Chapter 239 Each has its own identity
After Li Xiang returned, he called all the core members of the team to an office in the scenic area and held a small meeting.
There weren't many core members here, just Yao Yao, Zhao Xueqing, Lei Xiaohui and Lei Jiaming. As for Luo Feifei, he would go and tell her in person later.
Video connection is not very convenient and can easily lead to information leakage.
This mission is top secret, and everyone has to sign the highest level confidentiality agreement. During the meeting, there are no outsiders around the conference room.
Although it was snowing heavily, the employees were not at work, there were no tourists, and the villagers basically did not come, but it was better to be safe than sorry. So Li Xiang asked the little fox, Erhuang, and the three little cats to patrol the surrounding area and be on guard.
It will sound an alarm (bark wildly) if there is any abnormality.
At this moment, the spirit pets were lying lazily in various corners. They seemed careless, but in fact they were paying close attention to the surrounding situation. It must be said that these little guys were very serious and did their work in a proper manner.
"Another strange beast like that? And in the United States?" The team members were all excited, and without any fear.
Anyway, they are cubs and haven't grown up yet, and it will be more exciting to carry out the mission in a foreign country.
Especially, everyone has never been to the United States.
Lei Jiaming was a little embarrassed: "Well, Brother Xiang, I haven't applied for a passport yet, will that hinder me? And I don't understand English either."
Li Xiang smiled and said, "Don't worry, we will handle special matters. Passports and visas will be approved quickly. As for English, just follow us. We won't let you act alone."
Li Xiang, Yao Yao, Zhao Xueqing and Lei Xiaohui had been to Singapore, Malaysia and Thailand before, and had studied English for a while. They have been learning English ever since. After all, English is still a very practical tool for global communication. It is just a tool, nothing more.
It is always good to have many skills. In many cases, knowing one or two foreign languages is very necessary.
Lei Jiaming had never learned it. Although he also had a high school diploma, he had graduated so many years ago and had several children. How could he remember it? He was a poor student in high school.
As for passport and visa, it is not a problem at all.
Even your identity has been arranged, why are you still worrying about this?
Li Xiang smiled and told everyone about the roles assigned to them by their superiors, and said that everyone would get their own work permits when they set out. They were all issued by the relevant departments and stamped with official seals, which couldn't be more genuine.
Li Xiang is an engineer from an electric power group, Luo Feifei is a psychologist accompanying the team, Xu Xuan is a safety consultant, Zhang Youyou is an accompanying reporter, Lei Jiaming is a security officer, Zhao Xueqing and Lei Xiaohui are both secretaries, and only Yao Yao is a little special, as she is an engineer assistant. Well, mainly Li Xiang's assistant.
The corners of Zhao Xueqing's mouth twitched, and she seemed to be hesitant to speak.
Lei Xiaohui couldn't help but say, "Brother Xiang, why is Yao Yao your assistant and we are just ordinary secretaries?"
Zhao Xueqing also agreed: "Yes, are we worse than her?" She thought to herself that her temperament and image were not inferior to Yao Yao at all.
Li Xiang quickly comforted her, saying, "This is not my decision. This is how it was decided when the higher-ups arranged the identities."
"Can it be changed?" Zhao Xueqing and Lei Xiaohui were dissatisfied.
Li Xiang shrugged and said, "I don't think so. The documents are probably ready by now. Besides, it's just a fake identity anyway, don't worry about the details."
Yao Yao couldn't help but feel happy in her heart, thinking, I have kissed my brother, have you? Do you still want the same treatment as me? I am my brother's personal assistant, haha.
She didn't say anything, but just sat there quietly and smiled, which made Zhao Xueqing and Lei Xiaohui roll their eyes and were very angry.
"Don't pay too much attention to these details. Last time, Yao Yao only won the third-class merit, and you guys only won the second-class merit. She wasn't happy about that either." Li Xiang felt a little overwhelmed. It was indeed troublesome to have too many women.
Fortunately, Zhao Xueqing and Lei Xiaohui were not the kind of people who were ignorant of the overall situation and liked to make trouble. They just complained for a while, and soon adjusted their mindset and actively participated in the discussion of this action.
Li Xiang introduced the general situation and action plan to them.
Because the United States is on the other side of the Earth, Li Xiang didn't know about the falling meteor. However, the country's satellites had already observed it.
The meteor fell in a place called "Black Rock Desert" in Nevada, USA, forming a large crater. Subsequently, a series of disappearances occurred in the surrounding towns. The victims' chests were hollowed out and the surrounding power grids were frequently paralyzed.
The US military blocked the scene and announced that the "meteorite contained radioactive substances", but a Chinese department detected bioenergetic pulse signals there through satellite monitoring.
Based on the previous meteor incident in Chengdu, it is not difficult to infer that it must be some kind of space monster.
Moreover, several days have passed, and that thing must be more powerful than the last one in Rongcheng.
The leader of this San Francisco Energy Cooperation Forum and Exchange Conference was naturally not Li Xiang, but a vice president of a certain power group. Accompanying him were managers and technicians from several energy companies, some university professors and graduate students, as well as medical staff, reporters, security guards, logistics, etc. It was a huge team, with about sixty people in total.
Li Xiang and his team are just following this "technical exchange group" into the United States. After checking into a hotel in San Francisco, they will leave secretly and go to Nevada to carry out a mission. The captain of this secret mission is Li Xiang.
Everyone also checked the map and found that Nevada is right next to California. Compared with California, Nevada is relatively poor and backward.
If California is singled out, its GDP in 2023 will be as high as 3.8 trillion, which ranks among the top five in the world, second only to the United States, China, Germany, and Japan. California has the famous Hollywood and Silicon Valley, and many high-tech companies are in California.
According to statistics from the Bureau of Economic Analysis of the U.S. Department of Commerce, Nevada's GDP in 2023 was only US$239.398 billion, ranking 32nd among all states in the United States.
However, this state has a large geographical area. It is the seventh largest state in the United States and the state with the most mountains in the United States. Most of it is located in the Great Basin. The terrain is rugged and the average altitude is as high as 1,500 to 2,500 meters. The highest point, Mount Bondi, is 4,006 meters above sea level. There is little water, mostly inland rivers and salt lakes. It is the driest state in the United States. The ground is covered with xerophytic sagebrush. So it has another name, the North American Sagebrush State.
"Nevada" comes from Spanish and means "covered with snow", describing the coldness of the state.
It can be understood as China's northern Tibetan Plateau, because both places have large areas of desert and rich snow-capped mountains. The Nevada Mountains can correspond to the Himalayas.
Then there is a very famous city in Nevada, that is Las Vegas, the largest gambling city in the world, and its economic status in the state is comparable to that of LS in the snowy area.
The second largest city in Nevada is Reno, located in northern Nevada, known as the largest small city in the world. Lake Tahoe near Reno is the most famous ski resort in North America and one of the world's top resorts.
California and Nevada are now also covered with snow, especially in Nevada, where the thickness of the snow is much greater than in other states.
And it was snowing in the Black Rock Desert where they were going.
It's not surprising that it snows in the desert.
For example, China's Taklimakan Desert, the "Sea of Death", has seen widespread snowfall for four consecutive years.
When Li Xiang and his team go there, someone will prepare off-road vehicles and ski equipment for them. This is the good thing about working for the country, there is a dedicated logistics team to take care of it, so you don't have to worry about it yourself.
In addition, the business trip allowance is very generous. Before we set off, everyone has received 100,000 yuan in funding, and Li Xiang received more, 500,000 yuan. It is directly deposited into the social security card, and no tax is required.
We discussed the general action plan and also discussed that if we had time, we would go to Las Vegas to gamble and experience the entertainment of the world's largest gambling city. But that was just a joke, after all, we were going there to do business, and fun could be discussed later.
No one knew how long this departure would take, so Li Xiang asked them to arrange their respective work.
Each recommended a suitable replacement.
For the live broadcast of selling goods, three other girls were replaced as anchors. Although they were not as pretty as Yao Yao, Zhao Xueqing and Lei Xiaohui, they were young and youthful, with faces full of collagen.
For a girl in her twenties, the youthful and lively energy of this kind can be said to be the best years of her life.
The person Lei Jiaming arranged was Lei Xiaonan, the skinny guy that Li Xiang had noticed before.
Li Xiang nodded in agreement, and also wanted to take this opportunity to see Lei Xiaonan's "quality". After Lei Jiaming left, Lei Xiaonan took over Lei Jiaming's job, mainly responsible for security and delivery.
If Lei Xiaonan passes the test and does things well, then the breathing method and elixir will be no problem. If he messes up, well, let's observe and see.
After all, if you don't have any ability to do things, you're probably of no use.
As for Jiang Caier, she still had to study, so Li Xiang naturally couldn't take her around. Now, Jiang Caier was at least still in hiding, hidden away. The outside world didn't know that she was a supernatural being, and even if they knew, they didn't know her abnormal abilities. Hiding an extra trump card might be good for the future.
Li Xiang contacted Luo Feifei in advance and asked about her current location. Luo Feifei was shooting an advertisement in Shanghai. After nightfall, Li Xiang came to Shanghai, broke into her hotel room, and had a secret conversation with her.
Luo Feifei was naturally excited that she could go on a mission with Brother Xiang again.
"Is there any problem with your schedule?" Li Xiang asked.
Luo Feifei giggled: "If it's something else, there might be a problem, but this is absolutely no problem." Because before, people from relevant departments had already contacted her mother, and the partners, directors, and others had also been discussed.
Of course, neither the person who interviewed nor the person being interviewed knew what was going on. They only knew that Luo Feifei might be on a mission. They asked everyone to cooperate as much as possible, and Luo Feifei should not be held accountable for any breach of contract caused by this.
Everyone thought about the fact that Luo Feifei had inexplicably won the second-class merit before, and they all had some guesses at this time.
There are rumors outside that Luo Feifei may have been recruited by a mysterious department and has an extraordinary status.
There are also rumors that Luo Feifei has been spotted by a high-ranking official and is being kept, so it is not impossible for her to become a general in the future.
Luo Feifei was too lazy to explain these rumors, nor could she explain them clearly. The mouth is on someone else's body, so let them say whatever they want.
If we really talk about being kept, then she felt that she was being kept by Li Xiang, and if she wanted to be a general in the future, it would be for Li Xiang.
(End of this chapter)
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