Chapter 71 Playing Games
For the city of Zhongdu, there are two times of the day that are the busiest and busiest. The first time is at 7 o'clock in the morning. At this time, most people go out to work, and hundreds of thousands of people flock to the streets during this time. The second time is at 8 o'clock in the evening. At this time, most people flock to the streets again, just walking home.
Although the emperor did not like people wasting time on entertainment, he could not erase the "**" in human nature. Therefore, he had to make a considerable degree of compromise - allowing alcoholic beverages to be sold in stores and allowing a small number of entertainment venues to continue to exist.
The "Big Fish Bar" at the end of the street of Eleventh Avenue is such an "entertainment place". It is 8:29 pm now, which is the most lively time of this bar. However, this bar is not a private industry, but a government steward. From the doorman to the bartender, they can be regarded as "civil servants". In addition to the basic responsibility of running a bar, they also shoulder the task of collecting intelligence. Everyone knows this, but people who are tortured by high-intensity work cannot resist the temptation of being slightly drunk, so there is still constant traffic here.
At this time, Li Haofan pushed open the bar door. The guard at the door only glanced at him and quickly turned his gaze elsewhere. Who told him to have a plain face? This kind of face does not look like a big shot.
There was a noisy sound inside the door. The smell of sweat on people and the smell of alcoholic beverages flocked in, and he couldn't help but frown slightly. The bar seemed to have become the original appearance of this place - it was more suitable to call it a "table".
He pushed two or three people away, and opened a passage for himself in the crowd, which attracted a few scoldings. Then he walked to the bar and slapped a wrinkled banknote on it, and said in a heartache but helpless voice: "A bottle of beer."
The young waitress with a stern face and slow movements like a turtle made her eyes slip casually from him and came to the conclusion. This was a bad guy who was reluctant to spend money but couldn't quit drinking. That bad luck seemed like every building around him owed him a million, so she wouldn't be sure to have a fight when she got home after drinking here.
The waitress put a bottle of wine on the bar, shrank back, and continued to look at the people here without any angrily. After a few glances, she felt that she could not get anything valuable from them at all, so she lowered her head and continued to read the novel in her hand.
Li Haofan bent his thumb and opened the bottle cap. He looked around and tried to find the trash can, but after finding all kinds of garbage on the ground, he suddenly realized. He threw the bottle cap on the ground. He took a sip of wine, left the bar, and squeezed into the deeper part of the crowd. But after a circle, he got nothing after a few words of scolding and a few fists that he opened from some unknown place.
He returned to the bar and planned to ask the waitress for a while. At this time, someone called him at a small table next to the bar. Li Haofan looked over with a bottle of wine and found An Ruohong sitting there. He had cigarettes between his fingers. There were a few bottles of wine and two fruit plates on the table. There were two chairs on the side of the small table. But no one sat down in the crowded bar. It seemed that everyone knew that An Ruohong was an amazing big man.
Li Haofan was slightly stunned, then walked over, pulled open the chair and sat down.
The waitress behind the bar raised her head and looked at him - this time she was a little serious. But what she saw was a gloomy and dangerous look on An Ruohong's face. She clutched the bottle in her hand as if she would hit the other person's face at any time. So she came to the second conclusion about Li Haofan - that unlucky guy might have owed money or offended someone. But this was not something she should worry about - her uncle just wanted her to stuff her here.
It's just a little more leisurely and comfortable life. It's the law enforcement officer's responsibility to catch betting and gangsters. What's more, she knew the man who was sitting there - that was a nearby community doctor. He came to drink every now and then, but his alcohol taste was very poor. He beat people several times, and even almost killed people. After spending all his money to clear the relationship, he was not sent to the electric chair - ordinary people had long been shot to commit these things because they were hindering human immigration projects and wasting resources.
So the man became a hedgehog. Everyone knows that the man is not easy to mess with, and he is unwilling to mess with him - it is best to avoid as far as he is. Unless someone wants to borrow usury or do some irrelevant contraband, they will get closer.
An Ruohong's face was indeed gloomy. But what he said was another matter. He said: "It's cleaner here."
The cleanliness of their population is of course another matter. So Li Haofan realized that this should be a blind spot for surveillance - as for the waitress, it was nothing more than a decoration.
"There are still such places." Li Haofan smiled.
"Don't come often?" An Ruohong asked with a gloomy face.
"The first time I'm here." Li Haofan said the truth. He didn't expect this to be like this in the bar today.
An Ruohong looked at him meaningfully and said, "Then perhaps the intelligence officers today are different from ours. The world in the past... is much more exciting now. At your age, I have almost become familiar with the bars in Pingyang - of course, the people in the bars."
He glanced at the bar as he said, but with the gloomy expression on his face, it looked a little strange.
He wanted to bring the distance between the two of them closer, but Li Haofan did not accept his affection. He seemed to be eager to leave such a place, and staying for another second would be torture.
He put only one sip of beer on the table, lowered his voice and said, "I have a message to you. About Lee Jin."
An Ruohong immediately became serious. He frowned and leaned forward, which seemed to others to be asking for trouble for Li Haofan: "You can say it here."
Li Haofan looked around and said, "In another three days, he will leave Zhongdu and go to Yanjing. I heard that something big seems to have happened there."
Then he kept silent, and An Ruohong frowned and thought for a while, then looked up at Li Haofan: "Is this news? Just tell me this?"
Li Haofan shrugged: "Then do you want me to make some requests? For example, seeing Victoria see how she is doing?"
An Ruohong smiled for the first time tonight: "A month ago, you said you didn't want to have too much relationship with us, but now you have helped a lot."
"Maybe I'm interested in what you said later... I've been convinced by you?" Li Haofan said with a smile. "Or or am I just simply interested in you?"
An Ruohong stared at Li Haofan's smiling face for a while, feeling that the other party said something had a profound meaning. But it might be that he was too sensitive. After the first contact with this person, he did a lot of work and concluded that this guy should not be a suspicious person - unless he has the ability to use the resources of the world to fake his identity for himself. So the two sides had a second, third, fourth, and even the fifth contact now.
An Ruohong was very confident in himself and believed that this young man would sooner or later become a member of them and a powerful general under his command - what happened tonight seemed to confirm this.
He poured Li Haofan a glass of wine and said, "Don't throw the bottle of garbage in your hand and bring some real good things - I have to thank you for bringing me this news. As for Victoria - do you really want to see her?"
He was not worried about whether the news was accurate. Because he had his own channels to confirm that point. What he cared more about now was Li Haofan's attitude towards Victoria.
Li Haofan looks quite young - although sometimes the tone and behavior of his speech make people feel that he is an old-fashioned middle-aged man, the subtle expression on the young man's face often confirms his true age. Victoria is younger and is in a period when girls are most likely to have hallucinations - the hallucinations of love. An Ruohong has also been in contact with that girl several times, and it can be vaguely seen that she has left a deep impression on Li Haofan who has only seen once. It is undeniable that An Ruohong is a beauty. This is even better news.
A young man who wants to be a "superhero" and looks ordinary, meets a little beauty who secretly falls in love with him... An Ruohong is very happy to promote this marriage. This will benefit all parties. Of course, it is mainly beneficial to him.
Li Haofan still smiled, but An Ruohong could see that this time he was trying to calm down. He said, "Ask casually. Have you sent her away?"
"She is still in Zhongdu." An Ruohong looked at Li Haofan and said, "I'm not in a good mood, but I'm very safe."
Before Li Haofan could speak, he had already stood up and played the trick of playing hard to get. He patted Li Haofan on the shoulder: "You should still consider my proposal carefully. For example, we will be very happy this time."
Then he walked straight away. Li Haofan sat alone for a while. He picked up the glass of wine that An Ruohong poured for him on the table and smelled it. He frowned slightly and put it down again.
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The information provided by Li Haofan was quickly confirmed. In fact, even if he didn't say it, An Ruohong could probably get this news in two days - "His Majesty the Emperor"'s visit to another country is not a trivial matter. Even if he is low-key, the people in the palace will always know it.
An Ruohong knew what was because of it - Ying Jue Ren used a considerable amount of force to rescue Dai Bingcheng. Although Yanjing blocked this matter tightly, news still spread among the people. However, it is not the old era where people can speak freely on the Internet. The information that people who are farther away from the center of the incident can get is very pitiful, only a few words. An Ruohong was definitely dissatisfied with it - even though he was his nominal brother-in-law, and when he was a child, he was considered a childhood friend. He believed that Ying Jue Ren had mastered things like Nanmen II, and could razed the palace to the ground with one shot.
However, at the price of giving up Nanmen II, he only wanted to save an old man? He felt that it was definitely a spy sent by the imperialists to the organization.
Under the leadership of that kind of person, the organization will only go to destruction. An Ruohong reiterated this in his heart.
Now is a good opportunity, and his actions must be swift. Although the spirit is running in the sky and the possibility of pulling him out of the vast sea of people is only one in a few hundred thousand, it is not impossible. He wants to arrange everything before Li Zhen returns to Luzon from the empire, and then wait to harvest the fruits of victory.
This also means that he has to deal with Li Haofan as soon as possible.
An Ruohong walked into the biological laboratory through numerous access controls. This was one of the few places that made him feel that he was still in the old era - clean, bright, and full of technology. Unlike the buildings outside now, they are all "cut corners" and "rustic". Li Zhen said that he was the example of the world and did not build a palace for himself. But the palace he lived in, which was converted from a cathedral, was more grand than anyone's residence?
An Ruohong shook his head and took out the potion from the constant temperature box. All the people who worked here were dismissed. An Ruohong didn't know where the three experts who participated in the research on this potion were currently in - or in which fish's belly.
The glass tube with a thumb thickness and a length of ten centimeters is filled with milky white liquid. According to experts, this thing is useless to anyone except Li Zhen. Not only is it not lethal, it is also a good nutritional agent. However, this thing is easy to evaporate. After opening it, it must be poured into the mouth as soon as possible, otherwise it will evaporate into a gaseous state. The colorless and odorless gas is rich in viruses that can survive in an inorganic environment for more than one month. These viruses will cause the infected person's body cells to lose vitality within one minute, and at a deeper level, it is manifested as rapid gene disintegration, and it can turn into a pool of rotten meat in just three days.
He stared at the glass tube for a while and carefully put it away.
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Li Haofan took out the key, pushed open the door, and walked into the house. When he closed the door with his backhand, he stomped on the insole a few times, shaking off the dust on the upper. Then he rubbed his left foot against his right foot and took off his shoes. He threw the key into a plate placed on the shoe cabinet.
An elderly woman shouted as he walked barefoot into the kitchen: "Wear slippers. Wear slippers!"
Li Haofan went back helplessly and put his slippers on at the door. After he walked into the kitchen, his mother walked to the door and picked up the shoes he took off and put them in the shoe cabinet. Then he lifted the insole at the door and opened the door, and threw them hard in front of the door. It was almost ten o'clock in the evening. The people on the street were sparse. The banging sound only alarmed two or three birds. A pedestrian who happened to pass by turned his head and glanced away.
Li Haofan opened the refrigerator and found that the temperature was a little low, and the ice water prepared for him was not cool enough. So he lowered the temperature of the refrigerator twice. After thinking about it, he turned up and back to a scale.
But tomorrow morning, the only woman in this family will definitely be nagging to turn the temperature back, because it saves electricity.
Li Haofan walked out of the kitchen with water. An elderly man poked his head out of the living room and frowned: "Did you go to drink at night? There are fewer places like that - there are still people waiting for you at home!"
Li Haofan curled his lips: "Who is waiting for me? Can he still be my wife?"
The old man frowned even more tightly. According to the conclusion drawn by an observer who is currently nearby, the relationship between Li Haofan and his son is quite poor. Almost one or two days later, they will start to quarrel over some inexplicable things or people. This time is no exception. After a few words, Li Haofan slammed the door and entered his room in anger. The old man stared at his door for a while, walked to the window to pull the curtains with a sigh.
Until now, Li's father has the ability to work at the airport tower at a high distance of sight. The observer is afraid that the other party can also discover himself.
The observer was hiding in a house in the opposite building, belonging to the Zhongdu branch of the Rebels Organization. He used to be an elite person with a happy style. He was responsible for all the details of Li Haofan's life. He "sees" farther and hears farther-for example, now, he can hear Li Haofan turning on the speaker after returning to his room. However, Li Haofan's room had no window, only against the wall, and closed the door. No matter how much the light refracts and scatters it, it could not enter his room.
But it doesn't matter. Today is the last day of the observation period, and I am much luckier than the comrades who are responsible for the other side. The person in charge No. 1 ordered another comrade to try to track the details of Li Haofan's work. But the problem is... Li Haofan himself is an intelligence agent, and his workplace is in the palace - there is a devil who can draw any decent conclusions. In fact, it is considered that his colleague is very capable of touching the palace - but unfortunately he certainly can't do this.
But no matter what, the one and a half months of observation period have officially ended. Li Haofan has been determined to be the kind of person who can be trusted. He has a clean wealth and simple motivation and can be absorbed into the organization.
The observer packs his equipment and exits the room.
At this time, Li Haofan opened another door. Of course, the observer also came to Li Haofan's bedroom to "visit". But he could not solve the password of the door that Li Haofan opened, behind his bookshelf. After moving the bookshelf, he found that the secret door had to rotate the handle of the door left and right in the room several times - and the number of times of this "several circles" is changing every day.
Then you have to turn on the switch of the speaker in the room, and then light up the desk lamp on the bedside table after adjusting the volume to a specific range.
It is not until this time that you can easily move the bookshelf. And you find a flashing password input box on the wall behind the bookshelf. After entering a password of up to twelve digits, you can open a door.
Now Li Haofan opened the door. He walked in and closed the door - so the bookshelf automatically closed after the door was closed.
Li’s father and Li’s mother were still staying in the living room. They were studying alone, while the other was talking about what they saw in the factory today.
The observer has also made an evaluation of these two people - the background is equally clean and the life experience is traceable. He believes that Li's mother is a C-level capable person and is good at controlling precision instruments. Li's father should be slightly stronger, a B-level capable person with "a gaze like a torch."
Unfortunately, he didn't know that Li's mother was C-level, but she was good at controlling not only "precision instruments", but also "battlefield fire support platform". Li's father was B-level. It was even more correct to have better eyesight. But his vision was so good that he could penetrate the wall to see clearly that the observer had a few beards on his cheek today.
In fact, from 20:00 to 22:00 or even 24:00 every night, the subjects being observed are not Li’s father and mother or Li Haofan—the observer himself is.
But no one should accuse the observer of insufficient ability because he is not fighting against one person or a family of three.
He was fighting an extremely huge empire - even though the force he wanted to fight was urgently summoned more than fifty days ago.
Li Haofan appeared in another room - also behind the bookshelf. However, the bookshelf in this room is more luxurious - although it is just pretending.
He walked out the door and stepped onto the soft and thick carpet, and the bookshelf closed behind him.
Then he walked to an equally large desk on the north side of the wide study and sat down. He found a document on the table.
Li Haofan unbuttoned the two collars while looking at the file. The contents of the human immigration project are about the Tianba Station. The report pointed out that some "missible items" that were not listed on the list were recently found in the building materials for the Tianba Station. He asked how to deal with it and which department should deal with it.
The so-called "missible" is nothing more than some extra space survival equipment and cannot be used for military purposes. Moreover, the delivery party is the "Nebula" logistics company of the Northern Empire, and is considered a trusted long-term partner - because the real boss behind it is Zhu Zhaoxu.
But he thought for a long time. Finally, he sighed meaningfully and said, "It's okay."
Then send it to the office for processing.
After standing up again and changing into clothes, the door of the study was pushed open.
There are only two people on this planet who dare to do this. One is Yu Bin, who doesn’t understand “people” affairs, and the other is his wife.
"Where are you going today?" Zhang Kesong held a glass of milk in his hand and applied a mask on his face, looking a little creepy. Li Haofan rubbed his face before the other party could see him clearly, stood up and smiled, "Military secret - it's really a military secret. I'm afraid you'll get upset if you know."
Now, this is a face that everyone can recognize.
The owner of this face is Li Zhen.
But Zhang Kesong just "ask a question". She quickly walked to the sofa and sat down, saying, "I want to ask you, we have to stay north for a few days. If you stay for a long time, I will prepare my clothes in advance..."
Li Zhen smiled: "You really don't have the Queen's life - which Queen still packs her luggage for business trips by herself?"
"Then you are not wearing a dragon robe," said Zhang Kesong. "Besides, let others pack up for me, otherwise, the clothes - don't you think it's weird?"
Li Zhen shook his head and said seriously: "But I can't go to the north, I have something to do here. You have to go by yourself."
Zhang Kesong was stunned for a moment, put the cup in his hand on the coffee table, and wanted to frown but didn't dare: "What? If you don't go, I won't go - what am I going to do."
Chapter completed!