NOVPUBThat night,
Lu Heng received the identity information of the original 027, named Chen Xuesong, 57 years old, an academician at Kyoto University Biological Energy Research Institute.
According to the records, Chen Xuesong's research focus was on biological energy technology.
The information about Academician Chen Xuesong was very detailed in the documents.
However, since the information was provided by the Creator Organization, it was hard to say whether it was true. 𝚗ovp𝚞b.𝚌om
After reading the documents, Lu Heng opened his laptop and used a proxy server to search for the name Chen Xuesong.
He found a few people with the same name; one was a lawyer and another was a director of a publicly traded company, but none was an academician at a biological energy research institute.
It seemed that the identity of this academician was protected.
Such cases usually occurred because the project the person was working on was highly classified.
In some high-security research projects, even the cleaning staff had non-disclosure agreements and couldn't say anything until the information was declassified.
If the project Chen Xuesong was researching was highly classified, it was normal that no information could be found.
It wasn't good to involve official authorities given the delicate nature of the identities within the Creator Organization.
Even though the Creator Organization had always maintained a neutral stance to the outside world, that didn't necessarily apply to their actions.
Since Chen Xuesong had become a person of interest to the Creator Organization, it indicated that they were interested in the project he was working on.
Aside from his project, there shouldn't be anything else that would attract the Creator Organization.
As for why Chen Xuesong joined the Creator Organization, the reason was obvious; the Creator Organization must have offered him a deal he couldn't refuse.
The identity information was detailed, but the documents had no information on Chen Xuesong's death.
There was no specific time of death nor the cause of death.
There was also no information about Chen Xuesong available online.
This meant that the Da Xia government had sealed off the information.
That should be the reason why even the Creator Organization didn't know about Chen Xuesong's death after half a year.
If Chen Xuesong's death information was sealed by the Da Xia government, then who was impersonating identity 027?
Was it someone arranged by the Da Xia government?
If 027 was arranged by the Da Xia government, wouldn't they have known about his membership in the Creator Organization from the start?
Something was not right.
If the defection of 027 was arranged by the Da Xia government, someone from the national or military level should have approached him already, asking him to continue his undercover mission.
Since no one from the national level had approached him, that meant the defected 027 wasn't someone arranged by the Da Xia government.
So, who could this person be?
Lu Heng felt that the situation was becoming increasingly complex, even involving a highly classified biological research project of the Da Xia government.
Combined with the Creator Organization's interest in acquiring biotechnology from the Sikes Civilization, it was evident that their activities were definitely related to biotechnology.
Now the issue involved a national-level classified research project.
Should he continue to investigate?
If he didn't find out more, could this threaten him in the future?
Even if he didn't investigate, someone from the Creator Organization definitely would.
Once 027 was captured by the Creator Organization, his own submission of the technological data trap might be exposed.
After careful consideration, Lu Heng decided to personally locate 027. Regardless of how he was going to deal with him, he had to find him first and do so faster than the other Creator members.
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The next day,
Lu Heng and Su Muyu took a flight together to the Capital City.
Following the information on Professor Chen Xuesong, they went to check his social connections.
013 Black Crow had provided the information about Professor Chen Xuesong's social connections, but it wasn't very detailed.
According to the records, Professor Chen Xuesong had no children, had a wife, and had several siblings and nieces and nephews.
Among Chen Xuesong's relatives, the siblings and nieces and nephews were easy to find, but none were involved in scientific research; a few of them were Superpower Users, but their level was not high.
Clearly, 027 was not among these people; if 027's identity was that simple, the Creator Organization would have found him long ago.
Besides that, the most important person in Chen Xuesong's social network was his wife.
The records stated that his wife was named Liu Lanying, suffering from Alzheimer's disease, also known as dementia.
She was living in a nursing home, one of the best in the Capital City.
Lu Heng used the Illusion Pearl to change his appearance before heading to the guard room to check Liu Lanying's visitation records.
The visitation records weren't extensive, but also not minimal, with two to three people visiting every month.
Among the visitors were Chen Xuesong's nephews and nieces and relatives from Liu Lanying's maternal family.
These people were basically uncontroversial; if there were any issues, they would have been exposed without him needing to investigate.
Besides relatives, there were also a few people listed as Chen Xuesong's students.
Chen Xuesong was an academician as well as a professor at Kyoto University. Before he started working at the Biological Energy Research Institute and became the project leader, he had supervised several groups of graduate students.
That meant Liu Lanying was a mother figure to these students.
The students visited on the same day, indicated by the records; they were likely from the same cohort and had arranged to visit together.
After reviewing the visitation logs and confirming there were no visits scheduled for that day, Lu Heng put the records back.
To avoid leaving their names, Lu Heng and Su Muyu directly used their skills to find Liu Lanying.
Liu Lanying's hair already had many silver strands, she appeared quite thin, sitting on a bench in the courtyard, her head bowed as she absentmindedly stared at the apple in her hand.
