Chapter 219 Clues:
"So this is how you usually handle cases in the First Investigation Section?"
Li Pan and Eileen Regan did not miss breakfast at the XXXX Club.
Although Director Rhodes had some misunderstandings at first, Li Pan poked him in the face and made him understand that this was not a 'reward' but a revolving door. The other party was immediately very cooperative and tactful, telling the truth, answering all questions, and also revealed a lot of explosive information.
It's really exciting stuff. Basically, it's the kind of story that starts with a company and ends with the company. In the middle, there are NCPA gangs and multiple serious violations, all kinds of corruption, perverting the law, selling officials and insider trading, involving at least nine-digit interest exchanges. Throw it out. An arrest warrant can be issued directly to the Investigation Division of the Security Bureau.
"Then what do you think? Do you rely on rigorous logical reasoning, solid criminal evidence, and full of justice? Don't be ridiculous
, we are not filming a TV series."
Erin Regan was lying on the passenger seat wearing a Mewtwo helmet. Waving his hands, he combined these short stories with the news and NCPA's internal files, edited them into Chaomeng PPT, stored them in the data chip, and handed a copy to Li Pan.
"When dealing with a company, it won't work to follow rules and reason. The company only cares about the exchange of interests. If you want the company to plead guilty and make concessions, you must have greater evidence and evidence in exchange. When you give something, you have to give it up, otherwise they will not pay attention to you at all. .
And if you have no value worthy of the company's use, and no trump card that they need to be wary of, or if you have a trump card and don't know how to use it, compromise or exchange, they will destroy you without any regard. This city of night cannot wait for a moment. Go down."
Li Pan took the data chip and glanced at it. Okay, this case is actually about Monster Company. The content includes but is not limited to Li Pan's several huge tax evasion cases, several raids on the Dongcheng Association, and A criminal case involving a bloodbath at the Iga Office headquarters.
Li Pan looked at her,
"What do you want to exchange?"
Eileen Regan shrugged,
"I don't know, tell me, what is it about me that deserves your attention?"
Li Pan hesitated for a moment when the other party saw through it. But everyone is now an adult, and Erin has proven that her ability to hold the position of Search Division 1 depends on more than just the suffix on her business card. But now, with the dreadnought and the Tianji positive electron cannon on his head, Li Pan really has no mood or energy to play any love games.
"Whisperer."
"Whisperer." Erin Regan nodded, then shook her head decisively, "I can't help you with this."
Li Pan also took out TUB's investigation reports and selected a few to show her,
"You are the ones Like this for nine generations? Say to all the company dogs, I'm sorry, I can't help you?"
Erin Regan smiled,
"I really can't help you. Some information is public. The Regan family has always stood by On the committee side, it can even be said that during the Takamagahara era, they were the spies placed in New Tokyo by the Security Bureau. After the war started, our family was immediately expelled by Takamagahara and fled to Europe for refuge. It was not until the war that we came back and were The Ye family was appointed to rebuild the NCPA.
How could Gao Tianyuan let us know about the Whisperer? If we really had information about the Whisperer, how could we have hidden it until now. You have found the wrong person." Li Pan looked at her
,
"How is it impossible? As you said, without any trump cards or value, how can your family survive in 0791 for nine generations? How can it be safe and sound and stay out of the war? How can the company leave NCPA to you who have not done anything yet? Are you just standing on the wall?"
Eileen Regan nodded, not angry,
"But it can also be said that on the other hand, no matter what information the previous Regans had or what deals they made, the committee has already accepted and approved it. , promised to keep our family alive to this day.
The deal has been completed, isn't it? Now, why is your company still staring at us?"
Li Pan shook his head helplessly,
"You are really difficult to deal with. Yes, no one has interfered with you all these years, but things have changed now. Those Whisperers have grown up, and the value they have shown is no longer the same as it was twenty years ago... In short,
this It's not that I'm staring at you, it's this person, Yamada REIKA. I just found out that she was chasing you, Reigen, so I came to ask you. And as long as one or two families come to you one after another, the police Seriously, how long do you think it will be before the Regan family becomes the target of the company's attention again?"
Erin Regan still shook her head,
"I really can't help you. Most of the people involved during the war have passed away, and there are still a few who have retired. Now they are in Europa Nursing Home. If you are interested in chatting with them, I can at most help you introduce them."
Li Pan smiled, waved and stopped the car, opened the door, and sent Eileen Regan to the door of the Security Bureau.
"Chief Inspector, you are a smart man, smarter than me. I don't need to say anything more.
But you have to understand one thing. So far, the committee has been protecting you.
And I am the committee.
Whenever necessary, Get in touch."
Li Pan set the sports car to auto-pilot and lay alone in the car, deep in thought.
I don’t have a clue about the Whisperer.
This time, Irene sent a message to remind the Reagan family, but I don’t know if it will have any effect. But to open a breakthrough, Regan must fall here.
Yes, Gao Tianyuan has been infiltrated into a sieve. Until now, the Security Bureau is sending undercover agents to Gao Tianyuan. If they still have Whisperers in their hands, they would have been kidnapped by the SEC. And if the Security Bureau spends twenty years, they still can’t investigate. If so, then Li Pan probably wouldn't have a chance.
But the situation here in the Reagan family is special. In the chaotic years after the war, the Reagan family was directly responsible for the organizational transformation from the New Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department to the Night City NCPA. In addition, they had deep local connections and a large number of people. They want to secretly hide a few people, or find a few people. It is really simple. It can even be said that they are definitely involved.
Even Li Pan was a little suspicious. Maybe the Regen family did not know about the "Whisperer" at the beginning and did not have that kind of confidentiality authority. Therefore, the most likely possibility is that they are just taking advantage of their power to collect black money, do dirty work, facilitate others, and arrange a few new identities for "starting over" for old friends from the past and war criminals from Takamagahara. And the parties related to the Whisperer are hidden in it.
However, the number of fake household registrations and identities created by the Regan family over the years is probably not more than 10,000 but also 8,000. However, the population in the City of Night has been so fluid, and various natural and man-made disasters have caused riots and catastrophes all over the city. If you want to get to the bottom of it, you have to find out. Finding everyone is probably as difficult as going to heaven...
Well, there is no other way. Li Pan is not good at the cunning investigation and infiltration like a special agent investigator. He still prefers to sneak in through the front door and grab what he wants in an open and honest manner. Got it.
"Automatic navigation terminated. You have arrived at your destination. The nearby Zhutian Petrochemical Office, MultiversePec NCCenter, Zhutian Petrochemical Night City Center Building..." "
Sports mode, 10 times overload."
Li Pan stepped out of the car and held up his arms He pulled out a mantis knife from his sleeve, accelerated in time, kicked the door with one lunge, and entered through the main entrance of the building. The knife pierced the security guard's temple with a single blow, and with a shake of his hand, he split his whole body into eight petals, like a blooming flower.
"Warning! Warning! Intruder found!"
Li Pan didn't waste any words and fought his way into the building while wielding a mantis knife.
Oh, by the way, the Mantis Knife is a melee knife that is usually retracted on the forearms of both hands. It is a folding arm knife like a mantis's double scythes. It can stab, chop, split, poke, and even shoot bullets... gone.
In fact, there is nothing to praise. As for the knife, you don't care what it is, it is just for cutting people. Thousands and millions have been spent, wouldn't it be a pity not to use it?
So Li Pan randomly found a sales department nearby and rushed in.
Weapons these days, you get what you pay for. The inferior steel of the fourth-grade Mantis Knife is not good enough. It may break after two or three cuts. If the head of the knife is blunt, it will be hard to beat someone violently. Keep cutting.
But the AG doll’s original customized strengthened knife is equipped with a military hot-wire cutting head. It cuts the metal plate as smoothly as cutting butter. It dances with silver light and the cold wind blows. It can decapitate the waist, cut bullets, and behead people with one knife. Broken bones, sword light and blood, no flesh on the body, but a smooth and silky figure.
Li Pan rushed all the way into the lobby, cutting down everyone he saw, from the first floor to the 18th floor. He first cut down all the property in the building, then rushed to the 40th floor from the fire escape, passed the trading company subsidiary of Zhutian Petrochemical, and went directly from The sales department of our company started to cut in and kill the dogs on sight.
It was a bit surprising that the people in the sky were petrified, but during the war, it was reasonable. There was no need to talk nonsense with Li Pan. A lot of security guards rushed up upstairs and downstairs, and the company dogs on the top floor Clean up immediately, blow up the server, clear the database, and evacuate in a floating car with skill.
Li Pan didn't chase them, and cut all the way to the manager's office on the top floor. He took two paper towels and wiped the blood from his hands, then broke the window and jumped out of the building, landing on the floating car.
"Automatic navigation, the nearby Zhutian Petrochemical Office."
"Fourteen coordinates have been found for you..." "
The second one."
"Okay, automatic navigation will be started for you now. Automatic navigation will be terminated. You have arrived. Destination..."
After one person raided seven or eight houses, he called 0113007.
"General manager, what are you doing?"
"Go to work, do your daily routine, and write reports."
Li Pan wiped the brain matter that had splashed on his formal clothes.
0113007,
"Attacking the sales department will almost never cause real losses to a company like Zhutian Petrochemical. You have to at least attack their chemical plants and warehouses."
Then the nuclear bomb will be dropped, okay?
Li Pan shrugged,
"I just want to familiarize myself with the performance of the prosthetic body first. What, that's it?"
0113007,
"Please come to the company, we are in big trouble." 0113007 The big trouble actually lies with Li Pan. As expected.
In short, the resurrection ceremony failed.
The second batch of company employees headed by 081007 failed to be resurrected.
Just alive, but not fully alive.
When Li Pan came to the laboratory, he saw the eight-headed fish man screaming in the water tank, as if he was being rolled in a pan of oil. The scene was simply shocking to the eardrums.
038 and a group of graduate students wearing exo-metal skeletons were fighting the fish-men and cuffing them in a water tank.
Osumi Ryohei reported while wiping cold sweat,
"They suffered severe mental trauma, and their brain waves fluctuated violently, as if their brains fell into a deep sleep and were unable to wake up from their own dreams..." 0113007 also
expressed his opinion,
" Self-awareness is lost in the sea of Dirac. Although the filing cabinets store their backups, there is some force interfering with their spiritual landmarks. It should be the hands and feet of the collectors." Although Li Pan did not understand,
but I also know what's going on.
In short, it's just that idiot from the God's Cult who is fighting with the company from a distance...
"What should we do now? Just let them scream like this? Can we throw them into a soundproof room?"
0113007 said to Li Pan with a solemn face,
"These Each of 007 is an apostle. If they cannot be restored to their senses for a long time, there may be serious consequences, and even affect their bodies and cause them to run away out of control. Therefore, when necessary, you need to apply for deletion..." Suddenly the sound of fish stopped
. Well, 038 they injected something into the fish-men to make them shut their mouths and pass out while staring at the dead fish eyes.
0113007 seemed a little surprised and walked up to look at the drugs injected by the researchers,
"What is this? What did you use for them?"
Ohsumi Ryohei hurriedly explained,
"It's an anesthetic prepared. If you let them 'awake', they will go crazy and lose control." , it’s better to let them continue to sleep in their dreams."
0113007 looked at the chemical formula handed over by the other party, and seemed a little surprised,
"Huh? This is...how did you come up with this medicine?"
Osumi Ryohei licked Face said,
"Where is it? I have encountered patients with similar conditions before..."
Li Pan's eyes suddenly lit up, yes, isn't this guy also a participant of the Whisperers? So he asked with great interest,
"How long ago was it? Twenty years ago?"
Ohsumi Ryohei's face turned pale, he looked at Li Pan in fear, and immediately shut up and did not dare to speak.
0113007 didn't seem to notice. He checked the fishman's physical signs and kept nodding,
"Yes, yes, you can think of such an old prescription."
Li Pan didn't expose him, and went over to see the fishman's condition.
"What medicine? So awesome, Gao Tianyuan's secret recipe of Chinese medicine?"
0113007 shook his head,
"It's not very rare. Nowadays, various synthetic substances are easy to prepare, but the prescription is very old. In the past generation of space development, there was no such medicine. QVN, astronauts who have been artificially refrigerated for a long time will suffer from occasional memory loss, mental disorder, and personality disorder after suddenly waking up.
Therefore, the space agency at that time deployed special anesthesia and neurosustained release drugs to allow the sick astronauts to return to light sleep, and Use equipment to induce memory, reshape personality, and restore consciousness. It is generally called hibernation mixture. Not many people know about this medicine now. "Oh,
hibernation mixture... hmm, hmm? This medicine, it seems... Chengzi also recommended it to him at the beginning...
An idea flashed in Li Pan's mind, and he suddenly noticed some details.
What the whisperer heard was the voice of the Immortal Cultivator. The souls of these fish-men 007 were also controlled by the primordial spirit method of the Divine Cult. Therefore, the researcher of Takamagahara, Ohsumi Ryohei, had only seen the symptoms and knew how to take the medicine according to the prescription and use the hibernation mixture. to solve the problem.
And Chengzi also knows the prescription of this mixture, and also knows that it's 'effective'. Isn't that because her son Huang Dahe is also a 'Whisperer'... So there must be
someone who connects all these things.
Someone not only knew that Huang Dahe was the 'Whisperer', but also knew that he was at risk of awakening exposure, and also told Orange the formula of the 'Hibernation Mixture'.
Who is this guy!
"You mean Victor? Oh, he used to be a military doctor who served in the Martian Marine Corps. After retiring, he worked as an NCHC for a period of time. Now he is a prosthetist in the suburbs. Well, he doesn't have a medical license." Fortunately,
Orange This line was already open. Li Pan called and she told him directly, "
Yamato had a lot of studies and was under too much pressure when he was a child. He often sleepwalked and talked in his sleep. I asked Victor to read it and recommended it. The hibernation mixture is indeed very effective. You must have seen it before, right? It's the one in our building." "
Victor? Oh, it's him..."
Li Pan had actually seen this man before, when his hand was broken I had my prosthetic limb replaced, and I also went to see Victor for maintenance, but I wasn’t very familiar with it.
After all, there were so many people living in Tongzilou in the slums in the suburbs. How could he know them all? Only a beautiful woman like Chengzi could remember them... And wasn't it
mainly because she was poor back then? She picked up garbage all day long. I don’t have the time or money to interact with a prosthetic doctor.
However, a military doctor who was born in a Martian girl, worked as an NCHC, and was also a suburban prosthetic doctor. He even lived in the same building as him and Huang Dahe, the two Whisperers' neighbors... Okay, we have a clue
!
Li Pan immediately took action and let the AA-RS7 automatically cruise around the night city to attract the company's attention.
He immediately activated the optical invisibility and movement modes and went straight to Victor's underground clinic in the suburbs.
Literally underground, without a medical license, Victor rented two underground garages and opened up the walls to create a studio.
Thinking about it this way, the other party is really attentive, because he and Huang Dahe usually play explosive balls in the parking lot upstairs. Can't they just see them when they go out, sitting at the door and watching them!
It was really...unexpected...that such a shabby apartment that he didn't want to go back to could actually hide so many ulterior secrets... He ran
all the way to the suburbs like this, looking at the apartment building in the distance, thinking back on just a few months. With his life turned upside down, Li Pan was also in a trance for a moment, filled with emotion... hmm?
Why are the lights on in his apartment?
No mistake, the window in the room on the forty-fifth floor was replaced with a new one. It was repeatedly broken by zombie ninja snipers, so it was repaired and it was particularly conspicuous.
Is there a thief?
Li Pan couldn't care about Victor for a moment. He had put many treasures in the apartment, so he sneaked in stealth, climbed all the way to the forty-fifth floor, stood outside the window and looked into the apartment.
The bathroom was lit with steam, and there was a pile of women's clothes on the floor.
Is this... someone sneaking into his house to take a shower?
No, what's going on? fool? howl? crooked! ?
Li Pan quietly cut open the glass and sneaked into the apartment, leaned against the bathroom door, looked at the back of the woman in the shower, and released the optical invisibility.
"Hey, who are you? Isn't it hot if it's so hot? It consumes a lot of electricity!"
The woman paused, turned off the shower, and turned around.
Li Pan raised his eyebrows and opened his chin,
"Ah, A-Zhen?"
Isn't it A-Zhen, the girl from the wonton shop downstairs.
Yes, let's just say he is dead. Don't get me wrong, he is still 'dead' now.
Look, the bullet holes on the forehead are still there. The rotten skin and muscles on the torso have been boiled and peeled off. It's a skeleton girl... Then the girl shook her head, "I'm Maria.
"
Maria
? I seem to have heard this name somewhere?
Maria, Maria, Mary...
Then Li Pan turned his head and saw the crystal ball on the cabinet, and he suddenly recalled it! Good guy!
"01044?"
Maria nodded, then shook her head,
"It's no longer 01044, my name is Maria."
(End of this chapter)