Chapter 84 To deal with bad guys, you must be more cunning than them
The words "human bones" were carried by the draft and echoed for a long time in the empty space of the main ancestral hall.
Several people shuddered.
Li Xiaogou pondered and said, "It seems that the Yan family's fortune has indeed been affected by human intervention?"
Wang Bo: "The key is, whose bones are these?"
Li Xiaogou: "We can only know after we take it back for testing, but I guess it's most likely Yan Jiang's bones."
"Yan Jiang?!"
"Well. Since you won't let me into the Yan Family Ancestral Hall, then I'm going in anyway!"
"Not only will I enter, I will also curse you, the Yan family, for eternity."
"Thinking about it this way, doesn't it make sense to leave your bones here?"
It seems to be the case.
Jiang Mu interrupted them, "We can wait for now. The most urgent thing is to quickly dismantle the pillar and get the hard drive out."
The three of them rolled up their sleeves and got to work.
Among them, only Li Xiaogou could be considered a person with physical ability, but it was enough to deal with these pillars that could not move or run.
Li Xiaogou used Wang Zheng's punch to knock down the pillar.
Wang Bo: "...Xiao Gou, why do I see my father's shadow in you?"
Since he had displayed his supernatural powers in front of them, Li Xiaogou no longer thought about hiding them.
He described his special abilities in the simplest terms.
Even Jiang Mu couldn't help but sigh after hearing this: "It's against the will of heaven."
Wang Bo: "Is this the true state of growth-type superpowers? Did you steal our superpowers?"
"Hmm? Tell the truth!"
Li Xiaogou: ...
The two of them didn't really care that Li Xiaogou had learned their special abilities, but it was still necessary to take the opportunity to ask for a few meals.
It took them two hours to pull out all the hard drives.
Jiang Mu sent a message to Yan San, indicating that they would not leave the ancestral hall and were just waiting for dark to leave.
After seeing the red bundle and the pile of white bones with his own eyes, Yan San no longer had any doubts about Jiang Mu's identity as a master. Upon hearing this, he immediately went to contact him.
Several people waited in the ancestral hall until the sun set and night fell.
It was a moonless night and everything was silent.
A large truck stopped at the entrance of the Yan Family Ancestral Hall. Three people shuttled back and forth between the hall and the truck, quietly moving things onto the truck one by one.
After about dozens of trips back and forth, when the sky was already slightly white, several people patted the car body, held the railings, and turned over nimbly to sit in the back of the car.
The driver received the signal and started the car.
There was no verbal communication between the two groups from beginning to end; everything took place in silence.
The truck was moving at a leisurely pace and had already left the province when the sun rose.
At this time, Li Xiaogou called out and the car finally stopped.
"We want the car. Take the money. It's enough for you to buy two."
The car owner was stunned: "It's too much, I can't take it. I'm helping my brother, not trying to make a fortune."
Li Xiaogou smiled and said, "You don't get this money for nothing. If you take it, you'll have to keep what happened today to yourself and never tell anyone again."
In the end, the man accepted the money. Before leaving, Jiang Mu pretended to perform a ritual in front of him to help him get rid of the "evil spirit".
The journey was covert, and on the return trip they drove a car belonging to the townspeople. As expected, they did not suffer any attacks.
Even so, they did not dare to be careless. They did not act too anxiously along the way. They only moved at the normal speed of a truck driver transporting goods and changed vehicles only after entering the territory.
It was ten days later that we returned to Akahira Castle.
Wang Bo knocked on the door just once when it was opened from the inside, and they were greeted by Baili Meng's surprised face.
"We're back." Wang Bo smiled, opened his arms, and gave Captain Baili a big hug.
Baili Meng and Jiang Yao agreed to the three people's request as a last-ditch effort. In their hearts, they only hoped that they would be safe and sound, and did not expect them to really find out anything.
The result was far beyond their expectations.
Not only did the three of them return unharmed, they also brought back such important results.
After listening to Jiang Mu's detailed report, Jiang Yao's laughter shook the three rooms.
"Good, good, that's cunning enough, great!"
Jiang Mu: "...Are you praising or criticizing me?"
"Nonsense! Of course I'm praising you." Jiang Yao complained, "To deal with bad guys, you naturally have to be more cunning and calculating than them."
"Let them rest quickly. Even if they're not injured, it's been a tough journey." After teaching Jiang Yao a lesson, Baili Meng smiled gently at the three of them and said, "Leave the preservation of these hard drives and the discovery of the identity of the bones to us."
Li Xiaogou was indeed tired. He returned to his room and fell into a deep sleep. When he woke up, it was already the afternoon of the next day. He calculated that he had slept for a full 24 hours and more.
It was not comfortable to sleep too much. The back of his head felt like it was being drilled by a drill. Li Xiaogou ran to the pharmacy to find painkillers and met Sus.
The two hadn't seen each other for a long time, and Li Xiaogou was the first to say hello.
Sus is different from his parents. He has a neither humble nor arrogant attitude.
Due to health reasons, he did not participate in the live broadcast, but followed Baili Meng to do some logistical management work.
Li Xiaogou and him had reconciled, but they could not be said to have a close relationship. This was the result of them hardly ever meeting each other even though they lived under the same roof.
They smiled at each other and as they passed each other, Li Xiaogou caught a glimpse of what Sus was holding in his hand.
"Are you sick?" he asked.
Maybe it was a psychological effect, but when he turned around and looked, Li Xiaogou felt that Sus's face was abnormally pale.
"Well, my physical condition has never been very good. You guys were away recently, and I was worried something might happen, so I used my supernatural powers twice."
Su Si's straightforward attitude made Li Xiao Gou feel relieved, but he still said to Su Si seriously: "Don't use your special ability. If we can do it, we can do it. Do you understand?"
After leaving the pharmacy, Li Xiaogou went straight to find Baili Meng. He told Baili Meng about Suss's situation. Baili Meng was busy studying the bones and it was not known whether he listened to him or not.
For the next half day, Li Xiaogou just hung around the base, basking in the sun in the yard and playing with the fat orange dog adopted by Baili Meng. He had the illusion that life was peaceful and tranquil.
Jiang Yao did not urge them to return to the live broadcast. It seemed that there were no problems with the live broadcast in the past two days.
Li Xiaogou thought about it and found that there was really nothing to do, so he put his hands behind his head and started to daydream lazily.
The number of people in a daze quickly expanded from one to three.
Suddenly, Li Xiaogou, Wang Bo and Jiang Mu sighed at the same time, and were amused by the sighs of the people around them.
"What should I do, Xiao Gou Mumu? I feel uncomfortable all over when I'm idle. Am I born to be a hard worker? No~~~~" Wang Bo shouted with his hands to his lips.
Li Xiaogou patted his arm: "Don't be crazy, who are you trying to attract?"
Jiang Mu narrowed his eyes: "I actually like this feeling of doing nothing, but every time at this time, something bad always happens, which makes me a little scared."
Wang Bo suddenly covered his mouth and said, "Shh, shut up!"
So, after a moment of silence, the three of them sighed together.
Unable to sit still, the three of them took the initiative to go to work the next day and started live streaming again.
What surprised Li Xiaogou was that he connected with three people in a row, and not only were they all boys, but they were all so scum that even dogs wouldn't eat them.
After the language that can be broadcast in the live broadcast room subsided, the number of barrages suddenly increased.
【Ahhhhhhh, the familiar Li Xiaogoufei is here! 】
[It's this subtle sense of immorality that is so charming.]
[He's both pretentious and annoying, but he eats, sleeps, and fights bad guys. I really like him.]
Li Xiaogou: ...
With full trust in his colleagues (mainly because he was afraid of Baili Meng's condemnation), Li Xiaogou did not ask about the live broadcast during this period after returning.
Judging from the audience’s reaction, the problem is not serious, but there are undercurrents.
After the broadcast ended, he found the live broadcast videos of the past week, and as he watched them, the corners of his mouth began to twitch.
When it comes to appearance disguise, these people are all top professionals. No one can tell the difference between the person sitting in the live broadcast room and him, the real host.
But the live broadcast content is completely different.
No one in the base has similar abilities as Li Xiaogou, so the people who are connected are all pre-appointed agents, and the content is naturally "pre-prepared dishes" that have been decided in advance.
But aren’t the styles of Baili Meng and Jiang Yao too obvious?
Baili Meng chose topics about punishing scumbags, but his style was completely different from Li Xiaogou's sharp persuasion to break up when he encountered similar situations. Every suggestion of Baili Meng was filled with a damp feeling, and when he said it in front of Li Xiaogou's face, he looked like a perverted killer.
Li Xiaogou looked at himself on the screen and smiled wickedly, saying teasingly, "Little sister, if I were you, I definitely wouldn't hide away after getting my ID back. Doesn't he always say he cheated on me because he was drunk? Then serve him some wine until he's completely tipsy, then feed him Viagra. Keep feeding him until he explodes."
"That must be a great feeling. You will be the woman he remembers most deeply in his life, of course, if he is still alive."
Li Xiaogou shuddered and quickly turned off the video.
Next is Jiang Yao’s live video. His problem is that his preference is too obvious.
For several days of live broadcasts, the people he invited were all middle-aged men, whining about their business failures/losing their fortunes on gambling, etc., which turned his live broadcast room into a rehabilitation center.
Li Xiaogou: ...
He finally understood how his fans felt.
But didn’t Yan Jiang find the noise in the live broadcast room strange?
Li Xiaogou was worried and asked Jiang Yao. Jiang Yao exhaled a puff of cigarette and said, "After you left, we weren't all idle. Wang Zheng helped out over at Yunqing and stuffed two unfamiliar faces in there. They're keeping an eye on the address we got earlier."
"After the first two days of live streaming, we thought there would be some reaction from them, but they were very quiet. Later, news came out from Yunlou saying that the fighting was fierce inside and Yan Jiang's position was not so stable. He had no time to take care of us for the time being."
So much had happened while they were away. Li Xiaogou said, "I've verified the data on the hard drive. A lot of it contains core data from the Special Investigation Bureau's system, and some encrypted data will take some time to decrypt. Have you figured out how to use this data against Yan Jiang?"
"Wang Zheng told us to destroy the data directly, but I'm worried that destroying the data will cause unforeseen damage to the entire system. Then neighboring countries might take the opportunity to cause trouble, and ordinary people would be dragged into the war again."
Li Xiaogou lowered his eyes and pondered for a while: "Then let's hold off for now. Since Yan Jiang can't even take care of this side right now, I guess he won't think about his hometown being destroyed. I will take this opportunity to quickly analyze the data. Then I will know the impact of destroying this data."
After discussing the next plan with Yan Jiang, Li Xiaogou returned to his room.
As soon as he entered the room, his face darkened: "Tongzi, are we too naive?"
The system did not respond.
Li Xiaogou laughed at himself.
In fact, he and Jiang Yao both knew very well that this data could not possibly not involve key data.
If they were in Yan Jiang's shoes, they would become his role and would not hesitate to give themselves another life-saving talisman.
"Given the time, can you copy the data?"
“It’s theoretically possible, but it would take a long time.”
"First, you need to finish analyzing all the data. I want an assessment of how much damage would be done to the entire system if this data were destroyed, and what the risks would be to the country."
"good."
It took the system three full days to finally parse all the data.
After listening to the system's evaluation report, Li Xiaogou smiled bitterly.
Now he had two choices: one was to live in a world enslaved by Yan Jiang, and the other was to return to the original state and rebuild the entire system from scratch.
If you let him choose, he can accurately choose the second one with his eyes closed, but he cannot represent the opinions of the majority.
Yan Jiang might kill all of these stubborn old men from the Special Investigation Bureau, but to most people in this world, Yan Jiang might be a different person.
For most people, it is enough to take care of their own family, and everything else has nothing to do with them.
"Tongzi, how should I choose?"
Still silence.
"Tongzi, you've been silent a lot lately. If you keep doing this, I'm going to fire you."
Tongzi still didn't jump out to argue.
This night was exceptionally long, but even though Li Xiaogou stayed up all night and racked his brains, he could not get any satisfactory answer.
He was ready to confess that since everyone has the right to choose, the public should know about this.
However, just as he was about to take action, two things happened.
The first thing happened inside the base. Sus fell ill and was very seriously ill.
After Li Xiaogou mentioned Sus's condition to Baili Meng, Baili Meng took it to heart. When she went to find Sus, Sus was secretly taking medicine.
After checking, it was found that the cancer that Sus had finally cured had relapsed.
When it comes to cancer, recurrence is a common phenomenon, but this rule does not apply to Sus because he got the disease because of his superpowers.
Li Xiaogou immediately thought of a possibility - Suss used his supernatural powers again.
Their journey back was extremely smooth, and Li Xiaogou connected the two things almost instantly.
But Sus's mouth was harder than his head. No matter how they asked, he just wouldn't say anything. Looking at his gloomy face, no one could be so heartless as to continue to torture such a patient.
The medical staff became busy again, but judging from their expressions, Sus's condition was not optimistic this time.
Li Xiaogou was in a very bad mood. Just when he thought this was the worst, the second thing happened.
The second thing happened in Yunqing.
Usually, the struggles among the higher-ups are carried out in secret, and by the time the common people know about it, the matter has already been settled.
But this time it's different.
After hiding for many days despite his injuries, Yunlou actually managed to contact the old director who was under house arrest.
They actually thought the same thing as Li Xiaogou and wanted to make the current situation public.
The old director has been lying dormant, but it turns out he is not without any bargaining chips, he is just waiting for an opportunity to act.
The force of the counterattack in an instant was quite astonishing.
Li Xiaogou and his friends learned the news from the news media.
The old director told the public about the establishment of the Special Investigation Bureau, its internal strife and crisis through the media he was friendly with, and at the end of the conversation he dropped a bombshell - the video of Mo Shang being killed.
How could a person who had been killed reappear in front of the public and deceive the public as a leader?
When everyone was in shock and confusion, the old director stated his purpose. He hoped that ordinary people and those with special abilities who had not joined Mo Shang would unite to restore the world to its former harmonious and beautiful state.
As soon as the news came out, all platforms went crazy.
The old director could not control all media channels, not to mention that many foreign media had cooperated with Yan Jiang. After a brief period of silence, these media organized themselves and began to throw dirty water on the old director.
Li Xiaogou has been paying attention to public opinion. Perhaps humans are born with the gene to sympathize with the weak and like conspiracy theories. Most people on the Internet actually stand on the side of the old director.
"Mo Shang's ability is from the jellyfish family, so he can regenerate continuously?"
"Actually, these are aliens, and their goal is to rule the entire galaxy."
I have to say that netizens’ imaginations are extraordinarily big.
This was a good signal for Li Xiaogou. At least these people did not stand on Mo Shang's side.
Wang Bo and Jiang Mu had similar ideas.
Jiang Yao was not as optimistic as they were.
"Do you think there is any problem?" Li Xiaogou asked.
"I can understand that the old director is doing this out of necessity, desperate to shake Yan Jiang's leadership to the greatest extent possible. To the higher-ups, Yan Jiang is just a pawn that can be discarded at any time. If public opinion really gets out of hand, Yan Jiang can't withstand the investigation and will inevitably step down. From Yan Jiang's perspective, he has almost given up everything in humanity to get to this point today. He won't easily treat himself as a pawn in anyone's hands. If the higher-ups want to touch him, he will definitely take action. By then, the two sides will fight and their strength will be weakened."
Jiang Mu was puzzled: "That doesn't sound bad, does it?"
"What the old director said did win public support, but it also pushed some people to Mo Shang's side."
"Really?" Wang Bo disagreed. "I've seen online that even those who don't support us mostly say they'll wait and see. I haven't seen anyone say they support Yan Jiang."
"Dad, aren't you worrying too much? Even if the current trend of public opinion has drowned out some opposing voices, there won't be many people opposing it. Anyone with a bit of common sense knows that the old director is fighting for the interests of ordinary people."
"That's the problem," Jiang Yao said. "The interests of ordinary people and some people with special abilities are in conflict. The old director's view has always been to integrate people with special abilities into the ordinary population, so he never made public the existence of people with special abilities in this world, and they don't have any special privileges. But for many people with special abilities, they want more."
"After listening to the old director's words, these people with special abilities will naturally move closer to Yan Jiang."
Everyone was speechless, because they knew that Jiang Yao was right.
When Jiang Yao was speaking, Li Xiaogou was listening very carefully.
According to Jiang Yao, the current situation was not good for them, but it helped Li Xiaogou get out of trouble.
Since it has become so public, why not make things bigger?
"I have a way." Li Xiaogou said.
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