northernbook Pull out all their secrets
Pull out all their secrets
"Thank you, Lynn, that's so comforting." Gwen rolled her eyes, but the smile on her face did not disappear.
The car quickly drove into the parking lot of her school. Lynn stopped the car and watched Gwen grab her backpack and sheet music and hurried out of the car. He rolled down the window and shouted, "I'll stay here and wait for you."
Gwen looked back at him, a little surprised, "You want to stay?"
"Yeah." Lynn leaned back in the chair and took out his phone, "I also need some time to catch my breath."
Gwen narrowed her eyes and looked at him for a few seconds, and a smile appeared on the corner of her mouth, "Okay, whatever you want. But don't run away, I have to ask you to evaluate my performance after the performance."
"No problem." Lynn waved at her.
Gwen ran to the school auditorium, while Lynn leaned back in the driver's seat, staring out the window. His fingers tapped the screen of the phone lightly and dialed Hans' number.
The phone rang several times before it was connected. Hans' voice came from the other end, still revealing fatigue: "It's you again, Lin En. What's the new trouble this time?"
"It's not trouble." Lin En said calmly, "I just want to confirm whether you have any new clues."
"No." Hans sighed, "I just had a quarrel with the people in the laboratory. They still haven't figured out the source of the technology behind the mutant. However, they mentioned a possible supplier-a private research institute called "Konos Laboratory."
"Konos Laboratory?" Lin En repeated, frowning slightly.
"Yes. Their names often appear in some gray projects of the government, but we don't have enough evidence to prove that they are related to the Holy Blood Alliance."
"Keep checking." Lin En whispered, "I want to know what the Holy Blood Alliance has to do with these people."
"Understood." Hans hung up the phone.
Lin En put away his phone and looked up in the direction of the auditorium. The sun shone on the ground through the gaps in the leaves, and students in performance costumes went in and out of the door. At that moment, he felt a rare calmness.
The school auditorium was filled with a tense and excited atmosphere. The students were busy with the final rehearsal. The conductor stood in the audience waving his stick. The band's music was sometimes urgent and sometimes slow. A group of parents were whispering in the back row, waiting for the official performance to begin. Lynn stood by the back wall of the auditorium, with his hands in his pockets, quietly looking at Gwen in the front row. She sat in front of the piano, her hands dancing lightly on the keyboard, her eyes focused, and seemed to be completely immersed in the world of music.
For Lynn, this was a short relaxation. Although his mind was still full of the shadow of the Holy Blood Alliance, at this moment, he tried to focus on Gwen's performance. The music slowly stopped, the conductor shouted "Very good!" and then let the band rest for five minutes, and a relaxed whisper and laughter suddenly rang out in the auditorium.
Lynn's phone vibrated. He glanced down and saw a text message from Hans: "We found some background information about Konos Labs. I'll tell you when you come back."
Just as he was about to reply, he heard a noisy shout. Lynn looked up and found that there was some chaos in the front row of the auditorium. A tall boy suddenly rushed to the center of the band, pushed down two chairs, and roared like an out-of-control beast. His eyes were bloodshot, his face was twitching, and his muscles were abnormally tense. He grabbed a harp stand and smashed it hard at another student next to him.
"Kevin! Are you crazy!" A girl screamed and dodged, while the boy who was hit screamed in pain and fell to the ground, covering his shoulder.
Lynn's eyes immediately became cold and sharp. He quickly took a few steps away from the wall and rushed towards Kevin through the crowd. At the same time, other students screamed in panic and scattered to both sides, and the scene was in chaos. Gwen stood up from the piano chair, her face full of shock and confusion.
"Back off!" Lynn shouted in a low voice, with an unquestionable command in his tone. His voice penetrated the noisy crowd, and Gwen quickly pulled several classmates back.
Kevin's movements became more and more violent. He grabbed another instrument stand and smashed it hard on the ground, making a deafening metal collision sound. Lynn didn't waste time. He quickly approached Kevin from the side, ducked to avoid the iron stand he swung, and then decisively grabbed the other's wrist and twisted it hard. Kevin let out a painful roar, and the iron stand in his hand fell to the ground with a "clang".
"Enough, calm down!" Lynn tried his best to suppress Kevin's movements, but the other party's strength was surprisingly strong, almost not like an ordinary high school student. His body twisted wildly, trying to break free from Lynn's control, the bloodshot in his eyes became more and more obvious, and a low and inarticulate roar came out of his mouth.
"What are you doing?" Gwen shouted from behind, her face full of worry.
"Stay back, Gwen!" Lynn shouted, then quickly bent Kevin's arms behind his back, pressed his knees against his legs, and pinned him to the ground.
Kevin struggled on the floor, his head hitting the ground, veins popping out of his face, and he had obviously lost his mind. There was even a trace of white foam at the corner of his mouth, which immediately made Lynn's nerves tense.
"This is not a normal violent state..." Lynn whispered to himself. He held Kevin's body tightly with one hand, and touched his sleeves with the other hand, quickly lifting them up, trying to find any possible clues.
On Kevin's arm, Lynn found some tiny needle marks, as if something had just been injected. The surrounding skin was slightly red and had an abnormal swelling.
"Fuck." Lynn cursed in his heart. His first reaction was that the boy might have taken some kind of drug, and this might be the reason why he lost control.
Several teachers finally rushed over from the chaotic crowd, with panic expressions on their faces. "What's going on? What's wrong with Kevin?" One of the teachers knelt down to check on Kevin, obviously trying to wake up his reason.
"Don't get close!" Lynn warned in a low voice, his tone was cold, "He is not sober now, and he may hurt anyone."
"But he is a child-" The teacher was obviously hesitant.
"Now he is a threat." Lynn swept over with a sharp look, with unquestionable majesty in his words. The teacher immediately shut up and took a step back.
Kevin's struggle gradually weakened, as if the effect of the drug was wearing off. His breathing became heavy and rapid, and finally he collapsed to the floor with weakness. But his eyes were still dull, his lips trembled slightly, as if he was still trying to say something.
Lin En turned Kevin over and patted his face gently, "Kevin, can you hear me? Who asked you to take these things?"
Kevin's eyes opened slightly, his lips trembled, as if he wanted to speak, but in the end he only uttered a vague word: "...they...drug...took...me away..."
"Take away?" Lin En frowned and lowered his head to approach, "Who took you away? The Holy Blood Alliance?"
Kevin did not answer again. His body completely relaxed, as if he had fainted.
The chaos in the auditorium gradually subsided, but the students and teachers around him were still whispering with horrified expressions. Gwen ran to Lynn, her eyes swept between him and Kevin, "What happened to him? He can't be like this normally!"
"He was injected with a drug." Lynn stood up and wiped the sweat from his forehead, "This drug temporarily increased his strength and violence, but also made him lose control."
"Drug?" Gwen's eyes widened, "How is this possible? Kevin is just an ordinary student, how could he..."
"That's exactly what I want to find out." Lynn interrupted her, his eyes cold, "Gwen, you leave here with the other students, and let the teachers deal with the remaining chaos. I'm going to take him to the hospital and confirm the drug content in his body."
"Hospital?" Gwen wanted to say something, but she saw the determination in Lynn's eyes and finally nodded, "Okay. But you have to be careful."
Lynn didn't answer, but called a teacher over, asked the other party to help stabilize the scene, and then he called Hans.
"You again." Hans sounded like he was chewing something after answering the call. "Don't tell me you're in trouble again."
"Yes, and it's a big trouble." Lynn said quickly, "I just met a boy who suddenly went crazy at Gwen's school. He had obvious traces of injections on his body. I suspect it has something to do with the Holy Blood Alliance."
"Injection traces?" Hans' tone immediately became serious, "Are you sure?"
"Very sure." Lynn whispered as he quickly left the auditorium, "I'm going to take him to the hospital to find out what's in his blood."
"I'll contact the laboratory and ask them to be prepared." Hans paused and added, "Lynn, this doesn't sound like a random incident. If the Holy Blood Alliance has already started to attack ordinary people, our situation may become more complicated."
"I know." Lynn hung up the phone with a hint of coldness in his eyes. He looked down at Kevin's pale face and had a bad feeling in his heart.
Lynn placed a small refrigerator containing blood samples on the metal workbench of the FBI headquarters laboratory and looked down at his watch. It was one o'clock in the morning. He had spent too much time tracking this case, and this time, he felt that he was getting closer and closer to the truth.
"Is this the sample collected from that student?" Rosa, the laboratory supervisor, stood opposite him, wearing gloves and goggles, with a little doubt in her eyes.
"Yes," Lynn said in a steady voice, "I suspect this is related to mutants. His behavior, strength, and injection marks are all abnormal."
Rosa raised her eyebrows, "Mutants? Do you think the Holy Blood Alliance is using ordinary people for some kind of experiment?"
"That's exactly what I want to find out," Lynn replied in a cold tone, "First test the blood to see if you can find the key clues."
Rosa nodded, without asking any more questions, but turned around to transfer the sample to the analysis instrument. An automated analysis machine slowly started up, and the robotic arm accurately extracted blood and began a series of complex chemical and genetic tests.
Lynn stood aside, with his hands in his coat pockets, staring at the progress bar on the screen. His thoughts were not calm. If the Holy Blood Alliance really injected mutant genes into ordinary people, this would not only be a conspiracy against society, but also a biological disaster.
A few minutes later, a series of complex data began to pop up on the screen. Rosa frowned and stared at the display screen. "This is impossible..." She whispered, with a hint of shock in her voice.
"What's impossible?" Lin En quickly came over and scanned the screen.
Rosa raised her head, took off her goggles, her face filled with incredible expressions. "In his blood, there were some kind of... highly abnormal gene fragments. These fragments obviously do not belong to the normal human genome, they were spliced in manually."
"Mutant?" Lin En asked, his voice as low as a muffled thunder.
"Yes," Rosa nodded, "these gene fragments are characterized by highly similar characteristics to some of the ability genes we have seen in the mutant case. Especially these gene sequences," she pointed at a portion of the data on the screen, "They are obviously extracted from a mutant with extraordinary power."
Lynn's brows frowned even more. "Extract the mutant genes and inject them into ordinary people...what the hell is this?"
Rosa pondered for a moment, then said, "This is not something that any underground laboratory can do. It requires highly professional bioengineering technology, and it seems that they are not just copying genes, but doing these genes. Some kind of reinforcement may even speed up the adaptation of genes to the host. This explains the sudden increase in strength of the boy and his emotional out of control."
"They are making weapons." Lin Neng whispered, a sense of coldness in his voice.
"Yes," Rosa nodded, "but this kind of experiment is extremely risky. The body of an ordinary person cannot fully bear the genetic side effects of mutants, so there will be such a violent out of control."
Lynn raised his head, his eyes as cold as a knife. "The question is, why does the Holy Blood Alliance do this? What is their ultimate goal?"
"That's the most frightening thing," Rosa said. "If they found a more stable way to implant these gene fragments into ordinary people... can you imagine? They would make a regular one An army that people cannot fight against.”
"And we may not even know where their lab is." Lynn gritted his teeth, clenching his fists tightly.
Rosa glanced at him and patted him on the shoulder, "I will continue to analyze the data to see if we can trace the source of the genes, maybe we can find clues."
"Hurry up, I need to find their weakness as soon as possible," Lynn said, then turned and left the lab.
At two o'clock in the morning, Lynn sat in his office, with the table full of case information from the Holy Blood Alliance. The phone screen lights up, it was Hans who called.
"Why are you still awake?" Hans' voice sounded tired, but still with his usual lazyness. "Don't tell me you're still studying the boy's blood sample."
"Just come out of the lab." Lin Neng leaned on the back of the chair and rubbed his temples. "There are indeed traces of mutant genes in the blood, and it was implanted manually."
Hans was silent on the other end of the phone for a while, then cursed in a low voice, "Damn. How did the Holy Blood Alliance get the genes of mutants? This thing is not something that ordinary people can extract at will, and someone must support them behind their backs."
"Rosa said that this requires very professional technical support." Lynn nodded, "The Konos Laboratory we mentioned earlier is likely to be the accomplice behind the scenes."
"Do you think it's them?" Hans asked.
"There is the most likely clue right now," Lynn replied. "They have been accused of participating in illegal human experiments in the past and have a close connection with some military projects. If the Holy Blood Alliance wants the genes of mutants, they may I will choose this secret channel."
"It sounds like a dead end," Hans sighed. "This kind of laboratory has resources, secret funding, and a military background. It's hard for us to find a breakthrough."
"But we have to try." Lynn's voice was low but firm. "The Holy Blood Alliance will not wait for us to find them. They have already started to act, and Kevin is just the first victim. If we don't chase them as soon as possible, they are very They will find their next target soon.”
Hans was silent for a few seconds before saying, "I will continue to track the flow of funds in Konos Labs to see if I can find any clues. Be careful, too, don't let these bastards push you too tightly .”
"So too." Lynn hung up the phone, threw his phone on the table, and took a deep breath. He looked at the messy documents on the table, and kept replaying Kevin's out of control and the increasingly disturbing actions of the Holy Blood Alliance.
A few hours later, Rosa sent a message asking him to rush back to the lab immediately.
Lynn almost trotted into the laboratory, Rosa was already waiting by the microscope, her eyes flashing with excitement and tension.
"I found something," she said, turning the screen to Lynn. "There is a very unique marker sequence in these gene fragments, which are generally used in scientific research experiments to track the source of the gene. And I found Its registration record - this is a unique mark in Konos Labs."
"Damn it." Lynn cursed in a low voice, tapping his fingers on the tabletop.
"That means," Rosa continued, "not only do they have connections with the Holy Blood Alliance, but they may be the direct technology providers of the Holy Blood Alliance. They are funding this terrible genetic experiment."
"That's enough." Lynn stood up straight, his eyes as sharp as a blade. "We want to find the location of Konos Laboratory and find out their secrets."
Rosa looked at him and nodded, "Be careful, Lynn. If they were actually involved in these experiments, they might be far more dangerous than you think."
Lin En did not answer, but turned and left. He knew that this clue might be their only breakthrough and the only chance to stop the Holy Blood Alliance. He would not let it slip away in vain.