Chapter 154: The Rebellion Party Meeting and
Chapter 154: The Rebellion Party Meeting and
"Leon Ryan..."
Just as Leon was holding his sister's family photo, thinking about how to dig out the secrets of Director Aquarius so as to speed up the bureau's investigation into him, a group of people were also holding his file, thinking about how to remove this roadblock.
"Do we really have to take action? Can't we just deal with him with ordinary means?"
After quickly flipping through a few documents in his hand, the short man sitting at the bottom of the long table couldn't help but speak first:
"His schedule is basically fixed. He has to leave from Bridge Street every day and go to the municipal district where the police department is located to work. If we ambush people in advance, maybe we only need a few bombs..."
"it's useless."
The young man sitting opposite him shook his head, gritted his teeth and said angrily:
"He is from the Cleanup Bureau. He has more than one anomalous object on him to protect him. Ordinary alchemical bombs are unlikely to kill him."
"Then blow up his house!"
The short man suggested again:
"Even if there are abnormal objects protecting us, it may not be able to prevent it 24 hours a day. We can sneak over at night and blow up the entire apartment building on Bridge Street!"
“I can’t get past it.”
A young woman wearing a hat shook her head and said very quickly:
"That apartment building has a very good view. The balcony in the northwest corner can directly observe the entire street. When I assassinated the princess before, I wanted to choose that place as the first sniper point.
But at that time I had just climbed over the fence when I saw a terrifyingly strong old man staring at me with a pair of big scissors. I shot him and nothing happened to him, but he turned around and hit me with a pair of scissors and almost killed me.
Later I took twenty people with me and went there, but in the blink of an eye, they were all tied up tightly by a white-haired old lady and thrown into the garbage station on the corner of the street.
Although the old man didn't kill me, he used a pair of scissors that were over a meter long to cut my head for more than half an hour. He not only shaved off my hair and eyebrows, but also my nose hairs, which haven't grown back yet."
After raising her head slightly and showing everyone her empty nasal cavity, the young woman sighed:
"Later I found out that the apartment building itself was an anomaly. The strong old man and the white-haired old lady inside had been dead for more than 90 years. With these two old ghosts guarding the apartment, if you really want to sneak in and plant a bomb, you'll have to send in a force with heavy weapons to storm it.
Oh, by the way, have you seen heavy weapons? I secretly went to Ryan Arms Company last month to take a look. They only made half of the heavy weapons ordered by the military, but they dared to write "completed" on the order. At present, except for the most important troops, many of them have not been actually equipped. We can actually take advantage of this..."
"Okay Charlotte, your information is very useful, but it has nothing to do with this meeting. What we are discussing this time is how to deal with this Leon Ryan."
After interrupting the young woman, the middle-aged man sitting in the main seat said:
"Everyone, according to the information Barton sent back, this employee of the Cleanup Bureau is not weak. For someone with an abnormal object like this, the probability of being able to get rid of him with ordinary methods is not high. You still have to take action."
"It's no problem for us to take action, but what should we do after taking action?"
After sucking his teeth hard, an old man in rather shabby clothes spoke up to remind him:
"He is an employee of the Cleanup Bureau. The person who gave us the ability said that the director of the Virgin Branch of the Cleanup Bureau is incredibly strong. Even if we go together, we will die.
If Patton was still there, we could kill him in the copy space created by Patton, but now Patton is gone, and if we kill him, that woman might take action herself..."
"No, the woman in the Virgin Bureau has her own duties, and she usually won't do it herself. Besides, we don't really have to kill him, erasing his abilities and memories is enough."
The middle-aged man at the main seat said as he turned his head to look at the sleepy child on his right, tapped the table lightly and said:
"Phoebe, you will also join this mission and be responsible for making the target forget the information about us and the ability to peek into other people's souls. Can you do it?"
"what?"
After hearing the middle-aged man's question, the sleepy little girl shuddered suddenly, and then said with a blank look:
"What mission?"
"..."
"Ambush Leon Lion."
The little girl sniffed and continued to ask with a confused look on her face:
"Who is Leon Ryan?"
"An employee of the Cleanup Bureau, the one who revealed Barton's identity and took away Samantha's abilities."
"Who is Patton? Who is Samantha?"
Faced with the little girl's repeated inquiries, the middle-aged man did not get impatient, but explained seriously:
"They are our companions. Barton is a spy lurking in the CIA, a strong uncle with a scar on his face. Samantha is the aunt with bandages on her hands who can heal others' wounds or make them rot..."
"Oh……"
After nodding with a look of confusion, the little girl rubbed her eyes and then asked again:
"then who are you?"
"I...forget it."
After rubbing his brows with a headache, the middle-aged man waved to the seat on the other side of the little girl and said helplessly:
"Lucy, your sister's amnesia has struck again. We can't discuss this with her. You should just pour the information she needs to know directly into Phoebe's head!"
"it is good."
A hoarse and old voice sounded, and an old woman with a wrinkled face sat up straight, stretched out her trembling hand, and touched the little girl's forehead.
After seeing that the strange "sisters" were ready, the middle-aged man nodded with satisfaction, and then instructed the wrinkled old lady:
"Lucy, this time the target has the ability to spy on the soul state of others, so after everyone has a meeting and selects the candidates for the ambush mission, I will trouble you to take action.
In order to prevent the person carrying out the mission from becoming hostile to the target and causing unnecessary alertness by alerting him too early, please implant a layer of false memory into the selected person to temporarily cover up everyone's original memory. Is there a problem?"
"no problem."
"Thanks for your hard work."
After nodding to thank the old woman, the middle-aged man leaned forward slightly, pressed his hands on the table, and spoke directly:
"Then next, it would be best to determine the location of the ambush. Do you have any suggestions in this regard?"
"I suggest you do it while he's at work!"
A man with burns all over his body on the right raised his hand and suggested with a cold look in his eyes:
"Let's go out together and charge into that cleanup bureau. First kill that red-haired woman, then burn all the remaining people to death, and then..."
"Alright, alright, shut up!"
Hearing the burnt man's suggestion that it couldn't be said that he was seeking death on purpose but that he simply didn't want to live, the middle-aged man couldn't help but sigh and waved his hand in the direction of the burnt man.
With a strange explosion, the burned man disappeared from the house in an instant, leaving behind only an empty chair covered in dust.
I don’t know what method he used, but he drove the burned man out directly. The middle-aged man said with a headache:
"There's no need to say stupid things like this. Do you have any suggestions that are a little more reliable?"
"Yes." The rather shabby old man raised his hand and suggested seriously:
"Duke Lionheart's coronation ceremony. What do you think of setting up an ambush there?"
The coronation ceremony of the Duke of Lionheart?
After listening to the sloppy old man's suggestion, the group of rioters in the room were silent for a while, and then began to nod one after another.
"not bad!"
"very suitable!"
"I think so!"
The middle-aged man in the main seat thought for a while, and finally nodded and said with a smile:
“It’s indeed a good choice. There will definitely be many important people attending the Duke of Lionheart’s coronation ceremony, and even the royal family will send representatives.
If we are lucky enough, we will not only be able to solve Leon Ryan's problem, but we can even get rid of a large number of nobles and officials at one time. Let's set the ambush location at tomorrow's inheritance ceremony!
As for the specific candidates for the ambush, are there any of you who would like to participate?"
"I want to go! I want to go!"
After hearing what the middle-aged man said, the young woman whose hair was shaved by the strong old man and who was very talkative raised her hand happily and said:
"I can ..." from five kilometers away
"Except you."
Interrupting her again, the middle-aged man in the main seat shook his head and said:
"Your ability is concealed enough and has a long range, making it excellent for assassination, but your destructive power is too poor and may not be able to break the abnormal objects used by the target to protect themselves.
What's more, we don't need to kill him this time, we just need to subdue him and let Phoebe erase some of his memories and abilities, so you are not suitable for this mission."
"Then count me in!"
Just as the chatterbox bald woman pouted in dissatisfaction and prepared to argue, a thin young man stood up and said excitedly:
"It was Patton who took the initiative to stay behind to cover our retreat, so Samantha and I escaped. This time I..."
"Sorry, you're not suitable either."
The middle-aged man shook his head and said:
"Now is not the time to mess with the red-haired woman from the Cleanup Bureau. You have the best relationship with Patton. I am worried that you will kill the target by force in order to avenge Patton. Then the matter will not end. You should stay."
"..."
After the young man sat down with disappointment in his eyes, the middle-aged man simply stopped asking questions and directly pointed out the name:
"Well, in addition to Phoebe and Lucy, David, Luke, and the two of you can go with us! Your abilities are obviously the most suitable for this mission."
"no problem!"
The man who first suggested planting the bomb responded.
"can."
The shabby old man nodded.
"so be it!"
After deciding on the specific candidates, the middle-aged man looked at the people who stood up and walked towards Lucy, actively accepting the memory overlay, and nodded with satisfaction.
After several people had their memories overwritten, he waved to everyone in the room. The strange explosion sounded again, and everyone in the room disappeared, leaving only a bunch of dusty chairs.
The middle-aged man sitting in the main seat seemed to have experienced more than ten years in an instant, and his originally black hair had turned gray.
……
Or will no one live to see the future?
Looking at the empty conference room and the dusty chairs, the middle-aged man, who had obviously aged a lot, sighed quietly. Then he stood up with some difficulty, controlled his future body, and walked towards the door.
After the last change he made, he still couldn't change the fate of the kingdom's destruction. The resistance led by the princess was completely defeated, and the entire kingdom was dragged into a brutal war that lasted for eleven years. The once prosperous capital was turned into ruins under the bombing, and countless people were displaced and lived a life worse than death.
In the future where they successfully assassinated the princess, the royal family and the nobles surrendered voluntarily, first ceding land and paying compensation, and then handing over all ports, mines and other resources. Even the legal currency was forcibly abolished. The originally wealthy country was almost completely drained, but the people could still barely maintain their lives.
As for myself and the "rebels" I gathered... No matter which future, none of us will exist. I am the only one enduring the pain of the country's destruction and the loss of my family, and surviving with difficulty. After all, only by staying alive can I pass the news back again and again, and try to save the motherland that has gone desperate!
After staggering to the door, the middle-aged man, who looked much older, took a deep breath and grasped the rusty door handle with his bony hands.
Come on! The Ryan family, which caused a huge deficit in the military and led to a lack of military strength, has completely died out and replaced by a new Duke of Lionheart. I want to see what the future will be like this time!
"Squeak!"
Along with the jerky sound of the old door hinges, it was as if a door separating the two worlds was pushed open, and the warm and somewhat dazzling sunlight poured in, accompanied by an extremely warm noise, and shone on the middle-aged man.
"This...this is?!"
Looking at the exquisite and neat buildings in front of him, the busy streets, the huge airship flying by dragging ribbons, and the people gathered around the huge strange screen on the street corner, talking in front of him, the middle-aged man could not help but be completely stunned.
Success! I finally succeeded! The kingdom is saved!!!
An irrepressible ecstasy instantly gripped his heart. The middle-aged man, with tears streaming down his face, fell to his knees with a thud and unconsciously let out a hysterical roar.
"Ouch! You scared me!"
"What's wrong? Why are you yelling all of a sudden?"
"Prince Leon was caught cheating, why is he so happy?"
"Guards! Guards! There's a madman here!"
"..."
Amid the curious gazes and noisy pointing and talking of passers-by, the middle-aged man who finally saw a bright future suddenly raised his arms and shouted to the sky in ecstasy.
"Long live the kingdom! Long live the kingdom!!!"
Frightened by his shout, the crowd stepped back in unison and began to whisper to each other in confusion.
"Is this man crazy?"
"Are you crazy? Why are you suddenly shouting "Long live the kingdom?"
"Yeah, didn't the kingdom disappear a long time ago?"
What did you say? The kingdom is gone? ! ! !
After hearing the conversation between the two aunties carrying vegetable baskets, the middle-aged man jumped up from the ground, rushed over and threw the aunties to the ground, and roared like crazy:
"How could the kingdom be gone?! Who did it! Who did it!!!"
"No, no, no...it wasn't me! I didn't do it!"
The woman buying vegetables was scared to death by the "madman's" behavior, fearing that he would bite her if he got angry. She raised her hand tremblingly and quickly pointed at the big screen on the corner of the street.
"Prince Leon did it, go find him! It has nothing to do with me!"
Prince Leon...?
Following the instructions of the grocery shopping lady, the middle-aged man looked at the strange screen on the corner of the street. Seeing the handsome man waving his hands and repeatedly emphasizing that the cheating was pure rumor and that he did nothing that night, he couldn't help but stand there in a daze.
Leon... Ryan?
Kill him! I'll go back and kill him right now!
(End of this chapter)