Chapter 266: The Mysterious Disappearance of Deyes Shocks the Torch Organization
Looking at Deyes's body which was gradually losing its life force, Li Ming stroked his chin, quite surprised.
"Asmara is truly capable. She actually ambushed Cornett before he could even begin his operation."
Li Ming lurked in Deyes's shadow and heard his conversation with Asmara clearly.
"Asmara seems to have misunderstood and believed that Deyes' betrayal was fake and that the Torch Organization had tricked her."
Li Ming pondered for a moment and quickly guessed Asmara's thoughts. The other party might think that the boiling blood alloy was all fake.
This means that the Torch Organization had known about the ambush for a long time, and even said that it was intentional.
"In this way, it's not a bad thing for me, but a good thing." Li Ming thought for a while and couldn't help but laugh, thinking that he had made things worse.
All the boiling blood alloy was seized, and Cornett had no idea that it had been replaced with model blocks.
Shaking his head, Deyes lying on the ground glared at Li Ming, as if he would never close his eyes.
Li Mingze quickly cleaned up the traces at the scene. He was already familiar with this kind of assassination.
Bloodstains, odors, no matter how small the traces are, will be detected and cleaned up thoroughly with [Intelligent Assistance].
Then stuff the entire body into the folding space.
"The remaining traces of the information state will take at least twenty-four hours to completely disappear without any other interference." Li Ming pondered.
"My ability [Shadow Sting] can largely avoid leaving behind information states. After all, information states are only created when they intersect with the real world..."
Deyes died quietly, and the Torch Organization will definitely use all means to find him. He still remembers that the other party has the ability to lock the information state.
However, this kind of lock requires at least some residual information, the simplest of which is clothes and used items.
Even advanced civilizations do not have the technology to specifically distinguish what kind of life form an information state belongs to.
This already involves the analysis of the principles of deep existence in the universe, and the Torch Organization is more like treating dimensional creatures like dogs.
"And this thing." Li Ming suddenly took out a silver-white mechanical pocket watch, found a corner, and stuffed it in casually.
This time, the waves caused by Deyes' mysterious disappearance will definitely not be small. Many things will be involved, so he needs to be prepared.
Time passes quickly.
The next day, the guard standing guard at the door looked down at the time. Seeing that Deyes had not come out yet, he turned around and knocked on the door: "Sir Deyes, it's time to work."
No response.
The soldier frowned and continued tapping. After more than ten seconds, the video terminal beside him popped open. Deyes's voice was low and bored: "I've been working too hard recently. I want to rest today."
"rest?"
The soldiers in charge of the guard looked at each other, and one of them couldn't help but say, "Sir Deyes, we haven't received any orders from above, so..."
"I'm your guest, not your prisoner!" Deyes interrupted impatiently. "Don't I even have the right to a day's rest?"
Hearing him say this, the soldier on the right looked unhappy. Just as he was about to say something, he was interrupted by the soldier on the left: "Of course you have, please rest in peace. Sorry for disturbing you."
The video terminal went dark, and the soldier on the left said helplessly, "He's a master mechanic after all. We're just guarding soldiers. We don't have the right to force him."
The soldier on the right snorted coldly, "Why are you so arrogant? Besides being a master mechanic, you're just a B-class life form at best. That Brot was killed by Qinglong. What qualifications does he have to be so arrogant?"
He spoke in a loud voice, obviously speaking for Deyes to hear.
The so-called Deyes was naturally an impersonation of Li Ming.
He also repaired Deyes's smart terminal and used his internal account to send two messages to Benny, saying that he wanted to rest for two days.
Therefore, the core laboratory did not send anyone to look for it.
And so another day passed.
"Mr. Deyes, do you want to rest today?" The soldier on the right knocked on the door and asked.
"Wait a minute..." The response was still dull. The two soldiers looked at each other and said nothing more.
It was not until mid-afternoon that someone from the core laboratory arrived. Roll hurried to Deyes's door.
"Core experiment..." Luo Er showed the two of them his work badge hanging on his chest, then knocked on the door and shouted:
"Mr. Deyes, there are some problems in the laboratory. Mr. Benny sent you a message, but why didn't you reply?"
"Okay, Mr. Deyes is very tired and needs to rest." The soldier on the right sneered twice.
Luo Er frowned, too lazy to refute, and just went to knock on the door.
However, Deyes did not respond for a long time. For three to five minutes, the room was dead silent.
"Huh? What happened? Did Mr. Deyes fall asleep?" Roll muttered.
However, the soldiers in charge of guarding looked at each other and had a bad feeling.
"Get out of the way." The soldier on the right pushed Roll aside and stood in front of the door and said in a deep voice, "Sir Deyes, please respond as soon as possible. If there is no response within thirty seconds, we will force our way in."
"You can't do this..." Roll was filled with anger. He still had a good impression of Deyes. Seeing this great mechanic end up like this, being bullied by two soldiers, he really couldn't bear it.
"3.2.1..." The two ignored him completely. When the countdown ended, their faces changed and they took a few steps back.
He bent down, using the simple combat armor on his legs to provide power, and suddenly jumped up, bang!
The metal door was knocked open, and the room was pitch black. The two men subconsciously raised their guns and scanned the entire room back to back.
Their expressions changed drastically, and they asked in horror: "Where are the people?!"
Roll, who was close at hand, couldn't help but come over to take a look. In the small and cramped room, apart from the two soldiers, there was no sign of Deyes.
"Sir...Deyes?" he murmured.
Soon, the decisive Ted arrived in person, the entire corridor was blocked, and all outsiders were expelled.
The only ones left were the soldiers in charge of guarding and Roll.
Not long after, Fernande came over with an ugly look on his face, wearing a black robe and with a cold expression.
Ted quickly approached, his combat armor clanging as he whispered, "We've done a preliminary search, and there's no trace of anything useful in the room."
"I reviewed all the surveillance footage from the previous seven days and didn't get any useful information."
"He hasn't come out since he returned from the core lab three days ago."
"According to the guards' statements, they had conversations with Deyes this morning and yesterday morning, but did not see him."
"The video terminal in Deyes's room has been programmed to respond automatically, presumably with intelligent AI."
By the time Fernand walked from the corridor to Deyes's door, he had already learned the general situation of the matter, and his expression was as gloomy as water:
"You mean to say that Deyes disappeared quietly into the heavily guarded base?"
The soldier in charge of guarding lowered his head, his face pale.
Ted was silent for a moment. "Sir, please order the blockade of the entire main base."
Fernand remained silent, looking at the empty room. "Where are the traces in this room?"
"There's no information at all. It's basically just traces of Deyes's life. We've already checked everything, but nothing useful has been found so far."
Ted shook his head, and Fernand said in a deep voice, "What do you think?"
"He...maybe he escaped." Ted hesitated. "I don't know how he did it, but he did disappear here."
"Disappeared?" Fernand sneered. "I don't believe anyone can vanish out of thin air. The Eternal Realm covers this area, and any spatial fluctuations will be detected."
"What a great mechanic! I underestimated him!"
"Seal off the main base and stop all outbound activities!"
"Yes!" Ted responded in a deep voice and quickly took people to deal with the matter.
"Sir Ferdinand..." A head cautiously popped out from the side of the room. It was Pierre.
"Pierre." Fernand's expression calmed down and he said indifferently, "You should already know the relevant information. Do you have any ideas?"
"Me?" Pierre asked cautiously, swallowing his saliva. He really did have one.
After all, the dimensional god had told him that there was another powerful dimensional life form standing behind Deyes, and it was very likely that he could take the other party away from this base quietly.
But he couldn't say anything, and only said: "There is no useful information at the moment, so I dare not speculate."
"Well," Fernand ordered, "I'll have all the surveillance footage involving Deyes sent to you during this period. See if there are any new findings."
"Yes." Pierre nodded hurriedly and left in a hurry.
When he returned to the R&D department, he was already sweating profusely. He returned to the office and locked the door.
He let out a long sigh, sat down on the chair tremblingly, his lips trembling.
"Fuck, they actually took Deyes away quietly. This... this is too scary." Pierre's face turned pale and he became more and more panicked.
"He's gone."
A sudden voice suddenly rang out in his mind. Pierre's pale face froze for a moment, then quickly became red with blood: "You, you finally appeared again."
Li Ming lurked in his shadow. "The dimensional creature behind him failed in its goal and has already left with Deyes. My goal has also been accomplished, and I am leaving."
After hearing this, Pierre's expression suddenly changed. "You want to leave too? You promised me..."
"I'm here to fulfill my promise this time." The voice of the dimensional god interrupted him.
"I'll show you the full compiled code..."
Pierre's expression finally relaxed. He quickly opened the smart terminal and operated it quickly under Li Ming's guidance.
Like peeling off layers of silk from an onion, audio segments are extracted from a large amount of data stream.
And Pierre's expression gradually changed from surprise and panic to fear and sweat.
"It should be able to fool people for a while." Li Ming looked at Pierre, who was sweating profusely and sorting out relevant information in the shadows.
The compilation source code he gave, after secondary processing, will not compile the final conversation between Deyes and Asmara.
Of course, he also added some extra things. After all, cutting words from the newspaper in a different way will result in a completely different conversation.
What's more, he only made slight adjustments, and the overall situation was correct.
There is a possibility that the Torch Organization will discover something wrong, but it will take time.
…
Deyes's sudden disappearance caused turmoil in the entire Torch organization.
Although Fernand immediately ordered the news to be blocked and not to reach the ears of other great mechanics.
But the manufacture of the sublimator still had to go on. Laboratory personnel came and went, but Deyes never showed up, which led to many speculations about the sudden blockade within the Torch Organization.
It wasn't until the third day after Deyes disappeared that Fernand was in the office listening to Ted's report.
"We have checked 70% of the interpersonal activity areas of the entire organization, but so far, we have found nothing." Ted said helplessly.
"Nothing found?" Fernand frowned. "Not even a trace?"
"Also, I even tried to sacrifice the devouring dog, Kutli, and track Deyes's information state within range, but I found nothing."
Fernande's face was gloomy. He suddenly stood up, walked to the window, and looked at the hexagonal core laboratory with a gloomy look.
"I feel like something is wrong."
Ted behind the scenes was helpless. No one had expected that Deyes, who seemed to have no other options, would actually resort to such tactics.
"Sir, what I fear most now is that if the enemy escapes from the main base, our coordinates may have been leaked."
Fernando frowned, his brows were so deep that they could kill a Cyclops. Just as he was about to speak, the video terminal on the desktop rang rapidly.
Ferland signaled with his eyes, and Ted reached out to answer the call. A virtual screen popped up, and the reporter spoke hurriedly and excitedly, "Sir Ferland, the leader is back."
"Hmm?" As soon as the words fell, the eyes of the two people present lit up slightly, and they all breathed a sigh of relief, as if they had found a backbone.
"Great, the leader is back." Ted couldn't help but say.
But just after he finished speaking, his expression changed slightly, and he explained carefully: "Sir Fernando, what I mean is..."
"That's fine. Dealing with these people isn't my strong point. I prefer to be straightforward." Fernando shook his head and said sadly, "It would be best if the leader could come back and take charge."
His face, which had been nearly stone-like for a while, finally showed a hint of a smile. "The plan over there has been completed faster than I expected. Finally, there's some good news."
Both of them were very excited and went to greet them immediately.
When he came to the outer deck and saw the dilapidated spaceship docked, Fernando paused and looked hesitant.
"Why did they change the spaceship? Where are the others?" Ted couldn't help but wonder.
Cornett and Corvez had already disembarked. The staff who were in charge of welcoming them lowered their heads. The atmosphere around them was almost frozen to the point of freezing until Fernand's arrival.
"Your breath..." When he got closer, Fernand realized something was wrong. Connit's breath was too weak, and he was even missing an eye. The black bloody hole on his left eye was chilling.
"Did something happen?" Fernando suddenly had a bad feeling in his heart.
"Let's go." Cornett said nothing more, with a sullen face, and quickly returned to the main base.
When they reached the top floor, everyone else was expelled and even Ted could only stand guard at the door.
"What's going on?" Fernand asked urgently.
"We were ambushed by Asmara. Some of our entourage were killed, some were injured, and some were captured. All the sacrificial materials were seized."
Cornett looked solemn, and when he narrated the story again, his expression did not change much, as if he had accepted this reality.
"What!?" Fernand was stunned, as if struck hard. He asked in disbelief, "You were ambushed by Asmara? How did she know about your actions?"
(End of this chapter)
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