Just then, the phone rang; it was Zhang Youwei.
He pressed the answer button, and Zhang Youwei's panicked voice came through:
"Mr. Gao, you'd better find somewhere to hide right away, something terrible has happened."
"What did you hear or see?"
"Old Liu, also known as Liu Guangqi, has disappeared!"
Lowering his voice, Zhang Youwei's voice trembled slightly, "I've already called the police. My house is full of police officers now. I'm telling you, Mr. Gao, you'd better find somewhere to hide right away. These people are terrifying."
"Missing? You mean Liu Guangqi was on that cruise ship in Southeast Asia?"
Gao Ang frowned. What did this have to do with Zhang Youwei?
"Yes, it's the National Day holiday, and the epidemic prevention measures aren't so strict right now, so Lao Liu's company is planning to go out and relax. The main thing is that their carbon-based chips have made a big breakthrough after you provided the raw materials. I think... And I heard from Lao Liu that the Western He Guo Aoli Group is planning to acquire their company for 10 billion, and it's made of alumina."
"They refused?"
"That's right, Mr. Gao, think about it. If carbon-based chips really become widespread, 10 billion yuan of gold is nothing. That's a market worth hundreds of billions or even trillions. They're not stupid. So I guess that the disappearance of Lao Liu and the others is definitely related to the He Guo Aoli Group, and it's even possible that those wealthy tycoons in the country are behind it."
Zhang Youwei sniffed and said cautiously, "When faced with profit, those big tycoons will definitely stop at nothing. Mr. Gao, please take care."
"Thank you, I understand."
After hanging up the phone, Gao Feng's eyes sparkled, and a slight smile appeared on his lips as he murmured, "So impatient, huh? Fine, since you want to play, I'll play along."
With a flash of consciousness, the three brothers were immediately freed.
"gentlemen."
"gentlemen."
"gentlemen."
The three little ones were really getting angry, and they knew that Gao Ang was genuinely upset. After saying hello, they lowered their heads and dared not utter another sound.
"We can talk about your problems later. Right now, there's a big issue. Liu Guangqi has probably been kidnapped again. Get moving."
With a wave of his hand, Gao Yang issued the battle order.
"yes."
"receive."
"Okay!"
The three big guys immediately sprang into action.
Although the official website doesn't require them to handle any cases, they still hadn't moved around for three days, so they quickly got to get their arms and legs moving.
“I’ve finished the preliminary work. You just need to follow the trail I left behind. The most important thing is that I need to confirm whether Liu Guangqi and his people are still alive.”
In the vast ocean, if we find no one alive or dead, that would be too tragic.
I checked the time out of habit; it was 11 p.m.
Almost three hours have passed since the incident occurred, but the cruise ship may have disappeared even earlier.
If someone or some organization really wanted to sabotage them, they'd probably all be dead by now...
"Sir, this is a satellite phone I got earlier. You can leave your Huawei phone at home."
Qian Sui knew that Gao Ang couldn't sit still, so he had prepared communication tools for him long ago.
Taking the satellite phone, Gao Ang asked, "Won't we get caught?"
"No, I've deleted all the records related to the phone calls. The communication signal uses a satellite that's about to be scrapped, from a mountain country. It'll probably be discarded next month."
Gao Ang nodded, grabbed his phone, and pointed it straight at the sky, saying, "Notify me immediately if there's any news."
The distance from Shanghai to the last coordinate point before the cruise ship disappeared is approximately 2,000 kilometers.
At his most typical flight speed, it would take about fifteen minutes.
In order to reach the scene as quickly as possible, Gao Feng chose to fly at overload, which means flying in a way that consumes more unknown energy.
In this way, his flight speed can approach 5 kilometers per second, and the distance of 2,000 kilometers can be covered in just over six minutes, less than seven minutes.
Seven minutes later, he was suspended above the last latitude and longitude coordinates before the cruise ship disappeared.
"Your Majesty, is there any new news?"
During the flight, due to the collapse and expansion of space, messages sent by Chitose could not be received at all.
“There were indeed some unusual movements by some people an hour before the incident. I’m organizing the data right now. Sir, you can go and rescue them first, if they are still alive.”
It seems there's no reliable information left; I'll have to rely on manual searching.
With a sigh, Gao Ang began a rapid investigation, starting from the last location.
The last signal sent from the cruise ship was around 6 p.m.
After that, there was no further news.
There was a fixed reporting interval between the cruise ship and the shore, but for some reason, the shore system also malfunctioned.
If nothing unexpected happens, it's a conspiracy.
By the time the cruise ship was discovered to have truly disappeared, it was already around 7 p.m.
"From six o'clock until now, it's been about five hours. At the speed of the cruise ship, they could only have traveled a maximum of 300 kilometers. Assuming Liu Guangqi and his group were kidnapped, where might they be transferred to?"
This place is quite a distance from the coastline. In the vast western Pacific Ocean, there must be a place where people can be settled.
Gao Ang quickly searches an area of approximately 3 * 300 * 300 square kilometers, based on the maximum search area.
He can search approximately 70 square kilometers per second, and it would take him nearly an hour to search all the areas that the cruise ship might be involved in.
The cruise ship will definitely not head towards the coastline, which will reduce the travel time by almost half again, but it will still take almost half an hour.
He wouldn't be so unlucky as to only discover the cruise ship at the last minute, so the time is estimated to be less than 20 minutes.
Sure enough, after searching for 13 minutes, he found traces of the cruise ship.
What they called traces were actually fragments of the cruise ship.
The entire cruise ship was destroyed by an unknown explosive device.
There was no gunpowder smoke or the smell of any other compounds at the scene, suggesting some unknown destructive force.
The scent molecules on Liu Guangqi's body no longer have any tracking function.
On the one hand, the sea breeze is too strong, and the odor molecules are diluted too much.
On the other hand, Liu Guangqi may have been taken to a confined space, such as a submarine or a helicopter.
"Your Excellency, locate my position and search for all communication signals sent from here within the last five hours. Also, watch for any unusual satellite movements."
"receive."
One minute later, Chisui's report came through.
“Five hours ago, satellites from the country of the mountain, the country of Austria, the country of the south, the country of He, and even the country of the Philippines showed unusual activity, as if they were deliberately avoiding this area. Moreover, some kind of instrument emitted a signal at a certain frequency. I learned from the meteorological bureau and the observatory that during this period, all satellites in this area were basically blind.”
"In other words, these countries all knew what was going to happen, or rather, they sold out to others and avoided this issue?"
"It's possible, but we can't rule out the possibility that they're just acting."
Gao Feng nodded; Qian Sui's speculation was not without merit.
Doing something so shameful definitely shouldn't be done from the front; it's better to cover it up, at least to make it look plausible on the surface.
"How's the communication signal troubleshooting going?"
"At a certain moment, a commercial satellite in the mountain country emitted a violent signal fluctuation. The target area was exactly where you are. Judging from the location of the last signal, they should have evacuated in a direction 30° southeast."
"Well done, I'll give you a small commendation."
Having found its direction, Gao Ang immediately sped up to its top speed and flew towards the last destination.
"Sir, there are no large islands in this area, and the nearest supply point is over 1,000 kilometers away. There's been no activity there either."
"In other words, if Liu Guangqi was indeed kidnapped, he's either on a submarine or in some secret base?"
Speaking of bases, Gao Ang suddenly remembered Base No. 17 at Qushui Lake.
He wasn't sure if there was any connection between the two, but he was certain that there was a secret base nearby.
"More or less. The world is not as peaceful as it seems on the surface. It shouldn't be difficult for those ancient conglomerates to set up a few secret bases overseas. Moreover, there are still many unknown mysteries that have not been solved in both World War I and World War II. There might really be such a place that can accommodate more than two hundred people."
Gao Ang continued his investigation while communicating with Qian Sui.
Hugging the sea surface and reaching the seabed, leaving no place where people might hide undetected.
"Um?"
Suddenly, an anomaly occurred within the arena.
It was a small islet, with a total area of less than 500 square meters above sea level, and there were no buildings on it.
However, the area beneath this reef is surprisingly large, and it even has an internal space.
In that brief moment of disorientation, he had already flown ten kilometers away from the island reef.
"Damn, that was speeding!"
They went back to the starting point and began to examine the reef and the space beneath it with all their might.
"It really is you guys!"
Persistence pays off, and he finally found Liu Guangqi.
Not only Liu Guangqi, but also other surviving crew members.
Not one was left out; they were all inside.
However, they are not in very good condition.
Except for a very few key personnel, everyone else showed no vital signs.
The few survivors, including Liu Guangqi, were all subjected to severe torture.
Liu Guangqi, in particular, had ten fingers, none of which were intact, and he was talking nonsense.
"Young Master, this is their statement, it has been prepared."
A strangely dressed man handed a stack of documents to a cold-faced middle-aged man.
What makes them strange is that these costumes can only be seen in some movies.
A tall hat, a large cape, and even a Western sword.
"Well done. It seems these people aren't our ultimate target. Give the order to activate the covert defense system. We need to wait until this storm passes before we can go back."
The strange man bowed and pointed at Liu Guangqi and his group, asking, "What should we do with these people?"
"There's no use keeping them, let's break them up and feed them to the sharks."
Gao Ang knew he couldn't watch any longer; if he continued to stand by, even the survivors would be torn to pieces.
With a flick of his right hand, the strangely dressed man was sent flying, crashing heavily into the wall, his brains spilling down the concrete.
Immediately afterwards, Gao Ang no longer suppressed himself. After sending Liu Guangqi and the other survivors to the next room, he decided to confront these executioners directly.
Ignoring the chaos at the underwater base, he was looking for a safe passage to get in.
They couldn't just barge in; that would cause seawater to flood in, making it difficult for Liu Guangqi and his men to escape.
He had to find a plausible reason for Liu Guangqi and his group's survival, even though their survival was no longer reasonable.
"Well, then we'll have to force you to come out."
Only by making those bastards run wild will they be afraid.
They will only run away if they are terrified to the extreme.
He can find the safest infiltration route whenever they want to escape.
With another wave of his left hand, several strangely dressed men carrying weapons and wandering around were slammed into the wall once more.
"Who's there? Show yourself!"
The middle-aged man, referred to as "Young Master," tore off his clothes, revealing dazzlingly fair skin.
"What the hell? Why does a grown man like to show off like this?"
Gao Ang ignored him and waved his right hand again, sending the fair-skinned man flying out as well.
He was better off than the servants; his brains didn't splatter, he was just a little dizzy.
"I'll see just how thick your skin really is!"
If once doesn't work, then try twice.
With another wave of his right hand, the fair-skinned man who had just gotten up from the ground was sent flying back onto the wall.
"Bang"
This time the sound was even louder than last time, because Gao Yang increased the intensity by three points.
He's still fine; he didn't even spit out any blood.
Let's continue.
"Bang"
There was another sound, but this time he didn't vomit blood. However, his scalp was slightly scratched, his nose was collapsed, and he lost a few teeth.
"I thought you were really invulnerable to swords and spears."
He swung his right hand again, this time with more force than before.
"Bang"
As expected, the pale-skinned man finally coughed up a mouthful of blood, looking around in terror. "Who is it? Who are you?"
His mouth was full of spittle, mixed with teeth and bits of meat, spraying out.
Gao Ang did not reply; he just wanted to put some pressure on these people.
But these people didn't cooperate with his script at all. Even when the fair-skinned man was about to die, no one dared to escape on their own.
It's clear that this is another ancient family with very strict family rules.
"Then I'll have to do it myself."
After stepping onto the reef, it raised its arms high and waved them around, just like a pangolin, and dug into the ground.
Each strike went half a meter deep.
He carelessly tossed all the excavated rocks and concrete aside.
The depth from sea level to the top layer of the base is about 10 meters.
In just one minute, Gao Ang dug through the base headfirst.
"Fuck you, there's a high-voltage electric grid! Luckily I'm tough, otherwise I'd be electrocuted into a pile of idiots by you bastards!"
Grabbing the electric grid in his hand, Gao Ang walked down to the lower level, sparks flying everywhere.
He had no intention of hiding himself, nor was he afraid that anyone would remember him.
Cameras? They're obsolete.
An independent network? He cut off the communication signal long ago.
The sound? He also kept it within a 1-kilometer radius.
This is his absolute territory.
This will also be the final resting place for these people.
Gao Ang has always defined himself as a righteous person, and he didn't even kill Lillian before.
On the one hand, he needed to obtain more information from this woman, and on the other hand, no one had died at the Qushui Lake Base No. 17.
Lillian only modifies the human body; the worst consequence of failure is the necrosis of some local nerves, but it will not kill the person.
Although the environment was indeed very harsh, at least there was still a chance to survive.
And what about here?
Apart from Liu Guangqi and a few others, everyone else was slaughtered.
Yes, they were massacred.
Judging from their lying positions, these people were abandoned here after they died.
Moreover, they had no external injuries; their necks were snapped in one go...
In other words, nearly two hundred people were killed by having their necks twisted off by these beasts.
"Who...are you?" What language was used?
The pale-skinned man struggled to get up from the ground, but Gao Feng stomped him back down.
The pale-skinned man scanned half the area with fear and difficulty, seeing only corpses.
Not only his crew, but also his men.
Gao Ang stomped hard, making the bones in the fair-skinned man's body creak and groan until he cried out, at which point Gao Ang loosened his grip a little.
Who exactly are you?
Gao Ang ignored him, walked to the side, picked up the scattered documents on the ground, and flipped through a few pages.
Sure enough, the interrogation they conducted was all about things related to carbon-based chips.
To what extent has it reached, whether it can be mass-produced, how the problems of carbon-based wafers have been solved, and where the raw materials are sourced, etc.
Liu Guangqi answered in detail, but Gao Ang didn't blame him.
In his heart, human life is the most important thing; as long as a person is alive, there is always hope.
He had said the same thing to Zhang Youwei: if someone really held a gun to his head and forced him to tell everything, Gao Ang would also tell him the truth.
Zhang Youwei and Liu Guangqi were both his friends, even if they were only acquaintances.
Although their relationship wasn't very deep, there was still some affection between them.
Let's not even talk about Zhang Youwei. First, there was the first transaction on the Asia-Pacific cruise ship, and then there was Dongxing Power. He must have contributed something.
As for Liu Guangqi, although his relationship with Zhang Youwei is not as close at present, he ultimately suffered this calamity because of the raw material issue.
"Does anyone else know about these things?"
Speaking fluent but not standard He Guo language, he waved the documents in his hand and asked in a high-pitched and gloomy tone.
The fair-skinned man struggled to get up, but Gao Yang glared at him and slammed him heavily onto the cement floor.
"No, to prevent information from being leaked here, we plan to go out in six months."
Gao Feng nodded in satisfaction and remained silent.
"We have offended you, senior, and hope you will not hold it against us."
Is this a plea for mercy?
Gao Ang looked at him suspiciously. Why was this person behaving so strangely?
They seemed neither curious nor surprised by his abilities, but rather filled with fear?
Could it be that he has witnessed a similar power?
"If you want to live, I'll ask the questions, and you answer them, how about that?"
He crouched down and used the file to lift up that handsome face covered in blood.
The fair-skinned man quickly nodded.
"Who are you?"
“Biob, eldest son of the Duke of Bethel of He Kingdom.”
"You're a vampire too?"
"Yes, our family is one of the two great clans of the vampires."
Do you know Lillian?
“She is my cousin; there is a marriage alliance between our families.”
...
In the question-and-answer session, Bio was very cooperative, answering all of Gao Feng's questions without reservation.
However, his answer differed somewhat from Gao Feng's previous speculation.
For example, some of the speculations about vampires were accurate, but the truth was more complicated than he had imagined.
For example, why wasn't Bi Aobo surprised at all by his strength? His answer also made Gao Feng feel apprehensive.
In fact, Biob even gave him a lot of information for free.
For example, why are vampires gradually disappearing?
Why did the Age of Exploration occur?
Why did World War I and World War II happen?
Moreover, what he knew was not yet complete; the real secrets lay within their ancient fortress.
That's where the vampires' stronghold is, and that's where Gao Feng truly wants the answer.
"You all deserve to die!"
"Click"
Gao Feng snapped Biob's neck, giving him the same way to die.
"Your Majesty, notify the relevant authorities and begin efforts to rescue Liu Guangqi and the others."
"receive!!"
What he had to do was clean up all the traces here.
He had to cover it up and treat it as a regular kidnapping or abduction case.
Because the world cannot withstand such turmoil.
Some secrets don't need to be made public; sometimes, ignorance is a kind of happiness.
An hour later, Liu Guangqi and the others lay unconscious on the floating debris of the ship.
There were other bodies of people nearby, drifting with the current.
"I'm sorry, I'll have to trouble you."
Gao Ang bowed once again to express his apology to them.
"I promise you, I will definitely get justice for you. No matter if it's the Dort family or the Bethel family, I will make them turn to ashes."
Looking up at the sky, Gao Ang didn't want the tears in his eyes to fall.
He even had an impulse to fly directly to Europe and kill all those vampires who were hiding in the castle like rats, turning them into mincemeat.
But he couldn't.
We must not let a bad person go unpunished, but we must never harm an innocent person.
Moreover, according to Biob, there seems to be something extraordinary within the vampire clan.
As for what exactly it was, he, a nobody who wasn't a duke, wasn't qualified to know.
"Please give me some time, let me find out their background, and I promise, I swear, not a single one of them will survive."
Rescue teams from various countries, having received the mysterious message, finally arrived at the scene around 3 a.m.
These are just the advance troops; the main force is on its way, rushing here in a great hurry.
The most urgent need was for the Dongguo rescue team, because the vast majority of the two hundred-plus tourists were Dongguo people.
"Save every effort to treat the survivors!"
"Furthermore, a reward of 100 million is offered to gather all clues and bring the murderer to justice!"
"Finally, dispatch the Blue Sea Fleet to escort them throughout the entire journey. They are from the East, bring them all back without exception, and make sure they return to their roots!"
Commander Ji, the chief of the Dongguo Rescue Team, issued a strict order to all search and rescue personnel.
"Received, mission accomplished!"
...
The high-flying aircraft silently watched the rescue efforts below.
He would check and fill in any gaps or oversights, and provide assistance wherever necessary.
The search and rescue operation lasted for nearly ten hours, from 3 a.m. until 1 p.m.
Only then were the remains of all the victims recovered without exception.
That afternoon, relevant departments held a press conference, strongly condemning and criticizing the Philippine government's inaction.
We express our deepest condolences and apologies to the families of the victims.
The relevant Philippine authorities did not object, and were willing to bear all expenses and compensation for the search and rescue efforts in the Philippines, and would do their utmost to cooperate in the investigation of the real culprit.
In the end, the scapegoats pushed out by the Philippine government were those few corrupt outer-level employees.
Excuses were easily found: workplace bullying, seeking revenge, and so on.
On the evening of October 4th, the Philippines held a press conference and presented all the compiled materials to the media.
All countries have remained silent on this matter.
Only East Asia expressed one stance: it does not trust the Philippine government's investigation, but respects it. At the same time, East Asia will send a special investigation team, hoping the Philippine government will cooperate…
Gao Feng was certain that the investigation team was unlikely to obtain any clues.
Even if there are clues, they will eventually run dry because all the people who contacted those outsiders have disappeared.
That island, including Biob and his men, was completely buried under a thick layer of soil by Gao Li.
He didn't make a big commotion; he just squeezed the space under the sea, like squeezing out all the air from a balloon...
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