I'm trapped in a block

Chapter 842: Unsolved Case (Additional chapter for Alliance Leader Jiang Liuxian)
Everyone present froze when they heard the investigator's words.

The small conference room still maintained a "banquet" atmosphere, but a chill rose in everyone's heart.

The captain of the guard looked around the entire conference room and ordered seriously:
"Everyone, exit this building now!"

Soon, this unmanned "building" was blocked off.

The guard team used the newly commissioned robot to search the building, but after searching again and again, they still found no trace of the twenty-two people.

This is a simple two-story building. The first floor is used as a meeting room, and the second floor is used to store some meeting documents. There is no place to hide people at all.

After repeated fruitless searches, the captain of the guard finally realized that this was a very difficult missing person case.

He immediately notified the entire city to search for the twenty-two people and at the same time blocked the entire research institute.

As expected, after more than ten hours of searching, the twenty-two people were still not found. The guard team had other things to do, so they could only temporarily let the robots guard the building where the disappearances occurred while they dealt with other matters first.

However, shortly after the guard team left, the alarm center received another report from residents near the research institute.

"I heard screaming and fighting coming from inside! Just like last time!"

The person who reported the case was the same person. After receiving the report, the captain of the guard led his team to the research institute without stopping. Regardless of his own safety, he directly opened the door of the conference room.

But inside, it was still empty, with only a neatly arranged banquet table.

The food and the tables and chairs were untouched. The soup in the pot and the dishes on the plates were still steaming, as if they had just been prepared...

This time the captain of the guard did not use robots to assist, but personally led his team members to search carefully, but the result was the same as last time, nothing was found.

The surveillance was also normal, and the robots sent to guard the building were following orders obediently and staying outside the building.

The captain of the guard felt a little regretful that he did not order the robot to rush into the conference room immediately when he received the alarm.

But the robots were still useful. They recorded the sounds mentioned by the reporter...

"Captain, the results of the sound analysis are out. The screams contain the voiceprints of the 22 missing people. Preliminary analysis of the fighting sounds shows that no firearms or cold weapons were used, but the use of relics cannot be ruled out. The sound is very messy and unclear, so it is a bit difficult to analyze..."

"Were there any sounds of tables and chairs falling over, or dishes and chopsticks breaking?" the captain of the guard asked seriously.

"No."

"No? A fierce fight broke out in such a crowded conference room, and in the center of the conference room was the long banquet table, but nothing was damaged? Do you think this is normal?"

The team members who came to report also realized that something was wrong.

The captain of the guard said nothing and just asked the robot to play the recording.

At the time, he was busy dealing with the scene, so he asked his team to analyze the recordings. He hadn't listened to them himself yet...

"There was really no sound of tables and chairs overturned or dishes and chopsticks falling..."

Why would a fight of this magnitude make twenty-two people scream?

The vague sound of fighting sounded like someone punching someone else, and someone fell to the ground. It was so vague that it might be a bit far-fetched to call it a "fight". It was more like several people were "pulling" each other.

Listening to the unclear recording, the captain of the guard became even more confused.

Why would a fight and screams happen in an empty conference room? He couldn't figure it out... "Go install surveillance cameras in the conference room, and then order the robots to rush in as soon as they hear any sound."

The captain of the guard believed that since such a thing could happen a second time, it would definitely happen a third and fourth time, so he gave his men such an order.

"I don't believe that we can't catch the culprit even with surveillance..."

However, ever since the surveillance cameras were installed, no strange noises have been heard from the building again, and except for the food on the table still steaming slightly, everything seemed normal on the surveillance footage.

As time went by, the disappearance cases in the research institute became widely known. The always warm food and the recurring strange noises made many people speculate whether it was the relics that committed the crime. Some people also said that some kind of creature had sneaked into Mengdu.

Whatever the reason, this incident has attracted a lot of attention. The disappearance of more than 20 people is no small matter. Under pressure from the public and superiors, the captain of the guard has also devoted a lot of thought and energy to this case.

But it was all useless. The food in the conference room was still warm and the twenty-two people were still nowhere to be found.

Just when everyone thought that there would be no progress in this case, the police center received another report.

"Research Institute! That voice appeared again!"

The alarm center immediately notified the security team.

However, the guards looked as if they had known about this for a long time.

They had arrived at the research institute in advance.

Looking at the warm food in the meeting room, the captain of the guard knew that he had failed again...

Not long ago, he took the initiative to turn off the surveillance in the conference room and made arrangements in advance, wanting to see if there would be any strange noises coming from there.

Sure enough, his guess was correct. As long as no one was "observing" the conference room, sounds would be coming from inside.

At the same time as the sound was heard, the guards rushed in with the robots, but they saw the same familiar scene:
Neatly arranged tables, chairs, bowls and chopsticks, steaming food...

"Team, we can't handle this case. Turn on the surveillance and seal off this building."

The captain of the guard knew very well that this was no longer something he could handle. He didn't want to know the secrets behind this case. All he could do now was to ensure that similar incidents would not happen again in the future.

"As long as we keep monitoring, everything will be fine here."

This was the only thing he could guarantee.

After reporting the full findings of the case, the captain of the guard resigned and several of his team members also left the guard.

This also became an opportunity for robots to take over Mengdu’s security.

The disappearance case at the research institute officially became an unsolved case. Twenty years have passed, and nothing is left except the sealed building and the surveillance that has been running all the time.

The old people in Mengdu would occasionally mention this matter, but it was not a very rare thing in the bizarre abyss. With limited manpower, it was impossible to investigate everything clearly.

The guard team at that time was considered very responsible, but it was a pity for the guard captain. I don’t know whether he was under pressure or felt overwhelmed, but he chose to resign.

In today's world where machines are replacing humans, if a fully armed vigilante team were to handle this case, would they have done a better job? Would this missing person case still remain an unsolved case?

no one knows……

(End of this chapter)