The four major alliances began to counterattack, and the melee finally began.
The advantage of the early assault laid a good foundation for Mie's struggle abroad. Snake Fang was beaten so hard that it could not gather its strength; Wolf Spider had to be distracted to deal with the joint offensive at home and abroad, and its counterattack seemed very weak; Wumen still had the strength to fight, but because Meng Qing still wanted to preserve the business as much as possible, it was restrained; Qianye was the most difficult bone to chew, and Mie simply sent the most powerful force to attack it from the beginning.
Under Mie's reckless attack, Snake Fang and Wolf Spider quickly became very obvious weaknesses of the alliance, especially Snake Fang. It was only beaten for half a month, and its foreign power network collapsed and all its business was ruined. Wolf spider followed closely behind, and the foreign power network was shaky. Under the circumstance that she could not take care of both domestic and foreign affairs, Lu Shan had to make a decision to preserve the domestic situation as much as possible, and gave up all the power and interests abroad cleanly and neatly, and gathered strength.
Yuan Peng was furious and yelled at Lu Shan at the meeting: "You actually withdrew directly, do you want to abandon everyone and become a deserter?"
"Being a deserter is better than dying here. I can't let the little business outside affect my foundation!" Lu Shan slammed the table and yelled back, not giving in at all. Meng Qing
was in no mood to persuade them not to quarrel this time. He sat aside with a gloomy face, letting them yell back and forth, and no one knew what he was thinking.
Finally, Qi Yun interrupted the argument between Lu Shan and Yuan Peng. After comforting each other, he said to Meng Qing: "Old Meng, Snake Fang's foundation is not stable, and Wolf Spider has to take care of the domestic situation. Now the only ones who can fight abroad are you and me. Don't worry about those businesses anymore. Lian Jun gave up everything to fight us. We can't beat him unless we give our all."
How could Meng Qing not understand this? He just couldn't accept it! Wumen has been developing steadily for so many years. It has not been easy to climb to its current position. With the current scale, he can't give up his foreign interests and territory and fight to the death.
"Mr. Lian is really too smart. He allowed Snake Fang, whose foundation is unstable, to gobble up profits. He took a radical approach and killed important senior executives of Wolf Spider, forcing Wolf Spider to focus on the domestic market. He also used business to hold you back... Three of our four families were attacked at once. Mie can't fight one against four, but if it fights one against two, or one against three, and gives up everything, he can really fight." Qi Yun was still talking, his tone was neither hurried nor slow. Xu was so calm as if he was not the one being beaten. "Lu Shan is right. We shouldn't have acted rashly, shouldn't have been reckless, and shouldn't have even taken the initiative to eat up Mie's business."
Meng Qing was very annoyed and couldn't help saying, "Are you trying to boost the enemy's morale by praising Lian Jun now? He is indeed smart, but he is just a cripple!"
Lu Shan almost couldn't help rolling her eyes. What's wrong with being a cripple? A cripple is better than you!
"Qi Yun, what do you want to do by saying this? We didn't gather together to listen to you praising Lian Jun! If we try hard abroad, we may not be unable to beat Lian Jun. Don't underestimate us!" Yuan Peng also spoke with a very bad attitude.
"I just want you to calm down." Qi Yun was not angry after being confronted like this. He picked up the teacup and took a sip of tea, then said slowly, "Lian Jun wants to drag us all to death. He must have official instructions behind this. We can't win this war abroad. Lu Shan's approach is the most correct. What we should worry about most now is the domestic situation."
Lu Shan's heart moved, and she turned her head to look at him, but her face showed He agreed and said, "Indeed, from what I understand, if Lian Jun really intends to go to hell with us all, then when we focus on foreign countries, he may suddenly start a war in the country. Let's all think about it, are those foreign bases and business networks that can be rebuilt at any time more important, or are the foundations in the country more important?"
Meng Qing and Yuan Peng were shocked when they heard this, and they suppressed their emotions and thought calmly.
Qi Yun glanced at Lu Shan and said appreciatively, "Yes, that's the truth."
"Then we won't fight abroad? We will just go back to defend the country?" Yuan Peng asked.
Qi Yun shook his head: "No, we have to fight. We have to create an illusion for Lian Jun that we are still paying attention to foreign countries, and then gather strength in the country, just like this time when Mie raided us, catching him off guard! The foundation is very important to us, and for Mie, why not?"
Meng Qing couldn't help but sit up straight.
Qi Yun glanced at everyone and asked, "Do we want to fight?"
Meng Qing was the first to make the decision, and said solemnly, "Fight! No matter what, the Destroyers must disperse!"
...
"Wu Men has begun to fight back." Gua Yi reported, frowning, "Wouldn't it be too much for Gua San to lead the foreign situation alone?"
Lian Jun pointed at the table and said, "Don't let him work too hard. Give up when he should, use the resources he wants. When necessary, he can ask the government to transfer manpower, and Zhang Zhuoyuan will provide it. Where is Gua Qi?"
Gua Yi tightened his fingers and replied, "He has arrived in the country."
"Have him go to the Sheya's base camp, Province V, and ambush." Lian Jun ordered, glanced at the calendar, and said, "Before or after the New Year, you and Gua Er pick a date."
Finally, this day came. Gua Yi frowned and couldn't help saying, "Master Jun, let me accompany you."
Lian Jun shook his head and said, "Gua Yi, the civil war in the country may start at any time. Zhang Zhuoyuan has already made some small moves. You and Gua Er must evacuate as soon as possible, otherwise you won't be able to leave."
"If you can't leave, then don't leave!" Gua Yi stepped forward and said firmly, "Master Jun, let me follow you!"
"Gua Yi!" Lian Jun's expression darkened, "This is an order!"
Gua Yi's body trembled, and he clenched his fist unwillingly, took a step back, and after a long time, he lowered his head and replied, "Yes."
Lian Jun's expression softened, and he added, "Let Gua Liu prepare as well, and Gua Eleven below... Let's all have the reunion dinner in advance this year."
Gua Yi replied again, and never raised his head again.
...
Li Jiuzheng arrived at the resort half a month before the Chinese New Year, and Gua Er went to pick him up in person. After seeing Shi Jin, Li Jiuzheng immediately went forward to hug him and buried his face in his shoulder. Shi
Jin was stunned for a moment, then smiled and hugged him back, patted his back, and asked: "Is the hospital busy? It must be troublesome for you to come here like this."
"No." Li Jiuzheng shook his head, slowly let go of him, carefully looked at his face, frowned, "You have lost weight."
"Really." Shi Jin raised his hand and touched his face, smiling so hard that his eyes curved, "It's better to lose weight, otherwise I will eat too well during the New Year and become as fat as a pig, and be laughed at by my friends when I return to school."
Li Jiuzheng frowned even more, raised his hand and touched the corners of his raised mouth, pursed his lips and said nothing. With
one more person, the small building finally became a little more lively. Everyone started preparing for the upcoming New Year. They were busy every day and had no time to think about random things.
During the Little New Year, Shi Jin hung a large peace knot in front of the small building and stood below it for a long time.
It was stormy outside, but the small building was full of joy.
On the twenty-seventh day of the lunar year, Rong Zhouzhong suddenly came to the villa and forced Shi Jin to have an early reunion dinner. During the meal, he took the initiative to make video calls to Xiang Aoting, Fei Yujing, and Shi Weichong one by one. Everyone laughed and talked across the screen, and there was a vague taste of reunion.
After almost a year, Shi Jin finally met Shi Weichong again. When talking to him, he kept carefully staring at the progress bar. Seeing that the progress bar did not drop, he was slightly relieved. Shi Weichong noticed his absent-mindedness and thought that he still could not accept himself. His eyes dimmed for a moment, and he gradually spoke less.
...
On New Year's Eve, Lian Jun and Zhang Zhuoyuan had a quarrel. It was Zhang Zhuoyuan who started it. He felt that the deaths of Lian Jun's subordinates were too strange and too fast, and he thought there was something wrong.
Lian Jun's eyebrows were full of coldness, and he said: "Director Zhang, don't you feel hurt when you say this? What impact does their death have on you? Did I, Lian Jun, not help you to disrupt Wumen Qianye's overseas business, or did he bite you back?"
Zhang Zhuoyuan defended: "That's not what I meant. There was no agreement between us at the beginning..."
"Now I have it." Lian Jun interrupted him in a deep voice, his tone threatening, "Over the years, my subordinates have done so much for you, you know it in your heart. Zhang Zhuoyuan, I am not afraid of breaking up with you. Don't think that the situation is now stable on your side. If I withdraw, I guarantee that you will get nothing this time! By then, Wumen and Qianye will only give you more headaches than the current Destruction!"
It was the first time that Zhang Zhuoyuan saw him lose his temper so obviously. He was shocked and said in a slightly softer tone: "I don't want to break up with you, but I have to know the movements of your subordinates. They have special identities and the higher-ups have asked for it. I have no choice but to..."
"Then ask your superiors to contact me." Lian Jun interrupted him again, his tone cold, "Also, where do the dead people move from! You want to find the whereabouts of Gua Wu and the others? Okay, Gua Wu died in the sea, Gua Ba and Gua Shi are not even intact, Gua Jiu was shot to death by a wolf spider, and his body was buried on the spot. You can go find them and see if they will respond to you!"
Zhang Zhuoyuan had a headache and said, "Lian Jun, you..."
"I want people." Lian Jun's tone suddenly became cold again.
Zhang Zhuoyuan frowned: "What?"
"The situation abroad can't be sustained for too long. If my guess is correct, the four allied organizations will soon organize an offensive in the country and catch us off guard. The people I left in the country are all grassroots personnel who have never been involved in murder. They have been doing business honestly and making money all these years. They are more law-abiding than all the ordinary people you protect. I will not let them die. You assigned people to me, and I am helping you clean up the domestic environment. It is impossible to expect me to do all the manpower."
Zhang Zhuoyuan was shocked and his voice suddenly raised: "What do you mean the people you left in the country are all grassroots personnel who have never been involved in murder? Where are your senior and middle-level personnel? Did you send them-"
"They are all overseas, dying on the front lines." At this point, Lian Jun didn't mind telling him something, and said coldly, "Zhang Zhuoyuan, don't think about settling scores with me later. You promised me the conditions at the beginning, and from now on, I want you to do them one by one. It was you who promised to give my subordinates a chance to start over, so from now on, you'd better not pursue all the 'dead' people! I'll put it here, the foreign authorities are not convenient to intervene, so I will take care of everything myself, and as for China, if you don't send people to me, then I will be powerless to resist, and everyone just wait to die together!" After that, he hung up the phone.
"What do you mean? Lian Jun, Lian--" Zhang Zhuoyuan listened to the beeping sound in his ear, put down his phone, slammed the table hard, and cursed, "You actually used this trick of killing first and playing later, damn it!"
...
The study was dead silent. Lian Jun looked at Gua Yi and Gua Er who were standing silently behind the desk, and said: "Zhang Zhuoyuan dared to question me so directly, he must have made up his mind, you should leave tonight."
"Young Master Jun..." Gua Er frowned and wanted to say something, but was stopped by Gua Yi. Gua
Yi pressed Gua Er's shoulder and asked: "What does Young Master Jun need us to do?"
Lian Jun looked at them and said only two words: "Alive."
...
The New Year's bell rang, Shi Jin glanced in the direction of the second floor and tightened the blanket wrapped around him.
"Why hasn't Third Brother's show started yet? It's too slow." Li Jiuzheng frowned, put the peeled nuts in front of Shi Jin, and asked, "Are you sleepy? Don't wait any longer, go back to your room and sleep."
Shi Jin shook his head, took the nut and ate one, then looked at the people on TV who were celebrating the New Year, and said vaguely, "Wait a little longer, it will be soon."
Half an hour later, they finally waited for Rong Zhouzhong's solo show. The two of them watched the show without enthusiasm, made a few comments with disdain, and then turned off the TV.
Lian Jun just came out of the study, came downstairs and stood behind Shi Jin, touched his head and said, "It's too late, go to bed." Shi Jin
looked at the stairs, didn't see Gua Yi and Gua Er, huddled in the blanket, tightened his hands, then smiled and lifted the blanket and stood up, saying, "Then go to bed, Fifth Brother, you should go to bed too, good night."
Li Jiuzheng stood up, looked at his raised mouth, went forward to hug him, turned around and went back to his room.
...
At about four o'clock in the morning, Shi Jin finally heard a little noise in his amplified hearing.
The sound of doors opening and closing, the sound of a suitcase being dragged, footsteps... then the faint sound of a car unlocking, the sound of a car trunk being opened, the sound of a suitcase being put away, the sound of a car door being opened... and finally the sound of a car starting.
"You left like this, without even saying goodbye."
It was Gua Er's voice.
"Drive, it's almost dawn."
Then it was Gua Yi's voice.
It was late at night, and after the sound of tires rubbing against the ground passed, everything returned to silence, as if nothing had happened. Shi
Jin closed his eyes, hugged Lian Jun's waist tightly, and buried his face in his chest. Lian Jun seemed to be asleep, but also seemed not to be, and slightly tightened his arms around him.
The next morning, of course, no one saw Gua Yi and Gua Er in the small building. No one mentioned them. Everyone chatted about other topics tacitly, as if Gua Yi and Gua Er had never existed.
Lian Jun was rarely busy that day. He played mahjong for three people with Li Jiuzheng and Shi Jin for a day.
Later, Zhang Zhuoyuan called Lian Jun. This time, the two did not quarrel again. They talked about business calmly. Even later, Liu Zhenjun also called Lian Jun.
Three days later, news of Gua San's death came. He was seriously injured by a stray bullet in a direct conflict between Mie and Qianye, and eventually died. At the same time, conflicts between violent organizations suddenly broke out in various parts of the country, casting a bloody shadow on the New Year of that year.
...
Meng Qing and others did not expect that Mie would actually withstand their first wave of domestic raids.
"How is it possible? How did Lian Jun manage such a staffing?" Lu Shan was puzzled. "We left so many people abroad, and I also kept some of them in Province G and Taiwan. The staffing in other areas should not be so sufficient. It's strange."
Meng Qing couldn't figure it out either, and said, "And those people are too well-trained... But one thing is certain, Lian Jun must have been prepared for the surprise attack on our country. He is too smart, so he thought of it, or he is one of us..." After saying that, he glanced at everyone with a bad look.
The other three frowned. Lu Shan, who had been suspected once, sneered and said, "Meng Qing, you have your old problem again? At this critical moment, what do you want to do by saying this? Are you trying to stir up trouble among us?"
Qi Yun came out to smooth things over and said, "Okay, stop arguing, Lao Meng. It's meaningless to say this now."
Meng Qing looked at him and said nothing.
The atmosphere of the meeting became dull. Now the foreign struggle has reached its most intense time, and the domestic struggle has also kicked off. Everyone has a knife hanging over their heads, and their mood is inevitably impetuous.
The mobile phone rang suddenly, and the four people looked at each other. Finally, Meng Qing frowned and took out his mobile phone.
A minute later, Meng Qing stood up in disbelief and yelled at the phone: "What? All the forces of Mie abroad have been disbanded? The base is empty?"
Not knowing what the other party replied, Meng Qing suddenly cursed, hung up the phone, looked at everyone, and said: "We have been tricked again!"
"What do you mean?" Yuan Peng asked hurriedly.
"Lian Jun didn't think of fighting us abroad! After Gua San died, the counterattack we organized was all in vain. It seemed that Mie's people had been prepared for a long time. They disappeared without a trace in just one day. Now all the bases of Mie abroad have become empty shells! The situation is wrong. When we launched the domestic offensive, Gua San died, and then Mie's base was empty. This is obviously a trap!" Meng Qing roared in a panic.
"What--" Qi Yun couldn't believe it, then suddenly realized something and said, "Zhang Zhuoyuan!"
Lu Shan was confused and anxious: "What? What's going on? Why did you mention Zhang Zhuoyuan again? Lian Jun's foreign forces have all dissipated, where did they go? Did they return to the country secretly?"
"No." Qi Yun replied, with cold sweat on his forehead, "So that's the case, this is Lian Jun's purpose..."
"What purpose? Explain yourself clearly!" Yuan Peng couldn't help urging.
Qi Yun glanced at everyone and said, "We have all overlooked one person - Zhang Zhuoyuan! It doesn't matter what we do abroad, but at home, we are still a legal violent organization restricted by the authorities. Once we do something too extreme at home, the authorities will have a reason to take action against us. This is what Lian Jun is trying to do. He wants to force us to take action together at home... He also cut off our escape route abroad and dispersed all our power abroad first." And he encouraged everyone to do this whole thing together.
He lost, he lost to Lian Jun again.
Everyone was silent after hearing this, and then they all felt a chill on their backs, and even felt the coolness of the blade pressing down on the back of their necks.
"I'm going to kill him!" Meng Qing gritted his teeth and spoke with a gloomy expression.
"Lian Jun is indeed a lackey of the government." Yuan Peng's eyes were full of murderous intent. Lu
Shan was a little frustrated. He raised his hand and pressed his forehead and said, "From the beginning of the confrontation between Hemie to now, we have been trapped if we retreat or advance. If we take the initiative to attack, we will definitely fall into the trap. If we are cautious and defensive, we will be beaten passively... We can't beat him. We really can't beat Lian Jun."
Qi Yun suddenly said, "We must go and negotiate with Lian Jun before the domestic struggle becomes fierce and Lian Jun drags everyone to the death."
"What?!" The three of them said in unison and looked at him together.
"Negotiate... and then seek peace. At this point, unless Mie stops the offensive, we will have no choice but to die." Qi Yun gritted his teeth and suppressed his unwillingness, saying, "Push someone out. If no one wants to go, then I'll go!"
"No!" Meng Qing rejected it directly and said bitterly, "At worst, we won't be in China anymore, but Lian Jun must die!"
Qi Yun looked at him and said in a deep voice, "During this time, we have messed up the business and power in various regions abroad. Without a foundation in China, we will be targeted and hunted down wherever we go. Meng Qing, now is not the time to act on impulse."
"Let Lu Shan go to the negotiation." Yuan Peng suddenly spoke and laughed, "Mie and Wolf Spider have the biggest grudge. The surrender of the enemy should make Lian Jun feel better. Besides, Lu Shan is a woman. With Lian Jun's personality, he should not be too excessive to an older woman."
Lu Shan was shocked. She slammed the table and stood up, angrily said: "Yuan Peng, you are looking for death!"
"This is also for everyone's sake." Yuan Peng met her gaze fearlessly, shrugged his shoulders like a rolling knife, and said, "We are allies, aren't we?"
Meng Qing's mind turned, his eyes swept between the two of them, and said: "Then let Lu Shan go."
Lu Shan couldn't believe it: "Meng Qing, why even you--"
"I also think Lu Shan is more suitable to go." Qi Yun also spoke, looking at Lu Shan, and said slowly, "Among the four of us, Wolf Spider's situation is the most difficult. If you go to negotiate, it will be more convincing."
Lu Shan was amused by anger. She sneered and glanced at them. Nodded, and said, "Now you are of one mind. Okay, I will be the fire extinguisher and cannon fodder. Meng Qing, Qi Yun, Yuan Peng, you must remember what you said today!" After that, he hung up the phone.
The three of them were silent for a while, then Meng Qing calmed down and leaned back in his chair, saying, "Yuan Peng, I'll give you the wolf spider meat, and you should be able to calm down."
Yuan Peng smiled contentedly and said, "Of course, I just hope that Lu Shan, the test stone, can try out more things and give us more time to prepare."
"Let's get ready." Qi Yun frowned slightly, and his mood was not as good as theirs. "The next battle is going to be a tough one." They may not be able to get away with it after selling a wolf spider.
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