Girls Frontline: Griffin Security

Arriving at the door of Ellen's bedroom, Xu Bin took two deep breaths before pushing the door open and walking in...

Unexpectedly, there was no musty smell after entering the room. The whole room looked quite tidy, which was rare in the hot and humid Silent Hill. It seemed that after Eren left his hometown, someone would come to clean for him regularly. Maybe this person was his mother or brother?

Xu Bin looked around the room and walked to the desk.

There were some newspapers, news materials and an Oxford dictionary neatly stacked on the table. Xu Bin casually flipped through them and took a look... and found that most of these news materials were before 2053. They came from various newspapers: Federal Post, Minneapolis Daily, Voice of Reality, etc.... There were even two copies of the low-level media newspaper "The President's Times".

As a reporter, it was understandable that Allen collected newspapers from various news agencies. He took a quick look at the news but didn't find anything noteworthy.

The real clues to note are here:

Xu Bin pulled out a New York Times published on December 2056, 12 from the pile of newspapers... Could it be that Ellen returned home once after the outbreak of World War III?

Amnesia...Killer...Old letters delivered to Ellen...Time point 2053...Massive disappearances in a small town...Monsters...Uncorrupted corpses...

At this moment, all this messy information was crisscrossed like a spider web, making Xu Bin's brain overcrowded.

"Oh, I can't bear it!"

Xu Bin, who felt like he was being scratched by a ghost, could no longer bear it. He sat down at the desk, took out paper and pen from the drawer, and began to analyze the current situation.

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First is the timeline to be supplemented:

On November 2053, 11, according to the letter that Ellen sent to old lady Lottie, we can know that he was still a normal person at that time, he had not been involved with any killers, and he had not lost his memory. Not long after that, he went to the Peninsula with the international journalists to conduct a one-year battlefield investigation..... (Note: Because this guy was not satisfied with the news environment of the Federation, he went to the International Column to conduct interviews and investigations. But this team is the enemy of the Eagle Federation, maybe Ellen will get into trouble because of this?);

On February 2054, 2, according to the videotape found in the watch shop, we can learn that the watchmaker's son Kyle Johnson's participation in the International Brigade was exposed for some reason, and his father was killed because of it (speculation: all those who did not stand with the Eagle Federation in World War III were in danger of life. Could Ellen's experience be related to this?);

One day after December 2056, 12, a newspaper that was only published in New York was placed on the desk in Ellen's room (their kitchen has a trash can for waste newspapers, and it is impossible for others to take waste newspapers to Ellen's room, so I guess he threw it away when he went home for Christmas Eve. His brother may know something about what happened to Ellen after 24);

On August 2061, 8, we met Allen, who said that he woke up in a strange hotel room 5 days ago, and his body was piled with letters sent to him from his hometown before 7. But he had lost all his memories, and could only survive by relying on his mobile phone, wallet and other personal belongings.

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OK.....the timeline is sorted out, now let’s start solving the puzzle on the draft paper!

Xu Bin stretched lazily and rubbed his hands which were sore from writing... Solving puzzles on a piece of white paper has always been his favorite way of pastime.

1. Who could those guys be who are after Eren?

Judging from their behavior, they might be CIA agents. Xu Bin had such suspicions when he fought with them at the train station.

The reason is simple. It can be seen from their behavior of surrounding the parking lot and arranging tire punctures regardless of time that they are not afraid of being disturbed by the police officers who arrived at the scene later. Therefore, Xu Bin can judge that these guys are federal agents.

Since he is a federal agent, why can it only be the CIA and not the FBI?

The basis for judgment is also very simple. The FBI is the agency responsible for catching criminals. If they are sure, they will definitely try to arrest the target first, rather than opening fire without saying anything.

The AR team would always investigate the client's identity before accepting a commission. If Eren was a wanted criminal, he would have been identified long ago. How could he have taken the train to Sanbanco City to meet up with the dolls without any incident? (Considering that his identity information basically matched the content of the letter sent by Silent Hill, and the Eagle Federation's facial recognition technology was relatively advanced, there was no possibility of him using a fake identity).

Then, based on the bad things that the CIA has done, it is easy to conclude that the killers are from the CIA. You should know that they are not just civilians who are powerless, but the "action team" is also the backbone of the CIA.

OK, now we have come to a conclusion that is not "logically necessary":

[The person chasing Ellen is a CIA agent]

If this statement is true, then can we also provide clues about Ellen's amnesia and the whereabouts of the letters around 2053?

Xu Bin swallowed his saliva, took out a nutrient drink from his bag and took a sip, then continued writing on the draft paper:

2. What are those letters about?

Generally speaking, letters sent from hometowns are kept in the residence of the recipients. It is a low probability event that they were brought to the hotel room by "Ellen before amnesia". If so, it is very likely that someone entered Ellen's residence, took them and threw them in the hotel room, that is, on Ellen's bed.

If this speculation is true, then the "messenger" must know why Ellen was unconscious in the hotel room! Throwing the letter on Ellen instead of stuffing it into his bag, I'm afraid it's because the "messenger" hopes that the letter will be noticed by him as soon as possible...

Hey, wait...

The "messenger" left these letters, presumably knowing that Ellen would read them and then do something about it, right?

In other words, the "messenger" wants Eren to come to Silent Hill?

"Hiss..." Xu Bin took a breath, then scribbled on the manuscript paper, and immediately switched angles to come up with a new idea:

Could it be that throwing the letters on the bed, rather than organizing them and stuffing them in the bag, was an attempt to get Ellen to read them “as soon as possible” and take appropriate action?

If he wanted it “as soon as possible,” does that mean he knew Ellen was going to be assassinated?

Think about the previous letters again. Only the content before 2053 was brought by the "messenger", and the letters after the outbreak of World War III are nowhere to be found. Why is that?

A series of new questions popped into his mind, and Xu Bin realized that all his reasoning was based on "if". If any link in this "hypothesis chain" was falsified, then all subsequent speculations would be in vain.

In fact, he prefers to use facts to make deductive reasoning rather than guessing, but unfortunately the existing clues do not allow him to do so. Scratching his head, Xu Bin had no choice but to continue writing his "if chain" on the draft paper.

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After some scribbling, a very likely guess appeared on the manuscript paper:

The messenger, he knows everything about Ellen, and is likely to be related to the CIA agents who are hunting Ellen! But for some reason, his actions are not consistent with those of the agents. Ellen's amnesia is related to him (and possibly the CIA), and this guy hopes Ellen can return to Silent Hill.

As for why he wanted Ellen to return to Silent Hill, Xu Bin had no idea. He only thought of one thing: this "messenger" would most likely come along!

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This guess is not wrong at all...

At this moment, outside the Rodriguez family's house, a man with unfocused eyes was standing in the thick fog.

On the back of this man, there was an unidentified object like a tumor clinging there. It was tightly connected to the man's spine and would occasionally wriggle under his clothes.

Jaden Koss, former CIA agent (delisted)