"He's found out. ”

The portable makeup mirror reflected the senior detective of the Imperial Social Order Security Bureau holding a portable terminal motionless in the corner, and there was a trace of irrepressible tension in the indifferent voice of the "robin".

Even though she is a senior underground worker, she has seen a lot of thrilling scenes, but she is not a machine after all.

Anyone who fights to make a living, or who makes fighting the whole meaning of their lives, has undergone rigorous training in emotional control so that they can suppress fears or overexcitement and avoid unnecessary distractions in order to complete tasks more efficiently. This is especially true for underground workers in the face of complex struggles, where even the slightest outpouring of emotion can have fatal consequences. In terms of common sense, they are the most calm group of people, and they should not have anything abnormal at critical moments. But now "Mockingbird" just can't help but be nervous.

Actually, this is not surprising.

Any gambler who bets on his life or even something more important than his life, no matter how clever his gambling skills are, how strong his gambling capital is, and how strong his psychological quality is, before the cup is revealed, all kinds of positive and negative emotions will continue to ferment, swell, and interact. In the face of this irrepressible chemistry, there is actually a limit to what can be done by mere emotional control.

Is it a successful bet and escape?

Or do you fail to place a bet and lose all the games?

Placing everything on the rationality of a stranger and an enemy who has met several times will cause a loss of shape due to excessive stress, and in severe cases, it will also trigger physiological overreactions, such as stomach cramps, hair loss, vomiting, syncope, and so on. It's just that there is a little emotional fluctuation in the tone, which can be regarded as a very strong psychological quality.

"If he is a good official of the Empire, then he will carefully weigh the pros and cons, assess the development of the situation, and then make a choice. ”

Not only the civil servants of the empire, but also the civil servants of any national public security system, as long as they are not eating waste wood waiting for death, will follow the process of "nightingale" to think and deal with problems when encountering emergencies. After all, everyone is a peer who eats public food, and the problems encountered are similar, and it is not surprising that the way of thinking and processing process are similar. But there is a very big difference between the civil servants of the empire and their counterparts in other countries.

That is, "absolute rationality" and "impersonalness".

It is natural that the state violence apparatus does not need a human touch, but when it comes to the front-line personnel at the grassroots level who directly face all kinds of people, whether to retain the human touch, and whether to choose flexible implementation with room for improvement, has become a question that makes people scratch their heads. After all, they are not only civil servants representing the country, but also living human beings. Human beings have feelings and hearts, and are not machines that only know "yes or no".

The Empire's security personnel were quite different, behaving not so much as meticulous civil servants as a pack of heavily trained military dogs, bloodless and tearless machines.

Efficiency is paramount;

rational thinking;

Imperial interests above all else;

Give everything to the empire;

It doesn't matter if you don't have honor, you don't feel it even if you are coldly looked at, and you won't be shaken even if you are regarded as a devil and a beast.

This is the group portrait of the violent devices of the empire, a group of excellent public servants who are dedicated to obeying authority, dedicating themselves to the preservation of this country, who can only make the right choices, who will only think and act according to the right norms, the loyal lackeys of the emperor, and the right slaves.

"They are really good, with strong self-discipline, a high degree of order and discipline, rigorous and logical thinking, and will not deviate from the right choice due to personal emotions. It can be said that it is the best state civil servant of all time, the most perfect part of the state machine. There was none, and there will never be, a more loyal dog than them. And because of that—"

They will never believe in "possibility", let alone bet on "possibility".

And this is exactly the blind spot hole that the "Nightingale" is aiming for.

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- The damn terrorists.

Mach's cheeks twitched, and the filter was almost bitten into several pieces.

The dynamic image of the terminal interface depicts a geometric shape with a ring as the main body on the map of the entire "Source of Life" villa complex.

Although the graphics were still rough and the details were a mess, Maher, who was used to dealing with magicians, recognized it at a glance as a "bursting" magic array.

The so-called "bursting" has the same actual effect as a landmine, which is to create a large-scale explosion through remote control or triggering, and annihilate the enemy in one fell swoop. However, unlike landmines, "Burst" can increase its power by enlarging the structure of the technique and filling it with a sufficient amount of mana. Theoretically, it can be said that there is no upper limit to power, as long as the conditions are met, whether it is a military base or a city target, it will be blown up to show you.

The tricky part of this technique is that it can be used in a wide range of applications, you can seal it in a sky crystal to make a portable mine, or you can have one or several magicians set up an array of spells that can last for days. Before the invention of interference particles, this powerful and fast-deployed, concealed technique was recognized as the most troublesome magic technique for the defense forces, and could be called the natural enemy of mechanized swarms. You must know that even if the armored units of the defense forces have already developed minesweepers and other equipment, if the number and density of the "bursting" technique are large enough, it will inevitably cause the defense forces to waste a lot of manpower, material resources and time on mine-clearing operations.

Of course, you can also choose to avoid the minefields that have already been discovered, but this means that the enemy's goal has been achieved, and the enemy army has a commander with an IQ on the line, and will also circle you into an elaborate ambush.

After the invention of the interference particle, like all magic spells, the "burst" could only be sealed in the Sky Crystal and only had its effect after receiving the "activation" command. Basically, it's not much different from ordinary grenades and mines, but the cost is more than five times more expensive. Charlemagne could hardly even guarantee the production of conventional weapons in the later stages of the war, so how could he lose money to produce such a cost-effective thing, and the "bursting" technique gradually faded out of people's sight. However, with the rise of various terrorist groups after the war, those madmen who were keen to set off fireworks in crowded areas to do things suddenly found that the "bursting" technique was exactly what they needed - the empire was strictly controlled on all kinds of explosives and raw materials, and it was not easy to make bombs, and some organizations could only use black powder to make explosive devices. Magicians, on the other hand, are different. It is impossible for the Empire to scatter interference particles on its territory twenty-four hours a day, as long as it is seized, even if there is no Celestial Crystal, the mage can still cause an explosion in the crowd. As long as the mage isn't killed, it can be reused. For a time, large and small organizations regarded magicians as a priority talent, and in the process of competing with all kinds of magicians, a senior detective like Mach was not less exposed to the "bursting" technique and various variants, and after just one glance, he recognized the magic structure, and also roughly estimated the power that this magic array might produce once it was activated.

With a bit of luck, Lüdes will lose a district, and in the worst case, a quarter of the Empire-controlled area will be razed to the ground.

- Are those guys crazy?

Looking at the huge array of techniques that were constantly updated live, Mahe's broad forehead was drenched in dense sweat.

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"'Are those guys crazy?' – if I were to have that question, anyway, it doesn't feel like the Freikorps way of involving innocent citizens in suicide attacks. Other organizations do not have a systematic system of personnel, equipment, and techniques to perform magic in complex environments. So the question is, is this situation intimidating, or is it the arbitrariness of the people on the ground? Or is it arranged that way from the beginning?"

"Nightingale" took the blueberry vanilla-flavored lollipop into her mouth, and the unaccustomed taste almost made her vomit.

On the front lines, sugar and glucose nutrient solutions were used as stimulants and military rations, and magicians like "Nightingale" often had to recharge their brains with glucose nutrient solution due to excessive mental work, and prolonged exposure to such substances caused many partisans to change their sense of taste. It's not as outrageous as the people of Albion, but it's ...... to be able to accept the Imperial Wehrmacht's field food (the world's famous dark cuisine), and a handful of people can still eat it with relish

"Nightingale" is also one of the many victims, and her loss of appetite has been bothering her since she accepted the infiltration mission and left the guerrilla zone, but she still has a smile on her face and shoves the candy she is not accustomed to eating into her mouth.

As a rookie, the reason why Marseille can repeatedly use the "Activation" technique and constantly project the effect of the long-distance technique is that in addition to using Tianjing, the most important key is that the "Nightingale" has always maintained a state of consciousness sharing with Marseille. Relying on the experience and consciousness capacity of the "Nightingale", Marseille can always be strong. On the other hand, the load of the "Nightingale" is not light, and if it were not for the constant intake of sugar to relieve brain fatigue, it would probably collapse due to a strong feeling of drunkenness. At that time, not to mention improvisation, I am afraid that it will be directly due to the resonance disorder (by sharing with the Maasai consciousness, the brainwaves of the two are highly overlapped, making it difficult for the "siren" to locate), resulting in both of them being locked in.

So, not to mention the food that you are not accustomed to, in order to complete the task that is delivered, even if it is a stone, the "Nightingale" will swallow it.

"You too. As long as it is an order from the emperor, as long as it is an order issued by a superior, whether it is a loss of conscience or the anger of people and gods, you will carry it out without blinking an eye. That's what you guys are. So from your own point of view, you will definitely think, 'If I can win in the end, it doesn't matter how many people are sacrificed, not to mention that such a big explosion is enough to make the empire lose face and even shake the foundation of the empire's rule,' and 'if madness can win, then it doesn't hurt to go mad'. Because that's what you think and do. ”