The Riddler Get Out of Terra

Could it be the governor inside?

Hao Zhao unscrewed the door expressionlessly, and the electronic password handle locked from the inside struggled to block his entry. However, Orange Cat only exerted force on his wrist, and the fragile handle and the entire electronic lock shattered from the solid door panel. Even the final responsibility was not completed.

The door opened and they filed in.

Chapter 288 Magnetic Field Lock · Against the City Level ([-])

What does the governor-general look like under the great curtain in Anwen City?

While following Hao Zhao's simple and rough investigation, many speculations about the image of the person involved flashed through Jingzhe's mind:

He may be a fat man who was once handsome and handsome but is now fat and strong. His face is full of flesh, and every line is full of greed. His two thick black beards turn his whole face into a half-black and half-yellow pie. , he doesn't look like the Governor; he may be a thin middle-aged man with a sweet talk but a sinister appearance. He has a pair of triangular eyes that seem to be thinking about conspiracies all the time. Thin, bloodless, pursed lips, ready to speak harsh and inhumane words at any time

The gun and the stick were spit out from this mouth.

And when Governor An Wancheng was discovered by a spy as a corrupt official, no matter what kind of face he had, he would be pale, trembling and breaking his long-term cultivation of Qi, his well-groomed beard and hair would be wrinkled into a mess, and Ai Ai would beg for forgiveness every time - so he was The spies took away too many officials. After the old pampering was broken, all that was left was a piece of chicken feathers. The spies were never gentle when they took action, so elegance always turned into embarrassment, and calmness only ended up being pitiful.

Maybe he would resist stubbornly and be knocked down by Hao Zhao with a punch in the end. Maybe he would speak in an official tone with a cold face and say that they were overstepping their duties to collect evidence. Maybe he would break open the window and jump out before they came in. Go down, leaving only an empty office for them to search for evidence.

But what she didn't expect was that the Governor didn't leave at all, nor was he any image she imagined.

This is a very elegant middle-aged man. Perhaps because he is in office and not meeting nobles, he did not wear the rank robes reserved for Yanguo officials, but casually put on a blue gown commonly worn by literati. , of course, there are no pretentious patches or stains on the gown to show its simplicity. It is just a piece of clothing that seems to have been washed many times. The material is very good and the style is good, but it is not something that only rich and wealthy people can afford to wear. .

Governor An Wancheng is indeed very thin, but it is difficult to see the traces of hard work and hard work on his body. Compared with the sinister temperament of Jingzhe Guess, the Governor looks more elegant. He wears the most common bun of literati, which can be tied up. There is no purple gold crown for hair, let alone those hairpins made of top-grade wood that are advocated by big families and look simple and low-key but are actually luxurious and expensive. The governor used to tie his hair was just an ordinary plastic hairpin commonly seen on the street. Compared with The elegant and exquisite tables and chairs in the office are extremely shabby.

Under the thick black hair is a pair of piercing eyes, with calm eyes, long eyebrows, exceptionally clear irises, a layer of moist and full light on the cheeks, a stern nose, slightly pursed lips, and clothes that are neither up nor down. The wrapped body was thin and looked even more pitiful in front of the majestic and heroic Hao Zhao.

How could he look like this?

Jingzhe looked at the governor in front of him in astonishment, surprised by the completely different image between him and the information collected by Hao Zhao. No matter how you look at it, the person in front of you should be a villain in the land of fish and meat, who enriches his own pockets. It comes from his heart. How come you look so clear and elegant now?

It has been more than 30 years since I entered the officialdom. Jingzhe has gained a lot of experience through hard work. I am no longer the little girl who didn't know anything. She is quite arbitrary and even superstitious when talking about it. She has been able to do it for many years. Based on our experience in handling cases and arrests, in many cases it actually makes sense:

Since the mental outlook of a person who is narrow-minded and trying to do everything is different from that of a person who has lofty ambitions and noble ideals, the difference in reaction to questioning and testing is even less the same. This slight difference may be difficult to distinguish when achieving career success. , but if you have too much experience and have accumulated thousands of different choices in handling affairs, any difference will be magnified into two completely different states. An experienced spy can tell at a glance what these people are like.

But the man in front of him went against Jingzhe's impression.

His eyes were slightly drunk, and he applied some makeup, but not to attract bees and butterflies, but to cover up the two dark circles under his eyes from staying up all night. His lips were pursed, but it was not a habit developed through years of scolding, but a stern smile. He has two fine lines and his thin figure is not a deficit caused by drinking and having fun, but a depletion of energy and blood caused by excessive work accumulation.

what happened?How could this person, this person be like this?

Reason told her that what they had found was the governor of An Wancheng. Sui Xiangzhangxi would not make mistakes in such a small matter. The person in front of her was undoubtedly the culprit that put An Wancheng into depression and despair. However, experience told her a The answer is exactly the opposite. Governor An Wancheng worked hard and exhausted his efforts. He may have shortcomings in small details, but he is not a corrupt official who is irresponsible at all and only wants to feel better.

"...It seems that these people are here to take my life."

The chaos in Jingzhe had nothing to do with the situation. No matter what she thought, Hao Zhao led them into the governor's office and faced the person in charge of the mobile city who was arbitrarily oppressing him. His tall figure brought full oppression. When Hao Zhao made no move, When he unabashedly bulged his muscles to release hostility, even though he was the governor of a place, the Lord of Anwen City still took a while to adapt before making a sound.

It was undoubtedly difficult to speak against Hao Zhao's power. Although Jingzhe did not remember how he got to know Hao Zhao, he had seen the miserable scenes of gangs fighting in front of Hao Zhao, even if he had never seen Orange Cat take action with all his strength. , Jingzhe can also tell something about Hao Zhao's ability from his body reaction when he approaches:

Many times just being close to Hao Zhao, Jingzhe's muscles would tighten unconsciously and quickly enter a state of combat readiness. Even if she knew that Hao Zhao and her former self were friends and would not kill him, her instinct would still be painful in her mind. He jumped repeatedly to remind her to stay away from Hao Zhao and pay attention to her life safety.

Although he does not want to boast too arrogantly, Jingzhe considers himself to be outstanding among the graduates of the same class of Tianshi Mansion, and there is no need to compare the graduates of Tianshi Mansion with other warriors from the wild sect:

Before those warriors from Yeluzi had figured out what inner qi was and how to shape the meridians, the preparatory celestial masters of the Tianshi Mansion had already begun to use qi to refine the body!

Yeluzi warrior is still eating and drinking

When the fish and meat are making up for the lack of Qi training, the preparatory Tianshi of Tianshi Mansion has already begun to swallow the rare medicinal materials provided by the Mansion, and has begun to cultivate Qi and blood to improve the physique... One step at a time, one step at a time, wait for Jingzhe and the others to finish learning the legendary Tian in the world. The master's top magical skills have graduated, and the wild boys are even waiting for their master to teach them the one or two moves that will put them at the bottom of the box.

How does this compare?

Although Jingzhe no longer pays much attention to the junior students of Tianshi Mansion after being promoted from a secret agent to a high official in the court, Qilin will still pay attention to whether there are any graduates of Tianshi Mansion who have made it out - if someone can become the city lord , Jingzhe will never ignore it.

Therefore, the Governor of An Wucheng in front of him is not from the Tianshi Mansion faction. Judging from his relaxed posture after standing up, he can hardly be called a warrior, but he is just an ordinary scholar who cannot lift his hands or shoulders. , can actually face Hao Zhao head-on and never give in?

Jingzhe suddenly had an ominous premonition in her heart.

Chapter 289 Magnetic Field Lock·City Level ([-])

"It stands to reason that there are many assassins who want to kill you. I don't know how many people in this city want you dead, but you are still alive until now. Why are you so sure that you will die when we come?"

Hao Zhao raised his eyebrows and asked playfully.

A bitter smile appeared on the governor's face, and he tried his best to maintain a bit of dignity as a city lord just like his answer:

"On the one hand, I squeezed too much and made the people in Anwen City miserable. On the other hand, I didn't do things well, so I couldn't satisfy him."

"Oh? It seems like there are a few powerful people behind you?"

Hao Zhao continued to ask like a dumbfounded man who didn't know anything, but the smile on his face gradually solidified, like an expressionless smiling face mask:

He didn't laugh because he was happy or happy, but because the skills he had learned over time required him to laugh.

This smile should have made everyone uncomfortable, enough to make every human being with normal consciousness think that it was another inhuman thing sneaking into his own group through a similar body and a poor disguise. However, the Governor not only His expression did not change, and he even breathed a sigh of relief when he saw Hao Zhao showing such an indifferent expression.

"Sure enough, sure enough."

He murmured to himself in frustration, with a sad and restrained reserve on his face, and sighed his last long breath. Lord An Wong absently waved to the few uninvited guests:

"I understand, since it is that person's will, how can I refuse? The forces I have cultivated over the years have been solved by you. Originally, I promised them that they would have various welfare benefits after they retired. I never thought that everyone would now ...I feel sorry for them."

"I'm not a fool who doesn't understand anything. I have destroyed all the evidence myself and will not leave any clues. The circuit has been completed and the wedge has been laid. I just hope that my family can be spared. They don't want anything." Know……"

boom!

Hao Zhao directly punched the middle-aged scholar unconscious in the air. How could the frail Governor An Wong have imagined that the assassin who came to silence him would suddenly stop him?

The middle-aged man's body swayed and he fell down unprepared. The medicine powder he was holding in his hand and about to take it lost his grip and scattered on the floor. Jingzhe walked in and took a look, and his color suddenly changed:

"It's 'Lover's Melancholy'! The poison that seals the throat upon seeing blood!"

She couldn't help but activate the thunder method, burning all the poison without sparing any powder. Her mind was running rapidly, and her mind was more solemn than ever:

Whose instructions allowed a governor to be killed at the neck without any resistance?And what kind of identity should allow the governor to address the other party's orders with will?

If she was despairing at the malaise of the entire Yan Kingdom during the initial investigation, the information she had collected now made her think about it with horror, and she did not dare to think about it.

"Take him away. I will come to interrogate him personally. I can always get the information out of his mouth."

Hao Zhao ignored Jingzhe's fear and loss at all, patted her shoulder nonchalantly, held the governor with one hand, and held the thin man like he was taking a kitten to be sterilized, and walked towards Xi with Xi. Go outside the door.

The two private guards, who had been frozen in place like statues since the governor opened his mouth, followed instinctively. Their eyes were anxious and frightened. Their hands were trembling in fear of Hao Zhao and Xi's magical methods, but they still gritted their teeth and insisted on following. .

Jingzhe was left alone, recalling every detail of the governor's words. The more he thought about it, the less he wanted to think about it.

She stood up tremblingly and rummaged through the documents in the governor's office. Her trembling hands could not hold her steady from time to time, and she swept the paper documents with red and blue comments on them to the ground, and the outer protective shell of the documents hit the floor. There was a crackling sound on the ground, and the boulder pressing on Jingzhe's heart sank little by little while he was searching.

The Governor did as he said, and had disposed of all the evidence. Jingzhe rummaged through his file library, and even cracked open the safe to look for special documents, except for some documents that were about the same as not mentioned and did not contain any instructions. , all paper products were destroyed by the Governor!

She couldn't find any evidence or clues. After a while, Jingzhe rushed out of the governor's office and went to other floors. She went door to door and opened the door to check, but found that it was empty. When she carefully checked the dust level on the floor of the room, she could only deduce the room. There should have been a lot of furniture and filing cabinets inside, but they had been moved away early, leaving no directional claws.

The more she checked, the more her doubts grew. Unexplainable fog filled Qilin's mind, so much so that she struggled to turn around the documents and documents that had been trapped in her mind for many years.

The little brain that thinks about torture can't tell who is lurking behind all the problems, weaving all the painful and long processes.

A court official?Aristocratic family?Demonic heretic?Foreign forces?

Jingzhe repeated it thousands of times in his mind, but he couldn't find the target he should charge to.

Finally, she walked to a higher floor and opened the well-decorated door.

Starting from the No. 15th floor, the layout style of the corridors suddenly changes, quickly changing from a business style to another concise decoration look and feel. The light yellow warm walls are replaced by a simplified style with white on top and green on the bottom. A glass sliding door occupies the position of the solid wood door. When you look into the room along the transparent glass, you can see the ground and experimental bench that are quite similar to the Tianshifu laboratory.

This should be the scientific research department of a pharmaceutical company.

The dignitary of the court who was a secret agent randomly picked an experimental bench and walked into it. A Celestial Master who was born in the Tianshi Mansion must have gone into the laboratory to study Origin Stone techniques and cultivation methods during his studies, so he was naturally familiar with the specific branches of the high-level laboratory. , and more importantly, Governor An is not a professional, and does not understand the data collection and storage location of the laboratory. In order to pursue secrecy, he may not order the experimenters to assist in the destruction, but will only let the private guards handle it briefly - so it is very difficult here. There may be clues about An Wancheng!

Chapter 2: Magnetic Field Lock · Against the City Level ([-])

After using some lightning techniques in front of the laboratory door, the high-level laboratory opened its arms to Jingzhe. She walked into the laboratory lightly and found, as expected, large swaths of blank space.

The governor ordered the private guards to destroy all evidence. As the governor's personal guards, the private guards would not be lenient or careless. Nothing was left in the entire laboratory except the empty experimental cabinets on the experimental bench.

Jingzhe had already expected this, so he was not disappointed. Instead, he began to pay attention to more details:

For example, the dust that naturally falls on the experimental bench has accumulated for at least three months to be conservative. For example, the cabinet under the experimental bench where reagents are emptied has been carefully cleaned to remove all traces. However, even if all the bottles are removed, a certain Some clues that only more professional personnel can see still remain.

They may be the remaining traces of some special reagents stuck on the counter, or they may be a special reagent with a special smell that lingers for a long time. Of course, it is more likely to be——

Crunch-!

Jingzhe walked to the experimental platform at the corner and touched the iron guardrail with her fingers. An undetectable electric light spread and she quickly detected the situation inside the experimental platform.

really.

Qilin, who had kept a straight face since the investigation and didn't know what expression to show, finally showed a slight smile. While using the thunder method to remove the layers of dirty and old dust on the surface of the experimental bench, he bent down and used his fingers to store items on the lower level of the experimental bench. With a little click on the lock of the cabinet, the cabinet that was not supposed to be opened quietly opened its arms to this uninvited guest.

Of course, there were no important documents nestled in this dark experimental cabinet that seemed likely to be abandoned forever. In fact, what he showed his dusty body to Miss Jingzhe in the dark was just a few yellowed experimental records. , the pale paper was smeared with old colors by time, and the dry, hard and brittle material made Jingzhe extremely worried about whether the evidence would be damaged when he took them out of the experimental cabinet.

Fortunately, her caution paid off after all. These experimental records filled with densely scrawled text survived the short process of picking them up and putting them down, and successfully made the secrets they recorded naked and public:

"On XX, XX, XXXX, at The board results are as follows:"

……

"On XX, XXXX, the reaction was completed, the purity is high, and the yield is qualified. It can be put into the next step for further use."

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"On XXXX, XXXX, the design and preparation of XXXX has been completed, but the current process is only suitable for small-scale preparation in the laboratory, and industrial promotion will take time."

……

"On XX, XXXX, there was a problem with the XXX experiment. There were too many by-products. Biological experiments confirmed that the by-products had a distortion-causing effect. The optical reaction showed that the product was a racemate, and the left-handed by-product needed to be removed."

"On XX, XXXX, the experiment was terminated."

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"On XX, XX, XXXX, funding was suspended and the experiment was terminated."

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"On XX, XXXX, the laboratory was closed and the experiment was terminated."

……

The experimental records that were ignored by the private guards were trivial and repetitive, the records of experimental phenomena again and again, the repeated speculations and continued experiments after repeated failures, and the dense records of experimental data. Jingzhe, who had bid farewell to Tianshi Mansion, saw the scrawled but... My scalp was numb when I read the clear text, and I subconsciously recalled the experimental report I submitted when I was studying at the Tianshi Mansion to study the effect of Tianshi staffs made of source stones of different purity on the increase of personal lightning power.

It was a hell of a time.

She shuddered painfully, forced to ignore the chills on her back as she recalled her school days, and continued to carefully watch the only survivor in the entire laboratory, looking for clues from them.

Experimental reagents?No, the experimental time and experimental reagents have been smeared. The confidentiality level of this laboratory is very high.

high.

Experimenter?The names on the experimental reports are indeed still there, but as we all know, a strange academic trend has been popular on Terra - codename literature.

Whether they are top experts in hematology or ordinary laboratory animals, they all like to use code names instead of names to publish academic results. The proliferation of code names once made identifying who published a paper a most troublesome problem for laymen. It also allows many accomplished academics to conceal their identities and avoid the malicious eyes of all parties. In a laboratory with extremely high levels of confidentiality, code names have another function:

The experimenter's personal code name naming rules are completely arbitrary. The only thing that connects their true identity to the code name is the list in the hands of the experimental director as the supervisor, and as the top leader of the entire laboratory...

Jingzhe sighed, regretting the clues that slipped away from his fingertips:

Governor An Wancheng handled the matter very cleanly. After searching his office, he could not find any information related to the laboratory.

So...is it another wasted effort?

Jingzhe thought in despair.

She looked left and right, up and down, and finally had to accept an embarrassing fact:

After searching for a long time, the experimental records I found with the help of my self-righteous experience were indeed just a piece of clean waste paper that could not provide any information.

So we still need to ask the governor to find out?

Jingzhe scratched his hair irritably and threw the experimental reports on the empty experimental table. The crisp old paper made a dull sound when it hit the thick puddle of dust, stirring up a burst of dust like fireworks.

Taking one last look at the smeared lab report, Jing Zhe turned around in despair and prepared to leave, letting the light that penetrated the huge glass window of the laboratory shine on...

and many more? !

Jingzhe suddenly stopped leaving and turned to look at the experimental report she had thrown away. She reached out with a trembling hand to pick up a page, holding the corner and placing it diagonally in front of her eyes.

I remember that I had scribbled it out many times when I was dizzy when writing experimental reports in the laboratory. Once I accidentally scrawled out a very important line. The method I used at that time was...

She swallowed hard, pointed the experimental paper toward the sun little by little, and carefully stared at the light and dark changes in the smeared part of the paper after the light was projected on it.

The text recording reagents and special terms is a bit complicated, and it is difficult to find traces after blacking it out, but the record of the experimental time is still there!

The sudden discovery surprised Jingzhe. She carefully compared the incomplete time and recorded the time changes in the experimental reports one by one...

Chapter 291 Magnetic Field Lock·City Level ([-])

Although there was a lot of paper, Jing Zhe was very patient. She kept comparing and flipping through it, and even used the thunder method to directly engrave the time nodes that she felt had problems on the experimental table. Finally, an entire laboratory's experimental schedule appeared on the experimental table, and she could Observed by Jing Zhe who dropped the last piece of paper.

time...time...