Si Nan's disappearance was a heavy blow to the leadership team of Shishan Base. If anything unexpected happened to Si Nan, given Cheng Su Ming's personality, he would definitely turn the entire base upside down after finding out.
The most urgent task is to check all places in the base, find the bastard who kidnapped Si Nan, and ensure Si Nan's safety.
The gates of the Shishan base were blocked as quickly as possible, and groups of soldiers appeared in the roads and alleys throughout the base to check everyone.
People didn't know what was going on and were talking about it.
As the commander-in-chief of the search for Sinan, Yan Hongyi sat in a military command vehicle, holding a military intercom, and issued orders one after another: "Team one, find Director Zhang of the logistics department, the staff who were previously responsible for connecting the goods, and the driver of the truck, and ask them what happened."
"Team One received."
"Team Two, guard the gate of the base, check all suspicious vehicles and personnel, and look for Si Nan's trace."
"Team Two received."
"Team Three checked the surveillance footage in the control room from 8 a.m. to around 3 p.m. and reported any suspicious individuals who drove away the military truck immediately."
"Team Three received."
"Teams 4 and 5 are investigating ordinary people as planned."
"receive."
"Everyone else follow me and head east."
About an hour has passed since the truck picked up Si Nan. If he wants to leave from the Shishan Gate, it will take at least an hour and a half to drive.
Obviously, the person who took Si Nan away was not so stupid as to drive out of the gate of Shishan Base in a swagger.
However, the Shishan base has only one entrance and exit, and high walls have been built at the locations built around the mountain. The original purpose was to prevent large beasts from entering the base and eating people, and to prevent criminals from escaping. Therefore, there are always soldiers stationed and patrolling at those locations.
If the people who kidnapped Si Nan tried to escape from the wall, the soldiers would find them and stop them immediately, and report to their superiors.
But until now, except for that flash of surveillance footage, no one has found any trace of the truck and Si Nan, which means that the two people who took Si Nan away did not take the usual route.
However, all exits of the Shishan base were blocked, and the entire Shishan base was being investigated. It was impossible for those two people to hide in the base buildings.
Sooner or later they will be discovered by patrol teams and the military. If they do not stay in the base and choose to escape immediately with Si Nan, where will they go?
The answer is underground.
To the east of the Shishan base, there is a sightseeing railway track. Since the end of the world, it has been in a state of abandonment.
After the earthquake, the Shishan base was built, the area was cleared, and the tracks and a train were repaired. The Shishan military originally intended to use the train tracks to transport supplies after the severe cold stopped.
Usually, there are only a few train staff and two soldiers guarding the track entrance, because the entrance is near the military district’s family quarters. The weather has been quite cold recently, and the staff guarding the track entrance are probably rather lazy and would not even notice if someone took advantage of them.
Yan Hongyi rushed to the entrance of the military area without stopping, and found a record at the entrance that two men had carried a woman in about forty minutes ago.
The sentry on duty said that the two men produced the certificates of military district soldiers and their families, saying that the woman was sick and had just returned from the hospital and had fainted with a fever. They compared the certificates with the appearance of the three people and found no problems, so they let them in.
Yan Hongyi frowned and stood at the door for a while. Soon, the armed police soldier he sent out to patrol nearby came back and replied: "Report to Captain Yan, the big truck was found in the corner of the wall to the south of the military zone. An unconscious middle-aged man was found in the back of the truck. Our people are trying to wake him up. No trace of Miss Si was found."
Yan Hongyi was about to speak when a voice came over the intercom: "Reporting to Captain Yan, Director Zhang from the logistics department, the receiver, and the driver have all been found. They were injected with anesthetics, their clothes were taken off, their work badges were taken away, and then the two drove away the truck."
"Reporting to Captain Yan, we checked the factory dormitories of the South District units and found that the Communications Department was missing 50 maintenance workers. The foreman of those 50 people was the long-haired man that Doctor Cheng had mentioned and asked us to pay attention to - Wu Ming."
"Reporting to Captain Yan, the three patrol teams on the Second Street in the East District were all knocked unconscious and their guns and identification numbers were stolen. The military personnel system was briefly hacked by hackers an hour ago. We suspect that they tampered with the authentication system just to pass the military district sentry authentication."
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Adding all the things together, it is obvious that this is an organized and premeditated kidnapping plan!
Yan Hongyi recalled Wu Ming's information. This man entered the Shishan base a year ago and took Si Nan away. Was he just acting on impulse or did he have other purposes?
If Si Nan was taken away with a purpose, then he would have been lurking in the Shishan base for a whole year, which is chilling to think about.
Yang Wentao and Sheng Youqing, who were accompanying them, could no longer sit still.
Yang Wentao said, "Captain Yan, why don't we split up into two groups? You should contact the military headquarters immediately and arrange for a helicopter to go out and intercept the bandits who took Si Nan away. We will go to the train tunnel with your men to see if we can find any clues."
"Yes, only in this way can we rescue Si Nan as quickly as possible and protect her life." Sheng Youqing's eyes were red and her voice was trembling.
This is indeed the most feasible and effective method at present.
Yan Hongyi immediately called Yin Peng over: "Take Team 6 and contact the railway track staff to get you a train as soon as possible to see if you can catch up. If you encounter the kidnappers, persuade them to surrender while ensuring Miss Si's safety. If they refuse to change their ways and try to hurt Miss Si, they will be shot immediately!"
"Yes!" Yin Peng answered loudly with his chest puffed out, and asked Yang Wentao and Sheng Youqing to get in the car. He took two large trucks full of soldiers, and nearly a hundred soldiers drove quickly to the entrance of the railway tunnel.
Yan Hongyi contacted his superiors in the military using a walkie-talkie. After receiving an approval reply, he took a jeep and rushed to the military helicopter airport.
It was not known whether God was against them, but when Yan Hongyi arrived at the airport, the wind and snow suddenly became stronger.
The biting cold wind mixed with heavy snow was so strong that even Yan Hongyi, a 1.85-meter-tall man, couldn't bear it.
When he got out of the car, he had to hold down the big hat on his head with his hands, tilted his whole body at 45 degrees, and walked step by step to the helicopter against the strong wind.
In such bad weather, the helicopter naturally cannot take off temporarily, otherwise the entire crew may be in danger. It has to wait until the weather improves before it can take off.
When Duan Peng and a group of people rushed to the entrance of the train tunnel, they saw, as expected, a pool of frozen blood and several bodies that had been frozen into ice cubes.
The bodies included those of train tunnel workers and two soldiers who were ordered to guard the entrance. They were all shot to death with one fatal blow.
When Sheng Youqing saw the body, she asked Duan Peng in confusion, "This place is very close to the military family area. If someone shot and killed someone here, how come the family members nearby didn't hear the gunshot?"
"It is possible that they prepared silencers in advance and installed them on their weapons." Duan Peng said solemnly.
Yang Wentao looked around and asked, "Why is the entrance to this tunnel closed?"
A train worker Duan Peng found answered, "This was specially built many years ago. The section from Dashishan to Xiaoqiba has a special terrain. In order to conceal the existence of military fortifications halfway up Dashishan, the older generation built the tunnel very secretly. A mountain tunnel of nearly two kilometers was built to the head of Xiaoqiba. The older generation built this entrance so that in case of emergency, if bad guys invaded, they could cut off the power supply of the tunnel entrance in time to prevent them from entering Dashishan. Now the green light at the tunnel entrance is not on. I suspect it was damaged by the gang of bandits and the entrance cannot be opened. We have to go in from the backup underground entrance."
A group of people followed the staff and walked down step by step in the dark from the secret and old entrance at the other end, along the narrow spiral stone steps less than one meter wide.
Fortunately, the staff was prepared and carried a flashlight with him. He shone the light on everyone as he walked. Everyone then walked down about ten meters in the pitch darkness and finally arrived at the railway track.
The staff walked for a distance with a flashlight, groped on the wall for a while, and soon pressed a switch button. The originally dark tunnel suddenly lit up with lights, extending to the invisible end of the railway track.
The closed entrance of the tunnel was behind them, and ahead was a railway track that stretched as far as the eye could see. In such freezing weather, the tracks were already covered with a thick layer of ice, making it difficult for the train to move.
But when the lights came on, everyone saw that the ice on the tracks had cracked, which meant that the gang of criminals had already taken Si Nan abducted, boarded the train and driven away for a while.
Everyone felt disappointed.
Duan Peng reported the matter using the walkie-talkie and received a reply from Yan Hongyi that the wind and snow outside were getting stronger and the helicopter could not fly temporarily. He was leading a dozen military jeeps with snow wheels to the outside of the tunnel outside the base, hoping to catch up with the train.
Duan Peng asked the staff: "What is the speed of your sightseeing train?"
The staff replied: "Ours is a sightseeing steam train, which usually runs at a speed of 47 kilometers per hour, slowly moving to allow passengers to enjoy the scenery along the way. But if the train driver drives recklessly, it can reach 85-110 kilometers."
"It seems that if our jeep accelerates at full speed, it will only take a few minutes to catch up with the train."
The others didn't say anything, as they all knew that railway tunnels are usually built in remote mountains and wilderness. It was already more than half a year after the severe cold, and the buildings, roads, and everything outside were covered with layers of snow. It was impossible to tell which were safe roads and which were loose ditches and potholes. If the car fell into a pothole without paying attention, it would easily be destroyed and people would die.
Therefore, the vehicle speed is now maintained at two-thirds of the previous speed at most, and the possibility of catching up is very low.
They could only follow the original plan and have the staff bring out another locomotive from the entrance, connect the two short carriages, and have everyone get on the train. The man who was both a station staff member and a former train driver would start the train and chase along the tracks.
Sinan woke up to the sound of a train running on the rails, accompanied by the sound of steam.
She opened her eyes with great effort and found herself sitting in an old green train carriage.
The seats in the carriage were a bit like the long rows of wooden chairs in the park. She leaned in the corner of the carriage, facing two rows of bright sightseeing glass windows.
There was thick ice condensing on the outside of the glass window, and there was water vapor inside, so I couldn't see what was happening outside.
But from the freezing temperature in the carriage, the dim lights flashing through the windows, and the sound of the train echoing in her ears, she guessed that the train must be running outside.
Si Nan thought hard, isn't it extremely cold now? It's freezing outside. Only a madman would drive a train outside, right? Aren't they afraid that the tracks will break down and people will freeze to death outside?
When she thought of this, she suddenly remembered everything that happened before she fainted. She looked around in disbelief and saw that the two rows of seats in the carriage were crowded with people.
The person closest to her noticed her movements and bared his white teeth at her: "Miss Si, are you awake?"
The man who was talking to her had long hair, a mustache, and a rather thin appearance. Wasn't he Wu Ming, the man she and Cheng Suming had always suspected of doing something bad to her?
Si Nan opened his eyes wide and wanted to speak, wanted to sit up from his reclining position, but he found that he was so weak that he felt as if a thousand-pound stone was pressing down on him even with his eyes open, let alone sitting up and speaking.
"Miss Si, you want to know why we attacked you and took you away, right?" Wu Ming smiled warmly, "Or you want to know how we managed to travel on the tracks when the snow outside was so thick and the tracks were covered with a lot of snow and ice?"
Si Nan was speechless, so he simply said nothing and looked at him coldly.
Wu Ming just took her away and didn't kill her, which shows that she is still useful to him.
Since it worked, she was safe for the time being. She wanted to see what tricks he was up to!
Wu Ming stretched out his hands and leaned his head back against the car window. He said lazily, "Don't worry, Miss Si, we won't do anything to you for the time being. Our boss needs you, so during this period, you'd better cooperate with our work honestly and don't think of running away or causing trouble, otherwise don't blame me for being rude."
Boss? Who is he? Why did they arrest her?
Wu Ming didn't say anything to explain her doubts. He closed his eyes and seemed to fall asleep.
Others either leaned back in their chairs with their arms folded and their eyes closed like him, or lowered their heads and played with weapons or guns in their hands. No one looked at her or paid any attention to her.
The entire carriage was quiet and cold, with only the clanging sound of the train moving quickly. Thinking back to it in my ears, I wondered if there was a valley outside, and the echoing sound of the train was created in it.
I don’t know how long it had been, maybe an hour, or maybe two hours. It was so long that Sinan, who had been sitting in the corner unable to move, felt his blood and limbs frozen. When he was about to freeze to death, the train stopped.
"We're here, get off the car!" Two people in the front shouted loudly in the wind and snow.
Everyone in the carriage stood up, put on the packages under the seats, and each person took a sled and got off the car fully armed.
One of them was a burly man, almost two meters tall when he stood up. He was holding the carriage on his head with his neck bent, looking like a giant. He was not carrying any packages or sleds, but another man helped him.
The giant strode up to Si Nan, hunched over, and walked towards the door of the carriage holding Si Nan. The others waited at the door with guns in hand.
The moment he got off the car, a cold wind blew, bringing snowflakes that hit Si Nan's face. Si Nan couldn't help shivering from the cold, and his teeth couldn't stop chattering.
It’s cold, so cold!
She was wearing thick clothes, so she would be warm if she kept moving. However, she had been keeping the same posture for nearly two hours, and when she got off the car, she felt like she was about to freeze to death.
The giant holding her didn't care whether she was cold or not. The first thing he did after getting off the car was to change from holding her in his arms to carrying her on his back. Someone nearby covered both of them with silver-white thermal insulation cloth, and the others also covered themselves with thermal insulation cloth, hiding their clothes from head to toe, making them almost blend in with the surrounding white snow.
Si Nan's eyelids jumped when he saw that after Wu Ming gave the order to set off, everyone walked to the left side of the train and climbed towards the snow-covered forest next to it.
Not only did these people bring thermal insulation cloth to blend in with the surrounding snow, making it difficult to detect their whereabouts, they also hid sleds on the train, clearly showing that they came prepared.
Their purpose was to take her away.
Si Nan had already vaguely guessed what they wanted to do by taking her away, and couldn't help struggling.
She wanted to struggle, and she was actually able to move, but her strength was very limited and her struggle was very small. It should be that the effect of the drug was about to wear off.
She was so happy that she wanted to move when Wu Ming came over, stood beside her and held up an injection.
She immediately stopped struggling and made a weak pleading sound in her throat: "Please don't hit me. I haven't moved for two hours. If you hit me again, I will pass out and my limbs will not be able to move. They will remain in a stiff position and my hands and feet will be frozen and disabled. My limbs will not be able to be saved and need to be amputated, and I will become a complete cripple. Rather than become like that, I might as well die now."
Wu Ming was stunned for a moment, holding the injection in his hand, as if thinking about something.
"Don't worry, I won't run away." Si Nan struck while the iron was hot, "I am weak all over and my limbs are powerless. I can't move on my own. Even if I recover my strength, I don't have a sled and can't outrun you. You still have guns and can kill me at any time."
Wu Ming thought about it and it made sense. If she really froze to death, he would have a hard time explaining to the boss.
He put the injection back into the inside pocket of his clothes and kept it with his body temperature to prevent it from freezing and also to allow him to take it out anytime and anywhere and inject the restless Si Nan.
How could Si Nan dare to run? Just as she said, these people were holding guns. Seeing them moving up the mountain without saying a word, the way they held the guns were no different from the soldiers at the Shishan base. It was obvious that they were all well-trained and ruthless people.
If she really wanted to escape, even if she took out a sled from the space, she was a southerner who couldn't ski, and she would probably be shot in the feet before she could run two steps. It would be better for her to be honest and take one step at a time.
She believed that if she did not reach the logistics department or return to the greenhouse, Sheng's mother and the others would definitely notice something unusual and tell Yang Wentao and Sheng Youqing, and they would definitely ask Yan Hongyi and the base's military to rescue her.
All she had to do was to save her life before they found her.
The place they were walking in was a long mountain range. Most of the outside area was covered with snow. At a glance, it was all white. There were also many tall trees that could be seen, which just covered up the footprints they had left.
However, the snow underneath was frozen as hard as stone, and the snow on top was chest-deep. Many times, Sinan saw the shorter people walking in front disappear directly in the snow. Sometimes the snow was so deep that it reached the neck, and everyone almost waded through the snow, which was quite difficult to walk.
Like the two people who flanked her and the giant on both sides, alerting her to her escape, such as Wu Ming, who was probably less than 1.75 meters tall, who often walked to a place with a hole underneath and disappeared in the snow. The people around him hurriedly pulled him out like pulling a carrot, and when they pulled him out, his face was frozen red and covered with ice.
Si Nan laughed in a very unkind way, but without making any sound.
She was lying on the giant. The giant was tall and there was no pressure for him to walk in the snow. She would not sink into the snow either, at most her butt would get covered in snow.
I guess Wu Ming took this into consideration and asked such a tall person to carry her.
Compared to the movies and TV shows she had watched before the apocalypse, where she had seen kidnapped people being beaten and abused, Wu Ming and his gang were relatively polite to her.
Si Nan felt both grateful to Wu Ming and hated him for tying him up.
In short, with such complicated emotions, they climbed over one hill after another.
In the severe cold weather, the days are short and the nights are long. Before six o'clock, it is as dark as the bottom of a pot. Only the snow on the ground is white, reflecting the white light, making the vision a little clearer.
It was already completely dark at this time, and as night fell, the wind and snow became stronger and more severe.
All Si Nan's ears were filled with the whistling sound of the cold wind. The wind and snow scraped at her face like knives, making it hurt. She couldn't open her eyes at all. She could only bury her head in the giant's broad back, letting him block the wind and snow.
In such bad weather, they climbed over another hill. Wu Ming gave an order for everyone to put on their sleds and prepare to go down the mountain, including the giants.
In order to prevent accidents while skiing, Si Nan was tied up by Wu Ming and his team behind the giant.
The giant walked to the edge of a cliff. Si Nan felt the cold wind getting stronger and couldn't help but open his eyes to look. He saw a steep cliff covered with snow and ice below, which was estimated to be at least one thousand meters high. Wu Ming and his group were going to ski down from this cliff.
She couldn't help but ask, "You want to slide down from here? Are you crazy?"
No one came back to her, all leapt on their sleds—
“Ahhh! You guys are a bunch of lunatics!”
From among the mountains came Si Nan's shrill screams.
Si Nan, who had never been to the north and had never skied on the snow, instinctively closed his eyes, screamed and cursed when the giant jumped down with ski poles, and left the rest to fate.
On the other side, in a conference room in the Kyoto Center Building, a meeting about a certain person's surgical plan had just ended.
Cheng Suming stood up from his seat and was about to leave when he suddenly recalled that when he called Yang Wentao and Sheng Youqing, their responses and sentences were so similar.
His heart skipped a beat, and he called out to the secretary general of a certain high-ranking leader in Kyoto, "Secretary General Song, are you hiding something from me?"
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