He retrieved the SUV and looked again at the message Viana had sent on his wristband.

More than a year has passed, and Vianna's tone of voice has matured considerably.

She didn't describe in detail what happened after she fled to Chenxi City, but simply mentioned that she now works at Yinuo Media and her life is relatively stable.

She couldn't completely trust anyone. People change, and after so many years, 'Jess's' sudden contact seemed somewhat suspicious.

He Ao was not surprised by her attitude. After all, Viana had been in exile for so long while being hunted by the Witch Church. If she could trust someone so easily, she would have turned into ashes long ago.

He also talked about the things 'Jess' has encountered over the years.

The story recounts everything from Professor Moke's death, his wife's murder, his forced involvement in gene therapy research, to his recent killing of Wade and learning from Wade that Viana was still alive.

He Ao's description was brief and calm, without much emotion.

But after watching it, Viana fell silent.

The chat window kept displaying "The other party is typing," but she didn't seem to know how to comfort "Uncle Jess."

He Ao didn't wait for her reply, but skipped the awkward moment and continued, "I'm about to catch that mysterious person, and I need your help. I might need you to hack into a system related to the mysterious person to obtain key information. I'll also have someone on my side to help you."

This time, the reply came almost immediately, "Okay."

He Ao breathed a sigh of relief and put down the bracelet.

"Mr. Jess, we've arrived."

The modified car slowly came to a stop.

He looked up and saw that on the other side of the street, the SUVs stopped in front of an open warehouse door, then slowly drove inside, and the warehouse door closed.

About ten minutes later, the warehouse door was opened, and several SUVs drove out. The goods that were originally loaded inside the vehicles were nowhere to be seen.

The warehouse wasn't large; it was a simple, rectangular warehouse. From the main entrance, you could see most of the interior area. Through the gap in the warehouse door, He Ao could vaguely see the goods piled up inside.

The warehouse door had already been closed again by then.

"Mr. Jess, should we keep up?"

Ryan glanced at the departing SUVs.

"Need not,"

He Ao shook his head, briefly activated his super memory, and glanced at the warehouse door.

There were few vehicles near the warehouse, and there were messy tire tracks in front of the door, but these tracks were all similar, belonging to the off-road vehicles of gang members.

These tire tracks are very dense and span several days, proving that this is a regularly used warehouse, not a temporary warehouse that was only opened today.

When the warehouse door opened, He Ao noticed that there were very few items inside, roughly the amount for this transaction. This suggested that the previous goods might have already been transported away, but there were no traces of vehicles carrying these goods passing by the warehouse door.

Many of the medicinal materials used in the preparation of gene-modifying agents have storage and freshness requirements, meaning they are generally not used within a short period of time.

If the medicine is not fresh enough, its efficacy will be greatly reduced.

The preservation devices provided by smuggling groups generally do not last more than eight hours.

The intelligence obtained from Haixi indicated that the medicinal materials would be packaged around 6 a.m. and smuggled into the city at 7 a.m.

After undergoing a series of checks, the time it took to enter the city and be handed over to the smuggling group was approximately 9:30 in the morning.

Therefore, the 10:30 AM trading time is actually a limit. This hour is just enough for the underground smuggling group to sort out all the drugs and then transport them to the trading location.

He Ao glanced at the bracelet.

It is now 12:10 a.m. The gang members who acted as middlemen in the transportation have been loading and unloading goods, and the transportation time in between has taken about one hour and forty minutes.

Of course, today's traffic jam also played a role.

However, if we calculate it this way, six hours and ten minutes have passed since the goods were packaged at six o'clock. The medicinal materials in these goods that require high freshness have already reached the eight-hour preservation requirement.

Time did not allow the mysterious person to arrange another 'luck'.

This warehouse must be the last stop on the way to the second laboratory.

The mysterious person will definitely arrange for someone to take these medicines to the second laboratory within the next half hour.

The problem now is that there are only tire tracks from the gang's SUVs in front of the warehouse, no other vehicle tracks, and no footprints.

The warehouse door is definitely designed with an alarm system; it cannot be forcibly broken open, and forcibly breaking into the warehouse is also illegal.

He Ao's gaze swept over the row of warehouses again.

This is a specially built warehouse building for rent. The building does not only have warehouses on the first floor, but only the warehouses on the first floor can be driven directly into, which is the most convenient.

It's very user-friendly for those in a hurry.

Heo activated the bracelet, allowing Eve to find the builder of the warehouse, and then, following the clues, discovered the publicly available design blueprints for this type of warehouse.

Then he found the design drawings from the time when Plante District was being built.

The drawings show that the warehouse is located beneath a layer of solid rock, through which the city's sewers bypass.

If an underground passage were to be built here, large machinery would be needed, and the conspicuous machinery would attract the attention of the warehouse management company, who would not allow tenants to make openings here.

This warehouse belongs to a company under the Nord Group, not a company under the Huierme Medical Group. It is likely a warehouse temporarily rented by the mysterious person.

Apart from the warehouse that the SUV drove into, there were no dense tire tracks in front of the doors of this row of warehouses.

This rules out the possibility that the mysterious person rented other warehouses.

Theoretically, to save time, the mysterious person would choose the warehouse on the first floor for convenient transportation.

After a moment's thought, Heo instructed Eve to start searching online for information about the warehouse.

Then he found a 'complaint'.

The complaint came from an apartment building near the warehouse, where a tenant said the warehouse tenant had put some strange little things in the warehouse, making noise that kept him from sleeping.

Standing here, He Ao could barely hear any sound coming from inside the warehouse.

The only reason for such poor sound insulation, as described in the complaint, is that people are extremely close to each other.

He immediately opened the map, and then he discovered that...

There is indeed an apartment building behind this warehouse, which was also built by the company that owns the warehouse, and it was built together with the warehouse.

At the time, they only bought this piece of land, which wasn't big enough, so the two buildings are right next to each other, without even a gap.

At that moment, He Ao understood something.

As he opened the car door, he looked at Ryan and said, "Wait here for me and keep an eye out for any suspicious vehicles entering the warehouse."

"Ok."

Ryan nodded, indicating that he understood.

He Ao got out of the car, his figure quickly crossing the street, bypassing the warehouse building through the gaps between buildings, and arriving at the apartment building behind it.

There are also residents on the first floor of the apartment building.

At that moment, in front of the apartment building, an ordinary-looking van was illegally parked on the road. Several people got out of the van, one of them stood guard in front of the van, and the rest opened the door of an apartment on the first floor, took several folded cardboard boxes, and went inside.

After a while, the leader quickly ran out carrying an unfolded cardboard box filled with things, placed the box inside the van, and then went back into the room.

As He Ao looked at the apartment room with the door open, a huge three-dimensional model formed in his mind.

He raised his wristband and found the apartment's blueprints.

The apartment room with the door open at this moment faces the warehouse that the SUV entered from the other side.

This van isn't big, but it should be able to transport all the materials that require high freshness.

He raised his bracelet and dialed Ryan's number. "Just come straight here, I see them."

The mysterious person took advantage of the characteristics of this warehouse and apartment building, rented the back-to-back apartments and warehouse, and then directly knocked down the wall between the two, artificially connecting them together.

A simple yet ingenious method.

And it's a bit of a rip-off for the rental company under the Nord Group.

Although the warehouse building and the apartment building are back to back, there is no direct road connecting them by car. Driving requires taking a long detour, which indirectly increases the difficulty for others to discover this arrangement.

After the people in the van finished loading the goods, closed the apartment door, and started the vehicle, Ryan finally arrived in front of Heo.

Without hesitation, He Ao opened the car door and got in. "Follow that van in front."

"it is good."

Ryan quickly started moving and followed.

Soon, a huge building appeared in front of the two.

He's gaze swept over the sign in front of the building: [William Witland Hospital].

This is the largest hospital in Westland.

'Jace' has been here before.

He Ao withdrew his gaze. The van in front slowly drove around the Whirmmeister Hospital, then entered a small alley, and at the end of the alley, turned into a small building surrounded by a wall.

Ryan parked the car on the street outside the alley, got out with Heo, and walked into the alley toward the small building.

The building appears to be quite old; the iron gate is rusty, and an old sign hangs beside the door: [Huierme Bio-Innovation Laboratory].

Ryan was about to approach the small building for a closer look when He Ao grabbed him.

"Ok?"

Ryan looked at Heo with a puzzled expression.

He gestured for him to look at the equipment on the wall of the small building, which was facing their direction.

It was a white camera, but it was rather large.

Ryan was taken aback at first, wondering why Heo had asked him to look at the camera. But after a while, after carefully observing the camera, he suddenly realized that it didn't seem to be a camera at all.

It was actually a miniature laser cannon disguised as a camera.

The laser cannon was aimed at a spot not far in front of him. If he moved forward a little more, he would be within the laser cannon's attack range.

Cold sweat trickled down his back. He turned around and looked at Heo. "Mr. Jess, what should we do?"

He Ao glanced at the laser cannon, his nose twitched, and a faint smell of blood permeated the surrounding air.

He wasn't afraid of the laser cannon, but forcing his way in might provoke the people inside to fight back desperately, and barging in without permission was somewhat illegal.

He lowered his head and looked at Ryan. "Do you know anyone in the FBI?"

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