Chapter 159
Yu Leng did not give a direct answer, but took the old man's shoulder and led him out: "Let's go, let's go, let's get out of the way."
Speaking of the cops, the old man immediately forgot that he hadn't finished his meal yet. He even took some barbecue and walked out on his own initiative: "You guys do your business, I won't bother you any more. Young man, be careful. I'll leave after I've had enough."
Yu Leng also reminded him to be careful and to call him if there was anything, and then the few of them drove away in a taxi.
Seeing that they ran faster than rabbits, Lu Jiamu sat for a while and then went to the next store to wait.
Half an hour later, a low-key black business car drove into the food court. The driver's window was lowered, revealing the face of a man in black: "Get in the car."
As soon as Lu Jiamu sat in the back seat and closed the door, the man in black didn't bother to be polite with him and asked directly: "You have caused a lot of trouble recently when we weren't paying attention?"
Lu Jiamu pretended to be confused: "What?"
"You don't have to play dumb with me." The man in black said as he drove. "You may be able to hack the warehouse's surveillance, but you don't have the ability to hack the entire city's surveillance. I'm not blind, of course I can see you running around."
Without waiting for Lu Jiamu to speak, he added: "You don't have to refute me. Apart from invading a place you shouldn't have been to, you didn't cause any other damage this time. The matter can be stopped by me."
Lu Jiamu laughed: "Then what do you want to say?"
"Well done." The man in black said, "But don't do it again next time. We will seal off the hidden places. There are always reasons why we have to do this. But you have gained a lot this time, right?"
“It’s true that we have gained a lot.”
"Hmm." The man in black hesitated for a moment, as if thinking about something. After a while, he belatedly confessed, "I did hide something about that child. I asked you not to investigate further, but I also had my own selfish motives."
Lu Jiamu didn't intend to beat around the bush and asked directly, "What you're hiding is the memory of that child that he had forgotten, and that he had been an accomplice to the evil, and then lived in the ghost realm for several years?"
Seeing that he explained it so clearly, the man in black nodded and said, "We have conducted in-depth investigations on this orphanage and the child who died at the beginning. There was a long period of time between the time of its death and the abnormal phenomenon that occurred in the orphanage.
And based on the fact that it had little contact with other anomalies before its death, we believe that when it first became an anomaly, it did not have very strong abilities and could not even feed itself."
He said very tactfully, "So we speculate that someone has been providing it with help during this period, which has given it the opportunity to grow to where it is today without revealing anything. As for the little boy, he was a survivor that our field team discovered by chance during the last exploration a few years ago. At that time, there were no other living people in the anomaly range who could take care of him, so they took him out."
"I don't want you to be prejudiced against him because of the orphanage incident and change your original opinion of him."
The man in black observed Lu Jiamu's expression calmly, but could not see any attitude from his face.
"Children don't have enough judgment. You can't expect them to know right from wrong at such a young age. So he couldn't tell that his companion was dead. He probably didn't have this concept at all."
"Um."
"These things were too much of a shock to him, and he forgot this memory in order to protect himself. I think it would be best for him to forget these past events and not bring them up again. Let him always think that he was abandoned by his parents because he has abnormal abilities."
"Most people would find this behavior unforgivable. But like I said before, this was definitely not his intention. I have been with him for a while, and in my opinion, he is a very kind child. But if a person is too kind, it is easy for him to be taken advantage of by those with ulterior motives."
"Since you have decided to adopt him, it would be best if you could stay with him forever and not give him unnecessary hope and then abandon him."
"If you send him back, it will be difficult for us to handle this. If no one is willing to take in an individual like him who has made obvious mistakes, in order to avoid him becoming a threat to society when he grows up, he will most likely be humanely disposed of and made into an anomalous object."
"We all think that for a psychic of his young age, he still has a lot of room for growth. Although he is only constantly making his luck worse, which seems useless, what he is unconsciously controlling is actually probability, which is a very rare probability-based ability that almost no one has studied."
"If we can let him grow up, he might be able to control more than just negative probabilities. Maybe he can eventually grow to the point where he can intentionally control all the rules of probability. In his eyes, the world is like a controllable dice. There will be a lot he can do to help us."
"Although this is just a hypothesis, it is certain that he still has potential. I don't want to ruin his life so early because of a momentary mistake."
"What do you think?"
Lu Jiamu smiled with an ambiguous meaning: "I think you are a very kind person."
This time it was the man in black who couldn't figure out what he meant.
But the man in black felt that he had said everything he could, so he said, "If it's convenient for you, we actually hope that you can cooperate with us and write a report on this exploration. Don't worry, we won't hold you accountable for anything after you write it. We're not trying to trick you."
"no problem."
The man in black was silent for a moment, then hesitantly said, "Actually, there is one more thing I want to ask you..."
"You say."
"Because this anomaly was formed relatively early, when we first started exploring it, the base's system was not yet perfect, so we mistakenly sent in some seniors who were not capable of handling this level of anomaly. They never came out again."
The man in black asked, "Their features are very obvious, and they are wearing combat uniforms. I saw that they were mentioned several times in the previous exploration reports, but the descriptions were not very clear. Did you encounter them this time?"
Lu Jiamu thought of the armed men who had been dancing the robotic dance in the library.
Nodding to indicate that he had met her.
"Are they doing well now?" the man in black asked hesitantly. "If you don't think it's easy to answer, you can choose not to answer my question."
"There is nothing inconvenient to answer." Lu Jiamu said, "They are doing well now. They have enough entertainment activities every day. They play games with children every day. They are in good spirits. And they are still exploring the welfare home conscientiously. Overall, their lives are very fulfilling."
In the realm of ghosts, how can one live so normally? The man in black did not expect to get such an answer, and he was half-believing and half-doubting: "Really?"
"That's right."
The man in black thought about it for a while but couldn't figure it out. He lit a cigarette and said, "Thank you very much for your answer."
"When we first discovered the orphanage, it only appeared at night between 8pm and 6am. As more and more people strayed into it and were devoured by it, it grew stronger, and its appearance time continued to increase, and the area occupied by the anomaly became larger and larger. If we don't take some effective measures to limit ordinary people from contacting it, its range will become larger and larger, and the time it appears will become longer and longer, until we can no longer control it."
"As you can see, we live in such a precarious world. Even if we try our best, we can only create a little bit of illusion of stability. Any loss of control may push us into an abyss of no return. What we need is unity and common strength, so we pursue any cooperation intention that is possible."
After playing the emotional card, he said: "At least I sincerely think so. So even if you guys get into trouble wherever you go, I am willing to trust you. But you'd better prepare a reason that is convincing enough to convince everyone. After all, where there are many people, there is always society."
He was hinting that they were too high-profile and had attracted some attention. Although the anomalies in these cases had already appeared and were hidden for a long time, they had nothing to do with them. However, they had discovered these anomalies as soon as they arrived several times in a row, which inevitably made people think that they had ulterior motives.
Lu Jiamu responded: "Thank you for your advice, but you don't have to worry, we just have a lot of troubles recently."
"Okay then. Now let's talk about what happened this time. You can express your opinions without reservation."
After receiving a positive response, the man in black continued, "This anomaly has a very terrifying ability to spread. The damage it causes has been assessed to be at a high-risk level, and it is suspected to have a certain level of intelligence. Specifically, it relies on devouring and assimilating flesh and blood to survive, but in order to enhance its ability to spread, it deliberately does not infect birds in the mountains, and has been forbearing for many years just to find an opportunity to spread itself on a large scale."
"It also knows how to use the color of leaves to camouflage itself, which makes it difficult for us to detect its existence when we look down from high altitude. In addition, the mountainous terrain blocks people from going that deep into the mountains, so no one reports the case, so we have never planned to actively explore. It was not until today that we discovered the existence of this anomaly, and it has already formed a certain scale."
"During the exploration not long ago, our companions were lucky enough to bring back some abnormal tissue samples, but the samples weakened and died just as we were studying its physical and chemical properties. As a result, we still don't know much about it. We are planning to airdrop some more staff into the forest to collect more samples. If you can provide some help in this regard, I believe the process of collecting samples will be safer."
"No problem. I'll be happy if I can help you."
"Yes. The search in other areas except the abnormal area is still ongoing, don't worry. But we will not explore inside the abnormal area, at most we will just take a sample. But if you want to take the opportunity to go in and explore, we will not stop you. As for the details of the operation, I will tell you in detail after we arrive at the temporary station."
After the information exchange, the two people were not familiar enough to chat about family matters, and the car soon fell into silence.
However, neither of them is the kind of person who likes to talk, and the sudden silence does not make them feel awkward or anything like that.
But after a while, Lu Jiamu suddenly took the initiative to start the conversation again: "I also want to ask you something."
The man in black glanced at him and said, "Just ask, as long as I can answer."
"What do you think of ghosts?"
"What do you mean?"
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