Floating Star City, Double Star Building.
Military Office.
When Qin Yuan came to look for Ling Changfeng, his face was a little serious.
He stood still in front of the desk, did not speak directly to report, but silently stood at attention on the spot, waiting for Ling Changfeng to finish the work in hand.
Ling Changfeng looked up at him as if feeling something, signed and closed the document in his hand, and then asked, "What's the matter?"
"Two things, one is about where the scar on Xu Xinghe's gland came from that you asked me to investigate before; the other is that during the investigation of this matter, some accidental discoveries—"
As Qin Yuan said, he stepped forward and spread out the folder in his hand in front of Ling Changfeng.
Ling Changfeng frowned slightly: "What's the conclusion?"
As soon as Qin Yuan opened his mouth, he felt that something was wrong. His adjutant seldom spoke so obliquely. According to the general reporting process, he should directly tell himself where the scar on Xu Xinghe’s gland came from, instead of saying something. no.
Sure enough, Qin Yuan said with a serious expression: "There is no conclusion. People from the Intelligence Section and the Security Bureau have investigated for more than a month—"
Qin Yuan raised his head and said word by word: "Nothing."
Ling Changfeng's eyes froze, and he repeated: "Nothing?"
Marshal Ling was obviously dissatisfied with the efficiency of his subordinates, so his tone sank.
He tapped his index finger on the table, motioning Qin Yuan to start talking.
Qin Yuan sensed the chief's displeasure at the moment, so he put away his usual hippie smile, stood at attention and said, "Xu Xinghe's resume was normal until his third year, that is, when he was 21 years old. The wound appeared around the time of his junior year. During the summer vacation in the second half of the semester, he had no consumption records for half a month, and rejected all travel invitations from his friends, but the chat was still going on normally, but the response frequency was slower. During that time, someone asked What is he doing? He replied that he was writing a thesis in retreat at home. Other than that, there was no other abnormality. All the replies were sent by his own communication equipment, and the IP address was indeed located at home."
Adjutant Qin took a deep breath and continued: "I've read his pre-marital health diagnosis report, the wound on the back of his neck was probably caused by a 2.8cm wide diamond-shaped murder weapon, the wound was very deep, one centimeter deeper It would be life-threatening. And his electronic medical card does not have any records of medical treatment, nor records of drug purchases. Personnel from the Intelligence Section and the Security Bureau visited Capital University in casual clothes and asked some of his classmates at the time. Some people said that according to Xinghe’s own explanation , that scar was caused by the glass at home suddenly breaking while taking a shower, and the shards accidentally stuck into his flesh. However, if it was really just such an accident, there is no need for him not to go to the doctor. And if he was physically threatened at that time, So instead of calling the police afterwards, he made up an excuse to cover up the reason for the past, which is also very intriguing."
Ling Changfeng frowned after hearing this, and asked, "Did anyone see him during the summer vacation of his junior year?"
Qin Yuan nodded: "Yes, he went to the laboratory of Capital University in mid-to-late July, and used the supercomputer in the laboratory to run a batch of paper data. Since then, in about a month, No one has ever seen him in person again. All traces of him seem to have been erased. Just because there is nothing, that's why it's strange. My instinct tells me that this matter is more serious than we thought... "
"I don't want to listen to your intuition. The failure of the investigation itself already shows the seriousness of the problem." Marshal Ling crossed his hands in a triangle on his chest, and cast a stern gaze behind the desk. .
This is the gaze of the chief.
Qin Yuan lowered his head: "I'm sorry."
"What's the solution?" Marshal Ling asked.
"There is no good solution for the time being, we can only let the intelligence department and the security bureau continue to follow up." After saying this, Qin Yuan fell silent.
In fact, there was a shortcut in front of him, but he knew that his chief didn't want to take this shortcut just yet.
"So, what did you investigate?" Ling Changfeng continued to ask, he knew that if the matter did not make any progress, Qin Yuan would not come to report to him.
"Found an accident—"
As Qin Yuan said, he stepped forward and turned the folder to the last few pages.
A few photos were included in the attachment, which immediately attracted Marshal Ling's attention.
The different pupil shrank slightly.
His eyes quickly scanned the few lines of brief personal information and written reports on the document.
"How is this going?"
Ling Changfeng raised his head and looked at Qin Yuan fixedly.
"As you can see. Because the investigation has been fruitless, the intelligence department has searched almost all the relevant information on people related to Xu Xinghe, and found this..." Qin Yuan sighed inaudibly, "This It's a trivial matter, but it's also a troublesome matter. Originally, they might never have any intersection again in their lifetime, and you can also turn a blind eye and pretend that you don't know. But now, her situation is very bad. If you let her go , she might die because she didn't receive timely medical treatment, what should I say about this... If Xinghe finds out about it in the future, it may cause some irreversible consequences."
Ling Changfeng pondered for a moment, then said in a low voice: "I see, I will tell Xinghe about this matter when he returns. It is up to him to decide what to do at that time."
"Yes." Qin Yuan nodded, and continued to ask: "Then about the scar?"
"Continue to investigate." Ling Changfeng said, a resolute light flashed in his different pupils, "Investigate to the end."
"Yes!" Qin Yuan paid a standard military salute, turned and left.
After Qin Yuan left, Ling Changfeng stood up and stood in front of the one-way floor-to-ceiling glass windows, overlooking the busy Star City on the eighty-eighth floor.
Suddenly he misses his little spouse.
In fact, both he and Qin Yuan knew it well, and to find out all this, asking Xu Xinghe himself was the fastest and most direct way.
That is the party involved in the whole matter, and the only party involved so far.
However, Ling Changfeng recalled that night, when Xu Xinghe was asked why he was afraid of being marked, the other party's pale face, fearful eyes and trembling arms.
I really can't bear to force him into that situation again.
Ling Changfeng sighed silently.
What is his little spouse doing now
Marshal Ling turned around and took two steps, came to the reception room in the side hall, and dialed Xu Xinghe's phone number.
Surprisingly, the phone rang for a long time, but no one answered.
Ling Changfeng frowned slightly, and called again, but no one answered.
what happened? Are you crazy
Ling Changfeng looked down at the call records on the screen, and pursed his lips.
Although Xu Xinghe did not answer his phone in the past, perhaps because of the conversation just now, he always felt uneasy at the moment.
He thought for a while, and dialed Qin Yuan's line again: "Go and check, what are Xinghe and the others doing now?"
Gu Nai lit a cigarette in the modified car, which looks like a large truck on the outside but has various high-tech equipment and signal shielding devices inside.
He didn't smoke often, and now he suddenly took a puff, and couldn't help coughing from choking.
The rest of the people in the car were well-trained burly men with guns on their waists. Seeing this, someone laughed at him and said, "Look at you as a scholar, don't hold back for a while."
Gu Nai was not annoyed when he heard this, but nodded with a smile: "Yes, I'm just a scholar, so why let me go through this muddy water?"
Hearing this, a tall man with a scar on his face turned his head to him and said in a deep voice, "Don't complain, the master didn't save you back then to support you to go to college."
"I know, I'm not complaining." Gu Nai shrugged, "How are you preparing? How long will it take us to leave Capital Star? We must leave before Ling Changfeng reacts, otherwise once the pass is blocked, we will It will be difficult to leave."
The man with the scar in the head glanced at Gu Nai, and before he could speak, he heard another man beside him sneer and say, "This is the capital star, the core planet of the Gamma galaxy, even if he is Grand Marshal Ling, he can't do it because of himself." If the wife is lost, the entire pass will be blocked? Otherwise, how much economic loss will be caused in a day, isn't he afraid of impeachment by the military committee?"
"And I heard that the relationship between Ling Changfeng and his wife is not good. He may not really care about this match so much."
"After all, they were matched by their second marriage, and they will probably have to leave after a year."
Gu Nai frowned slightly when he heard the words, and said in a deep voice: "I don't care about the messy rumors from the outside world. Based on my understanding during this period of time, Ling Changfeng doesn't care about him. If Xu Xinghe is found missing, even if he doesn't block it." Isn’t the total martial law at the port a headache? Don’t take chances, the first task right now is to get people out of the capital planet as soon as possible.”
"I know this in my heart, it's not your turn to teach me." The voice of the man with the scar also sank.
Gu Nai sneered: "You'd better know it in your heart, if the task cannot be completed, the master will blame you, don't blame me for not reminding you."
The atmosphere in the car instantly became tense.
In the end, a gray-haired and short-haired man came out to smooth things over: "Everyone is here for a mission, so calm down. As long as we pass the AP-543 pass, we will be basically safe. Someone will come to pick us up from Pearl Pa Xing left the Gamma galaxy. Once he leaves this broken galaxy and enters the owner's territory, he will be completely safe, so don't worry."
"This is the best." Gu Nai said, took another puff of cigarette, and then slowly exhaled, "I'll go see if Xu Xinghe is awake."
Before entering the small room, Gu Nai smoked one puff after another.
In the lingering smoke, I recalled many things from a long time ago.
The Pelpa star he was born in is the most barren planet in the Gamma galaxy, not one of them.
There are few resources, violence, hunger and death everywhere.
There is no medical security, no living allowance, and no education allowance. His father died young, and his mother left early and returned late every day, working hard to make money for him to study.
This kind of life continued until the second day of junior high school, when my mother fell ill.
He has a deskmate with twin ponytails, who is the monitor of their class. The little squad leader didn't know about the changes in his family, so he just asked him: "Why do you keep skipping classes recently? Do you still sleep in class? You can't do this, you have to study hard."
Gu Nai nodded, lowered his eyes and said, "I see."
The little squad leader was worried: "Tomorrow I will wait for you at the intersection in front of your house, let's go to school together."
Gu Nai smiled and said yes.
The next day, he went to work odd jobs in a nearby factory and skipped class again.
When I went to school on the fourth day, the small squad leader said angrily: "I came to wait for you yesterday, why didn't you show up? You must come to school tomorrow. The teacher has to mark the key points of the exam, so you can't skip class anymore." .”
Gu Nai readily agreed.
The class leader persisted and said: "Your grades are so good, you must study hard. People like us must study hard to get out and leave here."
Gu Nai didn't answer, but turned to look at the spotless clear sky outside the window, thinking numbly, can you really leave here if you study hard
In the end, his mother's condition worsened, which became the last straw that overwhelmed him.
He gave up his studies completely, and never saw the little monitor who would wait for him at the intersection to go to school again.
By chance, he chose a road of no return.
A road that has to be walked even if it has been repeated countless times.
When Xu Xinghe woke up in a daze, he vaguely heard several people with heavy accents talking.
He moved his sore limbs slightly, and found that his hands were tied behind his back, and his feet were tied together. His eyes were covered with a black cloth, so he couldn't see what was going on outside.
"The border gates in the northern hemisphere are completely under martial law! Is Ling Changfeng crazy?"
"Are we going to go ahead with the original plan?"
"No, now all freight containers leaving the capital star have to be opened for inspection, and it is difficult to use the commercial route."
"Damn! It's one step too late! How did they react so quickly?"
Xu Xinghe recalled what happened before he fell into a coma, combined with the conversations of several people, his heart sank completely.
Is this... Kidnapped
He recalled Gu Nai's every move since he came into contact with him, four big words flashed in his mind - long-planned.
Gu Nai needed long-term and sophisticated planning from entering the Ark, to the opportunity for the two groups to cooperate, and to proposing to travel to this place far away from Star City.
The question is, what is the purpose of doing this
Did you go for Ling Changfeng
He was thinking quickly and assessing his current situation in his mind, when he suddenly heard a familiar voice: "Are you awake?"
The next moment, Xu Xinghe was helped up, sat down against the wall, and the blindfold was taken off.
Xu Xinghe raised his head, and in front of him was Gu Nai's familiar yet unfamiliar face.
He looked around and found himself in a small, dark and bumpy container, surrounded by darkness. There was a baffle in the middle of the container, and as he moved, the voice of the conversation on the other side of the baffle stopped.
"He's awake?" came a hoarse voice from behind the baffle.
"En." Gu Nai nodded, his black eyes locked on Xu Xinghe.
"The plan has changed. Feed him a few more sleeping pills and let him continue to sleep."
"I see, what about the medicine?" Gu Nai asked.
"I'll get it."
"I'm going to prepare too."
"You stay and watch."
As the door slammed, several people left the container, while others stayed behind, but never showed their faces.
Gu Nai sat down on a metal box in front of Xu Xinghe, looked at him calmly, and even frowned: "How does Team Leader Xu feel now?"
Xu Xinghe replied blankly: "It's okay, but my body is a little sore."
Gu Nai smiled: "The muscle soreness should be caused by you climbing the mountain, it has nothing to do with me."
"Why tie me up?" Xu Xinghe asked directly.
"Kidnapping, it's usually for ransom." Gu Nai shrugged, "I can't help it, I'm too poor, I almost have no money to pay my tuition."
As soon as the words fell, a sneer suddenly came from behind the baffle.
Xu Xinghe knew that Gu Nai was talking about running the train and would not tell the truth, but he still tried to extract some information from the other party: "You are so capable, how can you be short of money? Can you find someone to arrange you into the ark? Is it possible to do it with just money?"
Gu Nai just smiled and said nothing.
Xu Xinghe said: "Don't tell me, you hacked the computer of which Fangzhou leader, stole his nude photos to threaten him?"
Gu Nai smiled lightly: "It's such a time, is Team Leader Xu still in the mood to joke? Why, do you think you are absolutely safe, and we won't do anything to you?"
Hearing this, Xu Xinghe nodded very calmly: "You have spent so much time tying me up, you will definitely not tear up your ticket easily."
Gu Nai sighed: "Team leader Xu is still too young. For vicious gangsters like us, there are no absolutes. If the meal ticket is too uncooperative, it is a big deal that you don't eat this meal. It is also possible to tear up the ticket. So promise me , don't have any wrong thoughts, okay?"
After a pause, he said again: "Otherwise, even if you don't tear up the ticket, it's still okay to tear up two pieces of your flesh."
Xu Xinghe pursed his lips, and suddenly asked: "You are indeed a graduate student at Capital University, right?"
"Of course." Gu Nai nodded, with a very regretful tone, "It's a pity that I can't get a degree certificate after such a fuss."
Xu Xinghe said: "You should know better than me how difficult it is to be a graduate student at Capital University. No matter what you are doing, is it worth it to ruin everything?"
"Why, does Team Leader Xu still want to instigate me?" Gu Nai smiled, "I have no turning back a long time ago."
"No, you still have it." Xu Xinghe looked into his eyes and said.
Gu Nai shook his head: "There's no need to say this. Could it be that if I let you go now, I can go back to study? The entire Gamma galaxy is Ling Changfeng's territory. From the moment I decided to tie you up, I will I don't intend to stay here anymore."
Xu Xinghe heard the meaning behind his words, and his pupils shrank: "Then whose territory are you going to tie me to?"
"Group Leader Xu has too many questions, let's take a break."
Gu Nai stood up and asked the person behind the baffle, "Where's the sleeping pill? Why haven't you brought it yet?"