Guardian: The Lost World

Blind Trust

-Shen Wei-

Right after Zhao Yunlan had close the door of his office behind him, Shen Wei had found himself staring at said door, wishing to face palming himself for impulsly telling the leader of the Black Dragon Guardians about the classify information he wasn’t supposed to disclose to anyone else, aside from the selected members the military picked to ‘help’ them in the search of Ouyang.

However, he felt the need to tell the Guardian, as he preferred to call him, the true behind the disappearance of the professor. Maybe it was because Zhao Yunlan looked trustworthy or because he found out just yesterday that one of his employees had been a best friend a long time ago, that he couldn’t lie to Zhao so boldly when he was obviously trying to dissuade him from going to the mountains, probably for their own good.

After a second more of staring the door, he sighed, looking down at his hand, wondering just what had got into him. He had felt something strange when the Guardian held his hand, like a kind of connection he could not explain. Although he had never meet Zhao Yunlan in person until a few seconds ago, he had seen his pictures before and read quite a lot about him, giving that his group was at the top of the safeguarding business, but that wasn’t near enough to make him feel like he knew the handsome man from somewhere else in the past.

Giving his unexplainable sense of deja vu, Shen pull out a folder from the drawer of his desk and open it to find Zhao Yunlan’s file. The files of all the Black Dragon Guardians had been sent to him by the government officials that had grant him permission to go in search for the missing professor, telling in a short note, that the group had been chosen to accompany them, to safeguard their lives and research, if they found something. It was looking through those files that he had found Chu Shuzhi’s expedient and also it was where he begin to suspect that professor Ouyang could had been involved in something more than just an archeological expedition, but he honestly didn't have an idea of what.

He looked down to the page with Zhao Yunlan’s photo and once again stared at him, wondering about what could be the connection between himself, his group and Mount Kunlun. It was more than obvious to him, that there was a connection, because it didn’t make any sense that the government hired a private group to safeguard a bunch of professors, when they have the military to do just that, without the need to involve any outsider. There was also the notes send to him, which he could not be one hundred percent sure it came from the missing professor even if the writing looked the same.

Professor Ouyang was more than a colleague, he was his late father good friend, so he knew him since childhood. He had notice him acting a bit strange and nervous just a few weeks before he told him he was going to Mount Kunlun to do a research, after hearing some ‘local’ rumors of the mountains being accessible after the earthquake. He had even offer himself to go with him, as he couldn’t convince him that the place was too dangerous for an archeological expedition, but he had refused to let him go with him, no matter how much he had insisted, only telling him, to take care and to be careful whatever he go.

Then he received a bunch of detailed notes, three days before he lost all contact with the professor and after the panic button had been pushed somewhere inside the government, he received full support to go looking for the professor with not only a group of militaries, but also from private guards. It was simple too suspicious. He only hoped that they could find the professor alive and that he was overthinking things.

However, just in case, he planned in telling Zhao Yunlan everything that those notes revealed, as soon as he got the chance. He may be blindly trusting him, but safeguarding was his business and as he had read in his file, he also knew well how the military worked, with a father in a high up position within the military ranks. If there was someone who could keep them safe, it was him and his team, he trusted no one else, for now.