Chapter 49: The Invisible Hand
"I said, he's dead." Mecaren repeated again, calmly looking at the tense girl in front of him, like an old monk in zazen, and there was no fluctuation in his eyes. He is gambling, betting that the other party will not do it, once the bet is lost, only death awaits him, but if the bet wins, he has a chance to get out. Half of half, this battlefield veteran gambled his life on the other half, and in the eyes of Mecarron, who had experienced life and death, life was something that was used.
"You're pushing my limits." The avant-garde voice was low, like a beast with bared teeth. Now they are the dealers and retail traders at the table, and no one wants to give up the enticing chips on the table. Mercaren occupies the position of the banker, the avant-garde becomes the gambler in front of him, and the situation is not in her favor. "Finally, I will ask you again, where is Xu Kai?" She issued an ultimatum.
"Is the secretary general an old man with a bad memory?" Mecaren smiled, as if she had seen through the other party's stubble, "I said he was dead, does the Secretary-General want me to repeat it again?" ”
In an instant, the room was silent and audible. The two were like fierce beasts facing each other, each with red eyes and angry eyes, standing on the border of their respective territories, neither of them would take a step back.
The flowing air froze on the table, like a cold air with a chill, gradually freezing everything. For a long time, the avant-garde seemed to sigh, like a signal of a truce. She sighed helplessly, put away her ship's outfit and stood upright. "Well, you win." She waved her hand, her eyes shining with unwillingness.
"You didn't lose either." Mecaren smiled, relaxed. "None of us lost this battle."
"Really? But better not let me find evidence, or you'll never laugh. ”
"Then I am here to welcome the Secretary-General again." Mercarron stood up, a smile in his eyes, and whispered, "Hopefully the next meeting will be more pleasant." ”
"Yes, definitely." The avant-garde gritted his teeth and spit out a few words to leave cruel words, turned around and walked out the door without looking back, swaggering like a swan and leaving a proud back.
This is the shame of avant-garde's life, she has never been so aggrieved and now. It's always been someone else who kneels in front of her like a reservoir dog and begs for mercy and then crawls out of the house, when is it her turn to do this! She raised her head slightly, looked at the white chalk wall, took a deep breath, tried to suppress the anger that was about to erupt in her heart, and waved her hand to lead the investigation team away.
As she was leaving, she looked back at the man who had seen her leave Macallen, his old bark-like face with an imperceptible smile that seemed to mock, as if to say, "You can't do anything to me."
The avant-garde clenched his fists like an avenger, and said fiercely in his heart that he would eventually return!
In the car
The avant-garde gulped the cold water with ice cubes in the cup, mixed with the cold liquid like running water into her mouth, like a rainstorm extinguishing a burning fire.
She lost, although the other party lost the position of principal on the surface, but only she knew that in this game that was almost out of control, she completely lost.
The avant-garde has never seen such an opponent, calm and motionless like a lynx squatting in the snow, silently waiting for the moment of counterattack, even if he loses temporarily, he will not be discouraged in the slightest, but return to the same place and wait again, terrible like a ruthless devil, but also like a mellow old monk, every time his offensive is dissolved by him invisibly. She sighed helplessly, the powerlessness that had never appeared before filled her heart.
"Secretary-General, in fact, there is no need to worry about the gains and losses this time, you and he both know that Xu Kai, as the key to the operation, cannot have the possibility of survival." Paccar, who was sitting in the back seat, analyzed rationally, he witnessed the confrontation between the two at the door, and he also knew what they were fighting for. "So our primary goal now is to find the hidden Admiral."
"Do you think we still have a chance?" "He knows what we want to investigate, and we're like a donkey with a carrot in front of us, and he's been leading the way without knowing it," he rubbed his head and rubbed his head in pain. ”
"No, I think we're the ones sitting on donkeys." Paccar made the opposite. "It was no more than three days from the time he learned of our departure to the time of our arrival, and all he could do in such a short time was to close the biggest hole, and as for Jiqi, I don't think his hand was that long."
"You mean the rookie admiral is still in his town guard mansion?" Avant-garde asked.
"I think so." Paccar replied with a bowed head.
"But we don't even know where he is now, how can we find him?"
"It's not that hard." Paccar took a map of the Pacific Ocean from the front seat of the car, with red dots marking the location of each town watchman. "The purpose of Mecarron's hiding of outstanding students is nothing more than to help him find a good assistant or successor, since he has the purpose of training, he will not send him to the area of the deep sea, and naturally he will not put this piece of jade behind," he stretched out his hand and drew a circle in the center of the map, "I think this is the best range, there are only three town guards around the Gesar Islands, one Nosa, one Galway, and one Gelst." We only need to search the three town guards, and I think we will find the admiral named Jiqi. ”
"Are you sure?" The avant-garde was skeptical of his analysis.
"Believe me, Secretary-General, after all, I was born for this." Paccar looked up, no expression visible on his face like an ice cube.
"That's right," Avant-garde nodded, "after all, no one can compare to you when it comes to speculating on people's hearts." Then do as you say, and let's go to the Gesar Islands and see the new man who has been revered. She quickly gave the order, and the front of the car turned to the docks.
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Corporate Academy
Looking at the empty office, with the sadness of someone walking away on his face, Macallen sat down slowly with his chair knob on his hand, leaning against the soft cushion behind him and smiling weakly.
He could clearly feel the chill behind him now, sweat soaking his back in the air-conditioned room, he was not as calm as he seemed on the surface, he was also afraid and hesitating, and there was a trace of fear. But in the face of thousands of troops and horses, it is necessary to make Taishan collapse in front and not change color, the elk is happy on the left and does not look instantaneous, once any timidity is revealed, what awaits him will only be the sound of thousands of horses and the horn of the charge. This is a battle against the water, there is no way back, only surprise can win.
In the end, he succeeded in repelling the strong enemy, leaving himself a chance to breathe.
"Come out of Rystan, they're gone." The Macallen wasn't loud, but it was enough to reach every corner of the room.
As if given the command to open the door, the bookcase on the left shook violently, and then was slowly pushed away, and a large figure emerged from the shadows.
"Oh, that's amazing, my old man! You don't know that I don't dare to peek through the gap when I hide behind, for fear that the secretary general will notice and lose all my efforts. Rystan smiled and muttered, "You're still a step ahead, or I'd have confessed here today." ”
"Don't say something that you don't have," Mecaron glanced at him, this guy is good at everything, but he talks a lot, like a nature that is difficult to change. "Who is not afraid in the face of such a terrifying posture, my back is all soaked, you are trembling when you stand behind, won't I fall to the ground with weak legs!"
"That's your guts, just like the ancient generals!" Ristan complimented.
"Okay, don't slap me." Mecaren waved his hand for him to stop, "Now I have something important to ask you. ”
"What's the matter?" He also put away his playfulness and became serious.
"How far has the study of bad words been carried out? Are you in the final stages of experimentation? Macallen asked in a deep voice, "Has there been a way to remedy the defects of the drug now?" ”
"It's the final stage, and the researchers have a clue about how to make up for the shortcomings, so it's time to experiment. It's just that they don't have time to work in the past few days because of the evacuation. Ristan said.
"That's good, you must be fully responsible for the evacuation work, the whole Pacific Ocean has been firmly controlled by them recently, you don't let them find anything." Macallen's expression was solemn, "We have solved Xu Kai's problem, and now there is only the newcomer who is a little disobedient." ”
"He? I don't think I will take the initiative to go to the investigation team, because it has nothing to do with him at all. ”
"I asked you to send him so much fine equipment in exchange for a safe point." Mercaren sighed, and continued, "He's also a man who understands what we're going to do. Now the biggest concern is not whether he will look for the investigation team, but whether the investigation team will look for him. ”
"Probably not." Ristan wasn't sure. "Even if you look for them, you can't find them, there are hundreds of town guards in the Pacific, it will take at least a month or two to see them one by one, how can they spend so much time here."
"No, even if they only have a few days, they can find it." Mecarron shook her head, as if to say, "Things are nowhere near as simple as you think." ”
"So what now? It is impossible for us to erase his existence like Xu Kai. ”
"Now we have to wait." "The worst-case scenario is that they find Jiqi and protect him, so they will punish me for a dereliction of duty at most, and they won't be able to do anything to me." After all, there are so many admirals on the same ocean, and it is understandable to miss one or two. ”
"So now it's safe to say?"
"That's it." Mecarron nodded in agreement, staring at the reflected desktop as his mind went through the process of sorting out the whole thing.
Initially, Xu Kai's matter was exposed, which triggered a series of chain reactions, and the arrival of the investigation team caused him to abandon his roots and transfer. The root of all this lies in the starting point of the beginning - Xu Kai. But I still don't understand why he did this, obviously the life and death of the enterprise number is in his own hands, and he has seen the horror of evil words, and he doesn't know it, so who gave him the courage to make such an extremely unwise decision, or is it someone else who exposed everything, Xu Kai is just the innocent scapegoat? Thinking of this, Mecarron's heart was cold, as if she was standing in an ice cave at the extreme. He only felt that there were two invisible hands behind his back that were leading the direction of everything, and he was triumphant, and he still didn't realize it.
Is there an inner ghost? At this time, a thought came to his mind that he couldn't believe.