Chapter 12 The first attempt to investigate the cause of the change
2024·February 29·The twentieth day of the first lunar month.
15:06 pm.
Calm down for a while.
After reluctantly accepting the truth that he had been sterilized in disguise, Chen Yun decided to implement the first step of the phased summary and planning.
That is: investigating the causes of physical changes.
He didn't expect to figure it out all at once; this was just a preliminary attempt at investigation.
I arrived in Shucheng on the evening of the 18th day of the first lunar month.
After sleeping for twenty hours, I didn't wake up until the afternoon of the 19th day of the first lunar month. Then I discovered a series of changes in my body and started a series of experiments.
My own changes are most likely related to traveling all day on the eighteenth day of the first lunar month.
So Chen Yun's initial plan was to check the surveillance video of when he returned to the community on the 18th night of the first lunar month to see if there were any special circumstances.
Perhaps it was the source of infection he picked up on the road that caused his changes.
It is now the afternoon of the 20th of the first lunar month, and the security room still has the community videos from the previous two days.
Chen Yun does not have the authority to adjust monitoring.
However, not everything in this society strictly follows the rules.
He just silently handed the security guard a pack of cigarettes he bought on the way here.
The security guard went out to smoke with a smile and gave Chen Yun ten minutes to check the surveillance records.
Chen Yun stayed in the guard room of the community, watching the surveillance video on the screen in front of him, and fell into deep thought for a long time.
The eighteenth day of the first lunar month.
That is February 27th.
At 9:45 pm, I appeared on the surveillance screen at the gate of the community dragging my suitcase.
Although the picture quality is not clear.
But you could vaguely see a hint of exhaustion on his face.
The moonlight shone on his shoulders.
Casting mottled shadows.
Through surveillance, it was found that he walked silently to his home with his suitcase.
Didn’t meet anyone along the way.
There was nothing strange about his steps except the fatigue of traveling.
Until I followed the surveillance screen at the door of my home and watched myself open the door, I still didn't notice even the slightest thing was wrong.
Watch the entire trip.
Didn't find anything wrong at all.
If he really came into contact with something on the way home that caused physical changes, then most likely it wouldn't be on the way from the gate of the community to home.
Instead, I took a flight from Jiangnan Province to Sichuan Province, and then took the subway back from Tianfu Airport.
It's a long trip.
If we really want to investigate the entire 1,700-kilometer journey.
It will be an extremely long journey.
so.
Chen Yun thought for a moment.
For the time being, I gave up on the idea of continuing the investigation.
That's it for now.
Further investigation will take too long and too much time and energy.
And there is a high probability that nothing will be found just like this time.
After weighing the importance of continuing to observe physical changes, Chen Yun preferred to explore his own changes first.
Investigating the reasons for changes is a planning matter.
The processing is postponed for now.
This does not mean not dealing with it, just delaying the decision after weighing the pros and cons.
Think so.
Just as Chen Yung was about to stand up from the seat in the security room, he suddenly remembered something.
After cleaning up the browsing traces, he walked out of the security room.
He came to the security guard who was smoking and asked casually: "Handsome man, how long can the surveillance here usually be kept? Why can't I find the surveillance from two months ago?"
"Due to cost reasons and storage space limitations, it can only be stored for about a week."
The security guard was smoking and cheerfully explained Chen Yun's doubts.
He is quite knowledgeable about this aspect.
After all, every now and then, an old man will come to check the surveillance system to see if anything has been lost.
"A week."
Chen Yun murmured.
A week goes by quickly.
In a few days, the surveillance video of his return will be almost cleared.
Although there is nothing special about the video, the surveillance picture quality cannot reveal the changes in Chen Yun's figure hidden by his clothes.
But since it will be emptied as soon as possible, it is always better than not emptied at all. This will make Chen Yun feel a little more secure.
He didn't take the initiative to bring up any idea of clearing the surveillance video now.
It will be cleared out in a few days anyway.
Doing too much may only make more mistakes.
"I'm sorry to trouble you this time, handsome boy."
Chen Yun said while shaking hands with the security guard.
While he inadvertently put a pack of cigarettes into the security guard's hand.
Everyone knows what this means.
Watching surveillance is not a proper thing to do.
The first pack of cigarettes was for the security guard to allow him to watch the surveillance cameras, and the second pack of cigarettes was for him to prevent his coming to watch the surveillance cameras.
To this.
The security guard smiled and nodded.
While putting away the new pack of cigarettes, he quickly said you're welcome.
Rules are dead, people are alive.
Both parties were clearly pleased with the conversation.
Chen Yun said goodbye to the security guard.
Walking towards the direction of his unit building.
Unknowingly.
I walked to the same road I walked on when I went home on the 18th night of the first lunar month.
When I walked this road again, I still didn't notice anything strange.
But Chen Yun has an extraordinary sense of smell.
There is still some unwillingness to give up.
He began to try to analyze the world from a new perspective.
Countless smells that should have been too weak for humans to detect were now exploding all around.
Various smells linger around.
Under Chen Yun's perception, a world from a new perspective is created.
This feeling made Chen Yun intoxicated.
Oil fumes, detergents, garbage, flowers and plants, second-hand smoke, damp mold...
All kinds of flavors show themselves to their fullest.
Chen Yun directly replayed everything that had happened nearby in his mind.
Sweat flows from morning exercisers near public gardens and fitness equipment.
Children were running and playing on the lawn.
Familiar neighbors chatted on the street.
The old people sat together and watched the two old people in the middle playing chess.
Everything is happening now.
It is all sensed by the sense of smell without the involvement of other senses.
And what happened.
Under the sense of smell, some residue can also be vaguely detected.
Just like when he was looking for a naughty kid's house that day, Chen Yun concentrated on focusing on his own smell and lowered his awareness of other smells.
Suddenly.
Chen Yun's action trajectory is revealed.
The smell was too old to be detected at all. After all, Chen Yun spent more than a month back in his hometown in Jiangnan Province.
The smell that once lingered in this community has long since disappeared.
but.
The itinerary for these two days was clear and clear.
Even though his scent had dissipated somewhat in the past few days, there were still vague traces of it.
Follow these traces.
Chen Yun gradually let go of his inhibitions on other scent perception abilities.
Using the traces of his own scent as the main branches, he constantly searched the surroundings carefully to determine if there were any other special smells that he had never seen before on the traces of his progress.
But the answer is...
No.
Even with his extraordinary sense of smell, the answer he got was the same as what he saw when he called up the monitoring system:
On the day he came back, nothing seemed out of the ordinary.
At least there is nothing unusual about this stretch of road near the community.
Groaning.
Chen Yun rubbed his temples.
I gave up the idea of continuing the investigation for the time being.
(End of chapter)