Chapter Eighty-Eight: Bearing the Wrath
Gu Lian and Li Dong were not hindered from going out, and even Che Zhu was only interrogated - or warned - after being questioned - or warned, he was taken out by Gu Lian because of the identity of the black household, who could not reach ordinary residents.
Gu Lian didn't know where an intelligence trafficker was stationed.
They probably didn't want her to know.
Fortunately, when I came to the mission center, the guy at the counter was still there. Only this time, he didn't treat her with Rory's rambling attitude, through the thick black-rimmed glasses, he looked at her carefully, faintly lowered his head to type into the computer, and didn't say anything.
The little brother at the counter who was wearing a Lei Feng hat and kept Amway like a snake spirit was gone, like a dream.
Did he and Zi Yuan have an intersection? Did Zi Yuan laugh and joke with him before going out that day? When was the last time they met? What was the last thing he said? Did the dreamy purple-haired young man who killed Matt ever feel nervous and scared when he thought he was dedicated to friendship? Or was he high-spirited?
"I'll be back. β
Did he ever make an agreement with someone like this with such a smile.
Is it just a no-show?
Who did he see before he died, and what was his mood?
She remembered his ethereal dreams of the Peach Blossom Spring, and she thought, she was probably the last person to hear his strange dreams.
The human hippocampus is a huge memory memory, which has always attracted brain scientists to study and explore. If a person's lifetime memory is 1 terabyte in size, then the memory with Aster must only occupy a few kilobytes of space - but it is these thousands of bytes of memory that she will never delete no matter what.
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It's different from last time. It was Xu Fei who came to pick her up this time. On his face, Gu Lian had never found an exact emotion, and most of the time he was in a vacuum. His eyes were blurred, as if he was chasing something, and he seemed to be just in a pure daze.
Even when she learned of her friend's death through a cold device, she didn't see him agitated. It's just dazed, confused, as if they don't understand this world where people die easily.
Therefore, when Gu Lian saw that it was him instead of Luo Xi, she didn't know if she was relieved. It's still getting more and more tormented.
"Let's go. Xu Fei said calmly, then turned around and squeezed out a path with his overly large size.
Gu Lian paused. Follow in silence. Che Chu and Li Dong glanced at each other and followed. Along the way, no one spoke. Xu Fei was not the one who took the initiative to speak, and the two of them seemed to feel the heaviness of her mood. Knowingly remained silent.
I came to a separate room again.
Xu Fei held the metal doorknob. The moment she opened the door, Gu Lian felt like a patient about to enter the operating room for an amputation, but she couldn't show it.
From the perspective of the station and Li Dong, you can only see the short girl's straight back like a sword, and her shoulders trembling slightly like a magnolia about to fall, which makes people feel a wonderful sense of pity.
ββI really want to protect her, and I really want to be protected by her.
Inexplicably, Li Dong shook his head. Followed by a few people to rush in.
The scene in the room made the expressions of Gu Lian and the three of them only be described in four words-dumbfounded.
Whether it is an explanation or a need. Gu Lian came in with great courage. As a good student who has not been sick or sick since she was a child, and who is loved by teachers and students, the taste of being scolded and hated is too rare, and God knows how scared she isβeven more so than when she fights for her life in the cafeteria, her heart seems to bounce back and forth irregularly between the infinite sky and the bottomless hell, and her palms are sweaty, and she is trying to straighten her back, as hard as a string that is about to break.
But she never thought that she would see such a scene...... Several people kept weighing the pounds and taels of rice bags, reporting the number, and then recording, orderly and efficient division of labor. Jiang Ran stared at the side while looking at his manuscript and writing and drawing. Luo Xi sat at the small glass table that was too low, lying on his stomach like a big bear with his head down. The handsome young man with clear eyebrows was drooping his eyebrows, and Siri was snoring and snoring, and the soup splashed and fell on the table.
It's like a lively little workshop......
The appearance of several people attracted Jiang Ran's attention, he stopped talking, motioned for those people to continue, and walked in front of them, and after looking around, he said to Xu Fei: "Brought?"
"Brought. Xu Fei said quietly.
As soon as the sound of sucking noodles stopped, the young man Luo Shi glanced up at Gu Lian, that glance she couldn't describe, not indifference, not hate, just a very dry feeling, as if a lot of emotions were mixed together, and they were roasted on coal for a night, the emotions were still there, but the moisture evaporated, leaving only the most real and important mixture remaining.
"Hello Miss Gu, it was really rude that I couldn't say goodbye last time. I heard that you didn't have an easy day today, so it's okay, right?" The middle-aged man in the suit smiled very gracefully and stretched out his hand, elegant, rude, and perfectly packaged. His eyes were calm and smiling, Gu Lian's mind slipped through a pair of red eyes as if he was about to eat people, looked straight at him, and stretched out his hand without hesitation, "Thank you for your concern, I'm fine, even if you punch me now, I can stand it." β
"What are you talking about, Miss Gu," Jiang Ran raised her eyebrows as if she was amused, her voice gentle and kind, "What will make me hit you?" His light eyes and soft tone made it impossible to imagine that his hand was holding her with a force that almost broke her hand.
It hurts, it hurts like cracking bones, and the bones are going to crack at any time because of too heavy squeezing. Gu Lian inhaled slightly, trying to stay calm, but the pain still distorted her face, and her hand seemed to be on fire, so painful that she no longer felt it.
She opened her mouth and swallowed the pain that was about to arrive.
Li Dong, who was standing behind her, was worthy of being an experienced ability, and soon discovered the cattiness in this excessively long handshake. He frowned, glanced at his patron, stepped forward and pressed on Jiang Ran's wrist, and said lightly, "I'm Li Dong." β
Jiang Ran felt the power of the threat on his wrist and gently pressed the life, his gaze shifted, and he smiled slightly: "Stranger?" He thought for a while, then remembered, and said with a smile, "Miss Gu is really popular, the previous time was Dr. Yan, and this time it is Mr. Li, who is ranked thirty-fourth, no wonder he can save the day every time." β
Jiang Ran faintly criticized Gu Lian from the beginning, and this sentence was even more sneering, but Gu Lian just accepted this sentence with a calm face. When Jiang Ran saw it, the pent-up anger in his heart dissipated slightly, and finally let go of Gu Lian's cold and trembling hand, and instead shook hands with Li Dong: "Jiang Ran, fortunately." β
After shaking hands with Che Chop again, several people sat down on the sofa where Luo Sai was. Jiang Ran said lightly: "Last time, Miss Gu gave us all the money for food, because there was too much food needed, there was nothing on the market that could swallow it in one bite, so the price was uneven, and now I am still checking the catties and taels, this is the most primitive account book, every stroke is clearly written, you look at it first." β
Gu Lian took the account book, rubbed her fingers on the cover, but didn't open it, just looked at him, was silent for a while, and said, "Mr. Jiang doesn't blame me?"
As soon as these words came out, Fang Cai, who had barely maintained a strange and harmonious atmosphere, immediately froze, and the scene instantly fell silent. Jiang Ran's smile disappeared, he raised his glasses, with a hint of coldness in his eyes, and looked at her inquiringly, but he only saw a face full of honesty.
The honesty made him feel a wall in his heart, and he couldn't vent his wordless anger and sadness.
With Gu Lian as a breakthrough, relying on her connections as an intelligence businessman, even if Chen Zhi and the others are the most advanced secrets, it is not difficult to find out some minced meat, so she knows that she should not be the main target of criticism, and even more, it is she who saved Ziyuan from dying in the wilderness.
But emotionally, I can't help but blame her, just because she is part of their gang. And did she see through his thoughts before she broke it directly?
Jiang Ran shook his head, smiled bitterly and sighed, but he couldn't get angry anymore. Taking off his glasses, he rubbed the tip of his nose wearily, and when it was time to put them back on, he looked up and smiled again.
"The previous deal is halfway done here. Jiang Ran said slowly, shrewdness flashed in his eyes, "The second half...... We can go on, but I need to add conditions. β
Gu Lian didn't expect things to go so smoothly, and said with some surprise: "Mr. Jiang, please speak." Although she had agreed on the location she told Shion before, it was on the premise that he was still alive. Now that he's dead, it's hard to get paid for it.
"I'm afraid things will be over in the next two days. Jiang Ran smiled lightly and tiredly, "Give us that guy's corpse, that guy has no relatives and no reason, no one will collect a corpse for him, I'm afraid that he will turn into a ghost and come to us." β
Gu Lian's heart trembled, she almost burst into tears, and nodded heavily with red eyes: "Don't worry, even if you don't say it, I will do it." β
Jiang Ran had mixed feelings in his heart, and Luo Xian's eyes softened a little when he looked at Gu Lian. He finished eating the noodles, threw them on the ground, wiped his face with a tissue, and said in a dumb voice: "Don't talk nonsense, you girl will pick up good words." Let's get down to business. β
Jiang Ran looked at Che Shu and Li Dong, and said slowly, "What do you need us to do?"
There was already a look of insight in his eyes. (To be continued.) )