Volume 5: The Elegant Tea Party (Remastered) Chapter 45: The Tea Party (Preparation Phase 3)
"Failed, failed again!" A middle-aged man with a goatee pushed everything he could reach to the ground and let them shatter on the cold and hard ground, and the vicious expression on his face made the other researchers standing in the room afraid to come out, "Why? Why? Can any of you tell me why? Why can't you do such a simple thing? ”
A few researchers, you look at me, I look at you, no one dares to answer this question.
The middle-aged man rushed to a researcher, grabbed the other party's neck, and lifted the man who was more than sixty kilograms with one hand, but this terrifying power appeared on the thin middle-aged man in front of him, making the others feel cold, and subconsciously took a few steps back.
"Tell me, why did it fail again? Tell me, you piece of shit! ”
The poor researcher, whose eyes were almost white from the sheer force, struggled to escape from the middle-aged man's grasp, replied in a hoarse voice, "Win, Director Winchester, please, please spare me, give me, give me a chance." ”
"Winchester, let go of this poor man! Don't forget that you are a gentleman, a gentleman of the British Empire! The poor fellow was finally relieved, the door to the room was opened, and an old man in a black suit with a staff of civilization on his arm walked in, and soothed the middle-aged man with a goatee in a gentle and soothing tone.
Winchester snorted coldly, let go of his hand, and gasped as he looked at the researcher who fell to the ground: "I'll give you one last chance!" You'd better have a reason enough to convince me! ”
The appearance of the old man gave these researchers a little courage, and another middle-aged female researcher stood up and said to Winchester tremblingly: "Your Excellency, all animal test subjects have mutated to varying degrees after being injected with the enhancement drug, but this mutation is uncontrollable and will cause great damage to the brain. Until this problem is solved, we dare not proceed to the next step of human trials. ”
"Of course I know this! What you need to tell me is, why haven't you found a solution to this problem until now? Two months, two full months, and you have made no progress except to make some so-called booster injections based on the records of that half of the research materials! Do you still deserve to call yourselves the elite of the British Empire? Well? ”
"I, we're trying, Your Excellency! But this is an area that we've never touched on. So, so ......"
"So you can't even compare to an unknown group that came out of nowhere, and you can't even study the inferior products that they spent months making? Gentlemen, if so, what use do I want from you? What's the use? Winchester yelled and became angrier, almost slapping the table and yelling.
"Grace! Winchester Qing! The old man casually waved his hand at the frightened researchers with a chair that had fallen to the ground, "Alright, you guys go out first!" Keep up your research! ”
Winchester watched as the researchers turned around and left the room as if fleeing for their lives, and couldn't help but stand up again and yell, "A month! If you don't get enough results after a month, I'll throw you into the crocodile pond of the safari park, so you can at least have a little bit of value! ”
The door slowly closed, and the room fell silent.
After a long time, the old man said slowly in a calm tone: "Secretary Winchester, I know that those old fellows in the council have put a lot of pressure on you, but these researchers are already the best candidates we can find!" Now after all, it is not what it used to be, and the British Empire has been weakening day by day since the last war. ”
"It's not an excuse they can use to hide their incompetence! Byewell! It is precisely because the empire is getting weaker day by day that we need this technology, and we need this technology to make the empire strong again! Winchester slammed the table hatefully, "If Hillman hadn't messed up that matter on his own initiative, we would have been able to obtain the complete human enhancement data a long time ago!" ”
"That's not Hillman's intention, the intelligence agents below make their own decisions, and the other party probably didn't have the idea of handing over the complete information to us in the first place. Compared with 50 years ago, there are very few capable and intelligent informants among these informants today. Bewell shook his head helplessly, this is the current situation of the British Empire, and this weakness is reflected in all aspects, not just the reduction of research ability.
Winchester took a few deep breaths, barely suppressed his anger, and then said to the old man, "Tell me, what do you want me to do today?" The two I gave you last time are already the most successful test subjects in my hands. ”
"Don't worry, I'm not here to be a beggar!" "Her Majesty would like to know how it goes, and besides that, the royal family received a special gift yesterday, which I brought to you," Bywell replied. ”
"Progress? No progress! Winchester spread his hands, "As for the gifts, are they antiques from some declining nobleman?" These wastes want to restore the glory of their families, but they are not willing to die for the Empire, and I think they should all be thrown into prison! ”
The old man took out a beautifully crafted invitation from the inside pocket of his suit, the surface of the invitation was red, the gold dust was edged, the material was heavy, and it emitted a strong sandalwood fragrance.
Using sandalwood to make paper is not something ordinary people can do, and Winchester immediately judged that in order to make such an invitation, I am afraid that the consumption of high-grade sandalwood is at least about several kilograms.
"What is this?"
The old man slowly opened the invitation, and on the inside of the invitation, on the left side was a huge pattern, on which the evil mark unique to the Devouring Serpent was vividly imprinted, and on the right side were a few words.
"You are cordially invited to the tea party, and you will enter with this invitation!"
There was no invitee, no invitee, no payment or date, and even the place and time of the tea party mentioned above, and anyone with a little sense would think that this invitation was a prank by some boring person.
But neither Winchester nor Bywell would think so, because the mark of evil made it clear who was the organizer of the tea party.
Snake of Body!
"Who sent it?"
"That old butler of the Helsins!"
"So that little girl is really a member of this mysterious organization? Can we ......?"
The old man shook his head helplessly: "I'm afraid you can't do that." The last descendant of the Helsing family, Intergula is the sole heir to the oldest surviving family in the United Kingdom, and is also very closely associated with the royal family. Any reckless move would cause a violent shock to the entire British Empire's upper echelons! Moreover, the Crown thinks she is willing to cooperate with us to some extent, at least for now, and we don't want you to cause the British Empire to lose its means of contact with this organization again. ”
"Alright! All right! So what does this little girl want to do? She didn't hide in that castle to study vampires, but she asked the old butler to bring such an invitation, could it be that she had baked muffins and made black tea at home, ready to entertain us? ”
"When Walter presented this invitation, the old butler had said that the tea party would be held soon, and that there would be many invitees, but only the final winner would be eligible for the reward, which included the human enhancement technique that the Devouring Serpent had studied."
Winchester heard Bywell's words and slammed up from his chair: "You mean ......"
"That's right! We speculate that this may be a special way for the Devourer to screen collaborators. It's weird, but it's fascinating! This is our only chance to get our hands on the full body enhancement technology! ”
"...... from the council"
"Those old guys don't know about this yet, otherwise you wouldn't be so laid-back now!"
Winchester reached for the invitation and carefully rubbed the mark on it: "I know, I'll arrange it immediately." ”
"MI5 will do its best to accommodate any request you may have, and Hillman will send his best agents this time."
"It's better to be like this, otherwise he won't have to wait until the end of the year to retire due to old age!" Winchester said coldly.
"That's a shame. He is only forty-one years old now, and he is at his most energetic! ”
What needs to be done has been done, and the future of the British Empire is on such a small invitation. The old man once again lamented that the glory of the empire was gone, and at the same time slowly got up, elegantly and rigidly hung the staff of civilization on his forearm, and walked towards the door.
Winchester was not as personable as the old man, and the man, who was over half a hundred years old, received the invitation into his shirt pocket, picked up an intercom at hand, and yelled at the other end of the receiver: "Let Robert come to my room at once!" Immediately! I don't care what he's doing, even if he's having sex with his wife. Yes, let me drag him off that stupid woman's belly too! ”
The same thing is not only happening in the UK, in just a few days, almost every country in the world has received such an invitation, such an invitation has been received by governments, large organizations, ancient families, large business groups, etc. This was the first time that the Devouring Snake had been exposed to others on a large scale, and this completely different behavior from the previous cover-up made these people who received the invitation can't help but have all kinds of speculations.
For a time, this tea party, which had no place and no time, and even the organizers did not know whose it was, became a topic of discussion among the upper classes of society all over the world.
Who will be the host of the tea party? Where is the tea party held? What do you need to do to make it to the end of the tea party? And so on and so forth.
This sense of emptiness and mystery of ignorance made everyone look forward to this tea party more and more, especially since the person who sent the invitation personally said that the winner who stayed at the end of the tea party would be rewarded. No matter how wonderful and special these rewards are, the human enhancement technique alone is enough for everyone to compete for.
In a pitch-black and empty space, suddenly, a red flame suddenly burst up.
This is as if it were a signal, from where the flames appeared, in a clockwise direction, red, orange, yellow, green, blue, purple, seven flames of different colors rose one after another, arranged in a circle.
Flames of various colors flickered in the void, burning silently.
Suddenly, the green flame swelled violently, from a flame the size of a matchhead to a giant flame humanoid.
"Oh, am I the first?" The green flame humanoid had no appearance, except for the form of a creature that could barely be called a humanoid, and a crack leaked out of the empty green figure's face, forming the appearance of a mouth, and spitting out words from it.
As soon as the words fell, the orange flames also expanded violently, and then formed an orange flame figure.
"That means you're idle, white face! Would you like to come and do me a favor? The orange flame figure spat out a word, which could be clearly heard, it was the voice of a mature woman.
"I don't want to dominate the crowd, that's your stage, fox!" The green flame figure spread his hands and shrugged his shoulders, signaling that he didn't want to be involved.
"It doesn't matter, the more guests at the tea party, the more fun it is!" The orange figure covered its mouth with its hands and said with a smile.
At this time, the yellow, blue, and purple flames also burned violently, and three flame figures were formed.
"The second pillar, this tea party, the requirements won't be too harsh, right? Pretty much all the idiots under my command are out, so you're not going to do anything, are you? As soon as the purple flame humanoid came up, he asked the teacher for his guilt, obviously very dissatisfied with the process of holding this tea party.
"You should be glad that I am here to preside over this tea party, Professor, as for your out-of-the-box men, waste is waste, no matter how much it is, it is waste!" The orange figure clearly refused to back down.
"Well, this meeting is not for you to quarrel!" The yellow humanoid opened his mouth to stop the argument, "Death Knight, why hasn't the first pillar arrived yet?" ”
The blue figure clasped his hands to his chest, as if he didn't want to communicate with anyone: "I'm not a babysitter!" ”
"Hmph, I convened this meeting, but I was late, did you look down on us?" The green figure grumbled, "Does he think that he is the first pillar, just one level above us?" ”
"You can try it yourself, and if you can survive under my hands for ten seconds, I can give you the seat of the first pillar!" Before the green humanoid could finish speaking, the red flames suddenly burst into a flaming red humanoid and choked back unceremoniously.
"Cut!" The green figure pursed his lips, but did not refute the other in the end.