Chapter 17

Qing Li and Xi Ji were given priority to board the airplane through the VIP channel of the first class.

Because she had already seen Yue Zhi’s luxurious private jet, Qing Li didn’t feel any surprise at the comfortable first class cabin, and Xiji was even complaining, “It’s hard to die, that Yue Zhi guy, he’s too stingy, he actually asked me to come and fly in civil aviation by myself! Just let me fly an airplane once and what can I do!”

“Do you know how to fly an airplane?” Qing Li asked, not realizing that Xiji was already all-powerful to this extent.

“You’ll have to learn sooner or later, especially helicopters, they’re a very convenient means of transportation when you’re on a mission elsewhere, transportation pickups are used.” Xiji turned his head to look at her, “Don’t think that passing the test is the end of it, there’s still a lot more you need to continue learning and refining.”

Qing Li nodded, it was an irrefutable fact, she had nothing to say.

Before ten o’clock, they had arrived at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport, which sounded high class, but was actually the bottom rated in Southeast Asia for both construction and service.

But Aonashi didn’t know this, being new to an unfamiliar country, she subconsciously got down to the basics of the task, unconsciously looking around to get a grasp of her surroundings.

Instead, her cell phone suddenly rang, she picked it up and saw that it was Yue Zhi’s call, “Sir, Xiji and I just landed, we haven’t walked out yet.”

“The security in the Philippines is very poor, the per capita gun ownership rate is the highest in Southeast Asia, and the gun-related death rate is also the highest, the police and security at the airport are very good at looking at people, and will target foreigners for extortion and blackmail, so you still need to pay some attention, stay close to Xiji, and don’t let your guard down.” Yue Qi instructed Qing Li in a warm voice.

Qing Li was a little surprised, she didn’t expect there to be a place more chaotic than Indonesia, “I know sir, don’t worry, I definitely won’t interfere with the mission.”

As a result, just after her words fell, two men in uniform came over and stood in front of Qing Li, with a face of impatience and provocation, saying in broken English, “I’m sorry ma’am, you’re suspicious, we’re going to do a routine check on your luggage.”

Green Pear frowned and stopped in her tracks.

“What’s wrong Ah Li?” Yue Zhi asked over the phone.

“There are two men who look like police officers who want to check my luggage.” Qing Li said.

Those two men saw that Qing Li did not respond and pretentiously amplified their voices, “Hang up the phone, immediately! Come with us!”

“Don’t be afraid, that shouldn’t be the police, it’s just security.” Yue Zhi said, “West Pole will take care of it.”

“I’m not afraid.” Qing Li looked up, she took the cell phone this moment on the bored head to walk out a large section of the West pole finally realized that the people around them were gone, and fell back to look for her.

“What are you dragging your feet for, I hate this place, check things out and hurry back.” Xiji said impatiently, then looked at the two security guards, “Why, what’s the matter with you guys!”

The two security guards probably didn’t expect Qing Li to have a companion, and looked at each other for a moment, but looking at Xiji was just a teenager who was less than one meter eight in height, with a delicate face and a pair of big eyes, and white and slim skin, and then quickly toughened up, “You guys are a gang? I am now in accordance with the provisions of the body search inspection of you, your luggage must also open the bag!”

West pole and green pear all brand name, temperament is also different from the normal people, and both are slender type of people, look unintimidating, it is easy to become the target of these people, they are not really want to do anything, just want to extort a sum from this kind of rich foreigners, generally experienced people at this time will come up with a few hundred dollars in cash, to put things to rest.

Unfortunately, looking at the best to mess with people happen to be the worst to mess with, West pole’s eyes all of a sudden glared up, disgusted with the lack of English swearing vocabulary, first cursed a string of Chinese, and then questioned in English, “What the hell, what are you guys according to the rules to stop people, where are the rules? I don’t know when security guards have the right to enforce the law! You’re just coaxing fools here!”

The security guard took a look, actually a violent prick, but also did not take Xiji in his eyes, took out his truncheon and pointed it at Xiji, “Don’t you yell and scream, put your hands up and stand still for me!”

The people around them heard the commotion and were drawn to look up this way.

Xiji grunted contemptuously, between breaths he grabbed the baton in the security guard’s hand and pulled it downwards, his knee went upwards, the other party’s face smashed heavily on his knee, his nose bone was instantly fractured, blood splattered everywhere, then he raised his leg and kicked the other party out.

Before and after was only a few seconds, Xiji even moved loosely as if he was teasing someone, but one security guard had already covered his face and fell to the ground unable to move, the other looked dazed and stiff.

He walked over and stomped on the chest of the security guard on the ground, then said to the other security guard, “Call the police.”

That security guard was dumbfounded.

“What are you waiting for, I beat someone up and told you to hurry up and call the police!” Xiji let out a “tsk” sound, scaring the security guard so much that his cell phone almost fell to the ground.

The police quickly rushed over, first dispersing the people who had gathered in a circle to fetch their luggage and still stayed to watch the fun, before coming over to address Xiji, who still had his foot on the security guard, and Qing Li, who stood at the side with a flat face.

“Let go of your feet!” A young policeman shouted as he was about to draw his pistol from his waistband when he was slapped hard on the back of his head.

He turned around to see that it was their captain with a serious expression warning him, “Don’t draw your gun, don’t you want to die?!”

After the captain finished speaking he immediately piled on a smile again and walked over towards Xiji, “Mr. West, long time no see, I’m really sorry, these people are new here and don’t know the rules, you are generous, don’t bother with them in general.”

Xiji raised his eyes to squint at him, and with just one glance, he pulled out the memories about this person, “Oh, it’s you, now you’ve come to this side of the airport to become a captain? You’ve climbed quite fast.”

“Why, it’s been almost five years since that incident, so it’s not that fast.” The captain smiled and handed over a carton of cigarettes, “Mr. West really has a good memory.”

West was West pole’s English name, the name on his ID card, people with more distant relationships or explicitly official, called him that.

“Green Pear, let’s go.” Xiji didn’t take his cigarette, uncrossed his legs and called on Qingli to move forward, they had traveled light and hadn’t checked any other baggage besides their respective backpacks and the small 20-inch suitcases in their hands, so it was just a matter of going straight through customs.

The captain followed with a smile, not at all upset at being treated coldly.

He was assigned to the Manila port side when he first started working, and back then, law and order was even more chaotic than it is now, especially on the port side, where a lot of small, unorthodox gangs would go stealing or blatantly robbing, and the police tended to respond negatively as long as no one got killed.

In order to get a positive response from the police, many captains or cargo owners would choose to bribe the police, except for Yue Zhi’s port, which was clearly the largest, with the most docks, and the value of the goods in circulation was of a higher kind, but just no one dared to cause trouble.

After all, those who made trouble ended up in a miserable situation, although there was only one time, Yue Zhi didn’t seek to recover the goods or compensation, and directly sent a terrifyingly strong armed squad to end the small gang, and sent all the dead and alive to the harbor police, letting them claim the credit.

Not only did it bring in the police department, but it also gave those stupid dark forces a warning, so it can be said to be killing two birds with one stone.

At that time, the people in charge of docking matters with the police department were Xiji and Liang Jin, this captain was still a rookie at that time, and he followed the lead and luckily got a small share of the credit, that’s why he was promoted so quickly, and finally left the chaotic harbor police department to be transferred to the airport a few months ago.

He knew that Yue Zhi’s people were not to be messed with.

“Yue’s development in the Philippines has been good these past few years, thanks for looking out for me.” Xiji walked out of the airport and stood in front of the car that had come to pick him up before giving the captain a square look and took a cigarette from the other party, “Don’t worry, I’ll talk to Mr. Yue about it.”

“Then thank you very much.” The captain was overjoyed, handing over his business card with both hands, “If Mr. West has anything over here, feel free to look for me.”

West Pole let out a “hmm” and took the business card and handed it to Aonashi, “See you later.”

They got into the car sent by the branch to meet them, the driver is the person in charge of Yue’s port security company here, a retired special forces soldier of Colombian nationality named Pitts, who was originally a member of Yue Zhi’s close-knit mercenary corps before, but later took a Filipino wife and settled down here, so Yue Zhi transferred him here to be in charge of Yue’s security company.

He and the West pole know many years is also considered very familiar with each other, laughed when the lips thick brown eight beard a shake, “How do you still look like this ah, look and underage kids like, and with the rich like wearing a brand name, not be robbed strange, this kind of play I am tired of seeing, you can not be a little low-key?”

West Pole hadn’t been here for more than two years, collectively he had been here four or five times, and every time he had encountered the ungrateful ones, that’s why he hated the Philippines.

“Shut up!” He kicked the driver’s seat.

Pitts laughed a few more times and glanced in the rearview mirror at Qing Li, who hadn’t said a word since he got in the car, “Is this Mr. Yue’s beloved little baby, why did you bring it here?” He only heard that Yue Zhi suddenly had a woman by his side, he was not sure about the inner details, after all, if Yue Zhi’s matter was so easily spread to everyone, then a group of people were bound to suffer.

Qing Li gently glanced at him, her gray eyes naturally carried a bit of coolness, “I’m not.”

“Well, she is not in that kind of relationship with Yue Zhi, now that she has joined our mercenary group, she is a qualified female warrior, you can’t just belittle her.” Xiji said with a wry smile.

Pitts immediately apologized with a straight face, “I’m sorry, it was me who said the wrong thing.”

Qing Li shook her head to show that she didn’t care.

After a while Pitts asked again, “I forgot to ask what your name is.”

“Aonashi.”

Pitts didn’t catch that it was pronounced in Chinese, “Cherry? Cherry? Is that a code name?”

Because Qing Li’s pronunciation was a lot like Cherry in English when pronounced faster, many people on the base would simply use Cherry instead of the awkward pronunciation of Qing Li, and she was so used to it that she didn’t have to explain much.

“That’s pretty much how it’s pronounced, but it doesn’t mean Cherry, you can just call me that.”

Pitts didn’t ask any more questions.

Xiji rejected Piz’s proposal to go eat first, “Quickly, go directly to the harbor and take a look at those containers first.”

“OK, listen to you, twenty-three containers, all placed in the yard, in addition to the night of arrival to open the box to check the goods, has not moved, only four boxes of electronic products and the waybill consistent, the remaining nineteen boxes of high-grade textiles all and the waybill does not match.” Pitts said.

“The waybill reported are the highest grade textiles, the unit price of a pound is almost one hundred and fifty U.S. dollars, this is forty tons of standard containers, the value of a container is three million U.S. dollars, nineteen boxes of the value of fifty-seven million U.S. dollars, if it is really lost, it can be said that the loss of a great deal of money.” Pitts said all heart palpitating, “Mr. Yue will definitely be very angry.”

“The other party has offered seventy million dollars in compensation, isn’t that too much of a lion’s den?” Qing Li asked.

“This you do not understand, if it is really our responsibility, the most serious problem is not to lose money, but Yue’s shipping reputation seriously damaged, the reason why the other party dared to open, is to pinpoint this point, if the compensation, the reputation of the damage, but at least fell into the aftermath of a thorough and actively take responsibility for the reputation, if you do not pay out, the credibility of the damage, not to mention the accusation of shirking their responsibilities, the impact will be even more big! .” Pitts simply cut to the chase and analyzed it for Qingli.

Xiji looked out the window, “That’s why I was called over, I’d like to see who’s behind this.”

They soon arrived at the yard, where countless containers were neatly stacked, Pitts stopped the car, “This is it.”

Xiji walked over and waved his hand to greet the yard staff who had been waiting for them, “Come here, open it up and take a look.”

Immediately, someone wearing overalls printed with the Yue Group logo and the names of its shipping companies came over and opened the containers.

Nineteen containers were opened one by one, and at the eleventh one, the staff suddenly let out a shriek.

Qing Li reacted extremely quickly and ran over, and saw the staff member settling on the ground, staring at the half-open container door, trembling and unable to make a sound.

She approached step by step, her nostrils gradually filled with the choking smell of blood, pulling open the door to see that there was a corpse tightly stuffed inside the cheap cotton gauze that was wrapped in white plastic bags and neatly stacked.

Can’t see the wound clearly, but the blood flowing out of the body has dyed all the cotton gauze under him red.

Xiji also walked over and looked at the scene in front of him with a sullen face.

“What kind of person is this?” Aonashi asked.

“People from the ship.” Xiji said, “Should be a sailor.”