Chapter 244 Chapter 241 The Runaway Detective

With the unremitting efforts of Ge Gongdao and the additional financial support of Zhuang Xuteng, the new base of operations was finally completed. The two bought a two-story self-service laundry shop in the hub area. After a simple renovation, it has relatively complete functions.

Ge Gongdao has a wide range of connections. He found this place after hearing that a car repair shop wanted to sell because of poor management. It must be said that they were lucky. The owner of the car repair shop not only owned the entire building, but also the owner of the land. Ge Gongdao and Zhuang Xuteng bought both the shop and the land with a deposit plus installments, turning this place into their own industry.

They can make this decision because the environment here is really good.

The building has two floors above ground and one underground. The construction area of ​​each floor above ground is about 500 square meters. The underground garage has a usable area of ​​nearly 300 square meters, excluding the slope of the entrance and exit, and the usable space is very large. Originally, the boss used the first floor as a vehicle repair and maintenance area, built a car wash area underground, and the second floor was a customer rest area, product sales area and office area. Business here was good originally, but with the relocation of the coal and water station next door and the old and dilapidated roads around, many car owners no longer liked to come here. In addition, local gang activities became more and more rampant. The boss persisted for a while, but couldn't stand the bleeding all day, so he decided to take action.

Unlike the original store owner, Zhuang Xuteng and Ge Gongdao dared to take action against the gangs. They were just worried about not having a suitable opponent to practice martial arts, and they were not afraid. If it was a big gang, such as the Blood Bat, Canghuo, Cemetery and Liying, they would have to think more about it. At present, a medium-sized Yellow Turban Group controls the surrounding blocks. There are no particularly powerful characters. Zhuang Xuteng and Ge Gongdao can choose not to cause trouble, but they are definitely not afraid of trouble.

If it was half a year ago, Zhuang Xuteng would suggest that Ge Gongdao keep the setting of the repair shop and ask Kelly and Buck to come and take care of it. Now things have changed. He believes that the repair shop needs a lot of employees, and it is inconvenient for people to come and go. It is better to change it into a popular unmanned self-service store.

Install a coin-operated washing machine on the first floor, which can just use the cheap treated water from the original car wash. Just reconnect the pipes and move the water meter. At the same time, install a dryer and ironing machine, and sell laundry detergent and other items by the portion. The charge does not need to be very expensive, as long as it can cover the cost.

On the second floor, set up a smoking room and a game room, install some slot machines, and put the coin exchange machine here. Only two or three people are needed for the ground facilities, which can help Lucy solve the placement problem of some disabled employees. Zhuang Xuteng and Ge Gongdao are the best thugs and security guards, but they have to hire another person on the surface.

Zhuang Xuteng thought of Doyle, and Ge Gongdao also thought it was a good idea. They asked Lucy to help find Doyle, and found that he now has a new job, working as a security guard in Huiguang Street, Xincheng District...

Hearing this news, Ge Gongdao thought Doyle was down and out, and hurriedly took Zhuang Xuteng to find him. When they met Doyle, he was very enthusiastic. Judging from his clothes and mental outlook, although he was not rich and radiant, he was definitely not down and out. The two people were very puzzled. They thought Doyle would definitely fight the drug dealers to death. How could he look like a retired old man with nothing to do?

"On the surface, it is true." Doyle punched the air a few times, and the sound of breaking the air proved that he had not stopped exercising. "I don't want to go back to Hongxiu Town. I have to find a place to live..."

Although I don't understand what his condition is, as long as Doyle is in good health and mentally, the requirements of the two people will be met. Ge Gongdao invited him directly: "Surface work... We have a good surface work and would like to invite you to come."

"I'll ask and give you an answer tomorrow morning."

"I haven't told you how much money it is!"

"Do I care?" Doyle answered with a rhetorical question, then said that he would go to the boss and sent the two people away.

The next morning, Doyle called to confirm that he had taken the new job, asked the address - still didn't ask the salary - and came to the self-service laundry with a bag of luggage. It was only at this time that he told the two the truth: he was previously employed by Morgana, and the so-called street security was actually the bodyguard of Morgana’s family.

"Uh... after the highway parking lot, have you been working for Morgana?"

Doyle threw his luggage into the laundry room first, then said: "I didn't work with her right away. She found me and said that Nike recommended me to her, and she needed an informant who was willing to fight drug dealers. I didn't want to cooperate with her at first because she was from the PCPD, but she gave me some information, which did help me find some enemies. I saw that she was not playing around, and I thought that such a person should live well, so I wanted to protect her, so I got a security job."

"Uh, did we disrupt your plan?"

"What plan? I don't have a plan. I will take action when I have the opportunity, and wait for opportunities at other times." Doyle looked at Nike and said: "I talked to Morgana, and she agreed to let me come here, and she was dissatisfied with your opening without notifying her. I have brought the message, how to solve it, Nike, you figure it out yourself."

"Yes, Nike, you figure it out yourself!" Ge Gongdao pulled Doyle into the store and introduced him to the situation inside, especially the employee dormitory on the second floor.

"I wanted to tell her after I had arranged everything!" Zhuang Xuteng shouted at the two men's backs, but the two strong men ignored him. Zhuang Xuteng sighed and said to himself, "I really don't want to hide it..."

Doyle came to live in the store, and all the ground affairs were left to him. Zhuang Xuteng and Ge Gongdao were very relieved. They did not pay Doyle a salary, but counted one-third of the profits from the ground as his. In fact, the three men together did not know how to open a store to make money, and had no idea how much they would earn or lose. However, none of the three people paid much attention to these details. As long as the general direction was determined, the store could be opened.

They also thought that if they really lost money, they would rob gangs to supplement their family income.

The two floors on the ground were used as surface industries, and the original underground car wash could be "used for other purposes". They rebuilt the entrance and exit to make it steeper so as to get a larger underground area. In addition to parking the vehicles of two people, the rest of the area was all fenced off, which was their base of operations.

——The first phase of the project.

An operation base with only a front door exit is equivalent to a person missing a leg. The reason why the car wash dared to be built underground is mainly because deeper underground is the comprehensive sewer of Peicheng, with complete pressure steam pipes, sewage pipes, tap water pipes, power pipes and communication line pipes. The original boss spent some money to connect the basement's drainage to the sewage pipe, and also left a construction channel for this renovation. Now that this channel is used again, they can directly enter the underground pipe network of Peicheng.

This place is connected in all directions and connects most areas of the city. Indeed, the environment inside is very poor and it is very difficult to move. In fact, they can't go far. The two people explored in all directions. Ge Gongdao's body can only travel within four blocks nearby, and Zhuang Xuteng can only walk two more blocks before they will be blocked by the narrow passage filled with pipes.

In essence, this is still an underground space closed to people, which is exactly what the two people want. The underground passage can be used as an emergency entrance and exit. As long as they find another house within four blocks, it can become the "second base of operations". The two places are one surface and one inside. One is used for daily use and attracts firepower, and the other is used to store their valuables and confidential things, and also as a shelter.

It's just that they haven't chosen the "base of operations · inside" yet.

In the eyes of ordinary people, an old man (Doyle) who looks fierce and fierce took over the repair shop and turned it into a self-service laundry room and entertainment room, which has nothing to do with mercenaries. On the gang side, Zhuang Xuteng went to be polite first and took the initiative to pay the protection fee, and Doyle took care of the rest. Doyle has rich experience in dealing with gangs. If it weren't for the drug dealers' tricks and pulling the purple-skinned people, he would have almost successfully integrated the local forces in Hongxiu City and was about to destroy the spirit leaf plantation.

Leave the surface work to Doyle, Zhuang Xuteng and Ge Gongdao just want to feel at ease. Next, the two will focus their main energy on the practice of supercomputing·Five Flashes, and strive to take their strength to a new level as soon as possible.

The deer hunter training device is still placed in the rented warehouse in the dock area, and that place is still their base of operations. In addition to the two of them and Doyle, only Lucy and Morgana know about the laundry base, but in the future "base of operations·li", only two people will know about it.

I've gone off topic again... Let's get back to the topic of "Five Flashes". When Zhuang Xuteng used the super cache martial arts and the ghost servant spell, his battlefield perception ability was stronger, which increased his control range. The essence of super calculation martial arts is to increase reaction speed, so as to gain time to counter the moves. Zhuang Xuteng expanded the perception range - this expansion not only includes distance, but also the types of perceptible information - which in disguise increased the time he can use to react. Therefore, when Zhuang Xuteng used all his strength to fight, he had the effect of high half flash to flash.

Zhuang Xuteng was a very cunning person. He did not maintain this part of the effect - that would seem too fake - but used it suddenly. Especially before the skeleton phantom was ready to attack, Zhuang Xuteng could find the signs earlier than Ge Gongdao, so he chose this time to make a move, and frightened Ge Gongdao together with the skeleton, creating huge pressure on him.

Clay people will also have tempers if they are bullied too much, let alone Ge Gongdao. After repeated shocks, Ge Gongdao reached the fifth flash first, reversed the form of training, and began to suppress Zhuang Xuteng. The most notable feature of the Five Flashes is that it is "scare people", or more directly, it is a fake move. After reaching the Five Flashes, due to the fast enough reaction speed, it is possible to selectively use small movements to trigger the opponent's conditioned reflexes according to the opponent's body posture, perception range and movement habits, thereby guiding the enemy's movements.

For example, there is a visual blind spot between the eyes of a person, and the ability of a person to observe the edge of the visual field is far less than that of the front. If an emergency is created in these areas at this time, it will have a more "scare effect". Most people will directly use conditioned reflexes when facing emergencies, and the so-called "subconscious movements" are of this kind. If you already know the enemy's subconscious movements, and then induce the enemy to use subconscious movements, this can be regarded as anticipating the enemy's opportunities and even controlling the enemy.

Zhuang Xuteng used fake Five Flashes combined with the skeleton phantom to scare people, and now he began to be scared by Ge Gongdao. In essence, he is fighting against his own conditioned reflexes, striving to turn "being used" into "autonomous control". All their supercomputing martial arts before were "conditioned reflexes" to train the nervous system. Starting from the Five Flashes, it cannot be completely handed over to the conditioned reflexes, but it must be put under control instead, which is quite "anti-human".

Fortunately, Master Famine Stranger has found a complete set of scientific training methods. He not only found a way to overturn the conditioned reflex, but also found a better working model for it. Five flashes are the foundation, and six flashes are consolidation. The conditioned reflex must be completely controlled by the subjective consciousness. When the brain, spinal nerves, and superficial nerves of the skin become a whole, the second threshold begins to be broken: seven flashes.

Qishan asked them to establish another set of conditioned reflexes. It's not a conditioned reflex against the enemy's tricks, but against the enemy - to put it in a more understandable way: from seeing through the tricks to seeing through the person.

The master said that it requires a lot of combat experience to do it, which must include many life and death tests. Because of this, the one who can reach the seventh flash first is the senior brother.

Ge Gongdao thought that Zhuang Xuteng might arrive first, but Zhuang Xuteng had the opposite idea. The older ones think that the younger ones are very smart and always make breakthroughs first; the younger ones know that the older ones are more stable and their own are just little cleverness.

"Brother Dao, you are still awesome." After the day's training, Zhuang Xuteng drank legion juice to restore his physical strength and spirit. "You have been able to stabilize the five-flash state. I am still in and out of control."

"But you should reach Wushan first. Whoever arrives first according to the master's request will be the senior brother." Ge Gongdao wiped his face with a hot towel, and then wrapped an ice pack around his neck. This is his folk remedy. There's no reason for it, but it's just comfortable. "Master said that seven flashes have an overwhelming advantage over six flashes and below. As long as you can raise it for a moment, seven flashes have already won. So as long as you take the first step, you will win."

"Maybe it's the truth, or maybe it's just Master's encouragement and encouragement to us. He also said that four flashes are stable and three flashes are stable. Do you realize it?"

"In melee combat, there is no obvious advantage between four-dodge and three-dodge, but you didn't consider one situation: using long weapons or guns. The two of us are more likely to punch to the flesh, so now we start to change weapons."

"Shall we start now? Wait, the phone is ringing." Zhuang Xuteng quickly got up and walked over to pick up the phone.

"Naike, we have a mission." Lucy's voice was very clear and easy to recognize. "You and Ge Gongdao come here as soon as possible. You have an interesting mission."

Before Zhuang Xuteng could ask specifically, the call hung up, leaving him confused. "Brother Dao, Sister Lucy arranged a job. She described the task as 'fun'."

"Fun? What kind of weird adjective is this? Aren't they all easy, difficult, dangerous, etc.? The best missions are very profitable. What does fun mean..."

"Sister Lucy has always been very professional in handling entrusted tasks, but this time it's too strange." Zhuang Xuteng scratched his head and said: "No matter what, let's go there quickly. Bring more white mice and drink more legion juice. Let's use hibernation on the way. Martial arts eliminate fatigue.”

Lucy wears a mask all day long, so everyone can never see her expression; the mask has a sound filter, which always sounds like an electronic sound, and her tone cannot be heard. But after spending time together, you can read her movements and guess her emotions from the way she chooses words and sentences and the pauses in her pronunciation. Today, Lucy's mood was just two words: happy.

She was so happy that she started to talk: "It's a long story, but I have to talk about it, and everything has to start with..."

"If we need to start from when you were a child, then just skip it and just tell us what you are doing." Ge Gongdao quickly shook his head and said, "The way you look now makes my skin crawl."

"As for that!" Lucy raised her tone and said, "It doesn't take long...it all starts when I ask you to find dirty information about Jamil Cannings."

Zhuang Xuteng was stunned and asked: "The PCPD chief's deputy, senior inspector and third-level detective Jamil Cannings? The one who keeps his lover outside behind his wife's back?"

"It's not the third-level detective but the chief detective - but this is not accurate. It should be the former senior inspector and the former chief detective in the future." Lucy rubbed her hands and said: "The content of the commission this time is: escort He left Peicheng safely."

Ge Gongdao opened his mouth wide: "Ah???" Ge Gongdao heard the implication and said: "Sister Lucy, you have told us the details of the commission. Is this mission a must?"

"No, no no." Lucy quickly waved her hands and said, "Of course you can refuse. The reason why I directly revealed the name of the escort is mainly because you are related to this matter, especially you, Nike. Your idea This resulted in Jamil Cannings having to flee.”

Zhuang Xuteng sighed and said, "He really has dirty information about the judge's father-in-law? Did you find out?"

"I don't have time to take care of that much. There were more profitable jobs waiting for us to do. I did a brief investigation and found some clues, and then sold the clues." Lucy flipped her hair and looked very proud: "I heard that an intermediary contacted Cannings' wife, created a good commission, and then actually got it done."

Ge Gongdao was unhappy, waved his hand vigorously, and said: "Why don't you ask us for such a task?"

"I have made an assessment. If you want to find the things hidden by the Chief Inspector, you will need a lot of disguise and intelligence gathering. You are not good at these things. The place where the things are hidden will probably require undetected actions, and you will inevitably have to sneak in and pry. You don't know how to lock or crack shadow slave equipment, and this task will definitely take up a lot of manpower. At that time, the risk of the task was not good compared with the benefits. It was better to help the PCPD fight crime, even if I didn't give it. Other middlemen, this task cannot be yours.”

Gongdao slammed his fists on his knees and said in annoyance: "If only Otter was here..."

"Otter can indeed make up for your lack of ability, but he is not my hired soldier, and I will not take him into account when considering the mission." Lucy said: "You two are a good partner and have your own characteristics. If you two want to be all-round, it would be too wishful and delusional. Don't get me wrong, I didn't hint at you to add other people. It's not easy to have a partner. Adding more people just for the sake of comprehensive skills often hides other risks."

"I guess no one understands this lesson better than me." Gongdao clenched his fists and said.

He must have thought of the previous betrayal. Zhuang Xuteng learned privately that the team that Gongdao originally formed was very comprehensive, with all kinds of talents, and could take on almost any mission. Because of this characteristic, although they did not have strong combat effectiveness, they always had work, and could cut into the mission from multiple angles, thereby reducing the difficulty of the mission. They were able to not install implants and continue to save money, mainly because of this aspect.

But it is difficult to choose character after choosing skills. Ge Gongdao chose skills first and ignored character, so he got backstabbed.

"Let's not talk about the tasks completed by others, let's talk about the chief inspector who is about to escape. Who wants to get him? His father-in-law, a judge?"

"Yes, but not only that." Lucy said: "The outline of the task is to escort a person to leave Peicheng safely. The total distance is about 130 kilometers. It is considered completed when you send him there, and each of you will get 450,000 euros."

"How much? 450,000?" Ge Gongdao laughed and said, "The two of us add up to 900,000. Including your share, the client paid a total of 1.8 million?"

"You shouldn't ask this question, but this time I can satisfy your curiosity-because this task is too fun . "Lucy spread her hands and said, "I will get the same amount of money as you guys, and there is another 200,000 for the other four cover teams. They will act at the same time to confuse the enemy's sight. They are not at much risk, and the main thing is to buy you time to leave the city."

"I think this mission is good. Escorting is better than assassination. Brother Dao, what do you think?"

"Of course I have to do it. Lucy can say that the mission is fun, so I must have fun. 450,000 is not rare, but Lucy is too rare to have fun, it's rare in a hundred years!"

"Brother Dao, don't tell a cold joke, what do you mean by I am fun?" Lucy snorted, but her body language revealed that she was not angry. Lucy pulled out a file bag from the drawer, threw it to Zhuang Xuteng, and said, "The contents are all in it, you can see it."

The content of the document is very simple: time, meeting place, safety requirements, target location and journey time limit, and then attach a photo of the protected person and simple identity information. This document can be remembered after just a glance. The key to the whole mission is not what is written on the document, but what "gossip" news Lucy has found out. So Zhuang Xuteng looked at Lucy with eager eyes and listened to her next words.

"He offended a group of judges, but his trump card was broken and he could no longer threaten them, so a group of people were ready to deal with him. He couldn't get along in the system, and he was afraid of being sent to prison. With his status, even if he was not sentenced to serve a sentence, but was just imprisoned awaiting trial, he would be killed by the people inside."

Ge Gongdao whistled and said repeatedly: "Indeed, indeed."

"His lover, the female manager of the business development department of Today Group, was going to send him to asylum, but she had no experience in this area. I don't know from what channel - probably a club or a tea party - she heard about our help to the company's people to recover lost items."

"XAST1? That box?" Zhuang Xuteng asked.

"Yes, that's the incident. So this person found me." Lucy laughed twice and said, "Don't you think it's funny? He went around and found the mastermind behind the whole thing, and asked us to save his life."

"So should we save him or kill him?" Zhuang Xuteng asked.

PS: Sorry, sorry, it's too late.