16 years

Aska's conjecture crossed Wrangel Island, then crossed the mainland, and finally fell on the table of Zhao Jincheng.

The report was extremely brief, with only a short 400 words or so, but Zhao Jincheng sat at his desk and read it for half an hour.

"After investigation and speculation, it is believed that Aska is the headquarters of Joe Eden. Attached is a route monitoring map for the military region to check the satellite image."

"According to the investigation, there is a high probability that Eden One is stored in the northern part of Aska. Please apply for investigation."

Zhao Jincheng's eyes fell on the word "Wu Diao" where the report was signed, and he couldn't recover for a long time.

Fu Yan has always been his best confidant. There are so many people in the Yancheng Military Region, only their team was recruited by Zhao Jincheng one by one, and then pulled together one by one.

He has touched every bar and every star on these people's shoulders, and he knows how much potential there is in their bodies.

But even so, Zhao Jincheng never expected that Fu Yan could really lead his people, like a sharp knife, to penetrate into Joe Eden's hinterland without flinching.

This ten-year-long conspiracy was finally torn open by them, exposing the bloody root system underneath.

Zhao Jincheng was overwhelmed. He didn't expect this operation to be so smooth. He subconsciously stood up from behind the desk and couldn't help but walk back and forth in the room a few times.

The secretary peeked in from the door, but didn't dare to disturb her, and closed the door carefully.

"No. [-] is really happy." The head of the secretariat whispered: "I haven't seen No. [-] so happy for a long time."

"Can you be unhappy." A young female officer next to him smiled and said, "Wu Diao really gave No. [-] a face. If Joe Eden can be caught this time and get the core research samples, he will be the one to save all mankind." Got it right."

"Hey, in this world, there is no need to care about merit." Someone next to him said, "It's enough to come back safely, and don't ask for anything else."

The word "Ping An" resonated with everyone, they nodded and each echoed a few times.

Several secretaries waited at the door for a while, wondering when it would be better to go in and report on their work, when they heard the door of the office behind them slam, Zhao Jincheng walked out in military uniform, still holding the research report in his hand.

"Go, notify the staff room, and adjust the satellite image." Zhao Jincheng ordered: "By the way, ask the leaders if they have time for a meeting tonight."

Zhao Jincheng walked in a hurry, and after putting all the arrangements in his hand, he only asked the secretary to put the work on his desk, and he walked in a hurry, and went to the chief of staff before the car called.

They had a meeting all afternoon in the conference room comparing satellite maps, and finally determined that Fu Yan's guess was likely to be the final result. Zhao Jincheng was so excited that he almost broke a pencil.

"Give him supplies. Didn't he say that the research institute failed to send the communication to Joe Eden? That means there is still time." Zhao Jincheng said: "The remote supplies we can call now will be sent to him at all costs— With the little things in his hand now, he is reluctant to investigate Wrangel Island, and it is a bit wishful thinking to go to Aska across the Bering Sea."

Zhao Jincheng is like an old father who stuffs New Year's goods in the trunk of his children's car during the holidays. This is because of the limited conditions. If he is given a teleporter that shrinks to an inch, he probably wants to move the entire headquarters to Fu in the air. delay.

The chief of staff knew how much Zhao Jincheng loved this confidant, and when he saw this, he felt a little joking, and jokingly said, "Number one, sit down and talk, I think you really want to fight in person."

There has been no good news in Yancheng for a long time, Zhao Jincheng was overjoyed, and responded with a joke.

"Forget it, I have old arms and legs, and Wudiao will have to take care of me when I go." Zhao Jincheng smiled and said, "Besides, what am I going to do, take credit from the young man?"

The meeting room roared with laughter. Zhao Jincheng's secretary knocked on the door and said with a smile, "No. [-], the leader said that if you are free, please come over."

"Available." Zhao Jincheng said, "Come here."

As he spoke, he tidied up his military uniform, fanned himself of the smell of cigarettes with his hands, and went upstairs.

Half an hour later, Zhao Jincheng took a jointly signed action agreement and handed it over to the actual combat logistics department.

"Just prepare according to this list." Zhao Jincheng said: "If you can use a car, use a car. If you can't use a car, drive a combat-ready truck."

"Truck?" The head of the actual combat logistics was a little embarrassed, and whispered: "Is the movement too loud? Last time, the two helicopters were sneaked over—"

"What are you afraid of?" Zhao Jincheng raised his brows and said, "Just deliver it. If you find it next door, call me and I'll tell you in person."

The head of the actual combat logistics department saw that he was so rich and powerful, so he knew that No. [-] was in high spirits, so he shrugged and turned to work.

Zhao Jincheng watched him go away, and suddenly remembered the scene in the conference room just now.

He was just about to leave with the jointly signed consent form when he heard a faint sigh behind him.

The voice was very soft, with a bit of relief, and a little bit of imperceptible happiness.

"Old Zhao." He said, "You picked a good seedling."

"Isn't it?" Zhao Jincheng said with a smile: "Can the person I choose be bad?"

"I hope everything goes well for Wu Diao, let this farce stop here." The man sighed, "Don't kill more people."

"I believe in him." Zhao Jincheng said: "I brought him out alone, I know how capable he is-my old bones are no longer useful, if there is only one person in this world who can stop Joe Eden You bastard, I think it's probably a Wudiao."

"I hope so," the man said.

"No." Zhao Jincheng corrected, "It must be so."

Just as Zhao Jincheng took a first look at Fu Yan from that class of super pilots, he still has absolute trust in him now.

On Wrangel Island, a long-term mobile communication base station was established in a clear field on Mount Halla.Because he has completely taken over the institute, Fu Yan changed the location of the temporary station to the vicinity of Mount Hara.

But in order to ensure safety, Fu Yan did not let everyone into the institute.

At this moment, under the Halla Mountain, in the shelter not far from the exit of the research institute, the temporary resident has begun to see its scale.

Fu Yan was standing on a cliff halfway up the mountain, looking down with lowered eyes.

It was late at night on Wrangel Island at this time, but there were still several bonfires lit in the temporary station, and after being covered with a windproof cover, it became a very obvious sign in the night.

The bonfire illuminated the situation in the resident. Fu Yan looked at the people coming and going in the thermal tent, and couldn't help taking a deep breath.

The cold air was squeezed into his lungs, and after it diffused, it became the best refreshing agent. Fu Yan was a little awake, and his eyes subconsciously looked into the distance.

Feng Lei's progress was slower than theirs, because there was no "internal response" like Fang Sining, so it took them a few days to figure out the situation of the research institute there.

The distance between the two places is long, Fu Yan took Liu Ruosong there once by helicopter, and brought some research samples back from there.

Liu Ruosong and Fang Sining closed the door for a test, and found that it was different from Fang Sining's, and that there was a research institute for optimizing zombie viruses.

It was exactly as Fu Yan guessed—in the eyes of Joe Eden, the current zombie virus is really not a finished product, so those people are still doing the final virus optimization for the transformation agent.

Judging from the results, Joe Eden really wanted a "Garden of Eden".

There were not many researchers there, and the situation in the institute was not clear enough, so Feng Lei simply "packed" them together and prepared to bring them here for centralized custody.

The reply from the Yancheng Military District said that the cross-sea supplies sent to them were already on their way, so they only needed to carry out the final preparations on Wrangel Island, and then cross the Bering Sea to draw a successful end to this long nightmare.

Everything was developing on the expected path, but Fu Yan couldn't get excited.

Standing on the cliff, looking at the shining lights at the foot of the mountain, he felt extremely peaceful in his heart.

It was difficult for him to describe his feeling with precise language, he only felt that that kind of calm was not the indifference with a well-thought-out plan, but a kind of nothingness stepping on the clouds.

This is not possible, Fu Yan said to himself in his heart, he is now facing the last hurdle, and he should be happy both emotionally and rationally.

He tried hard for a while, trying to mobilize a little excitement from his heart, but unfortunately he failed in the end.

"elder brother--?"

Liu Ruosong's voice suddenly came from behind, and Fu Yanxun turned around to see him wearing a thick scarf, walking towards him with a smile.

"Aren't you cold?" Liu Ruosong said as he took off half of the scarf and gave it to him, but Fu Yan shook his head, indicating that he was fine.

"It's so cold outside, why did you come out?" Fu Yan said.

"Fang Sining and the deputy team are like conjoined twins, taking them everywhere." Liu Ruosong said with a smile, "I'm not going to be a light bulb."

Liu Ruosong followed Fu Yan's example and stood on the edge of the cliff, looked down, and asked, "What are you thinking?"

Fu Yan subconsciously grabbed his arm, dragged Liu Ruosong to a safe place, and pulled him away from the cliff where the rubble fell.

"I'm thinking..." Fu Yan paused, then said softly, "Don't you think everything went too smoothly?"

Thanks to the previous restarts, Liu Ruosong felt terrified when he heard him say such words, his face changed a few times, and his eyes didn't look right.

"...What?" Liu Ruosong asked.

Fu Yan shook his head lightly, he stretched out his hand to touch Liu Ruosong's face, his cold fingertips penetrated into the scarf, and touched Liu Ruosong's warm and soft skin.

"I just feel that everything seems to be developing on the best path as expected." Fu Yan said: "There was no such treatment before."

Liu Ruosong only thought that he was overwhelmed by the previous restarts, so he took his hand and squeezed it hard.

"It's a good thing." Liu Ruosong said gently, "You forgot what you told me before? It didn't go smoothly, but it was a bumpy road, so I felt that the final success was unbelievable. .”

Fu Yan stared at him deeply, his eyes seemed to be filled with the dark blue sea of ​​stars above Wrangel Island, but also seemed to be blank.

"You're right." Fu Yan said softly.

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I figured it out, it's not far from the next plot point XD