Seven years after transmigrating, he was cornered at the head of the bed by a cold and aloof empress

Chapter 226 But the mastermind is someone else?

"Someone! Call a doctor right now! He's been silenced!"

Lin Zhou's roar exploded like thunder in the cold detention center corridor.

A series of hurried and chaotic footsteps quickly approached.

Accompanied by the ear-piercing "click" of the iron gate being unlocked, several tense-looking prison guards and the resident doctor rushed in pushing a defibrillator.

"Get out of the way! Family members, step back!"

The doctor roughly pushed aside the iron chair blocking his way and ripped open the collar of Zhou Lixing's prison uniform.

At this moment, Zhou Lixing had completely stopped convulsing.

His bloodshot eyes were rolled upwards, and his pupils had begun to dilate irreversibly.

White foam mixed with dark red blood spilled from the corner of his mouth, dripping onto the cold cement floor in a shocking manner.

"Prepare for defibrillation! Two hundred joules!"

"Bang!"

Zhou Lixing's emaciated body was jolted up by the powerful electric current, then fell heavily back down.

"Three hundred joules! Again!"

"Bang!"

However, on the portable ECG monitor next to it, the glaring green wavy line remained a straight line without any undulations.

With a long, despairing "beep," the entire meeting room fell into a deathly silence.

The doctor, covered in sweat, put down the defibrillator's defibrillator's shock pads.

He took off his stethoscope and shook his head, his face ashen.

"Time of death: 8:47 PM."

"The preliminary assessment indicates that the cause of death was sudden acute cardiac arrest, but a final determination will be made after a forensic autopsy."

Acute cardiac arrest?

Lin Zhou watched this scene coldly through the bulletproof glass.

Those deep, peach-blossom eyes burned with a raging fury powerful enough to ignite the air itself.

A sudden cardiac arrest caused by farting!

Why did my heart stop acting up so suddenly, just half a second before I was about to reveal the name of the mastermind from seven years ago?

There's no such thing as a coincidence in this world!

This is an attempt to silence them!

It was a perfectly executed murder to cover up a crime, carried out under tight surveillance without leaving a trace!

Lin Zhou gritted his teeth, his muscles tense to the extreme from extreme anger.

He turned around abruptly and slammed his fist hard against the rough load-bearing wall in the corridor.

"Bang!"

The dull thud sent chills down my spine.

Blood slowly flowed down his broken joints, but he seemed to feel no pain at all.

"Young Master!"

Old Chen, who had been waiting outside the door, changed his expression upon seeing this and quickly strode forward, leaning on his cane.

He immediately took out a snow-white handkerchief, wanting to help Lin Zhou bandage his wound.

"I'm fine."

Lin Zhou raised his hand, refusing Old Chen's offer to bandage him.

He stared at the glaring bloodstain on the wall, his eyes revealing an unprecedented chill and ferocity.

"Uncle Chen, we were all wrong."

Lin Zhou's voice was terribly hoarse, as if he was trying his best to suppress the wild beast about to break out in his chest.

"I thought that by crushing Dynasty Entertainment with hundreds of billions of dollars and sending the Zhou family father and son to prison, my parents' souls in heaven could rest in peace."

"I thought I had overturned the entire chessboard."

"It turns out that what that old dog Zhou Lixing said was actually true."

Lin Zhou slowly turned his head and looked at Zhou Lixing's body being carried out on a stretcher.

"He really was just a peripheral pawn that was casually discarded."

"The iceberg beneath the water has only just begun to show its tip."

In this detention center, right under the noses of the prison guards.

The other party was able to kill a living person instantly without anyone noticing using an unknown method!

This immense power and influence, this terrifying method of treating life as worthless.

This is definitely not something that a mere wealthy family in Beijing could accomplish.

Old Chen's face was extremely pale at this moment.

His old eyes, which had seen the vicissitudes of life, flickered with an extremely solemn fear.

"Young master, this is not the place to talk. Let's get in the car first."

Ten minutes later.

The all-black, bulletproof Rolls-Royce Phantom drove away from the detention center and silently disappeared into the Beijing night.

The air pressure inside the carriage was so low that it was hard to breathe.

Lin Zhou leaned back in the leather seat, letting Lao Chen clean the wound on the back of his hand with iodine.

"Has the matter been clarified?"

Lin Zhou kept his eyes closed, his voice icy cold.

"Who has Zhou Lixing seen recently, what has he eaten, or what unusual items has he come into contact with?"

Old Chen deftly wrapped medical gauze around Lin Zhou's neck and sighed heavily.

"Young master, this old servant has already bribed the inside staff to investigate."

"After Zhou Lixing was arrested, he hasn't seen anyone except you."

"His meals were also provided in a standardized manner, and there were no abnormalities."

Lin Zhou suddenly opened his eyes, his gaze sharp as a knife.

"The absence of any abnormalities is the biggest abnormality."

"These scum hiding in the shadows are even more efficient and ruthless than I imagined."

Old Chen wiped the cold sweat from his forehead and solemnly pulled out a document bag stamped with a top-secret seal from his briefcase.

"Young Master, although Zhou Lixing is dead, he did not take all the secrets with him to his coffin."

Old Chen handed the file bag to Lin Zhou, his voice extremely low.

"In the ten minutes or so before he was arrested this afternoon, the old servant had the overseas cybersecurity team forcibly breach the highest-level server of Dynasty Entertainment."

"We captured a set of extremely strange encrypted data packets on a hidden computer in his office."

Lin Zhou's gaze sharpened.

"What is it?"

Old Chen swallowed hard, his face turning pale.

"These are his overseas communication records."

"For the past seven years, Zhou Lixing has been using a dark web node that has been encrypted with eighteen layers of onion routing to make one-way, regular reports to a mysterious overseas account."

"It not only reports on the movements of Starry Sky Media, but also includes some personnel changes among the senior management in Beijing."

Lin Zhou took the document bag and quickly bypassed the seal.

One-way reporting?

The president of the leading entertainment giant in China, a big boss with assets of tens of billions.

Behind the scenes, he really was just someone else's watchdog!

"When we were capturing this data packet, the other party's firewall reacted extremely quickly and immediately activated its self-destruct program."

Old Chen's tone revealed a hint of lingering fear.

"The world-class hackers that our Lin family employs almost had their physical terminals compromised by the other side's tracking code."

"We tried our best, but we only managed to salvage the last screenshot of the communication interface."

Lin Zhou pulled out the only A4 sheet of paper from the document bag.

It was an extremely blurry screenshot of a hacker interception, complete with a lot of noise and snowflake-like patterns.

There are no words.

There is no specific IP address.

In the center of the entire sheet of paper, only a chilling black badge pattern is printed.

Lin Zhou's gaze was fixed on the pattern.

It was a cross.

A dark red cross that looks as if it has been soaked in blood.

In the center of the cross, a lifelike black serpent with a scarlet forked tongue is coiled.

The snake's eyes were painted with a special dark green dye.

Even if it's just looking at a printed screenshot.

Lin Zhou could feel an extremely cold, evil, and deathly gaze piercing through the paper and staring intently at him.

Venomous snake.

cross.

This eerie totem, like a rusty iron nail, pierced deeply into Lin Zhou's retina.

"Young master, this old servant has consulted the top-secret databases of all known conglomerates and underground forces worldwide."

Old Chen took a deep breath, his voice trembling uncontrollably.

"There is absolutely no record of this badge."

"They were like a group of ghosts that appeared out of thin air."

Lin Zhou did not answer Lao Chen's question.

He gripped the paper tightly, his knuckles turning white again from the excessive force.

I don't know why.

When he saw the black venomous snake coiled around the cross.

The memory seal deep within my mind, which had just been violently broken through, once again sent a stabbing pain through me.

He felt like he had seen this pattern somewhere before!

On that rainy night seven years ago?

Amidst the blazing fire?

Or is it in a pair of cold and ruthless eyes?

Just as Lin Zhou was suffering from a splitting headache and desperately trying to find clues in the vortex of shattered memories...

"Beep—beep—beep—!"

Deep within his mind, the long-lost system suddenly went berserk, sounding the highest-level red alert!

The piercing, synthesized mechanical voice, carrying an unprecedented urgency and coldness, exploded deep within Lin Zhou's consciousness.

[Warning! Core hostile faction totem detected—organization codenamed "K"!]