This voice was announced three times, echoing in the empty and silent branch hall in the middle of the night.
Xia Chu saw that they were in Gu Shanjun's office, where the sound insulation was very good and she could not hear any of the noise at all.
However, they all received reminders on their smart bracelets that the task was completed and could go to collect the rewards.
Xia Chujian became a little more energetic at this time, and was secretly calculating that he would get those good things.
Just when the team members thought they could leave, Gu Shanjun called them back.
"Ye Shijie, right? There's one more thing."
"Yes, Director Gu, please give your instructions."
Gu Shanjun opened his system terminal, and a holographic 3D virtual display screen appeared in front of him.
Then, a very clear photo appeared in front of them.
The team members were stunned.
This photo was taken more than ten days ago when they were carrying out the mission of killing human traffickers and rescuing abducted victims.
"Do you remember this photo?"
Ye Shijie looked through it carefully and nodded, saying, "I remember. To be precise, I took this photo with my smart bracelet. I also uploaded it to the Star Network cloud system of the Dark Night Hunter branch in Mulan City."
"Are you sure? Is this the original photo you took?"
"Director Gu, what do you mean? I don't understand."
Gu Shanjun reached out and cut out a circle in the photo, which showed the fainted victims of the kidnapping.
"Look here, are you sure these are the people in your original photo?"
Ye Shijie thought for a moment and said, "My memory may be wrong, but my smart bracelet still has local storage, which I can call out and compare directly."
"Oh? Then let's check it out." Gu Shanjun tapped the desk with his fingers.
Ye Shijie opened his virtual display screen and found the photo from the local storage of the smart bracelet.
In fact, he took a lot of photos and only uploaded a part of them.
After this photo was brought out, everyone stood in front of two virtual displays to compare them.
Sure enough, whether comparing resolution, color saturation, or size, they are exactly the same.
It's definitely the same photo.
Gu Shanjun slowly leaned back in his chair, squinting his eyes, stroking his chin with one hand, and asked thoughtfully, "So, this is indeed the original photo. You took it directly when you completed the mission, right?"
Everyone nodded nervously, not knowing why Director Gu asked this.
When they thought about the fact that they had not actually completed this task, they felt a little guilty.
Because they left without rescuing those people...
Song Mingqian tried to make amends: "Director Gu, we shot and killed those traffickers and were planning to take the victims away with us, but then the regular army suddenly showed up. Our association's rule is not to compete with the regular army for work, so we left first..."
Ping Qiong also nodded and said, "Yes, yes! At that time, I said that if Captain Ye hadn't urged us to leave quickly, we could have squeezed in and taken them all away."
"Take them all away? Why are you taking dead bodies away?" Gu Shanjun looked at them strangely.
"Dead person?!" The five members of the team exclaimed in unison.
"What's going on?"
"Impossible!"
"I checked with a detector, and they were all alive! Alive! They were just knocked unconscious!"
The last person to speak was Xia Chujian.
She did use a detector while outside, but she didn't go in because she hated tentacles.
Gu Shanjun frowned. "You mean to say that once your mission is complete and the regular army arrives, all these kidnapped victims will be alive?"
"It's absolutely true." Ye Shijie said with certainty, "We left in a hurry and didn't take them with us. We were also worried that the association wouldn't confirm that the mission was completed."
"Yes, because the mission is to kill the traffickers and rescue the abducted victims."
"But because the regular army took over immediately and all the traffickers were killed, including the remnants, we didn't think it would become a problem. And later the association confirmed that our mission was accomplished."
Gu Shanjun listened silently to the team members' chatter, and finally said, "The problem now is that not only are they all dead, but the death toll doesn't match your photos."
As he said this, he threw out another photo.
There was another virtual display in front of them, showing another photo.
In this photo, they can clearly see that those people are indeed dead.
They lay on the ground with twisted bodies and blood flowing from all their orifices.
This is obviously different from the photo uploaded by Ye Shijie, which seemed like everyone was sleeping.
But this photo and his photo were taken at the same place and with the same people.
The dead human traffickers looked exactly like those in Ye Shijie's photos.
What is different are these abduction victims.
Xia Chujian was also silently comparing these three photos.
After a moment, she frowned and said, "...Why are there only twenty-three victims in this photo? I remember there were twenty-four."
As soon as she said this, Ye Shijie, Song Mingqian, Li Fu, and Ping Qiong all nodded and said, "Yes, it was twenty-four people. Look at the photos we took, there are indeed twenty-four people, not one less, and they are all still alive."
In the second photo that Gu Shanjun took out, the positions of the dead victims lying on the ground were the same as in the photo of Ye Shijie.
After comparing them one by one, they found that the missing one was the victim that Xia Chujian had seen through the sniper rifle's scope, the one who was first attempted to be violated by the human trafficker.
Xia Chujian pointed to the empty spot and said, "I was acting as a sniper on the twelfth floor, 1,200 meters away. I disobeyed Captain Ye's orders and shot him to save him."
In the photo taken by Ye Shijie, the victim tilted her head, revealing only half of her face, but this half was covered by her hair, and the other half was not in the camera at all, so her appearance could not be seen at all.
From her clothes and figure, one could tell she was a little girl.
Gu Shanjun looked at the photo, and the expression in his eyes gradually became hot. He seemed very excited, but he was trying hard to suppress it.
He took a deep breath and asked, "Are you sure the missing person is the victim?"
He was referring to the little girl with her head tilted in the photo of Ye Shijie.
Her clothes were half pulled off, exposing her shoulders. On her snow-white shoulders, there were hideous red marks left by the traffickers' belts.
Xia Chujian nodded heavily: "I'm sure it was her. Because at that time... she was the first person the traffickers wanted to violate. I couldn't wait any longer, so I shot her in advance and killed her."
Ye Shijie glanced at her and thought to himself that it was indeed the case. No wonder she was so sure.
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