monster detection team

The old housekeeper smiled and handed over a cup of tea. The tea was lukewarm and wafted with a faint fragrance, which brought some calming effects.Yi Ange had never been served so attentively in her life, she was a little flattered, and hurriedly accepted it with trepidation, and said softly, "Thank you."

The old butler had a kind smile on his face, bowed to him and Jing Rong respectively, and bowed and exited the living room.

Jing Rong's father answered the phone not far away.He seems to be very busy, his gestures are very much like the older version of Jing Rong, but he is a little more calm inside.Especially the aura of majesty exuding from him was even stronger than that of Jing Rong.

I didn't feel it when I just looked at the photos before, but looking at it now, I will find that the Jing family father and son are almost carved out of the same mold.

Maybe Jingrong will become like this in another thirty years.Yi Ange looked at Father Jing who was standing not far away, and began to fantasize unconsciously in his mind.

Jing Rong tapped his head lightly, and warned in a low voice, "Come back to your senses."

Yi Ange turned around and asked in a voice that only the two of them could hear, "Is he really your father?"

He paused, and said, "I saw their group photo in Zhou Mincai's previous profile."

Yi Ange wasn't sure if he could talk about it now, but he was curious about Jing Rong's next reaction.Close relatives have a seemingly inseparable relationship with the case under investigation. This kind of thing does not happen every day.

In fact, he understood that he actually wanted to see something from Jing Rong's attitude.What happened to his grandfather made him a little upset. If Jing Rong could express his position at this time, maybe he could find a more reasonable reason to push himself forward.

Jing Rong naturally knew what he was thinking, and kept silent without answering.

Yi Ange put the teacup on the table and sighed inwardly.

Jing Rong must have already had his own answer, otherwise he would not appear here.It's just that Yi Ange doesn't know how he wants to investigate.

He told Jing Rong exactly what happened after the second accident, including the old notes from his grandfather and the old map of the city that he got.There are also a few photos in Grandpa's belongings, but they are all landscapes, too old and yellowish, and it is unclear whether the content of the photos is consistent with Zhou Mincai's.There are three people in Zhou Mincai's photo, besides himself, Father Jing, and the man standing in the middle.

Yi Ange asked Jing Rong if he knew who that person was, and this time Jing Rong shook his head frankly.This is also one of the purposes of his coming here today.Jing Rong knew that some names were missing in the whole incident, and father Jing, as one of them, naturally knew the clues.

In fact, Yi Ange was a little curious about why Jing Rong was so sure that his father had something to do with the whole thing. Even if it was a photo, Jing’s father might have happened to be on the camera. Linked by some kind of cooperative project, it is also possible to stand side by side and take pictures as a souvenir.He didn't think Jing's father was a suspect. If he had to say why, it was probably because he was Jing Rong's family member.Yi Ange didn't know the reason, but he maintained great confidence in people and things related to Jing Rong.

But Jing Rong himself doesn't seem to think so.When Father Jing finally hung up the phone and came back to them, Jing Rong cut to the chase and said, "Tell me everything you know."

The tone was very stiff, just like asking a stranger, without a trace of emotion.Yi Ange looked at him in surprise, but father Jing smiled lightly as if he had expected it.

"Thirty years ago, the base tried to fully disclose the existence of supernatural beings to the outside world. At that time, the entire society was very inclusive, so we believed that we should gather all supernatural beings that could be found as quickly as possible and provide them with Work or a way to integrate into ordinary society." Father Jing put his hands together on the table and said, "This includes some hidden people. They are willing to admit their identity as 'monsters' and take the initiative to undertake part of the work of the base. Zhou Mincai is one of them one."

"He admits that he is a hidden one?" Yi Ange couldn't help interrupting and asked.This is completely opposite to what they speculated before that Zhou Mincai didn't know about his abilities.

Father Jing glanced at him, nodded and said, "He is the most active group."

Jing Rong suddenly sat up straight and asked, "What were you doing at that time?"

Father Jing obviously didn't care much about his son's problems, "It's not important."

Jing Rong frowned, and just about to refute, Yi Ange quickly held his hand under the table, signaling him not to get too excited.

After a while, Jing Rong's body gradually relaxed, and he squeezed his palm, which was his response.

Yi Ange secretly breathed a sigh of relief, and then went to look at Father Jing, and found that he was squinting his eyes and observing the two's little movements, with a puzzling smile in his eyes.

Yi Ange was a little embarrassed, and slowly let go of Jing Rong's hand, coughing lightly, "Hey, let's continue. You continue."

"The work inside and outside the base is actually not exactly the same. The original plan was to let the inside and outside cooperate, but then some things gradually became out of touch, to the point of being out of control." Father Jing sighed with emotion, "Originally, some outside The Hidden Ones have their own secrets, and they are willing to cooperate with the base, in fact, just to use the resources of the base to complete other undertakings. But at that time, the people in the base trusted them too much, and it was too late when they found out. It was a big mess, and the base They had to be suppressed and it turned out to be a disaster."

He nodded to Jing Rong, "Jing Rong should still remember this incident. He was four years old that year."

This sounded like a father, Yi Ange looked around from the corner of his eye, and found that Jing Rong's expression was a little unnatural.He remained silent and didn't answer, and he didn't know whether he remembered or not.

Father Jing didn't seem to care whether he would respond or not, so he fell silent and looked at them silently.Apparently, his story was over.

But Yi Ange was still confused.He didn't say the most important thing, what does Zhou Min do?Does the last disaster have anything to do with the present?What caused some people to resent Zhou Min to such an extent that they took so much effort to kill him?

Father Jing asked him, "What do you think?"

Yi Ange thought for a while and said, "Zhou Mincai's work 30 years ago hurt the interests of a certain person, which caused the other person to develop hatred. The other party is likely to be a person with abilities who can return to time and space in the past. He chose to kill The way of the dead Zhou Mincai, to end the whole thing."

This was the most possible explanation he could think of, but Father Jing shook his head after hearing this, and asked, "Why is it taking so much trouble?"

yes.This is the question Yi Ange has been thinking about after trying to understand the general ins and outs of the matter.Why must the former Zhou Mincai be killed?The one who can go back to the past is "he", not anyone in the base. Even if he killed the current Zhou Mincai, no one else can do anything to him, because no one has the ability to change the past, so even if they do it directly, they can...

and many more.

"past……"

Yi Ange looked at Jing Rong and asked him, "What you see under the crack is the real 'past'? The time and space of the past?"

Jing Rong nodded, "Yes."

"He wants to change the past." Yi Ange suddenly turned his head to look at Father Jing, and said decisively, "That person, no matter who he is, the most important thing to him is not whether Zhou Min lives or dies, but what happened in the past One thing. He wanted to prevent something from happening, and Zhou Mincai's death was just a link to stop things from going down."

Having said that, Yi Ange's head began to knot again, "But does this mean that he is changing the past? The past will affect the future. If he hasn't come out of the crack until now, what we have experienced now , Is it after he changed, or before?"

He bit his lip and thought hard, feeling that he had fallen into a dead corner of thinking.No one could answer these questions, even Father Jing, just looked at him calmly and said, "No matter which one it is, we can't control it."

He waved his hand towards the door, and the housekeeper waiting there immediately understood and took something from the table beside him.

It was an old newspaper, wrapped in plastic to make it unbreakable.Father Jing handed the things to Yi Ange and said, "This is the clue I can give you about that person."

A whole newspaper reported in detail the accidental death of a girl.Since it was an accident, it is very problematic to use such a large space to report it.Yi Ange looked at it carefully, and the more he looked at it, the more strange it became, but something in the back of his mind gradually became clear.

According to the report, the girls were poor and unable to pay for the treatment, so they joined a private medical organization to provide them with experimental resources as patients.The result of the private medical experiment was naturally a failure. The report was cryptic, describing the medical organization as a black workshop with nothing, and introduced the specific process of destroying the organization in detail.

The second half of the content has nothing to do with them, the focus is on the first half of the report.If Yi Ange's guess is correct, then one of the heads of the medical organization should be Zhou Mincai, and even if not, he must have a place in it.

The whole report did not mention the girl's name or other family members, but Yi Ange knew that she was the key to the whole matter.

Father Jing said, "The photo you saw should be when Zhou Mincai first came into contact with the base as a hidden person. At that time, we only knew that he was a madman who was keen on studying supernatural genes. He did not do the girl's experiment." , but he was indeed the leader. That medical organization has nothing to do with the base, Zhou Min came to us only to borrow some resources."

He sighed, showing the tiredness of an old man, "At that time, I noticed something was wrong with him, so I didn't cooperate with him in the end. But the girl's matter did happen after we chose to contact these hidden people, so, Of course I can't get away with it."

Yi Ange didn't know how to comfort him, but Jing Rong asked from the side, "What kind of experiment are they doing?"

"I don't know." Father Jing's eyes sank, as if caught in some bad memories, "Many things that happened that year led to the final disaster, and the laboratory of that organization was also destroyed at that time. He was able to successfully steal resources from me, so he is not directly guilty. He was imprisoned in Olympus—Jing Rong should have mentioned this peace organization to you—for four years, and was released after signing the Hidden Treaty. After the disaster, I tried to investigate the truth of what happened to the girl, but the place was completely destroyed, and there was no way to find any clues."

"Then what should we do now?" Yi Ange asked.The matter of the girl could not be investigated 30 years ago, and Zhou Mincai also died. The clues that grandpa's notes can provide only end with Father Jing.Everything seems to be back to square one.

Father Jing said, "There is another way."

He looked at his son meaningfully, Jing Rong frowned and didn't say anything, but he didn't seem to be particularly conflicted, obviously he was thinking of something with his father.

Seeing the father and son playing charades, Yi Ange was taken aback, and suddenly understood what they meant.

"The crack leads to the past." Jing Rong said, "If that person hasn't come out, it means that the matter has not reached the final stage, and we still have time."

"I'm going under the Rift one more time."

He spoke firmly, leaving no room for discussion.In fact, Yi Ange didn't want to discuss anything with him, but just said, "I'll go too."

Without waiting for Jing Rong to refute, he took out the photo that Xie Feng found from his pocket, took it on the table, pointed to the face reflected in the window that resembled him, and said, "If this was destined to happen 30 years ago Then I have to go once."