Port of Chicago, Moniach.

When the spotlight that lit up half of the stormy night was extinguished, the captain of the ship, Professor Ferdinand von Bock, ordered the anchors on both sides to be raised, and the Moniach, disguised as a tugboat, swayed slightly like a drunken giant in the wind force of seven, swaying slightly against the waves.

On a rainy night, the Moniach sounded its whistle, and a dull and loud hum swept through the dark harbor, disturbing the night watchman, who was curled up in his coat and sleeping in the duty room, to twist restlessly with an old bone and change his sleeping position.

In three minutes, if no one lands on the Moniach, the converted warship will leave the harbor and enter the deep lake alone to return to the Kassel Academy, ensuring that there will be no witnesses to what happened tonight.

The entire crew of the ship moved, covering up all the contraband that might be checked, and the three snipers on the roof, deck, and cabin lifted the black raincoats on their backs at the same time, and quickly began to put away their weapons, dismantling the anti-materiel weapons in their hands into parts and hiding them in the tugboat within tens of seconds, and then rushed to the side of the deck and looked behind Professor Ferdinand who was in the dark harbor area in the torrential rain.

"Did it work?" Despite the best chance of guessing the answer, Professor Ferdinand whispered a few more questions to the three commissioners behind him.

"Mission accomplished, we succeeded Professor Borg, tonight's war is our victory, and the trump card of the Executive Department is unmatched." One of the female commissioners whispered that the three of them had seen everything through the sniper scopes, and that there was no use for the alchemy bullets they had in their magazines tonight.

Professor Ferdinand's brow widened at the affirmative reply, and the wrinkles on the broad foreheads characteristic of the Germanic people that could hold the raindrops were smeared into a rough sheet of flat paper, and the thick clouds in the dark green eyes finally disintegrated, and the clouds were cleared to the light.

The enemy is a pure-blooded dragon, and it is inevitable that Ferdinand will be so nervous, and when the situation cannot be completely controlled by himself, anyone will have 100% anxiety in their hearts, even if it is only 10% concerned, and he taught at the Kassel Academy in "Dragon Literature" and "A Brief Analysis of the History of Dragon Philosophy".

In other words, he specialized in philology and philosophy, and he didn't know anything about combat, and he was able to board the Moniach today purely because he was proficient in the art of piloting large ships and had excellent experience in navigating storms, and there was probably no second person in the Kassel Academy who could compare with his boat skills except Professor Mance Rundstead.

This is also why he can only stand on the ship in a hurry and wait when the Owls of the Executive Department rush into the port, although as the only instructor of this mission, he is essentially a ship whose turn is not for him to direct the operation.

... What's more, who can command that trump card of the executive department?

In the course of the mission, when the 'S'-level bloodline of the ace of the executive department is stimulated to the extreme, just accidentally glance at the golden pupils as bright as the scorching sun, the so-called wartime commander will completely lose the courage to give orders to him, right?

As it turned out, Ferdinand's guess was not bad, the commander did not give too many effective instructions during the operation tonight, and when the ace of the executive department collided head-on with the three generations, the agitated bloodline and intersecting fields were enough to make his vocal cords unable to make a louder sound than the knife and bone crack in the scene. In other words, more than eighty percent of tonight's actions were judged and determined by the ace of the executive department alone, and then implemented and completed, and now the task has not exceeded the scheduled time limit, nor has it caused additional impact, which can prove that all the decisions of the other party are absolutely correct.

Thunder rolling down, dense footsteps running from far to near? Ferdinand on the Moniach was shocked? Before I could see the figure rushing out, a black figure the size of an adult was thrown onto the deck in mid-air? The moment of the fall, there was a heavy metal muffled sound? With the remaining force of the throw, he slid down the stagnant water to the middle of the deck.

Lin Nian, who put on a black raincoat and walked out of the port area, ignored the boarding ladder not far away, jumped from the shore, grabbed the deck handrail with one hand, and climbed onto the deck lightly from Ferdinand's side? His golden pupils, still hot, swept across the deck as his feet landed on his feet, and Ferdinand and the three sniper commissioners quickly avoided their eyes.

At this time, they also saw the black canvas package on the deck that had been thrown up? Actually oozing with some black liquid? As it flowed through the steel deck, the rain mixed with it made a sizzling sound, and Ferdinand's heart suddenly suddenly stepped forward and crouched down to determine what was in the black package.

"Dragon's blood, poisonous." Ferdinand, who had just crouched down and stretched out his hand, suddenly grabbed his wrist tightly, and when he looked up, he found that the 'S' class, which was still on the side of the deck, appeared next to him in the middle of the deck. The golden eyes between the heads reflected the dead black package, and said lightly? "It's cut into pieces, it's a little ugly, but it's not a threat for the time being."

"It should be noted that the three generations of pure-blooded breeds are very resilient." After being stared at by the golden eyes for a few seconds, Ferdinand nodded, slowly stood up, took off the protective gloves he had just put on, and asked in a deep voice? "Have the necessary insurance measures been taken?"

"The bronze chains dug up from the ancient tombs of the Sulme Dynasty come with their own alchemy matrix? The stronger the bloodline, the more the target will be tied down, and I didn't break free when I tested it? Presumably, she was seriously injured and dying, and she couldn't. Lin Nian said, after they briefly exchanged information? Dense footsteps on the boarding stairway on the side? Groups of executive specialists silently and quickly began to board the ship? After getting on the boat, he ran non-stop for a moment, passed by the two of them, and began to return to his post to carry out the finishing procedures.

"Did she say anything during the battle?" Ferdinand asked, looking at the black humanoid package.

"Nope." Lin Nian said, "At the beginning of the battle, I stabbed her vocal cords with the refining knife of the equipment department, and after that, she only let out some cathartic roars, probably thinking that it was very unwise to spend physical energy repairing her vocal cords during the battle with me." ”

"Well, that's a pity." Ferdinand said with some pity, "I would have liked to take this opportunity to dig up more information from the pure-blood dragons..."

"I'll try to keep you a complete one next time." Lin Nian said.

“... This kind of thing is only you who can say it, but next time I may not have the opportunity to set foot in this level of battlefield again, if it weren't for you in the formation this time, maybe Schneider wouldn't let me be the captain. Ferdinand shook his head.

"There are always opportunities, although the number of the second and first generations together is only a few dozen, but the three generations of these servant-level things can still be seen once every few years - this is Professor Schneider's exact words." Lin Nian watched as several commissioners wearing heavy full-body protective suits carefully lifted the black body bag into a coffin made of fine iron, the thick water pipe was moved to the side of the coffin and injected a large amount of mercury into it, and finally the commissioner holding the drilling rig nailed fifty rivets on the coffin surface to seal the coffin.

It is ironic to wake up from the coffin after a thousand years and re-enter the new coffin.

Ferdinand beckoned to the wheelhouse, the Moniach whistle sounded twice, and the ship sailed out of the harbor towards the black waves, leaving only the deep, dead night in the harbor area.

"By the way, did you deal with that group of gangsters?" After the coffin was removed, Ferdinand turned his head to look at Lin Nianwen, who was looking in the direction of the port area.

"All the broken legs and feet were thrown in the factory, it's going to be summer, the weather has been very warm recently, and the injuries that are too serious have also been treated to stop the bleeding, and they can't die in the rain all night, and if they die, blame them for their bad luck." Lin Nian said, "After the storm stops tomorrow morning, there will be people from the academy to rescue them, and at the same time, they will be 'hypnotized' to erase their memories, and no one will remember what happened tonight." ”

"It looks like a lot of unrelated people are seriously injured, did the three generations do it?" Ferdinand asked.

"I did." Lin Nian said.

"Oh, that's a pity for them, if they had asked for cash instead of arms, probably the deal would have gone a little smoother tonight, wouldn't it?" Ferdinand said, turning his head.

"100 fully automatic rifles is not a problem for the academy, but the point is that the people who want these weapons are bad people, we can't really give them that many guns, since we are not ready for real deals in the first place, then why do we bother to really prepare those arms?" Lin Nian said, "They are all bad people, we are good people, good people and bad people don't need to talk about morality, morality is a matter between good people and good people, and all you talk about with bad people is an iron fist and power." ”

“... Very executive thinking, it looks like you've gotten used to that place. ”

"Once a month, anyone can adapt to it, now it's summer vacation, I can do odd jobs if I have nothing to do, and I'm going to start school next semester, so there are not many opportunities like this."

"The current students can also be dispatched by the Executive Department, you don't have to worry about that." Ferdinand reassured.

"No, I mean I need to save credits after the start of school, according to the style of the school board and the executive department, I probably won't receive so much salary after this mission, most of the salary will be converted to me according to grade points... That's why I had to seize the opportunity to work a summer job. Lin Nian said faintly.

"......" he was stunned for a moment, not knowing what kind of expression to make.

While Professor Ferdinand was stunned, a female commissioner with a high ponytail standing up to the rain walked briskly onto the deck, walked straight towards them, and whispered a few words close to Lin Nian's ear.

"It's... Good... Go right away, thank you, sister, sister has worked hard. Lin Nian bowed his head slightly after hearing this, and the female commissioner with a high ponytail blushed with excitement on a rainy night as if she had been encouraged, saluted, turned around and trotted quickly to the eaves.

"What did she say?" Ferdinand asked.

"The mission commander has reported to the central control room that the mission is complete, but Minister Schneider of the Executive Department said that he has something to tell me, and he is temporarily absent, Professor Ferdinand."

After Lin Nian and the other party nodded lightly to each other, they turned around and walked quickly to the liaison room of the big ship, and the high-ponytailed female commissioner standing at the cornice of the ship dragged off the raincoat on his body for him, walked in front of him and led the way into the depths of the cabin.

"There are very few 'S' grades..."

Looking at Lin Nian's departing straight back from afar, Ferdinand took out a paper cigarette and thought to himself, when the heavy rain hit his finger holding the cigarette, he was stunned for a moment and looked up at the sky where the dark clouds were still thick, sighed and put the cigarette back.

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Lin Nian walked into the liaison room, the shaking incandescent light reflected the shadows in the cabin, from time to time there were waves of water hitting the window and making a dull thudding sound, the telephone of the red landline knocked on the desktop in the center of the room, he stepped forward and held the telephone in his ear and said, "This is Lin Nian, the 2009 class of Kassel Academy, the temporary commissioner of the Executive Department." ”

"Well done." The first thing that rang on the other end of the phone was a hoarse male voice like sandpaper polishing steel, and there was only one voice with such a discernible voice in the executive department, and he never needed to report his home, and the person on the other side of the phone would know his identity when he spoke.

"After all, there were some accidents, but I learned a piece of information, the pure-blooded dragons of the King of the Sea and Water can be revived in advance only by relying on the blood of living beings, and they are born with the ability to manipulate liquids, and I cut off the hands of several gangsters on the way to the mission, and it was the blood that spilled on the ground that woke her up in advance."

"Hmm... Yes, based on this information, the mechanism of the awakening of the servants under the command of the other three monarchs can be deduced, which is not a small discovery... Is there anything else to gain? Schneider said.

"The third-generation species recognized Stormblood." Lin Nian said suddenly.

There was silence on the phone for a few seconds.

“... Have you spoken to her? ”

"A sentence or two."

"What exactly did she say?"

"She called the phenomenon of violent blood 'the path to godhood' and denounced it as a forbidden power."

“... Have you told anyone else about this? ”

"Nope."

"Very well, how are the corpses now?" Schneider got the answer he wanted, and staggered the topic.

"The corpse has been boxed, I have to say that the vitality of the pure-blood dragon clan is indeed different from ordinary people, even if I cut her into corpse pieces, she still hasn't died, maybe it's really only like the records in the classics, putting the corpses into the volcano and burning them to ashes can prevent them from being reborn, right?"

"That's limited to the first generation and something higher, and we have reason to suspect that this typhoon was brought to Illinois by her as it passed through Wisconsin, and even the third generation has that power." Schneider said, "But even so, the second and third generations can still be killed by us, and we will start researching and sealing the corpse parts of the Moniach after they are brought back to the academy, and you will need to stay in the middle of the battle to avoid chaos." ”

“... Research and mothballing? Didn't the academy kill her completely? Lin Nian frowned slightly when he heard these two words.

"Living things are always more useful than dead ones, and this is especially true of dragons, and her body can also provide residual heat for the half-bloods' dragon slaying operations, so we naturally won't waste this piece of firewood... Or do you think that's too cruel? ”

"Cruel? No, I'm just worried that I'll need to work hard to kill her again..."Lin Nian sat on the chair and took off his trench coat, dark red blood dripping from his sleeves to the ground.

"I think so... Are you hurt? Schneider heard a change in speed between Lin Nian's breathing and inadvertently.

"Actually, if you don't say it, I'll forget it." Lin Nian raised his foot and stepped on the blood dripping from the ground and stood up.

"Don't be complacent, it's normal to get injured in battle with three generations, after all, your opponent is a pure-blooded dragon, and the worst enemy of the half-blood is what you met today."

"It's not as serious as you think, the first time I climbed to the seventh step in actual combat, I was a little uncomfortable, 64 times the speed and 128 times the speed are just a world of difference, even in the case of violent blood, the muscles are strained, but at most, the skin is cracked and a lot of capillaries are broken." Lin Nian pulled up and bit the black T-shirt, revealing his fierce upper body, and under the illumination of the incandescent light, his whole body was like Xuanbai's A4 paper, as if the paper was accidentally crumpled by a huge force, and blood kept gushing out from dozens of slender wounds and bathed all over his body.

"Do you need to go back to the academy to fix it?" Schneider asked quietly.

"Skin trauma, I'm dealing with it myself right now." Holding the telephone microphone, Lin Nian opened the medical box on the wall of the liaison room and began to skillfully perform hemostasis and stitches, his muscles and skin were as tough as gold and iron paper in the case of heavy blood, and only under the current normal state can he effectively treat the wound.

"Oh, that's right, I have something interesting to tell you while you're dealing with your wounds."

"Minister, has anyone ever told you that anything 'interesting' coming out of your mouth feels threatening? It's the feeling that you're going to say, 'I know what you did last summer.'" Lin Nian bit the towel and said vaguely.

"I'll say it first, and then you ask questions." Schneider said lightly, Lin Nian tilted his head and closed up decisively.

"In recent months, in a coastal city in China, Norma has noticed that people have been jumping back and forth on multiple IP addresses to search for information about the Kassel Academy."

“... A coastal city in China? Lin Nian's stitch movement paused, capturing the key words for him.

"You guessed right, it's the place you want." Schneider said, "One of the few IP addresses captured by Norma came from a junior high school in that city called 'Shilan Middle School,' which would be your alma mater if my memory has not faded." ”

“... So this is in my hometown? Anyone at Shilan Middle School looking for Kassel Academy? Isn't it possible that I was ping by mistake, I told my classmates the name of the college before entering the college, and it may be that any of them are interested in this and looking for relevant information about the college on the Internet? Lin Nian pondered for a while and said, "Now the high school in China should be about to enter the school season, right?" I remember that there are many students in 'Shilan Middle School' who have a lot of family backgrounds, and they want to take the TOEFL test in the second year of high school to study in the United States, and it is not impossible to check the school in advance to find us. ”

Norma considered this possibility, and in her computing system there is a filtering algorithm for the situation you mentioned, the Kassel Academy's website is not transparent on the Internet, and the search rate increases every year at a fixed time, and Norma can accurately filter out which IPs are misping, and which IPs are purposeful, targeted, and persistent. Once confirmed, we will search his browsing history according to the locked IP, and find out exactly who is looking for us in a short period of time. ”

"Norma is so powerful? It looks like I'm going to have to pay attention to all my actions on the internet in the future. Lin Nian's face was a little strange, "So now we already know who the person who has been looking for us is?" ”

"yes, that's why I said it was interesting." Schneider said lightly.

"Someone I know?" Lin Nian asked.

"Sort of one of the few acquaintances in your social circle."

Lin Nian grinned, he didn't know why the first thing that came to his mind was actually a panda head with drooping eyebrows, but he immediately shook his head to dispel this unrealistic idea, if that guy could enter the Kassel Academy, he would climb upside down and crawl around the boys' dormitory.

“... Well, there is an acquaintance of mine who is looking for information about the Kassel Academy, and I remember that this kind of thing should not be handed over to the admissions office for an interview? That's how you found me in the first place, so you can find that person in the same way. ”

"Naturally, the admissions office could find this person, but they couldn't deal with the illegal assembly of mixed races going on in that city." Schneider said.

Tut.

"Another mission?" Lin Nian finished stitching up the wounds on his body with the same complexion, disinfected it with alcohol spray, and put on clean spare clothes again.

"Two things coincided at a coincidental time, and I don't think there's anyone in the executive department better suited for you to solve this problem."

"How do you count a month's vacation between two missions? Although I don't mind one or two more assignments, the hard and fast rules and regulations of the executive department can't be bypassed, right? That's the rule left over from the first head of the executive department, even if it's the current minister, you can't break it in public, right? ”

"Regarding this issue, since the mission location is your hometown, we can tell the public that you have returned to your hometown for the summer vacation." Schneider said lightly.

"Hmm... Very invincible reason. Lin Nian put on a windbreaker, "Aside from the task, what should I do with that acquaintance after I find him?" Directly issue a warning or take him back to the academy? ”

"It's the new school season after the summer vacation, and I think you can take him to the school season exams with you." Schneider said, "In addition, I will ask Norma to send you the details of the mission of the Mixed Race Illegal Assembly in the form of an electronic document through the PAD, and you are the commissioner for this operation, and you can mobilize all the resources available to the local academy." ”

"Is it my delusion, Minister, that I think you are more important than the task of the coastal city, and I need to meet with this prospective student?" Lin Nian suddenly asked for no reason.

Schneider was silent for a rare moment: "Why do you think so?" ”

"It's just a gut feeling." Lin Nian smiled lightly, "Minister, let's say, which acquaintance of mine may be a monster hiding in the crowd like me?" ”

"Shilan Middle School's Class of 2007 student, the stepson of local business magnate Lu Tianming... Chu Zihang. ”

After opening his mouth slightly, Lin Nian didn't say anything.

After a few moments, he hung up the phone and looked out the window at the fading black rainy night.

... Why not be so unexpected?

Reasonable, but unexpected.