Capítulo 1734: Chapter 1734: A Bad Turn
This is the characteristic “Lock-on Target” that Xu Huo just acquired, which allows tracking of others within the sa zone for up to six months. As expected, the Hales Group’s inspection equipnt couldn’t eliminate the effect of the characteristic, and now that young believer has successfully entered with the tracker.
Paying attention to the direction of the characteristic’s connection, until the believer stayed at a certain location for a longer ti, Xu Huo basically confird the position.
Offering the dead at the Hales headquarters sounds absurd, but it actually makes sense. For one, people like Mr. Wei deliberately intended to perpetually commorate those who died in the mines a hundred years ago. Secondly, there was an insider story to it, and the death toll announced at the ti was fake. To avoid unnecessary trouble, hiding this matter in the company’s core might be the better choice.
Additionally, it seems that a hundred years ago, the Hales Group’s leaders treated this matter as a kind of religious ritual to be passed down.
Now, a hundred years later, not to ntion players from outside zones, even people from Zone 019 might not understand why to keep this “evidence”—The Hales Group for so reason created mining accidents and then modified the data, which in itself is a cri. As criminals, the best way would be to destroy all the evidence. Even a hundred years ago, they could have handled it cleanly.
And from the currently known information, the group responsible for the mining accident seed to carry a different sense of conscience when committing their heinous cris, which is very strange. What’s more, there’s a piece of information that is obvious yet easily overlooked: the Zone 019 Governnt defined those who died in the mines as “sacrifice.”
I wonder if there’s another aning behind this word.
“What do we do now?” Jiao Hongyuan anxiously asked, seeing that the young believer hadn’t co out yet and they couldn’t go in.
Having investigated up to this point, going into the Hales Group headquarters made little difference to Xu Huo. Of course, seeing the “dwelling of the deceased” with his own eyes would be better, but it didn’t matter if he couldn’t. The information he needed was with Mr. Wei.
Just as he was about to leave, Jiao Hongyuan suddenly received a call from ng Xiaoman. Upon hearing it, his face changed, and he repeated, “Mr. Wei is missing?”
“Wasn’t he going to the hospital? How did he suddenly disappear?”
While speaking, he activated the holographic projection to share the conversation. In the projection, besides Zhao Yiming and ng Xiaoman, Zhu Zhongliang also appeared.
“Yiming and I escorted him there. Yiming was called away by a doctor, and I went with the nurse to register the family relationship. When I ca back, he was gone, just the three of them in the room!” ng Xiaoman pointed to the three, suppressing her anger.
“It’s not related to us,” Ke Youming quickly explained, “When we arrived, there was no one in the ward at all!”
“What about the other inford person?” Xu Huo asked Zhu Zhongliang, “Can’t find him, said he went traveling and won’t be back for a while.”
“You guys saw we were making good progress and got scared of falling behind, so you deliberately sabotaged, huh?” ng Xiaoman accused maliciously.
Zhu Zhongliang frowned, about to refute, but Xu Huo interrupted them, “We’re going near Mr. Wei’s residence now.”
With that, he ended the call and went to the residential area with Jiao Hongyuan.
By the ti they arrived, Zhao Yiming and others were also there. After eting, Xu Huo asked first, “Who took Mr. Wei, have you confird with the hospital?”
ng Xiaoman shook her head, “The ward does not have real-ti monitoring, it needs the consent of the patient and family to be turned on, and I was going to do that.”
“It’s also our fault for not thinking it through, assuming there wouldn’t be anything unexpected in the hospital.”
They weren’t lying. Xu Huo turned to Zhu Zhongliang and the others, “How did you know Zhao Yiming and ng Xiaoman went to the hospital?”
The three didn’t speak for a mont, then Zhao Yiming suddenly looked at Zhu Zhongliang, “Did you ss with us?”
Zhu Zhongliang found it hard to deny because otherwise, he couldn’t explain why they arrived at the hospital so quickly.
“We absolutely had no malice…” Shen Fei tried to explain, but was cut off by ng Xiaoman, “No malice? No malice, then why didn’t you contact us when you arrived at the hospital? Coming to the hospital secretly, you were trying to get sothing out of Mr. Wei first, right!”
The three couldn’t argue. After a mont, Zhu Zhongliang said, “I admit we weren’t straightforward about this, because I wasn’t involved in the main process at all, only heard from Xu Zhi. I was worried you guys would pass us by, so I used a tracking prop on Zhao Yiming.”
“But Mr. Wei’s disappearance is definitely not our doing. If it were us, then why would we stay at the hospital?”
“Even if it wasn’t you, it has sothing to do with you!” Jiao Hongyuan said with a stern face, “Now Mr. Wei is missing, and valuable clues are gone!”
Pursuing bla wasn’t aningful, so Xu Huo asked again, “When you ca back, were you followed?”
Shen Fei’s expression changed slightly, “During the process of finding Hales employees, we were indeed followed by players for a short ti, but we quickly shook them off.”
They didn’t pay much attention to this because it was too common to be watched by one or two strangers in a zone full of players, and it was impossible to trace every single instance to its root.
“It was our oversight.” Shen Fei said earnestly, “This matter has delayed everyone.”
“The premise of cooperation is to maintain trust after acknowledging and agreeing on what each needs to do. Otherwise, cooperation can’t proceed.” Xu Huo looked at them expressionlessly, “Our cooperation ends here.”
Shen Fei quickly said, “We will find a way to find Mr. Wei, even if not, we can find another inford person. Why cause a rift?”
“Really?” Xu Huo looked at him, “Are you sure the other inford person has really gone on vacation?”
All three showed different degrees of change in expression, and just as Zhu Zhongliang was about to say sothing, Xu Huo raised his hand to interrupt him, “It’s just cooperation, we’re not responsible for each other, but if you think you can still pick up cheap benefits after ssing up, then you’re making a mistake.”
“No need to make it sound so harsh,” Shen Fei gradually cald his eagerness, looking at him, “Nobody wanted this to happen. Isn’t finding Mr. Wei the most important thing now? We’ve cooperated for a while, and separating now, you don’t have enough manpower.”
Before Xu Huo could respond, Zhao Yiming and ng Xiaoman laughed out of anger, “There are plenty of shaless people, but it’s rare to see people as shaless as you. Talking about cooperation, what have you done? Even running errands, you try to cut corners. If you’d gone to find the other inford person, Brother Xu would have finished his task and returned to the hospital, and this situation wouldn’t have happened!”
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