It was already the next morning when Lin Xi woke up. She was sleeping in the soft quilt with a contented look on her face.
Is this a dormitory
Lin Yan looked around and recognized that this was the staff dormitory that the headquarters had arranged for her and Chen Chu. But wasn't she waiting in the conference room for Director Guan to summon her? Why did she go back to the dormitory
Lin Xi glanced at the time and found that it was already the next morning, so she hurriedly got up, pushed the door and went out.
"Are you up?" Chen Chu just came in from the door, holding breakfast in his hand.
"How did I get back yesterday?" Seeing Chen Chu, Lin Xi was no longer nervous and just asked curiously.
Chen Chu's expression became unnatural for a moment when he heard this: "You slept deeply yesterday, so I didn't wake you up. I used my supernatural power to send you back."
Lin Yan 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 eaten fresh, hot food for two days.
Chen Chu was relieved when he saw that Lin Yan didn't ask any more questions. Although he used his supernatural power to wrap Lin Yan back yesterday, he was afraid that he would wake her up if he just held her in his hands. So he just used the wind supernatural power to wrap Lin Yan, making her float and without the sense of gravity. In fact, he still carried her back personally.
"There are steamed buns, preserved egg and lean meat porridge, tea eggs, corn, and sandwiches..." Chen Chu hurriedly placed the breakfast on the dining table in the living room. "The headquarters cafeteria has a lot of breakfast items. 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 is not picky about food, and she hasn't seen hot food for a few days. Now she loves anything that is hot.
Chen Chu hadn't eaten either, so the two of them sat together to have breakfast, chatting about what happened yesterday.
"By the way, has the 'snow disaster' been handed over to the headquarters?" Lin Wei asked.
"It's still with me." Chen Chu took the initiative to explain without waiting for Lin Yan to ask, "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 snatch things from you?"
If the headquarters had any concerns about Chen Chu before, they were gone after yesterday's battle.
"So what is the headquarters going to do now? When are we going to Country D to get the 'Flood'?" If she wasn't so sleepy, Lin Yan would actually want to go to Country D. The harm of the catastrophic props is too great. If they are activated for one more second, the earth will be in more danger. And now they are only short of the "Flood". After that, they only need to go to the Miao Village to get the "Plague", and then they can gather the five props and finally get the "War".
Although it seemed simple, they only had one month left. No, only twenty-nine days.
Although the leader of Blue Flame was dead and their biggest obstacle had disappeared, Lin Xi was still uneasy because she didn't have the six items in her hands.
"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 he had no intention of recovering the "flood".
"'War', 'Plague' and 'Drought' have not been activated yet." Not only the first two, but "Drought" is still in Director Guan's hands. He will definitely not allow "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 Yan understood all this. There were only six catastrophic items in so many countries around the world, but two of them appeared in China. Although the crisis of the "geological map" was resolved by them, the "snow disaster" was indeed activated in China and caused a lot of suffering. It was reasonable that other items should not be activated in China.
"So Director Guan and some senior executives at the headquarters feel that not recycling 'Flood' will help to 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 must be the places that will 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. 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. After all, 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 Yan could find the "flood", these countries would have to continue to experience disasters, and the outcome would not be much better than accepting other catastrophic props.
"So what do we do next?" Lin asked.
When he left the customs office yesterday, he heard that the customs department had arranged for someone to organize a joint meeting, and the time was set at two o'clock in the morning. If the meeting was fast 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 peacefully.
After breakfast, Lin Xi took out her mobile phone and checked it for a while. She found that group 6 was as quiet as a chicken. There had not been a single message in the past few days.
That can't be possible. They all arrived in Hai Province yesterday and should know the situation now. It's not very scientific that these people stopped talking about such a big thing in the group.
Lin Yan pondered and sent 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 bonus.]
When Lin Yan 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, so you only get one month's salary.]
That’s ten thousand a month, which is quite a lot.
She hadn't been out for fortune-telling during this period, and her income had shrunk severely. Now that she suddenly had an extra 10,000 yuan in year-end bonus, Lin Xi became generous. She felt that an empty thank you was insincere, so she sent a big red envelope in the group titled "Thank you all for saving my life."
There were only four red envelopes in the group, which was very thoughtful. However, none of the colleagues who were usually very active in grabbing every penny grabbed one.
Something is wrong if no one is grabbing 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 thank-you emoticons such as "Thank you, boss" and "Long live the boss".
Why did he snatch Senior Chen Chu's instead of hers? This is weird.
At this moment, the phone vibrated, and a private message came into Lin Yan's phone, which was sent by Chen Chu.
Chen Chu: [They are afraid of trouble.]
Lin Yan 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. How interesting is it to cover up one's own mistakes? They didn't even grab the red envelopes.
Lin Xi thought about it, and then she honestly opened the red envelope she had sent with her finger.
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, including the evil curse master, the showy water-type psychic, the greasy wink petrified man, and the C-level psychic who looks normal but is weak.]
Dirt King: […]
Aquaman: […]
Qingkong: […]
Assistant Tan: [Chen Chu, you don’t have your year-end bonus!]
Chen Chu replied with an emoticon that said "I'm not short of money."
Lin Yan was so happy that she laughed so hard that she fell all over the room. After that, the six group chats became lively again. The six people tacitly did not talk about anything about Jiushi, 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 Yan smiled and replied: [Twenty-nine days later.]
Assistant Tan: [Okay, I’ll wait for you to come back.]
Lin Yan's heart warmed, and she felt that the colleagues in Group 6 were really lovely. They said they were afraid of trouble, but they didn't hesitate to help when they needed to, and they even dared to offend the Qinglong Group. They just refused to admit that they had helped them in Hai Province, but now they were asking them when they would return.
At noon, Lin Yan suddenly wanted to eat three fresh delicacies, so Chen Chu went to the best northeastern restaurant in the capital to pack a portion and ordered a few more northeastern dishes to bring back. While waiting for the food, he saw a little girl drinking milk tea in the restaurant, so he brought another cup of milk tea for Lin Yan 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 members of the Kunlun team had been frozen. Lin Yan and the others were in a hurry to come back, so they didn't bother to check on them. Although they knew that the people at the headquarters would rescue them, they were still worried. Only when they saw them now did they feel completely relieved.
"Everything is fine, thank you." The will-o'-the-wisp's words were not correct, but his expression and tone were much more polite than before.
In the "Frost Cage", the leader of Lanyan suggested that Lin Xi kill them to save her life, but Lin Xi preferred to die herself rather than sacrifice them. Even when Feishuang took the initiative to express her willingness, Lin Xi still refused. Although Lin Xi's behavior was inappropriate under the circumstances at the time, their mission was to protect Lin Xi, 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." Guihuo 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 Yan. Although neither of them spoke, he had guessed that the activation locations for the other three props must have been selected, so he asked them to go over and discuss the follow-up matters.
(End of this chapter)