"A banquet?"
Looking at the delicate invitation in his hand, Zhou Li raised his eyebrows, with a thoughtful look on his face.
"Well, the old king's personal invitation says he wants to thank you."
When Zhou Li and Eluma went shopping in the surrounding supermarkets early in the morning, an invitation was handed to Lin Zi by the old king's guard and handed over to him after he came back.
"Private invitation?"
Zhou Li weighed the invitation in his hand and said with a bit of regret: "I thought Tariq had the custom of stuffing a lady card or a wad of banknotes into the invitation. It seems that this is too civilized and not normal." A good thing."
"Your thoughts are so filthy that it makes people want to laugh."
Lin Zi was already used to Zhou Li's arrogant words. After complaining, he continued to say to him: "The captain of the escort team also specifically told me that you can bring a few more people to the dinner party, and treat him as the one who takes care of you. , no need to be too formal.”
"Do you believe this?"
Opening the invitation and briefly scanning the contents, Zhou Li smiled and said, "Sure enough, this Herinin is also an old fox."
"I certainly don't believe it."
Lin Zi shrugged, "Tariq's supreme leader's private dinner, if Magnum or Yingnan had replaced it, it could have been serialized in the newspaper for three days and three nights plus a special article. I estimate that this is huge. Li Ning has something to do and is waiting for us at the banquet."
"Yeah, and I guess this is no big deal."
Zhou Li nodded, rubbed his chin, and after thinking for a moment, he said to Ah Zi, "Are you ready to go?"
"It's up to you."
AhZi spread her hands and looked like she was accommodating, "We sisters and brother and sister Aiwei belong to your current business facade. If you take us there, it is estimated that our next business activities will be a lot easier. But I I feel like this will make this banquet utilitarian, which is not good."
"I think it's better for Azi and I to stay."
At this time, Ain and Kaya, dressed in gothic dresses, walked out of the room. Her long golden hair was tied into a ponytail, and her blue eyes under light blue thin-rimmed glasses were cold and elegant. Ayin sat in front of Zhou Li and analyzed calmly:
"Mr. Zhou Li saved a prince and a princess at the airport. This favor is very important. Azi is right. If the two of us appear at the banquet, we will definitely gain a lot of business convenience, but in this case you will If you lose the initiative, they will spare no effort to help us to repay your debt of gratitude. They will seize this opportunity and keep helping us green light the business. But the problem is, this time we are here and It’s not entirely for business, so it’s not cost-effective to consume the favors they owe.”
"Um…"
Zhou Li lowered his head and thought for a moment after hearing this. After a while, he raised his head and said calmly: "Azi, Ain, you go with me."
"I think it's not worth it. It would be better if this debt of gratitude could be used in future plans for the black market."
"fine."
Zhou Li smiled and said proudly: "I'm thick-skinned, so I'll use this debt of gratitude. It doesn't matter."
Here comes the professional ability to say extremely shameless words without any sense of guilt!
"If that's the case, I'll be ready."
Ain, who was already familiar with Zhou Li's rhythm, nodded, acknowledged it as it should be, and began to prepare.
"Look at what I'm doing. Everyone is gone. How can I still lie at home and cry out that I'm hungry?"
Looking at Zhou Li's gaze, Ah Zi spread her hands and said helplessly: "I'm also making preparations. By the way, can my sister come?"
"The question is, does your sister want to go?"
As the former president of the largest chamber of commerce in Yingnan, Lin Ling's ability is beyond doubt. If Ain is proficient in calculations, Aiwei is good at communication, and Azi is focused on situations, Lin Ling is the combination of these three people, and her ability is not simply the effect of one plus one equals two. After all, she started from scratch and was able to achieve such a large scale in Yingnan, which also proves her strength.
After finding his sister and discovering that her sister relied on the towering tree of bravery, Lin Ling chose to hand over his resources to her sister and let her operate it. In addition to wanting Zhou Li to use those resources to a greater extent, the most important reason was that Lin Ling was a little tired. Except for Evan, no one knew her identity. Everyone thought she was the ruthless businessman Neil. She spent the entire twenty years in open and secret fights.
Therefore, after handing the resources to Zhou Li, Lin Ling began to choose to lie down. In addition to taking care of her sister and assisting her in the affairs of the Chamber of Commerce, she almost no longer directly intervenes in the affairs of the mall. Therefore, what Zhou Li asked was not whether she was going, but whether she wanted to go.
"If I can, I'd like to go."
Lin Ling brought the dishes to the table with Eluma, took off her chef's hat and straightened her short purple hair. Lin Ling, with a mature charm, smiled and said to Zhou Li: "I will visit in a private capacity, Evan and I We are from the same school, and we are also old friends, so he will not fail to give me this face."
"It's okay, come whenever you want."
Zhou Li didn't care about the large number of people or the small number of people. After all, it was a good thing to have more mouths to eat. He looked at Don Quixote, who had just finished morning exercise with Torea, and asked them, "What about you?"
"ah?"
Don Quixote was stunned for a moment, then she took off the towel and put it aside, and asked with some confusion: "What are we going to do?"
"Hiss~"
Zhou Li took a breath, and then asked even more puzzledly: "Have you forgotten that you are the commander of my private army??? I went out to attend a banquet and you didn't protect me in case I was beaten by a bad guy. what to do?"
What bad guy? Yourself?
Don Quixote looked at Zhou Li with a scared look on his face and felt a little speechless for a moment. However, after getting along with her for several years, she got used to Zhou Li's appearance and replied with a little helplessness: "Understood, I will I went with you."
"Don't forget to bring the person next to you with you."
Next to Don Quixote, a girl wearing a light white sports top spread her long, snow-like hair over her shoulders, and a slight trickle of sweat hung on her white neck, making her cheeks look even fairer. Torea's eyes were as red as jade, and her lips were as red as full plum petals.
"Okay, I know."
Torea's voice was very cold, and it was difficult to hear the emotion, but it was as clear and sweet as a silver bell. Since being thrown to Don Quixote by Zhou Li, the two of them, one mindless and the other unhappy, have gotten along very happily, and both have undergone some different changes. For example, Don Quixote became accustomed to sneak attacks with justice, and Torea began to become more humane.
"Three o'clock in the afternoon, tsk, why do these Tariq people always find this kind of time that is not embarrassing or awkward?"
After complaining about the typical three o'clock banquet of the Tariq people, Zhou Li looked at Eluma who was sitting next to him and looked at him with a smile, and said to her: "Don't forget to come with me. It’s a private banquet, it doesn’t have to be too formal.”
"Okay~"
Eluma was unlike others who would guess Zhou Li's voiceover. Maybe she trusted Zhou Li too much, but it was more likely that she was too lazy to guess. Therefore, Zhou Li always had one thing in mind when talking to her, saying that this banquet did not need to be too formal, and Eluma would never go there wearing a dress.
"Be more formal and give them the illusion that I want to use a favor."
Turning his attention to Ain and his group, Zhou Li said to them: "Don't refuse when they give you the green light. Ask for them all. The more you ask for, the better. Anyway, in the end I will morally kidnap them with my own hands, and they won't be able to escape."
I knew it.
Hearing this, Azi said angrily and funny: "Aren't you afraid that they will regret it? Are they threatening you with the interests of the country?"
"Then they really went too far."
Zhou Li slammed the table and said indignantly: "Everyone can punish moral kidnapping. If they dare to do this, I will take revenge."
"Don't you have great feelings for Tariq?"
Ivey picked up the bread and spread it with jam, and asked Zhou Li curiously: "I remember that when you came here, you didn't even want to issue a fake invoice? Why do you want to... expose your true nature now?"
Zhou Li, who did not regard revealing one's true nature as a derogatory term at all, raised his eyebrows and said with a half smile: "Do you think I am a good person?"
"Do you want to be a good guy or a bad guy?"
Aiwei asked warily. He remembered that Zhou Li had several bottles of truth serum in his hand. If he got anxious and drank two bottles for himself, he would not be able to die in Sky Harbor the next day.
"I'm neither a good person nor a bad person."
Zhou Li looked at everyone and said calmly: "I am not a person."
You are quite aware.
"Don't forget, I am a brave man."
Tapping his fingers lightly on the table, Zhou Li felt the warmth of Eluma next to him and said calmly: "I belong neither to Tariq nor to Magnum. I do not belong to any country. Maybe I will do it because of personal preferences. I come to double standard these countries, but in the face of my ultimate goal, I will not let any country or even individual go because of personal feelings."
"Say it simply."
"The amount of money Tariq can extract is too much and it exceeds my moral bottom line. I have no morals to speak of."
One sentence directly broke the somewhat solemn atmosphere. Everyone sighed naturally and helplessly, and then began to eat.
"By the way, what's going on with your friend?"
At the dinner table, Zhou Li suddenly remembered that there was another Alyosha who followed him and his group to Tariq to visit relatives. He looked at Ain and asked curiously: "Have you found her family?"
"Not found, but there are clues."
Elegantly cutting the beef in the bowl, Ain responded: "With the help of the Personnel Bureau, she found some clues, saying that there was a person with the word Morgan in his name among the first batch of volunteers. They are investigating the data, saying It will take about three days to find the exact target.”
"It's so hard to find just one person? Is Tariq's archives also used to store toilet paper?"
Looking at Zhou Li, who was deeply resentful of the Magnum Archives and even affected Tariq, Aiwei smiled helplessly and secretly put the blue vegetables in the bowl into Kaya's bowl and said to Zhou Li:
"Alyosha searched for people through formal channels. There were many people who wanted to check information before her. She waited in line for three days."
"There's no need to queue for Magnum, what's going on with Tariq?"
"Yes, if you just throw the stolen King's Seal in the face of the guard and kick him out of the archives room, you will definitely not have to queue. The problem is, you can steal Magnum III, but you can't steal Herinin's Seal."
Lin Zi finished the porridge in the bowl and then said to Zhou Li: "You don't even have a chance to come into contact with Herining..."
As soon as she finished saying this, she noticed something was wrong. As expected, Zhou Li's eyes lit up. Ah Zi almost lost her breath and said quickly: "Don't play with Tariq. This trick of yours is quite effective in a country like Magnum III where the king is greater than the sky. But Tariq's rules and regulations It’s very strict, even if you steal the Herinen Mark, it won’t be of any use.”
"Tsk, who do you think I am?"
Zhou Li curled his lips disdainfully, and twisted his lips into a √, "Brother, when doing this kind of crime, we always pay attention to adapting measures to local conditions, formulating differentiated strategies based on different environmental factors, opening up new blue oceans, looking for new opportunities, while ensuring the original criminal foundation Do you understand that we will trigger a new industrial chain and never be a lagging criminal?"
Haha, really.
Ah Zi, who chose to give up arguing with Zhou Li to avoid being contaminated, took the bun next to her, her face bulging like a bun.
"By the way, Zhou Li, what is going on in Tariq's west?"
At this time, Lin Zi suddenly remembered what she had done in the black market. She looked at Zhou Li and asked in confusion: "I didn't know much about it when I was in Magnum, but now I find out why the western region of Tariq is so..."
"Isolated, right?"
Looking at Lin Zi who nodded repeatedly, Zhou Li thought for a while and said briefly: "In fact, during the Tsarist Empire, the west had never been developed. Because there were too many wetlands in the west at that time, and most of the land was not suitable for farming due to latitude issues. Therefore, that land was not developed during the Tsarist Empire."
"Later during the Tariq period, Tariq began to develop the west because of the existence of the radiance crystal. The initial development went smoothly, and some important mineral resources were gradually discovered. The frozen soil could also be cultivated with the radiance crystal. But I don't know why. Suddenly one day, a strange ore disease began to spread. This disease was difficult to cure, and it was extremely contagious once it left Tariq's life circle, so Tariq interrupted the development of the west. plan, and built a high wall to isolate the west.”
"Oh I got it."
Azi nodded in sudden realization, and then she understood why those Tariq people avoided the word "west" like a tiger. She looked at Zhou Li and asked with some worry: "Then why are you going to the west? What if you get infected with the ore and get sick?"
"Will not."
At this time, Lin Ling put down his bowls and chopsticks and said, "Ore disease will not infect us because we are not Tarik people."
"Whether we live in this land or not, as long as we are not Tariq people, we will not be infected by this disease."
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Thanks for the 1500 points of the God-class battleship~
