Yu Guang

Chapter 41
Police Building, reception hall on the first floor.

Qi Ming stared blankly at the door, his mind was full of images of his boss being taken away by the guards.

She has just graduated from school for a year or two, and she really can't react to this situation.

What should I do?
Call the police?
The police station is surrounded by guards!

Contact the owner's family!Didn't you say that the boss's house is Tianze Technology?
By the way, I should report to the office that the boss was taken away by the guards, but now my network access terminal has no signal at all... When I bought this broken watch, the satellite communication written in the promotional copy was simply a gimmick!

"Calling!"

"The network is also restored!"

The noisy human voice woke up Qi Ming, who was in a daze at the door, she jumped up in a jerk, holding the watch for a while to operate.

Someone next to him shouted: "The live broadcast is on again! Ghost live broadcast! Detective Wang Ze has appeared!"

"This ghost is too powerful! It may be the electricity and network it restored!"

"There is a post saying that a new type of invisible starship has appeared in the sky..."

boss!

Qi Ming's fingers trembled slightly, the upper left corner of the watch opened the projection screen, and three sub-pages jumped out almost simultaneously.

The live broadcast started by Ghost is a bit special. The live broadcast room does not belong to any popular live broadcast platform, but directly occupies a local TV station with a fixed channel.

A live broadcast screen with a pitch-black border appeared in front of Qi Ming.

On the roof of a high-rise building, the scorching sun burns your heart;

The ghost appeared again with the black projection ball;
A large number of guards poured out from the stairs;
He Chou squeezed away the figure in front of him, allowing Wang Zeneng to walk in front of the ghost smoothly.

After the experience in the morning, the guards did not dare to shoot at the ghost's projection ball easily; for the guards, it was really a dilemma at this moment.

"Detective Wang, tsk," Phantom laughed in that weird voice, "how have these two hours been?"

"There have been many accidents."

Wang Ze pushed down his glasses and said briskly:

"But I think that now is the most difficult moment for you. Once the eight-year plan is implemented, you have risked the lives of your companions, and you have no possibility of retreating.

"But your off-court aid is so strong, it's really beyond my expectation."

The ghost's eyes flickered slightly: "Didn't you find the answer?"

"There are some guesses," Wang Ze said with some hesitation, but it was quickly covered up by his chuckle.

Wang Zedao: "When will the second half be held?"

The ghost glanced to the right, as if something was hiding in the air there.

It said: "It can be done now, the live viewership rate is not bad, I believe it will soon break the parent star's record; the nine star clusters already have hundreds of rebroadcast links, which I did not expect."

Its tone is much more relaxed than the previous two appearances, as if two old friends were reminiscing about the past.

Or maybe at the last moment, it no longer has to maintain the outer terror camouflage.

"Then where do we start," Wang Ze asked, "I'll answer your questions? Or do you just announce the truth?"

"You are the key to today," the ghost whispered. "Only if you answer my sixth question and answer it completely correctly, can you solve the mystery about me."

Wang Ze was puzzled: "Do I have to go through the process?"

"This is the program I set up in advance," Phantom smiled. "I'm a half-perfectionist, but if it weren't for this paranoia, I wouldn't be able to support me to this day...following the morning's progress, this is the fourth question."

The ghost snapped its fingers, and the two projectors left the array around it, interweaving a projection screen in front of Wang Ze.

The projection screen displayed a bird's-eye view map of Mingzhu Harbor City, and then the map was divided into squares, each square enclosing an independent building.

The ghost's voice sounded again:
"The fourth question, or test, is a very old game. There are 480 squares in front of you, sixteen by thirty, and there are 99 mines hidden under the square. As long as one of the mines is detonated , the augmented reality system of Pearl Harbor City will be blasted..."

"Are you sure you want me to play minesweeper?" Wang Ze interrupted the ghost's narration.

Ghost was startled: "Have you ever played?"

"Minesweeper is actually a simple logic game."

Wang Ze raised his left hand while speaking, and pointed his finger at a square, several nearby squares flickered at the same time, and numbers such as '1', '2', '3' appeared.

Wang Ze said with a smile: "As long as you don't hit the thunder the first time, there will be no problem in the follow-up."

While speaking, he kept clicking with his fingers, one by one small red flags were marked, and the entire screen was quickly filled with spaces and numbers.

When Wang Ze marked the last square, several pixel-style fireworks appeared on the screen.

"Clues," Wang Ze asked directly.

Behind the black mist, the rotting flesh on the ghost's face was trembling constantly.

A black envelope jumped in front of Wang Ze. Without hesitation, Wang Ze opened the red ink pad on the envelope in front of the surrounding guards and under the watchful eyes of the audience frantically pouring into the live broadcast room.

[Logical Fragment [-]].

It's still a video.

An edited video introducing the past and present of the virtual reality industry.

The content of the video is very rich, from the ancient material of the earth era to the common street scene of this era.

The background is a very magnetic male voice, telling the history of virtual reality:
"The development of virtual reality technology originated in the first half of the twentieth century in the earth era. Just as the first computer was used to calculate ballistics, the initial application of virtual reality technology was also in military scenarios..."

The screen was shaking, and it seemed that a lot of content had been skipped; the background sound sounded again, and the content was indeed incoherent.

"In the middle of the Age of Discovery, semi-automatic weapon systems that can be controlled remotely became the catalyst for the civil war of human civilization. The key breakthrough allows mechas several light-years away to respond to your actions without delay.

"With the maturity of this technology, virtual reality technology has become popular again, which has directly led to a large number of bloodless wars on the border of star clusters, and the internal consumption of resources in human civilization has rapidly intensified."

The screen was switched several times, but what the background sound narrated undoubtedly involved the application of "virtual reality technology in military affairs".

After the 2-minute video was played, the projection screen between Wang Ze and the ghost slowly disappeared.

"The fifth question."

Wang Ze spoke in a low voice with a slightly dull expression.

The ghost asked: "What is one plus one?"

"two."

"You got it right," said the ghost quietly.

There are no barrage and real-time comments in the live broadcast room this time, but many viewers have already shown their astonishment.

Most of them have never heard of this game called Minesweeper, and even after Wang Ze cracked the fourth level, most of them just understood the rules of this logic game.

But the fifth question asked by the ghost...

Yes, it wants to tell the truth, it is eager to tell it, and it reveals the secret and the embarrassment that is suppressed in its heart and presents it to the world.

The black spherical projector worked again, and the fifth black envelope appeared again.

Wang Ze opened it himself.

Although it was just a simple movement, Wang Ze already felt an inexplicable sense of ritual.

【Logic Fragment [-]】

This is a game CG.

The so-called CGs are short videos that are beautifully produced to attract players to enter the game. Generally, they have a clear rhythm, trying to show the advantages of the game itself and beautify the environment in the game.

The CG of this part of the game is very detailed, and the picture begins to show a gray planet. Starships in the shape of containers are suspended in the synchronous orbit of this planet, and a little bit of Mars appears at the bottom of the starship.

Countless sparks fell, and the landing ships bid farewell to the mother ship and landed on the surface of the planet.

A large number of dark clouds gathered on the surface of the planet, and hidden in the dark clouds were terrifyingly large shadows. Fighters in the shape of forward-swept wings ejected from the mothership, flying towards the shadow like a swarm of bees, and the picture was instantly blurred. The light effect of the particle beam fills the...

At the same time, at the foot of Wang Ze, in an office in the corner of the top floor of the building.

Gao Wengong looked at the palm-sized projection screen on the desktop, and the CG that the ghost was playing made him give up all his thoughts, lowered his head with a pale complexion, and began to prepare the text of apologizing to the public afterwards.

The parent star general sitting next to Gao Wengong frowned, and kept whispering: "Which link has a problem?"

roof.

The 3-minute CG was completely broadcast, and finally a line of big characters appeared.

"Founding Titans Special Ops".

……

"The sixth question is quite special." Ghost's voice gradually became less piercing. "The sixth clue I can give is the question stem, and the answer is the final truth."

The sixth black envelope jumped out of the projection screen and kept vibrating in front of Wang Ze.

The fog on the ghost's face tends to dissipate.

Wang Ze whispered: "What's inside?"

"You'll find out when you click on it," the ghost said with a smile.

Wang Ze raised his left hand. He has always acted decisively, but at this moment he hesitated, and he refused to click his finger.

This anxiously broke the enthusiasm of many off-site audiences.

In the police station hall of Pearl Harbor, the crowd gathered behind Qi Ming's projection screen. At this moment, several female police officers held their breath and widened their eyes, lest they missed the sixth logic fragment.

At this moment, the prosperous virtual industry of the mother star seems to have suddenly declined;
The forums and comment areas of video sites that were full of discussions 5 minutes ago are now quiet, with only a few messages popping up occasionally.

in every corner of the city;

In the remaining habitable areas of this blue planet;
This section of Orion’s spiral arm involved in the human civilization link;

In people's own warm homes, or messy working environments, in restaurants, on the street, in supermarkets, in transfer centers, in self-driving hoverboards...

Pairs of eyes stared at the extremely stable live broadcast at the moment, watching Wang Ze's finger slowly lift up and tap on the middle of the envelope.

The envelope dissipated under the special effects of flames, and the last video appeared in the live broadcast room.

Act One, Wen Family's Home, 28:[-] p.m.

Wen Quan, who was sitting on the port device, quietly looked at the electronic clock hanging on the wall.

He looked refined, wearing a set of blue pajamas, holding a simple 'gun' in his hand, sighed in a low voice, and his voice came out through the screen:

"What should I say?"

The camera turned and turned into a frontal bust of Wen Quan.

His face was a little rosy, he sighed softly, and said with a smile:

"Hi everyone, I am the deceased in the first case. My name is Wen Quan. I used to use the game name Wen Run Ru Yu."

The screen changed again, and Zhang Li in a casual suit appeared, sitting on the sofa in his own home, smiling at the camera and waving:

"If the plan goes well, I am the deceased in the second case, and my name is Zhang Li."

The screen turned, and Gu Wanzhong, who was wearing a white coat, was sitting on a chair, looking a little tired:
"I should have been thrown from the roof by a ghost. I was the deceased in the third case, Gu Wanzhong."

The perspective switched to Wen Quan, he seemed to have adjusted his mentality, and continued:

"The way I chose to die is more complicated. This is a bureau, waiting for a detective named Wang Ze to break the situation, and then create a topic of public opinion...I'm sorry, I became famous in this way."

Wen Quan's eye circles were a little red, but he endured it and continued to smile and say:
"Life is very beautiful, any way of belittling one's own life is a blasphemy to the Creator, and I also know that my behavior will cause very bad social impact, but we have no choice, this is the only chance."

Switching to Zhang Li again, Zhang Li is also saying similar things, with a more relaxed expression.

"Putting on the helmet to end my own life with my own hands is actually very difficult. I love life, and I have been attracted to a girl recently. I actually thought about quitting this project and doing amnestic surgery, but in the end I still couldn't do it. "

The screen changed to Gu Wanzhong, a well-known scientist in the academic circle of the home planet, but at this moment he said with a heavy face:

"We have done complicated deduction and prepared dozens of plans, but we can't find any way to break the situation. The public opinion on the home planet is firmly controlled by our opponents. We must create incidents beyond common sense to be able to create enough impact.

"The essence of this plan is to use a few of us to die to create hot spots.

"The only thing I feel sorry for is my children. They adore their father so much, but their father has to do this kind of thing. We have no other way."

"I'm very sober now," Wen Quan said, "I'm not mentally controlled, I'm not polluted, I don't have any suicidal tendencies, I don't feel any responsibility, and I don't have any so-called self-movement. I just feel guilty and helpless. Or... despair."

Zhang Li said: "I am actually very reluctant to part with my current life, but there are some things I have to do, even if I pay my life for it."

Gu Wanzhong sighed: "Although I have a good reputation, I still can't compete with my opponent."

"When you see this video, we've made it."

Wen Quan said:
"We want to expose one thing, about some high-ranking people on the home planet.

"This matter may subvert your three views, it will have a fundamental impact on your perspective on the world, and it may also cause the parent star to lose a lot of benefits, but this matter must be announced.

"But I hope that my death will make those companions who have experienced the same experience as me stronger in their future lives.

"It's not us, it's not technology, and it's not the world that's wrong. It's just that human nature is too greedy and always wants more."

While speaking, Wen Quan slowly lifted the gun made of coils and patches, and pressed it to his temple.

He breathed hard, holding the handle of the gun tightly with his palm, staring at the hour hand on the wall, and staring at the beating of the seconds.

He is counting down.

He began to hold his breath.

He looked into the lens, a relieved smile appeared on the corner of his mouth.

"Love you, wife."

Boom!
Amidst the dull sound, the simple firearm blasted several light arcs, Wen Quan's head was weakly tilted to the right, and the firearm slipped from his hand.

[Logical Clue Six: The Dead Said].

(End of this chapter)