Chapter 486: Upgrade
It is located about 72 kilometers west of the town of Death Valley.
There is an inconspicuous small town - Crow Town.
This town, like other Midwestern towns in America, had long since declined and become very old under the impact of the times.
However, the construction of the Death Valley Town base some time ago has restored some vitality to this place.
Since the Death Valley Town Base is a purely confidential base, there must be very few entertainment facilities inside.
The cruel Security Construction Agency does not even allow the purchase of fresh ingredients within the base, and only allows the use of high-temperature processed canned food or soft canned food similar to meal packs.
The reason is very simple, to prevent insects from being mixed with fresh ingredients and entering the base.
However, the management of the base also knows that this is not a sustainable way of doing things. After all, people in prison can still eat fresh fruits and vegetables. This scientific research base is even more boring than prison. Not to mention whether the researchers can bear it, the management will be the first to be unable to bear it.
Therefore, they requested the establishment of a special external service town to allow base staff to take regular vacations to relieve psychological pressure.
Therefore, a large number of service-oriented towns similar to Crow Town quickly emerged around various secret bases.
Ryan, whose scientific research project has not made any breakthrough progress, took a bus with several colleagues to Crow Town to have fun.
In order to facilitate the staff of these bases, the town has also built a number of motels, and the normal consumption of these staff here can be reimbursed by the base management department.
After drinking a few beers at the bar, Ryan also smoked some leaves, then he swayed and went to the motel next door to have fun.
The exciting music was mixed with roars.
Ryan vented all the depression he had felt over the past few days.
Then he fell into a deep sleep.
He fell asleep, but something didn't.
It's late at night and everyone is asleep.
Ryan was woken up in the middle of the night by the urge to pee. He pushed the blonde girl off him in a daze and went to the bathroom to pee.
After running the water, he returned to the bed in a daze and laid down on it.
Suddenly, his body seemed to be turned over by something, but he did not react at all and was still sleeping soundly.
His mouth was pried open and soon a nematode crawled out of his throat.
The investigator, who was in a holographic invisible state, obtained Ryan's words and sounds, as well as the various images he saw with his eyes, over the past month through the nematode.
The investigators then pried open Ryan's eyes and implanted a genetically modified nematode egg into his body.
Although the FBI and other American confidentiality systems conduct full-body scans, especially brain scans, on all people involved in confidential missions.
But this doesn't mean that everything is perfect.
The field division of the Zhiren Company recently updated its espionage technology.
The new technology mainly uses parasites to steal secrets. Special nematodes that have been genetically recombined are implanted into the eye sockets, disguised as muscle lines, connecting to the visual neurons of the eyeballs.
The special nematodes themselves can record the sounds around them, and by connecting to visual neurons, they obtain the shared content of the host's vision.
Since nematodes themselves are very hidden, the special nematodes that have been genetically recombined are even more hidden. Unless the body is cut open and checked bit by bit, it is difficult to detect the presence of special nematodes through imaging equipment.
Obviously, it is not realistic to cut open the body and examine it bit by bit.
After all, this is a living person, not a cadaver teacher in forensic teaching.
And the cost of doing so is also very high. This involves not just one or two people, but millions of people.
Therefore, performing angiography every time someone enters and exits is the limit of what can be done inside America.
Although methods such as safe houses have blocked the insect surveillance of the field division, the FBI has obviously overlooked another problem, that is, people themselves.
Through genetically recombinant parasites, they are directly implanted into the target's body. No matter how powerful the safe house's insect-proof measures are, they are useless. After all, all work ultimately needs to be done by people.
As long as the host is parasitized by a special type of nematode, what the host says, hears , and sees will also be recorded by the special nematode.
At this time, the investigator was recovering the nematode in Ryan's body. After reading the data in it, the investigator maintained the holographic stealth mode and left the room quietly.
A busy night.
Investigator Columbus has left the town and is now in the mountains southwest of the town.
As the FBI is gradually screening civilians in North America, the investigators of the field division have all given up their normal disguise and lurking, and instead switched to wilderness survival mode lurking.
In other words, Columbus was an illegal immigrant in North America at that time.
North America is vast and sparsely populated, especially in the Rocky Mountain region, which has large areas of uninhabited areas and forests.
Columbus returned to his temporary camp - a small cave.
He picked a bunch of leaves and pine cones and stuffed them into the digestive aid sac on his back. This was his breakfast.
For a special investigator like him, this kind of life of eating grass and insects is commonplace.
Especially the special environment of the Death Valley Town base, which is surrounded by uninhabited areas and a few small towns, where the locals are all familiar with each other.
Recently, the FBI has used the Internet to require all cross-border personnel to provide a travel QR code to the local FBI management station to confirm the scope of their activities and the purpose of their travel.
In order to reduce the possibility of exposure, Columbus simply did not enter human settlements and chose to lurk in the wild.
The advantage of this kind of outdoor hiding plan is that it is almost impossible to be discovered.
The downside is that they can only eat grass and insects. If you are lucky, you can come across an area with rich wild animal and plant resources, which would be better.
Like Columbus's current location, there are not many plants around except for some drought-tolerant pines and cacti.
He could only collect leaves, pine cones and cacti as food. Fortunately, he had a digestive aid sac, so he would not be malnourished even if he ate grass.
Inside the cave.
As soon as Columbus came back, he saw his partner Anna who was sorting out the surrounding insect monitoring data.
"Is there any problem?" Anna asked.
Columbus sat on a rock: "No problem."
"That's good. By the way, the headquarters informed us that a replacement will be here in two weeks."
"OK, I want to take a break too." Columbus said as he handed a box of nematodes to Anna: "These are the parasites of the 24 researchers at the Death Valley base."
Anna took the small box and continued to work on the task at hand.
The two people's work equipment is a set of biological exoskeleton armor, which is specially designed for investigators and has various auxiliary functions.
For example, magnetic field detection, pheromone insect control, data processing computers, genetically recombinant insect egg storage containers, micro-parts synthesis capsules, etc.
The daily entertainment of the other two people also depends on this exoskeleton armor.
Of course, such an important exoskeleton armor must have an emergency system.
To avoid emergencies, this exoskeleton armor is equipped with several self-destruction systems to ensure that items do not fall into the hands of the enemy.
In order to obtain the most accurate intelligence, this dangerous life is the reality that investigators have to face.
