When we arrived at the last small house, everyone inside seemed to be in a low mood, and two old ladies were wiping away tears.
Luo Chun was slightly worried. He walked over and asked softly, "What's wrong, Aunt Yang? Aunt Liu?"
Aunt Yang held the tissue, struggling with her own thoughts. They didn't want to trouble Xiao Chun, who was already very tired, and now he had to worry about them.
"Auntie! Tell me what's wrong, don't you trust me?"
Aunt Liu glanced at Aunt Yang, her eyes stinging with tears: "Da Hu and Da Lin haven't come back for two days. At first, we thought they were just busy, but it's been almost three days now, and we haven't heard from them at all. We're starting to worry."
Luo Chun remained silent for a long time, his expression grave: "How could you keep this from us until now? Where are the others?"
“Dahai and the others have all returned. They all said they haven’t seen Dahu and Dalin.”
"Auntie, don't worry, I'll take Aoming and the others to look for them. You should come inside quickly, it's too cold outside."
Luo Chun helped the two into the house and then went out the door. He looked at Lin Anran and the others apologetically and said, "I'm sorry, my benefactors, I have something urgent to attend to. If you don't mind, please go back to the compound and wait for us. We'll go out to find someone now."
Lin Anran smiled and declined, "We'll go with you; the more people there are, the more strength we'll have."
She had a feeling that the disappearance of the two people was related to the base's underground laboratory, and she decided to take this opportunity to investigate.
Luo Chun wanted to refuse again, but Lin's father said, "Don't worry, Brother Luo, we won't hold you back."
Luo Chun quickly waved his hand, then nodded: "That's not what I meant. Okay then, thank you for coming back and forth with me."
Lin Yu: "No trouble at all, Uncle Luo Chun, let's go!"
Cao Ming returned to the base camp and called about ten men to split up and search the places where Da Hu and Da Lin often went.
Luo Chun led Lin Anran and the others to their workplace, which turned out to be the back room of the points exchange center, also known as the logistics department. However, due to the snow, they had closed the office yesterday, and the place was deserted. It was impossible that they hadn't gone home.
Cao Ming and his brothers searched the area, but couldn't find a single person. He started to get nervous. "Brother Chun! Still no one. That can't be! They were on holiday yesterday, they shouldn't have left! Did they go somewhere to have fun?"
Luo Chun quickly dismissed the idea, "Impossible, those two children are good kids, they wouldn't go out to play without telling us, keep looking!"
Lin Anran and the others didn't sit idle either; they searched back and forth several times, but still found no news.
The group of people then started searching again along the way they had taken.
Cao Ming felt as if he had kicked something, making a crisp sound. He puzzled as he brushed aside the snow, revealing a translucent jade pendant.
"Found it! Isn't this Da Hu's jade pendant? Chun Ge, come and take a look!"
Everyone crowded around.
Luo Chun: "That's right, this is Da Hu's. It's a family heirloom, there's no mistake."
He then frowned and said in a serious voice, "But he couldn't have just thrown away something so important. He must have encountered some danger."
Lin Anran was now certain that the disappearance of these two people was definitely related to the secret laboratory.
She has to find a way to get to that entrance; it's definitely not as simple as she imagines.
As the snowfall increased, the temperature dropped to minus thirty or forty degrees Celsius. Even with hand warmers, people felt cold all over, let alone Luo Chun and his group, whose eyebrows were frozen stiff.
Luo Chun was worried that Lin Anran and the others wouldn't be able to handle it, so he told them to go back and wait for news while he continued the search.
Lin Anran disagreed. They had already come all this way, and there was no reason to back down. If only they could have received a hint at this moment.
As she was thinking, a mutated rat of medium size was frantically digging at something by the wall. How could there be a rat at this hour?
Not to mention the cold weather these days, the heavy snow alone could freeze them to death, and even the mutated rats wouldn't come out at this time.
Lin Anran watched the mouse digging its hole with a puzzled expression, squeaking incessantly.
Lin Yu stopped curiously. "What's wrong? Sis, oh my god! A mutant rat! Watch me kill it!"
As he spoke, he reached out to kill the mutated rat, but Lin Anran stopped him.
"Wait! Don't panic, something's happened here!"
Lin Anran carefully dug away the snow by the wall with her hands, and a red snowflake came into view.
Lin Yu gasped, "Hiss! Blood?! How could there be blood here?"
Those in front heard this and quickly came over. Their hearts were pounding. How could there be blood? Had Da Hu and the others already been killed?
Once this idea enters your mind, you start to have all sorts of wild thoughts.
Lin Anran continued digging deeper into the snow, and a thin red rope appeared before her eyes. She pulled hard, but couldn't move it; it had become stuck in the wall.
Luo Chun immediately understood what was going on, and he immediately called over a young man, "He has strength-based abilities, see if he can hammer this wall open."
Lin Anran raised her hand to stop her, "No, this will alert the people inside. We have to sneak in quietly."
"Since it's inside the wall, it proves that the entrance is nearby. Let's search it out, otherwise we might alert the enemy and harm Da Hu and the others."
Luo Chun was slightly startled. He had indeed panicked and almost made a mistake. Afterwards, he searched even more carefully, not daring to make any mistakes.
Lin Anran felt around on the wall. According to the novel, the mechanism should be either on the wall or on the floor.
Suddenly, her hand slipped, and a thick brick was pressed into it. The wall began to shake uncontrollably, and the snowflakes on the wall were shaken off.
A minute later, an extremely long staircase came into view.
Everyone: ...This is just like in the movies, they really are... clever...
The Lin family, along with the five people brought by Luo Chun, made a total of ten people. They entered the tunnel together, and the door slowly closed behind them.
The smell of alcohol hit her face, and Lin Anran's face turned pale instantly. The familiar smell made her tremble uncontrollably.
Jiang Qinian seemed to sense something, his icy hand tightly holding the other icy little hand, as if to say, "Don't be afraid, I'm here!"
As her memories returned, Lin Anran walked deeper into the area, following the path she remembered. The people behind her followed closely behind, and the bloodstains clinging to the slippery walls were even more terrifying.
At the end of the stairs was an iron door, which Lin Yu easily cleaved open. The quiet corridor was deserted, and the cold light cast their shadows long.
As they approached the bend, everyone slowed their pace and even stopped breathing, creating a sense of unease, like playing hide-and-seek.
Lin Yu stood with his legs together, feeling a little nervous, and needed to use the restroom.
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