Xiao Ye walked behind Gu Nianzhi and observed her surroundings warily.
She had at least two fully loaded pistols strapped to her waist, one on each leg, and a military knife tied to her calf.
The cleats on her feet were also specially made. There was a mechanism at the bottom of her soles that could be activated any time. The blades that came out of the soles of her feet were infused with poisonous.
With her skills, she would be able to fight against four burly men at the same time.
That was also her highest record.
If there were any more, she might not be able to handle it alone.
However, Huo Shaoheng had also arranged for people to protect Gu Nianzhi in the dark, so as long as they activated the emergency communication signal, they could rush over at any time. No matter how many opponents there were, they was nothing to be afraid of.
But then again, this was a military port with very tight security. If anyone wanted to cause trouble here, they would be beaten to a pulp.
However, Xiao Ye had many years of experience in information intelligence, so she was used to being vigilant everywhere.
The sky was already dark, and the moon had risen.
It was actually a full moon tonight. Set against the dark blue night sky, the moon was like a soft jade emitting a bright glow.
A bright moon above the sea, despite being separated by thousands of miles, everyone in the world shared this same moment.
Wasn’t this the feeling?
The three of them didn’t speak. Amidst the sound of the waves and under the moonlight, they walked along the coastal road.
They made a turn in front of the guest house and went onto the coastal road.
A jeep was parked on the edge of the road.
A tall man in a military uniform leaned against the front of the jeep. He hugged his other arm with one hand and held a cigarette with the other. He wasn’t smoking, but the light of the cigarette between his fingers lit up his perfectly chiseled jaw line.
It was Huo Shaoheng.
The moonlight cast his long shadow on the edge of the road in front of the jeep and made it appear a little desolate.
Their fleet had actually docked a few hours earlier than the aircraft carrier fleet. Of course, this was also to confuse the reconnaissance satellites.
With the aircraft carrier battle group, the satellites were all focused on the aircraft carrier group. Their small boats and sails weren’t the target of the satellites.
Therefore, when everyone saw the return of the aircraft carrier battle group, their research fleet had already docked and had done everything that needed to be done.
..
Yin Shixiong and Xiao Ye walked over with Gu Nianzhi.
Huo Shaoheng stood up straight and extended his white-gloved hand to her. His voice was as deep and magnetic as ever. “Nianzhi, come here. I’ll take you to see… a person.”
Gu Nianzhi stopped dead in her tracks. She felt cold and hot all over, and her beautiful face appeared a little dazed.
Her lively doe-eyes made her appear like a deer lost in the forest while looking for the direction to go home.
She looked at Huo Shaoheng, but didn’t move. She opened her mouth, and her usually soft and chirpy voice was extremely hoarse. “You… you’re back? Who are you taking me to see?”
Huo Shaoheng sighed inside. He threw away the cigarette in his hand and walked slowly to her. He bent down and hugged her while saying, “Yes, I’m back. Don’t be afraid. Come with me.”
They hadn’t seen each other for more than a month, so they felt a little distant.
However, when Huo Shaoheng bent down to hug her, the familiar feeling returned.
He still had the scent of the sea breeze on him.
Before the boat docked, he had taken a shower on the boat and shaved his beard. He looked much more energetic, but the dark circles under his eyes and his emaciated face all showed that he had been exhausted and fatigued for the past few days.
Gu Nianzhi’s heart softened, and she let out a soft “mhm” in his arms.
Huo Shaoheng straightened his back and gave Yin Shixiong and Xiao Ye a look. He turned around and held her hand as they got into the open-top Jeep that was parked by the side of the road.
No one spoke in the Jeep. Huo Shaoheng sat up straight and held the steering wheel with both hands without saying a word.
Gu Nianzhi wanted to ask him what was going on, but didn’t dare to.
Instictively, she felt that as long as she didn’t ask, the hard-to-accept truth wouldn’t be revealed. She could still lie to herself…
However, Huo Shaoheng wouldn’t give her the chance to lie to herself.
The car made many turns in the base and finally stopped in front of a dark cave.
Gu Nianzhi was shocked when she got out of the car.
There were a lot of strange rocks here. It was completely different from what she had imagined.
Was she overthinking things?
Gu Nianzhi looked at Huo Shaoheng in confusion.
Huo Shaoheng still didn’t speak. He calmly held her hand and stood in front of the cave.
Two men with guns suddenly walked over. As if the two rocks in front of the cave had suddenly become human, they appeared out of nowhere.
Gu Nianzhi’s hand trembled.
When she got closer, she realized that the two men were only wearing khaki camouflage. In the darkness of the night, they seemed to have become one with the rocks in front of the cave.
Gu Nianzhi sighed and silently watched the two guards check her and Huo Shaoheng’s identity documents. Then they raised their hands and let them in.
The cave was a little damp, but there was no unpleasant smell.
Gu Nianzhi followed behind him. Her mind was disoriented, and she simply followed him forward. She couldn’t think, couldn’t tell directions, and stumbled.
She accidentally brushed against the stone pillar at the corner, but she didn’t feel any pain. It was as if all her senses had left her.
After a while, a large hand grabbed her hand.
Gu Nianzhi looked up and met Huo Shaoheng’s deep, dark eyes.
His eyes were filled with unspeakable love and doting affection, more strongly than ever.
Feeling aggrieved, Gu Nianzhi pouted. She wanted to act coquettishly again.
“Does it hurt?” Huo Shaoheng rubbed her shoulder that had been bumped against earlier. “Can you still walk? Do you want me to carry you?”
Gu Nianzhi shook her head. Although she really wanted Huo Shaoheng to carry her, it wasn’t on such an occasion.
She knew very well that this was someone else’s territory, and she wasn’t the kind of person who would show off PDA regardless of the occasion.
Huo Shaoheng didn’t speak anymore. He held her hand and strode forward.
As they walked out of a door, their field of vision suddenly widened.
Gu Nianzhi saw a huge empty space appear in front of her. It seemed to have hollowed out the mountains.
In the middle of the empty space, there was a steel rack, and on top of it was a…submarine?
It was similar to the pictures of submarines she had seen on the internet, but it wasn’t particularly large. It was about the length of a medium-priced yacht.
It also looked very shabby. The outer shell was dark and heavy, and a huge crack could be seen diagonally below. It must have been attacked.
Could it be the submarine that they had scrapped on this mission?
Gu Nianzhi was even more confused and looked at Huo Shaoheng in bewilderment.
Just then, the door of the submarine suddenly opened and a person walked out. It was Chen Lie in a white lab coat.
Gu Nianzhi: “…”
Chen Lie was also stunned when he saw Gu Nianzhi. He turned his gaze to Huo Shaoheng. “You…”
Huo Shaoheng said aloofly, “She deserves to take a look at this submarine more than anyone else.”
Chen Lie understood and nodded. “I’ve checked inside. The nitrogen has been cleared and there’s no longer any fatal danger. But if you’re worried, you can take the oxygen tank with you.”
Huo Shaoheng shook his head. “No need.”
Gu Nianzhi stood there without moving and stubbornly said, “Tell me what’s going on. Why do I have to look at this submarine?”
Huo Shaoheng let go of her hand and looked at the submarine. He began to narrate the story of the submarine.
“… They were being chased and the submarine’s power system was hit. But the owner of the submarine didn’t want to be captured and preferred to sink to the bottom.”
“The submarine was filled with nitrogen gas and the four moles were killed together. However, the owner of the submarine also died with them.”
Gu Nianzhi’s lips trembled as she asked,”… the owner of the submarine? Who was he?”
Huo Shaoheng walked towards the door that Chen Lie had just come out of and said, “He’s inside. I’ll take you to see him.”
Gu Nianzhi’s body trembled and she immediately ran over to him. She asked anxiously, “Didn’t you say that they had already died together?”
Huo Shaoheng didn’t say anything. He climbed up the ladder and went in.
Gu Nianzhi was so overwhelmed with bewilderment that she didn’t hesitate to climb in.
She entered through the hatch, walked past a small cubicle, and arrived at the corridor.
The entire way was illuminated by the LCD headlights above her and appeared as bright as day.
Gu Nianzhi wasn’t in the mood to look around. She practically trotted behind Huo Shaoheng and arrived at a door at the end of the corridor.
The door looked very thick and heavy, as if it was made of oak. A steel bar as thick as an adult man’s arm was pinned to the door, and there was a huge disc password lock hanging on it.
Huo Shaoheng walked up and entered the password he had deciphered.
After the battle ended, Huo Shaoheng spent all his time on the ship trying to decipher the password lock.
He was a password expert. Although the password lock was complicated, it was no harder to decipher than a bank safe.
It took him four to five days to crack it.
All the nitrogen in the room had been removed, and the bodies inside had been carried out.
Huo Shaoheng pushed open the door, and the lights in the room lit up.
Huo Shaoheng gently closed the door and stood behind Gu Nianzhi. He hugged her from behind and coughed lightly.
Gu Nianzhi saw what was going on inside the cabin, and her brows gradually furrowed.
The cabin was very spacious and simple. Eight large screens the height of a person divided the entire cabin into two parts.
The floor was covered with a thick carpet.
There was a large mahogany desk near the wall. The desk was clean, and there was only a black cylindrical object the size of a coffee cup on it.
In the open space in front of the screen, a corner sofa was placed in the middle of the room at an 90-degree angle.
Revealing a circular, slightly concave, disc-shaped pit, the area in the middle of the sofa was empty.
Extending from the lamp holder in the corner, the chandelier in the corner stretched out a streamlined, twig-shaped light fixture.
Just like the branches of a big tree, it covered the concave disc-shaped pit in the middle of the corner sofa.
Gu Nianzhi’s gaze had just moved away from the black cylindrical object on the desk when the chandelier suddenly lit up.
Covering the slightly concave circular space in the center of the corner sofa, light emitted from dozens of crisscrossing chandeliers like a pillar of light.
The figure of a man wearing a khaki trench coat gradually took shape in the light!
From virtual to reality, it finally formed a three-dimensional figure.
When the figure of the man became extremely clear, the ceiling light in the cabin went out and left only the light beam from the chandelier in the middle of the room.
In the middle of the light beam, the figure of the man became more realistic, as if a real person was standing in front of her and smiling gently. That smile was overwhelmingly warm.
Although it was only a virtual person, his smile was as warm and compassionate as a real person’s.
Gu Nianzhi’s eyes widened, and her entire body trembled violently. Her legs grew so weak that she could barely stand.
She leaned back against Huo Shaoheng’s warm and broad chest, absorbing the strength to support herself.
