Chapter 9: The Secret Covenant of the Underground

To tell the truth, it was Xiaozhi who discovered it first, and when I was surprised, I already heard Xiaozhi's voice ringing a little timidly in my ears: "Brother Banque." Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info”

I forcibly suppressed Xiaozhi's desire to come out, and asked the familiar figure in front of me with a sneer: "How long have you been waiting for me?" ”

When I got closer, I noticed that the man's face did not show the triumphant expression I expected, but rather a decadent look, with some stubble on his face and a faint blue-black circle under his eyes because he had not rested. He glanced up at me and said, "I want to talk to Xiaozhi." ”

"No play." I gave him a blank look, restraining Xiaozhi's urge to come out and replace me, and gathered to understand Gin's request, "Don't think I don't know what you're thinking, she's out, and you can take her away without much effort." Don't think of me as a brainless she. ”

"I have something to say to her." Ban Que stood up and yelled at me very loudly.

I passed by him, and my destination was very close, and I could find the information I was looking for by climbing the inscription a short distance from the mountain. I turned my head and glared at him: "If you make a louder noise, the security guards outside will hear it, but this paradise that I have managed to find will soon become a burial place for the two of us, after all, we have enjoyed the 'free' service for too long." For black entertainment, this is a more loss-making business, what do you think will happen if we know so many secrets? You don't want to take the risk of trying, do you? ”

Ban Que grabbed my arm from behind: "I really have something to say to him, something very important." ”

Xiaozhi was also clamoring to come out in my thoughts, and this time it seemed like I had received some full affirmation, Xiaozhi's voice kept chattering in my head: "Zizhi, Brother Banque is calling me, let me go out, okay." ”

"Not good." This time I was determined not to let Xiaozhi come out, I had a bad premonition, no matter what, I couldn't let Banque contact Xiaozhi, I always felt that what he wanted to say to Xiaozhi would have a huge impact on Xiaozhi, so I resolutely rejected his request.

Ban Que also glared back at me: "You don't have the right to do this, except for you, Xiaozhi also has the right to control himself." His expression looked dangerous.

I made up my mind, knowing that if I stayed here today, I might encounter something even more terrible, and suddenly, what Song Fei had just said to me popped up in my mind: 'Give me a chance to save a child who is in great need'. Realizing that he was now the only savior who could take me out of here, I decisively shook off Banque's hand and ran back.

"Don't struggle, I think if you go back, there will be people waiting outside to trouble you. I don't want those people to take you away, you know better than I do. The version seemed to realize what I was going to do, but she didn't panic too much when she wanted to love you, but followed me unhurriedly.

"yes, I think it's better to be captured by someone than to fall into your hands." I continued to run on the road.

Behind him, there was Ban Que's mocking voice: "Hehe, do you think I don't know what you're investigating?" To be able to come here to get information means that there must be someone in our organization who is involved in some very serious case. And the person you are investigating should also involve my interests, to put it bluntly, you want to touch my people. I'm not sure which one it is, but if you are caught, I will organize it, and I will easily be hungry to get rid of a traitor like you, and when the time comes, someone will help me fulfill my wish without my help. ”

When I heard this, I suddenly felt a chill in my heart, but I knew that it was not me who was really cold, but another personality who had always remained sober - Xiaozhi. I paused, then turned to face him and walked backwards. I know that no one else will come in this secret passage, so the only real danger is this man in front of me. I smiled, much more relaxed than the embarrassment just now: "Oh? Do you know that Xiaozhi is not asleep at all now? I yawned, "We're both awake now, so she can hear what you say." I rubbed my eyes, "She seems to have been hurt by you, it's so pitiful." I raised my eyes and looked at him amusedly, pretending to talk to myself.

Ban Que was stunned, and then he slowly walked towards me as if he hadn't heard anything, and I was stepping back step by step: "I don't want to expose this place, so don't force me." "I threatened him, although I was not sure, but this face-to-face made me feel more at ease.

"I just want to talk to Xiaozhi about something." Banque quickened his pace, and I heard the car horn more clearly, and I knew that I was close to the entrance.

"You can talk to me." I looked at him nervously, "And I said, as long as you tell me, we are both awake, and even if I keep this empty thought, she can still hear what you say." ”

"Okay." Ban Que stopped approaching me step by step, and stopped where he was, "I want Xiaozhi to leave here, leave here forever." He repeated it.

"What?" I didn't believe he would say such a thing.

"Get out of here, get out of here before I regret my decision, and run as far away as possible." When Ban Que raised his head again, his eyes were already red, and he was full of anger, mixed with an emotion that I couldn't understand.

"What's wrong?" I immediately sensed that something was wrong with Ban Que today, and it was very likely that it had something to do with the words he passed on to Xiaozhi.

"You don't have to worry about it." Ban Que turned his face away, "You just need to take Xiaozhi away, the farther away from me the better, and I will give you the life you want." Banque turned, "Leave before I regret my decision." ”

"But that's not the life I want." Xiaozhi's voice suddenly came out of my mouth, and I knew that the little girl would not give me a chance to leave properly at all. Ban Que didn't say anything, Xiao Zhi hurt me and wanted to run to Ban Que for a moment to ask for clarification, but I suddenly realized that until the real control was in my hands, I lowered my head and grinned, forcing myself to turn around and climb up the ladder, no matter what method he used, but I had a way out, didn't I? Xiaozhi had been thwarting my decision to leave in my consciousness, and when I opened the lock, I almost fell because of it, but I steadied myself and stopped the movement outside at the mouth of the well, and suddenly felt a little different from just now. Fearing that something might change, I didn't remove the manhole cover.

Ban Que probably didn't hear me for a long time, so he looked up and asked me, "Why don't you go out?" ”

I stood on the ladder and asked him in a bad tone, "You won't send someone to block me outside, will you?" ”

Ban Que frowned and said disdainfully: "Do you think it is necessary for me to let others arrest you after I let you go?" I'm not that idle. Someone out there must be someone out there who has been tracking you looking for you everywhere, right? ”

Xiaozhi's voice sounded again in this underground space: "I'm sorry, Brother Banque, Zizhi didn't mean that. ”

I didn't refute Xiaozhi because I heard Song Fei's shout outside: "Zizhi, Zizhi." ”

Ban Que's eyes widened: "You told outsiders the location here?" ”

When I was asked like this, I blushed, because I was afraid that the version did something extreme just now, I did send the general location to Song Fei and asked her to rescue me, and then I called Song Fei and kept the call turntable, and the police themselves suffered accidents. But the divine turn given by Banque caught me off guard for a while and forgot to turn off my phone. It seems that this place will not be able to come for a while. While I was struggling with how to explain and apologize, there was no sound outside.

Ban Que finally waved his hand: "Forget it, maybe we won't have a chance to come here again, and it doesn't hurt to be known." ”

I picked up the mobile phone that was still on the call in my pocket and said, "I'm sorry, Sister Song Fei, stand still and don't move, I still have some things to deal with, I'll look for you in 15 minutes." Make sure to stand in a prominent position in the crowd and ensure your own safety. You're going to have to wait for me a while. ”

Song Fei replied briefly "yes" on the other end of the phone, and hung up the phone first.

"Waiting for me to return to what I just decided?" Ban Que raised his head and asked me with a frown.

I jumped down the ladder: "Ah, since you said this is the last time we're here, I don't think it's better to find out what I want." ”

"Do you think I'll let you check it?" Ban Que said this, but he still made a way for me.

I calmly passed by him, no longer panicked just now: "Definitely." You've already made up your mind to let me go. Since you let me go for the first time, I think you don't have to do any psychological construction this second time. ”

Ban Que looked at me and said nothing.

I said as I walked, "When you said you wanted me to get out of here, I almost started to think about why you set fire to the morgue last night, although I also knew that you must know that I would escape from there without any problems, you must have seen the drawings or some other information in advance, and checked the other open morgues, and knew exactly which room we were in, so you know that the room we are staying in has a ventilation duct, and you also know that I will find a way to escape through the ventilation duct, I even knew that Xiaozhi would swap control with me after being misunderstood by you, so you brazenly said those seemingly crazy words, but in fact, it was to make others mistakenly think that you would definitely kill me. But in reality, you just want people to misunderstand your ideas. In fact, you succeeded. Everyone thinks we're dead, and only you know I'm alive. Although I don't know why you, who have always hated me, will let me go, but I know that there must be a conditional exchange behind this, right? ”

"You're smart." Ban Que followed behind me, and we moved slowly and slowly.

"When you said that you wanted to talk to Xiaozhi, I thought of it, you come to pick me up, in order to protect yourself, it is impossible for Xiaozhi to talk to you, so the reason why you said that you want to find Xiaozhi, it is not expensive, it is to test whether it was me or Xiaozhi who was standing in front of you at that time. It wasn't until you confirmed my identity that you really said what you asked me to leave the city. Am I right? "I didn't turn my head to guess that Ban Que must have a surprised expression now.

Ban Que's words confirmed my suspicion: "That's true, if it was Xiaozhi at the time, no matter how I explained it to her, she wouldn't have left." However, you are different, you will negotiate conditions with me. ”

I probably had my own guess in my heart, so I asked Ban Que, "Are you in trouble?" This trouble puts you at risk yourself, so you desperately need someone to help you. I guess this threat is from your father's former subordinates, right? Otherwise, you wouldn't have come to me to help you, a child of an enemy, someone who is completely at odds with you. "What I just said was a bit ugly, but I wanted to make sure what it was.

Ban Que smiled bitterly; "You're right, there's something wrong internally, and I can't find anyone I can trust."

"You trust me?" I couldn't help but laugh when I heard this answer, "We have been fighting for more than ten years, and you have tried to kill me every time, and now you are so miserable, but you tell me that I know someone you can trust." Don't think that if you make peace now, I can be at your mercy as stupidly as Xiaozhi. He likes you, but I don't. ”

"It's not a newcomer, it's a deal." Ban Que refuted my claim, "I just believe that you are a good businessman, that's all. I admit it, but I acted so crazy, taking people to arrest you, blaming you, and telling the truth that I had hidden in my heart for so many years but everyone knew by heart, that I really wanted to confuse people into thinking that I had really killed you, so as to create an opportunity to meet with you privately without arousing the suspicion of others. I know you can't die, and you're going to leave the boss and the others after figuring out that I have no intention of killing you. If you have no relatives, the most likely thing you will turn to is the soft-hearted little detective who has already helped you once, and he has the police to help him, which can also make you feel safer. But you can't let that little cop know more about you, and in order to prevent him from checking your identity, Pinch must provide him with a big gift, and this big gift will definitely cost you a member of the organization. After all, we have been exposed to so many commissions, and more or less they will involve the past of some members of our organization. You know, not many of us are clean. ”

"So you've been waiting here for me?" I thought about it, and finally knew why he was so decadent, and he should have been waiting for me all the time after dealing with the superficial work that was too much of a shame.

Ban Que nodded; "The best place to find out about things is this secret repository we've discovered. I know that in order to make the other party trust you, you will provide him with the most comprehensive information so that he can solve the case smoothly, and then you can exchange terms with him to let him protect you. ”

"So, since I have his protection, why do I have to exchange terms with you?" I stopped where I was, leaned against the wall and asked him.

"He can't protect you for the rest of your life, as long as someone knows that you are still alive and cooperates with the police, he will definitely continue to track you down." Ban Que said as he stood across from me.

I continued to sneer; "Isn't this exactly what you want? You made me go and make an alliance with the police, so that I would never be able to return home. Now that I am a good trading partner, can you not be inconsistent in your words? ”

Ban Que was silent for a moment and then said: "This is the only choice I can make, otherwise not only you and me, but the rest of the boss will die." ”

When I heard this sentence from Ban Que's mouth, I was completely stunned: "What do you mean?" ”

Ban Que shook his head; "We're being targeted."

"Who is it?" I was shocked, "Is the boss in danger now?" ”

"Very dangerous." Ban Que's expression became more serious under the light of the flashlight, "We underestimated the enemy. I only care about fighting each other and you, but I ignore the protective shield that has long been rotten outside, and some people have different intentions. ”

"What does that have to do with us?"

"He wants to reinvent the organization." Banque looked me straight in the eye, "He's going to clean up the organization completely." ”

I was stunned for a moment, a little unconvinced of what I was hearing: "Why should I believe you?" I asked, questioning.

"I would never joke with my family's lives," he said, a little angrily, "and you think it's necessary for me to meet you secretly to devise so many traps?" And now that such a good god has such a chance to kill you without knowing it, why don't I have the slightest intention of attacking you?"

"Who knows if you want to tie my hand and end up involving the boss?" I still can't trust Banque.

"You." Ban Que was speechless for a moment, and the anger in his eyes showed that he was about to devour me, "I'm not so shameless, I said that they are my family, and I won't let my family be threatened in the slightest." ”

I didn't think that the boss would occupy such an important position in Banque's heart, I thought that even for the boss, the version was hateful; "So you'd rather cooperate with your previous enemies than change the boss and keep them safe?"

Ban Que took a deep breath and said; "The boss raised me, even if my father's affairs, I can't do anything to him. So I don't want him to die, even if I repay the grace of not killing and nurturing back then. For the remaining children, the real thing has been so many years, after all, there is still a relationship, and there is no such thing as a feud between us. Even though Jin Hao's father did take my father's place, his father was just a puppet. He gave me a meaningful look.

"Where can your father be pure?" I sarcastically said.

Ban Que didn't speak, listening to the ticking of the second hand of his watch, I knew that the fifteen-minute deadline was coming up, so he spoke first: "Why choose me?" Wouldn't it be best to leave me there, get someone to help them, keep them safe, and finally wipe me out along with the contractor? ”

Ban Que shook his head: "I didn't go to the other candidates. The only one who can genuinely help the boss out of danger is you. ”

I looked at Ban Que and pointed to my wrist again: "I'm running out of time, you just heard me call, I said that in 15 minutes I will go to find the person who has protected me now." ”

Ban Que handed me a USB flash drive: "The USB flash drive is the information of all the relevant people in the organization that I can find." ”

"Okay." I took the USB flash drive, "Tell me why you chose me, in addition to being able to treat the boss sincerely, I'm sure you must have other reasons." ”

Ban Que motioned for me to go back, and then said: "Zheng Min is too timid, hesitant, and habitually neutral, if I cooperate with him, she will definitely not do what I think 100%, and may even miss the opportunity to rescue the boss because of timidity or hesitation." Jin Hao, too impulsive, the young master-style growth environment made him too simple, I am afraid that it will suddenly explode and destroy the plan when he has to endure it because of impulsiveness; Wei Kai, he is in the last link, the most suitable person to stay here when everyone leaves here and falls, but whether it is from the strategy or from the personality, the talent is not competent for the planning and arrangement in the early stage. So none of the three of them fit, and Boss, I'm just hoping to get them all to safety and not involve them in this. ”

"You still haven't given up on taking back your father's seat?" I could hear his voice.

"Never," Ban Que's eyes were very resolute, "but this dissenting person is now my biggest threat." ”

"Even your life is threatened. In fact, you are not asking me to cooperate for the sake of your so-called protection of your family, but purely out of your own considerations, and you don't want to die. The reason why I was able to move the boss out was just so that I could agree to work with you. We have been fighting for so many years, and we are already knowing each other, and even through one of your actions, I can guess your plan for the future, and you know that it is I who can help you succeed and make you fail miserably. So when you encountered unprecedented difficulties this time, the first thing you thought of was me, so you pretended to want to turn the conflict into a jade silk, but in fact you hoped that I could help you defeat the new troublemaker and become the master of your own heart. ”

The version lowered his head as if I had pierced the dark thoughts: "Whatever you think, do you want to cooperate?" He looked up at me very seriously.

"You've moved the boss out, you know my only weakness is the boss, don't you?" I sighed, "Settle the matter at hand and win the little detective newcomer, I'll get in touch with you." You know that no matter where you are, Xiaozhi will find you. (To be continued.) )