Ao Cheng Peninsula, Coats Road, Jiaxin Building.

The third unit on the seventh floor is Zhang Ran's home, or the most used foothold. In fact, this property was left to him by his deceased aunt, and the three-bedroom and two-bedroom apartment of more than 100 square meters is a veritable mansion in this Australian city where every inch of land is valuable.

Zhang Ran carried the boat porridge and a set of women's clothes he had just bought, and returned to the door of the house along the corridor, and the mailbox in front of the door was stuffed with today's Aocheng Daily. Take it off and open the door and go in.

It took ten hours to travel from the nameless island of Banda Sea to Singapore and return to his home in Aocheng, and Zhang Ran did not feel tired at all. In the morning, he may be on a mission in a jungle or desert, and in the afternoon he sits in a roadside lounge and reads a newspaper or watches TV on the sofa at home.

Bai Ge asked him many times, Zhang Ran, you don't have any friends? Every time Zhang Ran pointed to Bai Ge's head and didn't say anything, Bai Ge didn't ask.

It's normal for people in this line of work to be lonely, but with a mystery in loneliness like Zhang Ran, Bai Ge feels very abnormal.

Zhang Ran did not go to the living room to sit comfortably and drink boat porridge as usual, but walked into the utility room.

He brought back the woman who was ragged and smelling all over.

At this time, she was still tied hand and foot, and her mouth was covered with duct tape. When the light came on, she subconsciously closed her eyes, and it took a while before she slowly opened them and cast her frightened eyes on Zhang Ran.

"You saw my face, I should have thrown you into the Banda Sea."

Zhang Ran put the boat porridge and clothes on the wooden table on the side, and squatted in front of the woman, "You fill your stomach in a while, take a bath, change your clothes, and then leave here." I didn't save you, and you didn't see me. I mean, you know? ”

The woman made a "whine" sound, but the horror in her eyes turned to doubt.

"I almost forgot."

Zhang Ran reached out while muttering to herself, tearing off the tape that was sealed on the woman's mouth, and the woman immediately took a big gulp of air, but she didn't forget to nod at Zhang Ran, and even showed a trace of gratitude on her face.

"Poof!" Suddenly, a dull saber appeared in Zhang Ran's hand at some point, and the woman subconsciously took a step back and opened her mouth. Before she could speak, Zhang Ran had already moved her hand, and in a few clicks she cut off the rope tied to her, and the woman let out a soft "ah", and then began to rub the part that had been tied by the rope.

"You'd better hurry up, I don't know if I'll change my mind later." Zhang Ran, who stood up, was expressionless, and turned around to leave after speaking.

"Wait!" The woman called out to him.

Zhang Ran stood still and turned around, looking at the woman expressionlessly.

I saw that the woman seemed to have eased up, she raised her hand to brush away the long hair that was scattered in front of her, brushed her bangs, revealing a standard melon seed face and neat and delicate facial features, if it weren't for the fact that there were still some traces on the face, this plain face was enough to be called perfect.

The woman's movements and even the posture of standing were different from ordinary women, and Zhang Ran was sure that she must have been trained in etiquette. Just when Zhang Ran was looking at the woman, the woman was actually looking at Zhang Ran.

Her vision is very deep, and she can look directly at Zhang Ran but it does not make people feel abrupt and rude, but has a warm and warm feeling, the power of this kind of eyes, Zhang Ran has only felt it in the former political commissar. Combined with the performance of the woman in front of him, Zhang Ran began to wonder what kind of monster he had saved, he was young but turned into a thousand-year-old demon.

"Can you tell me what this place is? And who are you? Why save me? Well, if you have any purpose, you can say it, as long as it's the price I can pay

"Aocheng." Zhang Ran didn't wait for the woman to speak, so he interrupted with a frown.

"Aocheng!?" I could see that the woman was very calm, but after hearing the name, she still kept whispering for birth.

Just as Zhang Ran looked at the past with cold eyes, the woman had already suppressed her exclamation, stepped forward and said, "Thank you for saving me." ”

Zhang Ran just shook his head slightly, and walked to the living room, because someone was knocking on the door at this time.

His eyebrows jumped, Zhang Ran's right hand had already touched the saber pinned to his back, and he walked sideways.

"Who?"

Knocking on the door changed to smashing the door, "Zhang Ran, open the door!" ”

"!"

Zhang Ran let go of the hand that was about to pull out the saber with a low sigh, and as soon as he opened the door, a young man in a suit and leather shoes and carrying a suitcase crashed in, and there was a suitcase dragging behind him.

"Why are you here?" Zhang Ran went out and looked left and right, then closed the door and locked it.

"You think I won't be able to find you if you don't answer the phone? God, what the hell do you think? We are partners, and I am your technical support. What good will it do you to offend me? OK，OK……”

In the room, the chattering man put down his suitcase, raised his hands slightly, and stopped talking, because Zhang Ran's eyes had already told him that he would throw him down if he continued to be verbose.

"Pigeon, we said there is no need not to meet, you have violated the code." Letting go of Bai Leather, Zhang Ran walked to the sofa and sat down.

"That's your violation first." Bai Ge was very dissatisfied, and he sat down on the single sofa, very tired. Flying from Sydney to Shanghai, and then transferring from Shanghai to Aocheng, it took more than ten hours.

"Why is she here!"

Bai Ge, who had just sat down, was about to count Zhang Ran's no, when he suddenly heard a voice behind his head, turned around suddenly, and saw the woman who was rescued by Zhang Ran walking out of the utility room with clothes in her hand. Surprised and inexplicable, Bai Ge bounced up, pointed to the clothes in the woman's hand and said:

"You, you actually bought her clothes, you are so crazy!" In Bai Ge's opinion. Even if Zhang Ran didn't kill the woman, he must have found a place to let her go, but he couldn't bring her home, and he was still living in Aocheng.

"Isn't it time for me to show up? Thank you for the clothes you bought for me, they fit perfectly. The woman's eyes swept over the white leather, this kid's self-proclaimed "girl killer, young woman's friend" appearance, obviously no use to the woman, the eyes just fluttered over the white leather, but the smiling face was thinking about Zhang Ran blooming.

It's a pity that just as she ignored Bai Ge's handsomeness, Zhang Ran just pointed to the side coldly, "The bathroom is there." ”

"Thank you." A hint of disappointment flashed in the woman's eyes, but she still nodded her thank you very politely and walked to the bathroom.

Bai Ge turned his head, looked at Zhang Ran with deep meaning, and said, "I didn't expect it to be above the level, Zhang Ran, I thought you didn't eat fireworks in the world, it seems that you are not." ”

After making a pot of tea and pouring himself a cup, Zhang Ran sipped it slowly, his voice without any emotion-color, "You came here from Sydney to see what she looks like, right?" ”

Bai Ge snorted silently and said, "There are beautiful women everywhere, and you are not someone who has never seen beautiful women." Zhang Ran, what did you say when we first formed a team? Have you forgotten your code of conduct? ”

"Not killing innocents indiscriminately is also my code of profession." Zhang Ran said.

"But she knows that it was you who killed the drug king couple." Bai Ge said in a low voice, walked to the suitcase, opened it, took out the notebook and brought it over, turned it on and knocked it a few times, and put it on the coffee table, "Take a look." ”

Zhang Ran took the notebook, which was the information about the poison king Chen Lianghui that Bai Ge had found, and after a cursory reading, his brows furrowed slightly, and he put down the notebook.

"We're going to get in big trouble." Bai Ge's tone was no longer cynical as before, and became a little solemn, "I'll come here, I'm preparing to escape, you think I'm idle and have nothing to do with the seaview office and don't sit and run away from your pigeon cage." I'm just here to tell you about it, and I'll be at BJ early tomorrow morning. That's the safest place in the world right now. No matter how presumptuous you mercenaries are, you won't dare to go to the mainland. ”

Zhang Ran was obviously aware of the seriousness of the matter.

The information shows that Chen Lianghui secretly set up a revenge fund in the early years, and as long as he is assassinated, the foundation will be activated to launch an endless pursuit of the murderer.

"But I'm safe, I'm an accomplice at best, and there's no trace of me at the scene." Bai Ge's tone relaxed again, and he gloated, "Hehe, it's you." If you shut up the woman, you should live a little longer, or ......"

Zhang Ran took a sip of tea and said, "I know, is there anything else?" ”

Bai Ge looked at Zhang Ran in surprise, as if he didn't know him, stared at him for a long time before he said in disbelief, "This gentleman, do you know what the concept of 100 million US dollars is?" That's enough to make the world's top mercenaries line up to take your turn! ”

took out the Hibiscus King and ordered one and took two bites, Zhang Ran then turned his head to look at Bai Ge and said, "I know." ”

Bai Ge thought that he would continue to speak, but Zhang Ran leaned on his back comfortably and slowly sipped the tea with a teacup.

"You, that's it?" Bai Ge shook his head speechlessly.

"How else?" Zhang Ran asked rhetorically, "Don't eat, drink, or sleep?" ”

"God!" Bai Ge had a feeling that he was about to collapse, and was just about to raise his voice to speak, when he suddenly remembered that there was an outsider in the bathroom, so he suppressed his voice and said quickly in a calm voice, "Of course, I want to find a way to resolve this big trouble!" ”

"Do you have a solution?" Zhang Ran asked rhetorically.

Bai Ge hesitated, but still nodded, "There is one, but the consequence is that you have to completely withdraw from the mercenary world." ”

Zhang Ran nodded slightly, unable to tell whether he knew the consequences or decided to do so. There is an unwritten rule in the mercenary world that has been adhered to to this day, called "Woe to me". In other words, as long as the employer's information is disclosed, and then the mercenary world is announced, then it is equivalent to drawing a clear line with the mercenary world, and grievances, grievances, blood, and fire will no longer affect you.

The reason why this rule is adhered to by all mercenaries is because it is a rule that is beneficial to anyone.

"I'll only kill people and set fires." After a while, Zhang Ran said lightly.

Bai Ge shrugged his shoulders and said, "I know you won't choose to do this, in fact, you won't be able to survive without the mercenary world." ”

"In addition, it is also a principled rule that the employer's information should be kept confidential." Zhang Ran said.

Indeed, if the employer's information is not kept confidential, then the mercenaries will lose their business, which is no different from killing themselves.

"You go to Rongcheng, it's safer there." Zhang Ran said to Bai Ge.

Bai Ge's eyebrows jumped, and he asked suspiciously, "Are you thinking about something?" ”

"Perhaps, but that's for later." Zhang Ran said, "Of course, you can also choose not to do it. I'll keep your message tight, and you can go back to Sydney and be your business manager. ”

With a cold snort, Bai Ge said, "You want to kick me away?" Wishful thinking played quite well. I've been in the mercenary world for decades, and I've never seen any storms, so this little trouble is nothing. ”

"You're forty-five days away from your twenty-sixth birthday. You have to have a number to brag about. Zhang Ran ruthlessly pierced him.

With a wave of his hand, Bai Ge finally remembered the woman, and asked, "What about that woman, do you really want to let her go?" ”

Zhang Ran nodded, "Yes." ”

"Since you say so, it seems that tonight is very important to you, and I should live in another place and not disturb you too much." Bai Ge stood up, while talking, he went to drag the suitcase, Zhang Ran pursed his lips, he was untouched by Bai Ge's words, he looked even more boring like this.

"Yes, I'll go and see the scenery of Jiuzhaigou. By the way, in fact, your place is not safe, you just need to take care of that girl when I leave, oh, by the way, that girl doesn't seem to be simple, I have a special medicine here OK, OK, don't say it, I'm leaving, it's really not safe, you know, everything that is put in the computer, you can't keep it secret, you have to be careful, keep in touch, the old way. ”

Under the forced gaze of Zhang Ran's eyes, Bai Ge walked away stupidly. As he said, there is already a woman who needs Zhang Ran's protection, if he comes in, it will drag Zhang Ran down, and while his identity has not been exposed, it is best to leave alone.

"Come out, you've been standing there for a long time, aren't you tired?"

Zhang Ran, who returned to the sofa and sat down, turned his head to look at the corner of the bathroom wall, and said lightly.

"Your friend's oily noodles"

The woman was still carrying clothes in her hands, and appeared around the corner with Zhang Ran's words, if she hadn't taken a bath yet, she should have been standing in the corner eavesdropping, but unfortunately she still couldn't escape Zhang Ran's ears.

"Since you've heard our conversation just now, it's time to hurry up and take a shower" Zhang Ran shook his head, he had to admit that Bai Ge was indeed more experienced than him in some places, especially in the latest high-tech aspects. If Bai Ge says that this place is not safe, then it is really unsafe.

It's just that Zhang Ran can't think of where the first threat came from for the time being.

Under Zhang Ran's urging, the woman finally entered the bathroom, and after the sound of flushing came, Zhang Ran got up and began to pack up her things.

This book was first published in Reading Books