Vol 4 Chapter 5: 1 New Year

Xia Libing knew that Xiang Kun must understand her purpose of playing the "coin guessing game".
If she didn't want her to discover the peculiarities of the coin, then Xiang Kun could deliberately guess wrong once in the first two times.
If she deliberately wanted her to discover the peculiarities of the coin, then after she changed to an ordinary coin, Xiang Kun should also deliberately guess wrong.
But Xiang Kun’s performance was clearly telling her:
Whether it was the coin or not, he was sure to guess it.
Xiang Kun seemed to remind her that his uniqueness was not only in the coins.
Xia Libing remembered the situation in the supermarket when Xiang Kun suddenly handed her a cart and walked out of the supermarket.
Later, through the chat between Xiang Kun and the two old classmates, she learned that the children of the two old classmates almost ran to the middle of the road before. Fortunately, Xiang Kun happened to pass by and took the children back in time.
Of course she knew that Xiang Kun was not passing by "coincidentally".
But how did he know that situation?
When he was in the supermarket, he could not see the road outside the supermarket.
Or, Xiang Kun went out because of other things. It was indeed "coincidentally" to see that the old classmate's child was in danger, and then he rescued it.
Xia Libing remembered again that when she was on the bus, Yang Zhen'er sent a video request. The phone only provided a vibrating alert, but Xiang Kun looked at her pocket with her phone almost at the same time as her.
In a less noisy place, if you are closer, it is normal for people nearby to hear the sound caused by mobile phone vibration. But they were on a bus at the time. All kinds of tiresome wind noise, small TV commercials in the car, the sound of various passengers talking and mobile phones, and the high-decibel noise outside the car made it difficult to hear the small sounds around them. , Not to mention that she is sitting, and Xiang Kun is standing, there is a certain distance.
So, perhaps Xiang Kun’s hearing is different from ordinary people, being able to hear a lot of subtle sounds? If this is the case, Duan can also explain many of the abnormalities she has discovered before.
And through some observations of Xiang Kun in her memory, she found that whether it was guessing coins at the coffee shop last night, or today's performance in the supermarket or on the bus, Xiang Kun seemed to implicitly and intentionally hint to her that she was unique. There are some obvious differences between his acting style and his past.
It seems that after Tongshizhen, her "straight ball strategy" has worked well.
But she is a little puzzled, if Xiang Kun wants her to discover the specialness in her body, why not tell her directly?
Don't trust her enough?
No, not for this reason.
If it is not trustworthy enough, from the perspective of Xiang Kun's usual cautious and insecure style, he would never deliberately disclose so much information to her, but would only alienate her, guard her, and observe her secretly.
It's not trust, what's the reason?
In this year, the person or event that caused such a big change in Xiang Kun may be very dangerous. Xiang Kun is worried that after she learns the truth and participates, she will also encounter danger?
This possibility is a bit larger, and it is more in line with her judgment on Xiang Kun.
So now Xiang Kun wants to let her discover the truth bit by bit, discover his peculiarities, and the reasons for these peculiarities, so as to gradually realize the degree of danger and weigh it by herself?
Or is it possible to "test" her ability in this way, to see if she has the ability to "take" that kind of danger?
However, based on Xia Libing's knowledge of Xiang Kun, and the information he has obtained through various channels and methods over the past few months, these speculations seem to be pretty close and cannot fully explain Xiang Kun's behavior motives.
Then she thought of the secrets in her body, and she felt a little surprised, yes, maybe just like she was changing her strategy to explore Xiang Kun, Xiang Kun was also changing her strategy to explore her.
Looking at the photo of Xiao Xiangkun crawling on the ground with a smirk on his phone, Xia Libing squinted her eyes thoughtfully as she re-formulated her strategy.
She observes, analyzes and explores the peculiarities shown in Xiang Kun, not only because of curiosity, but also from her own.
She also has to weigh whether she really needs to fully know Xiang Kun's secrets, is she necessary to participate in what he might be doing, and does this help her own affairs?
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Jianzhou City, near Wushu Mountain Scenic Area, in a villa area.
Originally, there were not many residents in this villa area. Most of them were rented to tourists who came to travel or vacation. If they were self-occupied, they would generally not live permanently. After all, the surrounding area was not only close to Wushu Mountain Scenic Area, but also mountains or mountains, nearby supporting facilities There are too few living facilities. Today on New Year’s Eve, there are fewer people, even the property and security personnel are very small. The entire villa area looks very deserted, even a bit gloomy.
The temporary team formed by Fang Pingfang, Mi Qiao and others still lives in the villa.
At this time, the main members of their team, the first six people, gathered in the living room on the first floor of the villa, waiting to connect with Mr. Liang for a remote meeting.
The previous investigation can be said to have reached a dead end. They need to report to Mr. Liang and see if they can show them a "new way."
Within a few days, with the assistance of the logistics staff assigned by Ye Chong, Zhou Rui basically determined that there was indeed a lack of ant populations on the main peak of Wushu Mountain. Some nests that were obviously belonged to ants were also found in several nearby mountains. Obviously, there is a certain reason, a certain existence, which is affecting the survival of ants.
Fang Pingfang's preliminary judgment is that this is the result of the "invisible insect" that can only fly and can hide-it is very likely that it feeds on ants, and it may be driven to extinction, directly eating the queen to cause this whole The ant colony disappeared in this area.
But what made Zhou Rui and Fang Pingfang a little mad is that while determining the ant colony, they have been looking for traces of the "invisible insect" and its similar activities, but found nothing, no trace at all. , No nest, no trace of activity, no feces, no similar, nothing.
There is also the main scenic spot of Wushu Mountain. There are often tourist activities. They can't do too detailed exploration and search.
On the other hand, Fang Pingfang and Mi Qiao's investigation of the small stone that alarmed the "Giant Raptor" that night also made no progress.
The stone was so common that he couldn't find any useful information intuitively with the naked eye. So after a while, Fang Pingfang sent it directly to a laboratory in Yangcheng that was affiliated with the secret department of "Shenxing Technology". Testing according to her requirements.
But apart from the stone, the "giant bird of prey" and "invisible insect" caused such a big movement that night, but there was no body tissue left behind. It was clear that the "giant bird of prey" had touched the soil and trees. , And did not detect any substances that Fang Pingfang thought could be obtained, which made her feel a bit weird.
The scene is really "clean" a bit too much, if it weren't for the countless large pits on the ground that seemed to have been plowed over, a large number of plants that were swept and crushed, and videos shot from multiple angles, multiple video cameras, and multiple imaging modes. , All proved that what happened that night, Fang Pingfang must doubt whether what she saw was purely an illusion and that the huge bird of prey was not a real creature at all.
Fang Pingfang wanted to continue to pursue the whereabouts of the "giant bird of prey" and "invisible insect" and apply for technical support, but Mr. Liang's reply was that the position has not been locked for the time being, let them conduct other investigations first.
other aspects?
Fang Pingfang really didn't know what to investigate. Those two creatures were just like ghosts, completely detached from the knowledge and cognition she had learned before.
It's like the cave found in the Qinling uninhabited area, the remains of the birds brought back from the cave, and the wood carving of the rabbit brought back.
Although encountering this kind of existence that can help her open her horizons and better explore the unknown, she is always very excited and looking forward to it, and she has great passion.
However, many of the characteristics of these existences are completely impossible to analyze with the systematic knowledge she has learned, but they really make her a little big head.
Mr. Pianliang also appointed her to be responsible for the direction of the entire investigation, which made her feel anxious about holding the steering wheel but not recognizing the way or navigating.
Although the investigation has not made much progress, everyone in their temporary team these days is still running around every day, busy until midnight every night, very tired. It happens that during the Spring Festival, other people are going home to celebrate the New Year, but they have to do investigations here with no results, and depression is inevitable.
So seeing Zhou Rui and others in the living room look drowsy and listless, Fang Pingfang can understand.
Ten minutes later, communication with Mr. Liang was established.
As before, Mr. Liang could see their videos and hear their voices, but they could only hear Mr. Liang's hoarse voice.
As the team leader, Fang Pingfang reported their latest investigation results during this period to Mr. Liang-in fact, it turned out that there was no progress and the investigation was stuck.
But for this situation, Mr. Liang didn't seem to be surprised or worried at all. He just said that he knew, and then asked her to continue according to her own thinking.
Fang Pingfang had to say directly: "Mr. Liang, do you have any suggestions? At present, we can only wait for the laboratory test results in Yangcheng and the arrival of some equipment. For the time being, there is nothing else to do in Wu Shushan. Done."
However, Mr. Liang's answer remained the same: "Tell Ye Chong what you need to make a decision."
I want the whereabouts of those two creatures! Fang Pingfang sighed in her heart, but she knew that this demand would be useless, because Mr. Liang had already answered—their locations could not be locked for the time being...but don't worry, they can be locked sooner or later.
Fang Pingfang simply said: "In this case, before the expected test results come out and the latest batch of equipment arrives, can we simply let Zhou Rui and Ms. Chen go home for the Spring Festival?"
Mr. Liang's answer made her, who has always been calm and reasonable, couldn't help but want to scratch her hair:
"You make a decision."
After Mr. Heliang’s remote meeting with no real significance, Fang Pingfang looked at her team members and said,
Although it’s already the 30th year of the year, Ye Chong can adjust the car and arrange the itinerary. You can get home on the first night of the first lunar month and spend the Spring Festival with your family. When the investigation makes new progress, I will ask Ye Chong to arrange for you to come back."
But after saying this, the other five people looked at me and I looked at you. No one spoke.
After a while, Li Shiying, who had cooperated with Fang Pingfang for a long time and had known each other for a long time, smiled and said, "I won't go back. My family has already made arrangements. Instead, I will disrupt their arrangements when I go back. Up."
Gao Shu, who is also in charge of security work, also said: "I have enough food for the whole family. It's the same wherever you celebrate the New Year."
Mi Qiao also smiled and said: "I am the same. I am here to celebrate the New Year with you and have a company. I really want to let me go back to'home' and give me a holiday. I don't even know where to go."
Ye Chong shook his head and said succinctly, "I don't have much home to return."
Fang Pingfang looked at Zhou Rui again. From her point of view, in their six-member team, the one who most wanted a holiday and wanted to go home for the New Year the most was definitely Zhou Rui—when he was still in Qicheng before, he I often talk about the hope that I can go home on a long vacation. It has been a long time since I went home to see my parents.
But Zhou Rui hesitated, but still said, "Dr. Fang, I won't go back."
Fang Pingfang frowned, "Zhou Rui, don’t feel embarrassed if you only go back. You heard what Mr. Liang said just now. The team made the decision. Then, if you go back to celebrate the New Year, it’s my decision. It’s okay. We don’t go back because we love our work, but because we don’t have the need to go back.

However, Zhou Rui still shook his head firmly, refusing the benefits of going home on vacation.
Although part of the reason is that the entire team did not go back, he felt weird when he went back alone. He was a bit sad to get such a high salary, and receive such a high field allowance and task allowance every year, and go back on vacation alone. Moreover, Mr. Liang said that Dr. Fang had decided, but it was inevitable that he would mind that next time he was not scheduled for a mission, or if he found an opportunity to get him out of the secret department, it would be a big loss.
But Zhou Rui was unwilling to go back. The biggest reason was the "giant bird of prey" and "invisible insect" he was investigating now.
In particular, the discovery of that "invisible insect" made him very excited about insects and ants since he was a child.
He doesn't want to miss any details of the investigation of this "invisible insect"~EbookFREE.me~ He wants to participate in it, and he doesn't want to miss this opportunity.
Seeing that no one was willing to go back to celebrate the New Year, Fang Pingfang did not persuade Ye Chong too much, and said to Ye Chong: "If the investigation is critical, then naturally no matter what the Spring Festival is not the Spring Festival, but now there is nothing to do anyway, everyone is destined. Get together to celebrate New Year’s Eve, then you still have to prepare a New Year’s Eve dinner..."
Ye Chong smiled and said, "Don't worry, Dr. Fang, I have arranged the New Year's Eve dinner, and someone will deliver it in the afternoon. There are dumplings, noodles, noodles, and tens of thousands of seafood pots, which are absolutely delicious. According to the regulations of the field mission, you can’t drink, so you can’t prepare alcohol. You can only drink enough.

Fang Pingfang nodded: "Then everyone is free and come back before six in the evening to have New Year's Eve dinner together."
After that, she went upstairs, ready to go back to her room and think again. She didn't think that Mr. Liang would deliberately leave their team here to dry. She definitely thought there was something to investigate here, although she didn't understand why Mr. Liang didn't give them a direction directly.
"Dr. Fang, I have something to say to you." Mi Qiao followed Fang Pingfang upstairs and followed her before she was about to enter the room.
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