Chapter 227: Personal Heroism Is Unacceptable
What sane person would run all over the world to four different places?
Skye and Jessica were exactly those two unlucky fools.
After receiving the mission, the two girls did not rush off to find that guy named Parker.
Instead, they prepared to wait for the Information Data Center to locate him.
The Information Data Center under Neagley was no longer what it had been at the beginning.
At first, the information data network Neagley had personally built bit by bit had allowed her to control modern networks.
To put it simply—global surveillance.
Of course, this had been greatly helped by the number-one big brother patron, Pierce, and the number-two big brother patron, Dreykov.
When it came to intelligence networks, those two had truly been outstanding figures before.
Very few could compare with them.
After absorbing and digesting the assets under these two big brothers, Neagley and Karla had spent quite a lot of time integrating everything before finally completing the system.
A global-scale intelligence staff, combined with full authority over the many military satellites launched under those assets.
In terms of modern surveillance networks alone, Neagley was confident she ranked among the best in the world.
Even S.H.I.E.L.D. might not be able to compare.
Matthew placed great importance on information and intelligence. No matter what kind of matter it was, information warfare was always the mainstream.
Only with an advantage in information and intelligence could a war be won faster and more efficiently.
Afterward, through Matthew's connection with Kamar-Taj, Neagley learned about Kamar-Taj's monitoring system and chose to study it without hesitation.
The two intelligence networks had different main directions.
One monitored the inside of Earth, while the other used a magical barrier system to monitor threats from beyond Earth.
Technology and magic. Although their monitoring systems were different, together they could completely cover every aspect.
When the three Warbands carried out missions, they could receive detailed intelligence support, saving them a great deal of trouble.
Originally, this mission should have been the same.
The target was a guy named Parker, who seemed to appear and disappear unpredictably. According to the intelligence, he possessed a red cloak with the ability to turn invisible.
This invisibility was not simple invisibility in the literal sense. Aside from being invisible to the naked eye, he could also hide his aura and escape the magical barrier surveillance established by Kamar-Taj's three Sanctums.
That ability made him extremely troublesome to find.
Jessica had an impatient personality and did not want to wait for the Information Center to produce results, so she simply dragged Skye around the world. As soon as they tracked a point, they opened a portal and rushed over.
Both Jessica and Skye had learned how to open portals.
Portal magic was a required ability.
The three Warbands were all the same.
Even those muscular Astartes men were no exception.
The core idea was that other magic could be skipped, but everyone had to know how to open a portal.
And somehow, that guy named Parker had appeared in four completely different places across the world in a very short time.
The two unlucky girls chased him through all four locations.
That was also why Skye was unhappy.
After all, they had trained so hard that coming out to carry out an assassination mission and change their mood was supposed to be nice. This mission was even one she had taken the initiative to fight Neagley for.
Changing their mood was fine, but she did not want it to be in the form of being walked around like a dog.
"Not my fault. That guy's just really slippery," Jessica said carelessly, brushing off Skye's complaints entirely. She stretched her arms out cheerfully into the wind and snow instead.
Had to admit, the scenery here wasn't bad. Just... a whole lot of white. Jessica's taste in scenery was a little unusual—Skye had questioned her about it more than once before.
Beep—
At that moment, the red dot on Skye's positioning and tracking wristwatch lit up. Immediately afterward, a holographic projection appeared in front of the two of them.
On the projection was a map, along with a brief piece of information.
The map showed coordinates.
The coordinates were in Colorado.
"The Information Data Center has detected traces of dark power in Colorado. Duration: one second. Suspected mission target: Parker."
It was not an order, but intelligence sent to the two women by the Information Data Center.
Skye rolled her eyes. "Come on. Now it's Colorado?"
"Stop complaining. Let's go."
Jessica ignored Skye. The surface of the wristwatch had magical runes engraved on it. While transmitting map coordinates, it also transmitted a magical anchor, allowing Skye and Jessica to accurately lock onto the enemy's location.
So Jessica directly opened a portal and walked in.
Although Skye complained verbally, it was more like bickering with Jessica, so she followed Jessica through.
The portal disappeared, and the two women arrived in Colorado. Their location was on a desolate highway. The sky here was gray and gloomy, but it was not snowing.
In the distance, large roadside billboard advertisements could vaguely be seen standing on both sides of the road.
There was no one around. All they felt was bleakness.
Jessica raised her wristwatch and tapped it, then found that she and Skye were near the Rocky Mountains in central Colorado.
The nearest town was eighty kilometers away.
"Why would that guy come here?"
Jessica frowned. A red glow flashed through her eyes, and her vast Observation Haki instantly spread outward. Massive amounts of information swept through her mind one by one.
Then she abruptly turned her head toward the left side of the road.
Whoomph!
Her figure blurred and vanished from where she stood, crossing several hundred meters in an instant. Skye followed right behind her.
They arrived at an open stretch of ground. Jessica glanced down at the sandy soil beneath her feet, already faintly crusted with ice, and crouched down on one knee, resting a hand on it as she studied a seemingly insignificant black grain of sand on the ground. Through her Observation Haki, she could clearly sense the faint pulse of energy radiating from it.
Jessica rose to her feet and stomped down hard. The sand and gravel shattered completely under the blow, and a burst of energy—gold and black intertwined—rippled outward from where her sole met the ground.
"Skye?"
Jessica looked toward Skye, who was frowning deeply. "Too obvious. Looks like that guy named Parker's real purpose was to lure us here."
"Doesn't it feel familiar?" Skye asked in return.
Jessica lightly lifted her chin, then raised her head and swept her gaze ahead. In the distance, she could see the towering, continuous mountain range. Coldly, she spat out a name.
"Kaecilius."
"Yeah. He's trying to use this method to tie us down."
"But that guy can't be this stupid, can he?"
Jessica was a little uncertain about what that guy was thinking.
According to the target's background information, Parker was Dormammu's new representative after Kaecilius. Generally speaking, there had to be information exchange.
So Parker should know that luring the tiger away from the mountain and tying up their hands and feet was a decent tactic.
The problem was, the only people he had lured away were the two of them.
The Astartes, Grey Knights, and Raven Warbands had more than a thousand people combined, and they had not moved at all.
He had basically lured away nothing.
"Let's report this."
This kind of matter was definitely not something the two of them should decide on their own.
Personal heroism was unacceptable at a time like this.
Skye opened her wristwatch and reported the information they had found here back to headquarters.
Shortly after, headquarters issued further instructions.
"Continue the investigation."
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