Pengcheng City.

In a conference room on the 10th floor of an office building, eight people, including Zhang Qian and Tang Baona, were in a meeting to discuss several temporary problems.

However, the expressions on the faces of several people were relatively relaxed, after all, the encounter was not a big problem, and the time was not urgent.

Only Yang Zhen'er, who was sitting in the corner of the conference table and looking at the notebook, had a solemn expression, as if he felt that the problem was very serious, as if he was very dissatisfied with the way Tang Baona and Zhang Qian discussed.

However, until the issue was discussed, when Tang Baona and Zhang Qian, as well as the others in the conference room, got up and started to pack their things to leave, she didn't say a word, just silently closed the laptop, and then followed Tang Baona away, as if she was just a meeting recorder.

Zhang Qian and others had to take the elevator down to the underground parking lot to drive, but Tang Baona and Yang Zhener lived in a hotel near the office building, which was within walking distance, so they said goodbye on the first floor.

Out of the door of the office building, Tang Baona glanced at Yang Zhen'er, who was carrying a backpack next to her, still squinting, and seemed to have something on her mind, and couldn't help laughing: "When we had a meeting just now, were you watching some very heavy and tragic social news? Why do you keep a bitter face?"

Yang Zhen'er was stunned for a moment when she heard this, and then said unconvinced: "Hey, how can you wronged people, am I the kind of person who will openly watch the news and fish when other people are in a meeting to discuss serious matters? Can't I be looking at the company's documents and thinking about the issues you are discussing? Maybe I also have a unique opinion! None of you asked my opinion just now!"

"So, 'Manager Yang', what is your opinion?" Tang Baona asked as she clenched her right fist and pretended to hold a microphone and handed it over.

Yang Zhen'er stopped, leaned back slightly, glared at her, and said, "It's not in the conference room here, and Zhang Qian and they are not there, it's useless for me to just tell you, don't say it!"

"Oh, are you still playing petty?" Tang Baona said, went over to grab Yang Zhen'er's neck, pulled her to lean against herself, and said with a smile: "Come on, just now in the conference room, I saw what you were looking at on the screen from the reflection of the glass behind you, you are just reading the news of pictures and texts!

"I'm not! I don't!" Yang Zhen'er also grabbed Tang Baona's neck with her backhand, and said trickly.

"Don't admit it yet, you take out the computer and look at the browser history, there is a browsing time on it!" Tang Baona reversed force, strangled Yang Zhen'er's neck, and said with a smile.

Yang Zhen'er was pinched under her armpit by Nana first, lost her position advantage, couldn't exert her strength, and couldn't counteract, so she had to poke her hand down and scratch her waist.

Tang Baona laughed and bounced away, then reached out to grab her computer bag.

Yang Zhen'er said with a "serious" expression while hiding: "Don't make trouble yet, tell you a big, big, big thing that I found!"

"What's the matter? You chased the fan and were cut, or the peripherals you wanted to buy were out of stock, or your mother asked you to go back to get married, and your father asked you to go back to inherit the family business, and your driver's license points were deducted, and your car forgot the annual inspection?" Tang Baona obviously felt that she was changing the topic, so she naturally laughed casually.

Yang Zhen'er ignored her friend's ridicule and continued to maintain a serious expression: "It's related to Chef Xiang, do you remember the news about Burma when we had dinner at noon? There was a riot, and there was a monster that appeared?"

Tang Baona said strangely: "You mean that many people see hallucinations in Montamira, and what does that have to do with Xiang Kun?"

When they had dinner with Zhang Qian and others at noon, Director Lin casually talked about the news, but he only briefly said that there was a riot in Montamira, Myanmar, and then a vision of a huge monster appeared, which frightened the rioters and stopped the riot.

However, because they had other things to talk about at that time, this topic was only mentioned casually, Director Lin did not elaborate, and the others did not talk in depth.

After all, it was something that happened in another country, and to Tang Baona's ears, some kind of monster hallucination, illusion or something, it sounded like some kind of group confusion, and it was not information that she would pay attention to and be curious about.

"Do you know what the monster hallucination that appeared in Montamira is?" Yang Zhen'er leaned over and said mysteriously.

"Since it's an illusion, does it matter what it is?" Tang Baona wondered.

Yang Zhen'er shook her head: "For several blocks, many people have seen similar hallucinations, so it's not just an illusion." You know, the monster hallucinations they see all have one characteristic, eight arms, eight eyes!

Tang Baona frowned slightly: "You mean, the wood carving that Xiang Kun carved before?"

"Yes, yes, that's the eight-armed and eight-eyed wood carving he carved for your grandfather. Later, didn't your second uncle secretly send the wood carving to people for 'practice', and then you found out that he was going to come back? Didn't you say that the chef told you that the eight-armed and eight-eyed image was designed by himself?" Yang Zhen'er nodded again and again.

"He did say it at the beginning, but the image of eight eyes and eight arms shouldn't be unique to his wood carving, right?" Tang Baona said.

Yang Zhen'er took out her mobile phone, checked it for a while, and showed it to her: "Look at it, this is the wood carving from Chef Xiang before." ”

When Xiang Kun gave the eight-armed and eight-eyed wood carving to Tang Baona, she also took several photos, and even sent them to Lao Xia, asking her to help analyze and see what kind of psychology Xiang Kun created such an image of wood carving.

In addition to the photo of the eight-armed and eight-eyed wood carving taken before, Yang Zhen'er flicked the picture again, allowing Tang Baona to see the other picture she had just found.

That picture is also an eight-armed and eight-eyed monster, obviously painted by someone with painting skills, although it is not colored, it still looks very realistic.

Looking at the previous photo of the wood carving, and then looking at this drawing, the comparison between the two will make everyone feel that it is a different artistic representation of the same thing.

"This is the picture drawn by a witness to the scene of Montamira last night, this picture is the image she saw, how is it, it is basically the same as the wood carving of Chef Xiang! and this ......" Yang Zhener took back her mobile phone, searched on the browser, and then handed the video she found to Tang Baona: "Look at this, this is a 3D image restored by foreign media according to the descriptions of several other witnesses, is it basically the same?"

Tang Baona frowned slightly: "It's a bit like ...... However, the wood carvings made by Xiang Kun are much cuter...... This painting and that 3D drawing...... It should be just a coincidence, right?"

Yang Zhen'er immediately said: "When you had a meeting just now, I searched on the Internet, and generally the kind of statues with many arms are three-eyed, multi-armed, or three-headed and six-armed, three-headed and eight-armed. I searched for a long time, but I couldn't find an image with eight eyes and eight arms at the same time. ...... with similar unique characteristics It's just spiders. ”

"So you mean, the hallucinations that so many people in Montamira have, the visions they see, were made by Xiang Kun, why did he do that, how did he do it?" asked Tang Baona.

"Needless to say, of course it's to stop Montamira's riot against the Chinese!" Yang Zhen'er said, lowering her voice, next to Tang Baona, holding her arm, and whispering: "Nana, do you remember the last time I told you that Chef Xiang may have joined some secret organization with superpowers? Quelling the riot should be the task given to him by the secret organization! Hey, Nana, do you remember the JOJO we watched together before?" It's just that you said that the style of painting can't accept it, and I only watched two episodes.,I'll watch it alone later.,Actually, you can accept the style of painting after watching it for a while...... Anyway,In short,In the third part,The abilities of the strong in it are all completed by a kind of phantom called 'stand-in',You say,That eight-armed and eight-eyed monster illusion,Could it be the 'stand-in......' of the chef?

Tang Baona frowned slightly at first, but she listened very seriously, because she also felt that the paintings painted by Montamira's witnesses and the 3D images made by the media were quite similar to the eight-armed and eight-eyed wood carving that Xiang Kun had carved before, at least the overall structure was basically the same. But as she listened, she couldn't help but laugh and bend over, and Zhen'er began to overdo it again.

"Let's go, let's go have some supper first, I'm starving, you eat YY. Tang Baona walked behind Yang Zhen'er and pushed her forward.

"Where are you going to eat? I want to drink soup, hey, but it's a bit far away, it's too late, let's eat beef noodles...... Wait a minute, what YY! I'm serious about analyzing the problem, okay!"

After finding a noodle restaurant next to her and ordering good things, Yang Zhener continued to "perfect" her reasoning.

However, seeing Tang Baona's squinting eyes and smiling at her expression, Yang Zhen'er couldn't help but ask, "Nana, don't you still believe what I said?

"No, if you want to confirm it, just ask Xiang Kun directly?" Tang Baona smiled.

"When you had a meeting, I had already sent him more than a dozen WeChat messages, but he didn't reply to any of them! And I also asked Liu Chuang on WeChat, he is still in Tongshi Town, but he said that Chef Xiang has not been to the 'You Long Hotel' for the past two days! I also asked Lao Xia, but Lao Xia has not replied to me. Yang Zhen'er said.

"Why don't you just call him?" said Tang Baona.

"That's not going to work...... Then ...... Then scare the snake!"

Tang Baona smiled: "Are you afraid that Xiang Kun will directly expose your naïve speculation?" she said, picked up her mobile phone directly, found Xiang Kun's name from the call record and dialed it.

"Hey?!" Yang Zhen'er was startled, quickly got up, leaned next to Tang Baona, leaned her head over, and snooped next to her mobile phone.

“...... The person you're calling is temporarily unreachable, so please call again later. Sorry，The subscriber you dialed......”

Listening to the female voice prompt sound from Nana's mobile phone, Yang Zhen'er laughed, walked back to her place and sat down, and said: "Look, it has appeared again, the mobile phone can't get through, and the person has disappeared, every once in a while, there will always be a day or two or even a few days like this!

Tang Baona frowned and thought about it, and was about to call Lao Xia to ask, she knew that Lao Xia was helping Xiang Kun to build a breeding research center, and during this time, she was either staying in Tongshi Town or Chongyun Village, so she should be more clear about Xiang Kun's whereabouts.

However, before she pressed the dial button, Yang Zhen'er's mobile phone on the other side rang first.

Yang Zhen'er picked up the phone and looked at it, was stunned for a moment, and said to Tang Baona: "It's my mother...... Strange, why did my mom call me so late?"

"It can't be any urgency, right?

After Yang Zhen'er answered her mother's phone, she didn't say a few words, but her expression became more and more surprised, and she chatted with her mother for a while before hanging up the phone.

Tang Baona said with concern: "Has someone in your family been kidnapped?" Judging from the few words Yang Zhen'er said on the phone with her mother just now, someone in her family was kidnapped, but the strange thing is that judging from the tone of their exchange, it doesn't look like it's very urgent.

Yang Zhen'er carried a chair from opposite Tang Baona, leaned next to her, and whispered: "The kidnapped person you also know is my stupid big cousin, the 'big guy' Xia Tianhuo." But now it's okay, he's been rescued, he's actually kidnapped in Myanmar three days ago......"

Tang Baona grabbed the key word at once, frowned and asked, "Burma?"

"You also thought of it, right? That's right, it's Burma, and it's in Montamira!" Yang Zhen'er suppressed her volume, but she couldn't suppress her excitement and excitement.

"We were just talking about Myanmar, and of course we were thinking about it. Who kidnapped your cousin and how was he rescued?" Tang Baona asked, this time her curiosity was also aroused by Yang Zhen'er.

Yang Zhen'er said: "My mother also just knew, the specific details are not clear, it seems that she has been tied up for three days." But do you know that the first person my stupid brother asked the kidnappers to call was not my uncle and aunt, but Lao Xia!"

"So...... Your cousin was rescued, is it Lao Xia's credit? But Lao Xia is still in China, right?"

"I don't know, but if I knew that my cousin's kidnapped person was Lao Xia for the first time, then Chef Xiang probably knew it for the first time!" Yang Zhen'er became more and more excited: "Then I just happened to perform an organizational task for Chef Xiang in Montamira, and I got Lao Xia's call for help, so I saved the 'big guy' by the way!"

Tang Baona gave her a blank look: "You're here again! If, as you said before, Xiang Kun's mobile phone couldn't get through when he was 'on a mission', then how did Lao Xia contact him? How did he know about your cousin's kidnapping? And it happened to be in Montamira? Is it so coincidental?"

Yang Zhen'er was stunned for a moment, nodded and said: "Yes, it could be that Chef Xiang was entrusted by Lao Xia to go to Montamira to save the 'big guy', and then the people they organized said, 'Oh, Brother Xiang, you should carry out a mission, what? You are in Burma, in Montamira? That's right, there is also a mission over there, you can solve it by the way', so after saving the 'big guy', he took it easy to put down the riot in Montamira!"

"You call and ask Lao Xiabei to see where Xiang Kun is now, if you know about this. Tang Baona said.

"Reasonable!" Yang Zhen'er then dialed Lao Xia's mobile phone, but after a round of ringing, it was not picked up.

"I guess Lao Xia has already slept, right?"

"No, when I had a meeting before, I sent her a WeChat message and she didn't reply, so why did she go to bed so early. Yang Zhen'er said, and dialed it again.

After a few rings this time, the phone was finally answered.

......

Xia Libing sat up from the bed, looked at the mobile phone that kept ringing, and then at Xiang Kun, who was laying on the floor not far away, thought about it, and pressed the connect button.

"Lao Xia, what are you doing?" came from the earpiece, Yang Zhen'er was a little anxious, and there was a little excitement.

"Sleeping. Xia Libing replied as a matter of course.

"Hey, didn't you go to bed late before, and you were in the group at two o'clock in the morning?"

"Didn't sleep well yesterday. Xia Libing said.

"By the way, I just heard from my mom that the 'big guy' was kidnapped? And the kidnapper's call asking for money went directly to your phone?

"Yes. Xia Libing responded.

"Who kidnapped the 'big guy', and who rescued him?" Yang Zhen'er hurriedly asked again.

"When he returns home, you ask him yourself, and he knows better. Xia Libing said.

"Where is Chef Xiang now?" Yang Zhen'er continued.

Xia Libing replied without pause: "He went to Nande City the day before yesterday. ”

"Nande City, isn't it Montamira?" Yang Zhen'er on the other end of the phone seemed very surprised.

"Why Montamira?"

"Didn't you ask Xiang Kun to go to Montamira to rescue the 'big guy'?" asked Yang Zhen'er.

"I didn't ask him, why do you think that?" Xia Libing asked rhetorically.

"Have you read the discussion on the Internet? Last night in Montamira, many people saw a vision of eight arms and eight eyes, and some witnesses drew a picture, which was very similar to Xiang Kun's original wood carving before! So I suspect that what happened to Montamira was done by Chef Xiang in order to complete the task of the secret organization to which he belonged! Do you remember what I told you last time? Xiang Kun may have had some adventure last year and joined a secret organization......

The more Yang Zhen'er spoke, the more excited she became, and redescribed her earlier guesses and the words she had just said to Tang Baona to Xia Libing, while describing and perfecting her conjecture.

At the end, Yang Zhen'er said: "Lao Xia, during this time in Chongyun Village, did you find anything wrong with Xiang Kun, did you find that he often disappeared, WeChat did not reply, and his mobile phone could not be reached?"

"I didn't see anything wrong. Xia Libing said, "His mobile phone seems to be broken, when he comes back or buys a new mobile phone, you ask him yourself." ”

Ending the call with Yang Zhen'er, Xia Libing sat on the edge of the bed, and by the light shining into the door from the living room, he looked at Xiang Kun, who was sleeping on the ground, without moving, and was not disturbed by the sound of the mobile phone ringing and her talking just now, thinking about something.

She has only slept for more than two hours now, and sleep is naturally not enough, but after being woken up by her cousin's phone call, she did not continue to sleep immediately.

She didn't wonder why she fell asleep on the sofa before, but now she came to the bed - it was obvious that it didn't matter if Xiang Kun slept in the bed or not, so Xiang Kun put her on the bed to make the most full use of the "resource" of the bed.

After getting up and pouring a cup of hot water in the living room, Xia Libing returned to the room and recorded some data on Xiang Kun who was lying on the ground, just like when she did it when Xiang Kun drank blood and fell asleep several times before.

Then she went back to the living room, sat on the couch, looked at the laptop on the coffee table, and thought about something.

Yang Zhen'er's partial speculation close to the truth did not shock or surprise Xia Libing.

With the passage of one blood drinking period after another, the mutation continues to deepen, although Xiang Kun's appearance does not seem to have changed much from when he first met, but in fact, more and more abilities have made his way of understanding the world, thinking efficiency, and thinking angle have changed a lot.

With the continuous expansion and derivation of the "super-linked system", this change is imperceptibly and at a very fast speed.

He didn't have much contact with people before, but after the mutation, he deliberately kept a certain distance from most people, and only people with strong insight could feel a little bit of his difference when he had a very small amount of contact.

But if it is a person who has a better relationship with him and has more communication and contact, then no matter how dull he is, he will still find his peculiarity to some extent, which is almost unavoidable.

Even if they don't realize it subjectively because of habits, instinctively and subconsciously, they will definitely have corresponding awareness, Xiang Kun is, in essence, the way he exists in this world is already very different from ordinary humans.

Xia Libing knew that not only his cousin Zhen'er, but also Nana, Zicheng, Chang Bin, You Meng, and even Liu Caifu, Chu Xiuwen and others, who had been in contact with Chongyun Village recently, were somewhat aware of Xiang Kun's peculiarity.

It's just that the information they know is very limited, and they are all able to explain the past with some reasons, self-persuasion, and for familiar and trusted people, people's psychology itself will automatically repair and adapt their cognition.

Xiang Kun must have considered these situations.

What Xia Libing is thinking about now is another question.

She had just come to the living room to pour water and found her laptop with the screen facing the direction of the door.

If Xiang Kun used the computer when she was asleep before, the screen should also be facing the sofa, and there is only one row of sofas in her living room, and there is no place to sit on the other side.

And according to Xiang Kun's habit of using a laptop that she has always observed, after a stage of use, such as when he wants to leave the house or go to eat, whether it is turned on or off, he will take the initiative to close the laptop.

Since he is going to fall asleep after drinking blood, after using the computer, according to his habits, he should also close the computer, and he will not put it like this, and it is very strange to face the direction of the door.

The computer screen is off, but it is still on, connected to the power cord. She clearly remembered that before Xiang Kun came back, her laptop was not connected to the power cord.

If other people saw this scene, most people probably wouldn't think much about it.

But Xia Libing thought of a lot of things at once, such as the camera indicator light that suddenly lit up in Xiang Kun's house when he helped Xiang Kun drink blood and sleep for the first time.

Like now, the laptop looks like the screen is facing the door, which doesn't make much sense, but in fact the camera at the top of the screen is also facing the direction of the door, although now it looks like the camera indicator is not on.

During this time, in Chongyun Village, she spent most of her time with Xiang Kun, doing experiments on "Zero Zero One", "Zero Zero Two", and some other creatures earlier, even when she was sleeping and Xiang Kun didn't have to sleep, she basically knew what Xiang Kun was doing.

She is very sure that Xiang Kun does not have the time to sit in front of the computer to write code, do design, and modify according to needs, but Tang Baona, Yang Zhener, and Zhang Qian can still get new game versions that are modified and iterated according to various opinions, and it can be seen from their discussions that the evolution of the game is very large, not the tinkering of small functions.

Xia Libing doesn't know much about programming and game production, but he still has some basic common sense, and he has also played the game developed by Xiang Kun.

So, maybe he has another team working for him?

But if this is the case, there is no need for him to hide it from Zhang Qian, Nana, and others, let alone from himself.

Unless, that team is very special, knows the secret of Xiang Kun's mutation, and has been providing technical support, and even helping him monitor his own status, and can't be exposed?

However, this speculation was immediately denied by her.

First of all, with Xiang Kun's current economic situation, he definitely can't afford to support a development or technical support team.

Secondly, she recalled the language content, expression status, and performance before and after when Xiang Kun explained the mutation to her, and still thought that it was the first time Xiang Kun revealed this secret to others, she was the first person to know the secret of Xiang Kun's mutation, and so far, she should still be the only one.

Otherwise, there are many things, and it is impossible for Xiang Kun to make such a choice.

So...... How did Xiang Kun do certain things?

Xia Libing's eyes narrowed slightly, and he looked at his laptop.