Chapter 1216, Never Changed
Early in the morning, there were officials trembling in fear waiting at the entrance of Barrier 111.
The sky was drizzling, but this group of officials didn’t even dare to use umbrellas and just stood straight in the rain.
The news of Luo Lan’s killing spree had already reached Barrier 111 last night.
Although the officials knew in their hearts that the other party wasn’t targeting them, the problem was that no matter who was facing this kind of killing billet that slaughtered the hidden dangers of the Qing Clan in three days, they would be a bit scared ah.
Even if you knew that he wasn’t going to kill you, or even that he didn’t even have you in his eyes.
An hour later, the special battalion convoy that Luo Lan was in finally arrived, and as usual the convoy roared past the gate.
The muddy water rolled up by the wheels slapped on the body and face of the officials, as if Luo Lan slapped them one by one.
When the convoy traveled to the bottom of Ginkgo Mountain, the special battalion stopped all together, and only Luo Lan’s vehicles could continue to pass upwards.
On the mountain road, Luo Lan suddenly asked, “When this mountain road, it was you who accompanied my brother up to it right, and it was still snowing heavily that day.”
Zhou Qi recalled, “Well, at that time, he already knew that those old men from the Qing Clan were going to make a move against him, so he deliberately detached you to go to the Yang Clan’s 88th Barrier as a hostage. Regardless of whether it came to fruition or not, at least you were able to survive.”
Sometimes Zhou Qi was very emotional, in such an era, these two brothers had to consider for each other without caring about their own gains and losses, this kind of feeling was indeed enviable.
Zhou Qi said, “Later when he became the Lord of the Qing Clan, he was the first to plot how to save you from the 88th Barrier, at that time, so many officials were waiting to hand over their casts to him, but it turned out that he was just on the mountain not seeing anyone, waiting for news from you.”
Luo Lan asked, “What, moved?”
Zhou Qi bristled, “Touched by what? I’m an emotionless killer who only recognizes money. This kind of emotion is of no use to me at all, it hurts money.”
Luo Lan no longer said anything.
The mountain road is more than twenty kilometers, in fact, driving in the twinkling of an eye, in the past, Luo Lan always felt that this road is quite short, but when he thought that Qing Zhen had once walked up the mountain barefoot in the snowy weather, he felt that this road is very long.
That day must have been very hard, every step must have been very difficult.
This Gingko Mountain was like a high threshold in Qing Zhen’s heart, and when he stepped on it, he stepped over it.
From now on, Qing Zhen will never be the same Qing Zhen who likes to plant flowers and listen to music.
……
Arriving at the gates of Ginkgo Manor, Xu Concealer was already waiting: “Boss Luo, the officer is waiting for you.”
Luo Lan glanced at Xu Concealer, “Protecting him day and night, hard work for you.”
“I should,” Xu Conceal said in a low voice.
The soldiers outside the Ginkgo Manor stole a glance at Xu Concealer, and some of the new recruits who had just been transferred to Xu Concealer’s command said in their hearts, even Luo Lan greeted his own officer so politely ah ……
Over the years, Xu Concealer’s status in Qing had gradually become supreme.
Although Xu Concealer only had the rank of Major General, the only person who could command him was Qing Zhen, not even Luo Lan.
In the early days, Xu Conceal was in charge of the nuclear test base, and later on, Xu Conceal was the one who reorganized the bandits in the northern river valley area, and nowadays, whenever there is something tricky or dangerous, Xu Conceal is basically the one who does it.
Nowadays, the intelligence system is divided into two sequences, internal and external, the internal is managed by Luo Lan, while the external is handed over to Xu Concealer.
When Qing Zhen entered the Frontier Mountain, he also took Xu Concealer with him.
Many people had tried to bribe Xu Concealer in the past, but all failed.
For people like Luo Lan, having Xu Concealer to protect Qing Zhen was very reassuring, at least he never had to worry about someone stabbing Qing Zhen in the back.
When he entered the Ginkgo Manor, Luo Lan saw Qing Zhen smiling and sizing himself up at a glance.
Qing Zhen laughed, “Tired, aren’t you?”
“It’s a bit tired,” Luo Lan didn’t get preachy as he blasted Qing Yi next to him up to snatch the cushion underneath the other’s butt before sitting on his own butt.
Qing Yi addressed Qing Zhen as Second Brother, then Luo Lan was rightfully the Big Brother.
Back in the day when they fought on the streets of Barrier 111 Luo Lan was the elder brother, and now even though Qing Yi had become the highest military commander of the Qing Clan, in his heart he was still in awe of this elder brother.
If someone else had grabbed the cushion, Qing Yi would have been furious.
But if Luo Lan grabbed it, he could only honestly go to the house to fetch a new cushion out, and by the way, he also brought one to Zhou Qi.
Luo Lan said with a big grin, “That old kid Wang Shengzhi asked you to go to 61st Barrier this, how did you decide?”
Qing Chen laughed, “Since he asked me to go, then I’ll make the trip.”
“Is that really necessary?” Luo Lan was puzzled, “No matter how powerful he Wang and the AI are, can he still directly hit our Qing Clan here? Without a missile force, let’s just fight him directly with automatic rifles, I don’t believe how fierce he can be!”
Qing Zhen shook his head, “Things are even worse than we expected, as of today, not only has military base 012 been invaded, along with base 002 and base 004, none of them have been spared.”
Luo Lan froze for a moment, “All of the Missile Force’s military bases are gone?”
“Fortunately, I had Qing Yi separate the bombs and vehicles before, and none of the silos were loaded with missiles,” Qing Zhen said, “If the other party was not only able to sabotage and invade, but also directly manipulate our military systems, I’m afraid that those missiles would have already landed at Barrier 111. ”
Luo Lan frowned, “But ……”
“There are no more buts,” Qing Zhen said calmly, “I’ve prepared some backstops for this trip to the Central Plains, I won’t be going there myself, have you forgotten that I have a double?”
When he said this, Luo Lan subconsciously looked towards the other party’s hand, and ended up not seeing the scar.
This was the real deal Keizo.
Luo Lan thought for a moment and said, “Are you planning to let that replica go for you? That doesn’t seem too bad, it’s relatively safe, and that old kid Wang Shengzhi definitely doesn’t know about the existence of a duplicate.”
After returning from the Fire Seed Sacred Mountain, Qing Zhen paid close attention to his whereabouts, and he could be certain that there were no loopholes in every identity swap between the duplicate and the real body.
Even the AI couldn’t analyze any clues from the itinerary.
Luo Lan suddenly let out a sigh of relief, he thought that Qing Zhen really wanted to go to the Central Plains by himself.
As a result, at this time, Qing Zhen suddenly said, “But there’s one thing that I need to discuss with you, brother, this trip to the Central Plains, you and Zhou Qi must go as well, because I have something more important that I need you to do. This matter, it can only succeed, not fail.”
Luo Lan froze for a moment, “What matter?”
At this moment, Qing Zhen suddenly asked Xu Conceal at the door to fetch a file bag and handed it to Luo Lan.
Luo Lan pulled out the information inside and only looked at it twice before looking up in shock, “Is it feasible?”
“Feasible,” Qing Zhen nodded.
At this moment, Luo Lan realized that no wonder this trip would require him and Zhou Qi to personally travel, so in Qing Zhen’s plan, going to the Central Plains was definitely not just as simple as negotiating with Wang Shengzhi.
This kind of plan, there is no trusted person to do, is absolutely not.
On the large chessboard, the artificial intelligence and Qing Zhen each layout for a long time, now each other light up the chess surface, Qing Zhen let the other side of the black chess first move, now the Qing Zhen fell.
Qing Zhen said, “This time, the people from the Central Plains can’t be used anymore, and Xu Concealer will follow you with his garrison battalion.”
“Okay,” Luo Lan said solemnly, “With Xu Concealer cooperating with me, I’m like a tiger with wings. Put a hundred hearts, this plan will definitely succeed!”
Qing Zhen hesitated and said, “You might be in danger this time, but I have no choice.”
“Well, I understand,” Luo Lan smiled, “Let’s not talk about these polite words between us.”
Zhou Qi on the side watched this scene and sighed inwardly.
In the end, Qing Zhen still let his brother go and charge into battle, you go for the matter of finding death, I’ll do the matter of enjoying power, he wanted to ask Luo Lan if it was worth it or not, but he couldn’t ask.
Zhou Qi was even thinking that although Luo Lan appeared to be big and bold on the surface, but in fact her heart was as fine as a hair.
He didn’t believe that what he could think of, Luo Lan would not think of?
At this time, Qing Shen said in a loud voice, “Come out, you and my brother will go.”
With that, the replica body Qing Shen walked out from the dark door next to him and said to Luo Lan with a smile, “Happy cooperation ah big brother.”
As a result, the replica body Qing Shen had just walked to Luo Lan’s side, but he saw Luo Lan’s palm slash on his neck like a knife, easily knocking the other party out.
Everyone present was dumbfounded by this turn of events, what was Luo Lan doing?
Qing Zhen sat on the cushion and frowned, “If brother doesn’t want to go to the Central Plains, it’s fine.”
Luo Lan sneered, “Shut up, this is no place for you to talk.”
As he said that, Luo Lan held the replica Qing Shen and slowly flattened it on the marble floor, then he grabbed “Qing Shen’s” left hand and looked at it, there was a scar on it.
However, Luo Lan didn’t care, he directly rubbed the back of Qing Shen’s hand twice, only to see that the extremely realistic scar was actually rubbed off!
Luo Lan also lifted up Qing Zhen’s two sleeves and confirmed the four moles on the other party’s lower arm before he finally let go of his heart.
Although Qing Laosan is a replica body, everywhere is the same as Qing Zhen, but the moles are melanin deposits, this thing is random, want to fake can not be.
Earlier Luo Lan had prevented a hand, even Qing Zhen didn’t know that he found a chance to memorize the location of the mole.
Zhou Qi and Qing Yi all froze, and only at this moment did they realize that the one on the ground who had been knocked out was Qing Zhen!
They looked towards the person who had just pretended to be Qing Zhen, only to see this Qing Laosan smile bitterly, he also consciously rubbed off the realistic concealer cream on the back of his hand, “Big brother, how did you recognize it ah, did I not learn like it?”
“Like, very much like,” Luo Lan said, “I have to say that your acting skills are really good, even I as a big brother didn’t recognize you.”
Qing Laosan got puzzled, “Then how do you know both of our identities, are there any loopholes?”
“The biggest loophole is that Qing Zhen won’t let me risk my life alone,” Luo Lan sneered up, “Is this his plan or yours?”
“Of course it’s his,” Qing Laosan cheerfully rushed to shake off the blame, “How am I as smart as he is.”
Zhou Qi silently looked towards Luo Lan, he was a bit puzzled, obviously Qing Zhen and Qing Shen were acting seamlessly, but Luo Lan dared to conclude that the person sitting on the cushion was not Qing Zhen just because of such a simple reason?
Just because you firmly believe that Qing Zhen will never betray you, is that it?
Zhou Qi’s inner emotions were a bit complicated, he was just thinking that it turns out that people will always change, because this world will change.
But he suddenly realized in retrospect that no matter how much this world changed, the brotherhood between Qing Zhen and Luo Lan had never changed.
The Lord of the Qing Clan gave up all his power just to accompany his brother on his adventures?
Zhou Qi muttered in his heart, childish.
At this moment, Luo Lan looked at the unconscious Qing Zhen and said, “He’s been like this since he was a child, I thought that he would change after becoming the master of this Qing Clan, but it turns out that he’s still like this.”
Qing Laosan took advantage of Qing Zhen’s unconsciousness and said to Luo Lan with a smile, “Big brother is as good as God, I told you that you are not ordinary, in the past it was all about deliberately hiding the sharpness ah. Things are like this, this plan you also see, want to complete this plan it must have Zhou Qi, but if you do not go to the Central Plains, to Zhou Qi’s character is absolutely will not go. In Qing Zhen’s plan, this mission must be accomplished, only if this link succeeds can there be a ray of hope in the future, so you must go.”
Qing Laosan continued with a smile, “Qing Zhen has made many more plans in order to protect your safety, so Xu Zou must also go, he can’t trust anyone else. But even so, he still wasn’t willing to let you risk your life alone, especially if it was because of his orders, so he planned to pretend to be me and follow you.”
“What about you?” Luo Lan frowned.
“Me?” Qing Laosan thought for a moment and said, “He has already told me all of his subsequent plans, and Qing Zhen said that if neither he nor you can come back, then I will be the one to carry out the later plans. At that time, I will be Qing Zhen, and I will guard the Qing Clan for him.”
Luo Lan glanced at the unconscious Qing Zhen, nowadays in this era, the chessboard is already full of existences like Transcendents, I’m afraid that only people like Qing Zhen can sway this chess game as an ordinary person.
Qing Laosan stood up from the futon and said: ”Since you’ve already seen through all this, then it’s better for me to go with you to the Central Plains, and I’ll use Qing Zhen’s identity to negotiate with Wang Shengzhi. I do think that this is much more fun than staying at Ginkgo Manor.”
To the side, Zhou Qi suddenly yelled, “Wait, did I say I’m going?”
Luo Lan turned his head to look at Zhou Qi and asked seriously, “You’re not going?”
Once Zhou Qi saw how serious he was, his aura was immediately suppressed a bit, “It’s fine to go, but you have to add money!”
“Plus,” Qing Laosan said with a smirk, “Qing Zhen promised that you can enjoy 100 years of taxes from Barrier 89 after you return, although you won’t live for 100 years, your descendants can.”
Zhou Qi froze for a moment, 100 years of taxes for an entire ledge?
Although he still didn’t have the power to govern the barriers, it was definitely enough to feed and drink for ten lifetimes, and if he were to have children in the future, his children would definitely be among the richest people in the Qing Clan.
“Alright, rich and powerful, I’ll do this one!” Zhou Qi said through gritted teeth.
“Did Qing Zhen say anything else? Don’t leave anything out,” Luo Lan asked Qing Laosan.
Qing Laosan said, “He doesn’t tell anyone anything right now, and I’m an outsider, what can he tell me?”
“Think about it again,” Luo Lan said with raised eyebrows, as he spoke, golden light loomed behind him, looking like he was about to summon the Ying Spirit to fight someone.
“Haha,” laughed Old Man Qing, “He did mention you to me before.”
“Said what about me?” Luo Lan was puzzled.
“He said that because of a certain incident when you were a child, you always felt that you owed him something,” Qing Laosan said, “But in fact, in his heart, it’s him who owes you instead, and without him, perhaps you would have had a life of your own.”
Luo Lan squatted beside Qing Shen for a long time without saying anything, and the others were silent and waiting as well.
The replica body Qing Shen suddenly asked seriously, “I have a question, if there wasn’t that incident, would you still treat him like this.”
After a long time, Luo Lan laughed, “Being an elder brother should in itself cover up for his younger brother.”
He took one last look at Qing Zhen, then said to Qing Yi, “Take care of your second brother, if anything goes wrong with him, you’ll see how I’ll come back and clean you up.”
After saying that, Luo Lan turned around and walked towards the outside of Ginkgo Manor, Qing Yi looked at the other party’s back, stout and tough.
The figure that left with large strides on the black and gray marble floor was like walking from a black lake into the light outside the door.