Pyramid Hanging Upside Down Chapter 18

Chapter 18

During the rest of the New Year’s Day holiday, Qi Feiluan did not receive any more messages from Ji Xingyuan.

The three-day holiday passed by in a flash, and when Qi Feiluan returned to the CEO’s office on the top floor for work on the 4th, he saw Ji Xingyuan, who was sitting on the chair earlier than him.

Qi Feiluan nodded slightly at him and walked towards his desk.

They were clearly sitting in the same office, but they still seemed to be on opposite ends of parallel worlds.

On January 17, Qi Feiluan, who was training with the Hongtong players at the training ground, suddenly received a notice to go to the top-floor office. When he entered, he saw Ren Yan, the head of the information department, and another confidant standing nearby, and he had a guess in his mind.

Ji Xingyuan pointed his finger at the electronic desktop, and Qi Feiluan’s mobile phone received the sent file. Sure enough…

Things turned out just as Qi Feiluan had guessed. This was a survey report and on-site images sent from the planetary mining area.

The investigation report showed that Ji Xingyuan’s uncle, Ji Taizhen, had indeed secretly withheld a lot of crystal stones and sold them to the black market.

As one of the actual controllers of the new mining area, Ji Taizhen embezzled the crystals and sold them to the black market. This was not a big problem. It could even be said to be a tacit agreement between the two generations of Ji family heads. After all, there would be no fish if the water was clear.

However, the investigation report focuses on this part in detail. It does not mention the possibility of associated crystal minerals at all, and there are no abnormalities in the images taken on the spot. This report is simply like using the former to cover up the latter.

There is indeed something wrong with the black-eyed personnel stationed on the planet.

The confidant said: “It’s just prevarication and perfunctory. It seems that we really need to send someone over.”

Bai De said with a morbid Ren Yan: “During this period, I and others tried to invade the system of Ji Taizhen himself and his subordinates, but nothing was gained. They are very cautious, and most likely they stored the data information on the planet.”

Ji Xingyuan leaned back in his chair without saying a word, his expression gloomy and almost dripping with water. After listening to what they said, his eyes fixed on Qi Feiluan.

He remembered what happened on New Year’s Day again. Ji Xingyuan woke up from his room in the manor on the morning of the 1st and thought that Qi Feiluan he saw last night was just his hallucination.

It wasn’t until he saw the record of the call on his mobile phone that was made in the early morning, heard the servant’s answer to him, and saw the surveillance brought up by the smart system that he was sure that Qi Feiluan really came to pick him up in the early morning.

But he left so simply and silently, without any nostalgia or any emotional ups and downs, as if he was really just a robot that came to pick him up after receiving instructions.

Ji Xingyuan also understood that what Jian Junshuang said hit the point. He could no longer “place” Qi Feiluan just as his own possessions. At least… he would give him this mission and start changing from this mission.

Qi Feiluan had already had a premonition when he was called over. Under Ji Xingyuan’s gaze, he said firmly again: “I’ll go.”

This time, Ji Xingyuan did not refute, but said: “I will ask Ren Yan to provide you with technical support. You will take your trusted subordinates with you and operate secretly. It doesn’t matter if you can’t get the evidence. It just requires more effort. You put your own safety first.”

Having said this, Ji Xingyuan closed his eyes and said, “I believe you.”

“Yes.” Qi Feiluan replied neatly.

After deciding on the candidates to carry out the task, the three people exited the president’s office.

The confidant left first, and Ren Yan patted Qi Feiluan, took out a metal cube from his left arm prosthesis, which was very similar to the USB flash drive that was commonly used in the past, and handed it to Qi Feiluan.

“All data is most likely stored on a host on the planet. Considering that the data needs to be constantly updated, it is impossible for this host not to be connected to the Internet, so the host storing the data is most likely to be in a closed network. You only need to find any machine in a closed network, connect it to it, and it will automatically obtain the required data. You need to bring it back to Earth.”

After Qi Feiluan took it, he nodded, thought for a while, and asked: “It is too easy to lose and find it. I see that you just took it out of the prosthetic limb. This can be directly connected to the prosthetic limb, right?”

Ren Yan raised his eyes and looked at him up and down and said, “Okay, but have you installed the prosthesis?”

“Yes.” Qi Feiluan pulled off his turtleneck a little, revealing the cold metal underneath.

There was a bit of surprise in Ren Yan’s eyes, and then strong excitement burst out of his eyes, making his pale and gloomy face glow.

“No problem, follow me to find the technician.”

…

After Ren Yan hid the prosthesis implanted in his neck to obtain data, Qi Feiluan went to Hongtong to recruit his trusted subordinates. At the same time, he found Xu Ruifeng, who had temporarily taken over Hongtong’s second team, to talk to him.

Qi Feiluan didn’t know why Ji Xingyuan changed his mind, but since he accepted the task, he would go all out to complete it.

After everything was ready, Qi Feiluan led the team to board the only spacecraft heading to the planet this month on the 20th.

Around the 20th, Ji Xingyuan was close to his susceptible period, and he had enough reasons to disappear.

This ship is actually a cargo ship that transports supplies. It is loaded with items needed by people on the planet from the earth to the planet. After arriving at the planet mine, it will be filled with crystals and return to the earth. Qi Feiluan and others are disguised as transport personnel.

During the voyage to the planet, Qi Feiluan looked at the outer universe through the porthole, which was dark and quiet. The starlight he occasionally saw rushing here from an unknown number of light-years away also turned from the blazing heat at the time of departure to coldness.

At this time, Qi Feiluan’s deputy Zhou Jingyou came over and said: “Boss, go to the sleep cabin, the spacecraft is about to accelerate.”

“Okay.” Qi Feiluan came back to his senses and nodded.

The distance between the Earth and the planet is not that far in the universe. If we follow the normal flight speed suitable for the human body, the average one-way arrival time is nearly 130 days, which is a bit long for people traveling between the planet and the Earth.

Therefore, after the spacecraft enters the navigation state, the pilots will enter a dormant state, and the spacecraft begins to accelerate, compressing the one-way voyage to 7-10 days.

By the time Qi Feiluan was awakened from hibernation, the spacecraft had completed deceleration and was entering orbit around the planet, preparing to land.

After once again surviving the overweight state that seemed to crush people, Qi Feiluan and the others finally arrived at the planet.

The gravity of this planet is slightly lower than that of the Earth. Although the air can be breathed directly by humans, the oxygen content and air pressure are lower than that of the Earth, but the concentration of carbon dioxide in the air is higher than that of the Earth.Although it is far away from the sun and the air is thin, the slightly higher content of carbon dioxide in the air allows the planet’s surface temperature to barely maintain around minus 10-20 degrees.

Therefore, after arriving on the planet, although you do not need to wear a spacesuit, you still need to pay attention to keeping warm.

As soon as Qi Feiluan and others left the warehouse, they immediately felt the pain caused by the thin and cold air.

Standing on this planet is simply like standing on a plateau four to five thousand meters above sea level on Earth.

Seeing them, the base personnel waiting at the space port came over, opened their mouths and spat out a large piece of white mist: “Come back to the base with me now. If you have anything to say, let’s talk to the base.”

This is not the first time for Qi Feiluan to come to this planet. He trained here for a period of time after his differentiation ended at the age of 16.

The planet was still as cold and desolate as he remembered, with vast expanses of snowy fields as far as the eye could see.

Entering the base, Qi Feiluan and others felt like they had stepped into another warm and comfortable world.

The staff at the base took off their heavy coats and put them in the lockers on both sides. They said to them: “Enter your fingerprints and put the clothes you want to wear when going out in the lockers.”

“The base has constant temperature and humidity and is pressurized. Try not to leave the base unless you have nothing to do. There are crystal beasts outside in the ice and snow, and various accidents are prone to occur. Every year, after arriving on the planet, there are people who run around because they are too excited and disappear into the snowfield without even finding their bodies.”

Qi Feiluan and others put their coats into the lockers as instructed. The base personnel guided them inside and told them some precautions, and then left.

As far as the base is concerned, these people are just transportation personnel. They will set off again after a short stay. There is nothing worth noting.

Qi Feiluan said to Zhou Jingyou: “The troops are divided into two groups and follow the plan. You go outside the base and approach the mine in the name of supervising the goods. I will lead people to find the main engine.”

“Yes.” Zhou Jingyou said in a low voice.

The group of people first returned to the room where they were assigned to repair, checked the equipment they carried with them, and then began to split up.

Qi Feiluan connected another tool given to him by Ren Yan into the base’s network. It can help Qi Feiluan cut off the base’s monitoring within a certain period of time and crack the door that requires advanced permissions to enter the area.

Qi Feiluan basically only had this chance, because if he hacked the base system in this way, he would inevitably be discovered.

Once the base’s higher-ups notice an anomaly, they will most likely shut down the host that stores the data, so Qi Feiluan won’t be able to get that part of the evidence.

Therefore, he needs to first approach areas that require advanced permissions to enter, and then access the tools to seize the fleeting opportunity.

Qi Feiluan checked the equipment he carried, left his room, and approached the core area of ​​the base in a casual and unobtrusive way.

Just when everything was going smoothly, someone suddenly shouted his name from behind him in surprise: “Fei Luan? Qi Fei Luan?”

Qi Feiluan’s heart tightened. He turned around naturally and caught sight of the person who was chasing him in a hurry.

Qi Feiluan almost immediately recognized who the other party was, and his heart was shaken.

Fu Jun?Why is he in the base?

Fu Jun, who walked up to Qi Feiluan, was equally surprised. He said, “It’s really you. I thought I was hallucinating. Are you one of the transport personnel who just arrived?”

Qi Feiluan was about to say yes, but Fu Jun suppressed the surprise on his face and thought thoughtfully. Then he reached out to hold Qi Feiluan and said, “Follow me first.”

After saying that, Fu Jun led Qi Feiluan into an empty room. He said, “There is no surveillance in the room. You…are you here with the mission he gave you?”

Qi Feiluan had been following Ji Xingyuan. No one knew him at the planet base, so he did not put on a facial disguise. He did not expect to meet Fu Jun here at all.

He couldn’t answer Fu Jun’s question, so he could only remain silent.

Fu Jun looked at him with even more complicated eyes. After the initial surprise, the thoughts and emotions accumulated in his heart surged up twice, and finally turned into tenderness in his eyes.

In the winter of 2240, Qi Feiluan suddenly and completely disappeared from his life. They had said good morning to each other when they got up early that morning, but Qi Feiluan stopped replying to his messages at night.

Fu Jun contacted Qi’s father, but Qi’s father also didn’t know where Qi Feiluan had gone. Later, Qi’s father didn’t know what news he got, so that he didn’t have to look for or worry about Qi Feiluan in a short time.

Then… Fu Jun met Ji Xingyuan, and he understood why Qi Feiluan completely disappeared from his life, and his life changed from that moment on.

“Sorry, I may have asked a bit abruptly, but what I want to say is… I have worked here for more than three years and am a mechanic in the mine. I am familiar with the base and the mine. If you need to do anything, I can help you and provide you with information.”

The author has something to say:

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This part of the plot is cluttered to death. Don’t pay too much attention to some of the settings of the planets, bases and mines. Everything is made up for bloody service. I will try my best to pass this part as briefly as possible.