Lu Ming saw that after hearing his words, the three people in the virtual conference room were stunned at the same time.

The smiles and excitement on their faces stiffened at first, then slowly faded.

It was clear that until then, the three members of Operation 2 had confined their minds to Earth. As a part-time science fiction writer, Lu Ming's thinking is not subject to this restriction.

Facing the three who were silent, Lu Ming accentuated his tone and said again: "Since Organization X can use the technology of spatial teleportation, which is almost beyond our imagination, why can't the teleportation destination be set outside the earth?"

It is almost impossible for a mountain god to be a god or a ghost, and it is very likely that it is a creature that has mastered some super technology, or a device or the like. It is unlikely that this was born from the earth, that is, it is very likely to come from somewhere outside the earth. In that case, isn't it reasonable that Organization X's 'Sanctuary' is located outside of Earth? ”

This does make sense.

But for the second action team, for Lu Ming, it was extremely bad news.

Everyone knows exactly what this means.

The Templar exists on Earth, and the human world has a way of coping with it. But if it exists outside the planet, then it is impossible to exert the slightest influence on it.

At most, if you reach the sky, you can only control a certain space vehicle to crash over, just like the human world once did, manipulating some probes to hit the moon and asteroids in a controlled way to probe their internal structure.

But this can only be done if the Templar is located within the solar system and not far from Earth. A little farther away, such as Jupiter, Saturn, etc., that will also be out of reach.

But the other obvious problem is that if the Templar can be built on an alien planet, then it is almost impossible for them to be threatened by a space probe with such technology.

After a long silence, Zhang Dingshan finally opened his mouth.

"Let's check it out first. It doesn't have to be that bad. ”

That's all there is to it.

This was the end of the regular meeting.

At this moment, night has fallen. Leaving the field hospital, strolling in the yellow sand, feeling the trace of heat residue during the day, Lu Ming's expression was full of solemnity.

At this moment, the number of people around the explosion area, whose energy was comparable to that of a nuclear explosion, has decreased a lot compared to before.

Thousands of people involved in sociological experiments have been allowed to disband and return home after the investigation has made significant progress and the outer "wings" of the X organization have been almost completely wiped out. Most of the troops stationed here were also withdrawn.

At this moment, there are still some scientific observers who are still staying in the blast area for follow-up observations, and in addition to them, there are a small number of garrisons, and the total number of people does not exceed five hundred. The whole camp was much quieter and quieter than before.

There will no longer be a faint noise drifting into Lu Ming's ears with the wind.

He knew that the desertion here was actually a good thing. Because it means that significant progress has been made in the investigation.

He is also looking forward to the day when all the people here will be evacuated, so that this place will return to its former tranquility, and he will return home smoothly. Originally, he thought that this day was very close, but he didn't expect that at this almost last moment, there would be another twist and turn.

If the Templar is outside of Earth, if those core members of Organization X have left Earth at this moment, then it is certain that the human world will definitely have no way to deal with them.

But......

Lu Ming didn't think that after they left the earth through that kind of divine space teleportation technology, they would not have the ability to come back.

Previous statements have also shown that the transmission between the core members and the Templar is reciprocal. They can teleport from their dwelling to the Sanctuary and back from the Sanctuary. The idols, on the other hand, seem to be the tools used to achieve this teleportation. It's just that the human world has not yet figured out the mystery.

This means a very tricky situation: they can hide in the Sanctuary until the limelight passes, and then quietly return to Earth, change their identities, change their disguises, and then make a comeback. Anyway, with so much super technology in hand, making a comeback is just a simple thing.

Once the incident happened, he hid in the church. Once the situation calms down, he will sneak back to Earth and continue his invisible work. A person like Lu Ming with the Hag.1 gene will never be at peace and will always bear this curse.

This is undoubtedly the worst-case scenario. And there is nothing you can do to change that.

Under the dry night wind, Lu Ming's heart was full of heaviness.

At this moment, the only thing that can be expected is that the follow-up investigation of Zhang Dingshan and He Wei shows that the Holy Church is above the earth.

Lu Ming didn't like this state of handing over the future to providence and fate. But beyond that, he couldn't do anything.

"Ugh."

With a deep sigh, he returned to his abode.

At this moment, in the temporarily recruited investigation headquarters, thousands of accounting experts summoned from all over the world are working overnight. They immersed themselves in the vast amount of data, carefully tracing the flow of funds and materials, and comparing them with the rest of the data, trying to find out the anomaly.

If the so-called "Sanctuary" was on Earth and was built by the people of Organization X, then Organization X would have cost a lot of money. At the same time, there is a high probability that this amount of money comes from these group companies under the organization.

In this way, by looking up the accounts, it is possible to find traces of them.

Time passed slowly. On the second day, a material movement belonging to the Mou Group attracted the attention of investigators.

"Inventory management data shows that six years ago, there was a fire in the warehouse, and a batch of cement, sand and other building materials were scrapped because of the fire. And this batch of building materials was originally planned to be used to build a bridge. ”

It's a very common thing, and I don't see anything out of the ordinary. But when combined with another thing, it seems a little abnormal.

"Within three days, the Mou Group mobilized another batch of building materials, which did not affect the construction period of the bridge at all."

"What's not normal is that this speed is too fast, just like they had expected that this batch of building materials would be scrapped and had been fully prepared for a long time."

Facing the report, He Wei's brows furrowed again.

This seems to mean that the Mou Group used this means to cover up the disappearance of a batch of building materials and smuggle them away for other purposes.

"That's not right."

She looked at Zhang Dingshan and expressed her attitude: "The interrogation transcript shows that the Holy Church appeared at least twenty years ago. The disappearance of this batch of building materials came too late. ”

"Maybe it's just an extension at a later stage, or a patch up to an existing structure. Anyway, let's record it first. ”

Under this cautious search, more information that may be strange or suspicious is searched.

Accounts show that a company had ordered a batch of steel through covert means 17 years ago.

Sixteen years ago, a batch of household appliances intended for use in a certain building were scrapped due to flooding.

Seven years ago, a batch of timber was scrapped due to poor preservation.

……

As more and more of this information is searched by thousands of audit experts from the vast amount of data and summarized, an astonishing fact gradually emerges.

"The earlier data is too old to verify, but we already have enough evidence to show that these group companies belonging to Organization X have been systematically and categorically covering up the 'disappearance' of materials such as building materials, steel, wood, electrical appliances, etc., by various means since seventeen years ago at the latest.

The 'disappearance' of each batch of materials seems normal, but taken together, by the frequency of the disappearance of these materials, and the matching properties of each other, for example, a material will only disappear once in a certain period of time, or as long as there is cement disappearing, it must be accompanied by a certain amount of sand, from this aspect, we have enough reason to think that this is intentional and not really accidental.

It is highly likely that the construction of the Templar was completed at an earlier stage, and that after that, Organization X used this method to regularly replenish the Templar for later repairs. ”

This result made He Wei very excited.

Because this shows that our own investigative thinking is correct, and it is indeed possible to find out something.

And......

This seems to indicate that the seat of the Templar is indeed on Earth.

After all, she couldn't imagine that a base built on an alien planet would need to replenish building materials from Earth. This is also a bit ridiculous.

This is great news.

More details were being added one by one, and He Wei's attention at the moment had turned to the next thing.

Determine where the sanctuary is located.

"If this sanctuary was really built by Project X, then we should probably start looking into it from the personnel side. After all, the core members of the X organization are not masons and construction workers, and they can't do it themselves.

Also, we can ask some construction experts to judge where the building materials mobilized by Organization X are suitable for use. Is it underwater, the bottom of the lake or the bottom of the sea? Underground, tropical or cold? In the mountains, is it granite or basalt? ”

For Zhang Dingshan's thinking, He Wei agrees very much. So soon after, several construction experts came to the headquarters to report through the coordination of Lu Qingliang.

"In places such as high cold, high temperature, underwater, mountains, and underground, the environment is different, and the demand for building materials is also different. For example, the seabed needs to consider the corrosion resistance of building materials. In hot and dry areas, it is necessary to consider the resistance of building materials to wind and sand. However, this is only a general theory, and the specific situation needs to be considered on a case-by-case basis.

It's not easy to judge just by the building materials in the list.

If you can't judge it reluctantly, well, it probably has a certain amount of seawater corrosiveness, but it is not the bottom of the sea, because the corrosion resistance is not so high, and there is not enough pressure resistance. At the same time, the building appears to be located underground ......"