Chapter 2123: Chapter 2123: Investigating
The entire hypnosis session lasted only half an hour. The woman woke up at the last second of the thirtieth minute, opened her eyes, and saw Xu Huo sitting back at the desk. "I felt like I had a nightmare, but the latter part was quite refreshing," she said.
"That ans your stress has been well relieved," Xu Huo replied.
"Was that hypnosis?" the woman asked curiously. "I felt very conscious, as though I actually went on a journey. Hypnosis never felt this novel before."
"People have different experiences at different stages. You have already found the answer within yourself; you just need soone else to guide you," Xu Huo smiled.
The woman nodded with a smile, "I hope to et you again next ti."
The woman left the treatnt room and, together with her friend, exited the clinic. After they left, Xu Huo also departed, having obtained a business card of a Haiyun Technology executive from her.
Confidential information of the group was unknown to low-level employees like the woman, but internal changes could not be completely hidden from others. During the hypnosis, the woman revealed that a few days ago, an executive had been beaten in the office, seemingly having ssed sothing up. Additionally, the company’s recently promised benefits had seen repeated delays, and the accounting staff had been working overti for several consecutive days, all looking quite upset.
Xu Huo found a relatively inexpensive place to stay, and then contacted a local black market organization to purchase information on that executive. It seed that due to the ease of leaks via the Collection of Information Terminal, the seller adopted the most primitive delivery thod: a face-to-face exchange, money in one hand, goods in the other.
He arranged the transaction at an entertainnt venue near his residence, scheduled for one in the morning. Before that, he switched all his props to Rank-C and Rank-B, changed his clothes that concealed his Evolution Rate, put on a set of Rank-C protective clothing, and did a simple disguise on his brows and eyes before heading to the eting.
He wasn’t early, and the seller had been waiting for him. The seller was a young man in his early twenties, smoking a cigarette while sizing him up. Amidst the deafening music, the two entered a hallway of private rooms one after the other, and at the end of the hallway, the seller signaled for him to take out the money.
Xu Huo obeyed, and the seller snatched the money, counted it, then threw the docunt bag at him with a mischievous grin.
Feeling the weight, Xu Huo raised an eyebrow, "Paper docunts?"
"The more primitive the thod, the safer," the young man laughed. "You’re so careless, if a trace were leaked on the Collection of Information Terminal, wouldn’t we be in trouble too?"
Xu Huo spoke in a low voice, "What do you an?"
In the next second, a door to the side private room suddenly opened, and several syringes flew towards him!
"Ding! Ding!" The needles struck the wall and floor. But just as Xu Huo made a move to escape, a force suddenly held him in place, and a needle pierced into his back. As the liquid injected into him, he slowly fell to the ground.
"Trying to run!" The young man kicked Xu Huo, and after confirming he was unconscious, said to the woman who ca out of the room, "Sister Lan, this guy wanted to buy information from the Tian Family; should we just deal with him?"
Sister Lan was smoking, not even looking at the person on the ground, and ordered soone to search him for props. "I’ve already arranged with the Tian Family. Soone will co to pick him up. Leave him in the room for now. Being hit with such a big dose, he’ll sleep for at least an hour. Give him another shot after an hour."
The young man, left behind to watch the man, complained a bit, "In this area, there are plenty of players who don’t know their place. Killing him would save so much trouble. Why hand him over to the Tian Family?"
Sister Lan slapped him across the face, "Just do what you’re told."
The young man lowered his head, not daring to say more. After Sister Lan and the others left, he dragged the man inside the room, closed the door, looked at the person lying on the ground, walked to a corner of the room, turned off the surveillance hidden in a decorative item, then returned to Xu Huo’s side, unbuttoning his cufflinks and saying, "Since you’re dead at in the Tian Family’s hands, might as well be a punching bag."
Twenty minutes later, Sister Lan’s subordinate led a middle-aged man into the room. The middle-aged man first glanced at the man on the floor, then frowned, "Is this the advanced player you ntioned?"
"That’s right, it’s him." Sister Lan’s subordinate glanced at the man on the floor, whose face was bruised, and quickly said, "My subordinate was careless, made him look a bit rough. This shouldn’t be a problem, right?"
The middle-aged man said nothing, simply took out an instrunt to conduct basic tests on him, ensuring he hadn’t changed his appearance, had no concealed props on him, and even cautiously checked the concentration of anesthetic in his blood before taking out a prop container and putting the man inside. He handed a wad of cash to Sister Lan’s subordinate and said, "Send any more like him over in the future."
Sister Lan’s subordinate nodded repeatedly, then watched the middle-aged man release a portal in the room. When the portal, along with the person, disappeared, he spat, "Rich people are different, can’t even take a few steps... Where’s that brat? Even ssed up watching a guy properly!"
The room door opened and closed again. Footsteps crossed the hallway and gradually faded away. A mont later, the adjacent private room’s door opened, and Xu Huo walked out, leaving the Spiritual World to move to the tallest nearby building.
He had used the ’Lock-on Target’ characteristic on the young man who replaced him. The opponent was now stored in a prop container, making it temporarily impossible to lock onto him. But once the opponent re-erged from the container, Xu Huo would be able to pinpoint his location imdiately.
Additionally, he gathered new information from Sister Lan and the others. The executive he was investigating didn’t have the last na Tian, and none of the main positions at Haiyun Technology were held by soone with the last na Tian. Whether this was for identity protection or so other reason, that executive clearly had familial ties with the Tian Family. The local power, upon learning about the transaction, imdiately thought to lure the person out and hand them over to the Tian Family. This Tian Family’s influence wasn’t weak and had connections with Haiyun Technology, suggesting they probably knew so inside information.
Ten minutes later, the tracking chain ford by the characteristic appeared, and Xu Huo roughly located the area, but before he could determine the precise location, the chain suddenly vanished.
He stopped outside a wealthy residential area, observing the dense defensive instrunts and various monitoring devices. He involuntarily stepped back two paces to put so distance.
The surroundings of the residence were vast forests and lakes, making it difficult to use certain props from a distance, not to ntion the presence of a Defensive Barrier outside.
The Girl in the painting on another street waved at him from afar, then pointed to a nearby transport vehicle, planning to blend in similarly as they had infiltrated the Rabbit Ear Playground.
Xu Huo didn’t stop her, but the security at the mansion area was clearly stricter. She got onto the vehicle, but during the checkpoint outside, the alarm was imdiately triggered. The Security Guard released a containnt instrunt that enveloped the entire vehicle, followed by dispatching robots for a thorough inspection of the transport vehicle!
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