From the Abyss Invasion to the Blasting Star.

Chapter 201 Doubts
In the monitoring room.

After sending in additional personnel to review all surveillance videos, Guard Captain You Zhanyu turned around and reported:
"Instructor, we checked the surveillance cameras three hours before and after the incident, and no suspicious persons appeared in the streets around the Academy of Sciences."

Lu Heng stared at the surveillance screen, frowned and fell into deep thought.

In fact, today’s surveillance equipment is very advanced. When a moving target appears in the surveillance screen, the progress bar of the video will be marked with different colors.

In other words, you only need to look at the color-coded parts.

Of course, in order to ensure that everything goes smoothly, Instructor Liu still assigned more people to watch every frame of the surveillance video.

The result was the same, no suspicious persons were captured in the surveillance video.

Jian Qing pondered the question: "Is it possible that he has the ability to become invisible?"

Guard Captain You Zhanyu explained: "This possibility is very low. Normal invisibility is optical invisibility, which cannot block infrared. The monitoring equipment of the Academy of Sciences has infrared detection, so even invisible people can be photographed.

“Even if this psychic’s invisibility ability has the function of blocking infrared detection, it is useless.

"Among the guards on duty tonight, one-third are perceivers, keeping an eye on the situation inside and outside the academy.

"Without the ability to be invisible, you can walk down the street without being suspected. But if you dare to appear invisible, you will be caught immediately."

In fact, Lu Heng was just wondering if it was possible that he was invisible, but he immediately denied this possibility.

The ability to be invisible is very useful when there is no perceiver.

When encountered in the wild, it is simply a surprise attack skill.

However, facing a heavily guarded building, it is impossible to enter by using the invisibility ability.

Under the cross-reconnaissance of multiple perceivers, there is no difference between invisibility and active exposure.

After Lu Heng thought for a moment, he said, "Can you pull up all the surveillance footage of Engineer Liu from the time he entered the Academy to the time he left? I want to watch it from the beginning."

Almost an hour has passed from the time we investigated the scene to now when we watched the surveillance footage.

But still nothing was found.

Lu Heng wanted to continue investigating, which made some people impatient.

If it weren't for Instructor Liu's order, someone would have raised questions long ago.

Moreover, the longer it took, the smaller the chance of catching the spy during a city-wide search.

Zhuo Hongjun questioned aloud: "The surveillance video has already been studied by the Iron-blooded Inspector. I think it is useless to continue watching the surveillance. It is better to search for the suspect as soon as possible."

Li Zhaofeng, a senior inspector of the Capital Iron Blood Investigation Bureau, continued, "We have indeed watched all the surveillance videos of this researcher who was under mental control. From the time he entered the Academy of Sciences to the time he left, there was nothing special. This is one of the reasons why we infer that he was under mental control."

Guard Captain You Zhanyu added: "It's not that I don't believe Comrade Lu Heng, but it's normal to make mistakes in analysis. We have been delayed for a long time. As a soldier, we should follow orders and participate in the search and arrest operation instead of wasting time here."

Zhuo Hongjun looked at Instructor Liu and questioned, "Instructor, I think we are wasting our time, and we are wasting our time because of an outsider."

The "outsider" in this sentence naturally refers to Lu Heng.

Lu Heng is not in the troop sequence. The reason he can appear here is mainly because he brought back Sykes technology information, which is a special case.

If it were anyone else, they would not be allowed to enter the Academy of Sciences at this time.

Instructor Liu fell into deep thought. The situation was urgent. If he couldn't get the lost hard drive back before dawn, it would be even more difficult later.

Guard Captain You Zhanyu continued, "Instructor, the iron-blooded Inspector Li Zhaofeng is the one responsible for investigating this case. Our duty is to hunt down spies who steal technology. Professional matters should be left to professionals. Inspector Li, what do you think?"

Li Zhaofeng had been resting his elbow on his left hand and his chin on his right hand as he thought. When his name was called, he raised his eyebrows and said, "Anyone can check it as long as they can recover the hard drive."

Zhuo Hongjun was a little anxious and said, "Instructor, the eight golden hours before dawn are the best time to search. If we miss this time, even if we find out the whole process of the case, it will be difficult to recover the hard drive."

Lin Zeyu looked at this fellow for a few times and questioned: "Then why don't you go to search? What are you doing here? Are we investigating our own affairs and hindering your search?"

This was a bit impolite, and Zhuo Hongjun's face darkened.

He stared at Lin Zeyu and said in a cold tone: "Who do you think you are? How dare you talk to me like that?"

If it were in Binhai, Lin Zeyu's family would be very wealthy.

Financial resources are a very powerful force for ordinary people, but in the face of power, financial resources are not enough.

And standing behind Zhuo Hongjun is power.

Therefore, in his eyes, Lin Zeyu was just an ant that could be easily crushed to death, who was just a little fatter than the average person.

Zhuo Hongjun actually wanted to lead the team to chase Alex Austin a long time ago. Because of the competition for skill crystal cores, he naturally did not want to lose.

The reason why he stayed here was that he was worried that someone would "throw dirty water" on him.

Because the theft of scientific and technological information was more or less related to his unauthorized pursuit of Alex Austin.

As the highest-ranking lieutenant on duty that night, he led his guards in pursuit of Alex Austin, resulting in the loss of data at the Academy of Sciences.

He thinks it has nothing to do with his proactive attack, but if someone insists it does, he will be in big trouble.

The reason why he stayed was to keep an eye on this place and prevent anyone from "throwing dirty water" on him.

This is also what his family wants him to do, to keep a close eye on the investigation team.

Originally, he didn't care much, but when he saw Lu Heng appear.

He sensed a crisis.

Because he and Lu Heng were competing for the [Damage Retracement] crystal core. If he was criticized by his superiors for making a mistake at this time, he would definitely lose the qualification to compete for the crystal core.

Just at this time, Lu Heng refused to search for the White Eagle spies, but instead wanted to stay and investigate the case.

Zhuo Hongjun immediately made a judgment in his mind, and determined that Lu Heng just wanted to use the excuse of investigating the case to find evidence to "smear" him.

That's why he insisted on staying and keeping an eye on Lu Heng.

……

At this moment, the people present seemed to be investigating the case, but everyone had their own thoughts.

Lu Heng ignored the arguments of these people and asked directly: "Inspector Li, have you seen the surveillance video? Are all of Mr. Liu's actions before he was silenced captured in the surveillance footage? Has he ever walked out of the surveillance footage?"

"Basically none." Li Zhaofeng replied.

"Basically nothing means there is, right?" Lu Heng emphasized.

"Actually, there really isn't. There is no surveillance camera in the bathroom, but the interval between Mr. Liu walking out of the surveillance camera and entering the next surveillance camera was only half a second. In other words, he just passed by the bathroom door and did not enter the bathroom. Moreover, it is impossible for him to do anything special in this half-second time out of the screen." Li Zhaofeng asked his agents to bring up the surveillance footage and play that part of the footage.

Lu Heng stared at the screen. From the surveillance footage, he saw that the victim walked out of the previous surveillance camera, passed the bathroom door, and walked into the next surveillance camera. There was indeed only a moment in between, probably less than half a second.

In such a short time, the victim was just an ordinary person, not a supernatural being, and had no special abilities. In such a short time, there was really nothing he could do.

Judging from the surveillance footage, there was a brief moment of separation from the screen and there really wasn't anything wrong.

Subsequently.

Lu Heng watched the entire surveillance video of the victim and connected all the paths together.

The researcher Liu Gong, who was under mental control, entered the Academy of Sciences through the main gate, then entered Building No. 3, passed three security checks, came to the computer room where the hard drive was lost, removed the hard drive, hid it in his clothes, and then left.

He then walked down the hallway and left through the back door.

After crossing the road, he walked into an alley and never came out again.

The body was found in the alley.

The alley is very short, only about ten meters, and there are surveillance cameras on the two streets in front and behind.

After the victim entered the alley, there were no suspicious targets around.

Therefore, according to normal reasoning, the victim was under mental control, then entered the Academy of Sciences and stole the hard drive.

Afterwards, he left the Academy of Sciences, handed over the hard drive to the person behind the scenes in an alley, and was then silenced.

The whole incident seems very simple and clear.

However, Lu Heng still insisted that the distance between the mind controller and the victim should not exceed two hundred meters.

It’s the same reason as before.

The skill used by the mind controller should be C-level [Mind Control], not B-level [Command of Will].

If it is a B-level [Dominating Will], it is completely possible to control the research director of source energy level 10, obtain higher authority, and obtain more scientific and technological information.

The fact that this spy chose a researcher with a lower level of authority under the temptation of obtaining more scientific and technological information is very telling.

Therefore, Lu Heng still insisted that the distance between the mind controller and the victim would not exceed 200 meters.

But the distance of 200 meters is really close.

There are so many guards in the Academy of Sciences, one third of whom are perceivers, plus the monitoring system.

No suspicious targets were found.

This is very unreasonable.

unless……

Lu Heng thought of a possibility and asked, "Coach Liu, I need a list of all the guards and researchers tonight. In short, a list of all the people who were at the Academy of Sciences at the time of the incident."

When Instructor Liu heard this request, he frowned and felt a little embarrassed.

Because of this requirement, the information of all guards is made public.

Zhuo Hongjun was the first to object: "You still want to delay time. If it were anyone else, I would suspect that you are deliberately buying time for the spy to escape."

Lu Heng glanced at him indifferently and said, "Unfortunately, this piece of scientific information was brought back by me. Anyone in this world could steal it, except me."

Guard Captain You Zhanyu continued, "I believe that Comrade Lu Heng is definitely not a suspect, but the most important thing now is to recover the hard drive, and investigating the truth of the case is secondary.

"Moreover, the information about the guards at the Academy of Sciences is confidential. If we take it all out now, these guards will have to be replaced in the future. Otherwise, they will become a breakthrough point for spies."

What he said makes sense, keeping the identities of the guards secret can prevent spies from infiltrating these guards.

Now Lu Heng wants the information of all the guards.

Instructor Liu hesitated. Although Lu Heng was not a suspect, it did not mean that this method of investigating the case was correct.

Time was running out, and Lu Heng had to make the final decision, so he said directly: "I suspect that this mind controller is in the Academy of Sciences!"

After these words were spoken, everyone present was stunned.

(End of this chapter)