bioinnovel Chapter 330 Yokosuka!
Chapter 330 Yokosuka!
Zhang Yan landed at 6 PM the following day.
The flight was a private plane, arranged by Nie Qingcheng. The airport where they landed was a small private airport, not Yokosuka, but an hour's drive south of it.
The contact person was a local liaison named Mu, who was the coordinator for Qingcheng International's local cooperative projects.
He was in his early thirties, spoke fluent Mandarin, and didn't ask Zhang Yan many questions. He handed him the car keys and two SIM cards, saying that the address of his backup accommodation had been sent to the phone associated with one of the SIM cards.
Then the person left.
Zhang Yan put the two cards separately, started the car, and drove to the address the contact person had given him.
Nie Qingcheng's chosen accommodation was a low-rise, inconspicuous guesthouse in the harbor, with an underground parking lot that had an exit that bypassed the main street.
He parked his car, went upstairs, put his luggage down, and stood by the window to look outside.
The streets were narrow, the streetlights were yellow, and a few ordinary cars were parked there. In the distance, you could see a section of port lights, and the sea breeze blew something away, along with the sound of leaves.
He brought up the system interface and glanced at the energy monitoring in the Yokosuka direction.
Itoh's location is inside the Yokosuka base, and his thermal signal is stable and has not moved.
Three non-human subordinates, two at the base and one about three kilometers north of the base, are moving.
The one that's moving is heading towards the port area.
Zhang Yan looked at the trajectory of the signal and estimated its speed in his mind.
It's not fast, like they're on patrol, not chasing any target.
He sat down on the edge of the bed, tightened the Thousand Machine Arm on his right arm, set the Black Scorpion to remote standby mode, and then took out the cell phone that Nie Qingcheng had arranged and sent a message.
"arrive."
Nie Qingcheng replied quickly, as if she had been staring at her phone the whole time.
"How's your accommodation?"
"It's alright, clean."
Is there anything in the refrigerator?
Zhang Yan glanced back. He didn't open the refrigerator.
She stood up, walked over, and opened the door—inside was a row of drinking water bottles, two eggs, a box of tofu, and a paper bag. Opening it, she found braised beef and a note with Nie Qingcheng's handwriting on it—just five characters:
"Remember to eat on time."
Zhang Yan put the paper bag back and closed the refrigerator.
There's something there.
"Did you find that note?"
"Found it."
"...I originally wanted to write a lot, but then I thought that you wouldn't listen anyway, so I just wrote five words."
Zhang Yan did not respond to that sentence.
"Let's gather intelligence tonight," he texted. "Go to sleep early. I'll contact you if there's any progress."
"Um," she paused for a second, "be careful."
"Know."
He locked his phone, stood by the window again, turned on all the system monitoring, and stared at the energy signal moving towards the port area.
Itō obtained the non-human subordinates from the man in black.
The system classifies it as a high-level pollutant, humanoid, with enhanced physical abilities and a certain capacity for energy release.
What is it doing heading towards the port area now?
He pulled up the satellite imagery, overlaid it with the thermal monitoring map, and looked at it for two minutes.
In the direction of the port area, there is an abandoned warehouse. Three days ago, a weak energy fluctuation occurred there. Qin Xiao marked it but did not deal with it because the intensity was too low to confirm that it was the behavior of a kin.
However, considering the current path of that signal, it can be basically confirmed.
There was a small contamination core in the warehouse, and that subordinate was there to recycle it.
Zhang Yan put on his coat, took out the Thousand Machine Arm, and switched the Black Scorpion to its ready-to-summon state.
Then I went downstairs and walked towards the port area.
The wind was strong at night, and the streetlights in the port area were sparse. He walked for about twenty minutes before finding the abandoned warehouse area.
The system shows that the target signal is in the innermost building, and it hasn't moved yet; it's still inside.
He wasn't in a hurry. He walked around the warehouse and counted the entrances and exits. There were three doors and a skylight in the roof. The layout was simple.
Then he went in through a half-open iron gate on the side.
It was dark inside, but not completely without light. In the corner of the warehouse, there was a dark red glowing object, very dim, like a piece of charcoal about to go out.
A humanoid figure was crouching beside him, its back to him, reaching its hand into the ball of light.
Zhang Yan didn't say anything and stopped ten meters away.
The thing sensed him, paused for a moment, and slowly turned around.
It is humanoid, dressed in dark clothes, with facial features that resemble those of a normal human, but its eye sockets emit a dark red light, just like its retinue.
It looked at Zhang Yan, paused for about two seconds, and did not attack immediately.
Zhang Yan spread his right hand, extending the Thousand Machine Arm to its maximum coverage area, and took out the Heart of Heavenly Craftsmanship with his left hand.
The light in that thing's eye sockets deepened, as if it were judging something.
Then it pounced, moving more than twice as fast as an average human.
Zhang Yan didn't retreat. He used the Thousand Machine Arm to lock its side ribs and blocked it horizontally when it was two meters in front of him, slamming it to the ground. The Heart of Heavenly Craftsmanship then directly adhered to it.
Purification pulse.
The subordinate struggled for four seconds, the light in his eyes gradually went out, his body withered, and in the end, nothing was left but a small black scorch mark on the ground.
The dark red light in the corner also went out.
System notification: The absorption of the Heavenly Craftsman's Heart's energy is complete, with a completeness increase of 0.4%, currently at 95.8%.
Zhang Yan stood in the warehouse for a while, looking at the scorch mark on the ground.
One has been dealt with.
Ito has two more at the base.
He withdrew his divine inspiration and started walking back the way he came when his phone vibrated.
It's Qin Xiao.
"Over in Yokosuka, Ito is having a meeting at the base tonight. The military intelligence intercepted some signals that mentioned your codename and another word—'lure out'."
Zhang Yan stared at the line of text.
To introduce.
Ito was also trying to lure him out.
He put his phone away, walked out of the warehouse area, and stood by the harbor. The wind carried a strong, fishy smell of the sea.
Both of them wanted to lure the other out.
Let's see who makes the first move.
He replied to Qin Xiao with three words: "Keep an eye on it."
Then I walked back to my lodging. In the darkness, the harbor lights were scattered, and boats were moving slowly on the water. The sound of their horns carried far on the wind.
Seven months and seventeen days to go.
They're down to one, but there are two left in the base.
He thought about Ito's word "lead out," and the corner of his mouth twitched slightly.
Okay, let him lead it.