Chapter 168 Mutual Locking
The three consecutive murders that occurred again completely caused panic in the college.
Especially the formal students.
The six people who have died so far were all official survivors, and five of them were scientists who had already obtained the key!
At the rate at which the murderer committed crimes, if he really killed three people a day, no one knew if they would be the next victim!
After this incident spread to the outside world, the city faced countless pressures.
Ever since Luo Jin's death, there has been no peace here in the past year.
The explosion in the mansion resulted in a large number of casualties, an escape incident that shocked the entire underground, the loss of nearly a thousand keys and thousands of special recruits, and the final explosion caused countless deaths and injuries.
Now something like this has happened again, with six homicides occurring within three days, which has inevitably caused the outside world to question the safety of the current environment here.
Many of their children’s biological parents have sent messages asking them to return home, and have warned the school board that if the murderer is not caught as soon as possible and peace is not restored here, they will not allow their children to return!
For many people, this is something that is completely unacceptable.
Although becoming a scientist does not provide any benefit for holding a high position in the future, everyone with a discerning eye in this underground society understands that when humans can achieve breakthroughs as individuals, the strength that an individual possesses is linked to his status!
Therefore, even if these regular students eat, drink and have fun in the college, their families' greatest hope when sending them here is still that they can get the key to become scientists.
This was also the original intention of the academy being jointly established.
In order to maintain a stable living environment for humans in the underground society, there needs to be a steady stream of people who can master the rules. This city is the cradle for cultivating scientists.
In the old century, this place could truly provide education for all, and everything was based on performance. It was the fairest and most just place among all the dungeons.
However, as the rules and order of the new century were established, the solidification of the upper-class interest groups and the distinction between high and low status of people were completely made.
This is how the current system of regular students and special admissions students evolved.
Only with formal birth can the descendants of these vested interests be qualified to inherit knowledge and science.
But for most people, learning has never been an easy and enjoyable thing.
Regular students are becoming more and more corrupt, more and more keys to the academy are consumed, but the number of scientists is not increasing!
This made the school board anxious, and that's why they supported Levi's reforms.
Now, these regular students have to be called back home, and there is no source of students. This is undoubtedly even more unacceptable to the school directors.
Under the strong pressure from the entire board of directors, the college officially entered a [dangerous] state in the name of tracking down the murderer and preventing him from escaping, and sealed off all stations and people going out!
The curfew policy that was originally only for special admissions students has now been implemented throughout the college. All entertainment activities have been cancelled, and the college's surveillance has been divided into three monitoring rooms, with people taking turns to guard them 24 hours a day.
The Discipline Department also cancelled all ongoing tasks and, together with the Guard, carried out the most rigorous inspections and searches of the academy.
This undoubtedly made the atmosphere in the entire college even more tense. The regular students and their parents, who were already worried and had no entertainment or relaxation, put great pressure on the board of directors.
This city, which was built up by various forces, simply cannot withstand such pressure for too long!
"One week! The academy will be sealed off for a maximum of one week! If we can't give everyone a satisfactory explanation within a week, we will have no choice but to lift the blockade and send all the students home!"
Xin Guohong issued a strong order at the highest-level meeting of the entire college!
There are not only school directors here, but also ministers of the Student Union, department heads, faculty directors, and even the archbishop of the college diocese.
Since there was no minister in the Discipline Department, only the most senior deputy minister came, and Li Wei was not called over.
Faced with a situation that could be described as an absolute crisis for the entire academy, everyone present had an extremely solemn expression on their faces.
All of them have close interests in this city. If all the students of the academy go home, the future of mankind may not be doomed. Those central research institutes will come up with new ways to replace the academy that has been rotten to the core. But these people will really suffer unacceptable losses!
This is something they absolutely cannot allow to happen!
"I don't want any more murders to happen this week! I don't want to see any more students die. In five days, no matter what the result is, the Discipline Department and the Guards must give an explanation to the college, all the school directors and the students' parents!"
Xin Guohong's order was issued, and no one would relax on this matter that concerned the interests of the entire academy.
The rotten and decaying machine of the academy began to turn again. Although the gears that had been completely corroded by rust were running quite hard, they finally moved.
The Discipline Department and the Security Team quickly obtained all the information on the three new homicides and used them to find new clues.
All three victims were invited out by someone and then brutally murdered.
The only people who can do this are their acquaintances or high-ranking managers who can give them orders.
This alone is enough to screen out more than 90 percent of the people in this academy.
The Discipline Department then retrieved the relevant information of the first three victims, hoping to find the person whose relationship network overlapped among the six victims.
In order to speed up the calculations, the academy even applied to the central government, mobilized some of the shadow prime minister's authority, conducted comprehensive calculations, and ultimately screened out the three most suspicious candidates.
After these three people were found, they were immediately subjected to a comprehensive investigation. The school board also applied to the Rehabilitation Institute for the [Mind Proof Method], which had not been approved in nearly a hundred years. Although it was still prohibited and rejected, these three people also had sufficient evidence to prove that they did not kill people.
For a time, the case was at a stalemate again.
But after Levi checked the relevant information of the Discipline Department's investigation in this regard, he understood why the direction of the college's investigation was obviously correct, but the right person was not found.
Because when the college was screening their network, they included the six dead people, assuming that the murderer was just one person!
Li Wei, one of the murderers, knew clearly that he was the one who killed Wang Qi and Zhang Zhisen.
This means that there is no overlapping relationship between these two people and the real murderer!
If we want to find the murderer along this line, we must at least eliminate Wang Qi and Zhang Zhisen, and look for him among the people who are known to the four students!
After thinking about this, Levi did not alarm anyone else.
Instead, he directly used his authority as the deputy director of the Discipline Department to privately screen the relationships between the four victims. Without the help of professional computers, this was a very arduous task, especially since Levi was alone.
But as time went on, on the third day of the entire college lockdown, Levi had narrowed down the suspects to five!
Among them, there are 3 students and faculty members. Among these faculty members, one person caught Li Wei's attention. He was a first-level faculty member of the Department of Physics who entered the college almost at the same time as him and also came from the West District - Chi Qing.
"Can you lock the location?"
In the center of the academy, at the top of the clock tower, next to the huge, constantly rotating hands, Chi Qing, wearing a black suit, stood on the platform.
The cold night wind blew up his burgundy tie and made his voice a little unclear.
The parrot named Xiaohong was standing on his extremely messy hair. The cold wind could not blow it at all. In her clever eyes, a pair of bright and beautiful symbols like a crescent moon appeared at this moment!
The countless rules that make up this world appeared in her eyes.
Gravity, electromagnetism, vector, element, biology, meteorology, quantum, .
These rules reconstructed underground are like neat and orderly lines, outlining the world in which humans can survive today!
The painting formed by all the rules looks extremely simple, just the simplest stick drawing.
But between these lines, there are 5 shallow ones that are slowly disappearing, but the traces of their shapes are still particularly obvious.
They are different colors, one part of the line seems to appear in other different directions, while the other part converges at one point, a point that is imperceptible and impossible to find!
The location of this point is exactly where they are now!
"The end point of the final recycling rule is right where we are now, but we obviously can't sense that thing."
The parrot's voice is very light, as if it has been immersed in another world.
"It's [Domain]."
Chi Qing put a cigarette in his mouth, rubbed his index finger and thumb lightly to produce a flame, and lit the cigarette.
"It should be when the academy was first established. Before his death, a creator stripped off his own [domain] and gave it directly to this city, which became its reflection. That thing is hidden in the clock tower of the city's reflection."
The light in the parrot's eyes faded, and it returned to its original normal appearance. She jumped from the top of Chi Qing's head to his shoulder.
"We can't enter without permission. The existence of the [Domain] is constant, and the entrance and exit are restricted to uncertain places. These are difficult to find."
Chi Qing took a deep breath of nicotine, exhaled a puff of smoke that drifted in the wind, and looked down at the huge city surrounded by barriers.
"We don't have permission to enter. Before we find someone who might have permission to take us in, didn't you say that the student from the Discipline Department was very interesting?"
The parrot tilted its head.
"You think highly of him?"
"I haven't had any contact with him, but I've met him a few times. When I saw him, I had an inexplicable feeling that he was very unusual."
"Your method of killing is so crude, what if we are discovered?"
"It's discovered. Anyway, the location of the object has been determined. Do they have the ability to move it away?"
Chi Qing threw away the cigarette butt in his hand, jumped lightly onto the railing of the clock tower, opened his arms, and enjoyed the cool wind blowing across his skin.
"No one can stop us here, Hong. Since that thing has abandoned them, we should become its master!"
The moment he finished speaking, his body leaned forward, and then jumped down from a height of hundreds of meters!
Late at night, Levi checked all the information of the five people he had targeted, and finally his eyes fixed on the professor named Chi Qing.
If he were placed in the entire college, it might not be noticeable, but among these people, he stands out!
He had just arrived at the college, was from the Western District, and had connections with the Central Minister of Education. He was awarded a first-level physics teaching position right after he started working. He had an outstanding appearance and a particularly good reputation among students.
Looking at the smiling face in the photo, Levi inexplicably thought of someone in his mind.
Lin Chunmo!
They look completely different, yet they give people the illusion that they are very similar.
Without any evidence, but relying only on this intuition, Levi was certain that the murderer in the academy was most likely him!
After discovering this, Levi directly extracted all the information about the professor named Chi Qing.
He didn't care at all about Chi Qing's identity or what big secrets he was hiding.
None of this has anything to do with him. Levi's goal is very clear, and that is to become the director of this college!
Only in them can he find what he wants, and the prerequisite for contacting these people is that he must offer enough things to attract them.
This murder case that shocked the entire academy will obviously help Levi, allowing this mad dog to get close to the person who thinks he is holding the leash!
But Levi does not have completely conclusive evidence now. He needs to wait another night. After meeting the professor named Chi Qing tomorrow, he can submit an arrest application to the Discipline Department.
It was almost midnight when Li Wei left the Discipline Department.
The discipline officers who were on night patrol and in charge of curfew all knew him, but because they didn't want to have too much interaction with him, after confirming his identity, they had no intention of greeting him.
Of course there were no trams to take in the middle of the night, and the discipline department's official car was also unable to move, so Li Wei could only ride the department's public electric bicycle to get around.
However, as he was driving on the road near Apartment No. 1.
A figure in a white laboratory coat stood in the middle of the road, as if waiting for him here on purpose.
I am really upset, it has been shut down again! I have been fixing it again and again! It never ends!
This part really needs to be sped up, the area is too sensitive, I really can’t stand it, the changes make me want to die.
Today I am not in the mood to write a chapter of 12 words. I will resume writing 12 words in three chapters tomorrow. The first chapter will be posted around noon, and the remaining two chapters will be posted before evening.
It will continue until the end of this month to make up for all the updates that were owed.
(End of this chapter)
