Atlas of Heaven and Man.

Chapter 717 Return
The Gard car drove along the road towards Motie Mountain. Chen Chuan sat in the driver's seat and thought that the students of Wuyi College were indeed very potential for growth.

Because they are elites who have gone through several rounds of screening, as long as they are given a platform and sufficient resources, they will be able to achieve something.

Gao Ming said that this was the natural base, and indeed, compared to those people in the bureau, the people from Yangzhi trusted him more and were born to stand with him.

In addition to those old friends and classmates, he had previously considered recruiting Geng Zheng and three others.

However, he was not too familiar with these three people, so it was impossible for him to treat them well right away. He planned to wait until his old friends and classmates made some progress before recruiting them.

Let's think about it after some time.

The Garde car has now arrived at the hillside leading to Cao's manor. After entering October, the maple trees on the mountain gradually turn red. When a gust of wind blows, pieces of half-gold and half-red maple leaves will fly in the wind and fall to the ground.

When they arrived at the gate of the manor, Uncle Ding was already waiting there. After Chen Chuan got off the car, he came up to greet him respectfully, took him into the manor, and said, "The young master is in the garden."

Chen Chuan followed him in. Before he got there, he heard the sound of a xiao. The sound was soft and sad, with a lingering charm, which made people feel the bleak autumn.

He stood aside and listened for a while, and then walked over after it was over.

"Sit down, junior."

Cao Guiqi was wearing a red robe and a jade-studded forehead band, sitting in an exquisite stone pavilion. The white pottery xun was placed on the table. In the shallows of the lake not far ahead, several cranes were flapping their wings and teasing each other as if they were dancing.

After Chen Chuan sat down, Uncle Ding came up immediately, picked up the black lacquered and gold-painted purple clay teapot on the table, and poured him a cup of tea.

Chen Chuan nodded in thanks.

He took a sip and then said, "Senior, I have to go out recently and I think it may take some time before I can come back, so I came to say hello to Senior Cao."

Cao Guiqi hesitated for a moment and asked, "A place of fusion?"

Chen Chuan did not hide it, "Yes."

Uncle Ding couldn't help but look up and glance at him.

Cao Guiqi said: "I have also heard about what happened in the central city recently." He did not ask Chen Chuan what he was going to do specifically, but he could roughly guess.

As Chen Chuan's status rises, he will inevitably be involved in the struggle between the government and the company. It is inevitable. Being in a high position, he naturally has no choice.

He turned around and said, "Uncle Ding, bring my sign here." Uncle Ding bowed and walked out.

Uncle Ding came back after a while and put a sign on the table, "Master, here's what you wanted."

Chen Chuan took a look and saw that it was a sign with a distinct old imperial style, with intricate cloud and thunder patterns around it and the word "Qianxing" written on it.

Cao Guiqi said: "This sign was given to me by others when they came here. They expected me to do something, but I will never use it. It is a new era now, but some people are still dreaming of the old times."

He seemed to be quite indifferent to certain people in his voice, "Junior, if you go to the fusion area, you might as well take this badge with you. It may be of some use to you. Of course, it would be better if you don't need it."

Chen Chuan was not polite either. He could see that Senior Cao really didn't care about this thing and was quite willing to stay away from it. So, he would help him deal with it.

Cao Guiqi then picked up the clay xun again and started to play it. The cranes in front of him began to dance upon hearing the sound, sometimes flapping their wings, sometimes leaping, showing their agile and unrestrained postures.

Chen Chuan listened quietly at the side.

He didn't stay here for long. After sitting for more than an hour, he said goodbye and left.

This time he went straight back to the house without worrying about anything else. He just did some final checks and preparations before going out.

October 11, 4 a.m.

Chen Chuan came out of his breathing meditation early in the morning. After washing up, he looked in the dressing mirror and put on the investigation supervisor's uniform.

In addition to this set of supervisor's clothes, we also prepared several sets of casual clothes for daily replacement, including several coveralls. This is because the damage rate of clothes is very high when traveling through the blending area, so we have to prepare more.

After he put on his wide-brimmed hat in front of the mirror and looked at himself in the mirror, he reached out to grab the Xuejun Knife, then picked up the suitcase and walked out of the room.

The intersection they chose this time was not far from the station, only about ten minutes' walk away, so he did not drive but walked there directly.

Soon he entered the station and took the elevator down the underground passage to the bottom. It was almost 4:20. When he got out of the elevator and arrived at the station, he saw that Counselor Pei had arrived first, so he came up and shook hands with him. Counselor Pei glanced at Chao Ming. He knew that Chen Chuan had this pet, but it didn't look simple at the moment. He thought he had his own purpose, so he didn't ask much.

After waiting for a few minutes, at 4:30, a train pulled into the station on time and the two got on the train together.

After sitting down, Counselor Pei took out a deck of cards and said with a smile, "We're going to have to sit here for another whole day. Manager Chen, are you interested in playing a few rounds?"

Chen Chuanshuo said: "The two of us?"

Counselor Pei waved his hand, and the assistant who was waiting on the side came over and sat on the other side. Counselor Pei handed the cards to the latter to shuffle, and waited for the assistant to deal the cards. He reached out and picked them up, saying, "The old imperial family, the union and the Linax Federation, plus the government affairs office, are exactly three parties fighting."

He took a look at the card in his hand, which happened to be the largest Big Sun card. He couldn't help but smile, "It seems that this time, I still have a chance of winning."

Although there were already several cards in front of Chen Chuan, he did not reach out to take them. Instead, he said, "Who wins is not determined by who has the biggest cards, but by who has the ability to overturn the table."

Counselor Pei paused for a moment while holding the cards, then nodded.

The train entered the intersection at five in the morning and continued along the rails. At around three or four in the afternoon, it arrived near a military fortress.

Chen Chuan looked out of the car window and could see obvious differences from the last time he visited Fort No. 4. The fort was at least two or three times larger, and there were many troops stationed around it.

Outside the fortress, there are permanent camps and a large number of outposts, with roadblocks and barbed wire everywhere. The pungent smell of gunpowder can be smelled in the air, and the remains of some creatures from the fusion land that have not been cleaned up can be seen on the ground.

Counselor Pei said: "This is Fort No. 3, the nearest large outpost to the depths of the fusion area. Further out are some small outposts with no direct access. We will stay here for one night.

Tomorrow, I will have someone use an airship to take Manager Chen to a gathering place of indigenous peoples with whom we have had exchanges. Starting from there, we should be able to save a lot of travel time."

Chen Chuan nodded. Actually, he didn't need to rest, but he needed to know some information about the situation in the exchange area. The fortress base was the place where information was most concentrated, and he could also get the transportation he needed here.

The train slowed down after entering the station. When it came to a complete stop, Counselor Pei picked up his hat and put it on. "Manager Chen, let's get off."

Chen Chuan stood up and walked out of the VIP cabin, while the attendant at the back went to help him get the box. The latter first smiled at Chao Ming who was standing on the box, then reached up with both hands to move it, but found that the box was very heavy and did not move at all.

Chao Ming looked down, tilted his head to think about it, and then jumped down from the box with a chirp.

The attendant let out a breath, and tried again, but this time he still couldn't move at all. Feeling Chao Ming looking at him, his face turned red.

Chen Chuan had already walked over by then and said, "Let me do it." He reached out and grabbed the strap of the box, and with a slight lift, the entire box was off the ground. Then he nodded to the embarrassed attendant, got off the car, and after his feet were on the ground, he kicked away the wheels underneath and then put it down.

At this moment, he looked up at the sky. After many years, he returned to the fusion land and felt that nothing seemed to have changed here. The sky above was still gloomy.

A series of flapping wings were heard, and it flew out from the sky and immediately circled in the sky. However, it seemed to be very used to this place, making a chirping sound.
Chen Chuan wrapped an active line around it from the beginning. Now he looked at Chao Ming's activity index and saw that it was one at first, but it jumped to three in a flash, and then jumped to five. However, after Chao Ming began to use the breathing method he taught, the number quickly dropped and remained between three and five.

He nodded secretly, it seems that the breathing method is useful.

At this time, Counselor Pei also came down with a suitcase. He looked into the distance and said, "The car that came to pick us up has arrived."

An open SUV drove over from a distance and stopped near the two men. A second lieutenant in the vehicle stood up and saluted the two men.

"Report, Second Lieutenant Dai Hu of the No. 3 Fortress has been ordered to come and greet the two officers. Please get in the car!"

Counselor Pei and Chen Chuan returned the greeting and then got on the SUV.

After Chen Chuan sat down, he saw that he could use the boundary pass here, so he called up the map that the Ministry of Defense had sent him before and compared it. According to the direction indicated on the map, this No. 3 was right in the north, surrounded by a densely packed group of small garrisons, with at least several thousand troops stationed here.

The place he wanted to go was further north than this. There was only one airship route, but it only reached the edge of that area.

As he was watching, suddenly a flare was raised at a sentry post, and at the same time the sound of a machine gun was heard.

He also heard a warning sound from Chaoming on his world. He looked back and saw a creature with a huge wingspan flying quickly from the sky behind him.

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(End of this chapter)