Chapter 570 Hidden Eyes (Please vote for the super large chapter)
The moment he looked at the tentacle, chaotic and twisted murmurs echoed in He Ao's mind, like the thoughts of countless people whispering in his ears.
This gibbering was so familiar, it was exactly the gibbering caused by the hidden existence that He Ao saw in the mental hospital.
The curtain-like shadow tentacles in front of you seemed to be an extension of the hidden power.
However, the shadows spreading into this study do not seem to be as sensitive as those in the mental hospital, or perhaps the power extending into this study is not dense enough.
Gazing at these shadows, apart from bringing those confused murmurs to He Ao, did not give him the feeling of being watched at close range by a terrifying high-ranking being like in a mental hospital.
He Ao looked at these shadow tentacles and thought for a moment. He turned back and looked in the direction of the living room.
The top of the entire living room is densely covered with slender shadow tentacles, which stretch out from the void on the ceiling and entangle on the ceiling, like the body of a parasitic vine covering the crown of a tree.
Just now, He Ao passed through these dense shadow tentacles from high-ranking beings and entered the study.
He Ao turned around and looked at the shadow covering the bookshelf like a curtain, and slowly stretched out his hand. When he was about to touch the shadow tentacles, these tentacles were like automatically opening curtains, slowly fading to both sides, hiding.
Opened his hand.
At the same time, some shadow tentacles lifted up and surrounded He Ao.
They are 'watching' Heao.
At this moment, He Ao felt that some kind of force was trying to peel off his brain like a lotus bud, carefully peering into his deepest thoughts.
But these powers are somewhat insignificant compared to the power he summoned when he faced the hidden existence when he was in the mental hospital.
These powers entered his consciousness, disappearing into the calm waves like they were submerged into the sea.
The power carried by these tentacles seems to be part of the hidden existence, with the hidden existence's gaze, but this gaze is not strong, and the power of pollution it brings is not much.
But this 'not much' is relative to He Ao.
Any ordinary person, even a low-level transcendent, can easily be contaminated by the prying eyes of such power for a long time, leading to mental problems.
He Ao's hand that touched the glass door of the bookcase paused for a moment, and he looked around at the tentacles that were 'watching' him.
He suddenly understood why Jess's mother's mood changed drastically after his father's death.
The forces that tried to invade He Ao's mind did not force it directly into his mind, but entered little by little, trying to influence his thinking, pry into his consciousness, and peel away his memory.
Its methods are so gentle, like slow poison.
In a short period of one or two days, even ordinary people will not notice the problem.
These tentacles haven't been here recently, they've always been here.
They were here after Jace's father died, and even before Jace's father died.
They were like pairs of eyes, covering every corner of the house, peering into the lives of Jace's parents, their thoughts, and their memories.
This is the method that the mysterious man arranged in Jace's home to pry into the secret knowledge known to Jace's parents.
He Ao turned off his super memory, and the whole world suddenly returned to peace.
His hand was placed on the dusty bookcase door. The quiet bookcase seemed to have stopped time.
He Ao was alone in the empty house.
But the forces that kept intruding into his consciousness reminded him that those tentacles did not disappear, but he could no longer see them. They were still wrapped around him, 'watching' him.
However, these tentacles are not triggered at all times, and the power of the hidden existence seems to be limited, so the mysterious man may only have arranged trigger points at the most critical locations.
And this trigger point is the bookcase. Anyone who opens the bookcase will be spied on by these tentacles. The longer they stay in this room, the longer they will be spied on.
But from this point of view, since the mysterious man would use the bookcase as a trigger point, it proves that he believes that the bookcase is most likely to contain hidden knowledge.
But there is a question here. How did the mysterious man accurately locate the bookcase?
Do these shadow tentacles themselves have a positioning effect?
He Ao looked out at the living room. At this moment, the tentacles in the living room were also hanging down, like densely hanging vines in the forest.
Or has the mysterious person ever entered this house with some identity?
He Ao withdrew his gaze. He still lacked some key clues. The mysterious man's ability really affected his thinking. There was no suspicious person in Jace's memory.
Of course, it is also possible that the mysterious person cracked the smart lock and sneaked in here.
He Ao opened all the cabinet doors and touched the books in the bookcase with his fingers. He temporarily suppressed the doubts in his heart, took a few steps back, distanced himself, and activated super memory again.
The densely packed shadow tentacles appeared in his field of vision again. He Ao's sight passed through these tentacles and landed on the bookshelf behind the tentacles.
All the books and their arrangement appeared in Heao's mind.
Then He Ao turned off his super memory, took a step forward, and stared at these books at close range.
The details remembered by super memory were compared with the vague memories in Jace's mind.
After his mother passed away, when Jess was cleaning the room, he took out every book and looked through it, but couldn't find any clues.
The current arrangement of this bookcase is very similar to the arrangement after Jess finished looking through it.
Although his memory was a little fuzzy, He Ao was still roughly certain that these books were the ones that Jace had read and put back before. There was not one more and not one less.
He Ao thought for a moment, then he reached out and took down all the books, leaving only the empty bookshelf. He scanned the bookshelf with his super memory, and there was nothing on the bookshelf.
There were no special marks or hidden symbols, only traces of natural wear and tear. From those traces, He Ao could not see any deliberate password.
However, this situation is not beyond He Ao's expectation. If the things left by Jace's father are so easy to find, it is impossible that Jace and the mysterious man have not been found.
The key to this incident is that Jace's father wants to ensure that the knowledge can be seen by the enemies of the mysterious man who comes for the knowledge, but cannot be seen by the mysterious man.
The mysterious man is also a supernatural being, and he has strange abilities. With the help of these tentacles from hidden existences, ordinary supernatural beings may not be as careful and sharp as the mysterious man. Therefore, what ordinary extraordinary people can see, the mysterious man should also be able to see.
See.
He Ao looked at these tentacles thoughtfully.
He temporarily left the study and entered other rooms.
The house that Jess's father bought was a small apartment with a master bedroom, a second bedroom, and a study room.
The master bedroom is Jess's parents' room, on the other side of the living room, and the study and second bedroom are on one side.
He Ao did not enter the master bedroom this time. Jess's parents' master bedroom had already been turned inside and out by Jess.
Especially after finding his mother's final letter, he even dismantled the wardrobe and bed and carefully looked for gaps.
Jess has already gone through everything he can find physically.
So Heao gave priority to the second bedroom where Jess lived.
Jess’s second bedroom was very clean. After marrying his wife Tini, Jess moved out and bought a small house outside. Most of the things that could be used had been moved out and left behind.
The things in this second bedroom are all childhood things.
The decoration of the second bedroom has hardly changed. After his parents died, Jess also looked through his second bedroom, but not carefully because he had put many things in the house.
Jace's parents rarely touch Jace's things, so except for some regular cleaning, the things in the second bedroom are almost as they were when Jace left them.
There are still a few old clothes in the closet, which are somewhat rotten and damaged. The whole closet is filled with the smell of airtight mold.
When my mother was still here, she would help Jess clean out the closet every once in a while.
At that time, my mother would often take photos and send them to Jess, telling him how much dust was accumulated on the wardrobe and that the clothes hanging in the closet had not been worn for a long time. I wonder if Jess had gained weight.
Jess actually knew that it was his mother who missed him.
He Ao gathered up the torn chemical fiber rags, tidied up the wardrobe and put it in order.
Then he opened the small bookcase next to the wardrobe.
There are only a few simple books in the bookcase, and most of the other space is filled with various game consoles and electronic toys.
Jess also wants to work hard at reading, but who can resist the temptation of a game console.
When he was a child, he received a lot of scolding from his mother for this.
Every time he was scolded, his father would laugh next to him and even pick up his cell phone to record the video, saying that he would play it at his wedding when he grew up.
Then the mother, who was very angry, would arrest the father and train him together.
In the end, his father did not play those videos at Jace's wedding. When Jace was sorting out his father's belongings, he did not find the videos recorded in his childhood in his father's cloud space.
Maybe the father really just wanted to scare the child at that time.
He Ao picked up those game consoles. Some of them had no power at all, but some of them were still running normally, and some of Jess's favorite childhood games were still stored in them.
The dynamic music from the homepage of the game console sounded in the empty room, and the glimmer of light flickered in the darkness.
He Ao was silent for a moment and turned off the game console.
He picked up the books.
These books are not serious popular science books, but a few story books with a fantasy nature similar to "unsolved mysteries".
Jess couldn't remember the content of the book at all. He Ao opened the book and glanced at it. They were all about simple stories about monsters.
But when he opened the last book, he paused.
There is a small chip inside this book.
He Ao was stunned for a moment and thought for a while before realizing that this was a virtual bill collection card.
Most scenic spots and tickets in the Federation are electronic, but travel always has a commemorative meaning. Many people like to collect their travel tickets, so something to store such electronic tickets was born.
Jess's parents are one of those people who like to collect electronic receipts.
Most of the time, people download an application for collecting receipts from the Internet and update it directly online.
But for some people who don’t have high-performance bracelets, or whose parents don’t want to buy them a high-performance bracelet for the time being, there are some cheap hardware devices that can be used as ‘note holders’ to store electronic receipts.
This kind of storage card is this kind of device. It is essentially just a customized memory card. All electronic receipts need to be imported using software.
However, as long as it is stored in it, any smart device can read the tickets inside, such as a game console.
This card was inserted into a book by Jess when he was a child. It contains memories of Jess being taken on a trip by his parents.
When Jace was rummaging through things before, he also found this card, but he didn't pay attention and went to look for other things.
More than ten years have passed, and I don’t know if this card can still be used. Theoretically, this kind of memory chip from the Federation can be stored for a relatively long time as long as it is not broken.
He Ao picked up the game console just now, powered on the game console, and inserted the virtual ticket card into the game console.
Along with a sound of dynamic music, the bills inside were read out.
The nearest ticket was a ticket for Jace's parents to take him to the amusement park, but that was more than twenty years ago.
Since that time, Jess has never used this bill card because his parents finally bought him a high-end smart bracelet.
There doesn't seem to be any problem.
He Ao pulled out the ticket card and turned off the game console.
He picked up the card and brought it up to his eyes to see if he could find any clues.
This card is one of the few, something that belongs to Jace that Jace's parents will often operate.
Because they need to import the prepared receipts through the software on the computer.
The outer structure of the entire card is very simple, with some faded plastic shell and conductive contacts exposed to the air.
The so-called conductive contacts are some highly conductive metal sheets. When the metal sheets in the slot of the reading device come into contact with these conductive contacts, data can be exchanged.
Under the terrorist's "eye of night" ability, He Ao could clearly see that there seemed to be many small vertical scratches on the conductive contacts, which seemed to be caused by frequent insertion of game consoles. However, these scratches were too shallow to be seen.
clear.
He Ao thought for a moment, took the card, rummaged around in the locker next to him, and found an electronic magnifying glass.
He powered on the magnifying glass and pointed it at the conductive contacts of the card. The details on the conductive contacts appeared on the screen of the magnifying glass.
Then he discovered that most of these dense vertical scratches were very long, but among these long scratches, there were several shorter scratches.
Both game consoles and computers have deep card slots. Unless the card is inserted a little and then suddenly pulled out, it will not cause such short scratches.
This scratch appears to be from another device.
Just as He Ao was thinking, his bracelet vibrated. It was a message from Hai Xi:
[There seems to be a clue to the matter you asked me to investigate. Recently, someone has been buying up the extraordinary materials you mentioned in large quantities. However, the identity of the other party is very mysterious. My informant has no information about him, but I still have one in Plant District.
'Old friend', he's working for the largest material smuggler in Wetland, he might know something.]
He Ao thought for a moment, held the card in his hand, and replied: [Is there anything you need me to do?]
Haixi immediately replied: [No, I'm going to Plant right away, just in time to meet that friend. If I have any information, I'll contact you as soon as possible.]
[Okay, sorry for that.]
He Ao replied and exited the message interface. Let professional people do professional things. Haixi sent this message to tell him that things have made progress.
At this moment, he looked at the bracelet in his hand and suddenly realized something.
Unlike game consoles, bracelets are not large in size, so most of them use magnetic hidden card slots. The card slots are usually closed and can only be unfolded when in use.
Of course, not all bracelets will be equipped with this kind of card slot. Thin, light or cheap bracelets will generally not be equipped with this function.
The bracelet that He Ao is currently using is the latest flagship bracelet from Tellison Group, and it happens to have this kind of card slot.
He Ao's eyes fell on the hidden card slot, and he slowly opened the card slot.
The card slot is very shallow, but it is a standard interface, and virtual ticket cards can also be connected normally.
He inserted the virtual bill card into it, and the short scratches were just covered by the card slot of the bracelet.
At this moment, the bracelet prompted information about new device access.
This card can be read normally on the bracelet, and it is also ordinary bill information.
He Ao thought for a moment and said slowly, "Eve, analyze this card and read it as a storage card."
"The card system is being cracked, please wait."
Eve's voice sounded quickly, and in a very short time, the page on the bracelet changed.
The original exquisite bill interface has become the file reading interface of the original system.
"A hidden folder was found, would you like to expand it?"
Eve's voice sounded immediately.
"Expand."
He Ao nodded.
Immediately afterwards, a new folder unfolded in He Ao's field of vision.
Most of the files stored in this folder are videos.
He Ao randomly clicked on a video.
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"Tell me, where did you go wrong?"
A slightly angry female voice echoed in the empty room.
Shaking camera lens, bright sunshine, a gentle woman wearing glasses, holding a shovel in hand, and bulging cheeks.
The boy hiding on the sofa carefully peeked his head out, and the man holding the camera laughed softly.
"You laugh, you still laugh," the angry woman turned around and looked at the camera, "I asked you to supervise your child's homework, but you didn't even see him playing games?"
The laughter behind the camera stopped abruptly.
The little boy behind the sofa showed a gloating smile.
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He Ao turned off the video, looked at the dozens of similar videos densely packed in this data card, and was silent for a moment.
He continued to scroll down the page, and at the end of the entire folder, there was not a video, but two ticket files and a hotel order.
The ticket document is two airboat tickets to Chenxi City.
One was purchased in Jess's name and one was purchased in the name of Jess's mother.
The purchase was made twelve years ago, the morning before Jace's father died.
There are very few long-distance routes of this kind, and tickets are not easy to buy. The departure time of the airboat is about three days after the purchase time.
The hotel reservation was also made in the name of Jess and Jess's mother, from the day the airship ticket was purchased to the day the airship departed.
The last time this folder was written was the morning before Jess's father's accident.
He Ao raised his head and looked around, knowing that the invisible tentacles were hanging next to him.
He finally knew where Jace's father had 'stored' that knowledge.
A little later, the next chapter should be at midnight. There should be an easter egg stamp for the lottery after the letter, but I don’t know why it hasn’t been printed to fix Schrödinger’s bug.
