May 17th, Zaoyang County, Middle East.
This county is located at the junction of southwest Asia and North Africa, with the Gulf to the east and the Red Sea to the west. The terrain is high in the west and low in the east. Deserts are widespread. Summers are hot and dry, with the highest temperature reaching over 50 degrees Celsius. The average annual rainfall does not exceed 200 millimeters.
Among these thousands of miles of yellow sand, lies the largest research institute of EAs in the world. Most of the building is buried under the sand, completely enclosed, and occupies a huge area in depth. Energy supply is provided by solar energy and thermal energy conversion devices, which is also one of the empire's secret energy technologies not disclosed to the public.
Underground, a young black man wearing an EAs uniform passed by in the corridor of the institute. His name is Francis, and he is an eas evaluator.
He walked all the way to an office and knocked on the door. The person inside did not say please come in, but directly opened the electronic door through the switch on the desk.
The waiter was sitting there, holding a pen and writing something on a stack of paper.
"Assessor Francis reports to you, sir." Francis stood at attention and said.
The waiter did not raise his eyes to look at him, but responded lightly: "Sit down." He did not say "please" sit down, but only said sit down, which made Francis a little uneasy.
Francis sat down opposite the waiter in a restrained manner: "Deputy Director, regarding the assessment of the blood owl..."
"There is no result." The waiter was still writing with his head down, but decisively interrupted Francis, "The result was expected, so before I sent you, I told the old man that it was a waste of time."
"It's my subordinates who are incompetent." This was all Francis could say.
"Jefferson will never allow prisoners above the level of murder to be taken to the Godless Fog area for testing, and the Blood Owl is not the kind of prisoner who will cooperate with us. According to the judgment of the Tea Fairy, no matter whether it is physical torture or mental He won't give in to the pressure from above, and he doesn't even have to try. Therefore, it's very normal that you can't ask anything." The waiter paused for a moment, and then said: "How can you get out of that meaningless situation? It's good to be freed from the action. As a relatively free person at this stage, you can join my entourage and join the mission in four days."
"Four days later?" Francis thought for a moment and asked, "Is there any urgent mission?" He didn't know Hades Shenwu's escort plan.
"On the 21st, a batch of Shenwu sent to Hell Island will stop briefly in Xingyuelian County." Shi Shi said.
"Is it an escort mission?" Francis was stunned for a moment: "But... Deputy Director, according to regulations, shouldn't the transportation of Shenwu be completed based on the total transportation volume, with a corresponding number of troops and one or two members of the Ten Heavenly Guards? ?”
Shi Shi said: "Yes, it is also equipped like this this time. It will be protected by the accompanying troops plus a heavenly guard."
"Then the mission you just mentioned is something else?"
The waiter's answer immediately shocked Francis: "No, that's it. I'm 70% sure that someone will snatch this batch of divine mist, so we have to go over and prevent this from happening."
"What?" Francis asked, "Is it an ability user? Or a resistance organization? Did the superiors ask us to allocate combat forces to support?"
The waiter turned over the paper in his hand and continued to write furiously. He replied: "The superiors ignored my report and said that it was without evidence and was groundless."
Francis didn't understand what he said: "How could such a thing happen? Don't they believe the authenticity of your report, deputy director?"
"Now that I think about it, it may not be the reason." The tone of the waiter remained unchanged: "Maybe he was irritated by me..."
Francis suddenly understood something, "Well... did you name and curse people in the report again..."
"Your logic is really weird. Why do you say 'again'? The tone is as if I used to curse people in my reports. Swearing in written form has no real lethality unless I can put this kind of insult into words." The information was printed in large quantities and successfully disseminated to the social circle of the person being scolded. But this is a report, not a leaflet, so cursing people in a report is a waste of time. I am not the person to do that kind of thing." He spoke in rapid language. After finishing this paragraph, he took a breath and added: "The reason why the superiors were irritated is probably because I made a very accurate evaluation of the heavenly guards responsible for escorting this time, pointed out their improper employment, and asked them to Immediately send another heavenly guard to participate in the escort, and don't make the same mistake again in the future."
The corner of Francis's mouth curled up instinctively. He could already imagine what the deputy director had written in the report.
"Okay... um... deputy director, who is the heavenly guard responsible for escorting Shenwu this time?"
"The Pinball Man."
Francis almost choked on his own saliva: "You mean Tosaka?"
"Yes, that's him." Shi Shi replied.
"Tosaka is already considered a very strong master among fierce level users... He is no weaker than other heavenly guards."
"It is precisely because of this view that you are the evaluator, and I am the deputy director." Shi Shi's speech was so explicit: "Not counting the damage to the surrounding environment, I can kill him in about ten minutes. Fighting against other heavenly guards will never be so simple."
Francis didn't know what to say, so he processed what he had just heard; "Deputy Director, are you saying that in four days we will participate in the escort operation of Shenwu without authorization?"
"right."
"Then... besides me, who else have you appointed?"
"Myself." Shi Shi replied.
Francis originally thought that these three words should be followed by a period, and then a few names would be announced, but after waiting for about ten seconds, he had to tell himself painfully, and sure enough, those three words were followed by a period.
He covered his face with one hand and said, "Deputy Director, something will happen if you do this."
"Why should I go if nothing happens?" Shi Shi said. The piece of paper in his hand was full of writing. He put the piece of paper at the bottom and started writing the second piece.
"I'm not saying that something will happen to Shenwu, but that something will happen to us, such as being mistakenly injured by one of our own people as a robber, or... if Shenwu makes a mistake, Tosaka will probably pass the responsibility to us, saying that we disrupted the situation. of."
"If he dares to do this, I will spend ten minutes to kill him, and then write a report to scold him." Shi Shi replied quickly. Judging from his speed and tone, this was really not a joke. He had already thought about it. Okay with this extreme response.
Francis cried in his heart: I really should have stayed on Hell Island for a few more days.
He was helpless, took a long breath, and wanted to change the topic: "Deputy Director, I have been paying attention to what you are writing since just now..."
The waiter handed the bottom piece of paper full of words to Francis: "Of course I am practicing pen calligraphy, otherwise why would I use paper and pen? Typing is much faster."
Francis took the paper and found that it was all written with Chinese tongue twisters.
At this moment, he really didn't know whether the person in front of him was unfathomable or a simple freak...
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