Umbrella, The Light of Humanity

06 sleeping quarters.

In the dark corridor, a woman in pajamas with disheveled hair was dragging a boy who was also in pajamas to flee in a hurry.

Both mother and son are barefoot, regardless of the cold hollow metal floor, just want to stay away from the man chasing after them as much as possible...

Carrie! Neil! Don't run away, you will disturb others like this, stop quickly, hurry up! Let's go home and talk about something!

The man chased and persuaded.

But the woman became even crazier, shouting at the top of her lungs: Help! Help! Who will save us!

Finally, the noise and movement finally attracted the attention of many neighbors. People opened the hatches and came to the corridor, ready to find out and help mediate the conflict by the way.

Among them, it also included Elena, who had changed into dark gray loose pajamas and was about to watch the fun.

As for Lin, he stayed in the dormitory cabin, using the miniature camera attached to Elena's pajamas to watch the situation outside the cabin and avoid being recognized by people living nearby.

At the end of the corridor at the moment.

Carrie, what's wrong with you? A short-haired girl who was waiting here hurriedly hugged the crazy woman.

The short-haired female husband also pulled the boy to prevent the mother and son from running around.

After the husband and wife controlled the mother and child, Yi Lianna, many neighbors, and the man who was chasing rushed here one after another.

Moreover, people came to the square where the space was spacious enough and the air was fresh, and they all said something...

Aren't you two a model couple? Why did this suddenly happen?

Speak up, Carrie, you've gone too far, and it's hard for you and Todd to step down.

Various persuasive words have emerged one after another.

Carrie... At this time, Elena also interjected: If there is anything that scares you, you can say it now, we are all here.

That's right.

Yes, don't be afraid.

Everyone nodded in agreement.

Seeing this, a woman named Carrie, sitting on a public bench, clasped her arms with her hands crossed, shrunk her body in fear, looked at her innocent-looking husband and said:

You're not Todd, not at all! I saw with my own eyes what you wanted to do to Neil!

What is it called? I just told our son a bedtime story as usual... Todd was quite helpless.

...

Hearing this, everyone still felt that Carrie was a little too exaggerated.

Not Todd?

What is this nonsense?

Fortunately, the short-haired girl who was a friend didn't stand in the cold and asked, Carrie, how can you be sure that the Todd in front of us... isn't Todd?

he…

He's not dad.

Just as Carrie was about to explain, the boy named Neil interrupted, broke free from the protection of the short-haired husband, rushed back into Carrie's arms, and pointed at Todd firmly:

He's definitely not Dad!

What did I do wrong? Even my son doesn't recognize me?? Todd sighed with a broken heart.

How about this! The short-haired female husband stepped forward, put his arm around Todd's shoulders, and suggested, Today, let's go have a few drinks to change our mood, and then let Carrie and Neil stay with my wife. How about we separate for a while?

What do you think? Carrie, Neil? the short-haired girl responded to her husband.

Well... yes. Carrie did not refuse.

... Neil nodded in agreement.

Oh, that's the only way to go. Todd sighed.

Okay, stop moaning, let's go! The short-haired husband left the square with Todd.

The rest of the people were also kindly comforting and persuading, and then gradually dispersed. The short-haired girl led Carrie and Neil to her dormitory, ready to have a good chat.

Shortly after.

In Elena's dormitory.

This is a typical single cabin, and its overall layout is no different from that of a single apartment on the ground floor, with the master bedroom, living room and bathroom, but lacking a stove for cooking and a balcony with a wide view.

And Yi Lianna also decorated her dormitory a little bit, with potted plants and personalized carpets, etc., so it no longer looks too monotonous.

At this time, Elena, who came back from the outside, opened the refrigerator, took out two cans of lemonade with the red and white umbrella logo, walked to the center of the living room, and put one can on the coffee table.

Then she sat directly on the carpet under her feet, opened the tab of the can with one hand, took a sip, and asked facing the sofa, Sir, don't you want to drink?

Lin Lin, who also changed into loose clothes, was sitting on the sofa, watching the conversation between Carrie, Todd, and Neil repeatedly on his exclusive mobile phone, without taking his eyes off the screen, and refused:

No, I don't drink drinks.

Ok…

Unlike a senior intelligence officer and a legend she looks up to, Elena seems a little restrained.

Take it easy.

She took the initiative to ask again: Sir, did you find anything?

...

Lin was silent for a while, and after a while, he looked up at Elena who had almost finished her soda, and asked, Has there been frequent quarrels like this recently?

Frequently... Elena thought for a while, shook her head and said, No, it should be said to be normal, we sometimes have husbands and wives quarreling and even fighting.

But... Elena put the can on the edge of the coffee table, and said in a deep voice, pinching her chin lightly with her left hand: Today's one is a bit special, Carrie keeps repeating that it's not Todd, um, it's weird.

Really? Lin put away his exclusive mobile phone, sat upright, and continued to ask Elena, So Charles, have you noticed the difference in Todd?

No, the words and deeds are the same as before... Sir, you don't think that Assis has some kind of abnormal phenomenon that can imitate human beings, or abnormal creatures. Yi Lianna suddenly realized.

This possibility is not ruled out. It is also possible that demons from different spaces occupy the human body. If it is the second type, it is beyond the scope of our jurisdiction. We need to let the Supervision Department take over this incident.

After listening to Lin's words, Elena's expression became a little dignified, and she said, The Supervision Department... I hope it's not an abnormality related to a different space. By the way, sir, do you know what role vaccines will play in dealing with demons?

Effectively isolate our emotions and souls from projections in different spaces, and avoid the whispers of demons.

Lin didn't hide anything. After all, the existence of plague doctors was not a secret to B-level and above employees, and the existence of vaccines was also the same.

Soul, emotions, whispers... Elena nodded thoughtfully.

At this time, Lin stopped talking about vaccines and different dimensions, got up and left the sofa, and told Elena:

However, no matter what the possibility is, and whether you need to call the supervision department to intervene, you can't avoid the process of personal investigation. Keep this in mind, Charles De.

Yes! Elena stood up and saluted.

Well, you will go to work as usual tomorrow and continue to observe the situation near the mining area.

Yes, sir.

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the next day.

Local time in the Callisto Galaxy is June 26, 07:34, early morning.

The Assis crowd was surging, and most of them were miners wearing protective clothing, helmets, and engineering mechanical skeletons.

Among them are many engineering vehicles wearing only sleeveless vests and slacks, drivers of engineering exoskeletons, or maintenance personnel like Elena wearing red overalls to ensure that there will be no accidents in the mine.

Thousands of employees of various types rushed to the cafeteria to pick up their plates and enjoy the free breakfast provided by the company.

The bars, shops and restaurants of different styles in the Assis entertainment area are outsourced by the company, but the canteen is self-operated by the company, providing free meals for all people living and working in Assis. subsidy.

This is why people would rather endure a fully enclosed life for as short as three months, as long as half a year, a year, or even several years, and stay in Assis.

Although there is no company that can match Umbrella's benefits, but with Umbrella as the big brother, companies from all walks of life have to move closer to Umbrella, try to improve employee benefits, and fear that employees will lose or be complained about.

Around eight o'clock.

The employees finished their meals one after another, left the cafeteria and went to different mining areas, preparing to start the day-to-day mining tasks.

Stay after eight o'clock.

Many family members of the employees also woke up and went to the cafeteria one after another, leaving the entire dormitory area empty.

At this moment, in Elena's bedroom.

Lin has changed into a black close-fitting clothing, with multiple tactical bags and tool bags on his waist.

He first operated a few times with his exclusive mobile phone, then put the mobile phone into one of the tool bags, and put on the headgear with holographic lenses.

Immediately afterwards.

From top to bottom, Lin's whole body gradually blended into the surrounding environment like a chameleon, and disappeared directly, and there was no electronic or electric sound in the process.

Then the hatch of Elena's dormitory opened and closed.

And in the empty corridor outside.

In the row on the left, the dormitory with the door number 078 is the home where Carrie and Todd lived after a violent quarrel broke out last night.

The 078 cabin door also opens and closes automatically.

In the monitoring room at the moment.

Six security guards with guns were monitoring Assis through the physical screen, but the dormitory area where Elena lived was a little blurry, with snowflake patterns flashing, which seemed to be a bad signal.

Because the monitoring has been secretly interfered by Lin.

However, the security guards didn't care. After all, many surveillance cameras have this problem and they are used to it.

If it bothers you, the guards will use the oldest and most effective way of repairing...

Tap the screen frame hard.

Besides, the security guards didn't put their minds on it.

At this time, another screen that also flashed Snowflakes intermittently showed that it was the one closest to the interior of the asteroid among the many mining areas. In the mining area, there was a silver disk-shaped spaceship Embedded in the rock wall.

It may have been tens of thousands of years ago, or even longer, when the spaceship suffered a mutation and was trapped inside Assis, unable to move, and now it was accidentally excavated by miners.

It's just that the six security guards and the miners in charge of digging didn't care at all, or they were ignoring the spaceship.

If you observe carefully, you can still see Todd, who scared his wife and daughter away last night from the fuzzy picture, who is also wearing a helmet and a mechanical skeleton.

At this time, a security guard reached out and turned off the screen, as if deceiving himself, thinking that everything was as usual.

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at the same time.

Lin, who went into hiding by using the optical camouflage suit, was searching for information in the cabin of Carrie and Todd.

The structure of two rooms and one hall.

The house is messy, and it looks like a situation caused by quarrels.

Carrie and her son Neil stayed at the short-haired woman's house for the night last night, and now the three of them are eating in the cafeteria, while Todd and the short-haired woman's husband returned here to rest after drinking some wine.

There were still pillows and blankets on the sofa that hadn't been cleaned up in time, which indicated that the short-haired female husband spent the night on the sofa.

Lin found no noteworthy details in the living room, master bedroom, and second bedroom.

Come to the bathroom.

Looking around, there is nothing unusual on the surface alone, but Lin is not going to let go of all corners.

Check some.

?

Lin under the mask frowned slightly, because the bathtub, wall tiles and corners were all too clean.

From experience, he doesn't think it is the result of daily cleaning, and the shower curtain also looks like it was newly replaced.

Cover up the blood?

Thinking of this possibility, Lin switched the UV-A (ultraviolet) mode of the holographic glasses, but did not find a trace of blood.

Obtaining these results made him even more convinced that someone seemed to be covering up the blood, and that person was good and careful enough, but it was a pity that he couldn't fake the stains that had accumulated over time.

So Lin switched the various modes of the holographic lens, and finally found a few small white particles in the gap of the bathtub sink, which seemed to be deliberately crushed and chopped.

Then, using the visual aid provided by the lens, he took out the tweezers and the sealed bag from the kit, and clamped the white particles into the sealed bag one by one.

tidy up.

Lin put the touched objects back in place intact.

After arriving at the door, he used the detection function provided by the holographic lens again to confirm that there was no one in the corridor, then turned on the interference function of the mobile phone again, and quickly left here to return to Elena's bedroom.

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Shortly after.

The living room of Elena's cabin.

Lin, who was still wearing an optical camouflage uniform, was holding his exclusive mobile phone, sitting on the sofa and waiting patiently, while a square box was placed on the coffee table.

And this kind of box is an analyzer commonly used by intelligence officers. It is used to analyze the tissue composition of small objects and samples. Although the accuracy rate is not as good as that of the laboratory, it is convenient and quick.

Lin put a white particle into it, waited for a while, and the analysis result was displayed on the phone screen.

See here.

He is also habitually reading repeatedly to ensure that he will not miss a single bit.

porcelain…

Porcelain…

Metal-free porcelain teeth?

Is it the crumbs of dentures?

The results showed that the white particles had an 89% probability of being full porcelain teeth.

This made Lin frowned, trying to think about how the dentures were related to the whole incident, and what kind of situation caused the dentures to fall off?

After more than ten seconds.

Lin shook his head lightly, he couldn't figure it out just by thinking about it.

Immediately, he uploaded the relevant information collected, as well as the analysis results of the denture debris, and then asked the Ministry of Intelligence to help retrieve some files.

After completing various operations, Lin prepared to take off his optical camouflage uniform and wait for the dead of night to sneak into the mining area.

Whether it is experience or the so-called sixth sense, he believes that only the mining area can collect vital intelligence and evidence.