Chapter 33
Zhu Liang put down his bowl and chopsticks and asked, "What does Captain Elena mean?"
"Some unsafe electronic devices due to objective factors... or, they are electronic devices that you installed voluntarily." Elena's scrutinizing gaze was fixed on Zhu Liang.
This obscure speculation completely froze the already tense atmosphere at the table.
Lou Tiannan put down his chopsticks and said to Elena directly, "I don't know, Captain Elena, what is the basis for your statement?"
Elena slowly rolled up her left sleeve with her right hand, revealing a silver bracelet attached to her wrist.
"Is this... a detection bracelet?" Zhou Yu was a little hesitant. The silver bracelet on Elena's hand looked very similar to a detection bracelet, but upon closer inspection, it was not. This bracelet was much smaller and more delicate than the detection bracelet, and it did not have the detection bracelet's display screen.
Elena nodded. "Yes, it's a detection bracelet, but it has very few functions. Its main purpose is to detect if I have any unsafe devices on me."
Song Yan was puzzled: "How can the detection of unsafe devices on your body be related to Brother Liang?"
Elena said, "Although its main purpose is to detect whether I have any unsafe devices installed on me, but Deputy Captain Zhu is sitting next to me..."
She raised her hand and gestured the distance between her and Zhu Liang. "This distance is just within the detection range of the detection bracelet. And, as I was saying this, my bracelet has been giving me a weak response. This is my basis."
Elena lifted the bracelet on her wrist, and because everyone looked carefully, they could clearly see the bracelet vibrating slightly against her wrist.
"I just don't want any discord between us." At the same time, Elena expressed her sincere wishes: "I hope this is a misunderstanding."
Her words were well-reasoned, and at this point, everyone's eyes turned to Zhu Liang again.
Zhu Liang expressed his understanding and cooperated by taking off his coat and taking out the contents of his pockets to show everyone.
Paper, pen, walkie-talkie, military firearms, etc. are all normal things and there is nothing unusual.
Song Yan, who temporarily became a technical specialist, checked one by one in front of everyone and found nothing wrong with the device.
Zhu Liang had taken off his coat and was wearing a shirt and trousers. Seeing that the inspection was fruitless, he took the initiative to unbutton his shirt and was about to take off his clothes, but Elena grabbed his wrist at this time.
"Can you show me this cufflink?" Elena asked. She noticed that the fluctuation amplitude of the detection bracelet became larger when she said this.
"Of course." Zhu Liang took off the cufflinks on his sleeve and gave them to Elena without hesitation.
The cufflinks are made of uniform military-grade white steel, which is hard and can be used in emergencies.
As soon as Elena got the cufflinks, the vibrating bracelet on her wrist told everyone the answer without her having to say anything.
There's something wrong with this cufflink.
A minute later, the cufflinks were opened, revealing the vibration transmitter inside. This was a simple eavesdropping device that received signals from a wave source.
"Has anyone touched this cufflink, or rather, your clothes?" Elena asked Zhu Liang.
"A lot of people." Zhu Liang replied.
He had worn this piece of clothing for a long time. When he was staying with the survivors for a short time, everyone would pass by the clothes drying area, and he would check his clothes every time. However, he did not expect that the cufflinks would still be found.
"Was it Hu Dingguo, the guy with the blood bone...who's called that...who did this?" Wen Xia Xia speculated. "When I was living in the temporary base, I kept seeing him walking around where you were drying clothes. When he saw me, he'd leave with a guilty conscience."
Zhou Yu agreed: "It must have been done by the Blood and Bone people! I also had a bug on my clothes before! It was those bastards from the Blood and Bone group who installed it!"
They also used the bug to lure out the snakes and eliminated Hu Dingguo and Lisa.
Lu Jia also nodded, then clapped his hands and said, "Right! This explains how Xue Gu found us a few days ago! He must have heard what we said through this eavesdropping device and found us!"
Several people were discussing and had already pinned the blame on Xue Gu Dian. Zhu Liang was also thinking carefully, and suddenly he seemed to remember something and glanced at Lin Bai.
He remembered that one night at the temporary base, his cufflinks had been picked up by Lin Bai and returned to him.
It was just a brief glance. Elena, who had interrogated countless prisoners, keenly caught the moment. She looked directly into Zhu Liang's eyes and said, "Lin Bai also touched your cufflinks."
It is a declarative sentence.
As soon as these words were spoken, everyone in the room fell silent. Zhu Liang, who was still suspicious, nodded: "Yes, but it shouldn't be her."
The time was too short. He went to find Lin Bai suddenly, and they only said a few words. Unless Lin Bai knew that he was going to find him, it would be impossible for him to take out an identical cufflink that had been tampered with in such a short time.
"This is not something you should judge, Deputy Captain Zhu," Elena said, "I need to know the details of how she touched the cufflinks."
They hadn't expected this matter to involve Lin Bai. When they looked at her, she seemed a little surprised, but she quickly returned to normal: "Do you need my cooperation in doing anything?"
"No need, just sit here and listen." Elena said.
For a few minutes, the cafeteria seemed to have turned into an interrogation room.
Lin Bai and Zhu Liang sat side by side, while Lou Tiannan and Elena sat opposite them, and the others sat on both sides. They were all a little nervous.
But in order to eliminate his own suspicion and determine the source of the bug, Zhu Liang cooperated very well with this matter, and of course, Lin Bai also cooperated.
Zhu Liang recounted in full detail how he went to see Lin Bai.
"Because she hadn't eaten yet while delivering food to the building team, I brought her a baked potato. When she was leaving, my cufflinks fell off, and she picked them up and gave them back to me. Then I went to a meeting. It was just a short moment, no more than two minutes," said Zhu Liang.
Elena asked for details, "Does she know you're going to look for her?"
Zhu Liang shook his head: "I don't know, I haven't told anyone about this." At that time, this was just a trivial matter.
"Did you have any physical contact with her?"
Zhu Liang recalled and said, "No, I just walked a little closer when I handed the cufflinks back."
Elena was the one asking Zhu Liang questions the whole time, while Lin Bai sat next to Zhu Liang and quietly played the role of a mute.
After asking Zhu Liang, Elena turned to look at Lin Bai: "Do you have anything to add?"
Lin Bai shook his head. "No, I don't remember much about what happened that night, but it's basically the same as what Deputy Captain Zhu said."
Elena stared at Lin Bai silently for a few seconds. Zhou Yu had seen this trick of Elena in the military defense zone. After interrogating the criminals, Elena would look directly into their eyes to confirm whether they were lying. But even if the criminals were telling the truth, few of them dared to look Elena in the eye. Even if Elena just stared at them, they would avoid her gaze, tremble all over, and be extremely frightened.
Before, he wondered if he was really that scared. Now that he saw this kind of scrutinizing gaze up close for the first time, he really felt uneasy. No wonder he was the first judge of the Law Enforcement Bureau!
Zhou Yu was still sighing when he saw Lin Bai looking at Elena in confusion, "Captain Elena, have you come to any conclusion?"
"Tsk." Zhou Yu was a little surprised, but not that surprised. After all, Lin Bai dared to point a gun at their captain's head, so it was normal for him to react like this when facing Elena's gaze.
They all knew the rules of the trial, and no one spoke during Elena's trial until Elena stood up and said, "It's over. They are both safe for now."
Everyone breathed a sigh of relief. Zhou Yu said, "I told you it was the Blood and Bone People who did it! Only they could do such a thing!"
"Of course it is!" Lu Jia also said.
Zhu Liang apologized to Lin Bai, "I'm sorry for dragging you into this."
"It's nothing. Captain Elena probably did this because she suspected me a long time ago." Lin Bai said indifferently.
"Hiss—" Zhou Yu, who was close to him, took a deep breath when he heard this and whispered to Lin Bai, "Lin Bai, don't talk nonsense. Elena looks gentle, but her methods are powerful—cough cough cough—" Zhou Yu didn't finish his words when he saw Elena looking at him. He immediately patted his chest and started coughing dryly, "Why did I suddenly choke? It's so strange! Cough cough cough—"
Song Yan interrupted, "Captain Elena, your bracelet doesn't look like something developed by the army."
Zhou Yu loved Song Yan so much that he immediately added with feigned curiosity, "Oh, yes, this bracelet looks really useful. Captain Elena, where did you get it? Did you buy it? Or did someone on your team develop it?"
Partly it was to change the subject, and partly he was really curious about where the bracelet came from. If possible, he would also like to get one to prevent some suicidal people from secretly placing eavesdropping devices in his clothes in the future.
Elena slowly lowered the sleeve of her left hand and said, “It was given to me by a friend.”
"Friend?" When these words came out, everyone present who knew Elena a little was a little surprised.
Elena, despite her gentle personality, was a notorious workaholic within the Security Bureau, living in the Enforcement Department. She'd spend eight out of seven days a week in the department, and how could she possibly have friends outside of her colleagues there? Furthermore, in their previous interactions with the Enforcement Department, they'd never heard of Elena making friends with anyone outside the department.
Other people’s leisure and entertainment is going to the mall or the cinema, but her leisure and entertainment is having dinner with her teacher at the 621 Pharmacopoeia Research Institute.
It's really rare to hear the word "friend" from her mouth one day.
Elena showed a nostalgic expression: "Well, I met her by chance when I was catching a criminal. She is a very outstanding person. I once wanted to recommend her to the Law Enforcement Department, but she refused."
If Elena's friends surprised them, then Elena's recommendation was the biggest shock. How could someone be considered so talented by Elena that she even wanted to recommend him to the Security Bureau? And most importantly, that person actually refused?! Who could that person be?!
"So how is your friend now..." Zhou Yu asked curiously.
"Not long after the apocalypse, I lost contact with her."
After Elena said this, everyone wisely stopped asking questions. In the end times, anything can happen.
But then I heard Elena say: "I will meet her."
In a place where no one could see, Lin Bai was slightly startled, then he lowered his head to look at Xiya, who had run to his side at some point, and was burying her face in the side of her legs.
Xiya used Lin Bai's pants to cover her somewhat uneasy face.
That night, she saw her mother pulling off Zhu Liang's cufflinks with a thread, but she didn't say anything.
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