Chapter 474 - Chapter 474: Chapter 474: Fermo Kun and Watson (1/2)

Chapter 474: Chapter 474: Fermo Kun and Watson

At dawn, Alice identified the whereabouts of that GMC motorhome after it left the Brilliant Fortune Building yesterday afternoon, by analyzing and deducing from numerous traffic videos.

The vehicle got on the highway, exited at the Yangcheng exit, and then stopped for a few hours within Yangcheng City. Around 2 am, it got back on the highway and returned to Peng City, to the Brilliant Fortune Building.

As for the specific trajectory and destination of this vehicle in Yangcheng, Alice is using more surveillance and related resources for further confirmation.

Meanwhile, there has been progress in the “detection” of the Brilliant Fortune Building’s network.

Alice easily intruded into the network of the Brilliant Fortune Building, but she discovered that there were no connections to the terminals in the third basement level within the network terminals of the building.

Therefore, using other methods, she found another dedicated line for the basement, but this connection only had one terminal. The content it transmitted was very strange; it was some surveillance footage, but it wasn’t from the third basement level or even scenes from the Brilliant Fortune Building or its surroundings. Instead, it showed the living conditions of a large family.

Looking at the surveillance video clips from Alice showing images of that family, Xiang Kun’s brows furrowed deeply.

Did this family also have a “mutant” among them?

If not, why would the people in the third basement level go to the trouble of monitoring them?

But after carefully analyzing the surveillance footage sent back by Alice, Xiang Kun was unable to identify any of the several individuals shown in the footage as having mutated into “mutants”.

Or could it be that this is the “family” of a “mutant”, and “Divine Technology” is monitoring them in hopes of identifying the “real target”?

Just then, Xiang Kun quickly noticed that among the individuals appearing in the surveillance video, there was a mother, two young children, a “grandfather”, “grandparents”, a nanny, but notably missing was the “male head of the household”.

From the various details of the nicely decorated house in the video clips, Xiang Kun inferred that the “male head of the household” had been absent for a long time, with no traces of his lifestyle or habits to be found.

Xiang Kun couldn’t help but think of the “human-shaped mutated creature” that had recently appeared next to the rabbit woodcarving in the “Super Sensory State”. Could it be the man of the family?

Xiang Kun began to try searching for the location and identity revealed in the few surveillance video clips sent by Alice.

At the dinner table, the three seniors mentioned the names of a vegetable market and a bakery, while the two children referred to a middle school and a shopping mall, all of which could help locate their city and approximate location.

Before Xiang Kun could even figure out how to guide Alice to assist him with the manhunt, Alice had already captured one of the kids’ social media platform accounts through the surveillance video. Then she directly located the family’s position through the network, and even penetrated their network, taking control of all their networked devices, including mobile phones, tablets, computers, and game consoles.

Through the way the surveillance footage was transmitted, she located the device that was transmitting the surveillance footage back to the Brilliant Fortune Building. It was within the same residential area, less than a hundred meters away from the family’s house.

Next, the family’s information was inevitably found by Alice, who, through it, found more key information related to them on the internet.

Then Xiang Kun deduced this family’s situation by inference from this information:

The man of the house, named Xie Hongting, had served in the military when he was younger. Upon retiring, he worked in a high-end security company. After an accident left him paralyzed from the waist down, he was hospitalized for years. Although he was carefully attended to by his family, he still died of complications five years ago.

However, after Xie Hongting’s death, the manager of the already bankrupt security company approached Xie’s family, telling them that a substantial insurance policy had been created for Xie. Now that Xie’s situation met the payout conditions, they helped his family claim a substantial compensation from the insurance company.

Not only that, the head of the security company bounced back, reopening the company, reinstating Xie’s widow as an administrator, and paying her a high salary each month.

So, although this family had lost its main breadwinner and had to shoulder enormous medical expenses for several years, with the elders getting older and the youngsters still young, their living standard had actually risen instead of falling.

Alice kindly investigated the background of the security company for him and found out that the company’s resurrection was indeed related to “Divine Technology”. It was financed by a security company controlled by “Divine Technology”. Moreover, the substantial insurance payment received by the Xie family did not come from an insurance company, but from an institution associated with “Divine Technology”.

This made Xiang Kun slightly puzzled. It didn’t seem like they were monitoring, but rather, taking care of the family?

If Xie Hongting didn’t die and had become a “mutant,” “Divine Technology” should have left his family in poverty to force him to appear if they were adopting the policy of “waiting patiently for success.”

It seemed more likely that if Xie Hongting was a “mutant,” he might be directly working for “Divine Technology,” and the financial compensation for his family was an attempt to appease him, so he would be willing to work?

Was the surveillance a form of coercion to some extent?

Could Xie Hongting… actually be “Mr. Liang”?

However, based on the information he had previously obtained from Mijoe, Dr. Fang, and others, as well as more information related to “Divine Technology” and “Mr. Liang,” “Mr. Liang” had been in charge of the secret department of “Divine Technology” for more than five years, so the identities didn’t match; Xie Hongting couldn’t be “Mr. Liang”.

Now, Alice had made new progress in tracking the GMC camper van in Yangcheng.

Based on the partial surveillance video data gathered, Alice calculated that the vehicle had stayed in the parking lot of a bar in Yangcheng. Thus, she gained control over the parking lot’s surveillance system’s access, found the corresponding time slot’s video, and even filmed the GMC camper van.

Watching the video clip sent by Alice, Xiang Kun couldn’t help but frown when he saw the burly man with a scar-covered face and dressed in a black suit emerging from the driver’s seat. This guy… surely isn’t a “mutant,” right? Otherwise, during his initial mutation, the scars on his face should have healed.

Or perhaps, those scars were just a disguise, just like the duckbill cap he was wearing?

Alice continued sending surveillance videos from inside the bar. Xiang Kun saw the burly man with the scarred face entering the bar, walking straight to the bar, and stopping a foreign man who had just stood up, saying a few words.

From the video, based on the body posture of the man with the scarred face, Xiang Kun judged that he had prepared for combat, his body slightly tensed. However, after he finished speaking, his expression suddenly became a bit dull, his gaze somewhat lost, and his body relaxed, but then his body began to shake violently, as if he was electrocuted, before collapsing to the ground.

From start to finish, the two did not make physical contact, but the foreign man still looked around in panic and quickly left the bar.

After the foreign man left, the burly man with the scarred face shook his head, pulled something out of his pocket and put it in his ear, seemingly a headphone. He didn’t say anything and walked out of the bar with an expressionless face.

Next, Alice continuously sent surveillance videos showing the burly man with the scarred face leaving the bar, returning to the parking lot, driving, as well as some videos of the GMC camper van driving on the roads taken by other shops and street surveillance cameras.

From the videos, it was evident that after leaving the bar, the burly man with the scarred face did not show any panic or anger. He was calm on the road, not rushing or dragging, and seemed to have no clear destination in mind, as if he was just out for a drive.

“Did the door of the camper van never open?” Xiang Kun asked Alice.

“I haven’t found any related footage in the surveillance videos I’ve checked.” Alice replied.

“Try to trace where the foreign man in the bar went after he left.” Xiang Kun said.