Chapter 197: Traps and Goals
The conference hall in the depths of Valhalla at the Kassel Academy.
The Secret Clan's group of elders gathered again, and the continuous gathering of the elders in just a few days was already an unprecedented operation.
Even in World War II, when faced with the life and death of the secret party, the elder group did not hold meetings so frequently.
Everyone in the conference hall held their breath and watched silently at the various materials played on the projection screen in front of them, which EVA had extracted from the memory card it had found.
At first, the information above was just words and pictures, and Ange used various methods to introduce his life.
And at the end, the material becomes a video.
There are two videos, one of which was taken by Angers before leaving the Kassel Academy for Japan, and it looks more like his last words before leaving. And the other video made everyone lift their spirits.
From the point of view, it was filmed by the surveillance camera in the office, and the protagonists in it were naturally Ange and the vice principal, seeing this video, Zheng Shu, who was originally lacking in interest, immediately became energetic, this is the clue he has been waiting for.
The video shows a different picture of the office, where the vice-principal, who had been in the clock tower, was now sitting in the chair in the principal's office, but he was still not doing anything as usual, just lying on a luxurious and comfortable chair and drinking the beer in his hand.
There was a sound of footsteps coming from outside the office, and the vice-principal immediately hid the beer under his desk. The whole person immediately sat upright in the chair, looking like he was pretending to work.
When the door was opened, Ange walked in with a bottle of whiskey in his hand, and this contrast made Zheng Shu almost think that he had actually experienced more than one world change.
Fortunately, Ange still looks very well dressed, but maybe because of drinking, he looks a little messy.
The vice-principal was not intimidated by Ange's words: "You seem to be in a good mood. β
After all, Ange is a very self-disciplined person, although he likes to drink, he never greeds for glasses, and now it is obvious that something has happened in this way that he can't help but be happy.
Ange's face was still flushed, obviously he had drunk a lot, but he was still walking steadily, he turned the bottle and looked at the vice principal: "After so many years, I finally found him!" β
"What's that? Your former old lover? The vice-principal leaned back in his chair again for some unknown reason and picked up the bottle of beer from underneath, "You asked me to substitute for you for so many days, just to find your old lover?" Listening to you a few days ago, I thought you were going to fight the Dragon King with a nuclear bomb. β
Angran didn't care about the vice principal's ridicule, but took out a blackened note from the bag behind him and slapped it on the table: "Look at this! β
Not only Zheng Shu, who was watching the video, but even the vice principal, who had been Ange's friend for many years, rarely saw Ange lose his temper like this, and he looked down at the notebook in Ange's hand, which was a black notebook that was so broken that only a small part remained, and it was still covered with traces of flames.
It looks like someone has been thrown into a fire and has not burned completely.
There were several strange words written on it, one that resembled an earthworm, crooked, and indiscernible in its final meaning. The other is more like Chinese characters, but I don't see why.
"What are these words? I haven't seen it in my opinion? The vice-principal scratched his head.
"This is not a normal human language, but a cipher code used by the German Special Intelligence Service." Ange pointed to the word that looked like an earthworm that seemed very familiar, "and another...... It's Tangut. β
Speaking of which, even through the video, everyone here can feel the emotions of Ange's gnashing of teeth in the video.
"The Germans had discovered a boundary marker that proved that a piece of land belonged to the Tangut Kingdom." Ange stared directly at the note.
"Western Xia? You've found that dragon king?! The vice principal's expression became serious.
According to their investigation, the mourning incident of Xia Zhi was created in the Kassel Manor, the residence of the secret party, and then the dragon king Li Wuyue, who disappeared in the explosion caused by Yanling: Rhine, was from Western Xia.
He is also the earliest known dragon king to awaken.
Historically, Li Wuyue was supposed to be one of the sons of the Western Xia Emperor Li Yuanhao, a dragon king disguised as a prince, and lived an extremely comfortable life, much better than his other siblings.
Angers has been searching for him for years, from the desert to the rainforest, from the Antarctic to the Arctic, and finally, recently, he has found a new clue in the original Kassel estate.
"The Germans were eyeing the power of the Rhine at the end of World War II, so they sent people to build an underground research institute under the Kassel manor, but they also dug up some information in the process of researching." Ange breathed a sigh of relief, "They found an anomalous individual who had left Kassel Manor immediately after the explosion, and after following various clues, they finally found that the other party had disappeared into a rainforest in South America. And there, they found this stele. β
"After all these years, I've finally found him!" Ange grabbed the vice principal's shoulder violently, his eyes flashed with a frenzied light, and even the golden pupil was unconsciously activated because he was too excited, "I'm ready, I'll leave tomorrow, I've asked the equipment department to prepare the maximum yield of nuclear bombs and various alchemy weapons that individuals can carry." β
"Stop! Stop! What are you doing here? You're not really going to die with that dragon king, are you? The vice-chancellor was frightened by the look in Ange's eyes.
He could feel from the other party's tone and expression that Ange now had a strong tendency to self-destruct. Although he has been teasing his friend, the vice principal doesn't want the other party to really carry the nuclear bomb and die with the dragon king.
The two of them were entangled between their desks for a while, and the vice principal finally dispelled Ange's idea of dying with each other now.
Of course, the reason why the vice principal was able to convince Ange to dispel his thoughts was also because Li Wuyue had already had a record of surviving the damage of a near-nuclear explosion before. Ange is willing to sacrifice his life to kill his enemies, but if he can't kill them even if he gives his own life, then he will come to his senses again.
"Judging from the notebook, the Germans secretly searched a lot, but they didn't find any clues other than the stele." Ange, who had finally regained his senses, straightened his clothes and began to think about the limited clues he had obtained from his notebook.
"Nibelungen." The vice principal quickly came to the conclusion, "The apex of alchemy, and it is also the secret safe house of every dragon clan, since the other party is seriously injured, then he will definitely find the safest place to recuperate, he is an old thing who has recovered from ancient times and has no relatives in this era, and the only place that can meet this condition is naturally the Nibelungen." β
After listening to the vice-principal's words, Ange thought for a while: "Although we know where that guy is hiding now, how should we get in?" β
"It's very simple, of course, you go to South America to find the specific location of the Nibelungen." Seeing that Ange had finally come to his senses, the Vice Principal shrugged his shoulders and sat back in his chair to relax, "All people who come into contact with the Dragon King will be marked, and they will be reminded by the mark on their body when they approach the Nibelungen to which the Dragon King belongs, and of course the Dragon King will also be woken up by the mark. But for you, this should be a good thing to ask for. β
"Sounds good, then you arrange for the manpower to prepare the calculation of the entrance to the Nibelungen, and I'll go to South America to search first......"
At this point in the video, he suddenly jumps back to Ange's face, and he tells the video about the situation of the school after he dies, it seems that Ange uses this thing as an electronic suicide note.
When Ange finally finished chattering and the video came to an end, the vice principal controlled the projector to turn the video back to the scene where Ange took the notebook on the table: "EVA, can you analyze the information written on the table by zooming in on the pattern of the notes on the table?" β
"After searching, the cipher used on the note is not a conventional type, do you use the amount of data to calculate and decipher the cipher? Expect to take 5 minutes. EVA's cold voice echoed through the room.
"Okay, then I'll trouble you." The Vice Chancellor nodded.
Frost, who was next to him, also expressed his opinion at this time: "Everyone, get ready to mobilize manpower, we are going to start a new war again!" β
The people of the Elder Group nodded silently, and they all took out their mobile phones to get in touch, and Zheng Shu looked at Frost with a little surprise.
Feeling Zheng Shu's gaze, Frost nodded at him: "I'm not here to rescue this person who looks like he will take away my headmaster position, the reason why I'm willing to mobilize people is to eliminate this dragon king - after all, this dragon king has been the enemy of the secret party since a long time ago." β
Zheng Shu didn't say anything, just stood up from his position and walked to the side of the door of the conference hall: "The rest of the matter is not something that I, a reckless man, can participate in, after you calculate the results, just tell me the conclusion." β
With that, he opened the door and left the conference room, and as he left, the others in the conference hall were still using their mobile phones to contact their staff.
After Zheng Shu left the conference hall, Xia Mi also walked out of the library next to him and left here silently.
"How do you feel about what you just said in the video?" Walking on the road, Xia Mi suddenly asked without a clue.
Although he didn't participate in the meeting just now, as the king of the earth and the mountain, who is extremely sensitive to power and vibration, Natsumi can hear the movement in the conference room even if he is a whole building away.
"Obviously, that's a trap."
Zheng Shu recalled the doorway of the cellar he had seen in the Kassel Manor, and the ashes that had been turned over in the underground laboratory, plus the marks of the black notebook in the video just now, and the ashes that had been stirred, and it was almost certain that Ange had found the notebook from there.
The alchemy circle stored between the cracks in the cellar door was determined by the vice principal, and it was indeed made by him, which means that the door of the cellar was indeed built by Ange.
At first glance, there seems to be no problem, after all, judging from the situation in the laboratory, those people were evacuated in a hurry, and there was no careful inspection, so it is very likely that some information will be preserved.
However, Zheng Shu found traces of the Dragon King there.
Zheng Shu told Xia Mi about the abnormal root system of the plants on the grave that he had discovered.
Xia Mi confirmed Zheng Shu's speculation after thinking for a while: "That's right, it is indeed the hand of the Wind Monarch, if it is the Water Monarch, the plant will become more deformed under the influence of his power, and the thickness of the root system will also exceed the normal range. Only the Wind Lord's ability to change the time of other creatures at will would cause the situation you're talking about. β
"Is the Lord of the Sky and Wind really able to control the time of other creatures?" Zheng Shu's expression was a little serious, if the other party's power was really related to time, then it would be very difficult to deal with.
"It's not as exaggerated as you think, it's still essentially the power of words." Xia Mi glanced at Zheng Shu and dispelled the worries in his heart, "Just like you said, it is very likely that the Wind Monarch used his power to continuously exert the spirit of the moment on the plant in the tomb, with his power, it is easy to open more than ten times in an instant, and the plant may only take a few hours to spend several years." β
"But...... Are you really going to go? Natsumi was a little hesitant.
Zheng Shu glanced at her and knew what she wanted to say, and smiled: "Didn't I say that?" I know, it's a trap. Not just a trap for Angers, but a trap for me. No! It can't be considered a trap, this can only be considered a provocation. β
"If he just wanted to attract Ange, all the previous arrangements would have been perfect, but in the end, he would have to paint a snake to leave his mark on the grave." Zheng Shu clenched his fist and acted very excited, "It's because he knows that someone can detect this trace and wants to attract me." β
"Since you know it's a trap, then you dare to step into it?"
"If it was before, I would have to be careful to hold my hand, but unfortunately, I finally succeeded in researching a new technology a few days ago, so it's hard to say who set a trap for whom." Zheng Shu couldn't help but smile when he thought back to the results he had achieved during this period of time.
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Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Zheng Shu sat slumped on the sofa, feeling that his whole body was about to grow mold.
Now it is approaching the end of summer, and many places have even begun to feel autumn, but here in Brazil it is still humid and muggy, thanks to the transpiration of the rainforest next to it.
Although Zheng Shu himself has not been invaded by the cold and heat, he still feels uncomfortable in the face of such a hot weather.
And this is still in the city, sitting on the sofa blowing the air conditioner, Zheng Shu has begun to worry about how to spend the next rainforest life.
Beyond the luxury hotel where he settled was a slum that was distinctly distinct. Rio de Janeiro is a city of God, not because of the beliefs of the locals or anything else, but because of the fact that life here is just a matter of fate, waiting for God to take him away.
This is true even for most hybrids, the South American branch has always been one of the most fatal executive departments, and among the slums lies the hybrids who have crossed the bloodline and who follow their killing instincts and reach out their terrifying claws to the fledgling commissioners.
It was only recently that this complicated situation eased somehow, when a group of mixed-race elites of different nationalities were pulled to the Brazilian branch by the Elders.
Each of them has a unique skill, whether it is combat ability or reconnaissance ability, they are the best among the half-breeds, and it only took less than a month to adapt to more than double the mission completion rate of the South American Division.
In order to face the next hostile Dragon King, the Secret Party has almost mobilized all the hidden forces it has been hiding for thousands of years, unlike the previous few hasty wars against the Dragon King, this time it is the Secret Party that is ready to fight against the Dragon King after everything is ready.
To do this, they need a qualified front-line logistics base, and Rio de Janeiro, which is closest to the target location, is targeted by the secret parties.
During this time, the half-breed elites from all over the world completed the tasks of the South American branch only easily, and they spent more time cleaning up the various underground forces in the local area.
At the beginning, in the face of the obviously unreasonable cross-river dragon of the secret party, the local underground forces in Brazil joined forces in a vain attempt to rely on their knowledge of the city to resist stubbornly.
Unfortunately, what they thought was brutal in the past was particularly naΓ―ve in the face of this group of neurotics who had become excited.
In the past, the elite of the executive department had to face completely inhuman enemies such as runaway hybrids or Deadpool, and when facing these underground forces that were just composed of gangsters, there was even a sense of leisure after the holiday.
In less than a week, a large number of local underground forces began to collapse, along with a large number of official officials who were in cahoots with the underground forces.
When the secret party concentrates all the power it has hidden for thousands of years in one area, its horror will be revealed.
At this point in time, the originally chaotic Rio de Janeiro has become one of the few stable areas in the world, and now Zheng Shu can say that the secret party has really taken control of the city, whether from the official or from the dark side.
"Found a clue to the Nibelungen?" Zheng Shu looked at Frost who walked in.
This time, in addition to the ordinary executive department commissioner, only Zheng Shu and Frost came here.
None of the people, including Chu Zihang and Caesar, were asked to participate in this operation at the strong request of Zheng Shu and Frost.
Zheng Shu didn't let Caesar and them come in order to let them be optimistic about Chen Motong and prevent any accidents, after all, according to the information he obtained in his previous life, Chen Motong was likely to be a very important foreshadowing.
Although others don't believe in Zheng Shu's so-called intuition, when facing his sandbag-sized fist, they all said that this kind of strong person's intuition should naturally be paid attention to.
It just so happened that Frost didn't want any problems for the next heir of the Gattuso family, so he used this reason to let them take good care of Chen Motong in the Kassel Academy.
"That's right, a few days ago the Executive Department found a native in the local rainforest, and based on his description, we can determine that he must have happened to see the Nibelungen connecting to reality." Frost handed Zheng Shu a mobile phone.
Zheng Shu took a look at it, and a video was playing on his phone, on which was a local who looked a little thin, facing the camera at this time, constantly narrating what he saw.
ββ¦β¦ Yes, when I rushed over, I found that there was suddenly a pyramid in the rainforest, and a giant snake with wings was entrenched on the tower. "The serpent seemed to have spotted me, so I fell from the tree in fear, but when I returned to that area, I couldn't find it again......
ββ¦β¦ When I ran away from there, I saw a large stone tablet with very strange words written on it, and it looked like a picture......
"Through the information extracted from the notes found in the video Lyonge, we can confirm that the stele is about the same size as he described, but the Germans did not find anything like a pyramid or a giant snake at that time, and it is speculated that it is likely that by the time the Germans found it, the Nibelungen was close to being completely closed." Frost explained to Zheng Shu on the side.
"Okay, now that we have a 'guide', when are we going to go?" Zheng Shu bounced up from the sofa very neatly, he didn't want to stay in this place for a moment.
In fact, after Zheng Shu came here, he had already discovered that there was a huge Nibelungen here through Hela's full talent.
However, the trouble is that he doesn't know what the King of the Sky and Wind has done to this Nibelungen, Zheng Shu can only feel the breath of the Nibelungen's existence but can't find the location of the other party's body, it feels like this Nibelungen is out of touch with the world.
Now that he has specific coordinates, Zheng Shu has decided to make a quick decision, no matter what method the King of the Sky and Wind uses to make the connection between this Nibelungen and the world so weak, the location of the entrance and exit must be connected to the world.
As long as he finds the approximate location, Zheng Shu can do the rest of the door opening work by himself.
In two days, you should be able to add another chapter or two, and by then you will be able to pay off the debt you owe last month.
Based on the growth rate of the monthly pass last month, I began to worry about whether I would be able to pay off my debt next month after the monthly pass time doubled this month......
(End of chapter)