Chapter 53 Mission Planning
The most embarrassing reunion in the world is that I disguise myself as a woman to blend into the crowd, and you try to keep people by forcing them to stay. The methods used by both of us are not very decent, so let's just ignore each other.
Lin Guantang and Ding Ruize, who was pretending to be a fraudulent waiter - the waiter at the cold drink counter just now, looked at each other, pretending not to know each other at all, and looked away as if nothing had happened, then looked at the man who was tied up by the person in charge of the racetrack.
Lin Guantang was glad that he had some foresight and asked Ding Ruize to keep an eye on this person at the very beginning. Not long ago, another reason why Lin Guantang paid for all the cold drinks was that he found out that the waiter who served the cold drinks was Ding Ruize in disguise, so he went over to confirm his identity and asked him to help keep an eye on the middle-aged man who gave Apashou the injection.
It was not particularly surprising to meet Ding Ruize here, he had even become accustomed to it. When they met, Lin Guantang even had a feeling of "found you".
Before, Lin Guantang followed Teacher Tang to the dark alleys of Hezhang Street to randomly catch unlucky thugs for practice. Ding Ruize also registered an account on the food delivery platform and went to deliver food nearby.
(Ding Ruize corrected: It was a restart of the account, not a new registration, and he specifically showed Lin Guantang the title of Takeout Emperor he had received to prove his words were true);
Before that, when Lin Guantang went to the tea party to keep an appointment, Teacher Ding also went to work part-time as a waiter. He was even very responsible in mediating conflicts and was praised by the boss as a promising talent. He was offered a monthly salary of 10,000 star yuan to stay permanently, but Teacher Ding declined the offer with the excuse that "I just like the freedom of part-time work, and the excitement of meeting different bosses in different places, which is like opening a blind box."
That was a reason that the boss couldn't refute.
In short, in Ding Ruize's own words, this is called protecting Lin Guantang's safety at close range while finding a cover that is not easily discovered, and he can also use this cover to earn some pocket money. It is really the best of all worlds.
Lin Guantang also admired Ding Ruize's time management method and his eye for discovering business opportunities. It is true that having many skills is always a waste, and capable people can make money wherever they go.
I also feel like I'm playing a real-life exploration game - the kind where you're bound to a fixed guardian NPC who follows you around. Every time you arrive at a new map, this NPC will automatically refresh and appear, and will automatically jump out to protect you when you're in danger. But there's a hidden easter egg - this guardian NPC will disguise himself when he appears. If you can find and recognize his identity among a group of unfamiliar NPCs first, you can form a team in advance and take the initiative to initiate a mini-game to assign tasks to him.
But now is not the time to play small games.
Using Shao Qingbai's identity, Lin Guantang asked the racetrack to find an empty soundproof room, and then went in with Shao Qingbai to question the doctor who tried to escape.
No matter what, Apashou had an accident while racing with Shao Qingbai. For both public and private reasons, Shao Qingbai should have asked him in detail, but in the room, the person who was actually responsible for the inquiry was Lin Guantang.
The middle-aged man who gave Apashou the injection called himself Liu Juncai, and he was Apashou's personal doctor. The people who were familiar with Apashou called him Brother Liu or Doctor Liu.
When questioned, he said that he was just an ordinary private doctor, who was only responsible for helping Apasu calm down and suppress his body tremors when he was excited.
I don't know anything about gland transplants or anything like that.
Although anyone could easily link Apashou's physical abnormalities to the side effects of gland transplantation, and Apashou's accident today was too tragic, it was difficult to ignore his special physical condition.
But Liu Juncai was also very determined. No matter how he was questioned, he refused to admit that he had anything to do with Apashou's gland transplant.
He also argued that they could check Apa's examination records in the hospital and found that the results were all normal.
Even regular medical institutions could not find out that Apashou had glandular abnormalities. He was a private doctor, and was only responsible for treating Apashou's body tremors due to severe emotional fluctuations. Of course, it was impossible for him to know about this.
If there was a problem with him, then by analogy, the medical institutions that had conducted various related tests on Apashou also had problems - either these regular medical institutions concealed the fact of gland transplantation, or their technology was not good enough.
Whether it is practicing medicine illegally or the medical standards are poor, either one is a fatal flaw for the medical institution. Moreover, there are many famous large hospitals that have conducted relevant tests on Apashou. Once it is revealed, it is bound to cause an uproar.
Perhaps we should be thankful that Lin Guantang found a separate room to interrogate Liu Juncai. If he had questioned him in front of so many people at the racetrack, the consequences of his words being exaggerated and spread by those people at the racetrack would have been disastrous.
Shao Qingbai was extremely annoyed listening to his various excuses, but Lin Guantang was relatively calm and was in the mood to observe Liu Juncai's expressions and movements.
Lin Guantang had not learned any micro-expression analysis, but from an ordinary person's perspective, throughout the whole process, Liu Juncai's tone was full of confidence that he would never be caught in any flaw, and there was not the slightest worry about Apashou being injured.
Even Shao Qingbai, the opponent who was provoked by Apashou in public, gave up the game at the first moment and turned back to pull Apashou out of the car at the risk of his life. But how could Liu Juncai, who theoretically should be someone Apashou trusted very much, not have any worries at all?
He was certain that Apa Shou was not in any danger of life - this idea was rejected the moment it emerged. Lin Guantang also didn't know much about gland transplantation, but based on the severity of the wound, he thought it was impossible for him to be safe.
Then there is only one possibility left - Dr. Liu doesn't care about Apashou's life or death at all, but this brings up another question - who would find a person who doesn't care about his or her life at all to be a doctor who takes care of him or her personally?
There are too many possible reasons why Liu Juncai doesn't care about Apashou.
Lin Guantang reached out and pressed his brows, feeling that his thoughts were like lines. The more he thought about them, the clearer they became. Instead, they became more confused. He felt that the lines were not just the part at hand, but a large ball of thread with no end in sight.
When Lin Guantang remained silent, Shao Qingbai was already getting angry impatiently, but the result only made Liu Juncai smile more smugly, as if he was mocking their incompetence.
When Shao Qingbai was so angry that he didn't want to say a word, Lin Guantang looked at him and asked thoughtfully:
"You are Apashon's personal physician, yet you show no concern for his dying. Is it because you have some deep grudge against him, or is it because—you never care about his life?"
Liu Juncai smiled disapprovingly, looked at him sideways, and said disdainfully:
"Why, you can't find any evidence to frame me for Appasu's accident, so you're going to morally condemn me?"
And he said:
"I'm about to be slandered by your military academy. Shouldn't I worry about my own affairs first? How can I have time to think about him? This is also human nature, isn't it? Little girl, are you meddling too much? Or are you also a military academy student? Haha, even if it's a military academy, there's no reason to interrogate innocent people without any evidence."
"What you said seems to make some sense, but—"
Lin Guantang glanced at the test information sent by Hexi in the terminal - regarding the box taken from Liu Juncai, after preliminary testing, it was indeed just a sedative drug, and there was nothing abnormal.
Without waiting for the results from the executive department, it is enough to imagine that the executive department, which set out simultaneously to search Apashou's residence and Liu Juncai's private clinic, would probably find nothing.
Lin Guantang lowered his eyes and thought for a moment before he spoke:
"But you're so calm right now. It's probably because you think you've already removed all the evidence that could incriminate you in the gland transplant. So no matter how we interrogate you, without solid evidence, you can deny it completely, right?"
Liu Juncai laughed even louder:
"Without any evidence, you're making these groundless slanderous assumptions about me, assuming I've committed a crime. Even if you're a beautiful lady, I'd still find it offensive. After I leave this place, I'll sue you directly and mercilessly."
"Do you think you can go straight home after you leave this room?"
Lin Guantang also smiled at him and tapped the terminal. A three-dimensional structural diagram of the entire racetrack immediately popped up on the screen, with several dots of different colors moving around in it.
Those were members of the executive team conducting a search inside the racetrack.
Under Liu Juncai's nonchalant gaze, Lin Guantang slowly said:
"The box that actually contained the medicine that Apashou was taking was replaced by you midway. You thought the replacement was secretive enough that it would never be discovered, right?"
Liu Juncai showed an impatient expression, mixed with disbelief and doubt. He stared at Shao Qingbai, who was already trying hard to suppress his irritation, and then showed an expression of sudden enlightenment. He said angrily:
"You military academy students love to slander people. Next, you're not going to put a label on me and then beat me until I confess, are you? Those people you dealt with at the Central Military Academy before were all forced to confess, right?"
Before he could finish his words, they were drowned out by the loud sound of Shao Qingbai slamming the table - although Shao Qingbai really wanted to beat up the man in front of him, he obviously couldn't really do it.
He also wanted to leave directly, but he was afraid that this guy would do something unexpected to Ling Chen, so in the end he could only stay here and listen to their roundabout conversations. Then at this time, he finally couldn't help but say:
"Is it your turn to slander the military academy?!"
Then Liu Juncai shrugged his shoulders in an exaggerated manner, shrank his body, and his eyes were full of the meaning of "I'm right, you military school students are really good at this kind of violence", which made Shao Qingbai even more angry.
He glanced at the person next to him, not understanding why his cousin—ah, no, he didn't understand why this guy called Ling Chen could be so calm. Could it be that the stuff on his face made it impossible for him to express himself?
Of course, Lin Guantang couldn't guess what unreliable things Shao Qingbai was thinking. There was only one reason why he was calm, and that was that everything was still under his control.
He gave Shao Qingbai a reassuring look, then looked at Liu Juncai and said:
"According to the surveillance footage at this racetrack, there are five locations where you can replace the drug without making a sound..."
As he spoke, several messages popped up in the system one after another, all indicating that the search was fruitless.
Liu Juncai seemed to have seen the terminal content at the same time, and still had a calm expression, but then he became uncalm.
Because Lin Guantang said:
"Sorry, I've been enjoying studying maps and building structures lately, so besides the surveillance, I did some research on the circuit's structure and found something interesting—there's a glass pipe that leads directly down the mountain. It's big enough for a person to pass through, so a box should be more than enough—but the pipe was abandoned years ago, and the entrance is filled with garbage. Usually, no one goes near it, and the surveillance cameras nearby are broken, so even if someone were to get close, they wouldn't be able to tell."
Liu Jun snorted, his expression flustered for a moment, but he still said calmly:
"I haven't been to that place, don't try to frame me."
"I didn't say you'd been there."
Lin Guantang tilted his head and smiled. At the same time, the terminal dinged and new information came in. Another team of executive department personnel found a suspicious person carrying a black plastic bag on a street near the glass plank road. Although there was no surveillance on the racetrack, there was surveillance at the intersection of another section of the pipeline about a hundred meters away.
Finding a suspicious person carrying a box from the direction of the pipeline was a piece of cake for the execution department.
Lin Guantang clicked on and enlarged the photo sent back by the executive department staff. He also intercepted several other surveillance videos of people carrying large boxes like Liu Juncai leaving the same location, and presented them to him, saying:
"What a shame! It seems your companions have been found. As for these disguised individuals, it shouldn't be difficult to tell who are your companions and who are innocent."
Liu Juncai stared at the screen intently, his expression no longer as calm as before. Shao Qingbai, who was standing beside him, also looked at Lin Guantang in shock and confusion:
"When did the people from the Executive Department come?! Why didn't I receive any mission notification?... When did you become a member of the Executive Department?"
He is from the executive department, but he was at the scene but did not receive any relevant search tasks. Is this reasonable?
Then Lin Guantang replied gently:
"It's because I don't know that I can pretend more convincingly. If this Doctor Liu knew that our enforcement department sent so many people directly to search, he wouldn't be so calm, thinking he had a sure win and not even giving his companions a warning. Doctor Liu, please stop looking at me with such a terrifying look for now. This isn't the whole plan."
***
When Shao Qingbai asked the Medical Department to come here to handle the follow-up, Lin Guantang also found Yin Zhiyou at the same time, wanting to borrow some personnel from the Executive Department.
[Haitang]: Senior Yin, you said before that I can be responsible for task planning. Is that still valid now?
[Senior Yin]: There are no suitable tasks.
[Haitang]: Now I have
[Haitang]: Senior, could you send a few idle executive department staff to help me with some search missions? I will just be in charge of the search missions at the racetrack.
[Senior Yin]: What? You finally made the difficult decision and are ready to give up Huo Shizhen and join me?
[Haitang]: ...
Lin Guantang was so frightened that he almost threw the terminal away - this statement was too misleading. Fortunately, he had great composure and had similar experience before, so he understood that the real meaning of this sentence was "I have decided to abandon Huo Shizhen's Discipline Department and join our Executive Department"...
But Lin Guantang racked his brains but could not think of how to perfectly respond to Yin Zhiyou's amazing language talent. It was completely impossible for him to reply to such ambiguous words like him, so he decisively chose to ignore it.
Then he just asked if they could send someone over, and asked the medical department to send more people over as well, as he still had a small test that required the medical department's cooperation... After Yin Zhiyou answered yes and directly assigned personnel to him in the system, Lin Guantang immediately expressed his gratitude and quickly closed the private chat interface.
As for the questions Yin Zhiyou faced within the executive department, such as "Why do you have to listen to Lingchen's arrangements?" and "Yin Zhiyou/Senior Yin, you actually assigned people to Lingchen yourself. Aren't you afraid of being suppressed by him?", "Are the rumors that Lingchen and Senior had conflicts false?", "Isn't Lingchen Senior Huo's man?", etc., Yin Zhiyou, after careful consideration, replied, "Wouldn't it be fun to snatch Huo Shizhen's people? Let him do whatever he wants and he won't have the chance to threaten me."
This has caused a new round of shocking gossip in the military academy, but that is another matter.
The military academy students who were assigned here obviously wanted to know Ling Chen's strength, or they just wanted to make Yin Zhiyou fail. In short, they tried their best to conduct the search according to Ling Chen's instructions.
The racetrack was searched everywhere—especially the marked key points—but nothing was found. Just when everyone suspected that Ling Chen's plan was wrong, a team assigned to search for the person on the other side of the pipe actually caught him directly—
In fact, this task was questioned when it was proposed in the early morning, because there was no apparent connection between it and the unrelated racetrack - after all, the pipeline had been abandoned for too long and it was generally difficult to connect it. As a result, it actually succeeded by waiting for something to happen, which made people feel very strange about the arrangement in the early morning.
***
In the room, Lin Guantang closed the terminal and finally said the other part of the whole plan:
"Even with this box and this person, we still can't hold you responsible. So let's take a guess. Given the reputation of the Central Military Academy's Medical Department, how many people would be willing to pass up the opportunity to provide free physical examinations to everyone at the racetrack?"
This statement surprised even Shao Qingbai, not to mention Liu Juncai. In the shocked gazes of the two, Lin Guantang continued:
"How many people will be tested positive for pheromone abnormalities? And if we question them, guess how many will betray you—bewitched by you, thinking they could gain the same power as Apashou simply by finding you to prepare the same medicine. This is your real purpose for publicly treating Apashou, isn't it?"
"There are always people who are attracted to it and speculate that Apashou has such a powerful pheromone power, not because his pheromones are strong enough, but because he took this drug. After all, his strength increased greatly after taking the drug. It is obvious to all."
"That way, you can reject them again and again, and then find your next target among those who are persistent and have completely fallen into the vortex of pursuing power, right?"
With every word Lin Guantang spoke, Liu Juncai's face turned paler, until finally, he collapsed on the chair, his lips trembling, his eyes showing panic and fear, but he still said stubbornly:
"You, you... No way, there's no evidence. They're talking nonsense. It's all nonsense. It's all a conspiracy by your military academy!"
Lin Guantang just looked at him quietly and said slowly:
"It seems you're quite familiar with the academy's style. It seems the academy's custom is to keep one mission separate from another. But I'm sorry, I'm very curious. Even if there's even the slightest suspicion, I want to uproot it and see if it's just different root systems that have unintentionally become entangled, or if they're vines that originally grew from the same root."
While Lin Guantang was speaking, the square of the racetrack was already bustling with activity, with free blood draws and medical examinations. All it took was a drop of blood from the fingertip to experience the advanced medical examinations from the Medical Department of the Central Military Academy. It was free, so there wasn't much harm in giving it a try.
But whether it is for further questioning, or the test results of the medicine, or the physical examination results of this group of racers, it will take time to determine how many people were deceived into taking the medicine. Moreover, as a non-staff member of the Central Military Academy, Lin Guantang was not told the reason even if the results came out.
The only thing that could be answered right now was what Apashou meant by that sentence.
That sentence - "I will not die... I will live forever in another world!"
Lin Guantang didn't think that Apashou said this for no reason, or that he believed in some god, so when he was dying, he tried to go to the eternal paradise where the god was.
But when he went to ask Senior Sikong from the Intelligence Department, the result left Lin Guantang speechless.
[Senior Sikong]: Did you really say something so full of Chuunibyou? It's really easy for kids this age to confuse reality with fantasy. Choosing to escape reality when on the verge of death is so sad.
Lin Guantang: ...
First of all, Apashou’s age is far from suitable to be described as a “child” - especially someone like you who is about the same age as him.
Secondly, this statement is really perfunctory, senior.
Lin Guantang really wanted to find Senior Sikong and ask him face to face what was going on, but he couldn't do that.
This is mainly because Sikong Tan's whereabouts are a mystery, and he often disappears in the middle of a chat, or is even directly hosted by the system.
Since there is no way to get information directly from the Intelligence Department, I can only go to Huo Shizhen and ask.
It was also a conversation over a long distance - because Huo Shizhen seemed to have gone out of town again.
Lin Guantang was very puzzled. As the head of the discipline department, shouldn't he stay in the military academy to enforce discipline? Why was he either on a field trip or on his way to a field trip?
Then he learned that the Central Military Academy's Discipline Department was not only responsible for managing the students enrolled in the academy, but was also responsible for inspecting the current status of graduates.
Graduates who choose to obey the Central Military Academy's graduation assignments also choose to continue to accept the Central Military Academy's supervision. The Central Military Academy has prepared jobs for graduates. One is to enter a more stringent military department through selection. The other part is to enter the "ABO Pheromone-Related Special Processing Department" in various regions. There are special subsidies, and they do not have to work in the office, and they can even develop various side jobs. However, they must undergo annual regular reviews and irregular random reviews.
——Although many times, random inspections often mean "I'm here to catch you", and therefore the so-called random inspections are often nicknamed "The King of Hell is Coming" by the special departments in various regions, especially when Huo Shizhen took office, there was an even more terrifying feeling that the nickname "King of Hell" had turned into the real King of Hell appearing.
Having said that, although Yin Zhiyou had previously told Lin Guantang that Huo Shizhen would not tell him the whole truth, and even Lin Guantang himself fully understood this from his own personal experience, on the other hand, if Lin Guantang took the initiative to find clues and ask for answers, Huo Shizhen would also give him answers.
Just like facing a huge grid puzzle, Huo Shizhen would not directly reveal the entire contents of the puzzle to Lin Guantang, but when Lin Guantang turned over a grid, Huo Shizhen would not hide what the grid represented, instead of telling Lin Guantang that he did not have permission to open this grid, or avoiding mentioning the contents of the grid.
…
But the facts prove that people still cannot rely on past experience to be certain that another person's future words and actions will definitely happen as they imagine.
For example, if Lin Guantang thought he had opened a useful grid, Huo Shizhen would tell him everything about the contents of the grid as before, but this time Huo Shizhen chose to refuse.
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