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Chapter 151 Yang Xiao is missing

The Ministry of Agriculture moved today, and Lu Yuan followed the entire process. By the time he got back to his dormitory, it was almost ten o'clock. Fortunately, Li Pei was their supervisor today, so they didn't miss any meals. They just ate and then went back to work, and were still a bit hungry when they got back.

Lu Yuan had originally planned to sneak out a snack with his neighbors, but Ji Lang and the others had gone out yesterday and hadn't returned yet, leaving four people short. Li Minze and Wei Cheng hadn't gone back to the dorm either; they were probably still at the research institute tinkering with mechs. Pei Sihao was on the night shift at the hospital today, leaving only Gu Nanfeng, Yang Xiao, and Zhong Qiang.

Just as Lu Yuan was about to knock on Gu Nanfeng's dormitory door, he opened it. However, he didn't seem to be opening the door for Lu Yuan; rather, he seemed to be in a hurry to leave.

"Brother Gu, I was just about to ask you..." Lu Yuan saw that Gu Nanfeng's expression wasn't good, so he didn't continue.

"Xiao Yuan, did you see Yang Xiao today?" Gu Nanfeng originally went out to knock on Yang Xiao and Zhong Qiang's dormitory door, but when he saw Lu Yuan, he casually asked.

"No, he slept in Team Leader Lin's bed last night and left this morning. I thought he went to work in the canteen. What happened?" Thinking of what Yang Xiao had told him last night, Lu Yuan suddenly had a bad feeling.

"Knock knock!" Gu Nanfeng didn't answer Lu Yuan, but walked straight to Yang Xiao's dormitory door and knocked on it.

The door opened quickly, and it was Zhong Qiang, who had just finished showering. He was a little excited to see the two people at the door. Usually, when Lu Yuan came to see him at night, it meant he was planning to secretly cook for him.

"Come in, come in! Where are they?" Zhong Qiang quickly ushered the two into the house. Although most of the people on this floor were acquaintances, they still needed to keep a low profile when secretly having private meals. He understood all of this.

"Where's Yang Xiao?" Gu Nanfeng went inside and circled the dormitory, but still couldn't find Yang Xiao.

"I didn't see him. He went out last night, I think he went to see Brother Yuan." Zhong Qiang glanced at Lu Yuan beside him. Yesterday, when Zhong Qiang came back from his work at the cafeteria, he saw Yang Xiao covered by the blanket, not sure if he was asleep or what. Anyway, he had been acting strangely since he came back the day before yesterday. When he came out after taking a shower, Yang Xiao was gone, but he vaguely heard that Yang Xiao had gone to see Lu Yuan. He was quite tired from working at the cafeteria yesterday, so he didn't go with him.

"Well, after Brother Pei and I finished our practice session and came back, Yang Xiao came to find me. But we were both too tired and fell asleep after only a few words." Lu Yuan didn't know whether he should tell Gu Nanfeng what Yang Xiao had said yesterday, so he could only keep it a secret for now.

"Oh no..." Gu Nanfeng carefully examined the dormitory again and found that only one of the hiking backpacks given to them by Lu Yuan was left in the room. If he was not mistaken, the backpack belonged to Zhong Qiang, so Yang Xiao's things should all be missing.

"Hey, where are Yang's things?" Zhong Qiang followed Gu Nanfeng's gaze and also noticed that Yang Xiao's backpack was missing.

“This is a walkie-talkie from the base…” Gu Nanfeng took out a walkie-talkie from his pocket. This was not the one that Lu Yuan and the others had used before. It looked like it was specially issued to senior officers and important researchers by the South China Base.

“Commander Zhang just told me that someone took our yacht this afternoon. According to the surveillance footage, it should be Yang Xiao.” After Gu Nanfeng finished speaking, he looked at Lu Yuan and asked, “Yang Xiao was acting strangely in the commander-in-chief’s office the day before yesterday. Did he say anything to you yesterday?”

“He…” Lu Yuan didn’t know how to start, but Gu Nanfeng had taken good care of him since school. They had come all the way from G City to the South China Base. Yang Xiao was a very important friend, and Gu Nanfeng was even more so.

"Wait..." Lu Yuan was about to speak when Gu Nanfeng interrupted him first.

"What's going on now?" Zhong Qiang looked at the atmosphere of the conversation between the two and didn't dare to speak. He could only bark wildly in his heart. He felt that something had probably happened to Yang Xiao, but Gu Nanfeng's words just now made him not dare to ask.

"Yang Xiao really didn't tell you anything?" Gu Nanfeng looked at Lu Yuan and asked seriously again.

Lu Yuan was a little confused. He was just about to speak when Gu Nanfeng interrupted him, and now she was asking again. What was going on? But judging from Gu Nanfeng's expression, Lu Yuan could only guess and tentatively replied, "W-nothing...I didn't say anything..."

"I'll go look elsewhere. You guys should also ask Wei Cheng." Gu Nanfeng breathed a sigh of relief. It seemed that Lu Yuan understood what he meant. He knew from the moment he got his hands on the walkie-talkie from the base that its switch was not under his control.

"Oh, oh, we'll go ask right away." Lu Yuan nodded and pushed the bewildered Zhong Qiang into the washroom, telling him to change his clothes quickly.

As soon as Gu Nanfeng left, Lu Yuan and Zhong Qiang also came out of the dormitory. They rushed to find Wei Cheng and Li Minze.

"What's going on?" Because it was night, apart from some patrol personnel, everyone else in the base had returned to their dormitories, so there was basically no one outside. Zhong Qiang was still completely bewildered and finally couldn't help but ask.

"Yang Xiao told me something very important yesterday, and he left on our yacht today..." Lu Yuan said in a low voice as he ran.

When they were just a few steps away from the research institute, Lu Yuan and Zhong Qiang were blocked by Commander Zhang and a squad of soldiers.

"It's so late, Xiao Lu, aren't you guys going back to your dorm to rest?" Commander Zhang and his team of soldiers looked like a patrol team for this area tonight, but why would a patrol team have a commander leading them?

"By the way, what happened to your little Yang? Why did he go out to sea by himself?" Before Lu Yuan could answer the previous question, Commander Zhang asked again, as if he had just remembered something.

"Huh? We don't know either. We were just about to go to the research institute to ask Wei Cheng and the others." Lu Yuan answered Commander Zhang with the same answer he gave Gu Nanfeng before, thinking that the other party probably wouldn't make things too difficult for them.

But Lu Xiaoyuan was too naive. How could a secure base only be monitored by the walkie-talkie in Gu Nanfeng's hand? Wouldn't the entire base be filled with surveillance and listening devices? So, anyone who wanted to know about Yang Xiao's conversation with him last night already knew.

"Let's go, Commander Jiang would like to talk to you about your shooting practice equipment."

Lu Yuan glanced at Zhong Qiang beside him. Zhong Qiang knew nothing about it and shouldn't be implicated. Sure enough, Commander Zhang understood his thoughts at a glance and said to him, "Your friend can still go to see Xiao Wei and the others. It won't affect anything."

In the end, Lu Yuan was taken away by Commander Zhang and his patrol team alone. Zhong Qiang stood there dumbfounded, completely confused about what had happened in the past half hour. Now, Gu Nanfeng was nowhere to be found, and Lu Yuan had been taken away. After thinking for a while, he decided to go to Wei Cheng and Li Minze's laboratory as previously arranged. At least Li Minze and the others were intellectual workers, and having them with him was always more reliable than being alone.