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Chapter 157 Empty Folder

Since Yang Xiao disappeared and Lu Yuan was taken into custody, Gu Nanfeng began to investigate all the documents in the laboratory, but he found nothing before Lu Yuan and Yang Xiao escaped.

To be honest, apart from some new documents about zombies and superhumans that he hadn't seen before, the other research documents in the lab system were ones he had come across to some extent in the research institute before.

Although some of these projects weren't in his area of ​​expertise, as a highly educated intellectual, he paid considerable attention to scientific research development at all levels of the country. It could be said that there wasn't a single research project Gu Nanfeng was unaware of.

"Where exactly is the problem?" Pei Sihao hasn't been going back to his dorm after get off work at the hospital these past two days; he's been spending all his time in the lab with Gu Nanfeng, looking at data. However, he doesn't know as much as Gu Nanfeng does, and he asks about anything he doesn't understand, but Gu Nanfeng can always offer some explanation.

"Team Leader Lin and the others haven't returned yet." Gu Nanfeng glanced at his watch. Lin Yun and his team had taken on a mission and gone out the day after they returned from the sea, and it had been five days since then. Even if it was a troublesome mission, they should have returned within five days.

"Gu Nanfeng, what is the purpose of the new material you researched before?" Pei Sihao suddenly asked.

"New materials?" Gu Nanfeng was almost taken aback by Pei Sihao's question. "They're for making spacecraft."

"Look at this." Pei Sihao pointed to the computer screen in front of him.

“‘Project Starry Sea’?” Gu Nanfeng glanced at Pei Sihao’s computer. “This is part of a globally participatory aerospace program called ‘Project Starry Sky’.”

“Tsk…” Pei Sihao suddenly stopped browsing and turned to look at Gu Nanfeng. “I think this is it.”

"Is there a problem with this? I've attended several 'Project Starsea' meetings at the research institute, and they all discussed the application of new materials in spacecraft. There's nothing wrong with it." Gu Nanfeng felt that this was just normal research related to aerospace projects, nothing special.

"But I remember that you have been working very urgently on the research of new materials." Gu Nanfeng probably didn't realize that since he started this project with his mentor, he seemed to be in the laboratory every day. This seemed normal to him, but Pei Sihao, who was observing, could clearly feel that Gu Nanfeng was very anxious every day during that period. If there was any problem with the experiment, he would rush back to the laboratory in the middle of the night.

“This…” Gu Nanfeng also reviewed the entire process of their institute’s research on the new material. “I remember that my mentor discovered this new material in the summer of 69, and then he submitted a report to the Beijing Institute of Technology the next day. At that time, our material testing experiments were not yet completed; we had only preliminarily determined that this material could be used in aerospace projects.”

"Then that year, your research institute hurriedly went through the procedures to be affiliated with a university in G province, and you left not long after." Pei Sihao still remembered that he was preparing for the college entrance examination at the time. Gu Nanfeng left silently. When he finished the exam and went to find him, Gu Nanfeng had been in G province for almost a month.

Later, despite his family's objections, Pei Sihao secretly enrolled in a medical university in G province and came here. In the blink of an eye, five years have passed.

“Now that you mention it, it’s true that all the procedures were very fast, and the approval from above was also very quick.” Gu Nanfeng also realized that this might be the key to the problem, and he began to search for documents related to the “Star Sea Project” on his computer.

However, something very frustrating happened to Gu Nanfeng and Pei Sihao: the "Star Sea Project" was accessed with the highest level of privilege in the South China Base's database, and even Gu Nanfeng, with his important position at the South China Base Research Institute, did not have the authority to access it.

"This..." Pei Sihao thought it was just that his permissions were insufficient, but when he saw that Gu Nanfeng's side was showing the same screen, he felt a little frustrated.

“There’s not much content in here at all.” Unlike Pei Sihao, although Gu Nanfeng couldn’t see the content either, he glanced at the size of the access folder.

"What?" Pei Sihao also leaned over to look at Gu Nanfeng's screen. "You mean, this folder is empty?"

"Even if it's not empty, there are only a few files inside, and they're not very big, so the content won't be much." Gu Nanfeng pointed to the folder's storage space. "Such important stuff, and they didn't even back it up when they left Beijing?"

"Is it possible that it was deleted?" Pei Sihao knew that the commander-in-chief of Beijing at that time was his older brother, Pei Simin. According to Pei Simin's habits, such important project documents must have been packaged up in their entirety, and there might even have been several backups.

"If it was deleted, then the entire South China base is capable of silently deleting important research project data..." Gu Nanfeng recalled what Pei Sihao and the others had said before, that Yang Xiao also became strange after seeing this person.

"Tsk..." Although Gu Nanfeng had turned off the surveillance in his lab beforehand, he and Pei Sihao still didn't say the name directly. They exchanged glances and fell silent.

"Let's go back to the dorm first." After saying that, Gu Nanfeng closed the folder, cleared the browsing history of the computer he and Pei Sihao used, carefully checked it several times, then turned on the surveillance camera that had been turned off, put on his coat, and left the laboratory with Pei Sihao.

DAY132

When Yang Xiao asked if they should invite Gu Nanfeng and the others to go to Beijing together, Lu Yuan's thought was that they absolutely had to, since even if he and Yang Xiao combined their brains, they still couldn't compare to Gu Nanfeng.

But Lu Yuan knew very well that even if he had starships and mechs, it would be impossible to bring anyone else out smoothly again, given the precautions taken at the South China base. After all, if he wanted to take Gu Nanfeng away, he would have to take Pei Sihao and Zhong Qiang with him. Otherwise, leaving any one of them in the base could lead to trouble, and he couldn't let his friends get hurt.

"So, we're setting off like this?" Yang Xiao was quite surprised when Lu Yuan said it would just be the two of them going, after all, he himself looked down on his own intelligence.

“Yes, if we can’t handle it, we can find the relevant information first, and then come back and try to contact Brother Gu and the others.” Lu Yuan nodded. “If we go back to pick them up now, how many can we take with us? Even if we bring Brother Gu, Brother Pei, Zhong Qiang, Wei Cheng, and Li Minze out, what about their families, and what about Captain Lin and the others?”

“You make a good point.” After listening to Lu Yuan’s explanation, Yang Xiao felt that the two of them were a menace. If they didn’t get involved with them, the others could at least stay peacefully in the South China Base.

"Stop thinking about it, let's head to Beijing! Our targets are 'Project Starry Sea' and 'Project Starry Sky'!" Lu Yuan made a gesture to encourage himself, and then he and Yang Xiao moved from the yacht's cabin to the helicopter's cabin.

"Wow~ Cool!" Lu Yuan's move made Yang Xiao forget his previous hesitation and look at the snowflakes outside the window with excitement. Although the snow hadn't been heavy recently, it had been falling continuously.