"My bomb was meant for them, but when I was planting the bomb in the makeshift prison, the guys in the cage begged me to get up."

Zhong Xiaoguang recounted the situation five days ago.

Cheng Xu sneered: "Please spare your life?" Isn't that human? ”

"Sort it out."

Zhong Xiaoguang nodded slowly and shook his head: "But Lao Cheng, in addition to begging me to spare my life, they also begged me to let them out and give them guns, so that they and the security forces could fight hard." ”

Cheng Xu slowly retracted his smile and hummed thoughtfully.

Zhou Zhen turned to Zhong Xiaoguang and said, "Go on..."

Zhong Xiaoguang continued: "Lao Zhou, it's true that these people are greedy and evil, but you have ignored one point, I have read Hayes's work log, and the operation of supplying living people to Jiro Oshima's laboratory lasted for a whole decade, but neither you nor Lao Cheng knew about it, which shows that none of the more than forty people involved in the energy experiment leaked the news." ”

Cheng Xu hurriedly interrupted him and said, "Have you checked the accounts?" Hayes has given them a lot of benefits, and they can completely abandon their principles in the face of energy. ”

Zhong Xiaoguang stood up, picked up the oil lamp that Zhou Zhen was resting on the ground, and took two steps into the passage: "This is exactly what I want to say, I never believed that they would be loyal to me and the Armored Rat Company, but as long as enough benefits are given, their reliability is absolutely undoubted, in that life-and-death situation, what benefit is greater than giving them a way to live?" ”

Cheng Xu looked at the bloody battlefield illuminated by oil lamps, and asked in a low voice: "Aren't you afraid that they will join the enemy?" ”

Zhong Xiaoguang pointed to the corpse of an energy hunter on the ground who was hugged by two security guards and half buried by the loess: "If they want to join the enemy, they could have betrayed Hayes ten years ago, what is the benefit of joining the enemy now?" More than 200 soldiers of the security forces pressed the border, and even the unarmed administrators and cooks did not let go of the employees of the armored rat company. ”

He raised his legs carefully to avoid the corpses on the ground, walked a few steps into the depths of the tunnel, and turned around: "As you can see, the security forces have occupied the entire tunnel at that time, and these thirty or so people desperately knocked them back fifty meters, and I was able to place the explosives at the junction of the two tunnels, and seven or eight of them were killed before they could retreat." ”

Cheng Xu closed his eyes and sighed: "Alas, you are a good boy, I..."

Zhou Zhen threw away the cigarette, turned around and walked back: "What are you going to do with the remaining four people?" ”

Zhong Xiaoguang wiped the tears that were swirling around in his eyes, and smiled dismally: "What else can I do, they will still go to A01 with me, although the meeting gift is less, it is better than being empty-handed." ”

Zhou Zhen waved his hand behind him: "Don't listen to me, you think it's easy to keep them, you are more suitable to be a leader than me." ”

On the way back to the warehouse, none of the three spoke again.

The warehouse was very lively, ten people were talking and laughing while eating and drinking, Zhong Xiaoguang walked in and coughed, and the conversation and laughter stopped abruptly, as if pressing the mute button.

"Everyone is packing up and getting ready to evacuate."

Zhong Xiaoguang's order, the four people left behind burst into tears of excitement at the same time, plus the time they were imprisoned, they had been stuffy in the maintenance passage for a month, everyone's face was as pale as paper, and the stench seemed to have soaked into the skin, no matter how much they scrubbed, they couldn't wash it off.

Zhou Zhen replenished some ammunition, grabbed a piece of jerky and took a bite, and hurriedly threw it away, and the jerky was also stained with a foul smell.

Zhong Xiaoguang poured a box of fried rice into his mouth casually, Zhou Zhenkan's stomach turned over for a while, and he turned his eyes away and asked, "Do you know who is leaking the news?" ”

"I don't know, but there are a few strange things I have to tell you."

Zhong Xiaoguang sprayed rice grains and said: "From the beginning of the raid to the shutdown of the portable terminal, there was an interval of almost an hour, in this hour, I used the terminal at the front desk to call Lao Cheng and Thomas respectively, Thomas soon found out that the encrypted network was cracked three months ago, and there was an external server that had been secretly backing up the content of the encrypted network. ”

Zhou Zhi felt his scalp tingle: "Three months ago? That's when I was arrested by Jiro Oshima, and since then all the encrypted web content has been backed up? ”

Zhong Xiaoguang nodded, took a sip of water and washed down the food: "In the process of the firefight, I killed a security guard, picked up his personal terminal, and found strange things when I checked the enterprise alliance case database. ”

As he spoke, he took out a portable terminal and handed it to Zhou Qian, Zhou Zhi reached out to pick it up, but stretched his waist: "You just said it, why give me this thing, and this one has already been shut down, the enterprise alliance will not keep a dead man's network account." ”

Zhong Xiaoguang smiled slyly: "I downloaded the details of the case, and then turned off the Internet connection, you can see for yourself." ”

Zhou Zhen pursed his lips and gave a thumbs up, then took the portable terminal and opened it.

The details of the case include a brief introduction to the case and a presentation of evidence, the evidence is sorted by date, contains thousands of audio recordings and correspondence, and Zhou Zhen clicked on one recording after conquering the Botanical Garden.

The recording content is the voice of Cheng Xu asking Thomas for ricin, and the recording content starts from the waiting tone to the end of the call, without missing a word, but the strange thing is that the voices of both sides of the call have been processed, and it is completely inaudible that it is Cheng Xu and Thomas.

And Zhou Zhen clearly remembered that because all the information on the encrypted network is destroyed instantly, no one will do this to deal with the sound during the voice call.

Then click on the other recordings, and the sound has been processed as well.

He opened a few more text messages, and the backup method of text messages was even stranger, all the names were replaced with XX, and this hand was very meticulous, the content of Thomas's reply to the message was usually cloudy, but there was always a fearless addition of TR at the end, which is the abbreviation of his name, and even these two letters were deleted in the backup message.

Zhou Zhen frowned, his brain was spinning rapidly, he and Zhong Xiaoguang were not from a technical background, and they didn't know the difficulty of cracking the encrypted network, but judging from the results, this leaker didn't seem to want to target any specific person, just wanted to bring down the Armored Rat Company, who could such a person be?

Jiro Oshima, Carl. It's possible that Karl, and even the mysterious priestess, were entrusted with the task of supporting the Armored Rat Company at the enlarged meeting at the end of the year, but if the Armored Rat Company ceased to exist, the task would not have to be accomplished with great difficulty.

Competitors are certainly possible, and there are dozens of companies engaged in energy hunting throughout the AB district.

But neither of them makes sense, because they don't have any reason to go to such great lengths to protect the employees of the Armored Rats.

Unable to figure it out for the time being, Zhou Zhen turned off the portable terminal and put it in his satchel, and said to Zhong Xiaoguang: "Put this thing here first, I have to think about it." ”

Zhong Xiaoguang nodded nonchalantly and said, "I can only rely on you, my days in the company are too short, Lao Cheng's brain..."

After everyone cleaned up, Zhou Zhen and Zhong Xiaoguang discussed the next plan, Cheng Xu led ten energy hunters back to the basin barracks, first temporarily accommodated there, supplies and energy can be called from the gangs of A834, Zhou Zhen and Zhong Xiaoguang hid near A21 for a day, and then went to A01 with the connectors sent by Thomas.

Walking out of the maintenance channel, Zhong Xiaoguang closed the gate again, and Zhou Zhen waited beside him, just as he was about to reach out and take out a cigarette to smoke, he caught a glimpse of the iron chain and the big lock on it, and suddenly stood on the ground in a daze as if he had been struck by lightning.

"Old Zhou, what's wrong?"

Zhong Xiaoguang looked at Zhou Qian, who was stunned, and stretched out his hand to shake it in front of his eyes.

Zhou Zhen was stunned for a while before he came back to his senses: "You said before that the security forces don't know about the exit outside the city for the maintenance passage, right?" ”

Zhong Xiaoguang snorted: "They chased us all the way, and only then did they find the entrance to the city, otherwise they wouldn't have known that there was such a secret passage." ”

Zhou Zhen muttered to himself, "In other words, the maintenance workers did not betray us to the security forces, so this lock cannot be the maintenance workers." ”

"That's right, so I said it must have been a leaking mole who locked the floodgates and wanted to trap us in the maintenance tunnel."

Zhong Xiaoguang raised his eyebrows and asked curiously, "What's the matter, Lao Zhou, what did you think of?" ”

Zhou Zhen shook his head in despair: "It's okay, it's okay, just rule out the possibility, let's go." ”

Without waiting for Zhong Xiaoguang, he lowered the brim of his hat and walked forward.