Soul Patch

Chapter 153 One Died

Wenjie pictured his assistant in his mind. Although she wasn't exactly a beauty, she was well-educated, refined, and had a pair of glasses on her nose, giving her an air of eagerness to learn and improve.

It turns out that after you exchange for a hidden identity, the system can transform you into someone else's appearance during a murder rehearsal.

So, it's impossible to say whether the person hiding the assistant's identity is actually male or female!

It seems that this hidden identity exchange is a godsend! At least it allows the patch carrier to hide itself well during the murder rehearsal.

However, there are also drawbacks, which Wenjie realized after a little thought. The drawback is that while the appearance has been transformed into that of a person in the scene, there is no understanding of the social relationships, interactions between people, or work assignments within the scene.

Look, even the assistant doesn't know where his office is. It's one thing if he doesn't know where other people's offices are, but he's the general manager's son, the young master Wen of Huahai International!

That's a bit unreasonable!

From entering the murder rehearsal scene to exchanging identities in such a short time, who has the time to do their homework and investigate the social background of the person they are exchanging identities for?

Wenjie quickly made a judgment in his mind. Since he had identified the assistant's true identity so quickly as a patch carrier, then their goals were the same.

Yes, let's team up with her to find the murderer, and we can split the reward for completing the mission with her.

It is estimated that the final reward will definitely be determined based on the contribution value.

After saying goodbye to Wang Hui, Wenjie turned around and went back to the elevator lobby. Seeing that all three elevators were below the 10th floor, he simply gave up on the elevators and climbed the stairs to the 20th floor.

The staircase was a bit far from the elevator. After exiting the staircase, he went straight to an office.

The solid wood door is a single-leaf door, and the sign on the door reads: Marketing Director's Office.

He ignored him and walked straight to the general manager's office, which was also his father's office.

At this moment, a message popped up on the virtual system screen:

[Patch Cartridge 4 - Exit System]

Wenjie suddenly stopped in his tracks.

What does that mean? It clearly states that once an online task is started, it cannot be automatically exited.

So in my personal panel, there are 1/10 items. I clearly have an item that allows me to skip a mission, but after entering the virtual scene, the item activation button turns gray and cannot be clicked.

What does it mean when patch carrier 4 exits the system?

Was I forcibly logged out?

Wenjie had a vague feeling that something was wrong, so he quickened his pace and went to Wen Tianyi's office.

He noticed that the office door was open, and the assistant who should have been sitting by the door was in an empty seat.

He tapped the door a few times with his fingers:

"boom blah blah"

The door made a dull thud, indicating that the ingredients were quite substantial, heavy, and sturdy, hence the sound when knocking.

It's probably also very soundproof.

"Enter!"

The father's voice came from the office.

Without his assistant, Wenjie felt less reserved and went straight into the house to stand in front of his father.

At that moment, Wen Tianyi was standing at the window with a teacup in his hand. Hearing footsteps, he turned around and looked at Wen Jie.

When Wenjie saw his father's familiar face, the turbulent emotions in his heart gradually calmed down.

"Dad...uh...Mr. Wen," Wenjie paused, then changed his address, as it wasn't appropriate to call him "Dad" at the company.

Wen Tianyi smiled kindly at him, slowly walked up to Wen Jie, and patted Wen Jie on the shoulder.

"How's the market research report coming along? Isn't it supposed to be discussed in a meeting this afternoon?"

"Damn it!" Wenjie thought to himself, looking utterly disgusted. It turned out that the office of the marketing director he had just passed was actually his own office!

He looked up at his father, making a helpless expression: "I'll go look in the office drawer in a bit, see..."

He originally meant to say, "Let's see if it's done," but somehow he didn't say the second half of the sentence.

It was just an instinct, a sense of pride that didn't want to disappoint his father, that was driving him.

An hour earlier, his father had patted him on the shoulder in his bedroom and said, "Dad is getting old, come and help Dad."

Not long after, Wenjie entered the system's rehearsal scene and arrived here, facing his father's work requirements for him...

He looked at the gray hairs sprouting on his father's head and the wrinkles on his face, wondering how his father could still utter those carefree words.

"Prepare well, so you don't embarrass yourself at the high-level meeting this afternoon!"

Wen Tianyi gently instructed.

He looked at his father and nodded vigorously.

Wen Tianyi walked around behind the desk, put down his teacup, plopped down in the executive chair, and asked unhurriedly, "You wanted to see me? Is there something you need?"

Wenjie paused slightly, glancing at the workstation by the door, as if about to say something. When he looked away, he saw his father looking down at his hands.

To be precise, it should be about looking at the fingernails.

"Hehe, it's nothing, it's just... I lost my employee ID." Wenjie shrugged.

"I was wondering why you were wandering around the company instead of going back to your office to do anything productive. Let the administration do it for you." Wen Tianyi said, picking up the internal phone and dialing a number.

"Li! Have the administration assistant get Wenjie a new employee badge. Bring it up!"

After hanging up the phone, he said slowly, "Go wait at the office door!"

Wenjie left the office.

Instead of leaving immediately, I lingered in the office for a moment and heard Wen Tianyi making another phone call.

Why is the father looking at his fingernails?

When did he develop this habit?

In that instant, Wenjie was reminded of Yang Shanshan. Yang Shanshan's slender, jade-white fingers, painted with sparkly nail polish, and the feeling of holding hands with Yang Shanshan on the street, so soft and boneless, was just too wonderful.

He shook his head, walked to the office door, and waited for a while, but no one came.

Just as he was about to go downstairs to urge her, he saw a girl running over from the elevator.

The girl was short and quite thin, dressed in a conventional business suit, with an ordinary appearance—the kind of ordinary that you'd easily miss among white-collar workers in an office building.

She rushed over: "Mr. Wen, I'm sorry to have kept you waiting."

She was panting as she presented Wenjie with a name tag with a lanyard attached.

"Thank you," Wenjie said, taking the employee badge and waving it on the electronic lock to open the door.

"Mr. Wen, try opening the door repeatedly to see if it works..."

The girl suddenly fell silent because she saw that after Mr. Wen glanced at the office area, his expression suddenly became serious.

Curious, she took two steps forward and peered into the office.

"Ah! Ah! Ah!"

The girl screamed and retreated, her face deathly pale. She crouched down against the wall in the corridor, covered her face with her hands, and her body trembled uncontrollably.

That's...that's terrifying!

She glanced around casually and was surprised to see a girl lying on the floor with a knife stuck in her chest, blood flowing everywhere.

She glanced at Xiao Wen, who was standing at the door, and thought that Xiao Wen's back view was particularly handsome.

A real man keeps his composure in a crisis!

To be honest, Wenjie was also shocked when he opened the door and saw the bloody scene on the ground.

Any normal person would be frightened to some extent when they see a bloody and cruel scene.

However, after acquiring the system, Wenjie witnessed all sorts of bloody scenes and encountered deranged killers...

This kind of insight is not as simple as just being an observer or stumbling upon something; it requires facing those psychopathic killers head-on, uncovering their motives for murder, and finding a way to solve this thorny problem.

Gradually, Wenjie became more and more composed through his training.

He turned to the girl and said softly, "Don't be afraid, call the police right away and get the building's security guards over too."

He stepped forward, bent down, and carefully examined the girl's face for a moment. He was right; his assistant had been murdered.

Although he didn't have much hope, he still reached out and checked his assistant's breath.

The person is dead.

The assistant died—no, to be precise, one of the patch carriers died.

(End of this chapter)