Chapter 126
Wu Xijiang poured freshly brewed hot tea for the people sitting opposite him and said, "That's roughly the situation."
Tang Zeyu pondered for a moment and asked, "So now the situation between Dawn Base and Liming Base has reached the point where they need to negotiate offline. This is faster than I expected."
Wu Xi smiled faintly and said, "I found some connections and contacted the key people in the Dawn Base. With someone helping us, things will naturally be much easier."
No one specifically revealed what the connections Wu Xi was talking about were, but everyone knew it.
What Wu Xi brought was undoubtedly good news. Even Yu Shaoxing and Yang Yanhong, who were not very clear about the twists and turns in the road, were happy.
"It's finally over!" Shao Xingyang stretched and said, "Now, can we restore the world to its original state?"
Wu Xi shook his head and gave a negative answer.
"It will take a long time to truly implement this. Currently, we can only make steady progress. It's too early to expect the world to change back to normal. However, you can take a look at the experimental results conducted by the experimenters to quench your thirst."
As he spoke, Wu Xi opened the door, and the woman with a bun on her head who was guarding outside pushed a dog in.
The large golden-haired dog was particularly enthusiastic. It pounced on Wu Xi and was about to lick her, but was blocked by Wu Xi and turned around to look for other targets.
When Lu Shiyu saw the golden retriever's overly long ears and the screamer on its head, he immediately realized that it was once a living creature, but if these two parts were covered, it would really be no different from a normal animal.
"This is the maximum level of restoration the lab can currently achieve. If it's just the fur, it's fine, but if it involves bones, it's impossible to change," Wu Xi said, stroking the dog's head. "However, the lab is currently studying whether their next generation can be fully restored to normal. Several are about to give birth, and the progress is encouraging."
Yan Hong rubbed the dog's head and asked, "So it will be fully recovered soon, right?"
"Not really. Although the current effect is like taking off from a rocket, the actual recovery speed is a curve. The further you go, the harder it is to deal with. They are all stubborn parts."
After Wu Xi briefly informed a few people of the progress, he talked about another matter.
"Didn't you ask me to look for someone in the base a while ago? The security department sent me news that they've captured him."
Recalling the thrilling experience some time ago, Lu Shiyu quickly asked: "Where are they now? Have they done anything bad, such as leaking base secrets?"
Wu Xi glanced at the interrogation content and said no.
"The three arrested said the person who contacted the Dawn Base spy acted on their own, had nothing to do with them, and was not instructed by anyone. The interrogators even summoned the spy, who said he hadn't claimed to have any accomplices. It was the spy who approached him, offering to facilitate their return in exchange for taking him with them."
"The authenticity of their testimonies remains to be verified. If none of them lied, then it was probably this person's own idea."
Tang Zeyu felt something was wrong and asked, "Why do you say there were three people? Excluding the one who died, there should only be two people left in their team. Is there a mistake?"
Wu Xi flipped through the records and asked doubtfully, "That's right, it's written in black and white. There were three of them when they were captured. They were resting at the time, and the capture went exceptionally smoothly. No one used supernatural powers to struggle."
Wu Xi handed the record to Tang Zeyu and asked him to read it himself. The confessions of the three people were recorded in black and white on the paper, which further deepened Tang Zeyu's doubts.
Not to mention who the inexplicable third person was, it was very strange that Duan Ren did not use his supernatural powers to try to escape when facing capture.
He is not a law-abiding citizen, so how could he not run away?
Unless he can't run away.
Seeing that there were more and more doubts about this matter, Tang Zeyu decided to meet these people in person and see if he could ask anything else. Wu Xi readily gave him permission and then started to play with the dog.
Chen Yunliang said he wanted to go watch an experiment and left the team on his own initiative. Yan Hong and Shao Xingyang also wanted to join in the fun. Now the only people left in jail were Tang Zeyu and Lu Shiyu.
The two followed the guard to find the cell where three people were held. The prison in the Dawn Base was a four-person cell, but because the fourth person who had lived here had offended Duan Ren and had his head pushed into the toilet and almost drowned, it was changed from a four-person cell to a three-person cell.
When the two of them arrived, they had just finished their exercise session, and the three of them walked back leisurely.
It goes without saying that two of them are Duan Ren and Neil, but the identity of the third person shocked Tang Zeyu.
When Yi Donglin saw Tang Zeyu, she was stunned at first, and then she was filled with uncontrollable ecstasy.
"Tang Zeyu! Hurry up and find a way to get me out! I don't want to sleep on this damp wooden plank anymore!"
Tang Zeyu ignored Yi Donglin's cry for help. Instead, Lu Shiyu glanced at Yi Donglin and asked Tang Zeyu, "Do you know each other?"
Tang Zeyu: "I have seen it."
Yi Donglin laughed in anger when he heard Tang Zeyu disassociated himself from him, and complained, "There's no need to pretend to be unfamiliar at this point! This isn't the Dawn Base!"
Lu Shiyu understood that the two people knew each other.
But Tang Zeyu was too lazy to care about Yi Donglin and let him lose his temper. He turned around and asked Duan Ren who was resting with his eyes closed.
"you……"
"Why, do you think I would get involved in something like that?" Duan Ren sneered, "Even if I were down and out, I wouldn't do something like that."
Tang Zeyu: "No, I'm asking if you hid a meteorite. Who asked you that?"
Duan Ren: “…”
"No."
Tang Zeyu asked back: "No?"
Duan Ren turned around irritably: "Believe it or not."
"So what's this under your pillow?"
"Stepping stones, shoehorns, slates from the sauerkraut, Stone Age pens, Neil's toothbrush."
Neil, who was hiding in the corner: “?”
Tang Zeyu walked forward without hesitation and pulled the meteorite out from under the pillow. Duan Ren wanted to stop him but was hindered by the handcuffs on his hands.
Given Duan Ren and others' previous record of escaping from prison, they were all upgraded with iron shackles when they came in this time, which could not be broken by ordinary means.
Tang Zeyu looked at the meteorite fragments in his hand, which were as wide as his palm and one finger joint, and remembered the gap on the meteorite, which was probably dug out by Duan Ren.
Tang Zeyu suppressed his body's instinctive rejection and tried to use his special powers, but he couldn't use them at all.
"Isn't it because you're holding it that you haven't used your powers?"
Duan Ren turned his head and pretended not to hear, but Tang Zeyu already had the answer in his mind.
The situation at that time was most likely that Duan Ren fell into the influence range of the meteorite after being knocked away by him, causing his supernatural powers to be temporarily ineffective.
When he climbed up from the meteorite and found that he could not use his superpowers, he discovered the uniqueness of the meteorite, which not only made the superpowers ineffective, but also turned the deformed creatures back into normal animals.
This discovery shocked him, so he chiseled a piece of the meteorite and carried it with him, waiting for the right time to give it to the right person, but of course he never got that chance.
And because the meteorite was too small, he was the only one affected by it when he carried it on his body, which directly led to the loss of most of his combat capabilities.
"You didn't run away after being caught because your special powers are no longer useful."
"No, it's because my employer didn't run away, so I have to follow him."
Hearing the employer, Tang Zeyu looked at Yi Donglin beside him.
After making a bunch of onomatopeia, Yi Donglin said, "I just asked him to help find you. I didn't ask them to do anything else. I'm also implicated this time!"
"Who asked you that?" Tang Zeyu said, "Why are you coming to Dawn Base to find me instead of staying at Dawn Base?"
Yi Donglin coughed twice, indicating that some things should not be said in front of outsiders.
Tang Zeyu understood what he meant, and made way for Shi Yu, who stood on the outside and drove Neil away from the corner. The two of them talked in a low voice in the corner.
On the way, Yu would occasionally look at the two people talking in the corner, and then occasionally look to see if the patrolling guards outside were passing by. He was so bored that he had nothing to do to kill time.
Duan Ren suddenly felt someone approaching him. He opened his eyes and found it was Lu Shiyu.
Lu Shiyu greeted awkwardly: "Um, hi~"
Duan Ren's expression brightened when he saw that it wasn't Tang Zeyu. He said, "What do you want to do?"
Lu Shiyu poked his fingers, not knowing where to start for a moment.
"It's about that incident back then. Tang Zeyu didn't do it on purpose..."
"When did the law stipulate that if you didn't intentionally injure someone, you won't have to bear the consequences?"
"……No."
Duan Ren continued to close his eyes and pretend to sleep, saying, "If you know, get out of here."
As he was being chased away, Yu Shi felt a little embarrassed and muttered quietly, "It's not like he didn't bear the consequences..."
Duan Ren laughed out of anger and asked, "What did he take on?"
"Actually, your medical expenses were all deducted from his account. After that, he relied on taking on missions to make a living for several years," Lu Shiyu recalled. "And after that incident, he was punished by the family. It is said that he was beaten while kneeling in the ancestral hall. He was unable to get out of bed for a long time. After his injuries healed, he was put in solitary confinement again. It is unknown how long it took before he was finally released."
When Duan Ren heard the first half, he thought Tang Zeyu deserved it, but when he heard the second half, his face suddenly froze.
He didn't know what happened next.
Lu Shiyu continued to quietly defend Tang Zeyu, "He did plan to go see how you were doing, but by the time he was released from confinement and could go out, you had already been discharged."
These were the questions Lu Shiyu quietly asked Tang Zeyu that night after he sent several people away with a bowl of medicine. Tang Zeyu acted indifferent when he spoke. He seemed not to understand Duan Ren's resentment, and he didn't have any thoughts about his own punishment. He neither understood nor objected. To Tang Zeyu himself, it seemed that this was a past that was not worth talking about.
Perhaps when he found out that he had missed Duan Ren's discharge date, he didn't realize what he had missed.
After hearing this, Duan Ren felt mixed emotions. He didn't know whether it was because the other party had received the punishment he deserved, or because the other party had come to find him in the first place. The huge rock that had been weighing on Duan Ren's heart for a long time finally showed signs of loosening.
When Tang Zeyu finished talking with Yi Donglin, he turned around and saw Lu Shiyu had gotten close to Duan Ren without him noticing.
"Has the discussion concluded?"
"Well, we need to find the base commander now. We have new trouble."
Duan Ren didn't say a word the whole time and just sat there like a piece of wood.
Before leaving, Tang Zeyu looked back at him and said, "After this is over, you can go work for Guan Wei. He can keep you alive, and I can't take care of anything else."
Go ahead and say it, then he took Lu Shiyu out of the cell.
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