My dream connects to three thousand years later.

Chapter 34 Murderer
At 7:30, the immersive movie playing in the base suddenly went out, and the surrounding walls returned to their original silvery-white state.

"Has anyone arrived?" Chu Zhu reacted instantly, rubbed her cheeks, and casually sat down in a chair.

Footsteps approached, and Li Kang, expressionless, practically stormed into the base, arriving in front of Chu Zhu and opening his mouth.

However, he didn't say anything.

"?" Chu Zhu was a little confused. After a while, Li Kang said, "I brought you breakfast!"

Chu Zhu caught the steamed bun that Li Kang threw to her, but didn't eat it. After staring at the bun for a few seconds, she asked in a low voice, "What happened?"

The relationship between Chu Zhu and Li Kang is very complicated and subtle, a mixture of senior and junior, friends despite age difference, and even frenemy friends.

And when a close friend, after repeatedly hinting at something, brings you breakfast before you even say anything—

Something must have happened! And it can't be a small matter.

Li Kang lowered his eyes, and Chu Zhu did not press him, but simply stared at his face expressionlessly.

"...Zhou Ze is dead."

Chu Zhu: "!"

“Moreover,” Li Kang’s words suddenly stopped, his tablet vibrated at that moment, he took it out directly, swiped it a couple of times, his cheek twitched, and he glanced at Chu Zhu cautiously.

"Breaking news: Five senior staff members of the trade union in the shantytown renovation area have died! The estimated time of death is...between midnight and 3 a.m."

Chu Zhu didn't speak; he closed his eyes.

Zhou Ze, the general secretary of the trade union in the shantytown redevelopment area! He was also Chu Zhu's handpicked successor before Chu Zhu withdrew. He has consistently done a good job regarding the shantytown redevelopment area—although he hasn't truly surpassed Chu Zhu in anything, which is all the more commendable.

After all, there are quite a few people who, after coming to power, are ambitious and talented, claiming that they will do things that surpass their predecessors, and then they make all sorts of big changes and troubles. Moreover, the probability of such people causing trouble in the end is extremely high—a typical example is a certain sage emperor of the Sui Dynasty who did not want to reveal his name!
Chu Zhu suddenly stood up and said fluently in Chinese, "Nuwa No. 17, if I remember correctly, you should have directly connected to all the electronic camera equipment in Jinghai City, right?"

"What are you saying?" Li Kang was completely bewildered. He could understand only the opening prayer; the rest…

“Yes, authorized!” Nuwa No. 17 said. “However, currently, this body can only connect to authorized devices belonging to the Jinghai City government! It has no connection permission to other devices.”

"Now, retrieve all intelligence and information regarding Zhou Ze and the other five deceased agents. Review all videos recorded by any recording devices near their deaths! Mark all suspects and uncover their identities." Chu Zhu's voice was unusually calm. "Immediately!"

"Processing has begun and is expected to be completed in three minutes and twenty-seven seconds!"

"Okay," Chu Zhu uttered a single word. He had already keenly realized that the person who attacked the guild was most likely the mastermind behind the reset he had been asked to do earlier.

A deathly silence fell. "...Wait! Just wait a moment." Li Kang finally snapped out of his daze. At that moment, his scalp tingled, and his mind was shaken to a point beyond words.

He felt that even if he saw his dead father jump out of his grave, he wouldn't be this shocked—after all, there really are cultivators in this world who can control ghost-related supernatural powers and bring corpses to life.

“You are communicating with God? How could you…” Li Kang was incoherent. The more he thought about it, the less he could understand, and the more confused his mind became.

What's going on with Chu Zhu? This doesn't make sense... Even the city government can't communicate with gods!

Wait a minute, those strange sounds coming from Chu Zhu's mouth weren't prayers, but... a language?
"Could it be that you are actually royalty? An illegitimate child? That can't be..." Li Kang couldn't understand. He had only heard rumors that royalty had the power to communicate with the gods.

But this is just a rumor, and there is actually no direct evidence that royalty can communicate with gods!

"You don't need to ask!" Chu Zhu interrupted Li Kang, his gaze leaving Li Kang bewildered. "Because even if I explain, you won't remember!"

Li Kang: "!!!"

Wait, could it be memory erasure? But isn't the memory erasure device only capable of erasing the memories of non-superhumans?
Li Kang subconsciously took a step back. Although his knowledge told him that such a thing was impossible, Chu Zhu had shown him such a skill, so he couldn't help but be skeptical.

"Retrieval complete! Parsing complete! Beginning data organization! Categorization complete—"

The massive, silver-white wall suddenly transformed, revealing a series of small, square screens that smoothly played videos. Suspicious individuals were identified one by one, and detailed identification information was listed at the bottom.

“There are seven suspicious targets, two of which cannot be traced!” Chu Zhu murmured.

All seven targets were completely concealed, their actual forms hidden. But to be honest, this kind of disguise is not uncommon in shantytown redevelopment areas.

As for the inability to trace their origins and obtain their true identities... that's quite normal! Because there are actually no security cameras inside the shantytown redevelopment area.

After all, before Chu Zhu "flipped the table," the shantytown redevelopment area was a no-man's-land that even the authorities couldn't touch.

Even now, despite Chu Zhu's strong intervention, the shantytown redevelopment area has only achieved order; the government's control over it remains very limited.

Even in official areas, let alone shantytown redevelopment zones, the density of surveillance cameras is shockingly low. Only near the government offices in areas like the Third District or affluent neighborhoods are there slightly more cameras.

What does this surveillance density mean? It's probably even lower than that of India in the real world!
To put it bluntly, if we were to deploy them on a large scale, let alone whether we even had that many cameras... if you dare to install cameras today, they'd probably be pried off tomorrow...

After all, this is an ancient artifact; even if it's broken, it can still fetch an extremely high price!

To be honest, Chu Zhu was already quite surprised that Nuwa was able to identify suspicious targets—after all, if it were really that easy, he would have had Nuwa No. 17 use big data analysis last night to find out who might have broken into his house to assassinate him. To be able to identify suspicious targets from such a small amount of video—Nuwa's abilities are simply amazing!
"However, we cannot completely rule out the possibility that the suspicious targets detected by Nuwa 17 may not actually be the real culprit... After all, the density of cameras is too low. If the culprit were aware of this, they could easily avoid the cameras..."

(End of this chapter)