Invincible Chapter 720

? The offices of the investigators feel more like European and American police stations in the 1980s. That was the last glorious period of paper office, and the telephone was basically in a solidified state. Brick-like mobile phones were owned by very few people. Luxury……

Kevin has an office of his own here, but the secretary is shared with three other investigators. The secretary works in three shifts and two shifts to ensure that there are people handling affairs throughout the day. The copywriting work is not so busy. The main reason is that the irregularity of receiving cases and the cumbersomeness of information acquisition consume man-hours.

Before receiving the Montenegro prison case, Kane had already assumed the role and started to show up in the office, but he still focused on recovery, and his appearance was irregular, and even if he was there, he would not just stay there.

As usual, I greeted Lia, the secretary of the service station at the corridor entrance, and Lia told Kane that the other three investigators were already waiting for him in the small meeting.

Kane nodded, handed Lia his hat and coat, and walked inside along the corridor.

The small meeting room is at the innermost, with fireplace, sofa, coffee table, potted plants, retro and warm, most of the time it is used as a common room, and there are only 4 people who have the right to share it, including Kevin.

The second elite investigation team is composed of 4 investigators, but two of them are newly promoted, and the original two died in the last case.

It was a big case with a very unusual start. The three elite teams of the firm entered the game one after another. Group 1 had 1 death and 1 serious injury, Group 2 had 2 deaths and 1 injury (actually 3 deaths), and Group 3 only survived 1, but Because one leg delayed the treatment time, it had to be amputated and retired.

Perhaps it is precisely because of this outrageously high casualty rate that the firm's relatively good overall atmosphere and atmosphere stand out from the crowd and win widespread trust in this era of rampant corruption and unspoken rules in various industries.

This time, the identity of the client, Phoenix, is sensitive, and the case is equally sensitive, so the level of confidentiality is very high. After confirming that Kane will participate, the first step is to sign a non-disclosure agreement.

Kane is naturally not afraid of this at all. For him, secular goals such as interests and power are at most a better help to achieve the goal, not the goal itself. He does not pursue those, and even excessive pursuit will become drag. His main purpose is to use the investigator's convenience to get on the line of the old branch to obtain important information.

After the non-disclosure agreement was signed, Kane learned more about the specifics of the case.

To put it simply, there was a vicious 'disappearance' of prisoners in Heishan Prison, which has reached the point where it cannot be concealed.

in this era,

Whether official or private, it is not uncommon for prisoners to go missing.

The real reason for the disappearance, if you think about it in the dark, is generally not wrong. The social status of prisoners is low, and their families are often fragmented, so few people care about them, and they disappear three or five times a year. With the prison's fault-tolerant mechanism, it can be settled without showing signs of dew.

But this time the situation was so serious that the Phoenix family, one of the directors who were not involved in the management of specific affairs, heard the wind.

Seeing that the chief executive of the police system in the metropolitan area is about to retire, and Phoenix is ​​the strongest contender for that seat, the Phoenix family and the second-level director himself naturally do not want to be implicated in the scandal at this time.

As the No. 2 chief of the Metropolitan Police System, Phoenix is ​​well aware of how dirty and lazy the personnel in this system are, so he will not use those well-known police detectives, so don't worry.

Moreover, the large-scale disappearance of prisoners cannot be suppressed, and it will explode sooner or later. Phoenix can imagine that his competitors will not miss this opportunity to throw dirty water. The Phoenix family is one of the directors of the Black Mountain Prison, which is known to the public.

Just a few years ago, Phoenix did a show, showing how reasonable and humane the various advanced measures of the private prison in Montenegro were.

Therefore, there was a scandal in the dark prison, and Phoenix couldn't escape. His purpose was to find someone to dig out the truth, choose himself as much as possible, and even paper it into a white lotus that is not stained by mud.

The specific matters of this matter are naturally handled by the agent. The agent is now in the small conference room, presenting the relevant information for Kane and others, and reassuring that the Phoenix family is absolutely innocent in this case. Investigators We can check it out.

It took almost a whole morning, and this chapter was revealed. Since the scandal may explode at any time, the time left for the investigators is very limited, and the four quickly entered their roles.

After some discussion, the four investigators adopted the strategy of walking on two legs, in groups of two, with the old leading the new.

Group A consists of Thomas, who is majestic and strong on the outside, who is very suitable to play the role of an upright law enforcement officer, and Sandra, who is dignified and has a strong affinity.

The two are responsible for finding the common clues of these people from the background of the missing persons. That is to say, the two of them had to walk through the streets and alleys, go deep into the residential areas, and deal with all kinds of people, with a white face and a red face, which complemented each other.

Group B is Kane and rookie Paul.

Said to be a newcomer, in fact, regardless of his age or working time, Paul is enough to be the elder of Kevin, the one who took over from Kane, but Paul has been doing infernal affairs in the police line before, and he has been in the gang for too long. The old style, especially when he finally became a regular, found that some aspects of the police system were darker and filthier than the gangs, so he was disappointed. Then he left the east where he originally lived, and came to the most prosperous metropolis in the west to work as an investigator.

And the Kevin who Kane took over to continue writing his life came from a family of policemen. However, Kane himself believes that it is more appropriate for this family to say that they are cursed blood.

Something happened in the generation of the great-grandfather. Although the subsequent generations fought bravely, they could not get rid of the ending of violent death.

Correspondingly, it is far beyond ordinary talents and abilities, not extraordinary, but also the limit of the mortal world. For example, Kevin's physical fitness is good when he is young, and he is qualified to participate in the Olympic level without any special professional training. What's even more rare is that he has many advantages such as wisdom, diligence, and calmness in situations, and finally became a character like Ethan, the protagonist of the "Mission: Impossible" series.

Therefore, the two people in Group B are also a good match. One is a good actor, and the other is capable of acting with his true colors. The two will enter the prison as prisoners to investigate the case.

It is worth mentioning that the monitoring network is still in a relatively primitive stage in this era. The equipment is expensive, there are many dead spots, and there is no round-the-clock monitoring. This makes the dark currents in the prison turbulent and dangerous, but it also facilitates Kane and Paul's actions. As for dealing with the dark forces in the prison, it is a basic ability, and it is not enough. Special instructions are required.

On the afternoon of November 11, Kane and Paul mixed in a prison van and arrived at Montenegro Prison.

As the name suggests, Montenegro Prison is built on Montenegro, and Montenegro is a black dormant volcano. In the early years, it was said to be a hot spring resort. Later, it was closed due to a vicious accident of hot springs gushing and scalding people to death, and then it was transformed into a private prison.

In Kane's view, this place is an evil place at all, and even the sunlight from the sky is three points weaker when it falls here. He watched the scenery along the road from the prison van, and found that there were no birds and other small animals, and wild plants were not flourishing. The official explanation was the radiation from sulfur swamps and volcanic rocks, but he naturally believed that it was caused by extraordinary factors.

Speaking of extraordinary factors, even though this is a super-magic world, anyone who is filled with magic power in this world has the potential to become a magician. However, because the Old Ones are in an absolutely dominant position in this world, even the basic laws have been modified by them. Therefore, apart from the old branches, other extraordinary systems are almost completely suppressed here.

To go into more detail, it is not feasible to analyze the basic composition of this world with light and darkness, fire, water and wind. From his perspective as an outsider, there are only two types of extraordinary power in this world, the distorted power of faith and the original magic power.

Because of being distorted, only by believing in the old evil spirit can it be possible to use the same distorted original magic power to achieve extraordinary effects.

Therefore, San value is a very delicate concept in this world.

It is directly linked to spiritual vision or special perception.

The higher the San value, the easier it is to perceive supernatural phenomena and obtain certain supernatural abilities.

At the same time, too frequent detection of extraordinary phenomena will make the San value too high, which will cause people to suffer from mental illness until they collapse and go crazy.

This makes in this world, becoming a transcendent is basically equated with death.

It's very Cthulhu, it must be said. The characteristic of Cthulhu is that the truth is desperate, and curiosity will kill people.

In such a world that is extremely unfriendly to all creatures except the old branch, Kane can be said to be struggling.

This is already very capable. After all, no matter how difficult it is, he is still walking, and he has not hesitated to move forward.

And what allowed him to move forward, apart from the basic qualifications brought by his own divinity, the other one was technology.

Ordinary technology can't be used here at all, but there is one technology that can, and that is planetary writing.

The planetary text is a low-level version of the original text, but it is the most suitable in this world, because the original text is too powerful, and the use of it will inevitably alarm the old rulers who have completely controlled the world. The planetary text is relatively powerful. Much smaller, it looks like ants and mayflies looking at the world, able to peek into the laws of this world, and thus condense into symbols with extraordinary effectiveness, and the old rulers generally don't care about such trivial details.

In addition, after all, Kane has dealt with some of the old rulers in the dark HP world, especially in the wilderness in 1853. There was a big battle and the larva of Hastur was captured.

In addition, Kane's cheap father Stanley in the dark HP world was also eroded by one of Hasta's commonly used incarnations. Kane not only obtained the samples, but also captured his family members, and obtained various less relevant knowledge.

It can be said that Kane actually has a deep research on the Old Ones, but after all, he still has a short time to become a god, and a lot of research is still on the way. Even if some phased results are achieved, they are just superficial. .

Not much fell on Kane Qianqian, and it became less and less when it came to the echo body. At present, he can only start from the 'Yellow Seal' to make the first plausible planetary text, fire.

This symbol looks like the word 'fire' in oracle bone inscriptions. In the eyes of modern people, it is more likely to be mistaken for a beast footprint with three claws, but the meaning it represents has not changed, it is flame, extraordinary fire .

The element opposition of the Cthulhu system is very strange, not DND at all. For example, the attribute of Cthulhu is water, and the attribute of its mortal enemy, Hastur, is wind. Wind and water are actually opposites. This is true. It is very difficult to explain.

Of course, if it can be analyzed smoothly, it will be Cthulhu, and the focus of deconstructing Cthulhu is not on the opposition of attributes. It is impossible for Kane to completely abandon his own system, and he has to accommodate the Cthulhu system, so there is this fire rune with the "Yellow Seal" as the starting point.

In this way, first of all, the rune is effective in this world and belongs to the wind element series.

Secondly, for Kane, it is self-consistent, and the essence is the fire element in his cognition.

Taking this as the starting point, Kane started his extraordinary path in this world, which can be understood as a fire element spellcaster dressed in Hastur followers.

Well, with the license, the various advantages of the super magic world are reflected. It has only been more than 50 days since he advanced to the extraordinary, and he already has a total level of level 6 (DND algorithm), and a level 4 fighter , Level 2 Elemental Mage.

It does look a bit shabby, after all, in other worlds, even his creations are basically started by high-level mages, like the shadow of the divine commando in the SC universe, and its birth is a quasi-legendary.

But there is no way, this world is the iron curtain world of the old law, his climbing path must be rooted on the planetary characters with the characteristics of this world, and the planetary characters are the analysis of the laws, which is not so easy to do , he doesn't even know when and under what circumstances the deconstruction of the next planetary text will be completed, so it is normal that the level cannot be improved by leaps and bounds.

Besides, level is only a reflection of the overall index, not equal to strength. He can also improve from pendants, combat skills and tactics, so he doesn't feel that he has to be a legend to come out because of his low level.

Kane even felt that in this world, the strength of strength should correspond to the three-value characteristic. If it is low, it is easy to die, and if it is high, it is easy to collapse.

Stripped naked and washed with water jets, Black Mountain Prison's treatment of new prisoners can only be described as old-fashioned, but it is very useful. The river water in this season is already a little bit cold, and it is rushed out after being pressurized. , and then numbness, a few strokes can make people twitch from the cold.

The prison guard is not a good bird either, he smirked and rushed at the crotch, and bet on how small the penis can be shrunk when stimulated, it is true that the Buddha is also angry, but if he really dares to pretend, then it is light to scold and prolong the washing time, The heavy ones, the rubber truncheons were whipped without any head or face.

Both Kane and Paul played the kind of thieves who make their homes in prisons this time, and both of them performed well, embodying the image of skinless hob meat.

Prison guards are not very interested in this kind of guy who doesn't make big mistakes, keeps small cases, and has a good attitude of admitting mistakes but never repents. Therefore, the two just suffered a small loss and passed, and one grade is actually not enough. , but the one who forced the elder brother to come here, and the other young and energetic one who dared to stare at everyone, became the main course, and was beaten to death by the prison guards, and went to the infirmary first without even entering the cell door .

Under the guidance of the prison guards, Kane went to the cell with a lazy face while holding his prison uniform, and took a look at the scene here.

The whole picture of Montenegro Prison has been printed in his head long ago, and now it is a personal experience, to see if he can find clues from the details.

In Kane's eyes, there are more than just clues, the remnants of the smoldering original force (primitive magic power), it is tantamount to saying that this is where extraordinary events happen intensively.

Even ordinary people should be able to feel it (generally strong soul power, high intuition), this place is darker and darker than other places, which makes people feel uncomfortable.

It's just that there are too many similar situations, deserted houses, hospitals, abandoned courtyard factories... so many people are numb.

On the other hand, ghost anecdotes are widely circulated, and various religious beliefs are flourishing, and the more remote and remote, the more superstitious they are, which are also characteristics of this world.

Both Kane and Paul have been given special care. Although the early warning is cleared, it is not following the unspoken rules of the judicial system, but a black and white interest chain, that is, gangs and low-level prison guards.

As the saying goes, it's better for the county magistrate to take care of it now. If the captain or the like orders it down, it will work. But the people below won't get much benefit, so they won't worry too much, and it's easy to be exposed, so it's better to take the bottom line.

Black litigators, rogue lawyers, who specialize in gang circles, have a bad reputation but have the same earning power as dentists. They can reasonably and legally allow prison guards to get money for cigarettes, milk powder, etc., so as to achieve the purpose of caring .

This is the case this time. Both Kane and Paul have arranged good inmates. Kane’s inmate is nicknamed Four-Eyed. Using machines to make troubles and killing people with borrowed knives.

Kane has known his roots for a long time, so he naturally knows how to deal with it. As soon as he came up, he pulled out a small roll of green bills (a currency with a wide circulation like US dollars) from the corner of his prison uniform like magic, and respectfully handed him over to him. Fei, with a very sweet mouth, asked the seniors for advice one by one, and the four eyes of the little flattery were very comfortable, and they were quickly accepted by the four eyes.

Four Eyes not only values ​​Kane's respect and obedience to him, but also Kane's first-class stealing skills. He knows that Kane is so skilled, as long as the logistics can keep up, he can arrange for celebrity charity events and other places. It's a lot of money. For an intelligence broker like him, it is of course beneficial to have more resources with such unique skills.

Four Eyes intends to win over Kane, so naturally they have to show a few hands. In addition to playing tricks and tricks, what he is best at is bragging. He also knows that bragging is not enough, there must be dry goods.

So under Kane's intentional or unintentional guidance, it is easy to talk about the strange anecdotes here.

From the four-eyed mouth, Kane heard another version of the prison legend.

According to Four Eyes, Heishan was not a hot spring sanatorium before. In his words: "Look at this shabby place, the grass can't even grow well, only people with holes in their heads come here to recuperate Bar?"

"Then where is it?"

"Death prison! Mental hospital!"

"what exactly is it?"

Both are.

Death prisons are those who have been sentenced to life. Due to the huge psychological pressure, such prisoners are often very dangerous. Prisons in various places basically detain such prisoners in solitary confinement, and the cost is very high.

So someone came up with the idea of ​​concentrating such prisoners. To put it simply, the prisoners manage themselves, trade their output for survival, and die as soon as they die, and they are not afraid of anyone acting as a monster.

One can imagine how dark and cruel the prisoner's living environment is in such a prison.

As for the mental hospital. Due to the particularity of this world, the prevalence of mental illness is extremely high, and quite a few of them are related to heinous murders. So even if it is proved that he is indeed mentally ill, he still cannot escape legal sanctions.

Holding such prisoners is also a costly and thankless project.

The original Montenegro Sanitarium was used to detain such prisoners. Therefore, the predecessor of the Dark Prison can be said to be a special place where filth is hidden. As for how it was destroyed, Four Eyes is not very clear. It is inclined to the theory of destruction by fire. According to this theory, the gates of hell are opened, and the burning air in hell gushes out, burning this place to nothingness.

Kane pondered, if the four eyes are roughly reliable, then there is probably something underground here.

Instead of launching an investigation in a hurry, he hibernated overnight. During the wind-off time the next day, he met with Paul to exchange information and discuss the next course of action.

Paul also collected some useful information. According to Paul's inmates, the missing prisoners were actually eaten by the devil. Because the ancient contract was inadvertently reactivated, the devil specifically ate death row prisoners. At that time, all death row prisoners would be locked up in a single room. Therefore, in recent cases of disappearances that have been raging, the missing persons are all prisoners held in a single room.

Kane and Paul decided to start from two aspects, and the experienced Paul was responsible for further confirming this statement from other prisoners.

And Kane, who is the super agent, is responsible for consulting relevant files, confirming the statement and obtaining evidence from the perspective of the prison administrator.

Soon, it was time for Kane to act. He easily fell asleep with his four eyes, and then quietly unlocked the cell door from the inside and entered the corridor.

He kept in mind the positions of the few surveillance cameras, and through a method similar to mirror refraction imaging, he observed the camera's operation rules and confirmed whether it was operating, thus sneaking around the prison like a ghost.

Although there are some ingeniously designed traps in the prison, they were all cracked by Kane one by one. They are not extraordinary items. Under Kane's extraordinary perception, there is no secret at all, and they are easy to be detected and cracked.

Kane's actions went smoothly, and he got what he wanted beyond expectations. But even so, by the time he turned back, it was early in the morning, around 3:40, the darkest time of the day, and Kane encountered an extraordinary event on his way home...