Chapter 132 - Transaction
Chapter 132 - Transaction
On the first day of the Lunar New Year, Ning Fei still made an appointment with Yu Zhou to have dinner.
At first, Yu Zhou thought Ning Fei was just bored and wanted to have dinner with someone. However, when Ning Fei mentioned the people he was going to bring along, Yu Zhou was shocked: "Huh? Duan Yunhong? Why is he here? When did he arrive?"
Ning Fei was alone in the master bedroom, talking on the phone: "Last night... No, I think it arrived in the evening. Didn't the base's system remind you?"
"Even if there is a record of him coming in, they won't remind me directly. Otherwise, other bases would remind me every time someone comes in, and I would just watch this all day and not do other work." Yu Zhou replied, "But Huichuan didn't send a work letter saying he was coming, so could this guy sneak in again?"
Ning Fei said: "He has reported it, so don't worry about Huichuan coming to you for the person."
"Oh——" Yu Zhou seemed to have realized something, "I came to find you."
Before Ning Fei could answer, Yu Zhou continued to tease, "But didn't you say you were going to have dinner with Zheng Liwen and the others yesterday? You didn't go?"
Ning Fei: “…I went.”
Yu Zhou: "Duan Yunhong also went?"
Ning Fei: "No. I saw him waiting downstairs when I came back. I didn't know he was here."
"Oh——!" This time Yu Zhou's tone and grammar were full of teasing, "I came here to surprise you. You are so capable. One at dinner, another when I got home after dinner, and another one a week ago. How can I not be surprised at all? I can only say, you are worthy of it!"
"Stop making up dirty rumors about me. I haven't touched any of them, but I'm still being annoyed by these people." Ning Fei said, "I won't waste my words with you. Duan Yunhong said he is willing to support the sharing of Wang Haiyang's research results. As for the specific operation and agreement, you two can meet to decide the direction and outline."
"...Fuck, you were bragging to me about your man going through all the trouble to come to you, but it turns out you want me to work overtime!" Yu Zhou was immediately unhappy, "Why should I work overtime during the Chinese New Year? I can have dinner, but we can talk about the sharing agreement after the holiday."
"The longer the night, the more dreams you have." Ning Fei said in a light tone, but one could tell from his resolute attitude, "Get this done, only then will it be worthwhile for me to open this door for him."
Yu Zhou heard his emotions and raised an eyebrow: "Why, did you have a fight?"
"I didn't quarrel. I just don't believe what he says anymore." Ning Fei leaned against the window and sneered, "Every failure makes you wiser. I can't keep failing over and over again."
"Do you still remember the last time? You two, a debt collector and a lucky bandit, were in a gambling game. It's normal for him to cheat you, didn't you also cheat him?" At this point, Yu Zhou's tone gradually became meaningful, "Oh, I see, it's because you were really worried about his safety last time, so you traveled thousands of miles and risked your life to save him. In the end, he did this to you, and you felt really cheated, so you can't forgive him, right?"
"It's very romantic and melodramatic, but it's just your imagination." Ning Fei replied calmly, "I decided to save him because he gave me luck. What I can't forgive is not that he used this incident to deceive me, but that I actually fell for it."
"Everyone makes mistakes. You don't need to punish yourself like this." Yu Zhou disagreed with his approach. "Besides, since he lied to you, why should you be angry with yourself? You should be angry with him. Why bother him, target him, and waste your energy on him?"
"So, I have to get the benefits he gives me first, and then I can take action later." Ning Fei replied, "Can we talk about sharing the results at the dinner table tonight?"
"Okay, okay, okay. Now that you've said that, if I don't agree, won't you blame me for interfering with your plan?" Yu Zhou agreed, "Then I'll take Lao Yue with me? Duan Yunhong knows that we have to discuss things at dinner tonight, right? Don't let him not prepare anything when I bring up the topic."
"He will know." Ning Fei said, "I'll talk to him later."
"So this was all your plan." Yu Zhou sighed, and was silent for two seconds, then suddenly changed the subject, "Ning Xiaofei, I remind you, you have to be sober. According to what you said, Duan Yunhong came all the way here during the Chinese New Year, and showed up downstairs without telling you. In order to get into your house, he even played the most advantageous card in his hand. When you let him in, was it really just because he was willing to share the results?
"You just said that you need to 'learn from your mistakes'. Then he used Wang Haiyang's achievements to knock on your door. In fact, isn't it just using something that originally belonged to you to offer as a gift to others? Do you seem to have forgiven him?"
After he finished speaking these long words, there was no sound on either end of the phone for a while, as if the call had ended.
But Ning Fei and Yu Zhou both knew that the phone was not hung up.
After a long while, Ning Fei's voice sounded again: "...I know what I am doing."
"You've always known that I don't want to interfere too much in your love life." Yu Zhou replied, "After all, I've dated someone who jumped out of time, and it ended badly, so I'm not qualified to point fingers at you. I'll just remind you one thing - the Luck Bandits are all lawless and ruthless people. Don't think he's safe just because he's giving in to you now and even obeying your rules to a certain extent."
"...I understand." Ning Fei could hear his earnest words and knew that Yu Zhou was sincerely reminding him. He lowered his eyes and replied, "I understand. So I hope that the results can be passed through the mechanism of cross-base joint research and handed over to Jinghui's people for joint research. The matter of 'saving the world' needs to be accelerated."
Yu Zhou understood that Ning Fei didn't mean that he was a workaholic who wanted the work to be completed as quickly as possible.
Instead, he wanted to quickly finish the mission in this world and leave here.
By then, the positioning mark he gave out will be completely crushed.
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When Ning Fei told Duan Yunhong that they would go to dinner with Yu Zhou and the others in the evening and discuss sharing of results, Duan Yunhong did not agree immediately.
"I think I said I don't want to talk about work right now." The man replied, "We can have dinner, but we can't talk about work."
"I'm sorry, I didn't agree to it, and you have no credibility with me." Ning Fei said, "If you don't talk, you're just using empty promises to deceive me. In your eyes, I'm someone you can fool with just a few words, right? And you keep doing this to me, am I so cheap?"
Duan Yunhong narrowed his eyes slightly: "I didn't lie to you, you don't have to use such words."
"I scold myself, is it any of your business?" Ning Fei stared at him, "So, are you going to do it or not? If you don't intend to fulfill your contract, please leave as soon as possible. I can't be sure whether you will really keep your promise. Instead of paying first and then taking a gamble later, it's better to end this deal now."
"...Okay, I can go and talk." Duan Yunhong didn't want to say that, but Ning Fei put him here, he couldn't help but follow the other party's words, "Then, will you accept me staying with you? You know that as a grown man, my intention of entering your house is not just to find a house to live in. As long as I give you the results, will you accept that?"
"I won't pretend to be innocent with you." Ning Fei said, "Okay, only during the New Year when you stay here."
"So you're going to set a price for this?" Duan Yunhong was really angry, but he knew Ning Fei said that on purpose, so he could only suppress his temper and said, "Then I want to make another deal with you. If you talk to me properly now, I can pay you by the hour."
When he said this, he was prepared for Ning Fei to ask for a huge amount of money. However, Ning Fei confronted him for a few seconds in his sight, but instead of saying an astronomical figure, he said, "I know what you want to talk about. That's a waste of time. Let's be direct."
"What?"
"For 2 million luck, I can be your lover." Ning Fei said slowly, "But it is limited to this world. Once the bet is over, the mark will be abolished, and the relationship will also be abolished."
Duan Yunhong was so angry that he almost laughed: "Do you think I want to talk to you about lovers?"
"No matter if it is or not, I will only agree to this condition." Ning Fei did not rush this time, "If you think it is not necessary, then there is nothing to discuss. You can leave after the holiday, and we will just work normally in the future, and don't come here on your own initiative. Oh, no, you are free to go wherever you want, but don't come to me without permission. I am very troubled and don't want to play this game with you. If you keep stalking me like a stalker, don't blame me for using some unpresentable means to deal with it."
These words directly blocked all the topics that Duan Yunhong wanted to talk about.
Various thoughts raced through his mind quickly and uncontrollably, and he finally said, "So, if you don't want to be my lover, who are you going to be? Zheng Liwen, or Wang Moye?"
Ning Fei didn't get angry when he heard that. He just said, "You even know that Wang Moye was here. Okay, then I admit that the person who told you before that Jinghui and I had a relationship was Wang Moye."
"So, you are going to join hands with him..." Duan Yunhong narrowed his eyes, "Just to join forces to deal with Huichuan?"
"I have no obligation to answer your questions." Ning Fei said coldly, "Who I want to find has nothing to do with you. You are not even my lover."
"You don't need to use such rhetoric to provoke me." Duan Yunhong said, "I also heard something. It is said that Jinghui will hold a meeting for people with special abilities after the holiday. Is it true? Are you going to go too?"
"Really, let's go. I just remembered that my ability attracted attention because of the video you uploaded. Otherwise, Jinghui wouldn't have specifically asked me to go." Ning Fei raised his eyebrows slightly, "You tricked me again."
"I definitely didn't do this on purpose. Think about it carefully. I bet with you to be the leader who ended the zombie tide, so why should I improve your reputation?" Duan Yunhong didn't expect there was a cause and effect involved, and explained, "I want to explain how I escaped the mutant siege and why I didn't ask for help from nearby bases. In order to prove that I did ask for help from other bases, I provided some videos taken by drones."
"OK, I accept this explanation." Ning Fei's tone was indifferent, and it was hard to tell whether he really didn't care about it. "Then let's go to dinner and talk at six tonight, don't forget."
Duan Yunhong sneered: "You're just going back to the first topic? You want to pretend that the things we talked about in the middle didn't exist?"
"I don't want to pay you to talk to me. If you don't want me to be your lover for 2 million, what else is there to talk about?" Ning Fei shrugged. "If you want to stay here for six days, I suggest you don't always think about unrealistic things. I just want you to stay, and sometimes I can do something relaxing with you, but I don't have to tolerate and cooperate with all your fantasies."
"What? Do you think I'm here to fulfill my dream?" Duan Yunhong asked, "I don't know what you're afraid of. Aren't you very brave? What will happen to you if I talk?"
"It's okay, but it's a waste of time." Ning Fei replied, "Besides, I've been fooled by you before, and I'm just afraid of falling in the same place again, is that okay?"
Duan Yunhong felt that he was getting more and more ridiculous. "Are you afraid of me? What kind of joke are you talking about?"
"You are the Luck Bandit, shouldn't I be afraid?" Ning Fei laughed instead, "I am not only afraid that you will cheat me, but I am also afraid that the Administration will punish me because of our dealings. By the way, Chonglin has sued me for colluding with the Luck Bandits, don't you know that?"
"Are you afraid of the Authority?"
"I don't want to discuss the issue of position with you." Ning Fei said, "If you want to use some action to cause the Administration to abandon me and make me a 'wanderer'..."
Duan Yunhong: "Will you hunt me down?"
"No, then I'll end it all." Ning Fei said something ambiguous, and then brought the topic back to the topic again, "Another round of nonsense. Anyway, can the dinner tonight be confirmed?"
Duan Yunhong stared at him and said slowly: "...I'll give you 2 million."
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