Instead of heading to the office building where Mr. Barry works, the car drove to an abandoned factory on the border between Hebei province and the capital.

However, the dilapidated and abandoned factory building on the surface is just a pretense, the real building is underground, we take the elevator down to the minus 7 floor, the elevator doors slide open to both sides, and the eye is a brightly lit hall, which is full of desks, and behind each desk are busy staff.

"This floor has temporarily served as a command center for us, and the personnel are all transferred." Barry explained.

"It looks like the matter is serious." As soon as I saw this meeting, I knew that it would be good for him to look for us, but since he came, I had to listen to what he had to say before deciding to stay.

A very delicate-looking young woman stood by the elevator, and when she saw us coming out, she immediately stepped forward and introduced herself: "Hello, I am Li Yan, the secretary of Director Bai, the conference room has been prepared, and the others have also been notified, please come with me." ”

She smiled politely and gestured to us, and when she said 'others', Sanjiu and I couldn't help but look at each other.

Bai Rui didn't explain, I didn't ask, I followed Secretary Li directly to the door of the conference room, she pushed the door open for us, and the noisy conversation inside immediately stopped.

The long round conference table was full of people, only two empty seats, it seemed that it was me and Sanjiu, there was a small podium in front of the conference table, and a large LCD TV hung on the wall behind it.

Secretary Li led me and Sanjiu to the seats, Bai Rui stepped directly onto the podium in front of him, and although the faces of the twenty or thirty people in front of the table turned to the direction of the podium, the corner of his eye was secretly looking at the two of us.

The men were all dressed in civilian clothes, both men and women, young and old, including two aunts in sportswear and carrying swords. An old man in a white coat.

I don't know and I thought it was a community residents' meeting, and there was a little girl sitting on the other side of Sanjiu, looking like she was seven or eight years old, combing two braids, but since Sanjiu sat down, her charming little eyes kept glancing at him, and the expression on her face had a maturity that was definitely not in line with her age.

Next to the little girl sat a young man. There are three rows of nine ring scars in the middle of the bald head. Seeing that it was a monk, I just didn't know whether it was true or not, because he was also wearing civilian clothes.

Bai Rui sorted out the materials in his hand on the podium. As I prepared for the next meeting, the person on my right took advantage of the free time to greet me.

"Coincidentally, let's meet again!" The boy smiled so brightly at me that I stared at his face for two seconds. Give him a friendly smile.

"It's you, are you okay?" I don't make a lot of noise. Try to avoid drawing attention to others.

"It's okay, he's the person you're looking for, hello handsome guy, my name is Wei Dong!" Wei Dong nodded hello to Sanjiu across me.

"Okay." Sanjiu replied lightly.

"He met me last time on the bus to Xishuangbanna. Do... Antiques business! I paused slightly, and thought of a more worthy profession on Weidong, after all, I knew each other. It's always hard to expose his identity as a recipient of the goods.

Wei Dong listened to me introduce him, and his already joyful eyes smiled like two crescents. He also said modestly: "Don't dare, don't dare, small business!" ”

I smiled, and then introduced Sanjiu: "You can call him Sanjiu, and he is also in business." ”

Wei Dong hurriedly said when he heard this: "Brother Jiu, if you have the opportunity in the future, you must take care of the younger brother's business!" ”

Sanjiu nodded slightly, and let him say polite words, it was no way, and it was already very face-saving for him to give Wei Dong some slight movements.

Wei Dong has seen a lot of people in their business, and they must have encountered any type of person, and they didn't pay attention to Sanjiu's cold reaction at all.

He continued to talk to me, I actually wanted to know the reason why he was in this conference room, the last time we parted, he was afraid to go back to the capital because he had messed up his boss's business, and now he is probably fine.

But before we could talk, Bai Rui tried the microphone, and then the meeting began, Wei Dong stopped the conversation, wrote a few words in the notebook and pushed it in front of me.

I'm staying in room 505, see you after dinner.

Seeing that he was going to have a long conversation, I nodded, and he took the notebook back, feeling like a schoolboy chatting in class.

Bai Rui's opening remarks were short and clear, and the focus of the meeting was on the LCD TV behind him, and Secretary Li sat on a chair next to the podium to take notes.

At the end of the nearly two-hour meeting, Bai Rui put away the materials on the podium, and I thought he would introduce me and Sanjiu to the people present, but no, he packed up his things and called us to leave together, as if the two of us were just here to visit.

Weidong waved his hand as I stepped out of the conference room door, pointing to the notebook in front of him, meaning to remind me not to forget to go to the room to find him.

I nodded, waved at him, and then turned to follow Bai Rui away, who was speaking and breathing steadily throughout the meeting, but when we returned to his office and closed the door to block out all sounds, he coughed desperately.

I took a glass of water for him, and he pulled out the pills in the drawer, which didn't even have their names, and he swallowed half of the water, and my eyes straightened.

"Are you sure you don't need to go to the hospital?" I always feel that he may not be able to go on like this, how can anyone take medicine to talk about it? If you don't get sick and die, you will eat to death, right?

"I can hold on." He stopped coughing, tossed the bloodstained tissue into the trash, and replied in a puffed voice.

"But your nose is bleeding too!" I reminded.

Not only is his nose, but his eyes are also blood-red, and his face is as white as a ghost, and the black shadow under his eyes is as thick as ink.

He pulled out a few more tissues and wiped the blood from his nose, and it took about five minutes for his bloodshot eyes to return to normal, which I guess was the work of the medicine he had taken.

At the meeting just now, he consolidated and listed the major events that have occurred in China recently, circled several key incidents, and handed them over to investigators from special departments to deal with.

The people at the conference table were the objects of his assignments, and even the little girl who coveted Sanjiu was a senior investigator.

They conducted investigations into the special events assigned by Bai Rui in groups of three or four by region, including all provinces of the country, from inaccessible places to bustling places.

"Let's be straight, you're in a hurry to come to us, what the hell is the matter?" I asked.

"It's about the Golden Tablet." Bai Rui paused, looked at Sanjiu and said, "Someone is using it to transmit signals." ”

"Signal? What signal and to whom? I also looked at Sanjiu, and he shook his head at me, indicating that he didn't know about the signal. (To be continued.) )