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The tranquility of the early morning was broken by a shrill scream.
The frightened people ran out of their rooms in panic.
Samantha Swann squatted at the door of her dormitory in horror, covering her face with her hands.
Five meters away from her, a medium-to-thin man was lying on his back on the ground. A large hole the size of a bowl was burned out of the man's chest. The place where the man fell was the door of his dormitory.
Because the cautery was too thorough, the inside of the hole had been carbonized, and no blood flowed from his body. Three lines of blood appeared at the corners of his eyes and mouth.
He had long since made no sound, and was completely dead. His eyes were wide open, and his face was full of horror and confusion, as if he had seen some terrible scene before he died.
The deceased was none other than Masahito Matsuda, the man who was supposed to drive a boring machine to other scientific research bases today.
"what happened?"
Cissetta frowned and came forward, squatting down to examine carefully. There were two eye droppings hanging from the corners of Cicetta's eyes, showing that he didn't sleep well last night and was even slightly sleepy because he got up early. But professional soldiers
His qualities allowed him to quickly adjust back to his normal state and fulfill his responsibilities. As the only military personnel in the base, he was already responsible for security, and it was naturally his task to deal with accidental deaths of personnel.
Samantha trembled and said, "I don't know what happened. I got up early as usual to prepare breakfast for everyone, but who knew that when I opened the door, I saw this scene."
As she spoke, Samantha was still trembling and trying to slowly crawl towards Matsuda Masahito. There was sadness and fear in her eyes, as well as a trace of doubt and confusion.
Nur Ahong frowned and his eyes calmly drifted to another corner of the wall. It was an ion beam gun hanging on the wall of the hall for the convenience of being removed at any time in an emergency.
In the base, the only thing that could leave such a burning injury on Matsuda Masahito's body was the gun. But the only people with the authority to open the safety device of the ion beam gun were the team leader Nur Ahong himself and the soldier Siseta.
Ciceta keenly caught Nur Ahong's doubtful eyes and immediately argued loudly, "Team leader, what are you thinking about? You don't think it's me, do you?"
Nur Ahun: "Is that me? What is my motive for committing the crime?"
Cicetta was immediately speechless.
We have been together for some years, and everyone knows what kind of person Nur Ahong is. He is rigorous, self-disciplined, focused on work, and has almost no personal hobbies. He strictly abides by work principles when dealing with anyone, and rarely
He has a personal relationship with anyone and only does business. Nur Ahong and Matsuda Masahito have no personal conflicts at all. Moreover, he just gave Matsuda Masahito the order to go out today yesterday. For Nur Ahong, the plan was uncontrollable.
The variables caused the plan to be unable to be implemented, which was probably more uncomfortable for him than killing him.
But Cicetta was different. He and Matsuda Masahito had always had conflicts.
In the past, Cissetta did not kill Matsuda, which can be understood as his kindness and pride, but it can also be understood as the ubiquitous strict surveillance in the base and the dual supervision of the military brain system that comes with his combat uniform.
His murderous intent.
Nowadays, with the failure of all the high-precision equipment in the base, the information collection functions of surveillance and intelligent brain have naturally disappeared.
Cicetta opened her lips and looked at the other two people present, as if hoping that they would defend her.
But Ou Xiameng and Liang Zhichu remained silent. The base is now fully closed. No one is opening the door inside, and no one from the outside can break in. Then the murderer is destined to be only one of the five or so people present.
Although there is no evidence, logically speaking, Cicetta is the most likely.
Ou Xiameng was not in a hurry to speak. In fact, it was because at this time she had begun to worry about whether her experimental task could be completed smoothly.
The loss of a life means that the base is no longer safe, and it also means that the large amount of data she has worked so hard to collect has lost its security. These data have not yet had time to undergo final verification, and she does not know whether there are any in other bases.
Backup.
Liang Zhichu didn't think too much, but stepped forward, carefully looked at the round hole in Matsuda Masahito's chest, and visually inspected it with his eyes.
Immediately, his pupils shrank slightly, and he looked at Nur Ahong extremely nervously, and even glanced at Siceta with a slightly fearful look.
Nur Ahong understood it and said loudly: "Execute the authority and responsibilities of the team leader! Lift Siseta Roy's weapons use authority!"
Only cutting-edge facilities were damaged in the base. Due to the need for stability and reliability, there is a backup system in the authority identification mechanism on the ion beam gun and combat uniforms, which is a voiceprint identification device attached to a traditional semiconductor chip.
As Nur Ahong finished speaking, the ion beam gun on the wall made a slight clicking sound, and then a cold electronic voice sounded, "The armed authority of Lieutenant Siseta Roy has been revoked."
The same sound came from Cicetta, and his combat uniform also lost its effectiveness.
Cissetta's body suddenly sank. The combat suit with its effectiveness turned off lost its anti-gravity function and suddenly became as heavy as a thousand pounds, which in turn restricted his freedom of action.
Liang Zhichu then said: "The distance between the wound on Matsuda Masahito and the axis of his shoulders on both sides is 22 centimeters, and the error on both sides is no more than 0.5 centimeters. After losing the assistance of the intelligent aiming device, except for professional soldiers, I am afraid no one can
You can shoot so accurately. Team leader, you can't do it. After all, although you have the authority to use it, you don't usually practice guns."
Liang Zhichu's subtext is self-evident. But when he said this, he seemed very painful and even had some self-doubt.
Four years ago, during an outing inspection mission, Liang Zhichu was threatened by a ferocious mechanical beast on board J919. At that time, Cicetta fell from the sky and saved his life. Since then, the two have a good relationship and often visit each other.
They chatted together and exchanged life ideals. Liang Zhichu understood what kind of person Cissetta was. His emotions told Liang Zhichu that the murderer could not be him, but his reason could not panic.
Siseta looked aggrieved and sad, and said painfully: "Brother Liang, you don't believe me either? Don't you know me yet? Although Matsuda and I often fight and fight, I just think it's a joke.
He was playing. How could I kill him? What did I want? I'm not crazy. Although some unexpected situations happened in the base, I am a professional soldier and have experienced more than one dangerous situation in my military career.
Times the situation. My ideal is to become a person like leader Chen Feng, how can I shoot at other humans? Leader Nur Ahong, you have reviewed my resume. You should know that I have used myself on the battlefield more than once
He sacrificed his life to protect his comrades. In my heart, Matsuda is my comrade just like you!"
…
In the end, everyone did not imprison Cicetta, but only banned his armed authority.
There are two reasons.
First, apart from reasoning, there really is no substantive evidence to prove that Cissetta is the murderer. There is no fingerprint of Cicetta on the ion beam gun that has not been used for a long time. According to the management mechanism of the scientific investigation team
In principle, when there is only one professional soldier, the freedom of movement of professional soldiers cannot be banned based on reasoning alone. Otherwise, while eliminating a suspected potential crisis, it may bring about a greater crisis.
Second, there have been dead people in the base, and communication with the outside world has not been restored. No one knows what happened on the planet, or whether there will be hidden external enemies suddenly appearing to attack the base. The base and others need Cisse
The protection of the tower. If he is imprisoned, if an emergency occurs, it will take a lot of time to release him.
Throughout the day, everyone basically found nothing. Matsuda Masahito, who was supposed to leave for other bases, was dead, and the message could not be sent out.
It has not been able to restore contact with the outside world, nor can it detect any useful evidence regarding the death case of Matsuda Masahito.
In the past nearly 10,000 years of history, mankind has not encountered such a strange state for a long time. Unsolvable vicious murders have also not occurred for many years.
In daily life and work, people have become accustomed to the help of the all-powerful quantum intelligent brain. Suddenly losing more than 99% of the intelligent assistance is like being blindfolded, piercing the eardrum, and people's living environment is completely
Breaking is like returning to primitive society.
No matter how smart and calm a person is, he cannot relax for a while.
Just like yesterday, in order to prepare meals, Matsuda Masahito, who worked part-time as a machine repairman in the base, was called by Samantha. After a long time, he found a way to use a short circuit in the wiring to create a surge to activate the induction cooker heating device. Ou Xiameng and Liang Zhichu rescued the data
At that time, I also used a machine screwdriver to unscrew the sealed box that was supposed to open automatically. Fortunately, this situation was taken into consideration during the original design and was not made fully enclosed. Otherwise, based on the material performance standards of the black box that stores data, the magic will come.
You have to be caught blind.
Everyone was busy for two days, and none of the problems were solved. Most of the time and energy were spent on re-adapting to basic common sense at a low-tech level, so that their thinking became somewhat rigid, and everyone's logical analysis ability was somewhat limited.
It's all down a bit.
…
"Do you think it could be Cicetta?"
In the evening, in the living room of Ou Xiameng's dormitory, Liang Zhichu said thoughtfully.
There was some self-denial in his tone, but it was also full of doubts.
At this time, the two of them had just had dinner in the cafeteria. Liang Zhichu followed Ou Xiameng into her dormitory "shamelessly" because he was worried about Ou Xiameng's safety, so he would sleep in Ou Xiameng's living room tonight. Ou Xiameng collapsed.
She didn't refuse. In the past, the two of them often stayed together all night long because of work. She didn't think that Liang Zhichu had other thoughts. Even if he did, it was useless. Liang Zhichu should be very aware that as a descendant of the Ou family, in academic circles
Before you get results that satisfy you, you won't consider your children's personal affairs.
Ou Xiameng shook his head, "Now the object of suspicion is Cicetta, and he has even been disarmed. But you still come to me. So I know that you think the murderer is not him, but someone else.
"
Liang Zhichu was stunned, "Am I so obvious?"
"certainly."
"Uh, okay." Liang Zhichu scratched his head, "Is it because you know that Cicetta and I are very good friends?"
"It's not just this reason, but the evidence is really insufficient. Cicetta seems to have a motive, but the motive is not strong enough."
Liang Zhichu: "Yeah. I hope it's not him."
midnight.
Liang Zhichu tossed and turned on the sofa in the living room, unable to sleep. He couldn't help but think about the tragic situation of Matsuda Masahito lying on the ground, and tried to reason and analyze the whole thing. He wanted to use his own ability to help Cissetta clear away the suspicion. But
What bothered him was that if it wasn't Cicetta, then the theoretical biggest suspect would be team leader Nur Ahom, which would be terrifying and even more unacceptable. In addition, assuming that Cicetta really
If it's not the murderer, then the real murderer must still be at large, hiding among the crowd. He doesn't know when he will jump out and who his next target will be.
Without being able to figure out who the murderer is or what the murderer's motive was, we can only assume that everyone who is still alive is in danger.
…
Another new morning, another shrill scream.
But this time, the deceased was Liang Zhichu.
The one who screamed was Ou Xiameng who had just walked out of his bedroom door.
The young scholar who once had great ambitions and always longed for classical love fell quietly at the door of Ou Xiameng's dormitory.
An alloy rope about a meter long was wrapped around Liang Zhichu's neck, hanging loosely.
There was a circular strangulation mark on his neck, which penetrated nearly two inches into the flesh. The edges of the strangulation mark were purple-red, and spreading outward were purple-black bruises. His eyes were wide open, his pupils were dilated, and the whites of his eyes were
The mucous membranes around the eyes were flushed with an oozing red color.
Ou Xiameng looked at it from a distance, seemingly in disbelief and a little scared.
She didn't have many interactions with Masahito Matsuda, and they didn't speak more than 300 sentences in three years, mostly work-related.
Therefore, when Matsuda Masahito died yesterday, although he described it as miserable, it did not have much impact on her.
In the age of the universe, sudden death is not uncommon, not to mention that the small-scale war between humans and compound-eyed people has not stopped. In the distant Virgo super galaxy cluster, the super-large-scale war between humans and compound-eyed people is happening every day and every moment.
is happening.
Even the Andromeda Galaxy, which has been turned into an ironclad empire and turned into a logistics base, is still disturbed from time to time.
Ou Xia dreamed of many deaths, but he lived with her day and night, and acted as his right-hand man in work in a down-to-earth and diligent manner. Yesterday, in order to protect the people who still lived on his side, he died quietly.
It was difficult for her to accept the reality.
"He was strangled to death."
Nur Ahong squatted down, opened Liang Zhichu's mouth again, and saw the tongue with several bloody marks bitten by his teeth, and said so.
As he spoke, he raised his head and stared at Cissetta with a scrutinizing gaze.
Cissetta was coming over at this moment, half-crouching on the ground, with sad eyes.
He trembled with his hands and wanted to pull Liang Zhichu's collar, but he pulled back.
Suddenly feeling Nur Ahong's gaze, he raised his head, and the sadness on his face was gradually replaced by great grievance and anger.
"You killed it! You killed it!"
Ciceta suddenly fell into a rage and tried to strangle Nur Ahom's neck.
Bang!
His head suddenly turned black, and in an instant he rushed forward and fell to the ground with a thud.
Behind him, Samantha Swann was holding the barrel of the ion beam gun with both hands, breathing heavily.
…
Fifteen minutes later, Cisseta Roy slowly woke up.
He tried to move, but it was difficult to even bend his fingers. His combat uniform had been modified by Nur Ahong and turned into a restraint tool to restrain prisoners.
There is still a dull pain in the back of my head, from the severe whipping just now.
Her vision gradually returned, and Cicetta saw her situation clearly.
This is the prison at the lowest level of the base. It was originally designed to hold compound-eyed intruders or dangerous species with research value on J919. However, it has never been used in the past. I didn't expect it to be occupied for the first time.
Come in and be himself.
He was sitting on an iron chair, with his hands trapped on the armrests of the iron chair by curved shackles.
Directly opposite, sitting behind the interrogation table were Nur Ahom, Ou Xia Meng and Samantha.
At one end of the interrogation table, the alloy rope that strangled Liang Zhichu was placed in a transparent polyethylene bag.
"Are you awake?" Nur Ahong in the middle asked in a deep voice.
Cicetta turned her face away and did not answer.
There was a brief silence in the room for about ten seconds. Ou Xiameng broke the deadlock, "Ciceta, whether you admit it or not, we all want to know what you know, what happened last night, and why do you identify the team leader?
Is he the murderer?"
Only then did Cicetta react, and slowly raised her head, "There is no other reason, because I know it was definitely not me. Then among all the people, the only one who has the strength to strangle Brother Liang is the team leader. As for killing
As the murderer of Matsuda Masahito, only the team leader and I had the authority to shoot. I have been suspicious of the team leader since yesterday. But I didn’t expect you to be so mean. In order to avoid suspicion, you didn’t use a gun when you killed the second person. You used a gun instead.
There’s a rope.”
Nur Ahong said angrily: "That's nonsense! Then tell me what my motive is!"
"Motive? Motive again! Who knows what your motive is? I want to know too! Maybe you were just locked up in this base for too long and went crazy? Maybe you were infiltrated by the Compound Eyes? Or maybe you are simply just
Where is a dummy?" Cicetta was even angrier than him.
Ou Xiameng spoke, "Ciceta, what you said is still just an inference based on your assumption that he is not the murderer. From the perspective of the team leader, assuming that he knows that he is not the murderer. So first
You must have been the one who fired the gun that day, and the next day you chose to strangle Liang Zhichu with a rope because you were unable to use a firearm. This is obviously more likely."
After Liang Zhichu's death, she finally stopped focusing on scientific research and began to try to use her wisdom to find the real murderer. "Yesterday, Liang Zhichu told me that he trusted you. But now it seems that we have not
It was a huge mistake for you to imprison him in time."
Having said this, Cisseta finally regained his military nature, gradually calmed down, and was no longer easily controlled by emotions.
He took a deep breath and said, "Whether you believe what I say next or not, it is a fact that I have seen. Last night, after you all had a rest, Brother Liang came to see me. He asked me seriously
, was it me who did it? I looked into his eyes and told him firmly that it was not me. Then he left. I regret it now and should not have let him go back alone. Sigh."
Hearing this, Nur Ahong, Ou Xiameng, and Samantha looked at each other, but there was only lingering fatigue in their eyes.
Samantha slowly picked up the bag containing the alloy rope from the side and said in a hoarse voice: "Stop quibbling. This rope has your fingerprints on it."
"What!" Cicetta was shocked, "This is impossible!"
"Nothing is impossible. This is not even a fingerprint formed by grease, but the cuticle of your finger caused the surface deformation on both sides of the alloy rope, leaving a solid fingerprint. In the base, the body is strong enough to leave a solid fingerprint on the alloy surface
Fingerprints, and you are the only one who has this power. Even if your combat uniform cannot be used, your strength as a professional soldier can still achieve this effect. We have compared it when you were unconscious, and it matches your fingers perfectly.
."
"this……"
Cicetta's pupils dilated and she was completely dumbfounded.
Nur Ahong stood up and said, "Okay, the interrogation is over. Whether you admit it or not, we already know that you are the real murderer. Just wait for the trial in the military court."
The iron door closed behind him, and the three people outside sighed.
The three of them did not feel relieved after solving the case, only the melancholy of the unknown future remained.
Only Cissetta can manually control the ship, but he is the murderer, so safe evacuation becomes a luxury, and the only option is to wait for external rescue in the base. However, the communication has been unable to be restored, and no one knows what is going on outside and where the rescue will be.
The time will come.
Moreover, there are no professional soldiers, no smart weapons, and the energy shield outside the base has already closed itself. Among the remaining three, only Nur Ahong has some fighting ability. Ou Xiameng and Samantha basically fight against the five scum, and the base
The security force has been reduced to the extreme. Once attacked by the aggressive native species on J919, something may happen at any time.
…
The remaining three people returned to the base hall. Ou Xiameng asked for the alloy rope from Samantha and observed it carefully.
After a long time, she said: "Actually, I still have a doubt. Look at these very shallow marks, they should be Liang Zhichu's teeth marks. It means that when the rope was wrapped around Liang Zhichu's neck, it was not strangled below at first, but was pulled down.
He bit it. Although Cicetta could not use the combat uniform, with his strength and skills, how could he give Liang Zhichu the chance to bite the rope? In other words, if Cicetta really exerted enough strength to leave fingerprints on the surface of the alloy rope
With the power to leave fingerprints, Liang Zhichu should have started from his mouth and his head was strangled directly from there. His head would have been cut off."
"this……"
Nur Ahun pondered.
However, Samantha quietly glanced at Nur Ah Hong and said tentatively: "Is it possible that there is actually a fourth person in our base now?"
"This is impossible!" Ou Xiameng and Nur Ahong said in unison.
