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Dragon 2: Pupil of the Mourner

Chapter 6 birthday cake is the tombstone of youth (2)

By Lisa J ThibodeauxPublished 3 years ago 5 min read
Dragon 2: Pupil of the Mourner
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The sound of footsteps was sharp and harsh, and the door of the control room was pushed open with force. It was Schneider dragging Guderian with him. These two ungrateful guys left Manstein here alone to take the heat, and reasonably would not be kind enough to come back to help. Guderian was probably caught out of the nest and wore a Pikachu patterned nightcap. Very much in keeping with his aesthetic.

  "What's going on?" Manstein casually grabbed off Guderian's nightcap and threw it next to him, but asked Schneider. Guderian was drowsy-eyed, with an expression of "I have nothing to do with me, I want to go back to sleep".

  "We lost a piece of information in China." Schneider's voice was low and hoarse, which always sounded creepy.

  "Chit!" Manstein snorted. He said, "What's the point of losing a piece of information in China? One of you went to bed with Pikachu on top, one of you excused yourself to revise your thesis, leaving me here alone for twelve hours, in which I wiped the asses of seven operations teams of your executive department around the world, paid a whopping $120,000 in aftercare, stopped a gunfight, and am solving a fictitious The nuclear crisis ...... and now you're rushing in to tell me what information is missing?

  "Pop", a document was Schneider slapped on the table. Manstein swept the dark red seal on the cover at a glance, because the overtime and muddled brain seems to be filled with a pot of cold water, awake. The seal design is a giant snake head with a tail in a circle, scales just like, in the middle are two letters in bold, "SS".

  "Top number ......," Manstein whispered.

  The mission of the Castle Institute, like the bloodline, is divided into different levels. The priority is from high to low, respectively, the ABCDEF level ...... and beyond the level of special tasks are designated as "S" level, "S" level tasks rarely appear, in the Three Gorges Reservoir against Dragon King Norton's combat "bronze plan" is "S" level. The "SS" level is the exception of the exception, not necessarily more important than the "S" level, but extremely special, this type of mission directly from the Board of Trustees, not through the principal Ange.

  "The nuclear crisis was defined as an "A" level mission, which has been elevated to the diplomatic level, and this information is an "SS" level mission... ...what information is so deadly? What kind of information is so important that even the school board members who are hiding behind the scenes can't sit still? Is it a scandal of the school board?"

  "Yes, something the school board wants." Schneider nodded slowly.

  Manstein nodded and clapped his hands, "Ladies and gentlemen, let us speak alone."

  Everyone else in the central control room stood up and fishtailed out, the financial expert asked in a low voice as he passed by Manstein, "Is the sell-off in stages?"

  "That's not important now, it's your decision." Manstein waved his hand and threw the large order of 1.2 billion to the financial expert to deal with it. Now for him, there is only one thing, this "SS" level task, once it appears, all the others give way.

  "You can't leave!" Manstein grabbed Guderian, who was trying to slip out at the end of the line.

  "You said you were going to talk alone," Guderian scratched his head, "and I don't understand all the stuff you're talking about."

  "But you're the professor on duty." Manstein sighed, "'SS' level assignments are not for any of us to decide alone, and in the absence of the rector, the duty professor group will decide together. You must be present."

  The three of them were the only ones left in the large central control room. The door closed tightly, no one dared to eavesdrop on the secret mission of the school board, the academy had a liberal ethos and the school rules were still very strict. "What is it?" Manstein asked.

  "You'd better not ask," Schneider said, "You were supposed to be completely unaware of this, and the matter went straight through the Executive Department's process, and only had to tell you because of the accident."

  "How could something go wrong on such a high-level mission, when the Executive Department should be fully engaged?" Manstein asked.

  "We did go all out, developed a very detailed strategy, succeeded in obtaining the information, and sent the most competent person to personally escort it back to the headquarters, but the stuff was lost on the way." Schneider made a gesture. The projection changed to a tortoise-shell glass-domed building, like an airport waiting for the hall, but it was completely deformed, with Kor-strength aluminum beams twisted together like twists. As the ground shook, all the aluminum beams twisted for no reason, as if they were twisted by a giant hand, and thousands and thousands of pieces of glass all broke away and fell straight down.

  "I've seen this hall, it's the south train station!" Guderian suddenly said.

  "Yes, you've seen this building, in Lumenfly's hometown. When you went for your interview, this new station was still under construction and had just been put on trial in the summer. The glass dome is made of three thousand two hundred pieces of high-strength glass, and the aluminum skeleton structure can resist a magnitude eight earthquake, the most advanced building technology. But this morning, Beijing time, it was destroyed in a category 3 earthquake. Thirty-two hundred pieces of glass fell vertically, like three thousand two hundred knives cutting at the same time," Schneider paused, "and at the time, our man was waiting for the train with that information."

  "He's dead?" Manstein asked.

  "Cut to pieces." Schneider whispered, "It was Raymond."

  Having sent out Commissioner Raymond, B007, it was clear that the Executive was indeed being cautious. Raymond graduated from Cassel Academy's Machine Maple Department in 2006 with, a "B" grade and his spirit are "Blazing Sun" with serial number 28, which can radiate a blazing light with an intensity of 4,000 lumens in the field. The light cannot kill the enemy, but Raymond's field is a giant incandescent light bulb with a diameter of 50 meters. Any opponent who wants to get close to Raymond is like entering the inside of an incandescent lamp and can't open his eyes. So this is not a high-level spirit of speech is seen as a strong to perverse bug spirit of speech. But Raymond died, and "Killing Sun" completely lost its meaning, because his opponent did not have eyes, but 3,200 pieces of glass fell from the sky.

  "The casualties are amazing, right?" Manstein asked.

  "Except for Raymond only three people were injured, the station is still on trial, not many trains, and few people waiting for them."

  "Was it attacked by the same kind? A building that's supposed to resist an eight magnitude earthquake collapsed in a three magnitude quake, can't explain it." Manstein said.

  "I know, it's called tofu-dreg construction in China," Guderian interjected.

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Lisa J Thibodeaux

l love writing.

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