Soul Trigger

Chapter 128 Lock
After yesterday's incident broke out, a large number of "rumors" did appear on the Internet, but they were quickly cleared up by the Special Management Bureau's thundering measures.

What followed was the official statement, which explained the whole incident as a terrorist attack and hallucinogenic gas.

Whether you believe it or not, the official verdict has already been made.

It doesn’t matter whether you think it’s a battle of super powers or something else, as long as you don’t think of these things as haunted.

At this moment, when Ji Li was driving past the pilgrimage route, he saw that it was completely surrounded by guardrails and the roads and streets had begun to be repaired.

When he arrived at the Special Management Bureau, Ji Li met Yan Jing and others, who all stood up for him and said that the guards were fucking inhumane and were openly using the scapegoat approach.

"However, although they don't know where the ice came from, it's normal for An Zhixiong to do such a thing."

"Any clues?" Ji Li walked forward and took Yan Jing's arm, with a smile on his face: "I'll treat you to the silk screen this weekend."

His glasses suddenly turned sideways: "Now that the pilgrimage day has gone wrong, I'm afraid we should focus on the big things..."

Then he looked around, then at his two colleagues next to him, and his voice suddenly lowered:
"Are you going or not?"

"I'm on duty...but I can switch shifts."

"I work overtime... but I can take a day off."

Glasses immediately blinked at Ji Li and gave him a thumbs up:

"make a deal!"

Then he narrated:

"It's not a clue. In fact, An Zhixiong himself doesn't seem to be such an unreasonable person. As the leader of the mayor's guard, he is said to have a good temper."

Before the man with glasses finished speaking, the flat-headed man next to him became unhappy:

"Why did you wash him when you were having fun? Didn't you see how miserable he was yesterday?"

Glasses was very calm: "The Third Mayor was assassinated. In addition to Director Xiaofu who led the operation and had to bear the banner, and General Quan of the Guards who had to be held accountable, he was the first to bear the brunt of the knife."

Ji Li nodded thoughtfully: "This is indeed very reasonable. He wants to catch the murderer more than anyone else, because strictly speaking it is his responsibility. At the same time, it will also make him furious and unable to distinguish right from wrong... Do you think he framed me?"

Glasses shook his head violently: "Brother Ji, you can't ask me about this. An Zhixiong is a colonel after all. Captain Yan has to call him "sir" in front of him."

He paused and said, "But he was a nobody yesterday. But if I have to say it... he shouldn't be the one who framed you."

"In addition to his duties, An Zhixiong is deeply trusted by General Quan, otherwise he would not be the commander of the mayor's guard."

"If General Quan falls because of the assassination of the third mayor and a new guard leader is appointed in the capital, he will probably have to leave his position as well."

Ji Li nodded thoughtfully: "So compared to Grandma and the lion, he is the most anxious one, so it makes sense if he wants to convict me in a hurry..."

He pondered and seemed to grasp a key point:
"You just said that he has always had a good temper?"

"The last time he came to the Special Management Bureau, it was Supervisor Zhao who greeted him. At that time, he actually looked quite approachable."

Approachable...

Ji Li suddenly took out something from his arms and pressed it hard.

A flash of light flashed before everyone's eyes, and their glasses suddenly shuddered:
"Fuck, man in black?"

Ji Li: "The man in black?"

"In the movie, there's a little memory-erasing device that's similar to this thing you have... What's it for?"

Ji Li smiled and put the stick-shaped device in his hand back into his pocket:

"Men in Black surroundings."

Several people looked at each other, their eyes full of confusion, and Ji Li changed the subject:
"Where's the cool chick?"

"If you call Captain Yan like that, be careful or she might make things difficult for you..."

Glasses pointed Ji Li in a direction.

In addition to the follow-up investigation into the assassination today, some cases that broke out on the pilgrimage day also need to be concluded.

Among them was the incident where Ji Li and Jin Misha were attacked by the Gluttony Train.

After finding Yan Xiyu and collecting the files, the story behind the gluttony train on the day of the pilgrimage became clear:

These raiders on the gluttony train all come from a black market called "Zong Hyena".

The so-called black market is a place where spiritual items are traded on a large scale outside of Flash Street and the Special Management Bureau.

For example, the human skin with spiritual circuits obtained by the skinners will be sold on such black markets.

According to the results of "asking the spirits", these people revealed the mastermind behind the attack on Ji Li, a man named "Bone Picking".

There are only a few pieces of information about this person on the hidden Internet, all of which are about the human skin trade, and he has long been on the wanted list of the Special Management Bureau.

It’s just that this guy has done so little that he’s not even as valuable as the people in the Blood Shuttle Group.

However, Yan Xiyu, through careful analysis of hidden network intelligence and some black market circulation situations monitored by the Special Management Bureau, judged that "Bone Picking" was most likely the consignee behind the Blood Shuttle Group.

"That is to say, the consignee bypassed the Blood Shuttle Group and lent a Gluttony Train to these little thieves... This seems a bit unreasonable."

Ji Li pointed out the unreasonable aspects.

"But no matter what, they are after your 'skin'. I think we should start with the so-called 'masterpieces'."

Yan Xiyu said:

"I will ask the new person in charge of the Hidden Network to work on this and try to find out exactly what their purpose is in wanting the Masterpiece."

This was indeed a breakthrough, because both An Zhongxun and this group of thieves had overreacted to the masterpiece.

This made Ji Li think of the situation between Li Zhanxiang and the magic mirror.

Could it be that these people have to do this because of some kind of unavoidable contract... ?
After reviewing the current situation with Yan Xiyu, Ji Li asked Ku Niu to move closer, took out the stick-shaped device that Film had given him and fired a high flash.

After the light passed, Yan Xiyu shook his head violently:

"what are you doing?"

"Is the new Men in Black merchandise I bought shiny?"

"Stop lying to me, are you up to something bad?" Yan Xiyu crossed his arms and asked sharply.

Ji Li motioned for her to come over and talk, but the cool girl had just been tricked by Ji Li, and now a rebellious nature was emerging in her mind, so she refused to cooperate.

So Ji Li put his head next to her ear and told her the function of this thing.

Yan Xiyu was stunned for a moment, then said seriously:
"I will report this to the Director..."

"I've already told him on the way to the Special Management Bureau. Speaking of which..." Ji Li looked at the other person, "What is your relationship with the lion?"

Yan Xiyu was not hypocritical:
"I'm a Shulong, you should be able to tell, right?"

Ji Li nodded, and Ku Niuer continued:
"I came here when I was very young. Director Xiaofu is considered my elder, but not legally."

"Then you should be one of the people who absolutely do not want to see him fall." Ji Li said thoughtfully: "How much do you know about An Zhixiong?"

"You want to throw dirty water back at him? That guy is really hateful. If I could, I wanted to shoot him in the head yesterday." Yan Xiyu thought:

"But unless you have dirt on him, even Director Xiaofu won't stand up for you."

“I don’t need any dirt.”

Ji Li shook the thing in his hand: "But I do have one thing I want to verify. Did you know that some time ago, Jin Misha and I were involved in another incident involving the Gluttony Train?"

"I remember that incident..." Yan Xiyu pondered, his face froze, "I remember the files were sealed by the guards..."

Because Ji Li reported this matter directly to Han Xiaofu, Yan Xiyu was not very clear about it. He only knew that it was roughly related to the rebellion of the guard members.

This was the guards' later explanation.

"The mastermind involved is Lee Myung-seok from the Tiger Hunting Team. I have a feeling that if there are any clues, there should be a connection between the two."

"Go check the hidden network."

The two returned to the combat planning room and came to the workstation of the person in charge of the hidden network.

Pei Taiyu, the person in charge of the hidden network, is the captain of the A6 team in the Pilgrimage Day incident. He is currently in a coma due to being seriously injured and abducted by the Gluttony Train, so the two can only operate the hidden network system personally.

The Guard's system is not completely open to the Special Management Bureau, and it can even be said that not much is disclosed.

Because essentially, the level of the Third Contact Defense Team in the system is higher than that of the Special Management Bureau.

But with Yan Xiyu's experience, he quickly locked down a fact through the information of the participants in various files, some official documents, and the observation of the guards in the black market - before An Zhixiong was promoted to the commander of the mayor's guard, he was the direct leader of the "Hunting Tiger" team. At that time, Li Mingshuo was still the deputy captain of the "Hunting Tiger" team.

From some files that Li Mingshuo participated in, it can be seen that An Zhixiong had promoted him openly or secretly, because many of the cases in some files were not even related to the jurisdiction of the guards, but were lucrative jobs with abnormally many merits.

"They have a close relationship..." Yan Xiyu felt that he smelled something.

"What if An Zhixiong is really problematic, and Li Mingshuo's 'rebellion' is related to An Zhixiong?" Ji Li tossed the stick-shaped instrument in his hand, and Yan Xiyu's expression instantly became serious:
"This will be a very scary case... How do you plan to investigate it?"

"I can't say I've investigated, but I still have connections. You talk to Director Lion first, and I'll make a call."

Yan Xiyu nodded and left quickly, while Ji Li took out his phone and dialed a number:
"Captain Jiang... I guess I called him right this time?"

The other side seemed to be stunned for a moment, and then Jiang Shijun's voice came:

"Black Goat... I heard about what happened on the Pilgrimage Day. I apologize in advance."

Jiang Shijun, the blond soldier whom he met when he and Jin Misha first encountered the Gluttony Train, was also the person who gave Ji Li the guest medal. Ji Li naturally kept his contact information.

"What do you want from me? If it's about throwing dirty water on you, I think General Quan has already made a clear guarantee for you..."

"I may have found the clue that Li Mingshuo was destroyed and tampered with."

The voice on the other end suddenly sank, and after a few breaths, he said:
"The news has been completely blocked. Who told you this..."

"As long as you know the existence of destruction and tampering, it is easy to associate this with this."

Jiang Shijun was silent for a while, then he sighed:

"...You didn't tell anyone about this, did you?"

"No more than a slap, but I think this matter will be made public soon..."

"What do you mean?" His voice suddenly tightened.

"Relax, I'm not trying to threaten you. You also know that the head of the mayor's guard brought people to throw dirty water on me yesterday, right?"

"An Shangling...? To be honest, I didn't expect things to develop to this point. He is not usually so impulsive..."

Having said this, Jiang Shijun suddenly stopped.

Then it became several times darker:
"you sure?"

"I have something that can be used for direct testing. Where is An Zhixiong now?"

"I don't know exactly, but the Mayor's Guard went to the archives today..."

Ji Li blurted out:

"Notify someone you trust, and then hurry to the archives!"

At this time, Yan Xiyu walked into the combat planning room:

"Hey, I got it here..."

Ji Li grabbed her and rushed out:
"what are you doing?!"

Outside the Special Management Bureau building, the disguised demon leaped out of the fence. Ji Li, who was already sitting on it, pushed Yan Xiyu behind him:
"That bastard is in the Guard Archives."

Yan Xiyu, who had just sat down, was stunned:
"Destroy evidence?"

……

The so-called "destruction and tampering" is to destroy the awakening aura of the awakener in a special way, and then make him awaken again.

Because the awakening aura is highly related to human will and even soul, once the awakening aura is destroyed, the human spirit will corrupt towards evil.

And in this process of corruption, by prompting it to reawaken, we can achieve "destruction and tampering."

This will retain the original soul well, but the soul core, abilities, and awakening aura will all undergo earth-shaking changes due to the awakening of corruption.

The ultimate result is that this person's temperament will also change drastically.

Close Encounters of the Third Kind Defense Force Base, Large Computer Archives.

An Zhixiong looked at the "Tiger Hunter" team blocking his way and raised his hand to stop his subordinates from approaching:

"Jiang Shijun, what do you mean?"

All members of the "Tiger Hunting" team blocked the road in front of An Zhixiong, and the blond soldier in the lead took a step forward:
"Captain An, was it you who handed the case of the Third Ring Line Gluttony Train to the captain?"

An Zhixiong frowned:
"Li Mingshuo? Why did you suddenly mention that 'traitor'..."

"Just tell me, did you hand over that case to him?!"

Jiang Shijun took a sudden step forward.

An Zhixiong was silent for a while, then laughed:
"It looks like you guys did some homework, but sadly... no."

"You're lying." The blond soldier's brows suddenly became ferocious:
"Li Mingshuo said that you gave him that case! That's why we went to the abandoned Line 0 and accidentally entered the Gluttony Train!"

An Zhixiong smiled:
"It's clearly written in the file that it was Li Mingshuo who took on the case that changed hands three times for the sake of merit... Could it be that I asked him to take it?"

Jiang Shijun laughed in anger: "You have been in and out of the archives frequently during this period... You have almost deleted the evidence a long time ago, but as a superior, you must know the work of the data recovery department, right?"

At this time, An Zhixiong saw the person behind Jiang Shijun carrying a three-defense briefcase, and his eyebrows frowned:
"You're from the Engineering Department? Who gave you the transfer order?"

"This is an extraordinary period. If Leader An thinks there is nothing fishy going on, let us go in and investigate thoroughly."

"Show me your transfer orders, and I will let you in."

Members of the mayor's guard stepped forward and completely blocked the way for Jiang Shijun and others.

At this moment in the hall of the archives, some people have been attracted by this scene.

Some tried to get closer, while others notified their superiors.

"You really have something to hide... Let me ask you one question, are you still An Zhixiong?" Jiang Shijun's face was gloomy, and his hand was already on the holster.

"If I'm not An Zhixiong, who am I? If you have nothing else to do, just go back. This is an extraordinary period, and I still have things to do..."

"You framed Black Goat for your new master?"

"I understand now... Are you suspecting that I'm a 'rebel'?" An Zhixiong smiled, "Where's the evidence?"

"The captain became like that because he took the case you gave him. When the third mayor was assassinated, you were the person closest to him..." Jiang Shijun directly pulled out his gun and pointed it at the other party, with gray-white spiritual essence surrounding his other hand:

"With insufficient evidence, you want to arrest a meritorious official of the Special Management Bureau and a guest honoree of the Guards... Moreover, your motives are not pure, and you frequently go in and out of the archives. Aren't these signs obvious enough!?"

"Then these are not enough to be evidence. In the Guard, everything must be based on evidence and rules."

An Zhixiong unbuttoned his jacket and threw it aside:

"But now, if you rashly point a gun at your superior, you are violating the rules!"

He attacked suddenly, and dark green spiritual essence burst out, instantly knocking the gun out of Jiang Shijun's hand, and the two men collided with fists.

As the violent spiritual essence exploded, Jiang Shijun's body retreated madly to the back, his feet nailed to the ground, leaving two clearly visible glue marks, and he was pushed back by his teammates behind him:
"team leader!"

Amid a burst of exclamations, all members of the "Tiger Hunting" team released their spiritual essence, but before Jiang Shijun could adjust his posture, An Zhixiong had already exploded the spiritual essence all over the sky without any hesitation:

"After all these years in the Guard, I didn't expect you still don't understand the rules."

"Here, military rank is the rule, and having a big fist is even more of a rule. For someone like you who has neither a military rank nor a big fist, and who doesn't even have a backer..."

"Bringing a few people from the engineering department to investigate me? You're just dreaming!!!"

The violent dark green smoke enveloped his body and rolled towards the few people, turning into a sharp spiral that knocked away the team members who were blocking the front and pierced Jiang Shijun's body fiercely.

Bang——! ! !
In an instant, glass fragments poured down like a rainstorm, and a flash of lightning hit An Zhixiong like a cannon.

The powerful impact force pushed him back several meters, and at that moment a huge black shadow trampled on him like a meteorite amid the rain of glass fragments.

An Zhixiong only had time to raise his hands before the green mist dissipated and the floor beneath his feet instantly burst into large, spider-web-like cracks.

The black shadow retreated immediately after the blow, and the moment it landed, it burst into a blue spiritual fire.

Phantom.

Ji Li and Yan Xiyu jumped off their horses, with electric arcs flashing on the latter's body. Ji Li pointed the gun he had held in his hand at An Zhixiong:

"An Zhixiong, we have collected sufficient evidence to prove that you are directly related to the death of the third mayor. Now please come with us and cooperate with the investigation."

(End of this chapter)