Break out of the courtyard

"Hello, is this the Peace Group's bounty registration office?"

"Yes, do you have any clues to provide?"

"I just heard a group of people are planning to kidnap Mr. Zhang. They're leaving on a boat now. I wonder if I can get a reward for any clues?"

"Could you please give me some more details? I can help you apply for a reward based on what you said."

"Okay! Okay! I'm a porter at Pier 7, and I just had lunch..."

"Sir, please get straight to the point, lest this clue become obsolete!"

"Well... there were about a dozen of them, all carrying black bags. They said they had kidnapped Mr. Zhang and promised him a comfortable life for the rest of his life! Then they boarded a large ship and a small boat and headed off to who knows where."

"Sir, may I ask if their departure point is Kwai Chung Container Terminal 7?"

"Yes! Can I claim the reward for this clue?"

"I've marked your lead as a key clue and reported it. After verification, someone will contact you. Is the incoming call number your mobile number?"

……

"Boss, President Wei just called!"

As soon as Zhang Heping stepped onto the yacht, the captain quickly approached and whispered, "There are 12 suspicious ships over on Hong Kong Island. They might be harmful to you. Do you want to take a car back?"

Wei Chunqiao called the captain but not Zhang Heping, which was strange.

Zhang Heping took out his cell phone and took a look, only to find that there was no cell phone signal!
Just at this moment, a man who looked like a porter on the shore ran to the side of the boat and was stopped by two bodyguards using electric shock guns.

"Please tell Consultant Zhang that Brigade Commander Chu is on his way and ask him to wait for a moment!" The porter said, looking at Zhang Heping who was behind several bodyguards. It was obvious that he knew Zhang Heping.

"Let him come up!" After Zhang Heping said that, he went up to the observation deck on the third floor of the yacht first and put on the golden mask he had taken off before getting off the car.

After the man who looked like a porter caught up, although he didn't understand why Zhang Heping was wearing a golden mask, he still stood at attention and saluted Zhang Heping.

Without waiting for the other party to introduce himself, Zhang Heping waved at him and said, "I recognize you, Lv Zhen from the Longworm Squad."

The young man pretending to be a porter was really excited to have his name remembered by Zhang Heping.

Seeing Zhang Heping waving at him, Lu Zhen hurried forward and waited quietly for the other party's instructions.

"Don't move your head around, be calm!" Zhang Heping sat with his back to the shore and said softly, "At the eleven o'clock position on the bow, in the transit area, there's a man with a telescope lying on a red container."

Plainclothes officer Lu Zhen remained motionless, his eyes quickly fixed on the distance. "I saw a black dot, two yellow containers on the left, and a blue container on the right."

Zhang Heping responded softly, then ordered, "I'll wait here for Brigadier General Chu. Go arrange for someone to keep an eye on that person. Once the ship returns to Hong Kong Island, you can arrest him. While you're at it, check for any signal jammers nearby!"

"Yes! I guarantee to complete the mission!" Lu Zhen wanted to salute, but then he thought of the telescope that Zhang Heping had just mentioned. He raised his right hand halfway and stopped abruptly.

After Lu Zhen got off the boat, Zhang Heping put on a golden mask, closed his eyes and continued to use his mental power to apply skills.

I've only had this mask for less than two hours, and my mental power skills have only just reached the mastery level.

Even so, his mental power transformed into threads to scan the surroundings was stronger than his grandmaster-level perception!

Otherwise, he wouldn't have been able to detect someone watching him with a telescope from more than a thousand meters away!

Brigade Commander Chu arrived quickly and brought two companies of guards with him.

His purpose in coming was to persuade Zhang Heping not to take the boat but to go back by car instead.

There are several land routes from Shenzhen to Hong Kong Island, and the nearby Shenzhen Bay Bridge was invested and built by the Peace Group, so others felt there was no need to take the water route.

If this had happened in the past, Zhang Heping would have listened to their advice and returned to Hong Kong Island by land.

But several attacks that happened yesterday made Zhang Heping want to kill!
Coupled with the mental power that the first generation of brain-computer enabled him to use, he really wanted to catch a few people to practice. It just so happened that the subsequent virtual dream experiments also needed people who were not afraid of death to participate!

However, given Zhang Heping's current status, how could Brigade Commander Chu let him take risks? One of the missions of their several thousand people was to focus on protecting Zhang Heping and his family.

The two men were in a stalemate for a while, and Zhang Heping took a step back and asked Brigade Commander Chu to send someone to the transfer box first to cooperate with Lu Zhen to capture the spy for interrogation.

About forty minutes later, two wet guards came over, escorting a short, bearded man who was also soaked. He had obviously been after a chase in the sea.

Zhang Heping and Brigadier General Chu disembarked and reached the shore, where they heard the deputy company commander report, "There are still two who haven't been caught. Company Commander Lu is leading the search!"

"This guy must be from Vietnam. I just heard him warning his accomplices in Vietnamese."

After all, the first-generation brain-computer interface carried the word "first generation" in its name, and it failed to allow Zhang Heping's extended mental power to penetrate layers of containers and discover other enemies hiding in the dark.

However, now that he has a person from Yuedao as experimental material, it is enough for him to try the application of mental power on the human body.

As Zhang Heping stepped forward, he grabbed the short islander's neck, lifted him up, and reached out to dismantle his jaw and limbs.

Then, he threw the islander to the ground like a dead dog.

Immediately afterwards, the bodyguards and guards around only saw Zhang Heping standing there with his hands behind his back, wearing a golden mask, and the short islander in front of him suddenly twitched all over as if possessed by an evil spirit. His facial expression was also very ugly, and his eyes were sometimes narrowed and sometimes wide open.

By the time the other guards came over carrying the two unconscious men, the bearded man in front of Zhang Heping was foaming at the mouth, with only the whites of his eyes left under his blinking eyelids.

No one around knew how Zhang Heping did it, but they all knew that the bearded man's current situation was related to Zhang Heping.

After a moment, Zhang Heping took off the golden mask, closed his eyes and rubbed his nose.

When I was sitting there practicing my skills with the golden mask on, I felt that my proficiency was increasing very quickly and it was very easy. At most, I felt that the relevant knowledge I had crammed into my brain was too complicated and needed to be sorted out slowly later.

However, when he used his mental power as needles to stimulate the acupuncture points all over the bearded man's body, Zhang Heping felt a little distressed.

When he tried to use his mental power to probe the bearded man's brain and analyze what this guy was thinking, he realized that it was really difficult!

This is like plugging a fiber optic plug directly into a computer host. The interfaces on both sides do not match and the signal is not converted.

Although Zhang Heping's mental power did not connect with the short bearded man's brain waves, he secretly turned the other person's brain into a mess, making it completely worthless for research.

As new talents arrived, Zhang Heping just relaxed for a moment before putting on the golden mask again.

This time, Zhang Heping didn't rush to dislocate their jaws. Instead, while they were still conscious, he asked them questions. What if they wouldn't talk?
Isn’t there an accomplice who is foaming at the mouth and doing proofing next to him?
See if they are afraid!
However, no one around understood Vietnamese, so they had no idea what Zhang Heping had said to the two Vietnamese people. They could only see the two men twitching from time to time, looking at the masked man with fear on their faces.

The attack on the Zhang family yesterday was done by these people’s accomplices!
Those people came from Japan, South Korea, Vietnam, India, Taiwan, as well as some illegal immigrants in Hong Kong who had no household registration.

They attacked the vehicles of Zhang Nan, Zhang Nian and Zhang Zhaodi and stormed the Heping Hospital. Their purpose was, firstly, to find out the strength of the Umbrella Security Company, and secondly, to ask the Umbrella Security Company to strengthen the security of Hong Kong Island.

In this way, when these people kidnap Zhang Heping, there will be less resistance and reinforcements, which will buy time for their evacuation.

Unfortunately, these three spies met Zhang Heping who was wearing the first generation brain-computer interface.

If they hid behind the container and only used a camera to observe Zhang Heping's whereabouts, they would not be discovered by Zhang Heping's mental threads. After all, Zhang Heping had just obtained the first generation brain-computer not long ago.

Zhang Heping took off his golden mask again, rubbed his temples, and asked, "What will happen to the three of them?"

Brigadier General Chu was still secretly amazed at Zhang Heping's methods. Hearing Zhang Heping's question, he was unsure of Zhang Heping's attitude. "We can't deal with prisoners like this. We can only hand them over to the Ministry of Security. Spies like this who pose no real threat will probably only be imprisoned for two years and then repatriated."

Zhang Heping put on the golden mask silently, and tried the brains of the two island-hopping men again. After confirming that his mental power could not extend into their brains and that forceful entry would only destroy their brains, he let go of the three tofu pudding captives.

"You guys go back first, I'll go see how many blind people are left!"

After he finished speaking, Zhang Heping turned around and went back to the boat.

Upon seeing this, Brigade Commander Chu hurriedly followed, casually leaving one platoon behind to deal with the aftermath, while the others took up their weapons and followed to escort.

Although the medium-sized luxury yacht bought by Chen Shuting is much larger than the small yachts that can carry more than a dozen people, the recommended number of passengers does not exceed 30.

Therefore, Brigade Commander Chu only brought 10 fully armed guards on the yacht, and the others had to find a boat and contact the coast guard.

Although Zhang Heping had just asked about the installation location of the jammer, he did not remind Lu Zhen and the others to remove it. Instead, he left the problem of the jammer to them and asked them to find it slowly.

After Zhang Heping got off the yacht and it sailed more than fifty meters, everyone's cell phones had signal.

Just at this moment, Zhang Heping's cell phone rang, and the caller ID showed Tang Wei.

"what's up?"

"Master! We are assisting the Hong Kong police and mainland coast guard via satellite in hunting down the attackers. Your route is also under our surveillance. If there is any anomaly, I will contact you immediately!"

……

During the time Zhang Heping was delayed at the dock, the mainland had already joined forces with Hong Kong Island to round up those suspicious ships, which made Zhang Heping's plan to use mental power to kill people invisibly fail.

That's right. At his level, with the technology and resources at his disposal, there's no need for him to do anything himself. Naturally, there are plenty of people who can make a name for themselves.

As Zhang Heping returned to Hong Kong Island, Vice President Qian of Shenzhen Peace College was informed by Secretary Chen and secretly entered the underground base and went to Laboratory 201.

When he saw the 15 golden masks on the black metal stage, he was stunned for a moment.

"Old Zhou, what's going on?" Old Qian quickly approached the metal table, carefully picked up a golden mask and weighed it. It felt much heavier than the Ruomu computer in the Sanxingdui underground base.

"Teacher Zhang worked with us on these golden masks from yesterday afternoon until noon today," said the elderly man in gray work clothes, nicknamed Lao Zhou. "He made 16 in total, but only took one."

"Besides, he still has half a box of gold left here. What do you think we should do with it?"

Mr. Qian looked in the direction the mechanical expert pointed and saw hundreds of large yellow croakers lying in a large wooden box.

"The gold will be stored as raw metal. These 15 masks..." Mr. Qian paused, looked at the golden debris around the metal table, and then continued, "The masks and these debris will be stored as top secret items."

After he finished speaking, General Qian slowly put on a golden mask on his face, but nothing happened.

Unconvinced, he tried another fourteen, but still felt nothing.

After all, Mr. Qian had used Ruomu's computer before, so he quickly discovered the key. "Old Zhou, are these 15 golden masks the defective products from the first production?"

"Was the golden mask that Consultant Zhang took away the final one?"

"No!" said Mr. Zhou, the mechanical expert. He took Mr. Qian to the nearby control console and pointed at the engineering drawing on it. He said, "This is the drawing that Teacher Zhang gave us!"

"Last night, four of us divided the work to make those 16 golden masks. Because the various steps can be done simultaneously, there's no order of priority."

"Teacher Zhang was the only one handling the golden mask process, so there was a sequence, but when the semi-finished products were handed over to us, the sequence was disrupted again."

When Mr. Qian saw the engineering drawings, he was almost petrified!

He never expected that Zhang Heping could draw such a precise internal structure of the mask with just a little introduction from Ruomu Brain Machine.

You know, at the Sanxingdui underground base, five golden masks were destructively consumed before the internal structure of the golden masks was revealed layer by layer.

Although the internal structures drawn by Zhang Heping were much simpler than the internal structure diagrams obtained from the Sanxingdui underground base, Mr. Qian saw similarities between them.

It's like seeing the numbers 1, 2, and 3 in a bunch of math problems. You can tell at a glance that these numbers are related to the math problems, but you can't be sure whether they are right or wrong!

"Did Consultant Zhang say what to do with these drawings?" Mr. Qian was a little unsure and wanted to take the drawings to the Sanxingdui underground base for verification.

Old Zhou said somewhat sheepishly, "He told us to keep it a secret and not to leak it out! Especially, not to leak it to Xishu!"

"Hey!" Old Qian couldn't help but smile bitterly, "This young man is quite vindictive!"

But when he thought about it again, he felt relieved that the higher-ups only gave Zhang Heping such a small amount of Ruomu computer information in exchange for the regeneration and repair fluid.

The key point is that he couldn't be sure whether the golden mask that Zhang Heping took away was the Ruomu brain machine.

After asking Lao Zhou to keep the mask and information well, Lao Qian took another deep look at the drawings. After confirming that he had memorized most of them, he immediately evacuated the laboratory.

Since Zhang Heping didn't want to make his information public, Mr. Qian acted as a human computer and relied on his memory to apply to go to the Sanxingdui underground base to compare the internal structure diagram of the mask there, and then consider how to report.

However, he had just returned to Shenzhen Peace College and had not had time to make a confidential call when Secretary Chen called him back.

Mr. Qian rushed to the nearby imaging room of Heping Hospital. Before he could ask Secretary Chen what had happened, he heard someone in the imaging room exclaim, "How is this possible!"

"This man's brain is gone, only a pile of shredded brain matter remains!"

...(End of chapter)