186: Chapter 106: Open Conspiracy 186: Chapter 106: Open Conspiracy “So, the plan to surround and kill Tao Enhai is set then,” said a character clad in a splendid military uniform and adorned with dals within the virtual space.
This was a eting room.
The entire eting room was in a dimly lit environnt, with all of its furnishings appearing rather vague, except for the large mahogany conference table and the seven people sitting around it, who were exceptionally clear.
The others nodded in agreent.
Just then, soone joined the officers’ channel.
It was a person wearing a white lab coat, whose brightness was entirely out of sync with the surrounding environnt, as if they were glowing from within.
All the officers stood up and saluted.
This was a Scientific Knight, and the fact that he had the authority to directly access this eting channel suggested he had no low level of clearance.
The Scientific Knight looked at one of the officers with a tone of displeasure, “Amilcare Zhao, have you been paying attention to the signals from the rear?”
“What?” Old Master Zhao Amilcare furrowed his brows slightly.
He had the appearance of an ordinary middle-aged Asian man with thick, sword-like eyebrows.
He stood up and asked, “Your Excellency Ashur, may I ask what has happened?”
Ashur-Lei-Goodrian didn’t say much but shared a video clip instead.
It showed the scene of Bengel being pursued and killed.
“Is this…” Amilcare was filled with disbelief, “Mr.
Bengel?
Isn’t this a synthetic animation?”
“It isn’t,” Chief Ashur said with his arms crossed in front of his chest.
“Just a mont ago, about forty seconds before, my Vice Captain died.
You can drag the progress bar to the end and see for yourself how my Vice Captain was killed.”
Amilcare seed to realize why this Holy Knight had co directly to him.
He stretched out his right hand, making a grasping motion in thin air, and dragged the progress bar backward.
In the footage, countless light tubes converged on the wall of iyii Building to form a vertical path, then a Hero, with a spinning sword stroke, bisected the Official Knight Bengel.
All smiles vanished from the faces of the officers.
They knew this was no minor matter.
“Just today, two Heroes infiltrated my Order of Knights’ compound, disabled the security system temporarily with high-explosive bombs and an EMP, instigated gangs to join in a riot, stole my thesis, killed my subordinates, destroyed my critical data—oh, and they also killed your son,” he described.
“And the most outrageous part is, this Hero executed my Vice Captain using a performative sword technique,” Ashur pointed at the virtual footage.
“In this episode of the story, the Mona Knight Order, iyii Building, and you—are all going to be the buffoons.”
Amilcare sighed, “This indeed is my dereliction of duty…”
Whose else could it be if not yours?” Ashur pressed.
“Mine?”
“I apologize…” Amilcare imdiately bowed his head.
“No need for that now, Amilcare,” Ashur sighed.
“What I want now is for you to fulfill your responsibilities properly, understand?
I do not wish for sothing like what just occurred to happen a second ti.”
Amilcare frowned, “But, the operation to capture Tao Enhai is also my responsibility.”
“There are others who can lead the team for Tao Enhai’s capture, aren’t there?” Ashur asked coldly.
“But what about Pine Eagle City?
Since you enjoy playing this dieval role-playing ga, then you should take care of your ‘territory’ like a proper dieval Lord!”
Amilcare nodded, “I understand.”
“The Hero might not have gone far from Pine Eagle City yet.
I hope to use his brain to sar over this disgrace,” Ashur said.
Truthfully, he was no longer optimistic about retrieving the thesis.
Informational assets are easily lost.
After speaking, the Holy Knight disappeared.
Amilcare heard a couple of snickers from behind him.
Not everyone was fond of the Zhao family.
Amilcare Zhao acted too much like a feudal lord within his sphere of protection.
Whether it was the Gene Bank’s defending army or the Scientific Knight Order, there were those who didn’t appreciate such behavior—at least they professed to protect in the na of human continuity and progress.
The conduct of the Zhao family, however, was dragging down the style of the entire organization.
However, how each Guard Officer constructed their forces was entirely up to their discretion, which is why the Gene Bank’s operating organization had not formally punished him to date.
Seeing Amilcare get into trouble indeed pleased so.
Amilcare turned around and said, “It seems I’ll have to end my responsibilities here sooner than expected.”
An officer asked, “What do you plan to do?”
“I will take back a general level of martial power, as well as two-thirds of the Martial Artists, to Pine Eagle City.
I need to secure the city’s internal forces and conduct a search in the wilderness surrounding the city,” Amilcare explained.
“This will require a lot of manpower.
However, I’ll leave enough strength to maintain this defensive network.”
The officer shook his head with a sigh, “That’s a bit…
Well, our defensive network was originally estimated based on all the people we brought.
Withdrawing like this might put the operation to capture Tao Enhai at risk.”
“How could it be?” Lord Zhao seed surprised.
“I’m only taking back my share of the troops.
If we fill in with the reserve teams, the original blockade line can still be maintained, right?”
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“So, you’re saying your mind is stuck in the Middle Ages as well?” another virtual figure with a large beard, an officer, said, “The ‘paper leak’ has had a major impact on the Scientific Knight Order.
So of us have also received inquiries from the local Scientific Knight Orders.
Every one of us has to spread out so troops to go back and fortify our defenses.”
“It’s really strange,” Amilcare muttered, “Before coming here, we went out of our way to hunt down so Fad Heroes.
The whole New World shouldn’t have any Great Hero left who could threaten us.
Heroes also don’t have mature transportation thods, and if Heroes from the Old World wanted to co over, they would probably go through the Bering Strait.
That would inevitably alert the local Defending Army…
and there wouldn’t be enough ti to cross the sea.”
“The Mona Knight Order specializes in neurology and cognitive science, right?” pondered one of the knights, “I rember Tao Enhai was initially recomnded by Chen Feng to join the ‘Superhuman Group,’ overseeing the neural surgery for the first generation of Prosthetic Bodies?
If that young Holy Knight brat still harbors ideas like ‘sentintal attachnt to the past’…”
“Pfft…” Amilcare couldn’t help but burst into laughter, “Ashur, soone like that scumbag, would never have such Jianghu notions.
Him?
Hahahahaha…”
Ashur-Lei-Goodrian would never beco a sympathizer of Heroes.
“It looks like we really need to reduce the density of our blockade line,” the leading officer sighed, “It’s not realistic to maintain it as we initially conceived.
Let’s start by reducing the range…
Remove the outermost blockade line, there’s no need to maintain such a large area.”
The officers knew very well that the Hero who attacked the iyii Building wanted precisely this effect.
Yet, they could only play into the antagonist’s hands.
Such a scandal could not occur a second ti.
…………………………….
Xiang Shan shook off the wrist that was grabbing his arm.
Daijiu Tai’a was standing in front of him.
Just a mont ago, when he burst into the dark zone, a tentacle suddenly shot out from a window, wrapping around his wrist and flinging him into the building with force.
In his place, the envoy from the Six Dragons Sect fell at a faster pace, eventually getting shot and turned into a pile of scrap tal by the anticipated bullets.
Daijiu Tai’a was waiting here, using Clever Force to neutralize Xiang Shan’s horizontal impact.
Xiang Shan watched him warily, while slipping the storage device into the slot on his back—at the crossing instant, he had pulled this thing out of Bengel’s split-open brain—asking, “Are you the main deal?
That guy, was he wearing your Pseudo-personality Mask?”
If he continued to accelerate downwards, he wouldn’t die, but whether he would be injured was hard to guarantee.
The envoy from the Six Dragons Sect, however, had easily taken his place as a sacrifice.
This was highly abnormal.
The first thing Xiang Shan thought of was the term he had just learned, “Pseudo-personality Mask.”
If a life was not valuable, then it would be acceptable to sacrifice it.
The envoy from the Six Dragons Sect—Daijiu Tai’a said with a smile, “Perhaps you need a little help.
If I’m not mistaken, you want to burst into the lower regions and then enter the sewer system and the underground rivers, right?”
“How do you…
Ah, right, I rember now.
You had dealings with the local gangs?” Xiang Shan recalled vaguely that before his own gang made a move on the governnt, they had wiped out a certain gang.
That gang had dealings with envoys from the Demon Sect.
Daijiu Tai’a said, “This thod isn’t bad, but I have a safer route.
I will transfer the map to you.
It has no Gu Poison.
I genuinely want to help you.”
Almost simultaneously, Xiang Shan received the file.
Xiang Shan frowned, “If you can give the core access codes, why don’t you act on it yourself?”
“This thing?
Using this is very likely to leave so trace in the system.
If I were the only person in the building, using this would only draw all suspicions to myself,” Daijiu Tai’a said, “Most of the security forces are now concentrated above the 700th floor, and it will take a few more minutes for the basic patrols to arrive.
You can leave at ease.”
Xiang Shan looked at him and nodded.
Then, he asked in his mind: [So, Little Brother, what do you have to say?]
[I can’t explain my situation to you right now.
I’m in a very dangerous position.
I mustn’t reveal any clues to my existence to anyone.]
[Then, what is your relationship with Hiroshi Matsushima?]
Xiang Shan could discern a person’s inner “style” from their subtle movents.
The mysterious master he encountered in the alley, despite efforts to disguise his external strength, if he added back the choices he deliberately avoided, then it very closely resembled Hiroshi Matsushima that he saw that day.
The strange thing was, Hiroshi Matsushima should not have been capable of Inner Strength.
This was also one of the reasons why Xiang Shan did not hand over “Don’t be Afraid” to Hiroshi Matsushima.
That person stayed silent for a mont before saying, [Mr.
Matsushima is my partner; he provides with convenience for my actions here.]
[Personality Mask?] Xiang Shan ventured.
There was no reply.
“Little Brother” had already left.
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