When the first snow fell, the news of Guawu's death came.
When Shishijin was sorting out the review points for the final exam assigned by the teacher, he felt his cell phone vibrate in his pocket. He seemed to have a premonition and his heart sank suddenly.
"Gua Wu is dead." After the call was connected, Lian Jun's voice came through the receiver, close to his ears, and penetrated into his heart. "When he was evacuating after assassinating the target, he unfortunately encountered the retreating Wolf Spider's large force and was blocked by them on the treasure island. He was afraid of being caught and becoming a bargaining chip for Wolf Spider to threaten me, so he chose to commit suicide. He jumped into the sea and died, and his body was not found."
Shi Jin knew that these were all false, but he still felt a little uncomfortable after hearing them. He exhaled lightly and asked, "Is he safe now?"
"During that period, there were often fishing boats passing by the sea." Lian Jun did not answer in detail, and asked again, "I will pick you up on the weekend?"
Shi Jin still refused: "No, it's not safe."
Lian Jun was silent for a while, He asked, "Then let Gua San go?"
Shi Jin responded, and wanted to ask if Gua San would be the next person to leave. He opened his mouth, but then closed it silently.
What is there to ask? Isn't this obvious?
...
Lu Shan didn't feel very happy about accidentally forcing Gua Wu to death. During the meeting, she slammed the table twice in a slightly irritated manner and said, "Don't disbelieve me, Lian Jun is a madman! This Gua Wu followed him for so many years, and now he died here, I am really... Don't say I am scared, from now on I will defend my own land, and none of you can pull me out again. When Lian Jun goes crazy, no one can stand it, I have to stabilize my foundation."
Yuan Peng didn't understand her anxiety, and even thought she was mentally ill, and said, "You said that we must take action against those Gua, and now you are lucky enough to kill one, why are you panicking again? Lian Jun lost a subordinate, shouldn't you feel happy?"
"How can the current situation be the same as the situation then? I lost six subordinates, a full six! If six regional managers on your side died, would you be panicked?" Lu Shan slammed the table again. Seeing Meng Qing and Qi Yun looking at her with frowns, she paused, suppressed her temper a little, and said slowly, "I'm not trying to alarm you, it's just that Lian Jun is too smart! I have never guessed what he wants to do. Now that Mie's business abroad is a mess, if he doesn't think about cleaning it up, Forget it, he actually came to kill me, can you guess his purpose? Can you? If it were any of us here, with the foreign business in such a mess, would we do the same as him? "
No one answered, Lu Shan asked the point, if they were Lian Jun, with the country already in such a mess, they would definitely not do what Lian Jun did, specially transferring a useful subordinate to assassinate a few enemy subordinates who seemed to have no impact on the current situation.
"Lian Jun seems to have no intention of saving the overseas business." Qi Yun spoke slowly, as if he was thinking while speaking, and his words were very cautious. "From MZ to the current X District and DL District, he has been fighting and retreating all the way, waiting for the business to die before taking revenge. There is no effective rescue action. I always feel... a little strange. With Lian Jun's ability, he shouldn't have let the situation become like this."
"That's it!" Lu Shan sat up straight, as if someone finally understood what she wanted to say. "Strange! This is the key point! Every time I think Lian Jun does something strange, I will suffer a big loss later! Anyway, I think the current situation is a little wrong, everyone must be careful."
Meng Qing also frowned, pondered the current situation carefully, and said: "But the current situation is indeed caused by our spending resources, unless... the information we got from Gua Jiu is false, and we fell into it from the beginning."
"Impossible!" Yuan Peng was the first to deny it, and said affirmatively, "We have verified the data at the very beginning, and you all said that the data should be true. Don't you think it's ridiculous to judge it as false now? Lu Shan, don't make alarmist remarks and disrupt the morale of the army. You are too afraid of Lian Jun, so you always unconsciously magnify his behavior. You are such a weak-willed person, you are really not suitable to be the leader of the action."
Lu Shan sneered: "I am not suitable, are you suitable? Being more cautious in doing things has become your weak-willed talk. You are really prejudiced against me. Yuan Peng, do you know why Snake Fang can never become a big shot? It's because of your recklessness and lack of overall perspective!"
"You-"
"Alright!" Meng Qing slapped the table, glanced at the two of them with a sullen face, and said, "Now is not the time to quarrel, calm down."
Lu Shan and Yuan Peng both shut up. Finally, Lu Shan seemed to be unable to help herself and defended herself, "It is said that it is a four-family alliance, but now among the four of us, Wumen and Sheya have benefited, Qianyeyin is in the second line and has not been affected at all. Only I, Langzhu, was stabbed into a sieve by Lian Jun. Don't blame me for this attitude, it's because the hammer didn't hit you on the head, you don't know the pain."
What she said made sense. The situation has developed to this point, and it is indeed Langzhu who has been suffering.
Meng Qing slowed down his tone and said, "Don't worry, Langzhu will help you get through this difficult time together."
Lu Shan pressed his forehead and said nothing.
Qi Yun suddenly said, "Could this be Lian Jun's purpose? To defeat us one by one and divide us internally. One against four is obviously unrealistic and very difficult for Mie, but if we only target one, it will be easy with Mie's strength. Gua Wu has a very high status in Mie, and Lian Jun specially sent him to assassinate the important person in charge of Wolf Spider. I think he attaches great importance to this assassination operation against Wolf Spider. Lu Shan is right, Lian Jun will not do meaningless things."
The other three all looked at him and thought about what he said.
Qi Yun continued, "There is another possibility. Lian Jun spent so much effort to assassinate the top leaders of Wolf Spider. Could it be that he wanted to put pressure on Lu Shan and force her to withdraw her forces, so that there would be a gap in our overall suppression and offensive against us abroad, and then take the opportunity to do something." As
soon as this guess came out, Meng Qing and Yuan Peng immediately became serious. Now most of the interests abroad were divided between them. If Lian Jun really wanted to divert the power of Wolf Spider and take advantage of the opportunity to do something, then they would be in danger.
They couldn't help but look at Lu Shan.
Lu Shan received their gazes and refused without thinking: "No, I can't transfer forces abroad. What if Lian Jun sends someone to assassinate my subordinates? I really can't bear such losses anymore."
Meng Qing and Yuan Peng frowned deeply, one of them was calculating carefully in his heart, and the other was obviously getting anxious.
"You only care about yourself, what kind of ally are you?" Yuan Peng couldn't help but question.
Lu Shan's face darkened and she said, "I'm just your ally, not your mother! I can't risk my own death to protect you and gamble on an uncertain possibility! I think you don't consider me an ally and only think about yourself in everything!"
"Stop arguing!" Meng Qing interrupted the two of them, looked at Qi Yun and asked, "What do you think?"
Qi Yun glanced at Lu Shan and Yuan Peng who were on the verge of a fight, and replied, "Lang Zhu's current situation is indeed very dangerous. So, I can send some people to Lang Zhu to help. As for the overseas part, Lu Shan, I hope you can persist. We are each in charge of different areas. Now there are some businesses in the periphery that only Lang Zhu can handle. If you withdraw, it will not be beneficial to us."
"I can also send people to help." Meng Qing also spoke. He seemed very satisfied with Qi Yun's suggestion. He looked at Lu Shan and said, "Don't worry, we are allies. If you are in danger, everyone will definitely help you."
Yuan Peng did not express his opinion. It would be better to kill him than to let him help Lu Shan.
Qi Yun and Meng Qing both backed down, and Lu Shan's expression finally looked better. She compromised and said, "Then I will hold on for a while... We must find a breakthrough as soon as possible. The stalemate cannot last long. We can either move forward or give up. If we drag it on, who knows what Lian Jun can figure out."
Meng Qing almost couldn't help showing her impatience when she heard her talk about Feng Liang again. Fortunately, Qi Yun quickly spoke up and took over Lu Shan's words.
"It's impossible to stop. Mie and we are now in a life-and-death situation. The stalemate can't continue. I think we should return to the original plan. As for the foreign business, the reason why Mie can still struggle under our strong attack is because he has the help of Gua Ba and Gua Shi. We failed to kill them last time. This time, we must find a way to get rid of them."
This was the first time that Qi Yun proposed a plan. The three of them all looked at him. Lu Shan asked, "Are you going to take the lead in this assassination?"
Qi Yun smiled and replied, "Everyone has their own things to do. Let me do it this time."
...
Resort villa, study.
Lian Jun burned the information belonging to hexagram 5, and then drew out all the information of hexagram 8, hexagram 10, and hexagram 3 at once.
It happened to be the weekend, and Shi Jin returned to the villa. At this time, he was lying on the sofa in the study room and confirming the review outline for the final exam with Mr. Feng. He overheard the conversation between Lian Jun and Lu Shan. Seeing Lian Jun lighting some paper and taking out some information, he quickly realized something. He turned his head to look at the three pieces of paper in Lian Jun's hand and said, "Are you going to send three people out this time? Could it be that Hexagram One and Hexagram Two are..."
"Not them, but Hexagram Eight and Hexagram Ten who have been outside." Lian Jun answered. He looked at the tablet with the call interface in front of Shi Jin and asked Mr. Feng on the other side, "When do you want to leave?"
Shi Jin was stunned and quickly turned his head to look at Mr. Feng on the other side of the video call.
Mr. Feng's hair had turned a little greyer, but he was still full of energy. Hearing this, he snorted coldly and said, "Don't worry about me. Arrange the boys first. I'm innocent. I can just go to any training school and live there."
"You can't say that. It's better to be careful about everything." Lian Jun shook his head and asked, "After Shi Jin's final exams are over, how about I arrange a trip around the world for you? Or I can organize a senior scientific expedition team for you, and you can do what you like." Mr.
Feng's face darkened when he heard this, and he said, "You've already arranged everything, why are you still asking questions! You're a self-willed brat who doesn't respect teachers at all!" After that, he hung up the phone.
Shi Jin turned around to look at Lian Jun.
Lian Jun looked back at him, turned the documents in his hand upside down on the desk, walked up to him, reached out and touched his head, and said softly: "This year's New Year may be a little quiet... I will find a way to invite Li Jiuzheng over. And Shi Weichong, he is staying alone in a nursing home abroad, and his mother is in that situation. It should be a difficult New Year. How about we bring him over as well?"
"No need." Shi Jin hurriedly stopped him, looked at the documents he turned upside down on the desk, and asked, "Can I see those?"
Lian Jun was silent, touched his head again, and said: "Shi Jin, how to live a new life is their freedom. All we can do is wish them well."
Shi Jin retracted his gaze, put his arms around his waist, and buried his head in his chest and abdomen.
"Let's pick up the fifth brother." After a long while, he spoke, and added, "As for the eldest brother, tell the nursing home to take good care of him, and I will also ask the second brother to pay more attention to the eldest brother."
Lian Jun responded, bent down and kissed the top of his head.
...
This week, Shi Jin was sent back to school by Gua San again. Neither of them spoke until the car stopped at the school gate and Shi Jin was about to get off the car. Gua San then said, "Mr. Shi, Happy New Year."
This New Year's blessing came too early. Shi Jin paused in his movement to open the door, lowered his head and blinked hard, and smiled and replied, "I still prefer to hear you call my name." After that, he opened the car door and got out of the car, and walked towards the school gate without looking back.
Gua San watched his back disappear into the school gate, leaned back in his chair and was dazed for a while, then raised his hand to wipe his face and turned to leave.
...
The hellish review week began, Shi Jin spent the whole day in the library, oblivious to the world outside and only focused on reading the books of saints. The weekend came in a blink of an eye, Shi Jin came to the school gate after school, found the familiar car, opened the door and got in with an expressionless face.
Gua Er was full of dissatisfaction: "What's that expression on your face? Are you unhappy to see that it's me who picked you up?"
"You talk too much nonsense." Shi Jin still had no expression on his face, and he flipped through the review materials and said, "Every time you come to pick me up, my ears can't be quiet. You should be quiet today, I need to review."
"Tsk, what a rude thing to say, aren't you afraid of getting dizzy from reading on the bus?" Gua Er grumbled in disdain and started the car.
This weekend, Shi Jin didn't see Gua San at the villa. He built a fire at the door of the small building, stuffed a few sweet potatoes wrapped in tin paper into it, roasted a few sweet potatoes with the firewood he picked up, and shared them with everyone.
In the end, there were three extra sweet potatoes, and Gua Er wanted to eat more, but Shi Jin didn't let him, and buried the sweet potatoes in the soil with an expressionless face.
"Even if you bury the ripe sweet potatoes in the soil, they won't sprout next spring and won't grow into new sweet potatoes. You might as well let me eat them instead of wasting them like this." Gua Er was still eyeing the sweet roasted sweet potatoes. Shi Jin
rolled his eyes at him, dipped his hand in some firewood ash, and rubbed it on his face.
...
After the final exams, the winter vacation came, and Shi Jin returned to the villa. He stayed in the kitchen all day, studying all kinds of dark or weird dishes. Gua Er's scalp was tingling from eating, and he ran away when he saw him. The two of them quarreled and made the deserted villa a little more lively.
Xiang Aoting, who had been out of touch, suddenly called Shi Jin on a snowy day and asked him when the reunion dinner would be this year.
Shi Jin lay by the window of the living room in the small building, looking at the thick snow outside, and replied with a smile: "We won't have a reunion dinner this year... When the weather gets warmer next year, let's find a time to get together. Fourth brother, what have you been busy with recently? Why can't I contact you?"
"I have a mission." Xiang Aoting replied, and suddenly said, "Xiao Jin, don't be sad."
"Fourth brother, what are you talking about? Why
should I be sad?" Shi Jin still said with a smile. Xiang Aoting did not respond. After a long while, Shi Jin lowered his voice as if to compromise and said, "Fourth brother, I feel suffocated."
Xiang Aoting comforted him, "It's okay, just bear with it. Everything will be over before next summer." Shi
Jin was stunned, his heart tightened, and he quickly sat up and asked, "What do you mean by that? Why are you so sure that everything will be over before next summer? Is there going to be any action from the official side?"
"Don't worry." Xiang Aoting comforted him quickly.
"How can I not be anxious, Fourth Brother, you--" Shi Jin suddenly thought of something, and suppressed the desire to continue asking, and said, "It's a secret operation, right? Sorry, I shouldn't have asked about these things... Fourth Brother, will Lian Jun be in danger?"
"No." Xiang Aoting answered affirmatively, with a promise, "You and him will be fine, Xiao Jin, don't worry, Lian Jun may not be unaware of what the official is doing."
...
No one expected that Qi Yun's actions would be so efficient. They had just decided at the meeting the day before to find a way to kill Gua Ba and Gua Shi while protecting themselves, and Qi Yun locked the location of Gua Ba and Gua Shi the next day.
Meng Qing was a little suspicious: "Did you plant a spy in Mie?"
Qi Yun waved his hand with a smile and said, "It would be great if we could plant a spy. I just sent people to keep a close eye on Mie's business movements recently, and luckily guessed and locked their location. Putting aside this, no one is sure about the true appearance of Gua Ba and Gua Shi. In order to avoid locking the wrong person this time, I need your help."
"How can you help?" Lu Shan asked.
"In this operation, it's best not to let any fish slip through the net. I hope you can help me block the escape route of Gua Ba and Gua Shi. I want to close the door and beat the dog."
"Okay." Yuan Peng was the first to express his opinion and responded positively, "The situation abroad can't be so stagnant. Gua Ba and Gua Shi must die."
...
The hunt for Gua Ba and Gua Shi began. Qi Yun was indeed quite capable. It only took a week to force Gua Ba and Gua Shi to death in an isolated island environment where they could not ask for help.
However, Qi Yun did not kill them immediately, but decided to capture them alive.
Yuan Peng didn't like this way of changing the plan at the last minute, and couldn't help but urge, "Can't we just kill them! These two people saw that they were going to die, but they actually started to ruin their own business without caring about anything, and wanted to drag us to hell together. Moreover, Lian Jun must have discovered something was wrong, and reinforcements might be on the way. Don't waste time."
Qi Yun still looked calm and soothed, "Don't be impatient, it's better if reinforcements come, it will be more convenient for us to negotiate. Lian Jun is sentimental, and Gua Ba and Gua Shi who are alive are definitely more valuable than them who are dead."
"Then catch them quickly." Lu Shan also frowned, a little irritated, "I really can't afford to waste time here. Just like Yuan Peng said, Gua Ba and Gua Shi have started to recklessly rebound economically. I have to allocate resources and manpower to prevent and sort it out. It's too difficult."
Meng Qing thought about it and said, "Do you need my help? I can send someone to catch them with you."
Qi Yun looked at him, with nothing on his face, but his fingers dug under the table unhappily, and replied, "I'll catch them now, everyone stay calm."
That night, Qianye's people began to close the circle and surround them, trying to capture Gua Ba and Gua Shi alive. However, just as they approached Gua Ba and Gua Shi's hiding places and were about to rush in, an explosion sounded.
Gua Ba and Gua Shi died, self-destructed, and died without a complete body. As soon as the explosion happened, the foreign branches of the Destroyer suddenly moved together, and with great speed, they attacked the strongholds of the four major organizations. At the same time, the domestic bases of Wolf Spider in Taiwan and Province G were suddenly attacked. A huge melee broke out without warning, both at home and abroad.
Lian Jun directly raised the struggle from the economic level to the most irreversible stage of firepower conflict and territorial attack. The Wumen and other organizations were caught off guard and were caught off guard.
Snake Fang was the first to be hit, and several bases in District X were pried open overnight. Because it had to build a business network, its personnel were too dispersed. In order to help Qianye besiege Gua Ba and Gua Shi, it transferred personnel from its bases. As a result, facing the fierce attack of Mie, its bases were almost broken up without any resistance.
"Is he crazy?" Yuan Peng was furious and couldn't believe it. "He opened fire so directly. What on earth does he want to do? Does he really not want foreign business?"
"I said to be careful to guard against Lian Jun's counterattack, don't be greedy, don't act rashly... Damn, Lian Jun is really crazy!" The situation of Wolf Spider is even worse. It is being attacked at home and abroad. Lu Shan is overwhelmed and can't help cursing.
Meng Qing hung up the phone call from his subordinates and frowned, saying, "The one who led the overseas offensive this time was Gua San. Lian Jun was well prepared. They wanted to start a direct fight from the beginning and never thought of fighting an economic war with us!"
Qi Yun frowned and was in a bad mood. He thought he had finally won over Lian Jun and figured out Lian Jun's purpose and ideas, but the facts gave him a slap in the face. However, he quickly gathered these emotions, recalled Mie's movements in the past few months and the current situation, and was shocked.
"I understand." He suddenly spoke in a dry voice, "He didn't save the business at all. He even dared to kill customers and let us lay out a network to seize the profits. He used the lives of his subordinates as bait and pawns, and then took advantage of our scattered forces to launch a fierce attack..."
Meng Qing frowned and looked at him, and said, "What are you talking about?
It's a mess." "It's not messy at all." Qi Yun looked at him, his expression was terribly gloomy, "Think carefully about what Lian Jun has done during this period of time. He didn't protect himself or save himself at all. He allowed Mie to be hit hard by us step by step, and then dragged us down. Only those who are determined to die will consume their own resources so recklessly. Meng Qing, don't hold back your strength anymore. If everyone doesn't give their all this time, I'm afraid we will all be dragged to hell together with Mie!"
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