Atlas of Heaven and Man

After the telegram was sent, Director Lei also had the car driven over there, and when they were almost at Olive Street, there was a response from that side.

After the vehicle slowly stopped at the street entrance, a captain from the Review Bureau walked to the car. After the car window was rolled down, he said:

"Director, according to your instructions, we found three pillars wrapped in decorations in the surrounding shops, with paper figures with names written on them attached. We searched the company and found that a total of eight people were not in the company.

We checked their work items and found that the shortest time was five or six days, and the longest was at least two months since anyone had used them.

However, the people in the company think they are still here, getting along with them day and night, and don't feel anything is abnormal."

Director Lei said, "Give me the list."

The captain immediately handed over a piece of paper with names written on it. Director Lei took it and glanced at it, then handed it to Chen Chuan, who was next to him. "Are the people you're looking for on here?"

Chen Chuan took it. He looked at it and saw that Senior Sister Min Lan's name was clearly on it, so he nodded to Director Lei.

Director Lei said, "Those employees should have been affected by the secret society's rituals, thinking that the people are still there, but in reality, they have long been gone."

Chen Chuan thought to himself, no wonder they said the person was there when he called just now, but then said they couldn't answer the phone. It should be that this person exists in their consciousness, but this person obviously can't come over to talk to others.

But even so, over such a long period, it's impossible for these employees' families not to feel anything abnormal, so there must be other reasons why they were able to hide it.

The captain added, "When we were searching just now, we found that the number of employees who went missing due to entrusted tasks in this company in the past six months was relatively high. Most of them had accidents on one entrusted task."

Director Lei pondered for a moment and said, "Has the Communications Bureau gotten any results?"

The captain said, "We're waiting, it should be soon." At this moment, a team member walked over and handed over a note. He looked at it and handed it over, "Director, we found it. When we entered Qingyao Company, a telegram was sent from the building, and the receiving address is here."

Director Lei took it and glanced at it, and said, "According to this address, immediately notify Lao Gao to go over and check it out, and control the people inside first."

The captain said "Yes" and quickly turned and left.

Director Lei said to Chen Chuan, "Those people who are still 'there' in their minds should still be alive, because to achieve this effect, you must maintain those people's lives. Secret society rituals are usually restricted rituals, and you need to bear a certain price and meet certain conditions and prices to get the result."

Chen Chuan couldn't help but think of Director Lei's son. To maintain the existence of the ritual, he needed to keep people alive. Maybe it was because the child was too young and they were afraid of killing him, so they didn't do anything too excessive to him.

However, if they only need to maintain these people's lives without worrying about anything else, then the result is hard to say.

He can only hope that these people can remain intact.

He asked, "Director Lei, why are they doing this?"

Director Lei said, "After reading the information you gave me, I knew that this should be a branch of the 'Life Sect'. The origin of this secret society is unknown, and the composition is complex. To put it simply, the people of this sect believe that a person's life essence can be transferred to another person through certain methods.

This theory may not be correct, but the result may be achieved, but there may be some things that they cannot grasp and control.

Looking at the situation, they should be deliberately giving out some kind of commission, and then making the company employees disappear in the process of carrying out the commission. In fact, they are capturing them and using them to hold secret society rituals."

Chen Chuan thought for a while, doing so would indeed not easily arouse suspicion. After all, the damage rate of entrusted tasks is already very high. It can also be seen that in order to make this commission credible, the company also issued commissions to other companies, probably thinking of taking advantage of the people of other companies.

This coincides with what Senior Sister Min Lan said before. No wonder the company's employees failed several times. It was the company's own doing, so how could they let you find out the result?

Senior Sister Min Lan probably found some clues at the time and felt that there was something wrong with the company, so she sent a message to him.

Director Lei said, "You do weird tale commissions, so you are likely to deal with things related to secret societies often. Outsiders can't tell the difference between the two. I'll send you a copy of the information when I get back, but remember not to leak it."

Chen Chuan sincerely thanked him: "Thank you, Director Lei."

He knew that for weird tales, you can still find some people among the people who know how to deal with them, but secret society rituals are too professional. Without official channels, I'm afraid it's impossible to get a glimpse of the clues.

After waiting here for another half an hour, the captain came back in a hurry.

"Director, there are many security personnel from entrusted companies guarding that place, illegally carrying a lot of guns. They are likely to be the backbone of the cult. Seeing that we contacted the patrol bureau to surround the building, those people are still stubbornly resisting there, and threatening with the hostages inside.

Looking at the employee information, there should be second-limit combatants inside. It is difficult for the people we brought to rush in. I am afraid we have to transfer people from the bureau."

Hearing this, Chen Chuan thought for a while and said, "Director Lei, the longer it is delayed, the more dangerous the hostages will be. Why don't you let me do this?"

Director Lei looked at him and said, "You should still be in the national conscription period, right?"

Chen Chuan said, "Yes."

Director Lei said, "In that case, I am also a member of this operation team, so this can also be counted as a national commission. Student Chen, now, in the name of the affairs committee of the action team, I ask you to cooperate in solving the cultists in front and rescue the hostages as much as possible."

Chen Chuan nodded, "Director Lei, just leave it to the student."

While the two were talking, the car also started and drove to the location of that place. It was a five-story office building, and the patrol officers from the Patrol Bureau who had rushed over had already set up a barrier rope and evacuated irrelevant personnel.

After the vehicle stopped, the car door was pushed open, and Chen Chuan walked out from inside. Although he didn't bring the Xuejun Blade when he met Director Lei this time, it didn't matter. As long as there were no third-limit combatants on the opposite side, it was the same whether he used weapons or not.

If there were such masters, those people wouldn't have to hide inside and rely on hostages to threaten them, they would have killed them directly.

The sun in September is no longer so hot, but it is still dazzling, especially the reflected light on the windows is very dazzling. He looked up for a while and then retracted his gaze, and then, under the gaze of the members of the Patrol Bureau and the Secret Society Bureau, he slowly walked forward.

He put one hand in his pocket and slowly approached the building. Just forty meters away from the building, his second self instantly overlapped, and everything around seemed to slow down suddenly.

Then, as if it was just a step, he came to the front of the building. He didn't choose to enter the building and walk up the stairs, but stepped on the outer wall.

At this moment, he could see the person inside the window looking over with surprised and angry eyes, and the muzzle of the gun that was about to be raised and aimed at him. He looked at it calmly, leaned forward, stretched out his arm, grabbed the person's wrist, and with a gentle tug, he jumped in with this force, while that person was directly thrown out by him.

The two passed each other in an instant, and then, with a click, his light and powerful feet landed on the indoor floor and straightened his body, and behind him was a scream that was going away.

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