As evening approached, three police cars drove into the Zhonghai District Public Security Bureau.
"We're here." The young policeman sitting next to Jiang Chen got out of the car and stood outside the car and said with a smile: "The person walking this way is your mother, right? She must be anxious waiting, comfort her and then come in to take the statement."
Jiang Chen thanked her, but before he could get off the car, his mother came running over and hugged him. He remained sitting, and his mother, who was much shorter than him, held him in her arms, just like when he was a child, with an absolutely protective attitude.
"Mom..." Feeling his mother's trembling, Jiang Chen felt guilty. He patted her back soothingly and whispered, "I'm fine, don't be afraid."
With her son in her arms, Yang Si's tense nerves finally relaxed. She let go of him a little, and when she saw the scratch on the corner of his eye, her eyes instantly turned red: "Does it hurt? Are there any other injuries?"
Jiang Chen soothed her gently, "Mom, it doesn't hurt. I just got a minor injury here. It's nothing serious."
Yang Si looked at him carefully again, and after confirming that he only had a few scratches on his face, he finally felt relieved and let him go.
Jiang Chen got out of the car and saw Huo Bo two meters away, and smiled.
The day before yesterday, after he learned about He Qianjian's plan, he called Huo Bo. He ignored He Qianjian and told Huo Bo the ins and outs of Yang Tianci's plan to kidnap him, as well as his plan to take advantage of the situation and send Yang Tianci directly to jail.
Therefore, before he went to the park today, Huo Bo had already been waiting there early. He took photos to collect evidence when he was fighting with the kidnappers, took a photo of the kidnappers' license plate number, followed the car all the way to the waste container warehouse in Xing City, and then transferred all the information to his computer at the agreed time, which was then sent to the police station by Changjiang with a different IP and the police were called, waiting outside to respond accordingly.
In Jiang Chen's original estimate, the police would arrive between three and four o'clock. Unexpectedly, the police were an hour faster than he expected, and arrived exactly within the hour that Shi Fengyue said. So Shi Fengyue's unexpected appearance did not disrupt his plan. The only unexpected people were the injured person and the kidnapper who stabbed his companion but turned a blind eye to Shi Fengyue.
Jiang Chen was very curious - how did Shi Fengyue manage to enter and exit the container without being seen by the kidnappers?
Seeing Jiang Chen standing still, Yang Si thought he was confused about why Huo Bo was here, and explained: "I couldn't find you before, so Mom called Xiao Bo. He was very concerned about you, so after he called me in the afternoon and learned that you were kidnapped, he rushed over."
Hearing Yang Si's words, Huo Bo felt guilty thinking about how he and Jiang Chen had kept it a secret from her and made her worried for so long. He coughed softly, and under Yang Si's loving gaze, he walked over and hugged Jiang Chen as if to comfort him, and whispered in his ear: "I've found someone, he'll be there in fifteen minutes."
Jiang Chen temporarily put aside the doubts that had not been resolved since he met Shi Fengyue, and nodded: "I will go to take the statement and take care of my mother."
When the record was about to end, a middle-aged man with a simple appearance and simple dress walked in. Jiang Chen looked up and saw the policeman who led the man in said with a smile: "You should thank him very much. It was he who saw you being kidnapped, followed you all the way, took pictures of the suspects, and wrote down the route and where they were hiding. That's why we were able to get here so quickly."
Jiang Chen stood up and said with a faint smile: "Thank you very much."
The man waved his hands repeatedly, stroking the back of his head and said, "No thanks, no thanks. This is what I should do."
Yang Si, who was waiting outside, heard the noise and walked in, expressing his gratitude to the man repeatedly.
Jiang Chen and Huo Bo who was standing behind Yang Si exchanged a glance. Huo Bo raised his chin and curled up the corners of his mouth slightly.
By the time the transcript was finished, it was already late. Yang thought that he was the only one at Huo Bo's house and hadn't had dinner yet. If he went back now, he would probably just have a quick meal. So he said, "Xiao Bo, go to Auntie's house for dinner. It's a good opportunity to keep Chenchen company. Today...you can keep him company and Auntie will feel at ease."
Huo Bo thought about it and did not refuse: “Then I’ll bother you.”
"What are you doing?" Yang Si held Huo Bo's arm with the other hand and Jiang Chen's arm, and said with a smile, "You, Xiao Xu, and Chen Chen grew up together. In your aunt's eyes, you are all my sons, except that you call me by different names."
Jiang Chen turned his head and saw Huo Bo's slightly raised lips, and he also smiled.
After returning home, Yang Si cooked a table of dishes as quickly as possible to comfort the two. A lot of things happened today, and Jiang Chen and Huo Bo had hardly eaten for the whole day. When the delicious food was served, they couldn't stop eating.
Yang Si finished eating early and put down his chopsticks, watching them eat with a smile.
When the two of them had eaten and drunk their fill, she smiled and said, "You two can chat while I go cut some fruit. Xiaobo, you can sleep here tonight. You can share a bed with Chenchen. It will be inconvenient to go home too late."
Huo Bo declined, "Auntie, I have something else to do tomorrow morning, so I have to leave now and won't sleep here."
"But it's getting late now. Would it be unsafe for you to go back?"
"No, auntie, don't worry."
Yang Si wanted to say something else, but Jiang Chen said first: "Then you go back first, and remember to send me a message when you get home."
Huo Bo nodded: "Okay, goodbye, auntie."
The two of them sang in unison, and by the time Yang Si reacted, Huo Bo had already left.
She looked at Jiang Chen helplessly and said, "When Huo Bo gets home, he will send you a message. Tell mom."
"I understand." Jiang Chen hugged Yang Si and said with a smile, "I'll go back to my room first. You should also go to bed early."
"Well, I washed the dishes and went to bed."
After closing the door, Jiang Chen sat down at the computer desk. He put on his headphones and asked, "What's the situation? Did you capture the positioning code?"
"The code was captured successfully and is being analyzed. The analysis progress is 0.15%, and the cracking progress is 0."
Jiang Chen: "Show me that code."
The computer screen went black, then white. Countless codes flashed densely like snowflakes on an old-fashioned TV, forming a picture in a strange pattern. If Changjiang had not magnified the code size, Jiang Chen might have thought it was just a strange painting.
He leaned closer to the screen, his brows slightly furrowed.
——This is indeed a code. But it is different from any code he has seen or learned before. It should have its own rules and meanings. But if he wants to crack it, it is far from enough to just rely on the system to capture the code that may be less than one ten-thousandth of the system in He Qianjian's mind.
And... Jiang Chen leaned back in his chair, thinking - he always felt that this code was not just code, but also mixed with an energy that he could not explain, which was very strange.
Since it couldn't be cracked for the time being, Jiang Chen simply let it go. He said, "Report the progress of the analysis at any time."
"OK."
Jiang Chen paused and said, "Play the recording between 2 and 3 this afternoon."
There were vague sounds of clothing rubbing against each other and footsteps coming from the headphones. Apart from that, there were almost no other sounds in the first ten minutes or so, and even if there were any, they were just meaningless conversations.
Jiang Chen listened carefully without any impatience.
At the 28th minute, a heavy knocking sound suddenly appeared in the recording, followed by a brief conversation between the two people. Amidst several consecutive knocks that were either light or heavy, the man who had confiscated Jiang Chen's phone and stabbed his companion decided to go and check out the situation alone.
The audio went quiet again, even the footsteps were so light that they could hardly be recorded. However, within a minute, Jiang Chen heard another voice, which was so vague that it was difficult to distinguish the words, but he was sure that it was Shi Fengyue's voice. Along with Shi Fengyue's voice, there was another continuous rhythmic sound, like the sound of some metal parts colliding.
Jiang Chen frowned slightly, and something flashed through his mind.
The voice in the earphones interrupted his thoughts again.
"I thought something was wrong, you fucking—"
What caused the sound to come to an abrupt end was the sound of a knife piercing cloth and cutting flesh, followed by the sound of someone falling to the ground with a thud.
Jiang Chen: "Pause."
The sound in the headphones stopped, and Jiang Chen tapped the table with his fingers, carefully connecting every detail he had just heard with all the scenes before and after his meeting with Shi Fengyue in the afternoon.
Suddenly, an image emerged in his mind - Shi Fengyue was squatting in front of him, playing with a lighter, and the sound of the lighter opening and closing was very similar to the sound in the recording that was slightly blurred by the clothes.
Lighter - refers to a man whose companion betrayed him - Shi Fengyue and the leader of that group of people are wearing similar clothes...
After connecting the three most important clues, Jiang Chen felt that the answer was about to come out. He unconsciously stopped tapping on the table, and the whole room suddenly became quiet.
After a few seconds, his eyes flickered and he looked up suddenly.
Knocking sound!
Jiang Chen connected all the clues together and instantly got an answer - hypnosis.
In the interstellar era, there was an extremely famous master of mental combing named Nata. His initial research direction was the relationship between ancient hypnosis and mental combing. This master had taught three open classes in Jiang Chen's school. Jiang Chen happened to attend one of the classes when he had no classes. The class was about hypnosis.
In the class, Master Nata introduced the history of hypnotists from ancient times to the interstellar era, saying that no matter in which era, hypnotists have to go through essential steps and stages before hypnotizing patients. Missing any step or stage may lead to failure and may cause serious harm to the patient. Therefore, every hypnotist can only be qualified for this position after passing the most rigorous examinations and numerous tests.
There is only one type of people who are different, and that is SSS-level psychics. They have psychic powers that are hundreds of times stronger than ordinary people. They only need simple props and words to hypnotize a person at any time. At a certain stage, they don't need props at all, and can hypnotize a person or even a group of people just through words.
Such psychics are equivalent to an army without the need for weapons. They are absolutely powerful but also dangerous.
However, because the entire empire, including the Federation, has never had an SSS-level psychic, this is just Nata's speculation based on the current highest level S-level psychic combers, and Nata himself cannot make a final conclusion.
Jiang Chen just listened casually at that time, but now thinking back to what Nata said in class, he was surprised to find that Shi Fengyue's hypnosis technique was very similar to the SSS-level psychic that the psychic combing master mentioned.
He first attracted the attention of the hypnotized person through sound, then used rhythm to lay the foundation for psychological suggestion, and then used a special voice combined with his words to perform verbal hypnosis on the other person. At the same time, in order to ensure that everything was foolproof, he also used his own clothing that was similar to that of people the other person was familiar with to enhance the suggestion effect.
Therefore, the hypnotized person would firmly believe that his companion is a traitor, because Shi Fengyue plays the role of his boss, and as he stabbed his companion, the hypnotized person would only think that he did it under the instructions of his boss, so he would insist that he had seen their boss at that time.
At that time, their boss was outside taking precautions alone, and the two people who went out to replace him happened to avoid the time when their companion was stabbed by the hypnotized person. So even though their boss knew very well that he had not seen the hypnotized person, he had no way to defend himself because no one could prove it for him.
Jiang Chen stood up, walked to the window, and looked at the sporadic vehicles passing by on the road in the distance. Thinking of Shi Fengyue, who cleverly used everything around him and could hurt others with borrowed knives as if it were child's play, his eyes flashed slightly.
Could an SSS-level psychic who has never appeared even in the interstellar era really exist in this world?
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