Chapter 4 Secret Base

Shen Peirong and her granddaughter walked to a tree, took out their work badges from their pockets and put them on, then faced their faces towards the monitor on the tree trunk. In the blink of an eye, a red light flashed in front of their eyes.

Two red lights visible to the naked eye crossed and fell from the tree, disappearing into the grass without a trace.

After the red light disappeared, the two walked into the center of the enclosed tent and found the old man in Tang suit who had been wandering around.

Shen Peirong: "Lao Xin, what did you find?"

Xingji raised his chin slightly, pointed at the reduced version of the Laurin Mountain image on the display screen and said, "No abnormalities have been found for the time being. The fluctuations in the surrounding data have returned to normal. It is estimated that they have been suppressed."

Shen Peirong leaned over and carefully looked at the series of data retrieved by the staff. Among them, on the note date of October 1, the data of an item called soil molecules soared from one hundred to one thousand.

But during the noon period, it slowly dropped from one thousand to one hundred, and until today the earth molecule has fallen below ten.

The other molecules marked as gold, wood, water, and fire were normal from the beginning, and although they jumped, they never exceeded ten.

Shen Peirong nodded with satisfaction. "Thank you for your hard work. Now that the data has returned to normal, the main force can withdraw tonight."

"Bang!" Xing Ji slammed the book shut. "Old Shen, I've found that after knowing you for so many years, you are only very humane when you say things like this."

“Poof~”

Someone in the crowd laughed, and the cheerful sound broke the tension that had been in this temporary base for many days.

Shen Peirong raised her eyebrows and said with a half-smile, "Then I won't call you next time. You think my kindness is being taken for granted?"

"No, no, no, Director Shen, I was wrong. Please forgive me." Xing Ji apologized repeatedly.

Shen Lingyu, who was standing behind Shen Peirong, helplessly watched the two people whose combined ages were a hundred years old bickering with each other.

These two funny guys are really good at controlling their emotions as always.

“Snap!”

Suddenly, there was a crisp sound behind him. Shen Lingyu turned around abruptly, and his sharp eyes quickly locked onto the source of the sound.

In the forest two hundred meters behind me, the leaves were rustling in the wind.

Shen Lingyu ran over with the sword in hand, used the hilt of the sword to push aside the weeds, and found two smashed wild persimmons on the ground.

Looking up, I saw several plump persimmons hanging above my head. One of them was about to fall off the tree. When the wind blew, it fell from the tree and fell to the ground.

“Snap!”

The persimmon fell on the stone and broke into pieces, with the flesh and juice spilling all over the ground.

Shen Lingyu felt relieved when he saw this, picked up a stone from his feet, raised his hand and threw it at the wild persimmon tree above his head.

"call out!"

The sound of breaking air penetrated the leaves, and the persimmons that were hanging high just now broke at the roots along with the branches.

Shen Lingyu caught it accurately, checked the surroundings to see if there was anything unusual, and then returned to Shen Peirong with a bunch of wild persimmons.

As soon as she left, a spot of light suddenly flashed where she had been, then fell to the ground and ran away along the mud.

......

Back to the wooden pier again, Lin Jin flashed out of space. She leaned on the wall with one hand and covered her pounding heart with the other, feeling shocked.

What exactly do those people do?

With so many sophisticated instruments, he doesn't look like a forest ranger at first glance.

Why did the old ladies lie? What was their purpose here? Could the changes in the human-shaped stones be related to them?

The distance was too far, and Lin Jin didn’t hear clearly what they were saying, but she was sure that this group of people was definitely not simple.

She lowered her eyes and looked at her hands which had regained their substance, a strange look flashing across her face.

For some reason, the forest gave her a subtle feeling.

This feeling was not strange. It was like she was returning to the orphanage where she had lived for more than ten years. Although there was a lot of pain there, there was undeniably a little sense of comfort.

Lin Jin was sure that she had never been here before, and Laurin Mountain could not be her hometown, so where did this strange feeling come from?

Before I could think of a reasonable answer, a cough suddenly sounded above my head.

A bald uncle came out of the window with a cigarette in his mouth. Just as he was about to light up a cigarette, he lowered his head and met the eyes of Lin Jin who was squatting behind the wall.

The lighter fell from his hand in an instant and he took several steps back in horror.

"you...."

Lin Jin quickly stood up and wanted to say that she was not a voyeur. Before she opened her mouth, she saw a group of men coming in and out behind the bald uncle.

She silently put down her hand, said that she didn't mean it, and hurriedly left this embarrassing place.

All the grilled sausages prepared today have been sold out, and business was so good that Lin Jin returned to school early.

He still left with an empty box, and the stall owner next to him was both envious and jealous.

If I had known earlier that they also sold starch sausages, I wouldn’t have to prepare a lot of things, and a cardboard box could handle everything.

But is the little girl so strong?

A table weighs at least a few kilograms, and with some miscellaneous items added on, it would weigh at least twenty kilograms.

She deserves to make money as she walked away so easily with so many things.

Lin Jin didn't hear anyone talking about her. At the moment, she was sitting on the bus, with her head leaning against the window glass, drowsy.

There were quite a lot of tourists returning at this time, and the large group was very noisy, so she slept very uneasily.

I finally managed to fall asleep when my phone rang with another message.

I took out my phone and saw that it was a message notification pushed by a public account.

[Xu Ran, the third female lead who played in "Youth Has Only One You", was reported to have jumped off a building and died last night. The reporter has called Orange Entertainment, but has not received an official response yet...]

......

Lin Jin stood in the funeral home, staring solemnly at the closed door in front of her.

The three big red words "Crematorium" stung her eyes. The gradually rising temperature around her body reminded her all the time that a life was withering away at this moment.

Beside them, Xu's father and mother were crying heart-wrenchingly. The cries continued to reach Lin Jin's ears, forcing her to accept this fact.

Xu Ran....

Xu Ran is dead!

Lin Jin stared at the gate for a long time, then suddenly turned her head and looked behind her. "Excuse me, did Xu Ran leave any words before he died?"

A man in a suit standing next to Xu's mother looked up and looked at Lin Jin suspiciously, "Who are you?"

Lin Jin blinked slowly, digging her nails deep into her palms, trying to calm herself down. "I'm Xu Ran's friend. Did she leave any message for me?"

The glasses on Xie Hui's nose reflected the light. He said, "The police only found a suicide note in the house. It was signed to Xu Ran's parents. I didn't see any note to his friends."

"No!" Lin Jin nodded, repeating these words over and over again, "How could there be nothing?"

Xie Hui pushed up his glasses and looked away, continuing to comfort Xu's mother who was about to faint from crying.

"Auntie, everyone in the company is very surprised by Xu Ran's passing. This is the condolence money our leader asked me to send. He will attend the funeral. Please let me know when the date is confirmed..."

Xu's mother cried and waved away a bulging yellow envelope, "Get lost, I, as a mother, didn't even know Xu Ran had depression, how could she have committed suicide!!"