【小龟乐游记】调查局：幽浮解密（16）

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Origin:Origin Is The Truuuuuuu-u-u-u-u-thhhhhh.

Angela Weaver:Stand down.Now it is complete.

Councilman:...and then what happened?

Angela Weaver:The ship was ours.The Ethereal and I __(1)__ to Mosaic¹ network.Every last Outsider on Earth was under our - under MY - command.The power was...surprising.With Mosaic under my control,I was able to force the Outsiders to turn on one another.They didn't surrender - they died.After ordering them to _(2)_ each other,I allowed their command ship to fall from the sky.Our own people disassembled what they left behind.We destroyed what we couldn't take apart.

Councilman:We understand you took an..extreme approach to concealing² their attacks.

Angela Weaver:We couldn't risk allowing evidence of the Outsiders to remain.We did preserve some of their technology for study.We have a lot to learn from it.The coverup seems to have worked.The areas that we couldn't bulldoze have been sealed off.In time,they'll be wiped off the map entirely³.No evidence of the Outsider invasion remains⁴.No one will ever know how close we ___(3)___.

Councilman:This lie will hold?

Angela Weaver:We control the newspapers.Anyone who could exposed the truth is dead or already with XCOM.

Councilman:What of the infected?

Angela Weaver:We had no choice.They had to be disposed of.Even if we could have cured them all,they might have had memories of the attack.We made sure it was quick and _(4)_.

Councilman:Very well.And the other creature?

Angela Weaver:The Ethereal brake the bond after we exterminated⁵ the Outsiders.Its status,its location and its intent are...unknown.

Councilman:Understood,agent.That will be all...__(5)__...

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