Chapter 22 Re-investigation
"Wait! What did you just say? "I was amazed. He looked at Chen Zaihai.
Shortly after that, I returned to the tent alone after smoking, but I was surprised to find Chen Zaihai who had returned earlier.
Chen Zaihai sat lonely in place, the usual cynicism on his face gone. He casually lit a cigarette, casually spat out a smoke ring, and looked into the distance with a cloudy expression.
Something must have happened again, we've been dealing for so long, I've never seen him look like this. I feel a little bit unfamiliar with this person, is this person in front of me really the usual Chen Zaihai who is not in shape?
"It seems that Talia told you about the relationship between the three of us before." Chen Zaihai was gloomy.
I nodded, I guessed right, he went after Talia.
"Then it's okay to tell you about it." He said.
It turned out that Chen Zaihai had long been aware of the tension between Alec and Ivan, and tried to help back then, but Alec refused. For a while, Chen Zaihai also had a very unpleasant quarrel with his father, but the reason was the opposite of Alec, his father wanted him to be a soldier but he was unwilling to die. Chen Zaihai's father beat the devil back then, what kind of temper was that, and the two were tense and quarreled for a while. In the end, Chen Zaihai enlisted in the army as a technician after returning to China, and the matter came to an end.
It can be said that Chen Zaihai and Alec were in the same disease at that time, and there were many tacit understandings between the two men that Talia did not know.
"How could I not recognize Alec, who was my best brother before you. That necklace was his mother's relic, and he never left him, I saw it more than once back then, how could I forget it......" Chen Zaihai smoked a cigarette in a distraction, and he hurriedly threw it away until he almost burned his fingers.
"Then why didn't you tell Talya?" I asked.
"Tell her what? Tell her I found out that Alec was dead? Tell her that I know all about what she's been trying to hide from me?! Chen Zaihai looked at me with a somewhat excited tone.
I don't know how to answer, I lost my parents very early, no one could grieve with me, they all died. I don't know what happened to the dead and the living.
I spent a gray childhood in a daze, and the figure of my parents had long since faded out of my mind, and they left me nothing but the stone around my neck.
"Then why did you chase Talia again?" I asked.
"I don't know, but when I come to my senses, people have already stopped her. But I couldn't say anything, and in the end I couldn't change her determination to participate in the operation. He threw away his burnt cigarette butt and lit another one.
There was no word for a moment, and we fell silent. Personally, I hate this kind of atmosphere, it's very uncomfortable, it's like sitting on pins and needles. Although I didn't make a fuss like the usual Chen Zaihai, I couldn't stand this embarrassing atmosphere at all.
Wang Weiguo, who was also eating on the side, was complaining about the treatment of the past few days with several people from the meteorological bureaus in other places. It was loud, harsh, and wanted to get people to stand up and slam their fists on his underbeaten face.
"Old Sue, I just don't want to put too much pressure on Talia, Alec's death has already hit her hard, and I don't want to put more pressure on her from my affairs. She's a strong woman, but that doesn't mean she won't break down...... I hope you don't tell Talia about this. In the end, Chen Zaihai broke the silence.
Chen Zaihai, like Taria, doesn't want his negative emotions to affect the other party and make it difficult for the other party to let go. The conversation ended, and Chen Zaihai left me alone and walked out.
This incident came to an abrupt end in such a strange way, and we didn't mention it at all. I kept my promise with the two of them and forgot about it completely
I didn't know at the time, the specifications of the task force far exceeded my imagination, Aggreko's identity must not be simple, what he did in the Soviet Union, how he was selected into the task force, no one knows, of course, this is a later story, and it has nothing to do with the current story.
Since the discovery of the abandoned Japanese outpost, we have encountered many abandoned facilities by the Japanese, small power stations, bunkers, outposts, barracks, arsenals, all of which are seriously abandoned.
There must be, there are no absolute coincidences in this world, and there must be a reason why Japanese people are here. At that time, this was the innermost Japanese-occupied area, and there was no need to deploy so many troops and weapons. The absolute security of the location and the absolute importance of the Japanese are in stark contrast, there must be something wrong here.
In the afternoon we will reconnoiter the area where the python died, hoping for some clues, this is the only clue we have now, I secretly prayed.
"I said, why are you really here......" Chen Zaihai looked at Talia helplessly.
"Of course I'm coming, Ivan told me to watch you well, and I won't be able to cause any trouble. Let me ask you if you have any hands. Thunder? "Talia is right.
Chen Zaihai shook his head as if he gave up and said let's go. Don't look at Chen Zaihai who is so disrespectful to Ivan, Ivan still trusts him very much.
I now know that Ivan actually knew Chen Zaihai for a long time, which is acceptable, after all, Chen Zaihai and Talia are college classmates, and the two are very good, and it is not surprising that Ivan, the father, knows Chen Zaihai.
In addition to the three of us, Ivan also sent a squad of engineers to protect our safety, these soldiers are all survivors of the previous Monty Python attack, I don't know if they survived because they really have the ability, or just because they are lucky. Their squad leader was killed in the battle to protect the geology team during the Monty Python attack, so this squad Ivan was handed over to us for command.
Several people were nervous, their eyes widened, and they tightly held the 54-standard automatic step in their hands. guns, for fear that something will come out of the woods. This is really a snake bite for ten years and afraid of the well rope, I smiled bitterly.
I couldn't bear to look at these silent little soldiers, so I comforted them and said that all large animals have a strong sense of territory, and we just killed such a big snake, and we won't come again so quickly, and snakes are not social animals.
In fact, when I say this, my heart is also up and down, and I say this not only to comfort them, but also to comfort myself. I don't even know if I'm justified in saying that, and I haven't studied snakes......
But no matter what, the mood of the three soldiers has finally settled down, which is a good thing. Without further ado, it didn't take long for my group of people to arrive in the area where we had been attacked. There is no change from the previous few days, but the corpse of the giant python is more serious, and there are almost bones left.
Chen Zaihai ran to the snake corpse in two or three steps, searching aimlessly for something. The little soldiers were very peaceful, and each of them went around guarding with his gun.
The time is about 3 o'clock in the afternoon, and I haven't had a chance to check the watch, so I can only guess the time. It suddenly occurred to me that this was the third time I had come to this place, the first time I was chased by this python and the second time it was night, so I didn't check this place carefully.
I immediately looked around and could see that before we encountered the python, this was just an ordinary woodland, no different from the woodland we were used to.
After the python made such a fuss, it can be said that the place was completely empty, and it was surrounded by torn branches and other things, and a large area was scattered crookedly. If you come here in bad light, these branches are like human limbs, and their appearance is extremely distorted, as if an ancient battlefield has just ended. It was as if these things would come to life at any moment, wrapping around our limbs and choking us by the throats until they made us part of this ancient battlefield.
I resisted thinking about it a little bit, shook my head and forgot about these unrealistic ideas. Say hello to Talia and I'll be here to my own.
There are obviously traces of being searched and rectified around, which should be what Chen Zaihai and their search did before. After going around so many times, I didn't find anything, it seems that Chen Zaihai was telling the truth before, and it has been carefully checked here.
Am I being overly careful? A little frustrated, I finally made such a big determination, and called Chen in Hightower and them over, did I really get nothing?
Just as I was thinking this, I felt something unusual under my feet. When I looked down, it turned out to be a rock, and I picked it up and wanted to throw it aside.
But I stopped, and the stone was a little different, a little reddish in color, and different in texture, different from the same stones in the neighborhood. Although there are only a few differences, it is still difficult to spot without looking closely.
The point is that I recognize this stone, not so long ago, when did it...... I am from the Meteorological Bureau, and I usually don't have almost any contact with stones, and even if there is a field survey industry, I pay attention to the weather, not the geological team......
Wait a minute! My head shook, and the geology team ...... Geological team? Geological team!
Exercise! I remember, isn't this volcanic rock! When I was near the abandoned camp in Japan before, Lin Yiru told me that there were such places.
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