bioinnovel Chapter 314 Meeting!
Chapter 314 Meeting!
villa.
Zhang Yan put on the pink cartoon apron and prepared the three dishes in the kitchen one by one.
The pork ribs were cooked until the sauce was reduced to a perfect consistency, the winter melon soup was simmered for forty minutes, and the wontons were freshly made with thin wrappers and generous fillings.
Nie Qingcheng sat across the table and ate two bowls of wontons and a whole plate of pork ribs.
She looked at him as she put down her chopsticks.
"Speak."
Zhang Yan took off his apron, hung it up, and sat down opposite her.
"I want to see Qin Changfeng."
Nie Qingcheng slightly raised her eyelids.
"About the ruins?"
"Yes. It's time to let him know."
Nie Qingcheng remained silent for a few seconds.
She tapped her fingers lightly twice on the table.
"Have you thought this through? Telling the military means this isn't just your problem anymore."
"It shouldn't have been just me in the first place."
Zhang Yan said, "Seven months and twenty-five days."
"When the ruins descend, I need someone to guard the rear."
"Qin Xiao's Tianji Security is not enough, and your Qingcheng International is not enough either. Only the military has this scale."
"What about the rest?"
"I won't tell."
Nie Qingcheng nodded and didn't ask any further questions.
"When will we meet?"
"The sooner the better, you make an appointment for me."
Nie Qingcheng picked up her phone and dialed a number.
It rang four times.
connected.
"Uncle Qin, this is Qingcheng. Zhang Yan is back. He has something he must discuss with you in person."
A few words were spoken on the other end of the phone.
"Tomorrow." Nie Qingcheng glanced at Zhang Yan. "Yes, just him and you. You choose the location."
I hung up the phone.
"Tomorrow at 3 PM, at the military guesthouse in the western suburbs."
Zhang Yan nodded.
Nie Qingcheng stood up, walked to his side, bent down, and cupped his face in her hands.
"Zhang Yan".
"Um."
"No matter how Qin Changfeng reacts, don't let anyone touch the Heart of Heavenly Craftsmanship."
"Won't."
She stared into his eyes for three seconds, then leaned down and touched his lips.
Go wash the dishes.
Zhang Yan stood up and tidied the table.
Nie Qingcheng leaned against the kitchen door frame, watching his back. Her phone screen lit up in her pocket—Qin Changfeng had replied to a message.
Five words.
"Make sure he's ready."
……
Military guesthouse in the western suburbs.
The courtyard is not large, surrounded by walls on three sides and backed by a mountain on the other.
There was no sign at the entrance, only two sentries in civilian clothes and a stainless steel railing.
Zhang Yan arrived at 2:45 PM.
Nie Qingcheng did not come.
That's his idea; the fewer people who know about this conversation, the better.
No one at the front desk stopped him.
A young officer in camouflage led him directly to the innermost meeting room on the second floor.
The door opened.
Qin Changfeng was already sitting inside.
Dark gray jacket, not wearing military uniform.
A pot of tea and two cups were placed in front of me.
He was reading a document when he heard footsteps and looked up.
Those eyes were the same as Zhang Yan remembered.
Deep and heavy, like two old wells, with no bottom in sight.
"sit."
Zhang Yan pulled out a chair and sat down.
Qin Changfeng closed the document and pushed it aside, then poured him a cup of tea.
"Qingcheng said on the phone that you had something important to discuss." He picked up his cup and took a sip. "I have half my desk piled up with work this month. Just tell me."
Zhang Yan made no polite gestures.
"Uncle Qin, what I'm about to say will not appear in any official records."
"After you've heard this, if you think it should be reported, you can decide how to report it, to whom to report it, and what wording to use."
"But I have three preconditions, and you have to agree to them first."
Qin Changfeng put down his cup and glanced at him.
They didn't ask what the conditions were.
He simply said, "Let's talk about the product first, and the terms later."
Zhang Yan shook his head.
"Set the conditions first, otherwise I won't say a word."
The two stared at each other for a few seconds.
Qin Changfeng's brows twitched slightly.
He had dealt with Zhang Yan more than once or twice, from exoskeleton armor to the Golden Triangle operation, and he had figured out the young man's temperament.
It may look mild, but it's actually as hard as an iron plate; once the bottom line is drawn, there's no room for negotiation.
State your terms.
"First, all the equipment and technology in my possession belong to me. The military can use them, but they cannot dismantle them, reverse engineer them, or demand their transfer."
Qin Changfeng remained silent.
"Second, the specific operational plan will be determined by us, with the military providing logistical, intelligence, and strategic depth support, but not commanding our operations."
He still didn't say anything.
"third……"
Zhang Yan paused for a second, "No matter what happens, Nie Qingcheng will be unaffected."
"No investigation, no interviews, no pressure—she's mine."
Qin Changfeng stared at him.
There was silence for about ten seconds.
Then he picked up his teacup and took another sip.
"What kind of person do you take me for?"
The tone wasn't harsh, but there was something there.
Zhang Yan did not back down.
"Uncle Qin, this isn't a matter of trust."
"Once this matter enters the system, it will no longer be something you can control on your own."
"I need to make sure the bottom line is set before anything is moved."
Qin Changfeng placed the cup on the table.
"Okay. I agree to all three. Now tell me."
Zhang Yan went over his prepared words one last time in his mind to make sure there were no mistakes.
Then he began to speak.
It starts with the Tengshe (a mythical snake) of Changbai Mountain.
"Thirty thousand years ago, there existed a civilization on the land of China that surpassed modern technology: the last bloodline of the Mohist school."
"They built underground ruins, created mechanical beasts, and mined the earth's energy veins."
"I discovered the first entrance to the ruins at the construction site of a hot spring project in Changbai Mountain. Inside, there is a bronze mechanical python that is 100 meters long."
Qin Changfeng did not interrupt.
His expression remained almost unchanged, but his right hand, gripping the cup, tightened slightly.
"The reason why the Mohist school disappeared was because of one thing—'ruins'."
Zhang Yan deliberately slowed down when he said the word.
"Xu is not human, nor is it any known creature."
"It is a high-dimensional energy entity that feeds on negative emotions and can pollute and control carbon-based life."
"Thirty thousand years ago, the Mohists used all their power to seal it away, at the cost of the destruction of their entire civilization."
"Now, the seal is breaking down; it is awakening."
He pushed the phone in front of Qin Changfeng.
The screen displayed satellite photos of the entire village that had disappeared in northern Myanmar, close-ups of the pupils of polluters on a cargo ship, images of the core crystal pillars of the nest, and surveillance screenshots of the Jinghai Port incident.
Qin Changfeng looked through them one by one.
His breathing rate changed. It wasn't obvious, but Zhang Yan noticed it.
"These monsters, are they the same kind of things you encountered in the basement of the Golden Triangle?" Qin Changfeng's voice turned somber.
"Those in the Golden Triangle are just the lowest level."
Zhang Yan said, "The families of the victims in the ruins were divided into ranks."
"Level C polluters have almost no combat capability, Level B polluters begin to have regenerative abilities, and Level A and above can cause city-level destruction."
"I once encountered an S-class creature—a fusion body that was twenty meters tall. It took me my heaviest mech to crush it."
"The heaviest mech?"
"Eighty-seven tons."
Qin Changfeng's fingers paused on the table for a second.
He looked up at Zhang Yan, and there was something new in his eyes.
It's not doubt, it's reassessment.
"How much stuff do you actually have?"
"Six main mechs, covering land warfare, deep sea, air superiority and space operations."
"In addition to several small and medium-sized mechanical beasts and reconnaissance units."
"The core equipment is a Mo family energy device called 'Heart of Heavenly Craftsmanship,' which has a natural restraining effect on the energy of the Ruins."
Zhang Yan did not disclose the completeness figure.
The figure of 92% is too precise; it's so precise that it doesn't seem like a human judgment, but rather like an instrument reading.