The consultant was taken to a black limousine by Mirror Face. Gates was already sitting in the car waiting. The driver, dressed in a black suit and black sunglasses, saw Mirror Face and the consultant get into the car. He stepped on the accelerator and drove towards the Freedom Front stronghold. go.
"Aren't you going to put a hood on me or something like that?" the consultant asked.
"Is it necessary? Information such as the total driving time of this car, speed changes, turns and stops, including the city's traffic lines, the noise and even the smell of the surrounding environment, can all support your reasoning. Depending on your With your memory and analytical skills, as long as you are given a map, you will know the exact location of your destination within five minutes," Gates said.
The consultant smiled and said, "You flatter me too much."
"Your mind is indeed worth showing off. I'm just stating the facts, not flattering you." Gates replied: "You don't have to pretend to be humble and seek to feel good about yourself."
The consultant shrugged: "Okay, okay..." He glanced at the mirror face next to him, and then said to Gates: "Since you have cooperated with Mr. Mirror Face, you should also know about me, Tianyi, and the reverse cross. Some information, just now you were lying on the bench and asked me so many questions, what's the point?"
Gates did not answer, but the hoarse voice of the mirror-faced person interjected: "Of course, it is because listening to you yourself say some words again can prove the authenticity of what I said."
"Oh?" the consultant said, "It seems that you haven't been hanging out with the Freedom Front for a long time."
"It's just a relationship of mutual use." Jing Mian said bluntly.
Gates smiled and said: "Please don't say that, Mr. Mirror Face. It's not that I personally don't believe the information you provided. It's just that the organization has always been skeptical of one-sided statements without circumstantial evidence."
"Hahaha..." The consultant laughed: "What if Mirror Face is the undercover agent I sent to break into you? Isn't it natural that his information matches what I said? Even if I die, he will have successfully obtained He has gained your trust. The next step is that he will lead you into the trap set by the Anti-Cross. Oh, by the way, if he is an undercover agent, you can't even believe the three words "Anti-Cross" because our organization It may be called by some other name, you have only heard of the name "Inverse Cross" from Jing Mian and I, there is no circumstantial evidence."
Gates did not comment on such unreasonable and ironic remarks: "If things are really as you assumed, you would be a little too bold. In order to play psychological warfare, you would tell the whole plan. Let me think that what you said On the contrary, it can't be true, and you are ready to 'die'. You said you have no faith. Would a person without faith do such a thing?" Gates picked up the mini bar in the car and put it in his car. He took a sip of the drink and said calmly: "To take a step back, even if there is such an undercover plan, it should be based on the Freedom Front rejecting the conditions proposed by the organization behind you, and how do you know, Will we definitely reject the reverse cross? I am just taking you back to talk to the decision-makers, not for interrogation.
Is it possible that your organization planned to have trouble with us from the beginning? Then there is no need to put forward any conditions, just choose to completely hack the matrix system and let the empire deal with us? "
The consultant sneered and did not answer his words. Instead, he turned to the mirror and said, "Do you have any opinion on this matter? If the Anti-Cross and the Freedom Front eventually become a cooperative relationship, what is your position?"
The mirrored face was silent for a few seconds, and the voice under the mask sounded again: "You don't need to worry about this."
When the consultant heard this, he had already guessed the truth about the cooperation between Mirror Face and Freedom Front. Mirror Face must have taken the initiative to collude with Freedom Frontline, and the plan he proposed was also very simple. Freedom Frontline could obtain the technology in the bookstore, and he only needed to take revenge on Tianyi.
Therefore, it is not that the reverse cross wants to plot against the Freedom Frontline, but that the Freedom Frontline has been thinking about plotting against the reverse cross since meeting the mirror face.
Before yesterday, they were still struggling to find any clues about the bookstore, but they didn't expect that they had gone through all the trouble and couldn't find it. It didn't take any effort. The consultant actually hacked into the matrix system and got in touch with the Freedom Front.
The consultant knows that when he goes this time, he will definitely face a situation. The Freedom Front will never fall out with the Anti-Cross immediately. Instead, he will use his own detention as a bargaining chip, and contact Tianyi through negotiation, cooperation, etc. Desirable interests.
At the same moment, in the bookstore.
Tianyi closed the book of hearts in his hand. The owner of this book was a passerby in the park.
"As expected, he was taken away. Except for the appearance of Mirror Face, everything is going according to plan..." He said to himself: "If Mirror Face cooperates with the Freedom Front, that means... Huh... That's it, since it is If we are scheming against each other, then it’s okay for us to go too far.”
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In Tide Prison, Zuo Dao was escorted back to the detention area.
He went directly to Yan Kong's cell. Before entering, he didn't forget to look left and right where the prison guard was standing in the corridor.
"Warden, are you starting to doubt you?" But it was Yan Kong who spoke first.
"Doubtful? Why use these two words?" Zuo Dao replied.
Yan Kong continued what he said just now: "He suspects that you are not just a paper-level ability user."
Zuo Dao said: "Have you known this would happen?"
"Haha... Of course I know. In the past few years, everyone I have come into contact with has been brought up for interrogation. Not only Jefferson, the former warden also took special care of me, just like other prisoners. Just say a few more words to me and you will become an immortal." Yan Kong replied with a smile.
"What about the Blood Owl..." Zuo Dao asked tentatively.
Yan Kong waved his hand: "When he first came to this detention area, he was taken for interrogation twice a day on average. According to what he told me, when he entered the first detention area after arriving at Tide Prison, he He spent more time in the interrogation room than in the detention area. He tried all day and night electrocution, waterboarding, flogging, fatigue interrogation, and even perverted interrogation like mental pollution.
There were too many things they wanted to ask him. The crime of committing the Bloody Midnight Incident in Venice alone would be enough to warrant all the above punishments, but it was obvious that the blood owl would not be able to explain a single word.
Therefore, after changing the holding area, the frequency of interrogations gradually decreased, and almost stopped about a week ago. I think the torture officer responsible for interrogating the blood owl probably collapsed himself.
As for your interview with the warden today, no matter whether the same thing happened to Blood Owl or not, I don’t think Jefferson would be able to ask the reason from Blood Owl. "
Zuo Dao's respect for the blood owl arose spontaneously in his heart: "After most people have experienced and survived so many tortures, they must show off to others everywhere, show off their wounds and so on, but he actually acted as if nothing happened in front of me and didn't say a word?"
Yan Kong smiled and said: "The Blood Owl is such a person. Since you don't ask him, he has no reason to mention such things. Even if you ask him, whether you answer or not depends on his mood at the time. The way he looks at the world He is different from us. For him, things that are a hundred times crueler than these tortures are nothing more than this. He can use more terrifying methods without any burden to inflict pain on a stranger.
Physical damage can be quickly repaired with energy, but I don't think he has any mental damage, so he must feel that there is nothing worth showing off. "
Zuo Dao's respect turned to fear in an instant; "Okay..." There was also a half-sentence that he kept in his heart but didn't say out loud: Tian Yizhen was right about the person.
At this time, Yan Kong suddenly asked: "You came to this tidal prison not because you can't escape the pursuit of the empire, right?"
Zuo Dao was stunned: "Huh? Why do you ask like that?"
"Hahaha... You are not the kind of person with abilities that are strong enough for experts to go out to hunt for you, and you are obviously not a political prisoner." Yan Kong said: "With your intelligence, can't you escape from the ordinary police and HL grassroots agents? Hunting?”
Zuo Dao still wasn't ready to tell the truth: "Can't I be so careless?"
"No." As Yan Kong spoke, he used his right palm as a knife and swept it across Zuodao's neck.
Zuo Dao shrank his neck and avoided it in a panic, with a look of surprise on his face: "Master? What are you doing?"
Yan Kong said: "Although we have known each other for a short time, in my humble opinion, up to this moment, you have not shown any flaws. Every second, you are wary of everyone, no matter whether this person appears or is actually Whether you are a friend or an enemy, you will never lose your guard 100%. I don't know how you developed this instinct, but underneath your seemingly frivolous words and deeds, you are actually an extremely calm master."
"Master's praise... this is just..."
"The Blood Owl is not here, so you don't need to call me master anymore." Yan Kong interrupted: "Young man, you must be a true successor, right?"
Zuo Dao thought for a few seconds and replied: "I understand... you have heard of Zheng Yiyi before."
"Yes, I have indeed heard it. What you say is half-truth and half-false. To others, the saying that Heming Shanzheng is the only successor is probably nonsense. But because I have heard it, I know that that sect is indeed It exists, and not many people know about it.”
Zuo Dao replied: "It seems I can't hide it anymore."
Yan Kong smiled and said: "Haha... Times have changed. Your real masters and ancestors caused the decline of Heming Mountain because they adhered too closely to tradition. If they know how to adapt to the situation like you, and are half as smart as you, they will be right. None of us would have fallen into the state we are in today."
Zuo Dao's expression became serious: "Senior Yan knows a lot..."
"But it's not much. After all, Heming Mountain is not a resistance organization. It is just a group of eccentric veterans who hide from the world and live alone. Even if there are a few masters in the sect, they may not attract the empire's attention."
Zuo Dao replied: "Let's stop analyzing my affairs. I would like to ask a few questions about you, senior..."
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