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Chapter 152 The Reborn

Zhong Qiang rushed to Wei Cheng and Li Minze's laboratory. As soon as he entered, Gu Nanfeng followed him in with Pei Sihao, who was still wearing a white coat.

"What's going on?" Wei Cheng and Li Minze, who were completely bewildered, were about to return to their dorm when the three people who suddenly rushed in startled them.

"Yang Xiao is missing, and Lu Yuan was taken away by Commander Zhang," Gu Nanfeng said as he closed the laboratory door.

"How did you know?" Zhong Qiang was about to answer when he realized that Gu Nanfeng knew everything.

“We saw it on our way here, so we took a detour,” Pei Sihao explained.

"Holy crap, that scared me to death." Zhong Qiang was still trembling as he recalled the scene. "The commander said that Yang Xiao went out to sea by himself, and that the chief commander wanted to talk to Brother Lu about game consoles. What on earth happened? I don't understand a word of it!"

"Yeah, you didn't explain clearly on the way here either. What happened?" Gu Nanfeng grabbed Pei Sihao at the hospital and ran. Along the way, he mentioned that Yang Xiao seemed to have left the base on his own. Then he saw Lu Yuan and Zhong Qiang being stopped by Commander Zhang. Gu Nanfeng didn't waste time explaining and took him on a detour to get here.

"Xiao Yuan didn't even have a chance to say anything..." Gu Nanfeng regretted it a little. He should have asked Zhong Qiang to call Pei Sihao. He and Lu Yuan were together. Now that Lu Yuan had been taken away by Commander Zhang, they still had to find a way to find Lu Yuan first.

"So after all this time, nobody knows what happened?" Wei Cheng looked back and forth between Gu Nanfeng and Zhong Qiang several times before whispering, "So what exactly are we now...?"

“Wait, that one that’s listening in…” Zhong Qiang remembered the walkie-talkie that Gu Nanfeng had in the dormitory.

"Don't worry, I turned off all the listening devices here in the control room when I came here, and I left the walkie-talkies in my lab," Gu Nanfeng explained. "The higher-ups aren't paying much attention to Wei Cheng and his team's research, so turning off the surveillance won't be noticed for a while. Therefore, it's safe for us to chat now."

“The day before yesterday, we returned from the sea, and everything was normal until we went to the commander-in-chief’s office. We were waiting for you outside.” After Gu Nanfeng finished speaking, Pei Sihao found a sofa to sit down and began to review everything that had happened in the past few days. “Then, after Yang Xiao saw the nameplate of Commander-in-Chief Jiang Xing at the door of the office, he was completely different.”

"Yeah, yeah, I remember when we first asked him to play games, he didn't react at all. He only started playing later when everyone was playing together." Wei Cheng recalled as well.

"Then Lu Yuan comforted him, but I'm sure they didn't say anything at the time." Pei Sihao usually seemed carefree, but he always quietly observed everyone.

"Then we came over. Yang Xiao opened the door. When he saw the commander-in-chief at the door, he turned around and left," Gu Nanfeng continued.

“Yes, yes, we hadn’t packed our things yet, it scared me to death,” Zhong Qiang continued. “When I got back to the dorm, Yang was already asleep. The next day, when I got up in the morning, he wasn’t up either, so I went to the cafeteria by myself. But he didn’t clock in for breakfast, so I asked for leave for him.”

“Indeed, I didn’t see Brother Yang when I went to the cafeteria yesterday,” Wei Cheng added.

“Yeah, the cafeteria was pretty busy yesterday.” Zhong Qiang nodded. He shared a dorm room with Yang Xiao, so he filled in the gaps in what happened in between. “When I came back from working in the cafeteria, Yang was still sleeping. I thought he was sick. But when I came out of the shower, he went out. I heard he went to Lu’s room. I wanted to go with him, but I was too tired, so I didn’t.”

Looking back now, Zhong Qiang doesn't know whether to feel lucky or unlucky. If he had gone with them yesterday, perhaps they would have thought that since they were there, they wouldn't have said anything, and nothing would have happened. But maybe they still said everything, and in that case, he would probably be in the same situation as Lu Yuan.

"So it was last night that Yang Xiao sought out Lu Yuan alone." Li Minze, having only known him for a short time, only vaguely recalled, "Were they the first to meet?"

“No, we’re in the same dorm as Lu Xiaoyuan, but Yang Xiao is in the dorm upstairs from us…” Pei Sihao had just finished explaining when he thought of something. Gu Nanfeng next to him also remembered it. The two looked at each other and then looked at Zhong Qiang.

Zhong Qiang looked at the two men's expressions with a puzzled expression, and then tentatively asked, "Shouldn't Yang Xiao and I be the best of friends?"

"Yang Xiao said he was a reincarnated person." As soon as Gu Nanfeng said this, Zhong Qiang remembered this point that he had long forgotten, and Wei Cheng and Li Minze were completely shocked.

"A true reborn person?" Wei Cheng asked tentatively.

“I’m not entirely sure. Yang Xiao mentioned the second viral rain back then, but he said that the rain in his previous life only lasted one day, and then the zombies attacked the security base.” Gu Nanfeng recalled, “But this rain lasted for three whole days, and then the zombies didn’t attack the security base in G City.”

"So we joked that he might have just had a precognitive dream," Pei Sihao continued. "But thinking about it carefully, Yang Xiao is indeed a reincarnated person, but his timeline before his reincarnation is completely different from ours now."

“The timeline is completely different, but the people he encounters are the same.” Gu Nanfeng sighed. “In his previous life, he met the Commander-in-Chief, and something happened that left a deep impression on him.”

"But why doesn't he say it so we can figure out a solution together?" Zhong Qiang asked.

“This matter may have become so serious that he doesn’t even trust us anymore. The reason he chose Lu Yuan…” Pei Sihao sighed and smiled, “maybe he thinks Lu Yuan might also be a reincarnated person.”

"Brother Lu was also reborn?" Li Minze was dealt another heavy blow.

"That's uncertain. Apart from the spatial aspect, Lu Yuan doesn't exhibit any behavior that suggests he's a reincarnated person." Gu Nanfeng shook his head. "If he is a reincarnated person, can someone who has lost their memories still be called a reincarnated person?"

“Now the recap is basically complete. Yang Xiao encountered something in his past life that was closely related to Commander Jiang, and the subsequent development of this matter was not good, which led him to distrust even us.” Pei Sihao continued, “Then he told Lu Yuan, the only person he thought he could trust, so he ran away. Because of this, Lu Yuan was most likely taken into custody by the base.”

"Then we..." Although Wei Cheng understood everything they had said, he still didn't know what they were going to do next.

"Beep beep beep..." Just as Wei Cheng was about to continue speaking, a small object in Gu Nanfeng's hand made a sound.

“It’s almost time. We can’t keep the surveillance on for too long. If anyone asks about today’s events, just say you don’t know anything. Lu Yuan was called away by Commander Jiang to ask about the equipment. As for why he hasn’t come back, we don’t need to find out the reason.” Gu Nanfeng quickly turned off the timer in his hand and said to everyone, “We don’t know anything. Don’t act rashly. Let’s wait for Lu Yuan and Yang Xiao to come back before we talk about anything else. If they don’t come back, I will contact everyone again.”

"Okay." After exchanging information, Wei Cheng, Li Minze, and Zhong Qiang returned to their dormitory together. Gu Nanfeng took Pei Sihao back to his laboratory, planning to wait until Wei Cheng and the others were far away before leaving.