Chapter 444
The man with long silver hair in front of him stood there, his face expressionless and his eyes as cold as a knife.
Under such gazes, Chao Ri Xi Qiu felt like he was being cut into long slices of bread by an invisible blade, and he didn't even have time to shout "cut it thicker for better taste"!
Gin placed one hand on the car door and uttered only two words: "Get in the car."
Chao Ri Xi Qiu paced a few times and was about to say "Forget it", but out of the corner of his eye he saw that the other person's other hand, which had been in the pocket of his windbreaker, was about to be taken out, and it seemed that he was holding something in his hand.
All of a sudden, he thought of the night they met before he moved.
At that time, the other party was holding a gun in his hand - oh no, now he is not going to be unable to bear it anymore and is going to pull out the gun and shoot? ?
If you get on the bus, you will be beaten, and if you don't get on the bus, you will be shot. This is a vicious and immoral gang that forces people to buy and sell! !
In Chaori Xiqiu's heart, a few large flashing words were clanging: Who can come down from the sky on a colorful cloud to save him!
As the saying goes, when you encounter difficulties, you have to bow your head. Chao Ri Xi Qiu paused for two or three seconds, and finally chose to give in and quietly walked past.
There is no other choice but to face it bravely.
When he got in the car, he felt as if he was being suffocated by a python and wanted to escape but couldn't. His heart was filled with sadness, and his gaze at the melons on the street under the street lights outside the car was filled with nostalgia.
Goodbye, melon.
Goodbye, money.
Please, Jesus, Bodhisattva, Buddha, Ultraman or anyone, let him be reborn as caramel toast in his next life!
Gin closed the door and started the car. He noticed the exaggerated expression of the person next to him and knew that the other person's thoughts must have drifted away again.
——But he had no intention of asking, nor did he want to know what the other person was thinking.
Gin looked straight ahead, not giving Asahi and Yuki any chance to speak their mind, and said directly in a deep voice, "Today, it was the people from the organization who bailed you out."
"?" Chao Ri Xi Qiu was still immersed in the sorrow of Yao Zi being captured. When he heard this, he raised his head in surprise and replied subconsciously, "What organization protects me? An animal protection organization?"
Gin: “.”
Gin sneered: "Disability Protection Organization."
Chaori Xiqiu: "..."
No, why is it a disability protection organization! Why is he disabled now? ?
As expected, the dark man in front of him could no longer hide his sinister intentions. Chaori Xiqiu was furious, but after glancing at the other person's windbreaker pocket, he quietly relaxed.
After a moment of silence, curiosity and the desire to explore finally prevailed, and Chao Ri Xi Qiu continued to ask: "So, it was you who took me out?"
"Yeah." Gin nodded, his reply was very brief and to the point.
He was still wondering what was going on when he was suddenly released. It turned out that someone was protecting him! Chaohi Xiqiu suddenly realized.
At first, the police questioning process was not serious, just routine evidence collection. It was not until later that the responsible police officer became serious, as if there was something wrong with his ID.
Asahi Xiqiu has lost his memory. He has no idea about the status of his ID and knows nothing about his past.
The police seemed to think that Chao Ri Xi Qiu was being vague and deliberately concealing the truth, but they didn't know that he was simply out of his mind.
However, after the initial strict questioning, people came in and out a few times, and the interrogation suddenly became relaxed. In the end, he was no longer detained or asked any more questions, and was simply released.
Asahi Yuqiu was completely confused by this process of being lenient at first, then strict, and then lenient again. It was not until now that he heard what Gin said that he understood the reason: it turned out that there was someone in the police station! He was released through the back door.
But then, a new question popped up in Asahi Yuaki's mind -
Why would they help me? How did I, a small melon seller, catch the eye of the leader of the Heishan Society? Is there something special about me?
Could it be that Christmas is coming soon, so they are preparing to buy holiday gifts for themselves in advance - after all, watermelons are rare in winter.
Chaori Xiqiu thought about it. Fortunately, street melons are available all year round, and they are also good for him all year round.
Regarding being kicked out, Chao Ri Xi Qiu first politely said "thank you". No matter whether the other party is black or white, at least he helped himself.
Then Chao Ri Xi Qiu leaned slightly to the side and cautiously asked, "Next time when someone from your company comes to buy melons, I'll give you a 30% discount?"
He carefully weighed the pros and cons and said sincerely, "If you buy enough, I can give you a 50% discount and give you various small gifts."
"..." The man with long silver hair was driving with one hand. He didn't even raise his eyelids when he heard the words, and was in a state of complete ignorance.
Oh, it seems that they don't want to buy melons collectively. Chaori Xiqiu understood, and he sat back in his seat with regret. He thought there was a big business, but it was a pity that he thought too much.
So, if they don't plan to buy melons from me, why would they protect me?
Asahi Yuqiu thought about it. He knew that it was very dangerous for Heishen to use the mole in the police station to protect people. Usually, he would only use it on important people when necessary - or the little wives of important people.
Could it be... Could it be that in the past two years, Xiguajun's charm has taken over the leader of the Heishen Society and attracted countless bigwigs to compete for him?
Asahi Yuqiu's mind raced. As a professional butler assistant to Watermelon-kun, he was also favored by the man.
The scripts of "The King of Melons", "The Domineering Boss Falls in Love with Melons" and "The Playful Watermelon is Hot" suddenly flashed through Chaori Xiqiu's mind.
...Speaking of which, why are these things also part of common sense? ? These are the things that should really be forgotten!
He shook his head lightly, shaking off the messy story in his mind, and then changed the subject to test: "Um, is your boss a watermelon lover? If necessary, I can serve as a watermelon nanny in your company - work for you."
I don't know which word touched the other party, but after the voice fell, the man with long silver hair finally turned his head.
There was a red light ahead, and the black Porsche stopped silently at the intersection. The road was clean at night, with almost no cars passing by. The bleak street lights shone on the car window, blending in with the moonlight.
During this brief pause, Gin took out a LARK cigarette, and the match flickered across the side of the box, emitting a bright flame and igniting the cigarette butt hotly.
A light white smoke spread inside the car.
Gin let out a breath and said calmly, "You want to come?"
Chao Ri Xi Qiu paused. Faced with the attitude of the person in front of him, he didn't know how to respond - did he want him to apply for the job, or did he not want him to apply?
After pondering for a moment, he decided to give an ambiguous answer: "Whether I come or not depends on whether your company wants me... Actually, my current job as a watermelon shop owner is not bad, so I can continue to work there. However, if your company needs me, I can also do both jobs."
Although it is a bit of nonsense literature, this answer is respectful enough to Heishanhui, right? Not aloof, not provocative, not rejecting, very polite, sensible and profound.
Actually, there are some advantages to joining the company of the person in front of me, Chaohi Xiqiu thought.
At least next time, there will be no more such false arrests - even if they are arrested, they can be brought out again because the organization has people in the police force.
In other words, if you join the other party's organization, you will be considered a person with a background...which seems not bad?
With the expansion of stores and the improvement of door-to-door business, it seems necessary to find a backer.
What's more, as the saying goes, he who is close to the water gets the moon first. If I become a member of that organization, I can reasonably promote watermelons in the organization in the future!
A series of thoughts surged through his mind, and Chao Ri Xi Qiu's heart, which had been wrinkled as if it had been soaked in water for a long time, began to relax again.
He now felt that running into Heishan when going out was not a bad thing. Thinking from another perspective, it was actually an opportunity.
Asahi Yuaki raised her head and looked at the man in the driver's seat.
The drifting white smoke blurred the vision, and the profile of the man with long silver hair became unclear. It seemed as if there was a barrier of fog between the two of them.
The red light turned green, the accelerator was pressed, and the Porsche rushed forward. The wind squeezed in through the gap of the open window, blowing away the smoke that blurred the vision.
Chao Ri Xi Qiu saw the pair of dark green eyes sweeping over him clearly. The gaze was sharp and cold, like a sharp sword, piercing through all disguised barriers during the stare.
"..." Asahi Xiqiu blinked, he adjusted his expression, trying to look serious and determined.
Gin glanced up and down and said, "If you want to come, then come." He blew out a puff of smoke, and his voice was flat. "Do you know what to do?"
"Uh." Chao Ri Xi Qiu paused, and the chaotic common sense in his mind flashed through his mind and popped out from his lips and teeth, "Sign a contract? Well, we have a standardized labor contract, right? Or we should get married - oh no, swear brotherhood, right, the heaven and earth can bear witness, the sun and the moon are witnesses, I swear to be loyal to our gang from now on!"
Gin: “.”
He automatically ignored Chao Ri Xi Qiu's reply and continued, "If you want to join, your current workload is not enough."
There are actually performance requirements. Asahi Yuqiu frowned slightly. Okay, but it's understandable.
The Heishen Society is not expandable indefinitely, and it must have its own internal organization. This kind of formal job position is not something that can be obtained casually.
"What do you want to do?" After making up his mind to seize the opportunity, Chao Ri Xi Qiu stood up, his eyes sparkling, "Would the organization consider purchasing a brand new watermelon wine? I can provide high-quality raw materials and a place to sell it! I can definitely achieve the sales volume requirements."
Maybe this is the reason why the organization the person in front of me belongs to came to me!
They were planning to develop watermelon wine in addition to grape wine, but the raw materials were too expensive and too scarce, so they needed to find someone to provide them. Chaori Xiqiu felt that he had understood everything.
Gin caught a certain point from this series of words. He bit his cigarette, glanced at the person beside him, and snorted and laughed: "...Wine? Why do you think our organization has something to do with wine?"
Oh! Chaori Xiqiu suddenly realized. The wine name and code of the person in front of him, as well as the information about the company behind him, were all learned from the bullet screen. There was no relevant communication in reality.
Speaking of which, Chaori Xiqiu hasn't watched the bullet screen for a while now. He guessed that he had already escaped from the main storyline of the police academy.
Facing Gin's question, Asahi Yuki remained calm, then raised her most beautiful smile and replied: "Because - well, I dreamed about it before!"
Gin: “.”
Gin withdrew his gaze, feeling that he would explode if he thought about it for another second longer.
He did not choose to ask further questions. He bit his cigarette and looked ahead. He chose to ignore it as before, and then continued to repeat the key points in a cold voice like a human-machine: "I will supervise you to complete the task and practice assessment. If you pass, you will have the opportunity to join the organization."
Long before today's events happened, Gin had already simulated the relevant speech.
Mr. K kept urging him to speed up the process of guiding former knights to join the organization and not to deliberately raise the threshold so that former knights could not pass.
Gin: “…”
He's almost buried the door sill in the ground, what else can we do? :D
It seems that the whiskey team's reserve troops sent out at the beginning were not useless. Gin narrowed his eyes slightly.
Although the process was not quite what I expected, the result was still within my expectations - the person in front of me finally raised questions about the organization and even took the initiative to ask to join.
Of course, you don’t have to think too deeply to know that this guy’s considerations for joining are definitely different from what Mr. K thought.
Gin was too lazy to divide these things, and from the results, everything went very smoothly.
He placed one hand on the steering wheel to control the direction of the car, and with the other hand he took out his mobile phone and typed a reply to Mr. K.
[The Whiskey Group reserve assessment has been basically completed.
The former knight had a cooperative relationship with the Reserve Whiskey Group, and a disagreement occurred during the assassination mission, which has now been resolved.
The former knight approached me, took the initiative to ask to join the organization. ——GIN】
It is still an email that contains true words, but each word reveals the artistic beauty of language.
After Gin sent the email, he prepared to put away his phone. He was just reporting the situation temporarily and did not need a special reply from Mr. K.
But before he put it away, he had already received a reply from Mr. K. He didn't expect that the other party was still online late at night.
[Very good. Time is money. Introduce the other party into the organization as soon as possible. ——K]
Time is money, this is Rum's motto.
Gin and rum don't have a very good relationship. When he saw this message in Mr. K's email, he narrowed his eyes, knowing that this was a warning.
Perhaps the boss was not satisfied with his recent efficiency, so the email revealed his importance to another senior executive of the organization, thereby urging him to complete the assigned tasks as soon as possible.
Gin chuckled briefly. He removed the almost empty LARK cigarette from between his lips and placed it in the ashtray inside the car.
"Tomorrow," Gin said, "go to the third stone pillar at Tokyo Station's A entrance and wait for me to complete my mission."
Huh? Chaori Xiqiu was a little stunned. He didn't expect everything to start so quickly...
I just said I want to join the company, so I will take the test tomorrow? Logically speaking, shouldn't there be more preparation time and process for interviewing for a new company?
"Any problem?" Not hearing Asahi Yuaki's answer, Gin raised his brows and his voice became slightly deeper.
Chaori Xiqiu shook his head subconsciously: "No, no problem. It's just that--" He hesitated for a moment before asking, "Do I need to take some melon products with me on my business trip? What are we going to do?"
He didn't ask if he wanted to bring watermelons, because Chao Ri Xi Qiu knew that as long as he didn't go abroad, there would be street watermelons everywhere that could be picked. However, some watermelon products required special tools and equipment to make.
"Need not."
"So what do I need to prepare?"
"Nothing is necessary." Gin said calmly, "Just show up."
Huh? Asahi Yuki blinked slowly and thought. Since I don't need to prepare anything, it seems that I need to do the physical work myself... It can't be a mental work, right? ?
Gin continued his speech in a cold voice: "The initial score is out of 100 points. The requirement for joining the organization is to maintain a score of 80 points or above after the technical review. If there are competitors in the same period, the survival of the fittest will be carried out according to the limited quota."
Asahi Xiqiu leaned back in his chair, put his hands on his knees, and nodded.
To be honest, he was a little nervous. How come there are still scores? SOS, the exam that he feared the most during his student days has come! !
He let out a breath and comforted himself.
But it doesn't matter.
If you pass, then join, with multiple backers and multiple backgrounds.
If you fail, you can continue to be your own freelance stall owner, which is also very happy, right? You can also avoid some identity troubles and avoid being pitted by the main plot master.
Thinking of this, Chao Ri Xi Qiu slowly became less nervous. He had always been good at comforting himself. After all, happiness was the most important thing in life.
In short, there are advantages to going or not going, so just go with the flow! Chaori Xiqiu thought so.
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the next day.
Gin stood at the third stone pillar of Entrance A of Tokyo Station. He was still wearing a black windbreaker and his signature top hat.
Next to him stood a blond-brown-haired, blue-eyed Western European man - he was also a member of the organization on probation.
Gin's tasks were never assigned randomly, his schedule was very full. His own tasks and the tasks to be reviewed were stacked and intertwined.
However, Gin is not a rigid person who just buries himself in work. He combines the two tasks and completes them together.
As for the difficulty of the tasks he took on, whether it was too high for the members in the review period, that was not his concern.
Anyway, if you die, you are powerless.
The blond-haired, blue-eyed Western European is currently in the probation period before the review for the whisky group reserve. He currently has no code name for the wine, and the name used is Ancros, with a numerical code of 17.
At this moment, there are still three minutes left before the agreed meeting time.
Anklaus stood by, constantly looking down at his watch.
He had heard that there was another teammate in the review period on this mission - of course, he was a competitor in the same period.
This new teammate came one later than him, so he was numbered 18.
As the time was getting closer and closer to the exact time, a figure finally appeared not far away.
The man was wearing a fluffy white down jacket and a cashmere scarf around his neck. He ran up to the group in two or three steps - it was morning and evening.
After analyzing that there are advantages to joining or not joining, Chao Ri Xi Qiu has become more relaxed. Today, he wrapped himself up warmly before coming on time.
He was lucky, for the station clock struck exactly on time when he reached Gin and Ancros.
Anklaus couldn't help but sarcastically say, "Come on time? You're really relaxed."
As a competitor, Ancros would not show mercy to the other party. He interrupted and said, "Mr. Reviewer, we can't ignore the situation today, right? Shouldn't it be reflected in the score?"
Deduct points from this guy! Anklaus certainly thought so. Because the number of places is limited, according to the principle of survival of the fittest, what they will ultimately compete on is the score.
Gin raised his eyelids, but the number he said was not No. 18 of Asahi Yuqiu. He said calmly: "No. 17, the arrival time is 15 minutes later than the agreed time, deduct five points."
No. 17 Anklaus:?
Anklaus' eyes widened, and he asked anxiously, "What? I arrived early!!! Why did I lose points?!"
Gin sneered, his voice low and hoarse: "Why, if we arrive early, doesn't that mean we are 15 minutes behind the agreed time?"
Ancros opened his mouth, but for a moment he couldn't say anything.
Gin nodded slightly and continued, "No. 18, you're here on time, five extra points."
Ancros who was just deducted points:?
Asahi Xiqiu, who was silently adjusting her scarf, said:?
Hey? What happened? Why did it get extra points?
The full score is 100, but he already got 105 points!