under the tower

Ji Xi called again several times without any response, and finally gave up the voice call as a means of contact, and sent a text message to Yanyi's account.

Ji Xi: Remember to contact me when you come back.

Within 5 minutes when Ji Xi suddenly felt extremely anxious, the other party still did not respond. This message was sent out like a stone sinking into the sea, without causing any waves.

Ji Xi took a few deep breaths, forcing himself to calm down.

He knew now that there was nothing he could do but wait patiently.

The next day, the first thing Ji Xi did after waking up in the morning was to contact Yan Yi again, but the call was still not connected.

He couldn't sit still anymore, and the base provided him with a car and a full-time driver named Lao Wen. He called Lao Wen and asked him to appear in the molybdenum area within 5 minutes.

Old Wen was very punctual, and didn't even show any displeasure because of his boss's deliberate making things difficult. Ji Xi got in the car and asked him to drive to Wanshen District as quickly as possible.

Old Wen was very strict, he didn't say anything that shouldn't be said, he didn't ask Ji Xi why he rushed to Wanshen District, he just faithfully carried out his accusations as a driver, but all the videos of Ji Xi's itinerary were It has been transmitted to the Chang family's information headquarters in real time.

The man on the other end of the monitor watched the scene, smiled intriguingly, recorded Ji Xi's abnormal behavior truthfully, and sent it to an encrypted mailbox starting with C.

The black car stopped in front of Building 33 like electricity, and the surrounding pedestrians gave way in surprise. Ji Xi rushed to their original residence and rang the doorbell of 8018 like crazy.

Passing officers in the corridor looked at him strangely.

"This person has been gone for a long time." A person really couldn't stand it, reminded.

Ji Xi: "Did he not come back?"

"Anyway, I haven't seen him for a long time." The man said, "Probably... a month?"

Ji Xi thought to himself, I know he has been away for a month, and he was with me before.

He knocked on the door again and shouted: "Yanyi, are you there? Come out!"

The door remained motionless.

How could he not come back?What happened?

Ji Xi was full of doubts and apprehensions.

The doorbell rang for a long time but there was no answer, Ji Xi finally left disappointed.

He contacted Yan Xun again and asked him about the follow-up process of the "elite school".

Yan Xun was provoked by him early in the morning, but he was not annoyed at all. Instead, he said in a good-tempered manner: "This plan is a first-level confidential content of the military, and I don't know the details."

Ji Xi asked coldly: "Then who should I find?"

"Master Ji, you have successfully disengaged from the plan, which means that the entire procedure has been completed with you." Yan Xun explained, "According to the regulations, you have no right to know other related content. On the contrary, you must strictly abide by it." Confidentiality agreement, you are only on your first day in office, you don’t want to make a mistake immediately and have the water meter checked by the investigation department, right?”

These words were hidden in the needle, and Ji Xi was caught off guard.

Knowing that there was no way to get anything out of Yan Xun's mouth, Ji Xi immediately hung up the voice call.

He contacted all the people who might know about it one by one. After Chang Huai and Lu Mingxiu came back, it seemed as if the world had evaporated. Ji Xi didn't know what they were doing now, and he didn't even have time to reply a message, as if the signal was blocked.

He thought about all the ways he could think of, but this time the military's mouth was too hard to pry it open. When he was on the verge of desperation, a person's name suddenly flashed in Ji Xi's mind.

...Bai Qihuan.

After finding him, will there be a way to detect Yan Yi's whereabouts?

"Stop him!" It was too late when the man behind the monitor realized something was wrong and gave the command.

There is a high-speed shuttle bus between Wanshen District and Wuchang. Old Wen just wandered in the car for a while, and Ji Xi was gone.

Ji Xi didn't know that he was being watched. He did it because it was faster to take the shuttle bus.

He showed his ID card, went straight to the equipment department building, and rushed into Bai Qihuan's office based on his previous memory.

He was really lucky, Bai Qihuan had a meeting at ten o'clock this morning, and he hadn't left yet, so it happened to be caught by Ji Xi.

"You..." Bai Qihuan was sitting upright, dealing with a mountain of work documents on the desk, when he was suddenly startled by the sound of the door opening heavily, he pulled out his gun reflexively, and took a closer look, only to realize that the visitor was not kind It turned out to be his boss' wife.

"Why are you here?" he asked in surprise.

Ji Xi ran so fast that he had no time to catch his breath, and asked intermittently, "Do you know where Yanyi is?"

Bai Qihuan was taken aback for a moment: "He said earlier that he ran with you to participate in some elite project at the base?"

"Yes." Ji Xi stated with a cannonball, "I was picked up by the military yesterday and came back early. In theory, as my bodyguard, he should also withdraw from the screening, but I still haven't been able to contact him..."

When Bai Qihuan heard this, his expression changed immediately: "What?!"

"Are you coming back early?" He hesitated, "Why do you come back? There has never been a precedent for signing up and withdrawing early after signing up for so many years. Everyone must survive until the last minute, whether they live or die. do not you know?"

Ji Xi frowned and didn't hide it from him: "Chang Huai and Lu Mingxiu came back with me. According to the base, they performed well and made an exception to let us end the assessment early."

"...Chang Huai and Lu Mingxiu..." Bai Qihuan murmured, then he slammed the table and stood up, "Damn it, these bastards are afraid that their sweetheart will be affected!"

Ji Xi was taken aback, and reflexively took a step back: "What do you mean?"

"Who is your officer? Chu Feng?"

"……Correct."

"You wait." He said, "I'll go find him."

Before he finished speaking, Bai Qihuan's figure rushed out like a gust of wind.

In the boundless darkness.

Qu Chenyuan kept running in a dark corridor underground.

He was panting, breathing heavily, his lungs constricting and constricting, making a sound like an old battered bellows.

"Cough...cough...cough..."

Behind him, five or six deformed people were chasing him closely, making terrifying howls.

Qu Chenyuan was extremely tired, all his bullets had been exhausted, he ran for two days and two nights in a state of nervous tension, even his strengthened physique was exhausted.

He limped and staggered forward.

too tired.

But stop, there is only death.

He didn't understand that after the autonomous examiner appeared inexplicably and took away three of his teammates, the number of abnormal people active around suddenly increased terribly.

There were dead bodies everywhere outside, and he didn't have a moment to rest, and he was on the run all day and all night.

The death rate has already far exceeded one-third of the original promise.

He didn't understand what was going on, he had no time to think about it, the fear of death and the desire to survive had overcome everything.

He still has so many things to do, he has not had time to experience such a beautiful life in the second half of his life, and he still has an unborn child.

...He hasn't married Wanying yet.

The scene in front of him became more and more blurred, Qu Chenyuan looked at the dark corridor with distracted eyes.

A deformed person suddenly rushed out from the front door.

Qu Chenyuan didn't even have time to dodge, the bloody mouth that rushed towards him had already bit his neck——

Time seemed to stand still.

Severe pain invaded the whole body.

His eyes were wide open, filled with deep unwillingness, and his body slid down like a kite with a broken string, and was instantly devoured by the deformed people swarming up behind him.

Ji Xi had been extremely irritable for two days.

It was a weekend, a statutory holiday, and he didn't have any work, and even the formal entry procedures had to wait until the next Monday.

He called Yan Yi countless times, and even Bai Qihuan couldn't get in touch after that brief conversation.

He can only wait.

Molybdenum area, the 123rd floor of the tower, the central meeting room.

The crystal chandelier on the ceiling was shining brightly, and the entire conference room was as bright as day.

"...What did you say? The target person lost contact?!"

"He was not carrying a tracking device and our live video cameras hadn't picked up signs of his movement for 12 hours."

"Where's the body? Has the body been found?"

"No. A total of 82 players have been eliminated in the entire arena, and the bodies and identities have all been verified."

"Damn it!" One person hammered the table heavily, "What a waste! Put so many deformed people in, can't he be the only one?!"

"That's right, I don't understand, it's all like this, but he can still let him run away!"

"What will we do if he comes back?"

"What's more troublesome is that Bai Qihuan already knew about it. The entire equipment department suddenly announced that it was in a state of emergency yesterday. I'm afraid it's a big deal for us!"

"Isn't it that the surname Ji did a good thing, went crazy and rushed into the military factory, even without his own identity. So the previous information is true, have they already formed an alliance? If so..."

"He should have belonged to us. I really don't understand what's going on in Young Master Ji's mind this time, but he ran to the opposite camp..."

"If he really can't be used by us, then simply kill him!"

In the meeting room, the officials in military uniforms were agitated and their faces were flushed red.

The man sitting in the first seat looked extremely gloomy, and his falcon eyes shot out a frightening cold light.

He said in a deep voice: "Quiet."

Everyone shut their mouths suddenly, and there was no sound.

The next person said cautiously: "Master Chang, what do you mean..."

The man looked pensive, unable to see clearly, tapping the back of his fingers regularly on the table.

After a while, he said coldly, "Since Plan B may fail, what about your Plan C?"

"Yes." The subordinate next to him immediately took out another document and explained, "If the target person returns successfully, we will use our hostage as a provocation...to force him to cease fighting..."

The leading man took it, glanced at it, and said lightly: "Execute."

"clear."

On Sunday night, Ji Xi asked the management office of Wanshen District for a permission, and got the temporary access permission of Yanyi's apartment.

When the door was opened, the layout of the room was still the same as when they left.

The quilts were neatly folded into squares, and the sheets were laid flat without a single wrinkle. Other than that, only the two sets of toiletries on the sink in the bathroom could barely show traces of being lived in.

Ji Xi sighed heavily, lay down on the uncomfortable single bed, and closed her eyes.

He closed his eyes, but he didn't fall asleep much, his head was in a mess, like a pot of boiling water.

The boundless darkness enveloped him, making it impossible to see the way forward.

The next day, Ji Xi went to go through the entry procedures as agreed.

Because this time Ji Xi was equivalent to directly entering the most core power organization of the Chang family, the process of identity verification and background investigation was much more cumbersome than before, and countless confidentiality agreements were signed.

After a busy day, Ji Xi finally put on the star emblem symbolizing the rank of major general.

In the last step, he needs to go to the investigation department to accept the loyalty test. The time is scheduled for tomorrow. He is asked to be ready, but the content of the test cannot be disclosed in advance.

According to regulations, all enlisted officers must take this test.

Ji Xi asked strangely: "Since everyone has to participate, why do they do it now? No one told me when I was the deputy company commander before."

A staff member replied: "Because you were recommended by the Lu family, as a trust and preferential treatment for the Lu family, you were exempted from the test."