World War I

Chapter 34 I'm Just Talking

When Luo Ye was patrolling the third circle, he found the researcher sitting alone on the lawn.

"What's wrong, Doctor?"

"You still have to accept guard duty even though you're injured?"

"We can't help it. They are outnumbered and bullying the few. There are dozens of them, and we only have three local police officers. And our chief was beaten up. It's unimaginable."

Luo Ye sat down.

"I need to rest for a while. I'll be fine tonight."

He looked at the sky, which was cloudless and the crescent moon was even more charming.

"How do you know it's alright tonight?"

"Intuition, you seem to be worried. Are you scared?"

The researcher chuckled helplessly. "You seem to know something, but I can't tell you. Go on patrol. I want to be alone."

"Kick me away? Your secret is no longer a secret. I also know that something happened at the Yankee research base. A super soldier escaped and came to Siberia."

The researcher straightened up in shock. "How did you know that?"

"Don't dwell on your secrets. Mr. Andre is still awake. What is he doing?"

"Let me ask you, how did you know that the American super soldiers had entered Siberia? This is top secret, known only to a few people in the investigative committee, including me, of course. Who told you?"

"Don't ask so many questions. Secrets are temporary. After a while, they are no longer secrets. Do you really not know Yekalin's origins?"

The researcher looked at Andre's tent. He was still hunched over, seemingly writing something.

"I really don't know. I can only tell you that Andre is very worried that the situation will get out of control. If Product One learns how to use the power of darkness, then things will be terrible. Very bad."

Luo Ye stretched out his legs and raised his upper body backward.

"Doctor, do you believe in dark forces?"

"No, I don't believe it, but I have to believe it. Skeletons, creatures in the dark, things from hell actually appeared, but I still don't believe it. I didn't see it with my own eyes, but how do you explain those injured special police officers? Do you believe it?"

Luo Ye chuckled, "No one would believe that. I'm a staunch materialist."

"Yes, those policemen lied. I do believe in mutants. Product One has the ability to transform an ordinary person into a terrifying creature through drugs, genetic modification, and other methods. Dark forces cannot exist."

Luo Ye laughed again, "That was in the past. Now I believe it."

Of course, he didn't dare to say that he was the master of the revolving kitchen knife, and that he was now a devil and a monster.

"Do you believe what those people say?"

"I believe it, of course I do. I think I know something about Yekalin's identity now. Is she the helper Andre hired to prevent Product One from controlling the so-called dark power? Could she really be a witch? I know there's a witch association in Russia with thousands of members."

"Why are you so interested in Yekalinan?"

"Because he's handsome."

The doctor sighed helplessly. "You have a good attitude. She's the head of the Russian Bureau of Supernatural Investigations. I only found out about this three hours ago. Are you satisfied?" "Oh? No wonder. I always felt something was wrong with her. So, she possesses dark powers?"

"I'm not sure. You'd have to ask her. I think it's all just a gimmick. No one in this world understands dark forces. This is reality, not a movie. But some of these strange cases are worth studying."

"Why is she always against Mr. Andre?"

"Mr. Andrei didn't say anything. Remember, I didn't tell you anything about Ekalinan either."

"I see. What were you arguing about with Mr. Andre?"

"The security issue is the same as you thought. Look, there are mutants that look like werewolves and skeleton ghosts that can hurt people. But with these two things, our situation is indeed very dangerous, unless the army arrives and finds the castle."

Luo Ye looked at the open space around the camp and said, "How about building a fence and protective wall around the camp?"

The researcher perked up when he heard this.

"Yes, we can set up some protective measures for the camp, but the army will be here by midnight tomorrow at the latest. Isn't that redundant?"

"What if Product One suddenly attacks the camp before midnight? Mr. Andrei has so much faith in Irina and me as bait, so blindly optimistic. What if he really comes?"

"You're wrong. Andre wasn't blindly using you as bait. It was my idea. I understand Product One."

"Oh?"

"I'm going to talk to Mr. Andre now to see if he takes your advice."

"Hey, hey, hey, come on, I was just saying it casually, I was just saying it casually."

Nothing happened that night. The next morning, the special police received new orders to cut down trees, drive piles, and use the iron plates in the base to build a temporary security fortress.

When Turgenev learned that it was Luo Ye who came up with this bad idea, he wanted to tear Luo Ye into pieces.

Andre's orders had to be carried out. Tools like shovels and axes were available in the base, but what was lacking was human initiative.

All the special police stared at Luo Ye like an enemy. Luo Ye didn't dare to look up when he was chopping trees. Irina saw it and laughed so hard that she fell backwards.

She laughed at Luo Lin and also at those special police officers, who had suddenly become lumberjacks and construction workers.

The only person who didn't work was Yekalinan, who only did one thing: carving nesting dolls.

After a whole day of hard work, the temporary wall of the camp was built. To Luo Ye, it looked quite decent and resembled a military fortification.

It was because of Luo Ye's bad idea that the special police were in such a state of panic. What was even more hateful was that a battalion of troops was about to arrive. What was the point of building something like this? Luo Ye was instigating Andre to take revenge on them.

Andre is old and it's time for him to retire.

"Luo Ye, you're awesome, you're really awesome. For the sake of five hours of safety at night, you even mobilized me, the director. You're amazing."

Director Knuckles was assigned by Andre to search for wooden boards, steel plates, screws, steel wires, stairs, etc. in the base. He was so tired that he almost broke.

Everyone worked hard, but Andri was very dissatisfied. They cut corners and were sloppy. There were too many loopholes and the protective wall was too low. If something that looked like a werewolf really appeared, it could easily crawl in.

However, it only requires protection for about five hours, which is acceptable. It is better to have it than not to have it.

(End of this chapter)