Chapter 283 Han Zu's Secret
"Click."
"Buzz...Buzz~~~"
After many days, Han Zu returned to his warehouse on the outskirts of City C. He had not been home for so long that the power systems had automatically shut down, and it took several minutes to restart them.
After returning to the house, the first thing Han Zu did was to turn on all the lights in the house, and then checked all the cleaning robots. Several robots used micro energy furnaces, so there was no need to worry about electricity issues. So Han Zu started them first and began to clean the dust in the house, and placed the rest on the charging piles.
"Hoo! Hoo!"
After blowing away the dust on the refrigerator door, Han Zu opened the refrigerator. Because the power outage lasted for a long time and the refrigerator's power was not independent, the food inside had rotted and gave off an unpleasant smell. Han Zu thought about it, closed the refrigerator again, lifted it up, and threw it into the garbage disposal pit near the warehouse, but did not destroy it immediately.
After cleaning up all the garbage, Han Zu threw them all into the garbage disposal pit, then turned back to the parking lot in front of the warehouse. The fuel tank of the fuel-powered car was empty, but fortunately, there were still a few barrels of gasoline in the warehouse.
It’s not that Han Zu doesn’t like those vehicles with built-in reactors, but compared to those things that are too quiet to be vehicles, Han Zu prefers the sound of internal combustion engines. However, it seems that it may be necessary to get a car like that. Maybe when he goes to Infinite Company later, he can get one from the research department.
After refilling the car with gasoline, Han Zu retrieved his long-unused mobile phone, locked the warehouse door, and let the cleaning robots continue to work. Han Zu drove back to his old house in City C. There was no change along the way, except that a few new shops were being renovated. After returning to the old house and doing some simple cleaning, Han Zu drove to the cemetery in City C, bought a few bouquets of flowers at a nearby funeral supplies store, and placed them at the resting place of his parents.
"Mom and Dad."
Han Zu didn't say anything here. He stood here for a while, smoked a cigarette, and then took a new pack and placed it in front of his father's tombstone. He wiped the dust off the tombstone, cleaned up the surroundings briefly, and then left the cemetery and returned to the car.
"Um, my condolences."
A voice sounded in Han Zu's mind. It was Gloria's voice. For some reason, after being teleported back from the copy and leaving the Infinite Company's base, Han Zu took a miniature mechanical device that could connect to the nanomechanical group in Gloria's head, allowing her to see and hear information from the outside world while inside Han Zu's body.
Han Zu did not respond to Gloria, but started the car and drove steadily towards the airport.
Although she didn't know why Han Zu brought her back from that place, based on Gloria's brief observation of Han Zu's behavior after she came out, she found that Han Zu seemed to be a person who deliberately immersed himself in loneliness but pretended to be normal in front of others. People with this state and psychology, generally speaking, their nature can be roughly divided into three types.
One type is very withdrawn and not willing to interact with others, and anyone with a discerning eye can see it. The other type will try to integrate themselves into the crowd but will always feel a little out of place. People in these two states are very common.
But this man seemed different. When they were at the Infinite Company base, it was obvious that Han Zu had a wide network of contacts. He knew basically everyone and was very familiar with them. When they talked, there was nothing unusual or out of place at all. But through the time she spent alone with Han Zu, Gloria felt that Han Zu seemed to be a superb actor without a mask.
Gloria does have a lot of secrets, and while Han Zu was driving to the airport, Gloria was using one of them.
Although Gloria's nanomechanical group is an older model, its functions are still powerful. When Gloria was taken into Han Zu's body before, she tried to send a specific message to the outside world, but for some reason it was severely blocked. After Han Zu got the micromechanical device, Gloria was able to reconnect to the outside world, so she speculated that there must be something special about this man.
After that, because Gloria found that she seemed to be in a secret base of Infinite Company, for safety reasons, she did not send any signals to the outside world until now. But when Gloria tried to send information to the devices or places in her memory, she found that almost all the devices were offline. This could only mean that either the equipment or organization had been updated, and she might have been destined to be dead and lost various permissions, or those things and places had been destroyed or sealed by Infinite Company.
But now, Gloria only has a broken head left and is trapped in Han Zu's body. There is not much she can do, so Gloria can only try one by one and connect all the facilities or equipment she still remembers. Just when she hits a wall everywhere and is about to give up, the only device gives her back the connection.
"The matrix is offline, the database is available, the search function is partially offline."
It was a large database. Based on Gloria's previous observations of the outside world, she was able to confirm that it had been more than a year or two since she lost her combat ability in that copy. That was long enough for many things to change.
"Search the database, search for... um. Name, Han Zu."
"Searching existing databases...Search completed, there are 13739 relevant data items..."
"Additional information. Additional information..."
The database retrieved more than 10,000 items related to "Han Zu". It was estimated that there were many people with the same name as Han Zu, so Gloria sent additional information before the database started to introduce the first item. She used the nanomechanical group to take a picture of Han Zu's face in the rearview mirror, and then filled in some information about Han Zu's physical characteristics based on her own speculation.
"Secondary screening is in progress...Screening completed, there are 5 relevant data items, and the number of additional items is: 2"
After reading this information, Gloria eliminated four irrelevant data, leaving the last relevant data and the two additional entries. Just as Gloria was about to check further, she found that Han Zu had arrived at the airport and was parking his car in a hangar.
"Download selected data and additional entries."
"Downloading.. Completed."
When Gloria saw the private plane parked in the hangar with the logo of Infinite Company, she immediately downloaded the data and two additional entries and was ready to disconnect from the database at any time. However, Han Zu did not get out of the car directly. Through his conversation with the maintenance personnel of Infinite Company in the hangar, he learned that the plane actually belonged to Han Zu and was undergoing routine maintenance, which would not be completed until an hour later.
After learning the details, Han Zu lowered his chair and closed his eyes to rest. Gloria also took this opportunity to continue searching the database.
"Unable to connect to the network matrix, the current information was not searched successfully."
The information that Gloria just downloaded basically only dates back more than a year ago, or to be exact, between one and a half months and two years. During this period of time, there was nothing special in Han Zu's data.
My parents died in a car accident when I was in high school, leaving behind an old house and a small amount of assets. I finished college on my own and applied for several jobs after graduation. Although each job was not long-term, I worked hard while I was there, so I still have some savings, which is normal. Apart from the death of my parents, I am similar to most people in society.
But after opening the two additional entries, Gloria's interest was aroused.
The first entry recorded an event that happened a long time ago. According to the calculation of Han Zu's age in the database, it should have happened when Han Zu was eight or nine years old. In other words, it happened 20 years ago.
This entry records a major event that happened in City C that year, which was related to a food producer. At that time, that food producer was considered a large snack company, and many of its products were loved by people of all ages. However, at that time, for unknown reasons, someone poisoned the raw materials on the production line, causing large-scale food poisoning. Not only in City C, but also in several cities where this food company mainly markets, a large number of people were affected. The poisoning in adults was not serious, and at most they would suffer from diarrhea. As long as they stopped eating the related foods, they would return to normal within a day or two. However, there were also cases of adults dying from this.
But for children, this is very fatal. According to the statistics in the entry, more than 10 children aged 21 to suffered from epilepsy or death. Such a large-scale food poisoning incident also caused more than casualties, including children, which caused a violent response in the society at that time.
At that time, the military and the government took direct action. First, they closed down all the companies and production lines of the food company, and then arrested all the relevant personnel. Although the murderer of the poison was caught soon, the man denied it and kept saying that there was another mastermind. Although there was no evidence later and the man had a very reliable alibi, just a few minutes after he left the court, he was beaten to death on the steps of the court by the parents who had lost their children.
What happened next was that almost all the people involved were sentenced to death, with the lightest being life imprisonment. Although there were appeals, all were rejected. The once popular food vendor also disappeared from society. As for why this incident was related to Han Zu, it was because according to the search of the system database, Han Zu was very fond of the snacks of this food vendor at the time. According to the consumption records of Han Zu's parents at the time, there were indeed many consumption records of this kind of food before this incident.
But what was strange was that in Han Zu's parents' consumption records and bank records, there were no hospital consumption records when the incident happened, including before and after. Gloria then retrieved the hospital records of all the children who were affected at the time and were of the same age as Han Zu. It turned out that Han Zu seemed to be the only one among the children at that time who was not affected at all, not even suffering from mild diarrhea.
This incident might be a coincidence, or perhaps Han Zu was lucky enough. Apart from giving Han Zu something to discuss after dinner when he was a child, there was nothing worth studying.
But things got interesting when Gloria started looking at the second related entry.
It was a screenshot of a news report about several murders and a young man handcuffed by the police, sitting in a police car. He looked to be just 20 years old, or even younger. Although the screenshot was blurry, and his height and body shape were not consistent, and it was a side profile shot, through the clear restoration of the nano-mechanical group, it could be confirmed that the person in the photo was Han Zu, who was lying in the car.
But the most interesting part is not this, but what happened after Gloria secretly connected to Han Zu's mobile phone and then connected to the database, allowing it to be connected to the Internet.
After searching the Internet, Gloria was surprised to find that all clues or information related to the incident seemed to have been erased manually. Since nothing could be found no matter what method was used, it seemed that the person who erased the information was related to the government or the military. This made Gloria curious.
Because of the influence of unlimited companies in society, more than 90% of the people have an illusion that unlimited companies have actually become the actual rulers replacing the government and the military, but this is not the case.
It is indeed possible to replace the current government, and even to a certain extent, it is true, but the military is not as simple as ordinary people think. Although the current unlimited companies are huge in any field, the military, which has hardly appeared in front of the public in recent years, can still compete with unlimited companies, not for anything else, but because the military has enough power.
Perhaps in another ten years or so, Unlimited Company will be able to become the true and sole ruler, but at least during this period of time, the military will still have a lot of say.
And such a powerful military would actually take the initiative to erase the information of a case of multiple murders, even after they had caught the murderer, that is, Han Zu. The message this conveyed was very unusual.
"No relevant information was found."
The database was unable to detect anything more, which further confirmed Gloria's thoughts. Her curiosity about Han Zu had surpassed what she originally wanted to do. However, the facilities at that time, including the personnel, were probably either disappeared or occupied. She was now like a homeless ghost. Fortunately, Gloria was not a stubborn person, and the transformation surgery preserved her emotions, which did not seem to be a bad thing.
"Database is being reset... File deleted."
"?!"
While Gloria was still thinking, she received a message that it was being initialized when she connected to the database. Gloria immediately deleted her access record, disconnected from the database, and also disconnected from the network.
"I just checked so many things and nothing happened. But just because I checked this case, the entire database was formatted? What's so special about this guy?"
"Han Zu, the maintenance is complete."
"Thanks."
Just as Gloria was surprised, the private plane completed maintenance, and Han Zu left his car and boarded the private plane.
Soon, the plane left the hangar and took off. After a while, it arrived at a remote old town, which was Han Zu's hometown. But this time was different from the last time. Han Zu placed a heavy motorcycle in the cargo hold of the private plane.
The old airport hasn't changed much compared to the last time. Although it's called an airport, it doesn't actually have its own aircraft. It's just a place for other aircraft to park. The value of this old city was exhausted decades ago, so even helicopters are rare. Even if Han Zu's luxurious private jet parked here, most people would probably not notice it, let alone care.
“Buzz! Buzz!”
Riding on the heavy motorcycle he had just obtained from the engineering department, Han Zu left the private plane and stepped on the accelerator twice on the dirt road near the runway.
"I didn't expect that a heavy machine powered by a reactor could make such an engine roar... I still don't know much."
"Om~!"
There were no other buildings or residents near the old airport, so no matter how loud the sound was, it would not disturb anyone. So Han Zu drove away, listening to the roaring sound of the engine.