Yuan Liguo walked into the waiting hall with a smile on his face. The presence of Dragon Country soldiers guarding the area proved the nation's emphasis on them.
Passersby and passengers in the hall cast curious glances in their direction. Who were these people? Why were they in a special waiting hall, and why were they protected by soldiers?
"Who are they?"
"I don't know."
"When I came in earlier, I saw they were brought here by a special bus."
"..."
Yuan Liguo's family of four found seats in the waiting hall and sat down. This was the largest waiting hall in the train station, with seating for five hundred people. However, there were quite a few people entering this time, and even with five hundred seats, many people had to stand.
Five minutes later, a dozen staff members entered the waiting hall carrying tablets.
One staff member announced through a loudspeaker, "When the staff with the tablets approach you, please cooperate. They are here to verify identities."
The dozen or so staff members, each with a tablet, proceeded to verify identities one by one. Soon, they arrived at Yuan Liguo's family of four.
"Hello, we are here to verify identities. Please state your names."
Yuan Liguo replied, "My name is Yuan Liguo."
The staff member held the tablet up, taking a picture of Yuan Liguo. Facial recognition information appeared immediately.
The staff member nodded and said, "Confirmed."
Then, the staff member proceeded to photograph and confirm the identities of the other three members of Yuan Liguo's family.
After the staff members left, Yuan Liguo overheard a conversation from his colleagues behind him.
"Why do we have to confirm our identities here again? Wasn't it already confirmed on the train?"
"It's simple. It's to prevent other passengers at this station from sneaking in. We're boarding a secret special train this time."
"Really? Where did you get that information?"
"I'm just guessing. That's how it's always described in the novels I read."
"..."
Yuan Liguo chuckled at this, thinking how things in reality could never be like that.
But in reality, things like that did happen.
Yuan Liguo saw a staff member performing facial recognition on a man who looked well-dressed and wore several branded items.
After the recognition, the staff member said, "Sir, you have entered the wrong waiting hall."
The man arrogantly retorted, "This is also a waiting hall at the train station. Why can't I be here?"
The staff member replied, "This waiting hall is currently being used for an important transport mission. Unrelated personnel are requested to leave."
The man continued his arrogant defiance, "What if I refuse to leave?"
The staff member stopped speaking and simply waved his hand. Two soldiers beside him immediately rushed forward and apprehended the arrogant man.
"Damn it, how dare you treat me like this? Do you know who I am?"
The two soldiers had no time for pleasantries with the arrogant man. They directly escorted the man out of the waiting hall and then out of the train station.
The arrogant man, expecting to be taken to the police station, was instead taken to the Dragon Country's Long'an Bureau.
The arrogant man finally started to panic.
"Wait, why are you bringing me here? Shouldn't you be taking me to the police station? My actions just now were at most causing trouble."
By the time he was brought to the interrogation room of the Long'an Bureau, the arrogant man's legs had gone weak.
Two Long'an Bureau officers received the arrogant man and said, "Fang Zhouzi. You're actually trembling. It seems you truly have a guilty conscience. You've finally fallen into our hands. Your past acts of treason will need to be thoroughly dealt with."
"This time, we have accumulated a significant amount of evidence!"
It turned out this arrogant man was Fang Zhouzi, who had committed many acts of treason.
Yuan Liguo was unaware of these minor incidents.
At this moment, Yuan Liguo was already on a high-speed train.
This high-speed train carried over a thousand people, all members of the Eleventh Construction Group. Including employees and their families, over a thousand people, filling almost the entire train.
After boarding, Yuan Liguo found himself sitting next to his colleague, Shi Lindi.
Unlike Yuan Liguo's family traveling together, Shi Lindi was alone.
Yuan Liguo asked, "Shi Lindi, what a coincidence. We're sitting together."
Shi Lindi replied, "Yes, it's quite a coincidence. Brother Yuan, are your whole family going?"
Yuan Liguo smiled and said, "Yes. The four of us are going. By the way, aren't your family coming along?"
Shi Lindi explained, "They don't want to go. And I don't want to miss this opportunity. So, it's just me. Of course, another reason is that the situation over there is still unclear. If the situation over there turns out to be good, it would be great to bring my family over then."
Everyone's family situation was different, and Yuan Liguo didn't press the matter.
Yuan Liguo's children, seeing the high-speed train start moving, became instantly excited. Several times they tried to wriggle out of their parents' arms to run around the carriage.
Yuan Liguo and his wife had to hold them and point out the scenery outside.
"Look at the scenery outside. There's an eagle in the sky. And there's a tower over there..."
Meanwhile, on the train, another identity check was conducted by relevant staff members on the passengers.
The high-speed train traveled for four hours before finally reaching its destination, over a thousand kilometers away.
Everyone on the train disembarked at a small train station and then boarded large buses.
On the bus, after another hour of travel, they arrived at a heavily fortified military base.
"A military base? We've arrived at a military base. Are we going to do construction here?" Yuan Liguo was puzzled.
Yuan Liguo's wife also started to worry, thinking that if they were working in a military base, wouldn't it be very close to the city?
The bus stopped inside the military base.
A uniformed soldier announced, "Thank you all for your hard journey. We still have one more transfer. Please follow me."
Yuan Liguo's family of four, guided by the uniformed soldier, entered a hall within the base that resembled a waiting hall.
Through the glass on the side of the ticket gate passage, they could see many platforms.
Yuan Liguo was surprised. Wasn't this a military base? Why was there a place that looked like a train station? Where were they going? Couldn't they have just gone directly by high-speed train earlier?
The more than a thousand employees of the Eleventh Construction Group were all assigned to one of the waiting halls.
While waiting here, large trains occasionally passed by on the platforms. These trains were different in style from the trains outside. Some were open carriages, carrying various equipment or large equipment parts, indicating a very busy operation.
Twenty minutes later, a series of passenger train-like vehicles pulled into the station.
At this moment, an announcement sounded.
"We will be entering passenger mode in ten minutes. All units please prepare."