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Chapter 109: Tail off

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No. 12, Zone C, Floor 349.

Chen Xinyan picked up the wired phone again and listened for a while.

Seeing his expression became condensed, Jiang Baimian asked thoughtfully:

"A bad change?"

Chen Xinyan nodded:

"The 'leader' Ren Jie on the 495th floor has been infected with 'Wuxin' and has been brought under control.

"The first seven sages, Zhang Zicong, physically destroyed many surveillance documents and hanged himself in his office."

Jiang Baimian raised his eyebrows:

"It's pretty fast."

Chen Xinyan continued:

"Zhang Zicong left a suicide note, claiming to have the ability to make people mad, and it looks like he was infected with 'innocence', and he personally dealt with Shen Du and Ren Jie.

"He knew that the matter had been exposed and that he was unavoidable, so he decided to die for the cult."

After Jiang Baimian listened quietly, he asked:

"Did he say where he received his commanding beliefs?"

"In his suicide note, he said that he served in the Ministry of Security, and he often traveled to the surface for ten years. This is consistent with his resume." Chen Xinyan's expression softened and he regained his previous calm.

He thought about it for a while and then asked:

"What do you think of Zhang Zicong's death and suicide note?"

Jiang Baimian bulged his cheeks invisibly, and then quickly stopped this behavior and kept his image.

She smiled slightly:

"The posthumous writing is too detailed. It's like explaining everything clearly and putting all the charges on your back."

"Heroes see the same thing." Chen Xinyan gave a thumbs up.

He paused and said:

"However, once the relatively important members of the religious group that Xiong Ming explained are captured, today's operation is almost over.

"Zhang Zicong's death and the destruction of monitoring data have indeed cut off the direction of our further investigation. We can only learn about his usual interpersonal communication based on his confession, and do a more detailed investigation. At the same time, we also need to see if the technical department can rescue him. How much useful surveillance video."

Jiang Baimian nodded solemnly:

"If you need cooperation, just come to me."

After making the promise, she immediately put on a smile:

"If you have any further news, let me know as soon as possible."

Chen Xinyan laughed for one:

"no problem."

Level 495, Block B, No. 196.

Shang Jianyao sat behind the desk, looking at the glass window that he could touch with his hands, his eyes were a little divergent.

At this time, on the "Story Talk" broadcast, a sweet voice that was very familiar to the employees of "Pangu Creature" suddenly appeared:

"Employees, I'm interspersing an important news, I am the announcer Houyi.

"After a rigorous investigation, the company arrested a group of saboteurs tonight..."

Shang Jianyao's eyes moved, and he leaned back on the back of the chair.

After this news, the interior of Pangea returned to normal again.

The next day, Shang Jianyao entered room 14 on the 647th floor a quarter of an hour earlier, and saw Jiang Baimian waiting here without any accident.

He walked over, pulled out the chair and sat down, without waiting for the team leader to speak, he said first:

"I may have been attacked."

Many words Jiang Baimian was about to say were blocked in his mouth.

She asked in astonishment:

"What is possible?"

Shang Jianyao pointed to the position from the left shoulder to the chest:

"There's a fresh hole here, right up to the body armor."

He immediately raised his right arm:

"Sudden extra bruises and abrasions on this side of the elbow, ribs, side of the leg."

Having said that, Shang Jianyao added:

"It's not because of your fighting training. I didn't participate in training at all yesterday."

"It's very careful." Jiang Baimian nodded lightly, thinking about it, "When did these traces appear?"

Shang Jianyao has already thought about this question:

"After saying goodbye to you, before entering the room.

"I just remember walking to Block B and then finding myself at the door with maybe two or three minutes of blank space in between.

"At that time, a strange person passed by, and I didn't see his appearance clearly."

"How strange?" Jiang Baimian asked.

Shang Jianyao replied very "rigorously":

"He sings very hard."

"... This is a feature." Jiang Baimian sighed silently, "What about other than that?"

"He wore a peaked cap, which was held down very low. When I called him, he ran like a rabbit." Shang Jianyao described truthfully, "He picked up thin metal pipes and other things on the ground. Suspected it was the weapon that attacked me and created the hole."

"You have a very deep impression of rabbits." Jiang Baimian said casually, "Why didn't you chase at that time?"

Shang Jianyao answered frankly:

"At that time, I thought he ran away because he was afraid that I would judge his singing level."

"..." Jiang Baimian moved the corner of his mouth, "Your mental jump seems to have advantages and disadvantages. Sometimes, it can let you escape the shackles without being affected by the corresponding state, and sometimes it will make you You're missing some obvious clues."

Before waiting for Shang Jianyao to respond, Jiang Baimian asked again:

"Why are you sure that the middle is blank for almost two or three minutes?"

Shang Jianyao gave the team leader a strange look:

"When you first got your watch, didn't you look at it from time to time?"

"..." Jiang Baimian had to admit that what Shang Jianyao said was very reasonable, but he was reluctant to admit it, "but it's been many days since you got the watch, and you all went to Qifeng Town and returned to the company, and you That watch is good, it's only a little damaged, it's been running all the time, don't you get tired of it?"

Shang Jianyao said with this not obvious expression:

"How can I let the employees of the company know that I have a mechanical watch if I don't look at it often?"

"It makes sense..." Jiang Baimian was persuaded.

She didn't ask any further, and analyzed while thinking:

"That is to say, you have been attacked with a high probability, but you have no relevant memory, so you can only make guesses based on the traces on your body...

"The people who will attack you recently are the people from the 'Rite of Life' sect, um, most of the first seven saint teachers saw you talking to Xiong Ming, so they reacted immediately.

"Their goal must have been to wipe out the relevant leads and disrupt the investigation.

"This goal can be accomplished by killing you and infecting you with 'innocence', or it can be accomplished by erasing relevant memories.

"The latter can be linked to your lack of memory of the attack."

Saying this to himself, Jiang Baimian looked at Shang Jianyao and said in a guessing tone:

"The 'Rite of Life' sect has no time to plan a well-thought-out killing plan, so it can only send Awakened members who have the ability to erase memory to come to you as soon as possible. During this process, there is a high probability of a series of battles, but he ultimately failed. , had to suspend the attack by erasing the latest memory and escape safely..."

Papapa, Shang Jianyao applauded in agreement.

Jiang Baimian gave this guy a sideways look:

"Why don't they let you directly contract 'involuntary disease'

"This is the last way to break the pot? Before attacking you, Zhang Zicong, the first seven saints, didn't sacrifice his own thoughts?"

Without giving Shang Jianyao a chance to speak, Jiang Baimian asked:

"Have you forgotten the conversation with Xiong Ming

"Anything related to the Forgotten 'Rite of Life' Order?"

Shang Jianyao replied seriously:

"No, those memories are very complete, and they can confirm each other."

Apparently, he finished the work of recalling last night.

"It seems that the ability to erase memory is also very limited. Maybe it can only be used for two or three minutes of content, and only one paragraph at a time... It's a pity that the first seven holy masters destroyed a lot of monitoring data, or else I can find the trace of the person who attacked you, um, I'll report it later..." Jiang Baimian turned to the situation of last night's action in great detail.

She finally said:

"At first, I was a little weird.

"Xiong Ming's confession didn't mention you at all, and he didn't talk about chatting with you.

"I thought he was covering up for you, who is also an awakened person and a new human, and I thought he was quite human in a certain standard, but not many were recognized as 'human' by him.

"It now seems that he may have met that person earlier than you, and his relevant memory has been erased."

Shang Jianyao expressed his incomprehension:

"Why do you want to erase his memory, you will know if you know it."

"I don't understand either, maybe the senior leaders of the 'Rite of Life' order were worried that Xiong Ming would pull up a new human faction... At that time, they should have been more confident and handled it meticulously. As a result, your combat effectiveness exceeded Their imagination forced their plans to be interrupted, and I did not encounter subsequent attacks." Jiang Baimian said casually, "Next, we can only see what the company can investigate, hehe, at least so far. So far, your Awakened's secret is kept."

Shang Jianyao nodded and said suddenly:

"I just thought there was something wrong with the surveillance cameras."

"Yeah... It's no wonder that the 'Rite of Life' sect has the confidence not to let the secrets leak out, and the gods and goddess said that the commander is always watching all beings, and the sage has been watching your words." Jiang Baimian said with sincerity. , "Who would have thought that the head of the entire monitoring department is the holy teacher of the sect? This also explains why their secret missionary mission has not been discovered for many years."

Shang Jianyao thought about it for a while, and his expression became a little weird:

"Team leader, you said, can those monitoring data be recovered?"

"The current feedback to me is that it is very difficult." Jiang Baimian moved in his heart and asked with a smile, "You won't take off your pants and humiliate it in front of the surveillance camera, will you?"

Shang Jianyao looked up and down Jiang Baimian a few times:

"Team leader, you are so perverted."

"..." Jiang Baimian gritted his teeth.

Shang Jianyao said seriously:

"I've also grimaced at him, flashed it with a torch, made insulting gestures at it."

Jiang Baimian closed his mouth tightly and shook his head slightly, with a rather complicated expression.

After a few seconds, she exhaled:

"Your life is so colorful..."

As soon as she finished speaking, the only landline phone of the "Old Tunes Group" rang.

Jiang Baimian motioned to Shang Jianyao not to speak, and picked up the receiver.

"Hello? Ah, Minister... Let me come over?" Jiang Baimian quickly put down the receiver and said to Shang Jianyao, "Deputy Minister Xi Yu has something to do with me. I guess it's not the matter of the 'Rite of Life' Religion, or the water. The besieged town's reply has come down."