“Smaragdus…… Sure enough, it is full of symbolism. ”

The boy was stunned for a moment, and then sighed.

"If my hypothesis is true, it is probably the result of each side taking its own part of the meaning of the study. But as far as I know,It's only the school city side that uses this code.,Our side deliberately avoided the word.。 It is also completely understandable that we have learned over the years to stop uttering certain words that are hidden secrets.

"But in the end, it's not just the shared pursuit that really dispels our concerns about cooperation. It's that we found out that the school city has a little bit of hiding from us. The content of the cooperation is superficial, and they do not hide the slightest in the content of the cooperation itself. But they seem to have a deeper intention to go beyond cooperation itself. I even felt at one point that the collaboration might be just an attempt at what they really wanted.

"Don't wonder why this reassures us. In fact, if the school city behaves too frankly,I'm afraid the cooperation will not be established.。 As I said before, it's as if a charming girl has invited you to walk with her because you have a common goal. This is certainly attractive, but if I say that it is also very suspicious, I am afraid that there will be no objection. So at this time, if you find a perfectly obscured sword hidden under the girl's skirt, you will be more relieved. Because this at least proves that she has reservations and even precautions against you, which is the most normal. After all, you are just fellow travelers, not lifelong lovers, and the intimacy of the transition is the most suspicious.

"Proper concealment can be understood, just as the rapier under her skirt is certainly a weapon, but it also proves that she only has the intention of guarding against harm. After all, when it comes to the means of inflicting harm, a drop of poison is obviously much more effective than a weapon.

"In fact, as far as I know, we have the same reservations. Now that I think about it, this may be a tacit understanding between the two sides at the same time, and this tacit understanding is also implemented in the cooperation itself.

However, just as there are two sides to everything, this kind of reservation and precaution, while the reason for the cooperation, must have played a role in the later rupture. Even if it seems to me that the collaboration itself is beautiful and honest, I think the people who have personally participated in this cooperation think so.

"So compared to the cooperation reached in a long period of deliberation and prudence, the arrival of the rupture is obviously much less cautious. In retrospect, the content we dislike the most is perhaps synonymous with what we are most passionate about.

"The reasons for the rupture are very confusing. As I said, that's why I've been trying to find out. My mentor obviously knew, but he never mentioned even a single thing to me. All I knew was that when we were told to evacuate all the personnel, no one in the team at the time understood why. I still remember that before we left, all of us were indignant at this resolution. There are even a few scholars who spread out their lifelong research notes and let the members of the school city who work with them copy as much as they can,To express their dissatisfaction with the higher-ups.。

"What's even more incredible is that when we returned to the organization, we were told that the reason for the failure of the cooperation was that Gakuen City reneged on its agreement with us. This reason is simply incomprehensible to us.

"Over the course of the next year, the 27 people were scattered around the world for various reasons, with only my mentor remaining at headquarters because he was a supervisor. As a disciple of the Guru, I became the only exception. And the long years that followed also made me gradually forget about this matter.

"It wasn't until eight years after that collaboration that I was asked to take charge of an independent unit in the Middle East. Before leaving, I naturally had to go to my mentor's residence to say my final goodbyes. But to my surprise, I don't know why, and I don't know when it started, the mentor once again picked up the cooperation that I had forgotten.

"I don't know exactly what the mentor found, but the mentor finally decided to go to Japan again.

"I don't know what happened after that. The only thing I know is that I haven't seen my guru since, or even know if he is alive or dead. Judging by the fact that the position of supervisor has been reserved for him for a considerable period of time, I am afraid that at least during that time, my mentor was still in contact with the higher-ups. It wasn't until three years ago that we finally re-elected a new director. At that time, I realized that I was afraid that my mentor would never come back. It is for this reason that I began to restore the cooperation I had at that time. I tried to reach out to the people who were involved in the collaboration back then, to try to learn a little bit from them. But to my surprise, more than half of the 27-member team that was transferred to various places at that time had disappeared or died for various reasons. Although I can't say what the reason for this must be, I found that these missing or dead people were the most central participants in that cooperation. In other words, no one has been able to learn the truth about that cooperation from these people. ”

The older man's eyes narrowed.

"My child, I never told you these secrets, and I even thought I would take them to the grave. If it weren't for the fact that the destination this time happened to be the school city.,And the high-level actually involved a group of guys who were blinded by prejudice.,I'm afraid I'll continue to hide it.。 ”

Hearing this, the boy's eyes widened in surprise. Clearly, he realized how important the secret was.

"Oh my God...... You're saying that we've lost a supervisor for this secret, and the best ......."

"It's not surprising, my kid. You know our history well, and you should know that it's nothing compared to the people we lost during our most difficult periods in history. "Undoubtedly, for some reason, the older man stole some of these concepts." But...... I also wondered, why on earth is this? As I said, I'm always trying to get back to the bottom of that collaboration. If this is to be done, then the content of cooperation is obviously the most important.

"I've tried a lot and learned a lot. Including ours,Also includes the school city's.。 To this day, I can confidently guess most of the collaboration. I even believe that the goal of our trip is also because of that cooperation. Because our higher-ups hope to be able to interpret the true result of that collaboration with the help of the crucial original texts hidden in the Magic Library. ”

The teenager was keenly aware of the word "real results".

"Did we get the results back then?"

"No one can know. As I said, I doubt there is. It's just that I believe, I'm afraid, that we both thought it was a failed outcome at the time. As you know, a break often only comes when it fails, or when it succeeds. In terms of time, it's too tight, so I don't think it's the latter. ”

"Mentor." The boy stopped, "In your judgment, what exactly was the content of our cooperation back then?" ”

"My child, haven't you realized it until now?"

The older man held out his fingers and made a gesture of silence.

Yes, the teenager has already thought of it.

They never tell secrets, so they are good at hiding and digging up secrets.

The elder had already told the boy the answer, even if he hadn't really told the secret.

An innate ability known as the "Primordial Stone", codenamed "Smaragdus", the Tree of Life Theory, and the Life Science ......

The boy raised his head and cast his gaze in a certain direction of the school city.

There, stands a tall tower, a staircase that leads to the sky.

It's a rail elevator made in the school city.,A "ladder to the sky.。

All the secrets are just for the "ladder to the sky".

It is not a realistic rail elevator, but a "ladder to the sky" built on life.

That's what they've been pursuing for thousands of years, forever.

The sublimation of life.

Successfully interpreting this, the attempt in the cooperation of the year will naturally unfold in front of you.

The result that was understood by both sides as a failure could only be that one-

The creation of perfect life.

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Looking in the direction of the young man's gaze, the elder sighed softly.

As he had said before, it had never been his intention to pass on this secret for three full generations. But......

Suddenly, the older man frowned.

"Follow me."

The elder left this sentence and quickened his pace.

Although I don't know why,The boy followed him closely,Walk through the most lively school district in the school city.。

Direction is always determined. The location of the elevator that soars into the sky like the Tower of Babel.

In the end, however, they did not reach the location of the rail elevator. Instead, not far away, he stopped moving forward.

It appears to be a short abandoned airstrip, where a three-person tall black monument is erected in the center.

The first time he stepped here, the boy froze in place.

The black stele was apparently made in reference to the shape of an obelisk, the top of which was shaped into a pyramid.

What stunned the young man was, of course, this stone monument.

He saw too many traces here, traces that only they could understand.

Including the markers erected on both sides.

Including the stele itself.

It also includes the eye that is faintly carved into the cracks in the ashlar slabs laid on the cross runway.

It is believed to come from the source of the omniscient eye (Eye_of_Providence) that marks them, the peeping eye from the sky.

"Eye of Horus ......" (Eye_of_Horus)

"'A new era is coming, and I hereby announce the beginning of the New World Order (New_World_Order)......'"

The boy and the elder stepped forward in a whisper, reaching out to touch the black stele.

It's a monument. A monument to commemorate an event that took place in the school city three years ago.。

This event was called the "Miracle of the 88".

The timing of this event was also the time when the "masters" announced the election of a new director.

The last link of the story sixteen years ago was actually continued here......