Chapter 169 Family Meeting Week (Part )
Ten minutes ago, in the old Jingmai neighborhood, at Bo Ke’s house.

Ke Xiaomo inserted the key into the keyhole, pushed the door open, took off his shoes, walked into the living room, sat on the sofa, and said to Ke Yinzhi next to him: "I just went to meet the dice monster."

"Then what?" Ke Yinzhi asked.

"It told me that the player spreading the parasite around the city was a girl in a wheelchair and showed me her picture."

As Ke Xiaomo spoke, he opened the QQ mailbox he had just downloaded on his mobile phone and logged into QQ, which he had not used for a long time. He saw an email lying in the mailbox.

He clicked on the email, the title of which read "To my dear Mr. Ninja". There was no text in the email, only an attached picture.

The picture shows a girl sitting in a wheelchair, raising her crutches forward. A dark insect is sprinting forward along the crutches, as if it is about to jump out of the screen.

"Wow, are you sure this photo is real?"

As he spoke, Ke Yinzhi glanced at the photo in the email and said, "From my point of view, this photo is weird. The environment, the face, no matter which part, seems to have been deliberately refined with lines, which means that the original picture should be very blurry. There are even traces of artificial filling in the environment, as if in the original photo, a part of the picture is missing and blank. This reminds me of something..."

"What is that?" Ke Xiaomo said, "Monitor?"

"No. Logically speaking, the images captured by the surveillance camera shouldn't have so many missing or blank areas."

"what is that?"

"Brain imaging helmet." Ke Yinzhi replied.

"Brain imaging helmet?"

"Yes, the images generated by the brain imaging helmet will indeed have many incomplete parts, and the image quality is not that clear." Ke Yinzhi said, "If the person who altered this photo wanted to cover up this incident, then it can explain why this photo looks so inconsistent."

Ke Xiaomo frowned: "In other words, the dice monster has a brain imaging helmet in his hand?"

"Not necessarily, this is just my guess."

As he spoke, Ke Yinzhi yawned, changed the TV channel with the remote control, and continued.

"Besides, the existence of players has gradually been made public. Superhero Associations and Magical Girls' Leagues around the world, as well as the three major management bureaus, have gradually used brain imaging helmets to detect whether insiders have mixed in with players. It is not easy to investigate the flow of brain imaging helmets one by one, and it is very time-consuming."

"Can't we narrow the scope and start with only the areas around Beijing?"

"The brain imaging helmet will not be deployed to the organizations around Beijing for another two days. Can you guess who are the two people who are in control of the brain imaging helmet in the Beijing area?"

"Which two people?"

"Xi Ziyue, Qing Ya. Do you think these two people are likely to be fooled by the dice monster?" Ke Yinzhi said, "Although Xi Ziyue is careless, she is not stupid. She can even be called smart. And Qing Ya is even more so."

Ke Xiaomo was silent for a while and then expressed his speculation.

"Could it be that Xiziyue gave the helmet to other magical girls as a joke, and then the dice monster got the brain imaging helmet from those magical girls? After all, do you remember what happened to Xiaoni last time? She went home with the brain imaging helmet given by the magical girl Feng, and we were really scared at the time."

"Speaking of this, I have clearly warned Xi Ziyue in the name of the Control Bureau not to hand over the brain imaging helmet to any of his subordinates at will unless it is absolutely necessary."

Ke Yinzhi paused for a moment, his tone sounding uncertain, "Well...even if it's Xi Ziyue, she shouldn't completely ignore what I say."

After saying that, he shrugged and began to excuse himself: "But... with the recent popularity of brain imaging helmets, she may have let herself go. I'll try to ask her in a few days to see if I can find some clues."

When Ke Xiaomo heard this, he suddenly remembered something and said.

"By the way, the Dice Monster told me before that he knew the Magical Girl Ashes...and the Magical Girl Ashes and Xiziyue were very close. Could it be that Ashes gave the helmet to the Dice Monster?"

"It's possible. I'll check it out when I'm free in a few days." Ke Yinzhi said.

"Given your memory, you will probably have forgotten it in two days."

Ke Xiaomo sighed and changed the subject: "Let's not talk about this for now, let's talk about what the dice monster did today. Why do you think he kidnapped Che Zhengchen and then released him back?"

"Who knows..."

At this point, Ke Yinzhi suddenly raised his eyebrows and changed the subject: "Oh, I think I understand. The photo you saw should have been extracted from Che Zhengchen's memory."

"……what?"

"Those parasites only target ordinary people, and Che Zhengchen is an ordinary person. It is very likely that the player had the parasites stuffed into his body not long ago, and then he forgot about it."

"forgotten?"

"The information given to me by the Control Bureau said that people who are parasitized by parasites will automatically forget about being parasitized."

As Ke Yinzhi spoke, he picked up the Coke on the table, held up his chin, took a sip with a straw, and then continued to explain.

"Although Che Zhengchen himself has forgotten, that doesn't necessarily mean that the memory can't be recovered. So in order to find the player's appearance from Che Zhengchen's mind, the Dice Monster kidnapped him from the Chaoying Building this afternoon and found a place to put a brain imaging helmet on his head."

Ke Xiaomo was silent for a while, then said, "I see..."

"It seems that the dice monster is not as omniscient as you think. Otherwise, he wouldn't have to use such means to find the culprit who spread the parasites." Ke Yinzhi raised the corners of his mouth and said slowly.

He paused and said, "The point is, if the woman in the wheelchair is really a player as it says, then it seems that the possibility that the dice monster is a player is not very high."

Ke Xiaomo nodded and said, "Indeed. If the girl who spread the parasite is really a player, then the dice monster should have nothing to do with the players."

Ke Yinzhi shrugged. "That's right. If it's a player, then there's no reason for it to do this. Taking such a big risk just to betray its companions doesn't fit the behavioral logic of the player group."

He thought about it and added two more sentences.

"At the same time, as a player, it should have more ways to find her, just like the 'friend system' I mentioned before... I remember there seemed to be such a function in the player's panel. Anyway, it doesn't need to go through so much trouble, unless..."

"Unless what?" Ke Xiaomo asked.

"Unless there is infighting among the players."

"Infighting?"

"Who knows? We are not familiar enough with this group at present, but given their situation, if the superhumans are not exterminated in a year, they will die. Logically speaking, the probability of infighting should be very low." Ke Yinzhi said as he thought.

Hearing this, Ke Xiaomo breathed a sigh of relief.

He said: "Anyway, can we rest assured that the dice freak might really be just a mad dog, not a player."

"It's not certain yet." Ke Yinzhi said calmly, "Anyway, since you choose to cooperate with it, remember to be careful not to fall into its trap."

"Are you talking to me?"

"That's true." Ke Yinzhi smiled and said teasingly, "With our clan leader's strength, he shouldn't be led astray by something like that."

Ke Xiaomo stared at the TV screen, and the two of them watched TV quietly for a while.

He suddenly said, "By the way, I have one more thing to tell you."

"what?"

Hearing this, Ke Xiaomo was silent for a while, hesitating whether to talk to Ke Yinzhi about Mingye's matter, but then he remembered that Ke Yinzhi had told him two days ago that he wanted to enjoy a peaceful vacation for a while and experience a normal life, otherwise he would not have entrusted the parasite matter to him.

Qiu Wu and Yong Zhu alone were enough to worry him, and now Ming Ye was added to the mix. Even a big-hearted person like Ke Yinzhi would probably be so choked that he couldn't even eat...

Thinking of this, Ke Xiaomo sighed and shook his head slightly.

"It's okay," he said.

Ke Yinzhi was about to ask more questions when the doorbell rang, interrupting his thoughts. He opened the door and saw that it was Bai Qiuwu who came home. She had just put on her sandals and entered the door, so he asked directly, "Is Mingye back?"

Ke Yinzhi replied: "Not yet."

Ke Xiaomo asked knowingly, "What did you do when you went out just now?"

"I went to a classmate's house to get some math materials." Bai Qiuwu said, holding up a workbook in her hand, "Mingye came back and called me. I need to find him if I need anything."

"Okay." Ke Yinzhi said.

After Bai Qiuwu climbed the stairs, Ke Xiaomo said carefully: "Qiuwu, she and I just solved a witch who was causing trouble in Linjiang Business District."

Hearing this, Ke Yinzhi tilted his head, looked at him sideways, and asked curiously: "Oh... did she recognize you?"

Ke Xiaomo shook his head: "You said that the Fiery Eyes and Golden Pupils cannot see through the physical mask, but can only see through the illusion, so she didn't recognize me."

"That's good."

"I'm going out to buy some drinks and look for Mingye. He's been out for so long today, I wonder where he went." Ke Xiaomo said as he got up from the sofa and walked out of the house.

He casually closed the electronic door behind him, turned his head and saw that the elevator indicator board was lit and someone was riding the elevator slowly rising to the 12th floor.

Ke Xiaomo breathed a sigh of relief, leaned against the wall and hugged his shoulders, wondering how to bring up this matter with Mingye.

After a while, the elevator door slowly opened.

Ke Mingye walked out of the elevator with his hand covering his chest. He looked up from his phone and looked at him evasively: "Uh... Second brother, what are you doing here?"

"I have something I need to talk to you about, but it's not here. Let's go downstairs and get some drinks."

As Ke Xiaomo spoke, he walked towards him and put his arm around his shoulders, not giving him a chance to resist.

Ke Mingye hesitated for a while and said, "Okay, let's go."

　Asking for a monthly ticket!

　　
　
(End of this chapter)