Chapter 1681 Four-Person Team (14)
Chapter 1681 Four-person Team (1/4)
The door of the executive department meeting room was opened, and the movement of the door lock sounded very crisp in the silent room.
Two pairs of eyes fell on Lin Nian who walked in through the crack of the door. Lin Nian also looked up and greeted the two familiar faces sitting at the conference table. He nodded slightly as a greeting, walked into the conference room, turned around, closed the door gently, and locked it.
The wall clock showed that it was still 5:00 in the morning. Even in the executive department, it was very quiet. After the door of the conference room was closed, there was no extra sound. It was so quiet that you could hear the "click" sound of the second hand of the wall clock moving forward one by one.
The light of the incandescent lamp enveloped the conference room. It might be an illusion. In the early morning, when it was still dark, the light emitted by the incandescent lamp in the conference room would appear more pale than usual.
The lights in the work area late at night or in the early morning are always like this, as if everything is so tired that it has lost its color, or the day has not really started yet, so it has not yet become bright, and like the people under the lights, they all present the most primitive and cold background.
The only sound in the conference room was the footsteps of Lin Nian walking in. At the head of the small conference table, Caesar Gattuso, who was wearing a school uniform and a woolen shawl, was playing with a ballpoint pen in his hand. On the side, Chu Zihang sat at the table, his hands slightly folded in front of him, looking at the two documents on the table expressionlessly.
In front of Lin Nian who stopped, Lu Mingfei was lying on the chair with his legs spread out. His sleeping posture was so ugly that it reminded people of a dog with a spine removed. His head was raised and his mouth was wide open. Fortunately, he didn't have pharyngitis, so he didn't snore, but his breathing was a little obvious.
Lin Nian pulled out a reserved seat next to Lu Mingfei and sat in the chair. Then he glanced at the table of the conference. Caesar, Chu Zihang, Lu Mingfei and himself, each of them had two A4 papers neatly placed in front of them, one on the left and one on the right, with a ballpoint pen pressed on the paper.
No one spoke until Lin Nian took his seat. The only clear sound in the conference room was still the ticking sound of the clock. If it was a little more subtle, one could even distinguish the humming sound of the burning filament of the incandescent lamp.
Caesar, who was sitting at the main seat, glanced at Lin Nian, then at Lu Mingfei, who was drooling beside him, and Chu Zihang, who was sitting opposite him, and tapped the paper on the table twice with the end of the ballpoint pen in his hand.
Lin Nian glanced at Caesar's subtle look and picked up one of the A4 paper documents in front of him. The sound of grabbing the paper was so crisp that it even sounded a little harsh in the silent conference room. Lu Mingfei, who was sleeping like a fool, couldn't help but frown and scratch his cheek, but he still didn't open his eyes.
Lin Nian glanced at the top of the document and found that it was an old friend, the consent form for the repatriation of the body. Every time the commissioner agreed to accept a high-risk task, he needed to sign this document. If you die unexpectedly, your body can enjoy free air transportation back to the country.
He put down the consent form for the repatriation of the body and picked up another A4 paper document. This was a confidentiality agreement, also an old friend. It was filled with dense clauses. To sum up, if the commissioner refused to accept the current task, he would need to sign at the end of this agreement. After walking out of this room, he would not be able to mention anything about being summoned tonight, otherwise he would be subject to unlimited prosecution by the executive department and the school board.
After reading the two documents, Lin Nian looked up at Chu Zihang and Caesar on the main seat beside him. The documents were neatly placed in front of them, and they seemed to have not been moved, as if they were waiting for something. It was unknown whether they had waited for what they wanted.
However, this had little to do with Lin Nian. He picked up the confidentiality agreement, pinched the short side with his fingers and tore it into two halves with a little force. The sound of paper tearing echoed in the conference room.
When Lin Nian made this move, Caesar tilted his head slightly, held the ballpoint pen in his hand straight, signed his elegant cursive signature at the end of the body repatriation letter, and curled up his left hand that was flat on the confidentiality agreement and crumpled it into a ball; after Chu Zihang picked up the ballpoint pen and signed, he folded the confidentiality agreement next to him neatly in half with the content facing inward, stroked the crease with a little force with his fingernails, and put it aside and ignored it.
The noise of papers in the conference room finally woke Lu Mingfei up. He suddenly woke up from his chair, opened his dizzy eyes, squinted, sucked the saliva that almost flowed out, raised his hand to wipe the corner of his mouth, glanced at the actions of other people at the conference table, and then picked up the ballpoint pen to sign on the A4 paper.
Then he found that the other three people suddenly stopped their actions and looked at him in unison. He was stunned for a moment and lowered his head to focus, only to find that he had signed the confidentiality agreement and was about to tear up the body repatriation letter.
"Fuck"
Lu Mingfei muttered a rather uncivilized word, rubbed his eyes, scribbled a few black lines on his name on the confidentiality agreement, tore it off, and signed his name on the body repatriation letter again.
All the names were signed, which meant that the four people in the conference room agreed to this troublesome task that they had tonight, so the next step was to say something serious.
"You are the only one among the four of us who was invited to the ice cellar to attend the meeting. Don't you find it strange?" Caesar was the first to speak. He looked at Lin Nian who was sitting on the side.
"If this all seems strange, then even stranger things may be yet to come." Lin Nian said, "Believe me, no one will want to go to a meeting with those lunatics in Watt Alheim. If that's what you want, I can suggest to the principal that you attend next time."
"Principal? Didn't the principal attend a cocktail party in Paris to pick up beautiful women? Why are you having a meeting in an ice cellar?" Lu Mingfei asked, rubbing his eyes that hadn't been squinted enough to wake him up. He felt a little nauseous - sometimes even after squinting for a while, he wouldn't let go. It makes you more comfortable, which makes you feel more uncomfortable because you crave sleep.
"This is the external excuse. This mission is of great importance, so it should need some excuses to cover up. If possible, it should be because they don't want anyone other than the participants in the operation to catch any wind of this matter. Lin Nian said calmly.
"Is the matter serious?" Chu Zihang asked. He was woken up by Norma's call while he was sleeping. In less than ten minutes, he packed up and rushed to the conference room of the executive department, worried that the situation might He was too urgent and didn't have time to go back to the Lion Heart Club to re-prepare. He even brought Murasame with him. The blue-black scabbard was leaning against the right side of his seat, which was exactly where it was convenient to draw the sword.
"It can be light or serious. Although the situation has been finalized, the situation is still unclear, so no one dares to make a conclusion." Lin Nian gave a rather vague answer.
"Can we tell you the specific situation now?" Chu Zihang asked.
".So what happened? It was a confidentiality agreement, and it was an emergency gathering. The text message Norma sent was also mysterious. Japan is in an emergency. What is the emergency? There is a dragon king who has been resurrected in Japan. "?" Lu Mingfei asked as he found a comfortable position in the chair.
"Can the Dragon King, the King of Ocean and Water, be resurrected in Japan? Japan is surrounded by the sea, which seems to be very suitable for the resurrection of that king." Caesar touched his chin and said in thought.
"It's not certain." Lin Nian said, "Just like what I just said, nothing is certain and no conclusion can be made."
"So, what do we know now?" Chu Zihang looked at Lin Nian and said, "You attended the meeting in Watt Alheim. Should you know some inside information, or are you unable to disclose it to us for some reason?"
Lin Nian thought for a moment and then looked up at the other three people and said, "To make a long story short, the Japanese branch is at risk of collapse due to the impact of local hostile forces. At the same time, a hatching dragon embryo was found in the trench near the sea of Japan. The four of us will As an advance team, we re-establish the information exchange between the Japanese branch and the headquarters, and at the same time seek the help of the Japanese branch to conduct a dive operation to destroy the incubating dragon embryo through an alchemical bomb."
Lu Mingfei was a little dazed, and his legs were put down when he was sitting on the chair ready to step on. Both Chu Zihang and Caesar were lost in thought, seeming to be digesting this huge amount of information.
"In short, time is tight and the task is heavy. More detailed mission information will be sent by Norma to the team leader of the headquarters team sent to Japan this time. The team leader will convey it to the team members on the plane during the long-distance flight, and Arrange your plans and work." Lin Nian glanced at the three of them, and finally his eyes fell on Caesar, nodding slightly, "You may be a little busy in the next period of time, Caesar."
Chu Zihang and Lu Mingfei both raised their heads at the same time, glanced at Lin Nian, and then turned to look at Caesar.
Caesar looked at Lin Nian and narrowed his eyes slightly and asked, "Is this what the principal means?"
"I'm not sure. I heard that it was a plan decided upon by the executive department, the school board of directors, and the principal after discussions. This time, a four-person team composed of Caesar Gattuso, Chu Zihang, Lu Mingfei, and Lin Nian, Caesar Gattuso will serve as the team leader and lead the three team members to carry out this task in Japan," Lin Nian said.
"Will Caesar be the team leader? You have been to Japan many times and have deeper contact with the Japanese branch. Shouldn't you be more qualified to be the team leader?" Chu Zihang said bluntly and calmly.
"Is this a criticism that I am not qualified to take the lead in this mission?" Caesar said calmly, looking at Chu Zihang with a slight tit-for-tat look in his eyes.
"You can think so, this is your freedom. In my opinion, Lin Nian becoming the leader of this team is a better choice." Chu Zihang looked at Caesar and said his words calmly. Point of view, "His resume in the execution department and his experience in the Japanese branch are richer than yours. If anyone is better able to lead this team to complete the mission in Japan, then I would recommend Lin Nian instead of you."