Early in the morning, Zhou Rui and his partners in the investigation team went into the mountains to investigate in two ways.

Fang Pingfang, Mi Qiao, and Gao Shu went to Wushu Mountain with their equipment, while Zhou Rui went to Chongyun Mountain with Li Shiyu and Ye Chong.

However, when passing through Chongyun Village, because the road had just been repaired in the village, their car did not drive directly to the foot of the mountain as before, but walked around the newly built road in the village a few times at the suggestion of Zhou Rui.

After feeling that the village had changed a lot, Zhou Rui even asked Li Shiyu to stop the car and asked Ye Chongfang to take off the drone he was carrying, and take a condescending picture of the overall situation of Chongyun Village from the air.

"It seems like it's only been more than half a month since we last entered the mountain, right? Zhou Rui wondered.

However, Li Shiyu looked at the picture transmitted by the drone and said calmly: "As long as the money is in place, this speed is nothing." The last time we went into the mountain, the road into Chongyun Village was almost repaired, and by the way, it didn't take much effort to extend the road to the village. As for those street lights or something, it's simpler. ”

Zhou Rui frowned and said, "The question is...... What is it going to do in such a small village and suddenly build such a large number of buildings?"

Judging from the footage transmitted by the drone, Chongyun Village not only repaired the road leading to the outside and the road in the village in a short time, but also has construction sites in many places, and the scale is not small.

"Is this related to what we want to investigate?" Li Shiyu said strangely, "It is obvious that Jianzhou City is increasing its investment in Tongshi Town, didn't you notice that when we went to Tongshi Town for dinner a few days ago, there was obviously a lot more traffic and people on the road, and many shops were being renovated and became more prosperous?"

Zhou Rui nodded, did not refute, just took the tablet to watch the transmission screen of the drone, and asked Ye Chong not far away: "Chong'er, do you know what these construction sites do?"

Ye Chong came over and glanced at the place where Zhou Rui pointed out, said "Wait a minute", then picked up his tablet and checked it, and said: "These places around the village are all breeding bases and farms under construction. ”

Saying that, Ye Chong remembered something and looked up at Zhou Rui: "You call me 'Chong'er' again, believe it or not, I shaved your eyebrows while you were sleeping." ”

Zhou Rui smiled: "Okay, that's not called 'Chong'er', I'll learn Huahua, call you Xiaoyezi!"

If it was when they first met a few months ago, Ye Chong would definitely solemnly declare to the other party that he was not allowed to give him a nickname, but now...... He just rolled his eyes, too lazy to say anything more.

Because of this time of getting along, they have long been familiar with each other's personalities, Zhou Rui knows very well that he will not really turn his face because of jokes, and he also knows very well...... If Zhou Rui is not called "Xiao Yezi", this guy will definitely continue to take other nicknames, and he will never be called by his name properly.

Next, they still did not go directly into the mountain, but at the request of Zhou Rui, they went to the construction site of the research base that is said to be related to the Internet and breeding.

Because Fang Pingfang had explained that Zhou Rui was responsible for and led their way to Chongyun Mountain, although Li Shiyu and Ye Chong felt that Chongyun Village had nothing to do with the matter they wanted to investigate, they could only go with him.

After the off-road vehicle slowed down as it approached the construction site, a tall and thin young man came over and waved his hand: "You can't stop here, stop and go that way." ”

Li Shiyu still found a place to park the car outside the construction site, Zhou Rui got out of the car and said: "Let's take a look here, we will leave immediately, it will not stop for a long time." ”

The tall and thin young man was Liu Gaoshang, who had just replaced his brother and came to the construction site to watch, he looked at Li Shiyu and Ye Chong who got off the car in a daze, and watched them and the people who got off the car before walking directly past him to the construction site, a little at a loss.

"Hey...... It's all construction sites here, there's nothing to see!" Liu Gaoshang remembered what his brother had explained, and hurriedly chased after the three of them and said.

Zhou Rui smiled and took out a certificate to show Zhou Rui, and said: "I heard that this place is going to build a research base? We are the 'researchers' of the Zhiyu Biological Laboratory in Thornton City, and we are also engaged in scientific research, so we want to go in and have a look......"

His documents are naturally true, behind the state of the universe laboratory is "Shenxing technology", although none of the six of them have actually worked in the state of the universe laboratory, but this laboratory has always been their shield for investigating various incidents in Haixi Province, many investigations are directly applied to the local government, you can get a lot of convenience.

Hearing that they were scientific research workers, Liu Gaoshang was stunned for a moment and hesitated. Although he and his brother have had poor grades since childhood, under the influence of his brother, they admire those highly educated and research-oriented people, and the "Dr. Xia" next to Mr. Xiang who seems to be able to see through everything and seems to understand everything has strengthened their cognition, and they feel that people who are engaged in scientific research are very powerful.

"Are you from the construction party? Do you know who built this research base?" Zhou Rui said as he motioned to Ye Chong to take some photos, and turned the drone over to take pictures from above.

Liu Gaoshang was a little stunned, and when he didn't know how to reply, Liu Zhengyi, who had been on duty at the construction site all night and had just finished changing shifts and went to breakfast, saw that there were people here, and walked over to his brother and asked, "Who are these people?"

Zhou Rui and Ye Chong look like scholars in terms of dress, appearance and temperament, so Liu Zhengyi's attitude is still better, and I wonder if it will be Mr. Xiang's friend.

"What kind of people are they from a Thai laboratory......" Liu Gaoshang hurriedly came over and whispered to his brother, of course, there was a lot of information that he hadn't heard clearly just now, so he could only say a rough idea.

But as soon as Liu Zhengyi heard it, he immediately judged that these three people were not here to find Mr. Xiang, and they did not know what the actual purpose of this construction site was, nor who the owner behind this construction site was.

"I'm sorry, we're in charge of security here, outsiders can't come in, you see you don't wear hard hats, just come in, it's a violation of safety production regulations, please move, move." Liu Zhengyi said politely but resolutely, while blocking in front of the three people, slowly waving his hands forward, as if he was chasing ducks, urging them to leave.

Although Liu Zhengyi is not tall, he is dark and strong, and has a temperament that is not stingy, Zhou Rui and Ye Chong subconsciously withdrew from the construction site. As for Li Shiyu, he didn't think it was necessary to turn over here to see other people's construction sites, and naturally he wouldn't have a conflict with the Liu brothers.

Although Zhou Rui felt that this construction site was a bit strange, not quite like the research base made by agricultural and animal husbandry-related scientific research institutions, he always felt a little weird, but he didn't have to go inside.

If you really want to see something, go back and let the drone explore, or directly apply for permission from the management behind it, there is no need to worry about the people on the construction site.

"Brother, we are studying insects-related topics, you are a local, may I ask, have you ever seen this kind of ant when you live here?" Zhou Rui said, took out his tablet, called up a clear large picture of an ant, and showed it to Liu Zhengyi.

"You see, this ant has wings, it's a colony ant, it's what you call a flying ant locally, male, but it's not the same as an ordinary colony ant, it's bigger, its wings are shorter, and it has this vein on its wings, you see...... And this tentacle ......"

Zhou Ruizheng patiently and carefully introduced, Liu Zhengyi laughed: "Who would catch ants and look at them so carefully? If you want to find ants, you can go to the grass and mountains next to you to look for them, there must be a lot of them." ”

Zhou Rui smiled and asked again, "Then have you seen any other strange insects?" or...... Birds?"

"None of them. Liu Zhengyi said with certainty, after a slight pause, he asked again: "Why do you want to study insects and birds in your Thai laboratory?"

Zhou Rui was stunned for a moment: "Thailand, we are not a Thai laboratory, or a laboratory in our province...... Oh, did that brother mishear just now? We're the Universe Laboratory, and we're in Thornton City. As he spoke, he took out the document and showed it again, but when he was about to take it back, he found that he was pinched by Liu Zhengyi.

Liu Zhengyi pinched the document and looked at it carefully, then took out his mobile phone, searched the Internet according to the information on it, found the unit phone number and dialed it.

After making a phone call and confirming the authenticity of Zhou Rui's documents and identity, he let go, returned the documents, and then said with a smile: "I'm sorry, our village committee is relatively strict about security, after all, there have been escaped prisoners before." ”

After seeing Zhou Rui and the others leave the construction site, return to the car, and drive to the village again, Liu Gaoshang was a little worried: "Brother, the strange bird they talked about...... It can't be the big golden pigeon in Mr. Xiang's car last night, is it? Could that bird be a protected animal, and they're here to track down Mr. Xiang?"

Liu Zhengyi scolded: "What a big golden pigeon, that's a canary! It's an ornamental bird! It's just a little fatter!"

However, he still picked up his mobile phone and called Xiang Kun to mention the matter of the three people being investigating, he didn't think that these three people were coming for Mr. Xiang, but suspected that they might be the same project as Mr. Xiang and Dr. Xia, and they might be competitors. He remembered that after the two escaped prisoners were killed by lightning in Chongyun Mountain, many outsiders entered the mountain, in addition to some popular Internet celebrities and curious tourists, there were also many people engaged in scientific research.

On the other side, Zhou Rui, who returned to the car, said: "Those two people seem to be a little wary ......of us?

Li Shiyu said while controlling the off-road vehicle to turn around: "When you mentioned 'bird' just now, the tall man looked at the short man, they may not be telling the truth. ”

Zhou Rui looked thoughtful when he heard this, and then said to Ye Chong: "Help me contact the company behind the construction site, I want to see who is building the research center." ”

Ye Chong inquired according to his words, and at the same time, he was puzzled: "Shouldn't our investigation target be in the Chongyun Mountain Mountains, why do you keep being entangled in this village?"

Zhou Rui said: "Don't forget, the first time I found the 'ghost bearded ant' was on the pedestrian street of Tongshi Town. Although we found some traces of suspected 'ghost whisker ants' in Chongyun Mountain, the place where it mainly gathers and inhabits may not be Chongyun Village. ”

"Ghost bearded ant" is the name that Zhou Rui gave him the name of the special ant he found.

"Do you still think that the 'giant bird of prey' we found in Wushu Mountain earlier is directly related to the 'ghost whiskered ant'?" Ye Chong asked again.

"Yes, I think so. ”

Zhou Rui nodded affirmatively, but he didn't say more reasons.

In addition to the actual evidence he used to convince Dr. Fang, the rest of the team, and Mr. Liang, there was actually another important reason, which was a dream he had repeatedly had during this time.

In the dream, he has been studying a word with the teacher, which is a word for "門" with "鳥", pronounced niè, and the word "闑".

In the dream, he thought that the word "闑" represented Haixi Province, but later due to various reasons, the abbreviation of Haixi Province changed from "闑" to the word "閩".

Although after waking up, he searched on the Internet and found that the word "闑" means that Haixi Province is completely imaginary, not to mention that the change from "闑" to "閩" is completely an idea that came out of thin air in a dream, and the teacher in the dream taught him blindly.

But the strange word "bird" in that "door" made Zhou Rui constantly link the "giant bird of prey" with the "ghost bearded ant" he discovered, and the more carefully he looked for the connection between the two, the more firm his investigation direction.

And Fang Pingfang, Chen Tianhua, and even Mr. Liang were also persuaded by the various evidence he found - although this evidence was more logical deduction than empirical evidence, they still accepted his speculation - the "giant bird of prey" that appeared in Wushu Mountain, the "invisible insect" that was hunted by the "giant bird of prey", and the "ghost whiskered ant" found in Tongshi Town were the same creatures in different periods.

Of course, he didn't mention the dream he was repeating to the others, because he felt that this dream was different from the weird rabbit dream in the Qinling Mountains, and this dream should have been generated by his own consciousness and was not affected by the outside world.

It's just that he didn't realize that after he woke up, although he remembered the content of the dream, he never took the initiative to recall what the teacher who taught him the word "bird" in the "door" in the dream was like.

Naturally, he didn't realize that the teacher who taught calligraphy in his dream was the same as the person Mijo dreamed of helping her push the swing, a paper man with the body of a panda but Jacky Cheung's face like an emoji.

......

When a group of people in the courtyard had just finished breakfast, Liu Caifu came to the door with three strangers.

Liu Caifu said to Xiang Kun quite happily: "Mr. Xiang, these researchers are from the 'Zhiyu Laboratory' in your hometown of Thornton City, and they are also engaged in scientific research. I know the research base you want to do in the village, I admire it very much, and I want to get to know it. Speaking of this, he whispered: "I have confirmed my identity, it is true, it is indeed 'Zhiyu Laboratory'." ”

Xiang Kun nodded with a smile, and then looked at Zhou Rui, Li Shiyu, and Ye Chong who were standing at the gate of the courtyard.

It was the first time they had seen Xiang Kun, but Xiang Kun was already too familiar with them to be more familiar.

Not only was he discovered when the drone flew in the air just now, but after Zhou Rui and others went to the construction site for a walk, Liu Zhengyi took the initiative to call to "report", relying on the "super-linked" all over the village, surveillance cameras, and Alice's targeted invasion of the "Shenxing Technology" private network, and he knew everything about their whereabouts, what they said, and what they did.

Zhou Rui's purpose for going to Chongyun Village and Chongyun Mountain, he was also very clear - it can even be said that all of this was deliberately guided and manipulated by him and Lao Xia.

After Alice took control of a lot of the data and private network of "Shenxing Technology", plus the "love notes" and "super-connected things" that had been deployed by Mi Qiao's side before, and then put them on Zhou Rui and Fang Pingfang's side respectively, Xiang Kun could already control this investigation team in an all-round way from their communication information, the information recorded in the electronic devices, and the inquiries and guidance in the dream.

The "ghost bearded ant" named by Zhou Rui, that is, the second or even third generation of mutant ants derived from "Zero Zero One" and "Zero Zero Two", as well as the "mutant bird" that Xiang Kun does not know where to go for the time being, is the "introduction" that Xiang Kun used to observe the detailed operation mechanism of "Shenxing Technology" and help him answer many questions.