Chapter 105
"Captain Tang is such a joke. How could there be something in the food that shouldn't be there?"
"Oh, when did I say my last name is Tang?" Tang Zeyu glanced at the base commander. "I didn't tell the receptionist or when I introduced myself just now, did I?"
"I didn't expect that the commander of Dawn Base also has a voyeuristic hobby."
The box fell silent in an instant. The smile on the base commander's face had completely disappeared. He stared at Tang Zeyu with an expressionless face, which was a bit creepy.
The next moment, no one knew who made the first move, but an explosion occurred when the two forces in the box collided.
The walls and the door were blown away, and the room became a ruin in an instant.
The two were each blown away by the energy of the explosion, but they quickly adjusted their posture and landed safely, standing on the rubble on the ground.
The base commander snorted, completely losing his previous friendly demeanor. He said, "Even if you guessed it, can't you just pretend you didn't know? You have to cause me trouble."
Tang Zeyu drew out his long sword and said calmly, "I'll give you one chance. Tell me where my team members are now. Otherwise..."
The base commander scoffed disdainfully, "What else? Don't forget you're not in Dawn Base now. If you try to act wildly in Dawn Base, I won't show mercy, even if you're here to establish diplomatic relations."
Tang Zeyu's eyes moved slightly, as if he thought of something, but the base commander did not give him a chance to think about it and attacked him again.
The two men fought fiercely, and the surrounding buildings were knocked down by them. The people who were originally indoors disappeared at some point, so no passers-by were injured in the fight.
The base commander looked at the building that had turned into ruins, his eyes filled with heartache.
"Asshole! If you want to hit me, go ahead. Why are you demolishing my house?"
Tang Zeyu did not answer, but just kept launching new rounds of attacks on the base commander. After several rounds, the base commander gradually became no match for Tang Zeyu and was at the end of his strength, but Tang Zeyu strolled leisurely without even making any big movements.
The base commander gritted his teeth, turned his head and shouted towards the ruins: "Zhang Hezhi, are you dead?"
But after she shouted, she didn't get a response for a long time. Now she felt something was wrong and looked around.
Shao Xingyang tied the rope, patted the dust off his hands, and said, "Look, I tied it well."
Lu Shiyu pulled the rope, making sure it was tied securely before saying, "Good, now no one can help me."
“Woo woo woo!”
The person in charge had his mouth gagged and was tied up with hemp ropes, looking like he had been kidnapped.
There were several other people who received the same treatment as him. These people had been staying near the box pretending to be ordinary people who came to eat, but as soon as there was some movement in the box, they started to make small movements, so they were dealt with by Shaoxing Yang and Lu Shiyu together to avoid disturbing Tang Zeyu.
Lu Shiyu turned his head to look at the two people still fighting not far away, and said with a sigh, "Once Tang Zeyu is done, we can almost wrap it up."
"I didn't expect it to become such a big deal."
Shao Xingyang counted the number of people they had tied up and said to Lu Shiyu in surprise, "We have ten of their people in our hands. We have more hostages than the other side. It shouldn't be a problem to exchange Yan Hong and Chen Yunliang for them."
Lu Shiyu nodded: "Even if these few people are not enough, adding the base commander will be enough."
Who knows, he might even be able to use the emperor to control the princes.
However, there was one thing that Lu Shiyu found strange. She always felt that the base commander and the base commander described by the person in charge were not the same person. However, she thought that it might be a built-in filter, so she didn't think too much about it.
"Zhang Hezhi, are you dead?"
Suddenly, a voice came from the distance. Lu Shiyu looked down at the people and asked, "Who is she calling?"
The person in charge whimpered and struggled.
"Oh, so I'm calling you."
Lu Shiyu squatted down and pressed his dagger against the person in charge's chest. "Zhang Hezhi, huh? You'd better not waste your time. The outcome is decided. Judging from the battle situation, your base commander is no match for our captain. Giving up the struggle will save you a lot of trouble."
Zhang Hezhi had something stuffed in his mouth and couldn't speak. He just stared at Lu Shiyu with resentment in his eyes.
"Don't look at me like that. It's not me who caused the situation to become like this."
Lu Shiyu said helplessly: "I originally wanted to have a good talk with you. Who asked you to do this? We were just forced to protect ourselves."
Shaoxing Yangke was not as polite as Lu Shiyu. He roughly pulled the thing out of the person in charge's mouth and asked, "Where are Yan Hong and Chen Yunliang? They are the two people in our team."
The person in charge swallowed and said, "They are fine."
"Where are they then?"
The person in charge was still hesitating and didn't respond, but the two people on the other side were almost done fighting.
Tang Zeyu threw out a fire snake, and the base commander could only hurriedly block it with his weapon, but Tang Zeyu seized the opportunity to attack him.
Just as Tang Zeyu was about to hit the base commander's vitals, a rough female voice suddenly came, interrupting the two of them.
"Which bastard demolished my General Affairs Office? I'm going to skin him alive!"
Several people looked towards the source of the sound, and the base commander couldn't help but say "Oh no!"
On the way, I stood up and got a clear look at the person coming.
It turned out to be a person who looked exactly like the base commander.
Tang Zeyu immediately distanced himself from the base commander. Comparing their appearances, they were almost identical, except that the base commander was a little embarrassed after being beaten by him, so he could still tell the two apart.
The man who looked like the base commander put his hands on his hips and shouted at the top of his lungs, "Where are the people?"
Lu Shiyu was a little confused: "What's going on? Two base commanders."
The person in charge on the side shrank back, trying to reduce his presence, but was discovered by Shaoxing Yang and dragged out.
Shao Xingyang looked at the person in charge who was avoiding his gaze and asked, "Why are you hiding? Don't you know this person?"
The person in charge at this time was even more panicked than when he was caught by Shaoxing Yang and Lu Shiyu, and secretly cursed Shaoxing Yang for being so tactless.
Sure enough, he was noticed together with the "base commander" who was fighting with Tang Zeyu on the other side.
The man looked left and right, seemingly not understanding what was happening, and walked into the ruins with several people behind him.
"Anyone will do. Can someone explain the situation to me?"
Shaoxing Yang let go of his hand, and the person in charge walked to the man with his head down like a quail.
"Base Commander..."
"Base Commander?"
Lu Shiyu wondered if he had heard correctly and asked, "She is the base commander, so she is..."
The "base commander" standing opposite Tang Zeyu suddenly became bloated, squirming like a lump of meat and then shrinking, and then turned into another appearance.
The short-haired "base commander" turned into a long-haired woman in front of Tang Zeyu, and her appearance was very different from the base commander herself.
The long-haired woman glared at Tang Zeyu with resentment, shook her hair and walked towards the base commander.
"Zhang Hezhi, Xu Manwen," the base commander's eyes swept over the two people. They lowered their heads and dared not speak. "You better give me a reasonable explanation."
Xu Manwen curled the ends of her hair with her fingers, glanced to the side, and said, "It was Zhang Hezhi's idea..."
"What!" Zhang Hezhi instantly exploded and retorted, "It was you who said you wanted to help the base commander with his worries!"
"Sharing the worries?"
Wu Xi was so angry at the two that he laughed and said, "Is this how you guys help me share my worries? You can just blow up the General Affairs Office so you don't have to work anymore, right?"
The two people who were criticized lowered their heads and took the scolding honestly.
On the other side, Tang Zeyu and Lu Shiyu also completed the meeting and stood not far away from the three of them, looking at Wu Xixun, Zhang Hezhi and Xu Manwen.
Tang Zeyu looked at it and said to Lu Shiyu, "That girl called Xu Manwen seems to be a supernatural being who can change her appearance. She was the one who had dinner with us just now."
Lu Shiyu felt even more confused: "What on earth are they doing?"
After scolding the two men, Wu Xi turned to look at the culprit who caused the house to collapse.
Wu Xi and Tang Zeyu's eyes met in the air, and Tang Zeyu led the two towards Wu Xi.
"Hello, I'm Tang Zeyu, captain of the Eagle Squadron, the Dawn Base exploration team."
Looking at the outstretched hand, Wu Xi also reached out to shake it back: "The current commander of Dawn Base, Wu Xi."
Wu Xi looked at Tang Zeyu and said, "I remember you, the guy from the Dawn Base who claimed to be a diplomat. We originally scheduled a meeting time, but it was tomorrow."
"Tomorrow?" Tang Zeyu asked, "Isn't it today?"
Wu Xi turned his head to look at the people behind him who were lowering their heads in reflection. Lu Shiyu felt that the heads of these two people seemed to be lowered even more.
Wu Xi was troubled by his two unreliable subordinates, but now was not the time to settle scores, so Wu Xi put on a professional smile and explained, "I think there may be some misunderstanding between us. Let's go somewhere else and talk it over slowly. We can't stay here any longer."
Shao Xingyang peeked out from behind and asked, "Isn't this still the Hongmen Banquet?"
Wu Xi glanced at the two people who were feeling guilty, and said with a smile: "No, I guarantee that this time it will be a normal reception."
Wu Xi took a few people back to his office. Fortunately, the fight between Tang Zeyu and Xu Manwen only destroyed the restaurant area, and other areas were not affected much, otherwise Wu Xi's office would have been lost.
As soon as they entered the room, they smelled a faint fragrance. Tang Zeyu found the source of the fragrance, which was a small incense burner on the table.
Wu Xi noticed Tang Zeyu's gaze and took the initiative to extinguish the incense burner.
"Please sit down."
The few people following Wu Xi quietly brought in a few chairs, put them down without making any noise, and then quietly retreated.
The three of them sat on the chairs, facing Wu Xi.
"Before we deal with today's affairs, I have something else I want to ask you."
Wu Xi picked up the teapot and poured four cups of hot tea. He said slowly, "I've never mentioned establishing diplomatic relations with the Dawn Base. Why did a group of people suddenly come over claiming to be diplomats from the Dawn Base, saying they wanted to discuss some kind of cooperation?"
Lu Shiyu's heart trembled. Originally, they were the ones who wanted to hold Wu Xi accountable and could use the Dawn Base's small moves to bargain, but Wu Xi went straight to the point right from the start. Now it was their turn to prove themselves.
Wu Xi was not in a hurry to answer. Instead, she picked up the teacup and handed it to the three people one by one. Her movements were gentle, which was completely opposite to the question she asked.
Tang Zeyu took the teacup, blew on it gently, took a sip, and then said, "I've heard that the commander of the Dawn Base lives a frugal life. I didn't expect that even for tea, he only uses the most common varieties on the market."
Wu Xi chuckled, picked up the teacup and said, "I don't have that many demands for material life, but please don't despise me, this is the only kind of tea I have here."
"It's no problem. We're not that picky."
The two of them chatted back and forth, but the tense atmosphere that Lu Shiyu had expected did not appear. Instead, it made Lu Shiyu feel very strange.
Lu Shiyu lowered his head and drank a sip of tea to calm his nerves. He found that it tasted the same as the free tea they had drunk in the hotel. It seemed that it was really just ordinary tea.
But since Wu Xi also drank it, there is no need to worry about being drugged again.
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