In a remote corner of the concession, Royd stood there helplessly, looking at the busy subordinates coming and going, sighing from time to time.
He originally thought that after working overtime to adjust Lancelot's state to the best, he could participate in Cornelia's bandit suppression operation and collect more actual combat data.
In the end, this was the result.
Last night.
A sudden explosion blew up a warehouse in a port in the southeast of the concession.
From the official news, this was a flammable explosion caused by the careless operation of the staff, but in fact, it led to the entire Special Task Force being transferred here by Cornelia to investigate the cause of the accident.
In this regard, Royd was helpless and indignantly looked at the port that had been razed to the ground and was full of devastation.
"The Special Task Force is just an organization to develop new and cutting-edge bodies! Why are they investigating this accident that is no different from a mysterious incident! "
In private, Royd complained to Cecil and Ray Mingkai in a frenzy.
Cecil and Ray Mingkai also expressed their helplessness.
What they knew and understood was not as much as what Royd knew. They knew more than Royd, who received first-hand information from Cornelia ten hours after the incident.
"Royd. What the hell is going on? "
Cecil looked at the isolation suit that had been put on and carefully looked back and forth at the site of the explosion, looking for some clues that might exist.
Royd sighed, made a gesture to follow him, then turned around and led Cecil and Ray Mingkai back to the transport vehicle that contained Lancelot.
"Look, this is the video that the governor retrieved from the port duty room after the incident. Let's talk about other things after watching it! "
After Cecil and Ray Mingkai looked at each other, they focused their attention on the screen.
After the black display flashed a few times, a gray screen with flickering brightness appeared.
From the time scale displayed on the upper left of the screen, it should be a video around 1 am.
According to the port's operating procedures, this should not be a very busy time. In the next second, Royd's words also confirmed this point.
"According to the results of the inquiry obtained from the staff after the incident, the port had just completed the loading and unloading of the last cargo ship before the incident. All the workers had finished their preparations and left the port one after another."
"So there were no casualties?" Cecil asked casually.
"It's not that there were no casualties. It's just that they were unlucky. Look! "Royd curled his lips and raised his hand to point at the screen.
Under everyone's gaze, two staff members suddenly appeared from the outside of the screen.
Although their expressions could not be seen clearly, from their movements, they seemed to be in a hurry..
"Left to go?" Ray Mingkai asked.
"Yes. After the incident, the staff who returned to the port said that the two unlucky guys had indeed left their personal belongings at the port by accident, so they hurriedly returned. As a result … "
At the same time that Royd made the gesture of explosion, an explosion that had once happened here reappeared on the screen.
"From this video, there doesn't seem to be any major problems?" Sehir said with some hesitation.
"Is that so? Then, look at this video again? "Royd raised his hand and pressed a button, and the screen was switched to the direction of another camera.
Similarly, they could still see the video of the two staff members running to the port in a hurry.
However, a few seconds later, Ray Mingkai suddenly saw a black shadow pass by in front of the camera.
"Pause! Replay for three seconds! "
Ray Mingkai shouted softly.
"Sure enough, K has found the key."
Royd pressed the playback button, adjusted the time back to ten seconds ago, and turned on the slow-motion playback function. A blurry black shadow once again appeared in front of Ray Mingkai.
"What, what is this? Could it be that the explosion was caused by it? "Cecil exclaimed.
If Royd had not turned the slow-motion playback to the maximum, Cecil would not have been able to detect a black shadow passing by on the screen.
"I don't know."
Royd pressed the pause button, paused the black shadow on the screen, and spread out his hands, indicating that he did not know either.
"Governor, do you mean that we have to find this black shadow?" Ray Mingkai thought for a while, then looked at Royd and asked.
"Yes! A perfectly good Special Mission had actually become a Monster Hunter! It's really … sigh! "Royd sighed with some meaning.
Ray Mingkai ignored Royd's sigh and asked another question, "Is that all?"
"No, there's more." Royd suddenly showed a mysterious smile.
"Cecil, Ray Mingkai. Please don't blink. The next video, other than the governor and a few people who know about it, only me and the two of you who are about to watch the video know about it. "
"Eh? Is there really no problem? "Cecil exclaimed.
"No, no, no. There's no problem. After all, if a battle really happens, K, and Cecil, you won't be able to escape. "
Royd waved his hand, and after pressing the password on the console according to the sequence, another new image appeared in front of Ray Mingkai and Cecil.
"This, this is a Knightmare?!" Cecil's eyes widened slightly as he looked at the huge body that almost occupied the entire screen.
On the screen, a huge body that was almost completely covered by mosaic had its back facing the camera, and it seemed to be in a battle with something.
The only thing that could be seen clearly was that the back of this huge body did not have the unique cockpit of a Knightmare.
"No. It's not a Knightmare. " Ray Mingkai denied Cecil's words and carefully examined the huge body that appeared in the screen.
"This isn't the Knightmare that we know. Its height and its shape are not something that can be designed with our usual design ideas. Right? Royd. "
"Clap clap clap clap!"
Royd clapped his hands in admiration.
"Congratulations, you're right! You're indeed a top student of the Royal Academy! Cecil, you've embarrassed yourself this time. Thank goodness you've been with me for so long. "
"I, I'm really sorry!!" Cecil quickly bowed and apologized.
"No, you don't have to. In fact, when I saw this body, I was similar to you, Cecil. "
As Royd spoke, he put on a serious face.
"Do you know? Based on the size shown on the screen, the result is that this mysterious and huge body is at least 19 meters tall. "
"19 meters?! How is that possible? According to our energy system, it is impossible to provide a stable output of energy for a body of this height. "Cecil denied again.
"Yes. According to our current Knightmare design and manufacturing ideas, it is indeed impossible to create such a huge body. "
Royd nodded and agreed with Cecil's denial. However, he said again.
"But, the body in this video did exist. Don't you want to know what caused the explosion at the port? This is the reason. "
Royd raised his hand and tapped on the screen as he said the truth word by word.
"Royd, you mean the explosion was caused by the battle between this huge body and the shadow?"
Royd shook his head and did not deny Ray Mingkai's doubts, but he did not confirm it either.
"This is what we have to investigate."
Yes.
This was the task entrusted by the new governor, Cornelia.
In fact, Loyd knew that he might have been too eager, causing Cornelia, who didn't think highly of the special agent, to casually give him this mission and send the special agent away so that he wouldn't keep loitering in front of her.
"Royd, is there no clearer video?" Ray Mingkai, who carefully observed the video, suddenly asked.
"No, that's all. It seems that because of some interference, the cameras in the entire port almost lost their function. You have to know that in this port, there are hundreds of cameras of various sizes. "
Royd took a few steps back, leaned against the wall, and continued, "It's already very difficult to capture the shadow and the mysterious body."
No matter how much they pondered about the existence of the shadow and the huge body, the investigation still needed to be carried out.
However, on the second day of the investigation, an urgent order broke the busy scene and completely ignited Royd's passion.
“K！！ The mission is here!! The special mission can finally participate in actual combat! Lancelot can appear again!! "
"What mission?" Ray Mingkai, who was adjusting Lancelot, jumped down from the open cockpit and landed in front of Royd.
"Kidnapping! There was a kidnapping at the conference center hotel in Estuary Lake! The kidnappers claimed to be the Neon Liberation Front. This is the hostage video. "
Cecil, who rushed over from the side, raised his hand and handed the tablet to Ray Mingkai.
The next moment, Ray Mingkai's pupils shrank.
"Uffi?!!!"
Although the camera only panned across the crowd, Ray Mingkai, with his amazing eyesight, could still clearly see the beautiful pink hair in the crowd and the familiar face even with glasses as a cover.
She was the third princess, Euphemia Li Britania!!
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