Chapter 575 Chapter 572 No Compensation for Damage
"Who is jumping around? Is someone looking for trouble with Sister Lucy?" Zhuang Xuteng asked.
Costa smiled and shook his head, saying: "I just mentioned it like this. If you ask me again, I will offend someone. You hurry up, Boss Lucy is here! Do you want to eat here today? I will prepare it for you?"
"Whether you can have a meal depends on Sister Lucy. I can't say for sure now, so I won't make an appointment." Zhuang Xuteng smiled and shook his head, then pointed upstairs: "Is Sister Lucy still using the previous office?"
"Yes, she is still there and she is now. I don't know if she has finished her previous work. If you ring the doorbell and the door doesn't open, just wait for a while. She will definitely finish other work as soon as possible to see you."
Zhuang Xuteng walked to the second floor familiarly. The decoration of the restaurant is slightly different from the past, but the atmosphere is still the same, which can allow all mercenaries to temporarily get rid of the tense feeling of work and get a moment of relaxation and rest.
When I came to the second floor, there was a long short-haired carpet on the familiar floor, and two rows of benches and two small coffee tables on both sides of the carpet and the corridor. There were candies, snacks, a soda machine and disposable cups on the coffee table. Three young people, two women and one man, were sitting on the bench, all wearing the same standard armored training uniforms that the Constitutional Army could buy on the black market. The three people must know each other, and they looked at Zhuang Xuteng together, with a little confusion and a little expectation in their eyes.
"Are you three mercenaries? Waiting here for Lucy to be free?" Zhuang Xuteng stopped on the carpet and asked.
"Yes. Boss Lucy is receiving other people, we are queuing here." The young man among the three squeezed out a professional smile and asked, "Are you a client?"
"No, I am also a mercenary. Since there are people inside, I will wait for a while." Zhuang Xuteng sat down a little further away and looked at Lucy's office. "Hey, the door has been changed, and it has been isolated and strengthened. No sound can be heard."
"Don't you know? The door was changed three and a half months ago."
"I was injured and rested for a while. I really don't know." Zhuang Xuteng asked sincerely: "Why change the door?"
The three people's expressions became alert. They looked at each other, shrugged and said, "We don't know either."
Zhuang Xuteng laughed. If the three of them can't control their mouths once they are seduced, they are really not suitable for the mercenary business. I haven't seen these three guys, which means they are new in the past six months. They have a tacit understanding so quickly, and they know the rules and disciplines. It seems that Sister Lucy has not lowered the selection standards.
In fact, not only the door, but also the floor, ceiling, and walls have been changed to wrap Lucy's office again. The reason for replacing the new heavy-duty isolation material is simple: it was discovered that it was eavesdropped.
The eavesdropping may come from competitors, or it may be the company's trickery. If it were any other time, Lucy would definitely investigate it to the end until she knew her opponent. But the investigation team of Dingxin Magic Creation was active in Peicheng, and when they encountered such things, they could only pretend to be confused. In this world, you can investigate anyone, but you can't investigate the company.
The heavy walls and doors are beyond the working capacity of the enhanced hearing implant, but they should not be able to block the sensory tentacles, right? Zhuang Xuteng was very curious about what was going on in the room, and he wanted to test the penetration ability of the sensory tentacles, so he summoned one and asked it to find a way to enter the room.
An office always needs the support of air, electricity, and communications. For places where the human body and most equipment cannot pass, the sensory tentacles can use their ability to deform at will to pass through. In addition to walls or coatings made of heavy metals such as lead and gold, the vengeful spirits can also penetrate most solid obstacles, only at the cost of more mana and a reduction in the total extension distance.
There was a quarrel in the room. The nightingale and the rock sparrow sat opposite Lucy, and the two sides were comparing whose voice was louder and whose power of slapping the table was stronger. Seeing this scene, Zhuang Xuteng was stunned: Why are they quarreling so fiercely? Using the sensing tentacles, Zhuang Xuteng started eavesdropping, and after a while he roughly understood: Nightingale and Rock Sparrow were going to go out on their own and become free intelligence officers who provide information to all middlemen.
At the beginning, in order to be taken in, the two of them signed a mercenary agreement with Lucy under the guarantee of Zhuang Xuteng and Ge Gongdao. Strictly speaking, the two of them suffered a loss in this agreement. The terms of joining, maintaining and leaving were stricter than those of other mercenaries under Lucy's name, and even a little unfair. Considering the situation of the two at that time: they had been intelligence officers, and it was very likely that they would be visited by enemies or creditors with the grievances of their former employers; the implants of the two had no room for improvement, and maintenance was difficult and expensive; they had been taken to sell their bodies, and their reputations were not good; intelligence officers and mercenaries were two professions, and they had no work experience... These are also objective realities, and compared horizontally, other middlemen may not be able to offer the same conditions; or even if they did, Lucy's reputation would be relatively better.
The level of the agreement is indeed a bit low, but in a team of four, everyone shares the income equally, and the two people are not at a disadvantage at all. This is the benefit of joining a team and following the right captain. No matter how they sign the agreement with Lucy, they work in the name of the team and the money must be paid according to the team. Lucy's agreement has nothing to do with how the team is divided. Nightingale and Taliyah did have a good time and survived the novice period. But now that Gogongdao has gone to the Moat Company and has no contact with mercenary work at all, Nike has disappeared again and will not be back for a long time. The two can only look for work directly with Lucy, and at this time they feel that their share standard is at a disadvantage.
It happened that during this period, the company's investigation team was stationed in Peicheng. Everyone's work was difficult, and their income was greatly affected. The two sisters only upgraded one implant, and the maintenance pressure on the other did not decrease. With the absence of the "maintenance master" Zhuang Xuteng, they immediately fell into a vicious cycle. Seeing that the situation was not good, the two sisters began to think of starting their own business to support themselves. On the one hand, Lucy felt that it was a pity that the two of them were gone. On the other hand, she also hated the fact that they had too many illusions and had too much ambition. In addition, the two sisters had worked as intelligence officers and knew a lot about Lucy. Lucy had never heard of any intelligence officer who could go out and start his own business while the middleman was still alive.
It felt like they could talk, but I didn't know why they were arguing. Zhuang Xuteng scratched his head. He found that if the quarrel continued like this, Lucy would wonder if the two sisters were trying to kill her, both internally and externally, and the two sisters would also start to wonder if Lucy would kill her as a role model.
"Huh... ah..." Zhuang Xuteng stood up, walked to the door, and put his finger on the doorbell.
The signal light on the wall inside the room turned on. The three women looked at it at the same time, and then continued to quarrel. Seeing that the three people were getting more and more anxious, Zhuang Xuteng took out his armor-breaking hammer and smashed the door hard.
"Boom!" The heavy door withstood the blow and paid the price with a dent the size of half a fist. The sound of knocking was clearly heard inside the house. The three people were startled and finally came to their senses. At the same time, the three people outside were also startled. They simultaneously took out their weapons and aimed at Zhuang Xuteng, obviously treating him as a bastard looking for trouble.
In the office, Lucy finally noticed the surveillance image. She snorted and pressed the button hidden under the table, and the mechanism that controlled the door began to work. After a while, Zhuang Xuteng appeared at the door with his arms folded in front of his chest. He frowned and looked at Nightingale, Yanque and Lucy one after another, and then said: "Sister Lucy, I want to jump in, and you give it to the three newcomers." Tell me?"
"Okay, that's great...come in!" Lucy went to the door and made a safety gesture to the three people in the corridor. "We have work, don't be in a hurry. The three of you go downstairs to rest for an hour and wait for me a little longer. Yes, go find Costa, he will take good care of you."
Zhuang Xuteng walked into the room, rolled his eyes first, and then said: "I am serious, no need to scan, the energy fluctuations of your two shadows are too obvious. Yes, I am still alive, and I have not been caught by the company, nor have I You haven’t been eaten by the environment. I realize that if you don’t come back, something will happen to you.”
After the soundproof door was closed, Lucy asked: "Has this matter spread outside? Did you two idiots leak it? Naike, where did you hear about it? Where did you hear it, at Gongong Road?"
"I didn't go to see Brother Dao. He didn't know I was back yet - I heard it just outside the door. Hey, I just have to be able to hear it. Your isolation facilities here are very good, but there is no such thing in the world. Airtight walls.”
Lucy was obviously choked, and there was an extra pause in her walking steps. She held the table with her left hand a little more, and then returned to work. She is wearing a mask as usual and will not reveal her expression, but under enhanced hearing monitoring, as long as she listens carefully, the rhythm changes of her breathing and heartbeat can reflect her emotions to a certain extent, so there is no need to peek with her sensory tentacles. .
The expressions on Nightingale and Yanque's faces were clearly written on their faces, and both of them were a little at a loss. They were close together, with their hands clenched on their knees and their heads tilted to avoid looking at Zhuang Xuteng. Zhuang Xuteng snorted deliberately, Yanque stuck out the tip of his tongue, and then deliberately laughed twice, finally breaking the deadlock.
"Intelligence officers are different from mercenaries. Do you understand what this sentence means? No matter whether you feel that you have mastered the core secrets or not, uninformed people outside will assume that you do." Zhuang Xuteng sat down and said to the two sisters: " Have you discussed this matter with Brother Dao? "
Rockbird shook his head.
Zhuang Xuteng raised his left hand and punched it down, secretly using the disintegration effect to smash the artificial stone coffee table in front of him into pieces. The huge noise and shocking effect startled the three of them, and six ears stood up at the same time to listen to Zhuang Xuteng's reprimand.
"The team of four of us didn't say anything about disbanding, right? Brother Dao went to the moat, but he didn't leave the team, right? Who did you two listen to and thought of this? If you ask him, will he specify? Agreed. Brother Dao, no matter what, do you dare to leave your back to him? If you dare to break up the team without consulting him, you really think I’m dead and won’t come back, don’t you?
This hat is too big and heavy, and two people dare not wear it even if their heads are put together. "Naike, don't be angry. We are in a bad situation and want to try to venture outside. We will definitely not leave when you come back. Yanque, are you right?"
"Yes, yes, yes, yes..." Yanque nodded tremblingly.
"If there is a problem, solve it. If you are short of money, think of money. If you are short of maintenance, look for maintenance. Don't think about solving old problems by creating new problems. If you don't understand, ask someone you trust who can trust you with your life. "Alas..." Zhuang Xuteng finished training the two sisters, then looked at Lucy and said, "I helped you guide the mercenaries, so I won't pay for the table."
"Just smash it. You don't have to pay for it." Lucy rubbed her hands and breathed a sigh of relief when she saw that the sisters were more honest and her shoulders felt a lot lighter. "When did you come back? What's going on now?"
"I came back yesterday and went home first, so I came to visit today. Oh, it's my fault, I stayed out longer than expected, so long that something bad happened." Zhuang Xuteng waved his hand, indicating that the past should be left in the past. "My return means I can continue to work, but it doesn't mean everything will be peaceful. Just wait and see... I am a big shot in the mercenary industry in Peicheng, and mercenaries are always suitable to take the blame?"
Lucy nodded and said, "Although the Gardener Organization is responsible for the deaths of Kaho and Isabella, it is possible that Dingxin Mochuang wants to use this incident to benefit itself. In addition, I just received an update: the transport helicopter of Dingxin Mochuang Group that took off from Peicheng was shot down. No one on board survived. Can you guess what these people do?"
Zhuang Xuteng raised his eyebrows and said, "On the way back, I saw fireballs, explosions and thick smoke, and the road was closed because of the helicopter. I asked the locals to lead the way and circled back from the decaying source. The staff of Dingxin Mochuang stopped me for inspection. I feel that this matter is quite big, but I don't know who is in the plane."
The atmosphere fell into silence for a while...Lucy tilted her head and stared at Zhuang Xuteng, her stiff body looking like a mannequin in a store. Nightingale and Rock Bird's brains also crashed a bit: they were horrified to find that Dingxin Mochuang had another death, which was really bad luck. The most terrifying thing was that this matter had more or less established a connection with Nike... Oh my God, there won't be another investigation team?
"The passengers on the plane are the investigation team of Dingxin Mochuang..." Lucy sighed and said, "I thought this was good news, thinking that it meant that the investigation team would leave Peicheng and the whole industry would usher in good days again. Nike, to put it bluntly: you unlucky guy, you are probably going to be on the company's assassination list."
It's not "going to be", but "already on". Zhuang Xuteng nodded and said, "Don't talk about the company, I think this matter is weird. If I were the decision maker of the company, I would also want to kill Nike and put an end to it. Hey, we can't interfere with the company's decision-making, so there's no point in worrying about this."
"You are really open-minded..." Nightingale shook her head and finally found an adjective that could barely be used.
"If the company's assassins come, the worst outcome is death, which is no different from the final fate of all human beings. In a hundred years, even if I replace my organs with implants, I will die of old age. Can't I live well now? If the company really wants to kill me, I should improve my current quality of life. In addition, the company may not come to kill me. Maybe they want to explore a mystery."
"What mystery?" Yanque asked.
"Why am I so unlucky to be involved in so many bad things." Zhuang Xuteng raised the corner of his mouth and showed a weird smile.