The Garde car drove along the road in the direction of Motie Mountain. Chen Chuan sat in the driver's seat and thought that the students of Wuyi Academy indeed have great potential for growth.

Because they are elites who have gone through several rounds of screening, as long as they are given a platform and sufficient resources, they can accomplish something.

To put it wisely, this is the natural fundamentals. Indeed, compared to those in the bureau, people from Yangzhi trust him more and naturally stand with him.

In addition to those old friends and classmates, he had previously considered recruiting the three Geng Zheng people.

However, these three people are not too familiar with him, so it is impossible to treat them right away. He plans to recruit old friends and classmates after they have improved.

Let's wait for some time and think about it again.

The Garde car has now arrived on the hillside heading to Cao's Manor. After entering October, the maple trees on the mountains gradually turn red. When a gust of wind comes, the half-gold and half-red maple leaves will fly and scatter in the wind.

above the ground.

When we arrived at the gate of the manor, Uncle Ding had already been waiting there. When Chen Chuan got off the car, he came up to say hello respectfully, took him into the manor, and said, "The young master is in the garden."

Chen Chuan followed him all the way in. Before he got there, he heard a burst of xun sound. The sound was soft and melancholy, with a long lasting charm, which made people feel the bleak autumn mood.

He stood aside and listened for a while, and then walked over after it was over.

"Sit down, junior."

Cao Guiqi was dressed in red and wore a jade-inlaid forehead belt. He was sitting in an exquisite stone pavilion. The white pottery xun was placed on the table. In the shallows of the lake not far ahead, there were several cranes dancing gracefully.

They flutter their wings and tease each other, as if they are dancing.

After Chen Chuan sat down, Uncle Ding immediately came up, picked up the black lacquer and gold-painted purple clay pot on the table, and poured him a cup of tea.

Chen Chuan nodded in thanks.

He took a sip from the food, and then said: "Senior, I have to go out for a trip recently, and I thought it might take a while before I can come back, so I came to say hello to Senior Cao."

Cao Guiqi pondered for a moment and asked: "A blending place?"

Chen Chuan didn't hide anything, "Yes."

Uncle Ding couldn't help but raise his head and glance at him.

Cao Guiqi said: "I have also heard about what happened in Central City recently." He did not ask Chen Chuan what he was going to do specifically, but he could roughly judge it.

As Chen Chuan's status increases, he will definitely be involved in the battle between the government and the company. This is unavoidable. As he is in a high position, he cannot help himself.

He turned around and said, "Uncle Ding, bring my sign." Uncle Ding bowed and walked out.

Uncle Ding turned back after a while and put a sign on the table, "Master, it's what you want."

Chen Chuan took a look and saw that this was a brand with a distinct old imperial style, surrounded by complicated cloud and thunder patterns, with the word "Qianxing" on it.

Cao Guiqi said: "This sign was given to me by others when they came. They expected me to do something, but I will never use it. Now is a new era, but some people are still dreaming about the old era.

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He seemed to be quite indifferent to some people in his voice, "Junior, if you go to the blending place, you might as well bring this brand with you. It may have some value, but of course it would be better if you don't use it."

Chen Chuan was not polite. He could see that Senior Cao really didn't care about this thing, and he also wanted to stay away from it. In this case, he helped him deal with this thing.

At this time, Cao Guiqi picked up the pottery xun again and started playing. The cranes in front of him began to dance upon hearing the sound, sometimes fluttering their wings and sometimes leaping, showing their agility and grace.

Chen Chuan listened quietly to the side.

He didn't stay here long. After sitting there for more than an hour, he said goodbye and left.

This time he went directly back to the house and didn't bother with anything else. He just did some final inspections and preparations before going out.

October 11th, four o'clock in the morning.

Chen Chuan came out of breathing meditation early in the morning. After washing up, he looked in the dressing mirror and put on the investigation supervisor's uniform neatly.

This time, in addition to this set of clothes for the supervisor, I also prepared multiple sets of casual clothes for daily replacement, including several blouses. This is because the damage rate of clothes is very high when walking in a mixed environment, so I have to prepare more.

After he straightened his big-brimmed hat in front of the mirror, he looked at himself in the mirror, then reached for the Snow Lord's sword, then picked up the suitcase and walked out of the room.

The intersection he had chosen this time was not far from the station and only took ten minutes to walk, so he walked there directly without driving.

Not long after, he entered the station and took the elevator along the underground passage to the bottom. It was almost exactly 4:20. When he got out of the elevator and arrived at the station, he saw that Counselor Pei had already arrived, so he came up to meet him.

He shook his hand.

Counselor Pei glanced at Chao Ming at this time. He knew about Chen Chuanyu's pet, but it didn't look simple at the moment. He thought it had its own purpose, so he didn't ask any more questions.

After waiting for only a few minutes, at 4:30, a train pulled into the station on time, and the two of them got on the train together.

After sitting down, Counselor Pei took out a deck of cards and said with a smile: "This sitting will take a whole day. Are you interested in playing two games, Director Chen?"

Chen Chuanchuan: "Are there two of us?"

Counselor Pei waved his hand, and the assistant waiting on one side came over and sat on the other side. Counselor Pei handed the cards to the latter to shuffle, and when the others dealt the cards, he reached out and picked them up, saying: "Old

The imperial family, the Commonwealth and the Linax Federation, plus the Government Affairs Office, are exactly three parties fighting against each other."

He took a look at the card in his hand, and it happened to be the biggest big sun card. He couldn't help but smile, "It seems that I still have a chance of winning this time."

Although there were already several cards dealt to Chen Chuan, he did not reach out to take them. Instead, he said: "Who can win is not who has the biggest card, but who has the ability to overturn the card table."

ability."

Counselor Pei's hand holding the cards paused for a moment, then nodded.

The train entered the intersection at five o'clock in the morning and kept moving along the railway track. At three or four o'clock in the afternoon, it arrived near a military fortress.

Chen Chuan looked out the car window and saw obvious differences from the last time he visited Fortress No. 4. The fortress was at least two or three times larger in size and there were many troops stationed around it.

Outside the fortress, there are permanent camps and a large number of sentries. There are roadblocks and barbed wires everywhere. The pungent smell of gunpowder smoke can be smelled in the air, and the remains of some Blended Creatures that have not been cleaned can be seen on the ground.

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Counselor Pei said: "This is the third fortress, the closest large station to the depths of the blending area. Beyond that are some small outposts with no direct access. We will stay here for one night tonight.

Tomorrow, I will have Director Chen transported by airship to an indigenous gathering place with which we have had exchanges. Starting from there should save a lot of travel."

Chen Chuan nodded. In fact, he didn't need to rest, but he needed to understand some of the situation in the blending area. The fortress station was the place where the most information was concentrated, and he could also get the transportation he needed here.

After the train entered the station, it slowly slowed down. After it stopped, Counselor Pei picked up his hat and put it on, "Director Chen, let's get off the train."

Chen Chuan stood up and walked out of the VIP cabin, while the attendant at the rear went to help him get the box. The latter first smiled at Chao Ming who was standing on the box, and then moved it with both hands, only to find that

The box was so heavy that it didn't move at all.

Chao Ming looked down, then tilted his head and thought for a moment, then chirped and jumped down from the box.

The orderly breathed out and tried again, but this time he still couldn't move at all. He felt Chao Ming looking at him from beside him, and his face turned red for a moment.

Chen Chuan had already walked over at this time. He said, "I'll do it." He reached up and grabbed the strap of the box. With just a slight lift, the whole box lifted off the ground. Then he nodded to the somewhat embarrassed orderly,

I got out of the car, put my feet on the ground, kicked off the roller below, and then put it down.

At this time, he raised his head and glanced at the sky. When he entered the blending place again after so many years, he felt that nothing had changed here. What he saw above was still the gloomy sky.

A series of flapping wings sounded, and Chaoming flew out, and immediately circled in the sky. However, it seemed to be very adapted to this place, and made a chirping sound.

Chen Chuan wrapped an activity thread around it from the beginning. Now he looked at Chaoming's activity index and saw that it was one at the beginning, but it jumped to three in an instant, and then jumped to five, but as Chaoming started to

After using the breathing he taught me, the number above quickly dropped and remained between three and five.

He nodded secretly, it seemed that the breathing method was useful.

At this time, Counselor Pei also walked down with his suitcase. He looked into the distance and said, "The car to pick us up has arrived."

An open-top off-road vehicle drove over in the distance and stopped when it was near the two people. A second lieutenant officer stood up and saluted the two people.

"Report, Lieutenant Dai Hu of Fortress No. 3 has been ordered to come to greet the two officers. Please get in the car!"

Counselor Pei and Chen Chuan returned the favor and then got on the off-road vehicle.

After Chen Chuan sat down, he saw that the boundary certificate could be used here, so he called up the map that the Ministry of Defense had previously sent to him and compared it. According to the direction indicated on the map, No. 3 was exactly in the north, surrounded by a dense collection of small camps.

, there are at least thousands of troops stationed here.

And the place he wants to go is further north than here. There is only one airship route, but it can only reach the edge of that area.

While I was watching, suddenly a signal flare was raised at a sentry post, and at the same time, the sound of a machine gun sounded.

And his body also heard a warning sound coming from Chao Ming. He looked back and saw a creature with a huge wingspan flying quickly from the sky behind.

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Chapter completed!