Song Ning tried to untangle the jumble of thoughts in her head.
She decided to pick out one thread first and clear up some of his questions...
"Let me start by explaining why I came to Ping Tan Island. Our running into each other here really wasn't a coincidence!"
Gu Zheng motioned for her to continue.
"I told you before that my grandpa took on a secret mission before he died. He said he had to find 'Blue Tears' to complete it! Apart from Grandpa, the only person I ever heard mention 'Blue Tears' was that man on the train, Zheng Zhenguo. He said that off the eastern coast of my country, there was a kind of magical plankton that created a spectacle called 'Blue Tears'!"
"Chen Liang told me I'd be going to Germany with the delegation at the end of the month, so I thought, since I'd be going to Shanghai City anyway, why not take a detour to our country's east coast and try my luck? Maybe I'd get to see 'Blue Tears' myself. I also wanted to find out whether the 'Blue Tears' Zheng Zhenguo mentioned had any other meaning."
Gu Zheng smiled. "Logically speaking, if you were going to Shanghai City, wouldn't stopping in Ningbo have made more sense? It's farther east than Fuqing, and you wouldn't have needed to take a detour!"
Song Ning turned and took the map out of her backpack.
She unfolded it for him to see.
Pointing at the circles drawn on the map, she said,
"Of course, it was because I'd circled Ping Tan Island too. When I suggested coming here to see Blue Tears, Chen Liang and Han Xiao clearly reacted strangely. That told me I'd circled the right place. There was probably a secret research base on