Chapter 404: Mole Surfaces!
After those words, Lu Siya sank into deep thought as well. She pondered it for a long ti before admitting it. “Makes sense.”
“Also, many of the insects don’t have brains. Even if they have thickened nerve bundles and myelin sheaths to strengthen their intelligence, I doubt that they can handle complicated information,” ng Chao said.
“What I’m saying is that while it’s possible to gather insects in one place to attack a building, it is another matter to have them handle complicated images and identify the minor differences of a human’s face so that they can locate and kill certain targets as well as spare the people aside from the targets. This just goes against their instincts. It’s beyond the limits of what their nerves can do.
“Of course, the abnormal beasts’ mastermind could control the insects, but if the monsters can carry out battlefield interdiction, we can too. The information chain between the mastermind and insects must be fragnted. It’s impossible for it to be able to give orders to all the pests in real ti just by controlling them.
“Also, what puzzles the most is about how the monsters captured Professor Lu Tianxing alive.
“Based on what the survivors said, at that ti, they were protecting Professor Lu and a batch of transmigration experts while warding off the monsters’ attacks in a corridor. The next mont, though, a large number of monsters suddenly crawled out of the elevator shaft and tore through the elevator door to grab Professor Lu. They didn’t stay to fight and just dragged him down.
“There are two problems here. First, how did the monsters know that Professor Lu would retreat using that path? There isn’t just one elevator in Noble Descent Hotel, and naturally, there isn’t just one elevator shaft. Each floor has several corridors, ergency staircases and escape tunnels.
“Professor Lu and the rest had dozens of escape paths to choose from, so how did the monsters manage to accurately choose and lurk in the path they would definitely pass by?
“But let’s overlook this for now and talk about how there were coincidentally more than ten survivors moving through the corridor at that ti. The group should have spread out in a long line, so how did the monsters manage to ti it perfectly and tear open the elevator door while Professor Lu passed by it, then bind him with spider threads and drag him into the elevator?
“You must understand that while the elevator door is closed, even if the monsters and the mastermind share visual signals, it’s impossible for them to see the situation in the corridor. How did they manage to ti the attack so well?”
Lu Siya sank into deep thought. After a mont, she thought of sothing. “This question is simple. There’s a mole among the survivors.
“We already know that the abnormal beasts have infiltrated Blue Ho. Lin Chuan and Gao Ye were bewitched by them.
“Aside from them, there must be others who have been bewitched by the abnormal beasts but have yet to reveal themselves. It’s highly likely that they were lurking in Blue Ho and were there as ‘frenzied Earth Returnee Party mbers’.
“This ti, Blue Ho organized the transmigration technology conference, including the ti, location, attendance list, and other related information. The mole could have sent all that to the abnormal beast. That’s why the abnormal beast could attack with the precision of a surgeon!
“When the insects charged out of the underground, the mole stayed close to Professor Lu Tianxing and used so sort of secret thod to tell the monsters who their target is. What do you think of my hypothesis?”
“Big Sis Ya, not bad!” ng Chao’s eyes lit up. He slapped his thigh and said, “As expected, a person will be influenced by another when he or she spends a lot of ti with them. Now that you’ve worked so long with , you’re finally showing great intelligence!”
Lu Siya was stunned. “What?”
ng Chao imdiately switched the topic and said, “Nothing. There’s certainly a mole in Blue Ho, but there are too many suspects. I’ve never been able to shrink down the number. By the looks of it now, the mole is among one of the survivors from the group with Professor Lu Tianxing.
“But this deduction only explains how Professor Lu Tianxing was captured. It doesn’t tell us how the monsters were able to locate all transmigration experts and the conference mbers.
“There’s no way a mole would have followed each transmigration expert and investor, right?”
The delight on Lu Siya’s face was drowned out by puzzlent. She paced back and forth, shook her head, and said, “Well... I don’t have any ideas. Could it be that the monsters found a way to mark the conference mbers beforehand?”
ng Chao widened his eyes further. Suddenly, he jumped up in joy. “That’s right! That’s exactly it! Marking them beforehand!”
Lu Siya still could not figure it out. “How did they do it, though?”
“Think. What’s the greatest difference between the conference mbers, the hotel staff, and the other guests? There’s sothing only the conference mbers have. The other guests and hotel staff don’t have it.” ng Chao looked at Lu Siya expectantly, but three seconds later, he could not help but blurt out the answer. “Emblem! They have an emblem saying ‘New Era Year 57 Transmigration Technology Conference’ on their chests!”
Lu Siya thought about it and nodded. “You’re right. Each mber has an emblem at their chests.”
“Usually, when you organize a large conference, the committee mbers will give out ans of identification that will differentiate the mbers attending the conference so that they can enter and leave the conference hall whenever they want, get in touch with the experts and investors, or go to the administrative corridor and the buffet restaurant to eat free food.
“But usually, these ans of identification are all na tags, right?” ng Chao said. “Just now, when I saw the survivors’ chest emblems, I found it really strange, because I seldom see people use emblems as ans of identification.
“Blue Ho has its own organization emblem, so wouldn’t it be just fine if they used a na tag and their own organization emblem as a ans of identification? Why was there a need to make a new batch of commorative emblems?
“If they were ant as a small keepsake from the conference, they would usually just order a batch of pens, bookmarks, USB drives, or sothing like that. Commorative badges are usually awards given to those who joined a battle or are given out during comndation conferences for heroes, right?
“That’s why a seed of doubt was planted in my heart.
“Unfortunately, the undead and pests just kept coming, and during the fight, I didn’t have ti to think about it. Now that I rember it, I find it really strange. There must be sothing off about these commorative badges.
“They didn’t issue the organization emblems from Blue Ho because many people have old ones, and it wouldn’t be easy for the mole to do anything about them.
“They didn’t use na tags because na tags are too light and thin. It’d be difficult for anyone to do anything about them.
“They didn’t give out pens, bookmarks, USB drives or other small trinkets because you can’t be certain that the experts will keep those things on them while they’re running for their lives.
“That’s why they could only hand out commorative badges that have already been tampered with during the registration before the conference. They probably even arranged a few staff mbers to put those commorative emblems on the old experts’ chests to make sure that they were all marked, and such marks would not be cast off while they’re running.
“With this, the list of suspects for the mole decreases.
“If a person or people from among those who made the commorative emblems, who handed out the emblems, and who helped the mbers put on the commorative emblems were together with Professor Lu Tianxing while they were running away, this person or group would be the moles!”
Lu Siya looked at ng Chao in disbelief, and her jaw fell slack.
“Don’t, Big Sis Ya. I know that your admiration is about to burst out of you, but now is not the ti for you to be dumbfounded. We have to verify this hypothesis.”
It was very simple to make sure whether the commorative emblems had been tampered with.
Practically all the survivors were gathered in the dical camp, because the acid and poison pollution in the hotel was bad. The new virus zombie and Blood Flower spores were strange as well. Even if a person looked like they were only wounded superficially and even unhard, they could not be certain as to whether they were clear of being infected by viruses and spores.
Hence, the people who were saved from the building had to be isolated for treatnt, observation, and tests.
ng Chao and Lu Siya were superhumans at the peak of Earth Realm and Heaven Realm respectively. They were also refined by Blue Origin Crystals, so their immune systems were as sturdy as nails. They were the first to complete the screening and were confird to not be infected.
So survivors had had their blood drawn and samples taken from their throat. They were currently waiting for the test results.
Among them were plenty of Blue Ho mbers who had the commorative emblem from the transmigration technology conference on their chests.
ng Chao asked for the commorative emblem from a Blue Ho mber he was familiar with and held it in his palm.
The first thing he noticed was that it felt heavy. It was unlike the light alloy that was usually used for emblems. Instead, it seed like it was made of expensive tal like gold or silver.
The main the of the entire emblem was the blue planet, but around it was a crystalline tunnel. It was connected to a Mobius strip that seed to have no start or finish.
The emblem was really beautiful. It was very detailed, and ng Chao was reluctant to part with it. It was no wonder why the mbers all placed them on their chests.
ng Chao handed the emblem to Lu Siya.
Her eyes shone with a light that spread out in a radial form. It moved from her eyes to her forehead, then her temples.
She used her talent of a Spirit Sensor and stared at the emblem for a long ti before she extended her thumb and caressed it to sense it. After a while, she mumbled, “I can sense a really strange... radioactivity? When this emblem was made, it was fused with a really rare radioactive mineral or rare crystal.
“The radioactivity is really weak. It’s not strong enough to harm a person’s health, which is why it’s difficult for the average superhuman to sense it.
“But the insects’ sensory organs are different from those of humans. I’m not sure about it, but perhaps to an insects’ sensory organs, the people wearing these emblems shine as brilliantly as torches in the dark.”
ng Chao brought out a few reagents from his harvester’s tool bag.
He placed the emblem on a tal tray and dropped a few reagents on it. When he was on the third one, the pink reagent reacted to the emblem, and a lot of bubbles ca out of it.
“There’s also so biomaterials in it. When they made this emblem, they added biomaterials like monster bone powder.”
ng Chao narrowed his eyes, and a sharp light shone in them. “Even though I can’t be certain what sort of biomaterial it is, why would a normal emblem be made from radioactive and bio- materials?”
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