The unit of measurement used in Hawke City is different from that of Huaxia, with one acre having more than one hectare, which is equivalent to sixteen acres in Huaxia. Qi Xiaoyang had to admire Jiang Shoukun's sophistication and accurate speculation in people's hearts, and he took a big advantage at a small price. With such a large piece of land, it is enough for Qi Xiaoyang to start the first step of the plan on Withered Leaf Island.

The next thing is to build a large number of buildings, which Jiang Shoukun undertook with all his might, he personally sat down, transferred some management personnel and Hubei translators from China, and while improving the relevant procedures, he found a local builder to build a part of the living facilities first. Jiang Shilun and Qi Xiaoyang were responsible for returning to China to recruit an engineering team to undertake the main project and continue to recruit scientific and technological personnel; Qi Xiaoyang was mainly looking for military personnel, and this work could only be carried out in secret.

Back at the Lijiang base, Qi Xiaoyang assigned a task to Qiao Ya and Cui Qinghai to recruit a large number of special forces who had previously retired from the army. Attracted by a high income that was 10 times higher than the salary of ordinary people in China, the officers and men of the 1st Special Regiment contacted more than 200 veterans who were willing to go to work on Dry Leaf Island within a few days. After the news spread, more and more veterans applied for the job, and it spread to other branches of the military, but unfortunately very few spent time in the Air Force and Navy.

Before the Spring Festival came, there were more than 1,000 veterans identified by Qi Xiaoyang, which was equivalent to a reorganized regiment, and there were more than 300 sea and air forces secretly planted by Xu Da, who could go to Dry Leaf Island in batches after the New Year; Jiang Shilun's side had already sent more than 3,000 construction troops, and the seafood processing plant had been completed, and the shipyard estimated that it would be put into use two months after the Spring Festival, but the sea surface was frozen, and the dockyard project would not be able to carry out underwater operations until the ice melt in the coming year.

There are still more than ten days to go before the New Year, Tian Tian took the winter vacation, couldn't help but miss Qi Xiaoyang, or went to live here at the Lijiang base. Qi Yaohe and Ruan Honglian both like this simple and sensible girl very much, and think that she is the most suitable to be a daughter-in-law, so naturally they wish she lived here.

The miniature nuclear power plant and the photoelectric hybrid vehicle have entered the final test stage, and Qi Xiaoyang also plans to relax and prepare some New Year's goods to spend the Spring Festival with his parents, but at noon that day, Xu Da's phone call immediately tightened his nerves.

"Xiao Qizi, there is something I may need your help with. The old general's voice was a little heavy.

"General, didn't you often criticize me for not being a soldier in the past, why are you also elegant today? If there is anything, you can just give an order!" Qi Xiaoyang had no one around him, and he had no scruples when he spoke.

Xu Dan didn't seem to be in the mood to joke: "An hour ago, one of our scientific expedition teams lost contact with Radish Lake in Western Xinjiang, and this is the third team to go missing in Radish Lake in the past ten years! In the early years, there were also people who went in here one after another, but there has never been a group of more than ten people missing, but since the appearance of the abnormal situation in Radish Lake, none of the people we sent to the target area have survived, and the team that disappeared today is protected by a whole company of people, but still"

"General, you don't have to say so much, tell me what I need to do!" Qi Xiaoyang eagerly interrupted Xu Da's rambling when he heard that so many people were missing.

"Immediately use all the planes in the Lijiang base, the team can get on as much as they want, and immediately fly to the 207 base in Western Xinjiang!" Xu Da said again after giving the order: "This time the thing is very strange and very dangerous, so I called you because of the special ability you showed in acting last time." No. 1 specially explained that you are only acting as a response to this operation, and you are not allowed to approach the danger zone! The person specifically responsible for directing this operation is Yan Biao, the special security adviser of No. 1, and his kung fu may not be worse than yours, so you must listen to his command when you go!"

"Understood, the general hung up without any other instructions. Qi Xiaoyang was a little impatient.

"What are you anxious about! I will send someone to bring you to 207 for the information about Radish Lake, these are the top secrets of the military, and you must completely destroy the USB flash drive immediately after you read it!" Xu Da hung up without waiting for an answer after speaking, and it seemed that he had already sensed Qi Xiaoyang's impatience.

In less than 15 minutes, three helicopters and two transport planes rushed into the blue sky one after another, and Qi Xiaoyang, Qiao Ya, and Pan Changfeng flew directly to the west with half a battalion of soldiers.

At the 207 military airfield, transport planes can only land here, plus several helicopters here, and the team will be transported in batches to the 301 military station near the center of Radish Lake. Qi Xiaoyang was the first to arrive by helicopter from his base, and before landing, the second spiritual sea fluctuated, which was the strongest induction - there was a person with strong spiritual power below, and it was at least ten times that of Qiao Ya!

This is a casual man in his thirties, with sword eyebrows and starry eyes, and a dark complexion, who is about the same height as Qi Xiaoyang but much stronger, and is hurrying to meet him. "Director Qi has worked hard, my name is Yan Biao, and I have long heard the chief say that you are a young hero!"

"Don't dare to be, please give me more advice!" Feeling that there was spiritual power running on the other party's hand, Qi Xiaoyang understood that the other party had a try, and instantly covered the outer layer of the palm with the spirit element. Under the grip, Yan Biao felt like holding a sponge, and the internal strength in his hand was like a mud cow entering the sea, he was startled, and quickly let go and said: "Brother Qi is really amazing, admire, admire!"

Qi Xiaoyang was even more surprised: this Yan Biao's spiritual power is obviously still in the spirit level, and he can't form a spirit yuan to release it, but his spiritual power is stronger than his own level, if he doesn't use the spirit yuan to fight outside, it will be a little difficult to bear his grip, that is to say, if he fights hard, he may not be his opponent!

"Brother Yan has won the award, when did you arrive?" Qi Xiaoyang asked politely.

"I've just arrived for more than ten minutes, and the people behind me are still assembling, I'm going to go over and arrange the people over there, and your people will rest on the spot first, and then we will distribute the action when the people are together. This is what General Xu asked me to bring you, time is running out, please hurry up and take a look, someone here will come and introduce us to the situation soon. After Yan Biao finished explaining, he went to arrange for other people to come over.

Qi Xiaoyang used his notebook to read the information in the USB flash drive, and he had an indescribable feeling in his heart, there have been dozens of disappearances and deaths in Radish Lake for decades, but he didn't expect that there were so many cruel secrets hidden behind it. He didn't dare to say anything, just silently formatted the USB flash drive and burned the chip completely with fire. After a while, Yan Biao called Qi Xiaoyang and Qiao Ya over, and held a short meeting with several other commanders, and asked a staff officer on the 207 side to introduce the current situation.

It turned out that as early as 10 years ago, a strange area appeared in the southern part of the dry Radish Lake, about 100 square kilometers of an area shrouded in a strange fog, and the people who entered it never came out again, and the high-altitude planes and satellites could not photograph the situation inside even when the weather was at its best, and after the helicopter entered, all electronic instruments would be disordered and out of order, and wireless communications would be completely interrupted. This area was more than 80 kilometers away from the military station, and when the garrison discovered this situation, they sent people to investigate, but they did not return; later, they organized two scientific expeditions, and they made full preparations to prevent poison and radiation.

Qi Xiaoyang knew from the top-secret information on the USB flash drive that this phenomenon was not the first time it had appeared, it was all in the past by means of nuclear tests, and a warhead was simply solved, and this time the above was determined to solve this mystery, so he sent people in three times in a row at any cost, and the team that lost contact today was armed to the teeth, but it still repeated the same mistake. After Yan Biao heard about this situation, he took the initiative to ask Ying to come and find out, and No. 1 remembered that Qi Xiaoyang was also a person with special abilities, so he asked him to make a response, so as not to cause an accident to Yan Biao, the security consultant he relied on the most.

In winter, the temperature of Radish Lake is very low, and the danger of moving at night is also very high, so after arranging the corresponding equipment and materials, and after the group action plan, the team camped at the military station to rest, and then launched a search and rescue operation early the next morning.

After the team rested, Qi Xiaoyang invited Yan Biao outside the camp, he was very curious about the other spirit refiners and wanted to know more. Yan Biao handed Qi Xiaoyang a cigarette and took the initiative to ask, "Which sect is Brother Qi from?"

"I don't have a sect, I practice it myself. What about Brother Yan?" Qi Xiaoyang told the truth.

Yan Biao replied: "I haven't entered any sect, when I was a child, the master said that I was suitable for practicing this, so he taught me, he is a teaching teacher, there is no sect, and it is also passed down by his master, I only know that this is called Hao Linggong, and it takes talented people to practice." My master has only found one apprentice of mine in his life, and I have not found a suitable one to pass on this Hao Linggong. ”

"What do you call this kind of power you practice? Brother Yan can sense this kind of power in me if you don't use your hands?"

"We call it internal strength, and I need to be in contact with the body to sense whether a person has internal strength. Can my brother sense it?"

"Yes, I call this spiritual power, I can sense it two hundred meters away from you, it may be because your spiritual power is very strong, and other weaker ones also need to be close to you. ”

"Oh, it seems that my brother is much better than me, and I hope to point out my brother in the future. ”

"Brother Yan is humble, in fact, your spiritual power is much deeper than mine, I am just better than you in some aspects. ”

The two then discussed some of their respective cultivation methods, and found that the difference was very big, Yan Biao's Hao Linggong needed to be assisted by practicing external skills, and it could not be completely separated from the dependence on oxygen, Qi Xiaoyang couldn't figure out what the problem was for a while.

It's not too early to see the time, Qi Xiaoyang said to the topic: "By the way, what do you think of today's events?"

"Brother, this matter is estimated to be not simple! Now we can basically rule out natural factors such as magnetic fields, viruses, radiation, and miasma, and I think that the possibility of man-made is relatively large! If it is really man-made, then these people should be two kinds of people, one is aliens with high technology, and the other is people like you and me. ”

"Wouldn't it be the KB organization's base here?"

"This is impossible, because we have to deal with more than one company of special forces, and no one will be allowed to escape, unless they have overwhelming weapons of mass destruction, or several times the number of troops, and these cannot escape our various means of surveillance. ”

"Then tomorrow I will find out that it is really these two people, how are you going to deal with them?"

"Tomorrow I will take the lead, you postpone, we will go in a straight line, the purpose is only to rescue the missing person and find out the truth, if the situation is not good, even if the walkie-talkie does not work, I will immediately use a verbal message to inform you to withdraw the way you came. ”

"I think this way, the danger of the team is too high, Brother Yan, you are flying with internal strength now, how fast can you fly, how far can you fly?"

"It's equivalent to the speed of an ordinary airplane, and it can fly about a kilometer in one go, how?"

Qi Xiaoyang frowned, and was very surprised in his heart, Yan Biao's spiritual power was deeper than his own, and he had also practiced external skills, but his speed and flight distance were far worse than his own, either because there was a problem with the inheritance, or because of the difference in cultivation conditions.

"You see if this will work, and when you get to that place, don't go in yet, and I'll explore the situation inside. Although my skills are not as deep as yours, it is easy to cross that place from the air, and there should be no accidents when I put on a biohazard suit. ”

Yan Biao shook his head resolutely and said: "This is not good, No. 1 has specially explained, you are the treasure of the country, no matter what, we can't let you go on an adventure, let's act according to the original plan!"