Hermit Wizard

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“That's why I told you from the beginning! ”

Within a soundproofed eight-storey office, Matt rarely raised his voice in front of his supervisor.

I couldn't sink my anger. How many times he claimed to be stalked was dismissed, and an unimaginable disaster struck. After reading the report on the state of the El Paso branch, including quarantine station 25, Matt said, 'I didn't listen to you, and I knew it.’ I couldn't even put a Vignan in my mouth. The scene of the damage, photographed, was much worse than expected, terrifying, and literally catastrophic.

“I can't believe you keep working within El Paso! For some reason! ”

Abraham, who was still listening to Matt's words, looked at him with calm eyes. Matt, who took his cold eyes straight, soon felt something strange.

“· · · What? ”

“Now you need to realize this for yourself. I silenced your opinion and didn't tell you why. Why would you do that?”

Matt is captivated by the absurdity and asks if he has any thoughts left.

“Are you saying that it was an order from above, not at the company level? ”

Abraham nods quietly. Then Matt stood up and shouted loudly.

“No way! ”

“All documents relating to him are reviewed and signed by him himself. ”

“That's ridiculous! ”

Abraham raises his voice as if irritation were happening.

“Agent Matthias Eisenberg! ”

Matt shoots with no support.

“There's no reason for the White House to give such instructions! ”

“You don't have to worry about why. The instructions are low, and we're just doing what we're doing. ”

“Look at the consequences! ”

Matt chuckles and talks. His face, which originally had a dark flush, was now as red as a purple.

“If we had transferred them to another branch beforehand, the accident could have ended without casualties of this magnitude. If the only brainwashed person in the branch was Agent Simon Van de Camp, it would have been possible to defeat him, no matter how superhuman he was. This could have been avoided! ”

Abraham, who was listening to what he was shooting at, shook his head like a headache, and looked straight into Matt's eyes.

“Matt, how many years have you been in? ”

“No, that's not what matters right now! ”

“Shut up and answer first. How many years? ”

Feeling the weight on his voice was unusual, Matt glanced at his superiors and replied, barely angrily suppressing them.

“It's the 15th year. ”

“It's only been 15 years, and you're getting out of here. And I got access to a P046-grade secret, and I'm even in a position to comment on it. ”

“No, I'm going to tell you that! ”

“Recognize your position! Just calm down and sit down. ”

Matt sits back in his seat with his eyes full of doubtful light. Then Abraham scratched his forehead with his two clasped hands and pondered for a while. Just before Matt, who felt the limits of patience, asked what he was doing now, Abraham opened his mouth again.

And instead of thinking about what to do so far, I brought up another story.

“When it comes to that degree, the upper intention is to think for yourself. If your head doesn't roll enough to find a reason, just do what you're told! ”

Abraham mutters quietly. To a man who was so straightforward, he said something he couldn't say in the end.

‘When you get to that position, make your own speculation. After all, this is about the experimental and the control group, you idiot. ’

Without even knowing what he was thinking, Matt struggled and stared.

Looking at such a man with a half-irritated eye, Abraham continues to think.

Sending agents who have been exposed to xenophobic reactions to other parts of the world will eliminate the experimental population to which the variation 'environment adjacent to the laser’ is assigned.

That's why I gave them permission to continue working in El Paso.

This is the truth Matt is not ready to accept yet.

* * *

In fact, I think what the top people wanted at first was just a peaceful negotiation. He wanted to provide what he wanted, and exclusively to gain knowledge of his world. And then, as some countries are already doing, they might sell information that is less important to other countries.

But he was so stingy about providing information. As time went by without obtaining it, the superiors wanted to obtain information even by pressing the rest of the nervous laser, but they didn't know the limits of their power, so they couldn't resist.

Abraham murmurs in his heart.

‘Actually, it was a little ambiguous about the ability to make God forget. That's why I had to doubt it. Is that really all you have? If it's the ability to manipulate memories, can it interfere with the human mind in some other way? ’

That doesn't mean I can't throw agents who have a peculiar reaction in front of him like Mormot. Re-contacting people who have already suffered damage (which you are not aware of) with the laser will make internal public opinion worse, and you should also notice the Ethics Office.

That's why I gave you permission to work within the El Paso branch. And surprisingly, more than half the agents wanted to stay. Given the fact that the majority of those doctors were in occupations with weapons, it is assumed that there was already an implication at that point.

In fact, you can't enter quarantine 25, and the El Paso branch is blindfolded and elegant. But the brain, even without direct contact with the laser, speculated that there would be some kind of reaction if it were observed in a space less than a few hundred meters away. Maybe his abilities are just a matter of time, aren't they? I was desperate enough to rely on such a sparse possibility.

Of course, I wasn't just looking at it with my hands off.

Personnel who showed specificity received multiple marks from other armed personnel in secret and were the subject of intensive monitoring by CCTV. Therefore, even if he showed sudden action, he thought he would be able to overcome it enough. In addition, it was planned to shut down quarantine stations and branches in the event of such an emergency as to prevent the outflow of the laser.

But all these initiatives have consequently failed.

In other words, some of the operatives were in the middle of an informal operation that they were prepared to lose. However, the actual damage is much more than expected, making it unparalleled. With that in mind, Abraham grinded his teeth.

“· · · Mr. Abraham? ”

Matt suddenly throws a suspicious eye at the boss who has lost his horse. But instead of caring for him, Abraham struggled to quench his fierce anger.

He lifted his consciousness back in his deep thoughts, and told his men before his eyes.

“That's all I can say about your protest. Let's move on to the mission story. Simply put, finding an assistant who would have helped the ejector escape. ”

Abraham throws a thick file on his desk. Matt's eyes widened as he took it and whispered.

More details than he knew were there.

The moment Simon Van de Kamp opened the door of the observation room wall and kneeled before the laser, an alarm was sounded to the entire branch because of the door opened with the masterkey without any prior approval procedure. The headquarters also found out immediately and forcibly remotely piloted quarantine station 25 into the shutdown procedure.

In the meantime, however, the telemetry was cut, and all the CCTV footage in the El Paso branch that we were observing at Headquarters was turned off. It was not a matter of communication. At that moment, all the CCTVs in the branch were destroyed.

The headquarters immediately sent troops to the surrounding branch, but only a small number of survivors, including the El Paso branch, where the entire building was blacked out and the entire facility was destroyed, the bodies lying on the ground, were found.

While Matt was reading the paperwork, Abraham chewed his lips and recalled the thought he had repeated several times in the past few days.

The first patchwork of this experiment is that the subject of the peculiarity reaction is a devout religious person and the monotony is too premature.

The second patchwork was that the brainwashed would sweep through the branch at a force and velocity that was impossible for humans. Few survivors' testimonies and traces of the scene show that they shot, killed, tore, erected and destroyed facilities with human movement beyond their limits.

The third patchwork is that the outside intervention was not noticed. This is the most disastrous espionage failure and nightmare of an intelligence operation.

“If he had the ability to disable the electronics, he would have first used that power to disable CCTV and remote control and then moved on. But I didn't. Moreover, there are too many visible signs of outside intervention at the scene. ”

There was definitely an assistant. Outside the branch, there are individuals or groups who have made both the coliformer and the isolation facility useless by any means.

The part that we're making just before we hit the cerebral cortex is how the assistant came into contact with the laser. The one who's been isolated from the outside since he was captured in the jungle.

“· · · Who the hell? Were there any more brainwashed people besides those who disappeared that day in El Paso? ”

“Those who have had any contact with him at all, regardless of religion or not, have robbed him of all his deeds, but there is no evidence of any connection. But there is one thing that is certain. ”

Abraham's eyes glow brightly.

“I can't do that without an inside agent. You'll have to thin it from the inside. ”

“What about the recovery of the e-laser? ”

“I've already started in another organization. Your field agents gave you false information and tracked you down as a 'Wizard’ who went mad during training, not as a xenophobe. Since the condition of the brainwashing is not known, information gathering is a priority rather than capture. ”

“But he was in charge of us! ”

Abraham nods at the temples.

“I have a search specialist in mainland. · · · He wouldn't have gotten out of the United States. No matter how much brainwashing you have, controlling a huge space called the airport is another problem.

But really, if this guy is found overseas,

That is what proves once again the existence of a helper. There can be no escape from abroad without external help. And, the mission of tracking will probably come back to them.

"Now he's coming up to the top of his head angry. For the time being, all resources in your team will focus this way. ”

I bit it too deep. It hurts, but the shame is greater. Meanwhile, this heavy and sharp dance, called shame, touched the deep backlashes of the superiors. It's unusual to see the anger of the supreme authority burn for a few days.

Abraham grinds his teeth quietly.

My country has already paid the price of miserable carelessness. But the enemies will have to pay more than this.

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