Chapter 189 Doubts

The signal connection with Cheng Zheng was completely severed.

Xin Que held the data in her hand, falling continuously into nothingness.

All was silent.

In the void where the data program has not yet been deployed, there is only darkness, silence, and boundless loneliness.

The silence of the no-man's-land quickly overwhelmed the woman's senses with darkness.

But Xin Que could still clearly feel her own heartbeat.

Her mind was perfectly clear.

What she needs to do next will determine whether she can ultimately find a way out of this desperate situation.

Xin Que slowly released her hand, watching a small string of characters fly away from her palm like fireflies, and soon disappear into the darkness.

...

[A faint human signal fluctuation was detected.]

The administrator's mechanical pupils suddenly dilated, rapidly recalling all information related to the fluctuation within the layers of his pupils.

【The Void Zone?】

How can there be a signal in an undeveloped, blank area?

Soon, the data being processed continuously in the data chain provided the answer.

[The overlap rate between their signal channels and those of repeat offenders is as high as 90%...]

The administrator quickly relayed the discovery to the internal network.

At the same time, it set off for that void.

As the woman's unconscious figure gradually appeared in his pupils, the administrator's data link rapidly surged toward the target.

[Core criminal No. 13, Xin Que, has been successfully recovered.]

[The psychological damage is 45%, which is nearing the tolerable threshold.]

Are medical support services provided?

The warden, prison administrators, engineers... personnel from all levels crowded around the central floating screen, and when they saw the good news sent by the administrator, they all breathed a sigh of relief.

How did she escape to the void?

The warden frowned in thought. "It's too absurd that she was suddenly exposed in the void when she had neither the authority nor the knowledge of the map's structure."

Following the warden's train of thought, Lin Ying jokingly remarked, "The Void Zone is indeed not a key area we're investigating... She can't possibly know what's going on, can she?"

"Alright, Warden, we've found the person. We can finally relax from this anxiety..."

The warden caught the word "precognition" in Lin Ying's mouth and subconsciously continued to make connections.

"Administrator, the program's self-check cannot be stopped." The warden's expression was grave. "Regardless of whether it's related to Xin Que or not, a thorough investigation is necessary!"

Rather than believing she had the superpower of foresight, he was more realistic and preferred to believe that there was a mole in the prison who was helping Xin Que.

“But…” Lin Ying thought about how he was responsible for Xin Que’s basic life and had to ensure that she was alive until the interrogation ended, and he couldn’t help but look worried.

"Warden, are you sure you don't want to send in advanced medical personnel to treat Xin Que's condition?"

Lin Ying was terrified that something might happen to the only important prisoner under his care, who would affect the future of the prison, during his term.

Xin Que's identity is truly extraordinary.

Since taking over Xin Que's job, Lin Ying has hardly had a good night's sleep.

Especially after Xin Que's conscious image disappeared from the interrogation plan.

He had nightmares all night long. Every day when he went to work and entered the prison cell, seeing Xin Que's vital signs gradually declining, Lin Ying would lose control of his panic.

If Xin Que dies in his hands, how will he explain it to the prison?

What will the prison say to the Huo family?

Lin Ying is a high-ranking official in the prison.

But he was only a high-ranking official in the prison.

Aside from enjoying a brief moment of superiority over the lower classes in the mental prison, once you leave the mental prison...

He was just a middle-class person who was trampled underfoot by the upper class.

If a serious offender were to get into trouble while he was in charge, the prison, which relied on the Huo family for survival, would not protect him.

Therefore, he was more afraid than anyone else that something would happen to Xin Que.

Lin Ying stared intently at the warden's expression, inwardly screaming.

Say yes already!

Quickly bring in advanced medical care to keep Xin Que's vital signs at an average level!

That fucking stupid prison is pushing all the blame for the serious offenders onto me. They're generous with torture, but stingy with medical treatment. Did they already plan to make me the scapegoat if something went wrong?!

The warden noticed that Lin Ying's gaze was unusually intense.

After a long silence, until Lin Ying's knuckles began to turn white from his clenched fist, the warden finally spoke.

"I'll contact the new medical team."

The warden casually uttered these words, his gaze falling on Lin Ying's suddenly released hand.

Lin Ying immediately smiled with relief, "Okay, then I'll go back to my cell first, you can continue with your work."

The area in front of the floating screen gradually emptied.

After Xin Que's whereabouts were found, the tense atmosphere in the prison finally eased a bit.

"Administrator," the warden asked the AI ​​administrator after returning to his office and sitting down in front of the floating screen, "was Xin Que alone in the Void when she was captured? Were there any other discoveries?"

【_Yes. 】

No other suspicious persons were found, but...

A short string of firefly-like characters was transmitted from the administrator's data link to the warden's floating screen.

After a thorough search, this was found.

The warden stared at the strings on the screen as they were gradually being decoded, his brow furrowed.

【l■■】

This string of characters is incomplete, but after applying various encryption methods, only the letter "l" can be deciphered.

It's worth mentioning that... the encryption method used for this string is 100% identical to the communication encryption method Xin Que used during his last mission with the Huo family.

The warden's heart sank to the bottom. "There's a mole in the prison who's helping her."

Of the hundreds of employees in the prison, almost half have the letter 'l' in their names.

However, there is another important screening condition.

Knowing that people can hide in the void...

Only engineers and prison officials were present.

The warden immediately connected the dots regarding the death of executive Qu Huan.

It's no wonder he had wild thoughts. Qu Huan had worked in the prison for six years and had never made a mistake. But when faced with a serious criminal who was trapped in the interrogation plan, not only did he lose the two AI supervisors, City King and Mount Tai King, but he even lost himself.

He then recalled the message Qu Huan had risked her life to send back to the prison: she said that Xin Que was an inside agent among those assisting in the interrogation of prisoners.

Did Xin Que only have an inside agent while assisting in the interrogation of prisoners?

The lower-ranking prisoners assisting in the interrogation had no idea about such highly confidential information as the Void Zone.

The image of Lin Ying urgently requesting high-level medical care for Xin Que reappeared before the warden's eyes.

He slowly sat back down at his desk.

Could it be Lin Ying?

“Administrator,” the warden said cautiously, “strengthen the monitoring of the cells. Also, send over the complete list of personnel in the cells under Lin Ying’s jurisdiction.”

"It will be carried out in secret."

The seeds of doubt quietly fell into the soil.

It awaits the owner of this land to personally nurture it with distorted and embellished clues until it breaks through the soil.