Chapter 19

Qing Li was still out of her mind wondering what exactly was like when her cell phone rang and it was none other than Yue Zhi.

“Hello, sir?”

“Have you eaten?” Yue Zhi asked.

Qing Li could think of his handsome face with a gentle smile when she heard his voice, “Eating.”

“It’s two o’clock before you eat?”

“Well, we passed through the slum area and the traffic was a bit more congested.” Aonashi explained honestly.

“Manila security is not very good, you have to be careful, your wounds are still not completely healed, don’t add new ones.”

“Uh, I know.”

“Then I won’t bother you anymore, have a good meal.” Yue Qi said and was about to hang up the phone.

“Sir.” Qing Li hurriedly called out to him, “Aren’t you going to ask about the progress of our investigation?”

Yue Zhi let out a laugh, “No need, since it has been handed over to the two of you, I believe that you will always find out what’s going on, don’t look at the West Pole like that, it’s still very reliable, so don’t be under too much pressure.”

“Uh-huh.” Qingli hung up the phone at this point.

Xiji was already discussing the matter of the goods being swapped with Pitts.

“The largest import areas for high-grade textiles made in India are in Europe, North America and China, not many are sold to the Philippines, I called the shipping company’s headquarter side to check, this nineteen containerized cargo is the largest shipment to the Philippines in the seven years since Yue’s shipping company was established, isn’t it strange?” Pitts said.

West Pole nodded, “The one with the largest quantity on the side, there was a problem with the cargo, the sailor captain on duty was also killed, if this is not a silencing, I have to change my name to Chaodong.”

“I watched the video, at least the contents of the containers when they were loaded onto the ship were in the right version, they were indeed well-packaged high-class textiles.” Aonashi had already gone over the video several times and found nothing wrong with it.

“Since there was no problem when it departed, there are only two possibilities, either it was switched when it was on the ship or something went wrong after it arrived in the harbor, which do you guys think it is?”

Although West Pole asked this, the answer seemed obvious, a forty-ton scale container, even if it was filled with cotton or air, it was still a behemoth twelve meters long and two and a half meters high, without specialized loading and unloading equipment, once it was on board the ship, it would be very difficult to move it by human power.

So it was most likely that something went wrong after arriving at the harbor.

Qing Li listened to Xiji and Pitts’ analysis, thinking about Yue Zhi’s words full of trust just now, no matter what kind of feelings she actually held for Yue Zhi, what she had to do now was not to let the other party down.

“I think there is definitely something wrong with Captain Gordon, I want to go track him down.” She said.

“Gordon is always in charge of the South Southeast Asia and East Asia routes, both India and the Philippines are familiar to him, it’s indeed easy to do something, yes, you go and follow him, that flustered look of his doesn’t look innocent, he will definitely reveal himself.” Saiji happily enjoyed his after dinner dessert, “I’ll have someone bring you a motorcycle later, it’s more convenient in a place like this, keep your headphones on, keep your weapon handy, and keep in touch.”

With that, immediately after the meal Aonashi went to follow Gordon.

She first followed the navigation to the dormitory of Yue’s shipping company near the port, where she could just see Gordon’s room from a window in the utility room of a nearby building, and thanks to the sweltering heat of Manila, the air-conditioning outboard in the window had been working, showing that there was someone else inside.

“Mr. Pitts, please send someone you trust to knock on the door, I need to make sure Gordon is still inside.” Aonashi contacted Pitts, “Also, please have your people tell Gordon something.”

A few minutes later, a man in Yue’s security uniform appeared in her scope, went up and knocked on the door, Gordon quickly opened it.

“Suspicion hasn’t been cleared, he’s afraid to leave so easily.” Pitts said, “I’ve asked someone to tell him that West Pole has determined that the problem is in India, and will be flying with you to India tomorrow, so he’s free to go for now.”

“Very well, please.” Aonashi said.

She waited in that place for another four hours after that, and it wasn’t until seven o’clock, when it was dark, that she saw Gordon change his clothes and leave the dormitory.

She followed quietly, the other woman taking a motorcycle, and she followed at the back two hundred meters away, squeezing into the crowded army of transportation, completely inconspicuous.

It was also thanks to the fact that she hadn’t asked West Pole to get her a heavy motorcycle in the hundreds of thousands of dollars over here, but instead sent a half-new regular motorcycle, the likes of which could be found everywhere on the streets of Manila.

If it was a heavy motorcycle, the sound of the engine alone would be enough to attract attention.

When he got to where the traffic was a little better, Gordon got off the motorcycle and changed to another cab, then went to a casino on the edge of the business district.

Once Gordon was inside, Aonashi circled the building twice to make sure of all the entrances and exits before entering the casino, and with a change of clothes and some camouflage, she soon saw Gordon at a □□□□□□□□□□□□□□□□□□□□□□□□□□□□□□□□□□□□□□□□□□□ poker table.

She sat down at one of the bars behind Gordon and watched in secret for a moment.

Gordon had a number of chips in front of him and looked very old-fashioned and skillful, but Greenleaf didn’t know the amount of money indicated by the chips here and couldn’t estimate the value.

“Hello.” Green Pear moved a little to the side of one of the gambling companions who was having a drink.

The woman gave her a flavorful look, “As long as there’s enough money, women are okay too oh.”

“Do me a favor.” Green Pear handed out a bunch of dollars.

The woman nonchalantly took the money, “No problem, go ahead.”

“The second □□□□ table in the back, the player on the right with the big golden brown nose, go and check for me how much the chips in front of him are worth in total, and how the battle is going.” Green Pear said.

“No problem.” The woman stood up, pulled her neckline down again, and wriggled seductively with her glass of wine in hand as she made her way over to Gordon.

She quickly struck up a conversation with Gordon and stayed at that table for almost forty minutes before leaving, turning her head to see that Green Pear wasn’t there, and then glancing around to see that the other woman had moved to the second floor at some point.

“You’re pretty discreet, catching . Rape?” The female asked Aonashi in amusement.

Aonashi ignored her flirtation, “Well?”

“He had at least a hundred thousand dollars in chips in front of him when I went, and he’s already lost half of it in this moment.” The girl said as she took out five chips from her delicate little handbag, “Not exactly the biggest customer I’ve ever seen, but it’s already pretty impressive, and just for tipping me, it’s five hundred dollars.”

For Manila’s per capita income, she’d made a fortune today.

“You go down there and keep watching for me, how many chips he exchanged tonight, how many he lost and won, who he talked to, on the phone, what he said, the more details the better.” Green Pear pulled out another wad of cash, “Double it when it’s done.”

The woman felt that she was simply hitting the big time today, and there was no difference between it and pie in the sky, and immediately took the money and went downstairs with style and grace.

The night is getting deeper and deeper, the casino is getting more and more people, Qing Li is always on the second floor to concentrate on the situation below, during the period of time and the West Pole contacted twice, the other party went to check the dead sailor chief Karamy and the port’s surveillance.

It wasn’t until three in the morning that Gordon, who had stayed up until his eyes were red, left the casino.

“Get in the car and talk as we go.” Aonashi carried the gambling escort girl and continued to follow Gordon, but looking at the direction, she guessed that the other party was going back to the dormitory.

“He has exchanged chips a total of three times, the amount of money before and after added up to about two hundred and fifty thousand dollars, almost lost all of it, in the end, there is about fifty thousand left, the other is not much else, and I have not seen him talk or call with others much, only looked at the cell phone a few times, it seems that someone has sent a message, but I did not see the content.” The woman said.

“Very well.” Aonashi stopped the motorcycle and handed the girl the money, “You’d better forget about tonight and don’t mention it to anyone else.”

“I understand, with this money, I won’t have to work for the last six months.” The woman understood perfectly.

“That would be best.” Green Pear pointed to a car off to the side, “You get in that car and he’ll take you home.”

The female student froze for a moment and watched the driver of the car nod toward Aonashi, “Why are you …… doing this?”

Green Pear frowned as if she had asked a stupid question, “Manila’s law and order is bad, it’s the middle of the night and you’re kind of carrying a huge amount of money, do you want to get mugged?”

Of course the woman knew the dangers, she had planned to get a hotel room close by for the night, but being sent home was naturally the safest thing to do.

She smiled genuinely at Qing Li, “Thank you, this is my phone number, you can come to me for anything in the future.”

Aonashi nodded faintly, pocketed the note with the phone number and rode off on her motorcycle.

Gordon did return to the dormitory, and Aonashi watched the lights go out in her room before heading back to the hotel where she was staying with Nishiji.

She went to knock on Xiji’s door, and Xiji shouted grumpily from inside, “Wait for tomorrow even if the sky is falling!”

It’s already 5:00 a.m. and the sky will be light soon, Aoshiri feels tired and her eyes are sore, but she has a rare case of insomnia.

She used her cell phone to search for explanations of like, expressions of love and similar emotional phrases, trying to give a clear definition of her feelings for Yue Zhi.

But feelings were just too general and personal a thing, and she read a lot and couldn’t find a standard answer.

Luckily, she had a good brain and quickly summarized a general definition with a high degree of adaptability and then compared it to her own feelings.

Pitts says he can’t help but kiss and cuddle with his wife all the time, and the internet says that liking or loving means that you can’t help but be close, want to be close, and crave skin-to-skin contact.

Pitts’s wife likes Pitts’s eight-pointed beard and finds it so nice and attractive that she can’t even resist getting up and running it, and the internet also says that to like someone is to feel that the other person is different, and that their flaws are strengths, and that they’re good at everything.

She finally realized that she didn’t like Yue Zhi.

First of all she didn’t want to get close to Yue Zhi, there were times when she even felt uneasy because she was too close to Yue Zhi, not to mention kissing and hugging, it was unimaginable.

Secondly she thought Yue Zhi was good looking, not with the filter of a lover’s eyes, but because Yue Zhi himself was good looking, which was an objective fact that existed, and was different from Pitts’s beard that no one liked except his wife.

In the end, Qing Li accurately summarizes and defines her feelings for Yue Zhi.

Yue Zhi saved her life and gave her a different path, and he himself was powerful and gentle, so she treated him with a kind of respect, gratitude, and even admiration.

She put Yue Zhi on a high pedestal and looked up to him, expecting the other party’s praise and recognition of herself, and worked hard for it, wanting to be perfect, so she couldn’t help but observe the other party all the time.

That was it.

Qing Li felt satisfied, looked at the faintly lit sky and sent a message to Yue Zhi.

[Mr. Yue, I will definitely strive for self-improvement and struggle to become your right-hand man who is pleased with you and repay your kindness].

Getting up in the morning, while drinking coffee and opening his cell phone Yue Zhi saw the message.

Yue Zhi: …… How does it seem to be brainwashed?