Teaming is allowed by default.
Acquiescence means that it is not in compliance with regulations, is not agreed to in principle, is not stated openly, and is known only to a few people.
There are dozens or even hundreds of police officers in the task force, and they know that there will be a secret team going to Country R, and there will be no more than five of them, including a big shot like the Public Security Bureau Chief.
Xu Guangming of the SWAT team was not the initiator of forming the team, but now he is a staunch supporter. The starting point of all supporters is very simple: criminals should not be allowed to go unpunished, and even if they cannot be caught for the time being, they must be kept under control.
When Cheng Ji followed Lei Jing to the destination, Lao Geng had already arrived, as well as Chen Chuan.
Captain Xu closed the office door and asked solemnly, "Have you thought it through?"
Lao Geng said loudly, "I've thought it through."
Cheng Ji also nodded.
Captain Xu said: "This is no joke. After you get out, the people stationed in Country R by a certain line can provide you with intelligence and help, but they have more important tasks to stick to. They will not protect you or fight for you. If you are discovered by the enemy, it will be very dangerous."
Cheng Ji said: "Then we protect ourselves."
Captain Xu was obviously worried, and said, "No one sent you guys to Country R. This is essentially a spontaneous act. In this case, you may not have much backup."
"It's OK if we have it or not." Cheng Ji said, "We have to insist on our own way. I can do it anyway, can you, godfather?"
Lao Geng immediately glared and said, "Yes, I didn't spend those thirteen years in prison in vain!"
"Do you really want to go?" Captain Xu asked Cheng Ji.
"I want to go."
"Going to the dangerous place?"
"go."
"You're going even if you don't have money?"
"I'm not doing this for money," Cheng Ji said. "I'm doing this for my wife."
"I'm doing this for my ex-wife and my nephew!" said Lao Geng.
"Maybe Honor will go too?"
Cheng Ji lowered his head and bit his lip, then raised his head after a while, with determination flashing in his eyes: "Captain Xu, my wife is already on the verge of glory. Even if something happens to me, I will just go to accompany her. What is there to hesitate about? On the contrary, if I back down now, I will have no explanation in the underworld."
"My nephew is dead!" Lao Geng shouted.
Captain Xu asked: "Do your family members agree?"
Cheng Ji and Lao Geng looked at each other and laughed: "He is my family and I am his family. How can I disagree?"
"…" Captain Xu sighed deeply and said, "I've never seen people as reckless as you."
He seemed to have finally made up his mind and shouted, "Okay!"
"Six months from today." He gestured, "After six months, whether you have captured Shen Zimo or not, you must return! Although you are individual citizens, we have no right to ask you to return, but we ask you to return! And you have no combat missions, do you understand? You are informants!"
"Six months is too short," said Cheng Ji.
"Just six months!" Captain Xu repeated, "And I have to train you for three months before that!"
“But…” Cheng Ji looked towards the Thunder Realm.
Lei Jing nodded gently: "This time is good, Beisong should have recovered by then, and you can meet him when you come back."
Captain Xu stood up and said, "This is the end of today's conversation. I will report the situation to my superiors, but this conversation will not be recorded in the official records. Report to me tomorrow. I will make you completely transformed within three months, enough to save your lives!"
Lao Geng stood up excitedly and wanted to shake hands with him.
Captain Xu suddenly asked: "Do you have any other requests?"
Lao Geng said: "I don't have any requirements! I will be satisfied if you let me go!"
Cheng Ji said: "I have a request."
Everyone looked at him.
Cheng Ji said: "Captain Xu, if we complete the mission this time... we can't put it this way, because the mission itself doesn't exist. Let's say if we successfully capture Shen Zimo this time, can your detachment make an exception and hire me after I return home? Because I may have to drop out of college, and it will be difficult to find a job in the future."
Captain Xu came forward and asked, "Handsome guy, can you read?"
“Learn to read.”
"Can you do addition, subtraction, multiplication and division?"
"meeting."
Captain Xu flicked his forehead and said, "That's enough. Brother Xu only knows these two things! What's the point of a diploma? You can just take the self-study exam! It doesn't matter if the mission is successful or not. As long as you come back with two legs and two hands, Brother Xu wants you. Brother Xu likes you!"
Chen Chuan finally spoke up: "Old leader, you can't like him. He is Qi Baby. If you like him, something bad will happen."
Captain Xu turned to him and scolded him with a smile: "We are discussing something, what the hell are you listening to here?"
Chen Chuan blinked: "Didn't you say that three people would go to China?"
Everyone looked at him.
"Qi darling, Brother Biao," Chen Chuan pointed at Cheng Ji and Lao Geng first, and then at himself, "There are only three of us including me. If I don't stay here, where can I stay?"
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When Qi Beisong was transferred to a hospital abroad, Cheng Ji could have gone to see him, but he didn't.
I can't bear to go.
Cheng Ji knew that after this meeting, his thoughts about Qi Beisong would be frozen here—full of tubes inserted into his body, in a deep sleep, pale and unconscious.
Qi Beisong is not like that.
He is tall, agile, handsome, laughs arrogantly, scolds rudely, lives wantonly, loves forcefully and directly, has a fiery chest and strong arms. He is not the person lying on the transport stretcher, absolutely not.
Cheng Ji did not admit that the man was it. He was trying very hard to erase from his mind the sight of Qi Beisong outside the operating room door that day. From now on, in his memory, the last impression Qi Beisong left on him was at the seaside, on the rocky beach, when that man waved his hands and shouted like an idiot - "I love you, don't even think about leaving."
So he just followed the ambulance to the airport and watched from a distance as the accompanying medical staff carried the stretcher onto the plane.
Everyone asked him if he wanted to go see him, but he said no, really not, I will wait until he wakes up before going to see him.
Everyone also knew that he would collapse after seeing Qi Beisong, and he couldn't be forced.
There was a large group of people following Qi Beisong to Country M: Qi's mother, Zheng Haiping, Lei Jing, Wang Beifeng, Zhao Jiarui, etc., almost filling the entire private plane. More people would go later, such as Qi's grandparents who set off a little later.
Sister Qi did not go. She wanted to temporarily take over Qi Beisong's position and continue to run the entire group.
Before leaving, Mother Qi found Cheng Ji and gave the diamond ring back to him.
Cheng Ji blushed, and Qi's mother said, "What's yours is yours, and you are not allowed to give it back again!"
Cheng Ji said: "I..."
"I heard about it." Mother Qi said, "You have to go to Country R and fight them to the end."
Cheng Ji asked: "...Do you support it?"
Mother Qi said, "Of course I support you! I have always had a hot temper since I was a child. I am not afraid of pain or death. I would rather die than vent my anger. If I were not afraid of being a burden to you because of my age, I would personally go on stage!"
Cheng Ji smiled.
Mother Qi said, "Xiao Cheng, take care of yourself. Don't do anything rash when you get there. When your mission is over in half a year, whether Beisong wakes up or not, please come to Country M to see him. We'll be waiting for you."
She added: "If he wakes up, you can live a good life in the future; if he doesn't wake up and it can't be saved, please send him off for the last time."
Cheng Ji asked sadly, "... What if something happens to me in Country R?"
"You won't, you are smart. How can the person Beisong likes be an ordinary person?" Qi's mother said, "You are blessed by heaven and will live a long life. If Beisong is not well at that time, I will have no son and you will have no mother. You can call me mom and we can still be a family!"
After saying that, she held his cheek and kissed him.
It was the first time in Cheng Ji's life that he was kissed by a girl, and it was Qi Beisong's mother. He couldn't help laughing, but when he came to his senses, his eyes were red.
Mother Qi waved goodbye and Zheng Haiping followed closely.
"Cheng'er," Zheng Haiping looked unhappy. The hard work and running around these days almost wore him down. "I have prepared some things for you. They will arrive in Country R within three months. Someone will contact you then."
Cheng Ji asked: "What have you prepared?"
Zheng Haiping said: "Money, equipment, supplies, people, I bought you a private armed force, five men and one woman, the woman is the leader, plus the six of you, a total of twelve people, it will not attract attention."
Cheng Ji was almost scared to death: "Hai... Brother Hai, you..."
Zheng Haiping said: "If those drug dealers can afford it, can't the Qi family afford it? Let me make it clear first, this armed force is used to protect you, not to fight the enemy. If I wasn't afraid that you would die in Country R, I wouldn't contact any mercenaries."
"Brother Hai, no need..."
"It's my own money, I can spend it however I want." Zheng Haiping did not question it. "Those people are paid to do things, they will definitely do well within their scope of responsibility, but they will not touch anything outside of their scope. You have to be careful."
Cheng Ji asked: "Does Captain Xu know...does he know?"
"Why tell them?" Zheng Haiping said, "You have no affiliation with them. It's just friendly cooperation. The emperor is far away, so it doesn't matter who you are cooperating with. Anyway, as long as we achieve our goals, it's fine."
"Brother Hai, you are too..."
Zheng Haiping patted his shoulder and whispered, "See you in half a year, but I will only see you if you are fully prepared." After that, he left.
"..." Cheng Ji looked at his back and fully understood the willfulness of the old Qi family.
Lei Jing followed behind Zheng Haiping.
Perhaps only a warrior is worthy of giving another warrior a final farewell.
However, Lei Jing could not utter any touching parting words. He just stood shoulder to shoulder with Cheng Ji, looking at the tarmac.
"How much time is left for takeoff?" Cheng Ji returned the ring. He was going to the battlefield, so he tried not to take anything he didn't need.
"Twenty minutes." Lei Jing took the ring and whispered, "Xiao Cheng, I will go to Country R to see you if I have a chance."
Cheng Ji waved his hands quickly: "It's just a matter of half a year, don't come, Brother Hai is already very angry, I don't want to drag you down again!"
Lei Jing smiled bitterly: "In fact, I should be used in exchange for you."
Cheng Ji said, "Brother Lei, let me tell you something. My godfather went to the old monk to tell fortunes yesterday. This time he got the best fortune, and there was a four-character verse, called 'Grass and trees become kings'. My godfather came back and thought about it, isn't this referring to my character 'Cheng'? 'Cheng' is written with the character 禾 (禾), which means grass and trees, and the character 王 (王) is on the right side. 'Cheng' is homophonic with '称', which means I will be victorious this time and invincible, so no one is more suitable than me!"
Lei Jing smiled and said that the divinations that Lao Geng had calculated were all heaven's secrets and could be interpreted however one wanted.
"What do you need?" he asked.
"Nothing is missing."
"Tell me the truth." Lei Jing said, "You and Lao Geng are so eager to go to Country R. What exactly do you want to do?"
Cheng Ji looked to both sides, then suddenly raised one hand, palm down, and cut towards the throat - this was a tactical gesture representing death, or to be more precise, killing.
He and Lao Geng were not willing to be just informants, but to go to Country R to kill the other party. This was their real purpose. They discussed it with Chen Chuan, who also agreed, but whether it could be done depended on chance. However, he planned to capture Shen Zimo alive.
"Do you object?" he asked.
"No." Lei Jing said, "But you have to do it within your ability."
Cheng nodded.
"Okay then, take care of yourself." Lei Jing patted the other person on the shoulder twice. They were both men, and this was enough to say when saying goodbye.
After taking a few steps, he heard Cheng Ji shouting behind him: "Brother Lei!"
Lei Jing turned his head.
Cheng Ji put his hands in his pockets and smiled: "Sing a song for me!"
"What?"
Lei Jing couldn't sing at all. He could even scare his son into tears by humming a lullaby.
"'Farewell to Comrades', can you sing it?" Cheng Ji asked.
Lei Jing shook his head.
"That means we don't have this song here." Cheng Ji smiled and said, "Then let me read the lyrics to you - Comrades, comrades, dear brothers, when the spring breeze brings good news, we will meet again!"
"Brother Lei, see you in half a year!"
Lei Jing tapped his heels, straightened his back, raised his arm and saluted him solemnly.
Cheng Ji returned the greeting.
Lei Jing turned and walked towards the plane, and Cheng Ji jumped up and waved at him.
"Let Qi Beisong wait for me!!"
Lei Jing remembered this scene for many years.
The sun was rising, and the sunlight shone in through the large glass windows of the VIP lounge. From his direction, he could only see Cheng Ji's backlit silhouette, with broad shoulders and a tight waist, young, handsome, and full of heroic spirit. The youthful and free-spirited outline was rimmed with gold, without a trace of haze.