Chapter 274 The Secret of Fire Island
The next morning, Ice Wolf led Gu Xingnian into the laboratory.
A row of PhDs in white coats were already lined up waiting, each with a blank expression and an inescapable weariness in their eyes.
But when they saw the woman behind the ice wolf's face, everyone felt as if they had been struck by lightning.
Collective pupillary earthquake.
"Holy crap..."
"N God?"
"Am I seeing things? Is it really N-God?"
Suppressed gasps of surprise rose and fell in the ranks, and everyone instantly perked up, their eyes blazing with fervor.
That's N God!
A top expert in the field of biological genetics!
She actually came to participate in this project herself!
So... will they be able to go home soon?
No more being stranded on this deserted island whose location is nobody's business!
Ice Wolf's cold gaze swept over the crowd, his voice flat and even.
"From now on, Miss Gu will be the chief engineer of this project, and you will all be under her command."
His gaze was fixed on the man in the lead.
"Dr. Shan, please coordinate with Ms. Gu and hand over all the previous research data and materials to her."
"Starting tomorrow, she will officially begin her research work in the laboratory."
"Okay, okay." Shan Feng, whose name was called, nodded quickly, his eyes behind his glasses filled with relief at surviving the ordeal.
The huge weight that had been hanging over his heart for half a year was finally lifted.
With N God's help, his life is probably saved.
Previously, he was the head of the entire laboratory.
The mysterious big boss declared that if he didn't see results within six months, he might as well stop using his head.
For the past few months, he has been losing hair every day and can't sleep well, fearing that one day he will be dragged out to feed the fish.
Now it's all right.
Finally, someone stood in his way.
"Let me show you around."
The sound of the ice wolf pulled Shan Feng back to reality from his relief.
He watched as Ice Wolf led Gu Xingnian through the various laboratories, listening to him explain the progress of the entire project and the work assignments of the doctoral students.
Gu Xingnian listened quietly, nodding occasionally.
She quickly gained a basic understanding.
In short, this group of people extracted the mutated genes, cultivated new cells, separated and extracted them, and then implanted them into the human body.
All stages of the experiment were conducted.
But the result was not as expected.
With extremely poor gene stability and a very low cell survival rate after implantation, it is impossible to produce a long-lasting effect; it can only be considered a flash in the pan.
To put it bluntly, it's ineffective.
She then visited several world-class medical aesthetic laboratories and discovered that so-called beauties are all artificially created.
It seems that the woman who looks just like her is from here.
Suddenly, a series of heavy footsteps sounded.
Two burly bodyguards escorted five or six "dwarfs" from the end of the corridor and turned into a room next door.
Those "dwarfs" were only up to an adult's waist, with haggard faces and a deathly pallor that had never seen the sun.
His eyes were vacant, like a puppet whose soul had been taken away.
Gu Xingnian stopped in her tracks.
She turned her head and looked inside through the observation window on the door.
The sight inside chilled her to the bone.
The "little people" were roughly laid down on cold metal beds, and several doctors in white coats drew blood from them.
There was even an incident where a doctor, after anesthetizing a "little man," held a long syringe and aimed it at his spine.
Bone marrow extraction.
The entire process was so cruel it was appalling.
Gu Xingnian suddenly remembered those two hundred rooms.
Those two hundred so-called "test subjects".
Her heart felt like it was being gripped tightly by an invisible hand, the pain making her fingertips go numb.
She had to find a way to rescue these people.
And she wants to destroy such a laboratory.
S Country, Qingcheng.
In a secret club hidden in the bustling city, the air was thick with tension.
Fu Beichen and Chen Sen arrived, looking weary from their journey.
Lu Qinglin immediately came forward and said in a low voice, "This way."
He led the two through a dark corridor and into a secret room.
With a bang, the heavy door shut out everything from the outside world.
In the center of the secret room, a huge electronic screen was lit up, displaying a 3D map of the entire Qingcheng.
Lu Qinglin swiped his finger across the screen and tapped a red area on the edge of the map.
“Our people have turned the city and suburbs upside down, but they haven’t found anything.”
His fingertips finally stopped on two lonely islands.
"Now, only these two islands remain, which are the primary suspects. They are also ideal locations for Tibetans."
Fu Beichen's gaze was sharp as an eagle's, fixed on the screen, his jawline taut.
“Then let’s go to the island to look.” His voice wasn’t loud, but it was firm and resolute.
Lu Qinglin shook his head, a troubled look on his face.
He pointed to one of the islands, "This one, Hurricane Island, is said to be the private property of some mysterious wealthy businessman. It's only open to the public once a week, using some kind of maid-buying gimmick. To get on the island, you have to get an inside invitation card."
Fu Beichen frowned slightly. "What about the other one?"
“The other one is called Flaming Island.” Lu Qinglin’s expression turned serious. “No locals dare to go there. They say there’s a strange magnetic field there that causes any electronic devices to malfunction, and ships that sail there will lose their way.”
"Therefore, getting up there is harder than climbing to heaven."
Fu Beichen's gaze lingered on the fiery island, a strong intuition telling him that Nian Nian might be hiding there.
Chen Sen, who had been silent all along, suddenly spoke up, "It's very simple to find out if there are people on the island."
All eyes were on him.
"The closest supply point to the island should be this coastal town," Chen Sen circled a location on the map.
"If there are people on the island, they will definitely need supplies. They will go to this town to buy them, and our people just need to wait and see."
Fu Beichen immediately made the decision.
"Then let's proceed in three steps."
He looked at Lu Qinglin and said, "You're in charge of getting the invitation cards for Hurricane Island. I need to go to the island myself."
"The people sent by our elder brother are to find the route to Flamingo Island, while our own team members are going to that town in batches to ambush them."
"Okay." Lu Qinglin had just nodded when there was a knock on the door of the secret room.
Thump, thump, thump.
Lu Qinglin walked over, peeked through the peephole, and then opened the door.
The person standing outside the door was none other than Huo Shenyuan.
He looked as if he had been eroded by wind and sand, with dark stubble on his chin and a sense of vicissitude about him, making him look several years older for no reason.
"Why are you here?" Fu Beichen asked, looking surprised.
Huo Shenyuan strode in, his voice hoarse, "We had a fight with the 'Venom' people at the border."
He smirked, revealing a cold smile. "Those bastards are indeed quite capable. They've hidden several top experts, and we didn't dare to confront them head-on."
"Later, we captured a suspect and pried him out of his mouth. We found out that they had a so-called prophet who predicted that Helis would appear in Qingcheng at the end of the month. So we came directly here."
Huo Shenyuan's gaze swept across the map on the screen. "Moreover, that guy also mentioned that there's some kind of energy field in this area. Their people have also come to scout it out."
Lu Qinglin slapped his thigh. "Damn it, it seems that our previous trip to the desert was a complete misguided endeavor."
He glanced at Fu Beichen sideways. "I say, has your code-breaking skills declined? How could you get such a simple password wrong?"
Fu Beichen coldly lifted his eyelids, "Why don't you say that the camel you found went into heat halfway and got lost?"
Huo Shenyuan, who had been silent all along, suddenly spoke up, "Can I see the password to that badge?"
Without much thought, Lu Qinglin took out his phone, pulled up the photos he had taken earlier, and handed them over.
Huo Shenyuan lowered his eyes, staring intently at the string of strange symbols on the screen.
A few seconds later, he looked up, something stirring in his dark eyes.
“I’ve seen these symbols before.”
"You've seen it? Where?" Lu Qinglin became excited instantly.
Huo Shenyuan's Adam's apple bobbed, as if recalling a very private moment.
He spoke slowly, his voice low and deliberate.
“There are similar symbols on Qingning’s lower back.”
"Damn!" Lu Qinglin exclaimed, then smiled knowingly. "Such a secluded place, only you, Young Master Huo, could see it. Who else could possibly find it?"
Fu Beichen stared intently at Huo Shenyuan.
"Can you recall exactly what that string of symbols looked like?"
Huo Shenyuan's thoughts drifted away.
He remembered that night, the room was dimly lit, and he kissed her slender waist.
My fingertips still remember the warmth and smoothness of that skin.
There he saw the string of symbols.
Four very simple marks, like a brand or a tattoo.
At the time, he didn't pay much attention to it, thinking it was just some kind of scar left from her youth.
Looking back now, every detail is crystal clear.
He picked up the pen on the table and quickly drew on the white paper from memory.
Four simple symbols leap off the page.
Fu Beichen and Lu Qinglin went over to take a look and almost instantly understood what it meant.
"Going south while heading north."
Lu Qinglin suddenly raised his head, his eyes flashing with an astonishing light.
He quickly grabbed the electronic pen from the table and started operating it on the map on the screen.
Starting from the wrong location they had found in the desert, they forcibly reversed the direction from "south" to "north".
A brand new coordinate route is rapidly extending across the map.
The pen tip traced a glaring red line across the electronic map, traversing cities, crossing oceans, and finally…
It stopped abruptly with a "snap".
"Fire Island!"
"Fire Island!"
"Fire Island!"
The voices of three men echoed in the secret room, filled with uncontrollable shock and excitement.
"Damn! Holy crap!" Lu Qinglin slammed his fist on the table in excitement. "So that's where it was hidden! Dr. Li is a real genius!"
He pointed at the screen, so excited he was incoherent, "Who the hell could have imagined that he would tattoo the clues to the solution onto his own daughter!"
"This strategy was brilliantly executed!"
"Even if the enemy manages to seize the badge and decipher the first layer of information, without Qingning, they will never find the right direction! Brilliant, absolutely brilliant!"
A brief silence fell over the secret room.
The three men's gazes, like three sharp swords, were simultaneously locked onto the Flaming Island floating in the sea on the screen.
It seems they won't be able to return to Haicheng anytime soon.
The sea is calm and peaceful.
That evening, Sheng Weiwei dragged her tired body back to the Sheng residence.
As soon as she entered the living room, she stopped in her tracks.
The man who had disappeared for ten whole days was standing right in front of me...
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