North America.

Houston.

After several transfers, the brain wave hypnosis research team moved from the previous underground institute to near Houston city.

Noah was very confused about the intelligence leaks in recent years, and at the same time, it also increased internal investigations, but it had not found a clear channel for leaks.

This incident became a thorn in the Noah Society and also caused irreconcilable cracks within the Noah Society.

Therefore, under this pressure, scientific research projects such as brain wave hypnosis and brain wave reading are also highly anticipated by some senior executives of the Noah Society and invested huge manpower and material resources.

Nick, who was in a secret meeting with NASA Administrator George at Houston Space City, looked serious at this moment.

"George, are you really going to quit?"

Faced with this problem, George Lawrence nodded helplessly: "Nick, you should understand that this is the previous promise. After all, I, the director, cannot escape the mistake of Outpost 1."

"But I think you should think carefully about Williams you recommend." Nick reminded him with some slightest suggestion.

Upon hearing this, George's eyes showed a hint of confusion: "Nick, have you found something?"

But Nick's next answer was unexpected: "No, he has no big problems, it's just that it's too clean."

Too clean?

What is the reason for this?

Seeing George's face was confused, Nick didn't explain much, because he had no substantial evidence for this matter, but a kind of intuition from his years of intelligence career.

In order to verify this intuition, he conducted a comprehensive monitoring investigation of Williams, who was nominated by internally for half a month.

But the result was nothing.

The reason why Nick suspected the other party was mainly because he reviewed Williams and three NASA director candidates half a month ago, although the two only met twice.

But Nick always had some weirdness and something wrong with this person's senses.

George asked in confusion: "Look, is it also a mistake to be clean?"

"George, my old friend, do you really think someone is clean? People have desires. The more they act too clean, the more dangerous it is." Nick replied with a flashing look.

George, who was not an intelligence officer, spread his hands and said, "This is not a reason for doubt. I can't tell William that your life is too clean and does not meet the requirements of NASA! Please, now you are the director of NASA, not the director of FBI or CIA."

"..." Nick didn't agree.

Suddenly there was a knock outside the door.

"Come in."

The female secretary Anne walked in: "Sir, President Musk has arrived."

After taking a look at the watch, he found that it was three in the afternoon and he almost forgot about Hua Musk's appointment.

Nick stood up and said goodbye: "I won't bother you. We'll talk in depth after you retire next month."

“OK.”

Nick and George walked out of the office and soon met Musk and his group who were coming towards him. Musk was smiling and immediately greeted him: "Hello! Director Nick, why are you free to come to Houston?"

"President Musk should focus on the Falcon launch vehicle!" Nick, who was smiling and not smiling, left without looking back.

Looking at Nick who disappeared in the corner, Musk's eyes were a little meaningful, and then he showed a harmless smile, and he became brothers with George.

On the other side.

After getting down to the underground garage, Nick got on the off-road vehicle and, under the protection of the fleet, headed to the secret brainwave research base in the suburbs of Houston.

But before his car arrived, Brooke, the team leader in charge of the security and confidentiality of the base, reported an emergency to Nick.

Half an hour later, Nick brought people to the base.

Brooke, who looked embarrassed, didn't know how to explain, so he could only bring his group to the crime scene.

The base's third floor is the rest area for internal personnel. At this time, the room of Andrew, a senior researcher at the base, has been blocked.

Brooke ordered security personnel to open the door.

There was a person lying on the bed. There was a bone-deep scar on the wrist of the man's left hand and the bed sheet was covered with blood.

On the bedside table on one side, there was a scalpel, a bottle of painkiller, and a bottle of sleeping pills. Under the bottle, there was a note of paper.

Nick, wearing gloves, picked up the note.

[I am so tired! This kind of inhumane research seems to have not stopped on the day when my hands were stained with the blood of innocent people...]

A suicide note, Nick turned his head and asked, "Where is the surveillance?"

"I checked. The man committed suicide between 12 and 13:00 noon. He was having dinner with his colleagues in the base restaurant at around 11:00 in the morning. The surveillance was normal along the way." Brooke explained.

Suicide? Nick glanced at the body and found that there were indeed no signs of struggle or fighting, and there were no other poisons found during the preliminary autopsy.

The cause of death is excessive blood loss, and also taking a lot of sleeping pills and painkillers. Everything seems to be an ordinary suicide case.

Nick, who did not say a word, came to the monitoring room of the base. After checking the monitoring, he was thinking wildly in his mind.

This matter seems to be an ordinary suicide, but if it is combined with some of the situations he knows, he has to think a lot.

On October 24, 2014, Dr. Libaoen committed suicide in the fir base, Brainwave 106 Laboratory.

On December 14, 2014, at the Fir Base, Brainwave 106 Laboratory, Dr. Al Ben committed suicide.

On March 8, 2015, Senior Researcher Collison David committed suicide at the White Rock Mountain Base, Brain Neuron 122 Laboratory.

...

Similar suicide cases have occurred seven times since last year, and now they are the eighth. And these cases have one thing in common, that is, the suicides are all researchers who participated in brain-related research, and are also core researchers of the team.

In addition, Nick also noticed a situation, that is, the suicides of these people were very reasonable and there was no evidence of reversal.

After watching the surveillance, the familiar smell made Nick's heart more vigilant and heavier.

Something is wrong, something is not right.

As a top agent, he has already noticed the problem. How did the other party make these researchers "being suicide"?

And what is the purpose of doing this? Stop Noah from developing a brain reading system? Could it be that it was done opposite to the Pacific?

One question and one guess after another came up in Nick's mind, but he always felt that he couldn't grasp the key.

This feeling is really uncomfortable.

He stayed in this secret base for two days, and all the places he should investigate were investigated in a comprehensive manner, and all the evidence pointed out that Andrew committed suicide.

This result made Nick unable to start, so he could only temporarily seal the matter and then continue to investigate the matter secretly.

The worried Nick came over and left in a hurry.

Watching the convoy leave, Brooke's eyes are empty and strange, and then he returns to the base to continue his daily work.

Dr. Killian, who is in charge of technical research, seems not sad or curious about Andrew's suicide.

After processing an experimental subject, Dr. Killian brought the collected experimental data into some complex formulas, and then used supercomputers to calculate again.
Chapter completed!