Jiang Mei's appearance hadn't changed much, but she had gained some weight. Dapeng had grown into a young man. Not only had he grown a lot taller, but the mustache on both sides of his upper lip had also appeared.
Zhou Li's father was still so thin. Before coming to Cai Yun, he had slept at home for a few days. He was in good spirits and his complexion was also quite good. Zhou Li's mother was now a lot more "genuine" and enthusiastic about Qu Sen.
There was no other way. The girl was about to turn twenty-six. If she continued to dawdle, she would turn thirty in a flash. If she really relied on him until then, she would be worried to death. Therefore, Qu Sen was just Qu Sen. At least so far, the observation results were not bad.
There was this "not bad" evaluation because Zhou Li's mother didn't know about some of Qu Sen's "excellent performance" at all. She thought that he was quite famous for making small drones.
From this point of view, he was basically doing scientific research, and it was research that didn't require him to forget about food and sleep.
Lady Zhou had already changed her face when Jiang Mei appeared. Now, she was smiling sweetly and holding her godmother on one side and her biological mother on the other. She was very lively.
Qu Sen walked with Dapeng and Zhou Li's father and followed the three women into the car.
On the return trip of more than three hundred kilometers, the atmosphere in the car was completely different from when they came. Godmother and biological mother had been leading the conversation. They talked about Dapeng's learning problems, Qu Sen's work, and then about Qu Sen and Zhou Li.
More than three hours passed in the blink of an eye. Before everyone had finished chatting, the car had already driven into the headquarters.
The party was already over. When the car stopped in front of the guest house, Yue Jianjun and Qu Sen's parents were already standing at the door to welcome them.
Therefore, the first meeting between Qu Sen and Zhou Li's parents happened naturally.
It was only then that Qu Sen realized that this meeting was not a coincidence, but a deliberate arrangement by Yue Jianjun and Jiang Mei.
It was already very late. The three families had a simple supper in the small hall of the guest house before returning to their rooms to rest.
Zhou Li returned to his dormitory. Qu Sen spent the night in Dapeng's room.
The next morning, after everyone had breakfast together, Zhou Li took Qu Sen's parents, his own parents, Jiang Mei, and Da Peng out to play.
Qu Sen sat on the Iveco and embarked on the return journey with the drone instructors.
He had no choice. He still had to participate in the combat readiness shift. If he wanted to accompany his parents, he would have to finish his shift first.
On the way back, Qu Sen realized that his cold had been cured unknowingly.
After a happy day of work on the second day of the New Year, An Jingzhe and Qu Sen changed into casual clothes on the morning of the third day of the New Year. They went back to the city with Luo Na.
After meeting up with Zhou Li's side, there was one more Xu Gongzi in the team. The group of people split into three cars and played all the way from the city to Lijiang. Then, they circled around the ancient city of Dali and returned.
The whole trip took three days, so it was a bit rushed. However, there was no other way. Zhou Li's father's vacation was stuck there. At noon on the sixth day of the New Year, Qu Sen and Zhou Li sent Zhou Li's father on the plane together. After returning, they directly took the rest of the people directly to Qu Sen's place.
Although the original guest house of the garrison regiment had not been reused, the rooms had been cleaned up before the New Year to accommodate the family members of the team. They also sent a few soldiers to temporarily serve as waiters. There was no problem with receiving guests.
After two days of fun with the large group of people together, Qu Sen's father and Zhou Li's mother's vacation was coming to an end. They were ready to embark on the return journey. Jiang Mei and Da Peng were here to visit relatives. They couldn't always leave Comrade Yue alone. They took a car back to the division headquarters.
Qu Sen originally planned to send them off with Zhou Li. However, before they left, An Jingzhe suddenly appeared. Although he said that he was going to send Qu Sen off, he glanced at Qu Sen and signaled him with his eyes.
Qu Sen's heart tightened. He knew that something had happened. He quickly rubbed his stomach and said, "Wait for me. I might catch a cold. I'll go to the toilet."
An Jingzhe gave Qu Sen a look. Zhou Li also saw it. Although a layer of worry appeared in his eyes, he still cooperated and shouted, "Lazy donkey, you don't need to send us off."
"Don't. Ten minutes. Just ten minutes." Qu Sen shouted as he ran in the direction of the toilet.
"Qu Sen, you don't have to send us off. Lili will send us off." The troops had already resumed their normal training time. Zhou Li's mother also didn't want Qu Sen to go back and forth, so she followed and shouted.
"Then let's go. We don't have to wait for him." Sending them to the airport would take half a day. Qu Sen's mother also didn't want to torture her son, so she went with the flow and said.
Therefore, the group of people directly got into the car. Soon, the car started and drove in the direction of the gate.
After the car disappeared, Qu Sen sneakily popped out. He glanced in the direction of the car and turned to ask An Jingzhe, "What's the matter? Why are you acting like a thief?"
"There's a mission. Leave the country! Do you dare to go? "
"Nonsense!"
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July 2004. A week after Professor Luo, a doctoral supervisor in biochemistry at a well-known university in Shanghai, went missing, the university called the police.
The police immediately entered Professor Luo's house and found a letter on his study desk.
From the contents of the letter, the police learned that Professor Luo's wife was kidnapped while accompanying his recently divorced daughter to Thailand.
The kidnappers extorted 100,000 USD from Professor Luo through email. They also stated that Professor Luo had to personally bring a Swiss bank note to Thailand to ransom his wife. Other than that, they wouldn't accept any other transaction.
Professor Luo considered that the incident happened overseas. If he called the police, not only would the domestic police be useless, but it would also be easy for the kidnappers to find out and anger them. After some consideration, he agreed to the other party's request.
He transferred his savings overseas and deposited it in a Swiss bank through a friend overseas. Then, he used a tourist visa to go to Thailand.
He left the country on the day the letter was left.
The Shanghai police immediately sent people to Thailand and contacted the Thai police to ask for assistance. The police who rushed to Thailand quickly confirmed Professor Luo's whereabouts with the help of the local police.
First, they found the hotel where he was temporarily staying. From the hotel records, they learned that Professor Luo had received an international email. Their preliminary judgment was that the email should be a bank note prepared according to the kidnappers' request.
Three days after receiving the email, Professor Luo checked out of the hotel and was picked up by a black Audi.
The investigation after that was extremely difficult. It took about half a month to confirm that Professor Luo should have gone to the northwest of Thailand, a border city bordering Myanmar.
After that, there was no news of him.
After gathering all the information collected from various aspects. The police concluded that Professor Luo should have been guided or forced to enter Myanmar's Kachin State, which was also known as the Golden Triangle.
Many people had heard of the Golden Triangle. It was a triangular area bordering Thailand, Myanmar, and Laos. The complicated mountain ranges and water veins there created countless canyons and cliffs.
Therefore, it formed a large area of traffic dead ends, making it difficult for the administrative departments of the three countries to go deep and form effective control. In addition, there were large areas of blurred borders.
Over time, it became a zone with a deformed social and economic structure.
At this point, the police had a clearer judgment. Professor Luo's wife and daughter probably didn't encounter kidnappers at all, but a drug gang.
Their target wasn't the ransom, but Professor Luo, who was a biochemist.
After that, the police used many investigative methods and even used a few undercover investigators to infiltrate the drug gang to find the whereabouts of Professor Luo's family.
However, there were more than three thousand villages in the Golden Triangle, and the forces entrenched there were complicated. More than two months had passed, but there were still no clues.
It wasn't until November that the Shanghai police learned through Interpol that in Malaysia, a person named Gary
Dr. Gideon's experience was very similar to Professor Luo's, except that the Dr. Gideon "disappeared" in March.
At the end of May, this Dr. Gideon sent an email to the Malaysian police asking for help. He said that he was imprisoned by the drug manufacturing group. The other party threatened him with his family and asked him to preside over the improvement of a new compound drug.
In nearly two months, he used his professional knowledge to improve the original drug formula of the drug manufacturing group. Although the toxicity of the drug was greatly reduced, long-term use would still cause cognitive impairment and a series of brain damage.
In the email, Gary
Gideon said that the drug manufacturing group was seriously dissatisfied with his work progress and had begun to threaten his family with harm. At the same time, they gave him a deadline and asked him to make a breakthrough within the deadline. Otherwise, they would really do something to his family.
And Gary
Gideon's research direction was industrial chemistry. To reduce the toxicity of drugs, he needed knowledge of biochemistry.
So Gary
Gideon was very pessimistic about the future of himself and his family. He hoped that the country would quickly find a way to rescue him.
At the same time, he also gave some clues. In addition to the approximate environmental information of the village where he was imprisoned, he also gave some information about when he was first brought to the city by the drug manufacturing group. Then, they went all the way north, and it took a long time for them to arrive at their current location.
The Malaysian police immediately asked the Malaysian and Burmese police for help, but the police of both countries said that Gary
Was unable to help in the area described by Gideon.
After the Shanghai police received this information, they quickly contacted Gary
Based on the information provided by Gideon, they determined the approximate location and sent out investigators to conduct a directional search.
Near the end of the year, they finally obtained accurate information about Professor Luo's family.
A small village located in the blurred border between Laos and Myanmar. The village was surrounded by mountains on three sides and there was no road connecting to the outside world. The only way in and out was by water.
Moreover, this village of less than a thousand people was completely controlled by the drug armed group. All the ordinary villagers were in the form of tenants and cultivated opium for the drug manufacturing group. It was not an exaggeration to say that it was a slave society.
After considering the situation of the village, the police concluded that it was basically impossible to rescue them by force. The only way was to send someone to sneak in and then steal them out.
It took about half a month to formulate the plan, and almost half a month to prepare for implementation. Then, they waited for the opportunity to implement it.
In the end, the time of the rescue was chosen to be February 17th.
However, there was still a problem in the plan. After the people were stolen out, they would evacuate along the waterway. They could not hide from the militants for long, and it was believed that the pursuers would catch up soon.
The problem was that the evacuation route was upstream along the waterway, and they would encounter a waterfall on the way. If they wanted to continue evacuating, they had to abandon the boat and go ashore. After climbing up the waterfall, they would take another boat prepared in advance and continue to evacuate.
And Professor Luo's family, as city residents, would not be able to move fast in the mountains and forests. Therefore, the climb up the mountain was the easiest part to catch up with.
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