10:27 AM\Sunny\Visibility 18km\Longmen Peninsula Hotel, Kowloon District
Kelsey stood in front of the floor-to-ceiling window, looking at the distant scenery with her light green eyes. This is the most prosperous area of Longmen, but in Kelsi's eyes there are only green waters, green mountains and mountain villas dotted among the trees, like pearls. As one of the most prosperous city-states in the world, Longmen has extremely rich wealth and also has many green belts that are not available in mobile city-states. The mountains, forests and lakes surrounding the Peninsula Hotel are the best examples.
This is definitely one of the best accommodation options for a vacation in Longmen. It is world-class in every aspect, including the price. Of course, the high price is worth their service.
As the world's first and only company dedicated to providing security services to infected people, Rhode Island did not have the luxury of choosing this place as their resting place. The work is dangerous enough, the pay is generous enough, and the place to rest should be enjoyable enough.
Not to mention that this is the accommodation recommended by Wei Yanwu, and they have discounts for staying there.
No one doesn’t like discounts, including Kelsey.
The weather is very good today, it is a sunny day. The clouds of natural disaster lingering around the ruins of Qicheng have gradually dissipated. Even so close to the dragon gate of Qicheng, it has not been affected by the bad weather and the sun is still shining. The temperature in the room is constant at 25 degrees Celsius. Kelsey does not need to put on a thick coat like when she first came to Longmen - although her facial expression is not rich, it can even be said to be lacking, but when she wears it, it looks like armor. When wearing a windproof coat, the temperature on your face is even lower than in the winter in Ursus.
Especially when she saw that tightly wrapped guy appearing in front of her.
And that sentence...
"First meeting, Dr. Kelsey."
If absolute zero really exists, then it must be in the expression on Kelsey's face after hearing these words.
Looking at Dr. Noah's outstretched hand, Kelsey resisted the urge to crush him and simply said a few words to him and Amiya before leaving the Wei Mansion without saying a word to the doctor along the way.
This bastard has lost his memory...has he also forgotten his etiquette? !
The handshake ceremony between men and women requires the woman to extend her hand first. If the woman does not extend her hand, the man only needs to nod and smile in greeting!
Even though Kelsey couldn't see the doctor's smile just like what he was wearing...
No, Kelsey saw it. A small smiley face logo appeared on the mask the doctor was wearing——
:)
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Of course, this small etiquette issue is not the reason why Kelsey is angry. Before meeting the doctor, she had made all the bad plans, but she didn't expect that the doctor would forget about her.
But that's okay, the memory can be restored again, but this time the doctor's amnesia is so severe that Kelsey is still a little worried about a series of problems that may arise next.
Especially when it comes to oripathy research…
Buzz——
The vibrating sound of the cell phone interrupted Kelsey's thoughts. She turned around and walked to the table, picking up the vibrating cell phone. The caller's number did not appear on the phone screen, only a black shadow. The shadows flickered, looking like a transistor TV show with poor reception.
Kelsey pressed the answer button and put the phone to her ear.
There was no sound from the phone, just constant rustling, as if the signal was greatly interfered with. However, Kelsey did not hang up the phone, but walked back to the floor-to-ceiling window holding the phone.
Soon, the rustling stopped. The moment the sound stopped, Kelsey felt that a few imperceptible lines of sight in the room disappeared, and she was left alone in the entire suite.
Although she was the only resident in this room.
"You're still the same as before, Kelsey." The voice coming from the phone was very strange, like a female voice and a male voice mechanically overlapping together, surrounded by a 360-degree panorama, giving the listener an all-round eardrum feast.
"No matter where you go, there are always malicious eyes around you. I just found 6 monitors and 3 cameras in your room. I hope you are not running around in your underwear..."
The voice on the phone laughed, like a CPU radiator that hadn't been cleaned in three years, giving people the feeling that they would die if they smiled.
Kelsey didn't speak, just waited quietly for the laughter to stop.
"... Of course, you will definitely not do that. After all, so many years have passed and you are no longer the innocent and cute little girl."
"I have temporarily blocked the monitors and cameras, and they will work again as soon as the call ends. At the same time, I installed something in your phone, and those things will be 'cheated' when you make calls in the future. Your bedroom There are no cameras in the bathroom, only bugs, so you don’t have to worry about being spied on... Oh no, even just putting a camera in the living room is considered voyeurism, but the guys monitoring it can’t take any exciting scenes.”
"I suddenly remembered that there are still images of you in that old mobile phone. If you have time, you can come to the Supervision Department and I will show it to you to recall your faded youth..."
"shadow."
Kelsey said the other party's code name, her tone as calm as the ocean before a storm.
"That doesn't make sense."
Shadow's voice paused, as if the pause button had been pressed. Soon, his voice appeared in Kelsey's ears again, but it was a little more lonely.
"I really miss that time..."
He murmured in a low voice, and his voice instantly became as emotionless as Kelsey's.
"I have checked Valentine's room, and there is no sign of anything suspicious. The same is true for the other two people's rooms. They look like ordinary people's bedrooms."
"If you think it's suspicious that an adolescent boy submitted a purchase list of Paper Man posters and figures to the logistics department, then Valentine is very suspicious."
"That's all?" Kelsey frowned and ignored Shadow's last tease.
"Of course not... If there was really nothing, I wouldn't call you."
Shadow laughed dryly.
"I found something really interesting on his phone...hundreds of songs."
"Song? Is Valentin connected with those crazy people in Argor?"
Kelsey returned to the table and threw a tea bag into her cup, then poured hot water.
She needed a cup of tea to clear her mind and relax the nerves that had been tense these past few days.
"It's not the songs of those crazy people. Although there are a few songs in it that are related to religion, they sound closer to Rutland's style."
Listening to Shadow's tone, Kelsey felt that he had listened to all the songs on Valentine's phone...
"I only found a few songs with interesting titles to listen to, and most of them were pure music, so I could just skip them."
"Can you tell me the important point?"
Kelsey shook the cup, and white mist billowed, filling the air with the aroma of tea leaves.
Although Shadow's voice was serious, Kelsey knew it was just an act...you could tell by the meaning of his words.
"I now suspect that Valentine is the same as us."
Kelsey's hand shaking the cup stopped.
“The evidence is in these songs?”
"Yes, there are hundreds of songs that have never existed in the world of Terra. I have asked the boys from the Ministry of Industry to invade the network centers in other countries and strive to complete the data comparison within three days... But they can be found The possibility is very small.”
"Because those songs are full of nouns we have never heard of, and those names do not exist in the history of the world of Terra..."
"So I can only give you this result... Of course there is another one, but it sounds too crazy and you may not believe it."
"What?"
"Valentin could be from another world."
There was a long silence.
Kelsey sat on the sofa and stared at the scenery outside the window in a daze, still holding the handle of the cup in her right hand. Shadow didn't speak either, and there was only a rustling sound on the phone.
"Continue to monitor him. As for his true identity...it's not important now."
Kelsey's eyes regained their vitality, she took a sip of tea and gave the order.
No matter what the possibility is, Valentine's hidden strength is definitely beyond the control of Rhode Island now. Instead of alerting the enemy, it is better to adapt to the situation.
"At least he doesn't have any thoughts about Rhode Island now."
"That's true. Although Valentin has complained about us, it's a normal phenomenon. There are no employees who don't complain about their own company... Maybe we should increase the salary level of our operators?"
"What do you want so much money for?"
Kelsey directly saw through Shadow's little thoughts.
"It's not me, I mean... okay." Shadow gritted his teeth: "Lucille got a bunch of weird stuff again. I like some of them very much, but this month's salary..."
"I've already advanced it to you."
"used up."
Kelsey had nothing to say.
"There's a call coming in, we'll talk about it later." She ignored Shadow's request, hung up the phone, and pressed the answer button again.
"This is the scavenger."
The sound was deep, reminiscent of cold, damp underground pipes.
"Kelsey."
——————Kelsey, who is always 17 years old——————
The ruins of Qie City.
The scavenger squatted on the ground, and his right index finger slowly traced the place where Valentine had just stayed. She twirled her fingers and some dust fell. The scavenger stood up, put his fingers under his nostrils and sniffed.
"Valentine and Long did not go directly to Longmen, but first came to the ruins of Qie City not far outside Longmen. This ruins should be the lucky ones who escaped from the main body of Qie City during the natural disaster, but unfortunately they did not escape. Destiny of destruction.”
There was no smell on my fingers except the choking dust.
"They stayed for a few minutes and then left quickly without leaving any information. When they left, they also carried out trace removal work. It seemed that they did not want people to know that anyone was here."
"No message left?" Kelsey recalled the exchange with Shadow just now. Perhaps she should change her judgment about Valentine.
"No. There are no traces of artificial destruction on the ground or the surrounding environment. The smell, humidity, and composition of the air where they stayed have not changed at all."
As Zarak, the scavenger is extremely sensitive to changes in the surrounding environment. She can even feel subtle changes in the air without any tools, and she is extremely accurate. This is one of the reasons why Kelsey recruited her into SWEEP.
"What did they do?"
The scavenger looked around and found the corner of the Originium bush that was broken off by Valentine.
"Valentine ate some naturally occurring source stones without any artificial processing."
In order to make what she said more accurate, she deliberately added "not processed" at the end.
"Eat, Origin Stone?"
Kelsey felt that she heard wrongly.
"Yes. And there is nothing suspicious about this broken natural source stone cluster." Scavenger's hand slowly stroked the source stone cluster in front of her, and she could clearly feel the power contained in it.
"The cross-section is very neat, with some edges and corners. If he wants to leave any information through the cross-section traces of the Originium Strain, then I can only know the content of the message by obtaining something like a codebook from Valentine. "
"Why do you think the broken cluster of Origin Stones was the message he left behind?"
Although she knew that someone could use the Source Stone without any impact, Kelsey couldn't understand the scavenger's unbridled imagination.
"Because before breaking the Origin Stone bush, Valentine briefly wandered in front of the Origin Stone bush for a few seconds, as if he was looking for something."
The scavenger's voice was as usual, and it seemed that Valentine's eating of the Origin Stone did not have any impact on her.
"I don't believe he is considering which Originium strain is better to break off."
Because she was trying to find a reasonable explanation for this matter...
"Are there any other situations?"
Kelsey didn't want to continue talking about eating the Origin Stone.
"The dragon was not present when Valentin ate the Origin Stone. It seemed that he didn't want the Dragon to see that scene. After eating the Origin Stone, Valentin quickly typed a few words on his mobile phone and then collapsed. He woke up about three minutes later. In the middle of the coma, Long knelt beside him and took out the ore disease inhibitor they received in the morning. He seemed to want to revive Valentine by injecting the inhibitor. After waking up Long put away the inhibitor and gave Valentine a slap in the face, feeling quite excited. At the same time, Valentine was in the same state as usual and seemed not to be affected by the Origin Stone at all."
The scene just now appeared in the scavenger's mind, and she recounted the entire process.
The last few words reminded Kelsey of her past, but only for a moment.
"Continue to monitor, and if possible, don't let them leave your sight when entering the gantry."
"clear."
The phone was hung up and Kelsey drank the tea in one gulp. The glances in the room returned. She threw the soaked tea bag into the trash can and left the room.
