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2 minutes may not be long, but it is enough to stir up some waves in people's hearts.Xiangsi tries not to hurt the spring and autumn, but pays attention to Xueming's examination results.

She didn't know much about these complicated and changeable professional data, she could only understand the most basic, so she stretched her neck and waited for Heath to explain to her.Qiu Jia, who was half asleep and half awake, seemed to have sensed something, insisted on covering his half-drawn thick eyelids, and tried to wait for the doctor to speak.

Heath, who was endowed with high expectations, read the values ​​one by one, and his expression gradually became serious as he read down. After reading all the test data, he turned his head sideways, and his forehead became heavier by about three lines.

Seeing that his expression was not right, Xin Xi restrained his curiosity and asked, "So...how?"

"Her abilities have stabilized again, don't worry..." Heath hesitated to speak, and he could see his hesitation through his lens.

"I know you still have a 'but' to say, so, but...?" Xin Xi couldn't help answering.

"But I detected a remnant of another ability in her body, a superpower that is 100% not in her body, and I think that may be the trigger that caused her to lose control."

"Isn't it possible that she has awakened the second ability? Just like you, the healing and perception abilities can exist in the same body. Is it possible that this is the case for her?"

"No." Heath immediately denied her statement, and said firmly: "What remains in her body is a very powerful and mature power, and Yuki... is Yuki, right? Oh, that's good. Yuki's own ability is completely incomparable with it, it's like when you play a game, the gap between a novice and a full-level master, the disparity in strength is so great that there is no point in questioning its authenticity."

Xin Xi looked at Xue Ming, who was still lying in the laboratory, thinking for a while, and then asked casually, "Have you found out its attributes?"

"Not sure, I need more samples to analyze. But I guess the person who left that kind of power should be a surly and arrogant person, maybe there is a kind of...unspeakable darkness in his heart, and this person's ability should be Can project negative emotions onto other people."

After finishing speaking, Heath ordered his assistant to carry Xueming off the operating bed, and put Qiujiao on it.His current research samples are limited, and he doesn't know whether the remaining abilities in the child's body can support him to complete the experimental analysis. After all, the more energy the sample has, the more specific the results will be. He has to hurry up and try.

"I'll ask about Raven's progress again, maybe he will surprise us." Xin Xi made a simple plan, nodded slightly and said to Heath.

After speaking, as if they had a tacit understanding, the outer door of the observation room was opened, and the siren walked in.

Xin knew it was him by hearing his footsteps, so he ordered without turning his head: "You came just in time, wait for Professor Heath to get the results for me. I'll go and call Raven."

"Hmm." Siren responded immediately without asking her why.

Xin Xi took out her mobile phone and walked out of the room quickly. Siren took advantage of the situation and sat on the chair that she had just left her buttocks. The back of her neck was close to the back of the chair, her long legs were bent and placed in front of her, and she was extremely lazy.

Heath didn't know him very well, so far, their individual conversations did not exceed ten sentences.

Although he has always been curious about this friend who has been with Xiao Xin for many years, Siren's face is so delicately carved that it is not real, and his indifferent and world-weary attitude towards people, which almost never has extra emotions, naturally divides him into It breaks the boundary of conversation with other human beings, and makes people stay away.

Coupled with the fact that the leader of Blu-ray is widely spread as an unreasonable person, he may step on his minefield with just a few words, and he is extremely easy to get cold-eyed and angry. Heath, who has always been bad at handling cold reception, dare not rashly create Second-rate.

The siren didn't know Professor Heath's tortuous psychological activities, so he just asked, "Is there any problem after the inspection? Their adoptive parents are downstairs now, looking very worried."

Heath didn't expect that the most powerful "Flower of High Mountain" in RL would take the initiative to care about the subject's issues other than life and death. The ability element, the specific situation is not clear, I am still collecting research samples."

"In case Xin forgot to tell you, I was the only one who came into contact with them just now, so could it be the traces left by me?" The siren thought for a moment, stared at the back of Heath's head, and began to speak earnestly .

"I have a sample of your ability here, and it doesn't match what they have in their bodies. This kind of power is very mysterious. Although it is as powerful as your ability, I can assure you that it wasn't left by you. Don't worry."

Heath didn't think much about it, but thought that the siren was worried that his improper drive ability would affect the child's body, so he dutifully explained.As he spoke, he thought in his mind: Everyone said that the Siren was indifferent and impersonal. It seemed that at least he still had some patience with children, which wasn't too bad.

Qiujiao was lying on the operation bed in a daze, and the optical medium made of nanometers was scanned over his body one by one, and the data in the monitoring room was tumbling faster and faster.

The Siren glanced at the screen and found that he could not understand the meaning of any string of numbers at all. After a pause, he continued following Heath's train of thought: "Then this ability seems quite mysterious, and I hope it won't be harmful to the children. Influence."

"Mysterious? No, no, no, I'll be able to analyze it soon. This boy has more residual abilities than the girl, and he woke up from anesthesia earlier than her. What a strange physique... Anyway, this helped me Very busy."

Professor Heath said everything, without any concealment.

But the speaker is not interested in the listener, and the siren's small thoughts are almost comparable to the speeding party who galloped back and forth at the hairpin bend in the mountain. Will wait with bated breath.

After scanning, the machine enters a gentle standby state.

Heath pushed his glasses and almost put his face in front of the screen. I don't know if it's because of his age. Now he often thinks about it when he is working, and he looks more and more like a little old man who is about to enter middle age. .

"Okay...let me see...what is causing trouble in our little friend's body..."

The siren watched Professor Heath muttering alone in his own world, and for some reason, he felt a sense of deja vu. His brain searched for a little bit of memory, and then realized that his appearance was seriously related to an older child. very similar.

Siren heard from Hill that their family was familiar with the Xin family many years ago. It seems that Professor Heath’s behavior should be assimilated. I just don’t know who will be the vermilion here and who will be the red. Siren It is impossible to determine their successors.

Professor Heath is completely unaware that he has been stared at by probing eyes. He is obsessed with studying complex data fed back by high-tech machinery. In his eyes, these things are fresh and full of vitality. Human beings, like themselves, have contradictions and tensions.

Even in his perceptual thinking, he believes that superpowers are not attached to the human body, but a creature that can parallel the carbon-based body of a human being.

Heath has been fascinated by these for years.

There is a lot of residual power in Qiujiao. The samples collected by Heath from the two children have covered almost all aspects of superpower performance. He scanned the data one by one to get the direction of the basic category, and then compared it with RL's ability user database After further screening, the result was finally set in the [Teaching] category of the "Spiritual Control Division".

Heath gave high-level permissions, hoping to call up the registration list under this ability category in the database, but found that no matter how much he pressed the "Open File" button, there was no response.

"Strange, is there a bug in the system...why can't it be opened..." He still muttered to himself.

"What happened?" Siren lazily got up from the chair and looked at his screen.

"It's nothing serious, it's just...it's just that the system can't be opened. I want to find out who has the ability of the type of 'introduction', but for some reason, no matter how hard I press the button on the personnel management page, there is no response."

"So you've confirmed that the strange ability remaining in Xueming and Qiujie's body is that kind of 'blessing'?" Siren grasped the point at once.

"Ninety-nine are inseparable... There are records about this ability in the system, why can't the human files be opened?" Professor Heath encountered such a deflated situation for the first time in his life, which made him thirsty for knowledge. Very puzzling.

Siren originally wanted him to restart the computer or change his account to try, but before he could implement it, Xin broke into the door.Holding the phone in hand, she ran quickly, put it directly next to Heath's ear, and said out of breath, "Raven has a problem and wants to confirm with you."

Heath took the phone, lowered his eyes and answered the other end of the phone with a few words of um, then raised his eyes and scanned the two people in front of him, and silently turned on the speakerphone.

The wireless current transmits the gentle voice on the opposite side to the ears of every awake human being in the observation room: "Xin, Siren, I just confirmed with Professor Heath the characteristics of the residual abilities in Xueming and Qiujiao, which is consistent with Jonathan's perception. The ability to remain in the body of the arrested suspects is exactly the same, I think we may be able to get some information from it. This is a piece of information that is open to multiple parties, so we can discuss it with complete transparency."

Raven is worthy of being a raven. In a short period of time, when dealing with so many transcendent people and gaining the upper hand, he can still maintain his calm and tone of voice as if he is about to ascend to immortality in the next second. Xin Xi couldn't help but think, he won't practice. It is a great loss for Taoism to nourish Qi and swallow clouds and fog.

Heath took over the raven's words: "I have already screened out its specific type. Mr. Raven, I wonder if you have heard of the ability of 'dow'?"

The other end of the phone was obviously breathless, and he said: "I thought... I mean that Jonathan said that it was probably just some kind of ability of the mind control department, and it didn't specify the type. Dr. Heath, are you sure?"

"Well... technology is always improving. You know, we have always used the most cutting-edge equipment here." Heath's every word was full of irresistible pride. Seeing that he was almost showing off, he knew He cleared his throat and continued in a more serious tone: "But I encountered a problem when searching for human resources files. The list in the column of "Qingzhi" cannot be opened. Do you know anything about this matter? ?”

"..."

There was a long silence on the other side.

The three people around the phone exchanged glances unconsciously, with half of worry and half of doubt.

The assistant helped Qiujiao off the operating bed and pushed it into the observation room. Seeing the three of them huddled together with solemn expressions, they didn't bother them too much, and moved the two children out after placing them properly.

After an unknown period of time, Raven finally spoke again: "Are there any extra people around you?"

The Siren replied, "Just those two half-asleep children."

"Could Xiao Xin shut down the five senses of Xueming and Qiujie for the time being?" Raven's tone was still soft, but the meaning in the words was beyond words.

Under special circumstances, Xin Xi didn't mind doing such immoral things. She turned around and walked behind the children, and lightly touched the backs of their heads twice. Immediately fell asleep again.

Seeing that she had succeeded, Heath quickly said to the phone: "It's already done, tell me everything you know."

I don't know where the raven went, and when he spoke, he could vaguely hear an echo from the other side: "Under the impartation of this ability, there has only been one capable person from the millennium to the present——Black Finch , He used to be the top person in charge of Hongguang."

"And now?"

"We don't know where he went," Raven paused, "or to be more precise, after the Mute incident, RL never found Black again."

The Mute (muting incident) is a scandal that the entire organization keeps secret. Although it is kept secret, the three internal members here have heard some rumors for so many years. There was a high-level superior who had a disagreement with other leaders , using their own abilities to seal off their memory of that disputed item and forbid them to think about it again, causing them to seem to be missing unknown important gears every time they encounter related incidents, making it extremely difficult to operate.Their brains seemed to be muted and then forced to switch channels, unable to conduct any detailed exploration and discussion on this matter, and all the responsible persons lost their right to speak without any resistance.

The turning point of the incident that could have been covered up in this way was that a suspicious and withdrawn person in charge avoided other people, spent a lot of time overcoming the lack of volume in his brain and insisted on secretly investigating, and finally reversed his own memory, and followed the subtle The clues revealed the unfulfilled conspiracy of the ambitious superior.

For the young people who joined the organization after the incident, these are wounds that have scabbed deep inside the organization. Maybe you can still see some traces, but they are untouchable wounds that have drained blood and tears long ago. .

All the narratives about this incident that have been circulated outside, no matter what version, everyone's name is anonymized.Later people only knew a vague outline, and no one could find any results after further investigation.

Now after what Duan Ya said, everyone took their seats, guessing that the person who disappeared was Black Finch.

"So Black is the one...?" Really didn't know how to address this person, so Xiao Xin had to drag his tone and wait for Raven to take over.

"Yes, he used to be code-named [Professor]," Raven accepted her words smoothly, and continued: "Black is my previous generation's teacher. When I took over the position from the previous generation, he thought that RL's younger generation There needs to be someone who is awake, so he told me all the ins and outs of Mute."

He took a deep breath: "The events back then were roughly the same as what you are spreading, but the situation at that time was unimaginably tragic. Because of him, the good reputation that RL members worked so hard to manage was almost completely destroyed. I According to the previous generations, after Black left, nearly one-third of the members of all departments worldwide had to be disbanded, a small part because they lost their spiritual support and voluntarily resigned, and most of them were because they were 'dumped'. Professor's brainwashing sequelae led to the inability to work normally. The leaders of that generation also decided to retire and change their blood after discussion. They did the last two things in their jobs. The coping strategy is to appease people’s hearts, and the second is to change the meeting mode. Now all the responsible persons are not allowed to meet in person, and can only communicate through holographic images.

"For everyone in RL, this is not a bright thing that can be discussed on the table, but I don't think it's a good way to cover it up, so even if everyone has been secretly spreading rumors in private, I don't think so. It didn’t stop it. It can’t be called positive, but it’s enough to make people alert—no matter how bad the nature of the Mute incident is, I don’t think we can cut other people’s throats and cut off the volume of the world like that careerist, Put on an expression that nothing happened."

After two paragraphs of words, Raven finally paused. The questions that several people wanted to ask were circling in their minds. It is about some little-known endings. The previous generation told me that there was an unexpected power outage in the morgue when Blake’s body was being examined. When the lights were turned on again, his entire body disappeared. No one dared to No one can bear the responsibility of causing anxiety and panic in the world by making this matter public, so they can only let it go hastily, and there is no news after investigation. Now almost 20 years have passed,'Qing Zhi 'Since this ability has reappeared in this world, we must not let it go. We must investigate to the end this time."

It is difficult for ordinary people to hear the words spoken word by word in Raven's mouth, almost gnashing his teeth. On weekdays, he always expresses his thoughts gently and full of kindness, neither rush nor rash, neither contend nor grab.

However, this time, even if the three of Xin Xi only listened to his voice through the screen, they could still imagine his persistent expression at the moment, and the coldness like sharp blades roaring out of the ice blue eyes.

Xiao Xin couldn't help taking a errand and thinking: Sure enough, as long as you live long, you can meet anything.

The Siren is worthy of being a member who once worked under the Raven. He understood that there were other meanings in the Raven's words almost instantly. Is it RL? Or is it just us who are now forced to participate in this?"

The other side was silent.

Siren and Xin Xi glanced at each other, and were about to continue asking, but there was a knock on the door, and then Jonathan's voice appeared, and he said, "Sir, we found out...you are on the phone? It is convenient for me to continue reporting." ?"

"I'm talking to Xin Xi, it's okay."

Joe closed the door, and his voice became clearer. He must have walked to Raven from the door.He went on to say: "We did a blood test on the suspects, and found that several of them had boosters in their bodies. The ingredients are very pure, and they are high-end goods circulating on the black market."

"Can you find out the source?"

"It will take some time to compare with the samples in the database, as well as to interrogate and check the channels of the goods. The results may not be available until tomorrow morning at the earliest."

Raven murmured: "It's too late..." His voice was very low, and I wondered if Jonathan could hear him clearly, but the loudspeaker on the microphone made his anxiety clear.

Xin Xi naturally heard it, and she knew how to solve the problem of data screening and time race.

She pursed her lips, lowered her eyes to think about whether she should betray Xiaopin in order to remind Jonathan, Xin Xi's rationality and sensibility were fighting in her mind, and it was inseparable, and she couldn't get a result for a while.

Still struggling with her thoughts, she suddenly caught a glimpse of the small decoration just hung on the side of her mobile phone shaking slightly under the action of inertia, and the honey-colored eyes of the black cat Sphinx were surprisingly bright like light bulbs representing wisdom and inspiration.

By the way, there is more than one powerful information center in this world!This little thing really reminded her!

Without hesitation, Xiao Xin said into the microphone, "Joe, maybe the cat knows."

Jonathan was quiet for a while, probably asking for Raven's opinion, and after getting permission, he replied: "Okay." Then he turned and left the room.

The door lock clicked shut, Raven spoke faintly with a faint echo, and continued the topic that was accidentally interrupted just now: "As the dark side of RL, it is impossible to bring the silent incident to the stage for investigation."

The siren answered immediately, with more or less sarcasm in his tone: "Then why did you choose us? This job should be done by you Hongguang insiders, Jonathan, Eli or whoever, they are the best at keeping secrets Isn’t it? If we were involved in the investigation, then the dark side of RL that is unknown may not always be the dark side.”

Raven ignored his sarcasm towards Hong Guang and the vaguely revealed threat, and just smiled lightly: "Siren, are you pretending to understand or are you really confused? The point of investigating Black's case is not to strictly guard against information leaks, I don't care Whether RL will lose its reputation because of this incident, what I care about is whether we can find that person. This matter must be handed over to a team with enough freedom and mobility. The action team with this characteristic is not blue and purple It is none other than you, and the team with the most efficient and stable combination of abilities among all the teams is you. Another point is that I trust Dr. Zoe’s daughter and her former partners, and they have not let anyone down so far. Yu Gong Personally, I have no other choice."

Heath always felt that something was wrong when he heard what he said, not to mention that the raven, a bad thing, actually brought up Xin Xi's mother, which touched Professor Heath's minefield. He changed his indifferent demeanor and frowned. He said: "You must mention Zoe? She is a dead person and has a fart relationship with you. You don't want to use her as a moral kidnapping here. Anyway, neither the little Xin Siren nor I Obliged to help you."

Although Professor Heath entered the job later than Raven, he is slightly younger than him, and his position is several levels lower than him, but he can't stand him who has made countless contributions to the organization by virtue of his genius and IQ. He is not old but famous. He is so respected that even the person in charge of Hongguang dares to complain.

The professor spoke decisively and without any pressure, and the siren was very comfortable listening. He touched the tip of his nose with one hand and pretended to be thinking seriously, but in fact, the corners of his lips were already slightly curled up.

Even Xiao Xin, who is as slow as Xiao Xin, noticed the sudden change in the topic. She first looked left and right and observed for a while: Heath's expression was so stinky that she dared not talk to her, while Siren wrote "not online, do not disturb" all over her face. There was no sound on the other side of the phone.

Um?strange.

She carefully recollected the content of everyone's chat just now. After thinking about it, she couldn't understand the point of the conflict between Heath and Raven. Why did they speak well and suddenly quarreled?Why did no one speak before the ins and outs of the quarrel?

What's the difference between this and the Chinese New Year when you go out with great fanfare and set off firecrackers to add to the fun, but you end up buying a squib?Simply inexplicable!

"So... are we still discussing about Black or the silence incident? Gentlemen, I think you're digging a little too seriously." Xiao Xin tried to break the silence.

"They started it first." Raven still maintains a good demeanor, and of course his speed of throwing blame is also top-notch.

"Heh." The siren sneered and didn't speak.

Heath didn't even bother to say anything, and rolled his disdainful eyes to the top of the sky.

Xin chose to ignore the indifferent attitude of these two people, and tried to bring a rational discussion back to the scene: "So, you want Siren and I to use the blue light team as a cover to secretly help you find out Black's whereabouts? And, You want Hiss to be our temporary tech support?"

"That's what it means."

"But Heath and Siren don't seem to be very happy to help you with this matter..." Xin Xi's eyes flicked left and right, and the two people mentioned were full of reluctance.

"As long as you ask, I don't think they will refuse."

As soon as Raven finished speaking, the two of them rolled their eyes at the same time. It's a typical Hong Guang's style to play on people's weaknesses, and it's really disgusting.Their expressions of disdain were exactly in sync, and the unreasonable and strange tacit understanding in the world always seemed inexplicably funny, and Xin Xi couldn't help grinning.

She didn't intend to reject Raven, firstly because the case itself was very interesting, and secondly because Mr. Black, who didn't know whether it was a man or a ghost, attacked the child, which touched the bottom line of her tolerance.

Even if she digs three feet into the ground, she is determined to find out this fraudulent thing.

However, the seemingly reluctant looks of Heath and Siren gave her a lot of inspiration in other aspects—maybe she could gain some benefits from the raven based on this.

Her eyes lit up, she cleared her throat, and said sternly, "As Heath said, we have no obligation to help you. Our team belongs to the Blu-ray Project, and the direct supervisor is Lightness, not you Raven alone." of."

Raven calmly helped her take the turning point: "But...?"

"However! You have to be glad that I don't dislike doing things for you." Xin paused, the corners of his mouth curled up, his expression inevitably frivolous: "And, as a member of the first level of business ability in the world's largest transcendental service organization, we Never labor for free."

"what do you want?"

"Hmm..." Xin Xi smacked her lips. She wholeheartedly wanted to sell the three brothers for a "good price", but money?They are not lacking in material things themselves.So promotion?Although they have outstanding abilities, none of them have any intention of pursuing an official career, and they are even less willing to take on the responsibilities of higher positions.Want to take a vacation?This is even more meaningless, after all, they have just been reinstated...

After thinking about it, Xin Xi couldn't find a reward that didn't cost him money to bargain with Raven.But Zuo You still had to ask him for a promise first, and it would not be too late to fulfill it later.

Xiao Xin thought about it, and said frankly: "I haven't thought about this yet, I owe it first, and when we have discussed it, we will ask you to cash it together. You can't renege on the debt!"

The tone of the person on the other end of the phone did not change at all, and he said gently, "I promise you."