But no one here would blame him.
Because it really is…it’s just so gross.
Those who were listening also felt like vomiting.
Only Xia Yibing looked calm. She even ignored the strange smell that gradually filled the interrogation room and continued to ask for more details.
"That's different from what you said last time... You mean Rossi-Ian didn't become that form at the beginning, but he became that way after being captured by the Corrupted Blood and forced to mate?"
"vomit--"
Her description was so vivid that Lil vomited again and could only cover his mouth and nod to her.
"And then what happened? The thing tried to rush at you, but Gareth closed the door?"
"You cut off the power supply to the radio station and refused to receive any information from the outside world. You survived the second half of the eternal night until others came to rescue you?"
Lil still nodded desperately.
Xia Yibing stared at him, her eyes gradually becoming colder.
She waved her hand, and a middle-aged agent immediately stepped forward and pretended to listen.
"Change his cell," the woman said softly.
"Change outside."
The agent looked at her in surprise, "But his parents..."
Lil Perez's parents are both agents, which clearly shows that they don't trust him. Will this have a bad impact?
"I don't believe that my carefully selected assistant would lose to a young boy in courage."
The corner of Xia Yibing's mouth twitched.
"This is unreasonable given the psychological endurance he has shown."
"I can't have this kind of risk factor in our base camp."
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Chapter 44 Investigation 1
After carefully weighing the connections between all the realities and testimonies, Xia Yibing thought it was extremely unreasonable that Lil Perez could barely remain calm while Gare Fermode became half-crazy.
The latter is far more mature than the former, not only in experience, but also in the deeper experience brought by age. If something can scare Gare like this, how can young Lille remain indifferent?
So she felt something was wrong. The testimonies of these two people did not match the final result. Something must have been missing, and this missing thing was the key to why Gare was scared crazy.
She gave her reasons, and the detectives in the interrogation room looked at each other, and could only say that although they frowned, they gave up any thought of persuasion.
If her concerns were true, it meant that they had placed two problematic creatures in the most important building on Dongquan Island. This was an extremely dangerous behavior. You must know that the prison and the research institute were connected. If the monster massacre that Gare encountered before happened again and became even bigger, no one could say whether it would affect the research institute.
"Let's move Gare out as well, so they don't accuse me of being biased." Xia Yibing understood the struggles of others, "Just find a well-sealed place outside to house them... preferably one with glass partitions."
After finishing her business here, she set out on her way back and met the anxious Perez couple on the way.
This was a well-educated middle-aged couple, each wearing a black uniform and a big hat. When they saw the woman, they quickly stepped forward to ask about the situation. Xia Yibing could only slow down her voice to comfort them.
She wasn't stupid enough to voice her concerns; she knew it didn't matter, and the Perezes would hear about her decision from other people anyway.
As for what they would think of her in the future...she thought they were professional enough.
As soon as he walked out the door, he saw Black Owl squatting on the roof of his car with a dead rat in its mouth.
This kind of rat is also one of the specialties of Dongquan Island. They can swim and have strong vitality. They dig holes everywhere on the island to hide their bodies. Many carnivorous birds and small cats like to prey on them.
"Being a bird is really leisurely. You don't need to go to work all day long. You don't need to work. You can even take care of your own food..."
Xia Yibing walked over and stroked the black owl's head, combing its black feathers.
"Ga!" The black owl let out a cry of enjoyment, and with a flick of his mouth, the relatively fat rat was thrown onto the hood of the car with a slight crisp sound.
"I don't want it." Xia Yibing opened the door and got into the car. "Eat it yourself!"
"Ga!" The engine started and the black owl flapped its wings and ran away in fright.
But it was also used to this strange thing called a car. Xia Yibing drove very slowly in front on purpose, and it quickly flew back, landed on the hood and took away the rat.
This time they did not go directly home, but first came to outpost No. 3, which was where the three people had the accident.
This is not a residential area, but it is relatively close. Someone had set up a cordon early to prevent others from approaching, and the police officers on guard wiped their sweat when they saw her car - finally, the most powerful person on the island finally came back to check.
Three days had passed since the incident happened. During these three days, Xia Yibing had not seen anyone except for visiting on the first day to see what was happening afterwards, nor had she given any instructions or requests to them.
Although they usually do this, because they are mature enough agents and know how to protect the scene and remain vigilant without reminders from their superiors, what happened this time is too weird.
The spiritual sea of Dongquan Island has coexisted with this island for so many years. The biggest problem in the past was that people came into contact with the fish and were assimilated into something similar to them.
But those people never appeared again. Even judging from their performance in the spiritual sea at that time, they seemed too confused, like a person who had not woken up, or a newborn baby, without a clear mind.
The "Corrupted Blood" can quickly awaken their subjective consciousness after being infected and assimilated, and even have the ability to summon something that can control people's minds from the depths of the spiritual sea. This threat is too great.
"Boss." A short and fat agent with two mustaches on his lips came forward, "In a few days, it will be eternal night again. Should we..."
"Not yet." Xia Yibing interrupted him. "Dongquan Island has existed for so many years. I know what you are worried about. I am not the kind of pedantic and rigid person who is reluctant to give it up. But at least before making that decision, I want to figure out what is going on."
Fat Beard shut up and wiped his sweat with a handkerchief. "Then you'd better make up your mind quickly, Miss Director... Last time, Yongye was at Outpost No. 3 helping other places to attract attention, but it may not be the case next time."
Xia Yibing stopped walking, turned back, and stared at Fat Beard's face until he began to sweat more.
"This... Director, you know I was transferred here from outside. Before I started this business, my family ran a hunting park. I know very well that some wild animals can live in peace with you before they eat people, but once you give them a taste of human flesh, everything will be different."
"What's your name?" Xia Yibing asked him.
"Rouge Mendy."
"From today on, you will be in charge of handling this case. I mean, when I'm not around, if the situation is critical, you have the authority to mobilize ten combat teams and command them."
"This……"
"Are you dissatisfied?"
"No...! As you command!"
After looking at the scene below, Xia Yibing climbed up and checked the house herself, but did not find anything unusual.
That's why she didn't bother to come - it was called "live" here, but everything happened in the void, Roy didn't fall to the ground, he didn't even leave a hair.
What could be found at such a scene? I'm afraid the only valuable thing was the transmitter that recorded the special noise, but that had already been transported to the institute.
The outpost now, this air safe house is just an empty shell. There is nothing but a circle of tables, a few electrical appliances, and a few chairs. There is not much point in staying here.
But one most important thing was left behind, and that was the observation telescope, which was similar to the periscope on a submarine. Its structure connected to the outpost made it impossible to be easily dismantled.
Xia Yibing looked around the house and found nothing unusual.
Fatbearded Ruger climbed up only after she had finished her inspection. He looked very breathless and sat on the side gasping for breath.
The structure of the safe house is similar to a water tower, and climbing up the ladder requires considerable physical strength.
Xia Yibing looked at the refrigerator next to her - this is why most safe houses have to store food and drinks. The transportation cost is really high, and even using ropes to lift things up is extremely troublesome.
“Director…Director!”
She was distracted, and Ruger had to call her several times to wake her up.
"Chief, there's nothing to see here, right?"
"Maybe something has been missed." Xia Yibing shook her head, but didn't look at him.
She walked to the "refrigerator", opened the lid, and took out a glass bottle from a pile of ice cubes. The bottle was filled with a light yellow drink that was almost overflowing.
"Director..." Ruger's face changed, "That was what Rossian drank before..."
Then his expression changed again because Xia Yibing threw the thing directly to him.
"Open it and try it."
Ruger's face turned bitter. He knew that she wanted to observe him, so he could only bite open the lid and gulp down half the bottle.
Lick your lips, it seems to taste really good?
This kind of wine seems to be a local specialty of Dongquan Island. At least he has never drunk this kind of drink outside. He thought the alcohol here was also very unpalatable...
"How do you feel?" Xia Yibing asked him, "I've read your profile. You never drink."
"A little... dizzy?" Ruger described it to her. "I can't really say, maybe it's because it's cold."
"Don't you feel dizzy?"
"No."
“I didn’t feel like I couldn’t hear the outside world clearly.”
"No."
"everything is normal?"
“Basically.”
Xia Yibing frowned and stopped talking.
"Director, it's possible that he drank too much." Ruger noticed her worry, thought for a moment and expressed his understanding: "Although low-alcohol fruit wine is a delicious drink, it has a characteristic that it is easy to drink too much in one breath, and when the alcohol takes effect, people are often drunk without realizing it."
Chapter 45 Investigation 2 + Happy New Year~
"That's a possibility." Xia Yibing nodded, "Let's look at something else."
She wore gloves and a mask, and even a pair of plain glasses on her nose to prevent dirt in the air from entering her eyes. She touched most of the furnishings in the house along the way, chatting with Ruger from time to time.
But this seemed too boring to Ruger. He was concentrating at first, thinking that the young director had some definite grasp and he could share in the credit by following him.
But he soon discovered that she was just doing the hardest work - in this kind of case where there is no guesswork or clues, going back to the scene and searching inch by inch is what is often called "hard work" in this industry.
"Have you ever checked like I did?" Xia Yibing suddenly asked him when he was about to fall asleep.
"Have……"
"That's not the tone an agent uses."
"Yes!" Lu Geqiang perked up. "I've checked it here and asked them to come up and take a look, but I'm sure they haven't checked it as carefully as you have."
"I didn't understand what you meant."
"That's right. No one is as meticulous as you are, not even a centimeter is spared."
"Do you think this behavior is meaningless?"
"I……"
"Honestly, Luger."
"Okay." Ruger knew that he had been seen through, so he decided to go for broke. "...Based on my personal experience, all the crimes happened in the air, and the other party didn't even succeed in breaking into the safe house. I don't think this makes sense."
According to traditional criminal investigation, this place is not worthy of being called a crime scene. He really thinks the two people are wasting their time.
"Have you ever looked through a telescope?"
what did she say?
Ruger was stunned and turned his gaze to the center, which was suspended in the air and had a forked bracket that was very similar to a periscope structure.
This is the outpost telescope. Press the handle next to it and rotate the gear to fine-tune the lens angle. They have two lenses in total, one for observing the beach and the other for observing the town.
Xia Yibing was already observing one of the cameras. Ruger hesitated for a moment, thinking that it was not right for him to come up and do nothing but let the director do the hard work. He stood up reluctantly and walked to another camera.
This is a shot of observing the beach.
He squinted his eyes and moved closer. It seemed a little blurry at first, but as the gear scale rotated, the image became clearer and clearer. He could see the white waves spreading up the beach line again and again, and even some shells with overly bright colors.
But other than that, there's nothing else. Come to think of it - who would have nothing better to do than go to the beach at a time like this?
"Before the incident, outpost No. 3 reported seeing a woman on the beach. Have you heard about this?" Xia Yibing's voice continued.
"I've heard of it." Ruger shook the handle to turn the camera, and replied, "But isn't this Rossi's one-sided statement?"
What he said was rather obscure, the underlying meaning being that Rossi was drunk at the time, and who knows if what he saw was an illusion or not.
"Rossi wasn't drunk." Xia Yibing disagreed. "He can drink a normal amount of alcohol, but considering he didn't even finish the bottle, he shouldn't have been drunk at that time."
