"The alien army is stationed in the mountains to the west, and the number is about 20,000." An Xiaoyu said to them when she came back.

Wang Zhen said with a smile: "So many alien races suddenly appeared in the west of the Windy City, and I don't know where they came from. Is the garrison in the west eating dry food? Now at this time, he actually let the alien send so many people over? Yuan Lu, are you going to report to the above? ”

Yuan Ming was stunned for a moment, nodded and said, "Indeed, I should be responsible for this matter." ”、

An Xiaoyu sighed and said to Wang Zhen: "Don't play, everyone knows that the garrison in the west is well defended, and I always feel very strange about the arrival of these alien races." What is their purpose? It's not clear where it came from, and all we can do now is wait and see. ”

Yuan Ming asked, "Then do you want to report to the top?" ”

"Of course!" An Xiaoyu said: "But don't mention the matter of the garrison in the west when you report, tell the truth about the situation, and let the garrisons from all over the country assist in investigating whether there are any spatial passages nearby, or simply some new way of transporting troops from different races." ”

Yuan Ming nodded and turned to prepare a report.

Wang Zhen felt a little bored: "Even if we don't say it, the above will investigate the western side, and it is useless for you to be this good old man." Besides, you don't have any acquaintances over there, so why bother? I think they should be given eye medicine. ”

An Xiaoyu glared at Wang Zhen and said, "You really don't have a backache when you stand and talk, dare to love that you are not the one who writes the report." The matter on the side of the wind city is that I am pressing the formation, and the military report Yuan Ming is in charge, the two of us, one is the commander of the Eastern Wilderness Army, and the other is the brigade commander of the Far Northern Army. ”

Wang Zhen was even happier: "Isn't that just right?" Take advantage of their desire to fight and find out all these people, and then there will really be no infighting. ”

Hearing Wang Yan say this, An Xiaoyu couldn't help but shake her head.

In fact, it is understandable that he has such thoughts, Wang Gan, as a leader of the younger generation of reformers, has a suspicious attitude towards any contingent, and his thinking is more radical, and his purpose is to eliminate all the military infighting in the country and beat the entire Military Commission into an iron plate.

But in An Xiaoyu's opinion, it is still difficult for the military commission of the empire to do this after all, at least now it is commendable to be able to purge the officers of the peripheral factions and the military families in various places, which is still thanks to Zhan Pei's blessing.

Want to completely unite the Military Commission? Such an idea is too idealistic. As long as there are people, there are interests, the Military Commission is divided into regions, such a large empire, you can't have the final say alone, even if it is the Military Commission, it is only a committee, everyone has to meet and discuss.

Now Pei Hu is enough of a headache, if the town asks him to unify this military commission, then Pei Hu has to resign in anger. But Wang Zhen doesn't care about that, he is not Pei Hu, he is not even Wang Zhenyan, as a young generation of reformers, his task is to make trouble everywhere, try to muddy the entire waterhole, and then he can start fishing in troubled waters.

However, this fishing in troubled waters is to suppress a group of people after all. Of course, those who are suppressed are those peripheral factions and local families, and they are attracted to the powerful tasks of maintaining loyalty to the empire in all directions, such as the Northern Gun, such as the commanders in the Western Regions, such as An Xiaoyu.

An Xiaoyu asked herself, if the Eastern Wilderness Army was allowed to completely follow the direction of the orders from above, she would not agree to it. Each region has its own characteristics, especially the special border areas such as the Eastern Wilderness, the Far North, and the Western Frontier, where the situation is changeable, and only by being in it can we adapt to the situation.

If you really let the people above pat their heads and decide their actions, it will be the end, and it is not that this situation has not been done without in history, but there are many of them. Strategists are thousands of miles away, but most of them are still easy to lead to disjointed leaders after all, and when the time comes, they will suffer heavy losses.

Therefore, the empire has always known this truth, which will form the current situation of the empire. It can be said that the emergence of peripheral factions and the emergence of local families are almost inevitable, even if this purge is successful, when this war is over, whether the alien race is still there or not, such a situation will still exist.

An Xiaoyu shrugged her shoulders, didn't argue with Wang Zhen about anything, just turned around and left the command room, and disappeared into the Windy City again. After Gong Shanzhi came back from arranging today's work, he entered the door and asked, "I heard that Shaozun is back?" ”

Wang Xun looked at an investigation report with his back to him, waved his hand and said, "Gone again!" ”

"Huh?" Gong Shanzhi is going crazy.

"You say, can you help me leave the organization? Get out of here? Or leave it altogether...... Organization? Shen Wu, who was wearing a white coat, looked at the old man in front of him, his eyes flickered a little, and he suddenly remembered an important question, and asked a little suspiciously, "Who are you?" ”

The old man's two arms were already trapped, and he was sitting on an iron chair, his body tied to the back of the chair, unable to move at all. The iron chair was welded to the ground, and unless you were a master realm cultivator, you didn't want to break free from it.

Looking at Shen Wu, the old man grinned, don't look at his wrinkled appearance, he looks old, even his hair is gone, but his teeth are still intact, but there is a lot of tartar on it, as if he hasn't brushed his teeth for thirty years.

"Hey, hey, hey!" The old man laughed, whispering cunning and treacherous. The laughter spread from the mouth with a rancid smell, and Shen Wu, who came to the old man, couldn't help but feel nauseous, quickly straightened his waist, pulled his face away from the old man, and asked sharply, "Say!" Who are you! ”

The old man said, "You can call me Lao Du, as for the name, I have almost forgotten it." As for why you don't remember me, it's probably because I've been here for too long! Do you know how long this Windy City base has been around? ”

Shen Wu frowned and shook his head.

It's not that he's pretending, he really doesn't know. The empire released people from the far north, it was thousands of years ago, when was this base built, Shen Wucai was only in his forties, how could he know such a long history?

He asked, "You know?" ”

The old man shook his head with a smile and said, "I don't know, but I can tell you that this base already existed when I was born. I'm a man of no talent, but I'm also an organizationist, and I've been in this base since I was born, doing all sorts of work in corners you don't notice, but of course you won't notice that I'm such a non-existent person. ”

Shen Wu frowned, still suspicious. Picking up the electronic board from the side, Shen Wu called up the list of personnel of the entire base, searched for the word Du, and sure enough, he saw the old man's information at the top. The search results are sorted by age, this old man has lived to be one hundred and two years old?

The old man smiled, looked at Shen Wu and asked, "How is it?" Did you find it? ”

Shen Wu glanced at Lao Du, and there was still a hint of vigilance in his eyes: "You are now more than a hundred years old?" How did you do that? ”

Although the average life expectancy of the citizens of the empire is one hundred years old, and many people can even live to one hundred or fifty, but more than a hundred people are still different from seventy or eighty, the decline of the human body is an irresistible change, and this old man looks too young.

Lao Du smiled mysteriously and said, "There are still many secrets in the organization that you don't know, Team Leader Shen, don't think that if you are the head of the research room of the Windy City Base, you can know all the secrets of the base." If my guess is correct, there are still many materials in the scientific research project that the team leader does not have the authority to investigate, right? What if I said that the organization had obtained the formula for the life extension potion a long time ago, but the success rate was too low and it was sealed? Presumably, Team Leader Shen won't be surprised, right? ”

Shen Wu was stunned for a moment and fell into deep thought.

What Lao Du said was really right, there were many deadly secrets in the organization, and even in this Windy City base, there were many secrets that he didn't know. Including those materials that were sealed in the authority, he did not apply for and could not directly access these materials to read.

But Lao Du is different, if what he said is true, then he at least knows the history and secrets of this base for more than eighty years. It may be possible that the organization has developed the formula for the life extension elixir a long time ago, but the success rate of this kind of thing is really metaphysical, and as the leader of the research laboratory, Shen Wu couldn't be clearer.

Life Extension Potion has always been the focus of the organization's attention, the reason is not that they want to prolong the life of ordinary people, but they want to use the Life Extension Potion to research the secrets of life, open a new door, so that their transformers and synthetic beasts can succeed, and even use the life enhancement to offset the sequelae caused by potential development, just like Chi Mo's original transformation people, the lifespan was directly shortened to less than ten years.

If you want to improve this situation, you must ensure that the success rate of life extension medicine reaches a very high level, at least 80%. Such a success rate can ensure the success of life transformation, and it is natural that life potions with too low success rates are blocked.

Perhaps the people who studied these potions in the first place have already been killed, because they thought that the completion of the internal task was too low, which is not a special case in the origin. Shen Wu thought of this and asked, "You are the original test subject?" Did you succeed in the life-prolonging potion? ”

Lao Du nodded and said, "Yes, I was an experiment back then, so I know you too well." That's how I was taken to the laboratory, and then injected with life potion, and watched the people around me turn into monsters one by one because they couldn't bear the expansion of their vitality, and finally their organs failed or their souls were broken and disposed of. ”

"Hey, hey, hey!" Lao Du smiled weirdly and asked, "Do you know how low the success rate of that experiment was?" 4,000 test subjects, 4,000 people! They all died, and in the end I was the only one left! Do you dare to believe the reaction of the people above at that time? ”

Shen Wu couldn't help but shudder, paid the price of 4,000 people, and finally could only reach a success rate of 1 in 4,000. I'm afraid that all the researchers and the people who led the way at the time had higher grave grass than him.

"In other words, you were the only person who knew about that incident back then?" Shen Wu asked.

Lao Du shook his head: "It's not right for you to say that, it seems that Lao Du and I made up nonsense to lie to you, and you can't find any evidence." I didn't say that I was the only one in the know, but other insiders wouldn't tell you what happened back then, don't you believe it? ”

Shen Wu was speechless, Lao Du was right, the researchers of the year must have been completely wiped out, and now only one experimental subject is left alive, in addition to Lao Du, the people above must also know some inside information, as well as those great cultivators who have survived until now, but these people will never tell him such a thing.

"Since then, I've become the most secretive mission in the entire base, four thousand! I'm just a baby, you don't know how high my authority was at the beginning. In order to study my body, in order to study why I was able to accept the elixir of life, the people above tried everything they could. ”

"I was completely hidden, and the people in the base didn't know who I was, and there was no way to find out my specific information, because it was sealed along with the part of the research back then. And then they studied me for more than fifty years. ”

"And then?" Shen Wu looked at Lao Du's reminiscent expression and couldn't help but ask. To be honest, he also wanted to know if the final result of the research on the life potion that existed back then had reached a conclusion? The organization doesn't have readily available research materials?

If there really is, it can really be used, which has very important reference significance for his current research. They gave him a week to go straight to human trials. He had no doubt that if he messed up, he would end up with the same fate as those people at the beginning.

But Lao Du shook his head and said: "There is no result, the researchers who studied me have changed batch after batch, but the result is still no result, they even figured out how the life medicine increased my lifespan, but in the end the conclusion is that a certain gene of mine can fit that kind of medicine, if calculated according to this gene, the success rate of those drugs at the beginning is only about one in a trillion!" So I became useless, hey, hey, hey! Do you know how ugly those people's faces were when they first came to this conclusion? One in a trillion! They worked hard for decades, and in the end all they got was a man who stepped on shit luck. ”

Shen Wu's face was strange, and when he looked at Lao Du, he also felt that this person's luck was a little too good, and the chance of one in a trillion could be touched by him.

Lao Du looked at Shen Wu and said, "Team Leader Shen, I have already done an experiment, I have been doing an experiment for fifty years, and I don't want to do it anymore." To tell you the truth, I accepted the life potion, but the degree of longevity is not high, thank God for living to one hundred and eighteen, now that my life span is less than half, I want to live a little bit of my own life. ”

Shen Wu asked: "So you found me?" ”

"What did Team Leader Shen say? I'm a bad old man, I've been hidden for so many years, no one knows who I am, no one pays attention to me, how can I find you without power or power? It should be said that you found me. Our encounter is my next luck, and I am willing to share half of my luck with you! ”

Listening to Lao Du's words, Shen Wu's face changed again and again. Origin is a dangerous place, and in order to realize his dream, he jumped out of the failed life that no research lab wanted him, and he had the audacity to join Origin, and his work is now almost on thin ice.

Now that he is in his forties, his physical condition has begun to decline, and his mind is no longer radical, the decision he made at the beginning has now become the one he regrets the most. He wanted to leave the origin, he wanted to get rid of this life where he was alive in the morning and could die at night.

However, is this Lao Du in front of him really worth believing?

His information is indeed here, but the organization's information must not be trusted, especially this kind of incomplete information, which is likely to be hidden for most of the time. For example, this old man, could it be a spy who organized filming to test himself? Or, does this old man want to yin himself, and then he can get out of the organization, and then he will explain himself here.

Lao Du said: "I know that Team Leader Shen can't believe me now, to be honest, I just want you to let me go, as for whether you believe what I said or not, whether you want to cooperate with me, these are another words." Buying and selling is not benevolent, anyway, you don't lack me as an experimental product now, right? ”

Shen Wu looked at Lao Du, wanting to see if there were any traces on Lao Du's smiling face to prove whether what he said was true or false. But the old man is like a professional actor, worthy of being a person who has been up and down in the origin for so many years, so he can't see any clues.

After thinking about it, Shen Wu still struggled in his heart after all.

He knew that if he wanted to complete his current project, the success rate would be half of the success rate if he didn't have new information to rely on. If he can't complete the entire project, when the base is exposed, An Xiaoyu will kill everyone, even if he can survive, he will be hunted down by the origin next.

And now, there was a way out of the origin in front of him, how could he give up so easily? Shen Wu thought like this, looked at Lao Du and asked, "If you want me to believe in you, you have to have something that convinces me, how can you get me out of the origin?" ”

Lao Du smiled, showing an expression of successful tricks, and said softly: "Patriarch Shen Wu wants to break away from the origin, the most important thing is two things, one is to be able to clear all the information in your origin, and the other is to be able to secretly leave the passage of the base alone. ”

Shin Wu nodded in agreement.

Lao Du said: "In my chest pocket, there is a browsing plug-in that organizes all the information, pay attention, just browse the plug-in, and want to clear the plug-in...... You know. ”