Neither Robespierre nor Cudon could convince Kano, but at least they asked Kano to agree to send observers to the Institute's prison. (Cano called the Institute's residential area "military prison") As for the experimental area...

"Sorry, many of the experiments conducted in the experimental zone are military secrets that require strict confidentiality. I do not doubt the loyalty of observers, but the details of some things are, the fewer people know the better. In fact, even I only know the purpose of the research and the general progress. As for some technical details, I am not unaware of them, nor are I not interested, but I will try to avoid knowing too many technical details. Because I saw these things, I might be careless and accidentally leaked them out. Then it will cause huge losses to the army." Kano said.

"You don't even know some details, so there is always someone who needs to understand the entire research relatively clearly, right?" Robespierre asked.

"Joseph Bonaparte was responsible for the entire process. He was a very reliable soldier. In order to keep it confidential, he voluntarily put himself in a semi-captive state. He could not leave the experimental area casually. If he left, he had to explain where he went and obtained my approval; he had to be accompanied by security personnel. If he was not full of love for the motherland and belief in the revolution, no one could tolerate such conditions." Kano replied.

"Joseph... this is really not easy." Robespierre sighed. Robespierre's impression of Joseph is actually pretty good, at least better than Carno. Sometimes he even thought that it would be nice if Joseph could replace Carno. But that's just thinking about it, because Joseph Bonaparte also has a brother who can fight and is with soldiers. So, no matter what, he can't sit in the position of Carno.

Everyone admits that except for Joseph, you can never find anyone who can replace Kano's job, and even Joseph may not actually replace Kano. Therefore, Robespierre can only tolerate some of Kano's offenses, as long as it is not too much. As for what is too much, Robespierre has not had time to think about it yet.

Today is the first day that observer Charles entered the heavily guarded "military technology laboratory". Early in the morning, he came to the Army Department to report. In a small room, he was subjected to quite strict measurement records, including palm lines and other physical characteristics. A painter also specially drew a frontal portrait for him. For some reason, Charles always felt that the portrait painted himself like a dead person.

"Because the above emphasizes, people in the portrait must not have any expressions." This is how the painter explained.

After drawing the portrait, it was already noon. Accompanied by a group of cavalry, Charles got on a four-wheeled carriage and headed towards Versailles.

It took about four hours to walk from the Army Department to Versailles. So when they arrived at the "Military Technology Laboratory", it was already the time for the sun to set in the mountains.

The army had dug a deep trench in the area where the military laboratory was located. A guardhouse was built along the trench at any distance. A four-meter-high wall was built further backwards, so the situation inside was not visible from the outside, and it looked very cautious.

The carriage stopped in front of the suspension bridge. An officer came forward, checked their passes, and told Charles in the carriage: "According to the order, only observers can enter. No one else nor the carriage can pass through the trench. So you have to get out and hike into the laboratory."

Charles knew about this when he set out. So he nodded and said, "Please lead the way." Then he got off the carriage, and a soldier who came from inside followed him and helped him lift his suitcase.

Shire followed the officer into the laboratory. As he walked, the officer said to him: "Mr. Observer, you are allowed to move in the employee living area and the prisoner living area. In the employee living area, you can move freely for twenty-four hours. In the prisoner living area, your activities must be informed first of all, so that misunderstandings will occur. You know, the confidentiality here is very tight, and any activity that has not been approved and is therefore unknown to the guards may lead to unwarranted shooting."

"I understand." Shire said. He had actually known this rule for a long time, but at this moment, looking at the scene of guards standing in full swing here and guards waiting for him, he still felt a little nervous.

"Boom!" A violent explosion came from a distance.

"Is this?" Charles couldn't help asking.

"Mr. Observer, everything about the test is confidential. Don't ask anything about the test area. You cannot mention anything you hear or see to the public." The officer did not answer, but reiterated the confidentiality discipline again.

At this time, a few people arrived at the gate. Charles looked inside from the door. There was only a lane with high walls on both sides, but nothing could be seen.

The officer said a few words to the soldiers guarding the door, and the door opened. Then a few people walked in and walked in the alleyway sandwiched with high walls for a long time. Finally, they arrived at a small door, and as usual, there were several soldiers with live ammunition guarding at the door.

After revealing his identity, the soldiers opened the small door.

The officer said, "The employee activity area inside, and your dormitory is also here. Please come with me."

Several people walked into the small door, and behind them the sound of the iron door being closed and locked. A thought suddenly emerged from Charles' head: "Hey, who is in jail?"

...

On the Toulon front, Pope was in a huge panic. In the past few days, he launched an attack on Toulon, but the effect of the attack was very poor. Although the British were limited in their interest in going north, they were indeed very serious about defending the Toulon Port. Because as long as Toulon is still in their hands, the French Navy had no foothold in the Mediterranean, and they could do whatever they wanted in North Africa.

Therefore, the British quickly strengthened various fortifications in Toulon and removed the cannons from the captured French warships to enrich their defense. Pope's soldiers were very brave, but the British hiding behind the fortifications were cunning enough. As a result, his first few attacks were heavy casualties and no progress was made.

The angry Pope decided to concentrate his strength and launch a general attack, break into Toulon, so that the invaders and traitors could know the power of France.

However, what they thought was that the British actually ambushed him a cannon. They had long anticipated the direction of Pope's attack and ambushed a large number of cannons in the way the French were in Valmie. However, unlike Valmie, their cannons had more cannons and were heavier in weight. What's more terrible is that their cannons were not only ambushed on the front, but also on the side, forming crossfire.

They first used their retreat to seduce the French to this preset battlefield. When Pope saw that he had made progress, he was very excited and directly threw the main force into the attack. As a result... he was naturally bombarded by the British cannons, and then the British and the Spanish charged with a bayonet, and the French retreated back to today's starting point in one breath. If the British had not been too conservative and had invested too few combat troops when counterattacking, he was afraid that Pope would not even be able to save his own camp.

After this failure, Pope found that in the past few days, he had suffered nearly 3,000 casualties, and the morale of the entire legion also fell to a low point. This made him almost unable to launch any attacks. Pope knew that the guys above were not easy to fool now. If they failed so badly, they would be sent to the guillotine as a traitor of the motherland.

But now, he has not used any more methods and can only ask for "tactical guidance" to his superiors. (tactical guidance is the term for the Japanese army, similar to transferring, and actually means asking the superiors to send reinforcements to himself.)

...

Just as Pope wrote a letter asking for "tactical guidance", Lucien and his team finally landed on Corsica.

In fact, their journey was quite smooth, and the weather in the Mediterranean has been very good these days. But when they got ashore, Lucien went to inquire and found that they had gone a long way. They did not land near Calvi as planned, but instead went to Calenia, which was more south. For this reason, they spent another day before they arrived in Calvi.

Corsica is a relatively closed place. Suddenly, foreigners came, which easily attracted the attention of others. So under Lucien's guidance, they drove the boat into a remote harbor and hid it. Most of the people were still on the boat, and only Chrysler and Lucien sneaked into Calvi after dark.

Lucien hasn't returned to Calvi for several years, but this did not cause any trouble for him. Compared to Paris, Calvi was almost frozen in time, and everything was nothing different from when Lucien left. Lucien was in the darkness and familiarly walked through the streets and came to his door.

"Dongdong", Lucien knocked on the door gently, and as he passed the habit, he knew that his mother should not have been asleep.

With the knock on the door, a few dog barking came from the room, but soon, the fierce dog barking turned into a pleasing whimper, and then footsteps came, and a woman asked in a voice, "Who is it?"

"Mom, it's me, I'm Lucien!" Lucien whispered with his mouth against the door.
Chapter completed!