Despair? Hope?
Although they split into two groups, the person who went to Halden with Dustin and Yan was not the real Kinsley. York knew this from the beginning.
Naturally, it was after he calmed down that he asked Sharon to send someone to look for him.
The journey was so smooth that it was beyond their expectations.
"…Terrence Bedford, while imprisoned in Halden Prison, was able to poison the food he prepared. BI infiltration cannot be underestimated. This shows that Mr. Kinsley, your adoptive father, never thought you would be able to leave safely."
——This is probably the reason why the other party knew that Kinsley was invited to Halden but did not communicate with him in advance.
They knew Kinsley couldn't leave because there was no need.
In the rest area of the robot control room at Infinity headquarters, York listened to the advanced autonomous intelligence that looked exactly like his friend talking about what happened not long ago, and felt infinite surprise and annoyance spreading in his heart.
Opposite him, the big star who had almost gotten into another fight was leaning against the curved display wall and miraculously did not react at all.
Did he finally realize that he couldn't fight a machine head-on?
It was said that these two had fought outside Yan's laboratory before. At that time, Kinsley did have the upper hand, and he and Dustin took a lot of effort to repair the other one.
Just now, Kinsley, who was already mentally unstable, lost all his advantages. He was restrained and unable to move his hands before he even touched the corner of the opponent's clothes.
York habitually stepped forward to persuade his stunned and unwilling friend to calm down. After all, his professional ability was there. From the moment K-127 entered the Infinity headquarters, he had detected the abnormal emotional charge under the other party's normal appearance.
It has been spending more time with Yan, so naturally it wouldn't care.
During the period before Kinsley arrived, York had helped its uplink successfully connect to the positron control center in the Infinity Building.
At this moment, Infinity headquarters is a perfect ground signal transmission and reception center, conducting real-time searches for drones and fixed surveillance in Northern Europe via satellite relay.
This was almost a joint effort between him, Dustin, Yan, and Yan's teacher - Kinsley's father - the professor who left no mark during his lifetime or after his death.
"The scope continues to expand. No corner of the world can be spared. I can't gamble on that little bit of luck..."
Kinsley's voice was low and weak, sounding worrying, but York still didn't ignore the other person's mocking smile that moved a few pixels.
Even though he had just patiently explained the efforts being made to save Yan, it was obvious that Kinsley didn't understand all the terms like "GSM network", "soft association", "virtual channel", etc.
Naturally, they don't understand how difficult those tasks are when BI is obstructed.
It is said that York also had the honor of meeting Kinsley's father.
Although the professor was already ill at that time, his brilliant mind could not be concealed.
The friend before him was naturally no less capable, but was it a pity? His talent wasn't reflected in any way in robot design or any other modern technology.
Perhaps this is also an important reason why he has been able to stay safely in BI for so many years.
York raised his hand to touch his friend's shoulder and patted it, then let out a soft sigh.
Their acquaintance was somewhat accidental. It was indeed not the first time they met at the dinner party at the Dai family.
He was invited by Yan to go to China, and was chased by paparazzi in Yan Chi's car. The call for help he made was to Kinsley.
Even later on the rooftop of the LIANGSHE. Banquet, all the services and conveniences provided to them were arranged by Kinsley.
It’s just that Yan never knew about it.
Or rather, he thought Yan didn't know.
It was only after knowing Kinsley for almost a year that Yan learned from him about the painful past that was almost gone. At that time, Yan had just left Infinity and returned to China.
Although he felt sorry for his friend's situation, he knew that he should not interfere in anything, so he agreed to Kinsley's request and never revealed it to Yan.
So when he later stumbled upon the encrypted communication number in Yan's lab, with the note on it clearly showing Kinsley's real name, he could only smile in relief.
That's Yan! What in this world can be hidden from her?
But after feeling relieved, I still can't stop feeling heartbroken.
These two people had clearly recognized each other, but they could only suppress their surging longing and get along like strangers.
It was as if he would always remember that the meal, which was clearly the top-notch dish at the LIANGSHE banquet, could make the usually composed Yan lose his composure to such an extent.
Including the time he later went to see Kinsley, who, after learning about Yan's condition, pressed his heart and almost coughed out his lungs.
The same pain as the dull face in front of me.
He wanted to comfort her, but he didn't know how to speak.
"Identity verified sessfully, please enter in——"
An electronic sound rang out and the door to the control room opened.
"Sir, there's a result!"
Sharon and Xu Lanxi came in together, and the former's pace was obviously a little more anxious than before. York turned and looked at the main display screen, and the strings in his heart tightened.
In the conference room, Kinsley said with certainty that Dustin and Yan had boarded the plane because after the surveillance was interrupted, the people he arranged to protect Yan personally took pictures of the two boarding the plane and even the plane taking off.
However, according to today's technical explanation, it is possible that they are not the real Dustin and Yan at all!
Coincidentally, K-127 itself has always had a secret communication channel with Yan, which means that it can almost see everything around it from Yan's perspective, and thus record everything that happened at the time.
Its record is definitely Yan himself.
But that record only ended before takeoff.
"After Yan boarded the plane, the communication signal was briefly interrupted. After analysis, it was found that it was not positron exchange data caused by the presence of an ordinary robot. Therefore, Yan took the initiative to cut off the connection with me after that."
York was the first to react.
There must be some relationship between the video it stores and the footage shot by Kinsley. As long as a strict comparison is made, some clues may be found.
The technical department immediately took the order and did it, but the result was——
"The biometrics match perfectly. The two gentlemen's records differ by less than a second, which means Miss Yan did board the plane. There's no way anything could have happened in such a short time. So, the cause of the explosion was—"
“Dong——”
Sharon's words were interrupted by a dull thud.
“Kinsley!!!”
Xu Lanxi almost screamed and rushed over.
York was stunned for a moment before he realized what had happened, and panicked to help his friend who had inexplicably fallen to the ground.
"Kinsley! Kinsley, what's wrong with you? Are you hurt anywhere? Did anything happen on your way here? Huh?!"
A series of questions came out of his mouth, but the man with his eyes tightly closed pressed against his forehead seemed not to hear at all, and only muttered to himself in a lost voice:
“…No…I can’t do this…I won’t allow it…Nothing can happen to her…”
The results of the video comparison showed that there were no clues after a long search and rescue. Obviously, all of this pointed to something that Kinsley could not accept.
“…I clearly…I clearly found her…I just found her…How could she…I shouldn’t have let her go…It’s my fault…It’s my fault…”
I have been waiting and thinking about this for so many years, and I don’t know how long I have been watching silently in the dark, before I can finally touch the person I have been thinking about day and night.
What had happened? Was he going to lose her again overnight?
"Kinsley, you...you need to calm down...there must be a way, Miss Mu...good luck will come to those who are lucky, she will be fine..."
Xu Lanxi's voice trembled, but it was better than York who was unable to say anything.
He didn't dare to look at Kinsley's collapsed look, nor did he dare to think about how he would announce to the whole world that the founder of Infinity, his two good friends, were gone.
——Is this the most we can do?
"Is this the best you can do?"
The thoughts in my mind are played back as audio without any emotion.
York looked up and saw K-127 walking towards them with the energy pack pulled out.
The light brown optical mirror reflected everything in the control room, and there were emotions in it that York couldn't understand, but for some reason, that voice had a bit of Dustin's flavor.
"Kinsley, if you act this ugly again, I'm afraid I'll have to question Yan's judgment. This is the only time."
"Shut up!"
Kinsley gasped for breath in pain before he cried out, his eyes of the same color suddenly swept over,
"Don't think that just because you look like me you can't see your place. It's none of your business to butt in on what's going on between Yanyan and me!"
"Oh? Really? Well, please continue crying your heart out. Once I find Yan, you'll never have the chance to see her again."
"What?!"
"What do you mean?!" York struggled to his feet and asked expectantly, "Are there any other clues?"
"If my hypothesis is correct, there should be hundreds of billions of nano-scale robots on that private plane. I don't know what they are used for, but with Yan's ability, he must have discovered something amiss and cut off communication with me. After all, that is BI's main project. And—"
The robot's face curled up into a strange smile, with such realistic anthropomorphism that York rarely felt a hint of the uncanny valley effect.
"As far as I know, Yan not only has an encrypted channel with me, but he also installed a number of self-defense devices on Kinsley, fearing that this ignorant young master would get into trouble. And those devices must have been pre-installed with anti-tracking routes."
York's nerves finally relaxed for a moment:
"You mean! We might be able to use Kinsley to find Yan and Dustin!"
After saying this, the atmosphere was no longer as tense as before, and he didn't even think anything of Sharon's reminder that he should prepare for the press conference later.
But suddenly, Xu Lanxi, who had been silent for a long time, stared at the tablet in his hand and asked with some doubt:
"Mr. York, that reporter, was he ever seen at the Norwegian airport?"
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