Chapter 35: Secret
When Xue Qiong walked out of the room, it was already dark.
Of the few questions he was thinking about, only one could be verified in a short period of time, so he decided that he would go to Takashiro Toichiro first, and the rest of the questions would be put on hold first.
"Hello, where is Mr. Takajo now?" Xue Qiong casually pulled a hurried servant and asked.
"Mr. Takajo should be practicing swords in the dojo over there right now..."The man said with some suspicion in his tone, "May I ask you for anything with him?" ”
"There are some questions to ask him." Xue Qiong was tight-lipped about the speculation in her heart.
"I can show you the way." The servant still maintained basic politeness, "But I don't guarantee that Mr. Takashiro will agree with you." ”
"Thank you very much."
It was much more convenient to have someone to lead the way, and a few minutes later, Xue Qiong had already arrived at the dojo in the mansion.
"It's pretty magnificent... But it's obviously a Western-style building, but you have to make such a place full of Japanese style, don't you usually think that this place is inexplicably mixed in? ”
"I haven't asked for advice yet." The maid who led the way asked.
"Miyamoto Joan."
"Mr. Takashiro," the servant tapped twice on the heavy wooden door of the dojo, "there's a Miyamoto gentleman who wants to see you..."
"Is it Miho? Go about your business. ”
The response came unexpectedly quickly, and the voice of Takashiro Du Ichiro came from the door. Only then did Xue Qiong notice that there was a small walkie-talkie that was painted and the color of old wood. Looking up further, there are several cameras perfectly hidden in the shadows of the building, if they hadn't turned to Xue Qiong's face, causing reflections, Xue Qiong was confident that he wouldn't have noticed this thing at all...
"Yes." The servant bowed respectfully to the door, and walked away quickly.
"Mr. Takashiro... Why do sword training places need these things? Xue Qiong said as she looked at the camera.
"......" Takajo Du Ichiro did not respond to Xue Qiong's words, but the two wooden doors slowly opened on their own, directly revealing the inside of the dojo in front of Xue Qiong.
"Hey, I didn't even turn on the lights, and a fool wouldn't believe me if I said I practiced swords here, right?! Or Mr. Takashiro, are you practicing your mind? ”
Xue Qiong didn't realize the danger of being invited into the urn at this time, and walked into the pitch-black dojo without any scruples, but it was not accurate to say that it was dark, because a square hole appeared in the floor in the center of the dojo, and from there the light of the fluorescent lamp was emitted...
"Tsk. Sure enough, the secret base or something still has to be repaired underground... But how many times have you drilled into the ground in the past few days? Your own place doesn't count..."
Xue Qiong bent over with his hands behind his back, looked at the staircase leading to the underground, and said to himself slowly. At the end of the staircase there is a steel isolation door painted with a bald eagle with wings outstretched...
"Mr. Miyamoto isn't here to talk about this, is he?" Takajo Du Ichiro's voice came from the darkness, and Xue Qiong knew that it must be the sound of a loudspeaker, but he had no interest in looking for it now.
"You basically guessed my intention from the beginning... Sure enough, the bugging device in my room still hasn't been removed? It really gives me a strong sense of frustration..."Xue Qiong didn't care much, anyway, there were some topic beacons that would automatically help him block.
"Hehe," Takashiro Duichiro's tone didn't change either, "The daughter of the Poison Island family is also half of the child I watched grow up, but I didn't expect it..."
"Hey, hey, it suddenly turned to this topic..."Xue Qiong walked down the stairs, "This makes me suspect that what you are hiding underground here is actually full of bad photos and recordings..."
"Mr. Miyamoto, please go this way." The isolation door opened, and a guy in a gas mask stood in the doorway, still holding an M16 automatic rifle in his hand.
"Thank you."
Although he was still a little excited when he guessed, Xue Qiong's performance at this time was that he had no sense of crisis at all, and he walked with this person to the place where Takajo Du Yilang was, and the words "Central Office" were written on the side of the door number, which was still in English. The man who brought him knocked on the door and walked away.
"Please." The voice of Takashiro Koichiro came from the door.
Xue Qiong unscrewed the unlocked door and walked in slowly.
"The outermost is a military fortress-like city wall, and the inside is a classical European-style castle building..."Xue Qiong said while looking around at the furnishings in the office: "Further inside is the Japanese-style dojo, down is the metal-style 'secret facility', and then the innermost... It's actually this kind of pure Japanese-style tea room with tatami mats and a carbon stove in the middle, and the door number of the office is written in English outside the door... Mr. Takashiro is really in good taste, and every time I pass through a door, I feel like I have passed through again..."
Takashiro was still dressed in a gorgeous military uniform, kneeling in the center of the room, with another cushion in front of him. Seeing this, Xue Qiong sat cross-legged without any scruples.
"Doesn't Mr. Miyamoto have another evaluation?" Takajo Du Yilang asked slowly while pouring a cup of tea for Xue Qiong.
"Yes..."Xue Qiong stared into the eyes of Du Ichiro Takashiro.
"I thought Mr. Takashiro was a wolf..."
"Did it turn out to be a dog?" Gao Cheng Du Yilang smiled bitterly and said Xue Qiong's next sentence.
"On the gate is the national bird of the US imperialists, all kinds of signs are written in English, and even the gatekeepers are equipped with the standard equipment of the US imperialists..."Xue Qiong joked.
"Want to hear a story?"
"Listen up." The smile on Xue Qiong's face was a little brighter.
"Once upon a time there was a lone wolf... One day when he was wandering alone in the forest, he was delighted to find his own kind..."
"It turned out that it was a hunting dog brought into the mountains by a hunter." This time, it was Xue Qiong who said what Takajo Du Ichiro was about to say, "It seems that the relationship between Mr. Takajo and Mrs. Zun is really very good..."
"Okay, that's all for the past, now let's get down to business, follow me." Takashiro Du Ichiro looked serious, broke the topic back, got up and walked to the door.
"I'll show you why those guys are coming this way..."
Takajo Du Yilang took Xue Qiong to an area isolated by several layers of thick tempered glass, and pointed to the things inside and said to Xue Qiong.
"It's much tighter than where I keep the test samples....wait, this is..."
After Xue Qiong looked at it, he finally lost his temper.
The slender body, the collar that is too wide to make the neck look too long, the sparse and stray short blond hair, even if there is no restriction on freedom of movement, is still wearing a black tight bondage suit that is directly sewn to death...
"ELIZABETHGREENE," XUE QIONG MUTTERED TO HERSELF.
"Actually, it was because I heard this name from your mouth that I decided to let you come here." Takajo Duichiro stood beside Xue Qiong and said, "But it's not it who is here at this time, it's just a failed clone thrown here." ”
"Clones? Or is it a failure? Xue Qiong looked inside a few times, and while observing, her heart was full of thoughts.
(This is something that didn't appear in any of the original works!) Could it be that Blackwatch has acquired the cloning technology that originally belonged to the Umbrella Corporation in this broken world? )
"Its pupils are now dilated, its muscles are relaxed, and it doesn't respond to our attention... No intelligence, right? Xue Qiong said her guess.
"Yes." Takashiro replied, "Although those guys were able to grow a single cell like this in just a few days, it still failed... So I was thrown to this peripheral facility here to complete a research that didn't have much hope..."
"You guys are so small-scale peasants? Destroy the failed product! Wait..."
"That's right, it's a failure that can't be replicated." TAKASHIRO LOOKED AT THE CLONE INSIDE AND SAID, "THE VIRUS STRAIN IN THE ELIZABETHGREENE BODY HAS BEEN IN THE PROCESS OF MUTATING UNSTOPPABLY... So after this time, they can't accomplish the same thing again. ”
"Well, the guy out there directing the infected is probably the one in itself... And then instinctively thought that if I ate this here, there would be some benefit..."
"That's what I thought too." Takashiro agreed, "So I've decided to destroy it, anyway, I received the news a few days ago that the 'hunter' has completely died..."
“… Actually, I think it's a pity, can you let me take a blood sample and take it away? Xue Qiong stared at the girl lying on the ground stiffly and said.
"Actually, there's another reason I'm willing to let you come here." Without answering Xue Qiong's question, Takajo Duichiro turned to Xue Qiong, looked into his eyes and said.
"I'm sorry, I can't say yes." Xue Qiong gave a negative answer without even listening.
"Why? I just thought that if this place would fall sooner or later, the other party would find out what I had done and would try to kill me endlessly, and I hope you would promise to protect my daughter..."
"No, I'm going to get out of here, in every sense." Xue Qiong also said in a very serious tone, in fact, he just instinctively thought that if he agreed, the beacon would definitely prompt him to receive a task to protect Saya Takahiro, or not to complete the task of not letting him go.
Moreover, this mission is mostly time-limited, and it is likely to be a very vague mission goal... Then Xue Qiong has to protect a high school girl who has nothing to do with him until he dies at the hands of the infected, or is obliterated by the beacon because the stop point is not enough to consume.
"I'm going back where I came from, and I'm alone. That's why I suggested that I take a blood sample with me, so that the other party's attention would be focused on me. But Xue Qiong still didn't give up the idea of bringing some "specialties" back to her friends.
"No, in that case..."Takashiro took out a remote control from his arms and pressed the only red button on it.
Several mechanical arms suddenly stretched out of the isolated space, and a few seconds later, those mechanical arms spewed hot tongues of fire, burning the clones that had collapsed helplessly to the ground in a short period of time.
"Although I thought that before I died, I owed a few big favors that I couldn't repay without any scruples, but the idea you proposed was still too big."