Chapter 48

Chapter 48

In reality, the investigation is still moving forward in an orderly manner.

Wen Er was put into a military prison cell.

His range of movement was restricted, and he sat slumped in a chair. His eyes were red and bloodshot, and he was in a miserable state.

Hearing the sound of the door opening, Wen Er raised his head, and when he saw the person clearly, his gray pupils shrank slightly.

...Pu Ying.

After being locked up, this was the first time Pu Ying came to see him in person.

Pu Ying did not let anyone follow him. Before entering, he had someone turn off all the monitoring equipment in the prison room.

Wen Er asked hoarsely: "Pu Ying... what do you mean?"

He has not been able to take care of himself for many days, and he doesn't need to guess how depressed he is now.

Having lost his identity as the head of the General Scientific Research Institute, Wen Er could do nothing but watch as those people turned over the terminals to check and find out every data that had been whitewashed and modified.

Just yesterday, the operation record that illegally unlocked the terminal security protection four months ago and exposed the database to danger was finally uncovered like a rug.

With this record, Wen Er must bear at least 60% of the responsibility for the previous data theft incident.

"Turn off the surveillance camera so you can take a closer look at how embarrassing I am?"

Wen Er looked at Pu Ying. His emotions had lost control under the continuous high-pressure interrogation, and his tone became uncontrollably sharp: "Are you very lucky?"

Pu Ying asked: "What?"

Wen Er stared at him: "You have always wanted to get rid of me... Congratulations, you have made great progress."

Pu Ying said nothing.

He poured a glass of water for Wen You and placed it on the table in front of Wen You. He also took a chair and sat across the table across from Wen You.

He had never had any emotional fluctuations, but in Wen You's eyes under this situation, this calmness turned into a more vivid and unignorable mockery.

Wen Er was so aroused by this ridicule that he lost his mind, and the violence hidden in his nature completely lost control: "...enough!"

"Stop pretending to be kind here... You've wanted to deal with me for a long time, haven't you?"

"You don't want to be normal at all, you just like to stay like this. Do you know what you are?"

Wen Er's eyes were full of coldness: "You are a monster, a defective product that can never be saved. You will never see the light of day and can only be a shadow hiding in the gutter..."

Pu Ying interrupted him: "Wen You."

Wen You's chest rose and fell violently, and she stared at him with an almost ferocious expression.

Pu Ying did not speak. He turned his head and looked at the mirror on the wall next to the prison cell.

Here, he should ask Wen Er, "Is this how you always see me?"

But he didn't want to ask.

He didn't need to ask. Wen Er's research conclusion was biased to a certain extent. He was just "unable to clearly feel complex emotions", but it was not "unable to distinguish".

In fact, Pu Ying has always been able to identify the unspoken words hidden beneath the tenderness and affection every time Wen You looks at him.

Pu Ying thought for a while and said to Wen Er: "I will feel a little uncomfortable."

Wen Er's pupils narrowed slightly: "What?"

"People say I'm a monster, and that's true." Pu Ying said, "If you think I'm a monster and a defective product, I'll feel a little uncomfortable."

Wen Er looked at him inexplicably, as if he had heard something particularly funny and ridiculous.

Pu Ying continued: "There are some deviations in your research."

"We can become complete as long as we have enough opportunities and can obtain enough parts from the outside world to supplement our personality."

Pu Ying said: "Your treatment method is wrong. We should not be isolated and deliberately guided... We should not be treated as patients."

Wen Er suddenly laughed.

He had been manipulated at will these days, and his whole body had long been filled with hostility. He finally found a chance to vent, and the sarcasm and arrogance on his face had even begun to go undisguised.

Wen You looked at Pu Ying, her expression became calm and peaceful, and her voice softened strangely: "...Pu Ying, do you know what the success rate is for patients who are sent to a mental hospital and want to prove that they are not mentally ill?"

Pu Ying shook his head.

"It's zero." Wen Er said, "Even if they are not sick, as long as they want to explain, they can use reasonable pathological psychological logic."

Wen Er leaned forward and lowered his voice: "Same for you."

He saw with his own eyes that Pu Ying had someone turn off the surveillance camera. The military's prison cell had an anti-eavesdropping function and would block all recording equipment.

He can safely say these things without evidence.

"I am the most authoritative electronic storm research expert in the entire alliance, and the conclusion I give is the official conclusion."

"It's not you, nor me, who can judge whether you are sick... it's the papers at the forefront."

"In the latest paper, it is proposed that only establishing a long-term, stable and exclusive relationship with a spouse is the best way to treat patients like you. This paper has been published in an S-level journal and has also won theprize."

"Who do you think the outside world will believe, and who do our two families believe?"

Wen Er's voice was cold, and her gray eyes were filled with nervousness: "Is it me or you?"

Pu Ying didn't answer, he met Wen Er's gaze.

He had read too much information about Wen Nie, and his family asked him to improve his understanding of Wen Nie. Almost all of the audio-visual and written records belonging to Pu Ying's childhood were with Wen Nie.

Wen Er took him to school and worked with him on the homework left by his tutor.

Wen Er taught him how to play the piano.

He let go of the sparrows that Wen Er had captured for the experiment. Wen Er watched the sparrows flapping their wings and fled away. She was angry and had no choice but to take him back to redesign the experiment.

...These images, which were already unfamiliar enough, overlapped with the even stranger people in front of them, and completely disappeared.

"I've left enough escape routes for myself, Pu Ying. They can't convict me... I'll wait for at most two or three years to avoid the limelight. Those private laboratories who want to increase the impact factor will also try to steal my head."

Wen Er continued to say, "Your inheritance rights belong to me. Marry me and I will personally treat you. This is a matter of course."

"Everyone is happy."

Wen Er spoke slowly: "In this way, I can escape smoothly, your parents and family can rest assured, and our family will not have conflicts because of your coming to investigate me, and everyone will be satisfied..."

Pu Ying: "My feelings are not included in what you are considering."

Wen You laughed: "You still don't understand... Pu Ying, it's not up to you to decide whether you have feelings or not."

Wen Er looked at him with even some pity in her eyes: "Didn't you get reprimanded by your family when you came home this time? They thought you were a cold-blooded monster, so you must be a cold-blooded monster."

"They have already determined that you can't have feelings. Even if you don't think so, what's the use?"

Wen Er disagreed: "Besides, how can you feel? Anger? Reluctance? None of this makes sense, Pu Ying, you-"

"It hurts." Pu Ying said.

Wen Er's voice suddenly stopped.

The ends of his eyes twitched fiercely and he raised his head. This time he looked at Pu Ying as if he was looking at a monster.

Wen You's throat moved slightly. He looked at Pu Ying and his voice suddenly became hoarse: "...what did you say?"

Pu Ying added: "It's because of you, but not against you."

Wen Er: "..."

Pu Ying took out a few of the latest S-level journals and placed them on the table.

Wen You never gave him a chance to explain his purpose. It was only now that Pu Ying finally had the opportunity to say this: "I'm not here to see your embarrassment. I have two things to do here today. The first one is to inform you..."

Pu Ying said: "You are no longer an authority in the field of electronic storms."

Wen Er's face suddenly turned pale.

His pupils seemed to have been stabbed hard by needles, and the uneasiness that had been suppressed by forceful ignorance finally arose, swallowing him whole.

Wen Er wanted to ask why. He opened his mouth several times, but no sound came out.

"A hacker has broken into your computer key."

Pu Ying did not keep him confused for too long and opened the journal: "He has disclosed the most authentic and complete data on the victims of the electronic storm that you have secretly compiled over the years."

Wen Er hissed and asked: "...How is that possible?!"

...How could someone break the key and still see the contents?!

Wen Er couldn't believe this at all: "I obviously set up automatic deletion of the program! That computer is absolutely safe. No one can see the things in my computer except me..."

Pu Ying: "Luo Ran said that he also hacked into your computer and saw the contents inside."

"I let him in on purpose! I did it to deceive him!"

Wen You's eyes were red, and he was almost hysterical: "I deleted his key a long time ago! Even if we can get his iris data, unless someone can remember all the operations at that time, trace them back from the background, and reverse engineer them——"

His voice stopped abruptly.

A terrifying thought suddenly arose and strangled Wen You's throat, preventing him from uttering another word.

"After the specific information of the parties has been erased, these data are all publicly displayed and can be accessed and used by everyone for free."

Pu Ying didn't know what Wen Er was thinking, so he continued: "Someone has already obtained preliminary results and corrected the deviations in your research and the wrong treatment plan."

"In the past few days, he has published a series of related papers that have been widely recognized and cited in the profession... Most of the journals that originally published your papers have issued emergency rectification statements and promised to speed up investigations and investigate the matters involved.All papers will be withdrawn."

Pu Ying: "I'm not a professional. On today's morning news, a journal commentator from the Ministry of Science said that your era is over."

Wen Er slumped on the chair.

His eyes were almost dead gray, and he stared blankly at Pu Ying: "Why didn't you tell me earlier?"

Pu Ying: "I said it."

Wen Er opened his mouth but could not refute.

...Pu Ying did say that.

At the beginning of the conversation with him, Pu Ying had already said twice that his research was biased and his treatment plan was wrong.

It was because he was too confident. He thought he had arranged everything securely... He didn't expect someone to be able to break into his computer.

But how long has it been?How could someone with such strong scientific research ability be able to write a revised paper that is highly recognized and widely cited in such a short period of time?

Wen Er suddenly had an even more terrifying thought. He opened the journals frantically, forcing himself to open his eyes wide, and read all the papers.

It was as if a knife blade with a bone-chilling chill had been thrust into his chest, and he was cut open without mercy.

Pu Ying is indeed not a professional.

Among these papers, the most deadly thing was not the errata of research and treatment plans, but the two most inconspicuous small papers that were conveniently included.

If the research and treatment plan are wrong, he can also argue that his own skills are insufficient.It is just an unintentional mistake without any malicious intent to draw a wrong conclusion due to the objective conditions and personal abilities.

However, the two small papers published as a tie-in, one directly used the data he collected to prove the conclusion that "high-frequency detection will seriously harm the body of the detector", and the other directly used the data he collected four months ago.Data from several papers raise clear doubts.

He originally had the opportunity to use this time difference to urgently apply for special contribution asylum regulations to exonerate himself.

Although it is inevitable that he will be embarrassed, his reputation will be ruined, and everything he owns will be lost...but he can still escape and have a chance to make a comeback.

But once these papers were published, they completely sealed all the escape routes he had left for himself.

And that small paper that no one noticed, occupying only a quarter of the page, filled the loopholes in the alliance's laws and finally confirmed all his charges.

These papers pushed Wen Er directly into a desperate situation.

"The paper was published anonymously, the corresponding author's signature is PU.Y, and my ID is registered."

Pu Ying said: "But I don't know the author of the paper,"

Wen Er didn't question Pu Ying. He fell into the chair and closed his eyes.

...He knows it.

Wen You hardly needed to spend any extra effort to speculate on the authors of these papers and the true identity of the hacker who broke into his computer.

The shadow had already appeared in his mind.

The "Pu Ying" hidden in Luo Ran's body can easily push him to a desperate situation every time.

Is that really just a new personality that emerged after Luo Ranmi was lost in the electronic storm and his original personality was gradually swallowed up and dissipated?

…

Zhuang Yu, the half-mad military leader who had lost all his subordinates and comrades, seemed to be standing in front of Wen Er again.

It was already many years ago.

After the military team was swallowed up by the electronic storm, Wen Er successfully relieved himself of all responsibilities.

Everything went extremely smoothly. He recorded the complete electronic pulses of those people after they were swallowed. He made a splash with his first paper and established a foothold in the field of electronic storm research.With that paper, he was quickly admitted to the Science Department.

Wen Er has become the youngest researcher in the Ministry of Science. With numerous award-winning cutting-edge papers and the most abundant research funds, Wen Er is full of high spirits and has a bright future.

A few years later, Zhuang Yu came to see Wen You alone once.

Zhuang Yu, armed with a gun, tried to kill Wen You, but unsurprisingly he failed.

Zhuang Yu's consciousness was in a trance, and he was being held down tightly by the person responsible for protecting Wen You. He did not struggle or resist, and looked at Wen You with wide eyes.

Zhuang Yu asked Wen You why he wasn't allowed to fall into the cannibal light.

Zhuang Yu asked him if he knew what it felt like to be trapped in the same nightmare forever.

Zhuang Yu kept looking at Wen Er, and there was no hope of life in his eyes.His clothes were strangely sloppy, and he carried all the belongings left behind by his fallen comrades with him, and would fight to the death with anyone who dared to move.

Zhuang Yu was already unconscious at that time. He clung to the broken things, picked up everything that fell on the ground during the struggle, and held it in his arms.

He started talking nonsense and told Wen Er that he had seen the light again later.

He said that the light did not want him and he was not allowed to go to his subordinates.

"Wen Er, you are the murderer."

Zhuang Yu's voice was rough and hoarse, and his voice was extremely low, so low that it was almost just a mumbled murmur with disordered words.

"You are a murderer. You took so many lives in order to study electronic storms... But do you really understand your research?"

…

"I talked with Lieutenant Colonel Zhuang and your research conclusion is wrong."

Pu Ying: "I feel pain because I feel sad."

Wen Er was speechless. He breathed laboriously, raised his eyes and looked at Pu Ying.

"I want to express my feelings to my family, but I don't know how to express it and how to gain their trust."

Pu Ying said: "Lieutenant Colonel Zhuang said that he has contacted many victims of electronic storms in order to find his subordinates over the years. There are many people like me who have recovered the ability to be sad...but this does not make us feelFeel good."

Pu Ying: "Because your paper says that we can pretend and lie."

Before the conclusion of the paper is overturned, no one will doubt the experts and authorities in this field. Wen'er's theory has led to too many treatment options.

The victims who come out of the electronic storm are not complete and stable enough.

Pu Ying has never visited Luo Ran, but he has been paying attention to Luo Ran's recovery, and has witnessed Luo Ran's almost miraculous recovery speed - Luo Ran is filled with the unconditional trust and love of his parents.Such overflowing satisfaction and determination replenished all the vitality Luo Ran had lost in the electronic storm.

"Because it hurts too much," Pu Ying said, "we gave up this ability ourselves and gave up unnecessary contact with the outside world."

Pu Ying: "If it hadn't hurt so much at the time, or if someone had come to say something to us, we might have been able to try to go out and return to the normal world... The results would be slow, but the possibility does exist."

Wen Er listened to Pu Ying's words,

He had never disdained these non-medical methods, and only regarded them as extremely funny and unreliable folk conjectures.

How could someone be cured with just a few words?

If these patients can be cured by just talking, then what on earth has he been struggling with all these years?

What did he do with Luo Ran?

Wen You gritted his teeth. He instinctively wanted to argue and deny Pu Ying's words, but when he met Pu Ying's gaze, his whole person suddenly froze.

Pu Ying looked at him, as if looking at another person through him.

...This thought directly defeated Wen Er.

Wen Er was so furious that he lost his mind.

Why is Pu Ying dissatisfied with him?

Pu Ying's return was all due to his research. Why should he see anyone else through him?

Everything he did, all the mistakes he made, were all for Pu Ying.He did watch with a cold eye as the team died, but only in this way could he obtain enough data to write a paper and further improve the Ministry of Science's missing person system - otherwise, why could Pu Ying come back?

Wen Er's eyes were blood red. He struggled desperately and tried to grab Pu Ying's collar, but Pu Ying raised his hand and held him down easily.

"I have something to ask you."

Pu Ying said: "During your research, have you ever discovered that... some electronic storms actually have autonomous consciousness?"

Wen Er stared, her voice muffled in her throat: "...what?"

"In the deepest part of Aurora." Pu Ying said, "I thought he was someone trapped inside and wanted to help him, but he refused."

"He told me he didn't need help, it was me who needed help."

Pu Ying: "After saying that, he threw me out of the electronic storm."

There was no color on Wen You's face. He looked at Pu Ying with a strange expression. He felt that he must have heard the most fantastic nonsense, but Pu Ying never lied.

...Pu Ying never lies, he always knows.

Whether it was the Pu Ying who followed him when he was a child, secretly letting go of the sparrows he used for dissection, and then coming back to apologize honestly, or the Pu Ying now who came back from the electronic storm and couldn't laugh or love.

He always knew.

It was he who distorted the facts, and who deliberately gave wrong guidance in order to win the trust of his relatives in Pu Ying and force Pu Ying to his side.

Over the years, he has convinced the Pu family that he was the one who saved Pu Ying in the first place, and only he can save Pu Ying in the future.

"It wasn't you." Pu Ying said, "It was him who saved me."

"He saved my life more than once."

Pu Ying said: "In the future, I will save myself."

Wen Er's pupils trembled violently.

His last remaining shaky foundation seemed to be completely shattered by these words.

"Don't say that... Pu Ying, please." Wen You's throat was filled with the smell of blood. He stretched out his hand to pull Pu Ying's arm, "You know how much I have paid for you."

"Because of you...I have nothing now, Pu Ying."

Wen Yan said with a dumb voice: "If you can't tell you, let me contact the family of the two of us, I tell them. They believe me, what I do to you, they all look in it ..."

Pu Ying nodded: "Okay."

Wen Yan's eyes shrank.

Pu Ying agreed so easily, but he felt something was wrong.

He was convinced that he would not have a leak in the disguise in front of the two elders. Pu Ying's parents and grandfather believed him even more. Even if there was something wrong now, there were no Pujia and Wen family factions in his forces these days.

Pu Ying asked someone to turn off the surveillance camera himself. What they said here, Pu Ying could not keep as evidence.When he was in front of the elders of the two families, no matter what Pu Ying said, he could deny it.

He likes Pu Ying so much that no one would believe that he would call Pu Ying a "monster", threaten Pu Ying, and ignore Pu Ying's pain.

Wen Er looked at Pu Ying. He had no energy left to guess whether there were any issues that he might have overlooked.

"Pu Ying..." Wen Er asked in a low voice, "What else have you done? Are you even involved in this matter?"

Pu Ying shook his head: "Not me."

He just received a call asking him to come to Wen Er and read the lines from beginning to end according to the lines sent to his mobile phone.

That phone call also called more than one person. This prison cell was specially designed for interrogation when it was built.In addition to the shielding system, an entire wall of single-way mirrors can switch modes to become a completely transparent light curtain.

Behind the light curtain is an observation room that can fully monitor the interrogation room.

There is no need to record everything Wen Er said to him and everything he did.

…

Sensing Pu Ying's gaze, Wen Er shivered slightly and looked at the one-way mirror.

He thought he would not be more difficult, but until now, he really understood the true meaning of Zhuang Yu said to "being fiddled with fate and crushing by the wheel of fate".

The one-way mirror glowed with white light in front of his eyes and gradually turned into a transparent light curtain.

He couldn't move, looking at the person opposite the curtain.

The desperate dead ash surged in Wen Yan's eyes.

"Grandpa, Grandpa Wen."

Puying stood up: "Can I leave?"

Pu Sicun did not speak and stood silently in another observation room.

He heard everything, heard Wen You's contempt and threats to Pu Ying, heard all Wen You's conspiracies, and heard Pu Ying's words of pain.

It was the first time he faced such a situation - he didn't even know how to make it up to Pu Ying.

"……Wait a moment."

The sound of Persa's Sands opened, and his old face had been covered with regret: "Your parents also saw these. If you are not in a hurry, go home to eat meals first ..."

"A little anxious." Pu Ying said.

Pu Sicun frowned.

Wen Er had been completely arrested, and he couldn't think of anything else Pu Ying could be anxious about.

Pu Sicun didn't want to force Pu Ying anymore, so he stopped looking at Wen You and tried his best to soften his tone: "What do you want to do?"

"The Extreme Exploration Project of "China Geography" opens at three o'clock sharp this afternoon."

Pu Ying lowered his head and looked at his watch: "There are still ten minutes left. If I rush over now, I should still be able to make it in time."

Pu Ying: "I have consulted and Luo Ran will attend the opening ceremony."

Pu Sicun: "..."

Wen Er was dragged up from the chair. He was stung hard by the name. He turned his head desperately and looked at Pu Ying in disbelief.

...Does Pu Ying know who Luo Ran is?

Luo Ran was the tool he used to vent his selfishness, the experimental subject he used to find a way to cure Pu Ying, and the substitute he found who was most similar to Pu Ying.

For the past three years, he has been working on turning Luo Ran into Pu Ying - and he is almost successful.

If it weren't for that shadow, Luo Ran would probably be working as a researcher for him now, just like he did when he wanted Xiao Puying to accompany him when they were both young.

He always wanted Pu Ying to be by his side. It didn't matter if he caused trouble or let the experimental animals go. He just wanted to accompany him to do the research he liked.

Luo Ran's body reflected all his obsession, greed and unwillingness towards Pu Ying. He regarded Luo Ran as Pu Ying, until Pu Ying came back from the storm and broke all his illusions.

Wen You looked at Pu Ying. His eyes were already a little sore and his vision was beginning to blur, but he still looked at Pu Ying in astonishment and incomprehensibly.

What is the relationship between Pu Ying and Luo Ran?

Does Pu Ying know that Luo Ran was just his substitute from beginning to end?

…

"I'm Luo Ran's fan."

Pu Ying was in a hurry, so he packed up his things and found his copy of "Teaching You to Learn Photography in 10 Days": "Grandpa, I want to go and get an autograph."