#161 - Chapter 161: The two's speculation

"Gone?" Yan Zhengping didn't believe it.

"Yes, gone," Zongzhen Yue affirmed.

"So, Lao Zong, are you teasing me?" Yan Zhengping asked, glaring at him.

Yan Zhengping listened for a long time, but heard nothing of substance.

"How could I! I'm telling you, I think there are two very big doubts here," Zongzhen Yue said, leaning closer.

"What doubts?" Yan Zhengping asked curiously.

"The first doubt is that, according to the information, Dongfang Chen doesn't seem to have any assets, yet he mobilized tens of billions of funds in a very short period of time. How did he do it?"

"There's also another doubt: before the virus outbreak, he obtained a municipal project through donations, and the contractor was Niu Xingwang, the current chairman of the Huatong Chamber of Commerce."

"What's so doubtful about that?" Yan Zhengping asked.

"At first, I didn't think there was anything to it. But someone mentioned something that instantly made my hair stand on end," Zongzhen Yue said, playing mysterious.

"What did they say?" Yan Zhengping asked.

"A comrade from the archives inadvertently said, could the purpose of donating this project be to build an underground base?" Zongzhen Yue said.

Yan Zhengping fell silent.

"If Dongfang Chen started planning to build an underground base through a series of actions before the virus outbreak, then this matter is too strange."

"These are all your guesses," Yan Zhengping said.

"If it were just guesses, why would I even bother saying anything! To verify my guess, I ordered people to check the detailed information of this project again. Guess what I found inside?" Zongzhen Yue asked.

"What did you find?"

"A construction blueprint of an underground base!" Zongzhen Yue said, word by word.

"Did you bring the blueprint?" Yan Zhengping asked.

He had been to Dongfang Chen's base.

He had had these doubts before, but he hadn't investigated them deeply.

But since Zongzhen Yue had already investigated today, as long as he looked at the blueprint, he could determine whether the project Zongzhen Yue was referring to was Dongfang Chen's underground base.

If Dongfang Chen's base was really built before the virus outbreak, then the amount of information reflected here would be too much.

"I brought it, I'll get it for you." Saying that, Zongzhen Yue took out a stack of documents from his briefcase.

Yan Zhengping took the documents and flipped through them page by page.

He didn't understand design, and he couldn't understand the blueprints.

But he could roughly see the layout of the project from the blueprints.

He quickly flipped through them, looking for places he might have been.

Suddenly, he stopped at a blueprint.

"That's right, it is!"

This blueprint was officially the original layout of the second underground floor where Dongfang Chen's office was located.

The project location and the location Yan Zhengping arrived at when he first came to Dongfang Chen's place were the same, both in Binjiang Park.

Yan Zhengping put down the blueprint and fell into deep thought.

"Lao Yan, this matter is no small matter. If this Dongfang Chen started building the underground base before the virus outbreak, then it means he already knew the virus would break out in advance. Think about what that means?"

Zongzhen Yue looked at Yan Zhengping, and Yan Zhengping also looked at him.

After a moment of pause, he continued:

"It means either he is a prophet, or the outbreak of this virus is related to him."

Yan Zhengping felt a tightness in his heart when he heard this guess. A prophet was impossible; how could there be such an absurd person as a prophet in this world?

They were all firm atheists, and it was impossible to believe in such mysterious things.

Then there was another possibility: the outbreak of the virus was related to him.

If this hypothesis was true, then it could also explain why he knew the characteristics of the virus so well, why he could produce antigen serum, why he knew the characteristics of zombies... all these questions would be explained.

But even if it was related to him, there were still some things that didn't make sense.

Where did the equipment and weapons he produced come from?

This required a strong research and development team to conduct a large number of experiments behind the scenes.

Even the council couldn't assemble a research and development team with such capabilities, so why could Dongfang Chen?

"I think the possibility of him being a prophet is unlikely; otherwise, he wouldn't have seemed so unaware of the Red Coat Sect. In this light, the outbreak of the virus is likely to have a great relationship with him!" Zongzhen Yue stated his conclusion.

"Is it possible that Dongfang Chen has a strong research and development team, and these achievements are the research results of the research and development team?" Yan Zhengping asked.

"Even so, it doesn't explain why he would start preparing the underground base before the virus outbreak, does it?" Zongzhen Yue said.

"Judging from the time, the time he registered the company was not before the virus appeared. You should be clear about this. The city where the virus first appeared was Binjiang City. If I remember correctly, the first case of infection in Binjiang City was discovered at the end of June last year, right? The information shows that Dongfang Chen invested in the project in early July, which is not contradictory."

"Do you mean that in just a few days after the virus appeared, he completely figured out the characteristics of the virus and had already foreseen that it would break out completely?"

"It's not impossible."

"How strong would his scientific research strength have to be?" Zongzhen Yue didn't quite believe it.

"I'll reveal some information to you, and you'll believe it," Yan Zhengping said.

"Oh?" Zongzhen Yue looked at him curiously.