Chapter 41 SD Card

The morning sun shines in from the window, and the heavy curtains block most of the light. The person on the bed rolls around and pokes his head out from under the quilt.

There is a knock on the door.

"Tang Tang, get up."

Tang Yichao stretches his back with sleepy eyes, struggles a bit, and gets up with difficulty.

He slips on and opens the door in a daze.

Downstairs, there are still people talking.

??? ?

The boss and the others are back?

Tang Yichao's sleepiness goes away a little, and he goes to the bathroom to wash up and then goes downstairs quickly.

"When did you come back?"

Downstairs, Jiang Yunqi and Gu Bingchen were sitting on the sofa, the former holding a book and reading, and the latter wearing glasses and looking through the information on the tablet.

Hearing the voice, they both looked at Tang Yichao.

"It's already noon and you haven't gotten up yet, you are so lazy." Gu Bingchen retracted his gaze and focused on the tablet again, "Wanyue, has anything big happened in the base recently?"

Chu Wanyue's eyes flashed, and she asked Tang Yichao to close the curtains of the floor-to-ceiling windows. Then, after confirming the safety of the villa, she lifted the carpet, pried open one of the tiles, and took out a small plastic box from it.

Tang Yichao stared at this smooth series of actions in amazement.

No, when did there become such a hidden place at home?

Could it be that the whole area under my feet is full of them?

He narrowed his eyes and looked down at the tiles in the villa.

"I didn't have time to tell you, don't look at it, only this tile has a mechanism." As good teammates who have been together for more than half a year, Chu Wanyue knew what Tang Yichao was thinking without even looking.

She opened the lid of the small plastic box, revealing an SD card inside. She said solemnly: "This is what Xu Huili gave me. We must keep it well and never let it fall into the hands of the research institute... or even the base director."

Gu Bingchen took the small SD card, frowned, and asked: "Xu Huili? He came to the base?"

Chu Wanyue shook her head: "No, he secretly gave it to me when I passed Ningcheng when I came back from the mission yesterday."

At that time, she was still startled, and the water blade in her hand almost cut off Xu Huili's fingers.

"...You don't have to be so enthusiastic..." Xu Huili quickly withdrew his hands, and the corners of his mouth twitched silently.

"Who can recognize you when you are dressed like this?" Chu Wanyue avoided the curious glances from others, and raised her voice a lot in the second half of the sentence, "Why are you trying to scam me? Okay, okay, you just want something to eat? I'll give it to you."

Then she motioned Xu Huili to follow her to the corner.

Scamming me?

That's boring.

The people behind him looked away with a lack of interest, busying themselves with their own things.

Xu Huili touched the yellow mud on his face, and glanced at the tattered clothes on his body, with a trace of disgust in his eyes.

If it wasn't for that idiot who asked people to look for him everywhere, he wouldn't have ended up like this.

He coughed softly twice, and Chu Wanyue suddenly understood what he meant, and took out a few bags of biscuits from her backpack and threw them over.

"I'm allergic to eggs. I can't eat this. I'm giving it back to you." The dirty, smelly boy like a beggar stuffed the things in his arms back to Chu Wanyue with a haughty tone, "I saw the instant noodles in your backpack. I want that."

Chu Wanyue touched a note and a small hard object. She understood what was going on and said angrily, "What's wrong with you? It's good enough that I give you food! Why do you have so many demands? Eat it if you want!"

"Sister Chu? What's wrong? What happened?"

Someone heard the noise and walked over quickly to inquire about the situation.

"It's okay, don't worry about him. He's so picky about the food he eats. It's really unlucky today!" Chu Wanyue pursed her lips. Her usually gentle face was gloomy. She was furious. She opened one hand, and there were three milky white crystal cores in her palm. She couldn't help but complain to the person next to her, "Fortunately, this person doesn't know the value of crystal cores. A pack of instant noodles for three crystal cores, not a loss."

After saying that, she turned around and threw a pack of instant noodles over.

The person who heard her complaining echoed, "You made a lot of money."

"Yes, an extra gain." Chu Wanyue's face looked much better.

While chatting, she walked forward, as if she didn't notice the dark eyes of the people around her.

Chu Wanyue came back to her senses and recounted what happened yesterday to the others in the living room.

Jiang Yunqi closed the book, tapped the surface with his fingers, and asked, "Is someone monitoring you?"

Gu Bingchen corrected him, "It's not you, it's us."

Thinking of the sporadic sights after returning from outside last night, Jiang Yunqi had some guesses, "Is it related to Gu Huan?"

Chu Wanyue was slightly surprised for a moment, not expecting Jiang Yunqi's intuition to be so accurate. She nodded, "Yes, you "During the few days we were away, there were several fights in the base."

She paused: "No, the last two times were already considered riots."

The space was full of things. Gu Bingchen looked empty-eyed. He searched for a long time in the space and found a card reader. After hearing Chu Wanyue's narration, he asked in confusion: "Where is the patrol team? Did they not take care of it?"

Tang Yichao interrupted: "They took care of it, but it was useless."

"It's not just the ordinary survivors area that's rioting, there's also the superpower area." He went out for a stroll in the past two days and got some information here and there. He whispered, "I heard that almost half of the high-level superpowers have gone out."

This is why the patrol team can't do anything to the superpower area. Their captain has also been sent out on a mission. Facing high-level superpowers, they dare not act casually. At most, they give a warning.

The ordinary survivors area saw that the superpower area was not punished, so they also became arrogant. There was another riot yesterday morning.

"Do you know why they rioted?" Gu Bingchen asked, inserting the SD card into the card reader, and slightly raised his chin in the direction of Jiang Yunqi, reminding him to sit over.

Tang Yizhao likes to pinch his face when he is thinking about something. When he thinks of the answer, his face has been pinched red: "I haven't found out about the area for the superpowers, but I know a little about the area for ordinary survivors."

For most survivors, what is the most important thing in life in the base?

Nothing more than necessities such as water, food, and medicine.

But the base's supplies are limited after all, and cannot be supplied to the survivors unconditionally, so the survivors living in the base can only complete tasks to earn points, and then use the points to exchange for supplies.

"Those rioting survivors are almost all newcomers from outside the base, and most of them are ruffians."

Tang Yizhao took a sip of water and continued, "The reason they rioted is that they can't stand the fact that the superpowers live in a better place, and they think the base is unfair."

This reason... is a bit speechless.

"It seems like their brains have been chewed by a dog. If they want to live better, they should do the mission. It's not like they can't rent villas and apartments." Tang Yichao slumped on the sofa, like a salted fish, and chattered, "I don't know if it's my illusion, but I feel like they are instigated by someone."

Gu Bingchen opened the contents of the SD card, and upon hearing this, he raised his eyes and glanced at him indifferently: "The brain is quite bright and has made progress."

Tang Yichao: "..."

The SD card did not contain much content, a few photos, a document, and three short videos.

Gu Bingchen set up the tablet, placed it on the coffee table, and then clicked on the video.

The video was very short, about one minute, and it looked like it was a surveillance video at home.

The doorbell rang. In the video, a woman in an apron came out of the kitchen. She wiped the water droplets on her hands and opened the door.

A man wearing a mask and a hat, with a scarf around his neck, walked in.

"It's the base commander?" Tang Yichao was a little surprised when he saw the man take off his things. "Isn't this woman Xu Huili's mother?"

The first video stopped abruptly, followed by the second video.

This video contains a lot of content. The camera is very shaky, and it seems to be a candid perspective.

"Ms. He, why are you here?"

"Well, I came to see the progress of the experiment."

"Oh, then you can watch it casually, I'm going to go busy first."

In the video, a woman appeared. Through the conversation between the two, Gu Bingchen and others knew that the person filming was Ms. He mentioned by the woman.

Ms. He kept walking forward, and some stray cats and dogs gradually appeared in the camera.

The last few seconds at the end were all the miserable cries of cats and dogs.

The people watching the video frowned, with a hint of anger in their eyes.

Experiment?

Stray cats and dogs...

It's hard not to suspect that this is an experiment on stray cats and dogs.

The last video was only a few seconds long. A woman was sleeping on the table. A bottle of mineral water was poured on the table. The water slid down the table and flowed onto the clean white tiles. On the ground, there were several strings of black footprints with water stains.

Tang Yizhao didn't understand what the last video meant, and watched it back and forth several times while dragging the progress bar.

Gu Bingchen reached out and patted his head: "If you move again, I'll chop off your claws!"

Jiang Yunqi pointed out a few places: "The water bottle fell over, there are footprints on the ground, and there should be another person present in this video."

Chu Wanyue also found something wrong: "Is there something in the bottle?"

"Yes, it seems to be white sediment." Gu Bingchen took a screenshot and then enlarged it. There was something at the bottom of the mineral water bottle.

Looking at the woman in the video who was motionless and seemed to have fallen into a deep sleep, Tang Yichao raised his hand and asked: "Is this... is she dead?"

"Possibly."

Gu Bingchen looked through the photos. These photos were all landscape photos, and the documents also recorded the account book of daily expenses.

What exactly does this SD card mean?

Why did Xu Huili hand this thing to them?

And leave such a message on the note.

Research Institute... Base Director...

"What's the name of the secretary beside the base director you mentioned?" Jiang Yunqi saw the difference in the landscape photos.

Under each photo, there is a small incomplete pattern. After rotating and translating the pattern, these landscape photos gradually formed a "Shao" character.

"Shao Lin?"

"It's him again."