Chapter 717 Return
The Gard car drove along the road towards Motie Mountain. Chen Chuan sat in the driver's seat and thought that the students of Wuyi College really had great potential for growth.
Because they are elites who have gone through several rounds of screening. As long as they are given a platform and sufficient resources, they will be able to achieve something.
Gao Ming said that this was his natural base. Indeed, compared to those people in the bureau, people from Yangzhi trusted him more and were born to stand with him.
In addition to those old friends and classmates, he had previously considered recruiting Geng Zheng and three others.
However, he was not too familiar with these three people, so it was impossible for him to treat them well right away. He planned to wait until his old friends and classmates made some progress before recruiting them.
Let's think about it after some time.
The Gard car has now arrived at the hillside leading to the Cao family manor. After entering October, the maple trees on the mountain gradually turn red. When a gust of wind blows, pieces of half-gold and half-red maple leaves will fly in the wind and fall to the ground.
When they arrived at the gate of the manor, Uncle Ding was already there to greet them. After Chen Chuan got out of the car, he came up and greeted him respectfully. He then took him into the manor and said, "The young master is in the garden."
Chen Chuan followed him in. Before he got there, he heard the sound of a xiao. The sound was soft and sad, with a lingering melody, which made people feel the bleakness of autumn.
He stood aside and listened for a while, and then walked over after it was over.
"Sit down, junior."
Cao Guiqi was dressed in red and wearing a jade-studded forehead band. He was sitting in an exquisite stone pavilion. The white pottery xun was placed on the table. In the shallows of the lake not far ahead, several cranes were flapping their wings, teasing each other as if they were dancing.
After Chen Chuan sat down, Uncle Ding came up immediately, picked up the black lacquer and gold-painted purple clay teapot on the table, and poured him a cup of tea.
Chen Chuan nodded in thanks.
He took a sip and then said, "Senior, I have to go out for a while and I thought it might take a while before I come back, so I came to say hello to Senior Cao."
Cao Guiqi pondered for a moment and asked, "A place of fusion?"
Chen Chuan did not hide it, "Yes."
Uncle Ding couldn't help but look up and glance at him.
Cao Guiqi said: "I have also heard about what happened in the central city recently." He did not ask Chen Chuan what he was going to do specifically, but he could roughly guess.
As Chen Chuan's status rises, he will inevitably be involved in the struggle between the government and the company. Being in a high position, he naturally has no choice.
He turned around and said, "Uncle Ding, bring me my sign." Uncle Ding bowed and walked out.
Uncle Ding came back after a while and placed a sign on the table. "Master, here's what you asked for."
Chen Chuan took a look and saw that it was a sign with a distinct old imperial style, surrounded by intricate cloud and thunder patterns, with the word "Qianxing" written on it.
Cao Guiqi said: "This sign was given to me by someone when they came here. They expected me to do something, but I will never use it. Now is a new era, but some people are still dreaming of the old times."
He sounded rather indifferent to certain people. "Junior, if you go to the fusion area, you might as well take this badge with you. It might be of some use to you. Of course, it's better if you don't need it."
Chen Chuan was not polite either. He could see that Senior Cao really didn't care about this thing and was quite willing to stay away from it. So, he helped him deal with it.
Cao Guiqi then picked up the clay xun and started playing it. The cranes in front of him danced at the sound, sometimes flapping their wings, sometimes leaping, showing their agile and unrestrained posture.
Chen Chuan listened quietly on the side.
He didn't stay here long. After sitting for more than an hour, he said goodbye and left.
This time he went straight back to the house and didn't bother with anything else. He just did some final checks and preparations before going out.
October 11, 4:00 AM.
Chen Chuan came out of his breathing meditation early in the morning, washed up, and then looked in the dressing mirror and put on the investigation supervisor's uniform.
This time, in addition to this set of supervisor's clothes, we also prepared several sets of casual clothes for daily replacement, including several coveralls. This is because the damage rate of clothes is very high when traveling through the blending area, so we have to prepare more.
After he put on his wide-brimmed hat in front of the mirror, he looked at himself in the mirror, reached out to grab the Xuejun Knife, then picked up the suitcase and walked out of the room.
The intersection they chose this time was not far from the station, only about ten minutes' walk away, so he didn't drive but walked there directly.
Soon he entered the station and took the elevator along the underground passage to the bottom. It was almost 4:20 at this time. When he got out of the elevator and arrived at the station, he saw that Counselor Pei had arrived first, so he came up and shook hands with him.
At this time, Counselor Pei glanced at Chao Ming. He knew that Chen Chuan had this pet, but it didn't look simple at the moment. It seemed that he had his own purpose, so he didn't ask much.
After waiting for a few minutes, at 4:30, a train arrived at the station on time and the two got on the train together.
After they sat down, Counselor Pei took out a deck of cards and said with a smile, "We're going to be sitting here all day. Manager Chen, are you interested in playing a few rounds?"
Chen Chuan said: "The two of us?"
Counselor Pei beckoned, and the assistant who had been waiting nearby came over and sat down on the other side. Counselor Pei handed the cards to the assistant to shuffle. He waited for the assistant to deal the cards, then reached out and picked them up, saying, "The old imperial family, the Union, the Linax Federation, and the Government Affairs Office—it's a three-way struggle."
He glanced at the card in his hand, which happened to be the largest Big Sun card. He couldn't help but smile, "It seems that this time, I still have a chance of winning."
Although Chen Chuan had already received several cards, he did not reach out to take any. Instead, he said, "Winning is not determined by who has the biggest cards, but by who has the ability to overturn the table."
Counselor Pei paused for a moment while holding the cards, then nodded.
The train entered the intersection at five in the morning and continued along the railway track. At three or four in the afternoon, it arrived near a military fortress.
Chen Chuan looked out of the car window and could see obvious differences from the last time he visited Fort No. 4. The fort was at least two or three times larger, and there were many troops stationed around it.
Outside the fortress, there are permanent camps and a large number of outposts, with roadblocks and barbed wire everywhere. The air is filled with the pungent smell of gunpowder, and the remains of some creatures from the fusion land that have not been cleaned up can be seen on the ground.
Counselor Pei said, "This is Fort No. 3, the closest large outpost to the depths of the Interfusion Area. Further out are some small outposts with no direct access. We will stay here for the night.
Tomorrow, I'll have someone use an airship to take Director Chen to a gathering place of indigenous peoples with whom we've had communication. Starting from there, we should be able to save a lot of travel time."
Chen Chuan nodded. Actually, he didn't need to rest, but he needed to know some information about the situation in the intersection area. The fortress base was the place where information was most concentrated, and he could also get the transportation he needed here.
The train slowly slowed down after entering the station. When it came to a complete stop, Counselor Pei put on his hat and said, "Manager Chen, let's get off."
Chen Chuan stood up and walked out of the VIP cabin, while the attendant at the back went to help him get the box. The latter first smiled at Chao Ming who was standing on the box, then reached up with both hands to move it, but found that the box was extremely heavy and did not move at all.
Chao Ming looked down, tilted his head to think for a while, and then with a chirp, he jumped down from the box.
The attendant let out a breath, then tried again, but this time he still couldn't move at all. Feeling Chao Ming looking at him, his face turned red.
Chen Chuan had already walked over by now and said, "Let me do it." He reached out to grab the strap of the suitcase, and with a slight lift, the entire suitcase was off the ground. Then he nodded to the somewhat embarrassed attendant, got off the car, put his feet firmly on the ground, kicked the wheels underneath away, and then put it down.
At this moment, he looked up at the sky. After many years, he returned to the fusion land and felt that nothing seemed to have changed here. The sky above was still gloomy.
A series of flapping wings were heard, and it flew out from the Ming Palace and immediately circled in the sky. However, it seemed to be very adapted to this place, making a chirping sound.
Chen Chuan wrapped an activity line around it from the beginning. Now he looked at Chao Ming's activity index and saw that it was one at first, but it jumped to three in a flash, and then jumped to five. However, after Chao Ming began to use the breathing method he taught, the number quickly dropped again and remained between three and five.
He nodded secretly, it seemed that the breathing method was useful.
At this time, Counselor Pei also came down with a suitcase. He glanced into the distance and said, "The car to pick us up has arrived."
An open-top SUV drove over from a distance and stopped near the two men. A second lieutenant in the SUV stood up and saluted the two men.
"Reporting, Second Lieutenant Dai Hu of Fort No. 3 has been ordered to come and greet the two commanders. Please get in the car!"
Counselor Pei and Chen Chuan returned the greeting and then got on the SUV.
After Chen Chuan sat down, he saw that the boundary certificate could be used here, so he called up the map that the Ministry of Defense had sent him before and compared it. According to the direction indicated on the map, this No. 3 was right in the north, surrounded by a densely packed small garrisons, with at least thousands of troops stationed here.
The place he wanted to go was further north. There was only one airship route, but it only reached the edge of that area.
As he was watching, a signal flare suddenly rose from a sentry post, and at the same time the sound of a machine gun was heard.
He also heard a warning chirp from Chaoming on his horizon. He looked back and saw a creature with a huge wingspan flying quickly from the sky behind him.
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(End of this chapter)
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