Chapter 362 Let’s have a meeting first
"Xiaoyu, do you have the deputy director's number?"
"Yes, I'll tell you now!"
Su Ming listened to Xia Xiaoyu repeat Liu Lingshan's number, memorized it firmly, and then asked: "Did you destroy all the surveillance records of you and Flora escaping?"
“All destroyed.”
"Very good. From now on you must always remember that you are a person who can be seen."
"Yeah!" Xia Xiaoyu hummed very vigorously. Su Ming could even imagine the scene of her nodding vigorously on the other side of the phone.
"That's it. I'll contact Master right away."
After saying that, Su Ming immediately hung up the phone and dialed Liu Lingshan's number.
"Hello, who is this?" Liu Lingshan's voice suddenly sounded, and Su Ming immediately breathed a sigh of relief.
"Master, I have limited time, so I'll keep it short. I found a way to rescue Flora, and later on, among the people from the alliance who came to capture her, there were members of the Mystic Eye, so you have to be there at that time."
"I see. Where is she now?" Liu Lingshan asked.
Hearing this, Su Ming could only say that his master was worthy of being his master. He immediately understood what he meant. In fact, he had already prepared for further explanation, but now it seemed that such preparation was unnecessary.
Although the people with the Mysterious Eye can block their master's perception when they activate their special abilities, their ability to block cause and effect is not as unsolvable as Xia Xiaoyu's. The effect of their interference with cause and effect cognition will weaken over time, and eventually the traces will be recognized.
Therefore, as long as Liu Lingshan is present, those people with the Mysterious Eye would not dare to use their unknown abilities at will, because they could neither kill Liu Lingshan nor reveal their true identities. Therefore, as long as Xia Xiaoyu moves or hides Flora, those people with the Mysterious Eye would not be able to continue their actions.
Because they can’t say “I saw someone running away with that criminal in a box!”—that would give them away.
Letting Liu Lingshan follow those people from the alliance is the only solution Su Ming can think of temporarily. In such a short time, he can't think of any better way. He only hopes that this simple response strategy can delay enough time for him to reach the Molten Iron City.
Once he gets to Smelting Iron City, he will be able to make phone calls freely, and by then he should be able to discuss a more perfect and comprehensive solution.
"I'll send you Flora's address via text message. I have to hang up now." Su Ming said.
"No, just say it directly." Liu Lingshan said firmly.
Su Ming was stunned for a moment, and noticed the subtle expression in Liu Lingshan's words. He thought for a while and asked tentatively: "They are right next to you."
"That's right."
Sure enough, if the environment around the master was safe, she would not refuse the text message. It was precisely because the environment around the master was unsafe that she did not want to leave any message on her mobile phone, because those people with mysterious eyes around her could take away her mobile phone and obtain the message as long as they wanted to.
Of course, doing so is very risky, but the probability is not zero. The reason why Master took the insurance of direct communication was also to convey this set of information to himself.
Su Ming took a deep breath and calmed himself down. The guys from Mysterious Eye moved faster than he had imagined and had already reached Dongyang Island so quickly.
"She's in the eastern suburbs. This direction should be enough, right?"
"Yeah." Liu Lingshan spoke briefly and hung up the phone even faster than Su Ming.
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"Is there something?" The man next to him gave Liu Lingshan an inquiring look.
Everyone present waited patiently for Liu Lingshan to end the call. Frankly speaking, if someone answered the phone during a meeting, this behavior would be despised by everyone, but now Wu Yixin only dared to despise it in his heart and did not dare to show any dissatisfaction on the surface.
After all, Liu Lingshan's position in the Seven Gods Alliance is very special. Although her position is only the deputy director of the Seventh Investigation Bureau, before becoming the deputy director, Liu Lingshan's positions included consultant to the Ministry of Public Security, consultant to major investigation bureaus, and consultant to the intelligence department...
The term "consultant" does not mean that she has any work obligations, but rather that she has the power to use these resources without any obligations.
There are a total of thirteen S-level commissioners in the four major alliances. Most of them only have one or two privileges, a few have more, but there are almost no people like Liu Lingshan who directly monopolize all the privileges.
The reason why Liu Lingshan has so many privileges is not only because of his unfathomable strength, but also because he has lived long enough, has a terrifying network of contacts, and has sufficient experience and efficiency.
In addition, hundreds of years of experience in office have also proved that Liu Lingshan is a very "loyal" person to the alliance and almost selfless. Coupled with her huge prestige, there is absolutely no objection to the liberation of her power.
But many years ago, she resigned from those consultant positions and went to investigate the 7th Bureau as deputy director. No one knew why she went there, but no one raised any questions. After all, she always had her own reasons for doing things.
As a member of the Mysterious Eye, Wu Yixin, although blessed with an unknown power, still did not dare to underestimate Liu Lingshan, because she had begun an in-depth investigation of the Mysterious Eye. Her threat to the Mysterious Eye was second only to Su Ming, and this conclusion was recognized by all general-level cadres.
Liu Lingshan nodded: "It's not important, please continue."
"Okay." Wu Yixin nodded obediently, pretending to be an ordinary official towards Liu Lingshan, respectful but polite.
"We originally wanted to retrieve all the surveillance records from Dongyang Island, but we found that all the surveillance records disappeared after Flora disappeared, so—"
"Wait a minute, I have something to say." Liu Lingshan played with her white hair with one hand and raised the other hand, interrupting Wu Yixin's speech.
When everyone heard that Liu Lingshan had a question, their eyes fell on Liu Lingshan, waiting for her to speak, their eyes serious and humble.
Seeing these people's reactions, Wu Yixin felt a little aggrieved. He was the one who was interrupted, but these people acted as if they were listening attentively to Liu Lingshan. This was too insulting!
Wu Yixin took a deep breath, pretended to listen attentively, and looked at Liu Lingshan.
"We watched the video after Flora escaped. Why do you want to watch it again?" Liu Lingshan asked.
"Well... maybe we can find some clues from the surveillance video." Wu Yixin hesitated a little.
“ I think everyone already knows about the Mysterious Eye. Previously, we speculated that it was an organization composed of people with the ability to interfere with cognition.
Bruer, who had successfully defected before, was one of them.
And this time, although on the surface Flora has nothing to do with this organization, there is actually a certain connection.
Everyone should have read the report. There was nothing wrong with our measures to guard Flora, but Flora seemed to have turned into air and disappeared!
When Flora assisted Su Ming in defecting, Su Ming also showed similar abilities for a period of time!
So can we infer that Flora and Su Ming are the people of the Mysterious Eye?"
"That makes sense. It makes sense now! If Su Ming is from the Mysterious Eye, then the Mysterious Eye will definitely not sit idly by. It is only natural for them to rescue Su Ming.
Flora should be the same, which explains why Flora disappeared." Sylvie smiled, pretending to be very serious, with certainty written all over her face.
Led by Sylvie, other people from the Ministry of Public Security also started discussing the issue one after another. After logically re-examining Liu Lingshan's inference, they expressed their agreement one after another.
"That's probably the case! Then this matter is much more difficult than I thought."
"It seems that we are not dealing with a murderer and an accomplice, but a dangerous organization."
"If we handle the case under this premise, should we change our thinking?"
"That makes sense! You need to think more about it! You are worthy of being the advisor! No, it's Deputy Director Liu."
Wu Yixin was completely stunned. The situation had turned out like this, and he felt as if he had eaten a piece of shit. He couldn't help but want to loudly announce that Su Ming and Flora were not members of the Mystic Eye! This was all Liu Lingshan's imagination!
But he couldn't do that. He could only pretend to agree with Liu Lingshan's reasoning like the other companions present so that he could fit in with the group.
"Hey! Deputy Director Liu's opinions are quite constructive. We can discuss them in detail later. Now let's -"
"Don't worry."
Liu Lingshan interrupted him again!
Wu Yixin was angry, no, he felt aggrieved. He felt aggrieved to the extreme, but the way people around him looked at Liu Lingshan seemed to show even more admiration!
This group of people seemed to be looking forward to Liu Lingshan's speech even more!
Wu Yixin had no choice but to pretend to be expectant and asked with a smile, "Deputy Director, do you have any other suggestions?"
"Didn't you notice that something is wrong?" Liu Lingshan raised the corners of her mouth slightly, revealing a meaningful smile. She narrowed her eyes, and her sharp gaze passed across Wu Yixin's face like a knife, scaring Wu Yixin so much that a chill ran down his spine... But soon, Liu Lingshan's knife of gaze also passed across the faces of other people one after another, which made Wu Yixin breathe a sigh of relief.
I was so scared that I thought my identity had been discovered.
"Bruel is from the Mysterious Eye, but he was also a senior official of the Alliance. We cannot deny that there may still be people from the Mysterious Eye in the Alliance. What if there are people from the Mysterious Eye among the people who came this time? They should have some way to see their companions who are in the 'invisible' state.
If they see the surveillance video, they will find Flora before us and move her away. Then no matter what we do, it will be useless. "
Having said that, Liu Lingshan paused and looked around at everyone.
After thinking about it, everyone nodded in agreement. Wu Yixin could only nod stiffly, pretending to agree with the idea. Although he was shouting in his heart that this guess was completely wrong, he couldn't deny it at all!
Liu Lingshan continued, "Another point is that before interrogating Flora, the very useful containment item of Bureau 7, the Honesty Recorder, also disappeared. At the time I thought it was just a coincidence, but later I thought someone didn't want us to use the recorder to interrogate Flora.
Now... I think it's probably to prevent us from identifying the enemy.
If the Honest Recorder is there, then those of us with the Mystical Eyes will have nowhere to hide, right? What do you think, Commander Wu?"
