Overturned Tower

Hearing this, Chensha was stunned for a moment: "Did you never say anything about this at the time?"

"Yes. Because I didn't expect that Russell would really come back...and it was just a dream after all, so I didn't mention it."

Singularity pushed up his glasses and explained seriously.

Russell frowned and his expression gradually became serious.

At that moment, he thought of a lot.

Monkey-faced eagle, demon, psyker, mage, artificial intelligence, Dr. Zanbai...

Russell thought about it and reached out from the remote control panel to tune a rap song as background music to cover up the sound of their conversation.

He waved and motioned for everyone to sit closer.

"Tell me," Russell asked seriously among the crowd, "how did Lycaon die? What did the corpse you saw look like?"

Under everyone's fragmented narrative, Russell gradually understood the whole story.

The reason why it is said that Lycaon was only "suspected to have been killed" is because his death was too bizarre.

According to the big data survey of the three sages, Lycaon has no enemies and no one who has had conflicts with him.

In other words, there was no one who had any motive to kill him, and he died in the early morning in the bathtub at his home. According to the autopsy, the direct cause of death was blood loss caused by cutting the wrist. Before his death, he did not apply for any assistance from the executive department or medical unit.

At this point, I am afraid that anyone who comes will be judged as committing suicide.

But the problem is, Lycaon's head is missing.

——If it was a suicide, how did his head fly out?

The people who went to play with Lycaon at that time were Singularity, Redlam and Cerberus. Because they couldn't contact Lycaon since last night, and the next day happened to be the weekend, they made an appointment to go over and check on the situation.

After all, Chen Sha and Li'er are girls, and they will not go to the opposite sex's home at will.

After the three of them discovered the body, they immediately reported it to the execution department, and also sent messages to Chensha and Li'er explaining the matter.

Subsequently, the three of them were detained by the Enforcement Department as witnesses and suspects.

After the artificial intelligence reviewed all their chat records and behavior trajectories, it was convinced that they were completely innocent because they had no time to commit the crime, no motive for committing the crime, no tools to commit the crime, and no plan to commit the crime.

So the Sogo Group became even more anxious - because Lycaon, as a promising new important member of the Sogo Group, had many secrets in his mind. And the mysterious killer who was able to bypass the surveillance of the three sages tried every means to take Lycaon's head, presumably hoping to obtain some secret information from his mind.

This was probably done by those in the black area!

Lycaon's head was not found until two days after the body was found.

His head was found in a cyber church. That was the church where Russell often took Lycaon to volunteer, and Russell and Lycaon often lived there.

Surveillance showed he entered there the day before his death and left after four hours of work.

But his head was found in a storage cabinet used by Lycaon himself. The cabinet itself is also a smart home and can only be opened using Lycaon's own voiceprint password. When the church learned of his death and was cleaning up his traces, his head was found in Lycaon's room.

But because the chip inside the head was not removed within two hours after death, it had dissolved and was completely scrapped. Therefore, Sogo Group cannot see from the chip what happened to him after his death. The only thing that is certain is that his head was refrigerated for a long time after death... so it did not decay after two days, and even the flesh and blood remained fresh.

After testing, it should have been refrigerated and sealed immediately after death. But this is inconsistent with monitoring.

"... To put it simply, Lycaon's death is actually normal. The only abnormal thing is that his head appeared where it shouldn't... right."

Russell summed it up simply.

"But this is the most abnormal thing."

Singularity shook his head: "Even the most mysterious and legendary psyker probably can't do this. The Three Sages have eyes all over the Sky Island. Even if he can turn off a camera, how can he deceive it?" All the monitoring and listening?”

No, there are people who can do that. This is actually not difficult.

Russell thought.

At least among the people Russell knew, Sheath and Monkey-Faced Eagle could easily do this. If there is a powerful enough psychic hacker, it may not be impossible to do something as simple as "modify monitoring".

It looked like a secret room, but it didn't have a very strong lock, and no one had personally confirmed that "no one entered or left", so it was just a secret room at the surveillance level.

There are a lot of ways to enter or leave, but there are surveillance cameras everywhere outside. So as long as there is a means that can perfectly avoid surveillance, this "stealth technique that only stays at the surveillance level" can be easily accomplished.

The existence of "spiritual energy" can make the impossible possible.

Because of this, if you put the question on "how did he do it", it is easy to be confused and fall into a dead end. Just like the most useful demon censorship mechanism, it is to detect behavior through big data to determine whether there are unreasonable and sudden changes in motives - that is, "psychological censorship."

So, why would anyone go to such trouble to kill Lycaon, an ordinary young man?

Or to put it another way...

Even if Lycaon really committed suicide, who would want to take his head away? Is it really impossible for the three sages to find out all this from clues?

Why was Lycaon able to "entrust dreams" to them? As his friend, why couldn't Russell accept his dreams at all?

You must know that there really is a "dream world" in this world - the dream worlds of various sky islands are completely connected.

The dream world built on the sea of ​​group subconscious is more stable than the large-scale local area network on each sky island, and it is also the world's only means of instant communication across sky islands. Russell often encounters people from other sky islands in the dream world. mage. If Lycaon really awakened some special spiritual power, he should be able to notify Russell.

And most importantly...

Why did Lycaon know that Russell would come here, and why did he emphasize "werewolf" to him?

Russell narrowed his eyes.

Basically, the masterminds behind this incident can be directly pinned on two people.

He has a special interest in Russell and is convinced that Russell will return to Sogo Island; his control over the surveillance network is so strong that the Sogo Group cannot locate him at all; he knows that this matter may cause huge losses to the interests of the Sogo Group. But the Three Sages remained silent on the matter; Lycaon or the mastermind behind the matter directly promoted the "Werewolf" incident, causing commotion at the social level and creating a large number of special cases that could not be traced. The imitator directly shook the credibility of the Three Sages among the people, and even shook the foundation of Sogo Island...

-So, this is either made of a scabbard, or it's a monkey-faced eagle.

Considering that he was able to steal the personal information of "dead" users, he could also use Lycaon's account, which had obviously been blocked, to send messages to Redram.

There is a high probability that it is the monkey-faced eagle that has transformed into an artificial intelligence and can manipulate data at will like the three sages.

So this is consistent with Russell's previous speculation. Behind the "Werewolf" incident, there is indeed the operation of the monkey-faced eagle - this may be his method to fight against the Three Sages.

But then again...

What special value does Lycaon have that would allow his head to be carried away in its entirety?

If you really need some secret information, wouldn't it be better to extract his chip before he dies?

Or keep him alive and send him to the branch of Tianen Group, and use their special machine to search the memory... Obviously these are simpler and more efficient methods.

It seems that this is the biggest doubt.

Russell made up his mind.

When you wake up tomorrow, go to the church and ask. That happened to be part of taking Delphinium on a "pilgrimage". There was no conflict in the itinerary, and the purpose was not obtrusive.

However, Russell also breathed a sigh of relief.

Judging from the fact that so many moths have appeared on Sogo Island in the past, which was calm and peaceful in the past few months... I don't know if the sheath is there, but if nothing unexpected happens, at least the monkey-faced eagle is probably on my side. of.

fair enough.

In this way, there should be no danger at all from Strangler and the Inferior.

That's right, let's treat it as a holiday for them. Yongquan Island is a tourist attraction.

Chapter 2, hot update~

Later updates will be changed to 10:11, 12:11~