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Chapter 202 Gu Nanfeng's Guess

Liu Jia told Gu Nanfeng everything that had happened to them in the past few days, down to the smallest detail. Before getting off the plane, Lin Yun had specifically asked him to take care of it. He also knew that Gu Nanfeng was the most perceptive and logical among the group. Gu Nanfeng might notice many details that the people involved might not have noticed. Therefore, he made sure to tell Gu Nanfeng everything he remembered in detail.

"You said you encountered Lu Yuan and Yang Xiao at the Beijing Research Institute?" Gu Nanfeng asked after Liu Jia finished his narration, because he was worried that his interruption might confuse Liu Jia's thoughts.

“Zhong Qiang is with them too, so at least we don’t have to worry too much about their safety now.” Pei Sihao said as he took out the protective suits and face shields that Liu Jia had mentioned from Liu Jia and Wang Sanhai’s backpacks. “We’ll try to contact them with these later.”

“Yes, Captain Ji and Captain Lin encountered them first, right in the research institute.” Liu Jia gathered his thoughts and added, “At that time, Captain Ji’s communicator received a mission assignment from the base, requiring him to lead a team to the laboratory on the third basement floor of the Beijing Research Institute to retrieve some experimental data. At first, we didn’t know the mission objective; we were just asked to go to the Beijing Research Institute immediately. The helicopter had already landed at the temporary docking point in the port area.”

"They only mentioned the mission location, but not the mission objective?" Pei Sihao was a little confused. Only Ji Lang would set off without asking any questions.

"Yes, Captain Ji only received the mission objective information after we arrived. He was worried that Lao Wang and I would be in danger, so he didn't let us come along, only taking his few comrades." Liu Jia and Wang Sanhai were only added to Ji Lang's team halfway through the journey. They were grateful to Ji Lang for his suggestion that saved Li Minze's life, but they didn't have such deep feelings for the other soldiers. When they learned that the entire team had sacrificed themselves, he and Wang Sanhai only sighed a few words about their unfortunate fate in the apocalypse.

“According to your description, there are clearly high-level zombies in the Beijing Research Institute. Otherwise, they wouldn’t have been able to wipe out their entire team the first time, and even Lin Yun was seriously injured.” Gu Nanfeng stroked his chin and continued to analyze, “With such powerful zombies, they were able to successfully trap Ji Lang and his group twice. How could they have allowed Zhao Qi’s team to enter and exit safely twice?”

"You're right! I was wondering why Zhao Qi was completely unharmed both times he went in to rescue people." Wang Sanhai slapped his thigh. "So they were in cahoots with the zombies!"

"Shut up, Lao Wang!" Li Minze was also at his wit's end after hearing Wang Sanhai's conclusion. What kind of thought process was this?

“It’s not impossible. The Beijing base you mentioned has seven or eight level-nine ability users. While it’s not to say that all survivor bases across the country have that many high-level ability users, for such a small base, they are indeed a lot.” During the few days that Pei Sihao and his group had been at the base, they had received some news about survivor bases all over the country, but to be honest, there was no other base like the Beijing base with seven or eight level-nine ability users. Even the four major national bases didn’t have that many.

“If that’s the case, this base should be the strongest survivor base in China now. There are quite a few zombies in Beijing. It’s not impossible that they can stay in Beijing and are with the zombies.” Wang Sanhai was surprised that Gu Nanfeng agreed with his judgment and was at a loss for words.

"Impossible, how do they communicate with zombies? Is it a game of charades?" Although Wei Cheng was a bit of a chuunibyou (a person with delusions of grandeur), he knew that there were scenes in movies where zombies could communicate with humans, but when it came to reality, he still couldn't believe it.

“I think advanced zombies must have the ability to communicate with humans.” Pei Sihao agreed with Gu Nanfeng’s judgment.

Gu Nanfeng didn't delve deeper into the topic. He simply told Li Minze that if he wanted to continue his research on exoskeletons, he could stay at the South China base. If he wanted to leave with Liu Jia and Wang Sanhai, he could ask Pei Sihao for help with any problems he encountered.

Of course, if Wang Sanhai and his group really wanted to take everyone from their original base with them, even if Pei Sihao's older brother was of a high rank, he couldn't help them at all. However, Gu Nanfeng didn't think they would actually leave the South China Base in the end. After all, this was at least a relatively formal government base, much better than the Beijing base they had seen in Beijing.

Today, because Liu Jia and the others suddenly returned, the research on the exoskeleton mecha was also suspended. Gu Nanfeng and Pei Sihao knew that Liu Jia and Wang Sanhai must still have something they wanted to say to Li Minze in private, so the two of them left the laboratory first.

After arriving at the South China Base, Wei Cheng became closest to Li Minze, so he didn't leave. However, he didn't actually want to leave the South China Base with Li Minze and the others; rather, he wanted to persuade Li Minze to stay. After all, even if they found another well-equipped base, it wouldn't be able to provide them with a dedicated laboratory to research exoskeleton mechs like the South China Base did.

After leaving Wei Cheng and Li Minze's laboratory, Pei Sihao and Gu Nanfeng did not look back at Nanfeng's office in the research institute, but instead headed towards the base command post.

"What are you thinking?" Pei Sihao knew that Gu Nanfeng must have thought of the same thing as him. What Ji Lang and the others wanted to get from the Beijing Research Institute must be information related to the "Star Sea Project".

“The things they took out of the underground laboratory of the research institute are definitely not right.” Gu Nanfeng was originally an intern at the Beijing Research Institute. He only went to G City with his mentor later because of the project. Strictly speaking, he is still a member of the Beijing Research Institute.

So when Liu Jia and the others told him that the base's mission was to retrieve data from the underground laboratory on the third floor of the Beijing Research Institute, Gu Nanfeng guessed what it was.

The underground laboratory at the Beijing Research Institute is involved in all projects that are part of the "Starry Sea Project." Their new materials project team was originally located in the underground laboratory as well.

“It seems we really need to figure out what the ‘Star Project’ is.” Pei Sihao nodded. Since Gu Nanfeng knew most of the projects in the “Star Sea Project”, they spent more than two days carefully investigating these projects but found no problems. So the problem must lie in the “Star Project” at its source.

“Lu Yuan and the others are probably at the East China Research Institute in S City now.” Gu Nanfeng suddenly remembered that when he was looking through research materials a few days ago, he saw the origin of the “Star Project” in a summary report. It was a global space program initiated by the research institute of the United States. The specific details were not mentioned in the report, but the unit that submitted the report was the East China Research Institute in S City.