Chapter 294 Chapter 291 Luxurious Lineup

"Why do you let those two guys follow you but don't let me out? I think it's very unfair! Naike, continue to massage my head... Why does it feel so comfortable?"

Meteor, like other migrant workers, complained about the sudden increase in workload. But unlike other migrant workers, she doesn't have a few friends to complain to, maybe even Zhuang Xuteng alone, which makes her seem even more lonely.

Originally, she only had to guard the secrets and avoid being discovered by the casino group with clues about the train theft. Now she suddenly has a big job: luring the viper into a trap. This operation is very complex, requiring information from the Blood Bat Gang and the casino group to be processed at the same time, as well as taking into account Viper's character and condition.

"Naike, you know, Lucy also asked me to coordinate...I am also responsible for assigning intelligence officers to create safe and usable information channels for the two sisters upstairs. I want to protect my own safety, and also It’s never easy to do things that have to be done and guarded against based on their strength and character." Meteor continued to complain and said: "This has already given me a lot of headaches, but Lucy is not grateful at all. Without saying anything, he asked me to arrange another information channel for another intelligence officer... My head felt like it was being split open, I had to pay attention to so many things at once. "

Zhuang Xuteng was stunned for a moment, but he continued to hold his hands, and said in a gentle voice, half consoling and half encouraging: "Being assigned so many tasks shows that our meteors are powerful and have that kind of strength! But in this way, we can be regarded as four intelligence officers Let’s move together?”

"The two people upstairs add up to one intelligence officer. This cannot be counted as four."

"Why not count four?" Zhuang Xuteng kneaded Meteor's scalp with his hands, constantly sucking away the side effects of the Shadow Slave in the form of resentment. At the same time, he said with a smile: "If you are asked to arrange the work of four people, then it is more important than It’s better to arrange three people, and you need to pay more. After all, the workload is bigger! If Lucy doesn’t pay you more, I’ll get it for you!”

Zhuang Xuteng was just talking, he would not ask Lucy for the money. Considering that this operation is to avenge Ge Gongdao, he will pay for it himself, and it won't be too much anyway. At the same time, Meteor was very grateful for Nike's concern, but she would not mention it to Lucy. She was a "child laborer" with no wages at all, or her wages were all the inheritance left to her by her mother in the future, so she had never experienced the feeling of working too much and getting more money. Having said that, Meteor usually doesn't have to worry about spending money, Lucy will always pay everything.

What Meteor was concerned about at the moment was not the workload and salary at all, but Naike's attitude towards the two newcomers. Since they are both intelligence officers, Nightingale and Rockbird put a lot of psychological pressure on Meteor. This is different from Morgana - Meteor knows that Morgana's family has an unusual background, and she is a PCPD, and she is not the same person as the mercenaries at all. She firmly believed that Morgana and Naike could only be familiar with each other, and they would definitely not be together in the end. But the same cannot be said for the two sisters.

"Nike, you have worked with the two people above. What do you think their personalities are? Do they have any weaknesses?" Meteor asked insinuatingly.

"Uh... I can't tell. I feel that their professional abilities are pretty good - I don't know exactly what the intelligence officers are going to do and what kind of symptomatic measures they use to measure their level. I can only say that they have completed the entrusted work very well. In terms of character... I think they are a little nervous, which is related to their history of being bullied by Stair. I think we should give them a certain amount of space to perform, and then clearly explain what is taboo and let them know their jobs clearly. boundary, they should be able to perform well.”

"Do you think they are easy to get along with?"

"There should be no problem. Wait, are you going to see them?" Zhuang Xuteng thought there was something wrong with this, so he stopped what he was doing.

"Keep rubbing, keep rubbing." Liuxing felt guilty and reluctantly found an excuse to say: "I can't see them, I can only contact them by sending messages, so it's harder to understand their thoughts and status. This is different from face to face. Same, what do you think?”

"Oh, it turns out that this is a concern, I understand." Zhuang Xuteng regained his smile and said, "Give me some personal advice: You don't have to think about building a good relationship, just focus on completing the task. They have to do it first If you do well, then there will be a need for further contact. If you don’t do well, you will be fired. What are you going to do next?”

"That's right! I just don't have much contact with people, so I'm a little worried. When you say that, I understand." Meteor raised his hand, put it on the back of Zhuang Xuteng's hand, and pulled it downwards. "The back of your head feels uncomfortable, please press this side again..."

The intensity of use of the implant can be measured by the amount of resentment. Meteor has a room full of maintenance equipment, and she spends a lot of time recuperating every day, but this still cannot prevent the accumulation of side effects. "It's very hard to find you. This kind of hard work is behind the scenes. It is behind every successful action we take. It is never obvious, but it is equally important. Meteor, thank you."

"Hehe, hard work is deserved. As long as the mission is successful and everyone is safe, it is all worth it." Meteor leaned back and let herself lie in Zhuang Xuteng's palm, which made her feel particularly good. "Actually, collecting intelligence is not tiring. What is tiring is confronting other intelligence officers, which is very taxing on the brain. In fact, I have a very immature idea: when two intelligence officers meet, don't waste your brain. Scissors and burden hammer decide Regardless of victory or defeat, the winner will not be tired, and the loser will not suffer. How wonderful.”

"If the world can be like that, it's actually pretty good." Zhuang Xuteng rubbed for a while, and felt that he couldn't absorb the resentment, so he pulled his hand out and said, "Massage can only be like this. You'd better do some physical exercise on a regular basis. Drink more water, sweat more, and empty your mind, which should relieve the headache problem."

"Can you come and exercise with me?"

Zhuang Xuteng scratched his head-am I here to be a bodyguard or a nanny? "For your health, you have to keep exercising yourself. Just for fun, or to find someone to supervise, as long as I have nothing to do upstairs, I can accompany you."

"That's it for now!" Liuxing knew that Zhuang Xuteng would not make promises easily, and he was very careful when he spoke, so he was satisfied with the current results.

As Liuxing began to act, a luxurious intelligence lineup against Viper was formed. At first, Zhuang Xuteng thought there were four intelligence officers, but later he learned that Henry Henderson's intelligence officer also joined in, which formed a lineup of five intelligence officers. It was also through this incident that Zhuang Xuteng learned that Lucy actually had two long-term intelligence officers, and Liuxing was just one of them. However, in the last intermediary war, it seemed that only Meteor was targeted, and there was no information about the other intelligence officer. Either the intelligence officer hid too well, or Lucy increased the number of intelligence officers after that incident.

Zhuang Xuteng could feel that Lucy had expanded rapidly recently. One time was after the intermediary war, when the winner swallowed up most of the loser's inheritance, and the other time was after Steyer was eliminated. Now when going to the music restaurant, Zhuang Xuteng and Ge Gongdao always run into some unfamiliar faces. After asking the restaurant waiter, they learned that they were new mercenaries, and some were unemployed mercenaries who wanted to find work at Lucy. At the same time, some simple tasks, such as running errands, delivering goods, and standing guard, were no longer asked to Zhuang Xuteng. It was not because Zhuang Teng was worth a lot, but because there were enough people.

In fact, Zhuang Xuteng did not value his worth, or he thought that his worth was just a ticket to participate in the big operation, not a reason to be picky about work. He has always been grateful to Lucy for giving him this job, so he is not picky about his work. He has no complaints about running errands, delivering letters, and being a doorman, jobs that "famous" mercenaries basically don't do.

If he doesn't work, he has to stay at home. After completing physical and martial arts training, the rest is to read spell books and practice necromancy. If he performs tasks outside, his physical strength must be preserved for the tasks, so he can only learn book knowledge.

The learning ability of the human brain is limited. Whether at home or outside, the total amount of knowledge that Zhuang Xuteng fills into his brain every day is so much. If he continues to force it, it will squeeze out the previous knowledge. Those simple tasks can usually be completed in one or two days, and it does not delay his physical training and improvement of martial arts. So on the whole, whether he is at home or doing simple tasks, it does not affect his improvement. In this case, why not make more money?

The only things that can really affect training and improvement are complex and big jobs, such as stealing train carriages and setting traps to deal with vipers. The number of intelligence officers mobilized this time is already comparable to that of the treasure carriage, which also reflects its difficulty and importance. Zhuang Xuteng can understand where the importance comes from: Lucy's focus is not whether Viper will die or not, but whether the casino group can be weakened, and it would be best if it can't stay in Peicheng.

Recently, there have been some rumors in the mercenary industry, mainly targeting various middlemen. The mercenaries are not satisfied with the industry situation in the past two or three years. Either the PCPD is causing trouble, or they are beaten by the Gardener Organization, or they fight among themselves to destroy stability and unity, or outsiders interfere with the market. Although it was not foreign middlemen and mercenaries who came to steal the business this time, the casino group also caused many inconveniences. Everyone just wants to make money, form a balance between the inaction of the PCPD and the gangs that act recklessly, and earn a simple hard-earned money.

The mercenaries hope that the middlemen can create a stable business environment, but most of their grievances are still directed at the casino group. That group of people searched everywhere, searched everywhere, and asked everywhere, intentionally or unintentionally disrupting the actions of the mercenaries, and pushed up everyone's work costs. The casino group is defined by everyone as "annoying", and those who punish the annoying people become heroes.

Because they have to investigate the theft of the treasure train, the bad luck of the casino group has become known to everyone. In fact, in the mercenary industry, everyone is also speculating who did it and how it was done. When there are no spies from the casino group, they will also toast to the anonymous heroes in their industry. According to Dao Ge, the nightclubs where mercenaries often go out seem to have a special wine for this incident, called "Nine Losses in Ten Gamblings", which seems to be a special cocktail of nine alcoholic beverages and one fruit juice. Zhuang Xuteng is quite interested, but he is afraid that this is some kind of bait, so he discussed with Dao Ge and tried it after the storm subsided.

The attitude of the mercenaries must not be hidden from everyone's middlemen. If we say who will lose the most when the market is not calm, it is still these middlemen. It's just that the power of a single middleman cannot be compared with that of the casino group. Everyone can beat the dog when it falls, but no one is willing to be the first bird to stand out, or the chicken that is killed when the monkey is scared. The middlemen in Peicheng are now all wide-eyed, waiting for the situation to change, and then they will take action. The wallet in the pocket of the casino group has already been lost, and the knife wound that was secretly stabbed in the belly has not healed yet, but it can still move. If it can hit its heart, the profit of the dismembered casino group will definitely be much greater than stealing the wallet.

But we must not forget one thing: no matter who can see the current situation most clearly, it is still the casino group itself. If they can find the thief and recover the stolen goods, they can make a big profit; if they can't, they have to keep their frame intact, rebuild everyone's confidence in it, and survive the difficult period. Under the guidance of this idea, they divided their actions in Peicheng into three parts:

First, they must rely on the investigation power of PCPD. In any case, this is also a theft case, and PCPD must investigate. If they don't give PCPD a good call, there is no reason for the people of the casino group to act in Peicheng. Of course, PCPD's ability to investigate cases is not much different from that of a blind cat, especially this incredible incident of a helicopter taking away a carriage. Their lack of imagination is still a long way from flying. If this idea is not in the right direction, no matter how hard they try, it will be in vain, so they are not worth worrying about.

The second aspect is mercenaries, which are the groups that are truly capable of conducting investigations. If the casino group can afford the money, maybe the mercenaries and middlemen can really give him something useful, but it's a pity that there is no if. The casino group lost so many things, their wallets were tight, and they were short of cash. They really couldn't hire middlemen who would not show their strength until they saw the rabbit. In addition, these people were worried that the work of the treasure house carriage was done by locals. They really didn't want to offend their peers or even cause a middleman war, so they perfunctorily gave it one by one.

The real action was the gangs. They had enthusiasm and manpower, but they just didn't have enough professional ability. Among them, the Blood Bat Gang jumped the most, because the people of the casino group lived in their control area? Moreover, the gangs were not like mercenaries and middlemen who only cared about cash. As long as they used the future income of the casino as a condition, the guys in the gangs would also be enthusiastic and motivated. Cash is not as fragrant as protection fees. Gangs believe that they know the trade-off between "one meal or every meal".

Speaking of gangs, their level of investigation is indeed not enough, but they have no problem in grabbing territory while investigating cases, and they are very rich. Recently, the fighting between the lower-level gangs has begun to increase, especially around the area that may become a casino in the future, which has begun to become very uneasy. The PCPD's sirens kept ringing with smashing, burning, looting, gang fights and assassinations. The mercenaries nearby have been busy recently, busy as PCPD investigators and human shields. It was Lucy who kept away from this kind of work, otherwise Zhuang Xuteng would have something to do every day.

Well, he couldn't say he had nothing to do. Just preparing for the meeting with the casino group was very complicated. Meteor led the intelligence officers to analyze the situation of the casino group, Viper and Blood Bat Gang, and analyze what their respective demands, preferences, and each person's temperament and personality are. The most important thing is of course how to mobilize them, what can be said and what cannot be said, and how to control the information "just right". The tricks here are quite troublesome.

Zhuang Xuteng couldn't imagine how much work there was in the background, he could only see what was in front of him. In order to prepare for the meeting with the head of the casino group's operations, Lucy found a teacher for him to train. This person was not a mercenary, but just happened to live in Peicheng after being released from prison, and had a good relationship with Lucy and other middlemen. He used to be a psychologist and an external employee of the Riot Suppression Squad, specializing in criminal psychological analysis and behavioral profiling. Later, he felt that it was not exciting enough, so he used his expertise to start fraud, especially good at face-to-face analysis and deceiving others.

He had a feud with the casino group, and it was the casino group that got him arrested. He made a living by observation and skills, but he ran into the casino group who made a living by technology, so he was framed in the card game. In this regard, his credibility is guaranteed, and Lucy also used this to persuade him to come out and teach Zhuang Xuteng some skills, so that this kid can reach the passing line.

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