In the evening, the Mercedes-Benz G500 crossed the border between Poland and Belarus, arrived in Brest, passed the customs at the Brest port, and applied for a special license plate for transit cars, and the three of them went to the Bryan Hotel booked by Xie Minyun.

Brest belongs to the border town of Belarus, and there is no tall hotel, and the Bryant Hotel is a privately run castle-style hotel, the service and environment are naturally not as comfortable as a five-star hotel, but there is a different atmosphere, from the pictures, the gray European-style spire castle and the gorgeous very simple Russian style decoration, mixed and matched a style that makes people feel a little awkward.

It's hard to describe specifically, it's probably a young man dressed in fashion and cold, and the contrast is cute in pink autumn pants.

This is still carefully selected by Xie Minyun on booking, as for the others, it is probably the domestic "Hanting" and "Seven Days" grade, of course, there are slightly better, equivalent to domestic three-star hotels, but the degree of good is also limited, not as distinctive as Brian Hotel.

When Li Jiting drove the car to the courtyard of the castle, all the employees of the hotel, including the boss, came out to greet him, and the lineup was quite strong, a cook wearing a white apron, four waiters in different costumes, plus the boss, who was the owner of the castle, a family of four, a total of nine people, lined up in two rows and applauding.

When Cheng Mo and Xie Minyun got out of the car, the applause, which was not too big, suddenly became extremely loud, Cheng Mo knew that it was because of Xie Minyun, but listening to the enthusiastic applause and cheerful laughter, he still felt embarrassed by the honey.

Xie Minyun noticed Cheng Mo's strange expression, and whispered, "What kind of expression do you have?"

"Anyway, it's not me who pays for it, what am I dissatisfied with?" Cheng Mo glanced at the lawn in the yard with a few bunches of red, red, yellow and yellow flowers and said softly, these flowers are really too casually planted, so casual that they don't look like they were deliberately planted there, there is also a swimming pool on one side of the yard, with pink neon lights shining on the white fence on the edge of the pool, which does not match the ancient castle on the side at all.

Cheng Mo guesses that the pool can only be used a handful of times a year, because Belarus is perennially cold, and even in July and August, the hottest months, the temperature rarely rises 30 degrees Celsius.

"Do you have an opinion when you say that?!" Xie Minyun snorted coldly, she had already accepted Li Jiting's plan to take them to Moscow, in fact, she didn't really care where she went, as long as it didn't hinder her from playing chess and "debating" with Cheng Mo.

These days, Xie Minyun was abused by Cheng Mo on Go and almost couldn't take care of himself, although he once had self-doubt, but Xie Minyun was never discouraged, and insisted on looking for abuse here in Cheng Mo, and later under Cheng Mo's suggestion, he entered a state of becoming more and more frustrated, and Cheng Mo, a master of tricks, benefited her a lot, and the progress was quite huge, and she easily broke through the bottleneck that she had been insurmountable, from D3 to D4, and pointed to D5.

But all this is not a reason for her not to trouble Cheng Mo, maybe Xie Minyun herself is not aware of this problem, why she keeps a proper distance in politeness when facing others, but when facing Cheng Mo, she always wants to go toe-to-toe with him, and tries hard to win him in all aspects.

"No, I think it's pretty good.... But I wanted to feel more about a motel, the feeling of staying in the middle of nowhere, like an interstellar trip. Cheng Mo said lightly, he had completely figured out how to talk to Xie Minyun. You can't be silent, if you are silent, she will try her best to stimulate you, and you can't argue, the argument is endless, and you must win or lose.

For example, once, two people had some disputes about the gap between China and the United States, and the future development trend, so the two people debated from the cultural level to the economic level, from the history of the two countries to the contemporary social structure.... The two of them debated this topic for three days.

In the past three days, Xie Minyun's time for playing chess has been reduced, just to query various data and do homework for the next day's "debate". The end of the argument is not a division of wins and losses, this kind of thing is less than a few decades later, there is no way to say who is right and who is wrong.

The debate ended because the two men had another argument over deontology and consequentialism about moral norms. (To give a simple example, consequentialism is that war can be waged for the sake of peace, because war is a just war, for permanent peace; deontology is that since you advocate the pursuit of peace, then peace is contradictory to war, and we have an obligation to refuse and prevent war.) ）

Therefore, Cheng Mo found that if he wanted to end a dispute with Xie Minyun, the only way was to guide her in another direction.

Sure enough, Xie Minyun was not entangled in whether Cheng Mo was dissatisfied with the hotel she chose, but thought about what it would be like to stay in a motel.

After a brief welcome ceremony, the manager, that is, the boss's wife, led Li Jiting, Cheng Mo and Xie Minyun to move in, and invited the three of them to share dinner, put away their luggage and rest for a while, and the group went downstairs for dinner.

Although it was past six o'clock, it was still very bright, not at all like evening, and the dining room on the first floor was hung with a huge bear skin, a stone fireplace, a light brown wooden floor, and a long wooden table with a medieval smell.

The log table is filled with a variety of Russian dishes, including Russia's famous beetroot soup, which is made of red cabbage, beef, and sour cream. There are also potato cakes and grilled meats, and all kinds of potato dishes are the favorites of Belarusians, who have a nickname "бульбаш", which means "potato lovers", which shows how much the Belarusian people love potatoes, straight to the legendary Irish.

There is also the Belarusian version of lard residue, that is, fried fatty meat, as well as the indispensable pickled cucumbers and tomatoes.....

Li Jiting, who was sitting at the table, saw a table of authentic Russian delicacies, his eyes lit up, and he said to the bearded boss in Russian: "I really didn't expect that there would be Salou, this is my favorite...."

The bearded boss immediately added thick mead to Li Jiting, "If you don't have an Asian face, no one will doubt that you are Russian.....

Li Jiting smiled "haha", "If I were really Russian, you would definitely not pour me mead, why would you have some vodka.....

The bearded boss's eyes lit up, and he immediately asked the waiter to bring two bottles of vodt, and he himself took out two frozen cups from the refrigerator, and when the waiter brought the wine, he couldn't wait to fill it, stood up and said loudly in Russian: "First glass, for the sake of getting together....."

The bearded boss was extremely talkative, and Li Jiting chatted about the "Brest Fortress Battle", which was a page in the history of the Great Patriotic War of the Soviet Union, and the Soviet troops stationed here fought bloodily for more than a month, effectively containing dozens of times their own German troops, and the war went on to the 30th day, the Brest garrison that initially started the battle was still holding on, and kept sending a message to the rear headquarters that "this is a fortress, and it is fighting".

Before the war, the Germans claimed that this fortress was only one verst from the Soviet-German border and could be taken by a single charge, but the last Soviet soldier who had been fighting in the tunnels of the already lost Brest Fortress for more than a year was found by the Germans, and he was almost blinded by the blinding sunlight that the Germans had brought out of the crypt.

When interrogated by the German general, he replied: "General, now you know how far one verst is, right?"

Speaking of the depths of love, the bearded boss burst into tears, and sang a song "Holy War", and then began to remember the glory of the Soviet Union with Li Jiting, the two countries were once the same camp and had a similar history, and the bearded boss and Li Jiting resonated a lot.

However, no matter how much the bearded man loves the Soviet Union and is more satisfied with the current life, most people in the former Soviet Union countries are like this, they will miss the former Soviet Union, but they are absolutely unwilling to return to that era.

The whole dinner was full of fun with two senior drunkards, the bearded boss and Li Jiting, not only the boss sang songs, but the boss lady and the boss's daughter also performed a traditional Belarusian dance.

If it weren't for Cheng Mo, who couldn't accept it, this would be really an interesting dinner, and it would be the same for Xie Minyun, probably these two people would not be able to accept the relishing of Salo eaten by Li Jiting and the bearded boss in this life.

The so-called salou is a black column bar with raw meat filling, which is a lard-like salour mixed with salt and garlic and spread on black bread, a specialty of Ukraine.

Salo usually uses the meat of the loin or waist and ventral part of the large white pig, which is generally high in fat content, mostly fatty meat, and the thickness of the fat meat is generally more than 3 cm.

Cheng Mo watched Li Jiting put the fat pork with white flowers on the bread slices and swallowed it in one gulp, and then shouted loudly in Russian: "It's delicious." And strongly persuaded Cheng Mo and Xie Minyun to try, but after being ruthlessly rejected, they could only shake their heads regretfully and say that Cheng Mo and Xie Minyun didn't know how to taste real food.

The bearded boss obviously admired a guest like Li Jiting very much, and he kept raising his glass.

The guests and hosts of a meal were happy, the bearded boss was drunk, but Li Jiting was basically the same as no one at all, when he went back to the room to rest, Li Jiting and Cheng Mo made an appointment to meet at twelve o'clock in the evening, but this time the meeting point was not in his room, but on the Mercedes-Benz G500.

In the evening, Cheng Mo and Xie Minyun played chess until more than ten o'clock, Xie Minyun returned to the room, Cheng Mo used his laptop to go on the dark web, and inquired about some information he got from Li Jiting yesterday, including "Black Lightning" and "Hurricane's Breath", an intelligence organization in the inner world, and he also visited the forum to see if there was any discussion about the theft of the "cross bee" and the death of Napoleon VII's father, unfortunately, Cheng Mo did not find a relevant post, it seems that this matter is still in a state of secrecy.

Cheng Mo also checked the ranking of "Lanling King" on the list of the Chosen One yesterday, and the result surprised Cheng Mo, he originally thought that Li Jiting's ranking should be relatively high, but he didn't expect it to be only four hundred and sixty-one. Of course, the top 500 in the world are already very remarkable, but there is a gap with Cheng Mo's estimate.

So far, the inner world is still a vague concept for Cheng Mo, as if he has stood at the door of the inner world, looking inside through a gap, but he has never been able to enter.

At twelve o'clock, Cheng Mo chose the transmission point of the carrier in the co-pilot of the Mercedes-Benz G500 located in the yard, and at twelve o'clock, Cheng Mo appeared in the co-pilot seat as Lin Zhinuo, at this time Li Jiting was smoking a cigar and looking at his mobile phone.

Although it was midnight, the night in Brest was not very dark, in fact, at ten o'clock, the sky was still a little white, which is the characteristic of summer in high-latitude countries, Li Jiting started the car and drove to the gate, the black iron door was tightly closed, Cheng Mo was just about to get out of the car to open the door, and he saw the latch move by itself.

The poplar trees swayed their leaves in the cold evening breeze, making a rattling sound, and the heavy black iron door was moving silently without anyone pushing it, and the whole scene was a ghost.

Cheng Mo naturally knew that it was Li Jiting who did it, but he didn't approve of Li Jiting's lazy behavior, and he was careful to sail the ship for ten thousand years, although the map showed that there was no one around, but if there was a monitor or something, it would be bad.

But Cheng Mo is not qualified to criticize Li Jiting, after all, the other party can mix in the world's top 500, and it must not be just by luck.

Driving out of the Bryan Hotel, Li Jiting held the steering wheel with one hand and a cigar in the other, "If you were to track down Shirkov, what would you do?"

"It depends on the situation, if you can use the state apparatus, it will be easier, if you can't, it will be more troublesome, especially when the other side has a little anti-reconnaissance capability..... I thought you asked me to reveal the news to Napoleon VII, just because I couldn't track down Shirkov, so I asked Napoleon VII to find him, and then I just had to follow, after all, Napoleon VII was much easier to chase than Shirkov, but now it seems that this is not the case. ”

"The answer you gave is indeed a good method, but it is not enough, assuming that your target is the Crusader Bee, you will certainly not reveal the news to Napoleon VII......"

"If it were me, I wouldn't have waded into these muddy waters. Cheng Mo said lightly.

"That's a question. ”

Cheng Mo thought for a while and said: "Then I will call the police and use the police to achieve the purpose of tracking Shirkov, just with my own strength, trying to find him is tantamount to looking for a needle in a haystack.... Assuming that the police can't use it, it depends on how much information I have, and I have to find a way to find his mobile phone, find a way to investigate his social connections, and find possible contacts, but it is too long for an individual to do these investigations, and by the time they find out, others should have run far away, and maybe they have been caught by others a long time ago. ”

"What is the most important thing to know about the upgrade of the carrier?" Li Jiting suddenly changed his words and asked.

"Money and power ....." Cheng Mo replied without hesitation, although he did not officially start his upgrade activities, but these days in the forum Cheng Mo is not without gain, at least he understands that the carrier upgrade is a kind of money-burning behavior.

If you don't have a lot of money, it means that you can't buy good skills, hire a good team to complete quests, buy equipment, hide your whereabouts, and set up more protections for your body......

All in all, if you compare the Chosen to a game, it must be a game that you simply can't play without spending astronomical money.

"Yes, without your own team, without supporters, it's very difficult to be the Chosen One. Li Jiting drove his car through the empty streets of Brest at midnight, this small city was unusually quiet at night, the streets were deserted, and if it were not for the street lights on, the occasional building was lit through, it really looked like an empty city.

Cheng Mo didn't speak, for him, this was indeed a problem.

"Stalkers, in particular, are also being pursued by law enforcers, and stalkers like you, who are not monitored by the state, are not welcome in any country, because you are a huge risk..... Therefore, it is a difficult thing for any gladiator to survive without an organization to rely on. ”

"Are you trying to persuade me to join your organization?"

Li Jiting shook his head, "Taiji Dragon is not so easy to enter, at least you won't be able to pass the first point." ”

"You mean physical fitness?"

"Of course not, you can't pass the political trial! Your father was reluctant when he didn't die, your father died, just because he was a member of the thirty-third level of Freemasonry, you couldn't pass the political trial....."

"Does Huaxia have a registration mechanism? Is it that if you report, you don't have to face the pursuit of law enforcers?" Cheng Mo had a headache when he thought of law enforcers, he seemed to have offended a law enforcer not long ago.

Li Jiting smiled, "We in Huaxia are not allowed to privately possess Ouroboros and become gladiators or the Chosen One..... As a result of reporting, your Ouroboros watch has been deprived.... You will become an ordinary person again. ”

Cheng Mo was really silent this time, even if he was prepared in his heart, he was still a little lost.

"Be careful first, don't expose it, I'll help you find a way later.... Get out. Li Jiting parked the car on the side of Pushkin Road.

Cheng Mo didn't ask where to go, he opened the door and got out of the car directly, at this time Brest was foggy, the halo of the street lamps became a little blurred, and the air was filled with a pungent smell, as if he had returned to China all of a sudden.

Cheng Mo looked to the left, you can clearly see the famous Brest railway station gatehouse, not far from the street can directly go to the viaduct, from the viaduct across the railroad tracks to the main road of the city Lenin Street.

Obviously, this location is very convenient and is a great place to escape.

Li Jiting led Cheng Mo towards a white apartment, there are no high-rise buildings in Brest, all of them are four- or five-story buildings, none of the lights in this ordinary white apartment and the apartment on the side are on, and they look like haunted houses in the fog.....

Cheng Mo, who had never spoken, stood at the entrance of the silent infiltrating apartment, and couldn't help but ask through the newly established intra-team channel: "Where are we going?"

"The safe house of Room 35 in Cho County (the security department of a country in the north of South Korea)....", Lee Ji-jeong said.