Chapter 449
When the Chaldean radio broadcast sounded, Gin and Vodka were looking for Alice Phair's whereabouts.
To be honest, kidnapping someone is a simple task for the elite of an organization - especially after knowing the target's location, this task is so simple that they can just grab a marginal member to complete the task.
——But, something is wrong now.
It's not that Gin wants to find an excuse for not catching Alicephal yet, but the current situation is indeed a little wrong.
According to the information provided by Champagne, Gin did find traces of Alice Phair at the designated location.
But the problem lies behind this - Gin and Vodka watched Alice Phair disappear from their sight.
There was not even a trace that could be captured by the naked eye. It was as if it disappeared right before their eyes like a ghost.
“…Brother.”
Vodka looked at the terrible expression on Gin's face and was about to say something but stopped talking.
"Tsk." Gin looked unhappy, took out his phone to contact other code members, and told Vodka, "Search the entire Chaldea - this is Antarctica, she can't run out of Chaldea."
At the other end of the corridor, a man also dressed in black sent a message to his accomplice:
"It must be Chaldea! They have the real magic!!
"Pandora" is that woman!!!"
Meanwhile, in the Chaldea Engineering Department's work area, Jinpei Matsuda and Colles had just finished their final finishing touches.
Looking at the upload completion prompt on the computer screen in front of them, both of them breathed a sigh of relief.
"Isn't it time for you to go to the control room?" Jinpei Matsuda asked Colles, who was actually the commander-in-chief and a part-time engineer.
"I'm not the leader of Group A, so I don't need to participate in the exercise. Have you forgotten that?" Coles tidied up his desk and walked out with Matsuda Jinpei, answering, "However, if anything unusual happens, all of us remaining leaders will have to gather in the control room."
"That's true." Matsuda Jinpei pushed up his sunglasses and asked Coles, "How about you come with me to the warehouse area to check the situation? Didn't the directors say that we should pay more attention to the situation in the emergency escape passage? After all, this is a rare period of opening to the outside world, so even routine inspections have to be done seriously."
"Oh, that's just right. I still have some data for Shadow Border to confirm." Coles laughed. "Please, Mr. Mark Remis, be my driver for Shadow Border when the time comes."
"As for driving, it's better for you to ask Yugdo Mirenia." Matsuda Jinpei snorted.
"Then next time Professor Leif tests Sheba, how about I take you to watch?" Coles raised his eyebrows at Matsuda Jinpei with confidence.
"…Deal." Jinpei Matsuda nodded readily.
Rei Furuya, who had just arrived at the Chaldea Engineering Division, looked at the two people's receding backs with a serious expression.
Although he successfully verified his guess here, and the squad leader was the only one among the four classmates who had not yet found any trace, Furuya Rei still had a very bad premonition - as time went on, this bad premonition became more and more obvious in his heart.
But in the end, Furuya Rei just glanced from a distance in the direction where Matsuda Jinpei left, then suppressed the ominous premonition in his heart and returned to the work of the organization.
At the other end of the observatory, Roman, who left the infirmary to slack off, met Dion.
“Hey… you’re looking for Alice Phair.” Roman slowly unscrewed the bottle cap and looked at Dion, who had entered Chaldea as a codenamed member of the organization. “She should be in the control room now—after all, the control room announced the start of the drill. As a technician in the control room, she will definitely go to the control room after hearing the broadcast.”
"...What about you?" Dion asked him.
"I won't go to the control room." Roman smiled and answered Dion while shaking the milk tea in his hand. "After all, the commanders participating in the exercise are all members of Group A. I shouldn't need to keep an eye on them. If anything really happens, the director and others will send me a message directly through the work system."
"Go to the control room." Dion sent the message to the other codename members of the organization, while complaining to Roman, "There's no need to make a place like this exactly the same as before, right?"
“At least I didn’t hang around in Ritsuka’s room this time.” Roman smiled helplessly at Dion and put his hands in the pockets of his Chaldea uniform. “But this location is a little far from the control room. After all, we don’t need to be late this time. I’d better find a place closer to the control room to wait.”
“That’s right.” Dion agreed with Roman’s choice. “Then I’ll go to the control room first. I can’t be the first one to get the new whereabouts of Alice Phair. I can’t be later than other code members.”
"If it's convenient, remember to notify those resurrected guys to prepare to evacuate." Roman reminded Dion.
“Ah, if I come across them, I’ll tell them,” Dion replied to Roman.
"Then I'll check the personnel distribution while heading to the control room." Roman nodded, and after watching Dion leave his sight, he walked in another direction, "We don't have much time left..."
When all the leaders of Group A participating in the exercise arrived at the control room, Marisbury connected his terminal to the broadcasting system and used the broadcasting to explain the background of the Chaldean exercise to the visitors in the control room.
"…Chaldea is a research institute and observatory that gathers the top researchers in various fields to ensure the long and tenacious continuation of human history. The most important research here is the simulated earth environment model Chaldeas - although we cannot create an existence that is exactly the same as the earth from scratch, we can copy the earth in its entirety."
"Because its nature is exactly the same as that of the Earth, we can use Chaldeas to observe the future a hundred years from now. As long as the light of civilization is still on Chaldeas, humans will still have a future a hundred years from now. Similarly, the extinction of the light on Chaldeas also means the end of civilization. However -"
"The future realm that Chaldea had been observing suddenly disappeared without any warning.
According to the observation results,
Chaldea has made it clear that humanity will be extinct in December 2017.
"No, it was proven."
"After reorganizing the intelligence, we finally observed a new anomaly." Marisby, who was confirmed dead as early as 2012 and had no chance to witness the first Lepton Transfer in Chaldea, recounted the past events in Chaldea in an extremely calm tone and changed what he said according to the plan. "That is our target this time - spatial anomaly F."
"Chaldea discovered an 'unobservable territory' that did not exist in human history up to 2017. The time coordinates of this territory include the entire human history, and the geographical coordinates are located in the Antarctic continent."
"then,
The Chaldeans assumed this to be the cause of human extinction.
Submitted an application to the United Nations for the use of the lepton transfer system.
And it was approved.
"The so-called spirit particle transfer is the act of turning humans into spirit particles, sending them back to the past, and intervening in abnormal phenomena - in layman's terms, it is time travel." Lancer Mello, who took over the introduction from Marisbilly, glanced at the upper entrance of the control room and found Gin as expected. "Chaldea will use this method to send the elite lords it has gathered to the past, find out the reason for the disappearance of the future, and destroy the reason itself."
"therefore,
The Chaldea Control Office issued a repair distortion to the Masters.
Put history back on track,
A battle plan to take back the future of humanity.
"The above is a brief summary of this mission." Lancermello closed his eyes and gave an order to the leader of Group A who was waiting in the control room, "All members of Group A, enter the basket—"
As the captain, Kirshtalia was the first to enter the basket, and saw the opaque glass of the basket blocking his vision. Then the members of Group A entered the basket one after another, waiting for the soul transfer to begin.
——Or, in other words, they were waiting for this destined-to-fail soul transfer to reach its predetermined end.
When Gin and Vodka arrived at the control room, they just caught up with the end of Chaldea's introduction of the action plan - and in Chaldea, the members who infiltrated the organization, led by Dion, had already been waiting quietly by the wall inside the control room; in the corridor leading to the control room, in addition to the codename members of the organization who were a step slower than Gin, there were also people from another mysterious organization who were also targeting Alice Phair.
As for the undercover agents in the organization, representatives from various countries, the thief Kidd who is fighting against the mysterious organization chasing the gems, and the irrelevant people who were selected just because of good luck?
These people, like Conan Edogawa who was busy solving the puzzle, were stopped by the resurrected people scattered in various corners of Chaldea.
——After all, the next performance is not suitable for these people to watch.
"The transfer of soul particles will be officially carried out soon.
Visitors who are interested in the lepton transfer system are requested to arrive at the control room within two minutes.
"Repeat that.
The transfer of souls will be officially implemented soon.
Visitors who are interested in the lepton transfer system are requested to arrive at the control room within two minutes.
——This environment is not suitable for kidnapping.
Gin pondered for a long time, then took Vodka into the control room and pretended to be an ordinary visitor.
After Gin came in, Cohen and Chianti also found their positions in other corners of the control room - then, the people from another organization who were still hesitating outside the door were rushed into the control room by Roman who arrived on time.
"Come in if you're curious. You can't see clearly what's going on in the control room when the spirit particle is transferred if you hide outside the door." Roman rushed the people of the mysterious organization into the control room like a chicken, and then showed an impeccable smile to Marisbury who was standing next to the director's seat, "I'm not late this time, Director Marisbury."
Marisbury smiled at Roman and looked at Lancermello: "Then--"
"The baskets are operating normally, and the physiological indicators of the leader of Group A are all normal—" Lansermello lowered his eyes to look at the seven baskets below, and announced softly, "The soul transfer has begun."
As Lansemello finished speaking, BB’s voice replaced the voices of the directors, alerting other areas of the control room that had suddenly fallen silent.
"An emergency has occurred.
Fire broke out at the central power plant and the central control room.