Delusion Master

Wei Lin called Li Minxing's company again and asked if he worked overtime in the office or in the computer room, and got a negative answer.

Li Minxing seemed to have disappeared.However, the disappearance time did not exceed 24 hours, and there was not enough evidence to prove that the person involved was violated or was in danger, and did not meet the criteria for filing a case. Wei Lin and Bai Yuan finally planned to go back first, and call the police first if they cannot be contacted tomorrow.

The two had just walked out of Li Minxing's house, turned around the path between the green belts, and met a man in a suit and leather shoes who was walking in a hurry.

When the eyes of the two sides met, each other was slightly taken aback.

Isn't this Mr. Wu Jinghan, the old slippery sexual harasser and the company's technical director?The appearance in reality is almost the same as Li Minxing's brain projection - the facial features can only be regarded as correct, and the muscles are very attractive.Wei Lin turned to look at Bai Yuan: What is he doing here, to investigate the situation when he finds out that an employee is missing?

Bai Yuan: He has no obligation to Li Minxing, nor does he have any friendship.

Wu Jinghan stared at Wei Lin and Bai Yuan, as if he was trying to remember something, and when they were about to pass by, he called out, "Are you - are you Li Minxing's friends? A few days ago, I drove by In an alley, I saw him eating with you in front of a seafood hot pot restaurant."

Knowing that the Wu Jinghan I met in the "Absolute Domain" is not the same person as the one in front of me, but out of preconceived impressions, Wei Lin still has a sense of vigilance that "we must always be on guard against this guy's teasing", so his tone He replied alienatedly: "Yes. What's the matter?"

Wu Jinghan hesitated for a moment, as if judging their credibility, then turned his head to look at the dark house, and asked, "Is he not at home? Have you contacted him?"

Wei Lin: "No. What do you know?"

Wu Jinghan made a decision in his mind, and replied, "He's been doing something wrong for the past few days——"

Bai Yuan interrupted: "It's not convenient to talk here, talk in my car."

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In order to avoid getting too close to Wu Jinghan, Wei Lin took the passenger seat as soon as he got in the car.

Wu Jinghan didn't mind either, and sat alone in the back seat of the car: "I'm Li Minxing's colleague Wu Jinghan. May I ask who you are?"

"Wei Lin, Bai Yuan."

After Wu Jinghan nodded, he continued with what he said just now: "He is smart, hardworking, and very talented, but he is a little timid, sensitive, and easily nervous. I know that in the past few months, there have been rumors in the company that he is mentally ill. There is a problem, and he suffers from persecution paranoia. The management also held a meeting to discuss his future, and I fully guarantee that he will continue to stay in the company."

Wei Lin was a little surprised: the relationship between Wu Jinghan and Li Minxing seems to be much closer than that shown in "Absolute Realm"?

"In the past two weeks, he seemed to go to the Brain Development Institute for treatment, and he was completely back to normal when he came back. I thought it was over like this, but I didn't expect him to encounter two accidents in succession. If it wasn't for good luck, he would have died a long time ago. Yes—has he told you the details of those two accidents?" Wu Jinghan asked.

Knowing that Wu Jinghan was confirming their identities on the sidelines, Wei Lin nodded and said, "As I said, one time was due to the aging and explosion of the circuit in the old rental house, and the other time was when the brakes of the concrete mixer truck failed and nearly got hit. Bai Yuan and I are his Psychotherapist, follow-up efficacy follow-up is in progress."

As soon as he revealed his identity, Wu Jinghan believed a little more than when they called themselves "friends".

"That's right. The two accidents were determined to be accidents after the police investigation. I have connections in the city police station, and I know that there are no problems with the investigation procedures and the people involved, but why do accidents always happen to him? Is it really such a coincidence?" Wu Jing Han's face turned gloomy, with anger seeping out of his eyes, "Especially in the car accident, I went to the Traffic Management Bureau to read the investigation report, which was written in a very standardized and detailed way, saying that the brake hub was damaged, and I also showed evidence - cracking The carbonized brake hubs, and the crashed mixer truck were also efficiently disposed of. But I always feel that there is something strange in it, as if all the follow-up reactions are to make the characterization of the 'accident' more unassailable. So I began to suspect that Li Minxing was right to worry, someone wanted to harm him, although I don't know why."

"The day before yesterday and yesterday, he took sick leave and didn't come to work. He didn't answer the phone call. He called again just now and turned off the phone. So I came to his house to see what's going on." Wu Jinghan looked at the spot in the lights of Wanjia again The dark window, his face is full of worry, "His hometown is out of town, usually the company, the residence is two points one line, and he doesn't like to participate in entertainment activities. If he doesn't come back so late, will something happen? No, I have to find him!"

Wei Lin felt more and more that his concern for Li Minxing far exceeded the boundaries of ordinary colleagues, so he turned his head and asked, "You seem to know Li Minxing very well, and you also care about it?"

"I know and pay more attention to him than he thought." Wu Jinghan showed a look of sadness and helplessness, "To me, he is a very important person, but to him, I am just A respectful boss."

He looked carefully at Wei Lin and Bai Yuan in front of him, and he seemed to sense something keenly from their eye contact and the atmosphere of getting along, and added: "I miss you (he emphasized these two words with an accent) ) should understand how I feel."

Now not only Wei Lin, but even Bai Yuan, who had nothing to do with himself, was a little surprised: Wu Jinghan said to Li Minxing—what does that mean?

Wei Lin guessed that Wu Jinghan had expressed his affection for Li Minxing tactfully and tentatively.

However, Li, technical nerd, Yuzhi otaku, and Minxing couldn't sense this signal at all, and instinctively rejected the other party's sexual orientation and overflowing hormones, so that he twisted Wu Jinghan into "seeing a handsome guy" in his mind. Just flirtatious" image.

Wei Lin silently lit a row of candles for Director Wu, who was hacked miserably, and his attitude became more cordial: "It's understandable. Since we are all friends of Li Minxing, the most urgent thing is to find his whereabouts. Your side Any clues?"

Wu Jinghan shook his head: "My concern for him is one-sided, and he hardly talks to me about things other than work. I plan to stay here tonight. If he doesn't return all night, I will have the police investigate tomorrow morning his whereabouts."

Wei Lin thinks this method is feasible. After all, this is the real world. As brain developers, even if they have some abilities that are stronger than ordinary people, they must use them under the premise of abiding by social rules.

"We have a clue for you - one of the laptops in his study is missing. I'm not sure if he took it with himself or was taken away. Oh, by the way, if you want to enter his house, you can go from the living room It went in through the window and we hadn't had time to put the glass on."

"Extreme times, extraordinary means." Wu Jinghan nodded understandingly, "I will try to hack his other computers tonight to see if I can find any clues - if he gets angry because of this later, I will pull you Take the blame together."

Wei Lin laughed and said, "Okay, just say we instigated it."

Wu Jinghan exchanged mobile phone numbers with him so that they could notify each other of news, then got out of the car and entered Li Min's home.

Bai Yuan started the car and said to Wei Lin, "Or you'll stay with me tonight."

Wei Lin was startled, and acted shyly: "Oh, I'm not such a casual person."

Bai Yuan glanced at him with a half-smile: "What are you thinking, you are staying in bed. I'm thinking that if there is something tonight, we can act at the same time to save time."

"But I didn't bring a change of clothes."

"Wear mine."

Wei Lin thought about it, and felt that there was no reason to refuse.He is not a woman, and he is afraid of being forced by the overlord, besides, Bai Xiansen's character is still trustworthy.So he nodded and said, "Okay."

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Stepping into Bai Yuan's house again, Wei Lin felt that it had been a while since the last time they broke up, but in fact, it was only 27 hours.

The difference in time flow between the absolute domain and the real world often creates the illusion of a world away for the Delusion Breaker.This reminded Wei Lin that a month ago, he and Bai Yuan were like two fighting cocks, wishing to peck each other to death, and now they are almost in bed, it's really unpredictable.

Bai Yuan tidied up a guest bedroom for him, right next to the master bedroom, with a change of clothes, towels, and toothbrushes also prepared one by one, and the hospitality was very thoughtful.

When he came out after taking a shower and changing into his pajamas, he found that Bai Yuan had already fallen asleep on the head of the bed in his room, with an unconcealable tiredness in his expression, and deep blue shadows under his eyes.

It was only then that Wei Lin realized that during these 27 hours, Bai Yuan wrote work reports for him, accompanied him to save Yan Yujiu, invited him to dinner, went to find Li Minxing with him, and ran around non-stop, hardly ever closing his eyes.

When you are overtired, you will suddenly fall asleep when your spirit relaxes.Wei Lin thought distressedly, well, Bai Yuanmian wakes up easily, at least he can sleep soundly tonight.

He went to the master bedroom to get a pillow, lightly laid his partner flat, took off his coat and trousers, covered the quilt, and got into the bed himself.

Bai Yuan's body temperature penetrated warmly in this cold autumn night with a distance of a few centimeters.Wei Lin couldn't help but moved to the other person's side again, put his head near his shoulder, changed the position of his arm a few times, it was uncomfortable, and finally put it on the waist and abdomen of the other person logically.

Bai Yuan's breath brushed against his ears deeply and steadily.

He felt warm and at peace and wanted nothing more.It seemed that all the troubles and noises in the world had left him, and all the pain he had experienced was just to lie beside this person at the moment before going to sleep.

Wei Lin sighed contentedly and fell asleep instantly.

Until 6:47 in the morning, the vibration of the mobile phone next to his pillow pulled him out of sleep.

Looking sleepily at the name displayed on the screen, Wei Lin answered the phone: "Director Wu, is there any news about Li Minxing?"

"Come to the identification center next to the police station, hurry up!" The other party's voice was tense, his throat was blocked, as if he couldn't speak a word, and then hung up the call.

Wei Lin shivered, his sleepiness disappeared, and the sense of ominousness in his heart became stronger.

Bai Yuan woke up with a start, got out of bed and got dressed immediately after hearing what Wei Lin had said.The two of them didn't even bother to take a shower, and ran out the door as soon as they grabbed the car keys.

It took them only 20 minutes to arrive at the identification center next to the city police station before the morning rush hour, and they were taken to an autopsy room by a police officer guarding the door.

A corpse lay on a metal dissecting bed, covered with a white cloth.Wu Jinghan sat beside him with a pale face and lost his soul, holding the corpse's hand through the white cloth.

Wei Lin rushed forward in twos and threes, and lifted the white cloth.

Li Minxing's face suddenly appeared in front of his eyes, with pale complexion, cyanotic lips, closed eyes, and wet hair dripping water, like a lifeless wax figure that had just been salvaged from the cold bottom of the river.

Wei Lin's body shook as if hit by some invisible heavy object, and Bai Yuan supported his arm from behind.

Li Minxing died, even his body was completely cold.

Wu Jinghan held a hand that was as cold as ice, and refused to let go no matter what.His eyes were red, the whites of his eyes were bloodshot, and he clenched his teeth tightly, as if he would burst into hysterical roars and wails as soon as he let go.He is using up all his rationality and patience to forcefully suppress the emotions that are about to collapse, but this patience pours in like poison, corroding the internal organs into a mass of riddled and substantive pain.

Wei Lin couldn't bear to see and covered the white cloth again.

They had seen death a lot, and executed killings themselves, but those were more like a nightmare, a competitive game.The Li Minxing in front of him is not the projection of the world in his brain, nor the sparks transmitted between neurons. This is a living being. Two days ago, he was still joking and eating with them, seeking help from them with full trust and expectation. But now it has turned into a cold corpse, with an inexplicable death.

They couldn't even reach out to help him at the critical moment of his life and death.The No.12 phone call from Li Minxing, the painful sobbing sound in the silence, was probably his prayer and despair at the last moment of his life.

He must have wanted to tell them something—to put those words in their hands, even if he was exhausted, even if his heart was piercing.

But after all, it was still a step short.