In the dim corridor, there was a woman wearing pajamas with messed up hair, dragging a boy who was also dressed in pajamas and running away in panic.
Both mother and son were barefoot, regardless of the irritation of the cold hollow metal floor. They just wanted to stay as far away as possible from the man chasing behind them...
"Carrie! Neil! Stop running. You will disturb others. Stop, hurry up! Let's go home and talk if something happens!"
The man chased and persuaded.
But the woman became even more crazy, shouting at the top of her lungs: "Help! Help! Someone come and save us!"
Finally, the noise and movement finally attracted the attention of many "neighbors". People opened the hatches and came to the corridor one after another, ready to find out what was going on and help mediate the conflict.
Among them was Irina, who had changed into dark gray loose pajamas and was ready to "watch the fun".
As for Lin, he stayed in the cabin and used the tiny camera attached to Elena's pajamas to watch the situation outside the cabin to avoid being recognized by people living nearby.
At the end of the corridor at this moment.
"Carrie, what's wrong with you?" A short-haired woman waiting here quickly hugged the frantic woman.
The husband of the short-haired woman also saw the situation and pulled the boy to prevent the mother and son from running around.
After the couple took control of the mother and son, Elena, many neighbors, and the chasing man rushed here one after another.
Moreover, people came to the square where the space was spacious enough and the air was fresh, and they all said something...
"Aren't you two a model couple? Why did you suddenly get into such trouble?"
"Speak carefully, Carrie. You have gone too far, and it has made it difficult for you and Todd to step down."
Various words of persuasion emerged one after another.
"Carrie..." At this time, Elena also interjected: "If there is anything that scares you, you can say it now, we are all here..."
"That's right."
"Yes, don't be afraid."
Everyone nodded in agreement.
Seeing this, a woman named Carrie, sitting on a public bench, crossed her arms and clutched her arms, tightening her body out of fear, looking at her innocent-looking husband and said:
"You're not Todd, not at all! I saw with my own eyes what you wanted to do to Neil!"
"What do you mean? I just tell our son a bedtime story as usual..." Todd was quite helpless.
“…”
Hearing this, everyone still felt that Carrie was a bit exaggerated.
Not Todd?
What is this nonsense?
Fortunately, as a friend, the short-haired girl did not remain silent and asked: "Carrie, how can you be so sure that the Todd in front of us...is not Todd?"
"he…"
"He's not dad."
Just as Carrie was about to explain, the boy named Neil interrupted, broke away from the protection of her short-haired husband, rushed back into Carrie's arms, and pointed at Todd firmly:
"He's definitely not dad!"
"What mistake did I make? I don't even recognize my son?" Todd sighed in a broken voice.
"How about this!" The short-haired female husband stepped forward, put his arm around Todd's shoulders and suggested: "Let's go have a few drinks today to change our mood, and let Carrie and Neil stay with my wife. How about we separate for now?"
"What do you think? Carrie, Neil?" the short-haired woman asked her husband.
"Yeah...ok." Carrie didn't refuse.
"..." Neil nodded in agreement.
"Oh, that's the only way it can be." Todd sighed.
"Okay, stop fussing and let's go!" The short-haired woman's husband pulled her and left the square with Todd.
The rest of the people were kind-hearted and comforted them. After a few words of persuasion, they gradually dispersed. The short-haired woman led Carrie and Neil to her dormitory, ready to have a good chat.
Shortly after.
In Elena's cabin.
This is a typical single cabin. Its overall layout is no different from a single apartment in a ground-level building. The master bedroom, living room and bathroom only lack a stove for cooking and a balcony with a wide view.
And Elena also decorated her dormitory a little bit, with potted plants, unique carpets, etc., so that it no longer looked too monotonous.
At this time, Elena, who came back from outside, opened the refrigerator, took out two cans of lemonade with a red and white umbrella logo, walked to the center of the living room, and placed one can on the coffee table.
Then she sat directly on the carpet under her feet, opened the ring of the can with one hand, took a sip, and asked facing the sofa: "Sir, aren't you going to drink?"
I saw Lin Lin, who had also changed into loose clothes, sitting on the sofa, using his exclusive mobile phone to repeatedly watch the conversation between Carrie, Todd, and Neil. His eyes did not leave the screen during the whole process, and he refused:
"No, I don't drink."
"All right…"
With a senior intelligence officer and a legendary figure that she looked up to, Irina seemed a little restrained.
Slowly.
She took the initiative and asked: "Sir, did you find anything?"
“…”
Lin was silent for a while at first. After a while, he looked up at Elena, who had almost finished her soda, and asked, "Have these kinds of quarrels happened frequently recently?"
"Frequently..." Elena thought for a while, shook her head and said: "No, it should be said to be normal. We often have couples quarreling and even fighting here.
But..." Elena put the can on the edge of the coffee table, gently pinched her chin with her left hand and said in a deep voice: "Today's one is a little special, Carrie keeps repeating that it's not Todd, well, it's weird."
"Really?" Lin put away his exclusive mobile phone, sat upright, and faced Elena and continued to ask: "Then Charles, have you noticed the difference in Todd?"
"No, the words and deeds are consistent with the past...Sir, you don't think that Assis has some kind of abnormal phenomenon that can imitate humans, or is an abnormal creature." Elena suddenly realized.
"We do not rule out this possibility. It is also possible that demons from different dimensions occupy human bodies. If it is the second type, it is beyond the scope of our jurisdiction. We need to let the supervision department take over this incident."
After listening to Lin's words, Elena's expression became more solemn and said: "Supervision Department... I hope it's not an anomaly related to a different space. By the way, sir, do you know what role the vaccine will play in dealing with demons?"
"Effectively isolates our emotions, the soul is projected in a different space, and is protected from the whispers of the devil."
Lin didn't hide anything. After all, the existence of plague doctors was not a secret to B-level employees and above, and the same was true for the existence of vaccines.
"Soul, emotion, whisper..." Elena nodded thoughtfully.
At this time, Lin no longer continued the topic of vaccines and different spaces, got up and left the sofa, and told Elena:
"However, no matter what the possibility is, and whether it is necessary to call the supervision department to intervene, we cannot avoid the process of personal investigation. Keep this in mind, Charles."
"Yes!" Elena stood up and saluted.
"Well, you will go to work as usual tomorrow and continue to observe the situation near the mining area."
"Okay, sir."
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The next day.
The local time of the Callisto Galaxy is June 26, 07:34, "early morning".
The Assis crowd surged, and most of them were miners wearing protective clothing, helmets, and engineering mechanical skeletons.
There are also many construction vehicles wearing only sleeveless vests and loose pants, drivers of engineering exoskeletons, or maintenance workers like Irina who wear red overalls to ensure that there are no accidents in the mine.
Thousands of employees of all types of work rushed to the canteen, picked up their plates and enjoyed the free breakfast provided by the company.
The bars, shops and restaurants of different styles in Assis Entertainment District are outsourced by the company, but the canteen is "self-operated" by the company, providing free meals to all people living and working in Assis. The company will also provide a large number of
subsidy.
This is also the reason why people would rather endure a completely closed life for at least three months, or as long as half a year, a year, or even several years, to stay in Assis.
Although no company can match Umbrella's welfare benefits, with Umbrella as the "big brother", companies from all walks of life have to move closer to Umbrella and try to improve employee benefits for fear of losing employees.
or receive a complaint.
Around eight o'clock.
The employees finished their meals one after another, left the canteen and headed to different mining areas, preparing to start mining tasks day after day.
Wait until after eight o'clock.
Many employees' families also woke up and went to the canteen one after another, leaving the entire sleeping area empty.
At this time, in Elena's cabin.
Lin has changed into a black close-fitting clothing, with multiple tactical bags and tool bags on his waist.
He first operated a few times with his exclusive mobile phone, then put the mobile phone into one of the tool bags and put on the headgear with holographic lenses.
Immediately afterwards.
From top to bottom, Lin gradually blended into the surrounding environment like a chameleon, directly "disappearing" without making any electronic or electric sound in the process.
Then the door of Elena's cabin opened and closed.
And in the empty corridor outside.
In the row on the left, the cabin numbered "078" is the "home" occupied by Carrie and Todd, who had a violent quarrel last night.
The 078 hatch also opens and closes "automatically".
In the monitoring room at this moment.
Six armed security guards were monitoring Assis through the physical screen, but the sleeping area where Elena lived was a little blurry and flashed with "snowflake" patterns, which seemed to have a poor signal.
Because the monitoring has been secretly interfered by Lin.
However, the security guards didn't pay attention. After all, many surveillance cameras have this problem and they are used to it.
If it's annoying, the security guards will use the oldest and most effective repair method...
Tap the screen frame firmly.
Besides, the security guards didn't put their thoughts there.
At this time, another screen also flashed with "snowflakes". Its intermittent pictures showed that it was the one closest to the inside of the asteroid among the many mining areas. In the mining area, there was a silver, disk-shaped spacecraft.
Embedded in the rock wall.
It may be that tens of thousands of years or more ago, this spacecraft suffered a mutation and was trapped inside Assis, unable to move. Now it was accidentally excavated by miners.
It's just that these six security guards and the miners responsible for the excavation didn't pay attention at all, or they were ignoring the spacecraft.
If you look closely, you can see in the blurry picture that Todd, who scared away his wife and daughter last night, is also wearing a helmet and a mechanical skeleton.
At this time, a security guard reached out and closed the screen, as if "deceiving himself", thinking that everything was normal.
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at the same time.
Lin, who used optical camouflage uniforms to enter a hidden state, was searching for information in Carrie and Todd's cabin.
The structure of two bedrooms and one living room.
The house is messy, and it looks like it was the result of a quarrel.
Last night Carrie and her son Neil stayed at the short-haired woman's house for the night. Now the three of them were having dinner in the cafeteria. Todd and the short-haired woman's husband had some drinks and returned here to rest together.
There were still pillows and blankets on the sofa that had not been put away in time, indicating that the husband of the short-haired woman spent the night on the sofa.
Lin didn't find any noteworthy details in the living room, master bedroom, or second bedroom.
Come to the bathroom.
Looking around, there was nothing unusual about the surface, but Lin was not prepared to ignore every corner.
Check a little.
?
Lin frowned slightly under the mask because the bathtub, wall tiles and corners were all too clean.
Based on experience, he did not think it was the result of daily cleaning, and the shower curtain seemed to have been newly replaced.
Cover up bloodstains?
Thinking of this possibility, Lin switched the uv-a (ultraviolet) mode of the holographic glasses, but did not find any blood spots.
Obtaining this result made him even more convinced that someone was trying to cover up the bloodstains, and that person was good at covering up the bloodstains and was careful enough, but it was a pity that he could not fake the stains accumulated over time.
So Lin switched the various modes of the holographic lens, and finally found a few small, white particles that seemed to have been deliberately crushed and chipped in the gap between the bathtub drain and the sink.
Then he used the visual aid provided by the lenses to take out the tweezers and the sealed bag from the tool bag, and clamped the white particles into the sealed bag one by one.
Pack it up.
Lin put the touched items back in their original places.
After arriving at the door, he once again used the detection function provided by the holographic lens to confirm that there was no one in the corridor, then turned on the interference function of his mobile phone again, and quickly left here and returned to Elena's dormitory.
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Shortly after.
The living room of Elena's cabin.
Lin, still wearing optical camouflage uniform, was holding his exclusive mobile phone and sitting on the sofa waiting patiently. There was a "square box" placed on the coffee table.
This kind of "box" is an analyzer commonly used by intelligence agents. It is used to analyze small objects and the tissue composition of samples. Although the accuracy is not as high as that in the laboratory, it is convenient and fast.
Lin put a white particle into it and waited for a moment before the analysis results were displayed on the phone screen.
See this.
He habitually read it again and again to ensure that he didn't miss anything.
porcelain…
Porcelain…
Metal-free porcelain teeth?
Are they pieces of dentures?
The results show that the white particles are 89% likely to be full porcelain teeth.
This made Lin frown, trying to think about the connection between the dentures and the whole incident, and what kind of situation caused the dentures to fall off?
More than ten seconds passed.
Lin Qing shook his head, he couldn't figure it out just by thinking.
He then uploaded the relevant information collected and the analysis results of the denture fragments, and asked the Intelligence Department to help retrieve some files.
After completing various operations, Lin was ready to take off his optical camouflage uniform and wait for the "dead of night" to sneak into the mining area.
Whether it was experience or the so-called sixth sense, he believed that only in the mining area could crucial intelligence and evidence be collected.