hope for redemption

"Prison?" Lin Wang asked in disbelief, raising his voice uncontrollably, "What prison?"

"Calmdown," Cronus calmly made a reassuring gesture, poured himself another glass of whiskey leisurely, and asked without rushing to answer Lin Wang's question, "Would you like a glass?"

Lin Wang knew that he had overreacted, so he coughed unnaturally, changed his sitting position and replied, "No."

"Well, then I hope that the ice water can help you relieve your emotions later," Cronus smiled and put a piece of old ice in Lin Wang's glass, sat back on his seat and chatted while shaking the glass, " Have you heard of Chaos Island?"

Chaos Island?

Lin Wang searched his memory and shook his head: "No."

"Well... that's normal, let me briefly introduce that Chaos Island is located in the North Atlantic Ocean, but you can't find its name on any official map, do you understand what I mean?" Cronus curled his lips He raised his eyebrows.

This sentence may be misunderstood by others, but it is a clear indication to the people of Noah's Ark.

In this world, the scariest and frightening things are not those that are already known, but those that are concealed and deliberately erased.

What's more important is 'any official map' that Cronus specifically mentioned.

This is an island that has been deliberately eliminated by the world.

Lin Wang's heart suddenly went blank, his hands and feet started to feel cold, and he was stunned for a long time before he found his own voice: "..Understood."

"On that island, there is a prison, and there is no light in that prison." Cronus said softly, the tone was cold, and it made people feel dark behind.

"No light?" Lin Wang put his hands under the table and rubbed each other, leaning back against the back of the chair to find some sense of security, "Can't you see the sun?"

"There's no natural or artificial light, it's pitch dark and you can't see anything," Cronus said. "The prison was built on the bottom of the island, and a dozen workers were changed during construction, and they were all killed at the end, so all but No one other than the prison owner knows how big it is, which room each prisoner is kept in, not even the prisoners who are held in it."

"Many organizations in the world have sent people in, trying to scan out its layout with some advanced instruments, but it's a pity that no one has succeeded."

"I have a question," Lin Wang interrupted, raising his hand. "Compared to sending someone to infiltrate, wouldn't it be faster to get it directly from the prison master who knows the structure?"

Cronus shook his head helplessly: "You can't find the prison master at all."

"What do you mean you can't find it?" Lin Wang was even more confused by what he said.

"Prison masters have their own selection and succession system. From birth to death, they live underground and merge with the darkness. You can't find them from an unknown space." Cronus explained, "Someone once tried to break into them by force. entered, but never came out of it again, apart from the absence of light, what is more important in that prison is its layout, which is like a maze.”

"Wait a minute," Lin Wang was a little fidgety when he heard this, and looked at him to confirm, "Maze?"

Cronus took a sip of his wine: "Yes, according to the information sent back by those intruders before they disappeared, it can be roughly determined that the layout inside should be a maze."

"Then how can I figure it out, even those advanced scanning instruments are not good enough, how can I figure out the layout and then draw it for you?" Lin Wang felt that Cronus might have overestimated the ability of absolute precision.

"Those scanning instruments are not working because of the location of the island itself, which is close to the Bermuda Triangle area. The abnormal magnetic tape causes the feedback of the waveform radiation or the processing of the encoded signal to be extremely distorted. It is not because of the unpredictable structure of the prison itself. .”

Although Lin Wang didn't understand those technical terms, he generally understood that the abnormal magnetic tape in that place made the scanning detectors unusable, so he could only rely on manual observation, measurement, and clarification.

"What's more, we are absolutely precise, and we can do things that those precision instruments can't do, can't we?" Cronus nodded his head, with contemptuous arrogance on his brows, "In this world, people's The brain is the most advanced, the most sophisticated, the greatest existence."

Having said that, Lin Wang was at a loss: "Then how do I draw the structural diagram? Our modeling is..."

"Echo of Nino." Cronus reached out and played the harp pendant on the table, and a crisp 'ding' sound spread throughout the office. After a long while, he tilted his head and announced a number, "45.32, test it?"

Lin Wang looked at his hand shaking the harp pendant, and waited for a long time before uttering a few words: "Are you kidding me?"

"Seriously," Cronus knocked on the table to alert Lin Wang to focus, "This is the only way I can think of right now."

"But it's not the best way." Lin Wang clenched his hands tightly under the table, trying to calm himself down, "You know this method can measure the range and distance of a small space, but no one has succeeded in a large space. Ours Precision field..."

"Then this is your business," Cronus replied mercilessly, "Originally, I was only responsible for telling you the task, how to solve it is your own business, and the method of providing you with Nino's echo is all out of the past Your affection, do you understand?"

This sentence gave Lin Wang a blow to the head and woke him up.

He hasn't been back to Noah's Ark for a long time. As for him, he forgot to only ask for conditions when trading. As for how to meet the needs of the other party and solve problems, it is his own business.

It was bad manners for him to ask now.

Lin Wang woke up suddenly, opened his mouth but couldn't say what he said before, so he closed his eyes fiercely and replied: "I understand."

Cronus lazily hummed, leaned back as if chatting, and while rocking back and forth as if sitting in a rocking chair, he asked: "That's all my condition, you know what you have to pay...Actually, you Now there is still a chance to repent, and I can give it."

what you have to pay...

As a precise person, he knows too well what he has to pay.

Lin Wang clenched his hands too hard, the veins under the skin exploded, and the sound of bones 'collapsing and collapsing' could be vaguely heard.He lowered his head, closed his eyes and thought silently, his bent back was like a fully drawn bow, ready to go at any time.

In the office, only the sound of collisions between ice cubes, spirits, and glasses could be heard, and the tinkling sound was mixed with the muffled sound of water hitting the wall.

Cronus didn't say much, and tried to keep his sitting position without making any noise, giving Lin Wang enough space to think quietly.

I don't know how long after such silence, a low and weak voice sounded in the office: "...Okay, I will do it."

Cronus was stunned, turned the back of the chair and reconfirmed in disbelief: "Are you sure?"

Lin Wang let out a few muffled noises in his throat, rubbed his face and straightened up, met his eyes and replied firmly: "Sure."

Now there is no way out. Although choosing this transaction is not the best solution, it is the same as using Echo of Nino to do this task. This is the only way.

The only way to get Jiang Xi back to him, for this, he is willing to pay no matter what the price is.

Cronus' eyes widened in astonishment, and after a long time he squeezed out a "wow", as if he really couldn't believe that Lin Wang could do this for Jiang Xi.

"Well... I'll ask Xianmin to give you the relevant information about this mission later. After reading it, you have a few days to make relevant plans. If you have any needs, you can directly mention them. I will do my best to satisfy you." Cronus said.

"Okay," Lin Wang blinked, wiped away his panic, looked at Cronus and asked expectantly, "Can I see him?"

Only by seeing Jiang Xi can I eliminate all the anxiety and despair in my heart these days, and can give myself the motivation and hope to go on.

"Jiao..Jiang Xi?" Cronus propped his cheek with his hands, and replied regretfully, "He's on a mission, you probably won't see him."

"A mission?" Lin Wang frowned displeasedly, and asked after thinking for a while, "Then when will he come back?"

Cronus shrugged: "I don't know, I don't know so well about their language department. But...if he comes back before you leave, I can arrange for you to meet, it depends on your fate. "

"Okay," Lin Wang nodded joyfully, then he might prolong the time for making plans until Jiang Xi came back.

Thinking of meeting Jiang Xi, Lin Wang excitedly put aside the fear and anxiety just now, and the anticipation of meeting in the future washes every inch of his skin.

Cronus knew what he was planning, so he didn't reveal it. He gave him a disgusted look and said, "You'll be staying in my safe house these days, don't run around, don't forget that An Sheng is here too."

"I know." There was a hint of hostility in Lin Wang's eyes.

Cronus pressed the communication button to give Shen Xianmin a few words, then turned his head and said to Lin Wang: "Okay, let Xianmin take you there."

Hearing what he said, Lin Wang raised his eyebrows in surprise and asked, "Have you seen Alps?"

"I should punish him when I see him." Cronus looked at Lin Wang as if he was mentally retarded. "You know that the exiles are not allowed to come back without being recalled."

Lin Wang slapped his forehead suddenly, and shouted annoyedly, "I forgot."

Cronus waved his hand very tiredly: "Hurry up and get out."

"Okay, then I'm leaving." Lin Wang nodded with a smile, got up and walked out the door.

"Wait a minute," Cronus' voice came from behind.

Lin Wang stopped and turned to look at him and asked, "What's wrong?"

"Did An Sheng send mercenaries to China to hunt you down?" Cronus asked with his hands crossed and his chin propped up.

"Yes." Lin Wang nodded, and asked suspiciously, "Don't you know?"

"It's nothing, just make sure." Cronus smiled inexplicably, "Okay, you've been on the plane for a day, so take a good rest."

Lin Wang didn't think much, and walked out after saying hello, followed Shen Xianmin to find Alps, and then went back to the safe house together.

What he didn't notice was that after he left, Cronus withdrew his smiling face, and immediately withdrew his pretended amiability, and only then did he reveal his cold and sinister true appearance, with gray-green eyes gleaming. Chilling calculation light.

"Insanely stupid," Cronus sneered disdainfully, opened the bottom drawer, took out a rose gold iphone from dozens of mobile phones, and turned the chair to face out the window as he unlocked it.

Looking at the magnificent burning clouds in the sky, Cronus tapped his toes rhythmically in the air, and said with a smile in his cold voice: "Don't hang up, I want to tell you something very interesting The matter is about your collaborator An Sheng."

The person on the other end of the phone paused, but finally gave him a chance.

There was a smile on Cronus' stern face, he looked up at the patterned ceiling, grasped the rhythm of the conversation and spoke slowly, those who didn't know thought he was chatting with his friends instead of secretly doing something The act of stabbing a knife and murdering someone's life.

The arc of his mouth showed the light of a winner.

But he's been at the pinnacle for so long that he's forgotten that rule.

In the game of capital, no one can predict the final winner. You think you are a squirrel, but in fact you may be just a praying mantis.

The mantis catches the cicada and the oriole is behind.

In the corner on the top of the office wall, a nano-sized monitor embedded in the gap in the wall is transmitting all the scenes in the office to another computer.

Noah's Ark has no secrets.

The author has something to say:

Cronus is a total bad guy, and basically everything is caused by him, but in this book, he is likely to be the ultimate winner.But not necessarily, you guess it, hahaha.