Star Floating City, Double Star Building.

Military Office.

When Qin Yuan came to look for Ling Changfeng, his face was a little serious.

He stood in front of the desk, did not speak directly to report, but silently stood at attention, waiting for Ling Changfeng to finish the work at hand.

Ling Changfeng looked up at him with emotion, signed the document in his hand, and then asked, "What's the matter?"

"Two things, one is about what you asked me to investigate before, where did the scar on Xu Xinghe's gland come from; the other is that on the way to investigate this matter, some unexpected discoveries—"

Qin Yuan said, stepped forward and spread the folder in front of Ling Changfeng.

Ling Changfeng frowned slightly: "What is the conclusion?"

As soon as Qin Yuan opened his mouth, he felt that something was wrong. His adjutant rarely talked so obliquely. According to the general reporting process, he should directly tell himself where the scar on Xu Xinghe's glands came from, rather than say something. No.

Sure enough, Qin Yuan said with a serious expression: "There is no conclusion. People from the Intelligence Department and the Security Bureau have been investigating for more than a month—"

Qin Yuan raised his head and said word by word, "I found nothing."

Ling Changfeng's eyes narrowed, and he repeated: "I got nothing?"

Marshal Ling was obviously dissatisfied with the efficiency of his subordinates, so his tone became lower.

His index finger tapped on the table, signaling Qin Yuan to start talking.

Qin Yuan noticed the officer's displeasure at the moment, so he put away his old hippie smile, stood at attention and said, "Xu Xinghe's resume was normal until he was a junior, that is, when he was 21 years old. The wound appeared around the age of 21. During the summer vacation of the second half of the semester, he had no consumption records for half a month, and rejected all friends' travel invitations, but the chat was still going on normally, but the response frequency was slower. During that time, someone asked What is he doing? He replied uniformly that he was in retreat at home to write his thesis. Other than that, there was nothing unusual. All the replies were sent from his own communication device, and the ip address was indeed located at home.”

Adjutant Qin took a deep breath and continued: "I have seen his pre-marital health diagnosis report. The wound on the back of his neck was probably caused by a 28-wide diamond-shaped murder weapon. The wound is very deep. It will endanger his life. And his electronic medical card does not have any medical records or drug purchase records. People from the Intelligence Department and the Security Bureau visited Capital University in plain clothes and asked some of his classmates at the time. Some people said that according to Xinghe’s own explanation, The scar was caused by the glass in the house suddenly shattered while taking a bath, and the shards accidentally pierced into the flesh. However, if it was really just such an accident, there was no need for him not to go to the doctor. And if he was threatened at that time, then He didn't call the police afterwards, but made up an excuse to cover up the reason in the past, which is also intriguing."

Ling Changfeng frowned and asked, "Did anyone see him during the summer vacation of his junior year?"

Qin Yuan nodded: "Yes, in the middle and late July, he once went to the laboratory of Capital University and used the supercomputer in the laboratory to run a batch of thesis data. Since then, in about a month or so, He's never been seen in person again. All traces of him seem to have been wiped out. It's weird because there's nothing there. My gut tells me this is more serious than we thought..."

"I don't want to listen to your intuition. The fact that the investigation can't be found already shows the seriousness of the problem." Marshal Ling put his hands in a triangle on his chest, and cast a stern look from behind the desk. .

This is the gaze of the chief.

Qin Yuan lowered his head: "I'm sorry."

"What's the solution?" Marshal Ling asked.

"There is no good solution for now. We can only let the Intelligence Section and the Security Bureau continue to follow up." After saying this, Qin Yuan fell silent.

In fact, there is a shortcut in front of him, but he knows that his superior does not want to take this shortcut at the moment.

"So, what did you investigate?" Ling Changfeng continued to ask, he knew that if there was no progress at all, Qin Yuan would not come to report to him.

"Found an accident—"

As Qin Yuan said that, he stepped forward and turned the folder to the next few pages.

A few photos were clipped into the attachment, which immediately attracted the attention of Marshal Ling.

The pupil shrank slightly.

His eyes quickly swept across the file for a few lines of brief personal information and written reports.

"How is this going?"

Ling Changfeng raised his head and looked at Qin Yuan steadily.

"As you can see. Because the investigation has been unsuccessful, the Intelligence Division has almost looked through all the relevant information about people related to Xu Xinghe, and found this..." Qin Yuan sighed inaudibly, " This is a small matter and a troublesome one. Originally, they may never have any interaction in their lifetime, and you can turn a blind eye and pretend that you don't know. But now, her situation is very bad, if you let it go No matter, she may die because she did not receive timely treatment, what should I say about this matter... If Xinghe finds out in the future, it may cause some irreversible consequences."

Ling Changfeng pondered for a moment, then said in a low voice, "I know, I'll tell him about this when Xinghe comes back. How to choose then depends on him."

"Yes." Qin Yuan nodded and continued to ask, "What about the scars?"

"Continue to check." Ling Changfeng said, a firm light flashed in his eyes, "Check it out to the end."

"Yes!" Qin Yuan gave a standard military salute and turned to leave.

After Qin Yuan left, Ling Changfeng got up and stood in front of the one-way floor-to-ceiling glass window, overlooking the bustling Star Floating City outside the eighty-eighth floor.

Suddenly he misses his little spouse.

In fact, both he and Qin Yuan knew very well that asking Xu Xinghe himself was the quickest and most direct way to find out all this.

That's the party involved in the whole thing, and the only party that can be found at the moment.

However, Ling Changfeng remembered that night, when asked why Xu Xinghe was afraid of being marked, the other party's pale face, fearful eyes and trembling arms.

It was really unbearable to force him into such a situation again.

Ling Changfeng sighed silently.

What is his little spouse doing now?

Marshal Ling turned around and took two steps, came to the reception room in the side hall, and called Xu Xinghe.

Surprisingly, the call rang for a long time and no one answered.

Ling Changfeng frowned slightly and called again, but no one answered.

what happened? Are you crazy?

Ling Changfeng looked down at the call log on the screen and pursed his lips.

Although Xu Xinghe did not answer his own phone calls before, but perhaps because of the conversation just now, he always felt a little uneasy in his heart at this moment.

He thought for a while, then dialed Qin Yuan's line again: "Go and confirm, what are Xinghe and the others doing now?"

Gu Nai lit a cigarette in a modified car that was a large truck on the outside, but had all kinds of high-tech equipment and signal shielding devices inside.

He doesn't smoke often, but at this moment, he suddenly took a deep breath, and he couldn't help coughing.

The others in the car were all well-trained burly men with guns around their waists. Seeing this, some people laughed at him and said, "Look at you, a scholar, don't hold back for a while."

Gu Nai didn't get annoyed when she heard it, but nodded with a smile: "Yes, I'm just a scholar, why do you want me to come to this muddy water?"

A tall man with a scar on his face heard the words, turned his head to face him and said solemnly: "Don't complain, the master didn't save you to raise you to college."

"I know, I'm not complaining." Gu Nai shrugged, "How are you preparing? How long will we have to leave the Capital Star? We must leave before Ling Changfeng reacts, otherwise once the border is blocked, we will It's hard to leave."

The scarred man in the lead glanced at Gu Nai, and before he could speak, he heard another man sneer: "This is the capital star, the core planet of the Gamma galaxy, even if he is Marshal Ling, he can't be because of himself. If his wife is lost, he will block all the borders? Otherwise, how much economic losses will he cause in a day, isn't he afraid of impeachment by the Military Commission?"

"And I heard that the relationship between Ling Changfeng and his wife is not very good. He may not really care about this match."

"After all, the second marriage was matched, and 80% of them will leave after a year."

Hearing this, Gu Nai frowned slightly, and said solemnly: "I don't care about the rumors in the outside world. Based on what I know during this period of time, Ling Changfeng doesn't care about him. If Xu Xinghe is found missing, even if it is not blocked. Isn’t it a headache for the port to be completely under martial law?

"I know this in my mind, it's not your turn to teach me." The scarred man's voice also sank.

Gu Nai sneered: "You'd better be aware of it. If the task is not completed, the master will blame it. Don't blame me for not reminding you."

The atmosphere in the car instantly became tense.

In the end, a gray-haired man with a short head came out to smooth things out: "Everyone is here for a mission, and they all calm down. As long as we pass the ap-543 pass now, we will be basically safe, and someone will come to pick us up from Pearl. Paxing left the Gamma Galaxy. Once you leave this broken galaxy and enter the master's territory, you will be completely safe, don't worry."

"This is the best." Gu Nai said, took another puff of cigarette, and then slowly exhaled, "I'll go see if Xu Xinghe is awake."

Before entering the small room, Gu Nai was smoking a cigarette after another.

In the lingering smoke, recalled many things from a long time ago.

The Pelpa star where he was born is one of the most barren planets in the Gamma galaxy.

There are few resources and there is violence, starvation and death.

No health care, no subsistence allowance, and no education allowance. His father died early, and his mother went out early and returned late every day, working tirelessly to earn money for him to study.

This kind of life continued until the second year of junior high school, when my mother fell ill.

He has a deskmate with double ponytails who is the monitor of their class. The little monitor didn't know about the accident at his home, so he just asked him, "Why have you been skipping class recently? Still sleeping in class? No way, you have to study hard."

Gu Nai nodded, lowered her eyes and said, "I see."

The squad leader is worried: "Tomorrow I will wait for you at the intersection in front of your house. Let's go to school together."

Gu Nai smiled and said yes.

The next day, he went to a nearby factory to do odd jobs and skipped class again.

When I went to school on the fourth day, the small monitor said angrily: "I came to wait for you yesterday, why didn't you show up? You must come to school tomorrow, the teacher has to focus on the exam, and you can't skip class any more. ."

Gu Nai agreed.

The small monitor persisted: "You have such good grades, you must study hard. People like us must study hard to have a way out and leave here."

Gu Nai didn't answer, she turned her head to look at the spotless clear sky outside the window, and thought numbly, study hard, can you really get out of here?

In the end, his mother's condition worsened and became the last straw that overwhelmed him.

He gave up his studies completely, and he never saw the little monitor who would wait for him to come to school at the intersection.

By chance, he chose a path of no return.

A road that has to be taken even if it is repeated countless times.

When Xu Xinghe woke up in a daze, he vaguely heard a few people with heavy accents talking.

He moved his aching limbs slightly, and found that his hands were tied behind him, and his feet were tied together. With a black cloth covering his eyes, he couldn't see what was happening outside.

"The border in the northern hemisphere is under martial law! Is Ling Changfeng crazy?"

"Will it still be carried out according to the original plan?"

"No, now all freight containers leaving the Capital Star have to be unpacked for inspection, and it is difficult to go through the commercial shipping line."

"Damn it! One step too late! How did they react so quickly?"

Xu Xinghe recalled what happened before the coma, combined with the conversation of several people, his heart sank completely.

You are... kidnapped?

He recalled Gu Nai's every move since he came into contact with him, and four big words flashed in his mind - long-planned.

From entering the ark, to the opportunity for cooperation between the two groups, to the proposal to travel to this place far away from Xingfu City, Gu Naida required long and precise planning.

The question is, what is the purpose of this?

Did you go to Ling Changfeng?

He quickly thought about and assessed his current situation, and suddenly heard a familiar voice: "Awake?"

The next moment, Xu Xinghe was helped up, sat down against the wall, and the blindfold was taken off.

Xu Xinghe raised his head, and in front of him was Gu Nai's familiar and unfamiliar face.

He looked around and found himself in a small, dark and bumpy shipping container, surrounded by darkness. There was a baffle in the middle of the container, and with his movement, the voice of the conversation on the other end of the baffle stopped.

"He's awake?" A hoarse, low voice came from behind the baffle.

"Well." Gu Nai nodded, his black eyes always locked on Xu Xinghe.

"The plan has changed. Give him a few more sleeping pills and let him sleep again."

"I see, what about the medicine?" Gu Nai asked.

"I'll get it."

"I'm going to prepare too."

"You stay and watch."

As the door slammed shut, several people left the container, while others stayed, but never showed their faces.

Gu Nai sat down on a tin box in front of Xu Xinghe, looked at him calmly, and even hooked the corner of his mouth: "How does Team Leader Xu feel now?"

Xu Xinghe replied with a blank face, "It's okay, but I'm a little sour."

Gu Nai smiled: "Muscle soreness should be caused by you climbing mountains, it has nothing to do with me."

"Why tie me up?" Xu Xinghe asked directly.

"Kidnapping, it's usually for ransom." Gu Nai shrugged, "No way, I'm so poor, I almost have no money to pay for tuition."

As soon as the voice fell, a sneer suddenly came from behind the baffle.

Xu Xinghe knew that Gu Nai was running around the train with his mouth full at the moment and wouldn't tell the truth, but he still tried to extract some information from the other party's mouth: "You guys are so talented, why are you short of money? Can you find someone to put you in the ark? You can do it just by having money, right?"

Gu Nai smiled silently.

Xu Xinghe said: "Don't tell me, which Ark leader's computer did you hack and steal their nude photos to threaten them?"

Gu Nai smiled lightly: "It's such a time, and Team Leader Xu still has the heart to joke? Why, I think I'm absolutely safe, won't we do anything to you?"

When Xu Xinghe heard the words, he nodded calmly: "You guys have taken so much trouble to tie me up, and you definitely won't tear up the ticket easily."

Gu Nai sighed: "Leader Xu is still too young, for vicious gangsters like us, nothing is absolute, if the meal ticket is too uncooperative, it's a big deal, and it's possible to tear the ticket. So promise me , don't make any crooked thoughts, okay?"

After a pause, he added: "Otherwise, even if you don't tear up the ticket, you can still tear two pieces of meat."

Xu Xinghe pursed his lips, and suddenly asked, "You are indeed a graduate student at Capital University, right?"

"Of course." Gu Nai nodded, with a very regretful tone, "It's a pity that I can't get my degree certificate after such a fuss."

Xu Xinghe said: "You should know better than me how difficult it is for graduate students at Capital University to take the exam. No matter what you are for, is it worth it to ruin everything?"

"Why, does Team Leader Xu still want to turn against me?" Gu Nai smiled, "I have no way back for a long time."

"No, you still have." Xu Xinghe looked into his eyes and said.

Gu Nai shook his head: "There's no need to say this. Could it be that if I let you go now, I can go back to study? The entire Gamma galaxy is Ling Changfeng's territory. From the moment I decided to tie you up, I don't plan to stay here anymore."

Xu Xinghe heard the meaning of his words, and his pupils shrank: "Then who are you going to tie me to?"

"Team Leader Xu has too many questions, let's take a break."

Gu Nai got up and asked the person behind the baffle, "Where's the sleeping pills? Why haven't you brought them?"