I ask you to design equipment, but you do science fiction for me?

No one expected that this metal disc was produced at their base.

This is a positioning metal disc; they have quite a few of these in their base.

Originally intended for locating other planets or a specific location, it unexpectedly ended up here.

Everyone looked on in surprise, glancing around as if asking who had buried the thing there.

Professor Wang's expression turned slightly grim, and the first person he thought of was Chen Anrong.

Could it be that he buried him here?

Then he shook his head.

Chen Anrong would never do something so foolish.

But who could it be?

If you don't conduct a thorough investigation yourself.

If your investigation only includes the area inside the base, and not outside, you definitely won't be able to find this disc.

After a moment's thought, he immediately instructed the experts to study the metal disc.

Determine where this metal disc came from.

Fingerprints were extracted from the surface of the metal disk, while the metal disk itself was investigated.

If it belongs to the base, who took it out of the base's metal disc?

Although it's not something particularly important, every person's use of it will leave a record, so it's impossible to say that someone used it and then couldn't find any information about it.

While the experts were conducting their investigation, Professor Wang returned to the base and found Tang Yumo, telling her about the matter.

Tang Yumo glanced at Professor Wang with surprise and asked a seemingly unrelated question out of curiosity.

Why are you suddenly deciding to conduct an investigation?

Professor Wang was a little embarrassed, so he made up an excuse: "Haven't we inspected the base in a long time? The New Year is coming soon, so let's take this opportunity to conduct a major inspection of the base."

"We will stop the inspections before the Lunar New Year, hoping that everyone can be safe and sound this year."

Tang Yumo smiled slightly, and then brought up the metal disc again.

"This thing is quite interesting. It has a location, so someone must have buried it."

"But what is the purpose of doing this?"

"Just understand this point; who put it there is secondary."

"This is not important to us either, you should know that very well."

“The higher-ups are very worried about us. When we were recruiting people, there were bound to be many outsiders who infiltrated. It’s not a problem for them to do this kind of thing.”

"All we can do is find out their motives and then work out their objectives."

"There's no need to solve the people's problems; someone will always do them anyway."

Professor Wang nodded; they had discussed this matter countless times.

He glanced at Tang Yumo cautiously and said worriedly, "I'm worried that Chen Anrong did it. What do you think?"

Tang Yumo shook her head, her attitude very firm: "Impossible."

“He’s not an idiot, how could he do something so stupid? You don’t need to blame him for everything.”

Professor Wang nodded, then hesitated, as if he wanted to say something but stopped himself.

Actually, he still wanted to find out more about Chen Anrong, or at least tell him some news about her.

He was really distressed because he knew nothing at all.

Tang Yumo saw through his thoughts and said with a smile, "Don't worry so much, we're not very confident about this matter either."

"The reason we didn't tell you is because we're not sure yet."

"If I had been sure, wouldn't I have told you already?"

"We still need some things to prove it."

After saying that, he stood up and said, "Let's go take a look at that metal disc. I'm quite interested in it."

When the two arrived at the research lab, the experts were already resting.

The metal disc has been investigated and analyzed.

The metal disc did indeed originate from the base, but how it was taken away and buried remains unclear.

There were no fingerprints on the metal disc; since it was buried in the soil, the fingerprints would likely have been wiped off.

Moreover, the person who buried the disc might have been wearing gloves, and that was practically inevitable.

Because leaving the base would inevitably require wearing protective clothing, and once you're wearing protective clothing, your fingerprints certainly won't be left behind.

Tang Yumo picked up the disc, looked at it with a smile, then waved it in her hand and asked Professor Wang with great confusion.

"What purpose would burying this disc underground serve? Can you imagine the worst-case scenario?"

Professor Wang pondered for a moment and said, "In terms of location, at most it can only provide an attack target, which is the worst possibility."

"Once our location is discovered, a single missile could wipe us all out."

Tang Yumo opened her mouth slightly, seemingly surprised, before smiling gently.

"Perhaps that's their goal."

Professor Wang was startled and immediately became serious.

"Really? We must find out who did it, otherwise it will have a huge impact on us."

Tang Yumo said with a smile, "Although it has a big impact, even if they locate us, they can't possibly wipe us out in one fell swoop."

"Our offensive and defensive systems are the most advanced in the world; they don't have that capability yet."

He paused for a moment at this point.

"However, they might also be hiding some secret weapons, so we should always be on guard against such things."

He then raised another question.

"Even without this metal disc, others should be able to find their location."

Professor Wang shook his head and said very seriously, "Without location tracking, they can only know a general location, and they will never know where we are. This greatly reduces the risk."

"There are still differences between the two."

Just as the two were chatting, another expert arrived.

This time, the experts brought another astonishing piece of news: they had discovered a secret basement inside the base.

This basement is 30,000 meters deep, and it's empty except for some research data and other things; there's nothing particularly important inside.

However, this underground chamber was not mentioned in their information.

Professor Wang was also unaware of this.

Tang Yumo wasn't particularly surprised, because he assumed that this underground chamber was built by him to mine another type of metal. This metal was still being mined and remained in secrecy.

When he saw Professor Wang's surprise, he frowned and asked, "Isn't it ours?"

Professor Wang understood what he meant and shook his head, saying, "No, I didn't have anyone investigate that area. It was found in another area."

"It seems this insulated planet holds many secrets we don't know about."

He was certain that this matter was definitely related to Chen Anrong.

Because building a secret base underground on an insulated planet couldn't have been done by just one person; it must have been the idea of ​​these leaders.

Only three people have ever served as leaders on an insulated planet.

The first person is Tang Yumo, the second person is him, and the third person is Chen Anrong.

Tang Yumo and he naturally couldn't do that, so the remaining person was Chen Anrong.

Tang Yumo's eyes sparkled, and she said eagerly, "Let's go take a look, it's really unexpected."

The two were walking towards the scene when Tang Yumo suddenly slapped her forehead and stopped.

"Let's go find Yuan Jingna first."

Professor Wang nodded, and then they went back.

On the way, Tang Yumo said to Professor Wang, "More people means more strength. It's good to bring him along. If anything happens, he can help us take responsibility."

Professor Wang couldn't help but laugh, wondering what the little girl was really thinking.

However, it's definitely not what they say.

However, this is indeed a very good excuse, and also a fact.

Yuan Jingna also holds a very important place in Su Chen's heart. If something really happens, having Yuan Jingna means there will be more people to help him share the burden.

When they found Yuan Jingna, she was selecting members for her plant lifespan research.

Upon seeing these two arrive, he handed the list to Professor Wang and asked him to take a look.

He hoped that Professor Wang would point out any unsuitable individuals.

Professor Wang looked at them and said with a smile, "These people don't have any major problems. Anyway, if you need people, I can give them to you."

"As for what problems these people may have, I can't guarantee that. Anyway, you should be careful."

"By the way, I've been conducting a thorough investigation of the base recently and discovered a few things."

"We found a disc buried outside the base, which means our base is not safe. So you need to be very careful in choosing personnel."

"Even if we select them, we must maintain strict confidentiality and not let them see too many secrets."

Yuan Jingna hummed in agreement, and while making tea for the two of them, she asked them what they wanted to see her about.

Tang Yumo then recounted what had just happened.

Yuan Jingna was slightly surprised after hearing this, and then looked at Professor Wang: "After you came to the base, you should have learned about the entire base, right? Didn't you discover this place at that time?"

Professor Wang shook his head and said with a wry smile, "After arriving here, I had other things to do, and I was so busy that I didn't have time to thoroughly understand the entire base."

"Moreover, this place is hidden 10,000 meters underground, far from the core area of ​​our base. It is in an abandoned area, so it is difficult for people to find it."

"If it weren't for this large-scale investigation, we wouldn't have known at all."

The three arrived at this underground secret base, above which was a warehouse storing miscellaneous items.

There's no way to deal with this clutter; the warehouse needs a place to pile it up, so it's basically a dumping ground.

There's an elevator underneath all this clutter; you can take the elevator down there.

After they got down there, they arrived at this secret base. The base wasn't particularly large; it had several research labs, several archives, and several warehouses.

Most of the place was empty, with only a few places containing some unimportant documents and lists of people from various planets.

This is the only relatively important item.

Yuan Jingna glanced at it briefly and immediately realized that someone was collecting information about their base, and not just about the isolated planet, but also about personnel from other bases.

He held the list in his hand, feeling a slight heaviness as he gently patted it a few times, his gaze fixed intently on Tang Yumo.

"It seems your idea is correct; we should indeed take some action."

After he finished speaking, he glanced at Professor Wang again: "Professor Wang, I think that in addition to investigating the entire base, we should also investigate the personnel."

Professor Wang was slightly surprised, because he had already spoken with Tang Yumo.

Tang Yumo meant to let these people be and not to interfere too much with them.

But now Yuan Jingna's thoughts are clearly somewhat different from Tang Yumo's.

He glanced at Tang Yumo, as if to say, "What do you want to say?"

Tang Yumo said with a smile, "I'll do whatever Yuan Jingna says."

"However, I think we should still use the old methods to deal with these people. Just find them and we don't need to worry about the rest."

Yuan Jingna nodded.

Professor Wang understood what Tang Yumo meant; they had previously screened the personnel in the base.

They did discover some people with ulterior motives, but instead of exposing them, they allowed them to continue working in their positions, though they weren't assigned any particularly confidential tasks.

At the same time, they will be monitored.

But these people didn't do anything.

They did not do either the disc incident or this matter.

This raises a question: besides these people, there must be others hidden who they haven't discovered.

These people need to be investigated.

Professor Wang's investigation also focused on this group of people.

Suddenly, Professor Wang thought of a problem and said with a somewhat grim expression, "That's strange. Building such a large secret base should require quite a few people, right?"

"Where did these people come from? If they are from our base, I should know something about them, and the people at the base should know too."

"But according to our current investigation, no one inside the base knows about this. It is very likely that it was built by someone outside the base."

"But who could bring outsiders into the base so secretly?"

Tang Yumo and Yuan Jingna didn't show much change in expression. They silently looked at Professor Wang, as if letting him guess for himself.

Professor Wang's mind went blank. He immediately realized the seriousness of the problem and understood why Tang Yumo had taken certain measures against Chen Anrong.

It must have been Chen Anrong who did it.

He gaped in surprise and asked with a hint of doubt, "You discovered that he did this on the insulated planet?"

Tang Yumo shook her head, saying with a hint of helplessness, "We don't know what he did. I only spoke with some people when I arrived on this planet, and they said that when Chen Anrong was in charge of this planet, an interstellar warship had visited." (End of Chapter)