After finishing speaking, Chen Ruolan wanted to discuss with Chen Zhong about catching the spy. This matter could be a big or small one. If it was left unattended and other people found out, the people in the base would become restless, which would be quite troublesome.
Seeing that Chen Zhong was staring at her, she felt embarrassed and touched her neck awkwardly.
"Dad, why are you looking at me like that? Is there something on my face?"
Logically speaking, that shouldn't happen. Didn't Yan Jili just help me deal with it? Isn't it clean?
Chen Zhong's eyes gradually became moist. When he heard Chen Ruolan's words, he glared at her unhappily.
Chen Ruolan smiled awkwardly. It was not that she didn't see it, she was just pretending to be stupid. She was not good at dealing with such touching scenes, so this was good enough.
"Dad, you go and announce to the people on the farm that those things are actually fine and the staff are not sick. Then we can just wait for those people to show their true colors." Chen Ruolan thought that this method was foolproof and nodded with satisfaction.
"You can solve the problem with just two words. You are so flattering." Chen Zhong said to her in a bad mood.
He was naturally unhappy that his plan was being belittled like this, so he retorted, "Okay, then give me some guidance."
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The two of them pondered for a while in the room before deciding on a plan.
Logically speaking, this matter should be handled by Chen Zhong, and Chen Ruolan just needs to stay in the office.
Who knew that Chen Zhong felt something was wrong halfway through the journey and pulled up Chen Ruolan who was sitting comfortably in the chair.
"You should also go to the base and check if there are any spies from other bases sneaking in. Stop slacking off here."
How could he say such nonsense? Even if it was true, Chen Ruolan would never admit it.
"No...no, I just want to wait for you to come back, and then..." Chen Ruolan suddenly didn't have the courage to continue and sighed.
Then he said, "Okay, okay, I'll go take a look. Okay, are you satisfied?"
I've been busy for so long that I can't even come to my dad's place to rest. When will this apocalypse end?
Chen Zhong and Chen Ruolan worked together to clean up the spies hiding in the base from other bases.
Such a big thing naturally could not be hidden from Yan Jili, not to mention that it was related to Chen Ruolan.
Almost immediately, he rushed to Chen Ruolan's side. Seeing his dusty appearance, Chen Ruolan felt warm in his heart. He took the initiative to step forward and patted the dust off his body. He couldn't help but take a few breaths and coughed until tears came out.
Yan Jili pulled her aside with a helpless and gentle look on his face, and brushed off the dust on his body.
"Why did you suddenly remember to clean up?" Yan Jili asked without thinking.
Chen Ruolan knew what he was asking, so she told him about her visit to the farm to meet Chen Zhong today and what happened on the farm.
As soon as he finished speaking, Yan Jili felt something was wrong. "Such a big thing, how come no one reported it?"
It would have been fine if he hadn't said anything. As soon as he mentioned this, Chen Ruolan got angry. "What else could I say? Those spies were very capable. They intercepted the report, causing the farm incident to remain hidden."
Chen Ruolan wanted to talk to him a little more since he was in a good mood. Then he heard him say in a very unromantic way: "Such a big thing has happened. We should talk to An An about it."
Chen Ruolan complained, "You're so busy all day, and you don't even spend time with me."
Yan Jili didn't hear clearly and looked at her suspiciously, "Did you say something just now?"
Thinking of what he had just muttered, Chen Ruolan felt embarrassed. If he really knew, it would be disastrous.
"Yes...yes, I'll send her a message right away."
After briefly explaining the matter of infiltrating the base with spies in the message, he sent the news.
Not long after, a reply came in. It was a voice message from Tang Anan, "I still have some unresolved matters here, so I can't go back for the time being. I'll leave the matters at the base to you and Yan Jili, but your own safety is the most important thing."
Because the voice was played out loud, Yan Jili could hear it clearly. Although they were very curious about what was holding Tang Anan back, since she didn't want to say it, she must have her reasons.
After finishing this task, Chen Ruolan was worried about having nothing to do when the laboratory sent him the test results of the vines and invited Chen Ruolan to cooperate with them to draw a topographic map of the forest outskirts.
Chen Ruolan was not very good at things like memory, and Yan Jili had nothing to do, so he took him over.
"Do you have any memories about this vine?" the researcher asked, holding the report.
"Ivy, I remember it had a pair of completely black eyes, a green liquid dripping from its mouth, and vesicles all over its body. It exuded a foul odor, and the vesicles kept oozing out mucus that dripped down..."
Chen Ruolan described it to them in vivid detail. Most of the people in the research institute rarely went out, so naturally they had never seen such a disgusting thing. They didn't take the vine seriously at first, but now they felt so disgusted that they almost vomited.
This was exactly the effect he wanted. Chen Ruolan laughed triumphantly, but Yan Jili grabbed his collar and pulled him aside.
Holding back his nausea, the researcher continued, "Anything else?"
Yan Jili nodded and said in a cold voice, "Vines will grow in the soil. They are impossible to kill. The only way is to burn them with supernatural powers. Otherwise, you will be strangled to death by them."
Chen Ruolan suddenly appeared and added, "And, after being cut, the vine will split and have parasitic properties. Bullets are useless against it. At most, they can only increase its alienation."
The two men kept describing the monsters outside the forest, including sticky and disgusting swamps, alienated apes and other monsters. After hearing their descriptions, the researchers saw some doubts in the map in front of them.
"This map seems a little strange?" said the researcher, looking at the map.
Chen Ruolan thought he was doubting her, so he came over and said unhappily, "What's so strange about that? Are you suspecting I'm lying?"
He was just a small researcher, how could he have the courage to question the deputy battalion commander?
Yan Jili pulled a certain impolite little girl to his side, ignored her struggle, looked at the map in front of him, and actually saw something.
"There is indeed a problem. When we were on the periphery, we saw creatures like vines, without intelligence. But as we got deeper, we found that, like the vines we encountered today and the monkeys we encountered before, they became intelligent and could even speak."
Hearing him say this, Chen Ruolan thought seriously for a moment, then recalled what Captain Gao had said today, and his face darkened. "If that's the case, then we're in trouble. Many of the available resources in the forest must have been occupied by those spiritual monsters."
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