Chapter 1: The Assassin in the Shadows (Part I) 2

"Have you finished eating?" As soon as he got off the stairs, Ye Zifeng asked, but no one responded to Ye Zifeng's question, the two tables were talking and laughing and enjoying the breakfast time, and there were a few girls around Naoto Sakurai, and he didn't say a few words to make these girls cover their mouths and chuckle. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info Ye Zifeng: The model of this frigate sat back in its place.

"Well, how did you get it?" Naoto Sakurai took the model of the frigate handed over by Ye Zifeng, and said with some puzzlement, "Didn't the model demonstration start in the afternoon?" ”

"Just take one out, show it to the students first, you can explain the specifics, I'll eat first." Ye Zifeng picked up the spoon next to the plate, stirred the curry rice on the plate evenly, and then put it into his mouth one by one to chew.

"Sakurai-sensei, what is this?" A girl curiously pointed to the frigate model in Naoto Sakurai's hand and asked puzzled.

"This is Professor Ye Zifeng's treasure of the warship model that has been preserved for many years. This is a 'turtledove'-class frigate, the smallest tonnage of combat ships, and the only one of its kind in the Admiralty. This model is a 1:1000 simulation model, and all combat parts can be moved, as if this model can really fire electromagnetic railguns, but the electromagnetic railguns on it are miniature and fire steel balls with a diameter of only five millimeters. ”

"That's amazing!" The girl was surprised and said, "Can you lend me a look?" ”

"This, this is Professor Ye Zifeng who wants to ask you, after all, ・・・・・・" Naoto Sakurai looked at Ye Zifeng, who was sending curry rice to his mouth, and said with some hesitation.

"No problem, as long as it doesn't start." Ye Zifeng swallowed the curry rice in his mouth, and thought that Naoto Sakurai waved his hand.

"Don't press the button on the bridge of the battleship, that is the start button of this model, once it is started, it will accept voice commands, and you will not be able to control it well when the time comes."

"Thank you." The girl gave Sakurai Naoto a beautiful smile, and then took the battleship model handed over by Sakurai Naoto very carefully, the seemingly small battleship model weighed fifteen kilograms, and the girl couldn't help but exclaim and hurriedly increased her strength to drag the model as hard as she could. The new cadets no longer had the heart to sit firmly in their places and eat breakfast, and all the boys and girls surrounded the frigate model and observed it carefully. Fortunately, Ye Zifeng had told him not to start the model before, and the students just touched the surface of the frigate model from time to time, carefully observing every detail of the frigate.

Sitting with Ye Zifeng, or in addition to Ye Zifeng and Naoto Sakurai, there are only fourteen people, eight men and six women, these are four people sitting firmly in their positions, some are eating breakfast like Ye Zifeng, some are drinking milk tea in the teacup, some are watching the latest issue of Time magazine, and some are playing with the tablet in their hands. These fourteen people are the old Class 044 cadets who enrolled in the Space Group Combat Command Department of Newcastle College when the Admiralty did not disclose their identities.

"Alright, let's all come back." Ye Zifeng wiped the curry on the corner of his mouth with this napkin, and then said to the students who still hadn't dispersed, "There are still five minutes to start the morning exercise, and the content of today's morning exercise is to zip around the island for five kilometers, and I will wait for you at the finish line." ”

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"Don't."

In the midst of a burst of grumbling and lamentation, the students who had been discussing together before dispersed, returned to their places, began to eat the breakfast on their plates, and after a two-minute rest, they lined up on the beach outside the inn, everyone was wearing a straight Newcastle College summer uniform, the boys were wearing a light gray knitted blouse over a short-sleeved white shirt, and a pair of light gray trousers with long legs on the bottom. The girls wore short-sleeved white shirts lined with a ribbon at the neckline, a pale yellow knitted smock over the bowl, and knee-length skirts with white stockings on the shoulders. All of them had a pair of special leather boots on their feet.

"Before starting the morning exercise, I would like to remind you not to interfere with the normal life of the island's residents, do not destroy the vegetation on the island, there are only five kinds of plants that can be eaten, and the latest assembly time is half past seven, and those who come back are not allowed to take a bath." Ye Zifeng glanced at his watch, and then looked up at the neat male and female students, "Let's start." ”

"Yes."

After a neat response, the students scattered and began to run towards the prescribed route, and after a while, Ye Zifeng could no longer see the students.

"Okay, you have work to do." Ye Zifeng turned around and looked at the fourteen people who were still sitting at the dining table behind him, "Go and bring out all the instruments, when they come back, we will arrange an anti-gravity field with a radius of twenty meters, and we will demonstrate the model all day today." ”

"No, that's good." A boy looked at Ye Zifeng in surprise, as if looking at a chimpanzee that had successfully evolved into a human, "Why haven't we enjoyed such good treatment before?" ”

"What the hell!" Ye Zifeng frowned and looked at the boy, "Otherwise, you should also go for a run." ”

"Forget it." The boy hurriedly shook his head like a rattle, "I'd better go and set up an anti-gravity field." ”

With that, the boy got up and walked to the second floor.

"What about you?" Ye Zifeng turned his gaze to the other thirteen students sitting at the table, "Do you want to run?" ”

Everyone got up one after another with a tacit understanding, followed closely behind the boy who got up before, and trotted all the way to the warehouse on the second floor. This is Ye Zifeng seeing a figure in the crowd.

"Hey, you, that's right, it's you, Tianlong, you don't have to go." Ye Zifeng pointed to Tianlong's back, and then beckoned Tian Long to sit back in his position.

Tian Long was a little hesitant, although he was very reluctant in his heart, he still dragged his legs like lead, moved back to his seat and sat down cautiously. It looked a little like a fat rabbit who was wary of a fox's sneak attack, only Ye Zifeng had a slight movement that made him judge that the next action would be unfavorable to him, and Tian Long was afraid that he would bounce up from his seat in an instant.

However, Ye Zifeng just smiled and did Tian Long's side, although this smile looked a little sinister, but Tian Long couldn't judge Ye Zifeng's intentions with just one smile, he swallowed a mouthful of saliva and stared at Ye Zifeng with wide eyes.

"I'm going to set up an anti-gravity field with the students." After Naoto Sakurai saw Ye Zifeng's behavior on the side, he immediately threw a "self-begging" look at Tian Long, and then ran to the second floor in a puff of smoke, Tian Long could only watch his last life-saving straw disappear without a trace, and Ye Zifeng who was with him was only himself.

Swallowing a mouthful of saliva again, Tian Long said a little nervously: "That, teacher, what is it to leave me behind, why are you doing it?" ”

"It's nothing expensive, I'm looking for you to discuss something." Ye Zifeng sat on the seat, looked at Tian Long, who was stretched into the tense side, couldn't help but smile slightly, stretched out his hand and patted Tian Long's shoulder, Tian Long tried his best to resist the desire to escape, and still sat there looking at Ye Zifeng, waiting for Ye Zifeng's next words.

"Well, when I was presenting, I needed an opponent, and I thought about it and found that you were the most suitable, so I wanted you to be my first opponent. Is there a problem? ”

"Huh?" Tian Long's eyes widened, this time because of surprise, "Let me come, shouldn't it be Professor Sakurai?" ”

"No, no, no, you've been studying with me for a year, and I'm always looking for an opportunity to test your learning, and this is a good opportunity."

"We? Isn't it just me? Tian Long pointed to the tip of his nose and asked Ye Zifeng suspiciously.

"Well, you are the first opponent, you have to take the exam after all, it is better to take this opportunity to test all of you at once, so that your younger brothers and sisters can see, follow me to learn, and the prospects are broad." Ye Zifeng was a little carried away, which made Tian Long tremble.

"Then I'll dare to ask." Tian Long asked cautiously, "What is the punishment for losing?" ”

"Punishment, why is there a punishment, do you think you can only pass if you win?" Ye Zifeng was stunned for a moment after hearing this, but he quickly understood, "How can I say that I have also lived in the real war of Gado, this model demonstration is just a piece of paper in how it is, if I can't win it, I won't go to command the fleet." But when you say punishment, it reminds me. ”

Ye Zifeng pretended to be pensive, nodding from time to time.

"Don't, don't take it seriously, I didn't say anything." Tian Long hurriedly shouted Ye Zifeng's constantly changing thinking, in case Ye Zifeng really came to this punishment and that punishment, wouldn't he become a sinner.

"No, since the students have raised it, why can't I, as a teacher, meet the wishes of the following students. The punishment hasn't come out yet, but I might choose it randomly, like a killing game, you've played a killing game, right? ”

"Huh?" Tian Long's eyes widened again, this time he didn't ask. Tian Long now began to feel that if he stayed with Ye Zifeng for a long time, his eyes might fall out, "Teacher, your thinking is jumping too fast, let me brush it first." ”

"What the hell?" Ye Zifeng waved his hand, "The losing side of the killing game will draw the punishment card and find the content on the card to execute the punishment for the loser." Ye Zifeng thought for a while, "Well, that's it, I remember, Paul seems to have a deck of cards for the killing game, I'll borrow them later." ”

Eastern Pacific, West Coast of the United States, Newcart College, 22nd Basement Floor, Admiralty Security Council Headquarters, "TroopsIntelligence".

"Knock knock, knock knock." Ye Kexin, who was reviewing the income and expenditure bills reported by the subordinate enterprises of the Navy Department in the room, was startled by the sudden knocks on the door, Ye Kexin took off her gold-rimmed glasses dissatisfied, sorted out the somewhat scattered reports in front of her, and sat upright in her seat. Ye Kexin is like this, but what she was doing before, as long as an outsider wants to appear in front of Ye Kexin, Ye Kexin always has to show her most energetic and tidy side in front of others.

"Please come in." Ye Kexin said calmly, and at the same time, the ten fingers of his hands crossed each other, and he put them on the work in front of him.

"I'm in, sir." A voice came in from outside the door first, and then the lock of the heavy mahogany door was unscrewed with a click, and as the door slowly opened, the strong light outside shone into Ye Kexin's office, and a figure appeared at the door of Ye Kexin's office. After the figure closed the door, he walked slowly, walked to the door of Ye Kexin's desk and stood upright, gave a standard military salute to Ye Kexin, and then handed a document to Ye Kexin's desk.

"This is a document that came from ten hours ago, and it has been confirmed by MIA intelligence officers." The person who came had a serious expression, and with this Peugeot black military uniform, he looked like a veteran who had been honed on the battlefield and had gone through the vicissitudes of time, "We have lost another commissioner in Japan, and this is already the fifth commissioner to be killed in Japan." ”

"Is the technique the same?" Ye Kexin picked up the documents on the desk, put on gold-rimmed glasses and read them carefully, and a few black-and-white pictures were attached to the report. A black-and-white photograph shows an Admiralty commissioner leaning against the wall below the hallway window, his back with his eyes closed, and a close-up of the wound in the next image, which is clearly not the work of an ordinary person, although the wound appears to be messy from a distance.

"Did you leave any traces at the scene?" Ye Kexin took off her gold-rimmed glasses and stepped aside, rubbing her somewhat sore temples with one hand. After all, it was more than ten hours in a row, and he had been dealing with various things except going to the toilet, the mysterious disappearance of the elder, and Feng Fengxiang's resignation made all kinds of burdens fall on Ye Kexin's shoulders at once. However, although Ye Kexin was a little uncomfortable all of a sudden, she even held the toilet and vomited for a while after reading the financial statements reported by the financial office a while ago, but fortunately, Ye Kexin had persevered at this time, even if she was a little mentally sluggish, at least she had adapted to this kind of high-intensity work. It was hard for Ye Kexin to imagine how Feng Fengxiang did this before.

"There are only two cigarette butts, and after saliva testing, it has been confirmed that one cigarette butt was in the commissioner's mouth before he died, as for the other." The comer flipped to the third page of the report, "It has been compared with the previous DNA and confirmed that the same murderer committed the crime." ”

"Yes." Ye Kexin responded in a deep voice, and nodded silently, "I know, you go back first." ”

"Got it, sir." After saluting Ye Kexin again, the comer turned around and left. Ye Kexin kept watching the crack of the mahogany door snuff out the last ray of light before she lowered her head and pondered.

The first victim was found six weeks ago, he died in a public toilet in the park, which was in a repaired cubicle, and it is said that a urchin was found by mistakenly entering an unlocked repaired cubicle while going to the toilet, and he was killed with a knife and a wound to the heart. The deceased's name was Hiroshi Muto, thirty-one years old, who was attached to the Japanese Kanto Division of the Admiralty Security Council and served as a sniper of the 1st Special Operations Group under the Kanto Division, with the rank of corporal and authority E. Such an unknown figure can attract the attention of the "shadow", to be honest, Ye Kexin didn't think much about it at first, but just characterized this incident as revenge, and after notifying the family of Hiroshi Muto's death and paying about 100 million yen in condolences, the matter was over, but it didn't take long for another case to happen.

The second victim was found four weeks ago, eight days after the first victim was found, and the second victim died in his own home, and it was the courier who came to his home to deliver the body that was found. The body was slightly decomposed when it was found, and after forensic identification, the time of death was more than five days, which means that only two days after the first incident, another Admiralty commissioner was killed, also with a single knife, the wound was on the top of the head, and the sharp broken blade pierced the brain from the closed halogen door, killing him on the spot. The deceased's name was Shinchi Oyamada, 29 years old, and he was attached to the headquarters of the Admiralty Security Council in Tokyo, Japan, and served as the No. 2 intelligence officer of the First Intelligence Section, with the rank of second lieutenant, and authority D. It is also a small official position, but the scene of continuous murder has more or less attracted the attention of the Security Council, but the murderer was extremely cautious when committing the crime, and the two consecutive crimes did not leave obvious traces, so the Security Council had to give up the investigation, and the compensation of 100 million yen was also given to the family of the victim.

But after all, two commissioners died in a row, and even if the Security Council could not find out anything, the Japanese branch could not relax its vigilance. It was their people who died, and the Japanese branch naturally stepped up its investigation and even gave up some other tasks. The Japanese branch began to run at a high speed, but even so, the murderer seemed to have evaporated from the world, and there was no trace, plus the people killed were all lower-level officers and non-commissioned officers of the Japanese branch, and for a while, the people of the Japanese branch were panicked, for fear that the next person killed would be themselves. After all, a ghost hiding in the shadows suddenly jumps out and kills you without your knowledge, and no one feels comfortable with this matter, and the thought of possibly passing by this ghost at a certain time and place makes people shudder even more. During this extraordinary period, the Japanese branch even ignored the regulations of the Blue Book and approved that the commissioner could carry lethal weapons with him, and even use live ammunition when necessary, but this "necessity" was judged by the commissioner with the gun himself. At this time, Japan was like Hulan in 1986.

The caution of the Japanese branch was not in vain, another week passed, and no dead appeared, which could not help but make the Japanese branch breathe a long breath at the same time, but before they could breathe it back, a third deceased appeared. He died in an alley on his way to work, and was found by the cleaner who came to collect the garbage in the morning. The deceased's name is Yasuhiro Ikari, 29 years old, subordinate to the Osaka Branch of the Admiralty Security Council, serving as the operational commissioner directly under the Division, after the investigation of the Osaka Branch, the Japanese Branch was surprised to find that the Commissioner should be on the way to Hokkaido at this time, thinking that there is no task on the Osaka side recently, coupled with the frequent bloody incidents on the Honshu Island, the Osaka Branch is now on vacation, Yasuhiro Ikari asked the people in the branch to help him book three train tickets to Hokkaido five days ago, and the train should have left yesterday. After that, the people from the Japanese branch went to check the ticket inspection records of the train at that time, and found that Yasuhiro Ikari had indeed boarded the train to Hokkaido yesterday. The Security Council finally realized the seriousness of the incident and began to send commissioners to Japan to assist in the investigation, but unexpectedly, the day after Yasuhiro Ikari's body was found, the fourth deceased appeared.

(To be continued)