Netherworld Investigator

When Wen Baifan woke up, Qiao Kejun was lying beside him with his computer in his arms, and the familiar login music of "The Rebellion of Babel" sounded from the computer.

He quietly opened one eye, silently staring at Qiao Kejun's concentrating profile.

"Babel Tower" is a role-playing real-time strategy game. Before the game starts, there will be a long plot CG, which players can choose to skip.

Qiao Kejun didn't skip it, but watched it patiently.

The general plot of this game is usurped on the basis of "Old Testament Genesis", which is divided into three volumes.

Book One: The Chosen People in the Wilderness.

After the chaos of heaven and earth is separated, the positive power rises to form the Nine Heavens, and the negative power sinks to form the Dark Abyss.

On the bright and warm Nine Heavens, the Lord God created a man in his own image, and created a woman with one of the man's ribs, and placed the pair in the Eastern Garden of Eden.

In the damp and cold dark abyss, a strange snake named Apibu was born.

The men and women in the Garden of Eden were tempted by the dark snake Apibu, violated the command of the Lord God and ate the forbidden fruit from the tree of knowledge and evil, and were expelled to the world.

In the wilderness, the man and woman began to reproduce, and they had two sons.

The eldest son obeyed all the commands of the Lord God, relying on and looking up to God, while the second son chose the path of rebellion.But unlike in the Old Testament where Cain killed Abel and was condemned by God, in the game, on the contrary, the eldest son followed the oracle and killed the second son.

In order to make up for this lost son, the Lord God let a child named Seth be born into the world and raised by his loyal eldest son.

The eldest son and Seth were chosen by the main god. They were protected by divine power and became demigods, enjoying a long lifespan and possessing power over mortals.But other human beings do not have such good luck. They have to work all day to wash away the sins of being human. This is the punishment of the Lord God for the human descendants who escaped from the Garden of Eden that year.

Volume Two: The Great Cleansing.

The Lord God soon discovered that the boundless pain and pressure not only failed to make human beings more pious, but instead made them throw themselves into the arms of the Demon King.Seeing that the sins and grievances in human nature are increasing day by day, and the world is full of corruption and evil, the Lord God plans to use floods to destroy the wicked. He asked Abel to split the source of the abyss on February [-]th. At the same time, he will send heavy rain to the ground.

The Lord God wants to eliminate the evil creatures from the world, but he is reluctant to destroy all his creations. Instead, he hopes that the new generation of human beings can repent, obey him, and establish an ideal country.

Taking this into consideration, the Lord God chose another man named Noah, and ordered him to build an ark out of Gopher wood. Before the flood came, he brought his family members and animals that paired with male and female to hide in the ark.

After the flood subsides, Noah will give birth to a brave new world for him.

Volume Three: The Eve of Chaos.

Everything went according to plan, and the only accident happened to Seth.

He met Apibu, the big snake that tempted his parents to fall into the world, and defeated him severely. The injured Apibu got into Noah's Ark in the chaos...

The flood came as expected, accompanied by a passionate symphony, and destroyed all traces of civilization into ruins.

On the land receded by the flood, the descendants of Noah multiplied while migrating eastward, and finally settled down in the land of the roaring lion.They worked hard to build a more prosperous city, and then built a tower in the center of the city. The tower reached the sky and pointed straight to the sky.

Human beings have forgotten the fear of floods, abandoned the awe of the Lord God, and propped up this building leading to heaven with utilitarianism and ambition.

This incident alarmed the aloof Lord God, and he was once again angry at the people's overreaching and audacity...

"Dear player, welcome to the realm of the gods." Under the guidance of the prophet, Qiao Kejun clicked on the service area, entered the ID, and entered the game interface.

At this time, an announcement popped up in the system, which was about the news that EG Technology Company will launch the holographic game "Return to Eden" in May this year. The super somatosensory game masterpiece.

"Are you awake?" Qiao Kejun turned on the computer and stroked Wen Baifan's hair, "How do you feel now?"

"Hungry." Wen Baifan blinked and whispered, "I'm so hungry, have I slept for a long time?"

Qiao Kejun hummed, "Dinner is ready."

"Dinner?" Wen Baifan's eyes widened slightly, "I slept all day long?"

Qiao Kejun turned his face and looked at Wen Baifan with a hint of probing. Wen Baifan looked back at him innocently, and the two fell into an inexplicable stare at each other.

"Why are you looking at me like this?" Wen Baifan muttered, suddenly shivering, he raised the quilt to cover his mouth with both hands, and said vaguely, "No, you can't kiss without brushing your teeth."

Qiao Kejun: "..."

During this long day, Qiao Kejun imagined many scenes of his little boy waking up, but he never expected him to react like this.

For a person who had just recovered his memory, Wen Baifan's performance seemed a bit too calm.

Could it be that Qiao Hengjing's memory summoning failed?

Qiao Kejun tentatively asked him: "Did you... remember anything?"

Wen Baifan lowered his eyes and was silent for a moment.

Qiao Kejun didn't rush, just looked at him quietly.

Wen Baifan suddenly had a sore nose, and tears filled his eyes.

"No." He gritted his teeth and said.

Everyone's memory is like a majestic and complex palace, in which there are countless dusty rooms, large and small.

Not only outsiders can't get a glimpse of it, even we ourselves don't know what's inside until the moment we push open each door.

Zhao Ming always thought that Qiao Hengjing had wiped out Wen Baifan's memory on that day seven years ago - after all, it was fully confirmed in the subsequent inspection.

But what he didn't expect was that, in fact, the processing of memory through Qiao Hengjing was like a hidden room marked on a map, like an encrypted and hidden file in a computer, like a treasure put in a secret compartment, which can be retrieved and It can be safely preserved during the raid.

Turn the time back to the early morning of last night.

"The Trojan horse has been cleared, restarting is effective." Qiao Hengjing removed his palm from Wen Baifan's forehead and smiled slightly, "Next, he will fall into a coma for at least ten hours."

Qiao Kejun frowned, with unconcealable worry in his tone: "Why did it take so long?"

Qiao Hengjing seldom saw his son showing his emotions, Qiao Hengjing couldn't help feeling deeply moved in his heart, and he replied: "Except for the part I hid for him a few years ago, when Bai Fan was eight years old, Zhao Ming cast a fog barrier on him once. .”

"It's just the fog barrier?" Qiao Kejun was taken aback for a moment, then raised his eyes to look at his father, with a hint of surprise in his eyes, "Isn't it obliteration?"

Setting up a fog barrier does not mean erasing memory, but blurring part of the information in memory.

The forgetting of the people covered by the fog is a process. They forget more and more day by day, and in the end, they completely lose their memory.And in the absence of important pieces, the brain makes sense on its own, rearranging events subconsciously.

"When the fog is removed, everything will return to its original appearance, but 20 years have passed since then, and his brain needs a little time to reset the misplaced memories." Qiao Hengjing smiled, "This process is quite complicated , like a full-filled inflated ball, the longer the dislocation, the more the gas in the ball expands, and the ball will fly as soon as you let go. Fortunately, you did a hypnosis before, which stirred up his deep Consciousness, otherwise, if his memory is suddenly brought back, there may be some unpredictable rebound."

The "old monster" Qiao Hengjing refers to is a mass of nothingness, distant and powerful force.It has no physical body, but its descendants spread all over the place, their identities may be obvious or hidden, and their abilities are also different, and Zhao Ming is the most pious line among his descendants.

Zhao Ming has some of the abilities of Qiao and Bai, but there are differences in the degree of endowment.For example, he can also perform wound self-healing, but the recovery speed is only a little faster than ordinary people, far inferior to that of the Wen family, and he does not have highly sensitive five senses.Another example is that his ability to process other people's memories can only reach the level of simple search and blurring, unlike the Qiao family who can directly transfer, seal and erase memories.

Although the successors have different abilities, they are far inferior to their bestowers.

It is said that the "old monsters" of the golden age even had the ability to create collective memories, and then memories gradually became legends, and legends gradually became history.Later, the "old monster" became very old, and his most loyal believers covered the body with sesame oil and medicinal materials and buried it, waiting for the soul to come back after thousands of years.

But these thousands of years are too long a period of time after all, and the human heart is also a treacherous and ever-changing existence.In this process, there are many people who have supernatural powers but have different intentions. Compared with chasing a distant symbol of eternal life, they may look forward to living their short and long life well.

Only Zhao's lineage always remembers their mission, and they firmly believe that the world dominated by that person's return will be bright.This faith-like loyalty may be the most indelible and powerful imprint left by "that person" in their genes.

Wen Yue back then was the same as Wen Baifan now, working normally during the day, and when necessary, he turned into a poker ghost to hunt at night.He has never opened this layer of identity to his wife, but after all, this kind of deception cannot be hidden from the pillow people who live together day and night.

"Of course there will be a better solution." Zhao Ming gracefully took off his black gloves, with a helpless smile on his lips.

He pushed Mrs. Wen off a tall building, faking the illusion of falling down.

"But it's the way of least trouble."

This woman dragged Wen Yue into the mediocre worldly happiness, making him indecisive.

For a weapon, too much emotion needs to be stripped.

Now that this woman has discovered Wen Yue's true identity, she seems completely unable to accept all this.That being the case, Zhao Ming decided to kill the accident in the cradle with his own hands before she shakes Wen Yue's mind.

She Fengwu is an existence that makes Zhao Ming miscalculate repeatedly.

This person is a gangster who grew up savagely at the bottom, feminine, ruthless, and scheming.But for some reason, it was such an elusive person who unexpectedly had some kind of speculation with Wen Yue, who was on the opposite side.On the premise of not harming her own interests, She Fengwu is also willing to provide Wen Yue with some extremely valuable clues from time to time.

When Zhao Ming murdered Mrs. Wen, he had been hiding in the dark and could see clearly.

It's a pity that everything happened so suddenly that there was no time to stop it.

He also never expected that this officer Zhao, who seemed to be just and awe-inspiring, and always treated him honestly, had such a cruel side behind his back.

The pain of losing his wife made Wen Yue suddenly see Zhao Ming's true face, and also strengthened his determination to leave.It's just that it is not difficult to completely break with a person, but it is not so easy to get rid of the huge and entangled organizational forces.

She Fengwu came up with a trick to get rid of the golden cicada's shell. He made a gunshot wound on Wen Yue's body, causing blood to flow all over the ground, and then threw Wen Yue's clothes into the sea, creating the illusion of being attacked and falling into the sea to die.At the same time, a black boat was quietly waiting on the pier. Wen Yue would take the boat directly to the sea and hide for a period of time. After the limelight passed, he would pick up his son from Qiao Hengjing's house.

It's a pity that Wen Yue insisted on leaving with Wen Baifan.

With the help of a special search device, even a low-level mind controller like Zhao Ming can capture the location of a specific individual.This is also the reason why Wen Yue chose to host Bai Fan at Qiao's house in the first place - that villa has a special shielding device for the search device.

From the moment Wen Baifan was sent away from Qiao's house, Zhao Ming had silently tracked down the whereabouts of these three people.

Zhao Ming set a target of hatred for Bai Fan, luring him to shoot Lao She himself.

Although it is just a gun, for young children, there is no difference in essence between the two.When he was only eight years old, Wen Baifan's hands were forced to be stained with the crime of killing.And everything he experienced in the next 20 years was just a repetition of this fate.

Seven years ago, the death of Tang Xiaofeng alarmed the high-level government. Although some people quickly suppressed the matter, countless pairs of eyes have already fixed their eyes on the biotechnology company where the crime happened.

At the same time, the investigation into the charitable funds of the Fushi Group is also in full swing.

As a member of the organization, Shen Siyuan had to temporarily close the underground studio where criminals who escaped sanctions were used as human experiment subjects.

After nearly eight years of re-preparation, they finally looked forward to the restart of the project.Strangely enough, this upcoming date also happens to be the most suitable time and place for a mysterious resurrection prophecy.

"Zhao Ming has a kind of obstinate recognition and loyalty to the old monster. This time he will exhaust all means, and you all have to be prepared." Qiao Hengjing sighed, "A few days ago, he personally went to country A to invite A key person."

"Key person?" Qiao Kejun frowned.

"Until eight years ago, their plan was still to spread drug control by creating a large-scale infectious disease. Only this time, they seem to intend to use mind control to achieve their goal." Speaking of this matter, even Qiao Hengjing, who has always been calm and reserved, couldn't help but He showed a stern expression, "That person from country A is said to be very good at this."

"What happened later?" Wen Baifan blinked his wet eyes, and said with some difficulty, "What happened after She Feng and Wu were taken away by Zhao Ming?"

Qiao Kejun rubbed his chin against the bushy little curly hair above his ear, and said, "He was brought to the top of the Bright Tower,"

The Guangming Tower is the TV tower of Chaocheng, and it is also the most recognizable landmark in the city.Every visitor to Chaocheng must go to the observation deck of Guangming Tower to see the city scenery.

However, the top floor of the Tower of Light has never been opened to the outside. Most people don't know that such a place exists, let alone that an organization with vigorous and dangerous ambitions is dominating this place that symbolizes the achievements of human civilization. above the tower.

She Fengwu was imprisoned for quite a long time after being shot by a gun.

Qiao Hengjing believes that She Fengwu did not commit a real crime and should not be punished.

Zhao Ming could not overstep the question of how to judge the prisoners, but he insisted that before releasing She Fengwu, Qiao Hengjing must thoroughly clean up all of She Fengwu's memories of Wen's family and the organization, so as to prevent future troubles.

It was at that time that Qiao Hengjing tried for the first time to put other people's memories into a dark grid and hide them quietly, so as to escape Zhao Ming's meticulous memory search like a flood washing every inch of land.

She Fengwu is an existence that makes Zhao Ming miscalculate repeatedly.Qiao Kejun remembered what his father said.

He hesitated to speak and looked at Wen Baifan, worried that what he said next would bring too much hope to Wen Baifan, and endless loss after the hope was shattered.

After hesitating for a moment, he finally chose to tell Wen Baifan: "If Master She's statement is accurate, Uncle Yue... is probably still alive."