Chapter 23: The White Bearer (2)
"What about people?"
The atmosphere in the corridor was particularly depressing, Chi Mo stood at the end of the doorway, a plate fell at his feet, food was scattered all over the ground, and two heavily armed soldiers stood upright next to him, receiving a reprimand. They felt very aggrieved, everything was normal, and there was progress in the laboratory, but they didn't expect such a thing to happen when they came here to deliver food today.
When the white light lit up, the two people were instantly blinded, because the stimulation was too strong, the brain couldn't react and fainted to the ground, until now the eyes are still sour, and everything is with its own colorful filter.
Chi Mo was furious: "It's the last step!" One last step! What do you eat? I saw her get here and shut the door with my own hands, you two with guns! Trained soldiers of the Empire! Actually let an unarmed little girl run out of here?! ”
The two soldiers held back the sore tears in their eyes and looked up at the opposite wall, they didn't refute, they didn't know what means An Xiaoyu used, but what the chief said was right, if the refutation could only be worse than now, they only hoped that the commander could calm down his anger quickly, even if they were not sent to the infirmary, it was a good choice to put them into the search.
Chi Mo scolded two more words of "waste", reached out and pinched his eyebrows and groaned for a long time, finally ended his lecture and waved his hand: "Go to the infirmary!" ”
As if they had been granted amnesty, the two soldiers hurried away.
These soldiers are the people who chose themselves at the beginning, know their ideals, know their careers, and stand behind him without hesitation to support him, and it is precisely because of the support of these people that they have been able to come to this point.
Now it was only one last step, and the form was so grim, although he cut off all contact between the base and the outside world, and the only communication channel was in his hands, but the convoy that routinely came to the base to replenish the base would come every week.
The last supply vehicle has been sent by himself to receive it, and the inspection team in the imperial capital is obviously not a fuel-efficient lamp, if they catch the opportunity to pass on the news, or if it drags on for too long, someone will always find out the problem, and everything will be wasted.
The top priority now is to stabilize the situation, and we must find An Xiaoyu and complete the last step of the entire research, so that there is still room for turnaround. He is well aware of the dark side of the imperial capital, and if his research results are satisfactory and he agrees to hand them in and share them, then everything can be discussed, at least he can save his life and a certain amount of freedom.
Chi Mo began to send people out to search, and even did not hesitate to forcibly break into the territory controlled by the inspection team, and he must find An Xiaoyu.
After all the orders were delivered, the search began, and Chi Mo's body was a little unsupportable. After the disaster, he began to fight with the inspection team in a vain and a battle of wits and courage, but after all, he still did not hide the past, and then he had to fight for territory and transfer the research results. He insisted on deploying his work for several days, and had to guard against the attack of the inspection team, and he had not slept for several days.
He was a little dizzy, leaned against the door, closed his eyes and rested for a while, then opened his eyes, felt a little better, and entered the house where An Xiaoyu lived before.
The house had been searched again, and there were no clues, but Chi Mo stood in the room for a long time, sat on the bed again, and looked at everything in the room in a daze, no different from other living cabins, but he was stunned.
Suddenly, a report came from the communicator: "Sir, there is a discovery in the monitoring room!" ”
Chi Mo exhaled lightly and changed his resolute expression: "Okay, I'll go over right away." ”
The researcher in the monitoring room had already saved the footage, and watched Chi Mo watch An Xiaoyu use a strange ball to stun the two soldiers who delivered food, and then walked through one corridor after another, opening one hatch after another, and was finally sent to the central passage by Bai Amaranth.
Chi Mo's eyebrows kept jumping, and he asked loudly, "Can anyone tell me where she got this thing from?" ”
The whole room was silent, looking at the appearance and function in the video, such a high-end terminal, even in the imperial capital, is a rare commodity, only internal channels can be obtained, no one knows where such a helpless little girl got such a sharp tool.
Chi Mo glanced at the monitoring room, but still couldn't get an answer after all, lowered his head and held on to the tabletop for a while, and asked calmly: "What about the video before and after the central passage?" Has anyone else been in the mine? ”
The researcher next to him reported: "We have only won the right to monitor some of the monitors part of the time, and if someone has entered the mine before and after, it may be in the time that the other party controls the monitoring, and we get the video... Nothing was found. ”
"What about the surveillance under the mine?"
The researcher was puzzled: "The monitoring under the mine has always been seen in the main control room, but the general control room..."
Chi Mo raised his hand and motioned for him to stop talking, his face gloomy and terrifying.
From the very beginning, before the inspection team came, he felt that there must be someone in this base who he didn't know was staring at him in the dark, planning something. This person is so deeply hidden, so scheming, he has never shown his feet, quietly played such a big game of chess, and at the last moment came a blow from the bottom of the kettle, so that he had no choice.
Feeling that he was being calculated, he had lost his usual calm in his mind, I don't know if it was because his plan was disrupted, or because An Xiaoyu was hidden, in short, he had no way out, and he was completely forced to fight for control of the base with the inspection team.
Once on this path, the situation that was still in the warm swallow will immediately intensify, and the original one-month buffer time will become a vain, and this matter must be resolved before one side completely runs out of personnel and ammunition, otherwise it will be doomed.
Chi Mo thought of this, and suddenly raised his head: "It's not good, send someone to the warehouse in the industrial zone!" Everybody go! ”
The supplies sent by the supply truck last week, because of the lack of manpower, he only took some of them to his own territory, and left a large part in the warehouse, including medicines, weapons, food, daily necessities and other materials, leaving only a small team to guard.
The next moment the order was given, Chi Mo began to contact the captain of the squad guarding the warehouse, and then contacted each team member, but found that there was no response at all, his heart was empty, he felt that his whole body had lost strength, he stood in place for a long time, and finally sighed.
Sure enough, it didn't take long for the people sent over to report to Chi Mo that the warehouse team was gone, and traces of battle were found in the warehouse, and it was likely that they would be annihilated or captured, and the warehouse had been emptied. In this way, the food in the slow part can only last until the next transport truck returns, and although the weapons and ammunition are still sufficient, the consumption is unpredictable in the event of a conflict.
The heart of this usually elegant officer is fighting fiercely, behind everything, the person hiding in the shadows, has obviously planned everything, take An Xiaoyu away, seize the warehouse, his plan is going well, without knowing the other party's next plan, how should he choose?
Will you continue to maintain your balance and wait for the results of An Xiaoyu's search, or will you break the kettle and completely engage in an armed conflict with part of the investigation team to gain control of the base?
No matter how you choose, this is obviously a proposition.
However, Chi Mo still prefers to be gentle, at least this will give him a few days to find a better way, or create some events to change the situation of the entire base and bring the advantage back to his side.
At this time, it was still the room where the lights were not turned on, the pictures of the six monitors were quiet, and no one could be seen, but Guan Jue, who was sitting on the opposite side of the light curtain, was watching with relish, holding a white chess piece in his hand and playing with it.
Sure enough, you're already starting to panic, if you're usually in a bad situation, how can you not see that such a good back-hand chess is from my own hand? Guan Jue smiled happily, as if he had seen a place that the monitor could not see, and he had seen Chi Mo's heart.
He licked his lips, looked down at the screen full of code in front of him, and said to himself, "Next, the next move is coming, do you still want me to make this move?" ”
Guan Jue said, reached out and typed two strings of code, pressed run, some people in the base immediately found the same, some were surprised, some were surprised, some were afraid, some were incredulous, they quickly checked the base network they could control, checked over and over again, but only got the same result!
The base communication network, which has been closed for many days, has been cracked from the inside! Just now, one such communication was sent out through the base's network, and I don't know where it was sent, and I can't understand what the content is, and these people who found it immediately reported it to their superiors, and everyone was terrified, not knowing where this storm started and ended.
The base is slowly boiling!
Such a piece of information became the last straw that broke the camel's back. When Chi Mo received the report, he was dumbfounded, he didn't expect to take a slow step, by now, all the situation had gotten out of control, and it was just three moves, which completely disrupted all his plans.
No one knows to whom this message was sent, but the only thing that is certain is that it is an accepted message, and the system shows the receipt of the message. This means that the affairs of the base are very likely to have been exposed, and if you don't take action immediately, it will collapse completely in just a few days.
Chi Mo's face was flushed, the green tendons on his forehead jumped violently, and he slammed his fist on the metal table in the monitoring room, making a tooth-souring sound, these three moves, if you don't know who is manipulating the sentence behind your back, he is not even as good as the worm with the smallest brain capacity in the desert.
"Awakening !!"
Chi Mo roared in a low voice, he couldn't imagine that the last few stabs he stabbed him in the back were actually one of his best friends over the years, he couldn't imagine that he would be forced to such a point, he couldn't imagine that his plan had never been seamless, and he was still complacent, thinking that it was foolproof, and even...
"Hehehe, hahahahahaha..." Chi Mo laughed angrily, took a long breath, stood up straight, looked at the ugly researchers and soldiers beside him, and made a final declaration a little helplessly.
"Fight to the end!"
There was no fierce response, no chanting slogans, no tears and grief, and the people in the entire monitoring room had realized what they were up against, what they were going to do next, and what they were about to lose, but not a single one said a word.
They silently saluted Chi Mo, then silently turned around and left the monitoring room.
The storm at the base rose suddenly.