Chapter 681 Changes in the Control Room

In the library control room, Manstein pushed open the door forcefully. The oak door hit the wall with a muffled sound. Schneider, who stood in front of the big screen and looked up, did not look back. His iron-grey eyes stared at the stars on the screen that spread out again and again. The gathering light spots can solidify the atmosphere around them visibly to the naked eye. Some people call this the pressure of those in power, while others call it the so-called "murderous aura."

"Who is on duty tonight?" Manstein hurriedly walked behind Schneider and asked in a low voice, but shook his head when he saw that Schneider did not respond to his question.

Also, the question of who is on duty now is meaningless at all. This sentence is mainly to break this solidified heaviness. Schneider has always been the sharpest sword in Kassel Academy that faces outwards. Now the sword has been unsheathed, but But it didn't face the outside, because it was rare for the enemy to bump into the blade.

This is a complete provocation. Remember, this is the first time a foreign enemy has invaded since the school was founded in 1900. Not to mention that no one would be crazy enough to invade a military fortress full of mixed races. The college itself also does a good job in keeping its address confidential. It’s so airtight that only the CC1000 express train can get here through the wilderness of Annabelle flowers. How did these people find the Hilltop Academy?

But this was also a meaningless question. Guderian, wearing a nightcap, quickly ran in from the door. Seeing the dignified backs of Manstein and Schneider, he could not help but calm down and straighten his red nightcap. , quickly ran behind the two of them and said in a deep voice, "What's going on?"

Manstein looked back at his old friend and then said with a straight face, "It's my turn to ask you what's going on with you?"

Guderian straightened the collar of his pajamas and hid his hairy chest, feeling a little embarrassed. "Time was so tight. I came right over when I saw the text message from Norma. Didn't the emergency assembly regulations say that all professors would be in alert level one?" Do you want to rush to the control room as soon as possible? Where are the others?"

"Non-combatants have been ordered to stay in the staff dormitories. Didn't you read Norma's additional notice ten minutes ago?" Manstein frowned as he looked at Guderian in pajamas, "Now the entire college is It has become a battlefield, and if you just run here and there in slippers, if you encounter an enemy, you will be a living target, with no chance to resist!"

"Aren't you here too?" Guderian whispered.

Manstein glanced at him coldly, took out a silver pistol with a unique and futuristic shape from the inside of his formal suit and slapped it on the table. Guderian took one look and said, "Turtle, Guangguang." "Dragon's Lament'? Why are you not afraid of blowing up the experimental weapons made by those madmen in the equipment department when you carry them with you?"

"It's better to blow up than to be killed with one shot." Manstein glanced at the firearms on the table and became a little annoyed.

Although the equipment department is often unreliable, it has never disappointed in terms of the "power" of the equipment. He really wants to equip every student in the academy who is fighting the enemy with such a weapon that is said to be able to The weapon that left traces on the scales of the third generation, but the surprise attack was so unexpected that even ordinary standard weapons were not distributed to everyone, which undoubtedly brought a great disadvantage to this encounter.

"Who are our enemies?" Manstein asked Schneider, who had been staring at the twinkling stars on the big screen. The executive director was the first to arrive in the control room, which is Norma's information processing hub. This means that all the information in Cassel College will be gathered here for processing in detail. Schneider, who doesn’t know how long it has been, should know more information.

"Are you sure that the people who invaded the college are all 'dragons'? Who determined the gender? Norma?" Guderian shrank his neck and whispered, "When I came here, I heard explosions and fires in many places, especially Anbo. In the direction of the museum, it’s as lively as if a cloud bomb had exploded!”

"Did you also see the fire there?" Manstein asked in a deep voice, "There is expected to be a celebration banquet tonight in the Anbo Hall. The president of the student union will host it, and it will be very popular on the Night Watch Forum. Lin Nian, Su Xiaoqiang and the others They should be at that place tonight, but I can't get through their cell phones. It may be due to the electromagnetic influence after the explosion. It may also be other reasons."

"What you see is not the fire of the explosion, but the spirit of speech. According to the survivors' information, someone released a spirit of speech in the Amber Pavilion half an hour ago." Schneider finally spoke, his voice was low and hoarse, which made Man Both Stein and Guderian were a little uncomfortable. No one likes the voice of the executive director, especially when he announces bad news, it always feels like rough iron sandpaper slowly rubbing against your heart.

"It's not an explosion, it's the spirit of speech?" Manstein's pupils shrank, and his breathing became a little less smooth. "How could someone still release the spirit of speech under the influence of the 'commandments'?"

The library control room was still within the radiation range of the speaking spirit in the bell tower. The three people present could still feel the power of the 'commandments' suppressing their 'spirits'. Manstein's mind was filled with emotions. None of the 'snakes' could escape, and the force suppressing him was as clear and heavy as a giant hand caressing the top of his head.

"So Norma speculated that it was a 'dragon invasion'. Theoretically, only pure-blood dragons or hybrids with extremely powerful bloodlines can break through the 'commandments'. The power grid in the back mountain will be paralyzed if it is attacked by the spirit of speech. At the same moment that the invasion occurred, Norma detected multiple biomagnetic fields spreading outside the college, so it was reasonable to raise the level to 'Level 1 Alert' and issue a 'Dragon Invasion' warning." Schneider said coldly.

"A large group of dragons attacked Kassel College?" Guderian took a breath, "Is this an unprecedented 'war'?"

"It's not unprecedented. Dragons have attacked the secret party's fortress in history." Schneider said.

"Summer's Mourning." Manstein whispered, staring at the back of Schneider's head, "Are you sure the dragon clan has launched a war against us?"

Schneider did not answer Manstein, which made Manstein pause and slowly frown. When he wanted to ask anything else, an application for signal access suddenly popped up on the screen in the central control room. Schneider I made a gesture to connect almost at the same second when the application popped up.

"This is the central control room," Schneider said.

"This is Chu Zihang." The boy's calm and calm voice echoed in the huge control room.

"Report on mission progress."

"Mission accomplished, target dead."

Schneider was silent for a few seconds, and the other side of the screen fell into silence. After that, he said, "I said I want to be alive."

"Caesar Gattuso has obtained key intelligence." Chu Zihang said, "It is confirmed that the target is a hybrid and not a dragon. Norma misjudged our enemy."

"Their origins and purpose."

"According to the misleading words of a student in the Amber Hall, I temporarily learned from the target's mouth that this was an organized and purposeful 'hunt' targeting Kassel College. The target revealed that they were from Chernobyl. Prison, the main purpose of coming here is to kill the people on a 'list', and the names on the list are me and Caesar Gattuso." Chu Zihang said methodically.

"Isn't it a dragon invasion?" Guderian and Manstein behind Schneider stared wide-eyed.

"Where's the body?" Schneider stared at the screen with countless thoughts passing through his eyes.

"It's burnt, but after an on-site autopsy, it can be vaguely recognized that it is indeed not a dragon. The internal structure is completely consistent with that of a human being."

"Deaths and Injuries at Amber Hall."

"Three people died on the spot when they blocked the target from releasing the spirit for the first time. The remaining students, under the protection of Caesar Gattuso and an unknown student, suffered serious injuries and excessive blood loss and needed to be rescued halfway. Get medical help within hours, otherwise you will die at any time.”

"The medical unit has already rushed to your side and is expected to arrive within three minutes." Schneider withdrew his hand and signaled Norma to send a signal to the troops who were already waiting outside the woods of the Amber Pavilion for the end of the battle.

Guderian and Manstein reacted when they saw his operation. It turned out that Schneider had been standing silently in front of the screen waiting for this moment, waiting for his students to go deep into the battlefield and bring him back the key to influence the war. Important information!

Manstein was a little cold, because this meant that Schneider sent his only student, a second-year student, directly to the center of the battlefield when the enemy's identity was unknown and Norma judged it as a 'dragon invasion'. And ordering him to 'capture' alive is not to 'kill' the enemy!

Schneider felt the piercing eyes behind him, which were as hot as ice picks, but he did not look back. Instead, he continued to ask for information, "A brief report of the battle process in a hundred words."

"I rushed to the scene. The target had released his word spirit for the third time. The president of the student union handed over the battlefield to me to rescue the injured. I observed that his energy and physical strength were not enough to completely release his word spirit, so I chose to use 'Jun' He suppressed Yan's attack, and finally chose to attack when he was in decline, cutting off his head at the cost of minor injuries." Chu Zihang said.

Ignoring the reactions of Manstein and Guderian behind them when they heard the word 'Jun Yan'.

Schneider thought for two seconds and then asked, "What is the target's spirit?"

"According to Caesar's intelligence, it is most likely 'Yang Lei'."

"The 'Yang Lei' of serial number 93?" Manstein couldn't help but lost his voice. As a professor, he has lived a long life and has seen many things. Naturally, he understands that the so-called "serial number 93" is not as simple a number as it sounds.

Starting from the Word Spirit No. 89, all dangerous Word Spirits are strategic "weapons". In ancient times and even in the Middle Ages, they were humanoid natural disasters that could attack a city. Think about how you can use light and fire on your own. The scene of the wave crashing through the closed city gate was tantamount to the arrival of a god in the eyes of people of that era. As long as they followed it on the battlefield of killing, they would be invincible and invincible.

Even today, a word spirit of this level can form an army by one person. As long as it appears in this world, its unique skills will be immediately controlled and monitored by the hybrid forces.

"But the 'commandments' are still there, how can he, as a hybrid, release the spirit of speech?" Manstein finally asked the question he wanted to ask when he heard Chu Zihang's report.

"The 'commandments' have been weakened." Chu Zihang behind the screen answered this question, "After the college's power grid was destroyed, I found that I could freely release the spirit of speech, and I successfully did it."

".Your speech spirit is 'Jun Yan', which is also a dangerous speech spirit. That's why Schneider dared to send you to perform tasks on the first battlefield." Manstein seemed to have realized something and suddenly said coldly.

However, Chu Zihang did not make any remarks on this topic, and one can imagine his silent face in the rain on the other side.

"Besides you and the target, is there anyone else on site who can release the spirit under the 'commandments'?" Schneider asked.

"As far as I know, Caesar successfully released the Yanling, as well as the unknown students who had previously fought with him against the target."

"Unknown?"

"He covered his head with silk stockings, as if he didn't want others to know his identity, but judging from what he did, at least he was on the side of the college."

After Schneider was silent for a few seconds, he no longer struggled with this issue. "I will send a team to the clock tower to check the situation of the night watchman. The weakening of 'Commandment' must be because he has also encountered a problem. I hope the problem is not big, as long as 'Discipline' can regain its repressive power, and the damage of this invasion can be minimized."

"The current 'commandments' cannot suppress your students. Does this mean that other students with excellent bloodlines can follow suit and release the spirit of speech? Do you need to spread this news through Norma?" Manstein asked immediately to Schneider.

"Those who can release the spirit of speech will feel confident in their hearts. They also understand that in such an emergency, the school rules are in vain, and they will make good use of the 'sword' in their hands." Schneider said lightly, "It just looks like this. The information about the fall of the Ernobyl Prison is true. The hybrid possesses the 'Yang Lei', which is very consistent with the monster that comes out of that filthy place."

"But the executive department has not received any news about asking for help over there." Manstein stared at the big screen.

"Is it a network delay? I heard that the signal over there is poor due to problems left over from previous nuclear leaks." Guderian said probingly.

"Don't pretend to understand. The place where the Chernobyl prison was built is completely covered by wireless networks. There are parallel satellite monitoring anytime and anywhere. How could it be possible that the information cannot be transmitted because of poor signal!" Manstein glared. The old guy next to him said angrily.

"Is it possible that the Chernobyl prison has been completely destroyed and the management has been controlled so that the intelligence cannot be handed out." On the other side of the screen, Chu Zihang also heard the conversation between Manstein and Guderian and raised a question idea.

As soon as this conjecture came out, the ripples of the last argument in the control room hit the shore and disappeared, leaving only an unsettling pool of stagnant water.

"It's not very likely, right?" Manstein said through gritted teeth. It could be seen from his facial expression that he was trying his best to suppress his inner uneasiness.

Schneider looked back at Manstein, and a look of death like rotten dead wood appeared in his iron-gray pupils, because even the head of the execution department would be shocked by this conjecture, just imagine Chu Zihang's description As soon as the scene happened, strong energy surged in his body. It was a murderous intent like a turbulent wave.

The location of the Chernobyl Prison is very special. The school board injects funds into it throughout the year and replaces the best facilities and equipment every period of time in order to turn that place into the "Eighteen Levels of Hell" in Chinese mythology. , so that the devils who were knocked inside will never be reincarnated. They will completely 'die' in this world the moment the prison door is closed, cutting off the connection with the spring, summer, autumn and winter outside the nuclear ruins, leaving them with Only the black cage where I was imprisoned for the rest of my life before becoming a withered skeleton.

Only truly dangerous characters will be imprisoned in Chernobyl Prison. Political prisoners, financial prisoners, etc. are just good babies in the [Green Zone] of the prison. From the [Orange Zone] to the [Red Zone], [ The Black Zone is the place where terror is truly imprisoned. Hidden there are the local mixed-race forces. They are like hot potatoes, monsters that are difficult to control and want to kill, but cannot bear the price.

Especially in the [Red Zone], there are many prisoners who were personally sent in by the Executive Department of Kassel College. If they came out today and rushed to the college, it is not difficult to imagine how they would treat this secret party's fortress. What kind of hatred and madness will they have, maybe they want to break the bones of this city that symbolizes 'justice', suck out the marrow, bite it into dregs, and then swallow it into their abdomen?

Thinking of this, the coldness in Schneider's eyes became even stronger, but this could not hide the deeper darkness in Youyou's eyes, which was like all black mixed together.

[Black Zone], that’s where Schneider is truly in awe, there are things hidden there that really make no one want to accept their ‘existence’, so in order to ensure the absolute control of the Chernobyl prison, the whole There are secret keys buried under the prison that are activated and can be detonated at any time. However, now that the ultimate method has not bloomed a dazzling flower again on the ruins, it has simply fallen completely?

Who broke the prison?

If someone controls that prison, it means they control that last resort weapon. Is there anything more disturbing than a deterrent weapon falling into the hands of terrorists?

The answer is of course yes, that is, there is something far more dangerous than deterrent weapons hidden in the prison - a group of dangerous hybrids wearing spiked collars.

Someone has now taken the first step to use the hatred of those hybrids to hunt down the students of Cassel College. So what will he do next with the "legion" who has no power, no fear, and no fear? Carve out a kingdom in Chernobyl, or want more?

Just thinking about this possibility is enough to make the three professors in the control room sweat.

"Professor, I suggest that the information on the 'list' be passed on to all students through Norma." Chu Zihang's calm voice sounded again, mixed with the noisy rain in the background, "If the enemy's goal is to 'hunt', who will There is no guarantee that their names will appear on the 'list' which means student dormitories are no longer safe."

"They could raid any place in the academy." Schneider said hoarsely, following Chu Zihang's train of thought. "Can we deduce more potential names based on the known names on the list?"

"It's difficult, but there is an idea provided by the president of the student union." Chu Zihang said, "He believes that the list is arranged according to the 'blood' of the students."

"Bloodline?" Manstein suddenly raised his head, along with Guderian.

"It's unlikely. The information of Cassel College students has been stored in the Ministry of Information and Norma's core. If hunting targets are really drawn up based on blood, how did they get the students' information to draw up this list? Norma Ma has never been invaded, and no one in this world can quietly break through her firewall in the network field!" Schneider frowned.

Manstein's whole body was shaken and he suddenly whispered as if he remembered something, "Unless the invasion had already happened and was successful."

Schneider paused when he heard his voice, and suddenly looked back at him.

"Pearl Tower incident." Manstein looked directly at Schneider and whispered, "We thought they didn't do anything at the time, but they actually got what they wanted. Norma's information database contains everything about Kassel. Information about the academy! Construction branches, hidden facilities, and even strategic deployments!”

Guderian suddenly felt a chill after hearing Manstein's words. Doesn't this mean that this group of people who invaded the academy have been in a "full map" state from the beginning, absolutely crushing them with information? In a state of pressure, this strategic invasion was launched?

"If you were the enemy's commander, what would you do first after getting the local strategic deployment?" Manstein stared at Schneider and asked.

"Operation decapitation. Kill the enemy executive," Schneider said.

The two of them looked at each other, then looked up at the big screen at the same time. Under the gaze of Guderian, who was in a daze in his pajamas, he said sternly, "Norma! Block all entrances and exits of the library and enter a state of first-level martial law!"

"The order has been received." Norma's voice sounded in the central control room. At the same time, blood-red lights and alarms lit up on both sides of the control room and at the exits at the front and rear, and the heavy alloy iron doors began to fall and seal them shut. At each entrance to the control room, high-voltage electrostatic and infrared blockade in the ventilation ducts are turned on, the air purification system is operating normally, and all defense systems in the library are officially online.

Documents and books about dragons are secrets that are not allowed to leak out, not to mention the central control room on the second floor and the elevator leading to the ice cellar deep on the ground floor. This facility has security measures that far exceed those of all buildings in the academy. Now fully online under the orders of Manstein and Schneider, the place is impregnable from now on.

But even so, Schneider and Manstein did not feel any less heavy in their eyes. The second floor of the library is the central control room. Controlling this place is tantamount to abolishing the command headquarters, not to mention the one on the first floor. There is a special elevator leading to the ice cellar!

The things hidden in the ice cellar are really things that can destroy the world. The equipment department and the principal like to stuff everything into it. I heard that the equipment department stuffed an experimental bullet into it on the third floor of the ice cellar last time. The "micro-alchemy hydrogen bomb", let alone how the madmen in the equipment department managed to shrink the nuclear weapon, just hearing the word "alchemy" in front of the hydrogen bomb is enough to give people a chill.

When Schneider and Manstein sealed the library, they also had a more terrifying suspicion about the attack. The students with excellent pedigrees on the hunting list seemed to be a "never shot" against the secret party, but who knew that in this case Is there the real dirty purpose of the mastermind behind the superficial actions?

After all, the attack happened today, and today is not an ordinary working day. Very few people know that an epoch-making "experiment" is secretly being held at Kassel College today, and the scene of this "experiment" is in the library. Underneath the museum, in a mysterious and dangerous ice cellar.

"Have you notified the principal?" Manstein asked.

"There is no way to notify him. That part of the ice cellar is a non-magnetic and metal-free space, and I don't have the time or manpower to go down and notify him personally," Schneider said.

"What about Lin Nian? Have you contacted him?" Manstein finally asked this question after being silent for a few seconds.

"I thought you wouldn't mention your students this time," Schneider said.

This sentence aroused Manstein's confusion and anger, and he shouted uncontrollably, "Do you think I am you? You want to send your student to a battlefield that does not belong to him because he has excellent blood? Do you think? Are there any unintended consequences?"

Before Manstein could speak, Schneider waved his hand to silence the communication on the screen. He said coldly, "Before I assigned him the task, I told him that you could refuse. I gave him the option, and he did. Take control of your own choices.”

Manstein stared coldly at Schneider's profile. This was a conflict of ideas between mentors. He had never liked the Executive Department, and naturally he would not agree with the ideas of the leader of this lunatic organization.

Guderian looked left and right and whispered, "By the way. Have you seen Lu Mingfei?"

Suddenly, the warning light in the central control room came on, emitting a terrifying red light, which cast the shadows of the three professors in front of the screen diagonally on the ground. Manstein suddenly looked up at the screen and asked, "Norma." , what happened? Was the library under attack?"

"An impact was detected inside the first floor of the library, and the logic was judged to have been invaded." Norma's voice was cold.

"Ground floor!? There was no one on the ground floor when I came!" Manstein said in shock.

Schneider suddenly seemed to have remembered something and roared, "Call up the list of students and faculty who will be in and out of the library tonight!"

The next moment, the data flow washed out on the screen, and the names of the students with added time were organized into a list and presented in front of the three of them. When they saw the last column, which was also marked in red by Norma, everyone's pupils narrowed. Okay, clenched fists.

"August 23, 2010, 23:30:03. Lin Xian, a teacher from the Psychology Department, entered the first floor of the library."

As for the time of leaving, there is no record, she never left the library!

"Lin Nian's sister?" Manstein was a little panicked and angry, "Why is she staying in the library at this time?"

"She always liked to stay in the library and often stayed up late at night." Schneider whispered, "I actually forgot about it."

"Wait a minute. Norma said an impact was detected on the ground floor? What was she doing on the ground floor?" Manstein's face suddenly turned pale.

"It's impossible that I accidentally fell." Guderian swallowed.

"The mere sound of a fall cannot be judged as an intrusion by Norma. She most likely encountered an intruder and came into contact!" Schneider said solemnly.

"The library is under Norma's surveillance all the time. How could someone break in?" Manstein asked.

"During the blackout, the library's surveillance also stalled for a short time. An intruder took advantage of that time to sneak into the library. Although I don't know why there was no movement after he sneaked in, but now Norma's move to close the library has been Alarmed him!"

"Norma, call up the surveillance footage from the first floor!" Manstein raised his head and shouted.

The picture on the screen was disturbed, and then it went dark. Afterwards, under Norma's adjustment, the picture turned green and red. The three of them were all familiar with this bright and unusual color. This was the picture detected by infrared thermal imaging.

They stared at the picture intently, and there was indeed a clear thermal image of a human figure in the picture, but only one stood under the baroque dome of the library. Next to her was an overturned bookshelf. This must be what Norma detected. "impact".

"When Norma closed the library, she was frightened and accidentally knocked over the bookshelf?" Guderian asked for a moment, and at the same time he breathed a sigh of relief. He thought it was Norma who made a fuss, but he suddenly found that the two people in front of him were actually His whole body was tense as if he were facing a formidable enemy. He raised his head and stared at the screen. He was stunned for a moment and looked up to where the two people were looking.

Then his expression froze, and his relaxed breath came back again, stuck in his throat, and his whole body was cold.

In a dark corner on the ground floor of the library, a humanoid thermal image looked like an arthropod, with its limbs spread out in the blind spot formed by the bookshelf and the high wall. He possesses an eerie concentration and patience. His limbs are twisted and hidden in the dark corner, and he quietly observes the slender figure standing motionless in the center of the dark library.

This scene is like a spider quietly hunting a bird that has accidentally fallen into a trap. The friction and sucking of its mouthparts sends out a signal of thirst for blood.