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Chapter 39 File 3: Parallel Murder Room ([-])
When it was past ten o'clock, I felt dizzy and couldn't hold on any longer. I thought I really had a cold.I made a copy of those documents and took them home to continue my research.

When passing by the interrogation room, one could see from the glass window on the door that the police were still interrogating the staff of a weather center endlessly.The weary wretch held his head in his hands, and pleaded feebly.Inadvertently, he raised his head and saw me outside the door, and immediately stared at me as if he had thought of something.

"What are you looking at? Answer the question honestly!" The policeman shouted angrily, causing him to shrink his head back again in fright.

On the way home, I was blown by the cold wind on the bus, and my mind cleared up a lot.I suddenly thought of a crucial question, we have been trying to crack the key, why not study the encryption program itself?As long as we open the source code of the program, we can understand its encryption algorithm, and it will be much more targeted to decrypt it.

As soon as I got home, I immediately braced myself to try this method.Sure enough, the encryption program itself had a much simpler password, and I cracked it with little effort.Just when I wanted to study its source code further, there was a soft "咚咚" sound outside the window.

I turned my head and looked over, and I saw a big bird the size of a pigeon with bright red feathers squatting on the window sill, pecking vigorously at my window glass.

Does it want to come in?I was surprised to think that a bird with a red body is very rare, not to mention that it is a winter with heavy snow, and even the most common sparrows are extinct at this time.

Maybe it got lost and wanted to find a place to keep warm?I was afraid of scaring it away, so I walked over lightly and slowly opened the window.The big bird didn't seem to be afraid of people, so it flew in with a "poof", and landed directly on my wrist.

At this time, I saw that there was a small bamboo tube tied to its foot.The words "Flying Pigeon Passing Letters" flashed through my mind immediately. Could it be that someone used this red bird to deliver letters to me?
I gently pressed the red bird with my hand, lest it fly away suddenly, and then untied the bamboo tube from its feet.I tore off the wax seal on the mouth of the bamboo tube, and poured out a note and a green pill from inside.

It's really a letter!I opened the note with a rapid heartbeat, only to see it read: Do not decipher!To restore those two hours of memory, take a pill.

Recover those two hours of memory?Does it mean the two hours between when I set off from home and arrive at Xue Rou's house?I really can’t remember what I did in those two hours, could it be… the blood on the clothes, the dead trees on the mountain road, the security guard’s eyes, and the shape of the corpse flashed across my mind , white ring, an extremely terrible thought came to my mind, could it all have something to do with the two hours I forgot?
Take this pill, will everything be clear?I looked at the green pill in my hand, but why should I believe that what the note says is true, maybe this pill is poison?And what I'm even more afraid of is that if the memory is restored, the truth will be the kind of situation I don't want to see the last time.

To eat, or not to eat.While I was hesitating, the door of the room was suddenly slammed violently, and the red bird flew away with a "poof" as soon as it was startled.

"Who is it?" I put the note and pills in my trouser pocket, and hurried to open the door, I was afraid that if I was too late, my broken door would be smashed by someone.

When he opened the door, he found Tang Ke and several other policemen outside.

"Is there anything new?" I asked in surprise. It wasn't long after we said goodbye from the police station, why did he come to the door again.

"Jian Zhen," Tang Ke's expression was strangely complicated, his voice was hoarse and astringent, as if he had taken the wrong medicine, "I hope you can cooperate with the police."

"Haven't I been working with you all day?" I said with a dumbfounded smile.

"Jian Zhen!" Another policeman said to me in a hostile voice, "Because you are suspected of being involved in the murder of Song Zhichang, the police are now summoning you according to the law. Here is the summons, please sign it."

"You're crazy!" I stared at Tang Ke and said, "How many years have you known me, yet you suspect me of murder? Why should I kill him?"

"It's not that I suspect you of murder!" Tang Ke suddenly punched the wall hard, with a "bang", a piece of the broken wooden wall was dented, and Tang Ke's fist immediately became red and swollen.

"It's that you have too many doubts!" ​​Tang Ke said to me sadly, "You fucking want me to help you, so you have to tell me the truth!"

I was stunned on the spot. In my memory, I have never seen Tang Ke be so impulsive. I know it is because he cares about me.As a policeman, there is nothing more painful than catching your own brother.

"Go back to the police station and talk about it!" The policeman couldn't help but grabbed my hand and signed the summons, and then stripped off my coat and ring, "These are evidences. test."

Tang Ke did not show up when I was interrogated. I think his superiors forbade him to participate.

What the police asked me, over and over again, were the following questions:

"Where were you between nine and eleven last night?"

"How did you get the blood on your coat?"

"How did you get your ring?"

And my replies are all "don't know". At this time, I really want to take out that green pill and eat it.But I'm worried that the cops will think I'm trying to kill myself with poison, and I'm afraid they'll take me before I can swallow it.

The patience of the policemen is very good. They seem to have identified me as the murderer. As long as they catch me, they will not be afraid that I will not recruit. If the endless questioning continues like this, I will have a psychological breakdown sooner or later.

During the "intermission", Tang Ke finally appeared.

"Jane," Tang Ke said with a solemn expression as if I had a terminal illness, "The situation is really serious now! A staff member of the meteorological center testified that you were at the scene that night, and the blood on your coat passed through The DNA test was confirmed to be consistent with the deceased. The computer of the weather center was hacked, and you are a computer expert."

"All the evidence is pointing to you. The arrest warrant is coming soon. The charge is murder. I don't believe you are the murderer. If you have any secrets, please tell me quickly, otherwise I will not be able to save you. !” Tang Ke said anxiously.

Hearing his words, I felt as if someone had slapped a brick on the forehead, and I couldn't react for a long time.

"Tang Ke," I said weakly, "I really don't know if I am the murderer, but I did lose the memory of those two hours. Just now, before you entered the door, someone sent me this thing."

I took out the note from my trouser pocket and said, "I don't know what will happen after taking this medicine, but now I have to take it."

"No!" Tang Ke grabbed my hand, "This medicine can't be taken indiscriminately, at least it needs to be tested."

"There's only one of this thing, is there any more after the test?" I said with a wry smile, "This matter has been full of evil ways from the beginning to the present. This is definitely not something that can be done by one's ability. Big conspiracy. So I have to figure this out, if you are a friend, just turn around and pretend not to see it."

Tang Ke was silent, and then slowly let go of his hand.

"Does my family know about this?" Before taking the medicine, I suddenly remembered something.

"I don't know yet." Tang Ke replied in a low voice, "Don't worry, I won't tell your family and Xue Rou for the time being."

"Thank you! If something really happens to me, please help hide it from them. I don't want them to be sad." After I finished speaking, I swallowed the green pill as soon as I gritted my teeth.

As soon as the pill fell into the throat, there was a very cool feeling immediately, like a pool of snow water oozing into the heart and spleen.My thinking has also become clearer than ever before, and my memory instantly returned to the moment when I was going to find Xue Rou last night——

When I was hesitating whether to leave, my phone rang suddenly.Is there a signal?I was overjoyed to turn on the phone, but the name and number of the other party were not displayed on the screen, only a pattern in the shape of "工".

"union"!My heart skipped a beat, the communication on the mobile phone network has not been restored, this is a call from the union using a secret channel.

This trade union is not the well-known labor organization, but a non-governmental organization specializing in the study of mysterious phenomena. The upper and lower horizontal lines of the character "工" respectively represent heaven and earth, while the vertical line in the middle represents their purpose to "explore the secrets between heaven and earth".

The members of the trade union are all people with mysterious experience and even superhuman abilities. They will hold two gatherings every year at the spring and autumn equinoxes, and exchange and share their strange experiences or research results with each other in the gatherings.Because each member strictly guards the secrets of their meeting, no one knows what they are discussing at the meeting.

Although this group of people holds the most secrets in the world, for some reason, they all keep these secrets tightly.Although trade unions have been established for thousands of years, they have not left any records in history.No one knows of their existence except them.

During the "spiritual investigation" together with Tang Ke and Xue Rou, I accidentally discovered the clues of the existence of the trade union.As a result, by accident, I participated in the "Ten People's Night Party" where the trade union elected new members.

At the party, we had a very terrible death test, which I was the only one who passed in the end.And Tang Ke and Xue Rou, like the other losers, were "erased" of all their memories of the trade union.

Out of a desire to learn about the mystical world, I joined the union as a junior member.However, due to time constraints, I have not attended a formal gathering so far.If it wasn't for this sudden phone call, I would have almost forgotten about joining the union.

It's so long before the date of the party, why is the union calling all of a sudden?I have a faint feeling that this is probably related to this inexplicable blackout. Could there be some unknown secrets behind the blackout?

I pressed the answer button with nervous excitement, and Gao Bingjian's voice came from the phone immediately: "The meeting is in session! Put on your ring and see you downstairs in 10 minutes."

It's a meeting!I was overjoyed to be able to go to the party devoted to the mystery.But then I thought of Xue Rou, should I go to the meeting or go to her?

Forget it, I made a decision in my heart, anyway, I have no way to find her, and the trade union gathering is rare, I can't miss such an opportunity.

I opened the small wooden box hidden under the bed, and there was a ring made of white metal inside. There was a pattern of a person standing between heaven and earth on the surface of the ring.This ring is the hallmark of union membership, and while I've had it for a while, this is the first time I've had the chance to wear it.

Ten minutes later, a black car stopped in front of me quietly.The windows were lowered, and two men in the car raised their hands to show me their rings, the way union members salute each other.

Sitting in the back row of the car was a fair-skinned, serious-looking middle-aged man named Gao Bingjian. He was my tester for joining the trade union.Gao Bingjian's public identity is a surgeon, but in addition to performing heart surgery, he also seems to be proficient in hypnotism.

The driver was tall and tall, with cold and arrogant eyes, his name was Stan, and his public identity was a professional climber.Stan is Gao Bingjian's assistant, and I only met him once at the ten-person night party.Apart from knowing that he is withdrawn and arrogant, I don't know much about him.However, since he was able to pass the test and join the trade union, I believe there must be something special about him.

"Isn't it time for the meeting yet?" I asked as soon as I got in the car.

"This is an emergency meeting." Gao Bingjian replied calmly, but I saw that the expression on his face was unusually solemn.

"What is an emergency meeting? Has something important happened? Is it related to this blackout?" I poured out all the questions in my stomach in one breath.

"I don't know." Gao Bingjian answered all my questions in one sentence.

"How come you don't know?" I asked in surprise, knowing that Gao Bingjian's status in the trade union was not comparable to that of a junior member like me.

"Because," Gao Bingjian replied calmly, "this is also the first emergency meeting after the establishment of the trade union."

"However, I guess it will be related to the blackout." Stan interjected, "This time is definitely not an ordinary blackout, because the energy is beyond ordinary." Stan joined the union earlier than me, so he certainly knows the inside story of the union. More than me, but he was only "estimating" the reason for the emergency meeting.

The more this happened, the more curious I became about this emergency meeting. I didn't expect that the first time I attended a meeting would be an emergency meeting that only happens once in thousands of years.

Since all the city lights were out, I couldn't see the scenery on both sides of the street very clearly.Stan drove extremely fast, like a nimble fish swimming through the darkness.After turning left and right, I couldn't tell where he was going. I only felt that the car was leaving the urban area, and then drove onto a road that stretched upwards.

Such a mountain road should have very few vehicles in normal times, but soon after we drove in, other vehicles began to join, and more and more cars joined, making this secluded mountain road a busy one. Like a traffic artery.

Are these vehicles also participating in emergency gatherings?Unexpectedly, there are so many union members in this city.I don't know if there will be people I usually know on these vehicles?I guessed in my heart.

I really wanted to look through the window to see who was sitting in other cars, but their windows were all covered with reflective film, and I couldn't see anything in the dark.I remembered that the car I was riding in was also covered with a film. Was the purpose also to prevent people in other cars from seeing it?

After walking around the mountain road for more than ten minutes, Stan pointed to the front and said, "Here we are!"

I saw a brightly lit white building appearing on a high place in front of me. Suddenly seeing such a bright place in the dark world feels like a fairy island suddenly emerging from the sea, which is both mysterious and beautiful.

The building is surrounded by large satellite antennas and some unknown scientific equipment. Looking at the shell-like shape of the building, I suddenly remembered, isn’t this the Tianyu Meteorological Monitoring Center?

"Tianyu" is the largest meteorological observatory in South China and an important scientific research institution in the country. When it was completed last year, it even made a news report.Due to the trade union's consistent secretive style, I thought that the gathering this time would definitely be in a hidden place that no one knew about. I didn't expect them to hold the gathering in an "official place" in a grand manner.

Stan drove into the parking lot of the surveillance center, followed by other vehicles. I was about to get out of the car, but was stopped by Gao Bingjian.

"Wait a minute, put this on first." He took out three masks from the black bag he carried with him.

This mask has no color or expression except three holes for the eyes and mouth.

"Why do you have to wear a mask?" I asked in amazement. Aren't all the people attending the party our own people? Why do you have to cover up your true colors?
"This is the rule of the party." Gao Bingjian didn't explain too much. Seeing that both he and Stan were wearing masks, I had no choice but to put them on too.

When we got out of the car, we saw that people getting off from other cars were also wearing masks like us. They couldn't see each other's faces, and they only used the rings in their hands to identify their "own" identities.There are security guards at the gate of the Meteorological Center as usual, and the staff on duty inside are also standing at their respective posts as usual, but there is something unusual about them. No reaction at all!

(End of this chapter)