Chapter Thirty-Nine: Endless
The tent that Zi Yang and the others entered should be the command center. The space inside was very large, and there were various instruments around it. Several staff members were busy busy. There was a large table in the middle and a satellite map of the valley was laid on it. The accuracy was very high, and it could be seen that every farmer in the mountain village.
Lao Wang quietly muttered to Zi Yang, "A few animals died, and it was like fighting a war. This person surnamed Jin can also show off. This matter can be finished on the way, and he has to take us around for so long..."
Zi Yang sat there pretending to be without looking sideways, but his lips squirmed slightly, "Say a few words, these are all confidential, of course, you can't tell people casually, as a soldier, you must do things more formally. You can't talk like you."
Although the conversation between the two was very mild, Jin Guoqiang still heard it and turned around and gave them a stern look.
As we came over, Director Jin found that these two guys were not the same type of people as Professor Zhang. Apart from their strong ability to play tricks, they couldn't tell what they had. They were just two little bastards. But I don't know why Professor Zhang valued these two guys so much and was quite polite along the way.
There was also that dark boy, who was stunned and the professor's two nervous student temperaments. After coming in, he grabbed the biscuits on the table and ate them without treating himself as an outsider at all.
"This meeting involves highly confidentiality, please automatically avoid anyone who has nothing to do with it." Jin Guoqiang's words were considered very polite.
Zi Yang couldn't hold her face and got up and wanted to leave. Professor Zhang signaled him to sit down, and then "sovereignly" introduced the idle people he brought.
"These two are my students and right-hand assistants. These two young men—" said, pointing to Lao Wang and Zi Yang, "Although they are young and have experienced many things, they may be helpful to this matter."
Zi Yang looked at Professor Zhang with some gratitude. Although he was not interested in such a confidential meeting, he was still a little embarrassed to be kicked out in full view of everyone.
However, Lao Wang sat there crossed his legs and looked at Director Jin provocatively. Although he had a short buzz cut, he still shook his hair proudly and made a peaceful expression.
"I'm so fucking unafraid of death. You dare to argue with such a person." Zi Yangzhen was worried about this guy with developed limbs and short heads.
In fact, he had a deeper worry in his heart. Why did the professor bring the three of us with such a high-level action? What is the motivation? If it is just a reason for "experience" like "ups and ups and downs", it seems too far-fetched. Do you want to develop me to join? But I have nothing to do and I am basically a waste. The idiot around me is only a little more developed in limbs, but the defect in IQ is also very obvious.
Could it be Xiao Hei? Thinking of this, I looked at Xiao Hei who was licking the biscuit residue on his palm.
Director Jin ignored Lao Wang and turned to look at the general. The general nodded, as acquiesced.
Guidance Jin turned to a young man wearing glasses and said, "Go and print a few confidentiality agreements."
The major general smiled and said, "Professor, don't be accustomed to it. This matter is not a small matter. The level of confidentiality is top secret. Once everyone participates, they must strictly abide by the regulations and do not disclose any information. Nowadays, young people like to surf the Internet, show off, and even take out any novelty things. My turtle son is about the same age as them, alas..."
After the general said these words half-jokingly and half-seriously, Professor Zhang also smiled and expressed his understanding. Zi Yang couldn't help but laugh at him. Although Lao Wang was used to being unfair, he did not dare to act rashly in front of this general with a low figure but majestic aura.
In just a moment, the guards had already brought in a stack of confidentiality agreements and sent a copy for each of them. Zi Yang flipped through a few randomly, but didn't see the slogan clearly. He only wrote down his name tremblingly at the signature.
The old king next door was indifferent. He signed his name with flying phoenixes, then looked at everyone with his chest raised and raised his head, showing a heroic style.
Zi Yang and Lao Wang had the desire to join the army since childhood. They also signed up for military academy together during the college entrance examination, but because of their own conditions (background), they failed to do so. From then on, when they saw soldiers, they felt envious and resistant. Now when they saw so many soldiers with straight uniforms and high-ranking military ranks, they felt a sense of inferiority. They felt like a broken college student, and they were as shameless as a native dog in front of them.
Director Jin cleared his throat and said, "The situations I mentioned below are all top secrets. Except for those present today, it is not allowed to mention them to any outsider on any occasion or at any time."
On the big screen behind him, slides began to play.
"Qinhan Village, 278 registered households, 1,072 people, 388 adult males, 356 adult females..."
"With the river as the boundary, there are all living things in the south of the river that are collectively extinct and die at 3 a.m. on x-month x."
Zi Yang's head buzzed. He didn't know what the specific concept of a living creature was, but biological extinction was a very serious word. It was conceivable to tell the seriousness of the situation from a soldier's mouth - no wonder there were guards standing guard at the entrance of the village.
Lao Wang also had a demented expression on his face. In modern society, there are such a large-scale collective incident? Not only is it unseen, but it is simply unseen.
Director Jin's introduction came to his ears one after another, including how many cattle, sheep, chickens, ducks and dogs, and the number was clear. All died collectively, and the time of death was concentrated at three o'clock in the morning.
Professor Zhang was writing something quickly on his laptop while flipping through the information he was working on. The general lit a cigarette, held his hands in front of his chest and did not speak. His face was buried behind the smoke, and his expression could not be seen clearly.
Zi Yang looked at Lao Wang in disbelief: "Do you understand what it means?"
Lao Wang nodded, swallowed, "I understand, those who can breathe are dead."
While playing the slide pictures with the remote control, Director Jin continued, "According to the on-site investigation, most animals have stiff bodies, twisted and spasms in their limbs, and bloodstains in gums. All living things several square kilometers have this symptoms. The lethality of this scale, at first, we thought it was a kind of biochemical wq."
Professor Zhang shook his head and said, "No, I have observed the scene carefully. According to the current internationally published information, no biochemistry will cause such symptoms. There have been no similar cases in many poisoning incidents."
The general nodded, "The reason why we made this judgment is that based on the evidence collection, the time of death is very unified. The second is that there is no trace of fighting or resistance at the scene. No radiation residue was detected nearby."
"What puzzles us even more is that after dissection, we found that there were no chemical residues in the body. There were even no fatal scars."
Professor Zhang nodded and said, "Is there any air component and climate change data?"
Director Jin said: "It has been tested as soon as it comes, everything is normal."
"Report real-time data," the staff member who turned his head to operate the instrument said.
"The air composition is normal", "the temperature is normal", "the humidity is normal", "the abnormal radiation was not detected"...
Guidance Jin nodded, "We have installed multiple monitoring and sensing devices within a radius of 1 km with the command post as the center, and the data will be transmitted back in real time."
Lao Wang nodded thoughtfully, "I'll ask you a presumptuous question. I heard that some foreign organizations have mastered very high-end military technology. It is said that there is a kind of sound wave weapon that can kill the entire village in an instant, right?"
Director Jin and the general shook their heads firmly together, "It is impossible. With the current development of sound wave weapons, if they want to achieve this scale of killing, it will definitely cause very obvious physical damage, but no corresponding damage traces are found in both the corpse and the surrounding environment."
Zi Yang glanced at Lao Wang. He didn't have enough knowledge, so don't talk casually, as it was embarrassing.
Director Jin continued, "In theory, the corpse should rot quickly in this weather, but there is no obvious decay at present."
"In other words, most of the microorganisms were also killed?" Zi Yang finally couldn't help but ask, "Did the villagers on the other side find anything abnormal?"
Director Jin glanced at him, "It was originally a villager's case. After receiving the report, the village attached great importance to it. After sending people to see the scene, they found that the situation was serious, took photos and faxed them to the county, and then reported them to the city and province at a time... Because of the seriousness and special nature of the situation, for the need for confidentiality, the case was transferred several times and finally handed over to us."
Guidance Jin paused and said, "Qinhan Village is not too far from the border. Considering that it may involve national security, we first sent a special operation team to control the scene. While investigating, we also conducted an investigation among the villagers. The results were relatively disappointing."
"On the night of the incident, everything was normal. The villagers usually put livestock and poultry in the wild and had never had any special circumstances. It was not until the next morning when a villager crossed the bridge to get grass, he discovered something abnormal."
"The villagers here are not used to communicating with outsiders, and they all speak a very difficult dialect. The information we have obtained is limited and is still under monitoring and investigation. Judging from the current situation, it is not done by the villagers."
The general pondered, "Two days have passed, and neither the most senior experts nor veterinarians in China can explain this phenomenon. We also contacted some scientists through various channels and showed them some relevant information, but there was no accurate answer."
Chapter completed!