"Sorry, I shouldn't have let you act alone," Zhang Heng said apologetically. "I always thought that they were mainly watching me, and if they wanted to attack, they should have attacked me first. Besides, we should still have some time. I didn't expect them to act so fast, and they attacked both sides at the same time."
"They attacked you too?" Bai Qing was still a little shaken. "In school?"
"Well, the thing I saw in the basement of Warehouse No. 3 last night should have hatched, but logically speaking, it should need some time to learn before it can replace me in human society. But it seems that those things can't wait any longer, so they attacked me early this morning.
"They called me to the dean, but he was not there. The room was filled with their people. Fortunately, these things are not much stronger than ordinary people in terms of combat power, and they don't have any special attack methods." Although Zhang Heng said it casually, Bai Qing could hear the danger in his words.
"No wonder," Bai Qing said. "Director Gao of Children's Palace told me that you were lying from the beginning to the end. If I hadn't seen you put together a CT machine with Lego bricks, I might have believed her. However, she should have seen that I didn't really believe her, so she sent someone to follow me. And then … that thing appeared, disguised as you, and saved me. At first, I really thought it was you, but it couldn't tell me the secret code between us."
Bai Qing cried again. "I was too scared at that time, so I could only pretend that I didn't recognize it. I kept looking for opportunities along the way, but I couldn't escape. Their people seemed to be everywhere. It brought me here, and I thought you had been captured."
"It's okay. It's all right now," Zhang Heng said. Zhang Heng said, "Just in case, I secretly put a tracker in your pocket before we parted this morning. After solving the problem there, I called you, only to find that your phone was turned off, and your location had deviated from the Children's Palace. That's why I rushed over here as soon as possible."
"I sent that thing to buy bayberries just now. I don't know when it will come back." After that, Bai Qing seemed to think of something and panicked again. "And the fat boss downstairs should be one of them. Did you come up from downstairs? When that thing comes back, they will know that you are here." "That's right.
"Relax, relax. I already understand the current situation," Zhang Heng comforted her. "Don't worry. That thing won't come back. It's lying in my trunk now."
Bai Qing finally breathed a sigh of relief when she heard what Zhang Heng said. Her nerves, which had been tense for a long time, could finally relax a little. Bai Qing organized her words in her mind and said again, "We failed. Children's Palace has been controlled by those things. In addition to Director Gao, a male teacher is probably one of them. If the three children really left something there, they probably have already fallen into their hands."
"Yes." Zhang Heng was very calm. After discovering that there was something wrong with Bai Qing's position, he had actually guessed that those things had taken the initiative to attack Children's Palace. However, he didn't think that those things had gotten what they wanted. Otherwise, they wouldn't be so anxious.
Attacking him in broad daylight at school was not a small risk for them. Besides, the imposter was only a semi-finished product. It couldn't even fool Bai Qing, let alone Zhang Heng's grandfather.
"That thing is not in Children's Palace," Zhang Heng said after thinking for a while. "Otherwise, there's no reason why they couldn't find it. Maybe we have overcomplicated the whole thing from the beginning. If there is really something that can deal with the lifeform under Warehouse No. 3, the three children shouldn't have hidden it."
"Huh?"
"This is the question that I have been thinking about. If that item really exists and is so important, why did those things kill the three children before they found it? They could have imprisoned the children first and interrogated them for the whereabouts of the item. Even if they have received professional training, it would be difficult for them to withstand high-intensity interrogation, not to mention they were just three children."
"I'm confused. Are you trying to say that the item doesn't exist at all?" Bai Qing asked.
"No. Judging from their current reaction, that item must exist, but it can't be destroyed or retrieved. So, those things can only use this method to avoid people's attention."
"What can't be destroyed or retrieved?" Bai Qing's eyes fell on the computer next to her. Then, she thought of something, and her eyes widened. "The Internet? Don't tell me that the three children posted the method to kill that thing online? "
"This is the most reasonable explanation, isn't it?" Zhang Heng said. "If you want to spread news, the Internet is the best choice. Every word you post will be read and recorded by someone. Even if the original post is deleted later, you can't stop what has already happened. You can only get rid of the source of the spread to prevent more people from knowing about it. They misled me from the beginning, making me think that they were looking for something real. The college students were probably fooled by them. Whether it was the riverbank or Children's Palace, there are no useful clues at all. On the contrary, they can quickly identify who is investigating this matter. "
"But now the original post has probably been deleted. How do we know who saw this content? How do we get in touch with them?"
"It doesn't matter." Zhang Heng turned on one of the computers. "As long as something is posted on the Internet, there will always be some traces left behind. Do you know Baidu snapshots? In layman's terms, Baidu has been constantly sending out Baidu spiders in the process of obtaining data. Baidu spiders are automatic programs that access and collect all kinds of data on the Internet, then build an index database. During this process, when Baidu spiders arrive at a new website or a single page through a certain link, it will download and store the homepage and corresponding pages of the website. After that, users can search for it, and Baidu can extract the cached data indexed in the database server.
"Using Baidu's snapshot function, we can quickly locate keywords and view old web pages. If we are lucky, we may also see those deleted posts and some posts that we don't have permission to view."
After Zhang Heng finished speaking, he found that Bai Qing's mouth was wide open, and she looked confused. After a while, Bai Qing came back to her senses and said in surprise, "You … when did your computer skills become so good?"
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