In the glass window of the clothing store, the white plastic mannequin doll is wearing a fashionable red dress, and the good industrial art design makes every part of its body conform to the aesthetics of normal people, the only pity may be its too pale and stiff smile and joints.

But now that shortcoming has been made up.

With the help of the reflection of the window, Liu Miaomiao paused slightly and looked up and down at her dress.

An ankle-length aqua blue dress with a dark blue headband to restrain the long hair, and a pair of white open-toed sandals...... Well, that's pretty good.

A big smile is displayed at the window, and the girl's body is full of vitality and youthful joy, which contrasts sharply with the pale doll.

Zhao Menghua should also like the way she looks now.

Liu Miaomiao, who deliberately got up two hours earlier than usual today to dress up, thought so.

After two small supermarkets, a restaurant, and three intersections, the café where you agreed to meet is already close in front of you.

At table 7 by the window......

Liu Miaomiao stopped.

Zhao Menghua was hugging a girl she didn't know - maybe she was mistaken?

She also wanted to feel this way, but Zhao Menghua's face was not completely lowered, so from her point of view, she could just see his triumphant and joyful smile. At that time, at the class reunion, when he said 'Liu Miaomiao is my girlfriend', he also smiled like this, but it was far less joyful than at the moment.

She felt like she was losing her temperature, a mannequin doll-like paleness creeping up from her most cherished fingertips.

Who's that...... Why?

Inexplicably, she felt that the girl she should have known, or at least somewhere.

As if she could hear her heart, the slightly trembling girl raised her head—but not as Liu Miaomiao had imagined.

The slender willow eyebrows shrank together because of grievance and fear, the small nose flared down, and the elegant red lips opened slightly, as if they were powerlessly accusing of something. There were tears in her eyes, which were originally as docile and lovely as a fawn, and the confused gaze shrank sharply the moment it touched her, and then finally she couldn't bear it anymore, and large drops of crystal liquid were left from her reddened eye sockets.

It turned out to be Chen Wenwen.

Meaningless sighs crossed her mind, seemingly leaving no trace or regret.

A noise of over-excitement and sadness came to her ears, and a slight tinnitus tried to help her isolate from this heartbreaking reality, but there was nothing she could do.

Different people shed seemingly the same tears at this moment, a few meters apart.

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The phone vibrates.

Mercer put down the video game in his hand unsatisfied, and there were still two or three game coins left, and the Yagami Temple he operated on the screen was continuing to release the action of eight wine glasses, and the computer was only a trace of blood to announce K.O.

Walking out of the noisy video game hall, as is customary, he smiled at the surveillance at the door.

Connect the phone.

Experts on the other side of the Atlantic are also listening with bated breath to the content of the phone call - accompanied by surveillance video, which is synchronized with Norma's monitoring of the phone, and can obtain almost all the information on the scene.

Note that just almost.

Mercer's back did not leave the range of the surveillance probe, I don't know if it was deliberate or how, he only showed his back, so he could not use the lip reading method to get the call. Unless you pass through Guò Norma, the artificial intelligence Norma that everyone in the academy trusts and never makes mistakes.

This time, however, they were probably mistaken, because they were destined not to hear the slightest hint of the true content of the conversation that followed.

"Hello, Eva."

As if old friends had met, Mercer didn't even hear the voice on the other end of the phone, so he confirmed the other party's identity.

Either it was some kind of magical sixth sense, or he had already anticipated the call.

"Why do you know me? Who are you? ”

A cold girlish voice came from the phone, and unlike Norma, who tried her best to disguise herself as a normal person, Eva's voice was cold. But this coldness can't hide the fact that she is the real artificial intelligence that can be compared to humans, an electronic life. Norma and the like are just fakes.

Or rather, Eva is also a real person, ever.

"I'm Mercer, and you should know me for the people who participated in the development of this operation." Mercer didn't care about the chill in Eva's tone, he was already immune to this iceberg type with constant contact with zero contact.

"But you shouldn't know about me."

Makes sense.

Eva is not a huge secret, the vice-principal, the principal, and the school director level are aware of Eva's existence, and Henkel's gang also understands it, and there are many people who know about it, so there is no reason to rule out the possibility that her information has been inadvertently leaked.

That long assumes he doesn't send the intercepted text message.

"I know what you mean, and of course, you should understand that I won't explain it clearly." Mercer's tone was still relaxed, though Eva's tone sounded like an ice cube, "All I can say is, it doesn't matter, it doesn't matter. ”

"I'm just making a few requests."

There was silence on the other end of the line.

Mercer shrugged, not worried that his request would be denied.

Information is the key to winning or losing a war, as well as the success of any action or decision. Unfortunately, as a traverser, he didn't worry about the information at all after chewing through the original book several times, not to mention that he had obtained the content of the Dragon Four books from the system a few months ago.

That man, the mysterious man.

He first appeared in Dragonland 1 when he met with Eva and revealed information about the mission in Greenland.

After that, in the Runde Building, the text was delivered to Tang Wei; After the auction, Ange pretended to leave, and he appeared; Mercer, who was personally involved in the battle for the keel, had also seen him, even though he had a family bucket hood; In the original book, at the end of Dragon Clan II, he will enter the Nibelungen with the subway and save Lu Mingfei from leaving.

Who is he?

Truth be told, Mercer wasn't interested. Because that person is used to hiding behind the scenes, there may be some deep purpose, but those have nothing to do with him. There was a vague instinct that told him that he couldn't go that far after.

Otherwise, there is no need for him to turn against the Kassel Academy now.

"Say it. You should be clear about my bottom line, so you can't ask too much. Also, it's best to disappear into my control after completing the requirements, otherwise I can't guarantee what will happen. ”

Eva warned in a cold voice, but Mercer had another idea-

Sure enough, love is all blind.

If it weren't for the fear of that man's intelligence leaking, EVA would probably have given the task judgment of 'immediately killing the control target' at this moment.

As for her bottom line, it is nothing more than not divulging her and that man's existence, not being too unfavorable to the secret party, not throwing herself into the dragon camp, etc., which seems to be strict, but in fact the scope of operation is too broad. That's why Norma is always in charge of assisting in various tasks.

"My request is simple, and for you, it's very simple."

"I hope you'll be able to interfere with the Academy's tracking of me during and after this mission - a reasonable request, right? A normal fugitive would ask for this. ”

Probably he wanted to make a little joke, but unfortunately Eva didn't appreciate it, and just expressed no objection with silence.

"Well, well, I'll admit, if you want to improve your taste for crime, it's really not a good idea." Mercer said the line that seemed to come out of a movie, and looked at the thugs nearby who were trying to borrow him some money to spend.

Punch and break the bridge of your nose; sideways, flashed a kick that was very uninfluential, or even unstable; elbow blows, an instant blow to the vagus nerve to the point of coma; Bend over and dodge the skillful swing that seems to have been practiced for a while; Twist your waist and turn around, sweep your legs and hit your chest, fainting.

In the big smile and the gaze of the young man who looked at the unspeakable, a fierce young man who finally couldn't suppress his anger pulled out a switchblade.

Pinch the wrist and twist it; Wrap around the elbow joint, use the upper arm and lower arm as support points, exert force, and break; Kicking the switchblade, which fell because it was unable to hold it, the handle of the knife slammed into the wall, and then bounced back, obediently sinking between two free fingers; With the help of kinetic energy to adjust the angle, the shoulder joint is inserted deep from the softest and most fragile skin.

All the joints of one right hand were struck with a devastating blow, declaring it null and void in this life.

"How do you say that?" Mercer wiped a few drops of blood on the back of his hand from a faint thug who fell to the ground, "All you care about~ is money. It's a pity that I can't use a firework to make a clear explanation of this sentence. ”

The call is still connected, and 5 seconds have passed.

"Well, I'm sorry, I just taught a young man who didn't know how to teach."

"The other requirement is simpler. I would like to see some of the more famous biological research institutes in the world, and I would like to have a detailed list of the major Japanese companies and real offices. In addition, all the information and materials that have been disclosed so far by the Japan Branch. ”

"Yes."

Two requests, one is reasonable, the other is a gesture, even if Eva and he can't get used to it, they immediately responded to two requests. Then the phone hung up.

The wailing of the thugs had not yet dispersed, and Mercer had no penchant for killing people in the streets.

Time is ticking......

The faces of the experts and professors gathered in the central main control room were not good-looking, because the content of the phone call they heard was the content of the new anime content that was close to a few minutes.

As for the possibility that some kind of code is included?

Let's hope that cryptography experts who have already taken action will be able to decipher it.

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