Chapter 851: The remains of the ice field
After having a meal at Cheng Zitong's house at noon, Chen Chuan said goodbye and left.
When he came out, the sun was shining brightly and there were birds singing in the treetops. This time he did not hide himself, but walked straight past the gate of the lakeside villa.
Two old men were sitting on both sides of a stone table by the roadside. One of them was holding a teapot and they were chatting while squinting in the sun.
At this moment, they suddenly saw Chen Chuan walking past them. They were stunned and their squinting eyes widened.
Chen Chuan nodded to the two men and said, "Happy New Year, my two elders."
The two old men were stunned for a moment, then stood up involuntarily and responded, "Happy New Year, Happy New Year..."
After Chen Chuan walked over, the two men were still staring blankly. After a while, one of the old men excitedly said, "Old Qian, did you see that? Did you see that?"
"I saw it, I saw it, Lao He, please stop hitting me, my old bones can't stand your hitting..." The other old man hurriedly moved away.
Old He retracted his hand and scratched his beard, saying with great joy, "This is a fighter. The fighter is wishing us a happy new year. Well, this old man's life is worth it! It's worth it, haha!"
Lao Qian couldn't help but nod vigorously.
Unlike most people, as retired teachers from Wuyi Academy, they were well aware of what a martial artist represented. To them, the position of Director of Defense was prestigious, but that was about it. Many people could hold that position. But a martial artist? That wasn't something everyone could achieve.
This title has an irreplaceable position in the minds of those who have practiced martial arts all their lives!
The two old men looked at each other at the same time until they could no longer see Chen Chuan, and smiled. Now they can have fun during the whole New Year, no, they can have fun every year!
Old He glanced behind him and said, "This guy just came out of Director Cheng's house. Director Cheng's apprentice is really worth it. Have you heard? Director Cheng went to Lao Qiao's house to ask for a sword manual for this student. Lao Qiao said he would give him the manual, but he would only reward Director Chen if he made him an apprentice. Hey, I wonder if he's blushing now."
"Of course not. Last year, Old Man Joe hurried off to Central City with his apprentice. What do you think he was doing? He was trying to save his reputation. Who knows, he's probably still trying to get it back."
"Hey, I heard about this. What's the point of fighting between Old Man Qiao and Director Cheng? A senior brother and a junior brother, is there anything they can't talk about?"
"Don't you understand? Are they competing? They're fighting for the right path! No one is going to back down."
"Then let me tell you, Old Man Qiao should give up this idea as soon as possible. His apprentice will never be able to catch up with Supervisor Cheng's student in his eight lifetimes. There's no shame in admitting defeat."
"Why admit defeat? Hiding is one option. Hey~ As long as I can't see, then I haven't lost!"
The two were chatting there when they suddenly saw a number of cars driving in from outside.
Old He looked around and said, "Huh? Isn't that Director He's car in the lead? He's here to pay New Year's greetings, right? The sun is rising from the west. In the past, when the Processing Bureau came to pay New Year's greetings to us, they would just send a few bureau members as a token of respect. Why did he come alone today?"
The two men suddenly thought of something at this moment, and looked at each other with meaningful expressions. Everyone knew that He Fen, the director of the Processing Bureau, was a power-hungry person, and it was obvious who he was trying to curry favor with.
But this is not Director He’s fault, he just wants to improve too much.
When Chen Chuan went out, he saw a convoy coming in from afar and also saw who the people were, but he was not interested in meeting them, so he walked towards the dormitory.
In the dormitory building, a resident student was sitting by the window drinking water after training. He glanced down inadvertently and his expression suddenly froze.
Then he became excited, "Senior Chen, it's Senior Chen!"
Just as he opened his mouth to speak, Chen Chuan seemed to have heard his voice, turned around, glanced at him, and nodded at him with a smile. He was so excited that his whole body was shaking, and he waved to the people below.
After a while, he saw that Chen Chuanren had walked out of his sight, so he ran out immediately. Without taking the elevator, he ran directly downstairs through the corridor. When he got outside, he looked left and right and found that the person was gone. He felt a little lost.
After standing there for a while, he became excited again. He ran to the public phone below the dormitory, picked up the receiver and dialed a number. After the call was connected, he couldn't wait to say, "Guess who I met today?"
After Chen Chuan returned from college, he went out and around in the following days and met with his old classmates.
However, most of his former classmates became a little reserved and distant after knowing his current identity. Only his good friend and deskmate from high school, Ding Jiao, still treated him the same as before.
In Ding Jiao's words, regardless of position, he's still the same person. Xiaochuan was my buddy before, and he's still my buddy now.
Chen Chuan told him that his family might have to move away with him. Ding Jiao was a little reluctant. In the past, even if Chen Chuan moved to the central city, he would at least come back once a year. But judging from the current situation, it might be difficult for him to come back in the future.
Chen Chuan gave him his personal phone number and telegram contact information, and told him that he could contact him if he had any problems, and that if he wanted to go to the central city at any time, he could just let him know in advance. Finally, he added that he was not really not going to come back, after all, this was his hometown, and the old house was still here, so he had to come back to visit.
Time flies and half a month has passed.
Chen Chuan was already making arrangements for his family to move to the central city, but at this moment, the Civil Affairs Director Zhu Xian suddenly called and asked if he could come to the Civil Affairs Department. He said that a representative from Yuan'an Company had come to see him today and there was an urgent matter that required his attention.
Chen Chuan didn't know what was going on, but from Zhu Xian's tone and words, as well as the information involving Yuan'an Company, he could tell that this was no small matter.
He said he would come immediately. Because the SUV was given to his family, he took a vehicle dispatched from nearby and went directly to the Civil Affairs Bureau. After arriving here, Secretary Xiao Pan invited him to the reception hall.
Besides the Civil Affairs Director Zhu Xian, there was another person waiting here. When Chen Chuan came in, he took the initiative to step forward and extended his hand to shake hands with Chen Chuan. "Director Chen, let me introduce myself. I am Bao Ning, the branch manager of Yuan'an Company.
Chen Chuan took a look and saw that the supervisor was in his forties, with half of his face covered with implanted skin. He was very thin, with prominent cheekbones, and his hair stood up high, half white and half green. This kind of makeup might be hard to find in Yangzhi City, but it was very common in the central city.
Bao Ning apologized, "Director Chen, I'm sorry to have you here today, but our company has encountered some unexpected situations. Since you are the director of the Security and Defense Department of Jibei Road, we have to bother you for a moment."
Chen Chuan asked, "What's going on?"
As soon as Bao Ning extended his hand, an assistant immediately handed him a hard folder. He presented it to Chen Chuan with both hands, "Director Chen, this is our company's incident record report. Please take a look."
Chen Chuan took it and took a look at it, and raised his eyebrows unconsciously, because what was recorded on it was exactly the thing that Nian Fuli had mentioned before. He originally wanted to go back to the central city to inquire about it, but he didn't expect that it would come to him now.
What is said above is that in the previous stage, the Yuan'an Company was building a railway in the north. When passing a certain section of the road, two people were accidentally dug out from there.
The report also included two sets of on-site photos. It could be roughly seen that there were two people, a man and a woman, both of whom were very large. They were wearing clothes made of some special materials, with some ancient nomadic style, but the specific shape could not be seen.
Moreover, one of these two people has white hair, and the other has yellowish hair. They both have high noses and deep eyes, and it is obvious that they are not from Donglu.
"After we discovered these two individuals, we hired professionals to analyze them. They suspected they were ancient martial artists. Surprisingly, we detected some signs of life, so we placed them in a safe place and prepared to transport them to our company for processing. However, two days ago, the train carrying these two individuals was attacked by an unknown force, and both disappeared."
Supervisor Bao said: "We still don't know whether the two people woke up and escaped on their own, or whether they were abducted by unknown forces."
Chen Chuan looked up and said, "Since these two people still have life signs and are judged to be fighters, this is an extremely dangerous situation. Yuan'an Company is a national military-industrial enterprise, and it is clear that there are fighters stationed there. Why didn't they transfer people to take charge and protect them during this period?"
Manager Bao lowered his head and said with shame: "It was really our fault that we were careless and did not pay enough attention. Because the two people only had weak biological signals, we judged that there was no problem, and this incident happened. I am really sorry! Our Yuan'an Company is willing to bear all the losses caused by this incident." As he said this, he bowed.
Chen Chuanruo looked at him meaningfully. He understood the thoughts of these companies very well. This was not a matter of not paying enough attention, but a matter of paying too much attention.
It is not difficult to guess that after discovering these two people, Yuan'an Company must have felt that they were extremely valuable, so they wanted to conduct private research on the two people. However, the branch office did not have the conditions for this, so they had to be transported to the head office.
But if they want to be assured on the road, they must transfer fighters over. However, this transfer will definitely leave a record in the Fighting Council, and they don't want the outside world to know about this, so they simply skip this step.
He looked at the records and found that the two people were found at the end of November, but they were not sent to the head office until a few days ago. It seemed very hasty. He had reason to suspect that the other party might have noticed that he had come to Yangzhi and was afraid that he would ask about the matter after hearing the news, so they were in a hurry to transport the two people away.
As a result, the two people are now missing, and they feel they can no longer keep it a secret, so they found him.
He pondered for a moment. If these two fighters, whose identities and intentions were unknown, were still alive, leaving them roaming freely would be extremely dangerous. This matter also had a bearing on the safety of Jibei Province. As the Director of Defense, he couldn't ignore it. He had to find a way to find and apprehend these two individuals!
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(End of this chapter)
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