Above the sky, clouds are floating.
Looking out the window at the long-lost blue sky, the clear and clean scenery made Jiang Xihua couldn't help but smile with relief.
As a journalism student who is known to have difficulty finding jobs, he indeed did not find a good job and is now just a lousy coder.
The reason why he failed to find a good job was not because of the limitations of his professional and personal abilities, but because of his thirst for knowledge.
Jiang Xihua, who only wanted to pursue the truth, often seemed too incompatible with the so-called rules of society, so he became a freelancer in order to avoid being involved in corruption.
In addition to writing for some fiction websites to make a living, my favorite thing to do is to expose all kinds of hidden truths. I am still on the path of staying close to my profession and pursuing my dreams.
The reason why the sky is so blue now is inseparable from the pollution data concealed by heavily polluting enterprises in many places that he has been committed to digging out two years ago.
So looking at the blue sky, Jiang Xihua felt not only gratified, but also a complex emotion that was difficult to describe.
After a long silence, he came back to his senses.
Today's coding work has been completed. He slowly opened various chat software, which contained many communities he had joined for a long time. The groups were all brokers or people who had access to the news, public security, procuratorial and judicial industries, and they were well-informed of all kinds of information.
This kind of group often contains all kinds of true or false news, as well as many gray interest exchanges.
Jiang Xihua often acts actively in these groups under a fake identity in order to obtain some useful information.
And today, he saw something interesting in a local community:
[Zuoshandiao: Did you know about the meteor that fell a few days ago? ]
[Coca-Cola: It was reported in the news that the coverage area was quite wide, with several meteors falling in many cities around the world.]
[University Student: We were just talking about whether the room temperature superconductivity developed by those Koreans is real, why are you suddenly talking about this meteorite? ]
[Zuoshan Diao: A friend of mine picked up the fallen fragments. He knew I had many connections, so he asked me to ask someone to research it.]
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[University Student: You came here to talk about this in detail. Does this mean that this meteorite is very precious and valuable? Looking at the picture you posted, the black and gold colors of the meteorite fragments blend together, and it really looks very dazzling.]
[Zuoshan Diao: It’s not a question of whether it’s valuable or not. My friend suddenly lost contact today. Could it be because of this meteorite? Should I continue to ask someone with connections to study this meteorite fragment?]
[Zuoshandiao: Eh? Someone knocked on the door and said they were checking the water meter. Let’s talk later…]
【University: ???】
【Coca Cola:???】
【The chairman has left the group chat】
Looking at the chaotic group chat, Jiang Xihua, who had exited the chat without saying a word, skillfully pressed various buttons and used hacking techniques to clear all traces of his presence in the group under a fake identity.
He is passionate about the pursuit of truth.
It has exposed illegal brick kilns, revealed waste cooking oil, and published the pollution data hidden by heavily polluting companies...
As a person like him who digs into other people's underwear and does bad things every day, naturally he has a lot of enemies.
His excellent hacking skills and steady attitude towards life are the guarantee of his leisurely life till now.
Looking at the stone on the windowsill in front of him, Jiang Xihua couldn't help squinting his eyes.
The reason why he suddenly cleaned up all traces and left was because he found that the meteorite mentioned in the group seemed to be similar to the one on his windowsill.
It is also a blend of black and gold.
Jiang Xihua thought it was beautiful, so he picked it up on the roadside yesterday when he went to the nearby suburbs to collect evidence for a forced demolition incident involving a real estate company.
After reading the chat history in the group just now, he felt inexplicably uneasy.
In the past, when he saw various messages in these gray area group chats, he would analyze whether they were true or false and would not believe them blindly.
When he saw news like today's in the past, he would have thought it was a joke at most.
But today, he found it hard to see this as a joke.
Not only that, there was also a piece of meteorite fragment that he had just picked up next to his window.
Moreover, he had been wandering in the gray area for many years in pursuit of the truth, and he had a vague intuition.
His intuition told him that Zuoshandiao was not lying.
Therefore, his prudent attitude towards survival made him decisively quit the group, and then used hacking technology to clear the traces.
It is better to believe it exists than to believe it does not.
At most he would lose a group chat anyway.
People like me cannot be exposed to anyone. Enemies in the black zone want to kill him, and officials in the white zone will sentence him to a few years in prison for his actions over the years.
No matter who is looking for the meteorite, it is best not to be discovered. Continuing to be a messenger of justice in the dark is the best choice.
Thinking about this, Jiang Xihua slowly looked at the meteorite fragment by the window.
So now, what should we do?
When I picked up the meteorite, there should be no one around and no surveillance, so maybe... it's safe? Jiang Xihua was thinking when there was a knock on the door.
This made Jiang Xihua subconsciously widen his eyes and his breathing stagnated.
"No way? So fast?!"
Without having time to think, he prepared a bunch of luggage in the morning for escape and prepared to leave without saying a word.
On the bed was his prepared luggage, which contained a number of currencies from various countries, fake identities, human skin masks, compressed dry food...
But there was no time to do much.
The door suddenly opened and a man was slowly retracting the lock picking tool in his hand.
Jiang Xihua, who had just put on his luggage, stopped where he was and swallowed hard when he saw the two men appearing after the security door opened.
Jiang Xihua secretly swore in his heart that if he could get away with it safely this time, he would never use this brand of security door again.
He didn't even have time to put on his luggage before the door suddenly opened in just a few seconds, without any anti-theft effect at all.
Looking at the two people approaching step by step, and the vague bulges on their waists, Jiang Xihua did not dare to move at all. He did not dare to bet that he could turn around and jump out of the window to escape fast enough.
"Um... I wonder what you guys want to do?"
Jiang Xihua, who has always been steady, was particularly sincere at this moment and skillfully forced a smile.
These two men were able to get guns in this land, which made them more powerful than all the gray forces he had faced.
Following your heart is the best choice.
"Although I want to talk to you properly, considering your suspicious nature and the trouble that the meteorite fragments may bring, you should get some sleep first. We can talk somewhere else."
In response to Jiang Xihua's words, they simply gave this answer.
Then, without waiting for Jiang Xihua, with a gleam in his eyes, to turn around and run away, the two men rushed up quickly and held Jiang Xihua down.
Jiang Xihua wanted to resist, but the sudden touch of the round tube shape on his waist made him stop struggling.
A needle pierced Jiang Xihua quickly, accurately and fiercely.
Less than half a minute later, Jiang Xihua felt his eyes go dark and he lost consciousness.
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The strong smell of disinfectant filled my nose.
When Jiang Xihua opened his eyes again, he was lying in an unknown room.
This is definitely not an official place like a police station, Jiang Xihua can be sure of that.
But at the same time, this was most likely not a small workshop run by some criminal gang. After all, he could vaguely hear the bustling noises downstairs that sounded like a vegetable market.
Looking around, the two men who broke into his room before were standing nearby smoking. In addition, there was a woman operating a computer.
"Hey, you're awake."
"Congratulations, the operation was successful, you are now a girl."
The man who had picked the lock before noticed that Jiang Xihua had woken up and immediately started teasing him with a smile.
Jiang Xihua did not respond when he heard this.
The surroundings were not suitable for an operation at all, and the time in the corner of the girl's computer screen not far away reminded him that only half a day had passed.
So, the sex change that the lock-picking man talked about was just complete nonsense and a joke.
"Don't tease me."
"I'm sorry, but I'm afraid it would take a long time to explain our purpose to you directly. The meteorite fragment on your windowsill will attract some people, so we have no choice but to resort to this last resort."
The bald strong man next to the man who picked the lock spoke.
Looking at this bald burly man, Jiang Xihua's eyes were a little solemn.
It was this guy who had pinned him down hard before. His strength was too great.
However, what really made him afraid to resist was the bulges on the waists of the two men that looked like guns. Otherwise, he would not have been so quickly... after being in the gray area for so long...
As he was thinking, Jiang Xihua's eyes suddenly froze when he looked at the bald muscular man's waist.
"I'm sorry, Xiao Yin said that playing this way on smart people might be effective."
The bald burly man smiled and pulled out a plastic gun model from the waist of his open shirt.
The workmanship is very crude, and one can tell at a glance that it is just a model toy.
But the bulge behind the clothes looks so real.
The girl operating the computer next to her turned around and nodded, indicating that she was the Xiao Yin mentioned by the bald strong man.
However, Jiang Xihua was not in the mood to pay attention to the girl's reaction for the time being.
Looking at the fake gun model that the bald burly man had slapped on his bed, Jiang Xihua always felt that his face, which had been in the gray area for many years, was being pressed to the ground and rubbed hard.
I was tricked by two fake guns that were made with extremely poor workmanship?!
If this were to be made public, all those unscrupulous businessmen and companies that he had cheated would laugh at him to death.
The air was silent for a moment.
Apart from the breathing of a few people and the conversation of the bustling crowd coming up from downstairs, the only sound that could be heard in the entire room was the sound of Xiao Yin typing on the keyboard.
After a long while, Xiao Yin's voice broke the silence: "Brother, I have made some changes to the data about that area. In addition, the area where Jiang Xihua picked up the meteorite fragments is sparsely populated and monitored. After I process the relevant data, he should not be targeted by the authorities because of the meteorite fragments."
Hearing this, the bald strong man nodded with satisfaction.
Jiang Xihua finally spoke up and said, "So, you didn't come to me for the meteorite fragment?"
He roughly pieced together some information from the information he heard before he fell into a coma and after he woke up: First, what was the purpose of these three people looking for him? Second, they were not in the same group as those who were looking for meteorite fragments. The people who were really searching for meteorites seemed to be officials?
“It’s a complicated matter to explain.”
"Humanity has been around for 25,000 years now, and only the last 4,000 years are meaningful. So what have we been doing for the last 25,000 years? We've been hiding in caves, sitting around little campfires, fearing things we don't understand..."
The lock-picking man hadn't finished his speech when he was interrupted by the bald strong man who patted his head.
Jiang Xihua also looked at the lock-picking man with a frown on his face. He didn't really think that he hadn't read some well-known so-called children's cult book. This passage was definitely plagiarized from someone else.
"Don't pay attention to him, he just likes to talk nonsense."
"We came to you because we actually want you to join us."
The bald strong man looked at Jiang Xihua seriously.
"Join...you guys?"
"I don't even know what you do now."
Jiang Xihua narrowed his eyes and looked at the three people in front of him who asked him to join. He always felt that they were unreliable no matter how he looked at them.
However, it is definitely not easy to think that these people could find him, who has been hiding in the shadows.
"Our organization is called seeker, which means explorer."
“Born for the truth.”
"Jiang Xihua, we know that you have been running around for various truths all your life. So, do you know the truth that has been hidden behind this world for a long time?!"
"Do you believe that there are supernatural powers in this world?"
"If there has always been a hidden mysterious organization behind human history, silently protecting humanity with extraordinary power..."
"Are you eager to explore?!"
The bald man got closer to Jiang Xihua as he spoke, his face gradually filled with fanaticism.
This man who had been so calm until now seemed so excited at this moment.
This made Jiang Xihua even more silent.
Oh no, was he kidnapped by a cult member? He really wanted to find out the truth, but the bald man's ridiculous dialect made him feel a little speechless.
"You may not believe what my brother said, but you can take a look at this information."
"After reading this, you may have a certain understanding of the origins of meteorite fragments and the official search for meteorites."
Xiao Yin looked at the silent Jiang Xihua and silently pushed the computer in his hand over to him.
"Yes, it was Xiao Yin who discovered your uniqueness and excellence. Just now, she also helped you to remove some traces of you in the official system. Her skills in the field of hacking can be said to be a dimensionality reduction strike if you look at the whole world."
"I don't believe anything else, but the information she got can't be wrong."
"Even if you don't believe the information here, we can prove it to you later."
"Once you believe it, you won't join the official side. Then you will naturally choose to join us and pursue the truth together!"
The bald strong man immediately spoke upon seeing this.
Hearing this, Jiang Xihua frowned, and couldn't help but remain silent as he looked at the computer that was pushed over to him.
Being able to find him with just hacking skills, he hacked into the official data at will...
Plus the three of them looked serious and confident.
Jiang Xihua couldn't help but feel a jolt in his heart.
Oh no, could this world really not always be what he thought it was?
Could it be that, having pursued the truth for a lifetime, I had no idea that there was a shocking truth hidden behind my world?! After a moment of silence, he nervously took the computer and clicked on the first of many files.
That's three videos.
The file names are: Queqiao-1 lunar exploration satellite image record, Artemis-2 lunar exploration satellite image record, and Mani lunar exploration satellite image record.
He looked at the three people around him, and then looked at the video on the computer in front of him.
Jiang Xihua couldn't help but swallow subconsciously in this tense atmosphere.
Calm down! Calm down!
After all, he has seen a lot of things in the world. He has been able to fight against many evil forces alone for so many years. He should remain calm no matter what he sees next! The next moment, he opened the video with his eyes wide open.
"What the hell?!"
This chapter is intended to explain that some people in the society are aware of the existence of Eternal Day, so it shouldn't be too much of a stretch.
(End of this chapter)