The Wheel of Chronos

At 12:28 p.m. on December 11, West Court Clergy Residence, Westminster Abbey.

A pitch-black van parked quietly outside the residential area. Inside, Sharon was checking whether the laces of her military boots were properly tied.Today, she is not wearing a suit as usual, but an all-black combat uniform. The armed belt is equipped with steel cables for climbing, a Browning is buckled in the gun holster, and a knife holster is in the leggings. Two sabers, one long and one short.She wears a full-finger glove on her left hand and a half-finger tactical glove on her right hand. She tightly coils her long hair and puts it in a peaked cap.The monocle was replaced with strap-on goggles, and the lower half of the face was covered with a breath-changing mask.At first glance, it was not even possible to tell whether she was a man or a woman.

"You wait for me here, and I will come back in half an hour regardless of success or not." Sharon finally urged.

Old Jack nodded to express his understanding. There are various military command equipment in the van, and Old Jack will monitor Sharon's actions at any time.No matter what time it was, old Jack was Sharon's strongest backing.This seventy-year-old veteran participated in several field military operations by the federal government when he was young, and participated in the Leigh Byron Revolution as a lieutenant in his 40s. As an excellent scout, he survived the hail of bullets , It was not until the end of the Great Revolution that he retired from the army and became the butler of the Spencer family.Sharon's reconnaissance and anti-reconnaissance skills, including fighting and the use of firearms, can be said to be taught by him.Although Xue Lun is from the highest military school and has received good military training, after all, she has a specialization in art. She specializes in commanders, and she is an academic. Scout.

After all, old Jack was old, and his knee was seriously injured in the early years. Every time it was rainy and cold, he would be so painful that he couldn't walk, and his body was no longer as good as before.So Sharon didn't let him participate in any dangerous actions, and went into battle by herself.In terms of physical fitness, relying on the support of mechanical prosthetics, she is basically not inferior to the special forces.

After getting out of the car, Xue Lun quickly climbed onto the roof of the car, jumped forward from the roof, grabbed the top of the courtyard wall of the residential area, and jumped over the power grid on the top of the wall.In the process of falling downward, she twisted her body in mid-air to adjust her landing posture. When her feet landed on the ground, she rolled forward to relieve the force of the fall, and then quickly rolled to her feet. Under the cover of the surrounding vegetation, she went deep into the residential area. sneak away.

During this process, the infrared detection alarm on the periphery of the residential area resumed after a brief interruption, the security guard in the guard room yawned, and nothing was captured on the monitoring screen in front of him.

Charles Williams, as a church clergyman at the level of a cardinal, has already stood at the top of the church.The throne of the Pope does not exist in British Puritanism, because the Pope in Vatican City in Rome is the only Pope in the Christian world.Therefore, the cardinal is the highest-ranking priest of Puritanism. As the next level of the cardinal, the cardinal is in charge of several important church branches. Charles Williams is the branch president of Westminster Abbey. , is also the highest-ranking clergyman of the Church of Westminster.It's just that he is old after all, and he will retire after the next election.In recent years, the cardinal has rarely appeared in public and is basically in a semi-retired state.

Due to his lofty status, the mansion he lives in has the best location in the Xiyuan residential area. It is a single three-story villa with a garden.Although the area occupied is not as exaggerated as the Spencer's mansion, it is beyond the imagination of ordinary people in the London area where every inch of land is expensive.

Sharon's timing tonight was perfect.She expected that Charles Williams would not be at home tonight.Due to the sit-in demonstration of thousands of people in Westminster Abbey, as a cardinal, he must show up. He has been hiding behind the scenes, but it will aggravate his suspicions. Reputation, he will certainly not sit idly by.

Sharon couldn't help sighing that God was helping her.

Arriving in the front yard of the Williams mansion, she crouched under an elm tree and quietly turned on the environment scanning function of the goggles.The entire mansion was within her scanning range, and she confirmed who was in the house and where they were.An old woman was busy in the kitchen on the first floor, and a slightly younger middle-aged woman was sitting on the sofa in the living room.The lights on the second and third floors were all turned off, and no one was there.Sharon guessed that the old woman should be Charles' wife, and the middle-aged woman in the living room should be the daughter-in-law, Claude's mother.

"Aren't the men in the family here..." Sharon murmured lightly.Then she stood up and walked towards the main entrance with big strides.While walking, she grabbed the heel of the right tactical glove with her left hand, pulled out five long straps from it, and put one set on top of the five fingers of her right hand, as if a tension device had been put on the five fingers, but If you take a closer look, it's not a tensioner.The fingertip fingerprints were all covered by a transparent film. She used her left hand to operate the inside of the wrist of the tactical glove twice, and called out Claude's fingerprints that had been recorded long ago. Green light flickered in the fingertip film. Xue Lun pressed her finger on the fingerprint recognition screen above the main entrance, the five fingers were recognized one by one, and the door of the mansion opened with a "click".

Claude is really honest, if it were me, he would definitely come and delete his fingerprints.However, I guess I was scared out of my wits and didn't dare to do this, lest I go to him again, ha ha.Sharon sneered in her heart.

Probably heard the sound of the main door opening, and the old lady's inquiry came from the kitchen:

"The old man is back?"

The answer from the daughter-in-law came from the living room: "No way, what time is it, are you back?"

At this time, the voice of the news broadcast came from the TV: "We saw...the vehicle in which Cardinal Charles Williams was riding appeared, and the demonstrators at the scene became noisy, and they began to shout slogans..."

"Dad, isn't he right there..." the daughter-in-law muttered.

The old lady came out of the kitchen and looked into the hall, but she didn't see anyone, so she sighed and said:

"Oh, I'm really old." While talking, the old lady staggered into the living room and sat next to her daughter-in-law. The two watched the live broadcast of the sit-in demonstration on TV and watched intently.

Sharon quietly walked out of the single room where shoes and coats were stored beside the hall, stepped on the floor slowly, walked around the corridor behind the living room, and walked towards the stairwell.She is like a silent ghost, not even breathing.Step up the stairs and quietly go to the third floor.Charles' study is the largest room on the east side of the third floor.The bottom of her military boots automatically generates a layer of dry glue, which not only avoids leaving footprints, but also isolates the sound of walking.The dry glue sets quickly in three seconds, and falls off automatically after two hours. It is colorless, odorless and leaves no traces, which is very convenient.This technology was also brought to her by Lanbo Igaru. In fact, this technology has been used by special forces, military police, and secret agents decades ago. Lanbo Igaru is not the developer, but he once Participated in individual equipment development projects, making these gadgets is very good.

The sound of the TV downstairs was turned up, probably at a critical point. The voice of Bishop Charles himself was heard on the TV. The two hostesses of this house did not want to miss any details.This environment was too favorable for Sharon's actions, so she arrived at the door of the study on the third floor without any effort.But here, she hesitated for a moment, because there was a combination lock at the door, obviously not everyone could enter this room.

Sharon took out a black box-shaped thing from his jacket pocket, put it on the combination lock, and pressed a button on the top of the black box. A digital panel appeared on the front of the black box, displaying the stream of numbers being decoded.Not long after, the first digit of the digital password jumped out "2", and after a few seconds the second digit "8" jumped out, and the third digit "3" took a longer time to jump out, the fourth digit "1", the fifth digit " 9" took three times as long to jump out at the end.

With a soft beep, the study door was successfully unlocked. Sharon took off the decoder and stuffed it back into her pocket. Instead of rushing into the study, she turned on the night perspective scan of the goggles again to find out if there was a surveillance camera in the study. .

As she expected, a small study room is actually equipped with four cameras from different angles, ensuring that there are no blind spots in the entire study room.Xue Lun took out a miniature signal interrupter from her pocket, buckled it on top of the bracelet, pressed the holographic screen of the bracelet, and blocked all the surveillance cameras in the room, then opened the door of the study unhurriedly, and walked in .

The study room was quite quaint, so Sharon naturally didn't turn on the lights. With the help of goggles, she could see everything in the room clearly without the night vision function.The four walls are almost covered by bookshelves reaching to the ceiling. The bookshelves are filled with all kinds of books. Except for theological books, most of them are very profound masterpieces. Most of the European literature and Latin American literature from the 14th century to the 19th century are collected. , and it can be seen that these books are often read by the owner.

There is a holographic computer desk in the center of the study. Sharon walked over, activated the holographic screen, and entered the password as expected.This time, the decoder was useless, so she connected the bracelet to the computer and started decoding.

To her surprise, the decoding was completed quite easily, because the password setting is quite simple, just six numbers, and very single - 111119, five "1" and one "9", Xue Lun couldn't understand it Cardinal Charles set the password idea.

She didn't spend much time on this, and directly started copying the contents of the entire computer.After the copying starts, all she needs to do is wait, and the whole process should take 10 minutes.

She left the holographic computer desk and began to carefully examine the entire study room. It cannot be ruled out that there is no darkroom or other places in this study room. However, when Sharon scanned the whole room before, she did not find any loopholes in the building structure. She just insisted on not missing any information. I began to carefully examine the bookshelves in the study little by little.She will read every book, and she believes that if there is even the slightest thing wrong, it will not escape her eyes.

I have to say that Cardinal Charles is really a lover of reading, and his taste is quite good. The books in the entire study have a heavy feeling of time, but for some reason, an inexplicable discord arises deep in Sharon's heart. feel.She didn't know where this sense of disobedience came from, the more she looked at the books on the bookshelf, the more uncomfortable she felt.

Maybe...the book preference is too one-dimensional, or...there are too many books on the same topic.

The Spencer family itself has the largest private collection of books in the Federation, and Sharon grew up in the pile of books since she was a child. She has read quite a few books in this study, so she can roughly know what is written in the book. Content.

There are too many books about the Garden of Eden in religious books, and a considerable number of novels, essay collections, and academic works also use the Garden of Eden as the theme.Even if the Garden of Eden does not appear directly, the themes of the books are at least related to the origin and reproduction of human beings, and many of them are very esoteric and philosophical books.In addition, there are quite a few books whose themes are related to the Tongtian Tower. The legend about God’s language division preventing mankind from uniting to build the Tongtian Tower is actually to some extent decomposing the origin of human multi-ethnicity.

Wait... Sharon suddenly thought of something.

书房门的密码：28319，如果拆分为2:8—3:19，就是圣经的序号，Chapter 2第八节至Chapter 3No.19节，描写的恰好是《旧约·创世纪》中伊甸园的那一段。

而电脑密码：111119，拆分为11:1—11:9，就是《旧约·创世纪》中关于通天塔的那一段。

Sharon suddenly had goose bumps all over her body.

The copy was about to be completed, when Sharon walked back to the holographic computer table, she suddenly noticed that there seemed to be something wrong with the carpet under her feet.One piece was a little lighter.She squatted down, groping, and suddenly came across a hidden zipper pull, she quickly pulled it open, and uncovered a piece of the carpet, and a square wooden board with an unlocking panel appeared underneath, which was obviously detachable.

Sharon's heart began to beat faster. She opened the panel and found that Charles' fingerprint and iris were required to open it.She cursed secretly and found the most important thing, but unfortunately she couldn't open it.She must obtain Charles' fingerprints and irises to open the camera obscura.

Is this all for today?Sharon rezipped the zipper to make sure there were no traces left, then got up, stuffed the copied hard drive into her pocket, and closed the holographic screen.

She walked out of the study, closed the door, and went downstairs quietly.The reason why she doesn't use the outer wall to climb is that the wall of the house itself has a strong anti-climbing current flowing every three seconds, and the second is that the windows of the mansion are all extremely strong bulletproof glass. If you don't have special tools Difficult to cut without moving.Now that she got Claude's fingerprints, she didn't intend to go to that trouble to take an unusual path.But just in case, she still carried a climbing cable.

She went downstairs quietly, and when she passed the hall, there was a loud noise from the TV, and then Sharon heard the exclamation and wailing of the old lady and daughter-in-law in the living room:

"...Charles! Bishop Charles was shot! Head, head shot!" The host's hoarse voice came from the TV.

Shit!Sharon froze on the spot.After a while, she suddenly thought of something, and quickly took out the pocket watch, her left hand holding the watch was trembling slightly.The pocket watch showed 12:08:32, as if mocking Sharon, silently indicating the current time.

1 minute, 1 damn minute, what can she do?Why not one hour, if it was one hour, she would have hoped to get Charles' fingerprints and irises!

She turned the hour hand as if venting her anger, even though she knew that the hour hand would not listen to her.However, something completely unexpected happened to her, the time actually went backwards, the hour hand moved back one notch, Xue Lun was quickly enveloped by the familiar white light, and the feeling of ascension of the soul hit even more intensely.After this suffocating feeling passed, Sharon took a deep breath and found that she was sitting in the passenger seat of her own van, the car hadn't started yet, and it was still parked in the underground parking lot of the safe house.

"Miss?" Old Jack, who had just fastened his seat belt in the driver's seat and was about to drive, was startled by Sharon, and asked, "What's wrong with you?"

Sharon gasped for a moment, grabbed Old Jack's shoulder suddenly, and said:

"Go... to Westminster Abbey!"

The author has something to say: Unexpectedly, hahahaha, continue tomorrow.

In addition, Sharon's mechanical prosthetic right hand has no fingerprints, so half-fingered gloves are more convenient.