No clues were found in the two adjacent fishermen's huts.

Out of the fisherman's hut, the next target is the abandoned marine life research base in the woods, which is a small two-story building, halfway up the slope of the woods, to get there, you have to pass a section of wooded mountain road.

The mountain road in the forest is more difficult to walk than expected, only a rugged path from many years ago, the road is already overgrown with weeds, and the location of the road is almost unrecognizable.

Two special police officers with two police dogs opened the way in front, Nan Zhiqiao, Ye Zhenzhen and the boat owner walked in the middle, and a few special police officers followed, and the rest were scattered in the forest to guard or look for clues.

After walking on the forest path for only two minutes, suddenly, the police dog walking in the front suddenly barked wildly, and everyone stood vigilantly in place, and the SWAT officers made a defensive posture.

Nan Zhiqiao looked in the direction of the police dog barking, and a gray-yellow hare ran out of the woods on one side, jumped through the overgrown path, glanced at the police dog and the crowd, and burrowed into the woods on the opposite side as if nothing happened.

"There are hares on the island!" the shipowner sighed with relief, and sighed at the same time, "I have been walking around the scallop island for so many years, and I didn't know that there were rabbits on the island." ”

Ye Zhenzhen also breathed a sigh of relief, the tense atmosphere just now was eased by the words of the ship owner, just a hare passing by, which caused everyone to be so nervous.

The hare disappeared into the woods, the police dog returned to quiet, Nan Zhiqiao felt strange, these are well-trained police dogs, they don't bark when they don't see their targets, how can they do this when they meet a hare?

Despite the doubts in their hearts, the crowd continued to move forward with the open police dog.

Walking on the deserted path in the forest, I saw the roof of the abandoned two-story building of the Marine Biological Research Base on the slope of the mountain from a distance, and I was about to arrive, when suddenly, Nan Zhiqiao's mobile phone rang with a "ding dong" sound.

This voice is the sound of Nan Zhiqiao's mobile phone receiving a message, and when he opened his phone, he saw that it was a photo taken by a helicopter.

In the photo, the location of each target is clearly marked, the fishermen's hut on the south bank, the two-story building on the south slope, the two piles of building materials stacked by the Nanmu Group on the southeast bank and the northeast bank, and there are clear enlarged photos.

The owner of the boat was curious, approached Nan Zhiqiao's side as he walked, stared at the photo on the mobile phone screen, and said, "I have seen those two piles of building materials, they were transported by two big ships half a year ago. ”

Nan Zhiqiao asked, "Have you seen the ship come to the island with your own eyes?"

"Well, that time I was a tourist who also wanted to circumnavigate the coastal islands, and when I was sailing through Scallop Island, I saw two big ships carrying goods back and forth to Scallop Island, back and forth many times, and there must have been more than just the photos of the unloading of things. ”

"You mean, that's not all that was unloaded, so where did the other things go?" asked Vera Ye.

"I don't know, I'm not on the island or I'm thrown into the sea. ”

Ye Zhenzhen felt that the words of the boat owner were very strange, but the situation on the island was even more strange, except for the two piles of building materials, nothing was found that the Nanmu Group brought, if what the ship owner said was true, then where would the few things be?

Nan Zhiqiao asked the shipowner, "When you saw the ship carrying the cargo, did you see the people who unloaded the cargo, did they have black tattoos on their bodies?"

The owner of the boat shook his head and said, "I drove far away, and I only saw two big ships with eye-catching tree markings, and the people on the boat couldn't see them clearly, let alone the tattoos on their bodies." ”

The big tree-shaped mark mentioned by the ship owner should be the logo of the Nanmu Group, and it seems that the Nanmu Group did send people to Scallop Island, but I don't know what the group of people who came at the beginning had anything to do with the Fire Snake Organization.

With all kinds of questions, Nan Zhiqiao and his party had arrived in front of the two-story building on the south slope.

This is an abandoned marine life research base, and the two-story building is a legacy laboratory, many windows have been broken, broken glass is scattered all over the ground, and the impact of the typhoon can be seen from the mess at the scene.

Since it had been detected by the infrared sensor equipment on the helicopter that there was no human activity in the area, everyone was not as nervous as when they first arrived on the island.

SWAT officers searched the two-story building with police dogs and found nothing suspicious.

Nan Zhiqiao remained vigilant, holding the camera in both hands, his eyes carefully looking for suspicious clues, and taking pictures of certain corners from time to time.

The whole two-storey experimental building, in addition to the laboratory on the first floor, there is a dormitory on the second floor, which is to provide accommodation for the staff at that time, there are also restaurants, toilets, etc., although the small building is not big, but the living facilities are built very completely, a large room in the southernmost corner of the second floor, there are all kinds of processed, dried marine life specimens, this is an exhibition room, although many years have passed, these marine life specimens are well preserved.

Ye Zhenzhen was also looking for clues related to the fire snake organization around, glanced at various specimens, found nothing abnormal, and then went to another room.

I searched the various rooms, and there was nothing to do with the Fire Serpent Order.

The owner of the boat found a backpack with the logo of Nanmu Group and excitedly gave it to Nanzhiqiao.

Nan Zhiqiao glanced at the backpack, the backpack is a canvas waterproof fabric, there is an eye-catching Nanmu Group logo on the front of the backpack, a lot of dust has fallen on the outside of the backpack, but the backpack is empty, and there are small holes on it that have been gnawed by mice.

This is a discarded canvas bag with little value, which can only prove that there were employees of the Nanmu Group who came here, probably half a year ago when the Nanmu Group was developing the scallop island, and some people from the Nanmu Group came here and discarded the backpack.

Just as the three of them were studying the backpack with the logo of Nanmu Group, suddenly, the barking of a police dog came from downstairs.

The three of them quickly went downstairs and saw the police dog barking at an iron door at the end of the corridor on the first floor.

The gray-white iron door was closed, and specks of rust adhered to the surface of the iron door.

Four SWAT officers pointed guns at the door, and the SWAT officers with the police dogs kept the dogs quiet.

Nan Zhiqiao walked to the iron door, looked at the big iron lock on the iron deadbolt, and said to the special police officer beside him, "Open the door." ”

Immediately, a special police officer carrying a box stepped forward and a professional lock-picking tool, but in just two seconds, the iron lock was opened.

Two SWAT officers pushed open the iron door, and a strong smell of chemicals came to my face.

Except for Nan Zhiqiao and Ye Zhenzhen, everyone took two steps back.

The pungent smell wafting from the iron gate became stronger and stronger as the iron door opened, and Nan Zhiqiao said calmly: "It's the smell of formalin, and a short period of contact won't hurt the body much." ”

Nan Zhiqiao's implication is that he wants to go in first.

Team Zhang, the special police comrade who led the team, took the first step, stopped in front of Nan Zhiqiao, made a stop gesture with one hand, and then waved to the two special police officers behind him, and the three of them entered the iron gate vigilantly.