Lord of Puro

Chapter 568: Fictional Civilization

Li Banfeng returned to his residence, said hello to his wife, and went straight to the ninth room.

Hong Ying looked at the record player and said, "Xiao Wan, Qi Lang has been acting strange lately. He runs to Room Nine as soon as he gets home!"

The record player smiled calmly: "Just run away, why should I be jealous of that bitch Honglian?"

Hong Ying looked towards the door, then moved closer to the record player and said, "Xiao Wan, the world is dangerous, and there are some things you have to be on guard against."

The record player was startled: "Protect against what?"

Hong Ying lowered her voice even more: "Honglian has seven holes, and its business is more than ours combined."

"Bah!" The record player spat at Hong Ying. "You are so frivolous all day long. I really don't know what's going on in your head. I think you just don't play enough!"

Hong Ying looked aggrieved. She sat in front of the dressing table, picked up the blush, applied it twice, and put it down again: "Xiao Wan, I am doing this for you, how could you do this to me? Xiao Wan, you..."

Where's the record player?
Hong Ying pushed open one door after another and saw the record player lying at the door of room nine, looking through the crack in the door.

The record player was very angry and cursed in his heart: This madman, he started fighting right away, he and Honglian are really not clean.

Li Banfeng took the ten pills, felt around for the lotus heart, and said to Honglian gently, "Do you recognize these ten pills?"

Honglian replied calmly: "I recognize this elixir. It is made from the iron bars of iron-reinforced bamboo."

Li Banfeng smiled and said, "Didn't you say yesterday that you couldn't practice?"

"I mean, if I can't refine the entry-level medicine powder, I can refine this medicine pill. The first batch of iron bars made by the peddler were refined into medicine pills by me."

"Why didn't you mention this?"

"You never asked."

What Honglian said was indeed correct. Li Banfeng had not asked about it before, but he had to ask carefully now: "In order to make the entry-level medicine powder, do we have to refine the iron bars into pills first?"

If this step is really necessary, then the peddler will at least have a red lotus in his hand.

Honglian said: "That was the case at first, but the peddler later used some method that made him refine the medicine powder without my help. Since then, the peddler has turned against the people in heaven."

"How can these pills be turned into powder?"

"Choose any three of them and refine them again, and they will become the entry-level medicinal powder for a certain sect. But I don't know how to refine them, or which sect corresponds to which three medicinal pills."

Honglian's answer was consistent with Sun Tiecheng's, but that didn't mean she was telling the truth without reservation.

Li Banfeng continued to caress Lian Xin and asked, "Is the person in the sky a man or a woman? What does he look like?"

Honglian thought for a long time and sighed, "I can't remember whether he is a man or a woman, nor can I remember what he looks like. I only remember that he is very beautiful, even more beautiful than Zhao Xiaowan."

Li Banfeng sneered: "This is pure nonsense. Who in the world is more beautiful than my wife?"

Honglian tightened her lotus leaves and clamped Li Banfeng's fingers: "Have you seen your wife?"

"Yes, in the hall."

"Do you know what your wife looks like?"

"How could I not know? Even if you threw her into a crowd of people, I would recognize her at first sight."

"I'm not talking about how she is now, I'm talking about how she was originally."

Li Banfeng stood up and said, "No matter what my wife looks like, there is no one more beautiful than her in this world."

After saying that, Li Banfeng returned to the main room.

The record player ran back to the main room first and stood at the door, with dewdrops all over the speaker.

Li Banfeng asked, "Madam, is this sweat?"

"Ah, it's sweat. I just wanted to cook a bowl of noodles for my husband, but I didn't know whether to cook wide noodles or thin noodles. I was so anxious that my head was full of sweat." The lady's singing voice was still moving, but her voice was a little hoarse.

"Why rush?" Li Banfeng said with a smile, "Just cook some wide noodles. I love wide noodles too."

"My dear, do you like soup noodles or dry noodles?"

"Let's have some noodle soup."

"My dear, the noodles will be ready soon. Change your clothes first and I will wash them for you."

"No rush to wash. I have to go to another state and cross two lakes."

"My dear husband, come out of the lake and go home to change your clothes. Don't catch a cold."

Hong Ying sighed and said, "Xiao Wan, when have I ever seen you be so kind to others?"

After eating the noodles, Li Banfeng immediately rushed to Yuezhou. He wanted to find out some things:
How deep is the research on iron-reinforced bamboo in other states? Is there any connection between the dark energy guide and bamboo?

To what extent has Xuehua Pu penetrated into other states? Are there any of their people in the Dark Star Bureau?

Back at the Dark Star Bureau, Li Banfeng called Tangyuan, who had never heard of Tiejin Zhuzi.

Even she had never heard of it, let alone Zhong Er and Dengbao. Perhaps the only person in the bureau who knew about Tiejin Zhuzi was Shen Jingye.

Li Banfeng dialed Shen Jingye's number, but heard only a busy tone. Shen Jingye's phone was busy all the time, and he was answering a call in the office.

The person who called was Guan Zhengyang, who was younger than Shen Jingye and held a higher position than Du Wenming.

"Director Shen, the document asked your bureau to focus on investigating Li Qi. What have you done? What is the difference between the report you submitted and his previous oral statement?"

Shen Jingye had already made preparations: "It is precisely because there is no difference that the investigation results are true. Li Qi is a science enthusiast. Out of his love for science, he went to Yuezhou University to attend an academic exchange meeting. There were no tickets for the meeting that day, and anyone could attend. Before the meeting, Yuezhou University also did a lot of publicity work, so Li Qi appeared at the scene of the incident that day."

Guan Zhengyang was unhappy. He felt that Shen Jingye was just making excuses: "Dark Star Bureau staff went to attend an academic exchange meeting during working hours? Do you think this is reasonable? Do you think this is the result we want?"

Shen Jingye's tone became more serious: "Li Qi went to attend the academic exchange meeting and followed the leave procedure. He has the right to learn knowledge during his leave. I think this is very reasonable. If you think it is unreasonable, please tell me what he should do during his leave to be reasonable?
In addition, if you feel that the results of our investigation are not what you want, please tell me the results you want, and we will investigate according to the results you gave. Do you think it is appropriate? "

Guan Zhengyang was silent for a long time and couldn't say a word. He was often praised for being young and promising, knowledgeable and eloquent.

Shen Jingye knew very well that the reason why he was so outstanding was because there were too few people who could confront him.

Guan Zhengyang raised his voice: "Director Shen, please pay attention to your attitude. The Dark Star Bureau has obvious problems in its performance in many recent tasks. There are many problems that have not yet been determined!"

Is this to scare me?
Shen Jingye was not intimidated: "Whether it is a problem of the bureau or my personal problem, as long as the situation is true, I am willing to accept criticism and willing to accept punishment."

"Your problem must be dealt with. This case will be immediately transferred to the Dark Matter Research Laboratory."

The Dark Matter Research Laboratory, an institution that sounds very scientific, is actually very similar in nature to the Dark Star Bureau and will most likely replace the Dark Star Bureau after a period of time.

This is a routine operation, as the Dark Star Bureau itself has a short history.

Shen Jingye would not blame himself for losing the trust of his superiors, nor would he be anxious about the change in the status of the Dark Star Bureau.
"I know about this. I received the document the day before yesterday."

Guan Zhengyang said: "Once you receive the documents, act quickly. Hurry and hand over the suspect and related information."

"It was handed over yesterday morning. The suspect, relevant information, witnesses, and physical evidence were all handed over. All the handover procedures have been completed."

Shen Jingye knew clearly that what happened the day before yesterday was brought up again today. This was a method of anxiety management, and it was also an old routine. The purpose was to make Shen Jingye feel anxious in self-blame.

This trick did work in the past, but Guan Zhengyang didn't know that Shen Jingye had changed, and the change was drastic.

Now Shen Jingye would not blame himself for losing the trust of his superiors, nor would he be anxious about the change in the status of the Dark Star Bureau. He only needed to confirm one thing: "Among the suspects handed over, is Li Qi included?"

"This is still under research. You wait for the documents." Guan Zhengyang had no way to answer. Li Qi was a balancer, a very powerful balancer. The dark matter research laboratory would not be able to handle such a person.

Shen Jingye hung up the phone, picked up his notebook and looked through the notes he had just made.

Since he started working, Shen Jingye has used countless notebooks. He has to take notes in meetings, when he makes phone calls, and even more when he reports work in person. He needs to take notes for every instruction and every task.

How important are these notes to him?

It doesn’t matter at all.

Most of Shen Jingye's notes are scribbled casually. It is not important what he remembers; what is important is the action of taking notes. The bigger the action and the more serious his expression, the more importance he attaches to it.

Of course, there were some important things in the notebook. He flipped through a pile of scribbled notes, found a page of matrix, pulled out a stack of white paper from the printer, and started solving the problem at a very fast speed.

This is part of his practice.

He wrote very quickly, using more than a dozen sheets of draft paper. He soon solved more than half of the matrix. Li Banfeng watched for a while and asked, "What level of calculation are you at?"

Shen Jingye was not surprised, nor was he flustered. He was used to it. He simply tidied up the draft paper and looked up and said, "I am a problem solver, which is what Prozhou often calls a calculator."

Li Banfeng smiled. There is a big difference between a problem solver and a mathematician. Li Banfeng recently discovered the essential difference between the two by reading some materials.

When a train passes by, the calculator can calculate the best way and time to stop the train based on the surrounding environment and its own conditions. He can also calculate a series of processes such as robbing goods and selling the stolen goods afterwards. Li Banfeng has experienced this before at Huangtu Bridge.

But the problem solver does not have similar abilities. He does not know how to stop the train. If you give him a ready-made solution and tell him all the known conditions, and then ask him to verify whether the solution is feasible, the problem solver can give an answer. Their abilities and core are the problems. Without the problems, the problem solvers' abilities cannot be exerted.

Is Shen Jingye a calculator or a problem solver? This remains to be verified.

Li Banfeng came here to find him because he wanted to see someone: "Professor Yu Yaoming is still in the bureau, right?"

Shen Jingye shook his head and said, "He's gone. Someone from the Dark Matter Research Lab took him away yesterday. If you want to see him, you have to communicate and coordinate with the lab, but I don't think they will cooperate with you."

Li Banfeng disagreed: "We are all comrades on the same front. Don't think badly of them. Give me the address of the laboratory and I will go and communicate with them."

"I don't know their address yet, but I'll tell you when I find it." Shen Jingye was not joking, he was serious. There had been a serious change in his temperament, and this change seemed irreversible.

A little bit, but it cannot be called willful, nor is it giving up. Shen Jingye still has the desire to make progress. He is working hard on his cultivation and has the awareness to avoid risks. In the process of negotiating with his superiors, he is more sober than ever before.

What kind of change was it? Li Banfeng thought for a long time and could only describe it with one word.

reality.

Shen Jingye has become more real than before.

"Director Li, I have to remind you that the laboratory has just been established and the hardware facilities are not yet complete, but there are many high-level dark energy users among their members. It is best to be more patient during the communication process."

Li Banfeng frowned and said, "What do you mean? Do you think I am an impatient person?"

Shen Jingye shook his head and said, "I'm worried that they don't have patience. They are all seventh-level dark energy users. I'm worried that once they get angry, they will be beaten to death by you in an instant."

"I'm only on the fifth level, how can I kill a seventh level player in one go?"

Shen Jingye did a simple calculation: "Considering the calculation error, I think it will be at most two times."

The two were chatting when Shen Jingye's phone rang. He looked at the caller ID and pressed the hands-free button.

The call was from Du Wenming: "Director Shen, there is a problem in the dark matter research laboratory. We need to hold an emergency meeting. Please come and participate."

In the past, Shen Jingye would have agreed immediately and then speculated on the content of the meeting.

But he didn't want to guess the riddle today: "Director Du, what happened? Why do I have to attend the emergency meeting of the laboratory?" Du Wenming was silent for a moment and said: "The professor sent to the laboratory from the Dark Star Bureau was kidnapped."

Li Banfeng was stunned. Who could act so quickly?
Shen Jingye was very dissatisfied: "Director Du, why do you want to emphasize that it was sent by the Dark Star Bureau? We already handed the person over to the research room yesterday. You are asking me to hold a meeting now. Aren't you asking me to take the blame?"

Shen Jingye was right. The reason why they called him to the meeting this time was indeed to let him consider the overall situation and shoulder the responsibility together.

But Shen Jingye's attitude surprised Du Wenming so much that he made it clear directly. Du Wenming had no way to say more and could only tell Shen Jingye the meeting time.

"Is the meeting place in the laboratory? You need to tell me the address of the laboratory."

Du Wenming told Shen Jingye the address. After hanging up the phone, Shen Jingye wanted his secretary to prepare some materials, but when he called the secretary over, Shen Jingye asked him to go back.

"It's useless to write materials, no matter how much I write. I will definitely not take the blame today, and there is no need to be so tactful when talking to them..." While talking to himself, Shen Jingye scribbled a few pages in his notebook. Seeing that it was almost time, Shen Jingye took a car to attend the meeting.

Two hours later, Shen Jingye came back and went straight to Li Qi's office.

Li Qi put down the information in his hand and asked, "How is it? Did you not take the blame?"

Shen Jingye shook his head and said, "I'm not responsible for this, but the incident is our fault."

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"What difference does it make?"

"The only difference is that Yu Yaoming is lost. It's not our fault, but we have to find a way to get him back."

Li Qi frowned and asked, "Why should we look for it?"

"The higher-ups said that Yu Yaoming's disappearance is a public security issue caused by dark abilities and will be handled by the Dark Star Bureau's public security team."

"Nonsense! Where did the problem happen? Wasn't it in the research lab?"

"It's a research laboratory, but the situation is quite special." Shen Jingye took the hard drive and copied three videos to Li Qi. These were surveillance videos of Yu Yaoming being kidnapped.

Yu Yaoming was in the interrogation room at the time. An agent from the research lab was interrogating and taking notes at the same time. Suddenly, a man appeared against the wall of the interrogation room.

The man was not tall, but had a big head. He wore a big brown hat with a blue ribbon wrapped around it and a feather stuck in the ribbon.

Under the brim of the hat, a head of golden curls fell on his face. Through the curls, one could see his deep blue eyes, which were big but lifeless.

Below his eyes was a very long nose, the tip of which covered his upper lip. He was wearing a yellow top, black shorts, and a pair of big-toed leather shoes with the laces tied very neatly.

Li Banfeng recalled the famous fairy tale he read as a child, "The Adventures of Pinocchio".

Could this guy be called Pinocchio?

Neither the agent nor Yu Yaoming noticed the man. The man stood by the wall for a while and then walked sideways towards Yu Yaoming.

Li Banfeng asked: "Why is he walking sideways?"

Shen Jingye said: "Look down, there are clues below."

The man stood beside Yu Yaoming for a moment, seemingly observing the handcuffs and shackles on Yu Yaoming.

The agent suddenly looked up and the man disappeared.

Li Banfeng pressed the pause button and repeatedly observed how the man disappeared.

The pictures flashed by one after another. In the previous frame, the man was still standing next to Yu Yaoming, and in the next frame he disappeared.

Shen Jingye shook his head and sighed: "Their hardware equipment is indeed inferior. This is the limit of monitoring equipment."

The detective asked two more questions, then lowered his head to take notes. Li Banfeng asked, "Why is there only one detective in the interrogation room? There should be at least two, right?"

Shen Jingye said: "The explanation given by the research room is that Yu Yaoming's mental condition is unstable. In a crowded place, he would not cooperate with the interrogation and might even attack the interrogator."

"Has this situation ever occurred in the Dark Star Bureau?"

"Yu Yaoming is a little manic, but this doesn't seem to have much to do with the number of people. When there were few people, Yu Yaoming also made a scene."

The man stood beside Yu Yaoming for a while, and the most crucial clue appeared.

He slowly raised his left arm, or to be more precise, his upper left arm. His forearm was below his elbow, swinging seemingly weakly.

After swinging for a while, all the handcuffs and shackles on Yu Yaoming disappeared.

The shackles made some noises, and the detective in charge of the interrogation finally raised his head and found the man next to Yu Yaoming.

The man grabbed Yu Yaoming, still moving sideways, and quickly rushed towards the door of the interrogation room.

He easily pushed the door open and brought Yu Yaoming to the corridor.

"The critical moment has arrived." Shen Jingye played the second video. This video was from the corridor of the laboratory. The man, carrying Yu Yaoming, rushed into the corridor sideways, crashed through the wall of the corridor, rushed to the outside of the building, stayed in the air outside the building for a moment, and then fell down.

"Pay attention to this key point," Shen Jingye paused, "According to the division of responsibilities at the meeting, Yu Yaoming's disappearance in the building is the responsibility of the research room, but Yu Yaoming's escape outside the building is the responsibility of the Dark Star Bureau."

"Is this human language?" Li Banfeng raised his hand and wanted to slap Shen Jingye.

Shen Jingye took a step back and kept a relatively safe distance from Li Banfeng: "I think, from a logical point of view, there is no problem with the definition of responsibility. The research laboratory has just been established, and the problems outside the building are indeed not their fault."

Li Banfeng was surprised and asked, "Is this how logic is used?"

"Watch the whole video first." Shen Jingye played the third video, which was a surveillance video of the road outside the building. He played it at one-fifth the speed, and the figures of the man and Yu Yaoming could finally be clearly seen on the screen.

The man kept walking sideways with almost no movement of his body.

His shoulders were always hunched, and the major joints such as his knees and elbows gave people a strange feeling of disharmony.

Shen Jingye said: "Can you tell? This is a puppet."

Li Banfeng nodded and said, "It is indeed very similar. You mean, the one who kidnapped Yu Yaoming was a repairman."

"That's not what I meant. That's the analysis at the meeting. They believed that a craftsman made and manipulated the puppet, broke into the laboratory, and kidnapped Yu Yaoming.
But the key problem is that the agents in the laboratory are all seventh-level dark energy users. They did not show any ability to deal with this puppet. How powerful do you think this craftsman is?"

"He is so powerful that he is not even a craftsman." Li Banfeng turned around and looked at Shen Jingye.

Shen Jingye blinked and said, "I know there is a difference between a worker and a craftsman. This must be a high-level worker. I just don't want to get hung up on their titles."

This is the real Shen Jingye, who is not even willing to hide it.

But his inference was correct. If a puppet was so powerful, how powerful must this engineer be?
"It's not that easy to snatch Yu Yaoming back from him."

Shen Jingye nodded and said, "I know it's not easy. The responsibility for losing Yu Yaoming is not ours, so even if we can't get him back, it's not our fault. We can only say that we missed an opportunity to make a contribution."

Li Banfeng looked at Shen Jingye and said, "Do you want to make a contribution?"

"I miss it very much." Shen Jingye still answered very frankly.

"Didn't you say before that you were indifferent to the idea of ​​getting a promotion?"

"If I lose the opportunity, I will definitely be indifferent to it. If I can get the opportunity back, maybe I won't be so indifferent anymore."

The two looked at each other for a moment, and Li Banfeng smiled: "Xiao Shen, you are so cute when you are so straightforward!"

Shen Jingye's eyes were filled with desire: "Director Li, let's be frank. If we want to accomplish this, we need your help. What reward do you want?"

Li Banfeng said, "Don't worry about the reward. Let's see if there is a chance to accomplish this. Regardless of how powerful the other party is, Yu Yaoming is already missing. Trying to find him is like looking for a needle in a haystack. Where do you plan to start looking for clues?"

Shen Jingye was also a professional, so he had some ideas: "First, find out the motive. What was the motive for this person to take Yu Yaoming away?
The first possibility is that Yu Yaoming founded a certain organization or gang, and the repairman himself is a gang member, or he is hired by the gang to rescue Yu Yaoming.
The second possibility is that Yu Yaoming has mastered some extremely advanced scientific knowledge, and a certain organization wants to use his scientific achievements, so they kidnapped him from the laboratory.
The second possibility is more likely. After all, this is a civilized society. No matter how deep the gang members' feelings for Yaoming are, they probably won't challenge an institution like the research lab."

"Are you making fun of Prozhou?" Li Banfeng smiled, "Perhaps the so-called civilization is all fabricated."

"I'm not making fun of Prozhou. I was just saying... you just said that civilization is all fabricated? What do you mean by that?"

The fact that Shin Kyung-yeop could say this complete sentence proves that he is not a member of Hwa Hwapo.

Li Banfeng said: "I just said it casually, you can treat it as a philosophical question and go back to understand it carefully.
I think your speculation is correct. The other party's most likely motive is that they were attracted by Yu Yaoming's research results.

Considering Yu Yaoming's own situation, he has mastered certain dark abilities, so the organization that kidnapped Yu Yaoming should be related to dark abilities."

Shen Jingye nodded and said, "I thought so too. The other party is a dark ability organization with strong strength."

"Among the organizations we control, how many can afford to hire engineers of this level? How many organizations have the courage to conduct research?"

"The scope is much smaller now," Shen Jingye thought for a moment, "Based on the information I currently have, within the territory of Huan State, only the Birch Tree Hermitage can do this."

Li Banfeng said: "If we follow the Birch Tree Hermitage, we should also include the gang that spawned them, the Ferry Gang."

Shen Jingye thought for a while and said, "If we trace back to the Ferry Gang, we can find another powerful organization, Xuehuapu. The Ferry Gang was jointly established by Xuehuapu and the Birch Hermitage."

Li Banfeng nodded: "So, none of these three organizations can be spared. Do you have any information about them?"

Shen Jingye pursed his lips and said, "You should have read the information in the bureau, right?"

Li Banfeng smiled and said, "I just said that civilization is all fabricated. This is what I meant. Those materials don't contain any valuable information. A lot of the content is fabricated."

Shen Jingye stood up and said, "I'll go get some information and send it to you later."

Li Banfeng said, "Don't worry, there is one more detail that we cannot ignore. Before this, you told me that you didn't know the location of the laboratory."

Shen Jingye nodded: "Yes, I don't know..."

After a moment's silence, Shen Jingye suddenly realized.

I don't know the location, why would the puppet know?
There's a mole!
Li Banfeng said no more. Shen Jingye returned to his office, sat behind his desk, and kept repeating Li Banfeng's words.

"Civilization is a fabrication, civilization is a fabrication..."

He picked up the phone, then put it down again.

He picked up his phone and wrote down a number.

He took out a special mobile phone, a phone from the early 1990s, as big as a brick.

This phone has been specially processed to make it difficult to be monitored.

He made a call on his cell phone.

"Lao Shen, why are you calling me with this number?"

Shen Jingye said, "I have something to trouble you with. Please check Du Wenming's resume and his recent movements for me, especially his schedule for the past three days."

PS: Is there really such a powerful engineer in Xuehuapu?

　Recommend a book, Tianjin People Never Lose Sanity, In the steam bar, the cultists were talking about the sacrificial mass, the door opened, and an uneducated Tianjin man asked: Brothers, which part do you want to listen to today?

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