Chapter 3: Lost Signals
When the morning light is faint, most of the things in the world are still asleep, and the clear moon still hangs above the slightly reddened sky, which is a quiet and peaceful moment.
At this time, in the action group, Ingrid had woken up. She is a Muslim. When dawn comes, Muslims everywhere get up and say the first prayer of the day, Fajr Fajr.
It was a desert environment, surrounded by no people, no mosque prayer bells, and no one reminded her that "prayer is better than sleep", but she never made the slightest ambiguity about prayer whenever and wherever she prayed.
Ingrid went to the bathroom alone, doing the pre-prayer ablution, if you want to do ablution, you only need to finish washing your face and brushing your teeth, brushing your hair, washing your legs and feet, this ablucid symbolizes the removal of sin, it is a sacred bath for believers, but Ingrid does not do this, she prefers to bathe her whole body to ablution, she takes off her pajamas, let the water carefully clean every part of her body, she carefully washes her white and delicate cheeks. The pinna and nails should not be ignored, and the girl's unique mutton fat jade-like skin is tinged with a faint pink. The clean water would wash away the sins, and after bathing, she draped her brown hair over her shoulders with a faint fragrance, and Ingrid stepped onto the elevator to prepare for the morning prayer outside, in the wandering desert.
This ritual is derived from the Islamic doctrine that all people are guilty, but Allah exists to forgive all beings, and legend has it that Muhammad once asked his disciples: "If you bathe five times a day, will your body be defiled?" The disciples replied in unison, "No, then it will be white and dust-free." Later, this idea was passed down into the Islamic Fajr prayer.
Ingrid has been a devout believer for a long time, and since she can remember, she has developed the habit of worshipping five times a day, whether it is a gentle childhood, or a decaying present, whether it is the ordinary past, or the ability to be different, this time of day is an opportunity for her to reflect on herself and seek a path in life.
Ingrid spread the carpet in the desert, everything was ready, but her mind was a little fluctuating: "Can I really use the power that Allah has given me, how many people have been framed in order to save this society, how many capable people have fallen into the temptation of their own abilities, I can really do it" Ingrid shook her head and looked at this desert, once it was an oasis, but it only took a few years for people to turn it into a desert, and even nature is difficult to restore it.
Destruction, short beyond human imagination.
Calming down, Ingrid took a deep breath and felt the peace that Allah had brought him. Facing Mecca, she stood solemnly, raised her hands to her shoulders, bowed her gratitude to Allah, bowed her head, and then knelt down and so on several times to express her sincerity to Allah. "All praise be to Allah. The Lord of the worlds, the Lord of great mercy and mercy, the Lord of the Day of Retribution, guides us in the right way, and the way which Thou hast directed is not the way of the violent nor the path of the lost, I am your servant, I exalt thy will, I confess thy kindness, I recognize my wrongs, forgive me, no one can forgive my sins but thee, wash away my sins with snow and ice, as a white cloth of dirt that cleanses, and let me and the principle of my sins be separated as the East and the West. At this moment, Ingrid was the only one who left a sincere soul, begging sincerely. When the morning prayer was finished, the sky was clear, but the sun still didn't know where to hide, and the desert wind blew against Ingrid.
"Ahh It's going to be washed again, and it's full of dust. Ingrid dusted her hairline.
"Good morning. Ingrid. A pleasant bass voice rang out behind Ingrid, but it wasn't Haidai's.
Ingrid turned around and responded with a smile, "Good morning, Redemption, haven't you had another day off?" ”
"After a simple rest, don't worry. What about you? Have you finished your morning prayer? The boy named "Redemption" asked.
"Well, it's done, what's the matter?"
The man who was called the Redeemer was a pale boy, the leader of the Einsatzgruppen, because of his special position, all his information was known only to himself, he was about seventeen years old, and there were many white hairs that did not fit his age among the black and shiny curls, he was very clean, gray suit jacket with gray tie, plus a pair of gray pants, suede shoes, neatly groomed, the only thing that was unsightly was a rusty revolver pinned to his waist, which was very unworthy of his neat outfit. Redemption has two very prominent features, one is his body, which can clearly be seen to be implanted with some mechanical devices, such as he has an eye that is a mechanical prosthetic eye, while the other naked eye always exudes a sharp aura like a wind, and his dark and far-reaching pupils look at the world mercilessly. Another example is his left arm, the entire left arm of Salvation is a mechanical arm, but this mechanical arm does not seem unnatural to him, after all, this hand can do everything that a human hand can do, and the prosthetic eye and the mechanical arm will not cause him the slightest inconvenience, because the inventor of these two things is Salvation himself. Another characteristic of him is very strange, this feature is the "pet" around the redemption, the redemption calls it "Marcel", an alien creature that is inseparable from the redemption himself, it is like a large ball of marshmallows, surrounding the redemption, its figure is pitch black, it is impossible to distinguish the body structure of this chaotic creature, staring at this creature, you can see the light of other galaxies from it.
"Now there is a temporary job, we have to go to the protection ** branch, the guard ** there has been lost contact since last night, the investigation on the 47th has come to an end first, I will position the matrix on it, you go down first, call Haidai, eat something simply, and then come up immediately."
"What about Sister Hua Xu?"
"I gave her other assignments, leave her alone."
After saying that, Redemption turned around and entered a small room in the villa, where there is his proudest invention, the teleportation matrix, the matrix is effective in pairs, theoretically, as long as the two matrices are not damaged, then even if the distance between the matrices is measured in light years, it can be teleported from one end to the other, but it also has disadvantages: the operation of the teleportation matrix is premised on the charging of the ability, and the ability that is good with this device is only Redemption himself.
Soon after, Haidai and Ingrid returned to the Upper Desert.
The teleportation matrix is a platform several meters long and wide, densely packed with flashing indicator lights.
"I say, salvation, are we in such a hurry?" Haidai asked lazily, obviously not taking this little situation seriously: "Even if there is a problem, the guard ** can fight, but it is just a night of missing contact, maybe it is just a power outage." ”
"Time is a little tight. However, we shouldn't have too much hope for the protectors, although the overall quality of the protectors is very strong, but they are not like our special operations group, they have many capable people, but the top abilities are very rare. ”
"No, I'm just trying to dissuade you from scouting, I'm afraid you're going to teleport me to an alien planet." Haidai joked.
However, Redemption did not respond to Haidai's jokes, and the silence of Redemption made the atmosphere awkward, and Marcel leisurely surrounded Redemption, but as usual, he did not see anything unusual.
After a while, it was Ingrid who broke the silence first: "Salvation, may I ask, what is really going on there?" ”
"Ingrid, you stand on it first, and I'll teleport you first." Salvation is not meant to be small talk, after all, what happens, no one can say until they arrive at the scene.
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"After teleporting to the designated location, please leave the matrix within ten seconds, otherwise there will be a teleportation failure if you teleport Haidai again." Redemption walked to the side of the console: "Teleportation begins." ”
The teleporter began to work, making a buzzing sound that sent Ingrid's form distorted with the light around her, and after a few seconds, vanished.
"Teleportation complete." An electronic indicator beeps from the teleporter.
"Haidai." Salvation cries, "It's your turn." ”
"Oooo Haidai stood on the matrix in a panic and put on a funny pose: one hand straightened to the right, posing scissor hands, the other hand supporting the back of his head, his face smiling hideously, his eyes staring in the direction of his fingers, and his legs crossed into a bow.
"Teleportation begins." Salvation is completely unmoved. The strange shapes soon twisted together and vanished.
Redemption gestured a few more times on the console.
"Turn on the fold in five seconds." An electronic tone from the console signaled that Salvation was standing in the center of the portal.
"Five, four, three, two, one, teleportation begins." Everything in sight begins to change, and Marcel clings to the body of redemption. When I looked around again, Salvation had teleported to the Guardian Branch, which was the same as the Division of the Action Group, in the underground, and the Teleportation Matrix was located in the edge room at the bottom of the Division.
"Redemption." Haidai reversed the hippie smile of Fang Cai, and his expression began to become serious: "I found something. ”
"What is it?" Redemption walked up to him and asked, and Marcel, who was beside him, seemed to post it with interest.
However, Haidai put on a grimace and said with a smile: "I teleported successfully~ I teleported successfully~"
"Be quiet." Redemption didn't say anything, and instead asked, "Ingrid, how is your current state?" ”
"I'm fine." Ingrid said dryly, "Give the order." ”
"First figure out what's going on. The three of us split up, and if all is safe here, we'll go back and gather here, and if the others don't find anything, we'll meet here in an hour. ”
Redemption opens the door to the teleportation room: "Let's explore the lowest level of this place first, and then explore the other levels separately." Now they're on alert. ”
After the instructions were completed, Salvation calmly spat out four words:
"Let's get moving."