Prologue: Earth Chapter
An underground base.
In one room, the earthy yellow light was dim, and a middle-aged man was lying on the bed, his left hand was resting on his forehead, and there was an ant tattoo on his palm.
The image of the ant is lifelike, and with a magnifying glass, you can also find that it has two rows of teeth on the upper jaw and 12 antennae, which is a characteristic of a fierce ant.
[Fierce ants, carnivorous, the most primitive way of life, do not like to be in groups, but alone to find food or hunt. 】
The man lay motionless on the bed, staring deeply at the light overhead, as if he was thinking about something.
It was 12 o'clock sharp.
"Dididi!"
The cell phone on the table rang.
The man froze for 2 seconds, almost incredulous, for it was the ringing of his cell phone when there was a signal, and he knew that his location would not be able to receive any signal unless the base's shielded semaphore failed.
The man quickly got up and picked up his mobile phone and found that there were only two signals. Without time to think about what was going on, the man quickly edited a text message to a number he knew by heart, and the process took less than half a minute.
Probably because of the unstable signal, the text message failed to be sent twice after loading, until the third time it was displayed successfully, and the man's heart was like a wave.
After that, the man wrote four more words, and his hand trembled slightly and clicked send. I saw that the screen display failed, and before I could click it a second time, the signal quickly returned to its previous state.
More than half an hour later.
Hearing a familiar knock on the door, the man got up and opened the door.
"Why are you?", the man replied a little confusedly as he opened the door.
She was greeted by a slightly more mature woman with an ant tattoo on her right palm.
[Honey ants, responsible for daily honey storage, and at the same time can also be used as a food reserve in their own body, known as "live honey bucket", do not need to participate in any other labor except honey storage. 】
"There was a solar flare just half an hour ago, and the radiation energy directly caused harm to the human body, the scale can be regarded as the strongest in modern times, and even the base has been greatly affected. According to the above regulations, everyone needs to do a safety check in the future, and the communication equipment owned by private individuals must be handed over to the maintenance department for care. Also, tonight at 12 o'clock the temporary 'meeting!' is here. The mature woman elaborated and handed the man a note.
"Meeting?" the man was a little surprised, he knew that holding a meeting meant that something big was going to happen. The last time it was held was not long after he became an organization, more than ten years ago.
It's about ten minutes until midnight.
The man, codenamed 'Fierce Ant', was walking around the corner of a passage when he turned around and suddenly came across an unidentified object.
The man seemed to have a quick reaction to catch it, and when he saw that it was his mobile phone, the front was taken by the "honey ant" for maintenance.
"Fierce ants, long time no see. A short man less than 1.6 meters tall leaned against the wall, not looking very friendly from his gaze alone. Its code name is "Luser Ant".
[Road Ants: They like to build nests on the side of the road or in the cracks of walls, and invade indoors to find food. 】
"I met Xiaomi just now, she specially asked me to return this to you, I asked her why she didn't bring it to you herself, she kept spitting, her expression was not very natural, she wouldn't you..."
"Nothing. But then again, why did you come back so soon, weren't you on a mission somewhere in the desert?"
"That ended half a month ago, and now I'm on vacation, and I just received a notice in front of me, it's not too far from here, of course, I'm going to rush over, you know King's temper. ”
"Really?" the man, codenamed "Fierce Ant," didn't continue, but finally breathed a sigh of relief in his heart.
The real name of the man codenamed "Fierce Ants" is Hua Linfeng, and his real identity is an agent of a certain country, who was arranged to investigate an organization called "Ants" many years ago for special reasons.
Ants, i.e., ants, are called ants.
They are found all over the world, have a clear division of labor, generally build nests underground, and although they are small, they can lift hundreds of times their own weight and drag thousands of times their own weight, and their spirit of unity and self-sacrifice is rare in the world.
The leader, King, felt that the name 'Ants' was more in line with the style of the organization, so he named it after him.
The upper echelons of the 'Ants' organization are made up of more than a dozen members, each with their own unique codename, which is usually more appropriate to their own characteristics or style. Hua Linfeng's code name 'Fierce Ant' is one of them.
At this level, Hua Linfeng knew the existence of spiritual powers.
For more than ten years, Hua Linfeng has continued to inquire about relevant information, and has also learned that the main goal of the 'Ants' organization is to find the existence of the 'Holy Realm Passage' and the 'Huangquan Relic'.
As for the existence of the 'Holy Realm Passage' and the 'Yellow Springs Relic', Hua Linfeng had no way of knowing.
After coming here for many years, Hua Linfeng has been looking for an opportunity to pass on the information he has obtained, but he feels powerless in the face of the organization's impregnable defense.
It wasn't until the previous "solar flare" event that affected the instruments of the base and indirectly caused a short "delay interruption" of the signal that it was realized, and I have to say that this kind of coincidence happened to him is a miracle.
Although the signal was quickly interrupted again, it was no longer very important.
Hua Linfeng thought that "security maintenance" might do data recovery or something, and it would not be a joke if the deleted message was found earlier.
Soon Hua Linfeng turned on the computer in the bedroom, most of the things in the computer were left by the previous owner, all of them were games and some adult movies, and there was no reference value in terms of intelligence. Because there is no network, Hualinfeng basically does not use it much.
Considering the urgency of time, after connecting the data cable, Hua Linfeng hurriedly used the computer to transfer many videos to the mobile phone until the memory was almost full, and then deleted, then added, back and forth several times, and finally deleted them all.
Doing so can overwrite the content of the information, as if a layer of soil is sprinkled on it, and the general recovery program can only recover the data on the upper surface.
Hua Linfeng considered that the information may not be completely covered, so it was repeatedly covered several times. Although for the organization, it is possible to achieve a deep level of recovery through the use of some special techniques. But if it had been to that point, in terms of the style of the organization, this kind of suspect would have been arrested a long time ago.
Hua Linfeng actually doesn't understand this aspect, these are just hearsay, and he doesn't know whether it is useful or not.
In the case of data recovery, it is also more reasonable to use adult videos as a guise. Because the deleted information is traceable in time, and a large amount of content has been deleted in a short period of time after being found, this behavior can be very sensitive in the organization.
It's different with this kind of film, most of the content is the same, even if someone really has doubts, it's not easy for others to ask you.
Hua Linfeng knows that the style of the organization is to never allow the existence of "termites", and once discovered, most of them will end up dead.
[Termites; although they also have ants in their names and are similar in appearance, they are not the same kind of insects as ants, and wars often break out between them, and they are usually used in the organization to refer to undercover agents and traitors. 】
After the previous conversation with the members, Hua Linfeng knew that he was fooled, but at the same time, he also knew that he might not really be trusted by the organization.
Time back to daylight shortly before 12 noon.
City C.
On a certain street, there was a long queue outside the door of a restaurant called "Chen Kee Restaurant" early.
If you look closely, there is also a female reporter who is doing a live broadcast in front of the camera.
"This is the famous local 'Tatsuki Restaurant', although this restaurant has only been open for less than half a year, it has an excellent reputation in the local area. Now we can see that this place is full of people, what is the reason why so many people come here, let's ask the gentleman at the door first... Hey, sir, how long have you been waiting here?"
"It's just over 2 hours!"
"It's only 2 hours, is it really that delicious here?" said the female reporter, with an exaggerated expression.
"Not really. I don't know about others, I personally come from just because here I can eat seafood to my heart's content. ”
"Is it cheap here?"
"It's not because of this, it's just that I'm allergic to seafood. ”
The female reporter was excited when she heard it and asked, "If you are allergic to seafood, you dare to eat seafood, aren't you afraid of being carried to the hospital?"
The gentleman who was asked was just about to answer when he heard shouting from inside.
"Next!"
"It's coming, it's coming!" the man slipped in.
"Huh?" the female reporter was speechless for a while at the guy who had gone away, and then hurriedly entered the door with the photographer to seek the truth.
The boss inside is called Chen Gui, and when he faced the female reporter who came in to ask, he didn't rush to answer her question but asked first, "Do you know what a top chef is?"
"What is it?" the female reporter asked rhetorically.
"It's about making what wasn't delicious delicious, and making it delicious. Restaurants like ours have limited capabilities, and it's very difficult to stand out from the crowd in terms of taste. Therefore, we plan to take a new path, with the aim of making it possible for more people to enjoy the delicious food they want. ”
Chen Gui continued, "Of course, we are not limited to cost issues. Take the guest who is allergic to seafood just now, the reason why some people have allergies is because seafood contains excessive xenoprotein in the body, and these people lack the corresponding enzymes in their bodies, and accumulating a certain amount after eating will cause discomfort and even allergies to the human body. At present, the conditions and cooking technology we have are completely able to remove this kind of foreign protein, and at the same time, the umami of the seafood is not lost, and the original flavor of the seafood is guaranteed. Therefore, even those who are allergic to seafood can enjoy the delicious taste of seafood with us. However, I can't tell you about the relevant technology, which can involve patent issues. With that, he went on cooking.
The female reporter looked at the noodles he was cooking, and found that the noodles floating on the surface of the soup were regularly scattered, with clear layers, coupled with the boiling white water vapor to render, as if a fairy was waving to people around the clouds, so beautiful that the female reporter called it too beautiful.
"What's the way these colorful noodles come in?"
"I saw the old lady opposite, because she loves sweets, she has diabetes. In order to take care of her taste, I chose to use spinach, seaweed, carrots and other vegetables that are more suitable for her to be squeezed into vegetable puree and kneaded into soba noodles, and then..."
Tatsuta walked over and drove away to her husband, who was talking endlessly at this time, and said disdainfully in her heart, "It's a fake model again, how many times has this happened, can you change the trick." ”
A few minutes later.
Chen Gui is deliberately displaying a boneless crucian carp with sauce, which looks like a whole fish from the outside, and there seems to be no trace of a cut.
The female reporter knows that there are a lot of small fish spines in front of her, and it is more troublesome to use fish to be boneless, and it seems that it cannot destroy its body, even if the internal organs of the fish can be taken out of the mouth, but the fish bones can be all over the body, so how can the whole body fish bones be removed and achieve perfect flavor?
"Could it be that some kind of high-temperature and high-pressure method is used to melt the fish bones... No, if you do this, the meat quality of the fish will be destroyed first. The female reporter thought about it and quickly denied it, if she asked him directly, she would definitely prevaricate on the grounds of patents.
Chen Gui looked at the female reporter and wanted to grab a chopstick and hurriedly stopped, "Oh, don't move! This is for the guests, you have to eat it and get it later." ”
"Can't I line up?" the female reporter wanted to cry without tears, and did not forget to ask the last question that she had done her duty, "What kind of diet do you plan to develop in the future?"
Tatsuki thought for a moment, "Recently, we have been researching the cuisine of puffer fish, and we are currently preparing it, and we expect to go to country D after the year." ”
"Fugu can be regarded as a famous delicacy in country D, although some parts of the food itself are poisonous, there are still many local professionals in country D who can cook this dish perfectly. The female reporter was a little confused.
"What I want to cook is not ordinary pufferfish, but some hybrid offspring of the species, purebred puffer fish poisonous parts are concentrated, and the toxic part of the hybrid offspring is uncertain, so many varieties of puffer fish are banned from the market, now wild hybrid puffer fish are flooding, purebred puffer fish are becoming more and more rare, if you don't find a solution, but a waste of food." Chen Gui said what was in his heart.
"Sister Zhang, pause first, the camera seems to have a problem. The photographer suddenly said at this time.
At this time, the time was just after 12 noon.