The headquarters is not a mess, even if the entire core team is not there, everything is still in order. When they hurriedly changed their clothes and rushed to the conference room, they found out that it was because General Xiong was in charge. .
General Xiong sat on the small sofa with Erlang's legs crossed, with a pot of tea in his hand, and with a rather leisurely look, he greeted them with a smile and said, "You are all back, yo, you look good, when you leave They all have delicious dishes, what did I say, our ST training class gives VIP-level treatment, and ordinary people can't get in."
The men thought of the Datong shop in the small dark room, and the women thought of the broken curtain that hadn't been washed for some years and was dusty at the touch, and their hearts twitched at the same time.
Hu Bugui sat down, opened the report of the technical department, and looked at it at a glance. Fang Xiu asked, "General, what's going on this time?"
"It's a big deal." General Xiong took a sip of his tea slowly, and smacked his mouth. He looked like an old dude who just came back from a stroll in the theater, and he didn't look like a big deal at all. "We just detected A possible blue print base is located very close to a densely populated city, the reason why it was discovered was because a large amount of abnormal energy suddenly appeared there, and if this continues, a big explosion may occur."
General Xiong put down his teacup, paused, and added slowly: "According to the conservative estimates made by the comrades in our technical department who worked overtime overnight, if the energy continues to gather like this, the destructive power of the base explosion may affect to a radius of three hundred miles."
The others were silent for a moment. Chang Dou looked at General Xiong's expression, and then looked down at the report of the technical department—if it weren't for the shocking data above, he almost suspected that General Xiong was joking to tease the public, so he asked: "General, what are you doing?" Why are you not in a hurry?"
General Xiong sighed: "Well, what's the use of being anxious any more I 'look'? The more urgent things are, the more slowly you should talk."
Hu Bugui glanced at him, and closed the report of the technical department: "Chang Dou, you work a little harder on the technical side, continue to monitor, and at the same time, I want you to come up with a solution as quickly as possible."
Often teasing this person, the place that should be reliable is still reliable, and he answered, stood up and ran quickly. Hu Bugui paused, and continued: "Everyone prepare separately, we will set off to the scene immediately, and Dr. Lu will also accompany us. This matter is strange, and everyone must ensure that all communication lines are unblocked."
General Xiong didn't say anything, Hu Bugui was a skilled worker in dealing with emergencies, he could give orders with his eyes closed, what to prepare and how to divide the work, until when everyone dispersed, Hu Bugui stood up and said to him: "Headquarters, you should continue..."
General Xiong put down his teacup: "Wait a minute, I have a few words to tell you."
Hu Bugui stopped in his tracks, General Xiong waved his hand, and the guards beside him also retreated. He nodded and said to Hu Bugui, "Sit down."
Hu Bugui sat opposite General Xiong, waiting for him to speak.
General Xiong didn't say a word for a long time, but just relaxed his back slightly, leaned on the back of the small sofa, took out a pack of cigarettes from his washed gray military jacket, lit one with his eyes down, and the flames ignited. The jumping shadow hit his face, the bridge of his nose was still straight, but there were some faint age spots on his cheeks, mixed with the wrinkles on his eyes and forehead and the white hair on his temples. The fact that is getting old.
For a moment, Hu Bugui felt that the smile that had been hanging on his face all year round, as if it had grown there, disappeared, but in the blink of an eye, General Xiong was still the same General Xiong, even the curved lines at the corners of his eyes Neither has changed.
After a long time, General Xiong breathed out a puff of smoke ring leisurely, and said in a low voice: "You might as well give you a vaccination in advance, I don't feel very good about this time."
Hu Bugui's eyebrows twitched slightly.
General Xiong said: "Little Hu, do you understand what it means to be prepared for the worst at any time?"
Hu Bugui paused, and then asked: "How bad is your 'worst'?"
General Xiong raised his eyes and looked at him: "It's what Xu Ruchong and you mentioned cryptically."
Hu Bugui was about to speak, but General Xiong raised his hand to stop him: "You don't say anything, but you know it in your heart, I know this, but there are some things, even if you know it, you may not be able to do it-many years ago I I started preparing to build the Zero team, but it was difficult. It was difficult to find the right people, and it was also difficult to find the right people who were loyal enough. Until now, I am afraid that it has just taken shape, and it will be pushed to the forefront before it can stabilize. go."
For some reason, Hu Bugui faintly heard a hint of ominousness in General Xiong's voice.
Both of them fell silent, after a long while, General Xiong raised his head, and Hu Bugui waited to listen to his high-spirited speech without saying a word. But General Xiong changed his face like flipping a book, his eyes rolled, and his expression immediately showed a bit of wretchedness: "By the way, how is your relationship with Su Qing now?"
Hu Bugui's expression went blank.
General Xiong laughed loudly: "Oh, I understand, I understand, everyone came here when they were young, and I didn't have a wrinkled face like I do now."
So Hu Bugui's expression was no longer blank. He frowned and stared carefully at General Xiong's wide-open eyebrows, feeling something was wrong in his heart—although General Xiong has always been an old and dishonest person, he still stayed at the level of a beast in clothes. , Speaking basically maintains his consistent style of five people and six people, and rarely uses such inconspicuous words to make jokes.
But he couldn't see the slightest clue from General Xiong's face, which was old and not dead. Su Qing is a pretty good boy, but he thinks too much, sometimes he is easy to get into a corner, but he is much more reliable than when I was young."
Hu Bugui: "..."
I feel that this sentence is really not a compliment to Su Qing.
General Xiong lowered his eyes, staring at the slowly burning smoke: "You think farther than him, but he sees better than you, maybe one day..."
One day, General Xiong didn't say what, but waved his hand again to let Hu Bugui go out.
They soon arrived at the energy gathering site, and the naked eye could not see any difference in this area, but the screen showed that huge energy seemed to be continuously drawn into a vortex, and the absorbed energy was getting bigger and bigger, and The vortex is also like a black hole, expanding and getting bigger and bigger.
When Su Qing got out of the car, she subconsciously made a movement of covering her ears, but after raising her hand for a while, he frowned and put it down again.
Lu Qingbai adjusted his glasses: "Why, can you feel other things?"
"Well," Su Qing put her hands in her pockets, staring at the area where no one could see the clue, "There are a lot of noises over there, if you listen carefully, most of them are people screaming and crying. ... How can I explain it to you? It’s like hearing it in your ears, but you cover your ears and realize that the sound is actually the feeling that goes directly into your brain.”
Lu Qingbai nodded frantically: "I know, I know, it's the phenomenon of 'empathy' unique to dual cores, your brain automatically materializes the abnormal emotional waves received by the energy crystal, for example, when fear is transmitted to your brain, it will automatically make a 'scream' ’ response. How about the intensity of this perception? Does it affect your hearing?”
Su Qing felt it carefully: "The 'voice' is getting louder, but the hearing should not be affected, it's just..."
"It's like tinnitus, and I feel a little annoying." Lu Qingbai took it over.
Fang Xiu stared at the growing vortex on the screen, and interjected, "The voice is getting louder—so the energy that gets sucked in is emotional energy?"
The communicator was switched to the technical department, Chang teased the video on his face, and said quickly: "It's not emotional energy. We have monitored the frequency of emotional waves within a hundred kilometers around. There is no abnormal fluctuation for the time being. There should be something in the center of the vortex. Sucking energy like crazy."
"Does the technical department have a general action plan?" Hu Bugui asked.
"Yes," Chang Dou adjusted his glasses, and hurriedly took out a laptop from the side, "Hu Dui, this thing is quite troublesome. No matter what measures we want to take, we must know where the center of the energy vortex is. What, I have urgently sent monitoring equipment here. It should have passed through the ionosphere of the energy vortex and is heading towards the center. The camera effect is not ideal, but it can barely be seen, and it will be sent to you in a while. If we find something in the center, we will face two situations. One is that it can be lifted quickly, which is of course better. The other is that it cannot be ruled out before the explosion. With such a large base, the energy of this exponential power explosion really explodes I'm afraid we need to find a way to isolate it."
Chang Dou usually looks confused, but when he works, his thinking is clear and unambiguous. Fang Xiu stared at his face thoughtfully, rubbed his chin, lowered his eyes and raised them again, as if Like a slight nod. After Chang Dou finished speaking, he quickly added: "It's not easy to isolate such a strong explosion. I'm afraid the headquarters equipment is not..."
Hu Bugui interrupted him: "Write down a list of what you need and give it to General Xiong. He will communicate with you on such matters."
"yes!"
As soon as Chang Dou’s voice fell, the image of the detector that had penetrated into the energy vortex came over, and several people immediately gathered in front of the screen, wondering if it was affected by unknown energy, the picture was not very clear, and there were often subtle snowflakes After a flash, the camera shakes slightly as the detector moves, and the whole base is like a dead zone, without a single ghost. "
Chang Dou said: "I'm approaching the center of the vortex soon."
Then a white building with a dome appeared on the screen. It seemed to have only one floor, but it was very large. They noticed that the red light above the detector's head was flashing more and more frequently.
The detector entered the hall, the screen went dark, and then the picture gradually became clear, and everyone who saw it gasped.
There was a tall chair in the middle of the hall, and a thin and small man was sitting on it. He didn't know whether he was dead or alive. Anyway, his eyes were closed, and his chest couldn't be seen rising and falling for a while. The man was bare-chested, with an obvious blue mark on his collarbone. There were countless transparent lines running out of his body. Those lines stretched and covered the entire hall, connecting hundreds of brains.
human's.