"You must be Mr. Bell." After checking the documents and personal belongings on the table and confirming the identity of the owner, Leon turned to look at the sloppy man held down by Alger, and said calmly: "Please rest assured, we don't want to hurt you, we just want to use your identity as a scholar in District 1 to help us do something." "Humph!" Before Leon could open his mouth to make a request, the man with a messy beard snorted angrily, and then said unkindly: "You must be those vagrants! What? After attacking Administrative District 3, you are targeting Scientific Research District 1 again?" "Yes." "I won't take you there, don't even think about it!" The sloppy man acted very tough, stiffened his neck and glared at Leon: "Scientific Research Area No. 1 is the core of the entire Korok Kingdom, and everything I have is given by the kingdom. I will never betray the kingdom!"
"Yeah." After responding casually, Leon, who had not slept all night, did not continue to say anything to the sloppy man, but said to Alger who was holding him down: "Senior Alger, it's up to you next." "Okay." After hearing Leon's words, Alger nodded slightly, and the right hand that was pressed on the sloppy man's shoulder instantly spread out, turning into countless silk threads that were finer than hair, and softly hung on his shoulder. "What is this? You...what are you going to do?" In the sloppy man's horrified eyes, the strange silk threads hanging on his shoulders actually broke through the skin on his shoulders like earthworms drilling into the ground, and drilled into his body one by one. Then, before he could resist, those thin, almost transparent threads "swimmed" along the gaps between his muscles and toward his limbs. In just a few breaths, these strange threads traveled all over his body, replacing his will and completely taking over his body. Even places like his eyelids and tongue were implanted with at least dozens of threads, making them unable to move at all. "Almost." After flipping the sloppy man's earlobe and feeling a slight bulge of silk thread at the thinnest part of the skin on the back, Alger nodded, his entire right arm disappearing to the shoulder, and said to Leon: "This Mr. Bell has been controlled by me. If he has any abnormal behavior, I will find and stop him immediately to ensure that he has no chance to ask for help." "Hard work." After nodding to Alger, Leon flipped through his pockets in the sloppy man's horrified eyes, took out his small notebook, glanced at the itinerary written on it, and then said: "Let's go, it's time for Mr. Bell to go to work, we should set off." Set off? You...ah? ! After hearing Leon's words, the sloppy man was horrified to find that it was as if another set of bones and muscles were exerting force in his body. He actually raised his hand to turn the door open and walked out. The young man with black hair and black eyes, and the strong man without a right arm, followed him directly and went straight to the street without avoiding people. What was even more bizarre was that the passers-by on the street seemed to have seen nothing of these two criminals whose appearance and features were exactly the same as those reported, and who had not even changed their clothes.
How could it be possible? Could they be invisible? While the sloppy man was puzzled, Leon had already taken his ID card and inserted it into the pathfinder on the side of the road, and sent a request to go to the No. 1 scientific research area. Then, together with the tall man without an arm, he followed him into the hovercraft that came to pick people up. ... "Mr. Leon." Seemingly a little unsure, Alger couldn't help asking after the hovercraft started: "Are we just going straight over here? Wouldn't it be safer if we relied on Mona's [Smooth Road Ahead]?" "It's okay, let's just go." Sitting next to the sloppy man, Leon looked through the information he had robbed yesterday and answered without raising his head: "I checked carefully. There is no such thing as video surveillance in the technology of the Korok Kingdom. With the effect of [Secret Tail], it is enough for us to get through ordinary checkpoints. Including several large experimental areas specially opened up in the surrounding area, the total area of Research Area No. 1 is about more than 60 square kilometers. The place is not small. We just need to be careful not to get too close to the core area and don't appear in too empty places. The possibility of being discovered is not high." "That's good... " After hearing Lyon's assurance, Alger felt a little relieved, then glanced at the person who was looking through the information, and asked curiously: "Mr. Lyon, these stolen information are just ordinary data, right? You spent the whole night yesterday, haven't you finished it yet?" "No, I've only read about one-tenth of it now." "Then... have you found anything?" "Some." Flipping through the thick "Korok Mineral Resources Policy" in his hand, and the "Annual Table of Revenue and Expenditure of Major Energy and Core Materials" as a comparison, Lyon said with a slightly cold expression: "The area of the Korok Kingdom is not large, but the resource consumption is astonishingly large. The floating crystal alone consumes more than 100,000 tons per year, and the consumption of other whale blubber, coal, special ores, and various rare metals is calculated in millions of tons. " "Isn't this normal?" After thinking about it, Alger said puzzledly: "I don't quite understand this, but I've heard that although the Kingdom of Korok is small, it is actually a trading country like the Thousand Sails Sea Kingdom, and sells a huge amount of products every year. This consumption doesn't seem to be a big deal, right?" "This consumption is nothing, and it can even be considered small in terms of the trading volume of the Kingdom of Korok, but the real problem is where these resources come from." Holding his charcoal pencil, Lyon circled a few circles on the attached map of the "Mineral Resources Policy" and said with a frown: "Although the 'territory' of the Kingdom of Korok is not large, it actually controls a lot of 'mining areas' that exist only to support the Kingdom of Korok. Even if these 'mining areas' are taken out individually, they are not large, and their locations are extremely scattered, but these areas that provide resources to the Kingdom of Korok in the name of short-term development, semi-permanent lease, or even direct purchase, add up to nearly 400,000 square kilometers." "What?!" After hearing Lyon's words, Alger couldn't help but be shocked. "So many? Our Kingdom of Alesund is so big, but it's only over one million square kilometers! I thought the Kingdom of Korok was a small country with only over 20,000 square kilometers!"