Ma Qiqi relaxed. It was one of Gu Nianzhi's guardians, Brother Xiong's number. He seemed to be Huo Shao's assistant, so finding him should mean finding Huo Shao.
But she didn't say anything. It wasn't convenient for her to leave a message with Brother Xiong there, so she hung up.
She was anxious to go back and make another call, so she immediately put her phone away and waved at Brother Xiong. "Brother Xiong, take your time. I'll go back first." With that, she ran away.
Brother Xiong was speechless.
This girl!
She really threw her away after using her!
Brother Xiong was both angry and amused. He also felt a bit uncomfortable, but after a while, he got busy with work and didn't care about Ma Qiqi's attitude anymore.
Ma Qiqi returned to the dormitory and quickly called the number again. This time, when Yin Shixiong's message appeared, she left a message. "May I ask if you are Nianzhi's guardian? I am her roommate, Qiqi. My cell phone number is XXXXX. I have something important to tell you. It concerns Nianzhi. Please contact me immediately after you hear this message! You must contact me! This is a matter of life and death! "
The number Ma Qiqi called was a special number that Huo Shaoheng had set for Gu Nianzhi in the past. Whenever she called this number, the voicemail would immediately be picked up and forwarded to the relevant person.
There were two people who would immediately receive messages from this number. One was Yin Shixiong, and the other was Zhao Liangze.
Back then, in order to take care of Gu Nianzhi, they never went on missions at the same time. One would always go out while the other stayed in the country. If they missed anything related to Gu Nianzhi, Huo Shaoheng would beat them up.
But ever since Gu Nianzhi's father, Gu Xiangwen, was found, many of her security measures were secretly removed while Huo Shaoheng was overseas on a mission.
So this time, not only was Huo Shaoheng on a mission, but Yin Shixiong and Zhao Liangze were also sent out at the same time.
However, Huo Shaoheng's arrangements at the time were too strict, so some things were still left.
It wasn't that the people who removed her security measures were merciful, but they simply didn't know about these measures, or rather, forgot about them.
For example, Gu Nianzhi's diamond earrings with a GPS system. Another was the contact number of the family member on her personal profile.
These should have been canceled as well, but because there were too many of them, and they were too complicated, he didn't complete the operation, so he left a way out.
Although no one was keeping an eye on Gu Nianzhi's location 24 hours a day, the diamond earring with the GPS system was not retrieved from Gu Nianzhi. If anything happened, the various satellite systems would be activated immediately and her location could be redetermined in minutes.
There was also that number. There was no dedicated operator now, but the number could still be connected. After a while, the messages would automatically enter Yin Shixiong and Zhao Liangze's dedicated phone systems. However, they were currently out on a mission, so they couldn't answer the calls yet.
Ma Qiqi left this message and started counting down the days for Yin Shixiong to call back.
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Huo Shaoheng waited in New York for another month. It was almost October, but the other party still hadn't made a move.
He even suspected that he had been misled by James.
But he was still able to keep his composure.
In their line of work, the most important thing was to be patient.
On this day, he went to inspect the vicinity of the three apartments he had rented.
The one with one bedroom and living room on the east side was located in a more middle-class neighborhood. There was only one apartment building there, and the others were all townhouses.
In the morning, he went to the apartment to check the mailbox and found nothing. Then, he went to the Starbucks opposite the apartment to have a cup of coffee and read a book on his Amazon Kindle for a while. He was no different from the people around him, then walked out calmly and boarded the train to the west side of the city.
The train rattled all the way to the west side of the city. It was all rented apartments, and the houses were densely packed together like matchboxes. Although it was very neat, it didn't look like New York at all.
Most of the people living here were "artists" from all over the world, or self-proclaimed "artistic youth."
Huo Shaoheng also went to check the mailbox and threw away a few pieces of junk mail. Then, he went to the KFC in the neighborhood to buy a large family bucket and finished eating alone under the sun.
It was already around one in the afternoon.
The last place was the north side of the city.
The apartment in the north side of the city was in a very good area. It had once been a boudoir built by a tycoon for his lover. Later, the two broke up, and the boudoir was converted into an apartment for rent.
From the outside, it looked like a very grand and unique mansion. There were so many windows that it looked like a school. Now, it was divided into small rooms and rented out to the city's new petty bourgeoisie who liked to keep a low profile but didn't have much money.
On this day, Huo Shaoheng had just walked near the neighborhood when he sensed something was wrong.
It felt too different from the past.
He had been here many times before. The atmosphere here was graceful and elegant. The people's footsteps were leisurely, and their expressions were relaxed.
The men and women were all dressed up and ready to go to a cocktail party at any time. There were handsome men and women everywhere.
However, as soon as he stepped into the neighborhood today, Huo Shaoheng sensitively sensed that many people were dressed differently than the original residents here.
Of course, most people wouldn't be able to notice this subtle difference.
Only people like Huo Shaoheng, who had not only received professional training but also had a keen intuition for the environment after thousands of life-and-death missions, could truly feel it.
For example, in the eyes of the average person, there was a man and a woman drinking coffee in the open-air cafe in front of them. They were no different from the people next to them.
They were all dressed very well in warm, collared shirts. The man was wearing formal pants of the same color, and the woman was wearing a straight skirt that barely covered her knees.
However, in Huo Shaoheng's eyes, there was a significant difference between these two people and the people next to them.
This was because the new petty bourgeoisie here liked to keep a low profile. When they wore collared shirts, they definitely wouldn't button the collar tightly. They would definitely unbutton the first two buttons to reveal their slender necks and half-covered collarbones.
There was also a woman. She also had short chestnut hair. The real residents here all knew that meticulously combed hair that was so shiny that flies would slip on it was very old-fashioned. The stylish women used their hands to comb their short hair a few times to reveal a somewhat messy but not ridiculously messy, lazy and natural style. They looked like they had just gotten out of bed.
Also, when they looked at people, the residents here were used to wearing flirtatious smiles. They were the kind that could immediately go to bed and have sex if they saw eye to eye.
It wasn't that some people sitting or standing here looked at people directly, as if they wanted to see through your heart, liver, spleen, lungs, and kidneys. They were afraid that others wouldn't know that you didn't look at people with your eyes, but with searchlights and X-rays.
This kind of awkwardness made Huo Shaoheng immediately separate these people from the real residential area here.
He noticed these differences, but he didn't turn around and leave. Instead, he casually walked over with his long legs and entered a convenience store with a slightly sinister smile on his lips.
A few stylish women who were shopping in the convenience store saw him and couldn't help but be attracted to him. They kept throwing flirtatious glances at him, but he only smiled and didn't say anything. With a faint glance, those women's bones were about to melt …
The people who had originally noticed him because of his extremely eye-catching appearance immediately looked away uninterestedly and continued to look around the street.
Huo Shaoheng walked around the convenience store like this, and then walked out of the street side by side with a stylish woman.
Once they reached the corner, he immediately moved aside, called a taxi, and left.
If he wasn't wrong, the traitor had finally made his move.
He waited for more than a month before making his move. He was really patient. Of course, he wasn't particularly patient.
He wasn't very clear why the other party would suddenly make his move after more than a month.
Normally, in this kind of situation, if he didn't make his move within two weeks of receiving the news, he would have to wait for half a year.
Now it was more than a month. This kind of awkward time period in their line of work was a bit thought-provoking.
Huo Shaoheng took a taxi around New York City to make sure that no one was following him before returning to his residence in New Jersey.
James should be delivering the letter to him soon, or the letter was already lying in the place they had agreed on, but Huo Shaoheng hadn't gone to pick it up yet.
To be honest, although James had reached a cooperative relationship with him, he didn't completely trust him. He believed that James had the same thoughts about him.
This was the normal state of cooperation between two people in the opposing camp.
It was also the normal way of thinking about human relationships in their line of work.
It was impossible to completely trust the other party.
If someone really completely trusted the traitor or an insider, it could only be said that this kind of person would generally reincarnate a few more times than others.
Such a naive person was not suitable for their line of work.
…
Huo Shaoheng sat in the spacious living room and poured himself a glass of beer. His mood was a bit heavy.
He remembered very clearly which departments the three letters were sent to.
The letter related to the north city condominium was sent directly to Chen Lie.
He didn't expect it to really be Chen Lie …
Could it really be Chen Lie?
Huo Shaoheng couldn't sort out his thoughts for a moment.
He and Chen Lie had known each other for a long time, even before he had joined the army.
The two of them could be said to have gotten to know each other through a fight.
At that time, he was still young and vigorous. He planned an operation by himself to go to the military general hospital and smuggle out his aunt's body. In the end, he was discovered by Chen Lie, who was still a "genius intern" at the time.
He thought he was the kind of thief who did illegal things …
The two of them fought. Of course, Chen Lie was beaten to the ground by him, but he was also forced to tell the truth by Chen Lie.
After Chen Lie heard about it, he believed him without hesitation and helped him hide his aunt's body in the hospital's freezer.
It could be said that it was impossible for his aunt's case to be cleared without Chen Lie's help in the end.
Later, the two of them became closer, and Huo Shaoheng joined the army. A few years later, he reunited with Chen Lie at the Special Operations Forces he had founded.
At this time, Chen Lie had already become a military doctor seconded from the military general hospital by the Special Operations Forces. He brought along his assistant, Ye Zitan.
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