Chapter 12: Trees
The recruitment of clinic staff was completed in just one day under the premise that Suzi deliberately accelerated the progress.
The rest is the regular door-to-door cleaner and the reception at the front desk.
These people do not need an interview, they only need an online job posting, and they will naturally be contacted by qualified job seekers.
"It won't take much time to have a trial run tomorrow to familiarize the staff with the equipment in the clinic and you have to be present at that time...... Do you need an opening ceremony?"
"There's no need to go through the hassle, the opening ceremony is to attract the attention of the guests, which is completely redundant for us. ”
Zhu Jue was not very interested in Dai Duo Da Honghua standing at the door, and immediately rejected Suzi's idea, and the latter had no opinion on this, just nodded to show understanding.
After chatting for a while about trivial matters in the clinic, the topic of the two turned to Zhu Jue's outing today, and the place of conversation was also shifted from the office on the first floor to the small living room on the second floor.
"I haven't retrieved valuable information about the title of the Thorn Sect on the Internet of Thousand Sails City, and the occasional mention of it is limited to a superficial religious understanding, treating it as one of the dozens of small religions that exist in Thousand Sails City. ”
Suzi, who learned that the human rights march three years ago was dominated by the Thorn Sect in the middle and late stages, immediately began to try to search for information in this area.
The results were not satisfactory.
"This is normal, people from the federal government office told me that the Thorn Sect is not recognized in the city of Thousand Sails today, and I think the non-recognition here is not limited to religious status, I am afraid they even have to deny that this religion appeared in the human rights demonstrations. ”
According to the official version of the Thousand Sails government, the failure of the human rights march was entirely due to their failure to meet the "reasonable" conditions given by the government, so the government reluctantly ended this "farce" after the second compromise.
It's normal for a victor to change history.
"Is there a connection between this sect and Ouroboros?"
Suzi has not forgotten Sean's identity that has been exposed, and it is not clear whether he is a member of the Thorn Sect for the time being, but the identity of a member of the Ouroboros organization is certain.
"I have a guess. ”
Flipping the fruit plate on the low table, Zhu Jue picked up an orange and put it in the middle of the table after a little thought, and continued,
"If you look at this as the main crowd of the march, the real number is tens of thousands. ”
"The impact of the emergence of the Cult of Thorns should have been nearly half of the marching crowd. ”
Peel off the orange peel, break it in half, and Zhu Jue eats half of it.
"This half of the crowd naturally can't be all believers, in my opinion, 9 percent of them are blind followers, it's okay to let them shout slogans, if they really want them to do something for this sect, that's impossible, and only 1 percent of the believers who really know the Thorn Sect and agree with its philosophy. ”
After eating most of it, there were only two petals of orange flesh left, Zhu Jue separated the two petals, held one in one hand, and shook it left and right,
"The number of people should be between 10,000 and 20,000, which sounds like a huge number, and what we have to figure out is how this Thorn Sect came to be, whether it is the predecessor of the Ouroboros or the organization that existed at the same time as the Ouroboros. ”
"The question is, what is the role of 'Zero' now?"
Suzi took an orange again and put it next to the petal in Zhu Jue's hand.
The gap is not small.
It's just an Ouroboros organization, but this Ouroboros symbol matches the symbol on a high-level member of the "Zero" organization in the scene I dreamed about.
If Zero had also intervened in the human rights organization of three years ago, then the order might have to be reordered.
After all, whether it is the Thorn Sect or the Ouroboros, compared to "Zero", an organization that exists on the dark side of the world, it is just a small petal of orange flesh in Zhu Jue's hand!
"Tsk, that's a hassle......"
Swallowing the remaining oranges in one bite, Zhu Jue said in a muffled voice.
If Zhu Jue and Suzi want to find out about the Ouroboros, they can't avoid the human rights march three years ago.
However, as the investigation deepened, the matters involved became more and more complex.
It seems that there are clues everywhere, and I really have to make up my mind to investigate, but I will find that behind these seemingly clear clues there seems to be a shadow that is so thick that it cannot be dissolved.
"I just spoke to someone from the federal government office and asked him to help gather intelligence on the human rights march and the Thorn Cult...... It's better not to expect too much from him in a short period of time, most of the information in his hands was accumulated three years ago, and it is not easy to restart the investigation now. ”
Despite the promise, Zhu Jue still didn't think that Rona could surprise him much, and it was just a choice to investigate.
However, before his voice fell, the phone on the low table began to vibrate.
Caller: Rona Encours.
"Hey, Mr. Hannibal?"
Ronna's voice sounded nervous.
"It's me, did you find out?"
Zhu Jue, who suddenly felt a little pain in his cheeks, looked at Suzi and shrugged his shoulders and made a silent gesture.
"Remember the community when you spoke to me today?"
"Of course, the milk tea at that café is not bad. ”
"There's a murder near that café!"
Standing at the door of the restaurant, looking at the large number of patrols diagonally across the street and the virtual cordon displayed outside the building, Ron glanced back at his wife and children behind him and said in a deep voice.
He had just gotten a lot of extra money, and he specially asked his wife to take his wife off tonight and take the whole family out for a good meal, who knew that not long after he sat down, screams sounded across the street.
"Uh...... Mr. Connor, I know your urgency, but I want to know about the Thorn Cult or the Human Rights March, not about this kind of killing...... I'm not a detective, so why don't I leave these things to the patrol?"
Zhu Jue thinks that he gave out two rolls of cash to stimulate Rona Enkos, who may be a little too excited now, and he has to report everything he sees to see and see if he can get paid.
"No, it's not a simple homicide, I'm going to send you the photo I just bought in the hands of a witness, and you'll understand after looking at the photo. ”
Rona knew what Zhu Jue was thinking, and hurriedly explained.
The scene of the murder was on the second floor of a night club, and there were many guests on the dance floor on the first floor at this point in time, and many people were attracted when the body was found, so there were many photos of the scene.
Zhu Jue on the other side turned on the communication to speakerphone, and when Rona sent the photo, he clicked on it directly.
The corpse in the photograph appears in an extremely strange state.
The corpse was naked, and the posture was like a person bowing forward when he was struggling in extreme pain, and the weird thing was that he didn't really fall, his hands were pinching his neck, his upper body was twisted like a shrimp tail, and his forehead was no more than half a meter from the floor.
Even Zhu Jue could not maintain this posture without the help of external forces, which in itself was beyond the limits of what human beings could do.
But this corpse did it!
Because his legs were stretched out of the calves with a large amount of dark red threads...... No, it's not so much a thread as a presence similar to the roots of a tree.
And that's far from all.
The white bone spurs broke through the skin from the elbow of the arm, and there was clearly no bearing body, and it grew for nearly half a meter, not only did it not have the appearance of a bone, but it became a veritable white bone branch!
The back of the corpse's neck and the back of its head were disgusting plants that looked like flesh and blood were fused with lotus flowers, and the blank rhizome at the top made it seem as if something had grown there.
"Have you seen the photos, I heard that the deceased was Serres, the leader of the Sludge Gang in Community 15, and the reason why I contacted you is because there is a similar image in the materials I have collected, and the document bag is with you?"
"Wait a minute, I'll look for it. ”
Hearing Ronna's explanation, Zhu Jue hurriedly took the document bag that was placed aside, and Suzi took it and took out the documents inside, flipping through them one by one.
Compared to Zhu Jue, she is like a scanner.
Look up, look down, flip over one, then look up again, look down......
Ended up staying on a photo.
It was the content of a meeting of the Thorn Sect that was filmed by the federal government in the march.
The devotees surround a "tree" made of scrap metal bars and a large number of rivets, and in its external appearance there is no such thing as a "tree" that is a common celebration of life, but only cold and hard, and the sharp edges and corners!
The similarities between this photo and the "tree" on the photo sent by Rona are not as many as expected, but somehow, Zhu Jue just glanced at it, and decided in his heart that they were related.
Ronna's current feeling is probably very similar to Zhu Jue.
"Congratulations...... Hannibal, phone photo!"
Suzi noticed Zhu Jue's phone screen and said suddenly.
When the latter turned his gaze, he found that the photo sent by Rona just now had become a cracked "whiteboard", and there was an extra red exclamation mark next to it.
Obviously, Qianfan City Zhi Brain strictly prohibits the dissemination of this kind of photo, and Ronna's document is estimated to be preserved because of the paper, which cannot be affected by Zhi Brain.
"Mr. Rona, help me keep an eye on this case, but be sure to hide your identity, don't let anyone know that you are investigating this matter, as for the remuneration and investigation funds, I will transfer it to you later, and then contact you. ”
Put down the phone again, picked up the photo in the data and stared at it for a while, turned his eyes to Suzi, and asked,
"What could cause this level of mutation in the human body, a drug or a virus?"
"Some of the ability injections, including the evolutionary injections that we are using now, if we encounter rejection, the human body will inevitably undergo abnormalities, but it is uncertain what kind of state this state will become, because the physique between people is also very different, and in the same way, the changes that the virus can bring to people are also the same. ”
The implication of Suzi's words is very clear, such as this kind of directional mutation, which cannot be created by ordinary drugs or viruses.