Actually, General Ji and Speaker Long weren't unreasonable people.
Gu Nianzhi was even more so.
Her maturity made his heart ache.
Thinking about the understanding and support the people around him had for him, Huo Shaoheng's heart gradually warmed.
He put down the hairdryer and stroked her smooth hair that had just been washed. He whispered in her ear, "… Wait for me to come back."
Gu Nianzhi nodded. Her concern for him overshadowed her earlier unhappiness.
It would be a lie to say that she had no emotions, but the two of them had been together for so long. She couldn't keep harping on other people's mistakes.
Compared to before, Huo Shaoheng was already much better.
Moreover, Huo Shaoheng probably didn't mean to ignore her this time.
Looking at the dark circles under his eyes, the stubble on his chin, the strong smell of cigarettes on his body, and his thinner face, it was obvious how busy he was and how tense his heart was.
Gu Nianzhi didn't know what important mission Huo Shaoheng had, but looking at him acting like he was facing a formidable enemy, it probably wasn't a small task.
Moreover, with Huo Shaoheng's current status, small tasks wouldn't be his turn.
"You have to be careful." Gu Nianzhi reminded him again. "Ok, I'm fine now. You can go back. Rest well. You look like you didn't sleep at all last night, right? "
Huo Shaoheng's eyelids were actually so heavy that he almost couldn't keep them open.
He really couldn't take it anymore and said, "I'll just lie here for a while. Don't worry about me." As he spoke, he sent a text to Fan Jian to tell him to go back first and pick him up at six the next morning.
Fan Jian drove away as soon as he received the text.
Gu Nianzhi got up to get a blanket from the closet. When she turned around, she saw that Huo Shaoheng had already fallen asleep on the couch in the bedroom.
She wanted him to sleep on the bed, but he wouldn't wake up no matter how hard she tried.
Huo Shaoheng seemed to have fallen asleep in a second.
Gu Nianzhi could only carefully take off his shoes and lift his legs onto the couch. She covered him with the blanket and quietly returned to bed to sleep.
Lying on the bed, she looked in Huo Shaoheng's direction and sighed softly in her heart. Then she closed her eyes and fell asleep.
When she woke up the next day, it was already eight in the morning.
The couch on the other side of the bedroom was empty. It was clean and tidy, not even a blanket.
It was as if everything that had happened last night was just her imagination.
Huo Shaoheng didn't come. He didn't apologize to her, and he didn't sleep on the sofa.
Gu Nianzhi blinked and climbed out of bed. She went to the closet and opened it to take a look.
The quilt she had taken out of the closet last night was folded neatly on the closet lattice like a piece of tofu.
Gu Nianzhi smiled.
It wasn't her imagination. Huo Shaoheng had indeed been here last night.
Other than Huo Shao, no one else would be able to fold this into a standard tofu block.
Gu Nianzhi smiled and had just closed the closet door when her phone rang again.
She walked over to pick up her phone and saw that it was He Zhichu's call. She quickly swiped to answer it.
"Good morning, Professor He."
He Zhichu frowned. He had been Big Brother He yesterday, but now he was back to Professor He.
However, he didn't say much. He felt that Nianzhi was just used to calling him that.
"Nianzhi, about the engagement banquet …"
Gu Nianzhi quickly said tactfully, "Professor He, Huo Shao has already told me about this. It's fine to postpone it for a month. I'm not in a hurry anyway."
Her tone was very different from yesterday.
He Zhichu was quick-witted and quickly thought of the reason. His face darkened as he said, "Huo Shaoheng looked for you yesterday? Nianzhi, you can't be like this. You won't be angry just because he coaxed you a few times. If you do this, he'll ignore you more and more in the future! "
They were both men. How could He Zhichu not know the bad habits of men?
Gu Nianzhi smiled slightly and said, "Brother He, I know you're doing this for my own good, but Huo Shao does have a mission right now. I understand. Even if we want to fight, scold, or quarrel, we have to wait until he comes back. I don't want to be at odds with him when he's about to go out on a mission and distract him. "
She was unhappy, and Huo Shaoheng hadn't completely coaxed her last night, but she knew the severity of the situation. In her heart, nothing was more important than Huo Shaoheng's safe return.
He Zhichu was speechless, but he couldn't say that Gu Nianzhi was wrong. Although he still felt uncomfortable, he could only say, "It's good that you've thought it through. I'll follow up on the rest, and I'll tell Grandfather Xie about this. "
Gu Nianzhi quickly said, "Forget it, Grandfather Xie might not know. Why cast a shadow over his good intentions?"
She didn't want He Zhichu to be unhappy, so she quickly changed the topic and said, "Brother He, I've been studying the 'quantum communicator' that my father invented recently. I really regret not studying high-energy physics in college."
He Zhichu: "…"
His anger was instantly extinguished by the "quantum communicator". After a moment of silence, he said, "Take your time studying it. I still have things to do."
With that, he hung up the phone.
Gu Nianzhi didn't mind. She took out a high-energy physics textbook that Song Jinning had forced on her in the past and planned to study it by herself.
However, she probably didn't have the talent for it. After reading for a while, she felt sleepy again. She threw down the book and went back to bed.
..
Huo Shaoheng did wake up on time at six in the morning. He washed up quietly, tidied up the sofa, and kissed Gu Nianzhi on the forehead before leaving quietly.
Xiao Ye was waiting for him in the living room. She whispered, "Don't worry, Major General Huo. I won't leave Miss Gu's side. If anyone wants to harm Miss Gu, they'll have to step over my dead body. "
Huo Shaoheng was slightly taken aback. He said amiably, "I know Colonel Xiao's abilities. I believe that you can protect both Nianzhi and yourself. "
"Yes, Chief!" Xiao Ye's heart warmed up, and she stood at attention and saluted excitedly.
With such a boss, why didn't they follow him wholeheartedly?
They would do their best until the day they died.
Huo Shaoheng came out of the elevator of Gu Nianzhi's Sanhuan apartment and went straight to the parking lot at the bottom of the building.
Fan Jian's car stopped there on time and took him back to the headquarters of the Special Operations Forces.
He went back and continued to work for two more days. The results of the political investigation returned one after another, and all the personnel were confirmed.
The "research ship" and the escort fleet were already in place. They were quietly moored at the southernmost military port of the Huaxia Empire, ready to go.
Before leaving, Huo Shaoheng stood in front of the window in his office. He looked at the blue sky and red sun outside the window and narrowed his eyes.
For some reason, he felt that something was wrong.
But he couldn't tell what was wrong.
Everything made sense, and it matched all the clues they had found in the past seven years.
If he had to say that something was wrong, it was probably that many clues that they had not found in the past seven years had suddenly appeared in the past two months and finally gathered in the Cape of Good Hope that they had already confirmed.
But it could also be said that quantitative change had caused qualitative change.
Their seven years of hard work had finally paid off at this moment.
Huo Shaoheng looked down at the empty square outside the window. He put on his Bluetooth headset and said to Zhou Qiyuan, "Make the arrangements. I want to see Gu Yanran immediately."
He still needed to confirm it one last time.
The whole world had been searching for that plane for so many years, but only Gu Yanran claimed that she had seen the crashed plane. However, the father she had "saved" wasn't Gu Xiangwen.
She had already confessed during her trial last year. When she found the wreckage of the crashed plane, her "father" had already been killed, so she cremated him and his wife and threw their ashes into the sea.
The place where the plane crashed was in the Cape of Good Hope.
This was also the reason why Huo Shaoheng still sent Zhao Liangze to search the islands in the Cape of Good Hope even though he didn't believe her.
Because they had found out through the lie detector that Gu Yanran's words were still partially true.
For example, the place where the plane crashed was most likely on that island.
However, Zhao Liangze still hadn't found out which island in the Cape of Good Hope it was.
Before he found the island where the plane crashed, Huo Shaoheng had obtained another coordinate from Luo Jialan's phone. Zhao Liangze used this coordinate to find a small submarine that had sunk to the bottom of the sea, but he didn't find the wreckage of the plane.
From all aspects, only Gu Xiangwen had the ability to build this small submarine. Therefore, they felt that salvaging this submarine was the closest clue to Gu Xiangwen.
However, Huo Shaoheng felt that there was still an important link in how Gu Xiangwen had changed from the plane to the submarine.
The only person who could possibly know what was going on was Gu Yanran.
Perhaps there had been Yamaguchi Aiko in the past, but according to the resume investigation and DNA comparison blood sample sent back from Japan, it was proven that the middle-aged woman killed by the sniper at the temple of Kiyomizu-dera in the capital was Yamaguchi Aiko.
Huo Shaoheng pressed down on his military cap, turned around, and walked out of the office building to where Gu Yanran was being held.
Gu Yanran was a foreigner, and her conviction was in the Huaxia Empire. Because she had a close relationship with the Gu family, she had been held in the secret base of the special operations forces until Gu Xiangwen's whereabouts were confirmed.
..
The heavy metal door opened to the left and right with a clang, and Huo Shaoheng's bulletproof car drove in.
Gu Yanran's eyes were covered with a black cloth. She was brought to a small room with no windows and only a door to sit.
After a while, someone came in and untied the black cloth from her eyes.
The sudden light was too bright, and Gu Yanran quickly covered her eyes with her hands.
After a while, her eyes adjusted to the light and narrowed.
Standing in front of her was a tall, handsome man. It was Huo Shaoheng.
Under the military cap, the breathtakingly beautiful face had the ability to make people "fall in love with Huo Shaoheng for the rest of their lives."
Gu Yanran saw that it was him and slowly smiled. She said meaningfully, "You've finally come to find me. I've been waiting for this day."
"Really?" Huo Shaoheng sat down in front of her and lit a cigarette. He played with the Zippo lighter that Gu Nianzhi had given him with one hand and tried to get information from her. "You've finally thought it through. Then tell us everything so we don't have to waste our breath."
His attitude was calm, and his expression was calm as usual. There was no sign of panic at all.
Gu Yanran's heart skipped a beat. It was different from what she had imagined …
She looked at him suspiciously and said, "… What did you say? Didn't I say everything I needed to say? "
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This is the first update of the day: Chapter 1387, "Waiting for This Day."
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