Foreword:
[No one can survive on wages! ]
[——Leonid Brezhnev]
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[Part 1·Invisible Lover]
Jason's reaction to Jiang Xueming's teasing was very intense.
He asked Diamond and Meteor to go check in, and then he pulled Xueming into the room and started filial piety.
"What do you mean? What were you saying just now?"
Jiang Xueming silently put down his luggage, told the story Diamond told before, and finally read the conclusion.
"Our contact person said that he is an old acquaintance of you. The Wendy Mills in your heart does not exist at all. Our secondary mission target is the hallucination in your mind..."
Jason gritted his teeth, his eyes were red, and he was so angry that his hair almost stood on end.
"How is it possible? Don't you believe me? You even want to deceive me? This is impossible! This is Diamond lying! He doesn't want me to go to RSH to die again! He is so selfish and just wants me to live well. ..”
Jiang Xueming: "Then I believe you."
Jason only had doubts in his eyes: "Really?"
Jiang Xueming: "You know what kind of person I am. I seldom talk nonsense. If you think Wendy is still alive and she is real, then I will believe what you say."
Jason hesitated, his expression changed again and again, and he seemed to be doubting himself.
"Well...besides my investigative mission."
Jiang Xueming immediately interrupted: "We will continue to look for her. We want to see her alive, and we want to see her body when she is dead. Since the bodies are all gone, we will try to do a psychic ritual. If she becomes a spiritual disaster, at least we can let you see her. one side."
Jason frowned and laughed angrily: "You're really good at talking..."
Jiang Xueming: "Thank you for the compliment."
The wind and snow outside the window gradually weakened, and the only sounds in the simple room were the floor heating and the air purifier.
After Qiuxing opened the room, he knocked on the door and called Xueming to rest.
Before leaving, Xueming and Jason asked about the next trip.
"Leader, how much free time do I have?"
"We leave in twelve hours."
"Where to go?"
"The Pavlov Engineering Station is the first station leading to the RSH. It is a high-voltage substation. There are still people guarding it. We need to exchange information with them and ask about the concentration of spiritual disasters and the madness index in the area."
"how to get to?"
"Driving there, I spent a lot of money and asked someone to transport two Hummers. Can you drive?"
"no problem."
Jason wanted to say a few more words and have a heart-to-heart talk with Jiang Xueming, but he couldn't speak——
——There was so much time and so much silence just now.
His memory was so clear that he could still remember Wendy Mills's smile.
He wanted to ask Jiang Xueming for advice, but he also had a moment of self-doubt in his heart.
Since he returned to the Albert Research Station, these strange and familiar people and things have brought him back to three years ago. The one thing that has not changed is——
——Whether it is the owner of the Red Nail Inn, or Diamond Nov, or other people who fear him, respect him, and know his deeds.
Without exception, they all believed that Jason Megan broke into the RSH outpost alone three years ago.
If it weren't for this experience, where would the awe of Jason among these strong Slavic men come from?
Xueming didn't give Jason any extra chance and left directly——
——He is not good at dealing with naughty people. If he doesn’t want to speak, he can stay in the next life to explain clearly.
He asked Meteor to go back to his room to sleep, while he knocked on the door of the little waiter Katyusha's room.
I saw the timid girl's house open a crack in the door, as if she was frightened by the unruly people in this poor place. When she saw Jiang Xueming's face clearly, she finally breathed a sigh of relief.
Jiang Xueming stood in front of the door and did not go in.
"Ask a question."
Katyusha nodded: "You ask, is it about my husband?"
Jiang Xueming: "What happened to his ex-girlfriend? Have you ever understood it?"
Katyusha thought for a moment, hesitated in her heart, and finally spoke slowly.
"I'm not sure, but BOSS said that when Mr. Jason joined the abyss railway system, the polarizing sextant did not assign a waiter to him."
Jiang Xueming: "What this means is that Wendy Mills is really a dummy? Has she never existed?"
"No, it's not." Katyusha shook her head, with fear in her eyes: "According to the station's passenger log, there is indeed such a waiter in our system, and it is always linked to Mr. Jason's mission record The hooks are all suitable.”
Jiang Xueming: "Oh, Jason brought his childhood sweethearts together for a ride?"
"That's not what I mean... In short, it's just very mysterious." Katyusha squinted her eyes, and for a moment she didn't know how to describe this matter. She searched in her head for a long time, trying to find an appropriate metaphor.
"Jiang Xueming, the person Mr. Jason thinks about day and night does exist, but he does not exist. As far as the ride log is concerned, all the records of the two of them three years ago were composed of two writing methods, two complete It consists of different audio recordings, as well as well-documented videotapes and photographs.”
"And there are videos?" Xueming was surprised: "Then does she exist or not?"
Katyusha took out a photo from her pocket. It was a photo of Jason Megan and his team members in the secret library.
Xue Ming took a closer look at the people in the photo. Jason was very young at the time. He had no nasolabial folds on his face, nor did he have such sinister and unruly eyes. He was an easy-going and handsome young man. Leaning beside him was a big girl who looked enthusiastic and cheerful. , as tall as him.
"This is..."
Katyusha talked about Jason's past.
"Due to his special psychic talent, Mr. Jason can control twenty-four lapis lazuli stones. He has extraordinary inspiration and keen observation, and is fully capable of serving as a train conductor. However, he is unwilling to join the train crew. These partners are Jason Mr.’s classmates at Galahad Academy of Magic. And the person next to him, Wendy Mills, came to the station with him and directly entered the waiter system. He had tangible identification and was in the station’s personnel backstage. This waiter can still be found in the electronic file."
Xueming: "He was so handsome when he was young?"
Katyusha pursed her lips and focused on the key points: "Who has never been young? Come to think of it. Wendy Mills is definitely not a phantom in his head. This waiter really exists in the railway system of Jiujie Station. There are even records of the operation of more than one emergency summons bell.”
"I know this." Jiang Xueming clarified his thoughts: "This eldest sister disappeared during the emergency summons bell mission."
Katyusha: "Yes, think about it. Mr. Jason is just a passenger. He cannot work two jobs, nor can he disguise himself as a woman and become two different people due to schizophrenia."
Jiang Xueming: "How much do you know about RSH three years ago? What happened at that time?"
"It's a beta-level secret. I know a little bit about it - when BOSS talked about this matter, he had only one request for Mr. Jason. This is the only way for him to go through, and it is an inner demon that he cannot escape. Only he can complete this. The mission, even if it was another VIP, would not be possible. But Mr. Jason was unwilling to help the Soviets. It was not until Ms. Wendy was summoned by the emergency summons that Mr. Jason came to this sad place reluctantly. " Katyusha spoke for her employer with a clear stance: "Think about it from Mr. Jason's point of view - his motherland, his family, his lover, these tragedies are all related to the Soviet Union. It is impossible for people to repeat themselves in the same place. After falling down so many times, why can't he hide if he can't offend him? But Ms. Wendy didn't refuse the summons, so Mr. Jason went crazy for three years until he met you as a hunter. I really I feel sorry for him. After I entered the station, he was the first employer arranged by BOSS for me. He and I come from the same place, but we don’t have the same blood flowing in our bodies. I can speak his hometown dialect, but he treats me like Seen as a stranger. It was only recently that he asked me my name, which shows how deep his prejudices against Cossacks and Slavs are."
"I understand. Have a good rest." Jiang Xueming asked clearly about these things, but there were more doubts in his heart: "We will see you in twelve hours."
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[Part②·Uninvited guest]
The wind and snow gradually stopped, and the condensed water in the underground cavity gathered in the man-made waterway of the Soviet Palace along the winding spiral tunnel. It was purified and disinfected by the water circulation system, waiting for floor heating and production activities to turn it into boiling steam and fly up again. The sky turned into wind and snow again.
The two teams were at the end of East Street, and Anonymous's friends were heavily armed and boarded armored vehicles.
The feeling of revisiting the old place was terrible. For Jason, this trip was like having a major heart surgery three years ago and now having to remove the stitches. He didn't want to lose more, but he was greedy.
People from the Red Nail Inn came to see them off, and the fat resident workers had a fake smile on their faces, hoping that these distinguished guests would come back again.
Jason complained to Xueming in a low voice.
"Look at these worthless losers, they are all fakes."
Xueming: "I'm not familiar with this place. Can you explain it to me in detail?"
Jason pulled Diamond into the car and decided to take this little friend with him.
"They bully Diamond every day, because Diamondov will not fight back, will not show his fangs to these cowards who are harmed by the poison gas, but they just heard my name, but they thought I was a warrior who returned from hell to the world. Just one glance at it can scare them so much that they can’t even hold a fake gun.”
Xueming: "These people seem to call themselves Soviets?"
Jason: "So they are fakes - now the BOSS does not need them to carry out production activities. They are eating and waiting to die every day. Whenever someone wants to escape from the city, they will immediately become socialist vanguards and talk about various things. A mysterious word."
Diamond looked out the window at the crowds getting further and further away with a lingering heart, and finally breathed a sigh of relief.
"They called me a traitor!"
Jason: "Yes, traitor."
Diamond added: "They asked me to hang up a banner and parade through the streets, saying that I was a remnant of corruption and a thief who couldn't live off his salary."
Jason: "Yes, thief."
Diamond pursed his lips and felt aggrieved: "But, but...they don't do any work themselves. They just help the people at the scientific research station resist spiritual pressure every day. Why do you want to attack me? Come to hurt me? I just want to Do more, get more money.”
Jason rolled his eyes: "Maybe you are not a child of the Soviet Union. You are a child of Russia."
"Are they Soviets? Are my co-workers Soviets?" Diamond didn't understand: "But before they were born, there was no Soviet Union..."
Jason started the car and ended the topic.
"Shut up - half of the power of your mouth is divided into your body, and it's not my turn and Wendy's to rescue you."
Diamond obediently clung to the seat and fastened his seat belt. Xue Ming gave Brother Dai a bulletproof helmet.
Two Hummers flashed their lights in front of the mountain road. Jason and the driver of the other car, Aya Bi, immediately started to lead the way as the car in front.
In the other car, the atmosphere was much more relaxed.
Specifically - it was a carnival for two VIPs.
It was their first time coming to such a godforsaken place.
Along the dark and steep mountain road, there is no means of communication, no terrain detection equipment, no specific mission instructions, and no detailed information on the enemy. Almost all of the teammates are just dragsters, little treasures looking for death across levels.
All this made Su Ling extremely excited.
The colossus of the Palace of Soviets behind him is getting farther and farther away, and the arms of the giant of science are lifting up to the sky.
The road ahead is hidden in thick black fog. In the ultra-ancient fossil jungle, only flat round tree stumps are left buried deep in the stones. The petroleum gas and poisonous gas seeping out of them can kill people.
There is still more than 160 kilometers away from the Pavlov substation.
After crossing two mountains, they had reached the deepest point that humans have explored.
From the Albert Scientific Research Station to here, the complex mountain range of 16 kilometers in a row is far away.
All that was left was a piece of moist soil mixed with highly toxic sludge from chiral molecules.
Rubber tires left several car shafts in this wilderness. A waterfall fell from the Elephant Trunk Mountain in the far distance, hitting the extremely dense Dead Sea. The rumbling sound of the water was like the breathing of some giant creature.
The abnormal electric field environment causes frequent movements on this road.
From time to time, shadows in the fog can be seen outside the car window.
What are those things?
Jiang Xueming couldn't explain or guess.
It's like in the blue and black smoke, you can still see invisible shadows, opening up the mist, even if he has the inspiration to see ghosts in the world.
But these different phases caused by abnormal electric fields are like the afterimages of creatures moving here, left by thunder, recorded in this wilderness.
Fortunately, there is an official road here, which was created by tens of thousands of tons of sand and gravel after decades of natural settlement.
It can only carry one car at a time. Xue Ming clearly knows that these gravels are ballast laid in advance for the construction of railways. It was just that there was no time to put in the sleepers and rails, and it was already abandoned.
The bogs on either side of the road looked increasingly soft and dangerous.
Occasionally, one or two human faces can be seen floating on the mud under the reflection of the car lights. When their facial features see the light, they immediately open, close, and twist, transforming into a pair of palms, and then quickly disappear. Missing, very afraid of light.
Jason honked the horn hard and kept reminding the cars behind him not to get stuck in these quagmires. The rubber tires could not withstand this harsh environment. He had to walk back to the scientific expedition on just two legs and the supplies in the car. Standing is almost impossible.
At this moment, a flexible white light curtain hung on Jason's car.
It comes from Su Ling's spirit body and from the Phoenix.
The voice of the driver in the car behind, A Ling, came from the radio station.
"I heard it! I heard it! Don't press it! It's so noisy!~"
Jason was surprised and delighted: "You still have this ability? Why didn't you use it earlier?"
"So you're still a Beijinger? Why didn't you speak human language earlier if you have such a talent for language?" A Ling first made fun of Jason's accent, and then explained: "Maintaining car communication consumes a lot of power. , I don’t need to pay for the stone?”
With this light curtain as a traction marker, Jason could safely lead the way forward.
But in another car, the attitude of the two VIPs playing songs and disco while shaking their heads made him a little confused.
Right now, right now -
——Behind the Elephant Trunk Mountain Waterfall, in a low and dirty pit cave.
There was a man squatting half-crouched behind the dark mudflow, raising his telescope and peering out along the light source of the plain.
He was wearing a pressure-resistant diving suit with a dark hydrophobic nanomaterial coating on the surface, as well as a gold and red carriage and sun.
He picked up a sniper rifle.
It's an M24 bolt-action rifle.
Then put it down again.
Because he finally saw clearly that the people in the car seemed to be wearing Russian-style heavy armor. Even the co-pilot of the car in front was wearing a steel helmet.
These unidentified intruders may affect King Xin's hunting of dead giants and capture the immortal runes.
He just took a few more glances and immediately put on the sling and hook to return to his companions to deliver the news.
At the same time, Xueming, Teacher A Ling and Teacher Xia Xia all looked in the direction of Elephant Trunk Mountain.
Just now, a cold, vicious, and stinking spiritual pressure surged over him.
Although it was very weak, it was almost insignificant compared to the concentration of spiritual disasters in the wilderness.
Xueming said: "I feel someone is peeking at us."
A Ling said: "It was a man, the relative distance was 1,400 meters, and he ran away."
Xia Xia said nervously: "He wanted to shoot, but an evil thought came over me, like a burr in a shoe, it hurt my feet."
Xueming asked: "Is it King Xin?"
A'ya replied: "Definitely not. Judging from the spiritual pressure, it should only be used as firewood - at this stage, such an organization calls itself [Stairway to Heaven]. Only individuals that start burning and releasing light and heat to the outside world can be called [Shin King], that is a completely different kind of spiritual pressure, which is completely different from this kind of rat who hides his head and shows his tail."
Translator Xia Xia translated: "They are the minions of King Xin. They are followers and are sentry here."
Mr. Jason heard the conversation between the three people on the radio station and was so surprised that he couldn't open his mouth from ear to ear.
Jiang Xueming's inspiration is keen, and he knows it.
But the two VIPs could even sense the information about whether they were male or female, how far away they were, and what they wanted to do to the vehicle. This was outrageous.
Jason didn't believe in evil, so he wanted to give it a try and was just about to put on the lapis lazuli bracelet.
Xueming and Katyusha immediately covered Jason's right hand that was in gear.
Diamond was kindly admonishing.
"No, no, no! No! Brother! Brother! It won't happen!"
