Chapter 3 The Alchemist and the Secret Police

"Sir, it's great to see that you're fine!" Whether it's false or fake, when Second Lieutenant Pepin saw Zhang Tie, the relieved look on this slippery guy's face really made people feel relieved. Nuan, I can't afford to be hostile towards him. Dealing with such people is what Zhang Tie is best at in Tangde's grocery store, so Zhang Tie, who saw Second Lieutenant Pepin, didn't greet him politely. He hooked Lieutenant Pepin's shoulders and brought Pepin to the office.

It's been two weeks since I've been a section chief, and it's the first time Zhang Tie has come to the section chief's office in the repair shop.

The office is decorated in a simple military style, with a desk, a sofa, a filing cabinet, and a few structural drawings of steam engines and cars hanging on the wall, other than that there is no extra decoration . However, although Zhang Tie didn't come these days, the office was cleaned very well.

Zhang Tie, who came to the office, sat down on the sofa and looked at Second Lieutenant Pepin.

"Okay, stop talking nonsense, I know you are well informed, what happened last night, let's hear it..."

Second Lieutenant Pepin also found that this officer who came down from the Iron-Blooded Battalion was different from others, and was easier to deal with. He seemed approachable, but in fact he was not easy to fool. As a subordinate, I really like such an officer. Second Lieutenant Pepin is most afraid of those old-fashioned people who don't understand anything but want to take care of everything. It's everyone's nightmare.

What Zhang Tie didn't know was that during the two weeks when he didn't come here to meet, his indifferent attitude was recognized by the people here, thinking that he was a good officer and a good section chief.

Before telling the news he had heard, Second Lieutenant Pepin looked at the door of the office to confirm that there was no one outside, and after closing the door himself, he sneaked closer to Zhang Tie's side.

"I have a friend who is in the air defense battalion. He said that many people died last night. An important warehouse of our logistics department was blown up by the airship of Shining Feather!" Second Lieutenant Pepin said in a low voice.

"Is it really an explosive?" Zhang Tie asked curiously.

"It's really an explosive!" Second Lieutenant Pepin nodded affirmatively, "I heard that this is the Sun God's revenge on our side, because two days ago, our crazy shark airship touched it at night. In the past, a few heavy white phosphorous gel incendiary bombs were dropped in the battle fort where their headquarters was located, killing many people there, and their morale was also hit. Last night's action was a glorious one. Yu's revenge on us!"

Zhang Tie felt speechless for a while, is it revenge again?

Sometimes the contest between countries, between legions and legions is actually no different from fighting with three or five-year-old children. If you punch me, then I have to kick you. No one wants to suffer. It's just that this kind of revenge is more terrifying and bloody than children fighting, and more people will lose their lives in this kind of revenge. The people of the Iron Horn Legion were beheaded, so the people of the Iron Blood Battalion had to go up and cut off the opponent's head as revenge. The Legion's floating troops dropped heavy white phosphorus on the head of the battle fort where their headquarters was located. Gel incendiary bombs, so they simply got an airship over there and dropped the explosives directly at the logistics base here. Make the whole Brape feel uneasy.

Zhang Tie felt that perhaps the battle fort on the front line had already been prepared for a sneak attack by the Radiant Feather, so the Radiant Feather, who had no chance at the front line, extended the battle line to the rear here, and hit the Iron Feather all of a sudden. On the vital point of the Horn Legion. Due to the limitation of transportation capacity, logistics support is indeed one of the key points of the Iron Horn Legion.

"Did we shoot down their airship?" Zhang Tie felt a little idiotic after asking this question.

If the logistics base of the Iron Horn Legion, which is more than 100 kilometers away from the front line, can let the opponent's airship drop a bomb and then fly back without incident, then there is no need to fight this war.

"It's a bit troublesome to beat it!"

"why?"

"I heard that our air defense force did shoot down their airship, and their airship crashed more than 20 kilometers south of Bulape, but when our troops arrived there, the opponent's airship Except for the few people who died, everyone else has disappeared, and this is the most troublesome thing. Now no one knows where the rest of the people on the airship have gone." Second Lieutenant Pepin sighed .

"We didn't find many corpses on the airship, which means that everyone else on the airship ran away. This is the most troublesome thing, because no one knows where those guys are hiding, whether they escaped back or If the other party has intelligence personnel who are familiar with and lurking in Brape and cooperate with those escaped personnel, no one knows what those people will do next? If those guys still have an explosion hidden in their hands If it is a monster, maybe they will rush directly to Brape's parliament building and make a human bomb!"

The word "human bomb" is not new. For people in the Iron Age, this word is proof of the most tragic and helpless era when human beings killed each other before the cataclysm.

After hearing these words, Zhang Tie knew why the atmosphere in Brape suddenly became tense. It was not just because of the explosion last night, but because it was already certain that there were dangerous elements lurking in Brape. Somewhere in the city, even though he was wearing a military uniform, Zhang Tie was checked three times for his military certificate on the way from going out to the logistics base where he is now, and finally came to the place where the "Ninth Equipment Division of the Integrated Logistics Support Division" was located. repair shop.

In order to catch those people, all the soldiers of a division stationed in Brape took to the streets today, and began to set up checkpoints to check passers-by and check their documents. In doing so, even if those potentially dangerous elements cannot be caught immediately, at least they can Limiting the space of activities of those people to a certain range, before finally catching or killing those people, this is the only way to deal with those people.

"Does the Iron Horn Legion have any explosives?" The word bomb reminded Zhang Tie of a question he was interested in.

"Yes. However, the explosives of the legion are the most important strategic materials of the empire. Because they are too rare and precious, the use and use of all explosives must be personally approved and signed by the head of the legion. In the entire Norman Empire, all All the explosives are controlled by the royal family, and the only two master alchemists in the empire who can make explosives, after marrying the royal family, are both members of the imperial elders of the imperial family!"

Alchemist, this is a Zhang Tie who has only heard of it in legends, and read it in the book "A Preliminary Exploration of the Special Professions of Humans in the Black Iron Age" two days ago. No matter in legends or in reality, he is better than alchemists. It is ten times rarer, and it can be called the most mysterious, richest, and most terrifying top-level profession in the Black Iron Age.

Many cities in the Andaman League may be able to cobble together a few alchemists like Abian, but there is not a single alchemist in the entire Andaman League. These people spend their whole lives with various strange stones and crystals. Dealing with each other, as long as there is a stone in hand, these people are like omnipotent gods. In their hands, stones and crystals become objects that can fight, cultivate, heal diseases, and even improve the attributes of a bunch of metals and machines. Baby, as long as they pass through the hands of an alchemist, many ordinary crystals and stones can become worth tens of thousands of times, worth more than gold, because these people really have the ability to turn stones into gold, so this profession is called an alchemist. The title of alchemist is not so much a description of their professional work, but it is the naked envy of people for this profession.

Alchemists are the only people who can make explosives in this era. A person who becomes an alchemist may be short of everything in his life, but he will never be short of money. Like the Norman Empire, as long as there is a level of alchemist who can make explosives and that alchemist is in the empire, the royal family will marry directly, without a word of nonsense, and tie that person to the empire with blood and family ties. on the chariot.

Alchemists have many aliases - "Treasure Maker", "Walking Vault", "Omnipotent Stone Whisperer", "Hot Weapon Traveler in the Cold Weapon Age" and "Human-shaped Nuclear Bomb", it seems that because of the last This title, which has a strong technological color before the cataclysm, is regarded as a symbol of national strength and status in many countries in the Blackson Terran Corridor.

The former Andaman Alliance once took out the position of chief enshrinement of the alliance, and promised a lot of benefits, trying to attract an alchemist to join, but unfortunately failed to do so.

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At this moment, almost at the same time that Zhang Tie came to this logistics base, in a wilderness more than 30 kilometers south of Brape, the airship that caused huge commotion and loss to Brape last night was scattered on the ground in dilapidated condition. , the entire body of this airship used for sneak attacks was painted black. The pod of the airship is more than 15 meters long, and the body of the more than 50-meter-long hull has been burned to the point where only a deformed rigid skeleton is left. The rubberized fiber cloth used as the airbag of the airship Except for a small amount of remnants, the rest were burned into large black solidified carbides, scattered around the pod and the airship skeleton, and among the broken airship pods, some corpses in aqua blue military uniforms were even more so. Lying in a strange shape.

A group of Norman Empire soldiers in dark red uniforms have sealed off the scene. In the blockade, a group of people in black trench coats were looking for something among the corpses of the Soldiers of the Sun God Dynasty, and a few soldiers in uniforms of imperial officers accompanied them. The surrounding soldiers who were under martial law also quietly looked at the group of people in black trench coats with strange eyes, and looked at the blood-red gloves on their hands.

These people wearing red gloves are the protagonists in all the darkest and darkest stories of the empire, and they are representatives of the cruel and bloody side of the Norman Empire. If the soldiers of the empire are a group of tigers, then this group of people wearing red gloves The people with gloves are a strange hybrid of carrion wolves and venom-spitting snakes in the empire.

These people come from another powerful department in the empire besides the military - the Imperial Order Review Committee. These people are the "National Secret Order Maintenance Police" under the Imperial Order Review Committee.

In Nottingburg, everyone knew that the chief of the secret police, Viscount Norton, and Marshal Lin Changjiang disliked each other.

Apart from their superiors, the entire empire, few people like them.

Because of the explosion last night, these people appeared in Brape like flies smelling bad smell. This was originally a matter of the Iron Horn Legion, but these people insisted on intervening. There are two reasons for these people to intervene: First, the bombing incident is a special national security incident. Except for the explosion on the battlefield, the investigation of all bombing incidents in the empire is under the responsibility of the Imperial Order Review Committee. Second, according to the laws of the empire, the Iron Horn Legion's jurisdiction over the Karur theater is only within 100 kilometers of the front line. Brape was just out of range, so, while the Iron Horn was the victim of this bombing, the Imperial Order Review Committee still had the authority to investigate it.

Because the Imperial Order Review Committee in Nottingburg has written to the Iron Horn Legion, hoping that the Iron Horn Legion will cooperate with these secret police to investigate the bombing, so these people came to Brape, so even if they were reluctant, they were sent to assist The officers of the Iron Horn Legion of these people could only keep a cold face, complete their tasks in a businesslike manner, and when the other party asked about the situation last night, they notified the other party of the latest actions and discoveries of the Iron Horn Legion.

The leader of these men in black windbreakers and red gloves was a major, a man in his thirties with silvery white hair and wolf-like eyes.

"Major, after our troops came here, they surrounded the scene and never moved. On the ground 500 meters away from where the airship fell, our soldiers found tire tracks from trucks. The tracks Going south, it is estimated that those who escaped will be picked up, we..."

The silver-haired man who had been carefully examining the corpse had a warm smile on his face, and as soon as he raised his hand, he interrupted the officer who was reporting to him what happened last night.

"Needless to say, I have already guessed the following things. Your people caught up with the empty truck somewhere more than ten kilometers away, but no one saw it. Then you tracked down the truck. The origin of the truck, it was found that the truck was stolen in Brape a few days ago, and then, you judged that those who escaped on the airship had fled to the south, right, Captain?"

There was a surprised expression on the captain's face, and the language on that face was just one sentence—how did you know?

"Captain, congratulations on successfully letting go of a group of dangerous elements from the Helios Dynasty. When your attention was attracted by the truck heading south, the remaining saboteurs from the Helios Dynasty on the airship have already passed away." I fled to the north. If you could have chased them in another direction, we might not have anything to do with you now. Those spies hidden in Brape by the Sun God Dynasty obviously know what kind of tricks can fool you... ..."

The silver-haired major spoke mercilessly, while the captain was so ashamed that his face was flushed and he was speechless. The captain was speechless, but a major who belonged to the 21st Division with the captain could argue a few more words at this moment.

"Our soldiers did their best last night, Major Franka, you just took a look here, how can you be sure that those who escaped from the airship will run north instead of south last night Woolen cloth?"

"Of course I'm sure!" Major Franka from the Imperial Order Review Committee said with a blank expression, then took off his glove, stretched out an index finger, in front of several officers of the 21st Division He squatted down and inserted his index finger into the head of a dead body on the ground. The hard skull of the dead body was inserted like a piece of tofu under the man's finger. went in.

Major Franka stirred the corpse's cranial cavity with his index finger inserted into the corpse's head, then pulled out the index finger stained with some red and white juice and brains, and put it directly in his mouth, as if tasting some delicious food Close your eyes and taste it carefully. Even though the officers of the 21st Division next to them were used to seeing life and death, they still couldn't help turning pale and feeling a little disgusted watching this behavior of tasting the brains of dead people, especially when Major Franka was tasting the brains The weird smile on his face was even more chilling.

After a long time, Major Franka opened his eyes and smacked his lips in recollection, "These people's brains smell of bitter stone flowers, which is the effect of a secret medicine from the Sun God Dynasty on people. The person who planted the medicine, in a short period of time, the potential of the body will be stimulated, and the brain will be very clear, but the life will not live for too long. This kind of medicine is generally only used on those who dare to die. Those who grow medicine, in the army of the Sun God Dynasty, their only purpose is to die, not to escape, because it would be a serious crime for these people to go back. Before coming, everyone on this airship, Not ready to go back alive, so they must be running north instead of south, running south will hit your front line, and running north, these people can do the most damage, in Brape, There are hidden spies from the Sun God Dynasty to meet them, and their airship crashed in the south to give you the illusion that they are going to escape..."

"This is still your speculation!" The major officer of the 21st Division argued with a pale face.

"These people on the airship all died when the airship crashed. It is impossible for those who escaped to have nothing on their bodies. There must be injured or even seriously injured people inside. They cannot be healed when they escape. Strong, the injuries of those people will definitely worsen. If the injuries worsen, they will be unable to move, and the inconvenience will drag down the team. When the team is found to be dragged down, in the style of the Sun God, those seriously injured will be dealt with. As long as we search north and avoid the main road, we will definitely find something..." Major Franka looked at the officers of the 21st Division in front of him with wolf-like eyes, and his eyes suddenly became sharp. But there was a slightly disdainful smile on his face, "Your strengths lie on the battlefield, I am not here to be your first counter-espionage teacher, I only hope that if what I said is proved to be correct, in the next Before digging out those potential saboteurs, please don't interfere with my actions in Brape. My time is precious, and I don't want to waste too long in Brape for a few insignificant characters. .”

The officers of the 21st Division suppressed their anger and glanced at each other one by one, then nodded. Damn, if the higher ups hadn't sent them over, who would want to be with these guys in red gloves.

Twenty minutes later, in a wild ditch five kilometers north of the crash site, the first body was found. The body was buried underground, but because it had not been buried for a long time, and because it was It was sold in a hurry at night, and even though the sun god made some cover-ups for the people over there, it was still discovered by Major Franka.

In another place less than two kilometers away from this corpse, a second corpse was found...

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