Chapter 549: Persuasion
"Dean, are you going to Old Brown's pastry shop today?" asked the old man as Anderson Lehman pondered, the adjutant sitting at the back of the carriage leaned down slightly.
This lieutenant is also one of Anderson Lehman's students, has good talents, comes from a famous and noble family, as long as he does not make big mistakes, his future is visible, so Anderson Lehman took him with him and helped him get in touch with the upper echelons of the Navy in advance, which was regarded as paving the way for him in advance.
"Yes, I'd better go to Old Brown's pastry shop, and if Lisa knew I passed by the pastry shop and didn't buy her pastry, I'd have to talk about it for a while. Anderson Lehman mentioned his wife with a rare look of tenderness on his face.
The carriage drove swiftly down the street, skilfully through several alleys, and finally stopped in front of Old Brown's pastry shop, where the trip ended.
The adjutant jumped from behind the carriage, lowered the stairs and opened the door.
Anderson Lehman stepped out of the carriage and ordered, "Wait outside for a while, I have something to talk to old Brown about." ”
"Yes, Dean. The adjutant replied respectfully.
Anderson entered the store, and was about to walk to the counter as usual, taking the special pastry from Old Brown's hand, and telling Old Brown about the next pastry request, but the situation in the store made him stop, and looked around vigilantly, his eyes fell on the only customer in the store, and his hand was also on the special pistol and mechanical repeater on his waist.
Don't look at Anderson Lehman's grade is already very big, and he can be considered a retiree in other industries, but he has not stopped training for many years, so his skills are not much worse than those young lads, and he can even rely on his years of rich combat experience, which is even better.
"Who are you, where is old Brown?" said Anderson Lehman, who was not polite, and pointed his weapon directly at the man in the seat.
The man in the shop calmly looked at Anderson Lehman and said, "General Lehman, please don't be nervous, I don't have a bad ......."
However, before he finished speaking, Anderson Lehman had already pulled the trigger in his hand, and a huge gunshot and a slight crossbow sound rang out almost simultaneously, and sharp arrows and bullets shot at the target one after another.
However, the strange thing is that the arrows and bullets did not cause any damage to the opponent at all, but passed directly through the opponent's body.
Anderson Lehman, who found out about this, thought badly and instinctively made the most correct decision and quickly quit the pastry shop.
It's just that he just quit the pastry shop, but he stopped, because he found that he was still in the pastry shop, and the street that was supposed to be outside the pastry shop had now become the inside of the pastry shop, and the exit was like a mirror.
"General Lehman, please be seated, I have no ill intentions. In both mirror pastry shops, a customer pointed to the seat across from him at the same time.
"Damn monsters!" Anderson Lehman immediately understood what he had encountered, and couldn't help but curse in his heart.
As a high-ranking navy, he naturally knows some things that ordinary people in the outside world don't know, about dependents, about transcendents, about mutants implanted with alien god cells, etc., in the eyes of this old-school admiral, even if these beings have power that ordinary people can't match, they still can't change the essence of a group of monsters.
In the navy, in fact, there is also a department composed of transcendents, which was proposed by Hoover Hansen, in order to be able to confront the capital of the navy when facing the same kind of transcendentals.
It's just that this department is not included in the normal establishment of the navy, it belongs to the establishment of a private establishment, and the military expenses need to be provided by the private treasury within the navy, and the transcendent ones are extremely difficult to find, and even if they are found, they are easy to be robbed by the special bureau, so the framework of this department has never been completely built.
The transcendents who had been incorporated into this department eventually became the bodyguards of the Navy's upper echelons, responsible for protecting the Navy's upper echelons from other transcendents.
For example, Hoover Hansen, who was assassinated, had three such transcendents around him, and with the help of three transcendents, he also escaped the assassination of the avengers from Moissan, but this time his luck seemed to be gone.
As the former dean of the Naval Academy and the chief of naval logistics, Anderson Lehman was originally qualified to be equipped with three transcendent guards, but he himself was very distrustful of these transcendents, and even disgusted with them, plus he was brought in the national capital all year round, and safety was not a big problem, so he refused this benefit.
However, now he regretted his decision a little, and if he had agreed to the proposal, he would not have been in such a predicament as he is now.
After knowing that he was afraid that he would not be able to leave, Anderson Lehman also quickly calmed down, and weighed the strength of himself and the other party, realizing that if the other party wanted to kill him, he was afraid that it would be difficult for him to resist the other party's merits with only the weapon in his hand, so he put the weapon in his hand back on the holster and padlock, and walked to the person pointing to sit down without defense.
"Who are you?" Anderson Lehman asked in a deep voice, "To know my whereabouts so well, and to come here to meet me, I think your identity is not unusual!"
While asking about the other party's origin, Anderson Lehman also found some unusual places, such as the other party's appearance and age. Although his first thought was that the other party was a man after seeing the person on the other side, he couldn't identify what the other party looked like and how old he was.
This is not because the other party's appearance is deliberately blocked, in fact, the other party's face is not covered by anything, he can even clearly see the other party's eyelashes and beard, but the problem is that no matter how he can see the other party's appearance, but in his mind can never remember what he sees, and merge into a whole, this is like a dream, no matter how you know about the person you see in the dream, but after waking up, you can't remember what the person in the dream looks like.
"It was Chief Frank who asked me to wait here for you. The other man spoke.
The person sitting opposite Anderson Lehman was Leo Dodd, who followed Frank Foson's advice and went to Brown's Pastry House to wait for Anderson Lehman to appear, but he didn't sit here and wait, he asked the pastry shop owner to sleep for a while, and then set up a magical illusion in the pastry shop. This magical illusion soldier has no lethal power, and can only let those who enter the illusion land fall into a labyrinth that resembles a double-sided mirror world.
As he expected in advance, Anderson Lehman, as an ordinary person, fell into a fantasy and had to sit opposite him to talk, but when Anderson Lehman was trying to find out the origin just now, he couldn't help but have an idea in his mind, and modified the original self-introduction to expose Frank Fowson.
"Frank Fussen, Director of the Special Bureau?" Anderson Lehman had an annoyed look on his face, and quickly returned to normal, and said in a deep voice, "What are you Special Bureaus looking for me for, and you are going to find me in this way." ”
"Because it's not for anyone else, and it's not for anyone else to know. Leo said in a deep voice: "As far as we know, the Navy has found the murderer of General Hoover Hansen, and has decided to do it tonight to capture him." ”
"What? The murderer has been found?" Anderson Lehman couldn't help but be stunned, and then a look of displeasure appeared on his face.
It's no wonder that he is displeased, he is also a high-ranking officer of the Navy, and he doesn't even know such important news, but he knows the news from an outsider, and the reason for this is only because of his contradiction with Hoover Hansen, which makes the senior management of the Navy a little distrustful of him.
However, he quickly put away his inner emotions, looked at Leo coldly, and said: "It's a good thing that the murderer has been found, at least to give General Hoover Hansen's family an explanation." ”
Leo deliberately smiled bitterly and said: "It would be nice if things were that simple, in fact, the assassination of General Hoover Hansen not only involved the viciousness of General Hoover Hansen in the colony back then, but also included some political rivalries within the kingdom, and even the Congress and the royal family were involved." ”
"What did you say?" Anderson Lehman glared at Leo without hiding the shock on his face.
Leo ignored Anderson Lehman's emotions, and unhurriedly recounted the relevant process, hearing Anderson Lehman's face was cloudy, and his heart was like turning over the sea.
Anderson Lehman was not surprised that the assassin of Hoover Hansen came from the Mozambian continent and was related to the series of massacres that Hoover Hansen had carried out in the colonies that year, and even the moment he received the news of Hoover Hansen's death, a story related to revenge had already appeared in his mind.
However, the assassin he didn't expect turned out to be the chief actor of the Spiritual Theater Troupe.
Anderson Lehman has also seen two performances of the Spiritual Theatre Troupe because of his wife's relationship, and he also admires the petite woman's amazing performance on the stage, although he is not a loyal fan like his wife, but he also loves the troupe's performances, and even the tickets for the last performance tonight, he has already bought a few days ago.
But he could never have imagined that such a little woman would be the murderer of the third person in the Inge Kingdom Navy.
It's just that what he didn't expect was that the royal family and Congress were also involved in this assassination, providing all kinds of help to the assassins, in order to kill the naval heroes of his kingdom, which was the most difficult thing for him to accept after listening to Leo's words.
Anderson Lehman was well aware that as the kingdom became the dominant power at sea, the navy had grown rapidly in size, and in just a few decades, it had expanded seventeen times, and the total strength was more than ten times that of forty years earlier.
The rapidly expanding navy naturally brought the admirals a rapidly expanding power, and because of these rights, the current navy top brass has more ambitions to gain more rights, including absurd claims such as the autonomy of overseas bases.
And this inevitably clashed with the royal family and the Congress, because most of the rights they sought came from these two, and if they were to give these rights to the navy, they would definitely weaken their rights.
Anderson Lehman is well aware of these dirty matters of political rights, and he has even participated in the formulation and planning of some plans against certain people in Congress and the royal family.
However, in his opinion, whether it is the navy, the Congress, or the royal family, they will consciously restrain their behavior, and always let the battles between each other be hidden in political competition, and will not be put on the surface.
But now it seems that he thought too simply, the Congress and the royal family have actually set their goals on the admirals, which has obviously broken through the bottom line of the political struggle, and it is foreseeable that the situation will continue to develop, and I am afraid that civil war will inevitably appear.
"What do you mean by telling me these things?" asked Anderson Leo with a gloomy face.
Leo threw everything at Frank Forson and said, "Chief Frank means that you will be able to use your prestige to stop the navy's capture of that assassin. ”
"What? How dare you make such a request of me?" exclaimed Anderson Lehman, in exasperation, "she assassinated the hero of the kingdom's navy......"
Leo interjected, "But it's also your enemy, isn't it?"
Anderson Lehman said without hesitation: "Even if it is my enemy, it is also an internal affair of our navy, and it is also our private matter, the royal family and Congress would find a killer to assassinate the hero of the kingdom, this matter is really too much! Today they can assassinate a meritorious hero like Hoover Hansen for their own rights, and tomorrow they will definitely be able to assassinate other admirals for some interests!"
After Leo's voice fell, he spoke emphatically: "The director doesn't want to prevent the navy from holding the royal family and Congress accountable, the director just doesn't want the sea to arrest that assassin." ”
"Does that make a difference?" Anderson Lehman looked at each other puzzled.
"Let me say so!" Leo explained, "In order to appease the current anger of the Navy, the Royal Family and the Congress have sold their collaborator, the Assassin, to the Navy, and let the Navy take matters into its own hands to deal with the Assassin. ”
"Despicable!" this betrayal behavior made Anderson Lehman unaccustomed to it, and couldn't help but curse.
Leo smiled and did not respond, but continued: "It's just that the royal family and Congress don't know that the assassin they betrayed has a weapon of prehistoric civilization in it, and that weapon can easily destroy Durin City, so that all the people in Durin City can be killed in an instant. ”
When Anderson Lehman heard this, he couldn't help but scoff and sneered, "Are you telling a joke?
"No, you'll believe it. Leo spoke, raising his palm over Anderson Lehman's forehead