Bionic Era

Summer sun shines on the sandy beach.

The white sand has a crystal luster.

It is noon.

Inland Sea.

The waves beat on the beach, layer by layer, with white waves undulating.

The black reefs are like pearls inlaid in the sea.

"Wei Bo'an, Executive Feng invited you here to help solve the case, not to show off your muscles."

Lu Wen finally found this guy on the beach.

The other executive officers are still busy in that villa, collecting evidence and investigating the cause and effect.

This guy is fine.

As soon as I took off my shirt, I started walking on the beach in shorts.

"What are those two big bottles in your hand? Don't tell me it's sunscreen! You even went to the beach to sell sunscreen! What's the face of District Ten?"

"Young people, your mind is still not open enough. Why is it shameless to sell sunscreen?"

Wei Bo'an smiled gently, and put two large bottles of sunscreen on the beach.

He slowly made a few stretching movements, the muscles all over his body were swimming and undulating around his body like a dragon, and his bronze-colored skin shone with a dazzling luster in the sun.

Soon, many members of the opposite sex came forward to have a chat.

So that's how the business came about.

He gently applied the sunscreen to the girls, spreading it slowly with his hands.

Lu Wen sat beside him speechlessly. Given his good looks, there were quite a few girls who came up to strike up a conversation. Some even recognized him as a city hero and wanted to take a photo with him.

This face is too recognizable.

Even though he is a bionic man, his popularity is not bad at all.

"Oh, sure enough, muscular guys are no longer popular? Girls nowadays like a little boy like you." Wei Bo'an sighed softly, as if lamenting the passing of time.

"The most important thing now is to do business," Lu Wen said.

"Has the on-site investigation and evidence collection been completed? Have you found any useful evidence? Have you deciphered the betrayal on that note?"

"None." Lu Wen shook his head.

"Look, it doesn't matter if I have one more or one less. Now the investigation has reached a dead end. This is the same as many old cases in the Tenth District. The murderer cannot be found. Of course, many cases are caused by the lack of qualifications of the executive officers. , Now this case is because the murderer has two brushes."

Still the same as last time.

The whole process is passive.

It wasn't until the end that Lu Wen and the others finally took the initiative by finding the connection between the deceased and discovering the unjust case twelve years ago.

And this initiative is likely to be deliberately given to them by the murderer.

"Two people are dead now, a cleaner and a former chief of the executive bureau. With such a big difference in status, if these two people were really in touch, they would have been investigated long ago. It wouldn't be the case that there is no progress like this." Wei Bo'an Shrugged, "So either find a breakthrough clue, or...you can only wait for the third deceased to appear."

"So you're really selling sunscreen here?"

"How can you use the word selling? I am bringing these girls a different kind of enjoyment." Wei Bo'an said righteously, "By the way, let's inquire about the news about this district. After all, the 15th district executive bureau gave What we look at is likely to be processed and modified data, and the most authentic news often comes from the public."

Lu Wen understood what Wei Boan meant.

This is not the Tenth District.

So this middle-aged man feels very inconvenient to do anything, and his hands are tied.

As the head of a large district, his long-term experience told him that what the executive bureau showed to the outside world was whitewashed.

"There have been many shocking cases in the tenth district, but in the end, for the sake of the reputation of the entire district, we simplified and reported those cases to the outside world, and later deleted the news about those cases."

Residents of the Tenth District know only what they should know.

"For example, what happened to the doctor Zhang He at that time?" Lu Wen asked.

"Yes, it's just that we couldn't control the matter of Doctor Zhang He. It was too much trouble, and the people complained. Although we deleted all the news and reports about that matter after the incident, many people still remember it. .”

Wei Boan asked many people on the beach.

In the end, he really asked for some news.

"In the center of this inland sea, on the bottom of the sea, there is a submerged city. Some people say that there are many treasures in the city, waiting to be discovered by future generations." Wei Bo'an asked dryly, taking a sip of iced juice.

"That's it?" Lu Wen stared at him. "This news sounds like a fairy tale, and it's completely incompatible with the current case."

"Of course it matters!"

Wei Bo'an put down the juice in his hand and looked at the vast sea not far away.

"In the past few decades, people have been driving submarines into the submerged city in an attempt to find the treasures in it, and this is not a fairy tale. Those treasures are real."

"What exactly are the treasures?"

"I asked Xiao Tiancai to check some hidden information for me." Wei Bo'an copied the information and gave it to Lu Wen, "Before the last war, nearly two hundred years ago, this place was still a large basin. The city in the center of the basin is rich and prosperous, and there is an insurance company that is quite famous at that time."

Lu Wen flipped through the documents.

Very special insurance, not selling insurance as we understand it now, but a company that keeps valuables.

For a fee, you can store your valuables with this company and take them out whenever you want.

This company doubles down on lost items.

Depending on the value of each item, the fee paid varies.

"Later in that war, the terrain was destroyed, and the flood flooded here. It can also be said that the inland sea was farther away at that time, and it all flowed into this basin later."

According to records, many things were submerged.

Gold and silver can only be considered ordinary, and there are boxes of diamond jewelry, various heirlooms, antique calligraphy and paintings, etc...

"About ten years ago, there was a team that had planned for a long time, went to sea on a calm day, and salvaged it for a full month."

It can be found from the information sent by Xiaotian that the people on land had already received the news from the sea at that time.

The treasure has been found.

But those ships sank inexplicably during the return voyage.

The submarine they rented disappeared.

"So that's how it is."

Lu Wen thought of the glittering treasures under Du Changqing's villa.

He thought it was all bribes.

It now appears that part of it may have come from this so-called undersea treasure.

"If this is the case, then in addition to taking huge bribes, he still has a lot of lives in his hands, so he really deserves to die."

Lu Wen knows that there is a kind of kindness called hypocrisy.

Fake kindness.

Many people do good deeds out of nature. There is a soft spot in their hearts that they cannot bear to see others suffer.

There is also a kind of people who do not want to do good deeds in their hearts, but the vanity drives them and makes them intoxicated with the honor and appreciation brought by every good deed.

"Even if it's really just hypocrisy, if you can be hypocritical for a lifetime and do good deeds for a lifetime, then you can be considered as truly kind. It's a pity..."

Not enough people.

Du Changqing exchanged money for reputation, and finally died because of the crime of money.

"At that time, the organization that was looking for treasures didn't all go to sea, and some people stayed on land. Can you find where those people live now?"

Lu Wen found that there was no such information in the information Wei Boan gave him, so he asked.

"They're all dead."

Wei Boan sent another document to Lu Wen.

Ten years ago those men went to sea, leaving eight men on shore waiting for news.

All those who went to sea were buried in the sea.

The eight people who stayed on the land also passed away one after another due to various strange accidents in the next three years.

Seven years ago, the last person died in his own home, and it was discovered that he had eaten too much, and his stomach wall had ruptured... to death.

"I'm not a fool, how could I support myself to death."

Lu Wen looked at the profile of that person, he was just an ordinary person.

There is no big appetite challenge, nor is it a profession such as eating and broadcasting.

Seven years ago, it happened to be the time for Du Changqing to apply for resignation.

"Du Changqing's real crime is probably clear." Lu Wen still couldn't figure it out, "To let those people die for various reasons, Du Changqing would definitely not be able to do it alone, or even if he could do it, there would be great dangers. may be perceived as a problem."

"Those young executive officers didn't want to believe it was him, so they attributed the deaths of those people to accidents." Wei Bo'an said.

This is faith.

Du Changqing is the belief of many young executives.

Like a parent, more like a star.

If a certain case is found, it may be related to the person I believe in, and that person is also the head of the executive bureau, synonymous with authority.

Those young executives will choose to give up the investigation, ignore all the unreasonable things in the case, and close the case hastily.

"Look, that's why I don't want to work with those guys in District 15. They're hiding something intentionally or unintentionally." Wei Bo'an picked up the juice and took a sip.

"But I still have to work with them in the future, and I have to try to find the wandering poet."

Concealing the truth, this kind of thing is only used to deal with ordinary people.

Lu Wen didn't expect these guys to hide certain things from colleagues in other regions.

"Feng Fugui probably doesn't know about these things." Wei Bo'an said, "Du Changqing left his job seven years ago just to make sure everything was safe, so he will definitely assign a young executive he trusts to deal with those weird deaths."

"You want to find out those young executives?" Lu Wen asked.

"Concealing information from colleagues and hastily closing the case. They are no longer worthy of being executive officers. It just so happened that they were invited to come here this time. Let's help them clean up the moths."

...

The day's investigation ended quickly.

In the evening, the sun sets.

The sea in the distance was stained crimson by the setting sun.

Under the evening wind blowing.

Many executives sit together. Seafood barbecue is the specialty of this region, and seafood food stalls can be seen everywhere on the street.

dining room.

Feng Fugui called five executives to a table individually. These five were all first-level executives, but they had been in the executive board for some years, and the youngest one became a full-time member seven years ago.

"These eight cases were handled by the five of you. At that time, Du Changqing assigned you to handle them."

Eight people who died strangely.

All five were silent.

The night wind was mixed with the smell of barbecue, and those materials were flipped page by page in the wind, uncovering some buried old stories.

...

Early the next morning.

All five have submitted resignation applications.

Wei Bo'an stood at the gate of the 15th District Executive Office, and said with emotion: "Last time that guy found more than a dozen people in my district, and this time he found more people in the 15th District. On the Internet, it is estimated that there should be someone holding a sign at the gate of the fifteenth district and shouting for justice."

"Your mouth may have been opened."

Lu Wen looked at various social platforms.

The main news hasn't come out yet.

However, he searched for the keyword '15th District' and found that some self-media with more fans were reposting what happened in the 15th District in the past two days.

"It's ridiculous to say that that wandering poet is just a criminal... Criminals also have followers." Feng Fugui also stood at the door and sighed.

"If the executive bureau does a good enough job, there will be fewer and fewer people who regard criminals as heroes," Lu Wen said.

The worship of criminals is often divided into two types.

One is to regard criminals as heroes, such as the wandering poet outside now.

His supporters believe that the executive board cannot bring justice to everyone, so the world needs an adjudicator in the dark to clear away those dark corners of injustice.

And the appearance of the wandering poet just satisfied their wish.

Another cult phenomenon is more eccentric...

Take the case of Richard Ramirez.

This criminal known as the "Night Stalker" has created countless horrific cases, violently assaulting, dismembering, and finally killing. Most of the victims are women.

However, after this criminal was arrested, he actually had a huge female fan base in a very short period of time, and many women claimed to be in love with him.

There are many such examples, such as Manson, such as Ted Bundy, one of the prototypes of The Silence of the Lambs.

"What are you doing frowning all day long? When you come to District 15, you should take a good look at the scenery around you." Sitting next to Lu Wen, Wei Bo'an asked.

"There are too many things to do, and I am tired."

"Androids actually feel tired?"

"Who says it won't?"

It is not easy to control three bodies at the same time, and there are so many things to do every day.

According to what Wei Bo'an said, today should be the day when the bionics in No Man's Land negotiate with the parliament.

Who knows how many unfair terms those brainless guys in No Man's Land will agree to.

"About the meeting in No Man's Land, do you have any new news?" Lu Wen asked.

"It's still early. The scheduled start time is at ten o'clock in the morning. It's outside an abandoned city agreed by both parties. It's only after seven o'clock. If there is any news, I will notify you as soon as possible." Wei Bo'an looked at the time, "No man's land Those bionics have nothing to do with you, what are you thinking about?"

"Anyway, they are also bionics, and they are all compatriots."

"The development of things is unpredictable. Even if you really want to change, you only have one person, and you can't stop the general trend unless you have an army of bionics that can change the direction of anything."

Time passed bit by bit.

Before ten o'clock, there was another dead person in the fifteenth district.

"The deceased this time was a bank security guard."

Feng Fugui distributed the information to everyone.

"What does a bank security guard have to do with the word 'betrayal'?"

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