Chapter 226 Mission, then explosion

In front of the apartment door, Aki straightened his suit and tie.

As a Japanese girl, Aki has had to wear a lot of clothes that are quite awkward to wear since she was a child.

For example, the Yukata for the Obon Festival, or JK who can't wear long pants even in winter and can only wear stockings.

After entering Kassel College, she had worn various diving suits and combat suits, but this kind of women's suit with a tie was the first time she had worn it, and she was a little uncomfortable with the feeling of having the tie pressed against her neck.

Ye Sheng beside her turned around and asked, "Are you ready?"

Aki nodded at Ye Sheng.

Ye Sheng raised his hand and knocked on the door of the apartment. Three "dong dong dong" sounds rang out in the corridor. After waiting for a while, a stumbling sound came from the door with limited sound insulation, as if someone accidentally kicked a stool or a table.

Then, the door lock core made a "click" sound, and the security door opened a gap.

"Quemés? (Who are you?)"

Half of a woman's face was revealed in the gap. Her slightly curly light yellow hair was combed neatly, but her eyelids were still a little red and swollen. Aki had read the information Norma had sent in advance and recognized that the woman in front of him was Albrecht Soter's wife.

"We are agents from the SIS. We are here to investigate your husband's disappearance."

Ye Sheng responded with a prepared response, "Do you speak English? If you speak English, it might be easier for us to communicate."

The woman did not answer immediately, but looked at Aki and the other two carefully, and seemed to be deeply suspicious of the two young men with oriental appearances in front of her. However, after seeing the SIS agent ID that Ye Sheng showed, she hesitated for a moment, then nodded and said in English, "Yes. Come in first."

The door was opened, and Ye Sheng followed the woman into the living room. Yaji, who followed behind, did not forget to close the door behind him.

The two put on shoe covers at the door.

The layout of the apartment is very classic. After the shoe-changing area at the entrance, there is the dining room and living room. The corridor next to the living room leads to three rooms. In the center of the living room, a photo of a middle-aged couple and their two daughters is hung in the most conspicuous position.

"Is the girl in the photo your daughter with Mr. Albrecht?" Aki asked.

There is a communication course in the curriculum of Kassel College, and the teacher is Masashi Toyama, a psychological counselor of the college. He taught them how to make the other party let down their guard in the fastest time through communication.

Although she was wearing the stereotypical black suit of an agent, Aki's gentle and sweet appearance like a Yamato Nadeshiko was still quite approachable. It allowed Aki and Albrecht Soter's wife, both of whom were women, to communicate, which was a plan they had agreed on on the way here.

As for directing the topic to their daughter, it is because topics related to children and family can make a mother more easily let down her guard.

Seeing Aki take the initiative to talk about her daughter, the woman was stunned for a moment, nodded and replied: "Yes."

"They should still be in elementary school, right? Are they at home?"

"Today is a weekday, and they are in school now."

"That's right! Oh yeah, I almost forgot today is a workday."

Aki continued to communicate with the woman with a smile, while a golden light quietly flowed in his eyes.

Word Spirit: Senra.

The moment the words were activated, fantasies were immediately constructed in the woman's mind.

After confirming that the woman had been completely controlled by Senluo's effect, Aki turned her head and nodded to Ye Sheng.

Then Ye Sheng turned and walked into the corridor leading to the room. In the woman's view, Ye Sheng was still standing in the living room.

Although they didn't look Portuguese enough, Aki's Word Spirit was very suitable for this kind of investigation mission. After entering the apartment and confirming that only Sote's wife was in the house, Aki immediately activated the Word Spirit.

Ye Sheng took advantage of this time to enter the room and investigate.

Although the master bedroom was at the end of the corridor, Ye Sheng did not miss the bedrooms of his two daughters. After all, clues could be left anywhere.

The daughter's room is decorated in pink, yellow and other girly colors. Various dolls are placed on the bed, and photos with her parents are placed in a prominent position on the desk. It can be seen that the relationship between the parents and the two children is quite good.

Ye Sheng put on gloves and searched his daughter's room first. But as expected, it was hard to find any clues in such a place. After searching every corner including the closet and under the bed, Ye Sheng left his two daughters' rooms, turned around, and pushed open the master bedroom of the couple.

The couple's room was very large. Just as Ye Sheng had expected, in addition to the bedroom, dressing room and private bathroom, there was also a small study room with a computer on the table.

After all, Sote's wife is not a hybrid. When logging into the Hunter website or doing hybrid-related activities, it would be inconvenient if his wife was watching. Ye Sheng sat down in front of the computer desk and turned on the host. After a classic Windows XP boot screen, the password input interface popped up. Ye Sheng expected that the computer would have a password. Even if Sote was not a hunter on the Hunter website, his job as a tax inspector meant that he had to set a password on his personal computer.

However, this simple password was certainly nothing to the executive commissioner of Kassel College. He took out his laptop and connected the two computers via a USB data cable.

"'Snake' calls 'Dancer'." Ye Sheng put on the hidden Bluetooth headset.

"This is 'Dancer', please direct."

"I have arrived at the mission location and sent my computer's IP address to Norma, allowing her to hack into Albrecht Soter's computer through my computer."

"receive."

Selma sent the mission instructions to Norma. After receiving the instructions, Norma's huge data flow was immediately connected to Soter's computer through the network shared by Ye Sheng's computer in the central control room of Kassel College, far away across the ocean.

The password input interface flashed and spun in circles. Less than a minute later, the boot desktop popped up and the password was successfully cracked.

Ye Sheng did not unplug the data cable immediately because Norma was recovering data from Albrecht Soter's computer, from the deleted browsing history to every system file that was modified or deleted.

After waiting for quite a long time, Selma's voice came from the headphones.

"Norma has restored all the deleted records in the computer and copied all the data. However, the erased records on the hard drive cannot be restored through the Internet. It can only be restored through hardware."

"I know this." Ye Sheng said, "I have now connected a new hard drive to my computer. I will ask Norma to help me install the system remotely and copy all the file locations to the same as this computer. I will replace a hard drive and bring back the hard drive of Albrecht Soter's computer."

"receive."

There were no surprises. The mission went more smoothly than Ye Sheng had imagined.

While Norma was copying the documents, Ye Sheng also looked around the rest of the room and took photos of all of Soter's manuscripts, documents, or notes with a micro HD camera. Of course, he also took photos of maps and calendars where key information might be found.

After everything was done, Ye Sheng replaced the computer's hard drive, wiped off the traces he had left behind, and then put all the equipment back into his bag. He returned to the living room and nodded to Aki.

Aki blinked knowingly and released Senro without making a sound.

"We already know the general situation." Aki said with a smile, "Today's visit ends here. We will visit again next time."

The woman blinked blankly, still not sure what was going on.

In her memory, these two strange young men of East Asian appearance, after entering her home, just chatted with her about family matters for a while, and then got up and said goodbye.

Although he said he was here to investigate her husband's disappearance, he did nothing related to the investigation. Instead, he seemed more like a psychologist who came to help her forget the pain of losing her husband.

After leaving Albrecht Soter's house and walking a distance along the street, Aki asked, "How is it? Did you get the information successfully?"

"Of course." Ye Sheng took out a computer hard drive from his bag and shook it, a victorious smile on his face.

Seeing this, Aki pursed her lips and nodded, knowing that this mission should go smoothly.

"So where are we going next? Should we go straight back? Or do you have other instructions?" Aki asked with his hands hanging in front of him, tilting his head.

Ye Sheng pondered for a while and said, "If I remember correctly, the branch of Solomon's Temple in Santarem is on Tagus Street, not far from here. We can go to Tagus Street to meet Professor Mans first, and then go back to Valentine's manor together. We can also report the mission status on the way."

Then, Ye Sheng turned around and asked Yaji: "What do you think?"

Aki shook her head, indicating that she had no objection.

"I remember that Tagus Street should go this way..."

Ye Sheng took out a map from his arms and was looking for the direction to Tagus Street when he suddenly heard a loud noise.

The sound seemed to be far away from here, and it was deep and muffled, but it was clearly audible - it was an explosion.

Before Ye Sheng could react, he saw a group of people running towards him on the street in the distance. Everyone had a terrified expression on their face and was screaming in Portuguese that they couldn't understand. They were running away in panic, as if there were zombies or Godzilla chasing them.

Ye Sheng and Yaji looked at each other, and the next moment, they ran forward against the direction of the crowd.

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(End of this chapter)