【Silence of the Nightingale】Completed
Vermouth threw Yayu Rin on the side of the road and said, "Someone will pick her up soon." Then she ran away. Yayu Rin turned on her cell phone, and a 72-hour countdown appeared in the upper right corner of the PHS phone. Buzz, the phone vibrated twice, and Yayu Rin received an email.
[Nightingale: Eleanor Ashford, female, about 50 years old, thin, short gray-blonde hair, often wears rimless glasses, is accustomed to wearing a white laboratory coat or a simple business suit, has a slight scar on the right corner of the eye, lives in Palo Alto, San Francisco Port Area, California.
Nightingale will leave San Francisco in 72 hours and fly to Switzerland to attend a highly confidential international biosecurity summit, out of the organization's control.
It is recommended to deal with Nightingale within 72 hours. She is accustomed to jogging on the redwood forest island near her home in Palo Alto from 6:30 pm to 7:30 pm every day, and she goes to the Oak Loft, a membership bookstore near Stanford University, for private reading at 8 pm every Wednesday, accompanied only by a driver.
Kiel? Ya Yulin stood on the side of the road, walking forward lazily while browsing the organization's mission information. After reading it once, he didn't remember the mission information at all, but instead remembered Kiel's email address.
Where is Xiaoniao now? Please send me the route home. Thanks.
Having just sent the email, Kil was about to leave the scene. To investigate Eleanor's information, she sneaked into Eleanor's workplace. Her phone vibrated in her pocket. Noting that no one was paying attention, Kil took out her phone, glanced at it, and then put it back in her pocket.
[Silence of the Nightingale] was originally Gin's mission, and Vermouth was responsible for investigating the information. Halfway through the mission, Gil received a message from Vermouth, saying that Gin asked to transfer the half-completed mission to her, and asked her to assist someone in completing the mission.
A new member joined the organization. Kiel left the spot and disappeared around the corner of the building.
Nightingale is currently at the R&D center at Prometheus Biotech's headquarters. These are her three usual routes home, along with a picture of her car. — Kiel
Yayu Lin followed the route Kiel had sent her, kicked away the guy who had lunged at him to rob him, and continued to leisurely fiddle with his phone with his head down. It was really inconvenient not having a smartphone. I wonder if there's a mall near Xiaoniao's company where I can buy something to fill my stomach.
Looking around, Ya Yulin walked into a jewelry store and came out after a few minutes. It was impossible to tell what was new on her body. She walked to the side of the road and stopped a car.
"Go to the headquarters of Prometheus Biotechnology." As soon as Ya Yulin got in the car, he chatted with the driver enthusiastically, asking questions about this and that, and brought up a bunch of famous things around there, completely forgetting what Vermouth said that someone would take over.
The driver who was supposed to pick her up didn't see her at the destination and stopped by the roadside, puzzled. Wasn't she supposed to be here? Where was she?
Ya Yulin, who had already arrived near Nightingale Company, swiped her card and got off the bus. She found a random cafe where she could see people coming in and out of the company and sat down. Her left hand was rubbing two long silver needles in her pocket, and her right hand was casually taking a picture outside the window and sending it to Kil.
[Photo.JPG, is this Xiaoniao's company?] The photo shows the Prometheus Biotechnology Research Center building. Judging from the surrounding scenery, it can be confirmed that the person taking the photo is still in the cafe.
Kil, who was stranded nearby, received the message and his phone vibrated in his pocket. Before he could take it out, he received another message. He walked to a dark place with few people and his pupils constricted when he saw the content of the email.
[Solved, call it a day and retreat.]
Solved?! Kiel immediately looked up ahead, a wave of shock rising within her. The incessant honking of horns on the road reached her ears tirelessly, along with the clamor of the surrounding city. There was no sign of mission completion, as if nothing had happened just then.
What happened? Where were Eleanor Ashford's bodyguards? Didn't anyone notice she was murdered?
Kiel's expression turned cold as he quickly typed back: [Where's the evidence? Did you get the wrong person? Are you sure it was Nightingale who died?]
Ya Yulin hummed a song and walked slowly into the distance. He caught a glimpse of a residential complex that was selling houses, so he immediately turned in and replied to Kil's message in his hand.
"Why don't you just check it out? Xiaoniao's probably still in the car on her way home, but don't worry. Her bodyguards and driver won't notice anything's wrong until she gets out of the car at home. You can take your time to check it out. I'm leaving now. Oh, and remember to tell that cool guy named Gin that the night is short and I'm lonely and need his company. I'll be waiting for him at home."
After receiving the email, Kiel's fingertips turned white as he held the phone, and he sent an email to Gin with a frosty face.
[That person claimed that the mission was completed, but he was drinking coffee in a cafe just a second ago. Don’t assign such a psychopath to me next time. - Kiel]
In the safe house, Gin was enjoying a rare leisure time with a cigarette in his mouth. Sitting opposite him was Vermouth. When the notification sound of receiving a letter rang, Vermouth joked, "It seems that our new friend completes the task very quickly."
Gin didn't say anything. He opened his phone with a cold face to check emails, then walked out without saying a word. Vodka followed immediately.
"What's wrong? Did something happen to the talent you recommended?" Vermouth didn't move at all. She exhaled a puff of smoke and looked at the door with her head tilted to the side in a charming manner. She thought that it wouldn't be surprising even if something really happened. After all, she could tell from what she did that she was not normal.
Hearing Vermouth's sarcasm, Gin snorted coldly and said, "Nightingale Silent's mission is accomplished."
So fast? Vermouth was surprised. This speed was totally unexpected. Her previous words were meant to mock Gin. She didn't really believe that Yayu Rin could complete the task. How capable could someone who could even send himself to the police station be?
But don't judge a book by its cover. Vermouth was destined to be disappointed. The mission had indeed been completed.
"Dr. Ashford, we're here." The bodyguard opened the back door of the car and waited for Eleanor Ashford to get out as usual, but the person inside the car did not move.
After waiting for a while without receiving any instructions, the bodyguard immediately leaned into the car to check on Ashford's condition, but saw Ashford sitting in the back seat with her head down, her loose hair covering her face, as if she was resting due to lack of sleep.
The bodyguard said, "Excuse me." Then he pushed her hair aside and found that Eleanor Ashford, whose eyes were open, was lifeless. Her pupils were dilated, but her body was still warm. A winding streak of blood flowed from her brow, and her face was split in two, giving the bodyguard goose bumps.
"Call the police, the doctor has been assassinated!" With this order, Eleanor's entire security circle fell into panic.
There was no movement, nothing was wrong, and the journey back was no different from any other day. When Eleanor Ashford walked out of the company, she scolded a security guard, but when she returned home, she had lost her life, and no one noticed anything wrong.
As if assassinated by an invisible ghost, Eleanor Ashford was assassinated in the car on her way back and was found lifeless.
After the bodyguard called the police, the FBI quickly arrived at the scene and inquired about the cause of the incident. They speculated that Eleanor's death was caused by a wound between her eyebrows. FBI agents found a small hole in the windshield of the car Eleanor was riding in. The hole was very thin and could not be detected without careful observation.
As one of the top biology PhDs in the United States, Eleanor's case was put on the FBI's emergency channel, and the forensic results were quickly delivered to the investigating agents. Their suspicions were correct: Eleanor's death was caused by the wound between her eyebrows.
The forensic doctor performed an autopsy on Eleanor's body and found a very thin silver needle in her head. The needle penetrated Eleanor's skull and remained in her body, stuck in her pituitary gland. This was the main reason why she did not seek help in time after being injured. She lost the ability to control her body.
Eleanor quickly died from cerebrospinal fluid leakage and meningeal damage, and by the time the bodyguards found her, it was too late.
"What about the origin of the silver needle? Have you investigated it?" the agent in charge of the investigation asked his subordinates.
"That's a very ordinary silver needle with traces of friction on it. The murderer must have had it a long time ago. The patterns on it have been erased, and there is no way to trace its source. At the same time, according to the information provided by Dr. Ashford's bodyguard, it is speculated that the murderer took Dr. Ashford away with a brown USB flash drive. Someone will soon take over the case, so we don't have to worry about it." The detective's assistant patted the detective's shoulder and shrugged to indicate that nothing was wrong.
A brown USB flash drive containing information about Project Icarus, a project managed by Eleanor Ashford.
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