volcano
After Xiao Yang sent people out to look for Lu Tingxiao and Long Ji, Ling Shi returned to his dormitory.
He wondered where Lu Tingxiao might have gone and planned to send the White Eagle Team out to look for him.
But the White Eagles were limited in manpower, so the direction of their search was crucial. Otherwise, wasting manpower was a minor issue, but it would also delay time and lead to missed opportunities...
Thinking about missing the opportunity, Ling Shi felt very uneasy, and always felt that...something very terrible was about to happen.
"Ling Shi," there was a knock on the dormitory door. Ji Ding came in, twisting the doorknob. He glanced at Ling Shi, who was sitting on the sofa in the living room. "Hey, what are you doing? Are you daydreaming?"
It has been quite some time since he returned to the base, but Ling Shi has almost forgotten Ji Ding.
He was still a little dazed until this person appeared in front of him.
"You promised me that you would solve the problem of the Nether Cells," Ji Ding said, sitting down next to him without hesitation. "Did you remember that?"
Ling Shi didn't try to hide his disappointment and answered directly: "Sorry, I forgot."
He rolled up his sleeves and said, "I'll draw your blood now. Although the smell of blood isn't pleasant, it will be effective."
"Blood?" Ji Ding was stunned. "It's your blood? Did you solve Lu Tingxiao's problem by giving him blood to drink?"
Ling Shi shook his head, but he no longer had the energy to explain: "Do you want it or not?"
"Yes." Ji Ding said without hesitation: "I dream of solving this dizziness problem. Who knows one day I will fall asleep and never wake up again."
"Okay." Ling Shi agreed: "Wait for me, I'll go get a disposable needle for drawing blood."
He left his dormitory, walked to the laboratory in Building No. 1 in a daze, took a syringe, and returned to his dormitory in a daze.
Sitting back on the sofa, he rolled up his sleeves without saying a word, used alcohol to disinfect the blood, and started drawing blood.
Where did Lu Tingxiao go?
Blood was drawn out smoothly through the needle...
Why did he hide it from me and not tell me anything?
He smoked more and more...but Ling Shi was completely immersed in his own thoughts and didn't pay any attention.
Until a dizziness came over me.
Ling Shi's hands trembled.
"Hey!" Ji Ding beside him grabbed the needle, carefully pulled it out of his arm, and plugged the needle hole with a cotton ball. "Although I want your blood to treat my illness, I don't intend to drain you dry all at once. Are you really that kind to me?"
Ling Shi only felt that the figure in front of him shook and became a little blurry.
He tried to smile and laugh at his own negligence.
But it didn't work.
"Ah!" He only heard Ji Ding sigh and ask, "You and that Lu Tingxiao, are you a couple?"
These words successfully focused Ling Shi's mind.
He subconsciously wanted to refuse, after all, this was something no one in the White Eagle team knew.
But he just opened his mouth and nodded: "Yes."
"So," Ji Ding asked, "he disappeared without even saying hello?"
Ling Shi paused for a moment and nodded again.
This time I didn't even have the energy to answer "yes".
"He must have gone to bury the dragon horn." Ji Ding's voice was unusually serious. "Is this matter very dangerous, so he doesn't want to implicate you?"
"I..." Ling Shi's lips trembled. For the first time, he felt that his emotions were no longer covered by a veil, but gushed out from the depths of his heart, ready to drown him in an instant.
He adjusted his breathing, swallowed the sadness in his throat, and continued, "I guessed it. But I don't know where he will bury the dragon horn..."
"Hmm..." Ji Ding pondered, "Didn't you discuss the location before? You can't just dig a hole anywhere and bury it, right?"
"No." Ling Shi shook his head.
He was still thinking about his three-month agreement with Lu Tingxiao, how to spend some stress-free, relaxing time with him after nearly half a year of hard work. He was also thinking about how to convince him to reduce this ridiculous three months to one month or even half a month.
The only thing he didn't expect was that Lu Tingxiao left his world without saying a word, leaving him no chance to discuss anything.
I don't even know if he will come back...
Why on earth did he do that?
Is there any difficulty?
Is there anything that cannot be discussed properly with their current relationship?
Ling Shi felt that in addition to the nine points of worry in his heart, there was also a point of anger.
Once this anger surfaced, it grew more and more intense and vigorous, like a fire that almost completely burned away his sanity.
"Do you think it might be at the place where the dragon horn was dug out?" Ji Ding's words suddenly brought Ling Shi back to reality.
Where the dragon horn was excavated?
right.
Since the dragon horn could be safely buried there for countless years, it naturally met the conditions for being buried again.
"Yes," Ling Shi said, "That's a very reasonable answer. But where was the dragon horn excavated?"
This was a top secret of the M country scientific expedition team at the time and was not made public.
With the fall of Country M, this secret has probably been buried.
The only person who could possibly know the secret, the President of Country M...was on Lu Tingxiao's civilian plane...
"Well..." Ji Ding's voice suddenly rose: "Most people definitely don't know this."
He was like a naughty boy, saying he didn't know, but his smug look and slightly raised chin all showed that he was "extraordinary".
Ling Shi reacted suddenly and rushed towards him, grabbing Ji Ding's arm tightly and speaking in an extremely nervous voice: "You know? You really know? How did you know?"
He had such great strength in his hands that the muscles on Ji Ding's arm were dented.
Ji Ding yelled, "My arm is broken! My arm is broken!"
Ling Shi then realized how much strength he had used. He quickly let go of his hand, but continued to look at Ji Ding with a burning gaze.
Ji Ding rubbed his arm and said, "Don't worry. I really know. Think about it, what did I do before?"
Ling Shi remembered: "Entertainment... reporter?"
"Yes," Ji Ding said, "At the time, I caught up on some gossip about a politician from Country M and pursued him for several months. Being a curious person, I secretly went to his office to look for information. Coincidentally, I came across the scientific expedition team's report."
"Where is it?" Ling Shi couldn't help but grab Ji Ding's arm again: "Where is it?"
"Hey, hey," Ji Ding shouted twice, sighed, and pointed to the syringe on the table: "Wait for me to inject this blood into your body. If it works, I'll go with you."
"Okay." Ling Shi immediately picked up the syringe: "I'll give you the injection."
*
Ling Shi notified everyone in the White Eagle Team, packed their bags, and walked out of the dormitory building.
As soon as he reached Maple Leaf Avenue, he was stopped by Yu Zhengping who was coming towards him.
"Xiao Ling," Yu Zhengping hurried over, looking anxious: "What can I say to you? Xiao Yang has already sent people out to look for him, so don't get involved in this fun."
"Uncle Yu," Ling Shi tightened his backpack, "Sorry, I have to go out and look for him."
As he spoke, he moved to the side, trying to get around Yu Zhengping.
"Xiao Ling!" Yu Zhengping was also angry and took a step forward. "Lu Tingxiao's disappearance must have a reason. He's making trouble, are you going to do the same?"
"I'm not kidding." Ling Shi felt his voice grow hoarse as he thought of Lu Tingxiao. "You said he did this for a reason. Maybe he has some difficulties. I'll go and help him."
"No." Yu Zhengping reached out to stop him and changed his tone to a gentle one: "Xiao Ling, your father entrusted you to me before he died. Your father has done me a favor, I can't just ignore you."
"It's okay," Ling Shi pushed Yu Zhengping's hand away. "Uncle Yu, I want to go out on my own. Even if my dad knew, he wouldn't blame you."
Having said that, he walked forward without hesitation.
Yu Zhengping's angry voice echoed behind him: "You only care about Lu Tingxiao! Do you still care about the 30 million people in the base? They need you more than Lu Tingxiao! If you insist on doing this, don't recognize me as your uncle anymore!"
Ling Shi stopped.
He didn't think the 30 million people in the base needed him.
However, he does have the rights and responsibilities given by the base.
He turned around and said, "Uncle Yu, now that Long Ji is gone, I should just drop my title as the person in charge."
"Also, you don't have to keep my rank anymore."
Nothing matters.
He wants to find Lu Tingxiao.
After saying that, he turned around without hesitation and walked out of the base.
*
The address Ji Ding gave was in a desert more than a thousand kilometers away from Country M.
Makino flew the plane over the desert according to the longitude and latitude he told him.
But when they were still quite far away, everyone noticed something was wrong.
The temperature in this desert has always been between 30 and 50 degrees Celsius, fluctuating slightly with the seasons and climate. But now, the entire desert surface has taken on a strange red hue.
Looking further away, I saw a small hill rising from the flat ground. On the top of the hill, flames and black smoke were constantly spewing out. It was conservatively estimated that the temperature had risen by more than 10 degrees.
"Muye," Ling Shi stood beside him and looked ahead: "How far is that hill from where we are going?"
Makino glanced at the dashboard. "I'm afraid...that's where we're going."
Ling Shi was stunned for a moment and asked Ji Ding behind him: "Is there a volcano here?"
Ji Ding was also puzzled. "No, I know this desert, and there has never been any report mentioning a volcano here. Besides, the document I saw on the desk of the American politician only mentioned a dragon horn dug deep underground in the desert plain, not any volcanoes."
Ling Shi ordered: "Muye, confirm the location again."
Makino reconfirmed: "That's right, Captain Ling, it's right there."
He hesitated. "Captain Ling, according to the receiver, the lowest temperature at the volcano is over 80 degrees Celsius. Humans can't stay here for too long. Do we still need to land?"
Captain Ling thought about it.
The environment here was indeed much worse than he had expected.
He didn't know if Lu Tingxiao was there. If he went down rashly, he might lose his life in vain.
But...what if Lu Tingxiao was here?
If Lu Tingxiao had known about the strangeness here early on, had determined early on that the Dragon Horn could only be buried in the original place where it was discovered, and had anticipated the danger of the task of burying the Dragon Horn... then all the strangeness since the disappearance of the civilian airliner... would make sense.
"Try to get as close to the top as possible, but don't land." After giving the order, Ling Shi walked towards the cabin at the back. The parachute prepared on the plane was behind the cabin.
He put on his parachute and walked to the cabin door: "Makino, we are over the volcano, lower the altitude, I am going to parachute out."
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