69novels Chapter 169
Chapter 169
Unfortunately Louise didn't know.
So after a short exchange with Lex, and the intimacy between him and Carl was made clear from the other party's reaction, she approached her target with a happy mood.
Tonight's banquet was held in Manhattan, and it was organized by the pharmaceutical company she wanted to track down, in the name of celebrating the company's latest special medicine.
This drug has a very strong and clear effect on delaying the development of Alzheimer's disease, commonly known as senile dementia, which is a very remarkable achievement in medicine.
Alzheimer's disease is clinically manifested as memory impairment, aphasia, apraxia, agnosia, visual-spatial skill impairment, executive dysfunction, and personality and behavior changes, and this pharmaceutical company is named "HA- 9” specific drugs can effectively relieve problems such as memory impairment, aphasia, apraxia, agnosia, impairment of visuospatial skills, and executive dysfunction, but only have a slight effect on personality and behavior changes.
At present, "HA-9" has been put into production. If its efficacy is as good as it advertises, it will undoubtedly change the future of countless families with Alzheimer's disease patients all over the world.
But if it doesn't work as advertised, if the company is indeed conducting illegal experiments on orphans and homeless people, as her sources suggest...
This kind of conjecture caused a haze in Louise's heart, but her sense of responsibility as a reporter cheered her up and walked towards the person she was going to get close to.
The accident happened at this time.
The lights that illuminated the hall like daylight suddenly went out. At the beginning, people didn't react. The people who talked were still talking, and the hands of those who shook hands hadn't been withdrawn. The waiters who shuttled through the gaps in the crowd with wine glasses reacted quickly. , Immediately stopped, waiting for the lights to turn on again.
Louise also stayed where she was.
But she already had some sort of dangerous intuition—she felt a coolness pass over her back silently, as if some extremely dangerous animal brushed past her, and the fine down fell on her naked body. on the skin.
This made her hug her arms involuntarily.
In the darkness, she didn't see that after she made this movement, the shadow that deftly passed behind her cast a soft glance at her.
The darkness only lasted less than five seconds, or even shorter. It is rare for such a short period of darkness to appear in the middle of a banquet. A banquet caterer with a little experience will design a plan to deal with similar accidents, but accidents will always happen , circuit abnormalities, personnel errors or other small details of the error, may lead to similar situations.
The guests present are almost all people who have constant banquets throughout the year, and they have some experience in such small accidents.
They stood quietly in the dark, smiling or relaxing themselves slightly, waiting for the moment when the lights came back on and the banquet resumed.
Of course, if something like this happened to the banquet I hosted, the organizer of the banquet would inevitably come out to toast and apologize later, and then prepare a thoughtful little gift for all the invited guests.
At this moment, Louise suddenly felt a heat on her face.
It was a very real heat and wet feeling, like some warm liquid splashed on her face and neck.
The sudden darkness and the shadow-like sense of danger just now made Louise's usual keen thinking fall into an extremely short-lived state of stagnation. She stood there in surprise, unable to realize what happened.
Although she already had a hunch.
Then the lights came on.
Just five seconds was not enough for eyes accustomed to the light to get used to the darkness, but Louise still blinked a few times to adjust her vision. She smelled a very familiar smell of blood, which meant— —
"what!!!"
The hysterical screams shattered her thoughts, and Louise realized what was happening very quickly.
Right in front of her, the target of her trip, an important person in charge of this pharmaceutical company was holding his neck with his hand, staggering blankly.
Big streams of blood came out from his fingertips, or sprayed out, and splashed all over the people around him. The scream was made by his female companion. This poor young woman looked When he got up, he was startled by the large amount of blood and the rustling sound of blood spurting out of the body, and he hurriedly backed away trembling, and would fall to the ground in the next second.
Also witnessing this scene with their own eyes, other older business people showed a little calmness. Some people started to shout "Doctor! First aid!" Some people started to maintain order, asking the uninjured people to disperse to make room for the injured people .
Louise rushed forward long before people realized it, helped the person in charge of the pharmaceutical company to lie down, and then pressed his carotid artery tightly with both hands to reduce blood loss as much as possible.
In the panic and busyness, she seemed to hear the same exclamation from other places in the hall.
Lex had retreated to safety under Mercy's protection.
As soon as the lights went out, she silently stood behind Lex, all around, above her head, even underground, their enemies could come out from any place, and all these years of working as Lex's bodyguard had given her a deep understanding of this. .
She was wary of assassins who might emerge from any place, and compared to her high tension, Lex acted quite relaxed.
"These people aren't targeting me right now, Mercy," he whispered. "Don't be too conspicuous."
"Now it is not?
Moxi's own boss knew that this scene would happen at the party and accepted it well, so she paid more attention to the boss's vaguely revealed attitude.
"Now" is not, when is it?
But after saying that, Lex fell silent, and Moxie could only lament in her heart that the boss was increasing her workload again, while obediently backing away a few steps, hiding herself in an inconspicuous place .
After the lights came on, Lex was probably the first person to notice the abnormality at the scene.
There were screams in the hall at the same time, and the crowd spread out from a certain point. He and Moxi were driven by the crowd to another direction, and the sound of crying and chaotic footsteps could be heard endlessly.
The security personnel reacted quickly and began to maintain order, yelling loudly while walking in the hall: "Please calm down! Please stand still and keep quiet! We have already contacted the police station, and someone will deal with it immediately. Case!"
Lex quietly and obediently followed the instructions of the on-site personnel.
He knew that the vehicles of the police station must have surrounded the entire hall, and had already controlled the evacuation of the hall. In essence, he didn't care much about the... farce that happened tonight.
Even a little disappointed.
From the very beginning of paying attention to the Hydra organization, he realized its problems.That's an inevitable problem with any organization that's been around for too long, or had been too high:
The composition is bloated, the system is slow, the low-level personnel are mixed, the high-level is too arrogant to listen to any advice, and the enemy is dangerous and completely unavoidable.
The Hydra organization seems to be so huge that it is ubiquitous, but in fact, its overly dispersed organizational members, overly strict secrecy system, and vertical management system make it vulnerable to attack and difficult to convey information after being defeated , to Lex to evaluate, the Hydra organization had been dying of a terminal illness as early as decades ago, during World War II, and there was no cure for it.
But after all, it used to be a powerful enemy of the whole world. A skinny camel is bigger than a horse. Let’s not talk about the top-secret information owned by the Hydra organization, but its secrets that have spread all over the world and have not been fully discovered until now. The laboratory is enough for Lex to plan well.
According to his original plan, the reception of Hydra should start after the Stark couple's secret attack has reached its climax.
However, the plan couldn't keep up with the changes, and Hydra actually hit his head on his head...
Lex didn't know what expression he should make, feeling that the image he had portrayed as a "safe and harmless entrepreneur who loves charity" was too beautiful?Or marvel at the stupidity and arrogance of Hydra's top management?
Anyway, since they were going to self-destruct, for the sake of those labs and data, Lex was happy to help a little.
Howard has already obtained the details of Hydra's activities tonight, and it is likely that he is behind the police's dispatch so quickly.
Judging from the current situation, the strength of Hydra's executors should not be underestimated. The assassination order was executed perfectly. A total of nine people had their throats cut during the five-second dark period. This may be several people executing the order at the same time, or it may be All done by one person—considering the number of super humans in this world and the mutant laboratories under Hydra's command, the latter is more likely.
He thought about this in his heart, imagining what he might encounter, and followed the evacuated personnel unhurriedly out of the special passage.
"Boss." Moxi whispered, watching the police officers leading the way vigilantly and uneasy.
They have been isolated from the crowd.
It seemed that she also realized that the current situation was wrong.
Measured by the standards of an ordinary person, Mossy can already be regarded as quick-witted, but among people with the same intelligence level as her, she has loyalty and docility that far exceed the average standard, and the latter is what Lex sees in her. reason.
In order to maintain this rare quality and her confidence in him, Lex didn't mind giving her some verbal praise and appeasement.
"No problem, Mercy," he said unhurriedly. "I think we're guests."
None of them deliberately concealed their voices, but the person leading the way at the front remained silent and did not respond. After passing the last corner, a small lounge appeared in front of their eyes.
The person leading the way finally stopped.He lowered his head deeply, opened the door, hid most of his body behind the door, and made a please gesture to Lex and Moxie.
"Ma'am stay outside," he said in a rough voice.