Psychics don't die from gunfire

Chapter 371 Strikes hard
——Second-level researcher, Xu He, four hours after losing contact.

The armed department of the Council of Knowledge, the Order Maintenance Agency, arrived at the scene.

Anning City, Nancheng District.

The "Tianshi Machinery Processing Factory", which was originally applied by Xu He as a closed experimental site, has now become a closed site in the literal sense.

Several special armed cars were parked outside the factory, with silver-white patterns and a purely mechanical scale printed on the body of the car. This was the logo of the [Order Maintenance Agency].

The holographic projection cordon has been set up, and the orange-red light edge is extremely eye-catching.

If it were a corporate alliance, the place would have been packed with curious spectators, recording videos, taking photos, and broadcasting live, while also criticizing the Security Bureau's incompetence and lamenting, "Oh, the company."

But this is not a corporate alliance.

Bang! The door of the armored car was violently pushed open. A middle-aged man in the uniform of the order maintenance department with a grim expression on his face broke through the cordon and strode towards the factory building in the center of the factory.

Apart from the members of the order-maintaining organization, there were no other outsiders in the vicinity of the factory or even further out, and the empty streets under the street lights were silent.

In order to make every effort to promote research, the Council of Knowledge established a resource regulation department [coordinating agency] after abolishing the monetary system and commercial facilities. It is fully responsible for resource regulation within the country.

The resource quota system is one of the manifestations of this.

【Coordination】Distribute resource quotas based on each employee’s labor contribution.

However, as workers from low-value units who come from [workshops], their contributions are bound to be limited. For the same type of work, the difference in resource quotas between the hardest-working and the laziest workers is not that big.

There is no spare time.

The Council of Knowledge can ensure that all employees have enough food and clothing, but for anything more, they do not have any extra resource quota in exchange - even if they managed to save up enough, they do not have the purchasing authority.

Therefore, most employees' entertainment activities are placed on the virtual network.

Although the Academic Council has imposed some restrictions on employees' use of virtual networks, it has not banned it. Even a virtual network with restrictions is far more interesting than reality.

After leaving their workstations, most employees will choose to go directly home and engage in this limited entertainment.

This also leads to the fact that few people are wandering around the city streets at night, because there is no point - are they going to squat on the side of the road and look up at the giant-screen scientific research documentary on the exterior wall of the building?

Therefore, even though the Tianshi Machinery Processing Plant was surrounded and it was obvious that something big had happened, no outsiders approached.

"All participants in the experiment have been detained. There were originally thirty people, and there are currently twenty-seven."

Inside the factory, a subordinate of the Order Maintenance Agency quickly came forward when he saw the officer coming in. "They all showed symptoms of memory loss. The cause is initially determined to be psychic effects."

"Twenty-seven? How did the three employees die? Were they also killed by the murderer?"

The subordinate replied, "No, the cause of death of those three was caused by the experiment. We have extracted the experimental logs of this "Thought Transmutation" experiment. Researcher Xu He raised the intensity of the experiment midway for the sake of rigor."

"Did he sacrifice himself for the experiment?"

The superior was obviously relieved. He had received an urgent circular in the middle of the night and had rushed over immediately in a rage, without even looking through his subordinates' case summary files.

"This is the only good news. Their death, no, their sacrifice, has meaning instead of falling in a meaningless killing."

The subordinate nodded in agreement.

Death alone has no meaning. It is neither lower nor higher than other things. The meaning of death always comes from external attributes. "They have contributed their own strength to move towards the future."

The commander murmured something in a low voice, quickly adjusted his mood, and became vigorous and resolute again: "Okay, let's put aside the mourning for now, we have more important things to do now."

"Have you completed the on-site analysis?"

"The routine process has been completed, but the results are not optimistic."

The subordinates also restrained their nostalgia and their expressions turned serious.

"We did a luminol reaction, but we didn't find any blood at the scene. We reconstructed the trajectory and found no signs of firearms. We can only be sure that the murderer used some kind of kinetic weapon, which we initially determined to be a projectile. We also scanned the biometric information with the equipment, but unfortunately, we found nothing either."

'So skilled and sophisticated'

As he listened, the officer also became serious: "Where is the recording equipment?"

"No, the cameras around here, including the recording devices of the 27 survivors, have all been formatted. The method was very clean. We have reported it to the technical department, and they said that it might be impossible to restore it."

"The memories and records were processed so thoroughly." The officer felt that the situation was getting more and more difficult. "Could the murderer's background be related to a giant enterprise? A bunch of stubborn guys."

But it doesn't make sense. Xu is just a social science researcher. What technology is worth stealing? Even the murderer didn't hesitate to alert the enemy and expose his identity.

He suddenly noticed that his subordinates' expressions became a little strange.

As a field manager of the [Order Maintenance Agency] in Anning City, his prosthetic eyes are of high specifications. In order to better perform the duties of the order maintenance agency, they are specially equipped with dynamic visual capture.

At that moment, he said directly: "Report if there is any situation, don't delay."

“The biggest problem,” the subordinate said, “is that the body of researcher Xu He has disappeared.”

The officer was stunned for a moment: "Disappeared?"

"Yes, there were signs of fighting at the scene, but as of now, there is no trace of Xu He's body."

The subordinate reported: "We searched the area and found no trace of a hidden body. As for chemical digestion, the molecular sniffer has already run a round of tests and found no results, so it can be ruled out."

".Is it the effect of psychic energy again?"

The officer made his judgement.

It hasn't been long since Xu He was promoted to the second ring. As a researcher, he is not good at combat. All of his implants have functions such as computing power enhancement, characterization analysis, and other auxiliary research functions. He doesn't even carry a gun at ordinary times!
If a real fight breaks out, let alone this obviously extremely experienced murderer.

Even if it was myself, a non-psychic, it would not be difficult to kill Xu He as long as I was well armed.

Therefore, when I first learned that Xu He was murdered, I did not overestimate the murderer's combat power.
"Can the number of murderers be determined?" he asked.

"We speculate that there are one or two people." The subordinate replied: "One is responsible for technical support, and the other is responsible for military execution. Of course, we cannot rule out the possibility that the two are the same person."

"I will report this to the higher authorities now and request that the arrest efforts be stepped up."

The commander took a deep breath and spoke solemnly.

"——This is no longer an ordinary dissident. We must strike hard!"

(End of this chapter)