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Chapter 148 The Blocked Mutant Laboratory (25 please order all!)

Well known.

The previous deputy director of state operations was caught colluding with mutants.

The direct action team takes direct orders from the deputy director in charge of operations.

Simply put.

This direct action team, which can recruit 20 people, can be said to be the private armed force of the deputy director in charge of operations.

They follow the Deputy Director of Operations, just like the Assistant Chief of Operations and the Assistant Chief of Information, who only report to the Deputy Director of Operations.

But now, the former deputy director in charge of operations has revealed his identity, and naturally, this direct action team cannot escape the blame.

Of course.

The most important thing is that the former deputy director in charge of operations committed suicide out of fear of crime, and a lot of intelligence has not been obtained.

This is not.

The angry sentinels naturally targeted this direct action team and took them all back to the mutant laboratory for interrogation.

In the eyes of the Sentinels, you are not a mutant, but if you collude with mutants, then that is roughly equivalent to you being a mutant.

"So... I don't have any team members?"

"Not at all."

Debbie said, "Boss, you forgot that you have a special operations team."

In principle, the special operations team code-named "Super God" formed by Locke years ago should have disappeared after Locke was promoted to deputy director of state operations.

but……

This is the principle, but Locke himself can be said to be the principle.

and so!
Locke can say that he is the first deputy director of operations since the establishment of the New York State Sentinel Secret Service to have two direct action teams.

But this can't change the fact that there is only one member in the two action teams with a full complement of 40 people.

Moreover, that team member was a person with connections and had a serious academic imbalance.

Locke suddenly thought of the twelve people outside.

"All members of the action team were taken to the mutant laboratory for research. Why weren't the twelve people outside taken there?"

"They are official sentinels."

"formal……"

Locke listened to Debbie's answer and opened his mouth.

Ok.

They are indeed official sentinels.

After all, the word "special" is not included in the titles of those people out there.

Of course.

The official here does not refer to the organized ones, but means that they are as ordinary as the Mass Sentinel agents on other floors.

Not like Debbie and Jack.

They are high-ranking special sentinel agents.

A high-level Sentinel agent belonging to Locke alone.

Locke is brilliant, they are brilliant.

If Locke falls on hard times, they may fall on hard times too. Of course, they may also be sent to guard sentry warehouses across the country.

"So, I am now a commander without any troops?"

"Uh……"

Jack and Debbie looked at each other.

Locke shook his head.

"Not including you and Blade."

"In fact, at the beginning, the members of the direct action team were detained. Later, Director Andrew called and the Sentinel took them away for research."

"Andrew?"

"Ah."

Debbie nodded and looked at Locke: "Boss, I heard from a friend at the headquarters that this seems to be your request. They said that you told Director Andrew that you would clean up the internal affairs after you took office."

This is also the reason why the twelve people outside saw Locke coming in and hurriedly stood up to greet him.

In addition to leaving a good impression on Locke, the most important thing is not to become the target of purge by Locke, the newly appointed deputy director of operations.

Look.

There are no secrets in Washington, and Washington cannot keep any secrets.

Only Locke and Director Andrew were present at the conversation that day, but the news still got out.

Locke was simply speechless.

He told Director Andrew that he would need half a year to clean up the internal situation.

but……

He didn't ask Director Andrew to just throw away all the direct action teams. At least leave two for me to use.

Now, the direct action team was packed up by Director Andrew and sent to the mutant laboratory.

His reputation also deteriorated.

Without even a thought, the news of a purge came out before he even took office, and Director Andrew packed up his former action team and sent them to the mutant laboratory the next second. Even though this was not his intention, others would not think so.

Such actions are seen by others.

just like……

The new president, upon taking office, simply vetoed everything the previous president had done.

Fortunately, the former deputy chief of the Sentinel died instead of being promoted.

Otherwise, the hatred would be huge.

Locke thought about it and sighed.

At this time.

Jack looked at Locke's expression and suggested, "Boss, how about recruiting members of the action team?"

Locke came back to his senses, looked at Jack, thought for a moment, and nodded: "Okay, you choose first."

If Brown had not transferred to Group 6, there is no doubt that he would have given Brown the spot in this direct action team.

Unfortunately, that guy was blinded by hatred and only wanted to kill mutants.

If he and Team Leader Six continue to kill like this, they will probably be very close to death.

But it had nothing to do with him. The most he could do was to go to Brown's grave, give him some flowers, and wish him and his wife would be reunited in hell.

Locke thought to himself and looked at Jack: "But there is no rush to recruit people. You should first go to the banks in New York that were robbed to learn more about the details."

"Okay." Jack nodded.

He certainly couldn't travel the entire state by himself, but if it was just New York City, there would be no problem.

After Locke finished explaining, he turned around and pushed open the door of the office that belonged to him alone.

into the eye.

Large and bright floor-to-ceiling windows.

A custom-made desk by a top Italian designer takes center stage.

computer.

Signature pen.

photo.

There are also various documents, which Debbie has sorted and put away.

On the left side of the office is a well-designed lounge area.

There was a soft Italian leather sofa and a glass coffee table on which were placed several internationally renowned financial magazines and a bottle of freshly opened high-end champagne.

Locke walked over and looked at the note on the premium champagne.

into the eye.

"Congratulations, Boss, on your promotion!"

"..."

Locke looked at the message on the note, seemed to have thought of something, and turned his head to look at the door.

Debbie and Jack were leaning their heads over to look at Locke who was holding a glass of champagne. When they saw Locke notice them, he walked in directly and each of them took a firework tube and tore it open.

"Oh!"

"Congratulations, boss."

"Congratulations, Boss."

Debbie and Jack, who had just seen that Locke did not send their congratulations, now happily sent their own congratulations to their boss on his promotion.

Locke looked at the flying ribbons and various colorful small objects, then looked at the heartfelt smiles and congratulations on Jack and Debbie's faces, and couldn't help but laugh.

At this moment, the meaning of hard work seems to be concretized.

But celebration is only for a moment, don't take it as forever.

Director Andrew said that if he didn't catch the mutant who stole the bank vault and was suspected of being able to teleport within six months, he would still be demoted.

Fortunately, he initially used this "bank theft case" as an excuse to delay time and avoid the subsequent "mutant cleanup operation."

The most important thing.

The new year is over and he can go to the mutant laboratory.

Do it when you think of it.

After drinking a glass of celebratory champagne with Debbie and Jack, and waiting for Jack and Debbie to go out for their official work, Locke sat down in his brand new leather chair, picked up the phone and called Director Andrew.

The New Year has passed, what happened to the promise that he could go to the mutant laboratory after the New Year?
The call was answered quickly.

"Locke."

"Director!"

Locke got straight to the point: "Director, where is my mutant laboratory license?"

As mentioned before, the mutant laboratory headed by Colonel William Stryker is a top secret even within the Sentinel Secret Service.

Given Locke's current position, this secret is naturally no longer a secret to him.

but……

Except for Colonel William Stryker's men, anyone else who wants to go to the mutant laboratory needs a special permit.

This license needs the signature of Director Andrew to take effect.

"Sorry." When Director Andrew heard that Locke was here to ask for a special permit, he was stunned for a moment and then apologized.

Locke was simply dumbfounded.

"What's going on? Colonel William Stryker refused to let me in. There's no reason for that."

"No, the mutant lab was locked down."

"Ok?"

When Locke heard this reason, he was stunned: "Blocked, the laboratory was found by mutants?"

"almost."

"Uh……"

"But it wasn't found by mutants, it was found by the Skrulls."

"What's the matter?"

Locke was shocked.

Director Andrew, who also received this information at work today, rubbed his brows.

"You said that after you took office, you had to clean up the internal affairs first, so that you could free up your hands to find the mutant suspect in the bank theft case. So I simply asked the Sentinel to take all the previous action teams to the mutant laboratory. You should know about this."

"..."

It would have been fine if he hadn't mentioned this. Once he mentioned this, he thought about how he was left alone when he took office.

But before Locke could complain.

next second.

Director Andrew then sighed and said, "The mutant laboratory found three half-Skrulls among those twenty people."

Locke took a breath when he heard this.

"Three? Is that true?"

"Have you forgotten that we got several half-Skrull bodies from Quantico?"

"I haven't forgotten."

"We are on vacation, but Colonel Stryker is not. He has used the genetic samples extracted from those half-blood Skrulls and integrated them into the X-energy detectors to create several new products that can detect mutants as well as Skrulls as much as possible."

"It just so happened that the twenty operatives were delivered that day, so Colonel Stryker thought of giving it a try."

"result……"

"..."

(End of this chapter)