After Zhou Gangyi finished his call, he put down his phone, picked up a glass of wine, and shouted to Liu Liwei, "Come, let's keep drinking. We'll have news soon."
Liu Liwei raised his glass in response. The two clinked glasses and downed the wine in one go.
"Ah... refreshing..."
Zhou Gangyi sighed, relaxed, smacked his lips, and continued, "It feels good. Chinese liquor is so much better. The foreign liquor I drank abroad is like horse urine. I really don't know what gives them the right to sell it so expensively, and call it fine wine."
"Hmph... it's just pushed by nightclubs. They sell foreign liquor worth tens of yuan a bottle for thousands. A bottle of XO abroad sells for tens of thousands. This is trash that even foreigners don't drink. People nowadays are too infatuated with foreign things."
Liu Liwei also snorted coldly.
Although they were young masters and enjoyed their pursuits, they were die-hard patriots. Their upbringing had a significant influence on them.
Just like the national idol Xiao Wang, he studied at a university abroad and had excellent grades. He could easily obtain a foreign green card, but he disdained it. No matter how beautiful the moon was abroad, it couldn't compare to the comforting glow of the moon from his homeland.
It's just a difference in education and ideology.
Many entrepreneurs nowadays send their children abroad to study when they become wealthy, obtain foreign green cards, and then make money in China while their children enjoy themselves abroad.
Such incidents are commonplace.
A truly patriotic person will never truly settle in a foreign country.
"That's not it. People's hearts are too restless now. Sigh..." Zhou Gangyi sighed, appearing somewhat helpless.
Because he knew best that the world was not as glamorous as it appeared; it was filled with tension.
The peaceful living environment everyone enjoyed was because a group of lovable people were shouldering the burden for them.
"Let's drink, why talk about these things?" Liu Liwei raised his glass again.
They were drinking enthusiastically, completely forgetting about Wang Zhuo and Zheng Bing who were waiting outside the door.
At this moment, Zhou Gangyi's phone rang. He quickly answered and asked urgently, "Did you find out?"
"No access."
A muffled voice came from the other end of the line.
"No access?"
Zhou Gangyi was stunned. In the entire country of China, besides the top few individuals and their systems, were there people who couldn't be accessed?
"Are you sure you're not mistaken?" Zhou Gangyi exclaimed.
"It's confirmed that there's no mistake. Could there be a problem? Inquiring about someone with no access will trigger an alarm." The person on the other end gave a definite answer, and then began to feel a bit worried.
"Okay, I understand. It's fine. If anyone asks, tell them it was me," Zhou Gangyi instructed and hung up the phone.
He glanced at Liu Liwei and said, "We couldn't find anything, and we don't have the authority to check. It seems this person named Xia Feng is extraordinary. He must be involved in top-secret matters. No wonder your grandfather was right to hit you."
Liu Liwei was also taken aback.
He never expected Xia Feng to be so terrifying.
This matter told both of them that their qualifications were insufficient. It was estimated that only the top few big shots knew about it.
Neither of them spoke. They looked at each other, seeing a hint of fear in each other's eyes.
When something surpasses human knowledge, it breeds an inexplicable fear, regardless of one's identity or status.
"I said, let's drop this matter. My grandfather would never harm me," Liu Liwei said helplessly.
Although he was the one who was hit, he had already accepted his fate.
In the face of absolute power, all your schemes and tricks are futile. Liu Liwei deeply understood this principle.
"Alright, enough said. Call your two subordinates in to eat with us," Zhou Gangyi had no other choice.
This was the first time he had encountered such a strange occurrence. If he encountered it a few more times, he would get used to it.
The two of them put the matter aside and continued drinking happily.
Jingdu.
A certain mysterious location.
Long Aotian stood with his hands behind his back by a wall.
At this moment, a person was brought in. After others withdrew, that person looked at Long Aotian's back and respectfully called out, "Team Leader."
Long Aotian, his face still cold, turned around, his eyes like torches, and stared at the person. He said sternly, "Who authorized you to investigate Xia Feng's information?"
Their Dragon Team indeed had the authority to investigate any person in the country and could find out everything clearly. However, there were some special individuals whose information could not be retrieved, and any attempt to do so would trigger an alarm.
Long Aotian had just learned that someone had investigated his master.
"Aren't you just looking for death by having nothing to do?"
"Investigating Xia Feng's information so suddenly must have a reason. Otherwise, who would bother investigating Xia Feng for no reason?"
The person's heart skipped a beat. As expected, the Team Leader had found out.
"Team Leader, Captain Zhou asked me to investigate," this member of the Dragon Team honestly confessed to Long Aotian, not daring to hide anything.
"Did Zhou Gangyi say why he asked you to investigate? Tell me word for word what he told you, without missing a single punctuation mark," Long Aotian asked with a cold expression.
"Yes." The Dragon Team member responded and began to recount everything Zhou Gangyi had told him, without missing a single punctuation mark.
"You may leave. Go and receive your punishment yourself," Long Aotian waved his hand, signaling him to go receive his punishment.
"Yes." The Dragon Team member did not dare to say anything more, gave a standard salute, and turned to leave.
Then, Long Aotian directly dialed Zhou Gangyi's phone.
The four of them, Zhou Gangyi and the others, were happily drinking when the phone suddenly rang. Zhou Gangyi frowned, looked at the caller ID, and was stunned for a moment. He quickly said, "Be quiet, I'm taking an important call."
"Master," Zhou Gangyi shouted joyfully.
"Where are you?"
Long Aotian's cold voice came through, like the winter wind in December, chilling the listener.
Zhou Gangyi was accustomed to Long Aotian's temper and didn't find anything amiss.
"In Modu, I just arrived today," Zhou Gangyi replied in a low voice.
"Modu? Good, wait for me, I'm coming immediately," Long Aotian said and hung up the phone directly.
Long Aotian said nothing, asked nothing, and just told Zhou Gangyi to wait.
Zhou Gangyi stared at his phone blankly for a long time, unable to figure out what his master meant.
"Could it be that Master found out about the matter of investigating Xia Feng just now?"
"Is he coming?" Liu Liwei asked, looking at the dazed Zhou Gangyi.
"Yes, he told me to wait." Zhou Gangyi nodded.
"Then we can only wait," Liu Liwei said.
They, the young masters of the capital, all knew who Long Aotian was: the leader of the most mysterious department, only taking orders from Elder Huang.
He was the typical kind who could kill without approval, a legitimate killer.
"Awei, why do I feel uneasy?" Zhou Gangyi always felt that his master coming to find him was not a good sign.
But he couldn't pinpoint exactly why.