third rebirth

The moment the tattered armored vehicle without even a windshield drove out of Area D, all communications returned to normal.It was dawn, the sun had not yet risen, and there was a coolness in the air.

Jiang Cancan stuck his head out through the roof window, took a deep breath, and howled exaggeratedly, "Finally came out of that weird place!"

No one cares about him.

Jiang Cancan retracted his seat, patted his flat-cut hair, and carefully glanced at Ling Chen, who closed his eyes and rested, with all kinds of worries on his face.But he didn't dare to beep beep blindly, so he quietly turned on the communicator and had a one-on-one private chat with Jialan.

"Jiang Cancan: Ever since the kid left, the old man's spirit has disappeared! It's been almost three days, and he has maintained his paralyzed expression!"

Jialan was sitting in the co-pilot, hugging her baby to catch up on sleep, and felt the communicator on her wrist vibrate, she knew who it was without guessing.

"Jia Lan: I drove most of the night last night, sleepy!"

"Jiang Cancan: You are all in the driver's cab, leaving me alone in the back compartment, I'm about to be frozen into a dog by the air-conditioning from brother Chen's body! Sad!"

"Jialan: I told you I want to catch up on sleep!"

"Jiang Cancan: What do you think the kid is doing now? Wouldn't he be hungry without Brother Cancan cooking for him? If he only eats nutritional supplements, life will definitely be boring."

"Jialan:..."

"Jiang Cancan: Brother Chen is really in a bad mood, and, before going to bed last night, I saw him habitually mix a cup of sweet milk for the kid, but unfortunately the kid wasn't there, Brother Chen just stared at the chair for a few minutes, and then put the The sweet milk is poured."

"Jialan:..."

"Jiang Cancan: Stop talking, Brother Chen is staring at me again!"

Jialan had a dark face of lack of sleep, and she really wanted to bring Jiang Cancan out and beat him up!

The speed of the car gradually slowed down, Jiang Mu held the steering wheel and asked, "Brother Chen, shall I send a signal to the command center now?"

Ling Chen opened his eyes, "Well, let's send it." A toffee in his hand was flipping flexibly between his fingers.His eyelids were drooping and he didn't look energetic, but the tight arc of his jaw cast a layer of coldness on his whole body.

After the sound of fingertips tapping on the keyboard stopped, Jiang Mu's voice sounded again, "Brother Chen, a text message has been received on the encrypted channel."

"Encrypted channel?" Ling Chen stood up, walked to the driver's seat with his military boots, and saw the words "Insufficient Authority" displayed on the screen in Jiang Mu's hand.

He leaned down and quickly entered three sets of passwords into the bar box. Afterwards, the words "Insufficient Permission" on the screen changed to "View Permission Obtained", and then a brief message popped up.

Ling Chen's pupils shrank slightly.

What was displayed on the screen was a very short sentence, "It's time to water the flowers at home." The signature was Bai Hengyun, Ling Chen's mother.

Jia Lan, who was sitting on the co-pilot, came over and took a look, a little surprised, "Professor Bai sent the message? But watering the flowers or something, why did Professor Bai use the encrypted channel of the second part?"

Ling Chen's eyebrows became sharp, and the breath around his body became a little colder, and he said coldly, "My mother is allergic to pollen, and she never grows flowers at home."

Jialan stared at the words on the screen, her expression became serious.

For a while, no one in the armored vehicle spoke, and finally Jiang Mu asked Ling Chen: "What happened to the engineering institute?"

Ling Chen nodded and said affirmatively, "Something happened."

Ling Chen's parents are both chief scientists of the Academy of Engineering, participating in the construction and improvement of the Noah system.When Ling Chen was 15 years old, he was sent to the Second Division, and was taken by the then commander-in-chief Liang Ling. A large part of the reason was that the high-level officials decided to take Ling Chen as a "hostage" to ensure that Ling Chen's parents would not betray, would not Leak.

But this time, after they brought back the regional core of District D, they would escort them all the way to the Engineering Academy for secret research. The research project was hosted by Ling Chen's mother, Professor Bai Hengyun.

But now, the news sent through the encrypted channel is obviously Bai Hengyun reminding Ling Chen that something happened in the Engineering Academy.

Jialan asked: "The engineering institute, shall we still go?"

Ling Chen didn't answer, but instead said, "Jialan, pay attention to whether your family has tried to contact you."

The father and grandfather of Jialan's family are still in place, carrying the general title.If there is a change in the military region, as long as there is an opportunity, he will definitely send news to Jialan.

Jialan nodded, "Yes."

At this time, a dialog box popped up on the communication terminal at the side, and Jiang Mu said softly, "The command center requests a dialogue."

Ling Chen stood up straight, "Connected."

Three seconds later, a young female face appeared on the screen, "This is the command center, please report the relevant situation."

Ling Chen's expression was cold, "The mission has been completed, please accept it. Mission level: SSS, responsible unit: Second Operations Headquarters of the Ministry of Security, person in charge, Ling Chen, title, Brigadier General, ID number, E311. It's over."

"Got it, please wait here."

After the communication was hung up, the armored vehicle returned to silence.

Jiang Cancan couldn't sit still for a long time, and then squeezed into the cab, "Brother Chen, Master Can, why am I so fussy?" He thought for a while, but still couldn't hold back, "We managed to get out of the guns of those bastard sons of the Holy Tribunal." , Bring out the regional core safely, if... If something happens to the command center and the Engineering Academy, will we personally send the regional core back to the Holy Inquisition?"

"It's possible." Ling Chen's eyes fell on the sentence received by the encrypted channel, and he didn't know what he was thinking.

Hearing Ling Chen's answer, Jiang Cancan felt a little uncomfortable, holding K57 and asked weakly, "Then what should we do? Are we really going to hand over the core of the area?" He shifted his gaze to Jiang Mu with a calm face, and gave up the entanglement , "Whether you want to hand over the regional core or not, anyway, I will follow Brother Chen, and I will go wherever you go."

Ling Chen asked him: "If I escape with my things, will you follow?"

Jiang Cancan grinned, "The great escape, how exciting!"

When Ling Chen sat back in the back compartment and leaned against the compartment wall to rest his eyes with his eyes closed, Jiang Cancan sighed softly, "It would be great if the kid was here, and he can be coaxed, brother Chen's aura is too scary, Mr. Chan, my hairs are scared to stand up." Woke up!"

With a low tone, Jiang Cancan grabbed the driver's seat, "What mission do you think the kid is going to do? Area D is so dangerous, well, it's not a problem for the kid to hit twenty with a dozen..."

It's rare that Ling Chen didn't say anything to stop Jiang Cancan talking about it for so long.

Not long after, three red dots appeared on the car's 3D map, and Jiang Mu reported: "Brother Chen, there is a vehicle approaching, and it is expected to arrive in [-] minutes."

Three military pickups were parked not far from the armored vehicle. The door opened, and a man in military uniform in his thirties got out of the vehicle with three people, and walked quickly towards the armored vehicle.

Ling Chen looked him over, "You stay in the car, I'll get off." After speaking, he jumped out of the car in his combat uniform and walked up to him.

The two exchanged military salutes.

"Hello, Commander Ling, I'm Pan Wei, and I'm in charge of this mission."

Ling Chen glanced at the opponent's shoulder patch, "Hi, Major Pan, I haven't seen you before."

Pan Wei's height was much lower than Ling Chen's, and his face was much paler than most people in the military area. The smile on his face was never broken, "It's normal that Commander Ling hasn't seen me. When the command center was inaugurated, you had already led the team into Area D to carry out the mission, and you just missed it."

Ling Chen: "Have you been transferred to the command center for a month?"

Pan Wei replied with a smile: "Yes."

Ling Chen nodded, "That's it." He didn't say anything more, and asked about the business, "What's the next specific arrangement?"

Pan Wei quickly replied: "I will lead the team and escort you back to the command center in District [-]. The chiefs and experts from the Academy of Engineering are waiting for you."

Ling Chen briefly ordered: "Let's go."

A military pickup truck opened the way ahead, followed by two more. Jiang Cancan beeped softly, "Three S-level missions, in order to be safe, I always send familiar people to respond. I don't have the slightest impression of that surnamed Pan. , Only entered the command center for a month and came out to do things? Is there no one in the command center? And the ones sitting in the pickup, I’ve never seen it before.”

Ling Chen asked him, "Can you see how many people are here?"

Jiang Cancan nodded: "Of course I saw it clearly. Including the surnamed Pan, there are twelve people in total. There are four people in a car, and they are all equipped, but I don't know how good they are in fighting."

Jiang Mu answered Jiang Cancan's previous question, "Perhaps, the command center really has no way to send out our familiar responders."

Jiang Cancan choked, his expression was not very good, he cursed in a low voice, and stopped talking.

Ling Chen looked at the military pickup truck driving ahead, and suddenly ordered, "Jialan drives. Xiaomu, try to see if you can enter the backstage of the intranet."

Jiang Mu quickly exchanged positions with Jia Lan, tapping the keyboard quickly with his hands, and a series of instructions popped up on the screen. Jiang Mu's voice was low: "They have a special special signal shielding device in their car."

Ling Chen: "Can you break through?"

Jiang Mu: "Yes, give me 1 minute."

After 1 minute, Jiang Mu kept pointing his fingers, "It has already connected to the background of the military region's intranet."

Ling Chen: "Don't use formal authority, go through the back door of the system and read the secret announcement."

Soon, the tapping sound of fingers suddenly stopped, and Jiang Mu raised his head, "I found it, a piece of double-S confidential information, some scientists from the Academy of Engineering defected, and attached a list."

The expression on Jiang Cancan's face seemed to be stuck, and he couldn't speak clearly, "Damn...fuck, the scientists from the Academy of Engineering... defected? What kind of weird rhythm is this?" He murmured, "Master Can, I just entered Did you take a trip to Area D, why did the sky change when you came out?"

Ling Chen's expression didn't change at all, he twirled his fingers, "Are my parents included in the list?"

Jiang Mu: "Yes, there are Professor Ling Dingnan and Professor Bai Hengyun."

Ling Chen: "The confidentiality level is double S, which means that only a very small number of high-level officials know about it, and it is kept secret both internally and externally."

Jiang Cancan nodded indiscriminately, "It must be kept secret. If this news is released, it will cause panic in minutes. The Engineering Academy is the place where the Noah system was developed and maintained!"

He swallowed his saliva and asked carefully, "Brother Chen's parents are the chief of the Academy of Engineering, and they have already...gone, so what about the regional core we brought back?"

The expression on Ling Chen's face relaxed again, and he even smiled, "Do you want to do something together?"

Area D.

When Ye Xiao woke up, he felt a little cold.He wrapped his black combat uniform tightly around his body, and sat up holding the long knife.

The place where he spends the night is a cave, the cave is not deep, enough to sleep him alone.But he hasn't slept well for two consecutive nights, and he doesn't have much energy.

Recalling what Ling Chen said that morning, telling him not to starve when he is alone, Ye Xiao thought about it, took out a tube of nutritional supplements from his black backpack, drank it in one gulp, and soon felt full feel.

He was holding the wooden carved bunny hanging on the scabbard, a little lost in thought.He used to be able to sleep on the grass, in the trees, by the river, anywhere, but it seems to be impossible now, the habit is easy to develop, but it is very difficult to quit, without Ling Chen's breath around, he actually slept all night Not stable.

Ye Xiao lowered his head, sniffed the smell of Ling Chen on the black coat, and found that it had faded.

Feeling a little lost, Ye Xiao got up, put the backpack on his back, and got out of the cave.It was already dawn outside, he guessed that Ling Chen and the others had already left Area D.

That's great, Jiang Mu and Jiang Cancan didn't die this time, and Jialan was still there.

After losing his mind for a while, Ye Xiao nimbly jumped onto the ground, figured out the direction, and continued walking forward.

Near noon, Ye Xiao climbed to a branch of a big tree and sat down to rest, closed his eyes, and shouted in his heart, "Noah."

He waited patiently. Ten seconds later, a mechanical electronic voice came from his ear, "Hello, Ye Xiao."