Chapter 121
A group of people leaned against the glass to look inside. In the laboratory, a huge meteorite had been moved in and was waiting to be studied at any time.
"Things have been almost arranged."
Wu Xi walked out of the lab, wearing a white coat and taking off his mask. He said, "Those who were causing trouble and those with special abilities have been cleared out. I only chose a few people to stay. This lab can block the impact of the meteorite to a certain extent. Do you feel uncomfortable standing outside and watching?"
Lu Shiyu shook his head and said, "I don't feel any discomfort, but I just realized that you don't have any special abilities."
Wu Xi smiled and said, "Of course not. If I had special abilities, I would have been working in other fields long ago."
Shaoxing Yang and Yan Hong put their faces completely against the glass to look inside. The meteorite was placed on the table and was scanned continuously with instruments.
With the lesson learned from the videotape, Wu Xi has decided not to open the inside of the meteorite until the final results are out, so now if he wants to know what the inside of the meteorite looks like, he can only observe it through machine scanning.
Looking at the newly refurbished machine, Wu Xi sighed, "Fortunately, I asked the craftsmen to rush the repair of this old thing, otherwise it would be useless when I need it."
"Was it broken before?"
"No, because they were never used and were taken apart. It's a waste recycling."
"The Dawn Base doesn't even have any idle machines..."
Seeing that everything was almost ready, Wu Xi clapped his hands and said, "Okay, let's go out. We'll leave the rest of the research to them. We have other things to do."
Several people followed Wu Xi up the stairs and prepared to leave. Lu Shiyu asked curiously, "Anything else?"
"Well, we've completely broken up with Dawn Base. They won't let us off the hook, so we have to hold on until we get the results. If we can't handle the pressure from Dawn Base, we're doomed."
Wu Xi said it easily, but several people felt an invisible pressure.
Rather than simple and straightforward fighting and killing, what they will face next will be the indefinite entanglement of politicians and small actions in the dark. Those people in the Dawn Base are not gentlemen. They might even do something like secretly placing explosives in the Dawn Base.
It is easy to avoid an open attack but difficult to guard against a hidden one. What they are most worried about is whether the Dawn Base will do something behind the scenes.
"Don't worry. Although there aren't as many psychics at Dawn Base as at Twilight Base, there are still quite a few. During this period, I will have them form a team to patrol around the base to prevent outsiders from sneaking in. The recent outings will also be suspended for a while."
Wu Xi patted Lu Shiyu on the shoulder and said, "Don't put so much pressure on yourself. You have already done your best to help."
“I hope everything goes smoothly.”
Inside the prison
Bayard tried to summon his supernatural powers, but unfortunately the scimitar only appeared for a few seconds before disappearing again. Although he could barely use it, it was only a little.
Bayard tutted impatiently, "Why hasn't the effect of the medicine worn off yet?"
Several people's hands and feet were tied with ropes, making it difficult for them to move. Neil rubbed the wall little by little to adjust his position so that he could lean more comfortably.
Just as Neil breathed a sigh of relief, he suddenly felt a little melancholy when he thought of Lina who was still missing.
When I met Chen Yunyu, I thought I had met a big money man. The task was simple and the reward was high. As a result, a simple escort mission turned out like this. Not only did I not get the balance, but the whole team was lost.
Now Lina's life or death is uncertain, and several of them have lost their freedom and are imprisoned in a foreign land. The word "miserable" is enough to describe their situation.
Neil was feeling sad for a moment when he suddenly heard the sound of something breaking.
Looking up, I saw that Duan Ren had secretly cut the rope, and the tool should be the stone in his hand.
Neil asked, "Captain, where did you get the stone?"
Duan Ren glanced at the meteorite fragments in his hand and said, "I picked it up."
Picked it up? Where can you pick up stones here?
Neil looked left and right on the ground but couldn't find any stones.
Seeing that Duan Ren had broken free, Bayard begged, "Captain, please help me cut the rope. It's too tight."
Duan Ren looked at Bayard deeply, but still helped him and Neil untie the restraints.
After breaking free from their restraints, the three of them were supposed to try to get out of the prison, but Bayard looked at the stone in Duan Ren's hand and suddenly asked, "Captain, can you show me this stone?"
Duan Ren decisively refused: "No, let's find a way to get out first."
"Oh, forget it then."
After being rejected by Duan Ren, Bayard pretended nothing happened, but when he turned his head, he suddenly showed a cruel look.
"Captain, can't you control metal? This cell door is also made of metal. Hurry up and use your supernatural powers to open it."
Duan Ren still refused, explaining that his supernatural powers had not yet recovered.
Bayard gritted his teeth and asked Neil beside him: "What about you?"
Neil tried it, but his ability was like a circuit with poor contact, sometimes it worked and sometimes it disappeared, and he couldn't use it normally at all.
"That's bad," Bayard said regretfully, "Looks like we'll have to stay here forever. Fortunately, the guards are not here."
The prison guards who were supposed to be patrolling the prison all the time suddenly left not long ago. Now there is only one gatekeeper left. Although no one knows where he went, it is good news for them. At least they don’t need to worry about the prison guards coming and asking them why the ropes on their bodies are gone.
Duan Ren ignored him, stretched out his hand through the gate, picked up the lock hanging on the gate, looked at it for a moment, squatted down and pulled out a thin wire from his shoelaces, straightened it and bent it again, inserted the wire into the keyhole, and stuck to the door, concentrating on unlocking it.
Bayard raised his eyebrows. He never thought that Duan Ren would have this skill. What was even more outrageous was that Duan Ren actually opened it.
With a click, the lock on the door opened. Duan Ren took it off easily and pushed the door open.
Neil was stunned by this action. By the time he reacted, the other two had already walked out. Neil, who was afraid of being left alone, hurriedly followed them. The three of them knocked the guard unconscious and walked out in a swagger.
Duan Ren originally planned to find a secluded place to stay and avoid the limelight, but not long after he walked out, he ran into a man in a black cloak at the alley entrance.
"Excuse me."
The man in the black cloak muttered an apology and was about to leave, but Bayard rolled his eyes and reached out to stop him.
"Hey, you want to leave like this after you hit someone?"
The black cloak glanced at him sideways and said, "I apologized."
Bayard persisted, saying, "If an apology were useful, what would the police be for?"
The man in the black cloak spoke much slower and asked, "You want to call the police? That's not necessary."
Duan Ren also frowned slightly and warned, "Don't cause trouble."
Bayard said nonchalantly, "Look at how he's dressed. He's obviously not a decent person. What kind of good person would go out dressed like that? He must be guilty of something and is in a hurry to leave."
The man in the black cloak immediately understood what Bayard meant: "You want to blackmail me?"
"Blackmail? That's fine if you want to understand it that way."
Duan Ren decided that Bayard had gone too far and said, "That's enough. If anything else happens, we won't be able to leave."
Bayard turned around and asked Duan Ren, "Do you have money? Without it, we can't move a single step. We don't even know where to stay tonight. If we let him go, we'll still have to take money from others. What's the difference?"
The black cloak didn't want to get entangled with Bayard, so he took out his wallet from his cloak and asked, "How much do you want?"
Bayard stretched out his hand and gestured a number. The man in the black cloak was obviously displeased: "That's too much. You're robbing me."
Bayard sneered, snatched the wallet from the man in the black cloak, and said in a righteous and arrogant manner, "Even if I really robbed you, what can I do? Do you dare to call the police?"
When Bayard lowered his head to count the money, he was stunned. Bayard took out all the money in his wallet. The denominations of the coins were large and small, and there were also currencies from both the Dawn Base and the Dawn Base!
"you!"
Before Bayard could finish his words, a gun was pressed against his chin.
"Really? I've already promised to give you money, but you're still asking for more."
The man in the black cloak raised his eyes, poked Bayard's chin with his pistol, and said, "You are so greedy, be careful that your excessive ambition will kill you."
Duan Ren looked at the money in Bayard's hand and asked, "Are you from the Dawn Base?"
"So what? Call the police to arrest me?" The man in the black cloak sneered, "You guys aren't the kind of people who can stand the light, are you?"
Hearing the black cloak's direct admission, the three of them were stunned.
They were very sure that there were only those few people in the Eagle Team, and the exploration team sent to hunt them down had already returned, leaving no one behind.
Who is this person in front of me?
"How did you get from Dawn Base to Dawn Base?"
The man in the black cloak said impatiently, "It's none of your business. Who are you?"
Duan Ren apologized and began to introduce himself: "The three of them and I are all mercenaries. I am their captain. It was our fault that my team members offended you just now."
"mercenary?"
I didn't expect that there were mercenaries at the Dawn Base.
The black cloak pondered for a moment and then asked, "What are your abilities? Do you have any special abilities?"
"The business capabilities are first-rate, and the entire team has special abilities."
"good."
The black cloak nodded with satisfaction, then said, "I plan to hire you, what do you think?"
"Hire us?" Duan Ren paused for a moment, then asked, "What do you want us to do for you?"
The man in the black cloak snapped his fingers and said, "Help me find someone. Since you are mercenaries from the Dawn Base, you must be very familiar with this place. Finding a few new faces shouldn't be a difficult task for you. I'll definitely reward you once you're done."
The three of them looked at each other, and only after Duan Ren nodded and said yes did the man in black cloak put down the pistol that was against Duan Ren's chin.
"Are there any photos?"
"have."
The man in black cloak rummaged through his bag, pulled out a few photos, and said, "These are the ones."
Duan Ren took the photo and his face darkened again after just one glance. The man in the black cloak continued to talk non-stop:
"There are five of them in total, three men and two women. Only one of the women is ordinary, and the others have special abilities. However, I don't know where they are right now, so you can only search the base on your own. I can't give you any clues. If you must point out any particularly recognizable features... except for the woman without special abilities, the others all carry knives, black knives."
The man in the black cloak didn't notice Duan Ren's expression as he was talking to himself. Neil saw that the captain's expression was not right, so he quietly moved closer and understood everything as soon as he saw the photo.
The people in the photo are Tang Zeyu and others.
Now even Neil started to wonder if the captain had some unbreakable bond with them, otherwise why would they always run into each other for various reasons?
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