Chapter 2: Tasks
"Give me as a souvenir? I'm afraid it's not for me to collect the rags. Jiang Li teased.
"Hey, hey, you can't say that." Tang Ruoan smiled innocently.
"That's some of my old collections...... Although they were all bought from stalls. Tang Ruoan pulled out a cardboard box from the warehouse behind him.
There are a lot of strange knick-knacks in the cardboard box.
"Are you sure you bought them from a stall? Not from somewhere else? Jiang Li took out a few items from them and glanced at them casually.
I have to say, the stuff inside is all weird.
"Well, I heard that it's a foreign bodhisattva from the west." Tang Ruoan posed with a thumb-sized earthen statue.
The statue looks like an octopus in a robe, meditating and chanting.
Jiang Li raised his eyebrows.
"This one seems to be a model of the fighter plane of the main force of the Air Force at the time of the Normandy landings."
Tang Ruoan took out another plastic statue of about the same size.
The statue looks like Megatron standing on a mountain cliff.
The corners of Jiang Li's mouth twitched.
"Finally, this is said to be the terracotta warriors and horses buried with Qin Shi Huang when he died."
The final statue is larger, but the deviation from the appearance and presentation is just as outrageous as the former.
He is an Iron Man dressed as a Spartan heavy-armoured Iron Man, with a small red glass plate on his chest to use as a lamp.
"By the way, the position of this terracotta warrior seems to be quite high, and the terracotta warriors and horses of this high-level army seem to have a different name."
"What is it?"
"The Lonely." Tang Ruoan said very seriously.
Jiang Li's eyelids jumped three times on both sides.
"There are only these three that can be sent out, you can pick any one, of course, you want to have them all." Tang Ruoan didn't look joking.
"No, I'll just take one." Jiang Li waved his hand, he actually didn't want to take any of such a neurotic thing, but Tang Ruoan was very sad.
"Do you have anything like this in that box?" Jiang Li was curious.
"Naturally, I've loved collecting these little sculptures since I was a kid. Because I feel that there are a lot of interesting stories to tell behind the sculpture. Tang Ruoan said with some yearning, and there seemed to be more light in his eyes.
"No way, I didn't read much since I was a child, so I went out to work, so I don't know if what they said was right or not.
But I still find it interesting. ”
"Ah...... All right. "Since this is someone else's hobby, Jiang Li can't say anything.
However, it is very wrong to point fingers at some of the behaviors of others.
But...... These statues are very slotted, which still makes it difficult for Jiang Li to choose.
He didn't want any of them.
"Eh, how much money did you spend when you renovated this store?"
Jiang Li tried to divert his attention through dialogue, and he casually picked up the Iron Man statue and pretended to be the one he wanted to choose.
Wait for Tang Ruoan to put it back when he doesn't pay attention.
"It took a lot of time, after all, I thought this was a prime location at the time," Tang Ruoan put his index finger on his chin and recalled, "I thought that if I pulled these services to the highest, I should retain a lot of customers." ”
"Then I spent a lot of money on the best materials and found the best decoration. Even the simplest chair is estimated to be of the same quality as I die. ”
"That's pretty good." Jiang Li continued to play with the statue, and he couldn't find a chance to put it back for a while.
"Bang!" A loud bang suddenly came from behind Jiang Li.
The two looked back, and it turned out to be the chair that the woman was sitting on just now, and for some reason, it suddenly broke a chair leg.
This sudden change directly caused the woman to fall to the ground in embarrassment, and the milk tea almost splashed on her face.
"......" Jiang Li looked at Tang Ruoan again.
"......" Tang Ruoan also looked at Jiang Li.
Jiang Li walked over to help the woman up, and kindly moved the chair with the broken leg to the side and exchanged it for a new chair.
Tang Ruoan was also very clever and remixed a cup of milk tea and sent it to the woman as compensation.
The woman didn't pursue it, and continued to indulge in her own business after a simple tidying up.
"......" Tang Ruoan suddenly didn't know what to say.
Jiang Li could also feel the embarrassment in the air, so he stood up and left the bubble tea shop in a gloomy manner.
What, you said that it would be more embarrassing for Lu Tang Ruoan and the woman to be alone?
That's not his Jiang Li's problem.
"I love you walking alone in the dark alley~I love the way you don't kneel~"
Just as I went out, I received a call from the base.
Jiang Li glanced at the caller ID and reluctantly connected the phone.
As soon as it was connected, a female voice as beautiful as the chirping of the yellow warbler and the crow of the rooster in the early morning came from the other end of the phone.
"Second Senior Brother, there is a task, there is a task! Come here! ”
It's the fifth junior sister, Xin Wan.
Without waiting for Jiang Li to respond, the phone hung up, followed by a positioning.
Jiang Li glanced at the address, which was an abandoned factory in the suburbs.
Annoying, annoying.
But it can't be helped.
Since it is a mission, it is natural to go to the ground.
……
Abandoned factories in the suburbs.
No one knows why this factory is abandoned, only that it has been here for some years, and no one has cleaned it up until now.
Sometimes, some daring children will come here to play.
But now, it's a battleground for superpowers.
Jiang Li's organization, the Five Elements, is using the woods outside the factory as a cover at the moment, and is surrounding the factory step by step.
And their enemy is an unknown criminal gang of superpowers.
At the moment, he is hiding in the factory, taking advantage of the geographical advantage and pulling with the five elements.
"Second Senior Brother, you're here." After Jiang Li arrived with a teleportation rune, the first person to speak was a young man who looked polite.
Although he was wearing a camouflage uniform, he exuded a scholarly atmosphere all over his body.
This is Jiang Li's fourth junior brother, a monk with a wood attribute, Lin Zhu.
Jiang Li nodded, and it was agreed.
"Senior brother!"
The second one to open her mouth was the most lively and active, and the fifth junior sister Xinwan, who was not too big or small.
She was also wearing a camouflage uniform, but the size was definitely much smaller than Lin Zhu's.
Because she has short hair and her figure hasn't grown, her big personality makes her more like a tomboy.
"Do you know where the third senior sister went? She didn't answer my phone call just now. ”
"She's in the hospital."
"Ahh Eventual Wan was shocked, her mouth was wide open, "Didn't she just be discharged from the hospital?" Who beat her like this? ”
"Ahem......" Jiang Li suddenly felt a little embarrassed, "Third Senior Sister is fine now, let's get down to business first." ”
"Why is the third senior sister ......?"
"Let's get down to business first." Jiang Li directly interrupted Xin Wan's questioning, "What's the situation now?" ”
"Just now, there was news from the headquarters, saying that Tang Wenqing, a researcher at the Hongwei Life Research Institute with whom we cooperated, had colluded with an external organization to steal important experimental materials.
"She hired several groups of mercenaries to cover her evacuation, one of which fled to us and is now surrounded by us." Lin Zhu gave an answer very cooperatively.
"Is the researcher in there?" Jiang Li asked subconsciously.
"Several other groups of mercenaries have been arrested, but no targets have been found, so there's a good chance that the targets are inside." Lin Zhu took out another photo from his pocket, which was the appearance of the target of this operation.
"According to HQ, the institute requested to be captured alive because the target had injected himself with an experimental drug while fleeing, and if killed rashly, it would cause large-scale contamination."
Jiang Li took the photo and glanced at it.
The target is a woman, not in a lab coat, but in simple civilian clothes.
Her hair was obviously neglected, and her bangs almost covered her eyes, but her eyes were also full of gloom, as if she had lost even the highlights.
Not only that, but her face was emaciated and her skin was pale, as if she was dying.
There is no hint of an experimenter at all...... Is it?
Jiang Li thought about it carefully, and recalled his colleagues who used to work in the scientific research department, and it seemed that they were almost in this state.
That's fine.
"Don't have any other photos?" Jiang Li handed the photo back.
"No, the subject deleted all of her information, and the method was so good that no trace of it was found in our department.
"It's already extremely difficult to get this picture." Lin Zhu's face was serious, and there was even a hint of admiration in his tone.
"So powerful? This person is not simple. Jiang Li touched his chin.
"Indeed, and there are a total of ten mercenaries in her team, each of them is a superpower, and the level registered on the dark web is above B, which means that everyone is around the Jindan period." Lin Zhu continued.
"Hey, it's really not easy for you to surround them with this strength." Jiang Li teased.
There are very few practitioners in the West, and in a society where superpowers are basically based on natural variation, the hierarchy of superpowers is very simple, that is, from E to A by letter, followed by S to SSS.
Correspondingly, the classification of Oriental Huaxia is divided according to the ancient immortal cultivation system:
Practicing qi, building the foundation, Jindan, Yuanying, doppelganger, turning into a god, returning to the ruins, and feathering into an immortal.
He knew what the level of the Five Elements in L City was, in such a remote area, even if the aura had been revived for more than two hundred years, in this land of poor mountains and bad waters in the sense of cultivating immortals, it was very difficult to find a person with a good cultivation level.
For example, Lin Zhu and Xin Wan, although they are two of the five executive officers in the Five Elements, their cultivation is only in the Jindan stage, and they are still a little far from breaking through to the Yuan Infant Stage.
The third junior sister Song Moxiang is powerful, in the middle of the Yuan infancy, but now she is hospitalized by Jiang Li.
The executive officers are all at this level, and the cultivation of the combatants at the grassroots level is naturally lower.
Just such a group of people who built the foundation and a group of Jindan.
To be able to surround that is indeed thankful, shocking.
"At the beginning, we did almost let them break through, but the target seems to have suddenly encountered some problems, so they can only hold the warehouse and cannot evacuate, and there has been no movement until now." Lin Zhu smiled awkwardly.
"Thank goodness for that." Jiang Li moved his body, "But don't worry, there will be no problem with me." ”
"Second Senior Brother is here, I must rest assured, speaking of which, I remember that Second Senior Brother you are a cultivator of the Great Perfection of the Yuan Infant Stage." Lin Zhu's sycophants are filmed one by one.
"That's true." But I haven't been to test the cultivation for a long time.
Jiang Li left and walked towards the warehouse: "Hmph, white horse? He will never come back! ”
"So what the hell is the situation with the third senior sister!?" Xin Wan, who had been silent, saw that Jiang Li had finished talking, and said directly.
"......" Jiang Li raised his eyebrows, it seems that there will be many people who have come and gone.