If we continue to track them, wouldn't we tell everyone that our side has lost a large number of people, but our opponents are still at large?
It is conceivable that in that case, how passive they will be and how much doubt they will suffer.
Just giving it up and stopping the search and pursuit is the smartest choice.
Of course, stopping the search doesn't mean doing nothing.
All parties must continue to be vigilant. As long as the opponent does not enter the core area and act wild, like a mouse hiding in the dark, then let him go.
There are so many clues on Master Shuzu's side now, but there is no need to continue to waste manpower and energy on this.
With such a large-scale manpower mobilization, Mr. Wu is somewhat suspicious. What is the other party's motive? Could it be that they deliberately mobilized the troops in the core area to launch an attack on Lord Shuzu's main body?
Although this possibility is slim, Mr. Wu felt that he still had to take this into consideration.
Although the search has stopped, the dark cloud of this incident still hangs over the hearts of everyone involved.
Everyone had an inexplicable feeling of sadness.
Overnight, hundreds of people disappeared inexplicably. It is unknown who the enemy is and whether they died together.
Originally, I took refuge with Master Shuzu just to survive and get ahead. But the fact was cruelly placed in front of them.
Once the situation changes, once a conflict breaks out, these so-called agents are nothing more than thugs and cannon fodder.
If you sacrifice, you will sacrifice. Who will complain on their behalf? Who will feel sad for them?
…
Jiang Yue and Jiang Qiao, father and son, also returned to their station.
Jiang Qiao pretends to be an agent. Because of the "survival after the disaster", the two have a close relationship, which is not particularly out of place in the eyes of other agents.
Anyway, all the teams they belong to have been wiped out, leaving them two lonely soldiers. It is reasonable for them to be willing to join the team to keep warm. The other agents can't say anything.
Of course, as for the follow-up arrangements, Jiang Yue and Jiang Qiao have actually thought about it.
In the end, it had to fall on Brother Xia to solve the problem.
Brother Xia is a second-level agent. Although his team is dead, a second-level agent will definitely be reused.
When the time comes, it will be equally reasonable to hang in Brother Xia's new team.
It was almost dawn when they returned to their station.
Almost all the teams they were stationed at were lost in this operation. As a result, the area where they lived looked particularly deserted and desolate.
This actually made their father and son get together with less interference.
Behind closed doors, the father and son regained their appearance and were in a good mood.
Without the pressure and interference from outsiders, the father and son began to talk about the past.
The things that happened to Jiang Yue in Star City and his hometown had already been told to Jiang Qiao before.
But Jiang Yue had no way of knowing what Jiang Qiao had been doing since he left his home in Crescent Harbor.
"Dad, wasn't the place where my mother disappeared in the Central South Region? How did you find the West Frontier Region?"
"Central South Region, West Frontier Region...Xiao Yue, do you know how many strongholds the Geocentric Tribe's Weird Tree has in our Dazhang Country?"
"We have made some calculations about this before, and there should be six or seven."
"Yes, there are seven in total. There are twenty-eight strongholds on the entire Gaia planet. Our country, Da Zhang, owns a quarter of them."
Jiang Yue smiled bitterly and said: "In other words, our Dazhang country will have to bear a quarter of the pressure from the Earth Center Clan?"
"It makes sense to calculate this account this way. However, Xiaoyue, if the Geocentric Tribe is really allowed to return to the surface, our chances of winning as humans are probably very slim."
Jiang Yue pursed his lips, but did not continue to delve into the issue. Instead, he asked, "Dad, have you found any clues related to mom in these years?"
Jiang Qiao was silent for a moment, then slowly nodded: "There are clues all along, and I just followed the clues and found out that I came from the Western Region."
"Originally, I was a little doubtful of my judgment. But when you mentioned that Professor Lu Jinwen is also here, I am even more convinced that your mother is very likely to be here too. Of course, maybe they have been sent to the Earth Center Clan's lair a long time ago. went."
"What?"
Jiang Yue was shocked.
He also knew before that there were many powerful people on the human side who were investigating various matters concerning the Earth Center Clan before the strange era came.
Including his grandfather Yunhe, he deceived everyone in his hometown Panshiling by pretending to be dead, but in reality he was hiding from the world and secretly investigating the situation of the Earth Center Clan.
Based on the information previously obtained at Panshiling Ancestral Hall, Jiang Yue knew that his grandfather was currently investigating in the territory of the Geocentric Clan.
I just don’t know, does my father know about this?
"Dad, how much do you know about grandpa?" Jiang Yue asked tentatively.
When Jiang Yue asked these questions, he was more or less hesitant. Because when I was communicating with my grandfather at the ancestral hall before, my grandfather mentioned that there was some estrangement between the father and son because of their mother's affairs.
At that time, my grandfather did not elaborate on what the gap was.
But it was a matter between elders, so Jiang Yue couldn't ask rashly. Therefore, Jiang Yue was also cautious when talking about his grandfather.
Jiang Qiao's face darkened, with a hint of shame on his face, but Jiang Yue's worried mood was revealed.
"Xiao Yue, if you ask this, you must know that grandpa's tomb in Dajin Mountain is a confusing tomb."
Jiang Yue nodded. It seemed that his father knew about this.
"Oh, Xiao Yue, you are very good. Your grandfather has said since childhood that none of our three brothers are like him. Instead, you, the eldest grandson, are the most favored, saying that you will inherit his mantle in the future. And we three brothers, indeed No one follows his old man's heart. Your uncle is pragmatic, but your grandfather criticizes me as lacking flexibility; your grandfather criticizes me as being more personal than moral; your third uncle is too frivolous and can't bear the heavy responsibility."
"Before, the three of us brothers were not convinced, but now it seems that your grandfather's vision is indeed beyond ordinary people. Facts have also proved that his judgment was right. I have neither been a good son nor a good father. These years, I have suffered a lot. I killed you two siblings."
To say bitter, I mean to have suffered a little bit. But when his father left home, Jiang Yue was already quite young, and with his sister's care, Jiang Yue actually didn't suffer much.
Apart from the lack of blessing from their elders, the two siblings actually did not suffer much in terms of material life.
However, in the past few years, both siblings have developed independent personalities. This is why Jiang Yue can easily adapt to the strange era and quickly take charge of his own affairs.
"Xiao Yue, in these years, do you and your sister blame your father for being too selfish? He ignored you and left you?"
Jiang Yue smiled softly and took a deep breath.
At first, he felt a little disappointed and even blamed.
But over the past few years, and with his understanding of some of the things his father left behind, he has gradually been able to understand his father's mood.
Don't I think about my mother day and night? What's more, to the father, she was his first wife.
Now that I understand my father's mood, the initial emotion has long since dissipated.
"Dad, I know you want us to have a complete family and get my mother back. In these years, the hardest thing for us siblings is not you, but you."
Jiang Yue looked at his father's temples, which were slightly frosty, and could imagine how tormented and painful he had been through these years.
Jiang Qiao covered his face with his hands. To avoid embarrassment, he gently rubbed his forehead with his fingers. In fact, he was covering up his red eye circles.
At this moment, he broke his defense.
His son's words, which were both cold and hot, completely broke his emotional guard.
The loneliness, despair, and pain he had encountered over the years, at this moment, these emotions kept coming back like a bursting dam.
All the frustration and despair did not make him lose control emotionally.
But when faced with his son's words, he couldn't help but feel a sore nose, his eye circles were red, and tiger tears were rolling in his eye sockets.
The father and son were silent in such a tacit understanding.
After a long time, Jiang Qiao finally regained his composure and showed an apologetic smile.
"Xiao Yue, as a father, I make you laugh. If your grandpa sees it, he will scold me for being worthless." Speaking of his father, Jiang Qiao didn't have any resentment, but only warmth and guilt.
"After your mother's accident, I also used a secret method to contact your grandfather and begged him to find a way to help find your mother."
"What did my father say?"
"He didn't respond." Jiang Qiao sighed, "For this reason, I still feel resentful and feel that he is too unkind. She is his daughter-in-law."
Jiang Yue was silent, he finally knew what the barrier his grandfather was talking about back then.
"Maybe... Grandpa also has his own reasons, right?" Jiang Yue could only add.
Jiang Qiao nodded heavily: "Yes, your master does have difficulties. He is in the territory of the Geocentric Clan. I used a secret method to contact him, which would easily expose him. And what he did was very covert and urgent. , how can I have the energy and time to find your mother?"
"Of course, I slowly realized all this later." Jiang Qiao added with a wry smile.
"Xiao Yue, have you contacted your grandfather?"
"To be precise, it was grandpa who contacted me and Sangou." Jiang Yue then recounted what happened in the ancestral hall of his ancestral home.
As the biological son of Old Man Yunhe, Jiang Qiao himself has been inherited by the old man, and he naturally knows many things about the old Jiang family.
However, Jiang Qiao couldn't help but feel a little guilty when he heard that his father mentioned the estrangement between father and son. In the final analysis, it was him, the son who was ignorant, who caused the old man to suffer.
"Xiao Yue, I couldn't understand your grandfather's painstaking efforts even when I was forty years old, but you understood it when you were less than twenty years old. It can be seen that your grandfather said that you are more like him, which is a very wise judgment." Jiang Qiao couldn't help but sigh. road.
Jiang Yue has been very compatible with his grandfather since he was a child, and he has been doted on by his grandfather. This has been throughout Jiang Yue's entire childhood, and Jiang Yue is well aware of this.
It's just that he never expected that his grandfather would have such a high opinion of himself, even more than his three sons. This was something Jiang Yue never expected.
"Dad, you said that the clues you found about my mother in this Western Region have even been sent to the territory of the Geocentric Clan. Have you been staying here?"
"Haha, I have only been here a few months ago. I came to the Western Frontier Region because I heard that the strange tree here is unusually strong."
"Then you have been in the Central South Region before?"
"No, I have traveled all over the country. I have investigated all the clues related to the Geocentric Clan. Why do I know that there are seven strange trees in Dazhang Country? That's because I have traveled all over the country in these years."
"Dad, so you already knew that the weird era was coming? You already knew about the existence of the weird tree?"
"No, no, that's not the case. Before the strangeness came, I just collected all kinds of strange signs and investigated various useful clues, so I deliberately wrote them down. And in the area where the strange tree appeared, the signs were similar. I came to the west After realizing some of the characteristics of the weird trees in the Frontier Region, when we pushed back, we deduced from memory that there should be seven weird trees. In addition to the Western Frontier Region and our Star City, there is also the Canglang Region District, Zhongzhou Region..."
This time, Jiang Yue was really shocked.
You know, before he came to the Western Region, the ppt made by the Luo Teng Operations Bureau could only focus on the weird tree in four places.
They are the Xiqiao Region, the Central South Region, the Canglang Region and the Zhongzhou Region.
Everything else is just speculation, but nothing concrete yet.
In recent years, my father has traveled all over the country and has unintentionally mastered all the domestic strongholds of the Weird Tree.
What's even more ridiculous is that so far, the center has not fully grasped the specific locations of the strange tree's strongholds.
Looking at his son's strange eyes, Jiang Qiao was a little confused.
"Xiao Yue, is there anything wrong with what I said?"
Jiang Yue asked, "Dad, are you sure that there must be seven weird trees in our Dazhang country?"
"Our Lao Jiang family still has this ability, I'm very sure."
"Then are you sure you know their specific locations?"
"Haha, if I didn't know, how could I quickly target the Western Region?"
"But have you never had any dealings with the authorities in these years?"
Jiang Qiao was stunned for a while, and then he said calmly: "I haven't dealt with anyone in these years. I'm afraid of exposing myself. I have to live like a beast and hide like a ghost. I'm worried that if I expose my identity, it will hurt you." Siblings."
"You must be wondering why I haven't gone home even once in these years. In fact, I have been back to Crescent Harbor many times, but I never had the courage to show up every time. I don't want to leave any trace of my existence in front of people. I don't I hope it brings no misfortune to you siblings. If this is the misfortune our Lao Jiang family has to endure, I hope it will not be until my generation."
"Unfortunately, this is just my naive idea. Fate is always fate and has incredible inertia. The arrival of strange times will never change because of my personal wishes."
It can be seen that Jiang Qiao has lost the scholarly enthusiasm of a novice official during these years of wandering, and his thinking has become much more pragmatic.
Jiang Yue had mixed feelings.
Just because the father left home doesn't mean that he really left the two siblings behind.
It can be heard from his words how lonely and lonely he has been in these years.
He has never interacted with anyone else!
No wonder, he knows that there are seven strange trees, but the outside world has not synchronized this precious information.
(End of chapter)
