On the outskirts of Ninghai City, in a small remote village called Longji Village.

Lu Xuan was driving the car through the winding country roads.

The village is very small, with a population of only a few dozen households, surrounded by mountains, and the mountain roads are so narrow that only two cars can pass through them. The roads are also in disrepair and have some potholes.

But even so, the car driven by Lu Xuan was not half a minute slower, and the accelerator pedal was pressed to the end, as if driving on a wide and flat road, moving quickly according to the instructions of the middle-aged man.

The car quickly passed through the place where the villagers lived in Longji Village, and continued to move towards the mountains behind the village.

After walking through the deep mountains for twenty minutes, Lu Xuan finally came to a relatively vast flat land.

The flat land is surrounded by mountains, and a magnificent two-story pavilion is built in the middle, and a row of high walls are built in front of the pavilion, forming a courtyard for planting flowers and plants in the middle.

The pavilion was huge, the size of a football field.

However, the gate outside the fence was open, and there were several Tibetan mastiffs lying on the lawn covered in blood.

The huge manor was silent at the moment, and there was no movement at all.

Lu Xuan just resisted seeing such a scene here, and his face couldn't help but darken.

As the car stabilized, he quickly opened the door and rushed down, staring at the silent and desolate gate of the manor with a grim face.

The middle-aged man also quickly got out of the car, his face became cold, and he immediately took out a pistol from his waist, staring at the manor vigilantly.

"Something happened, it wasn't like that when I came yesterday." The middle-aged man looked very ugly, and said in a low voice.

Lu Xuan furrowed his brows, and without saying a word, his gaze quickly swept around the manor, and his face was also unsightly.

After a second or two, he withdrew his gaze and said in a low voice, "Go in and have a look." ”

The two walked into the courtyard and found that in addition to the dead Tibetan mastiffs, there were several security guards wearing security uniforms lying in the lawn not far away.

Seeing this scene, the expressions of the two people were even more severe.

Lu Xuan walked up to one of the dead security guards and crouched down to check on his injuries.

This is a middle-aged man in his thirties who has been shot in the heart, and there is a large area of bright red around his chest. He should have died so suddenly, that his eyes were still open and he didn't close them.

Lu Xuan stretched out his hand and dipped some of the blood on his body, and said with a gloomy face: "The blood has just begun to become viscous, the time of death should be about ten minutes, and the murderer should not have gone far." ”

"Let's go inside and have a look." The middle-aged man's face was coated with a layer of frost, and he said in a hoarse voice.

Lu Xuan nodded, reached out and stroked the cheek of this dead compatriot, closed his eyes and stood up, and followed the middle-aged man towards the pavilion.

Entering the hall on the first floor, I found several scientific researchers wearing white sterile gowns and masks lying on the ground. The white overalls were already stained red with blood at the moment.

The hall was in a mess, with tables and stools staggering, and some furnished household items scattered on the floor. Broken, broken, rotten, the scene is very chaotic.

Seeing this scene, the faces of the two people became even more cold, and a layer of frost and mist seemed to be blown out of their faces.

Lu Xuan's brows furrowed a little deeper than before, and the uneasiness in his heart suddenly became rich.

However, what soothed his mood a little was that no one from the Xuanyuan clan was found in the corpse.

"I'm going to check inside the lab, you take a look around." The middle-aged man said in a deep voice with a calm face.

Lu Xuan nodded, left the hall without waves, and quickly checked the various instrument rooms near the hall.

On the way, he saw many corpses, most of them researchers, only one or two gangsters who had been killed.

Three minutes later, the two men gathered in the hall again, their faces full of solemn expressions.

"Is there a situation?" Lu Xuan's face was gloomy, and he asked in a low voice.

The middle-aged man shook his head and replied bitterly: "No, all the staff in the research room are dead, and I have almost finished the entire research center without finding any living people." The genetic data about that important research is also missing, and I don't know if it was robbed or hid by our people. Fortunately, the entire research center did not find any corpses belonging to the members of the Xuanyuan team, and it was thought that the place had been moved. ”

"What about you? Did you find anything? After speaking, the middle-aged man looked at Lu Xuan and asked curiously.

Lu Xuan shook his head helplessly like him, and said, "I didn't find any valuable information, all of them are dead people." But fortunately, the members of the Xuanyuan team are not here, as long as they don't fall, things don't go to the worst, and the research data should still be under their protection. ”

"However, with the messy appearance of the research center, they must be in a very dangerous situation, and they may die at any time, and we must find them as soon as possible to reinforce them." When Lu Xuan said this, his voice suddenly increased by a point, and his tone revealed a solemnity.

The middle-aged man also knew the seriousness of the situation, his face was serious, and he nodded and said, "Well, we have to find their whereabouts from these clues as soon as possible." ”

Lu Xuan and the middle-aged man walked out of the courtyard, looking at the stampede marks left on the ground, but secretly extended their perception ability meter by meter, and carefully surveyed the distance within a radius of fifty meters.

Ten seconds later, he spotted some newly imprinted footprints at the foot of a mountain, surrounded by freshly fallen leaves, and deep bullet holes left by bullets in several nearby trees.

The bullet holes were dense, and there were still wisps of green smoke emitting from some of the holes.

Judging from the direction of the footprints, the toes are facing the opposite position of the mountain and the manor, which means that the person who left the footprints did not run towards the research center, but from the inside.

With so many footprints, Lu Xuan immediately determined the direction of their escape.

"Over there! Now they are still fighting, and we must rush over for reinforcements as soon as possible. Lu Xuan turned his head to look at the depths of the mountains behind the research center, and suddenly said loudly.

After saying that, he didn't care about the middle-aged man's reaction, so he rushed over directly.

Seeing this, the middle-aged man also took a step and followed with a strong body, and immediately left the research center and disappeared into the deep mountains.

Entering the deep mountains, the two of them followed the stampede trails left along the way. On the way, I saw five or six dead corpses, judging from the appearance of those people, they should have been dressed as killers of the Iga family on the island road, and they should have been killed by the people of the Xuanyuan clan on the way to chase.

"Bang bang bang-"

After the two men ran for more than a kilometer, they could faintly hear a faint sound of gunfire in the distance.

Lu Xuan was running as he looked serious in identifying the direction from which the gunshots were coming from.

After a few breaths, he put his fingers down one by one, and shouted, "In that direction, but it's still far away, we have to speed up!" ”

"Yes." The middle-aged man answered, and then threw a pistol at Lu Xuan with a movement of his wrist and said, "Take self-defense, I picked it up from a dead island country just now." ”

Lu Xuan raised his hand to take it, adjusted the pistol crosshairs on the way to run, and continued to hurry.

At this time, in a mountain stream, a small stream flowed slowly.

The stream is not very deep, only twenty or thirty centimeters shallow. The water was filthy and scarlet.

In the channel above the stream lay several fallen bodies, blood gushing out of their bodies and mixing with the current.

Beside them, there stood a group of figures dressed in black, all of them with strong and burly figures, and their bodies were taller than green pines.

Their outfits are all bizarre, not night dresses and suits, nor any of the best-selling clothes on the market right now, but retro kung fu shirts with hand-sewn mille-feuille canvas shoes underneath.

If there are loyal movie fans at the scene at this moment, they will be able to recognize at a glance that this costume is very similar to the service worn by the ancient martial arts practitioners on the screen.

"It's not been more than five minutes since they died, and I don't think they're far away." At this time, a man in black with a Chinese face muttered.

Then, he looked at a deep mountain in the distance that was covered with dense vegetation. Deep in the mountains, a dull sound of gunfire was being heard.

The black-clothed man with the national character face didn't look at the corpse lying on the ground, his eyes were cold and he said coldly: "Let's go, everyone move quickly." ”

As soon as he finished speaking, a group of men in black followed him and quickly ran towards the place where the gunshots were fired.

"Hurry, hurry. The killers of the Iga family are ahead. We have to get ahead of them and snatch that research from those special forces. The man in black with the national character face was obviously not satisfied with the current speed, his face was anxious, and he kept urging.

"Yes!" Hearing his words, all the men in black shouted in unison.

The already fast running speed was forcibly increased by them by a few points.

"Quick, give me a little quicker. The stakes are high, and we must get hold of it and not let it fall into the hands of the Doiga family. The man in black with the national character face twisted his face and drank very seriously.

The group of men in black moved quickly, ran along the creek for a while, turned around and entered a dense jungle.

The brook still flowed quietly, and the water inside was getting redder, and the water that flowed down above the corpses lying in the water was still scarlet.

Apparently there was also human blood seeping into the water in a certain waterway that ran through the creek.

Ten minutes later, two more figures quickly ran to the edge of the stream, and they were Lu Xuan and the others who were chasing all the way behind.

"There's a situation over there, go over and take a look." Lu Xuan saw the corpses lying in the stream above, and immediately proposed.

Immediately, the two of them quickly rushed over to check, and found that they were all people from the Iga family of the island country, and their tense hearts couldn't help but feel a little relieved.

The gunshots were clearer than they had heard in the distance, and the two men continued along the creek without stopping.

"There are footprints over there, go over and identify them." After the two chased for a while, the fork in the creek led to another deep mountain, and there were obvious traces of trampling, Lu Xuan immediately stopped and said.

The two of them walked quickly to the haystack where the footprints had been left and crouched down to examine it carefully.

"Over there, let's go!" After determining the direction, Lu Xuan stood up and said to the middle-aged man, and the two of them ran towards the destination without resting.

After running a few steps, Lu Xuan said to the middle-aged man with a gloomy face and anxiously: "Hurry up, the footprints are very chaotic, indicating that there are still a lot of killers, Xiaohu, I'm afraid they are more auspicious now, we have to be faster, faster!" ”

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