Chapter 1495 Complete Chain of Evidence

Security Bureau Shanghai Branch.

In the temporary office of the task force, Captain Xing was sitting at the desk with a thoughtful expression on his face, and was fiddling with the bionic memory in his hand, as if he was studying something.

At this moment, the holographic portrait of his AI assistant suddenly appeared in front of his desk, speaking in an electronic voice without emotional ups and downs.

"Squad, your call."

Putting the memory in his hand into the drawer, Xing Bian looked at his AI assistant, and asked casually.

"Who is calling?"

"Academician Lu."

Academician Lu?

Brows raised unexpectedly, Xing Bian thought for a moment before speaking.

"Help me through the phone."

"OK."

The three-dimensional holographic image diffused into light particles, and reconstructed into a two-dimensional holographic panel. With the switching of the video window, Academician Lu, who was sitting in his living room, appeared in front of him.

Just when Captain Xing was about to ask what it was that called him, Lu Zhou, who was sitting on the other end of the phone, opened up the topic first and asked.

"Is there any result in the investigation of the bombing?"

"Not so fast," Xing Bian shook his head and said, "This case is very difficult. If there is any new news, I will tell you... Are you calling me just for this matter?"

If I could tell you...

After finishing the first half of the sentence, the expressionless Xing Bian silently added a sentence in his heart.

The investigation of the Universal Spirit Foundation is a matter of the Security Bureau, and unrelated ordinary people should not be involved. It should be so, both for safety reasons and to avoid the spread of panic.

Hearing his somewhat perfunctory rhetoric, Lu Zhou smiled and continued in a relaxed tone.

"Do I look like that idle?"

After a pause, he looked at Captain Xing in the video window and continued.

"It seems that your investigation has hit a bottleneck. I just have some clues. I don't know if I can help you."

Hearing what Lu Zhou said, Captain Xing, who didn't think his investigation could go deeper than his own, smiled, and said something casually without paying much attention.

"Oh? What a clue."

"About the Alpha virus."

The moment he heard this word, Xing Bian sat up straight from the office chair, stared at the video window floating on the desk with a serious expression, and asked eagerly.

"Where did you hear the word? Also, how much do you know about the Alpha virus?"

Although the Alpha virus can't be called a secret, its various versions have been spread on the black market in a small range six months ago, but for the vast majority of ordinary people, this thing is still a mysterious existence.

On the one hand, the vast majority of ordinary people can at most give their bionics a prison escape and modify their personality and functional attributes. There is no need to modify this kind of logic that involves the deepest level. This information has been intentionally deleted and blocked to prevent the spread of panic.

Therefore, unless it is involved, there is no way to know about the Alpha virus.

Even if he encountered a bionic person infected by the Alpha virus...

Facing Captain Xing's questioning gaze, Lu Zhou continued in a relaxed tone.

"In the database of East Asia Electric Power."

"The database of East Asia Electric Power?" Confused by this sentence for a few seconds, Xing Bian stared at Lu Zhou for a moment, frowning and said, "What do you mean?"

"It's a long story, I'll pick the key points," Lu Zhou thought about how to make up the story for a few seconds, leaning on the sofa and thinking for a while, then said slowly, " When I checked the financial statement yesterday, I discovered an abnormal expenditure of one billion credits."

"Out of curiosity, I used the authority of the chairman to retrieve the backup files in the database, tracked the flow of the funds, and found that all the expenditures pointed to a project named X-100."

Captain Xing: "X-100?"

"Well, the AI ​​self-control program of the fusion core, it looks like nothing on the surface, but it's surprisingly behind..."

Looking at Captain Xing who was trapped in the video window, Lu Zhou continued.

"Still out of curiosity, I continued to trace the X-100 project itself along this line, but this investigation did not matter, and the problem was found immediately. All the procedures and documents about the X-100 project are well preserved, Even the evaluation opinion given by the East Asian electric power engineer can be found. However, the strange thing is that only the program code-named X-100 itself has disappeared, as if it has disappeared."

No matter how this matter sounds like a case of using his position to extort corporate assets.

Although the amount involved in the one billion credit points is not small, if it is on the news, it will be the kind that can broadcast three episodes in a row, but this kind of case is not under the control of the Security Bureau at all, and it is reported to the economic investigation through normal channels That's enough, Xing Bian was a little confused why Lu Zhou said these things to himself.

"……Then what?"

"And I happen to be a person who likes to get to the bottom of it." Lu Zhou smiled lightly and continued, "After some investigation, I was lucky to find the X-100 program in the cache data of the Electromagnet Research Laboratory server. "

"Maybe I haven't had time to delete it all, I pulled out its source code and studied it, and then unexpectedly discovered that those viruses seemed to be the same as those infected by the 'out-of-control' bionics in my yard... At least the core part of the source code is basically the same."

The moment he heard this sentence, Xing Bian was shocked and stared at Lu Zhou in disbelief.

"You mean...East Asia Power participated in the research and development of the Alpha virus?"

"Unlikely," Lu Zhou shook his head and said, "To be honest, the complexity of the code is not like an information technology company with less than 50 employees can develop it. Compared with East Asia Electric Power Co., Ltd. I prefer to believe that ten years ago, they got this virus from somewhere and then analyzed it—or improved it.”

"How much do you know about the Alpha virus—" In the middle of speaking, Captain Xing suddenly stopped talking, took a deep breath, and continued in a serious tone, "Let me ask this question differently, how much do you know about the Universal Spirit Foundation?" .”

The Universal Spirit Foundation?

Hearing this name, Lu Zhou had a surprised expression on his face.

Although he also had a premonition before that all the bizarre events that happened a hundred years later might be related to the experiment a hundred years ago, but he didn't expect that he would hear this shocking message a hundred years after waking up. Names that people miss.

Seeing that Lu Zhou didn't speak for a long time, Xing Bian's expression gradually became awkward, and he coughed lightly and asked.

"...Uh, you don't know?"

"I know, I know, it's just a bit of a surprise," Lu Zhou came back to his senses, and cast a curious look at Captain Xing in the video window, "It's been a hundred years, is that foundation still active? My Meaning, do they... still dance like they did a hundred years ago?"

"The situation may be more complicated than it was a hundred years ago." He seemed to be hesitating whether to involve Lu Zhou, Xing Bian was silent for a while, and then said, "When are you free, can you chat in person? about the Spirit Foundation."

It was beyond Captain Xing's expectation. He thought that Lu Zhou would readily accept his invitation, but he didn't expect that after hearing his proposal, Lu Zhou would refuse it without hesitation.

"No need, I'm not here to discuss the terrorist organization that was a hundred years ago with you, and I'm not very interested in those idiots who bluff under the guise of science."

"I just want to tell you that I have complete evidence here, including the signed contract, including the original copy of the X-100 project—that is, the Alpha virus."

"You've said that, it seems that you didn't intend to give us the evidence for nothing," Xing Bian said flatly, "Okay, what do you want, just say it."

"I won't put forward any embarrassing conditions. The only requirement is that you can keep your actions confidential. Although the X-100 project is funded by East Asia Electric Power, I can be sure that this is not the opinion of the entire board of directors, but the previous opinion. The personal actions of chairman Liu Zhengxing and former science committee member Song Yangwei."

Hearing the meaning of Lu Zhou's words, Xing Bian said with a smile.

"Don't worry about this. Since they used their position to secretly fund the research and development of the Alpha virus, and concealed the essence of the project, East Asia Electric Power is also a victim. Of course, we will protect the privacy of the victims."

What's more, it is inconvenient to disclose the Alpha virus, especially it is inconvenient to have a relationship with East Asia Electric Power.

Just imagine, in the 22nd century where information technology is highly developed, network cables have not only integrated into everyone's life, but even penetrated into many people's bodies. It goes without saying how important the role of bionic humans is in production and life.

If people in Pan-Asia knew that East Asia Power, which they trusted and were proud of, was developing some kind of evil virus that could even subvert society itself, how would they feel? How should pan-Asian cooperation be handled then?

If you expect to convince everyone by throwing such a serious issue to a dead man and a member of the scientific committee, you have to treat ordinary people as fools.

Although this matter has already related to the safety of everyone's life and property, from a high-level standpoint, it is better for these ordinary people not to know too much.

"Thank you for your understanding." Lu Zhou nodded, suddenly thought of something, and continued, "Oh, by the way, if it's convenient, I hope you can move faster when arresting people. I have a hunch that if you let that Song Yangwei heard the wind, maybe his people are gone."

Moreover, Lu Zhou seriously suspected that Liu Zhengxing's death might not be caused by himself at all, but related to this Alpha virus.

In this way, as another person involved in the X-100 R&D project, Song Yangwei is very likely to be targeted, and even those people are already considering killing him.

If he died at this time, Lu Zhou felt that he would be more or less embarrassed.

Firstly, he had some conflicts with himself, and secondly, he was the person involved in the last "X-100 case". He is a person who is afraid of trouble, whether it is the Foundation or some Alpha virus, he only wants to create the second generation of controllable fusion.

As for the rest...

Children and grandchildren have their own blessings, so let these juniors to toss about.

Looking at the video window, Captain Xing raised his eyebrows.

"Are you doubting our profession?"

Lu Zhou sighed and said.

"If you stood in my shoes and woke up to so many magical things, I believe you will become like me."

"Believe it or not, take it as a friendly suggestion."