Chapter 1663 Return
Pushing the door open and walking in, Lin Nian saw the branch manager Will holding a cigar in his mouth and leaning against the console as if to greet him.
"Minister Will." Lin Nian walked into the captain's room, stopped not far away, and nodded to the black minister, "Thank you for your rescue. It was really timely."
"What should be done is to help the commissioners of this department in the fire and water. It is the duty of every commissioner. I think if the Madai branch falls into the same trouble, Commissioner Lin Nian will fulfill the same obligation." Will raised his hand He slowly saluted Lin Nian, but found that Lin Nian not far away was staring at him with slightly lowered eyes. Those molten eyes made him a little frightened.
"Commissioner Lin Nian."
"Minister Will, I want to ask a question." Lin Nian said, "How did you know this coordinate."
"This coordinate?" Minister Will was stunned for a moment.
"We strayed into a Nibelung before. Logically speaking, it is impossible to ask for help from outside, but you still found our location accurately, so I am very curious, how did you locate the Nibelung and find it?" "This coordinate." Lin Nian stared at Minister Will, as if he wanted to see something in those eyes, "Did the headquarters inform you of our location and order you to rescue us?"
"No." When Minister Weir heard Lin Nian mention this, his expression paused slightly, and he shook his head and said, "The headquarters did not send us a notice of the rescue operation. We came here spontaneously for rescue, so instead We first notified the headquarters and then set off for rescue after getting permission.”
"Spontaneously?" Lin Nian was startled and frowned slightly, "This is inconsistent with the caliber of your subordinates outside."
"There must be a legitimate reason to mobilize troops and mobilize the masses. According to Chinese parlance, it should be called 'the teacher is famous'?" Minister Weir said.
"Minister, you should be the captain of this ship, right?" Lin Nian said.
"Yes, that's right." Minister Will nodded.
"Then how did you know our coordinates?" Lin Nian asked slowly. The molten pupils could not be extinguished. Even if he did not deliberately exert mental pressure, no one would look away from these eyes. sight.
"Is this issue important to Commissioner Lin Nian?" Minister Will pondered for a moment and did not directly answer Lin Nian's question.
"Very important." Lin Nian nodded.
Minister Will nodded to show that he understood, stretched his hand to his waist, and raised his hand to indicate to Lin Nian that he just wanted to get something out, "Actually, Commissioner Lin Nian, if you don't ask, I will find an opportunity to mention this matter to you."
Under Lin Nian's gaze, he took out a mobile phone and handed it over.
Lin Nian took the phone and found a text message displayed on the screen. The content of the text message was a string of longitude and latitude coordinates.
"This coordinate——"
"Yes, that's where we are now, where we found you, Commissioner Lin Nian. It's very accurate, and fortunately it's very accurate."
Minister Will said slowly, "Half a day ago, I received an anonymous phone call on the residential island of Male. The person on the other end of the phone told me by name, Commissioner Lin Nian, Commissioner Lu Mingfei and Commissioner Zero. I ran into trouble and needed rescue from the Maldives branch, so I sent this coordinate.”
"Have you notified Norma?" Lin Nian asked in a low voice, looking at the coordinates on his phone.
"Norma was notified as soon as possible, but unfortunately we still couldn't trace the source. The phone number dialed was a temporary phone card purchased at the airport. When dialing, we did not use triangulation to locate the other party's location. After the call is hung up, there is no chance to trace the source.”
Minister Will said,
"We asked the headquarters for instructions, and the head of the execution department gave us the authority to act and gave us the greatest support. Let us go to this coordinate point fully armed. Originally, I thought there would be a fierce battle, so I brought almost all the men I could bring with me. , but now it looks like it’s all over.”
Lin Nian looked at the coordinates on the text message and tried to call the number back, but the call reminded him that it was not in the service area. The other party had probably cut off the phone card and left no trace evidence.
"There is something weird about this matter, but I still decided to come to this coordinate to find out what happened. The director of the execution department did not object or support my behavior, but just reminded me that all the consequences will be borne by the Madai branch. Okay. The ending is good now, but I still have to think about how to write a reasonable report to the headquarters later," Minister Will said with a sigh.
Lin Nian glanced at the black minister. If this cargo ship had arrived half an hour earlier and been involved in the earth-shattering trial when the Nibelungs collapsed, I'm afraid not many people on this ship would have survived. He took full responsibility.
So the arrival time of the cargo ship has been calculated? The person on the other end of the phone who notified the Maldives branch of the rescue team was so accurate.
"Captain, all the people who fell into the water have been salvaged and resettled. Should we return immediately? Commissioner Lin Nian, please!"
The door to the captain's cabin behind was opened, and a young Arab girl wrapped in a black headscarf walked in. After seeing Lin Nian, she immediately stood up straight and saluted. She was a little excited and her face was red.
Lin Nian glanced at her, and Minister Will, who was leaning on the console, introduced with a smile, "My first mate, Ayesha, is 21 years old. She is about the same age as you. She is a big fan of yours. She happened to take her turn at the welcome meeting before. She was in the class, so I unfortunately didn’t participate, but now I have the opportunity to make up for it.”
"Hello." Lin Nian nodded to her, which made the girl excited. She said incoherently, "Commissioner Lin Nian, your friend has been settled. Her knee only has some soft tissue contusion. It's nothing serious. Please rest assured. We will take good care of her."
As she spoke, her majestic chest was slapped and waved. Lin Nian's sight did not shift, but when she found that her action was not very elegant, she screamed in a low voice and covered her chest. She looked at Lin Nian with a red face full of embarrassment.
The friend with a knee injury is probably zero. The main purpose of Lin Nian's trip this time is to get her back. It seems that Lu Mingfei's goal has been achieved. Even Anna, the troublesome girl, has found her mother. It seems to be a happy ending. The next step is to return home.
"Then shall we return? Or is there any threat in this sea area that requires us to patrol and investigate?" Minister Will looked at Lin Nian and waited for the instructions of the ACE. Although he was the minister, in this operation, it was Lin Nian who could be regarded as the commissioner, so the entire ship would almost listen to his command.
"No need." Lin Nian said, "Return, the natives on the ship are the biggest trouble next."
"Natives. Do you mean those guys who look like savages in strange clothes?" The first mate Aisha behind him said curiously, "I heard that they communicated in Dhivehi, but it was a little different. Could they be savages who have been living on an uninhabited island? Is there such an undiscovered tribe in the Indian Ocean now?"
"It's a long story."
Lin Nian shook his head and briefly explained to Minister Will what he saw and heard on the island of Atlantis and the sinking, but he skipped the truth about the golden library and the sinking of the island in the end, and only told about the ancient dragon on the top of the mountain and the savage tribe who believed in the ancient dragon as a god, which was considered to explain the origin of this group of mixed-bloods.
After listening to Lin Nian's explanation, Minister Will and Aisha were both very surprised and shocked, and they couldn't recover for a long time.
"There is such an amazing secret in the Indian Ocean. Is this the reason why the headquarters insisted on setting up a branch in the Maldives? If so, why didn't they mention the relevant matters to us, and even didn't let us patrol the sea periodically?" Minister Will also fell into deep thought, as if he couldn't believe that there was such a chaotic and open Nibelungen wandering around the Indian Ocean in his jurisdiction!
"I'll trouble you, Minister, to worry about the placement of those savages. Many of them are mixed-bloods, and their bloodlines are excellent. There are many experienced warriors. If we need to escort them, we can stay for the time being." Lin Nian said.
"It's okay. Our Maldives branch is not a pushover. Besides, the Indian branch should have urgently dispatched people to the port where we will return in a while. There will definitely be enough escorts by then. I will also inform the Indian branch of our situation via satellite phone in advance. These people can't make any noise." Minister Will looked at the group of savages gathered together outside the deck for warmth, and his eyes were full of importance. The mixed-bloods should be strictly guarded no matter where they are.
"Then please." Lin Nian nodded and turned to the door of the captain's room. He had no questions.
Aisha at the door of the captain's room stepped aside and watched Lin Nian leave excitedly until she suddenly screamed at the end.
"What's wrong?" Minister Will, who was thinking about the personnel arrangement on the ship, was startled and looked at Aisha and asked quickly.
"I forgot to ask for an autograph!" Aisha looked out the door with a sad face, "Is it too late for me to chase him now? Won't it make him angry?"
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After leaving the captain's room, Lin Nian went down to the deck and saw Lu Mingfei, Mandy and Lingcou who seemed to be talking about something. He walked over and looked at Ling's knee with medicine on it and said, "Is your knee okay? Why don't you rest for a while in the infirmary?"
"There are a lot of people in it." Ling said.
The Vacuum Queen doesn't like crowded places. The infirmary is already full of unlucky people who have mistakenly entered Nibelungen and have been tossed around by the natives as malicious outsiders. They lie on both sides with the injured natives, clearly separated, and quarrel from time to time.
Once the quarrel is too much and someone wants to fight, the nurse will take out a pistol from her clothes and fire a warning shot. Although there are not many places in the infirmary, the refrigerator in the morgue is still quite spacious.
"What are your plans next?" Lin Nian looked at Ling and asked, "Are you going back to the academy alone, or are you going with us?"
"Go with us, there will be someone to take care of you on the way." Before Ling could answer, Lu Mingfei proposed first, looking at Ling and carefully proposing.
"The hotel room on Andward Island has not been checked out yet, and you can still stay for two or three days. Otherwise, why don't you just invite Ling to your room to play for a few days before returning to the academy?" Mandy whistled and pulled the towel wrapped around her blonde hair.
Lu Mingfei was anxious, and just when he was about to say something nonsense to Mandy, Ling beside him nodded calmly and said, "It's all right. Do you have any seats on your return flight?"
"Please add a seat for Norma. You are still on the mission now. The executive department is generally very tolerant of the commissioner's request, and it's just adding a seat." Lin Nian said, "I'll help you notify Norma when the time comes."
Ling nodded and did not refuse this arrangement.
"When we get back to the island, you have to explain everything clearly. More than half of the trouble this time was caused by you." Lu Mingfei looked at Mandy and said with gritted teeth.
"Me again? What did I do?" Mandy pointed at her nose innocently.
"Lin Nian, tell me about her!" Lu Mingfei angrily told Lin Nian about it.
Li Huoyue, who was leaning against the railing of the ship not far away, looked over here and felt it was noisy. He turned his back and looked at the sea.
The whistle of the cargo ship was blown, and it began to return to the direction of the land. Lin Nian, who was on the side of the ship, ignored the noise beside him, put his hand slightly on the railing of the ship, and looked back at the place where Atlantis sank. His molten pupils seemed to penetrate the sea surface and looked directly at the majestic shadow of the snake that was still falling in the darkness below.
There are indeed many doubts about Atlantis this time, the emperor's intervention, the terrible trial, Mandy's motives, and Wonderpus's last message. But Linnian is no longer the young man who wanted an answer in a hurry.
For some things, it is not urgent to slowly find the answer after returning.