Chapter: 5026

"Many years?" Li Ailin asked again, "How many years?"

Five Four Seven furrowed his brow and thought for a moment before opening his mouth to say, "It's roughly around 20 years ago or so, but my timeline may have a certain deviation from reality, plus or minus two years."

Li Ailin nodded and marked off several entries on the timeline, including 2008 China, 2011 Japan, and some more recent ones. He then opened his mouth to say, "So we can rule out Japan's periphery and central and southwestern China."

As he was talking, he looked at the entry for Indonesia in 2004 and asked, "Did you feel that earthquake strongly?"

Five Four Seven responded without hesitation, "It was extremely strong, even causing significant damage to our base and resulting in injuries or even fatalities."

Li Ailin's eyes lit up with excitement as he said, "That might have been the Indonesian tsunami in 2004."

As he spoke, he pulled out a map and found the epicenter of the Indonesian tsunami on it. He muttered to himself, "The epicenter was in western Indonesia, many countries and regions felt the tremors, but yours was relatively stronger and may have been near the Indian Ocean or even in Indonesia."

"But," he continued, "in 2003, there were massive earthquakes above 7 degrees in Hokkaido, Japan, and the Solomon Islands. In 2005, Pakistan also experienced a magnitude 7.8 earthquake. Your timeline isn't precise enough, so there may be some deviation here."

As he finished speaking, he looked at Five Four Seven and asked, "Do you have any other clues about that earthquake?"

As he finished speaking, Five Four Seven shook his head and said, "There aren't any other clues left, the earthquake was indeed quite frightening, but since there wasn't too much damage, we didn't think too much about it either."

He looked at the map again and asked, "If that earthquake is the one in Indonesia, did you experience flooding after the earthquake?"

Five Four Seven thought for a moment before suddenly recalling something. He exclaimed, "Yes, we did experience flooding, actually pouring in at least 20 centimeters thick, and it was only later that we managed to pump out those accumulated waters."

Lee Ya Lin's face lit up with excitement as he asked him, "Is the water salty?"

Five Four Seven thought for a moment before furrowing his brows and saying, "I'm not really sure about that... it's been too long ago, but I do remember that after that, there were some white residues left on the ground and clothes, which might be the result of sea salt precipitating out..."

Lee Ya Lin nodded, saying, "That's probably due to salt, if so, then you guys must have experienced the Indonesian tsunami, which was caused by the earthquake and affected many countries around the region, including your base."

As he spoke, Lee Ya Lin circled two areas on the map and said, "So, looking at this, it seems that your base might be located in western South Asia or eastern Southeast Asia."

Lee Ya Lin looked at some notes and muttered to himself, "The epicenter of the Indonesian tsunami, which has been experiencing earthquakes in recent years, but not of a high magnitude. Do you guys have any quake sense?"

Five Four Seven shook his head and said, "I can't guarantee that we haven't felt any significant quakes over the past many years, but I can assure you that we didn't feel anything obvious."

Lee Ya Lin nodded and said, "If so, it means your base should be located relatively close to the edge of the 04-year Indonesian tsunami's impact area, and basically outside the influence range of subsequent earthquakes. This is already a significant breakthrough."

As he spoke, he drew some circles on the map and marked the position between the two outer circles with red ink, saying, "Although these areas are quite large, luckily most of them are ocean. And since you said your base felt the quake in 04 and had water seepage, it proves that your base is definitely not far from the coastline and should be located within this ring-shaped area or on a coastal island."

Five Four Seven gazed at the circular areas on the map with a complex expression, opening his mouth to say, "We've been trying to figure out where we are for so many years, but no one knows..."

As he said that, Five Four Seven suddenly welled up tears and let them flow over his face as he stared at the small ring-shaped area and choked back, "Lee Captain... thank you..."

Lee Ya Lin waved his hand, saying, "Let's not get ahead of ourselves thanking me. Even if it is this ring-shaped area, its size is quite large, making it extremely difficult to conduct a thorough search here. I've also discussed this with Ye Shaoyi previously and feel that it's too early for us to send people to these areas to search for your base. We should leave these problems on the table for now and not reveal any clues. Once we decide to go in, we'll need to prepare ourselves to be discovered by the other side."

As he spoke, Lee Ya Lin said again, "So, the best approach is for us to find a breakthrough point from here, ideally through our combined analysis and narrowing down the target area to a size that's sufficient. Then Ye Shaoyi can personally take care of it."

Five Four Seven nodded in understanding and sighed, saying, "The organization's strength is indeed very strong. Sudden contact could easily invite disaster... We've been under their control for so many years without being able to escape, even not knowing what they're hiding behind the scenes. It might be much larger than our imagination." JrNovels.com