“Th-this…” His expression hesitated; clearly, he hadn’t paid special attention to this point. “I still need to confirm again.”
Kaza: “Then hurry up and go!”
One minute later, the subordinate returned, his tone firm: “There are no traces of burned metal in the vehicle at all, nor are there any motherboard components left behind.”
Jiang Fuyue: “You’re sure?”
“Absolutely sure!”
She lowered her gaze to Wei Yuan lying on the ground, laughing until he was twitching. “Stop laughing. No matter how loud you laugh, it won’t cover up the panic in your heart right now.”
“Hahaha… panic? You’re too funny. What do I have to panic about? At worst, it’s just one life.”
“You’re certainly not afraid of death, but you’re afraid the things won’t get sent out!”
Wei Yuan laughed even more arrogantly, yet a flicker of alarm flashed through his eyes.
Jiang Fuyue: “If my guess is correct, the computer and the materials shouldn’t be in your truck at all, and you showing up here tonight was merely a smokescreen. You should have another, much safer and more concealed transport channel, right?”
Wei Yuan’s exaggerated laughter came to an abrupt halt, and he snapped angrily: “Bullsh*t!”
“Your reaction right now is enough to prove that I’m not wrong.”
Wei Yuan’s whole body stiffened.
Kaza was led around a bit and felt confused, but quickly reacted, his expression suddenly turning sharp.
From what Jiang Fuyue meant, this person actually had accomplices! And had prepared another route!
He immediately pulled out his walkie-talkie and began issuing orders, “…Make sure you guard every exit for me! Not a single fly is allowed to get out!”
“Yes!”
Suddenly, Wei Yuan started laughing again. “Hahaha… too late! It’s useless! The things were sent out long ago!”
Kaza cursed under his breath, so angry that he kicked him.
This kick used ten-tenths of his strength.
Wei Yuan passed out, and the shrill laughter stopped completely.
“What are you all standing around for?! Aren’t you going to chase after them with me?!” Kaza grabbed his weapon and was about to rush out.
Whether what Wei Yuan said was true or false, he couldn’t possibly sit and wait for death. What’s more, in such a short amount of time, the other party shouldn’t have gotten far.
A whole group of men hurriedly followed behind him.
But Xie Dingyuan suddenly spoke up to stop him: “Calm down. Come back!”
Kaza: “?”
Don’t mess around.
He paused for a moment, then continued rushing outward.
Xie Dingyuan held his forehead. “I told you to come back!”
“Wait, I have to hurry! If I’m late, they’ll all get away. How are we supposed to get the things back then?”
Jiang Fuyue spoke unhurriedly: “No need to chase.”
“?”
Xie Dingyuan reminded him: “The computer has an automatic clearing program.”
Kaza blinked, suddenly reacting. Right, there was an automatic clearing program, Jiang Fuyue had told him before.
But…
“What about those paper materials?” This stuff can’t automatically clear itself, right?
“No! Looks like we still have to chase!” After saying that, he prepared to lead everyone forward again.
Xie Dingyuan pulled him back. “Relax. Even if they take them, they won’t be able to understand them.”
“Huh?”
……
Twenty kilometers outside the base, to the southeast, there was a sand dune.
Due to geographical environment and climatic factors, the fine sand grains here were mainly quartz.
When wind blows, the sand grains vibrate and rotate in the airflow, causing surface cavities and producing the so-called “kongzhu” effect, so it is often accompanied by a buzzing sound.
At night, it is like the low sobbing of vengeful ghosts, so the place is also called by locals the “Nether Cave (Crying).”
After nightfall, there are rarely people around.
But at this moment, behind a stretch of sand dunes, faint voices could be heard.
“Did you get it?”
“It’s all here.”
“Give it to me.”
He opened the computer on the spot. The glow of the screen fell on the man’s face, outlining his deep-set facial features; his eyes were blue.
He placed both hands on the keyboard and typed rapidly, but the next second, his brows suddenly knitted together.
“What’s going on…”
Before his words finished, the computer froze, completely unresponsive.
Just as he was preparing to reboot, the screen abruptly went black. The man was startled, suspicion deepening in his eyes.
“My God! What’s going on?” Seeing this, his companion couldn’t help but cry out.
This man was bald; in the darkness, he looked like he had a lightbulb on his head.
They had gone through enormous trouble, and even sacrificed one hidden pawn, to finally get these things out. Nothing could go wrong.
Otherwise everything would be wasted!
“What are you panicking for? Just reboot it. Stop calling on God the moment you open your mouth! God can’t understand these experimental data anyway!”
The bald man shut up.
The blue-eyed man rebooted the computer, and the screen lit up again.
But thirty seconds later,
“Where are the spreadsheets? And those documents and data? Where did they go?!”
“No way… look more carefully…”
Yet no matter how he rummaged through every folder, even checking the recycle bin, he still couldn’t find the files from before.
“Did you see it clearly?” The blond, blue-eyed man grabbed the bald man by the collar. “All the materials were in this folder just now!”
“Th-they were, but why are they gone now?”
“Sh*t!” The blue-eyed man cursed, finally discovering the problem. “This computer has an automatic clearing program implanted.”
The bald man didn’t quite understand. “…What does that mean?”
“It means that all the data in this computer has been wiped clean, and it’s irrecoverable.”
“Then what do we do?! This mission is to obtain all the research materials on the new vaccine. If we don’t complete it, how do we explain it when we go back?” The bald man started to get agitated.
The blue-eyed man let out another round of curses.
Bald man: “Stop sh*tting already! What do we do now? There’s only this one computer, we can’t steal a second one.”
And there was no second infiltrated pawn to use.
“It’s over…” The bald man collapsed onto the sand.
At this moment, the blue-eyed man suddenly glanced at the paper materials beside them. “Things might not be that bad.”
“Hm?”
“With these paper materials, it’s the same!”
The bald man’s eyes lit up. “That’s right! What’s in the computer is gone, but there’s still what’s printed on paper. From now on, we must guard them carefully!”
As he spoke, he rolled all the papers up and placed them against his chest.
“Don’t put them away yet. Let me take a look first.”
Bald man: “What’s there to look at? Hurry back to the country! Every extra second we stay here is dangerous!”
After saying that, he got up and left.
The blue-eyed man smashed the computer and stomped it twice into the yellow sand, destroying the evidence.
Then he followed.
Indeed, the most urgent matter was to leave Suweitan as quickly as possible. The materials could be looked at anytime.
……
Half an hour later, the two boarded a helicopter.
Inside the cabin,
Blue-eyed man: “Take the things out.”
Bald man frowned. “What for?”
“We’re already out of danger now. I’ll check them.”
“What’s there to check? Could it be that these things are fake?” Though he said that, out of caution, the bald man still took out the thick stack of rolled papers from his chest and handed them over.
“Be careful. The wind in the cabin is strong, don’t let them get blown away!”
The blue-eyed man ignored him, spread out the materials in his hands, and rapidly scanned through them.
At first, his expression was normal. Suddenly, his gaze grew tense, but he still didn’t say anything.
Yet as time passed, the further he read, the tighter the man’s brows knitted.
The bald man’s heart sank. “What’s wrong? These things are fine, right?”
A trace of uncertainty appeared on the blue-eyed man’s face, something that would absolutely never happen normally!
As the most gifted member of the department, not only was he formidable in combat, his brain was also an encyclopedia. There was no field or discipline he didn’t understand.
But this time,
“I don’t really understand it.”
The bald man panicked. “What do you mean you don’t really understand it? Biochemistry isn’t that what you’re best at?”
Blue-eyed man: “I’ve never seen such strange data. For example, ashfks, logically, this should record specific experimental steps, but there’s only a string of inexplicable letters.”
There was no pattern to follow at all.
It was like… random scribbling.
And many key experimental results weren’t specific numbers, but nonsensical characters like “x45-11z.”
The bald man snatched the materials back from his hands and stuffed them back against his chest. “If you can’t understand it, it must be because your ability isn’t enough. Once we get back, let the team leader apply to the higher-ups to dispatch experts in this field. They’ll definitely understand it!”
After hearing this, the blue-eyed man’s expression not only didn’t relax, it became even more solemn.
I’m afraid it won’t be that easy.
……
“So what if they got the computer? It was wiped clean directly.”
“So what if they got the materials? They can’t understand them anyway.”
When Kaza was called to report the final results, his tone was as smug as could be.
“When they realize the stuff they worked so hard to get is useless, they’ll probably be hopping mad, right? Serves them right!”
Mm, the scene was already playing out in his mind.
The superior nodded. “This sudden incident, you handled it well.”
Kaza’s mouth was just about to curve upward when suddenly the topic shifted, “But the most crucial thing was Jiang Fuyue’s high level of vigilance, preventing trouble before it happened.”
Several others also nodded in agreement,
“This girl is remarkable.”
“Simply astonishing.”
“Using your Huaxia saying, isn’t it, godlike?”
Several Huaxia bigshots smiled faintly. Within their composure, pride and self-satisfaction were impossible to hide.
Kaza: “?” Am I not “godlike”? Then I’ll leave?
Wei Yuan only appeared once before, and that was in other people’s dialogue, so everyone may not have had much of an impression of him.
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