Chapter 22: Escape

As soon as the words fell, the door of the basement was opened, and a faint fragrance came with the wind, Anna held a huge time bomb in her hand, walked catwalked, and walked straight to the doctor, and after standing still, she swept Hugh and Katyusha compassionately, turned to the wall opposite the cell, fixed the time bomb on the wall, and started the timer casually.

I saw that the LCD panel on the bomb showed a countdown to "9:599:589:57".

Then, without looking back, Anna walked to the door of the basement, put her hand to her mouth, made a gesture of kissing, and threw it behind her: "Dear, I wish you a happy meeting." Then came the sound of a heavy iron door closing.

Cold sweat oozed nervously from the doctor's forehead: "What to do, less than ten minutes." We're almost done. ”

"Don't be nervous." On the other side of the wall, Katyusha's calm voice was heard. "I have hair pins in my hair, Hugh, you try to take them off and open my handcuffs." Katyusha leaned down and held back the ends of her hair so that she could rest her hands.

"Okay." Hugh approached Katyusha's hair and tried to bite the hair pin with his mouth to remove it.

Hearing only a "ding", the hair needle slipped from the tip of the hair and fell to the ground.

"It's okay, take your time." Katyusha encouraged.

"Hmm." Hugh bent down to pick up the pins with his mouth, turned to Katyusha's handcuffs, and poked the needle into the keyhole, pounding.

Two minutes later, there was a "click", the handcuffs were opened, Katyusha shook off the restraints, took the hair needle from Hugh's mouth, skillfully opened Hugh's handcuffs, and came to the door of the cell.

In a matter of moments, the two prison doors opened. The doctor is also out of the woods.

"It's amazing." The Doctor exclaimed with joy.

In another cell, where the castle stewards and servants were held, the crowd heard the movement and shouted in French: "Save us, let us out." ”

Katyusha stepped forward quickly and opened the cell door: "You stay here first, we don't know the movement above, we will go to investigate first, and when everything is safe, we will come back and inform you to leave." ”

Hugh looked at the bruises and puffiness on their faces, apparently at the price he had paid for being suppressed by force in the fight against the mob that had broken into the castle.

"It's rude." Hugh muttered.

Hugh and Katyusha opened the iron door of the basement and sneaked into the hall, only to see that there was silence around them, and no one was in sight.

Katyusha came to the window and looked out into the courtyard, but it was still quiet, it seemed that the building was empty. Katyusha immediately turned back to the dungeon and led the group to the courtyard, out of danger.

In the forest around the castle, Vincent and his party were walking through the jungle, Anna looked at her watch, made a pistol aiming gesture with her left hand, aimed at the direction of the castle, and counted down the countdown: "7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1." Boom! ”

As soon as Anna raised her hand, a dull explosion sounded from the faint light of the fire on the side of the castle: "Rest in peace, Amen." The group then entered a black Chevrolet sedan, started its engine, and disappeared into the jungle.

The housekeeper and the servants looked at the destroyed basement, sighed, and were at a loss: "This time I will be scolded by the master, and if I don't do it, I will lose this job." ”

"Relax, think about the good, I will report this matter to the relevant authorities, and your master will definitely understand." Hugh patted the butler on the shoulder.

"Do you have a cell phone? I want to borrow one and call home. Fearing for his family's safety, the doctor inquired for Hugh's answer.

"Of course, it's not a mobile phone, it's a military smart watch, and it also supports voice calls, you can voice dial, say the phone number, automatically connect, give." Hugh took off the watch and handed it to the doctor.

The doctor took his watch, said a string of numbers, and soon came the other person's voice: "How can I show an unknown number here?" Who are you? ”

"It's me, my dear." The doctor couldn't contain his excitement. "Are you and the child all right?"

"We are fine, my daughter has just been picked up from kindergarten." The Doctor's wife replied, "Where are you now?" Is it safe? My daughter and I were so worried that we went to the police station to report to the police and recorded a statement, but there was no response at all. ”

"It's safe now, two friends who just met. Saved me from the enemy. The doctor looked at Hugh and Katyusha gratefully.

"Then I'll be relieved." On the phone, the other party breathed a long sigh of relief.

"Wait for me, I'll be back soon." The doctor said.

"Okay, see you later. I'll go and prepare dinner. The other party hung up.

The two agents took the doctor and left the castle and came to the open area on the other side of the moat, and Katyusha looked at the Volkswagen SUV with thick smoke: "Any good suggestions?" ”

"Let's take a ride to the side of the road, get to town and take the Eurostar high-speed train back to Paris." The Doctor suggested.

Hugh was hesitant to offer a ride.

"Rest assured, the French people are very hospitable, and looking at the attire of your foreign tourists, as long as you praise the culture and history of France, you generally ride for free." The doctor tried to reassure him.

Then the three of them walked in the direction of the road, and a quarter of an hour later, they sat in the straw on the hold of a walk-behind tractor, and looked at each other with a few French sheep in cages.

"Doctor, to be honest, I didn't know what you were referring to as a hitchhiker." Hugh had a laughing and crying expression on his face.

"In the countryside, that's the only condition. Let's make do and sit down. The doctor reassured.

A French uncle turned the handrail of a tractor and drove slowly in the direction of the town's train station.

Eurostar, a high-speed rail network connecting major cities on the European continent, was built in 1994 and has now spread throughout towns and villages, providing an efficient and convenient way for citizens of EU member states to travel.

The three of them came to the Eurostar high-speed train, Hugh felt the speed of the train no less than the Dodge Viper, and asked the doctor: "Who are the members of the R&D team of the core components of the Raptor other than you from the Gauss Institute of Nuclear Physics in Paris?" ”

"We were basically responsible for the development of an independent component, and the technical performance and specifications of each component were developed by a chief designer named Carl, who ultimately presented the results to him for testing and integration. My subordinates and I are mainly responsible for the development of the power system. As for the developers of other systems, I have never met them so far, and I don't know the names of the other people. The doctor explained.

"So that's the case, this project is quite hidden from the outside world." Hugh pondered.

"Give this clue to Garnett to dig into, maybe he can get new discoveries from the other party's intelligence network." Katyusha touched the position of Hugh's shoulder dart, but fortunately the injury was not deep.

"It's okay, just rub some medicine." Hugh warmly shook Katyusha's hand.