Part 2 Hello, Mr. Major General I'm Gu Nianzi

227. Wasn't please!

This was not the first time they lost communication. But the consequences typically weren't good if this kind of situation arose. Yin Shixiong grew more anxious and sat in his bedroom alone until the morning.
Gu Nianzhi got up early to shower and scarfed down a breakfast before heading to class. Yin Shixiong waited until 10am before getting an email back from Zhao Liangze. Aside from encryption, the email was also protected by a Special Ops coded password. This was serious. Yin Shixong rubbed his chin and stared at Zhao Liangze's email for a long time.
Gu Nianzhi was having class in He Zhichu's office at the Harvard Law School. He Zhichu looked at her homework from yesterday, made detailed edits and asked her to completely redo it. It was only a draft legislation regarding public school funding regulations and he actually made her rewrite it. Gu Nianzhi wasn't pleased but didn't directly take it up with He Zhichu. She nodded silently and returned to her desk to open her laptop and to check for He Zhichu's email with the edits. He Zhichu's office was very spacious and a bright window took up half the walls. His office desk was on the innermost corner of the room, besides the window. By the wall near the desk was a exquisite little study desk, where Gu Nianzhi had her laptop. This was were she was going to be for the majority of the next two months.
He Zhichu finished his emails and picked up his briefcase and iPad. He spoke to Gu Nianzhi, who was intently rewriting the legislation, "I'm going to a meeting, be back in two hours."
Gu Nianzhi answered and saw He Zhichu's slim fingers close the office door out of the corner of her eyes. She finally sighed in relief and bit the end of her pen as she looked at the azure skies outside in a daze. Her thoughts drifted to Huo Shaoheng--she wondered what Uncle Huo and his men were doing right now?
The subjects of Gu Nianzhi and Yin Shixiong's thoughts, Huo Shaoheng and Zhao Liangze were running in a dark forest in rural Vienna. It was the middle of the summer--the trees and grass were so lush and green they appeared black and endless. Great trees towered in the recesses of the forest, blocking out the outside heat and sunlight to kept the temperature cool. Because the trees were too dense, it was dark inside the forest, even in the middle of the day. Huo Shaoheng and Zhao Liangze were in camo, wore green and yellow warpaint, and also had dark sunglasses that filtered light. They swiftly jumped over creeks and crossed hills to arrive under a gigantic tree deep inside the forest.
"Team A disappeared here?" Huo Shaoheng and Zhao Liangze had their backs to each other as they surveyed the forest.
"According to the signal." Zhao Liangze only moved his lips and was so quiet no one else would hear him. Even though Huo Shaoheng's, who had his back to him, could only hear him through the headset. Huo Shaoheng wore military fingerless leather gloves and adjusted the sunglasses resting on his straight nose bridge as he looked around. His sunglasses had location functions and could also detect hidden objects. However he found nothing peculiar after peering around. There were obvious human tracks on the ground, but it had been two days already and no new tracks had appeared.
"...Where did they go? Could they have really flown away?" Zhao Liang muttered Gu Nianzhi's catchphrase, "...To hell with this!"
"No, they wouldn't have gone to hell, they would have gone to..." Huo Shaoheng froze and suddenly inclined head to the top of the giant tree. The heavy foliage appeared no different from that of any other trees, but he a suspicion there was something wrong with the top. He wanted to use his communicator but as soon as his fingers rested on it, unease began creeping from his heart. This was his instinct against danger, and it had saved him from traps numerous times.