Chapter 140: Chapter 98: Great Upheaval (Part 7)

The debris from the plane crash was scattered over a wide area, with wreckage found even a kilometer away.

The extent of the wreckage often correlates with the speed of the crash.

Staring at the horrific crash site and the mangled remains of bodies being carried out by rescue workers, Chen Hongsheng felt a deep sense of terror flash in his eyes.

On the sixth day following the incident,

Even though Gu Ji found it hard to accept, the Civil Aviation Administration held a press conference, announcing that all 54 passengers and 12 crew members on board had perished. The reason for the accident was a bird strike that damaged the engine. The rescue team had found 64 bodies, with two still missing.

His father was among the two missing bodies.

This became Gu Ji’s last hope.

But with the press conference over, the authorities began to order the gradual withdrawal of rescue teams. Moreover, the area was teeming with wildlife that could harm people, and the police forbade outsiders from entering the forest; he had no way to investigate further.

He stared at the last message his father left on his WeChat.

How ironically absurd.

He had saved so many people through the Crisis Management Game, yet in the end, he couldn’t even save his own father.

Chen Hongsheng couldn’t bear to see Gu Ji remain in such a desolate state any longer, so he lifted the pretext of Dong Ying to forcefully call him back to the country.

Back home in Jingzhou, the woman he remembered as a tough businesswoman, a tiger mom, now appeared much more haggard.

Gu Ji tried to comfort his mother while still searching for information about the accident.

His mother also seemed unwilling to accept the result that Gu Jian had perished.

So no memorial was held.

And just the day after he returned to Jingzhou, strangers came knocking at his door.

Gu Ji initially thought they were colleagues of his mom or dad coming to pay their respects. But when he opened the door, he saw two men, one tall, one short. The shorter man seemed unassuming.

“Hello, is this Mr. Gu’s residence?”

“Yes, may I ask who you are?”

“National Security Bureau.”

The shorter man pulled out a badge from his pocket, with the national emblem on the upper part and “National Security” beneath.

Gu Ji blinked as he realized the badge was genuine.

Dong Ying heard the commotion from the bedroom and slowly walked to the living room.

“Gu Ji, who’s here?”

“Well, we are from the National Security Bureau; we’re here as a matter of routine to investigate the incident of Mr. Gu Jian’s accident. You have no need to be nervous,”

The shorter man spoke very politely,

but Gu Ji could sense something was amiss.

For ordinary people’s accidents, even if there were to be an investigation, it should be handled by the public security registration department. Why would it fall under the jurisdiction of the National Security Bureau?

Dong Ying, too, was a veteran of criminal investigations and quickly caught on.

“Come on in, have a seat. Gu Ji, go get some water.”

“No need, we just have a few simple questions. After we’re done, we’ll leave.”

The shorter man said as he took a recorder out of his pocket. As he mentioned, the questions were indeed all very basic.

After they left,

“Mom, why would the National Security come?”

“What else could it be? It must be related to your dad’s previous workplace.”

Dong Ying seemed unwilling to discuss her husband’s matter further and turned coldly back to the bedroom.

However, Gu Ji sat down, his eyelids half-drooped.

Exactly.

Just like his mom suspected, for the National Security Bureau to come personally, there could only be one reason: his dad’s former job at Xia Science Institute 304!

Because Gu Ji had been interested only in firearms and combat since childhood, he rarely inquired about his dad’s workplace. Especially since his dad resigned from 304 after an incident back in middle school. After that, he naturally never paid attention again.

Wait a minute.

The incident…

Gu Ji vaguely felt he had grasped something critical. His brain began to operate at high speed, as if a mental map appeared before him, linking his dad, 304, National Security, Volut, and other elements.

Since the National Security was involved, the projects his dad worked on at 304 must have been highly confidential. Such a person, after the project’s destruction in an incident, resigned and went to work for a foreign tech-medical company in the same field.

If he wasn’t a spy or traitor, then he definitely had a particular purpose.

And Volut appeared to have connections with the Crisis Management Game, probably hiding some unspeakable secrets.

“So dad wasn’t completely in the dark….”

Gu Ji muttered.

If everything was as he speculated, then his dad’s sudden interruption of his business trip to Ningzhou to find him was likely because he sensed something from the questions Gu Ji asked him on WeChat, worrying that his son might have encountered something.

Previously, Chen Zhiyu’s subtle investigation of him without malice was most probably orchestrated by his dad. To make him this tense, the underlying issue must be serious.

Given all this,

Was the plane crash that his father suffered truly an accident?

As this occurred to him, Gu Ji’s eyes flashed with a fierce light that could freeze one’s blood.

If man-made, was it Volut Company?

Or did they hire PM Company to do it?

Or, possibly, were other game players or hidden forces in the dark involved….

After pondering for a long time, Gu Ji couldn’t find any useful clues.

There was just too little known information.

The most direct way would be to ask Chen Zhiyu’s father, Chen Hongsheng, for details.

But he chose not to.

No matter how much Chen Hongsheng knew, dragging him into this to lose his life would be a significant blow to Mr. Chen and Chen Zhiyu.

Alternatively, if thinking on the dark side, should Chen Hongsheng have issues, by asking, it would mean exposing himself unnecessarily.

“Ultimately, I’m just too weak right now….”

Gu Ji ground his teeth, raising his wrist to see the Volut watch his father had given him, feeling a burning desire to grow stronger reignite within him.

That afternoon, he bid farewell to his mother, preparing to return to work in Ningzhou.

Seeing her son apparently pull himself together, Dong Ying felt a lot better and agreed happily.

Back in Ningzhou,

Gu Ji first asked Chen Zhiyu and Gao Bo to meet, thanking them for their recent concern and care. It was also intended to reassure them that he had moved past the shadow of his father’s accident.

After the meal, he called Zhang Wenjun to ask for one last day off.

Now with a 35 times speed difference between the game world and reality, one day was sufficient for him to indulge in the game levels.

Having prepared everything,

Gu Ji returned to his apartment, lying sideways on the bed, using his remaining crisis points to enhance his special task’s CQC course to level 2 and using all leftover points to accelerate his Central Nervous System enhancement.

Of course, he didn’t forget that his item backpack still contained a Poison Needle Trap mine.

[Equip remaining items before entering the stage?]

[Equip]

Seeing the mine icon appear in the upper right corner of his view, he then entered the game level page.

After updating the DLC, all three completed levels had a “Modern” label.

Gu Ji tapped on Level 4.

[Randomly loading initial crisis…]

[Classic level successfully loaded! This round’s crisis: Glorious Tomb; Crisis type: Accident Disaster; Crisis level: Red (Moderate); Impact range: Local; Remaining hearts: 3.]

As the text advanced,

The familiar dizziness;

The familiar darkness;

It was as if he had fallen into that familiar, endless, terrifying whirlpool once again….

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