Xia Libing knew that Xiang Kun must have understood the purpose of her "guessing the coin game".

If she didn't want her to discover the peculiarity of the coin, then the first two times, Xiang Kun could have deliberately guessed wrong.

If she deliberately wanted her to discover the peculiarity of the coin, then after she changed it to an ordinary coin, Xiang Kun should also deliberately guess wrong.

But Xiang Kun's performance was obviously telling her:

Whether it was the coin or not, he was sure to guess.

Xiang Kun seemed to remind her that his peculiarity was not just in the coin.

Xia Libing remembered that in the supermarket before, Xiang Kun suddenly handed her the trolley and walked out of the supermarket quickly.

Later, she learned through the chat between Xiang Kun and the two old classmates that the children of the two old classmates almost ran to the middle of the road before, but fortunately, Xiang Kun happened to pass by and picked up the child back in time.

Of course, she knew that Xiang Kun was not passing by "accidentally".

But how did he know about that situation?

When he was in the supermarket, he couldn't see the situation on the road outside the supermarket.

Or, Xiang Kun went out because of other things, and it was indeed "coincidentally" that he saw that the old classmate's child was in danger, and then rescued him.

Xia Libing remembered again that when she was on the bus, Yang Zhen'er sent a video request, and her mobile phone only vibrated prompts, but Xiang Kun looked at the pocket where she installed her mobile phone almost at the same time as her.

In a less noisy place, if you are relatively close, it is normal for the person next to you to hear the sound caused by the vibration of the mobile phone. But at that time, they were on the bus, all kinds of tire noise and wind noise, the sound of advertisements on the small TV in the car, the sound of various passengers talking and mobile phones, and the high-decibel noise outside the car, all made it difficult for people to hear the small voices around them, not to mention that she was sitting, and Xiang Kun was standing, there was a certain distance.

So, Xiang Kun's sense of hearing may be different from ordinary people, and she can hear a lot of subtle sounds, if so, she can also explain a lot of the abnormalities she found before.

And she also found through some observations of Xiang Kun in her memory, whether it was guessing coins in the café last night, or today's performance in the supermarket and on the bus, Xiang Kun seemed to be faintly and deliberately hinting at her peculiarity, and his style was somewhat different from his past.

It seems that after Copperstone, her "straight ball strategy" has worked well.

But she was a little puzzled, if Xiang Kun wanted her to discover the peculiarity in herself, why didn't she tell her directly?

Don't trust her enough?

No, not for this reason.

If you don't trust her enough, then judging from Xiang Kun's usual cautious and insecure style, he won't deliberately reveal so much information to her at all, but will only alienate her, guard her, and secretly observe her.

It's not trust, so what's the reason?

In this year, the person or thing that caused such a big change in Xiang Kun may be very dangerous, and Xiang Kun is worried that after she knows the truth and participates, she will also encounter danger?

This possibility is a little bigger, and it is more in line with her judgment of Xiang Kun.

So now Xiang Kun wants her to discover the truth little by little, discover his peculiarities, and the reasons for these peculiarities, so as to slowly realize the degree of danger and weigh it herself?

Or is it through this way to "test" her ability to see if she has the ability to "bear" that kind of danger?

But judging from Xia Libing's understanding of Xiang Kun and the information obtained through various channels and methods over the past few months, these speculations seem to be a bit of a problem, and they can't fully explain Xiang Kun's motives.

Then she thought of the secret on her body, and there was a little sudden in her heart, yes, maybe just like she was changing her strategy to probe Xiang Kun, Xiang Kun was also changing her strategy to probe her.

Looking at the photo on the phone of Xiao Xiangkun who was still babbling and crawling on the ground with a smirk, Xia Libing squinted her eyes, thoughtfully, and reformulated her strategy.

Her observation, analysis, and exploration of Xiang Kun's peculiarities are not simply out of curiosity, but largely due to herself.

She also had to weigh whether it was really necessary for her to know Xiang Kun's secrets completely, whether it was necessary to participate in what he might be doing, and whether these would help her own affairs.

......

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 and vacation, and if they lived in themselves, they generally did not live permanently, after all, in addition to being close to Wushu Mountain Scenic Area, in addition to the mountain or mountain, there were too few supporting living facilities nearby. Today, in the thirtieth year of the Chinese New Year's Eve, there are fewer people, even the property and security personnel are very small, and the entire villa area looks very deserted and even a little gloomy.

The temporary team composed of Fang Pingfang, Mi Qiao and others still lives in that 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 for Mr. He Liang to connect for a remote meeting.

The previous investigation can be said to have reached a dead end, and they need to report to Mr. Liang and then see if they can show them a "new way".

In a few days, Zhou Rui, with the assistance of the logistics personnel assigned by Ye Chong, basically determined that there was indeed a lack of ants on the main peak of Wushu Mountain, and some nests that obviously belonged to ants were also found in the area of several nearby peaks, which obviously had some reason and existence that affected the survival of ants.

Fang Pingfang's preliminary judgment is that this is the result of the "invisible insect" that can only fly and be stealthy - it is likely that it feeds on ants, and it may be that it is killed and eaten directly by the queen ant, so as to cause the entire ant colony to disappear in this area.

But what made Zhou Rui and Fang Pingfang a little crazy was that while they were determining the situation of the ant community, they had also been looking for traces of the activities of the "invisible insect" and its kind, but they found nothing, no traces at all, no nests, no traces of activity, no feces, no kind, nothing.

Over there, it is the main scenic spot of Wushu Mountain, and there are often tourist activities, and they can't do too detailed exploration and searching.

On the other hand, Fang Pingfang and Mi Qiao's investigation of the small pebble that alarmed the "giant bird of prey" that night also made no progress.

The stone was so ordinary that it couldn't find any useful information from the intuitive level with the naked eye, so it didn't take long for Fang Pingfang to send it directly to a laboratory in Yangcheng that belonged to the secret department of "Shenxing Technology" to test it according to her requirements.

But apart from the stones, the "giant bird of prey" and the "invisible insect" caused so much movement that night, but there was no body tissue left, and there was no detection of any substances that Fang Pingfang thought she could get on the soil and trees that the "giant bird of prey" had come into contact with, which made her feel a little unbelievable.

The scene was really a bit "clean", if it weren't for the countless pits on the ground that seemed to have been plowed over, a large number of plants that were swept and crushed, and videos taken from multiple angles, multiple camera equipment, and multiple imaging modes, all of which proved that what did happen that night, Fang Pingfang would have wondered if what she saw was a pure hallucination, and that the huge bird of prey was not a real creature at all.

Fang Pingfang wanted to continue to track down the whereabouts of the "giant bird of prey" and "invisible insects" and apply for technical support, but Mr. Liang's reply was that he had not yet locked the location for the time being, and asked them to conduct other investigations first.

Something else?

Fang Pingfang really didn't know what aspects to investigate, those two creatures were like ghosts, completely beyond the knowledge she had learned and the cognition she had established.

Just like the cave found in the Qinling Mountains, the remains of birds brought back from the cave, and the rabbit wood carving brought back.

Although she is always very excited and looking forward to this kind of existence that can help her open her horizons and better explore the unknown, and has great passion.

But many of these characteristics that exist are completely impossible to analyze with the systematic knowledge she has learned, but they really make her a little big.

However, Mr. Liang also appointed her to be responsible for the direction of the whole investigation, which made her feel anxious about holding the steering wheel but not knowing the way or navigating.

Although the investigation has not made much progress, all of them, the temporary team, still have to run around every day, and they have to be busy until midnight every night, which is very tiring. It's just that it's the Spring Festival again, and everyone else is going home for the New Year, but they have to do the investigation work here that can't see the results, and it's inevitable to be depressed.

So seeing that Zhou Rui and the others in the living room were all drowsy and listless, Fang Pingfang could also understand.

Ten minutes later, Mr. Kazura's correspondence was established.

As before, Mr. Liang could see their videos and hear their voices, but they could only hear Mr. Liang's hoarse voice.

Fang Pingfang, as the team leader, reported the latest results of their investigation during this period to Mr. Liang - in fact, the result was that there was no progress, and the investigation was stuck.

But Mr. Liang didn't seem surprised or worried about this situation at all, but just said that he knew, and then let her continue to do it on her own.

Fang Pingfang had no choice but to say directly: "Mr. Liang, do you have any suggestions? At present, we can only wait for the laboratory test results from Yangcheng and some equipment to arrive, for the time being, there is nothing else to do in Wushushan." ”

However, Mr. Liang's answer remained the same: "You make a decision, tell Ye Chong what you need." ”

I want the whereabouts of those two creatures!" Fang Pingfang lamented in her heart, but she knew that it was useless to say this request, because Mr. Liang had already given an answer—their location could not be locked for the time being...... But don't worry, sooner or later you can lock it.

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 Miss Chen take a vacation and go home for the Spring Festival?"

Mr. Liang's answer made her, who had always been calm and rational, want to grab her hair:

"You make the decision. ”

After Mr. Heliang's meaningless remote meeting, Fang Pingfang looked at her team members and said: "Although today is the Chinese New Year's Eve, Ye Chong can transfer cars and arrange trips, basically you can come home at the latest on the night of the first day of the first lunar month, accompany your family to spend the Spring Festival, and wait until there is new progress in the investigation, I will ask Ye Chong to arrange for you to come back." ”

But after saying this, the other five people are you look at me, I look at you, and no one speaks.

After a while, Li Shiyu, who had cooperated with Fang Pingfang before and had known each other for a long time, said with a smile: "I won't go back, the family has already made arrangements, but when I go back, I will disrupt their arrangements and not toss." ”

Gao Shu, who is also in charge of security, also said: "I am one person who eats enough for the whole family and does not worry, and it is the same wherever I spend the New Year." ”

Micho also smiled: "I'm the same, I'm here to celebrate the New Year with everyone, and I can still have a companion, if I really want to go back to 'home' and give me a holiday, I don't know where I'm going." ”

Ye Chong shook his head and said succinctly: "I don't have anything to go back to." ”

Fang Pingfang looked at Zhou Rui again, in her opinion, in their team of six, the one who most wanted to take a holiday and go home for the New Year must be Zhou Rui - when he was still in Qicheng City before, he often talked about hoping to go home for a long vacation, and he hadn't gone home to see his parents for a long time.

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 go back, you also heard what Mr. Liang said just now, the team is all made by me, then you go back for the New Year, it is my decision, it's okay, we don't go back, it's not that we love our work much, it's just that we don't have the need to go back." ”

However, Zhou Rui still shook his head firmly and refused the benefits of going home for vacation.

Although part of the reason is that the whole team did not go back, he was the only one who felt strange when he went back, and he got such a high salary every year, and received such a high field allowance and task allowance, and it was a bit unfortunate to go back on vacation alone. Moreover, Mr. Liang said that Dr. Fang had decided, but it was inevitable that he would mind that he would not be assigned to the next mission, or find an opportunity to expel him from the secret department, it would be a big loss.

But Zhou Rui was reluctant to go back, and the biggest reason was the "giant bird of prey" and "invisible insects" he was now investigating.

In particular, the discovery of the "invisible insect" made him very excited to love insects and ants since he was a child.

He didn't want to miss any details of the investigation into the "invisible insect", he wanted to be a part of it, and he didn't want to miss the opportunity.

Seeing that no one was willing to go back for the New Year, Fang Pingfang didn't persuade much, and said to Ye Chong: "If the investigation is at an urgent time, then naturally it doesn't matter what the Spring Festival is, but now there is nothing to do anyway, everyone is destined to get together for the Chinese New Year's Eve, then we still have to prepare a Chinese New Year's Eve dinner......

Ye Chong smiled and said, "Don't worry, Dr. Fang, I have already arranged the Chinese New Year's Eve dinner, and someone will send it in the afternoon." There are dumplings, noodles, pastries, and tens of thousands of seafood cauldrons, which are absolutely hearty. That is, according to the requirements of the field mission regulations, you can't drink alcohol, so you can't prepare alcohol, you can only drink as much as you want. ”

Fang Pingfang nodded: "Then everyone is free to move, come back before six o'clock in the evening, and have a Chinese New Year's Eve dinner together." ”

With that, she went upstairs and prepared to go back to her room to reorganize her thoughts. She didn't think that Mr. Liang would deliberately leave their team here to dry, she must have thought that there was something to investigate here, although she didn't understand why Mr. Liang didn't just give them a direction.

"Dr. Fang, I have something to tell you. Mi Qiao followed Fang Pingfang upstairs, and before she was about to enter the room, he caught up with her and said.