Chapter 27: Tracing Clues Based on Answers

As a result of my B-Day yesterday, we get 2 bonus chapters this day.

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"Captain, why did you suddenly decide to increase our logistics and intelligence members?"

"Didn't we previously think that with the cooperation of the intelligence department, we wouldn't need intelligence officers? Who knew this mission would drag on for so long."

Ragnar shrugged. "If the team consists solely of combat personnel, we won't have much initiative in times of intelligence scarcity... Before Luo Lin joined, I wouldn't have dared to suggest participating in reconnaissance missions; after all, everyone has their own specialty."

"That makes sense."

The members of the assault team nodded in agreement, casting curious glances at Luo Lin, who sat nearby.

Luo Lin's height was average among Valkyries, and she didn't stand out much at Schicksal HQ.

However, upon joining the Valkyrie Assault Team, she realized that the operatives were all tall and muscular... both in terms of muscles and bust size...

"So tiny!"

"So cute! She looks like a hamster!"

"Intelligence department Valkyries all look like this; cuteness is their weapon."

Oh, she's flat-chested, the type that's convenient for disguise! She's also talented in intelligence matters!"

Faced with so many curious glances, Luo Lin shrunk her neck, looking even more like a hamster.

"Captain, can we directly intervene in frontline reconnaissance missions now?"

Ragnar nodded. "Luo Lin, come here, let me explain the situation to you."

Two and a half months ago, the Valkyrie Assault Team was deployed to the Schicksal Belarus branch, and Ragnar rejoined the team after her break.

They waited and waited, feeling like they were growing mushrooms in the streets but still no precise information came back, and they didn't know how much longer this lengthy wait would continue.

Ragnar also understood the difficulties of the intelligence department; after all, intelligence analysis involves sifting through a sea of information to find possible clues and verifying the reliability and accuracy of the information...

Moreover, their opponent this time was Schicksal's second biggest enemy, Anti-Entropy, an organization that separated from Schicksal and possessed extremely advanced technology, especially in internet-related areas.

Although Schicksal was somewhat embarrassed about it, they focused more on researching combat technology from the previous era against the Honkai. They were slightly behind in internet technology compared to Anti-Entropy.

In today's era of information technology, this advantage could help Anti-Entropy conceal their actions and gain the upper hand in the intelligence department's confrontations.

In this operation, Anti-Entropy's intelligence department was not as efficient as before, which seemed to be causing headaches.

However, Anti-Entropy also had its way to compensate for this deficiency—they had more people.

As an international organization that has been passed down for hundreds of years, Anti-Entropy had abundant human resources. If they couldn't obtain enough intelligence in the cyber domain, Anti-Entropy could directly dispatch personnel to the scene to gather information.

Moreover, Anti-Entropy was not without network technology; it just lagged behind a little.

Combined with well-trained intelligence personnel, Anti-Entropy and Schicksal's intelligence confrontations had always been a seesaw battle.

Now, it was time for Anti-Entropy to reclaim its territory.

Ragnar led Luo Lin into the operational conference room of the Belarus branch, where various photos, videos, recordings, and documents... all sent by frontline reconnaissance personnel, covered the entire table.

Pointing to this pile of stuff, Ragnar said, "Luo Lin, the Assault Team didn't have specialized intelligence Valkyries before, so I temporarily took charge of organizing them. Now that you're here, I'll hand over this part of the task to you."

"There's a lot of stuff."

Luo Lin was not polite, after all, this was her job. She pulled up a chair and sat down at the table, starting to organize the intelligence.

Soon, the piled-up intelligence was visibly classified and organized, and the records on the terminal in front of Luo Lin increased rapidly.

She occasionally stood up and made marks on the large map nearby.

"Wow, so fast!"

A Valkyrie exclaimed in amazement. "Much faster than Captain Ragnar! Ouch!"

Ragnar tapped her head with her hand and snorted, "Although I've also studied intelligence analysis, it's closely related to tactical and strategic command, and this kind of analysis of intelligence from a large amount of information is not my specialty."

"Captain, where did you find such talent?"

"To be honest..." Ragnar chuckled, "I met Luo Lin during my vacation, and I was interested at the time, so I used my authority to take a look at her work performance... and fell in love with her talent."

"That explains it. Intelligence talents are in high demand throughout Schicksal, but Captain, you took advantage of your vacation to poach someone!"

The Valkyrie who had just been tapped seemed to realize something and suddenly exclaimed, "No wonder you asked me to answer the phone earlier, and I got scolded by the head of the intelligence department as soon as I answered—you used me as a scapegoat!"

"Esther, as long as you understand."

Ragnar tapped Esther's head again and turned her gaze to the busy figures in the conference room, her eyes full of smiles.

This was worth it!

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As the saying goes, it's difficult to deduce results based on vague clues, but when you know the results, it's much simpler to fit the clues together.

Luo Lin was very clear about what the Schicksal intelligence department and Anti-Entropy spies were looking for—Siegfried Kaslana and the clone of Cecilia Schariac, K423... later known as Kiana Kaslana.

It seems like she hasn't been acknowledged by Siegfried yet?

Luo Lin restrained her thoughts and continued to analyze—

K423's awakening as the Herrscher of the Void was by no means accidental or a sudden event; it was a long and continuous process.

Siegfried himself had absolutely no way to suppress the Honkai activity within K423's body.

Schicksal had methods, but Siegfried was a notorious traitor; besides Theresa, no one could help him.

However, Theresa didn't know Siegfried's whereabouts or that he had taken away the clone of Kiana Kaslana...

She didn't even know what happened to her best friend's daughter, Kiana Kaslana, and foolishly went to do other things. Of course, part of this was also Otto's fault for altering Theresa's memories with Mimicry Fenghuang Down...

As for Anti-Entropy, they probably had... The technological level of the world-renowned research talents Tesla and Einstein. Dr. Tesla and Dr. Einstein goes without saying. Many amazing and practical items in Honkai Impact 3 were invented by them.

If Siegfried could get the two doctors to research K423, they would definitely discover her excessively active Honkai energy... provided the man was willing to hand over K423.

Obviously, Siegfried didn't trust Anti-Entropy as an organization, but he did trust Tesla and Einstein.

However, Siegfried's impression of Anti-Entropy was not good.

If it weren't for Anti-Entropy's previous problems with reception, Siegfried wouldn't have lost his real daughter... Just this alone was enough for Siegfried to distrust Anti-Entropy.

Moreover, the radical faction of Anti-Entropy advocated directly detaining K423 for research. Siegfried, who had developed feelings for K423, decisively left Anti-Entropy and went to hide in a remote location.

Now, the Honkai energy within K423's body was gradually becoming active, and Siegfried probably hadn't realized that the consciousness of the Herrscher was quietly regaining strength.

With powerful consciousness comes Honkai events—

"In the past year, locations where Honkai eruptions occurred in Belarus, Finland, and the Russian border areas..."

Luo Lin marked all these small and large Honkai events on the map. Although they seemed sparse, compared to the Honkai events that Schicksal normally tracked and the ones that should occur in a certain area under normal circumstances, it was clearly abnormal.

"Found you."

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