Ugo's friend wants to see us? It's about the nightmare horse, wants to cooperate in capturing it? With Xiaochong around, who would dare... Long Yuehong could only think of this reason in confusion.
Xiaochong's hissing left a deep impression on him, both mentally and physically.
Jiang Baimian pondered for a moment and said:
"Sure, having more friends means more paths.
"But we have to decide the time, place, and method of meeting."
Although Ugo didn't quite understand why friends and paths could be connected, he still nodded:
"Okay."
Uh... this answer was a bit unexpected for Long Yuehong.
In his opinion, Boss Ugo wasn't qualified to agree directly on behalf of his friend; he was just a middleman passing on a message.
Ugo glanced at him and simply added:
"He knows you'll ask for that."
"Then does he know which day, which place, and in what way we'll meet?" Shang Jianyao asked curiously.
"He's not one of those monks who claim to be able to foresee people and events." Ugo wasn't stumped at all and answered calmly.
Jiang Baimian stopped Shang Jianyao from saying anything further and nodded slightly:
"We'll let you know when we've decided on the time and place."
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"I wonder what Boss Ugo's friend wants to see us about." As the vehicle started, Long Yuehong in the back seat glanced at the hotel.
"Who knows?" Jiang Baimian chuckled. "Anyway, we should refuse if we need to, no need to be considerate."
She looked in the rearview mirror and added seriously:
"This also reminds us that we need to make a certain cut from the people and things of the past as soon as possible; otherwise, we don't know when we'll be approached.
"Think about it, if we hadn't checked out and were still occasionally staying at the hotel, wouldn't we have to worry about being betrayed after refusing Ugo's friend?"
'You' specifically refers to Long Yuehong.
——"Old Task Force" has been busy dealing with the previous safe houses and replacing them with a new batch during this period.
"That's true." Long Yuehong had always been timid in such matters and couldn't help but ask, "What else do we need to pay attention to and deal with in advance?"
Shang Jianyao, separated from Genaeva, raised his hand and stroked his chin:
"Three points."
After Long Yuehong adopted a listening posture, Shang Jianyao smiled:
"First, I can't let you say things like 'Finally safe,' 'Shouldn't be any problems,' 'We can go back to the company'..."
I've already been very careful... Long Yuehong roared inwardly while "Heh"ing:
"If it's that accurate, I'll say the opposite."
"What are the other two points?" Bai Chen, who was driving, automatically ignored the previous topic and asked Shang Jianyao.
Shang Jianyao's expression gradually turned serious:
"In the bounty mission's character portraits and feature descriptions, 'Ring of Blindness' is mentioned. I'm afraid that 'Anti-intellectualism Church's' 'Shepherd' might accidentally notice and confirm that we're the murderers who hunted down the real 'Father' and get involved in chasing us."
"That would indeed be troublesome." Jiang Baimian nodded in agreement.
"Shepherd" Bu Yong is an Awakened who can scan the memories of others on a large scale.
"If it were just the 'Anti-intellectualism Church' alone, it wouldn't be a big problem." Jiang Baimian further said, "We all have ways to prevent something similar. What I'm most worried about now is that the 'Anti-intellectualism Church,' to retaliate against us, anonymously provides assistance to the 'Hands of Order.'"
"Hands of Order" is the name of the "First City's" security organization.
"What will happen then?" Long Yuehong asked anxiously.
Jiang Baimian "Hmm"ed:
"For example, Officer Wahl, whom Xiaobai lured away. Will he wonder why he was lured away afterward?
"He's very likely to suspect that he's seen us before, which is also true, but our meeting was many days ago, and there wasn't much interaction. It would be very difficult for him to recall without enough of an opportunity, but with the 'Anti-intellectualism Church's' involvement, it's different."
Many of the Awakened within the "Anti-intellectualism Church" are experts at manipulating memories, and "Shepherd" Bu Yong is the best among them.
"If Officer Wahl remembers you, things will become quite troublesome," Genaeva said.
After learning about Marcus's remaining words, he had been a bit silent recently, only occasionally participating in discussions.
Long Yuehong was startled and tried to comfort himself:
"I remember that the team leader and, and Wei, did disguises at the time."
Before meeting the company informant "Garibaldi," Shang Jianyao and Jiang Baimian did make some disguises.
"Yes." Jiang Baimian nodded. "But Wei also said that our height and race are still too conspicuous. Moreover, at that time, we didn't have any precautions against the 'Anti-intellectualism Church's' scanning of memories. If they continue to investigate step by step, the 'Hands of Order' will eventually be able to create portraits that are close to our real appearances. Then, when they compare them with the photos within the Hunter's Guild, they'll know who we are."
Long Yuehong was shocked:
"Then we should stay away from the Hunter's Guild!"
But in the past few days, "Old Task Force" had gone to the Hunter's Guild more than once.
Jiang Baimian smiled and said:
"Investigations also take a process and need time. They won't be that fast. Just be careful afterward."
While Long Yuehong was relieved, he remembered a question:
"Aren't we still going to the Hunter's Guild to see if there are any high-bounty missions to find Old Han?"
Shang Jianyao laughed:
"It's Ruiven who's looking at the missions. What does it have to do with Zhang Quibing?"
That's right, after the disguise, no one knows we're Team Qian Bai... When the "Hands of Order" investigates to that point and discovers that Team Qian Bai accepted the mission to capture Team Qian Bai, I wonder what their expression will be like... Long Yuehong realized that he was too nervous and messed up.
He subconsciously asked:
"Who is Ruiven?"
"A Red River language name I just made up." Shang Jianyao asked with great interest, "Do you want to choose one? How about Reid?"
Long Yuehong took a breath and decided to ignore this guy.
The next second, he remembered something else and blurted out:
"Didn't you say we needed to pay attention to three points? You've only mentioned two."
"Weren't we just discussing the third point?" Shang Jianyao asked in surprise.
"..." It took Long Yuehong more than ten seconds to realize that Shang Jianyao's third point was also referring to Officer Wahl.
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First City, within a certain residence.
A figure received the clues reported by his subordinates.
The investigation into the death of the real "Father" had yielded further gains.
Looking at the unique accessory on the left wrist in the portrait, which seemed to be woven from human hair, the figure subconsciously tightened his grip on the paper.
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"Hands of Order," Evidence Department.
Wahl sat in front of a colleague, describing the appearance of the two people he remembered, combining various eyebrow shapes, eye shapes, and nose shapes displayed on the computer.
After repeated feedback and adjustments, the "Hand of Order" member of the Evidence Department pointed to the portraits of a man and a woman on the computer screen and said:
"Is this what they look like?"
Wahl looked carefully for a few seconds and exhaled a long breath:
"Yes.
"Close enough."
At least it looked much more like them than the previous attempts.
Then, Wahl added:
"They may have disguised themselves."
"We can combine this disguise to do some comparison and restoration." The "Hand of Order" member of the Evidence Department said that existing technology could support doing so, but he emphasized, "Don't have too high expectations for the results."
"How long will it take?" Wahl asked.
The "Hand of Order" member manipulating the computer replied:
"Uncertain, depends on the situation."
He made no promises.
Wahl nodded, stood up, and said:
"Then I'll go investigate another lead. The injured person at the time seems to have problems as well."
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In the evening, at the agreed time, "Old Task Force" turned on the radio transceiver and waited for instructions from the company.
But until the end, they did not receive a telegram from Pangu Biology.
"Hasn't it been too long?" Long Yuehong said with a frown.
Normally, the company would reply to the "Old Task Force's" reports or requests within a short time, either that night or in two to three days at most, but this time, it had been too long.
This made Long Yuehong couldn't help but suspect that the telegram had not been sent successfully and had been intercepted by Wu Meng or a similar powerhouse.
Of course, this was just a random thought. "Old Task Force" had received confirmation information at the time, and it was according to the codebook. Outsiders wouldn't know it at all and it would be difficult to forge the content, unless the other party could summarize the rules through the limited number of telegrams and crack the code.
Jiang Baimian smiled thoughtfully:
"This shows that the reply process has become longer, and this means that the importance of the issue has increased."
Bai Chen asked as if he understood something:
"The Board of Directors?"
Ah, has our harvest this time reached the Board of Directors? Long Yuehong suddenly became a little nervous.
This is the organization that can determine the life and death of every employee of Pangu Biology.
Jiang Baimian nodded with a smile:
"It seems that the company also attaches great importance to it.
"It's just that the Board of Directors can't be convened for us in advance, we'll have to wait for a while."