Chapter 1044: Partially Missing Files
“The files she could access were definitely the ones publicly available on the surface.” Chi Minghong said. “She couldn’t get near any encrypted files; she only knew that such a place existed in the Government Hall.”
“I also did some searching for her. Events involving a specific number of people, as she described, aren’t common. They usually involve long-term local residents, which doesn’t match Liao Lian’s situation.”
“If the person isn’t dead, they might have entered some channel within the Government Hall that leaves no paper trail. In cases like that, you can almost assume the person is dead.”
If it were just Liao Lian alone, whether she was dead or missing, there would be countless possibilities. No specific leads, hard to track. But what Lu Qing overheard was that she was with a large group of people, and someone came from Snow City to collect them at regular intervals. That characteristic was still relatively obvious, and shouldn’t have been so easily buried.
But no matter what happened to Liao Lian, the chances of her being alive were very low. From a practical standpoint, searching or not searching made little difference.
Lu Qing understood this too, and quickly pulled herself together.
“Miss Chi, give me a ticket.” She looked at Chi Minghong. “I want to go to your hometown. I can work to pay you back for the ticket slowly, and you can charge high interest!”
Chi Minghong smiled. “A single ticket is nothing. You had the courage to come find your sister all alone—that takes guts. Live well, and you’ll have a great future ahead.”
Lu Qing choked up. “I hope I live to see District 002 destroyed!”
Chi Minghong paused. “That’s a huge wish. I’m afraid I can’t help much with that.”
Although Lu Qing’s words were radical, after Dong Jingxuan’s earlier example, Dong Yanqiong and the others didn’t say anything this time.
“Don’t think so extremely.” Xu Huo looked at her. “District 002 isn’t your mortal enemy. There’s no need to escalate it to hatred. Setting aside whether you can achieve it, just holding onto that belief will prevent you from living well in any district.”
Lu Qing lowered her head and said nothing.
Xu Huo didn’t press further. A single spark can start a prairie fire. Human thoughts are the most dangerous thing. Right now, as an ordinary person, Lu Qing’s words about retaliating against District 002 might seem laughable, but a person’s actions often have consequences they themselves don’t foresee. In fact, no one can predict them.
“Take a rest before you go.” Chi Minghong thoughtfully considered her emotional state. Although her district wasn’t as chaotic as District 002, it wasn’t a pure paradise either.
Xu Huo took out the Shelter and nodded to Chi Minghong. “I’ll be out in a bit.”
Chi Minghong indicated she would keep watch.
Closing the door, cutting off the curious gazes of Wei Yu and the others, Xu Huo opened the holographic projection.
Regarding the materials on Dr. Zhang’s laboratory, part of it he had already read. It was directly copied from the lab and stored in the Government Hall. It did mention the psychological treatment and charitable funding for children that he had referred to, but the numbers and examples weren’t typical.
The real focus was in the Government Hall’s encrypted files.
The Welfare Home was also a significant area of concern for District 002. Children with talent and ability were almost always selected before the age of twelve. So the traces of Dr. Zhang’s series of psychological suggestions and suspected hypnosis training had been caught. The entire surveillance process lasted half a year.
Presumably, the Government Hall wanted to see Dr. Zhang’s results. Because according to the Government Hall’s data, only one-sixth of the children Dr. Zhang selected were considered high-IQ children by their standards. His selection criteria were different.
This surveillance material should be from an earlier period. By the time Dr. Zhang started administering potions to the children, the materials became simplified and vague. By the end, it only mentioned the arrest of Dr. Zhang, without even a result of the arrest.
The Government Hall’s focus was on the laboratory. Everything in the lab was certainly obtained. As for his residence, it didn’t seem to have received special attention.
Of course, it was also possible that Dr. Zhang had returned later, or that a special prop he left there was at play. Judging from this alone, the Government Hall most likely didn’t catch him.
This material affirmed Dr. Zhang’s psychological treatment, especially at the beginning. The Government Hall repeatedly mentioned that the treated children’s emotions had stabilized, and there seemed to be breakthroughs in their intelligence. Congenital or acquired mental conditions had all improved, with effects surpassing the Government Hall’s existing treatment records.
This was the real reason the Government Hall held back.
However, this material didn’t mention the names of those children or their subsequent arrangements. But Chi Minghong was thorough. She went to two Welfare Homes and confirmed from the staff that a batch of children had been taken away by the Government Hall, with the timing matching Dr. Zhang’s arrest.
In other words, the batch of children Dr. Zhang tried to cultivate in Snow City ultimately fell into the Government Hall’s hands. Now, it’s unknown whether they are being studied as experimental subjects or trained as semi-finished products.
The Government Hall surveilled Dr. Zhang for half a year, and Dr. Zhang was completely unaware?
Xu Huo found it hard to believe.
He even had a bad feeling.
How could someone who pruned a child like a flower branch according to his own preferences allow his achievements to be stolen by others? Unless he planned to abandon them from the start, or knowing the Government Hall was watching, he still completed the cultivation of those children. It’s just unknown what kind of adults these children will grow into.
The children from the same batch as Xu Huo at the Seventeenth Hospital basically killed their entire families before leaving District 014.
But from Xu Huo’s perspective, the children in District 002, with unstable mental states and obvious defects, didn’t meet Dr. Zhang’s cultivation requirements. If what the Holy Sword Society member revealed about genetic problems in District 002 people was true, then Dr. Zhang would be even less likely to treat these children as real cultivation targets—unless he did it deliberately.
Just like deliberately giving Luo Changren the genetically modified evolution agent.
Are these children still alive now?
If the Government Hall took them over, there should be a place to house them.
Closing the projector, Xu Huo opened the door and called Dong Jingxuan over.
Dong Jingxuan was still applying medicine to his wounds. “Something?”
Xu Huo didn’t waste words. Closing the door, he directly asked, “Does the Government Hall have a living human experimental base?”
Dong Jingxuan was stunned. Before he could speak, Xu Huo continued, “Alright, confirmed. Where is this base? Inside Snow City or outside?”
“How would I…” Dong Jingxuan started again, but Xu Huo raised his hand to cut him off. “Looks like it’s inside Snow City. Is it related to your big families?”
“Seems so. Is the experimental site provided by your Dong family?”
“Is it far or close to the Dong Manor?”
“Or is it right inside the Dong Manor?”
(Chapter End)