From the Abyss Invasion to the Blasting Star.

Chapter 200 Theft Process
When Lu Heng, Su Muyu, Jian Qing and others entered the crime scene, they found Zhuo Hongjun and Chen Zihang were also there.

In addition, there is Li Zhaofeng, a senior inspector of the Capital Iron-Blooded Investigation Bureau.

After the introduction, Lu Heng and Li Zhaofeng shook hands and became acquainted.

A security guard was present at the scene narrating what happened.

On the way, I heard some of the case's details intermittently.

After hearing the complete explanation on the spot this time, Lu Heng was finally able to connect the whole thing together.

Alex Austin did show up, but things weren't as they had been thought.

Among the guards on duty tonight, Zhuo Hongjun is the lieutenant on duty in charge of vigilance. His military rank is captain, and he also has the highest rank among the guards on duty tonight.

In other words, before the incident alarmed his superiors and they sent generals to command the operation, Zhuo Hongjun was the person with the highest military rank tonight and he was in charge of the scene.

Although the guard did not mention Zhuo Hongjun's name, by linking together what he said, we can roughly infer what happened.

Before coming here, Lu Heng and Jian Qing had been hearing that Alex Austin had attacked the Academy of Sciences.

This news sounds a bit scary. A blatant attack on the Academy of Sciences sounds outrageous no matter how you look at it.

In the Age of Abyss, anything outrageous could happen.

However, there is another story behind tonight's incident.

Now that he had heard the complete account of what had happened, Lu Heng finally understood what had happened.

In fact.

Alex Austin didn't actually launch the attack, but he certainly showed up.

He appeared near the Third Research Institute on the side of the Academy of Sciences and was discovered by a Perceptive among the guards that night.

After the sensory guard discovered Alex Austin, he immediately reported it, and naturally reported it to Zhuo Hongjun.

Because he was the highest-ranking lieutenant on duty that night.

After hearing the news, Zhuo Hongjun chose to report it.

There is no problem up to this point.

However, after Zhuo Hongjun reported Alex Austin's whereabouts, he immediately led a team of guards to arrest Alex Austin.

There was also fighting, which caused quite a stir.

This led to a loophole in the academy's security, which led to the theft of data.

Of course, there are some details in this matter that were inferred by Lu Heng.

As the guard spoke, there was no sound to indicate that there was anything wrong with Zhuo Hongjun's decision.

Discover enemy spies, report the information, and then take action to capture them.

It seems that there is no problem.

It's just that something went wrong.

If there is any accountability, Zhuo Hongjun will definitely have to reflect on himself, but given his background, that's all he can do. At most he can be charged with being reckless.

Others might not be able to hear it, but after Lu Heng and Jian Qing heard it, they looked at each other and guessed the reason that others didn't know.

The reason why Zhuo Hongjun chose to act rashly and arrest Alex Austin.

The reason is also very simple.

Of course it’s because of the skill [Damage Backtracking].

Previously at the training base, the method for competing for this skill was decided. Whoever catches Alex Austin will be given this skill.

Tonight, Zhuo Hongjun discovered Alex Austin. For him, this was the best opportunity, so he naturally took action immediately and brought his superpower warriors to capture Alex Austin in one fell swoop.

As a result, because he took away a team of guards, the academy's security force was compromised and a hard drive that backed up Sykes's scientific data was lost.

After listening to the guard's story, Lu Heng and Jian Qing both guessed what happened, but the most important thing now was to recover the hard drive.

Afterwards, Lu Heng and his group, led by the captain of the security guard, passed three levels of security checks before entering the computer room where the hard drive was lost.

You have to go through three levels of security checks before and after, which is actually very strict from the perspective of strict inspection.

The captain of the security guard said, "Normally, no spy would be able to enter through these three security checks, but the person who came in last night was a researcher from the institute, and he has the authority to pass through these three security checks."

This is indeed unsolvable. The researchers were put under mind control and the hard drive was taken away.

With this kind of extraordinary power existing, no matter how strict the security checks are, it would be difficult to prevent it.

Subsequently.

Lu Heng saw the host computer from which the hard drive had been taken away. There was a lock on the outside of the host computer, but the lock was broken. The hard drive was violently removed and even a corner was broken off.

Although a corner of the hard drive was broken off, it did not affect the technical extraction of the data inside.

Lu Heng stared at the damaged host and asked, "Is all the data lost?"

The vice president at the side hurriedly explained: "No, we adopted a separate backup method. According to the information in different fields, we divided it into more than 100 copies. Only one of them was lost, which was mainly the part about controlled nuclear fusion."

When Lu Heng heard that the information on controlled nuclear fusion was lost, he couldn't help but frown.

Controlled nuclear fusion is 1.0 technology and also the iconic technology of planetary civilization.

After mastering controlled nuclear fusion, civilization will begin to move from planetary civilization to stellar civilization.

Therefore, the significance of this technology is very significant.

Fortunately, only part of the scientific and technological data was lost, not all of it, so it is not the worst situation.

Afterwards, Lu Heng went to the monitoring room and replayed the process of the researcher entering the computer room and taking away the hard drive.

In the surveillance video, the researcher looked normal, but what he did was clearly not his own subjective will.

After reading it, Lu Heng came to the same conclusion as his previous analysis.

"This person was indeed under mental control. The opponent came prepared."

By observing the researcher's condition, Lu Heng speculated that there were two possibilities for this mind control skill.

One is C-level [Mind Control], and the other is B-level [Dominating Will].

If it is C-level [Mind Control], then the distance of the controller will not exceed two hundred meters.

If it is a B-level [Dominating Will], the distance can exceed one thousand meters.

There is a big difference between the two.

If the distance is no more than two hundred meters, it means that the controller is very close to the Academy of Sciences.

If it is more than one thousand meters, it will be difficult to find.

As for which of the two skills it is, it is impossible to tell just by watching the surveillance video.

Lu Heng turned around and asked the captain of the security team: "Did you find any suspicious people around the Academy of Sciences when the incident happened?"

"How big is the surrounding area?" the captain of the guard asked thoughtfully.

"It's right where the hard drive was lost, about two hundred meters around." Lu Heng said.

"The range is very small, even to the entrance of the Academy of Sciences." The captain of the guard frowned.

"Then check the surveillance footage of the surrounding streets to see if there are any suspicious people." Lu Heng arranged the work.

The captain of the guard did not move, but looked at Instructor Liu.

Instructor Liu nodded and said, "Assign someone to do it."

Subsequently.

Lu Heng obtained the information of the controlled researcher and found out that this researcher was not a psychic, but just an ordinary person.

After the abyss falls, not everyone is willing to wake up.

Because, according to the currently recognized information, it is believed that after awakening and becoming a mutant, one will be recruited into the Abyss Battlefield.

As for the rules of conscription, they have not yet been fully explored.

Therefore, many ordinary people who do not want to be recruited into the Abyss Battlefield will choose not to awaken.

Among scientific researchers, many want to concentrate on scientific research, and the proportion of those who choose not to awaken is higher.

Seeing that the researcher was not a superpower, Lu Heng asked, "He is not a superpower?"

"Yes, Engineer Liu has not awakened." The captain of the guard nodded.

"Can you show me the list of researchers who will be at the Academy of Sciences tonight? The more detailed the information, the better." Lu Heng made the request again.

Instructor Liu is here to keep an eye on things, and everything is done according to Lu Heng's requirements.

Therefore, the captain of the guard went to get the list of people who would be at the Academy of Sciences tonight.

After reading it, Lu Heng discovered that among the researchers in the Academy of Sciences tonight, only two people had the authority to pass the three security checks.

One is Engineer Liu who has been silenced, and the other is the director of scientific research, but this director of scientific research is a psychic, level 10.

Moreover, the research director has a higher level of authority.

In other words, if we control this research director, we can actually steal more scientific and technological information.

However, the mind controller did not do so, but chose the unawakened scientific researchers.

Relatively speaking, it is difficult for ordinary people to resist mind control.

It is indeed easier to control ordinary people, but the level of this scientific research director is only level 10, which is not particularly high.

To be sent here to carry out the mission of stealing scientific secrets, the level of this psychic cannot be low.

In this situation, the unawakened scientific researchers were chosen.

Instead of trying to obtain more scientific and technological information.

There was only one reason, he was not sure he could control this level 10 research director.

The spiritual attribute of a level 10 research director is definitely higher, but since he is not a combat-type psychic, the level of his spiritual attribute can only be so high.

If the skill used by this mind control psychic is really [Command Will], then controlling a level 10 psychic would be an easy task.

The B-level [Domination Will] is very strong.

Lu Heng had personally experienced this skill used by Hasegawa Satoshi, so he knew exactly how powerful this skill was.

Even Lu Heng would lose control for a moment. If it were a level 10 research director, he would not be able to resist at all.

However, this psychic still chose an ordinary researcher who had not awakened.

There is only one possibility, his skills make it difficult for him to control a level 10 scientific research director.

In other words, the skill of this mind controller is not B-level [Command Will], but C-level [Mind Control].

After Lu Heng discovered this, he said with certainty: "Check all the surveillance cameras around the Academy of Sciences. I am sure that there must be a psychic who has appeared nearby."

After listening to this, Instructor Liu frowned, but seeing that Lu Heng was so sure, he chose to believe it and said loudly: "Send more people to check the surveillance cameras in the surrounding blocks and find this person!"

(End of this chapter)