Guangling City.

Fang Yao was watering the flowers on his balcony when he heard the doorbell ringing.

"Here we go."

Fang Yao put down the watering can, took out a handkerchief and wiped the water droplets on his hands, and then went to open the door.

The door opened, and outside was a soldier in the uniform of the Strategic Mansion, he saluted Fang Yao, and then respectfully took out a mobile phone and said.

"Mr. Fang, Deputy Commander Bai's call, please answer it."

Fang Yao's expression froze, and then he took the phone.

"I'm Fang Yao." He spoke in a low voice.

A young voice rang out on the phone, and the other party coughed twice, and then said in a respectful tone.

"Mr. Fang, excuse me."

"I'm Bai Shaotang."

"Project Ember has begun."

"I need you to come back and take charge of the big picture."

Fang Yao was silent for a moment, then said decisively, "Okay."

He exchanged a few more words with Bai Shaotang, and then handed the mobile phone back to the officer outside the door.

After the officer took the phone, he gave another military salute and said loudly, "The Strategic Government and the human race will always remember your efforts!"

Fang Yao smiled, nodded, and gently closed the door.

He walked back to the room, opened the closet, and took out a suitcase from it.

Opening the suitcase, Fang Yao took out a black military robe, a set of mottled armor, and a dusty knife from inside.

"Old man, let's meet again."

Fang Yao gently stroked the dusty scabbard, and then began to change clothes, and after a while, he, who was covered with a black military robe and mottled armor inside, walked out of the house with the long knife.

He locked the door, put the key in a file bag, and went downstairs.

Fang Yao drove to the home of Yang Zhen, the director of the construction bureau.

He rang the doorbell, and three seconds later, the door opened, and Yang Zhen, who was resting at home today and wearing civilian clothes, looked surprised.

"What are you doing dressed like this?" Yang Zhen inexplicably had a bad premonition.

"Go in and talk." Fang Yao smiled, his expression calm.

In the living room, Yang Zhen personally made tea and entertained friends.

After drinking three cups, Fang Yao handed the document bag to Yang Zhen.

"There's a letter here, and some of my property files in Guangling City."

"I've already written Luo Yan's name, you give these things to Luo Yan, if he comes back." Yang Zhen glanced at it: "Why didn't you give it to him yourself?"

Fang Yao said lightly: "The Ember Project has been launched, I want to go out, I don't have time."

Yang Zhen said 'oh', and then took the document bag: "I wanted to call you over for dinner in the evening, but I can't eat it this way."

He poured Fang Yao another cup of tea.

Fang Yao raised his glass, drank it all, got up and said, "This cup of tea is enough."

"Gone."

Yang Zhen nodded: "Then I won't send it."

"Hmm."

Fang Yao left, and after the door was closed, Yang Zhen slammed the cup, and the fragments cut through the hand of the construction director.

Blood flowed out.

When his wife, who came out of the living room, saw it and was shocked: "What's wrong with you, why are you hurting yourself in such a good way?"

She hurriedly brought the medicine box and bandaged Yang Zhenqing.

Yang Zhen closed his eyes and sighed, "The old man is gone."

"Let's go, let's go, why don't you call him over for a meal in a few days, what's the matter, you guys quarreled?"

"No, I didn't hear any movement in my room." The wife chattered and kept talking.

Yang Zhen shook his head: "Fang Yao left this time, probably won't come back."

"Why, don't scare me."

Yang Zhen opened his eyes, looked at the ceiling and said, "He was recalled by the Strategy Mansion."

Yang's wife was stunned: "Recalled? Didn't he retreat, how again

Went back?"

"It's the Ember Project."

Yang Zhen said softly: "When the old party left the strategic mansion, he signed the 'Ember Plan'."

Yang's wife wondered, "What is the 'Ember Project'?"

Yang Zhen said in a heavy voice, "Some of the dragoons who have retired from the Strategic Mansion promise that when the Strategic Mansion needs it, they will return to the Strategic Mansion to exert their residual heat."

"And when the strategic government needs them, there is usually a major crisis, and it may require them to make sacrifices, and they will be like 'embers', burning everything and eventually turning into ashes, so it is called 'Ember Project'."

"What!"

Yang's wife's eyes immediately turned red, after all, the Yang family and Fang Yao have known each other for many years, and now they hear that their old friend is going to go to the battlefield again, and this time, they may never go back....

Where could she still control her emotions, and tears came out one after another: "You too, you know that Lao Fang may not come back this time, why don't you stop him."

"Lao Fang's injury hasn't healed yet, and he has to go back and work hard, how can this be!"

Yang Zhen smiled bitterly: "You and I don't want to stop him, but he is that person, once he decides something, can you and I stop it?"

"Besides, I can't stop it."

"The Strategy Mansion will not recall these veterans of them casually, and now that they are recalled, something must have happened, how could I mistake the major event of the Strategy Government."

"I only hate myself for not having talent in my cultivation, otherwise, I can go with Lao Fang."

Yang's wife jumped up: "You're gone, then what should I do, what should we do in this family!"

Yang Zhen's eyes were piercing: "Without a country, how can there be a home!"

"The boy should die in the wilderness, and bury his ears with a horse leather shroud!"

"If everyone is afraid of death, who will protect our next generation?"

"Somebody needs to do something."

Yang's wife hesitated: "It's not that I don't know the righteousness, it's just..."

"Alright."

Yang Zhen patted the back of his wife's hand and said with a wry smile, "Even if I want to go, it won't be my turn."

"You think everyone deserves to be a hero."

"It's just, Lao Fang, Lao Fang, hey, hey......"

Full of words, and finally turned into a long sigh, Yang Zhen shook his head, picked up the file bag that Fang Yao handed him and walked into the study.

Tenglong base.

This surface base is part of the Strategic Mansion, and today, helicopters are constantly taking off and landing in the base.

Now there's another one.

After the helicopter landed, the hatch opened, and Fang Yao jumped to the ground and walked quickly to an off-road vehicle.

Next to the car, a group of soldiers straightened their waists, and the officers shouted 'Salute', and the soldiers gave a military salute to Fang Yao.

After Fang Yao returned the salute, he came to the car and took him to the main building of the base.

When I walked into a hall, I saw more than a dozen figures, sitting or standing, scattered around.

Among these figures, there are familiar and unfamiliar, and the only thing they have in common is that they are all retired dragoons, veterans who have signed the 'Ember Project'!

After Fang Yao arrived, in the middle of the hall, several screens facing different directions lit up.

Bai Shaotang's figure appeared in the picture.

"I am Bai Shaotang, deputy commander of the Strategic Government, and here, on behalf of the Strategic Government, I would like to thank you for your efforts!"