Chapter 1: Anxiety
Summer vacation is coming, and in the nearly a week since returning from Kassel, Ye Yu finally realized what it means to die if you don't do it
Tired sitting at the desk, staring at the phone on the table
In the days of Kassel, except for contacting Chen Wenwen and Liu Miaomiao through email, there was basically no dating or party, but Ye Yu ignored the terrible behavior of other scumbags
Just yesterday, he accompanied Liu Miaomiao out for a meal, and played with Liu Miaomiao for a whole day
Although he has tried his best to separate the date between the two, it is indeed not possible today
Because today, his former classmates decided to have a short class reunion!!
It's over, Ye Yu can already imagine the ending
"What kind of class reunion, there are only a few good people who want to get back face, and they are ready to slap other people's faces" Ye Yu pursed his lips, secretly slandering, full of resentment and panic
Besides, today is Lu Mingfei's birthday, Ye Yu is secretly thinking about the day, planning to surprise Lu Mingfei
Touching his wallet, Ye Yu sighed secretly
Sure enough, talking about feelings hurts money...
It's time to make a good buck with his old friends in China---- bounty hunter
Ye Yu still embarked on the old business, China's bounty hunter market is narrow and terrible, it seems that all bounty hunters have some scruples, basically will not mess around, but scarce is expensive, less does not mean no, the bounty for the completion of the task simply blinded Ye Yu's titanium alloy dog eyes, so he embarked on the old road without hesitation
However, this time, many informants took the initiative to come to him to cooperate, and the proposed share also gave Ye Yu very good conditions
Ye Yu chooses the task, the informant provides information, and the bounty distribution is actually seventy-three, Ye Yu takes seven, and the informant takes three
Ye Yu touched his chin, looking at the attitude of this informant, it seems that there is a big background~
Looking at the high-bounty missions offered by the informant recently, Ye Yu almost took a fancy to the two tasks at a glance
The first: 'Intercept the file'
Blinking, Ye Yu looked at the conditions of the person receiving the task, as well as the description of the time and place related to the task
"Huh??" Isn't this the train station that was built not long ago?? But it's a pity that someone took this task
The second: 'Salvage a knife box under the Three Gorges'
Ye Yu squinted, looked at the photo attached below and pouted, Seven Deadly Sins??
After thinking about it, Ye Yu still made a phone call to this informant who was friendly to him, this informant was called Mo Tianlan, and he seemed to be a soft girl in her twenties
"Hey, what's the matter with you?" It didn't take long for the other side to answer the phone
"Eh" Ye Yu paused, "I need that, well, the details of the Three Gorges salvage mission, no accident is this"
"Well, I'll send it to you in a while, but~" There was a sound of tapping the keyboard from the other side, "This seems to be someone doing it"
"Oh?" Ye Yu raised his eyebrows curiously, "Who?" ”
"An ID called Potato Chips Girl picked up"
"Potato Chip Girl??" Ye Yu blinked, thinking of the Bronze City under the Three Gorges, "It's okay, just treat it as a tour, it's OK to do the task by the way."
"Whatever you want" hung up the phone opposite
Ye Yu pursed his lips, picked up the phone, and dialed Chu Zihang
"Hey, what's the matter with me" After half a sound, Chu Zihang's cold voice came
"I'm going to take a trip to the Bronze City of the Three Gorges, will you accompany me on a trip" Ye Yu smiled
"Give me a reason," Chu Zihang asked after a moment of silence
The "Nibelungen" leaf feathers are simple and straightforward
"Go on," Chu Zihang's tone changed slightly
"Odin never left this city, I learned through effective channels" Ye Yu must have said, since his spatial power was integrated into the core of the Bronze City, although his pupil power has been greatly attenuated, the perception of the mark has become clearer and clearer
The other side of the city, simply put, the world of reflections and the like, has a strong Odin atmosphere
Norton's Nibelungen, the king of bronze and fire, has not yet detached from reality, and Odin's Nibelungen has long been opposed to reality, and Ye Yu is secretly frightened and can't help but be a little discouraged by revenge
It wasn't until Ye Yu successfully invaded Norton's fragmented Nibelungen that Ye Yu faintly touched the edge of that power
"What I want is to find the entrance to Odin's world by observing the Bronze City of the dead Norton," Ye Yu suppressed his voice
It's also strange to say, Chu Tianjiao seems to have disappeared from everyone's memory, except for Chu Zihang, who entered the abyss of Odin and ran out, and Ye Yu
His godmother didn't have any sign of remembering Chu Tianjiao, that memory seemed to be tightly locked in a black box, and he and Chu Zihang were also in the black box
"What do you want me to do" Chu Zihang was a little excited, and something hidden in his tone made Ye Yu lose his mind
"As far as I know, when the Bronze City finally collapses, there is a place that can be blown up with underwater bombs, and I have a detailed plan for the rest, believe me or not" Ye Yu took a deep breath
"When?" Chu Zihang asked directly, he needed to prepare
"Well, next week at the latest, the day after tomorrow at the earliest" Ye Yu scratched his head
"Okay, I'll wait for your call" Chu Zihang hung up the phone after speaking
Ye Yu looked at his phone with some annoyance, he was always hung up by someone, and when he was thinking about something, the phone rang, and an unread text message prompt appeared
"Ye Yu, at 11:30 noon today, the Literary Club will have dinner at Sophirad's Pizza House, and I said that I must come, otherwise, hum > "<"
Ye Yu patted his head, reacting to today's troubles, and sat helplessly in the chair and didn't know what to do
On the other hand, the Kassel Academy exploded
Eleven time zones apart, Illinois, USA, Kassel Academy
Late at night, the central control room on the second floor of the library is brightly lit. Standing in front of a giant 3D projection, Manstein is hovering in front of him with a 5-meter-high virtual globe that quickly turns to where he wants to see it with a gentle wave of his hand. It feels like God is fiddling with His creation, and it gives you the thrill of being swept up and the joy of being in power.
If politicians know that there is such an advanced projection system in the world, they will definitely rush to buy it to satisfy their desire to guide the country, and if they want to cos, they will cos Hitler, and if they want to cos, Genghis Khan, they will cos
But Manstein didn't enjoy it at all, and Manstein wanted to die.
Seven or eight red lights flashed on the surface of the dark blue "earth" at the same time, and sirens sounded one after another. The entire central control room was filled with the click of high-speed keystrokes, the hissing of printer work, and the click of mechanical cipher machines translating ciphers, which weighed on his head.
This is the atmosphere in this control room, day and night, and tonight it is Manstein's turn to be the hapless professor on duty.
Up to 70 specialists and interns work here, each facing several terminals at the same time. The secretary of the academy, or the super host named "Norma", captures all the information related to the academy from all over the world, and finally has to be analyzed and decided one by one, and the central control room is the think tank of this academy.
"The commissioner of the Executive Department intercepted the smuggling plane in the skies over Peru, and in the cabin we found alchemical equipment from Egypt in 700 BC, which is very valuable! At the moment they are in complete control," an intelligence officer with a headset on his head, hoarse, "but they shot down the plane······ They are making a crash landing and are asking for help from headquarters! ”
"This is the financial reimbursement form, please sign it, our commissioner in Greece is waiting for the funds to be credited!" The female secretary stepped on her high heels and ran up to Manstein to hand over a bill.
"Seventy thousand dollars?" Manstein's eyes widened wider than brass bells, "Such a high amount of money requires them to write an official report to me!" ”
"It's too late····· They're trading with gangsters. ”
"We are the Academy! It's an educator! What do we trade with the gangsters? Manstein was furious
"The last few serial killings are suspected to be related to Deadpool, the gang knows some inside information, and the commissioner in Greece believes that Deadpool must be caught before the police intervene." The secretary took a breath, "It's urgent, I called directly to ask for money, it is said that the two sides are pulling the trigger and waiting for news, if the money is not in the account...... The other party may think that it is fraud, and they will start fighting! ”
Manstein was about to say something here, when a nervous-looking financial expert rushed over there.
"OPEC announced an increase in crude oil prices five minutes ago!"
"Does the price of crude oil have anything to do with me?" Manstein glared, "I didn't buy crude oil futures." ”
"But the academy bought ······ Buying in large quantities, using more than 1.2 billion reserves, if we don't sell it in time, we will have a huge loss. ”
"How much is a huge loss?" Manstein covers his face
"Conservative estimates could reach 200 million ······" The financial expert wiped the cold sweat from his face.
Manstein felt that he was almost a mouthful of blood rushing to the ceiling, and he signed his name on the female secretary's bill, turned his head and ordered the financial expert, "Throw! Throw them all! ”
He didn't bother to care about the $70,000 in Greece, and this night he was a person with hundreds of millions of dollars in a word, is it necessary to be angry about the trivial matter of $70,000? It's really a night when he gets home, and he relies on him to support it alone.
In fact, usually the professors on duty are in groups of three, and tonight it will be his, Guderian, and Executive Minister Schneider's turn. Guderian was obviously unreliable, so when Guderian said that he was used to going to bed early and didn't want to work overtime, Manstein agreed to help him out of the righteousness of old friends. But Schneider, who has always had the reputation of "steel execution", actually dropped the chain, saying that there was an important academic paper that needed to be revised, and asked Manstein to help him top it. Manstein knew that although Schneider was a pig-killer - Manstein thought that the people in the executive department were pig-killers, a group of rough people who only knew how to wield knives and guns - but he had always wanted to get a few more papers, and he would not lag behind other professors academically, so he also agreed to help.
But tonight the world is not peaceful, and there is no good news to refresh people.
"The armament department has been testing new alchemy weapons in the Sahara Desert with great success!" An intern from the armament department jerked up from his chair and raised his arms in cheers.
The ecstatic look on his face ignited everyone's emotions, everyone knew that the Ministry of Armament was preparing a secret weapon experiment in the heart of the Sahara Desert, a superweapon that might reverse the balance of power between humans and dragons, and it actually succeeded! Everyone raised their arms and cheered, and the scene was as enthusiastic as the moment when NASA announced the success of the moon landing
Manstein perked up and wanted to run over to take a look at the intern's terminal. At this time, the shrill sound of sirens swept through the entire control room. This is a very high level of warning, Manstein turned his head and saw that on the projection of the earth, in the heart of the Sahara Desert, a flash of red light was expanding, and it had a tendency to sweep the entire earth!
"What's going on? Isn't it a huge success? Manstein snarled at the intern
"Something went wrong······ At that time, the Pentagon's spy satellite 'Tunggusta' was flying over the Sahara Desert and observed our weapons test, which was misjudged as ····· Nuclear explosion. According to insiders, the CIA has reported this to the president, because the test is in Libya, and it is estimated that the ambassador to Libya will soon send a solemn diplomatic note······ Accusing Libya of secretly conducting a nuclear test ······"
Manstein slapped himself in the face hard, and he thought, I'll just say, when did the crazy people in the equipment department get good news? But don't make things so exaggerated, okay?
"What kind of alchemy weapon can be misjudged as a nuclear explosion, ahhh······h The on-duty professor Manstein's angry cries echoed through the marble corridors of the library.
"The ······ of assembling a silver-smelted warhead Tactical missiles, combined with mercury, nitrate refined from Vesuvius ash, and the blood of the Holy Child, produce an explosion that can deadly poison dragons in the center. ”
"What's the use of this? How many dragons will go deep into the desert and wait for you to blow up? What if he stayed in New York? Let a few thousand people bury a dragon? Your ingredients can kill not only dragons, but humans too! Manstein slumped in his chair, "I need to make a few phone calls to fix this······ I need a little time······" He suddenly jumped up again, slamming his palms on the table, "The executive department will send me someone immediately!" Send someone! Send someone to the Sahara Desert and clean up the scene for me! Before the Pentagon's people arrive! ”
His roar was drowned out by a loud wave, the ground shook, and the lights went out and back on. Manstein fell to the ground, rolled to his feet, rushed to the window and looked out, and in the dark night, a dark blue flame shot into the sky. It was the direction of the "Ice Cellar", the warehouse where the alchemy equipment was stored, and what was hidden there could destroy the earth several times!
"Something's wrong!" Manstein threw himself on the side of the center console, grabbed the hammer and was about to smash the glass. Underneath the glass is the red wrench for the school-wide alarm.
At this time, the red phone on the center console rang, Manstein hesitated, or answered the phone first, this phone went straight to the ice cellar, he wanted to find out the situation over there first, someone invaded? Or an accidental explosion?
"Hello? Who's on duty tonight? The person on the other side of the phone asked nonchalantly.
"Manstein, the head of the Discipline Committee! What's the situation? Manstein was enraged by his tone. He heard that voice, it was the spokesman of the armament department, the group of crazy people who were addicted to weapons in the armament department rarely showed up, and the contact was entrusted to this unreliable spokesman.
"It's just a normal experiment, a little open fire, everything is under our control," the spokesman was very calm, "no need to make a fuss, we made this call just to give a temporary notice, and the equipment department has an experiment in the ice cellar tonight." ”
Manstein's eyes erupted with fire: "Under control? Experiments in the Sahara by your armament department ......"
"All departments in place! The hydrogen flame is ready, let's do it again......" someone's voice came from the microphone.
"One more time? Crazy people, you don't stop playing with people's lives, do you? Manstein roared into the microphone, and all he could answer was a busy "beep" sound, and the spokesman had already hung up cleanly.
Manstein slowly hung up the phone and sat back in his chair weakly. What can we do? There are some departments in this academy that cannot be offended, and the equipment department is one of them, even if they know that if they are allowed to fool around, the sky will collapse······ But no one wants the new equipment they get on their next mission to explode or something for no reason······
Footsteps were hurried, and the door to the control room was pushed open. It was actually Schneider who dragged Guderian, and these two unrighteous guys threw Manstein here alone, and it stands to reason that they would not be kind enough to come back to help. Guderian was probably taken out of his nest and wore a nightcap with a Pikachu pattern. Very much in line with his aesthetic.
"What's going on?" Manstein grabbed Guderian's nightcap and threw it aside, but asked Schneider. Guderian's eyes were full of wistfulness, and he had an expression of "I have nothing to do with me, I want to go back to sleep".
"We've lost a piece of material in China." Schneider's voice was low and hoarse, and it was always creepy to hear
"Shh Manstein scoffed.
He said in his heart what is the loss of a document in China, one of you went to sleep with Pikachu on the top, and the other excused me to revise the paper, and I was left alone here for a full twelve hours, during which I wiped the ass of the seven action groups that were distributed around the world for your execution, paid up to $120,000 in aftermath payments, prevented a shootout, and solved a non-existent nuclear crisis... And you're rushing here to tell me what you've lost?
With a "snap", a document was slapped on the table by Schneider. Manstein glanced at the dark red seal on the cover, and his brain, which was muddled by overtime, seemed to have been poured into a basin of cold water and sobered up
The seal pattern is a giant snake with its head and tail in a circle, with scales and two letters in bold black font in the middle, "SS"
The tasks of the Kassel Academy, like the bloodline, are divided into different levels. The priority from high to low is clearly ABCDEF level...... The special missions above the level are set as "S" class, and "S" class missions rarely appear, and the "bronze plan" for the battle against Dragon King Norton in the Three Gorges Reservoir is "S" class. The "SS" level is an exception to the exception, not necessarily more important than the "S" level, but it is extremely special in that such tasks are given directly by the school board and not through Principal Angers.
"The nuclear crisis just now was defined as an 'A' level mission, which has been raised to the diplomatic level, and this information mission level is actually the "SS" level...... What kind of information is so bad? Makes the school directors who are hiding behind the scenes nervous? Could it be a scandal among school trustees? ”
"Yes, something the school board wants." Schneider nodded slowly
Manstein nodded and clapped his hands, "Gentlemen and ladies, let us speak alone." ”
Everyone else in the central control room stood up and rushed out, and the financial expert whispered as he passed by Manstein: "Is there a phased sell-off?" ”
"It doesn't matter now, it's up to you to decide." Manstein waved his hand and threw the 1.2 billion order to the financial experts to deal with. There was only one thing for him now, this 'SS' mission, and once it appeared, everything else would give way.
"You can't go!" Manstein caught Guderian, who was at the back of the team trying to slip out.
"You said you were going to speak alone," Guderian scratched his head, "and I don't understand what you're talking about." ”
"But you're the professor on duty." Manstein sighed, "The 'SS' class mission is not something that any of us can decide alone, and in the absence of the president, it is decided by the team of professors on duty. You have to be present. ”
Only the three of them were left in the huge central control room. The door was tightly closed, no one dared to eavesdrop on the secret mission of the school board, the college atmosphere was free, and the school rules were still very strict.
"What's that?" Manstein asked.
"You'd better not ask," Schneider said, "you shouldn't have known about it." This matter goes directly through the process of the executive department, because there is an accident, I have to tell you. ”
"For such a high-level task, the executive department should go all out, how can something go wrong?" Manstein asked
"We did our best, worked out a very detailed strategy, succeeded in obtaining the information, and sent the most competent person to escort us back to the headquarters in person, but the things were lost on the way." Schneider gestured.
The projection image has changed, it is a turtle-shell-shaped glass dome building, like an airport waiting hall, but it is completely deformed, and the high-strength aluminum alloy beams are twisted together like twisted flowers. The projection simulated the process of this catastrophe, as the ground shook, all the aluminum alloy beams twisted for no reason, as if twisted by a pair of huge hands, and tens of thousands of pieces of glass all broke away and fell straight down
If Ye Yu saw it, he would probably exclaim, and then think of the inexplicable task of intercepting documents
Regardless of the outcome, Ye Yu was now driving the modified Mercedes that he had been on a mission to the Sophirad Pizzery where he was partying
Of course, it's impossible to say whether you will be slapped in the face or slapped in the face
Ye Yu had worry on his face, thinking about how to keep himself from being knifed, but he failed