Keeping Andora safe until he finishes his work, no matter what happens, is an order that Corolla receives from Deputy Chief Brunn, about ten minutes after Andora takes Dimmit's life. He took a dozen people with him and accompanied Andora to the office building.

The office building is very small, and there are only six or seven rooms on each floor, including toilets and substations. There is only one staircase in the whole building, and two doors in and out, which are easy to see. The surrounding buildings have been almost demolished, and the nearest building to the office building is more than 50 meters, as long as the downstairs is guarded, the windows are safe.

After observing the terrain, Corolla immediately made a plan. Two people are stationed on each floor, four more are assigned to keep an eye on the front and back doors, and three people patrol the outside and rooftops. And the most important area, Andora's office, because it is difficult to keep people in the house, is guarded by Corolla herself outside the door.

All the windows are curtained, and the police guarding the floor usually find a room to stay in unless there is something else, so that people outside cannot tell which room Andora is in, even if they use a heat sensor, they cannot find him in the first place.

Three meals a day are bought by the police, and if Andora leaves the room, such as going to the toilet or something, at least three people accompany him. It should be foolproof if it is so strictly guarded.

Because they didn't know when anyone would attack, all the police tried to go out as little as possible, let alone go home. If you want to buy something, two people in charge of guarding the second floor and one person who is patrolling outside. Mobile phones can be used, but it is strictly forbidden to talk about tasks and the talk time should not exceed two minutes.

From the day I received the order, it was already the fourth day. The police meticulously carried out Corolla's orders, and every day was tense. Some of them had been involved in the investigation of the events at the University of Ceylon, and had heard rumours that Trikoff was Andora's teacher. If you think about it this way, the person who can come to attack may be the guy who turned the University of Ceylon upside down.

Corolla wasn't nervous, just a little ...... Upset. The operation to rescue Sylvie was the most chaotic incident he had handled in his ten years as a police officer, with various emergencies frequent, and a bunch of questions that he still couldn't figure out. I thought it was over, and I couldn't rest for a few days, so I had another mission to protect Andora.

Before locking herself in the office building, Corolla called her wife and said apologetically that she couldn't go home for the time being, for a few days or more...... I don't know. His wife was reasonable and aware of her husband's plight, but she complained a little, because Corolla had promised her that she would take her daughter on a trip the next week.

Hearing that Akya was in a coma, Carola made up her mind to visit on behalf of the Interpol Team 4. In the morning, Junsha called and excitedly said that Akya had woken up, and Carola immediately set off with two policemen. In fact, there was no need to go out so early, yes, he went home first to meet his wife and daughter.

"It's time to eat, Andora."

Holding the takeaway she had brought from the Black-Eyed Restaurant, Carola knocked on the door of Andora's room and saw the dark-eyed associate professor, his hair messed up like crazy weeds, apparently just waking up.

"Brother Corolla, what time is it?"

"Sooner to wake up?"

"Hmm."

Carola handed Andora the paper bag containing the lunch box: "Hold it safe." Really, what time do you go to bed? ”

"Yesterday, no, it's past three o'clock today."

Andora shoved the papers and books around the table, making an empty space. Put the paper bag away, lean back in your chair, tilt your head, and close your eyes.

Corolla followed up in the room, which had a lot more books than he had had been when he had delivered the meal last night, many of them stuffed with bookmarks and sticky notes. The three stacks of books closest to the chair, each with paper and pen, were Andora's habit to write them down at any time when she had a flash of inspiration.

"You don't have anything else to do, why are you so late? Staying up late is not good for your health. ”

Seeing that Andora was sleepy again, Corolla helped him take out the lunch box and drinks in the paper bag, opened the lid again, and set them on the table. The aroma burrowed into Andora's nostrils, and he became a little more energetic.

"You don't understand that, big brother. When the state comes, it must be done in one go, and write it as soon as possible. ”

"Will you forget?"

"Sometimes it's easy to get confused with too many things."

"Since you're busy until three o'clock, isn't that the boss of progress?"

"It's okay, it's just that my brain is too tired. I feel that the coffee is not enough to refresh myself, so buy a functional drink next time. ”

Andora, who was a little more sober, held a fork in one hand, stuffed her lunch into her mouth, picked up her notebook in the other, and looked at it with good eyes. After a few bites, the notebook was snatched away by Corolla and thrown on the table.

"Concentrate on eating, after all, this mission will be over tonight."

Andora put down her fork and was surprised: "It's over tonight?" ”

"Well, it's the mayor who said that the fastest afternoon, the slowest evening, the bureau will issue a withdrawal order, and then we will all be liberated."

"Haha, Brother Corolla, you're in a hurry for your daughter."

"Nonsense, I'm not in a hurry at all, I stopped by in the morning."

"By the way, how's Akeya?"

"It's like nobody. You didn't look at it, he has a better appetite than you. ”

"Alas, after all, there are beautiful doctors who are busy and take care of them. It's like me, I can only use coffee all day long. When I got back, I pretended to be sick and asked Luna to take care of her. ”

Carola knocked Andora on the head and said with a smile, "Don't make a mess of others, Luna has been busy for the past two days, maybe she will need to take care of her after the end." ”

"Oh, then I can sign up."

"If you have time to dream, let's pack up your things."

"Got it."

Andora smiled nonchalantly as she watched Carola walk out of the room. The moment the door closed, he put away his smile and lost his appetite, just looking at the notes on the table.

"It's over before the results are produced, and maybe, the box won't be available."

Now that the translation work has been carried out, Andora is no longer afraid, and the inquisitive spirit has prevailed. The more he translated, the more he wanted to know the truth behind these notes and books.

That day, he had a flash of inspiration and came to an unbelievable, but somewhat plausible conclusion: the study of Martoun's box was related to the human body. After the past few days of work, he feels more and more that this conclusion is extremely correct.

Among the many notes, one is the diary of a researcher at the Astoria Martohn's Box Research Institute during the War of the Century. Judging from the content, this researcher is not a serious person, and there are many complaints and curses in the diary, which have been replaced by code words. Checking the other notes, Andora discovered that the code language was created by the researcher, and that the diary was a combination of Anger and code words. After analyzing it before and after, this code word was like a light veil in front of Andora.

After scolding for a few months, the last few entries of the diary suddenly appeared with large paragraphs of code words. Andora translated two articles that dealt with the experiments with the box. I put this in my diary to take revenge for the unfair treatment I received. However, due to the researcher's low status, there are few details about these contents.

But after all the translations were done, Andora noticed something.

In one diary, the researcher mentions the number "60,000", and there are 60,000 people in the institute. In the following articles, the words "more than 40,000 people", "more than 30,000 people", "more than 2,000 people" and so on appeared one after another, but they did not say what these people were doing.

Andora has visited some scientific research institutes, and she feels that it is not much like a cultural relics hospital. Even the largest royal cultural relics hospital in the Arctic Kingdom, covering an area of 17,000 square meters, has only about 400 people in the hospital. If there were 60,000 people, the institute would be larger than two Ceylon universities, and it would be too exaggerated to think about it.

In connection with the previous conclusion, Andora boldly guessed: these 60,000 people were used for human experiments. The decrease in the number of people is in line with the situation that the experimental subjects are being eliminated in the middle of the experiment. In order to confirm this suspicion, he kept searching for information and continued to translate other notes and books until it was past three o'clock, when he was so tired that he lay on the table and took a nap.

Now Andora dares to say that in the process of the birth of Marton's box, there must have been a part of human experimentation. Is it for production? To open the box? Or is it for what? Either way, it makes him creepy.

And all of these will be away from themselves tonight. I really don't know whether to be happy or regretful.

Bang –

*****

"Ground floor, what's going on?"

Corolla, who was looking at her phone in the hallway, looked up and shouted over the walkie-talkie to the police on the first floor. It's the sound of a crash, and there's a prelude to the sound of brakes.

"It's okay Captain, two cars crashed. Anyway, there are not many cars on this road that can be hit, and they can really drive. ”

Corolla also felt a little strange: "Did the driver get out of the car?" What's the status? Like drinking or taking drugs? ”

"I came down, and one of them seemed to say that it was to avoid the people who ran into it. But it's strange, I didn't see anyone nearby, did I run away so quickly? ”

"Don't be careless, watch ......"

Before Corolla finished speaking, the sound of vehicles colliding came again, and one after another, several cars drove somehow, inexplicably crashed into roadside shops, street lights, fences, and the originally smooth road suddenly became crowded, and the drivers got out of the car one after another, confused, blaming each other, and making a mess.

"Captain, several more cars have crashed, and it doesn't seem quite right."

"Attention all! The people outside all came in, and everyone went to the first floor and kept the two doors watched! ”

Experience repeatedly warned Carola that this was a trick by the enemy to create chaos and take advantage of the opportunity to rush in, perhaps already laying an ambush outside.

"Big Brother Corolla, what's wrong?"

Andora ran out of the room, the sound of the crash only startling him, and the barrage of commands that Corolla shouted outside the door made him unable to sit still.

"Don't come out of Andora, don't come out until it stops."

"Captain! Someone is coming at the back door! ”

"It's too fast!"

The sound of warning erupted from the walkie-talkie, followed by a burst of gunfire, and Corolla quickly pulled out her pistol.

"The man at the back door, stop him!"

"Wow!"

"Captain, be careful! He's on the wall! ”

"On the wall?"

Before Corolla could understand, there was a commotion in the office behind her, and someone banged open the window, pulled open the curtains, and jumped in. He was dressed in black, wearing a half-black, half-white mask, and as soon as he landed, he raised his head slightly, and the mask was facing Andora.

"Let's go!"

The Corolla, who pushed Andora, immediately raised her gun and shot. BUT HIS BULLETS DIDN'T HAVE THE SAME IN FRONT OF SHADOW. SHADOW RUSHED INTO HIS ARMS WITH A SINGLE LUNGE, AND THE DAGGER WAS HORIZONTAL, AND WITH THE DODGE ACTION, IT SWUNG SMOOTHLY.

Corolla could only take a small step back to dodge, and her clothes were cut open by the dagger. This moment alone made him understand that this was not an enemy he could win.

However, he could not escape.

THE SECOND BLOW FOLLOWED THE STAB, AND COROLLA THREW AWAY THE PISTOL AND WALKIE-TALKIE, TRYING TO GRAB SHADOW'S HAND, BUT ONLY TO OPEN HER HAND, THE DAGGER ALREADY PRESSED AGAINST HIS STOMACH. In the next second, it was halfway in.

"Hmm!"

SHADOW DREW HIS DAGGER, BRINGING OUT BLOOD FROM ALL OVER THE PLACE. CAROLA STAGGERED TO HER KNEES, AND SHADOW KICKED HIM DOWN AND STEPPED OVER TO GET OUT OF THE HOUSE.

"You...... Stop...... Want to ......"

THE SHADOW POISON WAS EATING AWAY AT COROLLA, AND HE COULDN'T STRAIN HIS MUSCLES, BUT HE STILL SQUEEZED OUT THE LAST OF HIS STRENGTH, AND HIS HANDS STUCK SHADOW'S ANKLES LIKE PINCERS. SHADOW STRUGGLED TWICE, BUT COULDN'T BREAK FREE.

"Don't ...... Run ......"

Flutter –

SHADOW, WHO COULDN'T GET OUT, PIERCED COROLLA'S ARM, BUT HIS ANKLE WAS STILL TIGHTLY CLUTCHED, AND HE SIMPLY STABBED IT SEVERAL TIMES. ONCE, TWICE, THE BLOOD ON THE GROUND FLOWED INTO THE HALLWAY, AND COROLLA WAS MOTIONLESS, AND SHADOW STOPPED.

"Captain!"

The police swarmed in, and their captain's efforts were not in vain, and Andora was almost on the first floor, and three policemen escorted him out, and the rest went up to the third floor.

SEEING THAT HE COULDN'T CATCH UP, SHADOW QUICKLY TURNED BACK INTO THE HOUSE, PRESSED AN EXP CRYSTAL BOMB ON HIS DESK, AND JUMPED OUT OF THE WINDOW. At the moment of flying out, the bomb was detonated.

The crystal bomb ignites a fire that turns the office into a sea of fire in the blink of an eye, which can keep the police at bay for a while. SHADOW, WHO LANDED ON THE GROUND, NOTICED THAT THERE WAS NO ONE AT THE BACK DOOR, AND IMMEDIATELY RAN TO THE FRONT DOOR, BUT HE WAS STILL ONE STEP TOO SLOW. Andora had already been taken into the car by the police, breaking through the traffic jam and speeding away in front of him.

SHADOW didn't chase hard, anyway, the research data was burned, and it was considered to have achieved its goal. WHEN THE OFFICERS RAN OUT THE FRONT DOOR, SHADOW WAS NOWHERE TO BE SEEN.

"Did you find out?"

"No, probably ran away."

"How's Andora?"

"It's already on its way."

"Inform the Mayor! Upstairs, how's the captain? ”

Two policemen stayed on it and dragged Corolla out of the room. On his arms, on his shoulders, there were knife cuts left by daggers everywhere, and the sight of them made people shudder.

The familiar ringtone of the cell phone rang, it was Corolla's. A policeman pulled out his phone with the word "mayor" on it.

"Mayor."

"Corolla! Leave the office building with Andora and everyone at once, someone is going to attack there, you can't handle it! ”

"Mayor, Captain Corolla has ......"

*****

"CAROLA IS DEAD, SHADOW DID IT."

Holding his mobile phone, Akeya, who listened to Rolov say this, sat on the hospital bed dumbfounded, his free hands on his laps, clenched into fists.

"Did he go for Andora?"

"Can't be wrong. Dimmit went to his tipster at noon, and after exchanging information, he decided that SHADOW's real purpose was not only the box, but also the method of opening the box. He told me to be careful, and I immediately informed Corolla, but unfortunately, it was still a step too late. ”

There was a heavy sigh on the phone.

"CAROLA WAS STABBED TO DEATH BY SHADOW IN ORDER TO BLOCK SHADOW IN THE HOUSE AND LET ANDORA ESCAPE. I'm sorry it was my negligence this time. After the box was lost, Andora should have stopped working a long time ago. ”

Akeya swallowed, and the hand holding the phone gradually exerted force, as if it was about to crush the phone.

It's SHADOW again, it's him again!

How many times has he appeared? What does he want to do, and what goal does he want to achieve? No, it's not the mayor's fault, if I can get him in the hills......

"Your Excellency, please rest assured! Next time we meet, I'll kill him! ”

"Don't be pushy, you'd better rest more."

"He snatched the box from me, and I must be responsible!"

After a few seconds of silence, Rolov said very seriously: "Akeya, I understand your feelings, but there is a more urgent problem at the moment, which must be dealt with immediately. ”

The attack on Andora confirmed Dimitte's suspicions. Looking at it this way, Celia must have something to do with opening the box. Since SHADOW was able to attack Andora, Celea's safety was threatened in the same way. Even if SHADOW's purpose is not to kill Selia, he can't be allowed to do whatever he wants.

In the morning, Roloff informed the GF police station and asked them to send someone to pick up Selia, but the matter has now been postponed and the exact time will be determined. UNLESS YOU KILL SHADOW, OR MAKE SURE HE'S NOT THERE, YOU CAN'T RISK SENDING CELIA AWAY.

Rolov consulted with Dimitte and decided to gather Selia and Andora together. JUST AROUND 3 P.M., TWO HOURS AFTER THE SHADOW ATTACK, THE TWO MEN WERE SENT TO LOLOV'S HOUSE, GUARDED BY ZASENT'S MEN, AND DIMIT REMAINED HERE TO SENSE SHADOW'S PRESENCE WITH THE OMENSMEN. STAY THAT WAY UNTIL YOU GET SHADOW.

"The top priority is how to determine the whereabouts of SHADOW. Akeya, do you think you have a way? ”

When it came to specific actions, Akeya suddenly found that his enthusiasm was like duckweed and groundless. I don't have any clues in my hand, and I don't even know SHADOW's appearance, how can I find it?

Seeing that Akya didn't say a word, Rolov guessed that he was struggling, and after a few words of relief, he continued: "It's not completely out of the blue. ”

"What clues?"

"Around seven o'clock, there's a helper coming."

"Helper?"

"Well, someone who knows you well, he will provide enough clues, and then, as a subordinate of Corolla, and as a member of the special detachment, I order you to find out the SHADOW......"

Rolov paused, and spat out a command.

"Destroy him!"

"Understood!"

Putting down his phone, Akya stood up and paced around the room, waving his fists hard, releasing the impulse in his heart little by little, thinking about Rolov's words.

The person who knows him well is still a reliable helper, and Akeya can't figure out who this person is. After dinner, at six o'clock, he received the message. This time, it must have been sent by that helper.

"Bananas have expired for a long time, send more new ones."

There was only one sentence in the message, and Akeya was stunned for a moment, and immediately remembered something, and she didn't even bother to change the slippers on her feet, so she rushed out of the ward and went straight to the main entrance of the hospital. Walking out of the door, a familiar figure comes into view.

"Major Jed!"

"Long time no see, Akeya."

*****

Jade leaned on the car he drove, with a smile on his face that was the same as Akeya's impression, witty and gentle, which made people involuntarily relax when they saw it.

"Major, why are you here?"

Akya stood in front of Jade in his slippers and saluted, and Jade pressed his raised hand down.

"Okay, okay, they're not soldiers anymore, so you don't need to do this. Why, didn't you listen to Mr. Rolov? ”

"Could it be that the helper ......?"

"That's me."

"Speaking of which, the Mayor did say that he had a friendship with the Colonel."

"So I'm also an acquaintance of Mr. Rolov. But it's really nostalgic, you still remember the code words at that time. ”

Before infiltrating the Viper, Akeya discussed a set of code words with Jed, who was in charge of answering. Because Jade pretends to be a businessman, the code words are all related to doing business. Bananas have expired for a long time, so send more new ones, which means "I'm at the main gate, meet right away".

"I can't forget those days. Is the colonel okay? ”

"Well, after you left, the Intelligence Department came to ask for trouble, but it was just a verbal warning, and nothing happened. Yesterday, I came to the Arctic Kingdom with the colonel to collect information, and I heard that something happened in Akiyama City, and when I inquired, I found out that it was SHADOW. ”

"Does the Colonel have any information on SHADOW?"

"Yes, so there's no time to catch up now. Akeya, this is for you. ”

Jade opened the car door and a suitcase lay quietly on the seat, and he lifted it halfway so Akeya could see inside.

"The Cutter Sabre, brought to you, and a new pistol that needs to be used with the suit the Colonel gave you."

"The dress?"

"Didn't the Colonel give you a box with clothes and a belt in it when you were leaving?"

Of course, Akeya remembered, after all, he had fiddled with those two things several times, and he hadn't made a name for himself.

"I thought the colonel had taken it wrong."

"How is it possible, it was the colonel who begged for a relationship, spent a lot of money, and spent five years to transform it, and specially reserved for the nameless EXP equipment, called 'Nameless Shadow', referred to as NS."

As soon as he heard the words EXP equipment, Akeya's eyes lit up.

"EXP equipment is a wearable EXP weapon, right? However, I have heard that there are very few such weapons left. ”

"To be precise, very little of it went into the private sector, and most of it was taken over by the world government after the end of the war of the century and used as experimental material. Now the restrictions on weapon research and development are not small, and making that dress is like dismantling the 'Viper' base yourself. ”

"That's really, really, hard."

The EXP equipment that Karp worked so hard to make is actually a modification of the damaged EXP weapons left over from the past. When activated, the enhanced EXP weapon continuously transforms the body's cellular activity and body energy, which are collectively known as life energy, into EXP. If left unchecked, the user will be drained by the weapon, so there must be a "switch".

Ancient weaponsmiths were clever and romantic, and they used people's emotions, or the body to reach a certain state, as a switch for weapons, just like Leo's Forest, which used calm emotions as a starting point. This not only controls the weapon, but also adjusts the structure within the weapon accordingly, so that the EXP and the user's emotions resonate, so that one plus one is greater than two.

Unfortunately, most of these technologies have been lost, and it is difficult for modern scientists to recover, so they have to use a more direct method: manual switch, that is, the belt that matches the NS. There is a switch on the belt buckle to control the release of EXP from the garment. After release, the user's whole body muscles will be filled with extremely active EXP, and the physical ability will be greatly enhanced, and the speed, reaction, and strength will be comprehensively improved, and there is no upper limit. If you have a rich imagination, you can also use EXP to use various fancy skills like a super person.

Its design philosophy is very much in line with the characteristics of modern people: the greedy pursuit of efficiency. The amount of power that can be exerted by this kind of equipment, which does not take into account the user's burden, depends entirely on the user's own physical fitness. The more physically capable a person is, the longer they can hold on. But if you can't figure out your catties and use them indiscriminately, you will eventually be unable to stop and die of exhaustion.

"Actually, the Cutter is also a weapon that matches the NS, because it can be used alone, it will be assigned to you and Tokar first."

As he spoke, Jade pressed the wound on Akeya's waist.

"When you left the team, the colonel was in a hurry to send you away, and he didn't have time to explain. He says it's too early for you, meaning you haven't started developing EXP Resistance. There is no resistance, and it is dangerous to use EXP weapons rashly, but now ......"

"Did the Major listen to the Mayor?"

"Well, it's really a catastrophe, and if you don't die, you will be blessed. Now that you're ready to activate NS, the Cutter can be truly powerful. ”

"Great, so I can ......"

AKEYA REIMAGINED THE SCENE WHERE LEO AND DIMIT FOUGHT FOR THEIR LIVES, AND REPLACED THE TWO IN THE SCENE WITH HIMSELF AND SHADOW. This time, the two sides are fiercely attacking, back and forth, and it is no longer a one-sided situation.

"You'll be able to win SHADOW, do you think so?"

Jed's words brought Akya back to reality, and he looked at the major in a daze.

"What do you mean?"

"At the time of the Viper, I wonder if you learned anything about the physical characteristics of the Gallebou."

The Galleboo people control the EXP to replicate the body, create illusions, and need the coordination of the muscles of the whole body, and over time, the Galleboo people gradually have better physical fitness than ordinary people, they are naturally good at sports, which is common sense Akeya still knows.

"Yes, but so what? I put in no less effort than him in Nameless, and with the help of NS, I won't lose to him! ”

"Even so, your odds are still low because he's wearing NS."

"Wait, didn't you just say that the NS is a nameless piece of equipment?"

"It's all about this, and you still don't understand?"

Jade tilted his head and looked at Akeya with a blank expression.

"SHADOW, LIKE YOU, USED TO BE A NAMELESS PERSON."