due to his age.
The year after that, Chus was promoted to the youngest chief executive of the Security Building.
That is to say, Admiral Medela's foundation is likely to be not much different from Chu Si's foundation in the Security Building.
"Come on, don't waste time, debug all these instruments." Jiang Qi raised his finger and signaled everyone to listen, "Turn off all communication equipment for a while, and finally come to this point, don't make any mistakes here. If it blows up, then we probably have to go back to the coffin and cry."
After he finished speaking, he patted the shoulder of Mr. Shao and led him to the depths.
Those people really looked serious and found out that all communication devices and liaison instruments were all turned off. Sae Young knocked briefly in his ear—
"Hold on."
Then, video and communication are cut off at the same time.
Coincidentally, as soon as the communication here was cut off, Le Pen sent a message there saying that the connection was being prepared, and Chu Si immediately asked Roger to open the gate that had been prepared in advance.
The group of them took the fastest passage, so in just two or three minutes, the training camp team brought people into the command center.
No matter it is Jin or the small mop, there is neither panic nor doubt on his face, and he seems to be aware of the upcoming conversations.
"Since we're here, I don't need to add any more opening remarks." Chu Si signaled that they could all sit down, while he leaned against the console, folded his arms and said calmly, "I don't know if Miss Le Pen is with you. I mentioned my guess, if not, then I'll confirm it again—"
His eyes fell on Jin and said, "Do you know my adoptive father Jiang Qi, Mr. Fergus?"
Jin sat in the chair and looked at him eagerly, and laughed dryly, "I knew that one day I would be exposed..."
Chus turned his attention to the small mop again, "Should I call you Ms. Cabel?"
Esther Cabel stared at Chus for a long time with big black eyes, and then showed a rare gentle and bright smile, and tapped a series of answers on the armrest of the seat with his fingers: "Of course you can. , if you don't feel awkward looking at me like this."
Shao Heng said very honestly beside him: "To be honest, it's very awkward."
Cabell turned to look at him silently.
Shao Heng raised his hands: "Okay, don't be embarrassed, please continue. I just wanted to say that I admired you very much since I was a child."
Kabel knocked a few more times: "Thank you."
This scene is actually very strange, and everyone in the training camp team is dumbfounded. Because when Esther Cabel was a little mop with a memory loss, she didn't care at all, and even a smile was extremely rare. Suddenly, it became vivid, and everyone was a little difficult to adapt.
Even Jin Du said without words: "When I first found out that you are Kabel, it scared me to death."
Cabell looked at him blankly.
Jin shook his hand: "When I didn't say it."
Chu Si looked at them for a moment and said, "Okay, since my guess is correct, can you tell me what's going on now? Even if there is a personal relationship, I still need to confirm your position and threat. Everyone here has to be held accountable."
Jin hesitated for a moment, Chu Si saw his eyes and added, "Our pursuit team is blocked from the time-space curve, in fact, no matter what you say to me now, you are always on the other side of the curve. I can't stop them from doing their thing, but if we're on the same page, I believe there's always something I can do... I hope we're on the same page."
I don't know which sentence in this sentence hit Jin's point right, which made him a little ecstatic, as if he was thinking about something. After being silent for a while, he looked at Kabel again, then took a deep breath and spit it out again: "Okay, okay... Although you are not Jiang's own son, you sometimes have a different tone from his expression. It's really similar."
"I think you've got a little bit of information about the time experiment as well. I figured out what to say... When my dad and I first got into the time experiment, we were still in school, oh, the time on the Black Swan. Design projects. Of course, we didn't know the existence of time experiments at that time, but we only encountered some clues in the design process. For example, the design requirements emphasized reducing time flow obstacles, etc., but that project was presided over by the military after all. So we didn't suspect anything at first. But as the project progressed, we saw something that our self-concept couldn't contain…”
"Like?" Chus asked.
"When the first batch of semi-finished products of Black Swan was used for the mimic experiment, the participants in the experiment were a group of children ranging from 2 to 4 years old. I am quite extreme. In my eyes, it is not good to lie to the little ghosts to make experiments. things." Jin said, "When I first discussed the height of the black swan, I said that the height was not suitable for actual combat, there were too many drawbacks and needed to be revised, but it was rejected by the project host, saying that it was not a big problem. At that time I did not Understand, when I saw the group of children, I had a not-so-good guess - I suspected that the main target of the Black Swan might be children."
"At that time, the intuition was too strong. I discussed with Jiang privately and felt that if the project went ahead smoothly, it might develop in some uncontrollable direction, so when we finally finalized the template for the finished product, we made some minor changes. , the result... you should know."
As a result, the Black Swan was retired directly.
"This matter is the initial introduction. After several years until graduation, we never came into contact with anything related to it. I stayed at the White Eagle Military Academy to lead a research project, and Jiang went to the combat department of the military department, there I met two very good girls, one is Kabel who is in front of you, and the other is Elena. Later, the military needed to set up an organization dedicated to cultivating special talents, and Elena was transferred over and founded A special training camp. Cabell was transferred to the military research institute... "
The two girls who were like sisters led the whole thing to the beginning one after another.
First, Esther Cabel began to lose contact with relatives and friends frequently because of the need to participate in some highly confidential research. Then it was Elena who started to lose contact frequently because of some classified missions.
Later, in a casual chat, through some irrelevant information, they vaguely realized that some of the things they did with the other party seemed to be in conflict.
Cabell's research and Elena's mission belong to the same military department, but there are some contradictions that cannot be ignored.
Later, Jiang Qi also transferred to the research institute under the hint of Kabel. Originally, he wanted to have one more person to discuss. Who knew that the projects they participated in were different, and the difference was 108,000 miles.
"Fortunately, we have all grown our minds. If Fergus was in the military research institute, I am afraid that he would have lived for two years." The young Kabel tapped a string on the armrest.
Jin nodded without temper, and said: "The one who clearly told us about the time experiment at first was this well-minded Miss Cabell, which was her main research project. After she could really get in touch with the core content, she felt that the experiment The direction and development of it is terrifying.”
"And let us realize that it's not just a simple study, it's impossible to just stop it, it's Elena. She found out that the time experiment is much more complicated than we thought during a classified mission, the City of Silver It is its biggest technical and financial support, and it also involves more than half of the high-ranking people in the military, as well as part of the general government and security buildings."
"It made us connect with each other privately and became a not-so-dignified team. At first we also thought about straight punches, but Elena disappeared on a mission to the City of Silver, and it wasn't until a year later that we finally Confirming that she has... Soon after, her upline in the City of Silver also died, followed by the transfer of her immediate superior in the military, and a sudden death in the office a few months later. These things forced us to seek a more secure detour The way… "
Esther Cabel came up with a risky idea - since there is no way to pry the time experiment directly from the outside, dig a way back inside. As a result, what happened in the video happened later.
At first, everyone thought that Cabell hadn't had time to do anything yet. Until one day, Jiang Qi tried his best to secretly contact one of Kabel's students and got a research draft. From the encrypted information in it, he learned that Kabel had actually achieved results.
She designed a "grid" scheme that can remotely connect time experiments.
Therefore, Jiang Qi kept in touch with the time experiment but not in-depth in order to understand the latest progress and news, while he took over Kabell's plan and quietly built a secret laboratory under Barney Fort to realize Kabell's plan. the design of.
As a result, when about 80% of the completion, I encountered the Barneysburg incident.
"And during that time, we also found a deeper purpose behind the time experiment."