Chapter 261 Meeting an Old Friend

"Who is that person?" Rong Yuan asked himself.
Pea carefully poked his head out, looked into his pocket, and asked, "Is there anything wrong with him?"
"It may be related to Wu Xi." Rong Yuan hesitated for a moment, but finally decided to finish the task at hand first, and said: "Let Noah mobilize satellites and surveillance to keep a close eye on him. Also, check the whereabouts of Wu Xi."
"yes."
With something on his mind, Rong Yuan stopped strolling leisurely. He picked up a bicycle from nearby, tried it to see if it was still usable, then rode away. In less than five minutes, he arrived at the building he was looking for.
He looked up and saw that it was just an ordinary commercial building, square, with about twenty or thirty floors, and there was nothing special about its appearance.
The ground of the first floor lobby was littered with documents and odds and ends, and it was very messy. It was obvious that people had left in a hurry. Rong Yuan picked up a piece of paper from the ground and looked at it. He found that it was just a very ordinary business statistics table. Most of the things scattered around were similar. This city was full of such scenes, and Rong Yuan was not surprised. After searching the floors above ground and finding nothing unusual, Rong Yuan went to the underground parking lot. He thought he would see many dusty vehicles, but after a round, he made an unexpected discovery.
Near the staircase of the parking lot, there was an elevator with no indicator light on the outside. It was the same color as the wall and was designed to be very hidden. He could easily find it because the elevator door was half open. A woman's body was lying at the door, trying desperately to crawl out. There was a pool of black and red blood under her body. The bloodstains were distributed in a strange way. Her eyes were still wide open, revealing deep resentment and unwillingness.
Looks familiar, Rong Yuan thought, but he couldn't remember where he had seen her before. He looked down and saw something like an ID card on the body, so he put on gloves and took it off. He wanted to drag the woman's body out, but changed his mind halfway through, so he pulled it back to the elevator and stepped in. Sensing that there was no obstruction at the door, the elevator door closed silently.
In fact, the government has already cut off power supply to most unmanned places in L City, but this building should have an independent power supply system, so these facilities are still in operation.
The elevator lit up softly. From the buttons on the right side, it can be seen that this elevator leads to the underground, which has 20 floors. Rong Yuan directly pressed the bottom button and prepared to prevent being attacked as soon as the door opened. However, the elevator did not move, but prompted to verify the identity. He swiped the identity card of the corpse and scanned the eyes. Rong Yuan lifted the corpse and grabbed her hair and pulled her eyes to align with the scanner. After a few seconds, he heard a light "beep" and the verification was passed.
The elevator shook slightly and began to fall. It stopped after one minute and forty seconds, and the door slid open quietly again. Rong Yuan was silent when he saw the scene in front of him.
There was blood everywhere, which was not caused by UCOC syndrome. In particular, the rows of bullet holes and metal shells on the wall proved that a massacre had taken place here before. The white corridor was filled with bodies of people wearing white coats who had been shot. Some of the lights above his head were broken, and the lights flickered all the way. He walked among countless blood-stained bodies, feeling complicated.
He originally suspected that this place was related to the source of infection of the Baise dragonfly and was still waiting for a detailed investigation, but he saw a scene that looked like a murder to silence the witnesses.
This is a place very similar to the 907 Institute. Through the windows and some open doors, you can see all kinds of instruments that look like they exist in science fiction movies, but many of them are broken. Bombs are installed on some of the main load-bearing walls. It seems that the people who massacred this place originally planned to blow up everything and bury it, but for some reason they didn't have time to do so and left in a hurry without even dealing with the bodies.
Rong Yuan guessed that the reason that prevented them from destroying all the evidence was probably the sudden large-scale outbreak of the Baise dragonfly at that time.
At the end of the corridor was a laboratory with a whole wall made of transparent glass. Rong Yuan had a lot of that kind of glass in his 907 Research Institute, so Rong Yuan knew that it was very strong and that a normal machine gun might not be able to penetrate it even after half an hour of shooting. It was obvious that the massacrers had also tried to attack here. Many bullet shells fell on the ground and even tiny cracks appeared on the glass wall, but at that moment, they suddenly gave up.
So the people inside are still alive.
Yes, Rong Yuan found a living person here - perhaps this is the last survivor of the entire underground laboratory.
Behind the glass wall, a middle-aged man was sitting on a chair, typing away on the keyboard. Rong Yuan's arrival did not seem to alarm him at all. He had messy black hair, unshaven beard, and a pair of thick black glasses on his nose. He looked like he had been hungry for a long time and looked very haggard. But he did not seem to be in a depressed state. He was concentrating on the various digital symbols flowing on the screen, giving people the feeling that he was in control of the world.
Rong Yuan was not unfamiliar with this attitude.
Although that person's face has changed a lot over the past ten years, you can still see the familiar traces of the past.
Rong Yuan looked at it for a while, his heart calm. He raised his hand and pressed it on the glass. The string force vibrated, and in an instant, the glass wall that could not be penetrated even by bullets turned into a pile of debris in his palm, and fell to the ground with a splash like a waterfall.
The noise finally alarmed the man, but he just said without turning his head: "Wait a moment, my theory is almost complete... Just give me two more minutes!"
Rong Yuan stepped over the broken glass and walked in. He stood behind him and watched for a moment, then suddenly said, "It's impossible. You calculated wrong."
"What?" The man's authority was clearly unquestionable. He looked over angrily, only to find that Rong Yuan was not the person he expected. He was stunned for a moment, then immediately asked, "What's wrong with the calculation?"
He was focused and didn't care about Rong Yuan's identity and background, but he was extremely concerned about what he said. It seemed that apart from his research, he didn't care about any other problems in the world.
"Here." Rong Yuan stretched out his hand and tapped a spot on the screen, saying, "You made a mistake in substituting a number."
The man took a look, then took off his glasses and rubbed them. He put them back on and leaned over to take another look. His face immediately darkened.
Apparently, due to hunger or fatigue, his eyes were blurry and his body was weak, so he accidentally substituted a wrong number, causing all subsequent research to become a waste of time and useless work.
But there are very few people in this world who can see this kind of mistake at a glance.
The man stood up and turned around. For the first time, he looked at Rong Yuan seriously and asked, "Who are you?"
Rong Yuan had been reminded by Wandou and knew that there was no surveillance equipment inside, so he lifted his hood, took off his mask, and said softly, "Long time no see, Ni Zihao."
"Do you know me?" Ni Zihao looked at him suspiciously, then said, "Sorry, I don't remember you."
Rong Yuan did not use a mimicry suit to change his appearance. There were few people in the world who did not recognize him. Among his old friends, he was the only one who could speak so calmly.
Thinking back to the days when we lived in the same dormitory during the competition training, and were always speechless and helpless because of each other's lack of direction and face blindness, it seemed like a past life. Rong Yuan sighed and asked, "Didn't you sign a contract with the Whit family in Nut Country? Why are you here?"
When Ni Zihao heard that it was indeed someone who knew him in the past, he forgot to ask about Rong Yuan's identity and said directly: "The Whitt family went bankrupt several years ago. After I graduated, I entered this research institute through the introduction of my tutor." He seemed quite impatient with such greetings, but he had improved a lot since high school. Even if he didn't like it, he still answered seriously.
Rong Yuan understood immediately. When he just came back from Biqiu Star, Noah once said vaguely that when he was away, it taught a lesson to those who had targeted Rong Yuan in the past, such as the Maizi family, the Rong family, and some families that Rong Yuan felt he had never heard of, probably targeting people from Yuanyang Company. As long as used were not illegal or excessive, in other words, they would not cause him to lose merit, Rong Yuan did not care about these things, so he let Noah do whatever he wanted.
Although Noah himself cannot show up, he has more intelligence and money than anyone else in the world. Being targeted by him is much more terrifying than being targeted by Rong Yuan. The Maizi family, which was once so large that it could influence the world economy, was wiped out by him. It is estimated that the Rong family is not much better.
In fact, Rong Yuan had long stopped caring about those people, but knowing that Noah did this for him, he still felt warm in his heart.
Ni Zihao was so weak that he could not stand steadily after saying just two words, and had to sit down on a chair. Rong Yuan frowned when he saw him like this and asked, "How many days have you not eaten?"
This man was so hungry that he was in a trance. He couldn't even concentrate if he wasn't looking at his research project. He seemed like he could faint at any time. It took him a while to go over Rong Yuan's question in his mind, and then he was stunned. He stared at the ceiling for a long time and couldn't remember when he had eaten last.
Rong Yuan knew that this guy was a super otaku who couldn't take care of himself. It wouldn't be surprising if he was left alone and starved to death. Therefore, no matter where she went, her mother followed her and took care of her. So he asked, "Where's your mother?"
"She?" Ni Zihao thought for a moment and said, "When the attackers came, she went upstairs to get food. She might be dead?" He spoke very calmly and casually, and seemed extremely indifferent, but as he spoke, a tear slid down from the corner of his eye.
Ni Zihao touched his face and looked at the tears on his fingertips, obviously surprised.
Rong Yuan suddenly remembered the corpse blocking the elevator door in the underground parking lot. He finally understood why he felt she looked familiar. He also remembered the strangely distributed bloodstains on the ground.
——When she was dying, she didn't try to crawl out to ask for help, but tried hard to crawl back.
"What exactly happened here? Why are all the people dead?" Rong Yuan asked in a dry voice.
Ni Zihao thought hard. He usually didn't care about the outside world, but such a big event that everyone was killed still left a little mark in his heart. So after a while, he said: "They brought two reagents for us to study. They said it was something from outer space. Later... I heard that it contained a virus, and it seemed to have been accidentally leaked, causing a terrible disaster. The higher-ups didn't want people to know that the disaster was related to them, so they sent troops to kill everyone here. As for why they left suddenly, I don't know."
That's indeed the reason!
Rong Yuan was not surprised, but a little tired. He looked at Ni Zihao's skinny appearance and asked, "They all left, why didn't you leave?"
"I'll wait for my mother to come back." Ni Zihao said without thinking, and after a pause, he said, "I haven't finished this research yet!" After that, he sat back, modified the mistake pointed out by Rong Yuan, deleted all the content afterwards, and started working again.
Rong Yuan looked at him for a while, then turned and left.
Pea said: "Why not tell him that his mother is not coming back."
"He knows."
"But if you leave him here alone, he will die."
"I know."
So Pea stopped talking and remained silent for a while before continuing, "The one who asked them to study the Baise Mantis and ordered the murder should be the Prime Minister of Juniper Country. He also died in the previous disaster, so he didn't send anyone else to complete the task here."
Rong Yuan roughly searched the other floors and found nothing new. He returned to the elevator and looked at the gradually rising numbers before saying, "He has negative merit."
"Why?"
"And it's a lot... astronomical."
Wandou suddenly realized: "He was the one who leaked the virus? Why?"
"Who knows?" Rong Yuan curled his lips and said, "Maybe it was just a momentary negligence, or maybe..."
"What's possible?" Pea couldn't help but ask.
Rong Yuan shook his head and did not say the idea that suddenly popped up in his mind. Even though he had faced people like the doctor before, he could not believe that someone would easily make a decision that would cause countless people to die just to verify a hypothesis.
But he remembered the characters that Ni Zihao had typed on the screen - if he had not studied the Baise dragonfly to a certain level, he would not have been able to write such a formula.
"But you didn't kill him," Pea murmured. "Why?"
Wandou has always been worried that Rongyuan's heart has become softer and softer. Once he is soft-hearted, he will easily do something wrong. If Rongyuan showed mercy because they once knew each other, or because of that tear...
"Who said I didn't?" Rong Yuan said indifferently. He left the parking lot and walked out of the building, then said calmly, "It's just that this place shouldn't be seen by others; and there's no need to do the same thing twice."
As soon as he finished speaking, a huge explosion was heard from the building behind him. The bombs installed in the building suddenly exploded together, accompanied by flames shooting into the sky. The buildings collapsed layer by layer like snow towers melted by hot water. Billowing black smoke and dust quickly expanded, and a strong wind blew through the streets with a whistling sound.
Rong Yuan put on his hood again and walked into the dark alley.
"Where are we going now?" Pea asked softly.
"Go find that guy...who might be related to Wu Xi."
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