The litter of rubble, broken wood, and sludge unabashedly showed the outside world what the storm had been, and Al was in shambles, slumped limp, his ears still roaring, and he didn't know what he could do other than breathe.

On Al's left hand side was Li Shiyi, who was also leaning against the corner, the black knife supporting his body, and his blood-stained chest was rising and falling violently.

Fortunately, there was a natural "medical soldier" beside them, and Max, who was in the best condition on the scene, was hovering the silver cross on Li Shiyi's chest, and the light points flying out of it were repairing Li Shiyi's injuries.

Although some of the buildings and trees in the B-department teaching area were affected to varying degrees, the results were satisfactory, and with the joint efforts of the three of them, the tornado finally died down before it fell to the ground.

"Max, did we succeed?" Al's whole body muscle tissue was in a state of numbness, and he couldn't forget the feeling of electricity entering his body in his life, "It's so exciting, I didn't expect me to survive." ”

"What do you say?" I am not surprised that Lee retreated, but I am surprised that you were not charred," replied Max coldly, with a charred mark of the cross between his palms, "two deadly madmen, no wonder you two are together." ”

Al smiled bitterly, and he couldn't help but feel a chill down his spine when he remembered what he had just experienced.

When Al swung his fist with all his strength to hit the eye of the tornado, lightning also followed, he didn't have a black mist that could separate the thunder and light like Li Shiyi, he just relied on a fist made of flesh and blood, and he rushed forward with a rush of blood in his heart, completely ignoring the possible changes.

But unexpectedly, the armband engraved with unknown characters played a role at a critical moment.

A faint golden light overflowed from the grooves of the text, beating rhythmically like a human pulse, and it was unbelievable that the halo resonated with the totem pole at Al's feet, and if you looked closely, the ancient inscriptions engraved on both ends of the totem pole turned out to be the same type as the words on Al's armband.

All of this was seen by Max, and he slowly found that the totem poles he controlled through the summoning ritual were no longer under his control like wild horses that had escaped from his control, and they were diagonally inserted in the lawn one by one, forming a disc shape and spinning, and the waterspouts rising from the ground and the thundertornado in the sky were hedged together.

The upper and lower wind pressures eventually caused Al and Li Shiyi to be thrown off, like two birds that were hit falling from a high altitude, if it weren't for Newcastle's control of the last two totem poles to catch the two, I'm afraid they would have lost consciousness by now two hot meat mud.

"Leave me alone, go after Newcasie, he stole classified documents from the archives, and he must not be allowed to escape," as soon as he came to his senses, Li Shiyi pushed away Max, who was treating himself, "I don't need treatment." ”

"Are you still going to be strong, although your actions just now have made me feel a little good for you, but now is not the time to be rash, your body does not allow you to continue fighting. Max put away the cross pendant, in his opinion, the remaining minor injuries would not be recovered in a few days thanks to Li Shiyi's strong physique, and besides, he didn't want to completely heal Li Shiyi.

"You two shouldn't have known about this in the first place," Max walked over to Al who was reclining on the ground, and he looked at Al with a hint of meaning in his eyes, "Besides, I'm here to let Newcastle go, so there's no need to chase him after him." ”

"Why?! If it weren't for Senior Brother Li Shiyi, the tornado would probably destroy all the buildings nearby, so why didn't such a person catch him?" Al didn't understand why Max said that.

Li Shiyi, who was barely standing up, looked at Max with some doubt in his eyes, but he was not as emotional as Al.

"Curious, isn't it? That's why the Vice Chancellor sent me," the totem pole shattered into a point of light and poured into the cross in Max's hand, "it was a show from beginning to end, a scene we performed for the so-called intruder, that is, Newcastle, and even the actors who appeared on the stage didn't even know they were in the middle of the show. ”

"You've already discovered Newcastle's unusual identity, isn't it, is it just a bureau carefully arranged by the academy's higher-ups that the Archives patrol is so lax?"

"That's all I can know about it within my purview, and the Deputy Headmaster has given me the task of letting Newcastle go. ”

"Wait, did I hear me right?" Al interjected, feeling his body slowly recovering under Max's treatment, as if soaking in a warm mountain spring, "Are you sure this is what the Vice Principal said, he didn't tell you why?"

"The most fierce game between people is always in the invisible place, I am just an executor, and I will not ask about things that exceed my authority. ”

Li Shiyi put the somewhat tattered black robe on his waist again on his body to cover the wound cut by the wind blade, and casually inserted the black knife into his belt, Li Shiyi turned around and walked into the dark alley on the side, since he knew the decision of the academy, he was not interested in the others.

"Senior brother, where are you going?" Al watched the somewhat shaky back slowly shrouded in rain and mist, and in the end, Li Shiyi didn't answer him.

"I think I've been to the martial arts dojo alone, he's been like this since I've known him," Max said, "It's hard for me to understand how you got acquainted with him, 'God Killer' Li Shiyi doesn't have many friends in the academy. ”

"I've only known each other for a short time, so there's nothing strange about it. Al looked at the uninhabited alley, he was a little worried about Li Shiyi's state.

"Really?" Max stared at Al for a moment, his gaze like a scalpel, almost slicing Al open, like the gentle young man he had met before.

Al sighed and turned his head, a chill coming over his heart, his fists clenching suddenly.

A special pistol with a metallic sheen was placed in front of Al's forehead, one of the masterpieces of the Anglo masters, exuding a striking murderous intent in the flickering lights, and the eyes of Max who wielded the gun were as cold as ice.

The conference center on the top floor of the administration building was empty and quiet, the Minister of Armed Forces Anglo had already left with his equipment, leaving only Vice Chancellor Douglas alone, and the rainstorm outside the floor-to-ceiling window had already weakened.

"Jingle, jingle," the electromechanical clock hanging on the wall struck exactly twelve times, and the hour hand pointed to twelve o'clock in the night.

On the conference table of red pine wood were three open documents, all of which were signed by the Information Department of the Imperial Military Academy.

"Come in, Conrad, knowing you've been hanging outside the door for a long time. Douglas flipped through the folder in his hand, which had just been sent by the Ministry of Information.

With a "squeak", the door to the conference room was pushed open from the outside, and a heavily armed Conrad walked in, leaving a line of water stains on the hardwood floor, and Conrad went straight to Douglas's side.

"Vice Principal, the mission has been successfully completed, and I have found some useful information. Lillard took off his tactical goggles, and his rugged face made him look about Douglas's age, but he was only about forty years old.

"Say it. ”

"I visited the Maritime Chamber of Commerce in Xinlan City overnight, and the captain and first mate of the cargo ship Ocean Ocean did owe a large amount of money to the Chamber of Commerce to pay off gambling debts, but recently paid off all the debts in one go, and the time was the day they met Newcastle at sea. ”

"Sure enough, money can make the devil grind. Douglas was not shocked in the slightest, as if he had expected this outcome.

"Coincidentally, the Ocean Going has not returned from its voyage this morning, but the crew said that there was no mission to go to sea today, and I then visited the residence of the captain and the first mate one by one, and their family members were gone, and the contents of the house were also sold out, and it seemed that they had escaped. ”

"It seems that the investigation by the Ministry of Information has taken a bad start. Douglas flipped through a page of papers, still staring.

Then Douglas straightened up as if he had discovered something, his brow furrowed, and then he slowly pushed the folder in his hand to Conrad's side.

"Look at the situation of the special squad just reported by the Ministry of Information. ”

From the vice-principal's look, Conrad smelled an ominous smell, and he took off his still damp tactical gloves and brought the folder to his eyes.

"What?!" Conrad's eyes widened, the report in the folder made him lose control of his emotions, "Vice Chancellor, how can this be?!"

The documents were spread out, and the light illuminated the small lines of text: All members of the special squad were attacked, communication devices were destroyed, and the location was at the main entrance of the Imperial Military Academy. Seven of the team members suffered minor injuries of varying degrees, and the captain was the most seriously injured, and his hand and hamstrings appeared to have been cut by a sharp blade, and he has been rushed to the university hospital for a preliminary assessment of non-life-threatening.

"Vice Principal, my brother is okay!"

"It seems that the enemy knows that the captain of the special forces team is not you," Douglas looked a little unpleasant, "and the reason why he did this was to mock us." ”

"Damn!" Conrad slammed his fist on the conference table, his face flushed with annoyance.

It turned out that at the beginning of the plan, Douglas did not intend for Conrad to lead the special squad, but secretly assigned him another task. The captain of the acting special squad was recommended by Conrad himself, and now he regrets it, if he hadn't recommended his brother, who also works in the Ministry of Armed Forces, to take on this position, maybe this tragedy would not have happened to his brother.

Read on. Douglas said.

The second half of the report is brief and straightforward: a search of the scene revealed a crow feather with a gold wire wrapped around its tail, and it was initially determined that it might have been an attack by a raven group.

"Raven Organization?!, isn't that the intruder?" The Ministry of Information's report made Conrad gasp again, "No wonder they can hurt the special team like this, are they trying to stand on the opposite side of the Imperial Military Academy?"

"The professional killer organization doesn't have a position of its own, as long as they pay enough money, they dare to assassinate even royals," Douglas crossed his walls on his chest, "I haven't paid attention to the ravens yet, I'm more interested in what is the purpose of Newcastle's efforts to infiltrate the college archives?"

"Vice Chancellor, I'm very curious. ”

"Huh? ”

"How did you find out about Newcastle's anomaly, and why do you think he's a spy who came to steal the data?"

"Intuition. Douglas understated.

"You go out first, go to the school hospital to see your brother, I have informed Director Portis, the hospital has prepared dinner for you. ”

"Okay, Vice Chancellor. Conrad lingered no longer, and fearing for his brother's safety, he pushed the door open and left.

After Conrad left, Douglas lit the last cigarette on the table, then opened the drawer next to him, took out a report and stared at it for a long time.

This report was submitted by the Ministry of Information a few days ago, and the pattern on the paper was drawn by the investigator with a pencil, with black strokes intertwined vertically and horizontally to form a concentric circle plus an overlapping pattern of crosses, and a string of handwritten text in the lower right corner:

"Fraor" Bar Investigation Summary - The bartender at the bar said he had seen the tattoo on Newcastle a few days earlier, which he had accidentally glimpsed during a bartending, just below the neckline and above the left chest, and because the bartender had been impressed with the customer for several days and with a generous hand.

The simple pattern makes people fidget, and Douglas knows it.

The rainstorm came and went quickly, the heavy rain had slowly turned into a drizzling rain, and the dark-faced Douglas walked to the floor-to-ceiling window to look at the dark clouds that had not yet dissipated, and small lightning still swam in the lower part of the clouds.