Chapter 21: Valentine's Day (5)
Lu Xun sat in the restaurant until 5:20, but Ai Ye did not appear.
What's going on?
Lu Xun was a little surprised, Ai Ye has always been a very punctual girl, she will never be late for no reason, but why is she late today?
"Then the girl must have forgotten about this, right?" Lao Jia asked.
Lu Xun shook his head, he didn't think that Ai Ye would release his pigeons, before leaving at half past four this afternoon, the girl also sent him an email to remind him to arrive on time.
Lu Xun called the waiter in the restaurant.
"Miss Aiye?" The waiter nodded, "I saw her this morning, it was about eight o'clock in the morning, she came to me and asked her to reserve a place for her, saying that she was going to have dinner with Mr. Lu Xun at five o'clock in the evening." โ
Lu Xun frowned...... This is strange, she has set her position, why is it delayed?
"Nothing could go wrong, right?" Lao Jia spoke up, "Can you contact that girl now?" โ
Lu Xun shook his head, he couldn't contact everyone in the academy, the members of the hummingbird hunting team were each given a radio communication headset due to the requirements of the mission, but the others didn't have this equipment...... Even in the Executive Department, radio headsets cannot be distributed to every individual soldier, and the security forces can only use short-range walkie-talkies under normal circumstances, with an effective range of no more than 100 meters, so the Land Patrol must also use wired telephones when communicating with the Executive Department.
Ai Ye is only a scientific research assistant in the Institute of Virology, and she herself has no communication tools, so Lu Xun can't contact her directly at this time.
"Ask the others." Lao Jia reminded.
Lu Xun nodded, took out the communication headset from his pocket and put it on.
He could only ask the others to see if Ai Ye's girl was there at this time...... There was a murmur of electricity in the headphones, and Lu Xun slowly adjusted the frequency, but hell, there was no one in the channel. Lu Xun's face became ugly, he couldn't contact anyone, it wasn't a mission now, and no one would turn on the communication headset and hang it on all day.
"Hell, no one's here!"
"Back to the office!" Lao Jia reminded.
Lu Xun nodded.
"What's wrong? Mr. Lu Xun? The waiter cautiously probed his head and asked softly, "What's going on?" โ
Lu Xun put away his headphones, got up suddenly, grabbed the coat on the back of the chair and rushed out.
"Huh? Mr. Lu Xun...... Do you want this position? The waiter was startled, then stood on tiptoe and shouted at his back, "If you still want it, then I'll ......keep it for you."
"Keep it for me!" Lu Xun waved his hand without looking back, pushed open the door of the restaurant, and disappeared outside the door.
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Lu Xun turned left when he went out, ran all the way, and went straight to the underground office. Somehow, an extremely uneasy premonition rose from the bottom of his heart, it stands to reason that he shouldn't have been so frightened, Ai Ye that girl had often disappeared before, after all, the security zone of the Shanghai Naval Military Academy is such a large territory, there are only two hundred people living in it, the land is vast and sparsely populated, it is very common for someone to disappear all day long, Ai Ye may just sleep in a room where no one is around, and when he wakes up, he will appear in front of Lu Xun's eyes.
"Don't be nervous." Lao Jia comforted, "There shouldn't be anything." โ
Lu Xun nodded, but his pace was still picking up.
It stands to reason that Ai Ye may have been delayed just because of some trivial matter, such as finding an injured kitten on the side of the road, and she was taking care of the cat wholeheartedly at this time. Ai Ye has never been resistant to small animals, and in her mind, Lu Xun may not be more attractive than a poor injured kitten.
Lu Xun is not worried that it is the hunter who did it, the possibility of the academy being invaded again is extremely low, Omega monitors the entire security zone, and Lu Xun has strengthened the defense of the security zone after serving as the head of the executive department, if there is really a hunter invading the security zone, then Omega will launch an alarm at the first time.
As long as Omega does not raise the alarm, it means that the academy is safe.
But Lu Xun's heart was beating faster and faster, as if a hand was clutching his heart, an inexplicable instinct, and the last time he felt this way, he was still running desperately in the Jin Mao Tower, looking for Lemon, whose life was hanging by a thread by the Night King.
It's like a race against time and death, you have to be fast, or something will happen that you won't regret.
Lu Xun kicked open the door of the office and rushed in to make a phone call.
For those who could not be reached by wireless communication headsets, the landline could be called directly into their rooms, and Lu Xun was the first to dial the colonel.
"Aiye? I haven't seen it...... This old guy and I haven't been out much today, so we went outside in the afternoon and took a walk. It was a middle-aged man who answered the phone, "What's wrong Lu Xun?" What's wrong? You sound flustered......"
Lu Xun hung up the phone, and then called the executive department, he didn't have time to talk nonsense about the two Alzheimer's on the roof of the main building.
"Minister!" The person who answered the phone stood upright, "What do you command, minister...... Miss Ai Ye? Wait, Minister, let me ask if any of these people have seen Miss Aiye...... Ay! James Cullen, have anyone seen Miss Aiye this afternoon? Oh...... Okay, okay, minister! No one in the executive department has ever seen Miss Aiye! She hadn't been back to her accommodation this afternoon, otherwise we should have been able to see it! โ
Lu Xun hung up the phone, cold sweat running down his forehead.
No one had ever seen that girl.
"Ask Omega." Lao Jia said, "Let Omega check the surveillance video this afternoon, maybe there are any clues." โ
Omega is the last hope, if even Omega doesn't know where Ai Ye is, then Lu Xun has to go out and find it himself, and if he wants to find a little girl in the huge academy, this is tantamount to looking for a needle in a haystack.
Lu Xun dialed the phone, and there was silence on the other end of the phone for a few seconds, and Omega's voice rang.
"This is Omega, is there anything I can do for you? Mr. Minister? โ
"Omega, do me a favor."
"What's the busy?"
"Help me check the surveillance footage in the safe zone this afternoon and find Ai Ye." Lu Xun said.
"Miss Aiye?"
Lu Xun nodded.
"It's simple." Omega smiled, "Wait a minute. โ
There was silence in the phone receiver, and Omega began to search all the surveillance footage in the safe area this afternoon, she called up Aiye's personal information, and compared it with everyone who appeared in the video, Omega is not human, she never makes mistakes, and everyone who has ever appeared under the surveillance camera can't escape her eyes.
"Found it." Omega's voice rang in the receiver again, "I'm transferring video material to your computer. โ
Lu Xun opened the video that came, the black and white video was not very clear, but Lu Xun could still clearly see the girl in a long skirt walking through the video, petite and with long black hair, Lu Xun breathed a sigh of relief, raised his head and asked Omega: "Omega, what time and location is this monitoring?"
"The time is five twenty p.m. today." Omega replied, "It's located in the dormitory area in the northern part of the security zone, and the nearby dormitory buildings are Buildings 10, 12, and 13. โ
Dormitory area? Lu Xun was stunned for a moment, what is this girl doing there when she has nothing to do?
"Land Patrol." Lao Jia suddenly spoke, "Don't you think something is strange? Don't you have an impression of the dormitory building area on the north side of the college, Building 13? โ
Lu Xun was stunned for a few seconds, and suddenly trembled like an electric shock.
He took out the strange note from his pocket, "At half past five this afternoon, be sure to come to Room 402 of Building 13, there is a secret to tell you." โ