Everyone thinks that insiders did it, but there are more than 100 people in the Foundation, and most of them know each other, who would do that? And for what? This is also the question in everyone's mind since the incident fermented.

Someone tentatively said, "Maybe it's for money, maybe it's coercion." ”

"Impossible!" A man who was not too old but had gray hair stood up and said, "It can't be for money!" We donate our spare money to the foundation, how can we make money by selling this bit of news? Compared to the great undertaking we are undertaking, no amount of money can impress a real scientist! What's more, everyone has been allocated the project research funds, and if it is really for money, it is more profitable to do something about the project than to sell materials! ”

Mei Yiqiu looked at the excited middle-aged man and smoked a cigarette silently. This is an upright scientist who was ostracized last year because he defied the leadership, resulting in the scientific research results that he had suffered for more than ten years being stolen by others. He is right, the foundation is very loose in the management of funds for the smooth development of the project, almost everyone of the more than 100 members has research tasks in their hands, and they have all been allocated funds, and there is no unified financial supervision of billions of funds, and it is very easy to be greedy for ink.

"Is it possible that one of the members was successfully invaded?"

"The people who join the club have all passed the thinking matrix password test, and it is unlikely that they will be successfully hacked in such a short period of time."

"No matter what the situation is, it's certain that there is something wrong with the insiders, otherwise there would not be such detailed information on the Internet, and some things are not so clear to me!"

"Anyway, the first ones to break the news were overseas websites, and they shouldn't be from us."

"That's not necessarily, if it were me, I wouldn't post it on a domestic website."

"It can't be you, right?"

"What nonsense are you talking about! Don't you understand the analogy? ”

The mood of the people began to get a little excited, and the quarrels became louder.

Mei Yiqiu tapped his pipe twice on the table and said, "Let's not talk about whether there is an internal problem, you might as well consider the purpose of the whistleblower first." ”

"Purpose?"

The venue was suddenly quiet, people fell into a long period of thought, the air became a little dull, and heavy breathing could be heard, and only the occasional meow of the cat made the venue seem a little annoyed.

Mei Yiqiu gently stroked the cat's body, and said to herself: "First the gray brain virus, then Lester's last words and toxoplasmosis, and finally the cat killing order, until today, I haven't seen through whether the person who did this is friend or foe!" ”

"It's impossible to be friends, right?" Someone answered, "The cat killing order is obviously aimed at the toxoplasma gondii research we are doing now, and the cats are gone, how can we continue to study them!" Moreover, this development of events has made us very passive, and the slightest carelessness may reveal our identity. ”

"Not necessarily! I'm afraid that the purpose of people is not to be a member of the Foundation, and if they can get so much confidential information, can't they get our membership list? ”

"That's the crux of the matter. Regardless of whether an insider sells the information or not, our enemy is the invader, and the core of the whole incident is also the invader, and if you want to sell the information, you can only sell it to them. But if that's the case, it means that they know everything about the Foundation, so why are they breaking the news on the Internet? Who is it for? What's in it for them? And originally they were in the dark, but now that Lester's last words are made public, it is equivalent to making them public, which makes it more difficult to invade,"

"yes, my students now have nightmares that suspect they've been invaded by aliens. Recently, there has been a surge in the number of people visiting the brain and neurology departments of the hospital, and the queue for CT and MRI is a few months away. ”

"So, this has nothing to do with the intruders?"

"The direct victim of the whole incident seems to be only cats, if you look at the original intention of the cat killing order, there are really no felines, and Toxoplasma gondii has no final host, which can indeed reduce the risk of infection."

"It's impossible to kill the cat, the strangest thing is that the government, except for a few rumors at the beginning, actually doesn't care about anything, let it go, it's really incomprehensible!"

Everyone was talking nonsense, and the more they talked, the more chaotic it became, and Aoki didn't hear a reason for listening to it for a long time. He originally thought that this matter was quite simple, that is, the news was leaked, how could there be an impermeable wall in the world? And the people have the right to know, and it is not a bad thing to know. In the eyes of some people, all rumors are uploaded on the Internet, but everyone here knows that that is the truth. What's so bad about the truth being made public? But now that these people say this, things seem extremely complicated, and Aoki's brain is buzzing.

Mei Yiqiu listened silently, and the pipe in her mouth went out. He beckoned to Mei Ziqing. Mei Ziqing walked over, Mei Yiqiu gave her the pipe, and whispered a few words. Mei Ziqing went out with a pipe, and took the cat away as she left

The people in the room were still discussing it enthusiastically, but there was nothing new about it, and it was just those things. When Mei Ziqing returned, she helped Mei Yiqiu refill her pipe, and took a few boxes of cigarettes and distributed them to the scientists present. Most of these people are old smokers, and when they put a cigarette between their fingers, their excitement calms down a lot, and their thinking becomes clearer.

As soon as a scientist's mind clears, he begins to be silent, and silence is the best expression of a person's sobriety.

Mei Ziqing returned to her seat and whispered in Aoki's ear: "Scientists engage in politics, and there is a dead end. Seeing Aoki's surprised expression, he smiled and said, "The professor said that." ”

Mei Yiqiu saw that it was almost over, and concluded his speech: "Through the discussion just now, we can draw the following conclusions: first, the probability that the whistleblower is an insider is extremely small; Second, it doesn't look like the invading aliens did it; Three, the whole incident disrupted the rhythm of us and the aliens. ”

He paused, took a puff on his cigarette, and slowly exhaled it, "So is it possible to assume that there is a third party other than us and them who are doing something?" ”

"Is Professor May talking about the government?" Someone asked.

Mei Yiqiu shook her head and said: "It is most difficult for politicians to work together, there are so many governments and parties in the world, each with its own interests, to say that they suddenly formed an alliance to do this, I think it is absolutely impossible." The reason why the government is not doing it is to avoid suspicion. The object of the invasion of parasitic consciousness is the person who holds the resources, how can those in power avoid it? Which government, which agency, which big business now dares to say that no one has been invaded internally? At this time, whoever stood up and spoke seemed to announce to the world that he was an alien. ”

All the attendees, including Aoki, nodded their heads, believing that Mei Yiqiu's analysis was reliable, but it was not the government, so who was this third party?

Mei Yiqiu gently put the pipe aside and took out a small plastic bag from the information bag, which contained a small piece of yellow something that looked like a SIM card for a mobile phone.

"It's a chip. I would like to thank Mr. Aoki for getting this chip, who is sitting here. Mei Yi held the plastic bag up, "I wonder if you have heard of Laboratory 19 at the Lawrence Berkeley National Experiment Center?" ”

There was quite a commotion in the venue, and the mysterious Laboratory 19 was famous, and of course these scientists had heard of it.

And Aoki knew from the moment the professor took out the chip who the third party he was talking about.