Chapter 39 Intervention on the Island
Wang Ze is not good at dealing with this kind of scene.
A crying young woman talks about purely emotional arguments and constantly uses her own intuition to deny the objective truth.
But the spirit of the other party being able to come from the city on the other side of their home planet is commendable.
Her name is Qiao Ya, the girl who appeared in the second 'Ghost Appearance' video. Facing the terrifying ghost, she still launched a 'rescue' for the deceased Zhang Li's game character.
What's rare is that Qiao Ya has not excessively adjusted her appearance in the virtual world. She is also young and beautiful, with obvious mixed-race looks, and her facial features are three-dimensional and in line with public aesthetics.
Seeing that Wang Ze couldn't bear it, He Chou took the initiative to stand up.
"Ms. Qiao, thank you for supporting the police in handling the case. We have made a detailed transcript of your testimony."
"I saw it with my own eyes..."
Qiao Ya said in a trembling voice, and the female classmate who accompanied her also nodded seriously at this moment.
"Has Ms. Qiao paid attention to the latest public opinion?" He Chou asked.
"I saw it," Qiao Ya's voice was a little hoarse. "They were all saying that the uncle committed suicide to create a stir in public opinion. Some people also made rumors and slanders, saying that the uncle...the uncle gave a large amount of money to his family, and then smeared Wei Xing Group..."
Wang Ze frowned slightly when he heard this.
No matter which case it is, the "Ghost Serial Murder Case" where the deceased were Wen Quan, Zhang Li, and Gu Wanzhong, or the "Sky Rail Train Hijacking Case" where he and He Qiu were accurately identified. After the incident, the police They immediately retrieved all available information, and their bank statements were naturally included in this category.
If this kind of rumor and slander is indeed a public relations method used by Lin Weilin's team, Wang Ze's impression of her will be affected to some extent.
He Qiu whispered: "Stabilize your emotions first. This matter is actually very complicated, and our police are very passive now."
"It's impossible for uncle to commit suicide," Qiao Ya whispered, but her eyes were very determined.
He Qiudao: "We will announce the specific facts to the public in a timely and detailed manner after the evidence is sufficient and the case is clear."
Wang Ze suddenly said: "What is your basis for saying that?"
"Uncle, he is very optimistic and gentle," Qiao Ya bit her lip, but looked at Wang Ze calmly, and continued, "I was in a very gloomy mood for a while, and I met the uncle at that time. I am very caring and will always say words of encouragement to me and teach me to face life with optimism... just encourage me until I get out of this shadow."
He Chou asked: "How long ago was that?"
"A year ago, a year and a half ago, we met in a competitive sports game. He is my best friend," Qiao Ya murmured. "He can comfort and encourage me for half a year. He can't help me." He may commit suicide because he still wants to have a stable family.”
Wang Zedao: "Miss Qiao, in more than an hour, the ghost will appear again. This should also be the time for him to announce all the truth.
"I can't persuade you now, and I can't make you any guarantees.
"But in my opinion, Zhang Li should be a pretty good person. If he could live, I would also like to be friends with him."
After saying this, Wang Ze nodded to Qiao Ya and said sorry.
Qi Ming, who had rushed over after receiving Wang Ze's message, had already come forward to greet him, and began to play the role of a close sister, standing in the position before Wang Ze.
A few minutes later, Qi Ming showed a good ability to get close to each other and became familiar with Qiao Ya. He took Qiao Ya and her classmates to the lounge on the lower floor of the building.
Next to the window in the corridor, Wang Ze put his hands in his pockets and looked out the window. The unchanging straight suit on his body was now stained with a little dust.
He Qiu took an electric cigarette and put it back after a little patience.
"Don't put too much pressure on me," He Qiu leaned against the window and whispered, "What the ghost said, about destroying virtual industries and so on, is clearly moral kidnapping."
Wang Ze smiled: "Actually, I have an answer."
"Huh?"
"But my answer is a bit bizarre, and I don't want to overstep my authority," Wang Ze narrowed his eyes slightly, "My instinct tells me that I cannot listen to the criminal's words, and everything must be investigated by myself.
"So, at noon, no matter how incredible or cruel the truth announced by the ghost is, we cannot easily believe it and have to actually investigate this matter.
"Unless he can produce enough evidence."
"No, what happened?"
Wang Ze made a silent gesture, and He Chou frowned, but in the end he just scratched the back of his head irritably.
He Qiu lowered his voice and said, "Don't tell anyone about this."
"Well," Wang Ze lowered his head and fumbled in his jacket pocket for a while, took out a bronze-colored badge the size of a thumb cap, and pinned it in his jacket pocket.
The border of the badge is two wheat ears, inside which depicts the outline of the sixth star cluster, with three shining stars in the center.
"What is this?" He Qiu asked in confusion.
"The Pioneer Medal, the Sixth Star Cluster has awarded a total of twelve medals, which can be passed down by direct blood relatives, and the benefits are subsistence allowances that are 40% higher than ordinary people."
Wang Ze introduced it quite seriously.
"What are you doing with this thing?" He Chou glared, "Are you going to receive subsistence allowances on your home planet?"
Wang Ze slowly uttered two words: "Save your life."
He Qiu was about to tease him a few words and ask him not to be too stressed out, but as soon as he finished speaking, there was a popping sound in his ears. Looking back, the entire corridor suddenly became dark, and the emergency light at the entrance of the stairs Lights up slowly.
Outside the window, the bustling Pearl Harbor City seemed to be covered with a layer of haze. Under the bright sunshine, the lights on the buildings that were always on were slowly extinguished.
The lights in various buildings soon came on again. - They use their energy reserves.
But among the millions of people in the entire city, only a small part of the area has energy reserves.
Most people either woke up in the port device with a stunned look on their face, or took off their glasses on the street with a suspicious look on their face. In several densely populated areas with compact buildings, they fell directly into the darkness of daylight.
A cage-like island appeared in the network world on the surface of the home star.
The island has been completely plunged into darkness.
"There's a power outage?"
He Qiu's tone couldn't help but raise a few degrees, and shouts immediately came from the corridor.
"The internet is down!"
"What's going on? In what age can we still have a power outage? Did a ghost do it?"
"It's a city-wide power outage! I received a text message!"
He Qiu's phone vibrated several times, and Wang Ze soon received the same message.
[Due to the upgrade of the city's power grid, from 11 o'clock to 5 p.m., the city's power supply will be suspended except for hospitals, nursing homes and other places that urgently need electricity. 】
Wang Ze murmured in a low voice: "The real opponent of that ghost, the rat hiding behind the Wei Xing Group, finally showed up."
……
10:54:20 AM.
Pearl Harbor City, Huiyao Building.
A wholly-owned subsidiary of Weixing Group occupies the top thirty floors of this building.
This kind of building has high-energy storage batteries. At this time, the building's energy control system also automatically shuts down various types of reality augmentation equipment that consume more power to ensure the stable operation of the building's elevators and lighting systems.
Outside the president's office on the top floor.
A guard wearing camouflage uniforms and armed with ammunition stood with his head held high, blocking access to the corridor in all directions.
The sturdy personal bodyguards were also blocked further away by these guards, unable to protect their employers personally.
In the dim office, Gao Wengong stood at the bottom with his head bowed.
There were three old men in suits sitting on the sofa, smoking without saying a word. There were two slightly younger defense force generals by the window behind them, both wearing medals of honor issued by the parliament of the home star.
Directly in front of Gao Wenggong, the old man sitting behind the desk has silvery eyebrows, age spots hanging from the corners of his eyes, sagging skin, and breathing lightly, as if he has fallen asleep.
Gao Wengong's fingers were trembling slightly.
A general by the window said: "The power has been cut off."
The three politicians sitting on the sofa were visibly relieved.
"Chairman Gao," the man on the left frowned and asked, "How did you do the finishing work? Why are there such big mistakes?"
"I have carried out information cleaning in the strictest way."
Gao Wengong whispered:
"And a network-wide screening is conducted every five years, and the information on the Creation Titan has indeed been cleared.
"All the technical personnel who were responsible for that incident, who did not know the specific situation and were only doing server maintenance, had their memories wiped out in a targeted manner, and each of them had been observed for a long time.
"More than a dozen key people who know the specific situation... they all had accidents within three to five years, and it is impossible to speak. We also conducted subsequent investigations on their relatives and friends.
"Logically speaking, there shouldn't be..."
"Don't take it for granted," the oldest politician frowned, "If you really cleared all the information, how could the police find out about the "Creation Titan"! How could they know that gentle and gentle person? Ruyu was the previous name of the murder victim in "Creation Titan"?
Gao Wengong glanced at the politician, his expression showing a bit of helplessness.
“Initially, this case was regarded as a homicide. It was suspected that someone found the backdoor of the server and then wanted to attack our market on Liming Street.
"It was almost only two days ago that someone reported to me and mentioned the news about the Creation Titan.
"Because the information has been cleared so cleanly, it is impossible for me to know the specific meaning of the words Wenrunruyu. All this will start when Detective Wang Ze arrives on the home planet."
The latter didn't dare to say anything more, he just snorted coldly.
"Xiao Gao," the old man behind the desk said slowly, and Gao Wengong immediately lowered his head.
The old man whispered:
"Our opponents have been carefully preparing for a long time just to catch us off guard, and we can't blame you.
"What we should be thinking about now is how to prevent the situation from spreading."
"Mr. Wen," Gao Wengong whispered, "the brain-simulating technology used by the other party, I suspect that there is interference from the forces of the nine star clusters."
"It doesn't matter whether we interfere or not," the old man said. "This incident has sounded the alarm for us. The method we thought was smart back then actually left certain hidden dangers... We should think about a way out."
Gao Wengong asked softly: "What do you mean?"
The old man raised his hand to signal, and Gao Wengong immediately lowered his head and did not dare to speak any more.
"They are all in relatively prominent positions, and the price of negative news is too high," the old man said slowly, "Xiao Gao, you should be in your seventies."
Gao Wengong's Adam's apple trembled: "Mr. Wen, I understand."
"Well, if we can't stop each other, or the situation gets extremely bad.
"Your children, please arrange to go to the third star cluster as soon as possible. It is your thing, and I will not let others touch it."
The old man waved his hand:
"Get on with it, don't sit still, let your team and resources do something."
Gao Wengong lowered his head and bowed, turned and walked towards the door.
When he went out, he staggered a few steps and his breathing became a little rapid.
……
Noon, eleven fifteen.
The police building rarely became quiet, and the only backup energy was supplied to the dispatch hall and underground garage to ensure that the police could dispatch police normally when problems occurred in the jurisdiction.
But now the situation is a bit complicated.
The young police officers were all lying by the windows looking out, and from time to time they would take pictures of "rare" street scenes with their devices that had been disconnected from the Internet.
Although they are policemen, in the peaceful environment of their home planet, they have never seen such scenes as guards blocking roads.
Suspended armored vehicles have taken control of various street corners;
Guards sitting in oval-shaped aircraft patrolled back and forth on the road, seemingly looking for traces of ghosts;
Checkpoints have been set up at the entrances and exits of the suspended lane, and the guards are strictly checking... whether each passerby's terminal can still connect to the Internet.
The entire city has pressed the pause button.
When someone questions, the guards will patiently give explanations:
"The ghost has weapons of mass destruction in his hands, which may destroy the virtual industrial ecology of the home star at any time.
"Now we are conducting on-site investigation, because the ghost's previous activities were in Pearl Harbor City, and we suspect that his server is in Pearl Harbor City."
That's what they were ordered to do, and they were just following orders.
In the police station, many people gathered in the lobby on the first floor, observing the situation on the street. Wang Ze and He Chou were hiding in the corner and whispering.
"What to do now?" He Chou asked.
Wang Ze's expression was a little complicated: "Now it seems that the top brass of the defense force are also related to the matter of the Creation Titan."
"The defense forces... they didn't even ask for our help, they just went in on their own, which is a bit against the rules," He Qiu asked in a low voice, "Do you think it's really a virtual training?"
"The training that can be simulated in the black box game can be done by the home star defense force normally," Wang Ze explained. "According to various treaty restrictions, the home star cannot have a military fleet, and there are not many restrictions on the ground forces.
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"In fact, some commercial starships themselves have certain weapons and equipment for self-defense."
He Chou frowned and thought.
Wang Ze said calmly: "There are more than forty minutes until twelve o'clock. It seems that I have to do something."
He Chou grabbed Wang Ze's arm, glared and muttered: "What is going on now is no longer something we can get involved in. Why are you so excited!"
Wang Ze frowned and signaled He Chou to let go of his arm.
Doesn't this guy know how strong he is? The bones were almost broken by him.
"Don't worry, I know what I'm doing and I won't do anything beyond my capabilities."
"Then I'll accompany you," He Chou frowned, "I brought you here, and I'm going to send you back alive."
Wang Zedao: "That's okay. Let's go to the street and I'll try to see if I can see that Gao Wengong."
The corner of He Qiu's mouth twitched a few times. When he saw Wang Ze bypassing the crowd in the hall with a calm expression and walking towards the glass door on the left, he immediately followed quickly.
"Boss!"
There was a cry from behind.
Wang Ze turned his head slightly and said to Qi Ming: "You don't have to follow."
"Detective Wang!"
Beside Qi Ming, Qiao Ya, whose mood had become much more stable, didn't understand why she called out to the detective.
'I also want to be friends with him. ’
"Thank you," Joya whispered.
Wang Ze smiled and nodded, turned around and pushed open the glass door with He Chou.
Swish, swish!
Red dots appeared on the foreheads of Wang Ze and He Qiu.
A large number of guards raised their pulse guns, and their silhouettes were printed on the tactical goggles. (End of chapter)