Chapter 40

Yue’s branch and industry to Southeast Asia as the center of radiation world, but wherever there is a branch in the place, regardless of size, will set up a security company, in order to protect the company’s business and employees as the main, to receive security tasks as a supplement.

But Singapore’s Yue’s security headquarters and different, is to receive security tasks, so all levels of male and female bodyguards have, as long as you can afford to pay the price, you can also choose Yue Zhi mercenary corps of free members.

This is very normal, but when West pole received Qing Li’s call, or a little bit of blindfolded.

Because in all of their perceptions, Qing Li should be around Yue Zhi, unless Yue Zhi agreed, no special circumstances will not take the company’s mission.

So Xiji subconsciously asked, “Can you take it?”

Qing Li paused before asking, “Why not? Is there any difference between me and others except for my gender?”

When Xiji thought about it, they all seemed to have defaulted to Qingli and Yue Zhi’s special relationship, but in reality, this kind of relationship did not exist, in these three months, Yue Zhi even seemed to have forgotten Qingli’s existence.

Fundamentally speaking, Qing Li and the others in the base were really no different, there was no other mission for her now, as long as she herself was willing, after reporting to him as the base chief, she was allowed to take this mission.

“Last time Lin Caiyue’s mission you completed well, the evaluation in the circle is also quite good, originally capable female bodyguard cost to be higher, you first ask him to be able to afford to pay your commission?” Xiji secretly sighed in his heart.

Qing Li looked up at the man across the table, “The captain said I am very expensive, can you afford the commission?”

The man froze for a moment, “How expensive, a hundred thousand dollars a day?”

“Not so much.” Qing Li retorted directly without asking Xiji, “I’m not that expensive.”

The man rolled his eyes breathlessly, “Then who are you looking down on, do I dare to enter this without some money in my pocket.”

Xiji scratched his head, put away the difficult emotions, and did not intend to ask Yue Zhi, “Okay, you from the front desk there that contract, ask for all the options that are blacked out above, and then report back to me, I make sure that there are no more problems, then you can sign the contract, remember to go to the conference room, and to keep the impact information in case there is a problem with the content of the mission.”

“I know.” Qing Li hung up the phone and took the man and the other party’s secretary to the conference room on the first floor.

“My name is Lance King, here’s my card.” The man handed over his business card, printed and foiled, fancy and sassy.

Qing Li took it and looked at it, nothing but the name, no company no position, she silenced, “The average person doesn’t really need a printed business card.”

Lance explained, “I do have a position, but it’s not good to write it on the surface, this mission I hope you can accompany me to Jakarta to participate in a Southeast Asian side of the arms suppliers and buyers basically participate in the banquet.”

“Arms suppliers and buyers? Which side are you on, what is your status, and who are your possible enemies?” Qing Li glanced at the contract and then asked.

“I’m the supplier’s representative, I represent the New Russian Technology Group, and I hope to use this banquet as a breakthrough to expand our company’s share of the arms trade in Southeast Asia.” Lance said scratching his head with a naive air that was the complete opposite of his arrogant attitude, “As for the enemy I actually don’t know, but you should know if you ask the people in your company, this banquet is held every year, but every year it is attacked by force, and even though there hasn’t been a single successful one, it’s always a more dangerous place to be.”

“Wait a moment, I need to get some information, you can read the contract first.” Aonashi placed the contract on the coffee table and turned to leave the conference room, asking the person at the front desk, “Where’s Singota?”

“In the training grounds in the back.” The receptionist pointed in the direction.

Green Pear walked through a long corridor to the training ground at the back of the first floor, and just as he entered, he saw Singota kick a tall man about his size out of the ring, and if it weren’t for a ring of elastic ropes around him to stop him, the man would have flown out of the ring.

Singota wiped the sweat from his forehead and looked up to see Green Pear, giving an explanation before jumping out of the ring and walking towards her.

The bodyguards in training all looked at Qing Li curiously, some had gone to the manor for their security shifts and were recognizing Qing Li, while others didn’t know who she was and tried to poke fun at her, making jokes at Singota’s expense, “Instructor, your girlfriend flew in from Scandinavia to see you?”

Singhota looked back, “Extra hour of practice.” The air was instantly quiet.

“What’s wrong?” Walking out of the training ground, Singota asked Qingli.

“I want to take on an assignment, the other party said that he is the arms sales representative of the New Russian Technical Collective to Southeast Asia, and he wants me to accompany him to attend a banquet about arms sales in Jakarta, I don’t know much about this, so I came to ask you.”

Singhota lit a cigarette, in the haze of smoke, his hair and skin color are so light that he seems to be disappearing, Qingli couldn’t help but let out a laugh as he looked at him, “Worthy of a peach.”

This kind of snarking Singota was already very used to, shallowly curved the corners of his mouth and didn’t say anything, he introduced the content involved in the mission to Qing Li, “Although Russian arms manufacturing companies are all state-owned enterprises, most of them actually have the background and influence of capital oligarchs and rich families, the New Russian Technology Group is the same, the biggest family behind him is Ilkovitch. ”

“The Ilkovich family provides armor materials for multiple arms manufacturing companies in Europe, and there is also Russia’s largest chemical company under their name, selling raw materials such as ammonium nitrate and ammonia, it’s a very impressive family.”

Qing Li frowned slightly as she listened, “Russia is also considered to be one of the top five arms exporters in the world, does it need to come specifically to attend this kind of banquet, and it’s not a bidding session.”

“Now no matter what industry is very competitive, the world is not peaceful, the arms trade volume rises year after year, Southeast Asia is one of the most densely populated and geopolitically complex regions, not a large area, but the market demand is not small, coupled with China’s advancement in military technology, Russia’s arms market is shrinking year after year, the urgency is also deserved.” Singhota inhaled a deep breath of smoke and said blandly.

“Understood.”

Singota looked at Qing Li through the smoke, “I suggest that it would be best for you not to take on this mission.”

Qing Li was puzzled, “Why?”

“The governments of these countries in Southeast Asia are generally weak, and the black . The strong mob is also involved in arms smuggling. They are all involved in arms smuggling, and are very dissatisfied with the government’s official procurement of arms to strengthen the armed forces to stabilize the society, so the banquet you mentioned is targeted and attacked every year, not by one country or one gang, but by several forces, it’s very complicated.” Singhota said this because he had accompanied Yue Zhi to this banquet before, and at that time, in order to protect Yue Zhi, they had sacrificed one of their companions.

“What if it was someone else?” Qing Li asked.

Singota didn’t understand, “What?”

“I mean if it was someone else, or you, who received this mission today, would you advise him not to take it or refuse it?” Aonashi said.

Singhota froze slightly, then smiled and pressed his cigarette out into the ashtray on the windowsill, “I’m sorry, I was overly worried, and I apologize for belittling you.”

Cygnus shook his head, “I know you didn’t belittle me, you were just worried about me, I’ve been injured because of my missions and I’ve hovered at death’s door, I’m ready for any danger on a mission, I can handle any outcome.”

Singhota nodded, “You have grown …… Do you remember why you followed Yue Zhi to leave Indonesia? I remember you told me back then that it was for freedom.”

Qing Li didn’t know why he suddenly mentioned this issue, but it was true, she did talk to Singota about it, it was for freedom.

Her relationship with Singota was amazing, technically, both of them could be classified into the least talkative ones on the base, and had never worked together on a mission, but Singota had mentored her quite a bit, and was also one of the examiners back then, and the two of them would always sit in a piece of silence and talk, with a sort of inexplicable comrade-in-arms feeling.

Singota asked rhetorically, “Do you think you’re free now?”

Qing Li nodded a little hesitantly, she didn’t know how to count as really free, but the way she looked now didn’t seem to count as not free, so she should be.

“There are people on the base who are like me, loners who spend as much as they earn, and there are those who have wives and children with their own families and obligations with Mongoma, but we all have one thing in common, and that is that no matter what mission we are on, we are able to pursue the success of the mission and the safety of our own lives without any bottom line.” Singota looked at Qing Li, “I can kill an innocent person without hesitation for the sake of my own survival or the success of my mission, turn around and walk away into the next battle, that person’s face won’t leave any impression in my mind, I won’t develop any useless emotions like guilt, can you?”

Aonashi hesitated, long enough to say, “Sooner or later I can.”

Singota then said nothing more.

“I’ll leave now, my client is still waiting for me in the conference room.” Aonashi turned to leave after saying that.

“Aonashi.” Singhota called out to her, “Mongkolma’s heart has always been at his wife’s, that’s where he belongs, your heart has always been at Yue Zhi’s, is that where you belong or …… your confinement?”

The two stared expressionlessly at each other for a few seconds, Qing Li pinched her palm and smiled, “Thank you, Singota, but my heart is with me.”

She was lying, and she knew full well that she was lying, so she couldn’t even look straight into Singota’s icy blue eyes that seemed to be able to see through hearts, and left with what seemed to be a smooth stride, but was in fact a fall from grace.

The emotion of regret, which she had rarely experienced in life, she had experienced thoroughly in these three months, and her entire heart was soaked in the sour and bitter tonic called regret, almost drowning her to death.

She shouldn’t have pulled Yue Zhi that night, she shouldn’t have poked through that thin layer of paper in a moment of emotion and impulse, she didn’t know why Yue Zhi refused, but she knew that she blamed herself for overstepping the bounds, her own infatuation, and her own delusions of grandeur.

She even practically understood the humility of the supporting characters in the enlightening romances that Mongoma had shared with her, and she also wanted to offer everything just to be able to go back to the previous state of being together with Yue Zhi, or even just to meet frankly.

Perhaps there is no need for a reason for everything, and there is no reason for anything, just because she is a supporting character in Yue Zhi’s life force, or even a nobody.

Her heart wasn’t with her anymore, and she really missed Yue Zhi.

Lance King was afraid that Qing Li wouldn’t take his commission, and once he saw that the other party had left for half a day and didn’t come back, he had wanted to hold up his face but didn’t, and directly stood at the doorway and anxiously looked up.

Just when he couldn’t hold back to find someone to ask, the end of the corridor Qing Li finally appeared.

An expression of pain and sadness appeared on the stunning beauty’s calm and indifferent face, shooting Lance’s straight Russian heart that never folded like Cupid’s arrow.

He couldn’t even bear to speak to her aloud because the other looked as if she was about to break, so he asked softly, “What’s the matter with you? I’ll hire another one if I’m really scared, and it’s okay if you recommend a better male bodyguard to protect me and you.”

Qing Li looked up, her eyes vacant and unfocused, “I’m not wearing a dress.”

“What?”

“I’ll take the assignment, you prepare the dress, but I’m not wearing a dress.”

Lance responded, nodding gleefully, “I see, that’s not much of a problem.”