16 years

D City in N Province, a border city in the eastern region, is surrounded by mountains and rivers, and is only separated from the foreign country on the other side by the Honglan River.

This place is neither big nor small, and its area can be counted as a number among border cities, but if all the prefecture-level cities in the country are searched and ranked, the overall quality may not even be ranked in the fifth line.

But what is special is that this place is famous in the circle for a wonderful ecological environment - in the river that divides the country, there is a section of water that forms a wonderful and unique environment.In that section of the road about [-] meters long, a small water basin that can circulate is formed under the calm water surface. The water temperature is three to four degrees higher than other water sections. Do not go in.

That thing seems to form a "enchantment", even if the surging river rushes past, it will pass by the "paradise" below.

Relevant geologists have studied this matter, but did not find out one, two, three, and finally only guessed that it might be caused by geological problems.

This place is so "special" that it looks like other rivers to the naked eye, and because the length is too short, it cannot be used as a gimmick to attract tourists alone, so it has not been well-known among the people for so many years.

But for an "insider" like Liu Ruosong, no one knew about that place, no one knew about it.

Because this wonderful and unique environment has bred life different from other waters over the years, the most famous of which is a "silver fish".

This kind of "silverfish" is similar to Taihu whitebait, but its appearance is slightly different. They are transparent, not slender strips like whitebait, but as thin as a piece of paper, with only one green stick all over their bodies. The fish bones support the body. When fished out, they are as transparent as drops of water. As long as they leave the water, they will lose their breath. After more than 3 minutes, they will "melt" into a puddle of water. They are colorless and tasteless, and cannot be cultivated or preserved.

Just as the delicate B-92 needed Fu Yan's fresh blood to survive, even if the river water was taken from that water area to raise this fish, it would be difficult for the "silver fish" to survive for three days in other places.

But this kind of fish lives well in that "Xanadu", and almost a bottle can be filled with several fish, as if it is the only resident of "Xanadu".

This kind of "silver fish" lives in a special environment. According to the known information, it only exists in this palm-sized environment. People have their ideas on them, and the local protection is very lax.

"And it's a very coincidence." Liu Ruosong said: "The border of that river is divided into two, one belongs to us, and the other belongs to the opposite side - that piece of water is just within the border of our country."

Fu Yan straightened his crooked earphones, scanned the two-meter-high bookshelf at a glance, and finally took out a document from the penultimate floor, and said casually, "You suspect that fish is the carrier?"

"It's not impossible." Liu Ruosong said: "The second team once said that the petri dish is different from normal zombies. She doesn't rot and she is rational—although there may not be much left—but even if there is only The next bit, that's also very strange. So I think, he may have used another method, maybe to delay the symptoms, or maybe adjuvant drugs or something."

He was in the office of the laboratory building, and Fu Yan was alone in the empty file room. When there was no one else around, their conversation would be much easier, and they would discuss a little bit of "before" things.

"Just like the B-92 transformant can delay the mutation?" Fu Yan asked.

Liu Ruosong on the other end of the phone was silent for a second, and hummed.

"Yes." Liu Ruosong said: "But the properties of the two drugs are different. Little Aiden's virus strain should be a different one, and its effect is completely different from that of B-92."

Fu Yan choked on the raised thin ash, waved the paper file in his hand, and took two steps towards the window.

Taking advantage of the sunlight outside, Fu Yan opened the file and took out a stack of yellowed and old pages from it.

Liu Ruosong heard the commotion on his side, and complained in a low voice: "What time is it, and paper products are still used, isn't the A military region a son, why are you so tight on military expenses?"

"Paper products are safe." Fu Yan said, "There is no risk of intrusion."

What he held in his hand was a directory, which recorded the outline of the top secret files executed by Department A military region, most of which were major transnational cases, some of which Fu Yan had contacted, and some he had no authority to know before.

After Shao Xuefan confessed to Joe Eden, Fu Yan has been inexplicably concerned about this person.He worked so hard in his previous life that he could only find a little corner of the "truth of the last days". In this life, he finally caught a little bit of a mouse's tail, and he couldn't let go no matter what.

He read the materials very fast, and for a while, he could only hear the rustling of his pages turning inside and outside the earphones. Liu Ruosong didn't make a sound to disturb him, and sat on the window sill staring at the sun outside in a daze.

After about two or three minutes, the sound of pages turning on Fu Yan's side suddenly disappeared.

Liu Ruosong withdrew his consciousness from the state of daze, and asked subconsciously, "Did you find it?"

"No." Fu Yan said: "But I found some suspicious news—wait."

As he spoke, he pulled out the piece of paper and quickly scanned the information on it.

This is a mission report submitted by the Special Forces. The mission location is in a no-regrets area in Southeast Asia. At that time, the team was carrying out a transnational crime-related activity there. A little other news.

Fu Yan stuffed the task list back into the folder, and strode towards the guide code on the task list. He walked around the bookshelf for 2 minutes, and finally found the detailed report of the document.

"According to the investigation, the gang has a mysterious sponsor who came from abroad and provided them with a lot of help. Besides money, there are also arms." Fu Yan said: "The condition is to dispose of some 'waste' for them."

Liu Ruosong thought about it, and asked, "What waste?"

"... People." Fu Yan said.

Liu Ruosong was silent for a moment.

"The sponsors gave a lot of money, and the people they sent were half-dead, so they followed suit." Fu Yan said: "It's not surprising, but other than that, this group of criminal gangs also collected A reagent kit arrived. The sponsors asked them to regularly spread these reagents to designated places, and then give feedback. According to them, the 'boss' is named Adam."

"When did it happen?" Liu Ruosong asked.

"Seven years ago." Fu Yan said.

"...In other words, Adam has been looking for a suitable location at least seven years ago." Liu Ruosong said: "In addition, when Shao Xuefan fled back to China two years ago, their 'biochemical weapons' had already begun to take shape, so It means that the petri dish has matured at that time."

"Seven years ago to two years ago, he settled in these five years." Fu Yan said quickly: "City D has been developing economically over the years, and a new development zone has been built. Except for the urban area where large laboratories cannot be hidden, Half of the wasteland is under construction—I probably know where he's in."

Liu Ruosong was stunned for a while, wondering how he knew so much about a small border town.

"There is an abandoned military airport in City D." Fu Yan said concisely, "I stopped there before."

"The places that haven't been moved in the past seven years and haven't been developed in a short period of time can't be too far away from the urban area, and can't be too far away from the Honglan River." Liu Ruosong jumped off the window sill and hurried out: " I remember there is a map in the dormitory, I will look for it."

"It should be in the east of the city." Fu Yan said, "It's about the distance from the military airport—wait a minute."

Fu Yan found the information he wanted, and gathered the things into a pile to put them back in place, but he was still holding another file in his left hand, and when he raised his hand accidentally, the photos in the file slipped from the gaps in the file, It smashed into a small piece on the ground.

So Fu Yan had no choice but to stop talking temporarily, and bent down to pick up those photos.

Most of them were photos of the information collected at the mission site. They were all messy. Fu Yan didn't look at them carefully, and casually gathered them into a pile.

One of the photos flew a little far away, Fu Yan took it out from under the bookshelf, and just wiped off the floating dust on it, his eyes fell on an inconspicuous corner of the photo.

It was a preparatory photo before the attack, the pixels were not very clear, more like it was cut from an action recorder.The camera took a shadowy half-shadow of the resplendent "palace gate" of the group of criminal gangs.

But Fu Yan was not interested in those upstart buildings with dazzling gold, his eyes fell on a certain window on the second floor.

——The window there is open, but a very thick curtain is hung inside, a complicated pattern is drawn on the curtain, a snake is winding up along the thorny vines, spit out silky long letters, and there is a handful of bronze on the tip of its tongue the key.

The entire pattern is enclosed in a circle, which looks like the family crest of an ancient family.

I don't know why, when Fu Yan saw this pattern, his heart skipped a beat, as if he had seen it somewhere.

This is very unusual for him. He has good eyesight and a better memory. He can remember everything at a glance, let alone this kind of family crest that is very special at first sight.

If Fu Yan had seen it, he would definitely have an impression, and he would be able to recall where he saw it.

But he thought about it and couldn't come up with a detail, only the feeling of "deja vu" was real.

Fu Yan packed up the documents and stuffed them back to their original places, then lowered his head and pinched the bridge of his nose.

It's been too long in the last days, Fu Yan thought.

So far, he has spent almost seven years in the cycle of time. The memories of these seven years have been stuck in his mind, stretching and diluting the first half of his life, and isolating his "past" in a long river of time. outside.

For the first time, Fu Yan felt the sense of detachment caught in the gap of time—for him, those coherent lives had been cut into fragments by two restarts, and became "choices" of life.

"Brother?" Liu Ruosong asked worriedly seeing that he had been silent for a long time.

"It's okay." Fu Yan waved away the uneasiness, and said in a natural tone: "I have found a real clue, and now I can talk to No. [-] about the deployment of rescue."