Chapter 282 Mission accomplished?
Chapter 282 Mission accomplished?
"The situation outside... is going well so far."
Seeing the burnt man being dragged out and the sniffer being strangled to death after struggling for a few seconds, Leon, who had come to his senses, could not help but recount with a strange expression:
"Just now, a sniffer came out with a cigarette in his mouth, probably to let off some steam, and he just happened to open the hatch for us, but... um... the bottle containing your butt was knocked down by the hatch that popped open, and it should have fallen to the bottom of the tower now."
'...'
"Don't worry, Pioni-senpai."
Feeling the complicated mood of the "Little Silver Man", Leon quickly spoke to comfort him:
"In order to prevent anyone from using long-range weapons to attack the airbag of the airship, a large area below the boarding tower is off-limits. Senior, your butt should not fall into the hands of others. After the mission here is completed, we will immediately go down the tower to find it and guarantee to pick up your butt!"
'...'
It’s not a butt...it’s not that important, the main thing is the thing in front of the butt, you must not lose it!
"Okay... okay."
Now that they had finally entered the private boat, they were only one step away from completing the mission. It would be bad to let a bunch of people get off immediately to find their butts, so Pioni had no choice but to give instructions helplessly:
"Then you better hurry up, it's really strange to not have a butt..."
"Don't worry, Senior. So far, except for the accident with your butt, everything else has gone very smoothly. This mission will definitely be quick."
After comforting the little silver man who had lost his beloved buttocks, in order to avoid any further problems, Leon handed the thermos in his hand to the strongest burned man to carry. He touched the small piece of sheep horn exposed in his cufflinks and checked the situation inside the airship.
Soon, as the world in front of him shook slightly, the positions of one soul flame after another were directly "marked" by the black goat's soul vision.
"There are five people in the front cabin, who should be the operators of the airship; there are 5 people in the rear cabin, who, judging by their positions, are probably the guards escorting the mineral specimens; there are only 23 people in the middle cabin, which has the largest space, and they are spread out.
Judging from the airship's structural diagram, the middle cabin is made up of many small rooms separated from each other. The people who can have their own rooms on a private ship should be the sniffers."
After briefly describing what he had "seen", Leon began to plan his actions:
"Go a little further and you should reach the storage compartment of the airship. Next, use your spatial ability to twist the unconscious sniffer into the storage compartment and lock it up.
Then we go forward along the corridor and go directly to the control area of the front cabin to close all the airtight valves between the cabins to prevent the guards in charge of escorting in the rear cabin from coming out. Finally, we go back to the middle cabin to find the remaining sniffers and completely change their memories... Any questions?"
"No."
"Simple!"
If it is a job like giving a speech on stage to canvass for votes, the rebels may find it difficult to do it, but these old "criminals" are very familiar with things like sneaking into and destroying targets.
After Leon finished speaking, except for the two sisters Lucy and Phoebe who were only responsible for modifying memories, the rest of the people entered one after another and moved towards the front cabin with ease. Their footsteps were as silent as cats.
Then, in Lyon's soul vision, less than twenty seconds after the souls of the rebels arrived at the control area, the five operators had lost consciousness, and the airtight valves between the cabins of the airship were also lowered neatly.
This infiltration level is much better than mine.
After sighing at the efficiency of the rebels, Leon waited for the few people who came back from the front cabin to be in place, then took Lucy and her sister into the middle cabin of the airship. The sniffers who noticed the abnormality had just run out of their rooms when they were hit by the mental power of the [Holy Spirit Pendant] one by one, and fell down one after another with their eyes rolled back.
This action was done... it was just smooth and flowing~
Less than a minute had passed since they jumped down, and they had already taken control of the airship cabin which was over 120 meters long and successfully knocked down all the key targets. Leon nodded with satisfaction. Then, while Lucy and her sister were modifying their memories, he led people into the rooms of these sniffers and turned out their sniffing records.
……
[Number: 941001]
[Location: Gray Ridge Col, Hespitu Volcano Group, Northern Lane County and Merino County]
[Objective: Exploration of heat source points in the earth's crust]
[Responsible person: Isaac Asimov]
[Geological conditions: The main body is composed of basalt and andesite, and mining is difficult...]
【…】
[Quality Analysis: A-, difficult to process, requires construction of a giant mining site rated S, and all related facilities...]
[Reserve estimate: SS+. In the absence of major geological changes, the crustal energy can continue to output energy semi-permanently, and the total duration should be more than 300 years...]
[Value assessment: Ordinary cooperative mining is B+, and extreme special excavation is S-.
However, if extreme mining is adopted, it will be enough to meet more than 1.2% of the current energy demand, but it will have a devastating impact on the environment within square kilometers. The dust cloud mixed with volcanic ash will also spread westward along the ocean monsoon, causing acidic rainfall that will last for several years... The cost is too high and it is recommended to give up...】
Crustal hot spots, volcanoes...it looks like this is the report.
After successfully finding his target among a pile of sniffing reports, Leon couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief. He then rubbed his cufflinks, took out a small bottle, unscrewed it, and poured the contents onto the report.
"Come on!"
With a sound that sounded somewhat sticky, a black and white earthworm-like creature fell on the report and rolled over twice as if it had not woken up.
[Name: Word-eating earthworm body (knowledge, simulation)]
[Appearance: A ring-shaped earthworm of different colors, as thick as a little finger. The specific color will automatically adjust with the original color of the paper and the color of the text on it. There are a lot of strange organs similar to octopus suction cups on the lower part of the body.
These tiny suction cups are actually its mouthparts. Any words that fall on the paper will disappear directly after it crawls over them.
[Ability: extract text, simulate output]
[Price: After asking it for help, you need to write a creative, knowledgeable, or interesting text as a reward. Please note that it is a very picky eater.]
[File: The offspring of the God-level Word-Eating Earthworm, one of the "tools" issued by the Cleanup Bureau to every director-level member.
Usually, he is responsible for eating up the confidential documents generated after the cleanup work to prevent them from being forcibly snooped by the outer gods who covet the world by borrowing their power. He can also help modify some files that need to be modified to reduce the workload of the directors.
This larva was distributed to Olivia, the director of the Virgin Division of the Cleanup Bureau, 7 years ago. During this period, it has consumed a total of 617 confidential documents and 215307 text labels on alcoholic beverage bottles. It is now temporarily loaned to Leon Ryan, a third-level incident handler at the Virgin Division.
[Comment: This is a very interesting little bug. After eating so many wine labels in Olivia's office, it is very interested in the taste of wine. After it helps you modify the file, you can also try to treat it to some whiskey, just enough for a bottle cap.]
[Infiltration value: 0.1]
Eat it! If you can get this report corrected, I'll buy you a whole barrel of whiskey, not just a capful!
After being awakened by Leon's fingers, the black and white [Eating Earthworm Body] stretched lazily, then took a "step" and slowly climbed up on the sniffing report in Leon's hand.
As it continued to move forward along the grid on the paper, the words on the entire sniffing report began to be eaten line by line. When it had eaten almost all of them, the [Word-Eating Wormwood Body] turned around and "pulled" the words it had eaten back line by line along the route it had come from. That's right, it pulled them back.
One after another, characters with completely different contents but in the same handwriting as before fell from the needle-tip-sized "*" of the [Eating Word Worm Body] and naturally melted into the paper, as if they had been written like this from the very beginning. It is estimated that the writer himself could not tell the real from the fake.
[Number: 941001]
【Location: County Lane and northern Merino County...】
[Objective: Exploration of heat source points in the earth's crust]
【…】
[Quality Analysis: D+, difficult to process, requires construction of a giant mining site rated S, and all related facilities, but the energy has too many impurities, and needs to be purified repeatedly before use...]
[Reserve estimate: S-. In the absence of major geological changes, the crustal energy can continue to output energy semi-permanently. However, the crust in this area changes frequently, and the estimated mining period is not high...]
[Value assessment: Ordinary cooperative mining is C-level, and extreme special excavation is B-.
The advantage is that the reserves are huge, and if there are no geological changes, there will be a semi-permanent supply. However, if you want to mine on a large scale, the cost is too high. Not only will it have a devastating impact on the environment within 1.2 square kilometers, it will also trigger a highly intense war... The benefits do not match the expenditures... It is recommended to give up...】
Yes, although the modification method is a bit disgusting, the ability of this little drunkard is really good and looks just like the real thing.
After checking the file that had been modified to look like a real thing and not finding any obvious loopholes, Leon couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief. He then took out the first three chapters of "The Domineering Duke Falls in Love with Me" that he had written last night and handed them to the word-eating worm who was looking up at him to ask for a favor.
Well done. Come eat, if you don't have enough, there's more~
……
"leader."
Just as Leon was staring at the [Eating Word Worm Body] with some curiosity, wanting to see how it would react after eating the "Ba Gong", a middle-aged rioter with a big belly squeezed in from the door and reported with a smile:
"Lucy's case is over, and the memories of all the people involved have been modified. If your case is also over, then we can retreat."
"it is good!"
Hearing that Lucy had also finished the work, Leon couldn't help but feel in a good mood. He threw the word-eating earthworm that was feasting on "The Tyrannical Duke" into the mirror world, asked the black goat to open a bottle of whiskey for it, and then walked out of the sniffer's room.
"Let's check once more to see if there's anything we missed. We'll try to erase all traces of our presence, and try to avoid leaving any traces..."
After asking everyone to do a final review, Leon habitually touched his cufflinks and checked the surrounding situation with the help of the black goat's soul vision.
"and many more!"
Looking at the soul with a very familiar smell guarding the entrance to the secret harbor, Leon couldn't help but be surprised.
Nathan... No! Using the [Gate to the Other World] to return to the present middle-aged Joshua? Wasn't he taken away by Director Aquarius? How did he appear in the boarding tower?
"what happened?"
Seeing that Leon's expression was not right, the rebels immediately became nervous. The middle-aged man with a big belly couldn't help but ask:
"Chief, did the guards find out that the documents were wrong and come up to the tower to look for us?"
"No."
After shaking his head slightly, Leon frowned and said:
"It's Joshua who's here... not the prince with a confused mind, but the former leader who goes by the alias Nathan."
What? Nathan?
After hearing what Leon said, the rebels looked at each other in surprise.
As the former leader who formed the rebel group and led them to rebel against the kingdom, middle-aged Joshua still had some prestige in their hearts. Now everyone was taking the intelligence they got from him and doing what he wanted to do, which was to attack the boarding tower, but they were "caught" by him. It felt a bit weird.
"Let's go out and meet him first."
After checking the soul states of the rebels and confirming that no one was wavering, Leon looked at the soul fire of middle-aged Joshua again, and then made the final decision:
“What we are doing now is what he has always dreamed of, so if it was Joshua who controlled the body, he would not take action at this time, but I am afraid that the person behind him will do something bad.
If something happens to him and he attacks you, I will stop him first. You can retreat back to the airship and open the thermos in your hand. The contents can protect your safety."
"understand!"
After hearing Leon's instructions, the rebels nodded one after another, and then followed Leon out of the airship as if facing a great enemy.
……
"It's been such a long time no see."
Obviously knowing the "maximum killing radius" of the [Holy Spirit Pendant], the middle-aged Joshua did not come over. Instead, he waited until everyone walked out of the airship, then stared at Leon standing in the front from 70 to 80 meters away, gritted his teeth and sneered:
"I thought you would be able to do something extraordinary after taking over the position of the rebel leader, but you ended up taking the information I gave you and doing what I wanted? Then what's the difference between you and me? Hmm?"
“It’s a huge difference!”
The middle-aged wealthy businessman with a big belly stepped forward and answered with a sullen look on his face:
"Joshua, to you, we are all just tools. You just need us to listen to you and do things for you. As long as we can help you achieve your goals, you don't care how many tools die.
If it was you who commanded this operation, it would be good if half of us could survive, but Sir Baggins not only led us back safely, but also really pointed out the way forward for us. He really values us!"
"Haha, sure, whatever you think."
Having long given up the idea of regaining the position of leader of the rebels, the middle-aged Joshua was too lazy to argue with them. He sneered disdainfully and asked back with a look of contempt:
"But are you really sure that following this 'little Baggins' will accomplish this?"
Hmm? What does he mean by that?
After taking a look at Joshua's soul, he found that he was not bluffing. Leon's brows could not help but slightly frowned. The burned man who had been holding back for a long time behind Leon could no longer hold back and stood up, saying impatiently:
"Why can't it be done? If you weren't blocking us, we would have already finished the job and left! Hurry up, if you have anything to say, say it now!"
This damn barbarian...
The burned man scolded him, and his face turned black. The middle-aged Joshua's cheeks twitched slightly. He wanted to scold back but couldn't. If he really wanted to fight, he couldn't do it either. So he had to do what he was told with a dark face and said, "Let him go":
"It's useless to just modify the memory. If you want to conceal the news of the volcano, you have to blow up the entire airship!"
(End of this chapter)