Chapter 39
"Gone?" When Qiao Yan called Shu Juan, all she got was the answer that Nan Ya Yin had run away alone.
"The call lasted about half a minute. We were still analyzing the data when he suddenly rushed out." Shu Juan patted the car door. "We waited for a few minutes but he didn't come back. When we wanted to go out to look for him, we found that the car was gone."
When Qiao Yan was on the phone, he noticed Qiao Yan glanced at the terminal, indicating that someone must have said something or sent him a message.
From the very beginning, she didn't think the person behind her would really believe Nan Yayin.
"You installed a tracking device on his terminal, didn't you?" Shu Juan said somewhat strangely. "When I was looking for clues, I searched through the database and initially thought it was installed by the other side, but it seems like we did it ourselves. Have you seen it?"
Qiao Yan glanced at the person on the screen. She was extremely cautious, so the answer to this question was naturally, "I've seen it."
Qiao Yan had been checking Nan Ya Yin's location since he hung up the phone, "but he hasn't moved."
Since Nan Yayin's phone has already been hacked, what's the point of installing a location tracking device? It's probably already been blocked.
"Can't we trace the hacking outwards?" Qiao Yan asked.
Shu Juan shook his head. "It's not that easy. It takes time to investigate. They need to monitor his terminal in real time. The time it takes to send a message is too short."
“He shouldn’t have been gone long; he couldn’t have gone very far,” Qiao Yan said, trying to suppress his anxiety.
Shu Juan had an idea, and she tentatively asked, "Why don't you try using him as bait?"
“Listen to me, we have no leads right now. We have no way to contact anyone except him,” Shu Juan explained.
Qiao Yan understood the current situation, but was it really appropriate to use an innocent person as bait?
“You should know they don’t actually want Nan Ya Yin dead, so they’re just using him as bait,” Qiao Yan sighed, covering her eyes with her hands. “Shu Juan, do you really think it’s the right thing to send him to his death alone?”
"Qiao Yan..."
Qiao Yan rubbed her face, then patted herself hard. "You keep chasing him and tracking information. I'll think of another way. In short, as long as I haven't gone there yet and haven't stepped into this trap, he's still safe."
Her forlorn voice filled Shu Juan with guilt. If she had stopped Nan Yayin in time, things might not have escalated to this point.
Not a moment can be wasted now. Even if we have no clue, we must find a starting point, otherwise we will endlessly exile ourselves to the possibility that Nan Yayin might die.
The mark is never just a constraint for Omegas; it's an inescapable shackle for Alphas as well. She found that even though they had only been apart for half a day, she already missed him.
He left without leaving anything behind, Qiao Yan thought, how cruel.
She listened to Xiao Lu's recording over and over again, but she still didn't know what Qu Song had prepared. He wouldn't say that for no reason; he must have done something, but she just didn't know it yet.
Nan Yayin used the terminal to view Xiao Lu's internal information, trying to find a trace of information about the Annihilation Starship, but the destruction back then was irreversible, and even this recording was a miracle.
Qiao Yan flipped through the files; they were all Xiao Lu's daily records, including hers, Nan Shuyin's, and of course, Nan Yayin's.
In just a few months, Xiao Lu took many photos. The house in the Lily of the Valley had never seemed so lively. Xiao Lu never felt lonely when she wasn't there, and the people in the photos were always smiling.
Qiao Yan flipped through the photos quickly and saw a few familiar ones; they were of Nan Yayin taking pictures of a puppy.
It must have just been brought in by Nan Yayin. It was sitting in a safe area of the living room, all wet, with a towel wrapped around its body and sticking out its tongue, waiting for him to take a picture of it.
One photo shows him patting the pizza's wet head, the second shows him making it sit still, and the last photo shows him holding up a terminal to take a picture of the puppy.
Seeing Nan Yayin's smile in the photo, Qiao Yan smiled back and saved the photo.
A call interface suddenly popped up on the page; it was someone from the school.
"Professor Qiao." It was the same person who had adjusted her class schedule. "Oh, you finally answered the phone."
"What's the matter?" Qiao Yan thought that if Nan Yayin could return safely, she could work from 8 am until the end of this semester, or even until the next semester.
“A student named Zhuang Lan has been looking for you. He says you will call him. He’s been making a fuss since this morning, and we really don’t know what to do,” the staff member said somewhat strangely. “I thought you were a good teacher.”
It was that student who sent the threatening letter. "Was he right there?"
"Yes, right now I feel like a homeroom teacher waiting for students' parents to pick them up from school."
"Give him the terminal." Qiao Yan didn't know what Zhuang Lan wanted to give her, but it was better than getting nothing at all.
"Teacher!" Zhuang Lan shouted into the terminal, "I've looked for so many of your phone numbers, but none of them are correct. Could you please update your contact information next time?"
In fact, very few students would call her. The school's communication number was set up, but the terminal specifically for the school was still in the teachers' dormitory.
Qiao Yan has experienced so much these past few days that she has almost forgotten that today is the day she was supposed to receive the threatening letter.
"Get to the point first," Qiao Yan urged.
Zhuang Lan's speech always seemed to miss the point. She rambled on about receiving a letter at the gate this morning, which was very strange. She usually received a whole stack of letters, since sending them one by one was too much trouble. Anyway, threatening letters were all vague and incomprehensible, so it was better to send a bunch at once and let him pick whichever one he wanted.
When he received it today, he felt the weight was off, and it seemed like there was something inside, which piqued his curiosity. He wanted to look but was also afraid to, but in the end, he opened the envelope and peeked inside. It turned out to be a storage device.
It was too terrifying. Even with his curiosity, he didn't dare look anymore. Curiosity killed the cat. What if something inside damaged his eyes? He was doomed. So he thought he should tell her as soon as possible.
Qiao Yan felt a headache coming on when she heard these words. She picked out the key point: storage device.
"I'll be at school right away." Qiao Yan knew it wasn't safe for her to go alone, but now the distinction between safe and unsafe didn't really matter.
Before leaving, she gave herself two injections of inhibitors, sent a message to Shu Juan, and then got into the hovercar and drove towards the school.
Zhuang Lan was still chatting with several teachers in the office. He was quite outgoing and learned that Qiao Yan had been resting for the past few days and had taken a long vacation.
"Hey!" Zhuang Lan looked at the timetable. "You've arranged the schedule like this, there's no way the students can keep up."
The teacher in the office thought to himself, how could he not know? It's just that recently, for some reason, there have been an unusually large number of teachers going on business trips to give lectures and attend lectures. The earliest one won't be back for another two weeks. If you didn't know better, you'd think their school had exiled all the teachers and professors to other planets.
Qiao Yan walked in just as she heard Zhuang Lan's words, and she was deeply moved.
"Teacher, teacher!" Zhuang Lan turned around when she heard the door open and saw her. She quickly waved, "The storage device is here."
Qiao Yan watched as he emptied the envelope. "No letter?"
"No, I'm wondering about that too," Zhuang Lan said. "They only gave me a storage device this time, otherwise I wouldn't have thought of opening it to take a look."
Qiao Yan looked at the storage device, which was the same model as the one she had seen in the parking lot before.
"Teacher, you can just look here." Zhuang Lan was very curious. If he had the guts, he would have looked at it from his dormitory long ago. Now that Qiao Yan was here, he naturally wanted to feast his eyes.
Qiao Yan was also eager to see the contents. She was thinking about Nan Ya Yin's matter and no longer cared about keeping it a secret.
She borrowed a shared terminal in the office, and after inserting the storage device, within seconds, a deluge of evidence swept in like a sandstorm.
[A certain news newspaper]
In the year 572 of the Starry Sky Calendar, Qiao Yan and his companions, who were traveling to the planet Gravel 7 aboard the Annihilation Starship, encountered an accidental malfunction of the spaceship, which exploded and was destroyed. The images left at the time showed that there were giant aggressive creatures on Gravel 7.
Image 1: Showing a biomimetic fuzzy whole
Image 2: Showing severed limbs of a creature.
The Center for Research on Unknown Creatures stated that, according to Qiao Yan, the attack by the unknown creature occurred after the spaceship exploded, and it is speculated that the loud noise from the spaceship's destruction triggered a counterattack.
In conclusion, the root cause of this tragedy is that the design of the spaceship still needs improvement. We should not forget that humanity is always insignificant in the universe.
[A work report]
The images of the creatures that Qiao Yan encountered were recorded on the camera equipment of her and several of her teammates. Although the images were not clear, we have tried our best to piece together a complete picture.
The giant biological portrait and three-dimensional model are shown below.
[Zhou Yi's Application Report]:
I do not agree with demoting Qiao Yan. Her achievements are evident to all, and she is still fighting despite her weakened state. Demoting her like this would, in my opinion, be contrary to the dignity and morality of the Expeditionary Force.
Almost everyone in the office gathered around, and that's how they learned the secrets of what happened back then.
Then a video popped up, and the people in the office looked at Qiao Yan and then at the computer.
Qiao Yan didn't hide it from anyone and just clicked on it.
This is a recorded video, only one minute long. The first thirty seconds of playback are a black screen.
Until the very end, the video distorted, and suddenly a person wearing a mask could be seen sitting inside.
"Captain, it's been a long time. I'm Qu Song."
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