Origin

The helicopter was noisy, and there were headsets for passengers on board, but the size was not suitable for pugs. Dogs' hearing is much sharper than humans. The more than two hours of flight completely confused Wu Zhongyuan. The world was spinning and he couldn't tell north from south.

After getting off the plane and changing cars, Huang Hailin was still driving, and Wang Xinran took him to sit in the back seat.

Wu Zhongyuan didn't try to escape again. There was no point in escaping here. He could only wait until he got to the headquarters to make further calculations.

Wang Xinran and Huang Hailin did not talk on the road. More than an hour later, the car stopped. This was a military restricted area at the foot of the mountain. However, the sign hanging on the office building was not the 18th Branch, but the Red Star Ordnance Research. Place.

You need to swipe your card to enter the office building. The office building has five floors and there are elevators on the left and right sides. The two took him to the elevator on the right. There was no down button in the elevator, but after swiping the card, the elevator went straight down.

After a minute, or maybe about a minute and a half, the elevator stopped, and the elevator door opened. In front of it was a metal corridor more than ten meters long. It was unclear what kind of metal it was made of, but its function should be for X-ray safety inspection.

There is a large guard room at the end of the corridor. There are two guards outside. There are many small cabinets with code locks. The two put their portable guns in their own cabinets, and then led him out of the corridor and into the work area. .

The underground space is much larger than Wu Zhongyuan imagined. The elevator is located in the middle area, and a large number of rooms are distributed in a ring around the elevator. It is roughly estimated that there are at least seventy or eighty rooms of different sizes, and the total area should be about fifty acres. .

Different from modern research institutions, the facilities here do not have a strong modern atmosphere. On the contrary, they appear a bit old. The rooms are all transformed from caves of different sizes. The doors of some rooms are transparent, while the doors of some rooms are transparent. It is completely sealed, and there are code locks on both sides of the door.

It was already after nine o'clock in the evening, and there was no one in the circular corridor. The night shift staff were all in different rooms. The next process was similar to being admitted to jail and hospitalized. First, check the body, measure the height, weigh, and check. Blood pressure was measured, heart rate was measured, various physiological data were recorded, a handful of hair was cut, and a tube of blood was drawn for testing.

Then it’s time to take photos, from different angles and all parts of the body.

Finally, he was bathed and disinfected to make sure that he did not carry any viruses and had no other diseases except malnutrition. Then he was handed over to Wang Xinran and Huang Hailin who were waiting outside the door.

The case-handling procedures of the 18th Branch were similar to those in the local area. Whoever arrests someone is interrogated. However, the two did not interrogate him. They just managed to ask him some things related to Lu Jiahui. The questioning methods were mostly multiple-choice questions. He only needed to You can respond by nodding and shaking your head. The purpose is to confirm whether he recognizes some of the items used by Lu Jiahui during his lifetime.

And do you remember some of the things Lu Jiahui experienced during his lifetime?

The place where the questions were being asked was under surveillance. Wu Zhongyuan did not dare to reveal his identity. He did not answer all the questions asked by the two. He had not been in contact with Lu Jiahui for a long time. He did not know some things, but he could He could select Lu Jiahui from multiple photos, and he could also identify Lu Jiahui's voice. He could also answer several questions related to underwater archeology correctly, and he could also roughly select colleagues from the 18th Branch who were mixed in many photos of ordinary people. come out.

After more than an hour of communication and comprehensive data from all aspects, the two finally came to a conclusion, with a degree of suspicion and consistency of 90%.

This is a very high degree of agreement. Next, we will conduct a more detailed investigation, including more in-depth communication and obtaining the previous movement trajectory of this pug to determine where the pug has been before and make a final judgment. When and where did Lu Jiahui's soul possess this pug?

Huang Hailin took the lead in asking and communicating, and Wang Xinran assisted. Most of the time, Huang Hailin was communicating with him. Wang Xinran seemed a little absent-minded and spent most of the time in a daze.

The communication came to an end for the time being, and Wang Xinran took over and took him to the residence where Lu Jiahui lived. Since Lu Jiahui died not long ago, her dormitory has not been allocated to others for the time being. Except for some important personal belongings, which were handed over to her family members, everything else was left behind. Here it is.

Wu Zhongyuan had no intention of observing Lu Jiahui's residence. After entering the door, he began to look around, looking for something that could be used to write. There were always pens, but there was a pen cap that he could not open.

Seeing his abnormal behavior, Wang Xinran guessed that he wanted to write, so he helped him remove the cap of his pen and found paper.

The dog couldn't hold the pen with its paws, so it had to hold it in its mouth. It was very awkward to write with its head tilted. After several attempts, it couldn't write, so it changed from biting horizontally to holding it vertically.

Before finishing the word "I", Huang Hailin walked in from outside and said, "There is a clue."

Wang Xinran was squatting next to Wu Zhongyuan. Hearing Huang Hailin's words, he stood up and reached out to take the pieces of paper handed over by Huang Hailin.

Huang Hailin said, "This epitaph is currently in a municipal museum in Hubei Province. According to the text on it, the owner of the tomb had been wearing a piece of white jade that conformed to his shape during his lifetime, and it was also buried in the tomb as a funerary object after his death. But this The graves have been robbed and it may take a lot of effort to find them."

Wang Xinran glanced at Huang Hailin, then looked at the pieces of paper one by one, sighed and shook his head.

Huang Hailin said, "Don't be discouraged. This tomb was not stolen for a long time. It is roughly estimated that it should be between ten and twenty years. There were other funerary objects stolen along with the piece of white jade. We can start looking for it from this aspect.”

Wang Xinran shook his head, handed the pages to Huang Hailin, then reached for a cigarette and found that the cigarette box was empty, turned around and left Lu Jiahui's residence.

Huang Hailin smiled, waved to Wu Zhongyuan, and led him out of the room.

Wang Xinran walked dozens of meters to the right and opened another room.

The smell of cigarettes lingered in the room, as well as a change of clothes, including jeans and military uniforms with epaulettes and the rank of captain.

Wang Xinran took out cigarettes from the bedside, took out one and lit it.

"The specific situation is not recorded in the database," Huang Hailin said. "I will help you cover it for a few days, and you can take the time to go to Hubei."

Wang Xinran shook his head, "It's useless."

Huang Hailin did not answer the call.

Wang Xinran took a deep breath from the cigarette and slowly exhaled it, "You should know that even if we find the remaining eight, we won't be able to activate that formation."

"Not necessarily, maybe..."

Wang Xinran shook his head, "He used nine spirit stones to activate the formation that day. One of them was brand new. There were only fifteen warriors carrying spirit stones. Seven of the nine spirit stones he used belonged to The remaining eight of these warriors are very old and contain very little energy. Even if they are all found, they will not be able to activate the formation."

After Wang Xinran finished speaking, Huang Hailin said, "The moisture under the water is too heavy, and the nine black meteorites are covered with moss and dirt. After cleaning, the energy required to activate the formation may be reduced, and we are located underground. More than two hundred meters, it is more likely to be induced by the underground magnetic field than the underwater environment where the meteorite was originally located."

"Do you believe what you said?" Wang Xinran turned to look at Huang Hailin.

Huang Hailin smiled and said, "It doesn't matter whether I believe it or not. It's enough for you to believe it."

Wang Xinran smiled bitterly.

Huang Hailin added, "We have found two of them, we can't give up halfway."

"Do you know you are taking a risk?" Wang Xinran asked in a low voice.

"I know, but didn't we come out of Lop Nur alive?" Huang Hailin said with a smile.

"That's not what I'm referring to," Wang Xinran lowered his voice, "Do you really think I don't know what you used in exchange for the spiritual stone in her hand?"

Huang Hailin curled his lips and smiled, "Don't talk nonsense without evidence."

Then the two didn't talk for a long time. Wang Xinran sat by the bed and smoked, and Huang Hailin stood by the door leaning against the wall.

From the conversation between the two, Wu Zhongyuan discovered a lot of things. First, the teleportation formation had been moved here by the 18th Precinct.

Second, Huang Hailin accompanied Wang Xinran to Lop Nur during his absence. That day, Sanhu once told him that there was a spiritual stone in the Lop Nur area, but Wang Xinran did not know about it at that time. Sanhu read It was taken from the memory in Zhao Ying's mind.

Third, Huang Hailin had been in contact with Zhao Ying, and Zhao Ying still had a spiritual stone in her hand. Huang Hailin probably used something that Zhao Ying was interested in in exchange for this spiritual stone, and there are clues to the spiritual stone in the Lop Nur area. It was probably Zhao Ying who told him.

Fourth, Huang Hailin likes Wang Xinran, otherwise he would not risk his life to accompany her to Lop Nur, let alone violate disciplinary principles and use things that should not be used to exchange spiritual stones with Zhao Ying. Who is Zhao Ying? She is a spy.

After a while, Wang Xinran put out his cigarette and said, "Go back to sleep."

Huang Hailin shook the pieces of paper in his hand, "Are you going or should I go?"

Wang Xinran shook his head, "No need to go."

Huang Hailin still wanted to speak, but Wang Xinran said first, "Go back to sleep, I'm tired."

"Okay, you rest first and we'll talk tomorrow." Huang Hailin turned and left.

After Huang Hailin left, Wang Xinran turned to look at him, then took out cigarettes again and lit one.

After taking a few puffs, Wang Xinran took out the pen and paper again and tried to get Wu Zhongyuan to write.

Wu Zhongyuan looked up at Wang Xinran without opening his mouth to bite the pen she handed over. When Huang Hailin left, Wang Xinran had tilted her head and glanced at him. The look in her eyes was very complicated, including apology, gratitude, blame, and conflict. There is also regret,

Wu Zhongyuan could understand all these emotions, but one of them made him feel very uncomfortable, and that was conflict. There was conflict in Wang Xinran's eyes when she looked at Huang Hailin, indicating that she was conflicted about whether to accept Huang Hailin or not.

Seeing that Wu Zhongyuan didn't open his mouth, Wang Xinran handed it over again in confusion.

Wu Zhongyuan shook his head, ran to the corner and lay down. He was sure that as long as Wang Xinran knew that he was back, he would definitely follow him, but he was not sure whether it was right to reveal his identity.

He couldn't tell how he felt now. He was always a little disappointed, but he never complained about Wang Xinran, because during the time he left, Wang Xinran had been working hard to find the spirit stone and wanted to go find him. During this period, Huang Hailin gave her a lot of help. Huang Hailin had previously said, "Didn't we come out of Lop Nur alive?" This sentence shows that the two went to Lop Nur to find the spiritual stone and experienced a narrow escape. Huang Hailin did not hesitate to violate discipline and make mistakes, and exchanged the spiritual stone in her hand with Zhao Ying, just to help Wang Xinran, hoping that Wang Xinran could realize her wish.

He is a man, and he knows what kind of situation men would do this. Friendship is not enough to make a man reckless, and liking is not enough to make a man violate discipline and law, unless it is...

Although he has not had much contact with Huang Hailin, he has a deep understanding of this person. He is a good man who values ​​​​love and justice. He would never do this deliberately to win Wang Xinran's favor, knowing that Wang Xinran could not leave. He did this because he really wanted to Wang Xinran was finally able to go with him.

From Wang Xinran's point of view, the contradiction is understandable. Huang Hailin's actions were selfless. In the end, she received nothing but discipline and legal punishment. She is a smart person and it is impossible not to know what Huang Hailin is thinking. But Wang Xinran had him in her heart and could not give Huang Hailin any response or reward, so she was conflicted, grateful, apologetic, blamed and deplored.

In fact, Huang Hailin has known Wang Xinran longer than him. The two were already colleagues when Wang Xinran went to school as an undercover agent. To be precise, he stole the person Huang Hailin liked. Huang Hailin had acted together with the two of them many times. , it is impossible not to notice that Wang Xinran likes him, but Huang Hailin has never shown any jealousy or hostility. Not only is he not hostile to him, but he has also saved his life many times in critical moments. He is really a good person.

Everyone understands the truth, but he is still very disappointed in his heart. Is it true that feelings cannot withstand the passage of time, and can devotion without response really not last long?

Wu Zhongyuan was very confused and couldn't figure things out for a while. In addition, it was unfair to make a judgment based on just one look. He needed further observation to be sure.

But he also knew very well that he didn't have much time left for him. The 18th Branch had already begun to investigate the movements of the pug he possessed. At this time, there were surveillance everywhere. As long as he was found stealing mobile phones, they would Try to find the owner of the phone. Once you find the owner of the phone, you will know the number of the phone, and then you can trace who the phone called or sent messages to after it was lost. As long as you find Mr. Li, his identity will be exposed. .

It takes time to check the surveillance, and it also takes time to find the owner of the phone. Since it is not an urgent case, the investigation will not be expedited, so it should be safe within three days.

Three days, wait three more days, and then make a decision after three days...