Chapter 1: Top secret information about the master
Three months later.
The weather has finally moved from the hot summer to the somewhat bleak late autumn, and the weather in late autumn is always a bit rainy.
I just came out of the airport and saw Qin Huai leaning against the car waiting for me. Looking at his familiar smile, I felt a little warmth in my heart. I walked over and the two of us hugged naturally.
“It’s been raining for days, and if it keeps up, I’ll get mold on my body. Really, I like sunny days.” Qin Huai complained about the drizzling weather while driving, and this kid’s personality is like a warm sunny day, so naturally he likes sunny days.
I just smiled and didn’t say anything. Isn’t it good to be raining? The fine, dense raindrops actually make people’s hearts quiet.
“Is it going well in Taiwan? Are the girls there pretty?” Qin Huai is not used to the quiet atmosphere.
“How could I come back if it wasn’t going well? I didn’t have time to look at girls,” I said with a smile. There was actually a single business in Taiwan. This time, I helped the department move, and the department promised to do things in a timely manner. They really introduced me to several businesses, and the amount involved was also satisfactory.
I think this is the department’s way of giving me a share of its profits. After all, the department also needs a lot of financial support, and I can understand this.
“Where are you going? To see Brother Chengqing?” Qin Huai didn’t ask me anything about the specifics of the business, and seeing how I was taking it lightly, he wasn’t very interested either.
“Let’s go to the XX Hotel. I have some business to take care of. Let’s go out for dinner tonight,” I said. I wasn’t going to see Chengqing, but Jiangyi. We had settled some things in our fight, but there were still more things for Jiangyi to settle, so he had been very busy. It wasn’t until the previous month that I received a call from him, asking me to give him the information about the master he had promised me.
As for why it took a month, he said he needed a month to organize the information. Some of it was too sensitive, so he couldn’t give it to me, but he could tell me orally.
I waited for more days, and I didn’t care about another month.
Qin Huai said in a chattering voice, “You’re busy.” Then he turned the car and drove directly to the XX Hotel.
I arrived at the hotel room two hours earlier than the scheduled time. Naturally, I didn’t expect Jiang Yi, such a busy person, to arrive first. After a little washing, I received a call from Brother Chengxin: “Chengyi, I’m almost ready here. It’s already early October. In a week, let’s go into the mountains. I can’t wait until next year. If it’s any later, it’ll be winter, and it’ll be more troublesome to enter the mountains then.”
The so-called preparations were almost complete were actually the agreement between Chengxin and the old ghost. The old ghost asked Chengxin to help it recuperate for a while before it would tell him where the essence was. As for the reason, it only told Chengxin that it was too weak.
What kind of reason is that? I thought it was a bit strange, but since I was “controlled by the ghost,” there was nothing I could do about it. After thinking about it for a while, I decided to agree to Cheng Xin Ge’s request.
After a few more casual words, I hung up the phone with Brother Chengxin. Brother Chengxin knew that Ru Xue was going to participate in this operation, and he had just informed Ru Xue. I thought I didn’t need to inform Ru Xue again.
After several months of hard work, I was a little tired and I was lying in bed, but I still had a little bit of worry in my heart, that is, I had to visit Lao Hui and Hong Zi. I counted the days and realized that it was two days before the agreed date. I set a reminder on my phone and the feeling of fatigue came rushing in.
I don’t know how long I slept. When I woke up, I saw Jiang Yi sitting in the room, leisurely drinking tea and casually flipping through a newspaper, waiting for me.
“How did you get in? Why didn’t you wake me up?” I had just woken up, and my thoughts were still not very clear, but when I woke up, I suddenly found that there was someone in the room, and my mood was not very good.
“There are many ways to get in. As for why I didn’t wake you up…” While talking, Jiang Yi looked at his watch and said, “You only slept for five more minutes. If you didn’t wake up in another 25 minutes, I would have naturally woken you up.”
I patted my face to wake myself up and said to Jiang Yi, “Jiang, you really have time this time. You waited for half an hour for me.”
I wasn’t too polite to Jiang Yi, only because I was dissatisfied with him because of the sacrifice of Hongzi in that battle. I guessed that someone had carefully arranged the battle behind the scenes, and I also felt that if that was the case, why did the reinforcements arrive so late? The brothers were all fighting like that, and even Hongzi sacrificed himself… Therefore, I had no way to speak too pleasantly to Jiang Yi, the commander-in-chief of the operation.
Of course, I didn’t talk to Jiang Yi about the battle. My injuries weren’t too serious, and after lying in the hospital for a few days, I hurriedly went back to my business. He was also very busy, and we didn’t have time to talk.
Jiang Yi’s expression remained calm, and he still spoke to me in the same tone as the news broadcast, saying, “No one in the department speaks to me in this tone. Are you implying that I’m not part of the department? Or did you learn this temper from Jenny?”
Speaking of Jenny? Since that time I parted with her, I have never heard from her again. Faced with Jiang Yi’s direct questions, I was at a loss for words and my face turned pale.
“Don’t blame me for anything. If I can avoid sacrifice, I naturally don’t want anyone to sacrifice, and I don’t even want you to fight like this. If you really want an explanation, I can only tell you that there is more than one sorcerer from Nanyang, and at least six little devils have been created within the borders of China. To put it bluntly, this is like pulling out a radish and bringing out the mud. You and Lao Hui have obtained important evidence and uncovered a corner of the incident. We used this as an excuse to investigate openly and discovered the shocking truth behind it. Our manpower is limited, and Dandan is, in a way, a defective little demon. Lu Fanming could only take it away. I have tried my best…” Jiang Yi didn’t say any more. I understood what he meant. He had tried his best to look after our side, and he had his own difficulties in taking the big picture into account.
Six? I was a little shocked. I lit a cigarette and felt inexplicably depressed. Could this be fate? I am not a person who gets entangled in things. After Jiang Yi said all this, I had no reason to accuse him of anything. But if this is the fate of Lao Hui and Hong Zi, how can I not be depressed?
I didn’t want to think about it anymore, so I asked, “Is Doudou a defective little ghost? Are you referring to the existence of Du Qin?”
“Yes, it is the only ghost that can be saved. You know, ghosts are not very powerful, not as powerful as the demon worms you have faced before. But their true fear is that they are so full of resentment that they are almost immortal. They can only be suppressed by absolute power. If they can be saved, they will naturally be considered defective. Because of Du Qin’s special experience, she accidentally avoided Lu Fanming’s pursuit, and it was another innocent person who died. When Lu Fanming realized Du Qin’s existence, he was unable to kill her. You know, the little ghost didn’t want to.” Jiang Yi explained lightly, but the phrase “the little ghost didn’t want to” made me pause. I felt indescribable emotions in my heart. There must still be a strong feeling, strong enough to outweigh the resentment.
I was in a daze for a while before I suddenly came to my senses and asked Jiang Yi, “Jiang, where are the materials?”
Jiang Yi didn’t waste any time, and took out a yellow file bag from his briefcase and handed it to me, saying, “These are all the information I can give you. I can’t give you any confidential information. You can look at it first, and if you don’t understand anything, you can ask me. However, you can’t take this information with you. Please understand.”
I didn’t say anything, but I looked at the yellow file bag he handed me, and I felt inexplicably nervous. But in the end, I couldn’t wait to take the file bag, and I opened it with a trembling hand.
The contents of the file bag were simple: a CD, a stack of photos, and a few pieces of explanatory material.
Looking at these, I didn’t know what to look at first, but in the end I chose to look at the photos first, simply because I missed my master too much, and photos were the most direct thing!