Did the world end today?

Chapter 152 An old rival? That's great!

Two days later, in Nanjing.

After finishing his trip to Chang'an, Lin Xu returned to the coordination group office.

In two days, he completed all the information collection work for the super magnetic field QCD vacuum distortion scheme in the bracelet world, which means that the last piece of the puzzle of the first wall material of nuclear fusion has been completed.

This is certainly good news.

However, there is also bad news.

That is, due to the lack of a clear direction, he was unable to extract more clues from the world of the bracelet.

Meanwhile, the interrogation of Zhou Yue and Ayana in reality has also encountered bottlenecks.

Zhou Yue's mouth was already clenched shut.

No matter what method was used, even risking administering a lethal dose of "truth serum" directly to him, causing him to actually die and then revive, he did not utter a single piece of information.

The same applies to Ayana.

She kept throwing out new information, but none of it was useful.

These two seemed to have their brains locked—just like the mercenaries in the Bracelet world on Mars.

This made Lin Xu even more convinced that the so-called "mind control" actually existed.

Forget about whether you can withstand the interrogation. Even if you can, something will inevitably slip up, right?

But the truth is, no.

This brought the interrogation to a complete standstill, and Jiang Xingye, the only one "experienced" in this area, was at a loss.

Sitting in Lin Xu's office, she scribbled in her notebook as she spoke:
"So Zhou Yue, Ayana, and the mercenary group you saw are basically in the same situation."

"They can't be said to be 'mind-controlled,' but rather their brains have been locked."

"Like me, I probably need a key to open the lock."

"But what this key is, nobody knows, and there are no clues whatsoever."

"This is a complete paradox: to unlock, we need a key; to get a key, we need to unlock—it's a vicious cycle."

"The most ridiculous thing is that they are different from me."

"The key to their 'lock' is unique, and it will likely only appear after a condition that only they can trigger is met."

"Even if we use an exhaustive search method, we still cannot find this key."

"This is essentially the same as the password I gave you—without the necessary background information, no matter how you deduce it, you can't possibly arrive at the correct answer."

After Jiang Xingye finished speaking, Lin Xu couldn't help but sigh.

Yes, it's a lock, you can't open it.

After a moment's hesitation, he spoke:
"We definitely can't open this lock with our own strength."

"But the good news is that Zhou Yue must have made preparations in advance."

"As long as there is a deployment, there will inevitably be a flaw."

"Qin Feng is investigating. He's confirmed that this matter is related to the CIA, so..."

Before he could finish speaking, there was a knock on the door of Lin Xu's office.

Immediately afterwards, Qin Feng's head popped in.

"Hey? Engineer Jiang is here too?"

"You two chat for a bit, I'll come back later?"

Lin Xu rolled his eyes.

"Come on, we were just talking about Zhou Yue and Ayana."

"Do you have any clues? Just tell me."

Upon hearing this, Qin Feng entered the room, closed the door behind him, and said with a grin:

"I was just thinking about you young people dating."

As he spoke, he spread out the documents he had prepared beforehand and pasted them one by one onto the whiteboard standing to the side.

Seeing his relaxed demeanor, Jiang Xingye couldn't help but ask:
Why do you seem more relaxed now?

"That's not."

Qin Feng chuckled.

"We are not afraid as long as our opponent is the CIA."

"If Zhou Yue can't handle it, then dealing with the CIA shouldn't be too difficult."

"After all, we can be considered rivals of the same skill level."

"That's true."

Jiang Xingye nodded thoughtfully.

Indeed.

Dealing with an old rival is always much easier than dealing with an enemy that you can't see through or understand.

She stood up and walked to the whiteboard, standing shoulder to shoulder with Lin Xu, quietly waiting for Qin Feng to finish organizing the clues.

A moment later, Qin Feng touched the last piece of magnet and then spoke:
“Ayana revealed some details of the meeting on the high seas, and based on these details, we made our first judgment.”

"That is, it was CIASAD that organized this meeting."

"CIASAD?"

Lin Xu blinked.

"what is that?"

"It's an operations division under the CIA—you can think of it simply as a direct operations division of the CIA."

"The personnel in this department are generally not responsible for routine intelligence work; their main focus is on combat missions."

"Hmm, if everyone's a James Bond, that's roughly equivalent to our Coast Guard." "Understood."

Lin Xu nodded and continued to ask:

How did you determine that?

"Tracking ship tracks."

Qin Feng replied:
“Ayana boarded the ship directly in Mauritius. We tracked all the cargo ships that day, confirmed the specific hull numbers, traced the shipping companies based on the hull numbers, and then used some means to obtain the shipping companies' cash flow statements. We identified a front-party account controlled by CIASAD that was within our monitoring range, which basically confirmed their connection with the CIA.”

so complicated.

But it makes perfect sense.

"continue."

Lin Xu spoke again, and Qin Feng tapped the whiteboard and said:
"Now that it's confirmed to be CIASAD, the rest of the work is simple."

“We already had some information on them, and considering the importance of this matter, we took the risk of using an inside man.”

"Our informant provided us with a list of all CIA operations over the past five years. After analyzing the list, we discovered that the frequency and number of top-secret missions carried out by the CIA in the past five years have increased significantly compared to the previous five years."

"Generally speaking, CIASAD's missions are classified as follows: 70% are classified as secret, 20% to 25% are classified as confidential, and less than 10% are classified as top secret."

"But in the past five years, the proportion of these three types of classified missions has been 50%, 20%, and 30% respectively."

"Therefore, we can easily conclude that there must be a long-term, top-secret mission that has squeezed out the resource allocation for other missions."

"This mission is most likely related to Zhou Yue."

"Of course, we can't see the details of top-secret missions, and even for secret missions, we only get snippets of information."

"But that's not important."

"We just need to confirm that the missions related to Zhou Yue are top secret. This is the premise for our subsequent analysis."

Qin Feng paused at this point.

He slightly adjusted the position of the information on the whiteboard, moving Amir Kalamlu's information to the center.

"The scientist who discovered that entangled quantum pairs fail to work with randomness is a new starting point for us."

“After we identified him as a key figure, we began monitoring him.”

“After his death, we immediately tracked the movement of his body.”

“We first made an assumption that he was related to Zhou Yue’s plan that you mentioned. In that case, his body would definitely be disposed of through the CIA, using the privileges of that top-secret project.”

"His body will most likely be transported from Boston to Washington."

"So despite limited manpower and information, and despite their multiple disguises, we did manage to successfully track down the body and find its final resting place."

"Based on this location, our insiders traced back the CIA's asset list and finally confirmed that the building where the body was located belonged to a project called 'Lanshi 2025'."

"At this point, we can basically confirm that Lanzhou Stone 2025 is a project that Zhou Yue formulated, participated in, or influenced."

"It must contain information related to his deployment, and may even include..."

"However, it's difficult for us to find out the specific details of this project in a short period of time; it takes time."

As soon as he finished speaking, a look of regret appeared on Qin Feng's face.

However, Lin Xu was already quite satisfied with their actions.

Two days.

In just two days, they had already uncovered this much information.

Although they did not obtain any substantial data or information, the name "Lanzhou Stone 2025" alone was crucial enough.

Unable to obtain information in reality?
That's such a coincidence.

Lin Xu happened to know a place where he could obtain information in a simpler and more direct way.
Thinking of this, Lin Xu spoke up:
"It's ok."

"That's enough."

"I always thought that the world I was seeing was weakly correlated with the real world."

"Now it seems that this is not the case at all."

"The two worlds developed linearly."

"It's just that the world is stripped of the butterfly's influence, so it seems rather strange."

"But everything that happened there can still be traced back to our world."

"This is the case."

"It's time to launch the time pincer attack again!"

Half an hour later, Lin Xu said goodbye to Jiang Xingye, who was going to Jinling University for a quantum physics class, and returned to his residence.

He didn't rush to bed because the bracelet only had one use left.

He must plan his action carefully and strive for success in one go, so as to obtain all the information about "Lanzhou Petrochemical 2025".

The first and foremost task is to capture the Western Alliance's Ares space station.

That was the "power center" of the Western Alliance on Mars, and it was also clearly the initiator of the "Sandstorm Operation" against Jiang Xingye on Mars.

Therefore, as long as we take over the Ares space station, we will most likely be able to obtain preliminary information about Lanshi 2025.
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Even if they can't obtain it, they can use the limited information on the Ares space station as a springboard to guide actions on Earth.

One hour.

We should be able to take down the Ares space station first, then the CIA building, right?
It's definitely not too late!

With proper planning!

Besides, there's Qi Yuan here.

Lin Xu took a deep breath, his expression resolute.

He then lay back down on the bed and gently touched the bracelet.

Consciousness was instantly drained.

Then, it quickly descended again.
(End of this chapter)