White armor

Chapter 307 This damn sense of fate

On the lawn, the old man watched the scenes unfolding in amazement.

How long has it been since I was so surprised?
He doesn't even know it himself.

The old man once thought that the world was just a simple repetition with nothing new.

The young man whom he had a good impression of was just an ant that looked familiar to him. The good impression would not affect the old man's judgment.

It is inevitable that you take a step forward and crush the ant.

But what appeared on the screen was no longer the C4 neural network system, but the scene of the collapse of the Baltimore Bridge.

It was indeed shocking, but what shocked the old man was not just the Baltimore Bridge, but the provocative and eager gaze of the young man.

He is like a young lion, coveting the throne of the lion king.

Although the person was already dead and no one could survive such a collapse, the old man never expected that Luo Hao could cause such great damage.

"Which ship?" the old man asked softly as he looked at the Baltimore Bridge that was collapsing completely.

“Leased by the Danish shipping giant Maersk.”

Maersk, the old man owns a large stake in countless funds.

One could even say that Maersk belongs to this old man and his friends.

His boat crashed into the bridge, and the young man survived? The old man felt a sense of absurdity.

Fate, the hand of God, these words stirred in the old man's mind, causing huge waves.

"The captain is Ukrainian, the sailors are all Indian, and the ship was built in South Korea. The ship was sold to Japan and Singapore..."

In just a few minutes, a series of information about the ship was almost dug out.

Coincidence, everything is a coincidence. The old man stared in amazement. It was a fateful coincidence.

The piers of the Baltimore Bridge are specially designed. Even if a ship passes sideways, there will be no problem as long as there is control, and there will never be an accident of crashing directly into the piers.

The reason why nothing has happened over the years is that the Baltimore Bridge is ingeniously designed.

Apart from the approach bridges at both ends, the main part of the bridge is an arch made of steel frames. The bridge deck is suspended by steel cables pulled down from the arch, and the entire structure is supported by two A-shaped piers. The purpose of this design is to increase the span of the piers and the height of the bridge deck as much as possible to facilitate the passage of cargo ships.

But the more sophisticated it is, the weirder it behaves when faced with a sudden collision.

But this cargo ship happened to crash into the bridge pier, and the pier was like paper, and the chain reaction caused the entire bridge to collapse.

The destruction of one bridge pier not only caused the collapse of the arched part it supported, but also the bridge deck on the right that was supported by other piers collapsed. And it wasn't just one or two that collapsed, but three in a row!

The entire bridge disappeared right in front of the old man.

It flies the Singapore flag and was rented by its own shipping company. The captain is Ukrainian and the crew are all Indian.

It has nothing to do with Luo Hao or Dongda University.

The old man stared at it in a daze, feeling helpless.

It was fate that defeated him, not that kind-looking young man, he repeated this thought silently in his mind.

And the young man probably didn't win, he just caused great damage before he died.

The scene was in a mess, and the Baltimore Bridge was still collapsing piece by piece like Lego.

In this situation, can anyone survive?
impossible!
"Sir, we are checking the rescued captain and crew." The man broke the silence.

The old man said nothing.

"Three people have been rescued and they said the boat had a power outage when approaching the Baltimore Bridge."

"electricity?"

"The ship was delivered by Hyundai Heavy Industries of South Korea in 2015. It is very new and should not have any problems. At the time of the accident, they activated the backup power supply, but it only lasted for 2 seconds."

“None of this makes sense.”

The old man sighed and lost interest.

He seemed to have aged a dozen years, and the superior demeanor that he had before, which showed that he had everything under control, was gone.

Facing fate, he is just an ordinary human being.

The Flintstones.

"boss..."

The old man suddenly raised his hand and interrupted what the man was about to say.

He suddenly remembered something!

He was indeed the boss of this freight company, but the CEO was a Chinese woman named Angelica Zhao.

Angela Chao is the wife of Senator Mitch McConnell and the sister of former Labor and Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao.

A few weeks ago, Angela Chao also died, drowned in a pond.

Of course, this is a news release, and the old man knows the real cause of death very well.

Same as the doctor named Luo Hao.

But Zhao Xiaolan was not as troublesome as Luo Hao. She was "drunk driving" quietly and "drowned" in a small pond.

Could it be the ghost of Elaine Chao? !

The old man's face looked ugly, very ugly.

None of this can be explained by the laws of physics, but Zhao Xiaolan's shadow has been floating in front of the old man.

That sense of fate became real, as if it were tangible.

……

……

A pale sky appeared on the horizon.

Chen Yong sat on the sofa and thought quietly.

He picked up his cell phone and called Liu, the dad at the Foping base.

"Brother Liu, I'm Chen Yong."

"Good morning, Doctor Chen." Although Daddy Liu's sleep was disturbed, he was not in a bad mood when he got up. He greeted Chen Yong with a smile.

"Is the bamboo's positioning still there? How is it?" Chen Yong asked directly.

"Yes, we covered a large area yesterday. I estimate that we will be able to bring back a pregnant wild female giant panda in a few days." Daddy Liu said with a smile.

In his opinion, it is a happy thing that he is going to have a grandson.

Although these giant pandas will be released back into the forest after they are three years old, they are the bloodline of bamboo and have an unbreakable relationship with Liu.

"Tell Zhuzi to go back to the base immediately." Chen Yong said resolutely.

"Ah? Doctor Chen, I didn't hear you clearly. Say it again."

"Tell Zhuzi to return to the base immediately. You take people to look for him. Be sure to take care of his safety. Immediately, right away!" Chen Yong said word by word, "I'll fly over in a minute."

"why?"

Dad Liu was surprised.

Everything went smoothly. Zhuzi has brought back two wild female giant pandas, one of which was found to be pregnant by tests.

The other one is probably pregnant as well, but the time has not come yet, so there is no objective indicator to determine it.

The scientific research went smoothly, the bamboo performed well, and even had a huge amount of traffic in a short period of time, surpassing the flowers and becoming the top giant panda in China.

Why pull it back suddenly?
Countless questions filled his mind and Dad Liu was stunned for a moment.

"Right away, immediately!" Chen Yong roared impatiently.

"Oh, okay." Daddy Liu heard something wrong in Chen Yong's tone.

"I'm sorry, Liu Daddy, take Zhuzi back to the base immediately, no matter if he lives or dies."

"Dead? Zhuzi is fine, Doctor Chen, please don't say that."

Dad Liu was stunned.

Bamboo is almost invincible in the Qinling Mountains, and he really can't imagine who would cause harm to the bamboo.

Although we cannot use drones for positioning and observation recently, we have a locator and can judge that there is nothing wrong with the range of Bamboo's daily travel.

Why did Dr. Chen think about death?
"No time to explain, do it now!"

"Okay." Daddy Liu and Chen Yong formed a deep friendship while feeding Zhuzi. He also knew that although Chen Yong was playful, he never joked about big things.

Although he didn't understand, he still agreed.

After hanging up the phone, Chen Yong turned his head.

Liu Yiyi was leaning against the door in her pajamas, looking at herself.

"Did you have a nightmare?"

"Luo Hao told me that he was going to die."

"Ga?!" Liu Yiyi also learned the "Ga". She looked at Chen Yong in surprise.

Chen Yong picked up his worn-out cell phone, found the news and gave it to Liu Yiyi.

"Luo Hao told you? Is he haunted? Or did he travel through time?"

Liu Yiyi felt like she was at a loss.

"They issued a death notice first, and then took action. Luo Hao should have escaped the first wave, so he found time to call me and tell me about his affairs."

“???” Liu Yiyi looked at Chen Yong as if he was an idiot.

Issue a notice first and then take action. Anyone with logical thinking would not do this.

"What's that look in your eyes?" Chen Yong changed his phone and started booking tickets. "Take a leave today and go to Harbin to accompany Wang Jiani."

"Is Professor Luo really dead?" Liu Yiyi felt that she was still sleepy and wanted to go back to sleep for another round.

He must be too excited, or that bastard Chen Yong was just joking with him.

That’s what Liu Yiyi thought.

As soon as she turned around, Chen Yong stood up and started changing his clothes.

"Why are you going?"

"I've booked a flight to Foping Base."

"What?" Liu Yiyi asked another similar question.

Chen Yong was silent.

Some things are not convenient to tell Liu Yiyi, and they are too ridiculous.

Chen Yong didn't believe that Luo Hao would die. Although the hexagram showed a very bad omen, there was still hope.

Only bamboo can determine whether Luo Hao is alive or dead.

Just like quantum theory, if Luo Hao died, the bamboo would also die immediately without any delay.

Now that the bamboo is still alive, it proves that Luo Hao is still alive.

"Hey, I'm talking to you." Liu Yiyi stepped forward and grabbed her throat.

Chen Yong made a hand gesture and his fingers fell on Liu Yiyi's arm.

A current passed through, and Liu Yiyi's arm stiffened.

"Stop making trouble, Luo Hao will probably die." Chen Yong said expressionlessly.

"???" Liu Yiyi was stunned, "What's the point of you going to Foping?"

"I asked Boss Zhou, but he couldn't help me either." Chen Yong said vaguely, "Go ask Director Feng for leave, and ask him to help me get leave as well."

Chen Yong changed his clothes and went out.

Click~
The door closed and Liu Yiyi stared at it in a daze, her mind a mess.

Professor Luo had just left, how could he die?

Doctors are used to seeing the death of people, but Professor Luo was less than 30 years old and he left without saying goodbye...

The door opened and Chen Yong gave Liu Yiyi a tight hug.

"you?"

"You've got fat growing next to your butterfly bones, Lao Liu, you need to lose weight." Chen Yong turned and left.

Gan!
This bastard can't spit out ivory from his dog's mouth!

……

Chen Yong called an online taxi and sat in the car, feeling confused.

He also couldn't accept Luo Hao's call.

"Old Liu!" Chen Yong called Liu's father, "Have you gone to pick up Zhuzi?"

“Going up the mountain.”

It's a bit messy on Liu's side.

Zhuzi's whereabouts have not yet reached the deep mountains, and he is circling the mountains dozens of kilometers outside the Foping base. Otherwise, Zhuzi would not have brought his "girlfriend" back to the Foping base so quickly.

“Did the bamboo move?”

"It's been moving all the time, it's really strange, it seems like this kid didn't sleep well last night. I looked at the records and he was wandering around in the mountains last night. He didn't sleep in the middle of the night, I don't know what happened."

Although Daddy Liu said this, he had some guesses in his mind.

The combination of Zhuzi's unreasonable behavior and Chen Yong's "barbaric" demands is saying something silently.

Chen Yong's heart suddenly rose to his throat.

really!

You can't sense it yourself, but the bamboo can.

"Now what? How's the locator?"

"Still moving!"

"Huh~~~" Chen Yong let out a long sigh.

Looking at the time, Chen Yong was calculating.

But after changing his mind, Chen Yong felt helpless and didn't know what to plan.

He didn't respect Shen Zizai that much when he went back to the department to ask for leave. If Luo Hao wasn't there and his master resigned, Chen Yong would most likely not want to be a doctor in the future.

"Lao Liu, send me a message every five minutes." Chen Yong reminded him in a deep voice, "Remember, one message every five minutes! I'm on the plane and can't reply. You have to send me a message to let me know you're safe."

"send what?"

"If the bamboo is still moving, just send me a message. If it's not moving..."

As he spoke, Chen Yong felt sand and dust enter his eyes.

"Doctor Chen, is there something wrong with Qin Ling?" Dad Liu asked cautiously.

"Don't ask, I'm on my way to the airport." Chen Yong sighed.

Daddy Liu was full of doubts, but he had little to ask, so he simply didn't ask since Chen Yong didn't allow him to.

After hanging up the phone, Chen Yong started calculating with his right hand.

But his mind was not calm, his Tao heart was confused, and Chen Yong could not figure out anything.

That bastard Luo Hao asked him to do the math twice before he left, so why didn't he insist? Chen Yong complained in his heart.

"Old White, where's the morning class?"

"Well, what's wrong?"

"Help me tell a fortune."

"Huh?" Bai Dicheng was stunned on the other end of the phone.

"My mind is in disarray. Can you help me calculate whether Luo Hao is still alive? I read the hexagram last night and it was bad luck."

"Oh." Bai Dicheng responded calmly. He was a man of few words and he didn't waste any words, so he just kept silent.

After a long time, Bai Dicheng said softly, "Very bad."

"!!!"

Chen Yong sighed, "Old Bai, how about you calculate it again?"

Bai Dicheng hung up the phone directly.

Chen Yong also knew that his mind was in disarray. What he had just said was so unprofessional that it caused people to laugh at him.

Fortunately, Dad Liu replied with a message every few minutes to tell Chen Yong that Zhuzi was still alive.

Chen Yong was anxiously holding his phone and looking at it.

Like an ant on hot pot, fidgeting.

Even after getting on the plane, Chen Yong estimated the time in the United States and was still nervous.

The good news is that the bamboo is still alive and the positioning collar is moving.

The bad news is that something seems to be wrong with the bamboo today, and its movement range is very large.

……

……

Daddy Liu climbed over mountains and crossed rivers to look for bamboo.

He also sensed that something was wrong with the bamboo today.

Zhuzi is not an ordinary giant panda. Ordinary wild giant pandas have their own territories and their daily movement range is extremely limited.

But Zhuzi is not like that. She has beaten all the wild male giant pandas nearby, but she does not have a fixed territory.

The water source at the uppermost reaches is where bamboo is willing to stay.

But I'm just willing to do so and won't stay there for more than a day.

Liu has accepted all of this. After all, Zhuzi wants to find wild female giant pandas, conquer them, and bring them back to the Foping base.

But something is wrong with the bamboo today, and its range of movement is extremely large.

The only thing that is certain is that the bamboo is still alive.

After climbing over a hill, the other staff members sat down on the rocks exhausted.

"Lao Liu, take a break, take a break."

Dad Liu's eyes widened. The bamboo's activity range was in front of him, but the bamboo was not there now.

Something is wrong in the woods!
From a distance, Dad Liu could smell a scent of blood.

oooo~~~
A jackal ran out, and Dad Liu was startled. He grabbed the staff member next to him, and the two of them made preparations in a panic.

The jackals in Qinling Mountains live in groups of three or five. If they were to attack humans because they were extremely hungry, both Liu and the staff would probably be injured.

But before the two could get ready, the jackal didn't even look at them, and ran away quickly, with its tail tucked tightly under its tongs, as if there was a monster behind it.

what happened?

Daddy Liu stared in a daze at a jackal running wildly in the forest.

In fact, jackals are the kings of the Qinling Mountains. They have strong survival abilities, live in groups, and always fight in groups.

Even leopards or clouded leopards generally will not take the initiative to provoke jackals.

But the jackal in front of him had wounds all over his body and looked as frightened as a stray dog. Could it have been hit by the bamboo?
Dad Liu doesn’t understand.

Bamboo's interest is not in the jackal, and Grandpa Liu knows it very well.

Maybe it was a pack of jackals that disturbed the bamboo, or maybe it was a clouded leopard or a golden leopard.

It was a false alarm, so Grandpa Liu and the staff didn't want to stay and continued walking forward.

Soon, the body of a jackal came into view.

It was unknown how long it had been dead, and its blood had all drained out. The wound looked like a penetrating wound, with a huge blood groove that looked hideous and terrifying. It must have been caused by Bamboo.

As we continued to move forward, more and more jackal corpses appeared before our eyes.

All of them were fatal. Dad Liu could even imagine the action of Bamboo piercing the jackal with one shot.

Clean and neat.

strangeness.

The deeper Liu went, the more horrified he became.

Although bamboo is strong, it is rarely so violent. Dad Liu looked into the depths of the mountains with concern.

No wonder Dr. Chen called me and repeatedly confirmed the condition of the bamboo.

I glanced at the device and saw that the bamboo positioning was still moving.

Alive, but very violent, Liu was sure of that.

Fortunately, Bamboo seemed to be rational and did not attack the herds of takin. It only attacked the jackals.

Dad Liu was very scared. He was afraid of seeing the corpses of golden monkeys and red-crowned cranes in the Qinling Mountains.

Bamboo has the ability to do this.

Especially the jackals died quickly and easily, and the wild animals weaker than the jackals were powerless in front of the bamboo.

Even if there are groups of takin, which generally live near Yaoziliang, it is not difficult for Zhu to hunt them.

As we continued to go deeper, we began to see "fresh" jackal carcasses.

The huge blood-draining grooves left by the bamboo poles looked somewhat ferocious, and the corpses of the jackals that usually dominated the Qinling Mountains were scattered all over the ground.

Dad Liu was even a little worried that the jackals in the Qinling Mountains would be killed by bamboo.

The increasing number of jackal carcasses made Liu worried.

"Old Liu, what happened to Zhuzi?" The staff member also noticed something was wrong and asked worriedly.

"I don't know. The bamboo has too large a range."

"It's really strange, why didn't Zhuzi go find a wild female giant panda, but instead started hunting jackals."

Correct!
Dad Liu was stunned for a moment, then realized that the word "hunting" was quite accurate.

In Liu's mind, bamboo has a very high IQ, about the same as that of a middle school student. He once even dreamed that bamboo could do math problems!

The dense forests of Qinling Mountains seemed to be filled with the smell of blood, which made Liu's father feel nervous.

But there is good news: the little red dots representing bamboo are still moving.

It's not that the bamboo moves all the time, as it also takes a break, but it seems to be fine now.

Daddy Liu and the staff took a break, drank some water, and observed the little red dot on the screen.

"It seems like there hasn't been any activity for a while." The staff member said, "Is the bamboo tired?"

"probably."

In fact, what Liu and the staff were worried about was that the bamboo would be injured.

Although bamboo is strong in combat, it does not mean that it cannot be hurt.

But no one wants to think the worst.

After a few minutes, the bamboo's locator had not moved. Dad Liu could not help it, so he stood up and continued to run towards the bamboo.

Nothing must happen!

Dad Liu stared at the locator almost the entire time.

The bamboo that had been moving around in a large area since Dr. Chen Yong called suddenly stopped, and that bad feeling began to appear.

The bamboo locator no longer moves.

Generally speaking, it is normal for the locator of a wild giant panda not to move for 24 hours. Only if there is no obvious movement within 3 days will the staff go to see what happened.

But every time Dad Liu comforted himself, he would think of Dr. Chen Yong’s inexplicable worries.

His steps were getting faster and faster.

The mountain was slippery, and Dad Liu was holding a monitoring and positioning instrument in his hand. He fell many times along the way, and his whole body was covered in mud.

After stumbling along the mountain road for more than ten miles, we finally climbed over a mountain and found the bamboo plantation right in front of us.

However, due to the dense forest, the bamboo cannot be seen.

"Old Liu, don't worry." The staff looked at Grandpa Liu's white hair and tried to comfort him. "Zhu Zi has been busy all morning, so he must be tired. It's strange, why did Zhu Zi get so excited with the jackals today?"

Daddy Liu didn't say anything. The red positioning dot on the instrument didn't move at all. His heart was about to jump out of his throat.

The closer they got, the more frightened Liu became.

He was afraid of suddenly seeing the bamboo lying motionless on the ground.

If that really happened, Dad Liu wouldn’t know what to do.

When he thought of that scene, Liu's heart began to feel uncomfortable, and he felt as if his whole body was torn apart.

"Old Liu, slow down. Zhuzi must be fine. He's asleep. Why are you so nervous? Look how scared you are."

The staff member said, breathing heavily.

Daddy Liu didn't say anything and continued walking forward.

"Isn't this normal? Bamboo should take a break and have some sleep. By the way, Lao Liu, how did you know that Bamboo went crazy and started hunting the jackals?"

The staff member felt a little nervous and would panic if he didn't speak. Although Daddy Liu didn't answer, he kept asking questions.

"Ho~~~"

A fishy smell hit me in the face.

???

Dad Liu was stunned. Qinling tiger?
That thing has disappeared for 70 years. Is it an illusion?

Before he could finish his thought, a bloody mouth appeared in front of Liu.

(End of this chapter)