Entering autumn.
The temperature difference between the four seasons in the high tower is actually not that big, at least not as obvious as in the era before the tower.
However, in order to cater to the nobles' various costumes in different seasons, the ceiling of each level will still simulate the weather appropriately.
The autumn air was cool, and the nobles began to wear clothes that were in line with the aesthetic style of the era, but the lower-class miners did not feel it.
The weather outside the tower was extreme, and the bags they carried did not contain any fancy clothes, only very thick cold-resistant gear.
The port for picking up bargains is still bustling, with a large number of goods said to be spiritual goods shipped in every day.
People pick and choose, and their hope of finding a bargain and changing their lives remains strong.
Bai Wu was in Liu Chengzi's orange treasure shop at this time.
Ever since Wujiu arranged Liu Chengzi into the Investigation Corps, Liu Chengzi has obviously done less business.
"Hey, I'm finding boyfriends less and less often. Sometimes I even wonder... am I going to get ashore?"
In the Orange Baby Shop, Liu Chengzi was fiddling with the camera while talking to Bai Wu.
"It's all my fault that my little brother and the captain, oh no, the captain, have raised my perception of ordinary men."
Bai Wu did not refute.
It's like there were some girls in his previous life who, because their eyes were always focused on marketing accounts and idol dramas, believed that a man's income should be six figures a month and his savings should be hundreds of millions, otherwise he could not be called a man but only a male creature.
Of course, this kind of change is a positive one, as it can help her avoid harming several men.
"Found it. I took the photo that day and hid it carefully... I was really afraid that the photo would be discovered and the camera would be lost along with it."
"So you're still hiding in the shop?"
“This is called the most dangerous place, the safest place.”
"This sentence doesn't work for the senior executives who are used to carpet searches. Next time if you want to hide something, you can let me help you hide it."
Bai Wu took the photo from Liu Chengzi's hand.
The moment he saw the photo... he was stunned.
"How about my best friends? They are much prettier than me. Although I am also very pretty, my best friends... can outshine Xiao Jiu and Sister Ruan."
This photo was taken by Liu Chengzi over the past few days using the spirit-sending camera. He took the photos at different time periods from the location where the camera was found when the sisters disappeared.
There were only three chances a week, but Liu Chengzi was lucky enough to guess the time correctly and captured the scene of the two girls being taken away.
Although the two girls in the photo only showed their side faces and looked like they were struggling...
But when Bai Wu saw one of them, a note about eyes subconsciously emerged in his mind—
She was once one of the most beautiful women in the tower. Many people coveted her beauty. She seemed to be born with the desire to conquer men. But in the end, a crazy administrator, fearing that her beauty could not be preserved, planned to make her into a specimen, a spirit specimen that would never rot. Guess what happened in the end? The administrator's dream came true, and she gained immortality.
The beauty mole at the corner of the eye made Bai Wu sigh that the world is too small.
More than a month ago, Bai Wu saw the evil beauty mole during the mission to rescue the miners. At that time, he already had a feeling that the evil beauty mole seemed to have become evil not long ago.
Her ability is very similar to Hong Yin's, except that Hong Yin's ability is to seize the consciousness of others, while she was chopped to death by others, causing her to split infinitely, and the split bodies have the same power as her original body.
Finally, these split bodies will merge together to form a new and more powerful entity.
Legendary distortion term: infinite proliferation, a terrifying term on the same level as reincarnation.
In Bai Wu's opinion, among the top evil ones, Mirror Evil, Devil Evil, Beauty Mole, Hong Yin, and Traveler, the strongest one is Hong Yin.
But if a while passes... maybe Hong Yin will be surpassed by the beauty spot that can split and aggregate in an exaggerated form.
It just so happens that such a wicked person is actually Liu Chengzi's friend.
At this moment, Bai Wu suddenly didn't know how to tell Liu Chengzi.
Her best friend was taken out of the tower, and after experiencing humiliation and despair, she no longer had the right to live as a human being. The force that kidnapped her actually tried to make her into a specimen...
How to make a living person into a specimen
I'm afraid the torture Liu Chengzi's best friend experienced was even more cruel than what his father did to him.
How much pain must one endure to have an entry like "infinite proliferation"
When humans become evil, their appearance and abilities will be more or less affected by their inner world. Liu Chengzi's close friend must have been filled with despair and resentment at that time.
"Brother...what's wrong with you? You look so weird."
Liu Chengzi thought that it was impossible for Bai Wu to know her friend, but Bai Wu looked a little solemn now. She rarely saw Bai Wu with this expression.
"Are you okay, little brother? Have you seen them?"
Bai Wu finally shook his head and said:
"what is her name."
Liu Chengzi didn't notice that Bai Wu was talking about her, not them:
"The slightly chubby one is called Qu Li, but she calls me Orange and I call her Li Zi. The prettiest one is called Chen Shuyue. She's so pretty that we all call her Little Moon."
In fact, Liu Chengzi has already accepted the possibility that her old friend has died. Whenever she mentions her former friend, there is a smile in her eyes.
It seems that I can still recall the time when the three girls started their own business at the bottom of the society. At that time, Liu Chengzi did not rely on men.
She also had a very innocent time, thinking that one day in the future, she would marry a hardworking and down-to-earth man, and live a life at the bottom of society, not rich but at least without worries about food and clothing.
It was not until later, when Qu Li and Chen Shuyue disappeared and were abducted, and many other young girls disappeared, that she gradually realized that women at the bottom were just commodities to those at the top.
It's not just women. Living in this era, those people who cycle through four hours of mining and ten hours of rest every day are actually commodities.
The subsequent changes were not because she was greatly stimulated and began to behave unrestrainedly. Part of it was because she found that some men were really easy to deceive, and part of it was because she wanted to find out the reason why her friend disappeared.
Wanting to know the whereabouts of her best friend is a very difficult thing for her as a woman.
I have let go of some of my obsessions from back then because new life has to go on.
But she was not going to give up on the search for the truth.
"I haven't seen them, but if I did, I would tell you. But you have to be prepared. They are probably dead. They can never return to the tower. But I will help you find out the truth of this matter."
"Hmm..." Liu Chengzi nodded.
Bai Wu put the photo into his backpack, thinking... this is a prop that can be used. If one day... he faces Chen Shuyue with a beauty mole again.
Afterwards, Liu Chengzi talked to Bai Wu about some past events. Bai Wu was very considerate and behaved like a warm man, comforting a heartbroken woman who was reminiscing about her old friend.
But in fact, what he wanted to know was as much as possible about Chen Shuyue's past, which might be helpful in the future.
Of course, I also took the opportunity to comfort Liu Chengzi.
But soon after, the phone rang, forcing Bai Wu to stop asking about the stories of three young girls who died halfway through their business.
"What's wrong?"
Bai Wu saw that the caller was Tian Xun, the head of the interrogation team.
"I have to come here. The Zhenyu Army has lost a case of a missing noble."
"Isn't this kind of case the responsibility of the Zhenyu Army?"
"This is not a difficult case, they can't solve it." Tian Xun was quite proud of it.
In the past, Bai Wu had to hide, but now Bai Wu’s identity is cleaner than before. Even if the administrators and rulers want to investigate, there is absolutely no problem with his background.
Because both the Corps Commander Qin Zong and the Deputy Corps Commander Gu Qingyu admired him very much, the two of them made Bai Wu's resume flawless.
Now Bai Wu no longer needs to hide his abilities, although he rarely did so in the first place.
"Okay, I got it. I'll be there right away." Bai Wu hung up the phone.
Liu Chengzi said tactfully:
"It just so happens that I have to go chat with Xiao Jiu this afternoon. The store is about to close, so you go and get busy, little brother."
"good."
Bai Wu left the Orange Baby Shop skillfully.
Being a captain is naturally more tiring than being a team member. You have to write investigation reports, organize team members to leave the tower, balance development and finding new members, and manage each group.
But... Bai Wu still has a lot of free time.
Compared to Wujiu, he was not lazy, he was just more efficient. Bai Wu could basically finish many things before leaving get off work that day.
So much so that to most bystanders, the new captain seemed not very diligent. He left early every day after only three days in office.
But what they didn't know was that Bai Wu had not missed a single thing in Team 7's affairs.
If Tian Xun hadn't called today and brought an emergency case, Bai Wu would have even planned to take Lin Wu Rou and others out of the tower in the afternoon.
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On the second floor of the tower, the office of the captain of the seventh team of the Survey Corps branch.
Tian Xun was drinking tea, waiting for Bai Wu to express his opinion. Bai Wu looked at the file Tian Xun sent and said:
"The person in charge of this case is Jiang Xuan, the chief of the security department of the third team of the Zhenyu Army. He is Mingche's subordinate. Mingche is quite good at using people. This case has not been going on for long. Why did he suddenly give up?"
The disappearance of the nobles' students and teachers was not as big a case as Yan Jiu's disappearance. The critical time was very short. In Bai Wu's opinion, Ming Che's men should not have so quickly concluded that the case was unmanageable and asked the Investigation Corps for help.
Tian Xun happened to know this:
"There are indeed some very confusing things here. The reason why the Zhenyu Army asked us for help is all thanks to Jiang Xuan."
"What's wrong with this person?"
"He... proposed to come to our Seventh Team to learn for three months. So for this, he even gave up his job as the head of the Security Department. And then... you know, our interrogation team is not what it used to be. Now the funding is higher, the salary is higher, isn't it a structure comparable to the Zhenyu Army? Who would be willing to leave the tower if they can solve a case?"
Bai Wu also felt something was wrong. Mingche was nice to his subordinates. Jiang Xuan, as the Minister of Security, came to the Investigation Corps Interrogation Group to learn. It was like a Michelin chef going to a roadside stall to learn.
Just looking at Tian Xun's expression, there seemed to be something even stranger. Sure enough, Tian Xun continued:
"But the weird thing is that Mingche treats his subordinates well. When Jiang Xuan wanted to come to study, he personally lowered his head and contacted me, the head of the interrogation team, hoping to arrange a place for him. I didn't care about him and directly rejected him. Guess what happened? Jiang Xuan insisted on coming to our investigation corps, even if he was not in the interrogation team, but in the vanguard team to study."
Bai Wu narrowed his eyes.
His intuition began to sense that something was wrong again, and he said:
"An old detective who has been in office for many years suddenly applied to learn from a group of rough people who live outside the tower? This is interesting. Where is Jiang Xuanren?"
"On the way, they may arrive soon. Captain, how do you plan to deal with it?"
"I have some friendship with Mingche. If he really comes, I'll try to see if I can arrange a position for him in the interrogation team."
Since the boss had spoken, Tian Xun naturally had to do as he was told. He nodded and said nothing.
Bai Wu also looked at the file.
The timing of the incident struck him as somewhat strange.
"This case happened at the time when my wife was kidnapped and the two armies were performing a military exercise, but it could also be a coincidence."
There are quite a few photos in the file, which were taken at the crime scene. The Eye of Prell did not provide any useful information when looking at the photos, and Bai Wu could only make out some clues from the unclear paintings in the photos.
There is a book called "The Artist and the Madman", which tells the psychological and behavioral analysis of some people who have anti-human and anti-social behaviors but have certain artistic talents or extraordinary IQs.
Bai Wu had seen part of it in his previous life.
The more perverted a person is, the more depressing the style of his paintings will give people.
Although Bai Wu did not know the missing teacher, he felt that even if this teacher was not the murderer, he was definitely not just a victim.
This is just his intuition. He believes in it, but it doesn't mean it is 100% correct.
Just then, after Bai Wu and Tian Xun discussed the case for a while, Jiang Xuan arrived.
As the person who had been observing the first crime scene for a few days and Ming Che's original right-hand man, Bai Wu planned to meet Jiang Xuan.
After the investigator who reported the information explained the situation, Bai Wu closed the files on the table and said to Tian Xun:
"This person who suddenly wants to transfer from the tower's internal organization to the external organization has appeared. Let's go and see what kind of person he is."
Tian Xun was also quite interested. He also wanted to know why this person, who was supposed to be on the same level as him, wanted to come to the Survey Corps as a student.
While walking on the road, Bai Wu seemed to suddenly think of something:
"By the way, how is the prisoner in the interrogation room?"
"That woman? Don't worry, the captain... oh no, Gu Tuan has told us, and the people from Gui Tui Mo are also helping us to keep watch. She can't run away, but she was injected with anesthetics as soon as she woke up. Isn't that a bit too much?"
"Ordinary methods are useless to her. This woman's companion power is not inferior to many captains. You also have to consider her stress resistance. Record the time she wakes up every time."
Listening to Bai Wu's words, Tian Xun felt that this woman must be very important. He did not take it lightly and took note of it carefully.
Soon, the two arrived at the reception desk of the Survey Corps' 7th Division.
Jiang Xuan was leisurely flipping through the newspapers at the reception desk, all of which were old newspapers. When he heard footsteps, he raised his head.
At this moment, Bai Wu's gaze met Jiang Xuan's gaze head-on.
Bai Wu's heart was also in turmoil the moment the note popped up.