After William returned to the safe house he built, he opened the file cabinet and took out Barney and Christmas's information. He looked at it and printed out two files on the computer.
He filled in the files with Christmas and Barney's information. After taking a picture, he put it in a bag, put on his coat and went out.
He took out his phone and called Christmas. He asked him and Barney to meet him at a cafe on Baker Street.
William ordered dinner in the cafe. As soon as he finished eating, he saw Christmas and Barney come in.
William greeted Barney and Christmas and asked them to sit down. He took out a file and handed it to them. He asked the waiter for two cups of coffee for Barney and Christmas. After that, William drank his coffee.
After Barney and Christmas finished reading the files, they did not speak. They put down the files and drank their coffee. They were waiting for William to speak first.
"Well, since you've finished reading, you can sign the files and then go. I'll find you when I have a mission," William said.
Barney asked, "Mr. Devonshire, what do we usually do? Where do we stay?"
"Do what you used to do. I'll only find you when I have a mission. I'll pay you according to the mercenary rules."
William saw that Christmas wanted to say something, so he said, "If you have any questions, ask them now. After you leave this cafe, you're a secret agent of England's Military Intelligence. Only I know who you are. Even the Military Intelligence doesn't know. This is the letter of appointment from England's Security Committee and my ID."
Christmas and Barney took the letter of appointment and ID and looked at it carefully. After making sure there were no problems, they were relieved. It was not too bad.
However, they were still a little unhappy that someone was controlling them in the future. However, they were not in a strong position now, and the other party had something on them. They could only take one step at a time.
Christmas asked, "Mr. Devonshire, what do we need to do in the future?"
William smiled and said, "We're a secret team. We only do things in the dark. We'll only ask you to do what you can do. Barney, I don't need to tell you what you're best at.
Barney and Christmas looked at each other and nodded to William.
William continued, "You don't have any information in the outside world, and you don't have any identities. You only get paid when you go on missions. I'm the only one who knows the password to the secret box in Buckingham Palace. The box is a Da Vinci cipher cabinet with 18 lines of 26-digit English letters. There's a self-destruct device inside, and no one can open it properly except me. So if you're exposed, you can only pray for good luck, because if you're exposed, you're the one who's exposed. When the time comes, you can only save your lives and then hide your identities.
Barney looked at William gloomily. He wanted to say, "What if you deliberately sold us out?" Barney thought about it and didn't say it. He could imagine that if that happened, it could only mean that they were no longer useful to William and were a threat to his safety. William had to get rid of them.
William saw that the two had no objections, so he said to them, "Okay, since you don't have any objections, then it's settled. By the way, one of the benefits of working for me is that you can get a good pension. If you die during a mission, you can get a pension of five million pounds. If you're disabled, you can get two million pounds and you can get a job. I don't think anyone will pay such a high pension to mercenaries. Barney, I'm right."
Barney nodded and thanked William, "Thank you, Mr. Devonshire. I think you know who to give our pension to if that happens."
William nodded and said, "If you don't confirm with me who to give it to, then I'll give it according to your family's information."
Barney and Christmas nodded and were silent for a while. They knew that the days ahead would be more dangerous and exciting.
After saying goodbye to William, the two got up and drove away. William sat in the coffee shop and carefully scanned the coffee shop and the street several times with his power of the will. He got up and paid. After walking back and forth twice to make sure that no one was following and watching him, he drove back home.
He hadn't been home for a few days, and he hadn't been back to school for many days.
However, he had to take Barney and Christmas's information to Buckingham Palace first. These days, he recalled a lot of his grandfather's words to him when he was sick.
There was an English sentence that had nothing to do with him. Now he thought that it was the password to Henry's lockbox. He wanted to verify it now. If it was correct, then the other sentences that Henry asked him to memorize were true. Then he would need to go to the Earl's castle in Oxford at the right time. The Oxford Regulations were in the castle.
William drove to a small building outside Buckingham Palace. He got out of the car and rang the doorbell. After a while, an old man in his sixties with white hair opened the door for him and asked, "Sir, what can I do for you?"
William said an ancient poem to the old man, and at the same time, he put his hand on his chest and made more than ten secret gestures. After the old man saw the movements of William's hand, he smiled and said to William, "Welcome, Mr. Devonshire. You can call me old Victor. No one from the Devonshire family has come to the Dark Castle for ten years. I didn't expect that the heir of the Devonshire family of this generation would be like Henry, inheriting the family mission at such a young age."
William complained in his heart, "Family mission? I'm almost a hired thug now. There are no benefits and a lot of trouble."
The poem that William had just said was useless. What was useful were the gestures he put on his chest. These gestures were the secret signals of the Devonshire family.
If there were poems but no gestures, old Victor would take the visitor to a fake basement. The layout inside was exactly the same as the real one, but the fake basement was filled with unimportant documents and dazzling jewelry and gold. The documents were real, but they were not very useful.
After the enemy left, other accomplices would be unknowingly exposed.
It was simple but practical. It could also protect the Dark Castle. There were too many secrets here, and there had never been any mistakes.
William thanked old Victor, "Thank you, old Victor. I'm honored to meet you. The Devonshire family is on the road to prosperity. You should see me again in the future."
Old Victor smiled and said, "Very good, child. I'll take you to the Devonshire family's dark room."
William followed old Victor into the house and came to an elevator. Old Victor scanned his palm print, eye mask, and voice print in front of the elevator. Finally, behind William's back, he entered the numerical password.
"Kacha!" The elevator went up and down. After waiting for almost a minute, the elevator opened. It was at least dozens of meters away. After entering the elevator with Victor, the elevator went down and opened. William saw an alloy storeroom that looked like a bank vault.
When Victor came again, the storeroom opened. After entering the 100-square-meter house, William saw four armed guards and a middle-aged man behind an iron fence. Behind the iron fence was a bank vault door.
Victor said to William, "Mr. Devonshire, this is as far as I can take you. There is a password inside that you need to confirm." After saying that, he gestured to William to enter the password on the screen in front of the iron fence.
After William entered the password, old Victor turned around and entered the elevator.
William was led by the middle-aged man to the last vault. It was a basement with hundreds of small rooms. There was a password lock in front of each room. William was led by the middle-aged man to the Devonshire family's room. The middle-aged man gestured to William to enter the password.
After William entered the correct password, the middle-aged man said to William, "Mr. Devonshire, now you need to enter your palm print and eye print password. No one from the Devonshire family has been here for ten years. This system was changed in recent years. You need to enter your palm print and eye print again."
William followed the middle-aged man's instructions. After entering his palm print and eye print, the middle-aged man said to him, "Mr. Devonshire, if you want to come out, you can press the button in the room. I will come and pick you up. Without my company, you can't leave this room alone. You can't come out. Do you understand, Mr. Devonshire?"
William was speechless. If he went in without permission, he could not come out. If someone wanted to harm him, they could directly lock him up.
William hesitated in front of the door.
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