From the Abyss Invasion to the Blasting Star.

Chapter 202 Arrest
"I suspect this mind controller is in the Academy of Sciences!"

These words made everyone alert. If this statement was true, then there must be more secrets behind what happened tonight.

"How do you know for sure that the mind controller is in the Academy of Sciences? If there is no evidence, do you know how serious the consequences will be if you make random accusations like this?"

Zhuo Hongjun couldn't guess what Lu Heng was trying to do, but he was worried that Lu Heng would eventually point the finger at him, so he became more vigilant.

Guard Captain You Zhanyu frowned and questioned, "Captain Zhuo is right. If there is no evidence, making random guesses like this will not help the case in any positive way. I still think that the investigation should be left to Tiexue."

Li Zhaofeng, a senior inspector of the Capital Iron-Blooded Investigation Bureau, has been thinking about this possibility and has concluded that there is no way to rule it out, but there is also no evidence to prove it.

He asked curiously: "Comrade Lu Heng, do you have any basis for what you said? Or is it just your personal guess?"

This iron-blooded Senior Inspector Li Zhaofeng is the person in charge of the investigation tonight.

Gaining his trust will indeed be more helpful for the investigation.

Lu Heng thought for a moment and asked, "Inspector Li, can you retrieve all the known skill crystal core data?"

Li Zhaofeng nodded: "Okay."

Tiexue is responsible for investigating all cases related to people with superpowers, and collecting information on various supernatural abilities is also one of his jobs.

Therefore, there is indeed information about skill crystal cores in the Iron Blood database.

As long as the information has been made public, it will be in the Iron Blood database.

Lu Heng then asked: "It will be easy if we have the skill crystal core data. Based on the information, we can analyze what skill is used to control the victim, Mr. Liu.

“Time is limited, so I will not elaborate on the analysis process. If Inspector Li is interested, he can go back and review it slowly.

"After my analysis, I think this control skill should be C-level or B-level. Inspector Li, do you agree?"

Li Zhaofeng nodded: "It makes sense, the level of D is too low, and if you dare to commit a crime in the Academy of Sciences, you don't need such a low-level skill.

"A-level skills are too rare. Currently, there is no A-level mind control skill that meets the requirements in the Iron Blood database."

In fact, when he was investigating the case, he had already looked up information on mind control skills, so he could directly continue the conversation.

Lu Heng continued: "Then, we can preliminarily determine that this control skill is between C and B levels.

"According to the information I have collected, there are two skills that match the characteristics of controlling the victim, C-level [Mind Control] and B-level [Control of Will].

"I just looked at the list of researchers at the Academy of Sciences tonight. There is a research director whose authority level is higher than that of the victim. If we control this research director, we can obtain more scientific and technological information.

“In this case, the mind controller still chose the victim who had not awakened.

“This shows that the skills of this mind controller are not enough to control the psychics, so he chooses ordinary people.

"Based on this, I think this mind controller's skill should be C-level [Mind Control]."

After hearing this, Li Zhaofeng finally believed that Lu Heng was not joking, but was really analyzing the case.

He nodded: "Okay, although the reasoning process is not 100% certain, it is indeed the greatest possibility."

In fact, as Lu Heng reasoned along the way, he found that some steps were not 100% certain.

For example, this mind controller chooses to control an ordinary researcher instead of a research director with source energy level 10.

Based on this, it is believed that the control skills of this mind controller are low over those with special abilities.

This inference cannot be guaranteed to be 100% correct.

In case the mind controller is chosen randomly, the conclusion drawn cannot be guaranteed to be 100% accurate.

Of course, analysis and reasoning do not need to be 100% accurate, but they are required when trying a case.

Reasoning means making bold assumptions and carefully verifying them.

Therefore, based on his many years of experience in handling cases, Li Zhaofeng believes that there is nothing wrong with this analysis and the conclusions drawn are reasonable.

The next thing to do is to carefully verify the correctness of the inference.

Lu Heng continued, "Based on the above inferences, let's assume that the skill used by the mind controller is C-level [Mind Control].

“I wonder if there is detailed testing data for this skill in the Iron Blood database.

"Based on my personal experience, I can confirm that the effective range of this skill does not exceed 200 meters. It will fluctuate depending on the level of spiritual attributes, but it is generally not wrong.

“I don’t know if Iron Blood has this data. If it does, there is no information about suspicious targets in the surrounding area.

"To sum up, we can draw a conclusion that the mind controller is in the Academy of Sciences."

Li Zhaofeng turned around and signaled to his agent, asking him to confirm the skill data.

After a moment, the agent came back and whispered something in his ear.

Li Zhaofeng nodded and said, "I agree with Comrade Lu Heng's analysis. Bring over the information of all the guards tonight. We need the information of every person who is in the Academy tonight, including the lieutenants."

Since the senior inspectors of Tiexue agreed, Instructor Liu naturally would not object.

Guard captain You Zhanyu had no choice but to ask someone to fetch the information.

Afterwards, Lu Heng and Li Zhaofeng divided their men into two teams respectively to cross-examine the guards' information.

The information to be found is simple: find all the guards with mind control skills.

However, after checking through the information, I didn't find any problems.

The information of these guards and researchers is very detailed, including awakening date, initial talent, number of skill slots, skills learned, time of skill learning, skill level, and source energy level.

Even the information on when they were called into the Abyss Battlefield and how many times they were called are recorded in the data.

The information on the materials also includes the update time, which is basically updated every three days.

After looking through all the information, I didn't find any psychic with the skill of [Mind Control], not even one person who has mind control skills.

These guards are all part of the troop sequence, and they need to communicate with their superiors when choosing skill combinations.

The superpower warriors who have learned mind control skills will not be sent as guards, but will be assigned to the department that interrogates prisoners.

Therefore, it is normal that there are no mind control skills among the guards.

At this point, the clues were lost again.

Zhuo Hongjun became even more impatient. He checked the time and said, "We have already wasted two hours. There are only four hours left. If we still can't get the hard drive back by daybreak, the chances of getting it back are slim. We still have to waste time here."

Lu Heng closed the document and walked out.

Instructor Liu reminded: "You can't walk around the Academy of Sciences alone."

Although Su Muyu and Lin Zeyu were following them, Lu Heng and the other two were considered to be together, so even if there were three of them together, they would be seen as walking alone.

"I'll follow you." Guard captain You Zhanyu waved his hand and called a guard over to go out with Lu Heng.

Lu Heng walked to the corridor shown in the surveillance video, at the end of which was the bathroom.

In the entire surveillance video, the victim, Mr. Liu, was in the surveillance screen the whole time, except for one second at the bathroom door.

The victim is an ordinary person without any special powers. Theoretically, he can't do anything in one second.

However, this is the only location that is not monitored. If there is a problem, it will only be this location. Lu Heng walked to the bathroom door and stood at the door looking inside.

There is a washbasin at the bathroom door, the men's bathroom is on the right, and the women's bathroom is on the left.

"Is it possible that there is a problem in the bathroom?" Lin Zeyu guessed.

"The probability is not high. One second is not enough time to go in and out." Lu Heng shook his head.

"Let me take a look over here." Su Muyu pointed to the women's bathroom and stepped in.

Although Lu Heng thought there was nothing wrong with the bathroom, it wouldn't take long to take a look, so he walked to the right and took a look.

After reading it, I didn't find any problems.

Lu Heng walked back to the bathroom door, looked around, and determined the location of the two surveillance cameras.

Guard Captain You Zhanyu walked to the sink, turned on the faucet, washed his face, and sobered up: "I'm a little sleepy after staying up so late."

The police officer who followed complained: "Captain, I think we are doing useless work."

There is a cylindrical stainless steel trash can at the bathroom door.

Lu Heng walked over, opened the trash can and took a look.

You Zhanyu said, "We checked the trash cans and put the trash inside into bags as evidence. Tiexue took it back for testing."

The police officer replied: "There is no need to test it. It's just a few tissues and cotton pads. They are all normal things."

Lu Heng shook the trash can, rubbed the circular mark of the trash can on the ground with his feet, and then walked back:

"After reading, go back."

Su Muyu quickly followed and asked in a low voice: "Did you see anything?"

Lu Heng replied casually: “Not yet.”

Then, he leaned close to her ear and whispered a few words.

The few of them returned to the monitoring room, and Lu Heng asked, "Inspector Li, has the test report for the evidence in the bathroom come out? Can I see it?"

"can."

Li Zhaofeng took out a test report and handed it to Lu Heng.

Lu Heng took it and looked through it. The report contained photos of the on-site evidence collection, photos of the evidence, and the test report of the evidence.

Just as the guard said, there was nothing suspicious in the trash can.

These are usually the things in the trash can at the bathroom door.

Just as Lu Heng was looking at the photo on the test report, a communicator ran in and reported loudly: "Alex Austin's whereabouts were discovered in Jingwei District. The search team had a shootout with him. We need high-level supernatural warriors to provide support."

When Zhuo Hongjun heard that Alex Austin had appeared, he grabbed his hat and tried to walk out. After taking two steps, he turned back and asked, "Why aren't you moving?"

Jian Qing had already stood up and was considering going to provide support.

Alex Austin's combat power is at the peak of the current psychics. In street fighting, when high-powered thermal weapons cannot be used, high-level psychics must go to confront him head-on.

Lin Zeyu also stood up, looked at Lu Heng, and asked, "Shall we go?"

Lu Heng thought about it, looked at Jian Qing, and said, "You guys go. I'll check the surveillance again."

Zhuo Hongjun snorted coldly, walked straight out, and immediately led the team out.

Jian Qing also set off immediately.

There was no point for her to stay here, and she also wanted to meet the Thunder God of War of the White Eagle Federation.

Lu Heng continued to look through the photos on the test report, showing no intention of going into battle.

Li Zhaofeng asked curiously, "I heard from Captain Jian that your combat capability is far superior to hers. Why don't you go? This is an opportunity to make a contribution."

Lu Heng looked up at him and smiled, "Which is more important, catching Alex Austin? Or getting the hard drive back?"

Li Zhaofeng said as a matter of course: "Of course I'm looking for the hard drive."

“Then what we do is the most important.”

"That's right. Have you found any clues?" Li Zhaofeng asked.

"Let's take another look at the surveillance footage. Check out all the footage within an hour after the victim passed through the bathroom." Lu Heng said.

After the discussion of the case just now, Li Zhaofeng found that many of Lu Heng's analyses coincided with his own, so he also wanted to hear what Lu Heng wanted to investigate.

The surveillance footage began to replay, showing a clip one hour after the victim, Mr. Liu, passed through the bathroom.

Li Zhaofeng said, "We have watched this surveillance video many times. From the death of the victim to the Academy of Sciences sounding the alarm and then to our sealing off of the scene, there was not an hour in between, only fifteen minutes.

"In the fifteen minutes, no suspicious targets passed through the bathroom. Only six guards, divided into three groups, passed through the bathroom one after another.

“I have already inquired about it. After the alarm sounded, the guards received orders to block all key intersections. They all passed the bathroom door normally.

"Moreover, none of the six guards stayed in the bathroom because they were running past the bathroom door, and the time they spent passing by it was less than a second."

Among these six guards, I have seen a few of them tonight. One of them is the guard captain You Zhanyu, and the other is the deputy captain He Jiandong.

While listening to Li Zhaofeng's explanation, Lu Heng continued to stare at the surveillance screen, and then said, "Please replay the second pair of guards who just passed by."

Play it back once.

Lu Heng said again: "Do it again."

Finished playing the second time.

Lu Heng said again: "Sorry for the trouble, please do it again."

The agent simply cut the clips and played them on a loop.

In the surveillance footage, two guards trotted towards the corner, then passed the bathroom door and appeared in the second surveillance footage.

"Why not?" Lu Heng stared at the screen and felt something was wrong.

"What are you doubting?" Li Zhaofeng was also confused.

"Let me think about it." Lu Heng frowned and closed his eyes to think.

Li Zhaofeng turned around and stared at the screen. Among the two guards that were being replayed, one of them happened to be You Zhanyu.

Lu Heng suddenly opened his eyes and said to himself: "Let's take a gamble."

Then he pointed at the surveillance screen and said, "Inspector Li, please control these two guards."

Li Zhaofeng frowned and asked doubtfully: "Are you sure?"

Lu Heng nodded, with a determined look in his eyes.

After quickly weighing the pros and cons, Li Zhaofeng pressed the communicator and said, "Control the guard captain You Zhanyu and guard Cui Chengye and bring them over."

(End of this chapter)