Chapter 267: The confusing situation: the main gun was replaced and the dimensional crystal disappeared
"We're curious about this, too." Keweisi said grimly, staring at Fernando. "Racial affection is ultimately more important than anything else..."
Fernando was puzzled, then stared blankly: "You doubt me?"
Cornett frowned and scolded: "Corvis!"
Ke Weisi shrugged, his expression calm. Cornett shook his head: "You misunderstood. We don't doubt you, but we must thoroughly investigate the base."
Fernand's eyes swept coldly over Kevis, and then he said, "There are only a handful of people who know the specific action plan."
"No, I figured it out on the way back. There are only a handful of people who know the specific action plan."
"But what if someone can collect a lot of fragmented information and piece it together?" Connit rubbed his fingers, his thoughts clear. He was holding back his anger and was determined to find the person who leaked the information at all costs.
"They may not know what we are going to do, but they can guess where we are going. The last sacrifice failed, and many people inside the base know about it."
Fernando was stunned for a moment. For some reason, a figure suddenly appeared in his mind: Deyes!
"Hmm..." As he was speaking, Connet was slightly stunned. Through the window, he could already see the surface of the distant planet. There were clearly visible huge craters and traces of gullies spreading out, which were not there when he left.
"What's going on?" Cornett asked with a frown. Fernand wanted to report on Deyes, but when he heard the question, he couldn't help but snort coldly: "It was that Qinglong who did it. Even if it wasn't even two days after you left."
"I don't know what happened, but Brot was killed directly."
"Broth was killed?" Cornett's heart was suddenly shocked. He didn't even care about the traitor. "He killed Broth?"
"Yes," Fernand said, still a little frightened. "It was Brot, fully armed, wearing Deyes's mecha and equipped with custom-made A-class weapons."
"In the end, I couldn't even fight back."
"Impossible!" Kovis interrupted immediately, his torn black robe rustling. "Brot in this state is already strong enough to compete with Connet."
"Just watch it for yourselves." Fernando was too lazy to say more and directly played the battle video at that time.
"Eight nano-energy cannons?" Connet gasped at the first sight.
In order to avoid their whereabouts being disclosed, they did not contact the base immediately after their plan failed.
Instead, he returned in hiding, but he didn't expect such a big commotion to happen inside the base.
Ke Weisi's face was pensive, and he suddenly asked, "Are you saying that Qinglong took action a few days after Connit left?"
"Hmm." Fernand's expression changed slightly. "What do you want to say?"
"Isn't this just a coincidence? Is it possible that he made such a commotion because he knew Cornett wasn't at the base? Or is it that he just wanted to see if Cornett was there?"
Ke Weisi boldly speculated, "Qinglong, this mysterious great mechanic, has the ability to contact the outside world. It seems normal."
Cornett's brows furrowed, and Fernand's expression was puzzled. He then shook his head, "On the contrary, Qinglong really didn't instigate this."
"Hmm?" Kevis hesitated and looked at Fernand.
Fernand pulled up new surveillance footage, which showed Brot fully armed and wandering back and forth in the corridor.
"It's obvious that Brot deliberately provoked. If you're right, then Deyes is the most suspicious person."
Fernand explained: "After Konet left, he asked to meet with Konet for three consecutive days, saying that he had key issues that he wanted to discuss with Konet in person."
"According to your theory, he was actually testing whether Cornett was there."
"Actually, he's the one I'm most suspicious of," Cornett said, his gaze falling through the window on the surface of the distant planet. "Qinglong has done a good thing. Killing Brot means Deyes is a sure thing."
"Deyes? Just a master mechanic." Keweisi also smiled grimly. "Do you really think you are a big shot?"
Seeing the two men furious, Fernand couldn't help but interrupt, a little embarrassedly saying: "You two, there is some bad news that I haven't had time to report yet."
"Just two days ago, Deyes...disappeared."
As soon as the words fell, Connet's face suddenly darkened. A strong and cold aura suddenly burst out from Corvis, and he stared at Fernand coldly: "You'd better explain clearly what you mean by disappeared."
"Once disappeared, it's gone!" Fernande snorted coldly, and then called Ted, who was standing outside the door, in and asked him to explain the whole story.
The atmosphere in the room almost reached freezing point. Ted's scalp was numb, but he could only bite the bullet and explain, "Three days ago..."
He recounted the general story, and during this process, the expressions in Connit and Kovis' eyes kept changing.
"That's impossible. Is our main base a place where people can come and go freely? Even if he is a master mechanic, so what?" Keweisi said angrily.
"Can it break through layers of blockades and disappear without a trace?"
After being ambushed and their plan failed, both of them were furious and wanted to find the leaker.
When he came back, he found that the biggest suspect had disappeared.
"Retire after completing his mission?" Cornett frowned. "That's not right. If he can really leave here, it means the base's coordinates have been leaked. Asmara must be here by now."
Fernand nodded. "Yes, the intelligence department also has this analysis, so they believe he is still hiding in the base."
"No, compared to the disappearance of a living person, it is actually easier to destroy the body." Cornett's eyes flashed.
"Destroyed the body?" Fernand hesitated. "You mean someone killed him quietly? And then destroyed the body?"
"Is he just a pawn, not a traitor? But... there are only a few of us, who can command him?"
Cornett shook his head: "Whether he is a traitor or not is just speculation. There is too little evidence. Now that he has disappeared, there is no evidence..."
They were silent, feeling increasingly bewildered. If it wasn't Deyes, who else could it be? Qinglong, Benny, or Jessiah?
Keweisi added: "We have limited our targets to those master mechanics. We wonder if we have fallen into a trap. That Theo is actually a big suspect as well."
Just as everyone was discussing, there was a knock on the door. Ted went out and saw Peel, sweating profusely. He said intermittently: "I have... I have key information..."
"Chief, you..." As soon as Pierre came in, he saw Cornett who was missing an eye and was shocked.
He didn't know yet that Cornette had returned.
"Don't worry about me. What do you want to say?" Cornett said in a deep voice.
"I found the traitor, it's Deyes!" Pierre said impatiently.
"Um?"
The expressions of the four people changed in an instant, and they all looked at him.
Ted couldn't help but remind him, "Pierre, this is no joke. Do you know how big a deal this is?"
Without saying much, Pierre immediately took out the smart terminal and placed it on the table, operating it while explaining:
"After so many days of hard thinking, I finally found Deyes's way of communicating with the outside world. This great mechanic's technical level is really high."
"He used decompiled code, compiling and parsing the communications between himself and the other party in a special way, and then distributing it in the information flow we transmit externally."
"So there is no fluctuation in the overall data, and no abnormalities have been found."
"Not long ago, a sudden thought occurred to me: if Deyes were to contact the outside world, what would they say in their conversation? It would definitely be a leak of our internal intelligence."
"I tried to use a few key pieces of information as compiled source code, and then reverse engineered it. I actually got some results, and eventually cracked all of his compiled source code."
The more Pi'er spoke, the more excited he became, and the other four became more confused as they listened.
However, as Peel clicked on the virtual screen of the smart terminal, an audio clip was played.
"...Mr. Deyes..."
"… Her Highness Asmara…"
"…they're building a sublimator…"
"...Qinglong killed Brot... You must stop Cornett..."
"...After I take a few more things and destroy the Torch's plan, I will evacuate..."
As the video played, Pierre felt nervous. He found a seemingly reasonable reason for his cracking, but he was always guilty and he didn't know if he could keep it secret.
But when he listened to it himself, he felt a chill in his heart. He didn't expect that Deyes actually had so much information.
They were almost about to learn the coordinates of the Torch Organization's base and pass it on.
In other words, the Torch Organization’s most important means of external communication is forwarding through the black hole network.
To do this, they need to pay a huge fee every year, but it is ultimately worth it.
"It's really him." Fernand's face turned pale. Deyes' words were like slaps in his face.
The other party looked timid, but their methods were so sophisticated that I was kept in the dark. Thinking about it now, it’s really ridiculous.
Cornett kept rubbing his fingers, and there was a stinging pain in his empty eye sockets.
For some reason, he felt an unprecedented confusion, with multiple speculations, supporting evidence, and this almost iron-clad evidence lying before him.
The traitor was Deyes, there was no doubt about it, and everything was closed.
Now, all they need to do is find Deyes and give him the punishment he deserves.
But all this seemed to come at the perfect time. They were ambushed and were furious to find the traitor.
After returning, Deyes disappeared, and then, Peel's evidence came.
Coincidence? Is Peele also having issues?
But Fernando also provided corroborative evidence. Could it be that Fernando also has a problem?
It must not be a coincidence that Deyes asked to see him many times in a row.
It may not be a coincidence that Cornett's thoughts diverge but are quickly curbed.
I had reminded Peel before, and the method Peel used was obviously to determine that Deyes was the suspect, and then look for related clues.
But this compilation method cannot be faked and can be verified by anyone.
All the relevant information and intelligence revealed by Deyes can be connected, but because it came too easily and the loss was too great this time, even he almost got caught up in it.
That's why he became suspicious. Cornett took a deep breath.
He noted the last few words Cornett had said.
"What did he mean by 'take a few things and spoil the plan'?" asked Cornett.
Pierre shook his head and said helplessly: "I can only compile what he said. I don't know what he wants to do specifically."
Cornett nodded thoughtfully, and suddenly, a sense of vigilance came over him.
He suddenly looked at Fernande and said in a deep voice, "Did you check the warehouse when you searched it earlier?"
"We'll search areas with human activity first. The storage area will be searched tomorrow..." Ted explained. But when he saw Cornett's cold, single eye, he shuddered. Without saying anything more, he hurriedly said, "I'll go check right away."
Ted left in a hurry, the three A-level life forms remained silent, and Pierre was terrified.
Cornett tapped the table and listened to the conversation between Deyes and Asmara over and over again.
A lot of information can be obtained from it. Deyes is extremely targeting and hostile to Qinglong, and it is impossible for the two of them to cooperate.
Connet naturally had doubts about Qinglong, the troublemaker, but it was impossible for him to force the matter to happen.
Not long after, Ted returned here in a panic.
The calm security chief was so flustered that he didn't even bother to greet them. He said hurriedly:
"Captain, we just checked all the warehouses and found... found... three battleship-class cannons. They've all been swapped."
The pupil of Cornett's one eye suddenly shrank into a needle, and Fernand suddenly stood up with his face changed drastically.
"What?"
The one who reacted the most was Pierre. He stood there in a daze, and then a bone-chilling cold spread throughout his body.
He personally signed for those flagship ships and put them into storage. How could they all be swapped out?
"Let's go!" Cornett's face was gloomy, and the group hurried to the warehouse.
The warship parts that had been sealed in the warehouse for a long time were now all opened and undergoing a second inspection.
The three main guns were pushed out and were being carefully inspected. At first glance, there was nothing abnormal, but in fact they had become empty shells and had no practical use.
"Who is responsible for the inspection? Who is the signing officer?" Cornett shouted in a deep voice.
In the crowd, Zog and Hector were taken into custody. Pierre said with a stiff upper lip, "Was it me who signed it?"
Cornett looked around at the three of them, his voice as cold as ice: "What's going on?"
"Chief, there will be absolutely no problem when putting it into storage!" Zog trembled all over and gritted his teeth.
Just as Connet was about to say something, his heart moved a little. He turned around and saw another of his men rushing here.
The expression on his face was very familiar to Cornett, one of fear and uneasiness.
A bad feeling came over me.
The subordinate didn't dare to look up and whispered, "Chief, there's a problem in Warehouse No. 1. Five dimensional crystals have been replaced with ordinary glass crystals that look identical."
Under the continuous bad news, Connet's suppressed emotions could no longer be contained. A boiling blue elemental tide suddenly exploded around his body, roaring straight into the sky like a tornado rising up in the opposite direction, accompanied by a hoarse roar: "Seeking death!"
(End of this chapter)
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