Chapter 137 Accident

Ranking matches exist for mech masters, and the top three in these matches receive prestigious titles.

He had nearly secured third place in a national flying instrument ranking match. He could be considered a truly professional mech master.

"This has nothing to do with us," Ding Zaocheng said, his eyes closed as he reviewed various video materials projected onto his retinas.

"The opponent is an unknown model never seen before, and in our Yi Country, fully-modified cyborgs are generally not allowed in cities. With the Silent Fortress in control, they couldn't possibly enter the city without being detected."

"Ridiculous, how was the Ideal Land terrorist attack carried out before? Weren't fully-modified cyborgs deployed then?" Kong Sichen retorted coldly.

"Perhaps it was an inside job," Ding Zaocheng said calmly. "I understand your feelings after suffering such a great loss, but the most important thing now is to identify the suspect as soon as possible."

He opened his eyes, his dark pupils staring coldly at the other man.

"Such a big thing happened, and Zheng Kai isn't showing his face? Leaving you alone to take the lead?"

"That's our business! Brother Ding should worry more about how to solve this case!" Kong Sichen retorted without backing down.

"The case on Bar Street has already been confirmed to be related to you, and now there's another vicious terrorist attack. It seems your Tiefeng Group is going to be in the headlines for a while," Ding Zaocheng said calmly.

Kong Sichen snorted coldly, not replying.

He had been somewhat negligent in handling the Zheng Qingxuan family's matter. He had intended to clean things up completely, leaving no loose ends, creating the illusion that the entire Zheng family had died in a fire.

That way, everything would be clean, and there would be no one to report, track, or follow up. Just a small figure with an ordinary background, give some hush money, guide the media, and soon enough, it would be diverted by other eye-catching events, and no one would pay attention.

He didn't expect his subordinates to be so inept. There was an explosion and a fire, but Zheng Qingrong, who should have been home at the time, suddenly left because of a phone call and found her sister's body, surviving.

After that, someone was sent to capture Zheng Qingrong, but an accident occurred, and Zheng Qingrong disappeared, the headquarters was attacked, and Zheng Jiayu was killed.

"The opponent's target is very clear, Zheng Jiayu. It's obvious that they have a personal vendetta against Zheng Kai or Zheng Jiayu. And a fully-modified cyborg must have a huge logistics maintenance system behind it. In Yi Country, such a system cannot be completely hidden. So..." Ding Zaocheng analyzed calmly.

"So, this case has a lot to investigate."

Needless to say, the records of the logistics maintenance system are not something anyone can check. That is the exclusive secret of various interest groups. Once exposed, even the specific data, functions, weapon system modules, and all other data of their own mech masters and cyborgs would be exposed to outsiders.

So, to investigate this information would require affecting too many interest groups. Not to mention Ding Zaocheng, a deputy director, even the director himself wouldn't dare to do so.

"Director, people from Hongjin Company have arrived." Just then, a police officer approached and reported to Ding Zaocheng in a low voice.

Ding Zaocheng turned around and looked at a foreign man walking quickly towards him.

"It's a pleasure to see you again, Mr. Schindler."

A natural smile appeared on his always indifferent face, obviously, the two knew each other.

"Director Ding, what's going on...?" Schindler was a little confused, not knowing what had happened.

His hair was messy, his eyes were sleepy, and one of his collar tips was turned inside out, obviously, he had been pulled over to cooperate with the investigation while still asleep.

"It's like this, a major vicious terrorist attack just happened here, the specific situation..."

Ding Zaocheng carefully and patiently explained the situation, and then gave the reason why he had pulled Schindler to the scene.

"Mainly, we found in Zheng Jiayu's phone that your company's staff had located his phone an hour before his death, so we invited you to cooperate with the investigation."

"What? Locate?" Schindler blinked, completely unaware of what had happened.

He immediately took out his phone and contacted the company, but there was no response after calling for a long time.

Then he quickly dialed Song Ran's number.

This time it went through. Through Song Ran's investigation of system records, it was quickly determined who applied for the location.

'Li Cheng Yi'?!

Schindler's heart skipped a beat when he saw the record.

He had actually been suspicious of Li Cheng Yi for some time, as with the Aishi Company incident before.

Not for any other reason, just too much of a coincidence.

They had just had an accident, and Aishi had an accident. How could there be such a coincidence in this world?

Of course, he wouldn't be stupid enough to think that the purple-black modified body was Li Cheng Yi himself.

After all, the modified body is an irreversible complete replacement, the surgical process is very long, and it is impossible to immediately switch from a mechanical body to a flesh and blood body.

This technology does not yet exist in this era.

Schindler, who was born in one of the White Star consortiums, had seen the world's top modified body technology, and had the qualifications to say this.

In addition, the maintenance, energy, inspection, network security, and so on required for a fully-modified person require a large number of logistics personnel, which cannot be hidden.

Without making a sound, Schindler erased and deleted Li Cheng Yi's application record.

Then he looked up at Ding Zaocheng.

"I did see an application record here, to locate someone named Zheng Jiayu, but I can't find out who applied for it. Looking at the network address, it should be a honeypot transferred from the company's external network, stealing our internal permissions."

Schindler cleared the matter up in a few words.

Since it was a honeypot from an external network that stole the permissions to apply, then it has nothing to do with us.

So, we are also victims.

Someone borrowed our system to locate Zheng Jiayu, causing the tragedy.

"If that's the case, then it seems it has nothing to do with Hongjin," Ding Zaocheng nodded understandingly, surprisingly easily accepting Schindler's statement.

"Yes, we have so few people, we'll be leaving soon, we don't dare, and we don't have the strength to get involved in such a big event," Schindler sighed.

"Schindler, give me a copy of the system background record later for filing, nothing else," Ding Zaocheng smiled simply, "Let's have a drink together later."

"Okay," Schindler replied with a smile. "Then I'll go back and catch up on sleep."

"Go ahead."

Schindler got into his Mist Flag vehicle and drove away.

But not far away, after turning a few streets, the car stopped in front of a 24-hour convenience store.

The car door opened automatically, and a man in a black trench coat got in and sat next to Schindler.

The man breathed a long sigh of relief.

"Boss, it's good to see you."

He took off his hood, revealing a face that always seemed to be smiling. It was Li Cheng Yi, who had just been walking outside.

"What happened? Can you talk about it?" Schindler said in a deep voice.

"Sorry for the trouble, Boss, but I really can't say," Li Cheng Yi knew that some things couldn't be hidden from Schindler, after all, he was just one person, without logistics or hackers to help him cover up, leaving too many traces.

With the powerful intelligence gathering power of Schindler's company, it really couldn't be hidden.

The only thing he could be sure of hiding was the huge difference between himself and the fully-modified cyborg.

At most, others would suspect that he in the Flower Scale Armor state was a fully-modified cyborg, and at most suspect that he had attracted it.

And they would never think that the so-called cyborg was himself.

"Cheng Yi, since I came here, I've been very happy with the two times we've cooperated," Schindler said sincerely, calling Li Cheng Yi by his nickname.

"I know you're hiding something, and I understand that you're using the company's information to do your own things. But..."

He paused.

"What you're doing is causing a lot of trouble for the company, and for me."

"I understand," Li Cheng Yi nodded.

"You're a smart person. Do you think it's worth it?" Schindler asked.

"Have you forgotten? I'm a Dead End Person," Li Cheng Yi reminded.

"..." Schindler was silent.

Yes, a Dead End Person.

What does it matter if it's worth it or not? Anyway, they are a group of people who may die at any time, or even are destined to die in the future.

Such people can do whatever they want, and no one can restrict them.

"You'll die faster this way," Schindler said.

"No," Li Cheng Yi smiled, "I still want to live long enough to serve you a shower of wine, Boss. This world is so wonderful, dying early is not what I want."

Schindler fell silent, he heard the powerful confidence in Li Cheng Yi's words.

He couldn't understand, even a fully-modified cyborg couldn't last many times after entering the Dead End.

Where did Li Cheng Yi get so much confidence to be able to survive in the Dead End all the time?

Looking at Li Cheng Yi, who was not retreating at all and whose eyes were bright and energetic, at that confident face.

Schindler suddenly remembered when Rien, also stood in his office with such confidence, saying that he would definitely find a way to get rid of the Dead End, and would definitely be able to live on.

At that time, Rien was also full of confidence, very similar to Li Cheng Yi at this time.

"I hope you can do what you say," he held out his hand.

Li Cheng Yi also held out his hand.

The two hands were tightly clasped together.

"Boss, I'll repay you in the future," Li Cheng Yi grinned, revealing his white teeth.

"I'll be staying here for another year at most," Schindler replied calmly.

"If you don't want to come with me, you'd better build your own team as soon as possible," he gently reminded.

"Okay!" Li Cheng Yi nodded.

"Also," Schindler adjusted his AR glasses, "Someone triggered the automatic defense network that the company placed on you just now. We've already tracked down some information about the trigger. Do you want it?"

"Automatic defense network? Someone wanted to hack into my personal equipment?" Li Cheng Yi reacted.

"Yeah, the information has been sent to you, go back and see it yourself," Schindler said lightly.

Li Cheng Yi took out his phone and clicked to view it.

The first line of words displayed on the screen was Palace Garden – Xu Zhongsheng....

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Nine in the morning.

Palace Garden headquarters, the gate.

A purple-black burly figure stood quietly in front of the door, looking up at the soft lights inside.

"There's always someone who thinks they're omnipotent."

Li Cheng Yi strode forward and pushed the door open.

"Unfortunately, that's an illusion."