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He hasn't changed since the last time we met.It's just that compared to being at home, when he is outside, his temperament is always more angular.

"Did you never think you'd come here again?" Jiang Qi said casually to a person beside him after taking off his mask.

The man also grabbed the edge and took off the mask, and while he was arranging his hair, he said with emotion: "You can't say that. When I built this place secretly, I still thought that I would end the matter here, but who made us do that?" All the backs were blown to death! I can only hope that the successor will inherit the will, but I never thought that there would be a day to stand here again."

He was a shrewd little man with reddish brown hair and a patch of freckles on his nose.He twitched one corner of his mouth at Jiang Qi, and made a helpless and self-deprecating smirk.

"What the hell?" Tang plucked his ears, thinking that he probably had an auditory hallucination, "By what? Blown to death?"

Chu Si did not show a surprised expression, but frowned, turned his eyes away from Jiang Qi, and landed on the face of the freckled man.As a specially trained person, Truss still has a good memory for faces.

The freckled face looked familiar to him.It took less than a second before he remembered where he had seen it——

"The Fort Barney incident..." Truss said.

Don was much younger than Truss, probably a newborn when the incident at Fort Barney happened.

Shao Heng was about the same age as Chu Si, and frowned after hearing what he said, "Is he the person involved in the Fort Barney incident?"

The Fort Barney incident in 5667 involved a large number of rebels from other planets colluding with the military and the general government. During the entire cleansing process, as many as 400 people died, including rebels, suppression troops, Innocent people involved, etc... It was the largest casualty incident on the planet in 35 years.

Because Jiang Qi died in this incident, Chu Si was very concerned about the information related to the Fort Barney incident for a long time.Some files have been turned over countless times.So he would never remember this face wrongly, it was on the death list of the Fort Barney incident.

"It can't be helped, who made the other party's eyes poisonous, we all pretended to be so unfamiliar." A tall lady with pale blond hair also answered the sentence beside her.

Truss had an impression of the mole in the corner of her eye—this one was also on the Fort Barney death list.

He suddenly had a premonition...

Most of the people in the video had their masks removed, and Chus looked over one by one...

Shao Heng glanced at his face, realized something, opened his mouth and asked: "Could it be - there are many people from the Fort Barney incident?"'

Chus nodded, "It's conservatively estimated that there were more than fifty, all of whom died in the Fort Barney incident."

Among them are those from the military department, those from the general government, those from the Security Building, some elderly people with gray hair, and a few young people. It's all fixed in the age of 50 years ago.

"I saw the old man!" Shao Heng pointed to the other corner of the screen. Mr. Shao was using his fingers to comb his hair that was messed up by the protective mask. Among this group of people, he seemed more relaxed than usual, not so serious.

When Jiang Qi turned around, his eyes just met his, and the expressions of the two became complicated in an instant, as if they had many emotions.

The last time they met, Jiang Qi was still on the tail of his prime, and Mr. Shao had just entered middle age. This time they met again, Jiang Qi was still on the tail of his prime, but Mr. Shao had already turned gray.

There are a few faces in that group of people, which can vaguely overlap with the ones on Mr. Shao's graduation photo, but their temperament has changed a lot, they are more mature and calm, and they will no longer make jokes like in the photo. In a ball.

From the few conversations just now, it can be heard that they were not very enthusiastic about each other during those years. Under many scruples and disguises, they may be more like strangers than strangers, but standing in this secret In the underground space, they are all friends.

"If—" Shao Heng said, "if they are on our side, I have a terrible guess."

He didn't say it, Chus also knew what the conjecture was, because he was also thinking about this question——

Could the so-called Fort Barney incident be a cover at all?The purpose of the whole incident may be to wipe out this group of people.The so-called implication may not be an accidental injury at all, but a precise strike.

If this is the case, the situation may be a little worse than he imagined.Because in the original Fort Barney incident, even a military general died.After the general died, Merton, who was originally a lieutenant general, was promoted to the position of general because of his meritorious service in cleaning up the rebellion, and became one of the three heads of state of the military.

At that time, Medra on the graduation photo was at the same level as Jiang Qi and was also a lieutenant general.It was not until 5707, when an admiral stepped down from his position due to age, that Medra was promoted to admiral.

In the second year after that, Truss was promoted to the youngest executive officer of the security building.

In other words, Admiral Medra's foundation is probably not much different from Chus's foundation in the Security Building.

"Come on, don't waste time, adjust all these instruments." Jiang Qi raised his finger, motioning for everyone to listen, "Turn off all communication equipment for a while, finally come to this step, don't make any mistakes and turn off the equipment here. If it explodes, then we probably can only go back to the coffin and cry."

After finishing speaking, he patted Mr. Shao on the shoulder and led him to the depths.

Those people really took out all kinds of communication devices and contact instruments with a serious face and turned them off.Sae Yang briefly knocked in his ear——

"Hold on."

Then, video and communication were cut off at the same time.

Coincidentally, as soon as the communication here was cut off, Le Pen sent a message saying that the connection was being prepared, and Chus immediately asked Roger to open the gate that had been prepared in advance.

The group of them took the fastest passage, so in just two or three minutes, the training camp team led people into the command center.

No matter it was Jin or Little Mop, there was neither panic nor doubt on their faces, and they seemed to know all the upcoming conversations clearly.

"Now that we're here, I don't need to add any more preface." Chus signaled that they could all sit down, while he leaned against the console, folded his arms and said calmly, "I don't know if Miss Le Pen is with you guys?" I have mentioned my guess, if not, then I will confirm again—"

His eyes fell on Jin, and he said, "Do you know my adoptive father Jiang Qi, Mr. Fergus?"

Jin sat on the chair and looked at him helplessly, and gave a dry laugh, "I knew it would be revealed one day..."

Chus turned his attention to the little mop again, "Should I call you Ms. Cabell?"

Esther Kabell stared at Chus with his big black eyes for a long time, and then showed a rare gentle and bright smile, and tapped a series of fingers on the armrest of the seat flexibly to answer: "Of course." , if you don’t feel awkward looking at me like this.”

Shao Heng was beside him and said very honestly: "To be honest, it's very awkward."

Cabell turned to look at him quietly.

Shao Heng raised his hands: "Okay, don't be awkward, please continue. I just want to say that I have admired you very much since I was a child."

Cabell knocked a few more times: "Thank you."

This scene was actually very weird, and everyone in the training camp team was dumbfounded.Because when Esther Kabell was a little mop with a memory loss, she didn't pay attention to people at all, and even smiled very rarely.Suddenly, it became lively, and it was difficult for everyone to adapt.

Even Jin said without words: "I was scared to death when I first found out that you were Ka BeiEr."

Kabel looked at him blankly.

Jin shook his hand: "Pretend I didn't say it."

Chu Si looked at them for a moment and said, "Okay, since my guess is correct, can you tell me what's going on now? Even if there is a personal relationship, I still need to confirm your position and threat. I Everyone here is accountable."

Jin hesitated for a moment, and Chus caught his eyes and added, "Our pursuit team is blocked outside the space-time curve. In fact, no matter what you say to me now, you are all facing the other side of the curve." I can’t make any difference to the people. They keep doing what they do, I can’t stop them, but if we stand on the same page, I’m sure there’s always something I can do ... I hope we’re on the same page.”

I don't know which sentence in this passage hit Jin's point correctly, which made him a little distracted, as if he was thinking about something.After he was silent for a moment, he looked at Kabel again, then took a deep breath, and let it out again: "Okay, okay...Although you are not Jiang's own son, but sometimes you have the same look and tone as him. It's really similar."

"I think you should have obtained some information about the time experiment. Let me think about how to put it... When your father and I first came into contact with the time experiment, we were still in school, oh, it was the Black Swan. A design project. Of course, we didn’t know the existence of the time experiment at that time, but we came into contact with some clues during the design process. For example, the design requirements focused on reducing time flow obstacles, etc., but that project was hosted by the military department after all. , so we didn't suspect anything at first. But after the project deepened, we saw something that our self-concept couldn't contain..."

"Like?" Truss asked.

"When the first batch of semi-finished products of the Black Swan were used for the mimicry experiment, the participants in the experiment were a group of children ranging in age from 2 to 4 years old. I am more extreme. In my opinion, all the vague words to deceive the little ghosts to be the experimental products are not good. Things.” Jin said, “When discussing the height of the black swan at the beginning, I said that that height was not suitable for actual combat. Understand, when I saw the group of children, I had a not-so-good guess—I suspect that the main subjects of the Black Swan may be children."

"At that time, my intuition was too strong. I discussed it with Jiang in private. I felt that if the project went smoothly, it might develop in some uncontrollable directions. So when we finalized the finished product template, we made a small change. , the result... you should know."

The result was that the Black Swan was retired directly.

"This incident was the initial introduction. After several years until graduation, we never had any contact with this related matter. I stayed at the White Eagle Military Academy to lead a research project, and Jiang went to the combat department of the military department, where I met two very good girls, one is Kabell in front of you, and the other is Elena. Later, the military department needed to set up an institution for training special talents, and Elena was transferred to establish to a special training camp. And Cabel was transferred to the research institute of the military department..."

These two girls who love sisters lead the beginning of the whole thing one after another.

First, Esther Kabell began to lose contact with relatives and friends frequently because he needed to participate in some highly confidential research.Then it was Elena who lost contact frequently because of some confidential missions.

Later, in a casual chat, through some irrelevant information, they vaguely realized that some things they and the other party did seemed to be in conflict.

Kabell's research and Elena's mission belong to the same military department, but there are some contradictions that cannot be ignored.

Later, Jiang Qi also transferred to the research institute under Kabel's suggestion. Originally, he wanted to have one more person to discuss. Who knew that the projects they participated in were different, and there was a huge difference.

"Fortunately, we all have our eyesight. If it was Fergus who was in the Military Research Institute back then, I'm afraid he can live for two years." The childish Kabel knocked a string on the armrest.

Jin nodded grumpily, and said: "The one who clearly told us the situation of the time experiment at first was this long-sighted Ms. Kabell, which was her main research project. After she was able to really get in touch with the core content, she felt that the experiment The direction and development of it is terrible."

"And it was Elena who made us realize that it was not just a simple research, and it was impossible to stop it casually. During a confidential mission, she discovered that the time experiment was more complicated than we thought. The City of Silver It is its biggest technical and financial support, and at the same time, it also involves more than half of the high-ranking members of the military, as well as part of the general government and security buildings."

"It made us connect with each other privately and it became a less than decent team. At first we thought about punching straight too, but Elena went missing on a mission to the City of Silver and we didn't end up until a year later It was confirmed that she had... not long after, her top line in the City of Silver also died, followed by her direct supervisor in the military department being transferred, and died suddenly in the office a few months later. These things make us have to look for a more secure The roundabout way..."

Esther Kabell proposed a risky idea—since it is impossible to overthrow the time experiment directly from the outside, dig a way back inside.As a result, what happened in the video happened later.

At first, everyone thought that Kabell hadn't had time to do anything.Until one day, Jiang Qi tried his best to secretly contact one of Kabell's students and got a research draft. From the encrypted information in it, he learned that Kabell had actually achieved results.

She designed a set of "grid plate" schemes that can connect time experiments remotely.

Therefore, while maintaining a state of being in contact with the time experiment but not in-depth, in order to learn about the latest progress and news, Jiang Qi took over Kabell's plan and quietly built a secret laboratory under Fort Barney to realize Kabel's experiment. the design of.

As a result, when it was about 80% complete, it encountered the Fort Barney incident.

"And during that time, we also found out a deeper purpose hidden behind the time experiment."