Chapter Seventy-Five: Mysterious Disappearance
"So do you think the disappearance of these six people has anything to do with the wounded years?" After all, Wu Qinyuan is old, and his eyes are a little inconvenient. Leaned over and looked at the words on the document carefully
"Not only is there a relationship, but I think these six people are dead." Commissioner Li said firmly
"Have you been killed by the wounds?" Liu Wei asked, "If it was injured and Liunian made a move, then Skynet should have a reaction, right?" β
"Not necessarily, even if you don't use your abilities. If it's just six ordinary people, they should be able to cope with the injury, right? Liu Meng put forward a different opinion: "The point is, why would they conflict with the injured year? Why did you want to attack six ordinary people? β
Commissioner Zhang has been silent since the beginning, and at this moment everyone in the room is discussing enthusiastically, but Commissioner Zhang, who usually leads the topic, did not participate in it, and at this moment he only looked at the map fixedly and seemed to be thinking about something.
"Not six ordinary people, but six well-trained hunters." Commissioner Li rejected Liu Meng's view: "In fact, these six hunters were armed with powerful home-made firearms when they disappeared. There are many types of Inhumans who can compete with firearms without using their abilities, but Wounded Years is obviously not one of them. β
Compared with the two commissioners Zhang and Li who were born in the Sword Pavilion, the members of the coyote brigade led by Wu Qinyuan had actually not seen many strangers, and they were powerless to refute when they heard Commissioner Li say this at this moment. At this moment, Commissioner Zhang, who has been offline for a long time, seemed to come back to his senses and said loudly, "The disappearance of these six people is indeed very strange. β
"Yes, judging from their resumes, the six belong to two different villages, and both of them are not far from the refinery site. The second is that the time is highly consistent. They all left home around 6 p.m. on the 3rd, and there was no news after that. Commissioner Li pointed to the screen and said, "Six people who seem to be unrelated disappeared at the same time, don't you think there is any connection?" β
"Maybe it's a hunting appointment?" Liu Wei asked, "The six of them may usually be hunting partners, right?" β
"This is unrealistic, this year's New Year is already late, how can so many people hunt together before the New Year." Wu Qinyuan questioned loudly, "And there are no big beasts on the mountains around S City, and it is still a closed period, so it doesn't look like a group hunting in any case." β
"Elder Wu is right, I think so too. And one of the big pieces of evidence is that the police at the local police station did not find any traces left by the six people after the results of the mountain search. The local rangers have never seen the six people on the mountain. Commissioner Li added, "And I have a bold conjecture about this. β
When everyone heard this, they pricked up their ears to hear what Commissioner Li had to say. Commissioner Li put his hand to his mouth and coughed violently a few times, and the posture almost wanted to cough out his lungs. In the past, he didn't say so much, but today's long remarks made him feel quite difficult, and after coughing, Commissioner Li stabilized his body and said slowly
"I think it's highly likely that these six people are members of the Adventists. The reason why Skynet didn't find the fluctuation of Wound Liunian's shot was because these six people were involved in the conflict with Wound Streamer on the night of the 3rd and died there. β
As soon as these words came out, everyone fell into deep thought. The so-called Adventism does not refer to any particular denomination, it is a very general term. Since there is an organization like the Ministry of Disasters that aims to exterminate Inhumans, there are also organizations that worship Inhumans and Aliens.
Unlike ordinary religions, these organizations do not worship a conceptual deity. Ordinary religion is a culture with faith as the core, a cultural phenomenon produced by the development of society to a certain stage, and a special ideology. The Adventists go one step further, their existence is not based on philosophical systems and cultural ideas, because they have found the true gods!
In the eyes of the Disaster Department, which is hostile to these beings, this is an alien origin, and in the concept of ordinary people, it is closer to an evil god. And for the Adventists, the ability to bestow human beings with beings beyond the ordinary is undoubtedly a god who performs miracles. Eager to gain special abilities through contact with these beings, they have established various sects to study how to gain the favor of these "gods". In fact, religious culture runs through the entire history of human civilization, such as the pyramids of Egypt, the Taoist priests and celestial masters of China, the alchemists and witches of the European Middle Ages, the shamans and shamans of the African plains, and so on. As long as there are human beings on the seven continents and four oceans, you can find organizations that worship gods, but not all of them can be called Adventists.
Many people's belief in religion is often just a spiritual sustenance, and Adventists are different. They truly understand the true meaning of certain anomalous phenomena, they have glimpsed the existence of higher dimensions, and their beliefs are more purposeful and utilitarian. They are committed to expanding the influence of the "gods" they have found, with the ultimate goal of guiding these gods to descend. Some of them are a huge organization, and some are just out of personal fanaticism, and the connection between them is often not close, and there are even frictions and conflicts between organizations that believe in different evil gods.
What matters is not what these organizations are called or how influential they are, but whether their purpose is to expand the influence on reality of the gods they believe in, i.e., the "alien origin" of the Ministry of Disasters. The organization that created the Wounded Years is a typical Adventist and the worst enemy of the Disaster Ministry.
"Before the third of this month, I would never believe that there were Adventist elements in S City, but after the third day, I have to admit that I have been very negligent in my work over the years." Wu Qinyuan sighed and said, "The false comfort paralyzed my nerves, and finally caused the bitter fruit of today. β
"You can't blame it all either, after all, the problem is with the knights, and strong fortresses are often breached from within. And betrayal is often the most difficult to guard against. Commissioner Zhang comforted
"Speaking of responsibility, there is no doubt that the decision-makers who assigned the injured years in the first place have more responsibility, and it is no longer pointless to discuss this, the key is how to solve the problem at hand. Wu Lao, you have been in S City for half your life, what clues do you have about the existence of the Advent Sect? β
Wu Qinyuan thought for a while and said, "If you talk about S City, then you have to mention the No. 3 foreign source." Ten years ago, it was because of the appearance of the No. 3 Alien that a lot of things really happened at that time, and the information was not blocked, so it was reasonable to be targeted by the Adventists. Ten years ago, there were at least four Adventist organizations that invaded S City for the sake of the No. 3 Alien Source, and at that time, in order to deal with the possible crisis, the ministry formulated the 'Resistance Operation' and urgently dispatched Ren Yuan to S City as a response, and the two commissioners must be familiar with this history. β
"We also looked through the previous records before we came, and Ren Yuan single-handedly destroyed the four Advent factions. But what I don't understand is that the report on the eventual demise of Zoroastrianism is almost blank, and we only know that this time the contact with Xenomorph III was blocked, and all the relevant high-level catalysts were destroyed. Commissioner Zhang asked, "Old Wu, you were the commander of the Coyote Brigade stationed in S City back then, you must know more about this history, right?" β
"The report you saw was written by me." Wu Qinyuan smiled bitterly and shook his head, "And what is recorded in the report is already all I know, how did Ren Yuan do it, just like what was recorded in the report." But what happened on the last day is a mystery forever, and when we arrived at the scene, there were only corpses all over the ground. As a result, Ren Yuan succeeded in preventing the Adventist from making contact with Xenosource Three, but he didn't even remember what had happened. We can only infer from the results of the investigation at the scene that Ren Yuan killed everyone present, including his Long Mu. β
Speaking of this, Wu Qinyuan stopped unnaturally, and sad memories filled his heart again.
"Will Ren Yuan really lose his memory because his head was shattered?" Commissioner Zhang asked with some disbelieving
This question was answered by no one but himself. But I don't think he needs to lie, he could have made up lies to get rid of Long Mu's death, instead of admitting that everything was done during the time he lost his memory. Wu Qinyuan said in a deep voice
Unconsciously, Commissioner Zhang has regained control of the scene, and Commissioner Li has returned to a state of invisibility since he spoke.
"Is it possible, then, that there are still some remnants of the Zoroastrian sect at that time, still active in S City?"
"Although Operation Resistance was successful, after all, it was the discovery site of the No. 3 anomaly, and the ministry paid no less attention to S City than the other two. At that time, he was stationed here as the only A-level combat personnel in the entire southeast region, and Ren Yuan was also detained on the spot in S City, not to put an end to future troubles, but now it seems that we are still a bad move. Wu Qinyuan said, "I'm not sure when the problem arose in the year of injury, but at least at the beginning, there were indeed many remnants of the advent faction in S City, and the knight team also wiped out a lot of remnants in the first few years after being sent to S City. However, after two years, there is basically no trace of Adventist activity. β
"Is it possible that in those two years, the wounded year intersected with them because of the frequent arrest of the remnants of the advent faction, and then was bewitched?" Commissioner Zhang asked
"This..."Wu Qinyuan wanted to say that it would be impossible judging from the performance of the injured years at that time, but he couldn't say anything when the words came to his lips. Until that night, Wu Qinyuan had not thought about the possibility of rebellion, but now the iron-clad facts were in front of him, he didn't believe that a person could pretend to be so good and persist for a whole ten years, but the reality gave him an incomparably heavy blow.
"It's not impossible." These nine words came out of Wu Qinyuan's mouth, as heavy as a thousand catties, and when he said it, the life of the gentle and confident young man who laughed in his heart was shattered.
"If the Wounded Years sheltered the remnants of the Adventists, then why did they clash with them? If they clashed, why did he sneak back to the city and assassinate Shangguan Shanshui before he could react? Liu Meng said loudly: "Didn't he offend both sides at the same time by doing this?" β
"That's what we need to look into, and I think the situation for the Knights has been a lot more complicated than we thought it would have been in the last few years. Whether or not the wounded year covered up the remnants of the Advent faction, what happened at the refinery site that night is still a mystery. And he turned back at all costs to assassinate Long Mu and destroy the audio and video records, which just shows that Long Mu Shangguan Shanshui is very likely to find something, forcing him to take the step of openly betraying the ministry. Commissioner Zhang analyzed: "The most important thing now is to wait for Shangguan Shanshui to wake up..."
"It's to investigate the refinery site." Commissioner Li, who had gradually transformed from the initiator of the meeting to a transparent person, suddenly interrupted Commissioner Zhang's words, and said categorically: "There must be a large number of clues there, and the longer it drags on, the easier it is for the clues to be destroyed and erased, and investigating the smelter site is the most important thing at present." β
"I don't think you can do it lightly." Commissioner Zhang's face changed, and he said with a blushing face, "The reinforcements assigned by the Thunder Dragon Brigade will only arrive tomorrow, and we should wait for the combat strength to be replenished before doing an on-site investigation." If you encounter it head-on now and in the year of injury, it is tantamount to hitting a stone with an egg. β
"When reinforcements arrive, it will be an egg to hit a stone, if it is useful, why should we consider lifting the ban on Ren Yuan." Commissioner Li said: "Besides, in the end, isn't one of the tasks of the injured year to deal with Ren Yuan? Even if you bring Ren Yuan, there is no guarantee that you will have the upper hand in the conflict with the scarred years. So let's hide here until he kills him. β
"You! If something happens, you're responsibleβ" Commissioner Zhang drank
"I'm responsible." Commissioner Li didn't wait for him to finish speaking, and cut off his words again: "Since there has been no action in the three days, he may not have any action in the next three days." Instead of waiting for the other party to make a move, it is better to take this opportunity to collect more clues. As for who to investigate, you don't have to worry. β
Commissioner Li glanced at everyone and said
"I'll just go alone."