Chapter 399 Negotiation

At the beginning, Lu Ming, who was a little frustrated, did not see this young man. It wasn't until the young man was less than ten meters away from him and still walking straight towards him that the vigilance brought about by long-term training made Lu Ming subconsciously raise his head and look at him.

Next to him, Zhang Dingshan and He Wei were also watching him.

Suddenly being watched by three people at the same time, the thin young man was slightly nervous and hesitant. But he still walked up to the three of them.

During this process, the three of them had examined him countless times and had already confirmed that this young man was not a threat.

He stood in front of the three of them. Facing their inquiring eyes, he stuttered and said: "You... hello, um, it's like this. There is a bouquet of flowers here for you."

Lu Ming and He Wei looked at Zhang Dingshan. A smile appeared on Zhang Dingshan's face and his voice was calm: "Oh? Why give it to us?"

The young man scratched his head: "When I went out, I saw a bouquet of flowers with a hundred yuan in it and a mobile phone inside the flowers. The voice on the mobile phone said, let me give you the flowers. , that hundred yuan is mine."

Zhang Dingshan's gaze suddenly became sharp. He looked at the bouquet of flowers, and sure enough he saw the corner of a metal box in the middle.

It looked a bit like a walkie-talkie, not a cell phone.

"Okay, please put it here, thank you."

The thin man directly placed the bouquet of flowers on the edge of the flower bed, took away the 100 yuan in the bouquet, and left with some doubts.

Zhang Dingshan looked at a young man wearing casual clothes who seemed to be passing by by chance, and gestured directly to him. The next moment, the man who didn't look here at all nodded his head imperceptibly, then pretended to change direction unintentionally and followed the thin man before.

Although there is a high probability that this thin man has nothing to do with our affairs, we still need to check it out.

At this time, He Wei and Lu Ming also stood up and observed the bouquet carefully.

Among the flowers, the metal box that looked like a walkie-talkie suddenly made a sound.

"This bouquet of flowers is not dangerous. Don't worry, if I wanted to kill you, I would have done it long ago and wouldn't wait until now."

Zhang Dingshan frowned slightly and looked at He Wei. He Wei nodded and left immediately without saying a word.

Lu Ming knew that she was the organizing force, so he tried to find the person behind the walkie-talkie by starting from the source of the signal, the source of the items, etc., supplemented by investigating the surrounding areas.

Zhang Dingshan said calmly: "Looking at it this way, is this a negotiation?"

"Yes, negotiation."

The voice on the intercom was stiff and rigid, as if it were synthesized by a machine. Lu Ming had heard this kind of voice on some software such as machine translation and machine reading.

There should be nothing that can be analyzed from the sound. Lu Ming immediately made a judgment in his mind.

"Okay, what do you want to talk about?"

The stiff voice said slowly: "Let's talk about the price we have to pay before you can stop the investigation of our organization. And what price you will pay if you refuse to stop the investigation."

A smile appeared on Zhang Dingshan's face: "I'm very curious, so, tell me?"

Lu Ming noticed that Zhang Dingshan was not in a hurry, and was even suspected of deliberately delaying time. He knew in his heart that Zhang Dingshan was trying to buy time for He Wei.

"If you, and the official will behind you, can stop the investigation of our organization, I can make the decision and give each of your three investigators 10 million human coins. If there are still people behind you who need to be dealt with, A little more money is not non-negotiable.”

Zhang Dingshan's expression remained calm: "Money is not attractive to us."

The rigid voice calmed down for a moment: "I'm sorry, the only price we can pay is money. If ten million is not enough, how about one hundred million? Moreover, we guarantee that you can be safe and without any hindrance to investigate from any aspect. Everything was obtained in a reasonable way. There are no hidden dangers.”

Lu Ming believed this. This can be seen from the way Han Rui gets paid.

"It's directly increased by ten times. It seems that you have a lot of budget. So, who are you?"

"It doesn't matter who we are. Except for taking the lives of some people who are destined to die, we will not affect any innocent people, anything in the world, or anyone. You can just pretend that we don't exist. Facts Even though our organization has existed for so many years, it has never affected your world in any other way."

"Destined to die?"

"Yes. Their fate has been sealed. We are just the enforcers."

Zhang Dingshan sighed: "But if you don't implement it, they can obviously live longer."

"This is fate, and fate cannot be violated."

"So what if I violate it?"

"We will take action."

Zhang Dingshan changed the subject: "Have you been around for a long time?"

"Yes. It has been a long time since I followed the instructions of fate and carried out the arrangements of fate."

Lu Ming frowned slightly.

Ten years can be considered a long time, one thousand years, two thousand years, or even the birth of human civilization can be considered a long time. This sentence basically reveals no useful information.

"What will you do if we stop investigating?"

"Continuing to hide in the dark, follow the instructions of fate, and implement the arrangements of fate will not have any impact on anything else. You can rest assured of this."

Zhang Dingshan smiled lightly and said: "Actually, you don't need to negotiate with us. Our only source of intelligence at the moment is Hu Shan. Without Hu Shan, we don't even know who was killed by you. If you don't want to continue to be investigated by us, , just kill Hu Shan directly."

The rigid voice was silent again for a moment, and then said: "We will deal with Hu Shan. And, please rest assured that things like Hu Shan will not happen again in the future. This is just an accident."

"How to deal with it?"

"Hu Shan is very special. We are still not sure how to deal with it. But in short, it will not cause any trouble for you."

Zhang Dingshan wanted to find some more topics and try to delay the time, but the stiff voice continued: "I don't mind chatting with you again. If you want to take advantage of this time to find out where we are, please also Whatever. But I don’t think you can find out anything. Since we dare to show up to negotiate with you in this way, you should also know what this means. Now, can you tell me your answer? "

Zhang Dingshan said: "If we choose not to end the investigation, what price will we pay?"

"die."

A word full of murderous intent came out from the walkie-talkie without any concealment.

It was clearly broad daylight at this moment, the sky was cloudless, and a dazzling sun hung in the sky. With the appearance of this word, Lu Ming felt a chill out of thin air.

Zhang Dingshan looked calm, as if he didn't care at all: "It's really a terrible consequence."

"Not only will you die, but your relatives, your parents, children, brothers, sisters, and friends will also die."

Lu Ming's eyes instantly turned red, and a violent anger instantly spread throughout his body. At this moment, if he could see the enemy with his own eyes, he would immediately pounce on him and tear the enemy alive with his teeth and fists.

This was the first time since he joined Operation Team 2 that he had faced such an unabashed death threat, and it also involved his family.

Zhang Dingshan's expression remained unchanged: "I understand. This matter is too big and involves too much, and it can't be stopped just by stopping. There are people behind us who need to communicate and settle things. I can't give you an answer right now. Please give us some time."

"I am waiting."

As these three words were spoken, the intercom was completely silent.

Lu Ming clenched his fists tightly, staring at it with red eyes. Zhang Dingshan sighed slightly, picked up the bouquet of flowers, and said to Lu Ming: "Let's go."

Lu Ming said nothing and followed Zhang Dingshan back to the base. And He Wei had already returned early before the two of them.

"Nothing gained."

She shook her head: "The bouquet of flowers, the walkie-talkie, that person, and the surrounding area have all been checked."

"As expected."

Zhang Dingshan nodded: "There is something new now. Our opponent negotiated with us and made a death threat."

Lu Qingliang was also notified of this meeting. After Zhang Dingshan narrated the entire process of the negotiation in a calm and unwavering tone, the conference room fell into deathly silence.

After a long time, He Wei suddenly punched the table and stood up suddenly, like a raging lion.

"What a rebellion! He actually threatened us! Not only did he threaten us, but he dared to include our family members as well!"

Lu Ming's eyes were red and he was silent. Lu Qingliang's expression was full of complexity, including anger and fear.

Zhang Dingshan said lightly: "This organization probably doesn't know much about us. In addition to knowing that we represent the will of the human world, they may not even know our identity, let alone our character and ideals. Otherwise, they There should be no such ridiculous conditions as 10 million or 100 million human coins.”

Under such conditions, any member of the action team would still reject it in the end, but he might still be tempted. Only the four members of the second action team were not attracted by this condition at all.

If you can't do this, you won't be able to become a member of Action Team Two.

Regarding this judgment, Lu Ming nodded silently.

This once again proves that, apart from certain super technologies, the secret organization does not possess any other power that surpasses the human world. At least they don't know their own internal information.

Zhang Dingshan said calmly: "I did not directly reject their request for negotiation. I think this should buy us a period of time. During this period of time, they should not attack us, our families and relatives."

He Wei couldn't help but said: "Captain, what do you think is the probability that they will attack us and our relatives?"

Lu Ming, who had been silent, did not wait for Zhang Dingshan to speak, and said: "That secret organization will not take action easily. It is still the same judgment that this will escalate the situation. But at this moment, we cannot rule out that our actions have seriously threatened this organization. Survival leads to the possibility of them dying."

At this moment, he had regained his composure slightly.

"And there is actually no point in judging the probability. No matter what, we and our families are threatened. This is the fundamental thing."

Even if there is only a 1% probability, the lives of your family and yourself are still threatened.

Zhang Dingshan nodded and agreed with Lu Ming's judgment: "So, what is your opinion?"

When it comes to the life safety of yourself and your loved ones, no one can make decisions for others.

He Wei shook her head: "I have no father or mother. I grew up in an orphanage. I don't worry about them attacking my relatives. My own life... Although I don't want to die, I have done it since I joined the second team. Be prepared to lose your life."

Lu Qingliang gritted his teeth and was about to speak when Zhang Dingshan stopped him: "With the level of information acquisition of that organization, they should not know your existence. You don't need to express your stance."

Lu Qingliang shut up and remained silent.

Lu Ming thought for a while and slowly stood up.

"Save my own life, save the lives of my family and friends, find out about this organization, and solve this incident. These three things... I want them all."

A flash of appreciation flashed in Zhang Dingshan's eyes: "Very good."

Zhang Dingshan did not express his position from beginning to end, and no one asked him what his attitude was. Because everyone knew in their hearts that Zhang Dingshan could not retreat.

No matter how great the threat is, he will not hesitate at all.

Lu Ming continued: "The period of time you have bought, Captain, is our only chance. We can only seize the trap of this secret organization during this period of paralysis, before they have time to attack us and our loved ones. Only one fatal blow can completely guarantee the safety of us and our families.

Also, judging from the change in their attitude from this organization's previous intimidation of us and subsequent negotiations with us after the intimidation failed, I believe that our 'troublesome' behavior at the moment has greatly affected or threatened them. There is even a possibility: they predict that if we continue to cause trouble, we will have clues that threaten them, so they are so impatient. "

Zhang Dingshan nodded slightly: "This possibility does exist."

He Wei murmured: "New clues? But we have conducted detailed investigations on every victim, and we can't find any doubts..."

Lu Ming said decisively: "Wait. We can only wait. During this period of time, we have to continue to cause trouble, and we can even create the illusion of some kind of passiveness and sabotage, making the secret organization think that the three of us have compromised and are only limited to the requirements of our superiors. Don’t continue the investigation. Then… wait for new clues to appear!”