Chapter 22 **

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Seeing that Zhou Yulong had taken Beard, Dian Bin immediately asked Situ Wenhui to give an order to retreat. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info

Upon receiving the order, the intelligence officers, who were bluffing outside the computing center, immediately retreated, while detonating a remote-controlled bomb planted nearby to prevent the agents from pursuing.

When they were evacuated, only two agents were slightly injured, and the others were unharmed.

After picking up Liu Wei and Mobei Wolf halfway, everyone immediately rushed to the agreed meeting place: a farm near Kolinga Town. This is also the temporary hiding place set up by Situ Wenhui and his early days.

When Liu Wei and the others arrived, Zhou Yulong had already arrived.

"Fly the helicopter away, find a random place to land, and remember to deal with the aftermath."

Zhou Yulong nodded and climbed into the helicopter.

"When we're done, we'll go straight back to Las Vegas, and we'll meet over there." Liu Wei closed the hatch for Zhou Yulong before turning around and running to Mobei Wolf and the others who were waiting for him.

At this time, Situ Wenhui walked out of the farmhouse. "It's been confirmed that it's Beard, and the wrong person has not been caught."

"Let them find a place to hide, and then return to China in batches after the limelight passes, and don't come out for activities during this time."

"It's already arranged, when are you going to send him off?"

"The sooner the better." Liu Wei stopped outside the farmhouse, "You go and contact Lao Li, and after receiving Beard, send him to his destination as soon as possible." ”

Situ Wenhui nodded and did not go in with Liu Wei.

Like Yuan Changqing, Beard is also a thin old man, not tall, with silver hair. The difference is that this guy is unkempt and not as elegant as Yuan Changqing. It is conceivable that if Yuan Changqing did not return to China and got a green card, Beard would definitely not have the slightest chance.

Because Zhou Yulong did ideological work on the road, Beard seemed very calm.

"Professor, we're finally meeting."

"Yuan Changqing sent you?"

Liu Wei smiled, sat down on the chair opposite Beard, and said, "To be precise, Professor Yuan Changqing should have recommended you to me." ”

"Recommended!?" Beard frowned.

Liu Wei took off his coat, caught the mineral water bottle handed by Dian Bin, held his breath, poured the water under his ribs, and the "shark gills" were slowly exposed.

Seeing this, Beard's eyes widened, and then he looked at Liu Wei in disbelief.

He ...... He actually succeeded......"

"Far more than that, if you want to know more, when you see Yuan Changqing, you can ask him."

Beard was silent, seemingly battered.

"Professor, I don't care what grievances you have, now I will fund Yuan Changqing. If you agree, I can also fund your research project. ”

"Can you fund me?"

"Money is not an issue, I am already ......"

"Money really isn't an issue because it's not about money."

Liu Wei frowned, waiting for Beard to continue.

"Just a few hours ago, I got the results of the nervous system simulation. As I speculated, the human brain is far more complex than we think. ”

"What do you mean?"

"With our current technology, or what we might be able to do in the next few decades, we can't support any modification of the nervous system."

Liu Wei was also silent, because it meant that there was no point in what he was risking to do.

"Do you think we'll take your word for it?" Mobei Wolf was also anxious, but he felt that Beard was lying.

"The calculation results are stored in the calculation center, if you don't believe it, you can grab it and find Yuan Changqing to see, he will tell you if I am lying."

"In that case, it's useless to keep you." Mobei Wolf didn't say much, and pulled out his pistol.

Beard smiled, not afraid.

When he got the results, he felt that there was no point in living.

"Old wolf!" Liu Wei asked Mobei Wolf to put away his pistol, and said to Beard, "Professor, even if it can't be reformed, can it be improved on the existing basis?" ”

"Improving ......"

"You've seen that I took the full makeover of FOS and nine more people got the basic makeover. On our basis, is it possible to improve the efficiency of the nervous system? ”

Beard hesitated for a moment and said, "I'm not sure, because I don't know how far Yuan Changqing has gone. ”

"Well, then, I'll send you to him, and you talk to him." Liu Wei smiled and said, "I believe that even if your theoretical research has come to an end, you will not give up your academic pursuit." If you can improve the efficiency of the nervous system on our basis, I believe it is no worse than achieving greater theoretical research results. ”

Hearing this, Beard became excited, because he was not a theoretical scientist, but an experimental scientist.

"If you agree, I'll help you arrange channels."

"Where is Yuan Changqing?"

"Don't worry, he's not in the United States, in a very safe place."

Beard nodded and said, "I promise you, but you have to agree to one condition." ”

"On what terms?"

"Be my test subject."

"Professor, you're thinking too much, do you think I brought you here to let you catch up with Yuan Changqing?" Liu Wei smiled and said, "Don't worry, as long as you have the basic conditions, I will help you prove it." ”

"When can I see Yuan Changqing?"

"Soon." Liu Wei stood up, Chao Dianbin pointed at it, and said, "In the past few days, he will take you to several places to take care of your daily life and diet." You don't have to worry about anything, you don't have to worry about anything, you just have to listen to him and do what he tells you to do, understand? ”

Beard nodded, indicating that he understood what Liu Wei meant.

"Lao Dian, help the professor tidy up his appearance, and then take the professor out of here."

Half an hour later, Dian Bin left the farm with the disguised Beard. Liu Wei and Mobei Wolves set fire to the farm, cleaned up the ruts and footprints on the ground, and then hiked east across the plains of Northern California, and set off for Las Vegas in an SUV that had already been parked there on the outskirts of Visalia.

At this time, the Pentagon, the FBI, and the CIA have become a mess.

After the attack on the computing center, the Pentagon received the message. It's just that the FBI soon sent a message and has sent an answering officer. Then I received a message from the FBI that Beard had been picked up by federal agents. It wasn't until an hour later, when Beard didn't make it to Oakland, that the FBI and the Pentagon realized something was wrong. In order to find Beard, the Pentagon not only mobilized the nearby National Guard, but also contacted the CIA and began to investigate all the intelligence networks that were active in California and even in the United States as a whole.

It's a pity that at this time, Liu Wei and the others have already left the farm.

That morning, the FBI, with the cooperation of state police, found the small helicopter abandoned by Zhou Yulong on the beach near Santa Maria.

The helicopter had been burned to the point that only the skeleton remained, and no useful clues could be found at the scene.

Upon receiving this information, the Pentagon immediately dispatched an E-3C "Watchtower" early warning aircraft, an E-2D "Hawkeye" early warning aircraft, and several RQ-4 "Global Hawk" unmanned reconnaissance aircraft to closely monitor passing ships off the coast of California and cross-compare the origins of these ships.

In the afternoon, Coast Guard patrol vessels intercepted several merchant ships off the coast of California for boarding and inspection.

At the same time, the F.B.I. expanded its search to include thousands of federal agents, blocking all interstate highways and screening all vehicles leaving California.

This created some problems for Liu Wei and the others, forcing them to abandon their cars and walk through the blockade.

The C.I.A. also launched a joint operation, deploying intelligence agents to work with FBI agents to secretly arrest and monitor hundreds of foreign intelligence agents operating in California in a single day.

Because the CIA is an intelligence agency and does not have the power to enforce the law in the country, it can only assist the FBI and cannot overstep its responsibilities.

As a result of this, the spy networks of many national intelligence agencies have fallen into bad luck, and even the spy networks carefully deployed by several intelligence agencies on the mainland have also been affected.

In order to do a decent job, Li Tingxuan also "sacrificed" several spy personnel.

Strictly speaking, this is not a loss, but a benefit. Because the joint large-scale arrest operation of the CIA and the FBI, it helped the military intelligence bureau find those spies who had been exposed or were suspected, and avoided greater losses in future intelligence work.

As for the intelligence officers arrested by the FBI, they were all eventually deported from the United States because they had no evidence of a crime.

By the evening of the same day, almost everyone thought that there were zero possible surnames for finding Beard.

The attack was very sudden, and the attackers were very well prepared, and even used individual anti-aircraft missiles that are very rare in the United States, proving that the attackers were by no means ordinary criminals, but certainly intelligence agents of other countries, and may even have secretly infiltrated the special forces of the United States.

They were able to kidnap Beard under the guise of FBI agents, and they were able to send Beard out of the United States.

If no clues are found within twelve hours, the hope of finding Beard will be very slim.

Rickel even believes that Beard had left the United States before the mass manhunt began.

Of course, he didn't have much say in this matter.

Although after the incident, the CIA fully cooperated with the FBI and the Department of Defense in accordance with the "Emergency Operations Regulations", after all, Beard is one of the main leaders of the "Future Soldier" project, and the CIA is the main participating agency of the project, but the FBI is responsible for the intelligence security of the United States, and the CIA is only a foreign intelligence agency.

All Rickel could do was provide detailed information about intelligence agents in other countries, as requested by the FBI.

In addition, some intelligence officers who have no mission can only be sent to participate in the search and arrest operation, and identify those spies from other countries on the spot for FBI agents.

After receiving the news, Rickel first thought of what had happened in Ben not long ago.

The essence of Ben's FPF project is basically the same as that of the American "Future Soldier" program, so is there any connection between the destruction of the FPF experimental base and Beard's abduction?

If so, what is the connection?

This suspicion made Rickel realize that if he could find out the internal connection between the two things, he would have a chance to obtain a higher status, not to mention the position of director, and possibly even become the president's intelligence adviser.

For him, it was an irresistible allure.

(To be continued)