The heavy door opened abruptly, and Chu Xi and Zuo Ning entered Tu Cheng's secret study room together. This study room, or it can also be called the archive room, except for a set of simple tables and chairs, is just rows of filing cabinets. Densely filled with paper materials.

Since the end of the world, most of the power plants and substations have been abandoned. Even without the destruction and encroachment of mutant plants and animals, they cannot be put into operation again without a sufficiently powerful intelligent system and professional manual maintenance. Automatic protection devices can at best guarantee them No explosion, and once the fuel is exhausted, restarting requires professionals and a whole set of related supporting facilities.

Therefore, the power supply of Jin'ou City can only maintain daily electricity as much as possible. Because wind power is mainly used for power generation, the voltage is not stable, and there are often mutated animals colliding with it. The safest storage method has returned to paper products.

The two rummaged in the file cabinet, not only kept Tu Cheng's own notes, but also the correspondence with Chen Zizhen, the lord of Pure Land City, and even some correspondence with Sana City.

It is not a small amount of work to check one by one. Zuo Ning and Chu Xi rummaged through the paper materials and picked out the things they thought were useful, but there was very little information related to "the end of the world" and "zombies". .

Until the sky outside darkened, they still couldn't find the answer they wanted, Zuo Ning couldn't help flipping through the materials quickly, the sound of "crashing clacking" paper sounded a little impatient, Chu Xi turned on the light - there was no emergency , The power supply of Platinum Palace is 24 hours a day.

So far, all the documents and materials have been read, but there is still nothing.Zuo Ning rubbed his temples and breathed a sigh of relief. Chu Xi could see that Zuo Ning was in a bad mood. He knew that when he decided to leave Pure Land City, he was aiming at the secret of finding "zombies" in Jin'ou City. , and evidence time and time again show that the answers they want are here, but they can't find anything.

Chu Xi understood Zuo Ning's disappointment, and couldn't help feeling a little distressed. He put down the dull ledger in his hand, and moved over slowly.Zuo Ning was still staring at a letter with creases, without even raising his eyelids, his lips were tightly pursed.

Chu Xi simply squatted down and put his chin on Zuo Ning's thigh: "Brother Ning?" It's not that Zuo Ning didn't see Chu Xi, but he was a little irritable in his heart and couldn't get up the energy to joke, but he didn't expect that Chu Xi would simply jump from under his elbow Drilled in.

Suddenly, a round head was squeezed into his arms, Zuo Ning finally couldn't help curling the corners of his lips, and rubbed the fluffy cat ears in Chu Xi's short hair with a big hand: "I'm fine, just forget it if I can't find it." .”

Chu Xi raised her face, her shallow double eyelid folds overlapped, making her amber cat eyes round and big: "Brother Ning, I can't find it this time, and I will accompany you until I find it." , so that Zuo Ning has turned from simple resentment towards "zombies" and "the end of the world" to obsession, and he will never give up easily.

Zuo Ning shook his head: "Maybe there is no specific reason at all, or, if we find the reason, there is nothing we can do."

Chu Xi lowered her head, and rubbed her head against Zuo Ning's lower abdomen: "What if that's the case?" Zuo Ning said: "Then see a zombie and kill one, nothing to be ashamed of." Chu Xi said "Oh", Not knowing what he was thinking, Zuo Ning watched Chu Xi squatting in a big ball at his feet, the long tail behind his butt flicking the tip of his tail, and said, "Find another small house and concentrate on raising cats."

Hearing this, Chu Xi's heart moved, and she couldn't help yearning for the life style of "a small house, a couple", but what the hell is "raising a cat"?He pretended to be angry, and retracted his head: "I'm not a cat."

Naihe's movements were a little big, one of them didn't have a good balance, and fell directly on his buttocks. Zuo Ning was startled, and quickly stood up to help him: "Does it hurt?"

Originally wanted to comfort Zuo Ning, but now the effect was achieved, but she also lost face, Chu Xi responded with a sad face, "It hurts", but when Zuo Ning went to help him, Chu Xi suddenly broke free, got up on her own, Leaning halfway under the table, Zuo Ning saw that he was fine, and poked Chu Xi's pouty butt with his index finger: "Get up."

The touch under the hand was very soft and elastic, Zuo Ning sighed: "Stupid cat."

Chu Xi still didn't move, she stared forward with wide eyes: "Brother Ning, I found it!"

"What did you find?"

Chu Xi didn't answer him, and continued to dig in with her butt pouted, "I said that Tu Cheng wouldn't be so boring. He spent a lot of time building lightning defenses just to guard a bunch of useless ledgers and nonsense letters." There was a "sizzling la la" sound from under the table, as if trying to unload something abruptly, but it didn't work for a while.

Zuo Ning asked, "Do you need my help?"

Chu Xi shook her head, and then realized that she was under the table. Shaking her head, Zuo Ning couldn't see it, and said, "You can't get in." Zuo Ning was tall and strong even as an adult man, while Chu Xi was still a boy. Zuo Ning didn't bother any more, just watched intently, with a certain guess in his heart.

Sure enough, Chu Xi finally took out a small box, and handed it to Zuo Ning as if offering a treasure: "It's hidden deep, in the dark compartment under the table, I dragged it down, there may be something we're looking for in it. "

This cassette is also sealed, but whether it is a key or a coded lock, Zuo Ning can't be bothered. With a slight pinch of his palm, he smashed the lock of the small box with violence, opened the box, and inside was a small book. account, and a key.

When Chu Xi saw the key, she subconsciously suppressed the relaxed smile just now, and became serious, but Zuo Ning opened the handbook first. The things recorded in the handbook were very simple, most of them were dates: December 12-December 1rd, normal, January 12rd-January 3th, normal, February 1th-February 3th, the ability fluctuates... Basically it takes a day or two, such a record records a whole year Ben, it's still once a month, which looks like a girl's menstrual period record.

If it wasn't placed in such a secret place, Zuo Ning really wouldn't pay too much attention to it, but Tu Cheng put it away so carefully, there must be something hidden, Zuo Ning turned to the last page, and found that the last time was April 4 , it was not long after Zuo Ning and Tu Chengdang clashed on the street.

And on April 4, there was a small line written there: "I don't know if I can come back, when I can come back, and what request the Linwood Forest will make."

With such a nonsensical remark, Chu Xi had a flash of inspiration: "Tu Cheng will disappear for a few days every once in a while, and no one dares to talk to me at that time, except for that butler Li, who Mr. Li once revealed that he It seems to be going to the back mountain... Could it be that there is a scale wood field in the back mountain?"

"It's a scalewood forest." Zuo Ning corrected, "If there is a very large scalewood field here, which can even be called a 'scalewood forest', then there may be an explanation for everything." Zuo Ning put the two people on the table together. The selected letters and documents were opened again.

One of them was sent by Chen Zizhen to Tu Cheng. Chen Zizhen probably burned Tu Cheng's reply letter. Chen Zizhen wrote that Tu Cheng might be too confident in his defense here. Maybe there are other reasons, but it is still alive today. This letter was originally " The missing letter reads as follows:

"Tu Boss, Guanzhong Huijian, the one who enlightened:

The weather is getting cooler, I hope you take care of your body.

Everything is fine here, but that Zuo Ning is really a headache. I don't agree with you. If you are a "talent", you should live in peace. I don't know if you haven't seen him, why are you so sure that this person has no ambitions? , I have my own way of handling this matter, after all, Pure Land City is still under my jurisdiction.

In addition, according to your instructions, that Professor Zhou has been killed and his laboratory has been completely destroyed. The research on "Scale Wood" has also come to an end.But I still don't think it's necessary. After all, he is a talent, and he also proposed the idea of ​​purifying the brain nucleus twice.

Please rest assured that the letter you sent me has been burned.

I hope all is safe and the abilities will improve steadily.hereby respectfully

Daan

Sincerely, Chen Zizhen

January 3"

Rereading the letter, and comparing it with Tu Cheng's handbook, Chu Xi and Zuo Ning's expressions changed: "Professor Zhou is one of the best botanical experts, since we were in the 'Sunset Base' From the first time we met, he has definitely identified 'Linmu'."

Chu Xi also nodded: "And he is very concerned about the 'scale wood'. Speaking of which, he showed interest in this 'extinct but reappearing and mutated' plant at that time."

"They killed Professor Zhou in order to force him to no longer study the scale wood. There is a large forest of wild scale wood in Jujiang Mountain behind Jin'ou City, and Tu Cheng said, 'I don't know if I can come back, when will I come back, scale wood What will Wood Forest ask for.'... all this is not unconnected."

Zuo Ning led Chu Xi out of the study door, and Dou Xinyuan was still sitting on the ground obediently. I don't know if it was because Chu Xi absorbed too much vitality later, or he experienced a "death" behavior that violently cracked the door of Boss Tu at close range. He didn't slow down, and now he looks half-dead, and he has long since lost his previous energy.

Zuo Ning asked him directly: "On which day did Tu Cheng disappear?"

Dou Xinyuan raised his head slowly, the lights in the corridor were not turned on, and he could only see the outline of Zuo Ning by the light from the study door, he thought for a while: "It's been more than half a month, probably on April 4th. Number? It’s too specific for me to remember.”

"April 26th." Zuo Ning put away the account, "It seems that we are going to Jujiang Mountain once, but before that, we need to figure out the key."

Chu Xi said, "I know about the key." He hesitated to speak, but said, "Brother Ning, come with me."

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