Chapter 878 Blizzard Day

The coastal city has a pier and a port, and there is a bluestone trestle at the end of the pier. The trestle is built from the south shore to the north sea, and continues. The eight-meter-wide road goes straight on the sea, as if nothing has the right to block it, it can Just go all the way to the end of the sea and the other side of the sky, moving forward in an indomitable way, just like a long dragon lying on the blue sea and silver waves, so majestic.

But things will eventually come to an end, the road will run out, and the sea will dry up. At the northernmost end of the bluestone trestle, Lin Nian stopped. In front of him was the starting point of the sea.

At the end of the road, giant ships traveling long distances left white wounds on the sea surface in the afternoon sunshine and the sound of whistles. The heavy wheels quietly and diligently discharged the sea water, just like a traveler entering the high mountains. The road ahead was long.

Seeing this scene, he actually knew that he was a step late, or too late.

What Lu Mingfei said unintentionally before is really true. The faster people are, the more likely they are to be late, and the more careful people are, the more likely they are to get hung up on details. This seems to be the law of this world.

When Lin Nian felt the port terminal at his fastest speed, there were not many people visible on the trapezoidal avenue, and the traces on the lawn were smoothed by the summer wind. The people who had stopped here before had already left. , left the city.

The port of a coastal city is not big, nor can it be said to be prosperous, but even so, it is a port of a coastal city after all. In the past few years, after the policies of "direct pick-up at the ship's side" and "direct loading on arrival" for exports were issued, , the heavy ships were like light black swallows, going back and forth to the shore endlessly. Every day, hundreds of ships came and left, bringing new things and taking away the old ones. thing.

Lin Nian tried to contact Norma and asked for help. The secretary of the college who had been unilaterally cut off from contact and neglected had no ability to hold grudges, so after Lin Nian asked for assistance, she immediately collected all the information from the day until now. Ship throughput data for the entire port are summarized at this time.

Until now, more than 53 ships left the dock in the entire port that day. When Lin Nian shortened the time interval to the time period provided by Xu Miaomiao, there were only 13 candidate ships left. The destinations of these 13 ships are scattered all over the world, and the time they travel on the sea is also long and short. However, no matter which ship it is, as long as the headquarters is willing, it can arrive at the shore where it must dock and wait in advance.

"Does the executive department need to stop these 13 ships after they dock and search for the missing target teacher 'Lin Xian'?" Norma asked on the phone.

The headquarters did not characterize Lin Xian's disappearance as "defection," but chose to record it in softer terms such as "missing." For "defectors" and headquarters personnel, the executive department has always hunted and arrested them. As a course of action, we will always do our best to find and rescue "missing" people.

But in fact, everyone who knows the inside story of this matter knows that Lin Xian's disappearance is indeed a "defection", not a "disappearance", because she did something before leaving that turned the nature of the entire incident into a bad trend - - She attacked the 'A' level executive department specialist who was also in the safe harbor, that is, Su Xiaoqiang.

It was not an attack with murderous intent. If so, Su Xiaoqiang would have been dead long ago. Lin Xian replaced her usual tablets for treating chronic pharyngitis with methaquinone, which acts directly on the cerebral cortex and has sedative and hypnotic effects. , has a strong hypnotic effect and quick onset, and its intensity can reach 3-8 times that of phenobarbital. As long as the dosage is sufficient, it can knock down even a mixed race.

When the sedative drug began to take effect, Su Xiaoqiang realized something was wrong. She tried to prevent Lin Xian from leaving and fought to a limited extent. After passing the examination of the execution department, she should have subdued No. 1 with a crushing advantage. Lin Xian, who was of blood, but the result was her disastrous defeat - Lin Xian was proficient in comprehensive joint skills and used a naked choke to lock her unconscious in the living room of the suite until the follow-up 'S' level specialist Lu Mingfei arrived. Just woke her up.

The entire incident related to Lin Xian's disappearance is now sealed and archived. Only a few people in the entire headquarters who can count on one hand know the information provided by Su Xiaoqiang and Lu Mingfei. This matter is destined not to spread, and the final definition of Lin Xian's disappearance will only be "missing" or "missing". This is an indisputable fact.

The big shots who had always been high-profile and domineering were suddenly walking on thin ice, and they chose to remain silent on this matter.

Because of Lin Xian's disappearance, the person who should really be worried about the situation now is the school board, because they should realize one thing: if they can't find this woman for a day, they will lose a key in their hands. A key to imprison and contain the ferocious beasts that are now easily out of control and under the control of the Secret Party.

If the key cannot be found for one day, the possibility of the beast coming out of the cage will increase exponentially, until with just a little stimulation, the entire cage will be knocked apart from the inside, so that the situation will be difficult for anyone. Don't want to see it.

Now, in the eyes of the secret party, the violent beast in the cage that is no longer padlocked is far from being so extreme and out of control. Instead, he seems unusually peaceful. Judging from the intelligence received by the school board of directors who are paying close attention to the situation in the coastal city , he had been looking at the sea at the end of the trestle in the port all day, standing on the pier as cold and solid as a bollard, without communicating with anyone during this period.

"Sometimes leaving is for a better reunion next time." This is one of the many messages of obscure meaning that Xu Miaomiao brought to Lin Nian, and a sentence that Lin Xian left to him at the end of his departure.

leave? Meet? In fact, between himself and Lin Xian, Lin Nian had never thought about these words.

Lin Xian has been around him for as long as he can remember. From the first time his brain started to define and understand something, the old CRT TV was turned on with a 'beep' sound as the mechanical components vibrated. The first blurry and distorted image is the girl's face.

At that time, the name "Lin Xian" appeared on the white paper. This name accompanied him from ignorance to childishness and now, between the lines, behind the cat's eye in the door, raising his hand and turning his eyes.

The old TV played the same channel day after day. The boy in front of the TV watched from day to night and then to another day, nineteen springs and autumns.

Until suddenly, the TV went off.

He sat in front of the TV. This day was destined to be special for him, from daytime to noon, to now when the red setting sun drowned him in the sea.

When the last ray of sunlight disappeared on the horizon, he turned back. Walking back along the eight-meter-wide bluestone trestle, the waves crashing on both sides of the bridge mocked the bridge's weakness. Even though it is long and strong, it still cannot stop the raging waves.

He remembered that he had another document to read that he should read. In fact, he should have read it long ago. When he was in the Twin Towers, as soon as he got the document, he still delayed this extremely important matter until the end.

Because the cruelest thing is often not the truth, but the unchangeability and powerlessness after seeing the truth.

Lin Nian left the trestle, and people crossed it, but the water on the bridge was not flowing.

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On the fifth floor of the safe harbor, the golden elevator door opened. Lin Nian walked through the corridor and came to the door of the suite. He verified his fingerprints and then opened the door and walked in. There were neat voices getting up and shouting from inside.

"Lin Nian, are you back?"

Lu Mingfei's first reaction when he saw Lin Nian reappearing in the suite was relief. He had been sitting in the safe harbor for a day and watched "Animal World" for a day. He was on pins and needles every minute and every second. From time to time, he looked at the closed door of the suite.

When Lin Nian rushed out of the safe harbor in the morning, he thought for a moment that the boy would never come back after walking out of that door.

This is not a strange thing.

In Lu Mingfei's understanding, Lin Nian is such a simple and pure person. He is stubborn, resists change and is emotional. Lu Mingfei often thinks that maybe Lin Nian didn't join the Secret Party just for the so-called bizarre things. The dragon world, or the fate of mankind, etc., he only entered this world for his sister.

If the purpose of his pursuit of destiny is the present and future of the person he values, then the betrayal that follows is also foreseeable.

Lu Mingfei knew that in psychology people like Lin Nian were usually classified as 'ISFJ', and had a very suitable nickname: Guardian.

People like Lin Nian are introverted and emotional. They only pursue what they consider "reality" in life and seek close connections with people who maintain long-term trust. This can be seen from the fact that Lin Nian insisted on taking Lin Xian with him even when he went to Kassel College. But if even Lin Xian left this world, what was the meaning of Lin Nian staying here? ?

For the fate of mankind? Don't be ridiculous, it's better to fight for the buy-one-get-one-free pork knuckles in the cafeteria for the sake of fate. At least Lu Mingfei could see the enthusiasm in the boy's eyes when grabbing the pork knuckles.

Lu Mingfei's mind was in a mess. He felt that things were very bad now. Even though the documents were recovered, the mission was completed, and the Dragon King who appeared out of nowhere was repelled, he just felt that the situation had never been worse than it is now.

But it turned out that there was indeed something worse, because he saw Lin Nian walking directly to the coffee table and putting the paper bag on it that no one dared to touch after it was left behind.

Just when Lin Nian was about to pick up the paper bag, a hand appeared in front of him. He turned his head and saw Chu Zihang's silent face.

"What's wrong?" Lin Nian looked at him and asked in a low voice.

"Believe in your own judgment." Chu Zihang looked at him and said softly, "Just believe, that's enough."

Chu Zihang retracted his hand, Lin Nian picked up the paper bag, Li Huanyue on the sofa picked up the remote control with one hand and turned off the TV, Lu Mingfei swallowed and looked at the document and had a bad feeling, the suite The door in the compartment also opened from the inside, and Su Xiaoqiang stood at the door and looked here silently. Everyone is looking at him.

Lin Nian took out the documents with black and white text inside. Among these resumes, he found a special one. It was a resume with Lin Xian's name, but the information was still on the resume from more than ten years ago. Although the photo She was still just a young girl, but it was not difficult to tell that she was indeed Lin Xian from the bright and sweet eyebrows that had yet to bloom.

The Solomon Temple had targeted Lin Xian more than ten years ago, and Lin Nian hadn't even remembered at that time, so the identities of the guardian and the protected were reversed at that time.

He knew that this resume was just an outline, and the really important ones were in the following films. He put down the resume and lightly scraped the stack of films with his fingers. He suddenly stopped at a certain place and pulled out the single film.

The film is a photocopy of the shooting, which is reminiscent of the pictures stolen from top-secret archives in the United States in the movie. Those black-and-white distorted documents and reports record unknown secrets. In the imagination of the directors, they are mostly about aliens and aliens. Human experiments.

The things left on this film are very similar to the imagination in the movie. They are all equally crazy, absurd, and unbelievable.

He picked up the photocopied resume and placed the black-and-white photo of the girl on one side of the film. Through the halo of the lamp, the story and the person suddenly overlapped like glue. People could clearly see the first line of the blurry and distorted photocopy on the film.

The row of handwriting was written in English. The handwriting was sloppy, like a diary written by a drunk person. The black writing was connected together in a winding way, forming a dark path running through the ice and snow. At the end of the path, he saw a girl carrying a young and thin boy on her back, walking persistently in the dark night of wind and snow. So in the windy and snowy forest, the person watching them silently took up a pen and wrote in the diary with trembling hands:

[December 31, 1991, blizzard day.

I found traces of suspected port survivors on the suburban train tracks in Verkhoyansk. They had been walking along the tracks when I found them.

I think they must be survivors who escaped from that port, because the outdoor temperature has now reached -53°C, and even I need a lot of spirits and stimulants to maintain my body temperature. But they didn't even have cotton-padded jackets, and the young girl was even naked from the waist up. She put her clothes on the boy, but this had little effect on keeping warm in the severe cold.

That's it, she has been carrying the boy for two days and two nights under my observation. I think she is the person we are looking for - the 'Butterfly Project' has finally been successfully gestated in the womb of the Red Empire.

Unfortunately, I can't deduce the specific location of the port ruins based on their footprints. Yesterday's snowstorm completely buried the path they took. When I found them, the girl kept walking forward with the younger boy on her back. I didn't know their starting point or their ending point.

But what I can be sure of is that they walked that road together, even though it was dark and snowy. They have nothing but each other. 】