It was already the next morning when Lin woke up. She was sleeping in the soft quilt with a contented look on her face.
Is this a dormitory?
Lin looked around and recognized that this was the staff dormitory that the headquarters had arranged for her and Chen Chu. But wasn't she in the conference room waiting to be summoned by Director Guan? Why did she go back to the dormitory?
Lin looked at the time and found that it was already the next morning, so she got up quickly and walked out.
"Are you up?" Chen Chu just came in from the door, holding breakfast in his hands.
"How did I get back yesterday?" Seeing Chen Chu, Lin Xi immediately relaxed and just asked curiously.
Chen Chu's expression became awkward for a moment when he heard this: "You were sleeping soundly yesterday, so I didn't wake you up. I used my supernatural power to send you back."
Lin Yu just asked casually. Knowing the answer, she didn't ask further. She nodded and looked at the breakfast in Chen Chu's hand: "What's for breakfast?"
Although she wasn't hungry while trapped in the "Frost Cage", she hadn't had fresh, hot food for two days.
When Chen Chu saw Lin Nan, he breathed a sigh of relief without asking too many questions. Although he had used his supernatural power to wrap Lin Nan up yesterday, he was afraid that he would wake her up if he held her directly. So he only used his wind-type supernatural power to wrap Lin Nan up, making her float and without a sense of gravity. In fact, he still carried her back personally.
"There are steamed buns, preserved egg and lean meat porridge, tea leaf eggs, corn, and sandwiches..." Chen Chu hurriedly placed the breakfast on the living room table. "The headquarters cafeteria has a lot of breakfast options. I took a little bit of everything."
After thinking for a while, he was afraid that Lin Yan might not like it, so he said, "If you want to eat something else, I can go buy it."
"No, I'll eat all of these." Lin Xi was not picky about food, and she hadn't seen hot food for a few days. Now she would eat anything hot.
Chen Chu hadn't eaten either, so the two of them sat together to have breakfast, talking about what happened yesterday.
"By the way, has the 'snow disaster' been handed over to the headquarters?" Lin asked.
"It's still here with me." Chen Chu took the initiative to explain before Lin Yan asked, "Director Guan said it's safer to keep it with me."
Lin Xi didn't think much about it and nodded, "That's right, you are already a venerable, who can still snatch things from you?"
If the headquarters still had concerns about Chen Chu before, they no longer did after yesterday's battle.
"So what is the headquarters going to do now? When are we going to Country D to get 'Flood'?" If she wasn't so sleepy, Lin Ni actually wanted to go to Country D. The harm of disaster props is really too great. The longer they are activated, the more dangerous the earth will be. And now they are only short of "Flood". After that, they just need to go to the Miao Village to get "Plague", and then they can get five props and finally get "War".
Although it seemed easy, they only had one month. No, only twenty-nine days.
Although the Blue Flame leader was dead and their biggest obstacle had disappeared, Lin Xian was still uneasy because she didn't get the six items.
"Let's not get the 'Flood' yet." Chen Chu said.
"What?" Lin Yan looked at Chen Chu in surprise. Not going to Country D meant that they were not planning to recover the "flood".
"'War', 'plague' and 'drought' have not been activated yet." Not only the first two, but also the "drought" is in the hands of the Guan Chu. He will definitely not allow the "drought" to be activated in China.
"What does this have to do with recycling the 'flood'?" Lin Xi was puzzled.
"These three items must be activated, but where and in which country?" Chen Chu explained. "Subjectively, no one wants these three items to be activated in their own country. Objectively, these three items must be activated, so there must be national sacrifices. Director Guan does not want these three items to be activated in China, nor does he want to waste too much time on this matter. After all, we don't have much time."
Lin Nan understood all this. There were only six disaster props in so many countries around the world, but two of them appeared in China. Although the crisis of the "map" was resolved by them, the "snow disaster" was indeed activated in China and caused a lot of suffering. It was reasonable that other props should not be activated in China.
"So Director Guan and some senior executives at the headquarters think that not recycling the 'Flood' will help them select the activation locations for these three items as quickly as possible." Chen Chu said.
Lin Yan was stunned for a moment, but soon understood. This was intended to force some countries to accept it. And these countries were definitely the places that would be affected by the "flood".
Leader Lan Yan placed the "Flood" in Country D because he saw that the long river that has been used by more than a dozen countries can absorb the energy of the earth to the maximum extent and most efficiently. So far, the "Flood" has only been released for three days, and there should be only one or two countries affected, and it may have just spread from Country D to neighboring countries. So for the countries along this long river, as long as the "Flood" does not stop, the disaster will continue. At this time, if they are told that only by activating the remaining three props can the disaster be stopped, then the countries along this long river will have to make a choice.
As for other countries, they will also be happy to see this happen. Anyway, as long as the props are not in their own home, it doesn't matter whose home they are in. Although it sounds a bit unfair, this is indeed the most efficient solution at present. Moreover, the world is not absolutely fair. From another perspective, if China had not mastered the method of sealing the "flood" and Lin Nan could find the "flood", these countries would have to continue to experience disasters, and the ending would not be much better than accepting other catastrophic props.
"So what do we do next?" Lin asked.
"Rest and wait for them to come up with a conclusion." Chen Chu paused and added, "It won't take too long."
When he left the Customs office yesterday, he heard that the Customs had arranged for someone to organize a joint meeting at 2 a.m. If it went quickly enough, the results might have come out by then.
"Yeah." Lin Xi didn't ask any more questions and lowered her head to eat breakfast.
After breakfast, Lin took out her mobile phone and checked it for a while. She found that the six groups were quiet as a chicken. There was not even a single message in the past few days.
That can't be possible. They all arrived in Hai Province yesterday, and they should know the situation by now. It's not scientific that these people stopped talking about such a big thing in the group.
Lin Yan pondered and posted a message in the group: [I left in a hurry yesterday and forgot to thank everyone.]
Aquaman: [I slept at home yesterday and didn’t go anywhere.]
Dirt King: [Me too.]
Qingkong: [I was at work and caught a thief. It’s the end of the year and the thief is short of money for the New Year. Everyone, please pay attention to the safety of your property.]
Assistant Tan: [I am calculating your year-end bonuses.]
When Lin Xin saw the words "year-end bonus", her eyes lit up and she was immediately distracted: [How much is the year-end bonus?]
Assistant Tan: [Two months' salary. You have been employed for half a year, but only one month's salary.]
That’s ten thousand a month, which is quite a lot.
She hadn't been out to grab food much during this period, and her income had been severely reduced. Suddenly, she had an extra year-end bonus of 10,000 years, so Lin became generous. She felt that an empty thank you was insincere, so she sent a big red envelope in the group with the message "Thank you all for saving my life."
There were only four red envelopes in the group, which were very thoughtfully designed. However, none of the colleagues who were usually very active in grabbing every penny got one.
It's not right that no one wants to grab the red envelopes.
Just when I was wondering, a message suddenly flashed in the group. It was Chen Chu who sent a red envelope to the group. Then, within about 0.001 seconds, the four people who had pretended to be dead before sent out thank-you emoticons such as "Thank you, boss" and "Long live the boss".
Why did he snatch Senior Chen Chu's things instead of hers? That's weird.
At this moment, the phone vibrated, and a private message came into Lin's phone, which was sent by Chen Chu.
Chen Chu: [They are afraid of trouble.]
Lin was stunned for a moment, then realized that Qingkong had said before that he was afraid of trouble and didn't want to get involved in this matter. But the problem is that these people have already participated in it. What's the point of covering one's ears and stealing the bell? They didn't even grab the red envelope.
Lin Xi thought about it, and then she honestly opened the red envelope she had sent with her fingers.
Humph, if you don’t want it, I’ll grab it myself.
At this time, Chen Chu sent another message in the group: [By the way, I heard that the Qinglong Group is looking for a few people all over the world. They are the evil curser, the coquettish water-based esper, the greasy wink petrified man, and the normal-looking but weak C-level esper.]
The King of Filth: [……]
Neptune:[……]
Qingkong: [……]
Assistant Tan: [Chen Chu, you don’t have your year-end bonus!]
Chen Chu replied with an emoticon pack saying "Master is not short of money".
Lin Yan was so happy that she laughed so hard that she fell down in the room. After that, the six group chats became lively again. The six people tacitly did not talk about anything related to salvation, Tianyu, and Hai Province. But at the end, Assistant Tan couldn't help but ask: [When are you going back to Jin City? I plan to hold an annual meeting.]
Why does a company with only six people hold an annual meeting?
Lin smiled and replied: [Twenty-nine days later.]
Assistant Tan: [Okay, I’ll wait for you to come back.]
Lin's heart warmed, and she felt that the colleagues in Group 6 were really lovable. They said they were afraid of trouble, but when it was time to help, they did not hesitate, and even dared to offend the Qinglong Group. Just now, they refused to admit that they had helped them in Hai Province, and now they wanted to ask them when they would return.
At noon, Lin suddenly wanted to eat three fresh vegetables, so Chen Chu went to the best northeastern restaurant in the capital to pack a portion, and ordered a few northeastern dishes to bring back. While waiting for the food, he saw a little girl drinking milk tea in the hotel, so he brought another cup of milk tea for Lin as a dessert after the meal.
The two of them had just finished lunch and Lin Xi had just taken a sip of her milk tea when the dormitory door was knocked open.
Chen Chu opened the door and saw Will-O-Ghost standing outside. He was not surprised. Instead, Lin Yan called out in surprise, "Captain Will-O-Ghost, are you okay? How about the others? Are they all okay?"
Captain Ghostfire and several other Kunlun team members had been frozen. Lin Xi and the others were in a hurry to return and had no time to check on them. Although they knew that the headquarters would rescue them, they were still worried. Only when they saw them did they feel relieved.
"Everything is fine, thank you." Although the words of the Ghost Fire were wrong, his expression and tone were much more polite than before.
In the "Frost Prison", the leader of Blue Flame suggested that Lin Ni kill them to save her life, but Lin Ni would rather die than sacrifice them. Even when Feishuang took the initiative to express her willingness, Lin Ni still refused. Although Lin Ni's behavior was inappropriate under the circumstances at the time, their mission was to protect Lin Ni, so all the members of the Kunlun team, including him, were willing to die for her.
But no matter what, they did survive because of Lin Xi's choice.
"Do you have something to talk to us about?" Chen Chu asked.
"Director Guan asked you to go to his office." Will-o'-the-wisp stated the purpose of this trip.
"Is the joint meeting over?" Chen Chu asked.
"It just ended half an hour ago." said the will-o'-the-wisp.
Chen Chu glanced at Lin Nan. Although neither of them spoke, he had guessed that the activation locations for the other three props had probably been selected, so he asked them to go over and discuss the follow-up matters.