16 years

Rahal's face suddenly became ugly.

Shao Qiu couldn't understand the content of their communication, so he turned his head to look at Fang Sining.

Fang Sining didn't mean to be tricky, and quickly explained to him: "About four months ago, Rahal went out once, and that time he left alone, and he came back after about ten days. Except for those who receive supplies At that time, the institute didn’t usually open the door, and researchers weren’t allowed to go outside privately. At that time, he didn’t go out during the wind gathering period, so if you check now, you should be able to find the records of Rahal’s going out and coming back.”

"Ten days?" Shao Qiu asked with a thought, "Ask him what he did."

Fang Sining quickly translated it according to the words, but this time Rahal's reaction was amazing, he looked around, and then seemed to be cornered, he picked up the quilt on the bed and covered his body , Even with his face covered tightly, it looks extremely funny.

"Don't ask!" Rahal said, "I won't give you a chance to observe my expression!"

Shao Qiu looked at him speechlessly, as if seeing a living mentally retarded.

"You really look like a big Easter egg now." Fang Sining couldn't help but said to Rahal: "You have such a big reaction, even a fool can see the answer."

Rahal froze, and roared in the quilt sullenly: "I will not betray Joe, use whatever means you have!"

Fang Sining translated his clamor to Shao Qiu, Shao Qiu couldn't help but rolled his eyes, and walked out of the room holding Fang Sining's hand.

Fang Sining was taken aback for a moment, and asked cautiously, "Don't ask anymore?"

"You don't need to ask." Shao Qiu said: "The ten days must have gone to Joe Eden's. Let's go to the staff room and ask the captain to look at the map together."

Shao Qiu paused as he spoke, and endured again and again, but he still couldn't hold back.

"What kind of IQ is this?" Shao Qiu said with distaste: "Anyone who has been doing research for a long time will easily become mentally retarded. I will be lowered by an idiot like Judgment."

After Shao Qiu finished speaking, he remembered that Fang Sining was also a member of "Doing research for a long time". Not far from dementia."

Fang Sining laughed loudly, and said: "Maybe he has undergone transformation, medicine transformation will affect the human body, maybe he is the one affected."

"Just your messy transformation agent?" Shao Qiu frowned, and hissed lightly: "It's so cruel to attack your own people."

"Then who knows." Fang Sining said: "Maybe someone was brainwashed by him to do it willingly - I don't know much about their affairs, I'm only responsible for work here, and they don't tell me about these things. "

"It's right not to tell you." Shao Qiu said straightforwardly: "Stay away from them, so as not to become dementia together."

Shao Qiu asked the guards to keep an eye on these people, and then dragged Fang Sining to the temporary command post without any explanation.

The temporary command area was upstairs, right in the central activity area where the researchers gathered before. When Shao Qiu went up, Fu Yan and Liu Ruosong were already waiting for them.

There are a few guards around the activity area, but they are far away, almost only guarding the passage doors on the front and rear sides.

Shao Qiu walked to the center of the activity area, looked around, and asked, "Where's the peregrine falcon?"

"He and Sparrowhawk are guarding outside." Fu Yan clicked on the earphones and said, "Let's talk about ours, and they will listen to it online. If there is a very complicated problem afterwards, just exchange information."

Fang Sining was obviously a bit hesitant about "participating in the internal meeting", and asked Shao Qiu in a low voice several times if he wanted to avoid it first, but Shao Qiu turned a deaf ear to it, pretending he didn't hear it at all, and kept dragging him, telling him to run away. Nowhere to run.

Fu Yan glanced at Fang Sining who had been dragged by Shao Qiu, said nothing, and acquiesced in his presence.

"What Xiaofang said before, I couldn't hear it through the earphones just now." Liu Ruosong asked with a pleasant face.

So Fang Sining recounted the conversation in the dormitory area, Fu Yan nodded, and pulled out a paper map from his backpack.

They packed lightly and did not bring many precision instruments except the equipment necessary for tackling the fortifications. Now they can only return to the basics and look at the paper map.

The activity area was limited, so Fu Yan simply spread out the map on the ground and drew a circle with a radius centered on Wrangel Island.

"Wrangel Island has special terrain conditions, so many modes of transportation can be ruled out." Fu Yan said: "Four months ago, it should have been winter here, and the temperature could reach minus eighty or ninety degrees, and cars couldn't get in. .”

"Then we can only fly here by helicopter?" Liu Ruosong asked.

"Almost." Fu Yan said, "Unless he comes to pick people up in a tank."

"Even if there are tanks, if you go by land, you will pass through the territory of the neighboring country. We checked the road before we came, and we will go to the capital of the neighboring country. This direction is obviously wrong." He Feng's voice came from the earphone channel : "The country of Wrangel Island and the place of nationality of Joe Eden are a pair of black-eyed chickens. When they meet on the international channel, they can't wait to pinch each other's underpants. If you want to say Joe Eden I don't quite believe that the base camp of the company is finally placed here."

"Then we can only go further east." Liu Ruosong said, "How far can a helicopter generally fly without considering refueling in the air?"

"Civil use is five hundred to one thousand kilometers." Shao Qiu said, "Military use is another matter."

"If we look at it according to our own highest technical specifications." Liu Ruosong asked.

Shao Qiu glanced at Fu Yan and saw that he had no intention of stopping, so he gestured to Liu Ruosong.

"The public model is [-] kilometers." Shao Qiu said: "The undisclosed model is about [-] to [-] kilometers."

Liu Ruosong: "..."

You guys are really digging holes and accumulating food, Liu Ruosong couldn't help but slander, everything is well hidden.

"Is there a way to know what he is going to do?" Fu Yan asked.

He was said by Fang Sining, so Fang Sining thought for a while, and said seriously: "Actually, the time he went out was very short, neither enough for a short-term research secondment, nor enough for him to personally experiment with the effects of a certain medicine. ——So I think, maybe he just went to report to Joe Eden."

Before Fang Sining came to this place, Rahal was the highest person in charge of this research institute and a well-deserved confidant of Joe Eden.

So after Fang Sining "airborne" came over, Rahal made things difficult for him, but fortunately later he found that Fang Sining was not loved by Joe Eden, so this state improved.

"Although I took over here because of B-92, Joe Eden's trust in me is limited to research work." Fang Sining said: "If there is work involving other content, he should be more inclined to trust me. Rahal."

During the days when he came to this research institute, Fang Sining's heart was ashamed, and he never thought about going out again, so he simply focused on researching special medicines.

Thinking about it now, the progress of the laboratory, the status of pharmaceutical research, and the final research results all need someone to report to Joe Eden in real time.And this person is not Fang Sining, but there is a high probability that it is Rahal.

"I think according to Joe Eden's style of doing things, if you want to pick someone up to make a report, you won't use the fuel in the air with great fanfare." Liu Ruosong said: "Counting the round-trip time, the flight radius of the helicopter and the weather conditions, it should be possible to roughly Guess where he went."

Fu Yan half-kneeled on the ground, without speaking, he wrote and drew with the tip of his pen, and quickly circled an area on the map.

But the paper map was too big, and part of it was folded, so Fu Yan unfolded the folded corner, and the tip of the pen slid across the raised marks on the front, and finally landed on a point.

Liu Ruosong gasped, his eyes fixed on the tip of Fu Yan's pen.

"...Aska." Liu Ruosong murmured.

Fu Yan didn't speak. He continued to draw upwards with the tip of his pen without stopping, and finally landed on the edge of the continent, near the junction of the Arctic Circle.

Liu Ruosong suddenly realized something, his face changed again and again.

"Glacier." Fu Yan said, "It's right here."

Fu Yan's pen tip finally stopped on a very inconspicuous point on the map - on the proportionally reduced map, it looked like a small space the size of a sesame seed, but to Liu Ruosong, he clearly knew that have what.

—It has the largest active glacier in the world.

I should have thought of it earlier, Liu Ruosong thought dully.

R-01 comes from glaciers, and most of the world's active glaciers are in Aska.

Moreover, the Arctic Ocean around Aska is only separated from Wrangel Island by the Bering Sea.

For no apparent reason, Liu Ruosong heard a subtle mechanical sound in the air, soft and indistinct, as if the sound of the last gear being inserted into the correct groove.

I don't know if it's his own illusion, but Liu Ruosong can even vaguely understand the "correct" path, as if something has fallen into place, and then it has an anchor point at this moment.

Until this moment, all the clues of the past few years have finally been connected into a straight line along several different points, forming a mature chain.

The den of Southeast Asian drug dealers who dispose of abandoned corpses for research, the research institute on the other side of the Honglan River, Wrangel Island that crossed the Bering Strait, and finally entered the territory of Aska.

——Joe Eden's The Three Caverns of the Rabbit is simply on the same line from beginning to end.

This line moves the whole body with one hair, progressively layer by layer, one ring after another.As long as there is a problem with the front position, Joe Eden can retreat to the back like a gecko with a broken tail.

He and Fu Yan tried and failed again and again, and now the gecko's tail was finally forced to break off completely, leaving only the last bare body.

Fu Yan struggled in pain and restarted three times. After more than ten years of hard work, he finally reached this point.

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Because it is an overhead text, the place names in the text have been slightly modified XD