After the meeting, Song Lan and Lu Xiangbing split up. According to the plan formulated by Lu Xiang, she would take care of Teacher Catherine's side, while Song Lan would continue to serve as the mentor of the program team.
After leaving the safe house, he first went to the food court near the program to have breakfast. Before leaving, he specially packed sandwiches and grilled chicken skewers for Veronica and Valian, which he carefully selected from many synthetic ingredients. Unfortunately, before seeing her students, the food being transported was intercepted by the sharp-eyed Guan Lili.
"How did you know that I came to the filming site at around five o'clock today and haven't even had time to take a bite of food?"
Guan Lili walked forward familiarly and took the bag from Song Lan very naturally, "Teacher Lu Qi, you are so considerate."
"I don't think I asked you?"
"With our relationship, do we still need to be so quarrelsome? I'll treat you to lunch."
Guan Lili took a bite of the grilled chicken skewers, her lips were covered with grease, and she narrowed her eyes in enjoyment.
The friendship between them can be regarded as a life-long one.
The relationship is so strong that Song Lan was almost silenced in District 17 before.
Song Lan was a little surprised by Guan Lili's reaction, "These are synthetic ingredients, can you swallow them?"
In his impression, the senior management of Kolo Films should be used to eating delicacies from the mountains and seas. Even if he had to use synthetic ingredients to satisfy his hunger, he would probably have to frown before swallowing them.
"You are all biased. I also worked my way up from a small clerk... the one on the southwest corner of the food street across the street, right? The taste has not changed over the years. How is the boss doing now?"
"Bald."
"Don't worry, he became bald more than ten years ago."
"The problem now is that you ate the breakfast I brought to the students."
"Veronica and Valian? That's just right. They left early in the morning and seemed to have called for off-field assistance. Well, they are the people in your core. Logically speaking, off-field assistance is prohibited, but For the sake of this breakfast, I turned a blind eye."
This is what people often call courtesy.
However, Song Lan only saw the corruption within the company, "Don't other players give their opinions?"
"You don't understand this. In the show, only what is captured by the camera is considered to be real. For content we don't want to see, we can eliminate it through flexible editing in the later stage."
Guan Lili suddenly thought of something, pretended to be surprised and covered her mouth with her hands, and said, "You don't think "The Rescuer Master" is a documentary program, do you?"
Song Lan felt that this was probably the case with people's hearts over time.
I recall that when she was in District 17, Guan Lili didn't even dare to take a breath when she saw him, but now she can show off her anger in front of her without any psychological pressure.
But he was in a peaceful mood, and any taunting was ineffective against him.
"The program team had a meeting this morning?"
"The meeting is at six o'clock. I guess I didn't call you since you couldn't get out of bed. It's not really important."
After a brief exchange of greetings, the two walked towards the small conference room arranged by the crew.
The players started their arduous study on the second day. The instructors Shaw Grant and Franken took their respective students out after the short meeting. Although there had never been such a session before, the atmosphere of competition was The program team is happy to see it.
Guan Lili also talked about the business, "According to past experience, the audience should start discussing the players who have championship status at this stage, and we usually arrange the first field mission for the players at this time. "
In the early stages of the program, field missions will test the basic abilities of the contestants, and no real enemies will appear during the period. However, the circumstances of this episode are special, and Vadim and his remnants should not cooperate with their time.
"We decided to speed up the recording process, and the main discussion in the morning was how to eliminate the show this season."
In previous episodes of the show, one contestant would regretfully leave the show at the end of each episode.
They are often unknowingly arranged to complete corresponding tasks in a place set up by the program team in advance. During this period, the instructor will observe the behavior of each contestant through a hidden camera, and finally give a score to each player, and the three with the lowest scores will Individuals will be pushed to the elimination seat and participate in the exciting "choose one from three" session.
Guan Lili continued, "But this time the shooting location was not discussed in advance, and every instructor may need to be present to avoid accidents."
"In fact, you can also decide the shooting location in advance."
"How to say?"
"As long as we know Vadim's movements, we can make arrangements in advance."
Guan Lili stopped and said, "So, Teacher Lu Qi, you don't happen to know Vadim's movements, right?"
She admitted that she had misunderstood Song Lan.
She originally thought that the latter was sleeping in the hotel every day, resulting in her only two students having to resort to off-site assistance. However, she did not expect that the other party had unknowingly investigated Vadim's identity. Intelligence, this is really a bit like MI7.
"Don't get me wrong, he is a friend of mine..."
"Is this friend you are talking about your girlfriend?"
"...Anyway, Vadim has focused on a man named Troy. He is currently being held in the interrogation room of the Abnormal Case Investigation Bureau. They are very likely to take action tonight."
"Troy? I've heard of him. The Investigation Bureau suspects that "Black Sand" and Myronna were killed by him. Our legal department has been keeping an eye on this case, but it was the Abnormal Case Investigation Bureau that came up. Is this possible? Too exciting?"
"My friend happens to know the senior officials of the Fourth District Investigation Bureau, and she has now gone to try to communicate."
"I don't have any objections."
Guan Lili stuffed the last piece of sandwich into her mouth and wiped the residue from the corner of her mouth.
She did not have a platinum membership package in the Bureau. Although her heart was full of sympathy for the agent named Catherine, she had no objection as long as the Eden Hotel and the Prosthetic Hospital were not bombed.
She had already figured this out.
Someone's going to have their home demolished, so why can't it be you?
"I'm going to communicate with the people on the shooting team. We are not familiar with the inside of the Investigation Bureau. We may need to communicate with the people over there to divide the areas that cannot be filmed first."
This is a huge project that requires preparation starting during the day.
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At the same time, the Abnormal Case Investigation Bureau.
"We meet again, Teacher Catherine."
The light in the office is still dim, which is a habit Catherine had when she was still at Daystar. In the words of the teacher, this atmosphere helps her think about the case.
"Here, take a seat. I didn't expect to be transferred back to the Fourth District so soon."
The previous person in charge was killed less than a week after taking over the case. This should also break the record of the fastest death in the line of duty of the Investigation Bureau, and the behavior of the superiors is as unpleasant as ever. Now the Investigation Bureau of the Fourth District has The floor is covered with feathers, and the desk is full of messes left by the "predecessor".
However, when Catherine started investigating along these materials, she suddenly felt a chill down her spine.
Especially the actions that directly led to the death of her "predecessor", she felt that if it were herself, she would probably take the same approach.
When Vadim underwent the prosthetic transplant surgery, he was indeed at his weakest. Brain modification is one of the most delicate surgeries. The transplantation of the operating system determined that he needed to inject a sufficient amount of anesthetic to ensure that he could survive for a long time. He was in a coma for some time.
Waking up earlier than expected can only be described as an accident.
This also means that if she had been the one who took over the case at that time, she might have suffered the same misfortune as her "predecessor".
Catherine has been in District 4 for many years, and she has heard about Vadim, the new "local snake", but at least during her tenure, Vadim has always been a "secure" person. Unlike the rumors, he I know very well in my heart which people I cannot mess with.
This made her wonder why Vadim dared to take action against the Abnormal Case Investigation Bureau because he might have received instructions from the company.
Kolo Films, and Military Technology.
If military technology is also involved, the case will undoubtedly become much more difficult.
What Catherine didn't expect was that her own students brought her the answer to this question.
"Vadim is looking for a girl named Monica. She holds a chip in her hand that is not good for the company. Military Technology hopes to recover the chip before it pokes a trap. Now he is placing all his hopes on it. On the suspect in your custody."
"He is a member of the organization and may know where Monica is hiding."
Catherine thought thoughtfully, "And we captured his men before, so this is a combination of old and new grudges... It seems that you have really grown up a lot after graduation."
"Teacher, I'm not here to talk about this. As far as I know, the "Rescuer Master" program team of Kolo Films is also investigating this case recently."
"Yeah, I heard."
She also knew that there was a lot of internal fighting among the top management of Kolo Pictures. One of them, Lili Guan, who created the program "Master Rescuer", had already made her position clear, in such a clear-cut way.
"On the issue of Vadim, the investigation bureau and the program team can cooperate with each other."
"cooperate?"
"They have invited some experts this time. With their participation, they may be able to solve the investigation bureau's urgent needs."
Catherine understood what Lu Xiang meant.
In the final analysis, the Abnormal Case Investigation Bureau is an intelligence department. Their work focuses on solving unsolved cases within the coalition government. Close contact with criminals is not their main job content.
On her first day back in District 4, Catherine uploaded the death report of the previous person in charge to the headquarters, as well as her personal assessment of Vadim.
But as expected, the headquarters once again adopted a retreat tactic. After such a long time, there was no response.
Catherine didn't know what happened at the headquarters, and how her superiors negotiated with the Council, but everything in the Fourth District had to depend on them.
"This is an idea, but are you sure the program team is willing to cooperate with us? We had some unpleasantness before due to the case of Melenna and 'Black Sand'."
At that time, the founder of Kolo Films had not yet been killed. The company’s legal department hoped that the Bureau of Investigation would transfer the suspect to them. This request was naturally rejected by her. Catherine still remembered that the legal department of Kolo Films was very powerful at that time. They threatened the prosecution department to intervene in the case.
But as soon as Xingoshi died, they were busy fighting among themselves and stopped asking about Troy.
In fact, even Catherine had almost forgotten that there was such a person locked up in their interrogation room. She fell into a coma the day she was escorted back and has never woken up.
"I have a friend who is familiar with the show crew. They should be willing to cooperate with the Bureau, but only if they may need to film in the Bureau."
"As long as it doesn't violate the confidentiality agreement."
"Then I'll contact them."
The arrival of Lu Xiang made Catherine feel more at ease. This student always made people feel at ease just like he did at Daystar.
"Lu Xiang..."
Before Lu Xiang went out, Catherine suddenly stopped her.
"Teacher, tell me."
"After this matter is over, do you want to come work in the Investigation Bureau? I have been able to convince the people above."
"No."
This time, Lu Xiang refused without any hesitation, "I like the current working environment in District 17 very much and have no plans to change my job for the time being."
After that, she left the dark office without looking back.
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There is an undercurrent in District 4 today.
Vadim summoned his remnants and began to formulate an attack plan for the night.
Although Military Technology warned him not to provoke the Bureau of Investigation until he found the chip, if attacking the Bureau became an indispensable step for finding the chip, Military Technology would probably not say anything else.
Vadim knew how people in the company behaved.
They never care about the process, only the results.
In the process of searching for the chip, he also helped the detained subordinates escape from prison. This is undoubtedly a win-win situation.
Vadim was confident about the night attack plan.
"I have already killed the last person in charge of the Investigation Bureau, leaving a mess behind. They never imagined that we would launch a surprise attack on them at this time!"
During the meeting, Vadim arranged a task for his confidants, "At that time, I will attract their attention for you, and then take away Troy. You must take advantage of the chaos to break into the interrogation room in Area B and release everyone else." .”
The outcome of this attack was doomed from the beginning, which is why he had everyone under his command undergo a cybernetic transformation.
The Investigation Bureau of District 4 is unable to withstand this army of prosthetics under its command.
Before, he had only given face to the company and never provoked the Investigation Bureau, but this did not mean that he was afraid of these people.
"Remember, this is a covert operation, and the most important thing is to be surprised."
Vadim said, "You need to use a blitzkrieg to end the battle and seal off the entire B area before they send out any news."
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The two hundred and twenty-seven of the small theater:
A certain day of a certain year, a certain day of the month, Sunday, afternoon
Ye Lu's social account was banned, causing Song Lan to receive a temporary task - to teach Ye Lu's children the difference between chefs and serial killers, and to use his sharp tongue to make her understand that "bad guys" cannot be included. Entering the food chain.
Song Lan felt this was a difficult task.
Especially when the night heron raised its head and stared at him with clear and puzzled eyes.
Ye Lu has witnessed him "turning living people into dead people" many times, which is probably why she wants to travel with her.
"The problem with this is that one person can have multiple identities."
“What are multiple identities?”
Night Heron raised his hand to ask.
"For example, some people look like just ordinary high school students during the day, but at night they transform into well-known monster thieves."
"Um……"
The little girl nodded confusedly and asked, "What does Phantom Thief taste like?"
"spicy."
Song Lan casually prevaricated, and once again brought the topic to a formal level, "The point is that you need to understand that cooking is the professional skill of a chef, and 'turning living people into dead people' is the method of serial killers."
"I get it, you're a serial killer!"
This time, Ye Lu finally realized it and stared at Song Lan with eyes that said, "There is only one truth." "I shouldn't recruit chefs, but rather recruit serial killers!"
(End of chapter)
