Hunter of Mysterious Creature-Chapter 587 - 142: Ye Jiu Has Gone Mad (Part 2)
"We might have completely fallen into a cognitive trap." Sun Hang suddenly doused everyone with a cold bucket of water.
"Why?" Yang Qi raised her head, looking at Sun Hang with furrowed brows.
"Read that research file on the indigenous people again." Sun Hang snatched the coffee Yang Qi hadn't had a chance to drink, took a sip, and then pointed at the computer screen in front of her.
"I've read it several times already, is there a problem?" Yang Qi was quite puzzled.
"Do the indigenous people on this island have professional-grade laboratories? Do they have experienced experts? Do they possess all sorts of advanced equipment?" Sun Hang hit them with a series of questions, "They don't have anything, they can't even produce alcohol swabs for disinfection."
"..." Yang Qi, a bit stiff, dragged the mouse to the section of the file describing the hygiene conditions of the indigenous people, hesitant to speak.
She had to admit, although Sun Hang seemed to be stirring things up... from another perspective, what he said didn't seem wrong.
"In contrast, the Hezhong States might be the first to conduct human and mysterious entity fusion experiments, right? No need to compare with the Siberian Federation and Xiazhou Federation, just compared to these indigenous people wearing animal skins and leaves, their research conditions should be overwhelmingly superior, right? Given the inhumane behaviors of those Angsa people, if they wanted test subjects, they'd definitely have more than these ten thousand indigenous people..." Sun Hang continued, "But the Hezhong States didn't succeed, and yet these indigenous people did, suggesting that success might not be closely tied to experimental conditions."
"Makes sense." Shinkata Misaki put down her gaming console, agreeing with a nod, "Though Sun Hang is usually a jerk, this time, I think he's right."
"Maybe, this Octopus man completed the fusion with the octopus entity in an underground cave at Senyang Aquarium... there's no rule stating such fusion surgeries must be done under operating lights." Sun Hang said, "Might as well ask Mr. Wang what the Octopus man actually looks like, if it turns out to be the owner of Senyang Aquarium, Li Fan, then just track his whereabouts, and the answer will be obvious."
"That guy is covered head to toe in dirty bandages." Wang Xiyi immediately said in the communication channel, "I can't see his face."
"Then it's fine." Sun Hang shrugged.
"The clues have broken again... no, they haven't." Yang Qi lightly bit her lower lip, "That escaped Octopus man is a clue, and another clue is the access records for these files... if I remember correctly, files of this level require a real-name record every time they are viewed!"
"Right! Just check who has accessed these files in recent years, and you can find the one who leaked the data to the A11 Organization! For something this trivial, apart from those graduates writing niche theses, no one else would click on them!" Song Yarong exclaimed with surprise.
"Graduates needing to write theses don't have the permissions to view these files." Yang Qi said calmly, her hands never idle, quickly inputting a series of codes to pull up the access history of the file.
The most recent access was nine minutes ago, the viewer was Sun Hang.
Aside from that, the next most recent access was three years ago by a senior researcher at Dubhe Tower.
Senyang Aquarium was registered in the year 4714, and this access record was in 4716, making the timeline a bit of a stretch.
Yang Qi continued reading, and the corners of her eyes twitched slightly.
In 4715, there were 11 access records, viewed by 9 people, all senior researchers at Dubhe Tower, with two of them accessing the file twice, four days and seven days apart, respectively.
In 4711, there were 5 access records, 5 viewers.
In 4709, there was 1 access record, 1 viewer.
In 4708, there were 18 access records, 17 viewers.
...
"Tsk." Yang Qi couldn't help but click her tongue, "The access records for this file... are a tad more than I imagined..."
"This shows that Dubhe Tower is full of perverts and lunatics." Sun Hang remarked, "Maybe some lunatic wanted to conduct human fusion experiments, Dubhe Tower didn't approve, and then this Cult Organization found him, and they hit it off, and then..."
"I think the same." Song Yarong agreed, nodding seriously.
"Let's re-interrogate Yao Yu." Yang Qi proposed, "I just feel like he hasn't revealed everything he knows... look here."
Yang Qi pointed to a line on the screen, and everyone looked over to find a familiar name in the 4715 access records.
"Dubhe Tower Senior Researcher, Yao Yu, ID: XXXXXXXXXX."
"Well, well, Yao Yu also accessed this file?" Song Yarong exclaimed quietly, "Then why didn't he mention it during the interrogation?"
"I'm not too surprised. Knowing Yao Yu's mindset, he's probably seen things even more twisted and niche, and if he had to account for everything, the interrogation would take three days and nights." Sun Hang shook his head.
"But this file is obviously related to the Octopus man at Senyang Aquarium!" Song Yarong argued.
"Isn't it possible that Yao Yu has no idea about Senyang Aquarium and the Octopus man?" Sun Hang had peeked into Yao Yu's memory, confirming at least one thing: Yao Yu indeed communicated solely with the A11 Organization's point of contact, Qiao Liu, and knew neither the identity of others in the organization nor had any dealings with them.
In Chunming City, there were a few organization members he knew, but they were all fringe members, so small that capturing them wouldn't lead to the bigger fish.
Yao Yu didn't lie.
He was just a pawn, and a pawn only needed to execute orders without knowing more.
However, Yao Yu was clever. From his memory, Sun Hang saw that he had roughly guessed the organization's goal: to fuse humans with Chimera 17.
Yet, instead of rejecting this goal, Yao Yu eagerly anticipated it.
In a sense, he and the A11 Organization were "like-minded."
"Just to be safe, we should interrogate him again." Yang Qi suggested.
Just then, an emergency communication suddenly popped up on the screen.
A blood-covered security department officer shouted anxiously on the other side of the screen, "Mr. Yang! Bad news! Mr. Ye has gone mad! Mr. Ye has killed someone!"
"Mr. Ye?" Yang Qi looked a bit puzzled as she glanced at Ye Xuan beside her, "Mr. Ye is right here beside me?"
"Not this Mr. Ye!" 𝕗𝐫𝐞𝕖𝕨𝐞𝗯𝚗𝕠𝘃𝐞𝚕.𝐜𝗼𝚖
"He means my brother," Ye Xuan's expression turned unprecedentedly serious.
"Ye Jiu?" Yang Qi was momentarily stunned, then stood up with a "swish," "Is it the Surreal Apparatus gear? Did 'Carnage' lose control?!"
"No, it's not the Surreal Apparatus gear!" the security officer on the other end shouted, "Mr. Ye didn't wear his Surreal Apparatus gear!"
"Then how did Ye Jiu kill someone? Where is he now? Who did he kill?" Ye Xuan asked in a deep voice, glaring at the screen.
"He's in Sector C of the expansion area, building 2! He somehow got his hands on two long knives! He's attacking everyone in sight! Over a dozen security department colleagues have already fallen victim... I just escaped from the building! We plan to lock all access points in building 2! Maybe we can trap him for now!"
