On the top floor of the Red Castle, in the luxurious reception room of the Jiang's Firm, Xia Fan met with the firm's Chief Steward, He Jinting.
He Jinting looked to be in his forties. He was neither fat nor thin, and he had a smile on his face. He treated everyone politely.
He invited Xia Fan, Fo You, and Tony to take a seat on the sofa, and then called for someone to fetch the treasures that Xia Fan had won.
"Would you like something to drink?" He Jinting asked, pointing to the wine cabinet.
Xia Fan waved his hand. "No need. We've had a lot of drinks downstairs."
He Jinting smiled. "Then let's have a cup of tea. It's too tiresome to have too many drinks."
This time, Xia Fan did not refuse. He Jinting personally made tea for Xia Fan and the others.
This Chief Steward, who held a high position in the local area, was a very low-key person. He would do many things himself, and he did not have the arrogant attitude that was common to those in power.
Not long after, the staff of the firm, escorted by bodyguards, brought the treasures that Xia Fan had won. However, only the antique Space Shuttle and the Wine of Immortality were shown. The hovercar engine that Xia Fan cared about the most was not there.
Xia Fan was nervous. He did not care about the engine, but the core hidden in the engine!
As long as that thing was not in his hands, Xia Fan would not be able to rest easy.
"There seems to be something else?" Xia Fan asked.
The bespectacled staff hurriedly smiled apologetically and said, "The others aren't worth much, especially that engine. It's too big, so we didn't bring it to the reception room. If you need it, I'll have the warehouse prepare it."
"Yes, let's get ready," Xia Fan said decisively.
The staff was stunned. "The engine, the thermos cup, the shirt, and the like. You want all of these?"
Xia Fan nodded and said matter-of-factly, "Why not? The thermos cup was bought with money. It can be used to drink tea. I have never been wasteful. "
The bespectacled staff secretly stuck out his tongue. He thought to himself that this person who opened the big treasure chest was really stingy. He did not even let go of the thermos cup that had the firm's logo on it. He had clearly gotten a treasure that was worth tens of millions of gold coins.
He Jinting immediately ordered, "Prepare it according to the customer's instructions. It is the customer's freedom to deal with it."
"Understood." The bespectacled staff hurriedly nodded and retreated to prepare the other prizes that Xia Fan had won.
He Jinting asked Xia Fan to stay for a while. He wanted to befriend him.
Xia Fan did not want to say anything more to He Jinting. All his attention was on the engine. He stood up and was about to leave.
"Alright then." He Jinting knew that he could not make him stay, so he said with a smile, "We'll meet again in the future. If Mr. Xia Fan needs my help in the future, please do not hesitate to come to me. I'll be waiting for you here."
Xia Fan politely cupped his hands in greeting. "No problem. Let's part ways here."
With that, Xia Fan turned to leave. Tony shouted anxiously, "Don't go! There are still treasures!"
Fo You said indifferently, "It's not heavy. You can just hold it."
Holy shit!
Both Tony and He Jinting were shocked. The Wine of Immortality was a peerless treasure. How could they hand it over to a little tour guide? The two of them really had big hearts!
Left with no choice, Tony could only nervously take the Immortal Wine and the Flying Shuttle from the staff. Although the Flying Shuttle wasn't small, it was made of light alloy and weighed around 2.5 kilograms. It was really light in his hand.
However, nervousness was unavoidable. Tony's forehead was sweating and he walked very slowly. Two staff members were worried and protected him from behind.
From the reception room to the back door on the first floor, it was a short distance by taking the elevator and walking. However, Tony was sweating all over. He felt more tired than running a marathon. He could not help it. He was too nervous. The treasure that was worth more than 10 million gold coins was in the palm of his hand.
When they arrived at the back door on the first floor, they saw that Jay was already there. Xia Fan was asking the staff to put the engine and the junk like thermos cups into the back of the car.
Tony and Jay's hovercar had a small container at the back. It was a small hovercar that could fit the engine.
The staff of the mall offered free delivery, but Xia Fan refused on the spot. It seemed that the engine was more important to him than the Wine of Immortality.
Freak!
Doni thought to himself.
After loading the car, Xia Fan pulled Tony away.
The hovercar sped out of the Red Castle. Along the way, Xia Fan kept looking back at the engine in the back of the car.
"Are we going back to the hotel?" Jay asked.
Xia Fan thought about it. There were too many people in the hotel. It might not be safe.
The safest place was definitely his Scourge. The AI identification system guaranteed that no one other than Xia Fan and Fo You could enter the cabin.
It was also difficult to open the Scourge from the outside. After all, the body of the Scourge was made of the expensive and sturdy Kro alloy. It was safest to put things on the ship.
"We're not going to the hotel. Go straight to the airport. I want to put things on the ship," Xia Fan ordered.
Jay nodded. He looked at the sky. It was already dark. He said, "The market is already closed. Big Eye should still be waiting for us."
Xia Fan sighed. "Then we have no choice but to let him wait a little longer."
.....
Red Castle.
After sending Xia Fan off, He Jinting did not go to the banquet downstairs. Instead, he went to the room next to the guest room. He knocked on the door three times and heard a hoarse voice say, "Come in."
He Jinting respectfully entered the room and closed the door behind him.
It was a secret office. A silver-haired old man was standing in front of the window, looking at the guests on the lawn. They were laughing and eating, but the old man was not moved at all.
He turned around. He had a square face and a wide chin, which showed that the old man had a determined personality.
He was Jiang Chunyun, the current head of the Jiang's Firm. People called him the Old Master.
He Jinting lowered his voice and said, "Old Master, it's done."
"It didn't arouse any suspicion, did it?"
He Jinting shook his head. "Everyone thought that we were sincere in giving away the Wine of Immortality. They all praised us. As for the young man called Xia Fan, he didn't suspect anything. It's just …"
"Just what?"
He Jinting tilted his head and said with a smile, "It's just that the young businessman called Xia Fan is very stingy. He didn't even let go of the thermos flask given by the firm."
Jiang Chunyun sighed heavily. "Sigh, as long as he's willing to take the Wine of Immortality and doesn't suspect anything, it's fine. As for whether he's stingy or not, who cares?"
"What we need now is to avoid the goods. To us, the Wine of Immortality is not a peerless treasure. It's a hot potato. The sooner we get rid of it, the sooner we can sleep in peace."
"As for the young man called Xia Fan, it's his own business whether he'll get into trouble because of the Wine of Immortality. There's no free lunch in this world. He should know that."
He Jinting nodded. "Old Master, you're right. Only by giving away the Wine of Immortality and letting everyone know that it's no longer with us can the firm be safe."
"But," He Jinting changed the topic and said, "Old Master, is your information really accurate? After all, the Wine of Immortality is not just worth ten million gold coins. It's priceless. If we give away the Wine of Immortality now, no matter how much money we spend in the future, we won't be able to get a second bottle like this. "
Jiang Chunyun was speechless for a long time.
After a long time, he turned his eyes back to the window and looked at the noisy banquet outside.
"I hope more than you that there's a mistake, but it's impossible. I absolutely trust the person who gave me the information."
"Look, it's good to be alive. We can drink to our heart's content, we can find many women, we can do many, many things we want to do."
"From now on, there's no need to mention this matter anymore. Just pretend that we have never obtained the Wine of Immortality. Things that don't belong to us will not belong to us. As a businessman, we can't be sloppy when it comes to life and death."
"As for Xia Fan who took the Wine of Immortality, you don't have to pay attention to him. Don't even send anyone to follow him. Just let him be."
"Based on my information, he won't live past the fifteenth of this month." Jiang Chunyun's face was extremely serious as he said word by word.
.....
* Swoosh *
The hover car parked outside warehouse 139 in the airport.
This warehouse was rented by Xia Fan to store Scourge. It looked a little old, and many of the composite panels were cracked, but it could prevent Scourge from being seen. After all, Scourge's appearance was too eye-catching. It was an extremely unusual existence among the frigates.
The warehouse door opened. Jay drove the hover car into the warehouse and stopped. Then, he and Tony were chased out by Xia Fan. Xia Fan then controlled the remote to close the door, leaving Tony and Jay outside.
* Bang *
When the warehouse door was closed, Xia Fan was relieved. He stuffed the Wine of Immortality and the Flying Escape Device into the Spatial Ring, opened the cabin, and took out the toolbox.
Fo You crossed his arms and watched Xia Fan with great interest.
Fo You liked to watch Xia Fan work because he had a super fast speed.
When Xia Fan was about to disassemble the engine, Fo You would see screwdrivers, wrenches, and other tools dancing in the air like phantoms. A complete engine was disassembled in Xia Fan's hands in a matter of minutes, and then reassembled in a matter of minutes. It was truly an exciting sight.
What an ordinary worker would need to do for half a day was done by Xia Fan in five minutes! The speed was as fast as a movie, which was a rare experience.
Two minutes later, the turbine engine was completely disassembled by Xia Fan. Fo You frowned. He saw Xia Fan take out a small silver ball from the disassembled engine's energy cylinder. It was about the size of a person's fist, and there were many profound and complicated patterns on it.
"Damn!" Fo You exclaimed, and his eyes immediately lit up. "Isn't this an energy core?"
Xia Fan shrugged. "I can only smell a core hidden in the engine, but I can't tell what it is. So this is the smell of an energy core."
Fo You walked over, took the energy core, and weighed it in his hand. Then, he carefully observed it.
"Yes, I once received an energy core as a birthday gift when I was a child."
"But I don't like to tinker with machinery, so I gave the energy core to my brother. Later, my brother ran away from home, sigh." Fo You sighed as he spoke.
Xia Fan was stunned. "You! You can even receive an energy core as a birthday gift? This thing is worth at least a few billion alliance dollars! They actually gave an energy core to a child? I really don't understand the world of the rich. Who gave it to him? "
Fo You shook his head indifferently. "Who knows? There are so many people who gave me gifts, and I don't bother to remember their names."
"Comparisons are odious," Xia Fan muttered.
However, he had forgotten that although he hadn't received an energy core on his birthday, he had been fed level-nine energy crystals by the scourges. The astronomical cost of energy crystals wasn't something an energy core could compare to.
From this point of view, Xia Fan's background was actually quite terrifying. Not to mention the people he had never met, but the legend said that they could put a pair of wings on their back and fly to the Milky Way.
"I was wondering why you cared so much about this engine. It turns out that there is this thing hidden in the engine." Fo You curled his lips. "Do you know who hid it? Why did he hide it in the engine? "
Xia Fan shook his head. "I don't know. This engine is about 70% new, and it should have been used. It's impossible for it to have an energy core when it left the factory. Someone must have put it in later."
"The reason why it is hidden in the engine may be because the engine's energy cylinder is made of black star sand metal. This metal has a good shielding performance, and no X-ray examination can find anything fishy in the engine."
"There are many smugglers in the outer region. Maybe someone used this method to smuggle the energy core out of the inner region."
"According to the laws of the three major alliances, a precious existence like the core is strictly prohibited from being exported. Although the smugglers used this method to transport the core from the inner region to the outer region, for some reason, the engine ended up in the hands of the Jiang's Firm."
Fo You nodded. "It makes sense. In any case, you really made a fortune this time. The Immortal Wine and the energy core are both good things, and this energy core is brand new. It has never been used before."
Xia Fan smiled happily. "With the energy core and mechanical core, Calamity can run faster. It's a pity that I only got two of the four cores. It would be great if I had an impact core and a defense core."
Fo You rolled his eyes at Xia Fan. "You are really a freak. Calamity is just a small frigate, and you installed two cores in it? If others knew about this, they would be scared to death! "
"The price of two cores is enough to buy thousands of frigates. People install them in battleships or even motherships. But you installed two cores in a small ship, and you are so greedy that you want to install four cores! No one in the world would do something like this, okay? "
"If you ask me, you should get a bigger ship and get me a luxurious suite. It's suffocating to sleep on your small ship all day."
"So what if you're suffocating?" Xia Fan argued with Fo You. "You are Little Buddha. You can have anything you want. I'm not forcing you to squeeze into Calamity with me. If you want a luxurious suite, get yourself a big ship."
Friends told each other everything they knew. Arguing had become one of the joys of life for Fo You and Xia Fan. They mocked each other with words, but no one took them seriously.
While they were bickering, Xia Fan installed the engine back into its original position. The speed of the engine was extremely fast.
As for the precious energy core, it was in Xia Fan's spatial ring. He planned to install it on Calamity when he had time.
He still lacked a base to install the energy core. Ordinary metal bases could not withstand the heat generated when the core was operating, so he needed a very precious superpressure alloy.
After everything was done, Xia Fan opened the door and called Jay and Tony in.
Seeing that the engine was still there, Tony was stunned. He asked Xia Fan why he did not install the engine on the frigate.
Xia Fan shook his head. "Forget it. I thought it was something good, but after thinking about it, it's useless. I'll give it to you."
"Really?!" Tony and Jay exclaimed at the same time in shock.
A second-hand hovercar engine was worth more than a thousand gold coins. Tony and Jay could only earn two gold coins after a day of hard work. Moreover, business was not every day. The engine that Xia Fan gave them was equivalent to almost two years of their income. It was a huge sum of money!
"Thank you! Thank you so much! "
"You don't have to say anything. From now on, no matter how long you stay in Fire Beacon City, I will be your guide for free! Even if you want to go to other planets, I can go with you! "Tony was overjoyed.
Xia Fan waved his hand. "Just do your job well. Let's go. Big Eye is still waiting for us."
"Alright!"
.....
The hovercar set off again. This time, they were going back to the city. When they arrived at the entrance of the restaurant next to the market, they saw Big Eye and his brother squatting by the roadside. Big Eye's brother was holding his skinny cheek with his hand, looking a little dejected.
"Have you been waiting for a long time?" Xia Fan got off the car and smiled.
"Boss! You're finally here! " Big Eye saw Xia Fan and shouted excitedly. His brother also suddenly became spirited. He looked a little scared and followed behind Big Eye.
Xia Fan actually did not eat much in the Red Fortress. He was a little hungry now, so he decided to eat something first.
Xia Fan found himself a large table after walking into the fashionably decorated restaurant. Then, he said to the waiter in a very generous manner, "Serve us anything delicious. Also, get them some ice cream, chocolate, and other desserts. By the way, I want to drink soup. Do you have seafood soup or beef stew?"
The waiter hurriedly said, "Do you have scallop and fish soup? That's our signature dish. "
"Sure, one bowl for each of us."
Not long after, the table was filled with sumptuous dishes. The outlanders lived poor lives. Very few people were like Xia Fan and the others. There were only six of them, but they ordered a table full of delicious food.
At first, Dayan and his younger brother were very restrained, and the waiter looked at them with disdain. After all, there were too many street children like them in the vicinity of the market. However, seeing that Dayan and his brother had followed two people from the inner region into the restaurant, the waiter did not say much.
Gradually, Dayan opened his eyes, and he and his brother wolfed down the food, stuffing everything into their mouths.
Xia Fan frowned. "Didn't I give you some pocket money to keep for your meals? Why, you didn't eat? "
"Of course we ate," Big Eye said.
"We have to leave the money for mother and sister." Big Eye's brother was honest. What he said was different from his brother. Under the table, Big Eye secretly pinched his brother. The pain made him grimace.
Tony sighed. "It's always more expensive to eat outside than at home. I was like this when I was young. I never ate outside, and I drank a few mouthfuls of water from the tap. It saved me money."
Xia Fan nodded and told the brothers to eat slowly. If they could not finish, they could take the leftovers home.
After dinner, Xia Fan ordered freshly squeezed sugarcane juice. As he drank, he asked Big Eye, "How's the thing I asked you to find out?"
Big Eye shook his head. Suddenly, Xia Fan felt disappointed.
After all, no matter how good the core was, no matter how good the Wine of Immortality was, it was not as good as finding his family.
At this time, Big Eye said, "Boss, let me finish. Although I did not find anything with the Flying Wings logo, I found someone."
"Someone?" Xia Fan was puzzled.
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