Two similar incidents might be a coincidence.

But when three almost identical incidents happen at the same time, it can no longer be explained by "coincidence."

Just like when Gu Ji discovered Volut Company by noticing the same feature of wearing smart devices in the game levels.

There must be some important secret behind this.

And the real reason that sent a chill down Gu Ji’s spine was...

The ability to destroy crucial research facilities of four major world powers at the same time is something that not many countries or powers in the world can achieve.

Who exactly did it?

Gu Ji could hardly imagine.

Upon further examination of the interrogation information, he finally understood the entirety of the "Liangben Incident."

The National Security made painstaking efforts to capture Shao Liang, even taking risks to investigate Liangben in Japan, all because of the stolen "Heaven" drug.

No wonder this incident alarmed the DIA and the Third Department of the General Staff, and even Zeng Dan was willing to sacrifice himself, exposing his National Security Special Service identity.

The power of the drug "Heaven" to control and influence people is indeed worth such efforts.

Especially since the interrogation information mentioned that the drug was only one of the extracts.

But the most critical core.

It must be to investigate the mastermind behind the destruction of the research facilities!

"So it seems, ’Heaven’ must have been stolen from my dad’s research institute."

Gu Ji squinted his eyes, his brain operating at full capacity like a fully loaded CPU, thinking rapidly.

Since Abe Shigehide could steal research data from the Defense Ministry Land Equipment Research Institute, a secret military department, it was equally possible to "take advantage of the chaos" during the 304 Research Institute explosion back then.

It can be inferred from this.

The 304 Research Institute was certainly not just an ordinary comprehensive technology research institute.

It’s like the 221 Factory back in the day, which on the surface was just the Xihai Province Second Mechanical Experiment Factory, a state-run comprehensive mechanical factory, etc., but after several years of declassification, it turned out to be the Xia Kingdom’s nuclear weapons development and production base!

Someone deliberately orchestrated an air crash to eliminate my father, and this must be the reason.

Or rather, he possessed some other vital secrets.

The person who eliminated him is very likely the mastermind behind simultaneously destroying multiple national research facilities and seizing those research data and black technology products.

Was it Volut Company?

Or PM Company?

Gu Ji shook his head.

The matter is definitely not that simple; the power of these two companies is not enough to contend with the state machinery of superpowers like Xia Kingdom and the United States.

Considering the clues from the bomb and air crash levels.

It is clear that the two have long been colluding and have even involved a large number of extremist organizations, indicating that there must be a more terrifying force behind binding them together.

"It seems my previous guess about the items was wrong."

Gu Ji initially thought that the special amine hallucinogens and mysterious computers collected in the game levels were black tech items redeemed by other players from the system. 𝗳𝚛𝗲𝕖𝚠𝚎𝚋𝗻𝗼𝕧𝗲𝐥.𝚌𝚘𝐦

Unexpectedly, these items actually came from secret research institutes of different countries.

Could it be that the "Crisis Management Game" was also developed by a certain country?

This thought was quickly dismissed by him.

If even the precise prediction of future crises and the ability to return to the past and mirror reality were mastered, wouldn’t that country already be invincible in the world?

Fortunately, his investigative direction was correct.

Starting with Liangben indeed uncovered important clues, but now there’s no progress from Japan, and Baron has no leads at all, as if Abe Shigehide has completely disappeared, leaving them temporarily at a dead end.

So the next step, he decided to shift focus onto PM Company.

Choose the softest target first.

Although Volut Company appears to be a medical technology enterprise on the surface, from the bomb level, the company’s interior is akin to a mafia organization, even more extreme, with rampant public shootings right at their doorstep.

Yet, in public domains, they maintain an image of a "good enterprise."

This sufficiently explains the depth of the water within.

Otherwise, my father and Chen Zhiyu’s father, Chen Hongsheng, wouldn’t have gone undercover at Volut.

In contrast, although PM Company is an arms manufacturer with many mercenaries under its wing, seemingly unrestrained, precisely because of this, it leaves the most evidence and flaws.

In terms of difficulty of investigation, the latter is evidently easier.

Thus, Gu Ji used the Ghost Server to simply check the current state of PM Company.

The first news that popped up on the webpage:

Is that US arms dealer PM Company plans to invest 54 million US dollars next month to build a factory in Brazil, marking the first time Brazil’s arms market has opened to foreign capital since maintaining the closure, but currently, most senators in Brazil’s Congress strongly protest this.

"Brazil? Isn’t that Antonie Yassen’s hometown?"

The image of the muscular man in the air crash level instantly popped into Gu Ji’s mind.

His intuition told him, for PM’s factory construction in Brazil this time, they would certainly do some tricks behind the scenes, making it a potentially good entry point for Baron to investigate.

Additionally, since Yassen is currently also in Brazil, there might be a chance to let him join 7472.

Therefore, he sent a message instructing Baron to temporarily leave Japan and head to Brazil to investigate PM Company, leaving the matter of Abe Shigehide to be handled by Jian Na.

After all, with the DIA’s setback in the Japan incident, most of their efforts are now spent dealing with the cabinet government and the police headquarters to quickly release their two intelligence agents, leaving them no time to continue pursuing Baron.