Chapter 185 68. The gathering of stars in the eyes of the assassin world
In an inconspicuous underground parking lot near the outskirts of the city, the Mason trio walked into the elevator and pulled open the elevator control panel. Then Barbara took out an external pocket data interface. Plugged it in.
The intrusion protocol is uploaded and data takeover is enabled.
A few seconds later, the elevator, which was already on the bottom floor, started smoothly and took them deeper underground.
“This external data interface is really inconvenient to use.”
Barbara took back the U disk-like interface and complained in a low voice:
"Judy told me that over there, both hackers and ordinary people will preset a quick access device on the palm of their hand, which is directly connected to the brain control system.
As long as your prosthetic algorithm is advanced enough, an intrusion protocol like this can be completed in just a split second. ”
"That means you have to replace the entire arm."
Mason took out his kinetic energy pistol and installed the silencer, and said expressionlessly:
"That also means that you will take the first step to transform yourself into a 'doll'. Stop complaining, Barbara, and don't try to get any support from me."
"I've installed a control system in my brain."
Bat Girl snorted and said:
"You just saw how great my new abilities are, especially in this kind of world development mission that hides advanced technology. The role I can play is comparable to that of the three Jasons!
Team K needs a super hacker, Mason.
Whether you like it or not, I have to go on this road. ”
"You just talk, why do you still treat me as a 'combat unit'?"
Ertong put on his red helmet and said slightly dissatisfied:
"Why don't you say you are as good as ten Charles?"
“Wouldn’t that make me look too out of style?”
Batgirl curled her lips.
Before the elevator arrived at the station and opened, she raised her head, with blue light floating in her left eye socket. In the non-contact situation, she relied on data flow capture and intervention to take over the control of the three cameras in the front passage within two seconds.
The moment the elevator opened, the three cameras moved to the side to create a "safe path" for Team K.
"There are seven security personnel, two inspection posts, and a safety door outside the laboratory."
Barbara's left eye lit up in the dim corridor. While grabbing the kinetic energy pistol and stepping forward, Ergong and Mason, who were opening the way ahead, reported softly:
"Two barrels can enter the security room by walking to the left. I temporarily cut off the alarm and deal with them within fifteen seconds. Mason moved forward to open the security door and subdued the four researchers in the laboratory at the same time.
Temporary permission insertion ends.
The three of us are now Abstergo's 'elite field staff'. Well, wait a minute, there is also a self-destruct device in the lab for destroying secrets. I need to change the mode.
Countdown to three!
Friendly mode is activated and the self-destruct program is terminated!
Done! ”
Batgirl snapped her fingers, and Mason and Ergong in front acted immediately like her "loyal little brothers".
With the continuous firing of petrifying potions and paralyzing darts, as well as the stun with fist-to-flesh melee combat, the underground laboratory fell into the hands of Team K in ten seconds.
Barbara put on an expression of "Am I awesome?" and pushed open the door of the laboratory.
This made Mason and Ertong look at each other. The two grown men had to admit that having the assistance of a super hacker during this kind of stealth operation indeed reduced the difficult task to kindergarten level.
"It seems Grayson has to find a way to accept the possibility that his girlfriend will become an 'electronic doll' in the future."
Ertong whispered:
"But with that guy's level of infatuation, even if Barbara does this, he won't let her go."
"Maybe I will be more excited."
Mason curled his lips and complained in a low voice:
"You don't know how much fun people from the 2077 era have in this area. Well, focus on the task. Barbara went to connect to the laboratory database to find the specific coordinates of the Isu Temple in New York.
Ergong tied up these guys and paid attention to the external situation, and reported any news immediately.
Let me see how far the experiment here has progressed? ”
The three people took action immediately.
The underground laboratory in front of us is not big. No matter how ambitious Abstergo is, there is no way it can place its core laboratory so arrogantly near the city.
This is just an "observation laboratory".
Those test items that have been transformed in the core laboratory will be transferred here for follow-up observation and next-step experimental preparation. Small laboratories like this should be everywhere in North America.
Mason quickly entered the experimental subject observation room with the temporary permission granted by Barbara. What he saw was a naked, bald man lying in the biological cabin with no idea of his life or death.
With his professional skills as an alchemist and first aid specialist, he quickly judged that the experimental subject in front of him had reached the end of his life.
There was no way he could get any closer. It was like a fire that was ignited in his body, absorbing all his energy and turning it into firewood to burn. Unfortunately, there wasn't much "fuel" he could give.
Now the time has come when the oil is exhausted.
"How pitiful."
Mason inserted the kinetic energy pistol into his waist, reached out and opened the biological cabin, pulled out all the intubations on the dying man in front of him, and poured a mouthful of life and death water into him who was in a deep coma, allowing him to enter without being disturbed. The dream in order to alleviate his pain in the last journey of life.
Then, he took out an alchemy vessel and took some blood from this guy. He quickly purified the serum through blood separation with the basic solution and held it in front of his eyes for inspection.
After a few seconds, the information label pops up:
Phoenix Project Experimental Subject No. 370147 Serum
Quality: Inferior Alchemical Compound
Ingredients: 0.67% concentration unknown Isu genetic module
Analysis: The vector is too fragile and cannot withstand complex genetic module modifications, causing genetic collapse
Item description: This is the same as what would happen if you tried to fit a T-Rex heart into a kitten.
"I really don't know how they screen the test products? This is just a waste of human life."
Mason shook his head and put the serum in his hand into the alchemy bucket to destroy it.
He took one last look at the experimental subject before exiting the room and entering the observation room next to it. After opening a complex and encrypted medical refrigerator, Mason took out a tube of strange-colored liquid from the small, cold space. .
This thing looks very powerful at first glance, and the information tag that was subsequently detected also confirmed this conjecture:
Isu serum extract·Unknown gene module
Quality: Excellent alchemical raw materials
Utility: It can be used to make Isu power system enhancers. The blood concentration of this purified product is 0.45%. It can be [secondary purified] through alchemy skills and special items to increase the concentration of the Isu gene module.
Production suggestions: Use with high-efficiency basic reinforcements to reduce the damage of Isu blood to normal human genetic modules, improve the strengthening effect and reduce the risk.
Currently, the formula with the highest adaptability for alchemy enhancements is [Super Soldier Serum], and the fusion production success rate is 75.56%
Item description: Abstergo's biologists have always regarded the birth of a 'saint' as the 'rebirth of a god', so the concentration of this thing is by no means the higher, the better, unless you are already prepared to serve as a weapon for an ancient god. Describes the 'container' for the rebirth of human consciousness.
"Not bad."
A smile appeared on Mason's lips.
He put this unexpected tube of serum material into Hufflepuff's gold cup and let it be purified. He searched around and found several other purified materials and put them into the gold cup.
The power of magic prevents them from contaminating each other. The useless components in the purified substance in the slightly vibrating golden cup are evaporated, allowing the concentration of the Isu gene module to continue to increase, but this process takes time to complete.
Mason also planned to search more in the laboratory, but a minute later he heard Bat Girl exclaim:
"Mason, come here! I found something incredible in their deep database, you have to see it! Now!"
"Huh?"
The young man's heart sank and he stepped forward quickly.
He stood on a computer next to Barbara. Batgirl continuously decoded the information she found and transmitted it to the computer screen in the form of text.
Mason turned the mouse to check, and the title of the decrypted document shocked him:
"Follow-up Observation Report of Space-Time Disturbance Incident No. 259·Brotherhood Documents·Top Secret"
"Zha Kang said that every time the World Gate is opened, it will cause weak space-time disturbances in both worlds. The casters on our side have noticed this wave.
Now it seems that the people here have already caught the signs of the opening of the world gate and numbered it. ”
Barbara said with a complicated expression:
"They're not afraid of the Stellar Society at all, Mason! They're studying us like 'guinea pigs' in a laboratory."
"Wait until I finish reading."
Mason clicked on the document.
It itself is not long, just a few hundred words. It describes in a very brief tone the contact between the recorder of this document and the members of the Society of Stars code-named 259:
"The observation target has the usual characteristics of outsiders, that is, arrogant, arrogant, willing to act but not good at thinking.
They claim that everything they do is to save a world that is unable to protect itself from the threat of doomsday. However, their actions themselves are far from this great goal.
They enter our world based on patterns of behavior that prey rather than help and save.
They consider themselves superior and call us ‘natives’.
During the first contact, they did not doubt my true identity, especially after I provided the target with information about the Isu artifact that appeared in the 13th century in accordance with the action plan, the target and his team members regarded me as a 'friend' .
Under my deliberate guidance, they spent three days traveling across Romania and finally unearthed imitation Isu weapons at a predetermined location.
After gaining further trust, I once again provided the target with information about higher-level collectibles and emphasized the danger of the operation. However, the target became overly enthusiastic about loot under the influence of the golden apple, which apparently caused them to ignore my warning. .
As of 7 p.m. the day before the report was issued, the 17th military storage room of Abstergo Corporation's European branch was invaded.
Saints No. 17, 23, and 24 of the European branch of the Assassin Brotherhood participated in the blocking operation.
Target No. 259 and his team members were all killed.
Observation is over.
Ps:
The Isu artifacts held by them have been put back into their original positions, waiting for the next batch of outsiders to enter for a new round of observation and behavioral pattern testing. ”
Mason finished reading the document.
His expression was extremely complicated, but Barbara decrypted another document, and Mason opened it and found that it was a proposal from the European branch of the Templar organization:
“Through the collection of observation reports on 247 pioneers of the ‘Star Club’ in the past five months, we have summarized their specific internal composition system and threat classification.
The following suggestions for action are now given:
When facing members below C level, it is recommended to dispatch five master-level forces to command a 20-person team to complete the quick cleanup.
When facing B-level personnel, it is recommended to dispatch three to five saints to command a team of thirty masters, or dispatch the Presbyterian Guards and the Phoenix Tactical Team to complete a quick cleanup.
There is insufficient information and intelligence collection on the A-level personnel of the Star Club.
Currently, there are too few samples of Class A personnel. Sample code-named 233 is suspected of suffering from severe split personality and psychotic symptoms, and its information is not enough to serve as a normal reference.
Therefore, when the other party has A-level personnel, it is recommended to submit a special operations application to the headquarters.
If you are below the strength of a saint, avoid direct conflict with him.
The Stars Club suspects that there is a higher-level force above the A-class personnel, but they have not shown up yet. Perhaps they should release the necessary information to implement a 'bait' tactic.
Another:
Frequent contacts with the Star Society have yielded credible information. The doomsday information, that is, the date of the event that the other party calls the 'impact' coincides with the time predicted by the "Three Goddesses of Destiny".
At present, it can be concluded that there are methods within the Star Council to resist the world-class doomsday. However, all the actions they took in the face of the impact event were unable to effectively alleviate the acceleration of the doomsday event.
According to the judgment of the 'World Tree' host based on the current information, the doomsday prophecy of the ancient Isu people cannot be solved from the direction of the Star Council.
In the past six months, the other party has twice tried to spread dangerous zombie viruses in the world to make it easier for them to plunder the world's resources.
This is tantamount to a declaration of war.
The existence of that organization does not alleviate the apocalyptic concerns of the parallel world.
Its aggressive recruitment of desperadoes from all over the world can only bring more unnecessary chaos to the already uneasy status quo. For both the Assassin Brotherhood and the Templars, chaos is a fire that must be extinguished.
Therefore, the European branch has discussed many times and the opinions are:
There is no need to waste energy on maintaining contact with time and the Star Society. At the appropriate time in the future, a large-scale cleanup operation can be carried out and all communication between this world and the Star Society can be completely isolated. ”
"Well, the opinions of the rulers of this world on the Society of Stars are surprisingly pertinent and pungent."
Mason closed the document, glanced at Barbara beside him and Jason who had just come over, he curled his lips and said:
"Look, this world is not only deliberately disguising itself, but also using 'showing weakness' and 'tempting' to make the stars regard it as a risky place to explore.
They deliberately used those cherished ancient weapons and knowledge to lure the pioneers to keep coming here, so as to create opportunities for the monitors of this world to have close contact with the pioneers.
The world is observing us, not us exploring the world.
The Stars still thought they had everything under control.
But the truth is so hurtful. Even a B-level world can play with them in applause. They are really just pure paper tigers. ”
"What's scaring me more right now is not the truth, Mason."
Ergong held the kinetic energy revolver at his waist with some uneasiness, and whispered:
"Instead, this document says that the assassins in this world are already planning to carry out a large-scale cleanup of the members of the Stars Association who remain here, in order to cut off our connection with this world.
Mr. Hunter and the old Green Goblin have both emphasized that this time the impact event is imminent, so if the people here want to take action, now is their best time.
But we were sent here just at this time. ”
"Du, Du"
Just as Er Tong was talking, the phone in Mason's pocket suddenly vibrated. He picked up the flip phone and took a look. The number was from Zha Kang.
Mason frowned and pressed the call button. Before he could ask a question, Zha Kang shouted:
"Mason, this is a damn trap! The golden apple in your hand is a specially thrown bait. Hell, it was supposed to be a bait reserved for big shots like Mr. Hunter.
We have become his scapegoat! ”
"John, where did you know this?"
Mason couldn't care less about being exposed or not at this moment, he asked sharply:
"Did you find something in that damn Continental Hotel?"
"I'm on the top floor now, preparing to jump down."
Zha Kang screamed:
"Here is a golden apple that can affect the mind! It's the kind you are holding in your hand. I can tell you clearly now that all the pioneers who have entered this world have had their minds transformed by this thing!
Including old K!
The golden apple in your hand was not brought out by old K because of his luck. The people here specially arranged for him to take it out after he escaped from death. The purpose was to attract more senior members for them to observe.
You ask me why I know?
Because now I have one of that thing in my hand! And a deadly A-class member is hunting me, damn it! This is what he came here for this time!
You've heard this, why are you still standing there?
Come and save me! ”
——
"Du"
At the same time that Team K was communicating internally, in an assassin operation point closest to the Phoenix Project laboratory, a lonely man holding a dog just drank a glass of wine and then picked up his vibrating cell phone.
He put the phone to his ear, and a deep voice came from there and said:
"Saint No. 113 John Wick, the target information has been issued, start taking action!" (End of this chapter)