Chapter 11: Please Don't Go, Gu Yifeng lowered his head and gently kissed her forehead

“Ding ding—ding ding—”

The shrill ringing of the bell broke the silence.

Gu Yifeng glanced at the caller ID: [Encrypted Line]

"explain."

"Boss, I just successfully hacked into Guo Qingyu's app and found something!"

"I see."

Gu Yifeng hung up the phone with a frown. The car became quiet with only the sound of rain.

The two were so close that they could feel each other's breath. She felt his fingers brushing against her cheek, which was a little cold, but made her heart beat faster.

"Wen Yi, give me a chance to protect you."

She watched the fiery emotions swirling in his eyes.

"I don't care how dangerous your abilities are." He said firmly, "As long as you're by my side, I won't let you get hurt."

Wen Yi's eyes welled up, and she was speechless. She had once wanted to face everything alone, but it turned out... besides her family, there were people willing to protect her.

Gu Yifeng held her hand, a gentle smile on his lips: "Don't leave, okay?"

My throat seemed to be choked by something and I couldn't speak.

Finally she nodded: "Okay."

At this moment, even the sound of rain became gentle.

Gu Yifeng lowered his head and gently kissed her forehead: "Thank you."

He immediately started the engine: "Let's go and see what Xiao Gao found."

*

Inside the National Security Bureau's Yunhu Office

Gao Yiyuan pulled up the core backend code for the Yiqi app and said, "Look at this 'emotion matching algorithm' module. It's not analyzing user preferences at all—"

Gao Yiyuan's fingers tapped quickly on the keyboard, and the data stream on the screen scrolled quickly.

"It's a detector, and its purpose is..." Gao Yiyuan turned around and was about to explain, but suddenly stopped.

Gu Yifeng picked up the half-cold cup of coffee next to Wen Yi and asked, "What is it?"

There was still a trace of lipstick on the rim of the cup. Gu Yifeng took a sip from the spot where she had drunk from. "Too sweet."

Gao Yiyuan's pen fell on the table with a "click".

Wen Yi, who realized it belatedly, exclaimed, "Gu...that, that was what I drank."

"Yeah." Gu Yifeng put down the cup without changing his expression. "Shall I make you another cup?"

Wen Yi's cheeks flushed slightly: "No need."

Gao Yiyuan silently turned his face to the screen: "I didn't see anything..." He quietly poked Ye Min next to him.

Ye Min's gaze moved from the screen to them, her eyes flickered, and she quickly looked away.

Gu Yifeng stared at the screen. "The abnormal frequency of alpha brain waves collected by the headphones, the abnormal fluctuation of capacitance values ​​when scanning the user's iris with the selfie camera, and fingerprint recognition, his purpose is very clear. He is screening people with special abilities."

Wen Yi couldn't help but clench her hands.

Ye Min held the tablet, his face pale, but his voice steady. "Teacher Gu, I've researched his government project, and I've found the same problem!"

Gu Yifeng put down his coffee cup and said, "Speak."

"This 'smart city' project." She pulled up a confidential government document. "Guo Qingyu's proposed 'citizen behavior prediction system' is ostensibly intended to optimize municipal services..."

Wen Yi leaned closer to her tablet. The plan details page actually read: "Using 5G base stations equipped with quantum scanning modules, real-time monitoring of abnormal physiological data of the entire population."

"He's using government projects as cover!" Ye Min paused. "The entire city's population will be under his tight surveillance network!"

Gu Yifeng's eyes turned completely cold. Just as he was about to speak, a harsh electronic noise suddenly rang out.

The data on the computer dissipated like the tide, and Guo Qingyu erased all the data again.

Wen Yi stood up and said, "Someone told me that his ability is to devour and rewrite all electronic devices he comes into contact with. Data will be devoured, but corpses will not. Evidence can be tampered with, but death never lies. I have traced back his criminal past, and now it's time to let the body identify the murderer."

The next morning, Wen Yi returned to the office early and joined the investigation team's search operation.

The photos on the screen kept turning, passing before her eyes like a revolving lantern. Wen Yi had already sat at her computer looking at hundreds of photos of missing men, and the quickly passing facial features left only blurry afterimages in her eyes.

"Stop... stop for a moment," Wen Yi felt her temples throbbing and her eyes felt a little sore.

Gao Yiyuan immediately stopped typing. "Take a break first?" He handed her a bottle of water. "These are the last batch of photos of missing persons from the past six months. Is there still no photo of the deceased you saw?"

Wen Yi shook her head. She was sure that none of the faces matched the one she saw in her memory.

What if the data in the missing persons database has also been tampered with?

Behind her, Ni Qianfan walked past her, holding a cup of coffee, and approached an elderly gentleman with graying temples. "Teacher Li, are you still raising insects on a business trip?"

Li Zhengyang said without even raising his head: "Don't touch it! This is a key piece of evidence!"

"The leadership is taking this explosion case very seriously. Even Professor Li has been invited to assist us!"

Gao Yiyuan was puzzled: "Isn't Professor Li a botanist and entomologist? But we are dealing with a bombing case..."

Ye Min shook his head. "Professor Li is an expert in criminal ecological evidence, a walking encyclopedia. His students are spread across various fields. Having him here is like having half the entire Academy of Sciences' expert team supporting us."

Ni Qianfan echoed this sentiment: "Professor Li once solved a cross-provincial serial murder case by using a grain of pollen and insect eggs attached to the sole of a victim's shoe. No clue can escape Professor Li's scrutiny!"

Wen Yi, who was originally staring at the screen numbly, suddenly had a bright look in her eyes.

——Plants, insects, and murders.

She was thinking in the wrong direction! The clues she had now might not identify the deceased, but they might lead to the burial site.

The scene of the murderer burying the body flashed through my mind again:

The leaves that fell on the corpse had unique serrated edges and veins like crackling lightning;

A dark red spider suddenly emerged from the dead branches and leaves;

There are tall trees in the distance.

"Professor Li!" Wen Yi darted over to Li Zhengyang, her eyes gleaming as she asked, "I'd like to ask if it's possible to locate a crime scene through vegetation and insects?"

"It's theoretically feasible," Li Zhengyang said, taking off his reading glasses. "But precise positioning requires an extremely special combination of vegetation."

Professor Li took Wen Yi's hand-drawn leaf and examined it carefully. "If the leaf you drew is accurate, I think it might be a leaf of the giant iron-scale oak."

"I'm very sure that there is nothing wrong with the painting." Wen Yi had spent the entire night digging a hole in her dream, and she knew all the details of the scene clearly.

Li Zhengyang handed the painting back to her and pulled up a map of Yunhu City on his computer. "This kind of tree is only found in the forested area in the north of Yunhu City." He pointed at the screen, "This is the area."

Although the scope has been narrowed, this forest area is still too large for searching for the burial site.

"Professor Li—" Wen Yi took out another picture and handed it to him, "What if we add this?"

The picture shows a dark red spider with clear details.

Professor Li examined it for a moment, then stroked his chin thoughtfully and said, "This... doesn't look like a local variety."

"But I have a guess. Wait." He took the painting and began to look up information.

"Come and see if this is the spider in this picture?" Li Zhengyang waved to Wen Yi.

"That's right! It's the kind of spider I saw!" Wen Yi nodded, staring at the photo of a dark red spider with golden rings on its toes on the computer screen.

"I told you this spider isn't a local species." Li Zhengyang leaned back in his chair, folded his hands over his chest and told the two, "This spider is an invasive alien species, translated as the Red Fire Spider.

They are extremely rare in Yunhu City and even the entire southeast region, and they entered Yunhu City following specific plants.

They don't like the soil here and are only found in places where plants are cultivated."

"So, this kind of red fire spider shouldn't appear in the northern forest area?"

"That's right, unless someone there cultivates a considerable number of plants that the red fire spiders like, such as a botanical garden or a nursery."

As soon as Professor Li finished speaking, Gao Yiyuan seemed to remember something and whispered to Wen Yi, "I remember now, there are indeed several nurseries in the northern suburbs.

I carefully studied Guo Qingyu's information. There is a relocation site in Shibei that is used for the government-supported AI Ecological Park project, and there is a nursery there.

"Look, it's right here!" Gao Yiyuan pointed at the map on the screen. "The data shows that the funds haven't arrived yet, the project hasn't started, and this piece of land is undeveloped."

Could that be the burial site she saw?

Wen Yi was about to send a report to Gu Yifeng when an anonymous text message popped up on her phone:

When fireworks are brilliant, no one asks where the spark comes from.

Before Wen Yi could comprehend the meaning of this sentence, the information quickly disappeared.

It’s Guo Qingyu again.

Fireworks are dazzling? Is this the serial bombing case that Gu Yifeng is investigating?

What is he hinting at? Is there something else going on?

Wen Yi put down her phone calmly. Things were far more complicated than she had imagined. Who could she trust?

Wen Yi put on a hat and sunglasses: "I'll go take a look first!" She turned around and walked out the door with the nursery address.

"No! Don't go alone!" Gao Yiyuan stretched out his hand. "The boss said he's in a meeting. We have to wait until he finishes the meeting..."

Ye Min and Ni Qianfan looked at each other and stepped forward to stop Wen Yi.

"Don't follow me." She opened the door without looking back: "Trust me, you can't stop me."

Li Zhengyang's magnifying glass was still frozen in mid-air. He asked with rare curiosity, "Who is this girl? What is her relationship with Gu Yifeng?"

"They..." Gao Yiyuan smiled meaningfully.

Li Zhengyang put down the magnifying glass and said, "I understand! The relationship between quantum entanglement!"

It was almost evening when Wen Yi arrived at the northern suburbs. The slanting sunlight cast long black shadows on the iron fence of the abandoned nursery.

The rusty chains had been cut at some point, allowing anyone to enter easily.

Wen Yi pushed open the heavy iron gate and explored the nursery. The soles of her shoes rolled over the dry fallen leaves of the iron-scale oak, making a slight crackling sound.

Facing this endless nursery, Wen Yi narrowed her eyes slightly.

She was careless and thought the area was small enough, but she didn't expect the nursery to be so large.

Fortunately, she was not unprepared.

Suddenly, a shrill crow cry was heard in the air. Wen Yi looked up following the sound and saw dozens of corpse crows gathered on a nearby iron-scale oak tree. Their dark bodies shone with colorful luster in the sunlight.

After calling, the crows became unusually quiet, their scarlet eyes staring at Wen Yi.

The leading crested crow suddenly took off, circled in the sky, and then swooped down towards Wen Yi.

The author has something to say:

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The question is quantum entanglement.

Gu Yifeng: Director, why did my kissing scene get cut? Can you do another take?

Director: I will arrange it, I will arrange it as long as the collection increases!

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