As the team members returned to the base one by one, Victoria felt an unprecedented sense of calm. From the expressions of the team members, she read a determination similar to her own, which usually meant that everyone's mission was carried out smoothly. , no one came up short.
They entered the underground conference room here one by one, and everyone was silent until Si Lei stepped into the conference room. Victoria stood up to greet him. The two solemnly shook hands, said hello, and introduced each other's names and identities.
"Thank you for sending Zoe to pick me up," Si Lei said gratefully, "otherwise I might have had to walk several days back from the wasteland - but how do you know where I am specifically?"
"Chiba came back last night." Victoria replied. "She said that your investigation in the wasteland has made significant progress, and we happened to be too, so I asked Zoe to find you this morning. If necessary, next Zoe can accompany you throughout your investigation.”
"...Is it convenient for you?"
"Convenient." Victoria said without any hesitation.
Si Lei froze on the spot for a while. The person in front of her said this in a tone as simple as saying that he could drive her back to the apartment in a while.
If she had known this, she shouldn't have been in such a hurry to head to the wasteland...at least she should have seen these mercury needles first.
Soon, everyone sat down again. Victoria first synchronized their news with Si Lei. During the time when Si Lei left the livable place, too many things happened - the conflict between the coalition government and AHgAs. Dial the mercury needle and fight the assassin one after another. The assassin disappeared for a while after the destruction of the Golden Crow Palace, and then Rishi and Schmidt were killed...
Victoria once again talked about the conversation she had with the assassin at the Central Hospital, which was an extremely important clue: the assassin had determined that the next targets of the crime were Tanglar and Villefort.
"I can continue to do the work of these two people," Si Lei volunteered, "I am more experienced in negotiating with such people."
"No need," Victoria shook her head, "The core city has officially rejected Tangglar and Villefort's temporary asylum this afternoon."
"...What?" Si Lei was a little surprised, "But you just—" this morning
“That’s why I said we should seize the time,” Victoria smiled. “The opportunity to take those two people to Core City this morning, including the asylum measures that Schmidt had obtained before, was all taken advantage of by the third district. 'Emergency Refuge Regulations' of Bill 277.
“This afternoon Core City has announced that the bill will immediately enter a ‘judicial suspension period’, and they will indefinitely postpone all asylum applications for individuals and groups based on this bill until the new revised bill is announced.
"It's not difficult to understand," Victoria's tone was a little cheerful, "The assassins are too dangerous. Just to protect the safety of a very few habitable residents, they put the core city and even the mother city of the third district at risk. The possible dangers... this is bound to be met with huge opposition."
"But this is too childish?" Si Lei still couldn't believe it. "Just suspend a bill for half a day?"
"I remember that the proposal to urgently suspend 'Bill 277' should have been put on the agenda by Parliament No. 2 when Schmidt applied for asylum," Theresa explained softly in a chant-like tone, "It just happened. Execution this afternoon."
Victoria sneered, "It's only Danglars and Villefort's fault for not seizing the last chance - I wonder what their expressions will be when they hear the news?"
Endai thought about this and snorted softly.
"So the final battlefield against the assassin is Tan Yi. Can I understand this?" Si Lei asked.
"Okay." Victoria nodded, and she slid a stack of photos in front of Si Lei, "Another very interesting thing is here. A reporter took the risk and took a series of photos of the assassin. In the image of the assassin we obtained, Core City provided some basic information about the assassin and potential matches."
A screen appeared behind Victoria. She stood up and began to operate the electronic screen in the air with gestures.
"The actual height of the assassin should be between 186 and 192cm. Female, right-handed. There are only two wounds on the left cheek and right side of the neck - either bruises or scabs. They should have been in the last battle at the Golden Crow Palace. There should be more wounds left on the part of her that was covered by the cloak.”
Everyone watched with bated breath as Victoria waved her hand and called up a list.
"The fourteen names here are a possible list of assassins based on existing image information. It is an unsupervised screening result of a set of action analysis algorithms based on all previous mercury needle training data - but please don't take it for granted. This list takes too much weight because the people who are the best match here have been completely eliminated.”
On the list, Jane Hestad's name topped the list, with an unparalleled fitness score of 91.2%. She was the only one among all the candidates to reach the mercury needle of 70%.
"Wait a minute, this match is too high," Si Lei couldn't help but interrupt, "I have an impression of this person. The reason why I ruled out that she was an assassin before was because she was not in the third area at the time, right? "
"More than that, but the more specific part that we can't explain to you too much because of the confidentiality involved is that she was not just 'not present', but that this person was in custody during this time."
Si Lei was startled and didn't say anything - she remembered that Chiba said before that "Hesta was performing a special mission", which was inconsistent with Victoria's statement.
"More importantly," Victoria paused, "Endai, you tell me."
Endai looked at Si Lei, "I went to the place where Jane Hestad was imprisoned at noon today, and reviewed her surveillance images again for half a month - she stayed there every time the assassin appeared. , didn’t go anywhere. By the way, I also took some photos of Hesta..."
Victoria flipped the screen again, and some partial photos appeared on the screen. They were of the woman's cheeks, neck, shoulders and limbs. Except for a scratch mark on her calf and ankle, the skin in the photos was basically undamaged.
"There are no traces of combat on her body at all," Endai said. "Hesta herself has not been out during this period, that's for sure."
"Great, is there anything else that needs to be synchronized?"
"Hmm..." Endai thought for a while, "By the way, Chiba also went there this morning, and I was the front and back. It is said that they chatted for half an hour, but I don't know what the content was at the moment."
"This is normal," Victoria raised her head, "What was the outcome of today's court hearing?"
"There is no court hearing. I heard it has been postponed to the morning of tomorrow."
