In reality, the investigation is still moving forward in an orderly manner.

Wen Nu was locked in a military cell.

His range of motion was restricted, and he sat slumped on a chair, his eyes were red and bloodshot, and he was in a state of embarrassment.

Hearing the sound of the door opening, Wen You raised her head, and when she saw the person coming, her gray pupils shrank slightly.

...Pu Ying.

After being locked up, this was the first time Pu Ying came to see him in person.

Pu Ying didn't ask people to follow in. Before entering the door, people turned off all the monitoring equipment in the prison room.

Wen You asked hoarsely, "Pu Ying... what do you mean?"

He has not been in the mood to take care of himself for many days, and he knows how down and out he is now without guessing.

Losing her identity as the person in charge of the General Scientific Research Institute, Wen You could do nothing but watch those people turn over the terminal and check it, finding out every item of data that had been whitewashed and modified.

Just yesterday, the operation record that illegally unlocked the security protection of the terminal four months ago and exposed the database to danger was finally uncovered like this.

With this record, Wen Er must bear at least 60.00% of the responsibility for the previous data theft incident.

"Turn off the monitoring, so you can take a closer look at how embarrassing I am?"

Wen Nu looked at Pu Ying, his emotions had been out of control under the continuous high-pressure interrogation, and his tone began to be sharp: "Are you very lucky?"

Pu Ying asked: "What?"

Wen Nu stared at him: "You've always wanted to get rid of me...Congratulations, you've made a lot of progress."

Pu Ying did not speak.

He poured a glass of water for Wen Er, put it on the table in front of Wen Er, took another chair, and sat across the table from Wen Er.

He has never had any emotional fluctuations, but in the eyes of Wen You in this situation, this calmness has become a more vivid and unignorable irony.

Wen Er was so excited by this kind of ridicule that he lost his mind, and the tyranny hidden in his nature was completely out of control: "...Enough!"

"Don't pretend to be kind here... You have long wanted to deal with me, haven't you?"

"You don't want to be normal at all, you just like to stay that way. Do you know what you are?"

Wen You's eyes were full of coldness: "You are a monster, a defective product that can never be saved, you will never see the light, you can only be a shadow hiding in the gutter..."

Pu Ying interrupted him: "Wen Er."

Wen You's chest rose and fell violently, and she stared at him with an almost ferocious expression.

Pu Ying didn't speak, he turned his head and looked at the mirror on the wall next to the prison room.

Here, he should ask Wen Er, "Have you always looked at me like this?".

But he didn't want to ask.

He doesn't need to ask, Wen Er's research conclusions are somewhat biased, he just "can't clearly feel complex emotions", but it's not "unable to distinguish".

In fact, Pu Ying has always been able to discern, every time Wen Er looked at him, those words that were hidden and unspoken under the tenderness and affection.

Pu Ying thought for a while, and said to Wen Er: "I will feel a little uncomfortable."

Wen You's pupils narrowed slightly: "What?"

"Others say I'm a monster, it's true." Pu Ying said, "You think I'm a monster and a defective product, and I will feel a little uncomfortable."

Wen Er looked at him inexplicably, as if he had heard something particularly funny and absurd.

Pu Ying continued: "There are some deviations in your research."

"We can be whole if we are given enough opportunities to acquire enough supplementary parts of our personality from the outside world."

Pu Ying said: "Your treatment method is wrong. We should not be isolated and deliberately guided...we should not be treated as patients."

Wen Er suddenly laughed.

He has been played around at will these days, and his whole body has long been filled with hostility, and finally found a chance to vent, the mockery and arrogance on his face have even begun to be undisguised.

Wen Ru looked at Pu Ying, but his expression became calm and peaceful, and his voice eased strangely: "...Pu Ying, do you know what is the success rate for patients sent to mental hospitals to prove that they are not mentally ill? "

Pu Ying shook her head.

"It's zero." Wen Er said, "Even if they are not sick, as long as they want to explain, they can fall into reasonable pathological psychology logic."

Wen Er leaned forward and lowered her voice: "You too."

He saw with his own eyes that Pu Ying had someone turn off the surveillance, and that the military's prison cells had anti-eavesdropping functions that blocked all recording equipment.

Without evidence, he can say these words with confidence.

"I am the most authoritative electronic storm research expert in the entire alliance, and the conclusion I give is the official conclusion."

"It's not you, nor me...it's the cutting-edge papers that judge whether you are sick or not."

"In the latest paper, it is proposed that only establishing a long-term stable and exclusive spouse relationship is the best way to treat patients like you. This paper has been published in an S-level journal, and it has also won the prize."

"Who do you think the outside world will trust, who will our two families trust?"

Wen You's voice was cold, and there was a nervous light in the gray eyes: "Is it me or you?"

Pu Ying didn't answer, he met Wen Er's gaze.

He has read too much information about Wen Er, and the family asked him to learn more about Wen Er. Almost all of the audio-visual and written records belonging to Pu Ying in his childhood were with Wen Er.

Wen Er took him to study and worked with him on the homework left by his tutor.

Wen Er taught him to play the piano.

He let go of the sparrows caught by Wen Er for the experiment. Wen Er watched the sparrows flapping their wings and fled away. He was angry and had nothing to do with him, so he had to take him back to redesign the experiment.

...These images, which were already unfamiliar enough, overlapped with even stranger people in front of them, and completely disappeared.

"I have left enough room for myself, Pu Ying, they can't convict me... wait at most two or three years to avoid the limelight, and those private laboratories that want to get impact factors will also try to rob me."

Wen Er was still going down and said: "Your inheritance rights are with me. Marry me, and I will treat you in person. This is a matter of course."

"Everyone is happy."

Wen You spoke calmly: "In this way, I can escape smoothly. Your parents and family members can rest assured, and our family will not have conflicts because of you investigating me. Everyone will be satisfied..."

Pu Ying: "My feelings are not included in what you have considered."

Wen You laughed: "You still don't understand...Pu Ying, whether you feel it or not is not something you can decide."

Wen Nu looked at him with pity in his eyes: "Didn't you get reprimanded by the family when you came home this time? They thought you were a cold-blooded monster, so you must be a cold-blooded monster."

"They have decided that you will not have feelings, even if you don't think so, what's the use?"

Wen Er didn't take it seriously: "Besides, how can you feel? Angry? Not reconciled? None of this makes sense, Pu Ying, you—"

"It hurts." Pu Ying said.

Wen You's voice suddenly stopped.

The end of his eyes twitched violently, and he raised his head. This time he looked at Pu Ying as if he was looking at a monster.

Wen Er's throat moved slightly, he looked at Pu Ying, his voice suddenly became hoarse: "... What did you say?"

Pu Ying added: "It's because of you, but not to you."

Wen Er: "..."

Pu Ying took out several of the latest S-level periodicals and put them on the table.

Wen Er has never given him the time to explain the reason for his visit. It was only now that Pu Ying finally had the opportunity to say this: "I'm not here to see your embarrassment. I have two things to do today. The first is to inform you..."

Pu Ying said: "You are no longer an authority in the field of electronic storms."

Wen You's face turned pale.

It was as if his pupils had been stabbed hard by a needle, and the uneasiness that had been forcibly ignored and suppressed all this time finally rose up completely, swallowing him completely.

Wen Nu wanted to ask why, but she opened her mouth a few times, but couldn't make a sound.

"A hacker broke into your computer key."

Pu Ying didn't confuse him for too long, and opened the journal: "He disclosed all the most authentic and complete data about the victims of the electronic storm that you have secretly compiled over the years."

Wen Nu hissed and asked: "...how is it possible?!"

...How could someone crack the key and still see the contents? !

Wen Er couldn't believe this at all: "I have set up an automatic deletion program! That computer is absolutely safe, no one can see what's in my computer except me..."

Pu Ying: "Luo Ran said that he also hacked into your computer and saw the contents inside."

"That's what I let him in on purpose! I did it to lie to him!"

Wen Er's eyes were red, and he was almost hysterical: "I deleted his key a long time ago! Even if I can get his iris data, unless someone can remember all the operations at that time, trace back from the background, and reverse the cracking—— "

His voice stopped abruptly.

A terrifying thought suddenly popped up, strangling Wen Er's throat tightly, preventing him from uttering another word.

"After the specific information of the parties has been erased, the data will be displayed publicly and can be retrieved and used by everyone for free."

Pu Ying didn't know what Wen Er was thinking, and continued to say: "Someone has already come up with preliminary results, correcting the deviations in your research and the wrong treatment plan."

"In the past few days, a series of related papers he published have been widely recognized and cited within the profession... Most of the journals that originally published your papers issued urgent errata statements and promised to speed up the investigation. All papers will be retracted.”

Pu Ying: "I'm not a professional. In today's morning news, a journal reviewer from the Ministry of Science said that your time is over."

Wen Nuan slumped on the chair.

His eyes were almost dead gray, and he stared blankly at Pu Ying: "Why didn't you tell me earlier?"

Pu Ying: "I said so."

Wen You opened his mouth, but was unable to refute.

...Pu Ying did say it.

At the beginning of the conversation with him, Pu Ying had already said twice that there were deviations in his research and there were errors in his treatment plan.

It was because he was too confident, he thought he had already arranged it securely enough... He didn't expect someone to break into his computer.

But how long?How can someone with such strong scientific research ability be able to write revised papers that are highly recognized and widely cited in such a short period of time?

Wen Er suddenly had a more terrifying idea, he frantically flipped through the journals, forced himself to widen his eyes, and read all the papers.

He seemed to be pierced into his chest with a bone-chilling blade, and he let it go without mercy.

Pu Ying is indeed not a professional.

Among these papers, the most fatal ones were not the errata of the research and treatment plan, but the two most inconspicuous small papers that were conveniently inserted.

The research and treatment plan was wrong, and he could argue that he was not good enough.It is only limited to objective conditions and personal ability, and the wrong conclusion is drawn, which is an unintentional mistake without malice.

However, two small papers were published as the first one. One directly used the data he collected to prove the conclusion that "high-frequency detection will seriously damage the body of the detector". Data from several papers raise clear doubts.

He originally had the opportunity to take advantage of this time difference to urgently apply for special contribution and asylum regulations to exonerate himself.

Although it is unavoidable to be in a bit of embarrassment, you will lose your reputation once and lose everything you have now... But you can still get out and have a chance to make a comeback.

But once these papers were published, it completely sealed off all the retreats he had left for himself.

And that little paper, which no one paid attention to and took up only a quarter of the page, filled in the loopholes in the alliance law, and finally confirmed all his crimes.

These papers pushed Wen Er directly into a desperate situation.

"The paper is published anonymously, and the corresponding author's signature is PU.Y, and my ID is registered."

"But I don't know the author of the paper," said Pu Ying.

Wen Er didn't question Pu Ying, he collapsed into the chair exhaustedly and closed his eyes.

...he knows.

Wen Er hardly needed extra effort to speculate on the true identity of the author of these papers and the hacker who broke into his computer.

That shadow had already appeared in his mind.

The "Pu Ying" hidden in Luo Ran's body can easily drive him to a desperate situation every time.

Is that really just a new personality that Luo Ran got lost in the electronic storm, after the original personality was gradually swallowed and dispelled?

……

Zhuang Yu, the half-mad military leader who had lost all his subordinates and comrades in arms, seemed to be standing in front of Wen Er again.

It was many years ago.

After the military team was swallowed by the electronic storm, Wen Er successfully relieved himself of all responsibilities.

Everything went extremely well, he recorded the complete electronic pulses of those people after being swallowed, and used his first paper to become a blockbuster, gaining a firm foothold in the field of electronic storm research.With that paper, he was soon specially approved to enter the Science Department.

Wen Er has become the youngest researcher in the Ministry of Science, holding numerous award-winning cutting-edge papers, with the most abundant research funding, high-spirited and promising.

A few years later, Zhuang Yu came to see Wen Er alone once.

Zhuang Yu took Wen Yi's life with a gun, but failed without any surprise.

Zhuang Yu's consciousness was already in a trance, and he was held tightly by the person in charge of protecting Wen Er. He didn't struggle or resist, and looked at Wen Er with wide eyes.

Zhuang Yu asked Wen Er why he was not allowed to fall into the man-eating light.

Zhuang Yu asked him if he knew what it was like to be trapped in the same nightmare forever.

Zhuang Yu kept looking at Wen Er, and he couldn't find any ambition in his eyes.His clothes were so sloppy and weird, he carried all the things left by his comrades who died, and whoever dared to move would fight desperately.

At that time, Zhuang Yu's mind was no longer clear, he held on to those tattered things tightly, picked up all the things that fell on the ground during the scuffle, and held them in his arms.

He started talking nonsense, and told Wen Er that he saw that ball of light again later.

He said that the group of light did not want him, and he was not allowed to go to his subordinates.

"Wen Er, you are a murderer."

Zhuang Yu's voice was rough and hoarse, and his voice was extremely low, so low that it was almost just a vague murmur of disordered words.

"You are a murderer. You took so many lives in order to study electronic storms... But do you really understand your research?"

……

"I talked with Lieutenant Colonel Zhuang, and your research conclusion is wrong."

Pu Ying: "I feel pain because I feel sad."

Wen Er couldn't speak, he breathed hard, raised his eyes, and looked at Pu Ying.

"I want to express my feelings to my family, but I don't know how to express it and how to gain their trust."

Pu Ying said: "Lieutenant Colonel Zhuang said that he has come into contact with many victims of electronic storms in order to find his subordinates over the years. There are also many people like me who have recovered the ability to feel sad... But this does not make us feel Nice."

Pu Ying: "Because your thesis says that we can pretend and lie."

Before the conclusion of the paper is overturned, no one will doubt the experts and authorities in this field. Wen Er's theory has too many treatment options.

The victims who come out of the electronic storm are not complete enough, nor stable enough.

Pu Ying has never been to see Luo Ran, but he has been paying attention to Luo Ran's recuperation, and has witnessed Luo Ran's almost miraculous recovery speed - Luo Ran is filled with the unconditional trust and love of his parents.The overflowing satisfaction and determination replenished all the vitality that Luo Ran lost in the electronic storm.

"Because it hurts too much." Pu Ying said, "We gave up this ability ourselves, and also gave up unnecessary contact with the outside world."

Pu Ying: "If it didn't hurt that much at that time, or if someone came to say something to us, we might also try to go out and return to the normal world... The effect is very slow, but there is indeed such a possibility."

Wen Er listened to Pu Ying's words,

He never disdained these non-medical methods, and only regarded them as extraordinarily funny and unreliable folk remedies.

How could it be possible to cure a person with just a few words?

If these patients can be cured by talking, what exactly has he been tossing about all these years?

What has he been tossing about with Luo Ran?

Wen Er gritted his teeth, he instinctively wanted to argue, wanted to deny Pu Ying's words, but when he met Pu Ying's sight, he froze all of a sudden.

Pu Ying looked at him, as if looking at another person through him.

... This thought directly defeated Wen Er.

Wen Nu was directly overwhelmed by the rage and lost his mind.

Why is Pu Ying dissatisfied with him?

Pu Ying's return was all due to his research, so why look at other people through him?

All he did and all the mistakes he made were for Pu Ying.He was indeed watching the team sacrifice with a cold eye, but only in this way can he get enough data to write a paper and further improve the tracing system of the Science Department—otherwise, why would Pu Ying come back?

Wen You's eyes were bloodshot, he struggled desperately, trying to grab Pu Ying's collar, but Pu Ying raised his hand and held it down easily.

"I have something to ask you."

Pu Ying said: "During your research, have you ever discovered... some electronic storms actually have autonomous consciousness?"

Wen You stared, her voice muffled in her throat: "...what?"

"In the deepest part of Aurora." Pu Ying said, "I thought he was the one trapped inside, and I wanted to help him, but he refused."

"He told me he didn't need help, it was me who needed help."

Pu Ying: "After speaking, he threw me out of the electronic storm."

There was no blood on Wen Er's face, he looked at Pu Ying with an unbelievable expression, he felt that he should have heard the most whimsical nonsense, but Pu Ying never lied.

...Pu Ying never lied, he always knew it.

Whether it was the Pu Ying who followed him when he was a child, secretly let go of the sparrow he used for dissection, and came back to apologize honestly, or the Pu Ying who came back from the electronic storm and couldn't laugh or love.

He always knew.

It was he who distorted the facts, and it was he who deliberately gave wrong guidance in order to win the trust of his relatives in Pu Ying and force Pu Ying to his side.

Over the years, he has convinced the Pu family that he was the one who saved Pu Ying at the beginning, and he is the only one who can save Pu Ying in the future.

"It wasn't you." Pu Ying said, "He saved me."

"He saved me more than once."

Pu Ying said: "In the future, I will save myself."

Wen You's pupils trembled violently.

His only remaining, last shaky foundation, seemed to be completely crushed by this sentence.

"Don't say that... Pu Ying, please." Wen Er's throat was full of blood, he stretched out his hand to grab Pu Ying's arm, "You know how much I have paid for you."

"Because of you... I have nothing now, Pu Ying."

Wen You said in a hoarse voice: "It doesn't make sense to you, you asked me to contact our two families, and I told them. They believe me, and they will see what I have done to you..."

Pu Ying nodded: "Okay."

Wen Nu's eyes narrowed.

Pu Ying agreed so easily, but he felt something was wrong.

He was sure that his disguise in front of the two elders would be flawless, and Pu Ying's parents and grandfather believed in him even more. Even if something happened now, among the forces targeting him these days, there was no faction of the Pu family or the Wen family.

Pu Ying asked someone to turn off the surveillance. What they said here, Pu Ying couldn't keep it as evidence.When he was in front of the two elders, no matter what Pu Ying said, he could categorically deny it.

He likes Pu Ying so much, no one will believe that he will call Pu Ying a "monster", threaten Pu Ying, and dismiss Pu Ying's pain.

Wen Ru looked at Pu Ying, and he had no energy left to guess whether there was any problem that he might have overlooked.

"Pu Ying..." Wen You asked in a low voice, "What else did you do? Did you even take this into account?"

Pu Ying shook her head: "It's not me."

He just received a call asking him to come to Wen Er and read it from beginning to end according to the lines sent to his mobile phone.

That phone call also called more than one person. This cell was specially made for interrogation when it was built.In addition to the shielding system, an entire wall of single-way mirrors can switch modes to become completely transparent light curtains.

Behind the light curtain is an observation room that can fully monitor the interrogation room.

There is no need to record everything Wen Er said and did to him.

……

Sensing Pu Ying's gaze, Wen Er shivered slightly, and looked at the one-way mirror.

He thought that he would not be more difficult, but until now, he really understood what Zhuang Yu said to him, "being manipulated by others at will, crushed by the wheel of fate".

The one-way mirror glowed white in front of his eyes, gradually turning into a transparent light curtain.

He couldn't move, looking at the person on the other side of the light curtain.

Desperate ashes welled up in Wen You's eyes.

"Grandpa, Grandpa Wen."

Pu Ying stood up: "Can I go?"

Pu Sicun did not speak, and stood silently in another observation room.

He heard all the content, heard Wen Er's contempt and threats to Pu Ying, heard all of Wen Er's plots, and heard Pu Ying's pain.

It was the first time he faced such a situation - he didn't even know how to make up for Pu Ying.

"……Wait a moment."

Pu Sicun said in a rustling voice, his old face was covered with remorse: "Your parents also saw this, if you are not in a hurry, go home and have a light meal first..."

"A little anxious." Pu Ying said.

Pu Sicun frowned.

Wen Er has been completely arrested, and he can't think of anything else that Pu Ying should be anxious about.

Pu Sicun didn't want to force Pu Ying anymore, he stopped looking at Wen Er, and tried his best to soften his tone: "What are you going to do?"

"The limit detection plan of "Chinese Geography" will open at three o'clock this afternoon."

Pu Ying lowered her head and looked at her watch: "There are still 10 minutes, if I rush over now, there should be still time."

Pu Ying: "I have consulted, Luo Ran will attend the opening ceremony."

Pu Sicun: "..."

Wen Er was dragged up from the chair, he was stabbed hard by the name, turned his head desperately, and looked at Pu Ying in disbelief.

...Does Pu Ying know who Luo Ran is?

Luo Ran is the tool he used to vent his selfishness, the test object he used to find a cure for Pu Ying, and the stand-in he found most similar to Pu Ying.

For the past three years, he has been working hard to turn Luo Ran into Pu Ying - he is almost on the verge of success.

If it wasn't for that shadow, Luo Ran would have obediently worked as a researcher under him by now, just like when they were all young, he wanted Xiao Puying to accompany him to do it.

He has always wanted Pu Ying to be by his side well, it doesn't matter to make trouble, it doesn't matter to let the experimental animals go, just accompany him to do the research he likes.

Luo Ran projected all his obsession, greed and unwillingness to Pu Ying. He regarded Luo Ran as Pu Ying until Pu Ying came back from the storm and broke all his illusions.

Wen Er looked at Pu Ying, his eyes were already sore and his vision began to blur, but he still looked at Pu Ying in astonishment and incomprehension.

What is the relationship between Pu Ying and Luo Ran?

Does Pu Ying know that Luo Ran is just his substitute from beginning to end?

……

"I'm a fan of Luo Ran."

Pu Ying was in a hurry, he packed his things and found his "10 Days to Learn Photography": "Grandpa, I want to get an autograph."

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