Part 2: Outwitting Capitol Hill (6) – The Price of Truth
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Zhou Jia stood behind Hatty, standing in the middle of the tall bodyguards, looking even weaker. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info
In the small confined space, she noticed that a strong smell of Arabic spices had penetrated her nose, which was not unpleasant, because the smell was too complex for people to get used to for a while.
The elevator stopped on the top floor, and there were no other guests in sight, and all the rooms here were covered with hatty bags. They came to the end, and the bodyguards opened the door for them, letting Hattie go in first, and then Zhou Jia.
This room is reserved for the top guest of honor, Hatti, and has the best views of the Washington Monument, the Jefferson Memorial, the Potomac River, St. John's Cathedral, and ...... The master bedroom has a window facing the White House and a small balcony that you can walk out onto overlooking the White House.
The room is particularly spacious, much larger than many five-star hotels in the United States, with a dining room, living room, master bedroom, guest bedroom...... Full of Italian flair, everything is gorgeous and elegant except for a touch-screen LCD TV installed on the fireplace.
Hattie walked to the master bedroom and the door suddenly opened from the inside.
In the room were several masked women in black robes. Zhou Jia couldn't tell whether this was his wife or a maid.
Zhou Jia walked to the window, as if trying to keep a distance from the bedroom. The living room is surrounded by more than a dozen floor-to-ceiling doors and windows, bright and transparent, but unfortunately compared to the scenery outside, Zhou Jia still cares about the room next to him, and can't help but be a little curious, saying that this is not a common picture.
The door was so open, she glanced at the women, some were very humble, some were sweeping his body, some were carrying a basin of water, some were holding hand towels to wipe their hands, and some were holding hand sanitizer with cleaning and sterilization effects...... Zhou Jia remembered that it seemed that the teachings of Islan prescribed that the body should be cleaned regularly.
When everything was cleaned up, the women withdrew.
Hatti slowly walked out of the room.
He gave him a look, and the bodyguards also left the room, and the last person to go out closed the door casually, leaving the two of them alone.
Hatty sat down on the long couch by the window. He made himself look comfortable and laid-back, of course, this was what it looked like on the surface, and he still had a little apprehension in his heart. Indeed, as he himself said, he did not expect the woman he was looking for to be like this. is also because Zhou Jia rarely shows up in public on weekdays, and the only photos on the Internet are when she was a student, when she published a paper in an academic journal, with a photo: she wore black-framed glasses and wore rustic clothes, which really didn't attract Harty's attention.
Before, he devoted all his thoughts to this meeting in Washington, but he didn't expect to have today's unexpected gains.
His eyes surveyed her again.
At this time, Zhou Jia had also regained her composure, she pulled out a chair, sat opposite him, and stared at him silently for a while, looking at his face carefully, as if trying to find something abnormal. Not wanting to play dumb riddles with the other person anymore, she asked, "What do you know?"
He smiled, laughed heartily. For the first time, a woman didn't want to be in the same room with her, and if it weren't for Chris's matter, she wouldn't have been eager to leave.
Hatti brought a fluffy couch cushion from the side, put it on his lap, pressed his elbows against the cushion, and finally spoke, "You just met Chris's father, and I believe he only said what he thought you should know, but not the most important things. You must have guessed some of them with your intelligence, right? Chris mentioned to me that you have an IQ of over three hundred. ”
Hatty's straightforwardness surprised Zhou Jia. And there was too much information in these words, she needed to think about it, and fell silent for a while.
He knew that I was meeting with the teacher.
Is he stalking me?
No, it's not that simple.
The teacher said so much, only mentioning the green camp and the red camp. However, judging from the tone of his mentor, he knew that something had happened to Chris, and he was anxious to know her situation. The most important thing is ...... "black kryptonite".
It's the root of all problems.
Zhou Jia recalled that Chris told himself that the discovery of kryptonite was a fortuitous opportunity. First I16 inexplicably underwent a memory deformation, and then when searching for the source of interference, the Biop player reacted to the biomagnetic field of kryptonite, is it too much of a coincidence to consider all this in reverse?
"It's probably too early to tell," Hattie said slowly, "and there's a huge conspiracy behind Chris's disappearance. ”
Zhou Jia's body stiffened obviously: his guess was indeed correct.
He continued: "Four years ago, I went to Dubai for a conference on protecting small tribal groups and maintaining cultural diversity around the world. At the meeting I met a man named Ronksu Senogetak, who was a representative of a certain Eskimo tribe. One day he came to me out of the blue and said that someone might come to me in the future to invest in their mineral projects, and I must say yes, it will bring me great returns. To tell you the truth, you come to talk to me about the investment in such and such a project, not 1,000 every year, but also several hundred. I just laughed it off and didn't take it seriously. ”
Zhou Jia frowned: She had no deep impression of this man, only that the excavation site was Eskimo territory, and that Ronquesu was one of the negotiators with Chris.
"I really didn't expect that a year later, an unexpected visitor appeared in front of me, and it turned out to be the CEO of the Lancer Group, the famous 'Lady Gandaw'. Chris suddenly appeared, speaking an authentic Old Arabic language, and to my surprise, she was able to ask my grandmother to teach her the language, which was unbelievable. "I've never seen someone as easily convincing as Chris, she knows what grabs people's attention and tugs at people's heartstrings." She said she wanted to talk to me about a deal, so I listened first. But I didn't expect it to be a project in Alaska. Chris's charisma, combined with Ronquesu's 'prophecy', made me even more interested in this project. Of course, as you know, I'm a very cautious person about every potential investment, so I'm naturally going to have to do some research. As a result, I found out that it was a must-invest project. He looked at her and decided not to tell her about his second meeting with Ronquesu, at least not for now, and it was better to wait a while. He changed his words and said, "I won't mention the episode today, the more important thing at the moment is that Chris is gone, and the one who disappeared at the same time is the Ronquesu." ”
Zhou Jia asked, "What do you mean?"
"It's just like Chris, gone, nothing to be heard from. ”
"Eddie and Mark went to Alaska a while ago and were received by Ronksu's son, who said he was going to Europe for a meeting. ”
"It's the same excuse you Lancer said, isn't it?" he sighed and said, "We were supposed to meet in Washington, but when the appointed time came, he didn't show up. Also meeting with him is your mentor, Sean-Lan. ”
Zhou Jia didn't say anything. She felt that Hattie was hiding something. Her hand unconsciously reached into her pocket, rubbing her fingers against the transparent magnetic stripe given by Lan Shien, what was in it, she didn't have time to see it.
"I'm hiding something from you......" Hattie bent his eyebrows, he finally succeeded in completely attracting Zhou Jia's attention.
Seeing Zhou Jia thoughtful, Hatti put his fingers into a spire shape, and lightly touched his hooked nose twice, "Since I invited you to come, I will be honest and honest, in fact, I have long known about the 'black kryptonite'." ”
Zhou Jia's thoughts froze, as if she hadn't heard Hatty's words.
"However, you also know that I am a businessman," his thick black eyebrows raised slightly, "Valuable information, I naturally won't give it away for free......"
Zhou Jia thought to himself: This iron rooster is famous. It is estimated that he knows what he wants to take advantage of the opportunity to make a fortune. She asked, "Since you say you're talking about business, what are you selling, what am I going to buy, and what's the price?"
He seemed to enjoy hearing such questions, and leaned back on the couch with satisfaction, with one leg crossed as if at a cocktail party. "I can do whatever it takes to help you get Chris back. And I believe I have the 'important' information I have to help you do that. ”
Zhou Jia tried to understand his words, but the words themselves were like a group of children competing to play on the slide, noisy and disorganized. She opened her mouth, closed it again, and after a while, said, "You said you could help me find Chris, but how much does it cost?"
"Money?" he was visibly amused, opening his two palms together, opening his arms, and his gaze falling back to her, "The most important thing for a person is often priceless...... Again...... I'm not short of money......"
Zhou Jia raised his face: "What do you want?"
"It's actually very simple, I want you, as long as you're willing to marry me. ”
This is simply the most ridiculous sentence Zhou Jia has ever heard, and this English sentence came out of his mouth as if it was Arabic, which was completely incomprehensible.
After a while, Zhou Jiacai asked, "Are you joking?"
Hattie narrowed her eyes: "Do you think I look like someone who jokes about my marriage?"
Zhou Jia frowned, thinking of the women who cleaned up Harti's body just now, and thought: Marry him, be his slave, and live a life of covering her head and covering her face? Thinking like this, she suddenly had goosebumps all over her body, and she said angrily in her heart: "Let me marry you as the wife of the first room? Besides, why me? There should be many candidates who are more beautiful than me and have status than me......
"First of all, I have unique powers. He explained, "I was actually born as a test-tube baby after my father's death. ”
This is information that the royal family has not made public to the outside world. Except for a very few members of the royal family, Zhou Jia was the first to hear about it.
"My father not only gave me a unique life, but also gave me a distinguished status and endless responsibilities. Of course, the price of this responsibility for me has given me different powers than other princes - independent autonomy and supreme decision-making power. This means that I can choose my own way of life and marry whoever I like, without being bound by family or teachings. ”
Zhou Jia really doesn't know why the direction of the topic has changed.
"Secondly, please don't get me wrong. I have not yet married, and you will be my eldest princess, and at the same time the only princess in my life. I pledge this vow to be valid until death separates us. ”
He's going to marry me as his princess?
Hatti disagreed, and continued: "Finally, believe me! I really want not a vase woman, but a woman of very high intelligence, and you meet that condition. The corners of his mouth twitched slightly, and he said, "Please don't laugh at me, but this is really the most important reason, I want children, and he must be the crystallization of me and the most wonderful women." ”
The other party said a few reasons so solemnly, such an embarrassing situation made Zhou Jia cramped, she said unscrupulously: "If you are excellent, isn't Chris more suitable?" After saying this, she regretted it.
"I don't have the idea of holding a woman stronger than me, and only Dr. Zhou Jia's unique vision can appreciate it. Hattie smiled a little helplessly, "I like petite women!"
"What do you mean by that!" Zhou Jia felt disdainful of the Arab prince who had put on such an attitude.
"Of course you know what I mean. He spoke with infinite sarcasm and mockery, as if he knew something, "I said I knew a lot of things, including what you did in that lab in San Jose...... The ...... done," he said, clearing his throat, "'research work'...... You're hiding it from everyone, aren't you? including Chris...... I'm sure you don't want her to know about ......"
Zhou Jia didn't know how to continue talking, she didn't know what to say, her voice seemed to be choked by an invisible big hand, and she couldn't even breathe.
Once again, Hatti took over the initiative.
He pressed on the arm of the couch, and a small box popped out immediately. He gently opened it and took out a square, thick, delicate black gift box from inside.
Standing up, he walked to the left corner of the room, stepped on a round carpet, walked to the round wooden table of mahogany, and picked up from the table a white rose with gold trim, which lay in a delicate gift box, with golden ribbons tied on the stems. Hattie held the rose in one hand and took out the black gift box from behind him in the other, and walked towards Zhou Jia, trying his best to maintain a calm expression.
(To be continued.) )