"That was … about one month ago. I went to that 'warehouse' once." Xiao Tan started his story. From the speed of his speech and his expression, his memory of that experience was still fresh in his mind. However, when he described the date, he used the vague term 'one month'. It went to show that he was unable to give an exact date due to some reason.
"In other words … before the kidnapping of Phantom Dawn?" Feng Bujue asked.
"Yes." Xiao Tan nodded. "At the time, I didn't know about the existence of this Dong Feng, so what I'm about to tell you … has nothing to do with him."
"Do you know about this?" Feng Bujue turned to ask Master Bao.
"I've seen the report," Bao Qing replied. Bao Qing replied, "With regards to the actual situation …" He shrugged and turned his gaze to Xiao Tan. "Since you've brought it up, I'll listen to it."
While they were talking, Wang Tanzhi picked up the drink on the coffee table to take a sip. He cleared his throat and continued. "That day, I was on break, and Xiao Ling had to go to work …"
"When you say the word 'work', you should be referring to the fact that she is going to work at her own company, right?" Before Xiao Tan finished his first sentence, Brother Jue interrupted him with a grumble.
"That's not it …" Xiao Tan added. "Recently, my future father-in-law has been personally teaching Xiao Ling how to manage a company. Xiao Ling has to spend hours studying documents alone after she returns home. It feels like her work is harder than mine."
"Hey, can you stop changing the topic?" Bao Qing turned to Brother Jue. "He's only halfway through his sentence, and you're already changing the topic. Also … I realize you have the bias of hating the rich and the powerful. Just because a rich kid works at her family's company, does that mean she's there to waste her time? Do us civil servants have to commit murder and arson? "
"Then, have you ever committed murder, arson, or any crime?" Feng Bujue countered.
"Er …" Bao Qing hesitated for two seconds and then turned to look at Xiao Tan like he had lost his memory. "Where were we? You were on break that day, right? "
"Hey, hey … Looks like the answers are yes, yes, and yes …" Feng Bujue narrowed his eyes and grumbled internally. However, he did not say that out loud lest the topic was dragged into another round of bickering.
"Yes." On the other side, Xiao Tan went with the flow. "That day, I was just about to have lunch when I received a call … The caller ID said 'Unknown Number'. I have not encountered something like that before. Even though at the time I suspected that it was a scam or a scam, based on Brother Jue's principle of 'consider every possibility', I still answered it."
"What does his principle have to do with whether you answered the call or not?" Hearing this, Bao Qing could not help but wonder, "In the end … Isn't it just a psychological defense line that says, 'With my luck, it's hard to say how unlucky I will be, so I'll assume the worst case scenario' when faced with an unknown situation?"
"Yeah." Xiao Tan replied in a normal tone. "At the time, the hypothesis that crossed my mind was … perhaps my parents had gotten lost overseas, or ran into some kind of disaster, or were buried alive in a coffin … and the only thing they had was a phone with an unknown number and one bar of battery. At that moment, there was an eighty percent chance that they would call me."
"Sigh …" When Bao Qing heard that, she shook her head and sighed. She picked up her cup of tea from the coffee table and took a sip. "It can't be helped. After all, I grew up with Feng Bujue, so it's inevitable that my mind has been corrupted …"
"Hey, hey … Didn't you grow up together with the two of us?" Feng Bujue grumbled.
"That's why …" Bao Qing continued, "Since I was ten years old, I applied to the organization for regular professional psychological counseling and mental evaluation."
"Wow, you sure are something," Feng Bujue raised his eyebrows and said.
"Of course, I can," Bao Qing replied in a more serious tone. "After all, I am still a genius young agent. If it were an ordinary person lurking around you … Even if their identity was not exposed, their mental state would have collapsed long ago. "
"What do you mean by 'genius young agent'?" Feng Bujue curled his lips and said, "I didn't see you use an anesthetic needle to knock out an adult in elementary school, and then take out a voice changer to solve the case, right?"
"Nonsense, which elementary school student in the real world would have a murder case around them all year round?" After Bao Qing said this, he seemed to have thought of something. He paused for two seconds and said, "Uh … Even if there were a few murders around me, they were basically all related to you, okay? I knew from the beginning that it was you, the target of surveillance, who was going to do it? "
"Hmm …" At this time, Feng Bujue also pondered for two seconds. Then, as if he had lost his memory, he turned to look at Xiao Tan again. "Where were we just now? Did you pick up the phone? "
Seeing this, Bao Qing rolled his eyes and did not continue the conversation.
This kind of situation often happened when the three of them got together to chat. Something that could be explained in ten minutes would take them an hour to talk about. This was because of their habit of occasionally going off topic and arguing with each other …
Xiao Tan was used to it anyway. If Bao Qing was the one talking today, it would be his turn to argue with his Brother Jue … The result would be the same.
"Anyway … I did pick up the phone." Xiao Tan picked up the topic again and continued, "And the person on the other end of the phone … was Xiao Ling's grandfather."
"Gu Chen?"
"Chief Gu?"
Feng Bujue and Bao Qing blurted out two different titles at the same time, and they were obviously referring to the same person.
"Hmm." Xiao Tan nodded. "I met him a few times … before. He told me a lot, such as the nine subjects, psionic powers, ghost hunters, marginalized people, etc …"
"Oh …" When Feng Bujue heard this, his expression changed slightly. He asked, "Then, did he teach you any martial arts?"
"I don't think so," Xiao Tan answered.
"I see …" Brother Jue touched his chin and muttered. At the same time, he thought to himself, "Could it be that the" Hidden Heavenly Book "has a rule that it can only be passed down to one person? If he gave it to me, he can't give it to others? Or … Chief Gu thinks that Xiao Tan's qualifications are not enough? Or … he doesn't like this grandson-in-law of his? "
"Also … I feel that he doesn't like me very much." Two seconds later, Xiao Tan answered Brother Jue's question without asking. "So, it's not strange that he didn't teach me any martial arts, right?"
"Oh?" Brother Jue asked curiously, "You are a tall, rich, and handsome man that everyone loves. He doesn't like you?"
"Uh … he didn't explicitly say that he doesn't like me." Xiao Tan said with a thoughtful expression.
"Heh … I understand." Bao Qing immediately said with an experienced expression, "Our chief uses his actions to express himself to you, right?"
"Hmm." Xiao Tan answered. "The first time we met, he pulled me into an interrogation room and beat me up. When I felt like I was going to die, he used his psionic power to heal me."
"This is to let you directly experience the existence of psionic power, so that you can explain it later, right?" Feng Bujue continued.
"There's no need for that. At that time, I already knew the settings of psionic power." Xiao Tan replied. "Xiao Ling has told me many times."
"Then did you ask him why he did it?" Feng Bujue asked.
"I did." Xiao Tan said. "He gave me a baffling answer. He said something like — 'Beautiful women and virgins are as obvious as lipstick on a shirt collar.'"
"What does that mean?" Bao Qing asked curiously.
"Ah … I asked the same question when I heard that." Xiao Tan replied. "But after I asked … he beat me up again."
"That can't be …" Bao Qing was also puzzled. He muttered, "Although Section Chief Gu often does things that are filled with malice, they are all very purposeful … He's definitely not the temperamental type … This doesn't make sense."
"I still don't understand what the two beatings were about." Xiao Tan spread out his hands.
At that moment, of the three seated there, only Feng Bujue … After giving it some thought, he came up with the reason behind it.
A few seconds later, Brother Jue laughed dryly. He leaned over to Bao Qing's ear and whispered a few words in a low voice.
"Oh —" Bao Qing immediately looked enlightened. "So that's how it is … Hmm … Understandable, understandable."
"That's right ~" Feng Bujue said to Bao Qing. "To think you're a father, but your reaction isn't as fast as mine."
"Eh?" This time, Xiao Tan was dumbfounded. "Eh? Eh? Eh?" He shouted a few times, then looked at Feng Bujue and asked, "What's going on? You figured it out as soon as you heard it? "
"Yes, I figured it out." Feng Bujue nodded and replied.
"Then why?" Xiao Tan asked hurriedly.
"Ha ha …" Feng Bujue smiled and didn't answer his question. Instead, he suddenly talked about his own affairs. "Do you know … that the progress between your sister Yu and I has been stagnant for a long time?"
"Uh …" Xiao Tan was stunned again. "I know, but does this have anything to do with my question?"
"The relationship is …" Feng Bujue's expression changed abruptly. His eyes were as big as copper bells as he stared at Xiao Tan. "If you ask such a stupid question again, I will immediately use the martial arts that Chief Gu taught me to beat you up."
"After you beat him up, I will call an ambulance and testify that it was self-defense," Bao Qing added.
"Huh?" Xiao Tan was completely dumbfounded. He didn't know how to react for a long time.
Fortunately, he was never the kind of person who would get to the bottom of everything. Even if he was tricked, he would just laugh it off. As long as it didn't involve any issues of principle, he wouldn't take it to heart. Therefore, the topic ended there. Xiao Tan didn't ask any more questions.
At this time, no one would have thought that it would take decades for Wang Tanzhi to unravel the truth of the matter. At that time, he was beating up Feng Bujue's son with his family's martial arts.
Of course, those incidents might not appear in this book, so let's not overdo it.
"Okay … Then, I'll continue." Xiao Tan continued, "When I received the call that day, it was noon. I didn't even have time to eat before Chief Gu called me to a strange address."
"When he said 'a strange address,' he meant that he couldn't let me know about it, right?" Feng Bujue asked.
"Yes, the date and location had to be kept a secret," Xiao Tan continued, "Anyway … I was called to the 'warehouse.'" He paused for half a second and continued, "When I got there, I didn't see anything strange. From the outside, it looked like a very normal building. There was a kind-looking old man sitting in the gatehouse. I didn't even roll down the car window when he opened the gate and waved for me to enter. So, I drove into the warehouse and found a parking space to park my car. After I got out of the car, an uncle named Zhang Zhiang came over and led me into the warehouse. "
"Hold on …" Feng Bujue said, "You didn't even let me tell you the time and location, but you just told me the full name of the detective?"
"Hehe …" Xiao Tan laughed dryly and narrowed his eyes. "Brother Bujue, of course you wouldn't realize it when you heard the name 'Zhang Zhiang.' Let me tell you a few more names of the staff in the warehouse and you'll understand." He paused for a second and continued, "The rest of the staff in this warehouse are Li Leyi, Zhou Zhiyu, Su Siwu …"
"What the f * ck?" Feng Bujue listened to three more names and found a pattern. "These names are all phonetic pronunciations of the surnames?"
"Actually …" Bao Qing continued, "Not all the aliases in our world are like this," he explained. "Because some names are phonetic pronunciations of the surnames are very strange, such as' Yu Yuyu '…"
"What? What the f * ck is' Yu Yuyu '? " Brother Bujue didn't wait for him to finish before he complained, "So the person named Yu Yuyu is actually a special agent? Eh? That's not right … So, the people who come up with those names are all special agents who use aliases? Then what about Diao Deyi (the character in 'Sha Jiabang')? An anti-spy? "
"Let me finish first …" Bao Qing also knew that Brother Jue was joking, so he didn't correct Diao Deyi for being a fictional character. He only continued, "Because some words are not easy to break down into phonetic pronunciations, or are too strange to pronounce, we have another type of alias that is based on the radicals. For example, Feng Erma, Liu Wendao, Xu Yanwu, and so on."
"Ho …" Feng Bujue widened his eyes and thought for a few seconds. "Then, what about Man Bujue? Is his alias' Man Touch An 'okay? Or should we just change it to 'Cao San Er'? "
"Why do you care about that?" Bao Qing squinted at Brother Jue and said, "Don't worry, a devil like you will never be specially recruited by us. You don't have to worry about that."
Unexpectedly, Xiao Tan looked at Bao Qing and said, "Master Bao …" His expression was very serious. "If I am recruited by you in the future, I don't want to be called Wang Ganyi."
"What's the use of telling me that!" Bao Qing was shocked. "Continue talking about your trip to the warehouse! The warehouse! "
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