Chapter 96 (^_^)
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An Lan stood there, stunned, as he clearly heard the explosion from Coach Lin’s walkie-talkie.
What’s going on? Where did the explosion happen?
And Gu Liyu? They said they were chasing Liang Hao. Did Liang Hao’s speedboat explode?
A buzzing sound rang in An Lan’s ears, and his mind was muddled by an explosion that didn’t happen right in front of him.
Coach Lin pulled An Lan onto a vehicle that came to pick them up, returning to the camp on the island.
“I need to make a call right away!” Coach Lin looked very nervous; he locked An Lan in a room and took out his phone.
But there was no signal on this island, deliberately isolated to prevent external communication and avoid the discovery of “Eden’s” experimental field.
If he wanted to contact someone, he had to go to a place with a signal.
“We all need to evacuate immediately.” Coach Lin opened the walkie-talkie and told the team responsible for equipment and supplies.
“Received.”
“Destroy all data, take all equipment. And that An Lan…” Coach Lin squinted.
“Do we need to deal with him?”
“Deal with him? He’s our life-saving talisman. Once communication is restored, I will inform Blue Pearl to take him away.”
“Received.”
Locked in the room, An Lan couldn’t calm down. He kept thinking about what had happened and what Gu Liyu’s strategy was.
He lowered his head, palms covering his pillow. Gu Liyu waited for him in a dark cave on a rainy night; how did Gu Liyu know he would pass by that cave? This island, not big but not small, with lush vegetation and rugged terrain, even if the general direction was correct, it didn’t guarantee that he would pass by that cave… unless the person who threw him into the test intentionally brought him near that cave.
If that’s the case…
An Lan squinted his eyes, and his thoughts kept going back.
Since Gu Liyu managed to infiltrate this island, why not inform the police to shut the whole operation down? Even if, for the sake of obtaining information about “Eden” from the island, how can Gu Liyu ensure that he won’t be discovered?
There are many mercenaries on this island, all wearing masks, and their identities rely solely on code names. Even if Gu Liyu can pretend to be a mercenary, with so many people, how is it possible that none of them would notice him?
Moreover, entering this room requires a password. For example, Coach Lin has a password. Does Gu Liyu also have the password to enter this room? Wouldn’t that make the room’s security too easy to compromise? The corridors are all under surveillance, and if Gu Liyu, for no apparent reason, enters the room, leaving behind his hair, how could he not be detected by the surveillance room?
Unless the hair in the pillow was prepared in advance, sent in by someone from the equipment room.
Various contradictions and possibilities gathered in his mind, and An Lan kept thinking about every detail.
There were three people on the helicopter that brought him here, two men and one woman.
The figure of that woman… now thinking about it, seemed very familiar…
At this moment, the door suddenly opened again, and it was Jiao Yun.
She pulled An Lan over and said, “Don’t dawdle! Let’s go now!”
Outside was a whole team of fully armed mercenaries. They quickly boarded the speedboat with An Lan.
Turning his head, watching the water splashes lifted by the speedboat, and the island getting farther and farther away, the absurd speculation in his mind lingered.
Explosions continued one after another, erasing all traces of “Eden” on the island.
Observing everyone on the speedboat, An Lan found their figures all unfamiliar, except for Jiao Yun; he didn’t recognize anyone.
Where exactly was Gu Liyu? Could he still be on the island?
No, no, no. If his guess was correct, Gu Liyu should be with them now. Perhaps he’s on another speedboat; otherwise, Coach Lin would have discovered him.
Their speedboat sailed for a long time, and An Lan’s face was almost cracked by the sea breeze when they finally got a signal.
The first thing Coach Lin did was take out his phone to make a call, but there was no answer on that number.
“Answer the phone quickly… Answer the phone!”
Coach Lin exhaled, then dialed another number, answered by a woman.
“Secretary Han? Please find Mr. Gu for me; I have an urgent matter… Okay, hurry up, I’m waiting!”
Not far away, An Lan heard this call, and the hair on his arms stood up. The first thing Coach Lin did after Liang Hao escaped was to contact “Mr. Gu.” So… the mastermind behind “Eden” is really someone from the Gu family!
An Lan’s heartbeat grew heavier, and his palms were sweaty.
Until there was another voice on the phone.
“Hello, may I ask who’s looking for Mr. Gu?”
An Lan stood still because this voice was… Gu Qingchuan’s!
What’s going on? Why is it Gu Qingchuan? Wasn’t he just a primary school student when the “Yunshuang Foundation” collapsed years ago? Could it be Gu Qingchuan’s father? Do both father and son have issues?
“You’re not the Mr. Gu I’m looking for,” Coach Lin’s voice turned cold.
“Are you looking for my little uncle, Gu Yunyi? He has an important guest right now. Can I ask him to call you back later?”
“Okay, please have him call me immediately after he finishes with the guest.”
Hearing this, An Lan’s heart went through twists and turns.
Thank goodness it’s not Big Brother Qingchuan!
But… why is it Little Uncle Gu Yunyi? The gentle young artist Gu Yunyi?
At this moment, Gu Qingchuan smiled, put his phone down, and looked in the direction of Gu Yunyi.
Gu Yunyi was chatting with the person in charge of the art gallery.
Coach Lin’s brows furrowed tightly as he kept watching his phone, waiting for a callback.
Until, not far away, another cruise ship gradually appeared in front of them—Blue Pearl.
The cruise ship has been in constant navigation. If this is indeed the true headquarters of “Eden,” it’s no wonder outsiders have been unable to locate it!
Everyone boarded that cruise ship, went up to the deck, and the person in charge of the cruise ship brought a team of mercenary-looking crew members to check their identities.
“Coach Lin, I heard you were supposed to attend some training camp. Why did you suddenly contact us?” the person in charge said.
Coach Lin’s brows furrowed, “What training camp? Didn’t you say there’s a new test field for me to train new recruits?”
“A new test field? Where is it?” the person in charge asked.
Coach Lin was stunned, “Didn’t you send someone to take me there?”
“When did we… send someone over?”
Coach Lin took a deep breath, recalling the events before and after he went to that island.
Originally, he was supposed to attend a shooting training camp. However, on the way to the airport, he was “kidnapped,” but the people who took him wore equipment all in the style of “Eden” mercenaries, with no problem in their code names. They only gave Coach Lin one piece of information, that he should train a new recruit.
At first, Coach Lin was full of skepticism, but he couldn’t rashly call the big boss’s number. He could only go and see what place he was supposed to go or who he needed to train.
When he saw the camp on the island, along with the personnel and equipment, he let go of three layers of suspicion because this was indeed the standard setup for “Eden’s” experimental field.
Next, Liang Hao and An Lan were brought over. Coach Lin opened the envelope containing the mission, sealed with the wax emblem of “Eden.” Inside, it was written that he was to train An Lan.
At that moment, all the doubts in Coach Lin’s mind were dispelled.
An Lan is someone Gu Liyu holds in high regard, even Xu Xingran and Xiao Chen consider him important. Stripping An Lan of his humanity and turning him into a tool like Liang Hao would be a devastating blow to the Gu family.
Coach Lin thought this move was brilliant. Moreover, bringing Liang Hao to serve as An Lan’s sparring partner—it was indeed the big boss’s consistent style, wasn’t it?
However, when he thought about it, he realized that he had never directly contacted the big boss throughout the whole process.
Initially, he believed An Lan was truly exceptional. If he directly contacted the big boss to confirm the mission objectives, there was a risk of being traced by the police who had been tracking “Eden.” Moreover, both the police and the Gu family would never allow An Lan, a blank slate, to be “corrupted.”
Once this blank slate was tainted, there would be no going back.
The person in charge of the cruise ship stepped forward, “Everyone, confirm your identities, check your name tag information, and verify your pheromones.”
Coach Lin looked at the mercenaries who had boarded the cruise ship with him, suddenly feeling a dangerous premonition.
He hurried toward An Lan, intending to pull him closer, but An Lan tried to shake him off.
“Don’t touch me!”
“Do you want to die?”
Coach Lin was about to strangle An Lan when someone pulled An Lan behind them, and a row of guns was raised, one of which was pointed at Coach Lin’s head.
“Don’t move, or I’ll blow his brains out.”
At this moment, the sound of a helicopter came from the distance, and more than a dozen speedboats approached.
The mercenaries on the cruise ship rushed out, surrounding Coach Lin and the others on the deck.
An Lan was protected by someone, smelling the scent on the back of the other person’s neck.
It was Gu Liyu!
“What kind of people are you? Undercover cops?” Coach Lin asked sternly.
“Tsk tsk, friends of so many years, and you can’t even recognize my voice? It’s truly heartbreaking.”
When he heard this voice, Coach Lin’s face turned iron-green. He looked at the other person in astonishment and pronounced the name, “Gu Yunli!”
And this name made the person in charge of “Eden” shoot towards Gu Yunli. Just as he raised his gun, the sniper on the helicopter accurately shot his gun away.
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