Game within game: chess player

This was a rare time when Ye Fang and Nan Yi were alone together. Ye Fang let Nan Yi hold his arm and walk on the streets of Dubai. It was difficult to define the relationship between the two at this time. Like a boss and a subordinate, like confidants and friends, and more like partners, but at this time, neither of them has to define anything. Maybe the two of them know that at least at the moment, there are only two people waiting for each other.

It's rare for two people to wander the streets without any burden like this. The streets are full of tourists from all over the world. Although everyone speaks different languages, they all meet in Dubai for the same reason.

The streets of Dubai are neat and clean, with high-rise buildings standing staggered, some even as high as [-] meters. There are numerous high-end shops and hotels on both sides of the streets, which are madly devouring the money of tourists from all over the world every moment.

Ye Fang and Nan Yi were chatting and walking on the street. At this time, there was a commotion not far away. Ye Fang looked over and saw four Westerners in suits chasing a man. The man looked to be in his 40s and had an oriental face. He was holding a notebook in his arms and ran in a panic in his direction, shouting "Help, help!"

On a strange street in a foreign country, it is not easy for anyone to lend a helping hand when the situation is unknown. But what surprised Ye Fang even more was that there was a police car parked just a hundred meters away. The policeman in the police car Turn a deaf ear to all this.

They are both Chinese. Of course, Ye Fang didn't want to see his compatriots being bullied in Dubai. He quickly stopped the middle-aged man and asked, "What happened? Why are they chasing you?"

When the middle-aged man saw Ye Fang, he hurriedly hid behind Ye Fang as if he was seeing a savior. Then the four foreigners in suits ran closer and shouted in English to the man behind Ye Fang, "Hand over the things." .”

"This thing belongs to me! Why should I give it to you!" the man behind Ye Fang responded in English.

When the four foreign men saw this, they were about to step forward, but Ye Fang stopped them in English, saying, "Who are you?"

One of the foreign men glanced at Ye Fang up and down, took out an ID, waved it in front of Ye Fang and Nan Yi, and said coldly, "Don't meddle in other people's business!"

The foreigner put away the certificate in a flash, and Ye Fang didn't even see it clearly. Although Ye Fang didn't see clearly, Nan Yi next to him did and whispered in Ye Fang's ear, "They are agents of the CIA!"

"From the CIA?!" Ye Fang was shocked, thinking to himself, how could the man behind him get into trouble with a CIA agent? No wonder the police on duty in Dubai did not dare to step forward.

Ye Fang turned around and asked the man behind him, "How did you get into trouble with the CIA? Are you a spy?"

"How can I be a spy? They are the spies!" The middle-aged man immediately said, "I am the deputy editor of Xiangjiang Global Daily. My name is Pang Hongfei. I specialize in writing international commentaries. This time I came to Dubai for vacation. Who I found out that when I got here, they were targeting me, and they said they would take me back to the United States for trial, and they also confiscated my notebook."

"Have you always scolded the United States?" Ye Fang asked curiously.

"The United States is seeking hegemony all over the world, why don't we let it go?" the middle-aged man said with a matter-of-fact expression.

Then the four CIA agents would not give Ye Fang and Pang Hongfei that much time to talk, and stepped forward to take Pang Hongfei away. At this time, Nan Yi took the initiative to stop in front of Ye Fang and Pang Hongfei. Nan Yi looked at the four American agents with cold eyes and said slowly, "You guys stay back, I will deal with the four of them!"

Then Ye Fang pulled Pang Hongfei back and retreated. Nan Yi immediately rushed into the middle of the four foreigners with a single step.

"Can she do it?" Pang Hongfei said worriedly, "Do they have guns?"

"Cancel the word "mo", she can do it!" Ye Fang said with great certainty.

"Is it really okay?" Pang Hongfei glanced curiously at Nan Yi, who was fighting with the four people. Unexpectedly, in the past few rounds, three agents had been knocked to the ground, which made Pang Hongfei give a thumbs up.

Seeing that Nan Yi was so difficult to deal with, the remaining CIA agent took out his pistol and pointed it at Nan Yi without hesitation. Seeing that someone took out the pistol, the crowd of onlookers dispersed immediately.

"Don't move! If you move again, I'll shoot!" The CIA agent obviously didn't expect that there would be anyone in Dubai who dared to stop Americans from doing business, and their key skills were so powerful.

Nan Yi ignored the threat at all and swung a flying knife with his right hand, hitting the agent's finger that was holding the gun and pulling the class's finger. Half of the finger after the blade fell off, causing the agent to scream in pain and fall to the ground.

Nan Yi stepped forward and picked up the pocket flying knife and wiped it on the agent. After putting it away, he said to Ye Fang and Pang Hongfei, "Let's retreat quickly!"

Immediately, Ye Fang, Nan Yi and Pang Hongfei followed the scattered crowd and disappeared. At this time, the police not far away seemed to see the situation clearly and quickly remembered the sirens and ran over.

At this time, Ye Fang and the others walked around a few blocks and were sitting in a private room in a coffee shop. Ye Fang looked at Pang Hongfei who drank two bottles of mineral water in one breath. It was obvious that he had just run for his life and let the civilian reporter Pang Hongfei, who was born, couldn't stand it, and it took a long time to calm down. Ye Fang and Nan listened patiently to Pang Hongfei's story.

The truth is exactly as Ye Fang speculated. Pang Hongfei graduated from the School of International Relations at the University of Hong Kong and joined Global Daily right after graduation. Starting from a grassroots reporter, he is now the deputy editor-in-chief of Global Daily, responsible for the international commentary section of the daily. Since the beginning of the 21st century, major international events have occurred frequently, and international relations have become increasingly complex under the framework of the Western value system dominated by the United States.

As a top student who graduated from the School of International Relations, Pang Hongfei has unique and profound insights into the relations between countries with his more than ten years of research. His many international relations articles even alarmed the intelligence agencies of various countries. Many of his articles It even coincides with the highly confidential national strategies of various countries, which is why the CIA agents wanted to arrest Pang Hong and fly to the United States.

Pang Hongfei's latest commentary article was "Seeing the Trend of International Relations in the Next Ten Years from the U.S. War in Afghanistan." While talking about Pang Hongfei, he opened his notebook and showed the article to Ye Fang.

"It should be this article that made the Americans want to take action against me. If it weren't for you, I would have been captured by them and taken to the United States. I don't know when I would be able to come back." Pang Hongfei thanked me.

Ye Fang patiently read the entire article in 10 minutes. The article discussed the many purposes of the United States in launching the war in Afghanistan in simple and easy-to-understand terms. One of the core purposes made Ye Fang extremely frightened after reading it. Pang Hongfei said that another purpose of the United States launching the war in Afghanistan is to plant a nail in the southwest corner of the East and use Afghanistan as a transit base to monitor East Asian countries. Because Afghanistan directly borders the Eastern countries, this is equivalent to being under the belly of the Eastern countries. Drop a bomb.

With Afghanistan as a fulcrum, it is enough to make a big country in the East sleepless and uneasy day and night! After reading it, Ye Fang closed his notebook. He had never thought about the United States launching a war against Afghanistan. In other words, the relationship between countries is a professional subject. If it were not for international geopolitics, It is impossible to think of this level without sufficient research.

"This Pang Hongfei is a talent!" Ye Fang thought to himself.

Ye Fang is now engaged in business between countries, and even conflicts between countries. If he has a person like Pang Hongfei who knows the international situation well at his side, Ye Fang will be able to accurately grasp the international rhythm. Having a think tank-like figure is very important for oneself to use arbitrage between countries.

At this moment, Ye Fang knew that his single-player mode had to be changed. He wanted to see if he could bring Pang Hongfei under his command. This would be helpful for his future plans.

Seeing that Ye Fang didn't speak for a long time, Pang Hongfei asked, "Mr. Ye, what do you think of my article?"

Ye Fang nodded and said, "Very good! Very insightful!"

Hearing Ye Fang's praise, Pang Hongfei smiled with satisfaction. For a person like Pang Hongfei, he really wanted to be recognized by others, so he was very satisfied with Ye Fang's reply.

Ye Fang thought for a moment and said directly, "Mr. Pang, I was very inspired after reading your article. I believe you have real talent and learning. Based on your talent, you should be a talentless person in the Global Times. I work in international affairs." Regarding trade, the changes in the international situation in the future can be said to have a great impact on my business. I really need a consultant like you who understands international relations by my side. What do you think, can you consider coming to help me? You can do whatever you want in terms of salary. open."

"Ah -" Pang Hongfei, who just turned 37 this year, looks a bit mature, so much so that many people would think that he is already in his 40s, and he is almost [-] years old and not married yet because he is proud of his talents. Hearing Ye Fang's invitation to recruit him, Pang Hongfei didn't react for a moment. After all, he had never encountered such a situation.

"May I ask Mr. Ye how big your business is?" After all, Pang Hongfei and Ye Fang had only known each other for less than half an hour. Although Ye Fang was young, the aura he exuded made Pang Hongfei feel that he was not an ordinary person.

Ye Fang chuckled and said, "My business is very big, maybe bigger than you imagine. My business is all over the world, even here I have business."

"Here? Dubai?" Pang Hongfei was a little unconvinced and continued to ask, "Which business here is yours?"

"For example, this Palm Island project was invested by several UAE crown princes." Ye Fang said with a smile.

"What?! You said you invested in the Palm Island project?" Pang Hongfei suddenly had a more intuitive understanding of Ye Fang's assets, but of course he would not believe it based on Ye Fang's words, and continued He said, "Do you have any proof? You can't say that you invested the money. I want to say that I invested in this Palm Island."

"Of course I can't carry the asset certification documents with me, but I can still prove to you my social connections, at least to let you know that I didn't lie to you." Ye Fang said.

"How do you prove it?" Pang Hongfei asked.

"Do you know Dubai's Crown Prince Hamdan?" Ye Fang asked.

"Of course I know. I am planning to ask him for an exclusive interview this time. We are still communicating through the diplomatic department." Pang Hongfei said truthfully.

"Don't bother me. I'll call him and ask him to come over." Ye Fang said casually.

"Come... come over, Hamdan?" Then Pang Hongfei saw Ye Fang take out the phone and dial, directly reported an address and put down the phone.

"He'll be here in a minute!" Ye Fang put down the phone and said to Pang Hongfei.

"Are you kidding?" How could Pang Hongfei believe that Ye Fang could talk directly to Hamdan? He couldn't just say to someone he met on the street that he could mobilize Hamdan to come over for coffee at any time.

"Just wait, we'll be there in a minute." Ye Fang said easily, and then motioned to Pang Hongfei to continue drinking coffee.

Nan Yi, who was aside, watched Ye Fang and Pang Hongfei going back and forth without saying a word, and was minding his own business by looking at the scenery outside the coffee shop. After a while, a long luxury motorcade stopped at the entrance of the coffee shop. Under Pang Hongfei's stunned eyes, Hamdan walked straight to the coffee table and sat down.

"Boss, do you dislike the coffee in my palace? You have to come to the street to drink coffee. Is this your friend?" Hamdan asked, looking at Pang Hongfei.

Although Hamdan's Chinese was a bit jerky, Pang Hongfei still understood him. He immediately stood up and respectfully extended his hand to Hamdan and said, "Hello, His Excellency the Crown Prince. My name is Pang Hongfei, and I am the deputy editor-in-chief of the Xiangjiang Global Times."

"Oh, you are the one who wants to contact me for an exclusive interview." Hamdan suddenly said.

"Yes, yes, yes, that's me!" Pang Hongfei said with a smile.

"No problem. Since you are my eldest brother's friend, you are my friend. You can do the interview whenever you want." Hamdan said with a smile and patted Ye Fang on the shoulder.

"Thank you, thank you!" Pang Hongfei looked at Ye Fang in shock and did not dare to speak. Only now did he believe that what Ye Fang said was true. Moreover, Hamdan also called Ye Fang his eldest brother, but Pang Hongfei did not care about this relationship. Dare to doubt Ye Fang's identity again.

Ye Fang ignored Pang Hongfei's shocked look, but turned to tell Hamdan about what happened to Pang Hongfei just now, saying, "The agents of the CIA arrested people on the street in such a flagrant manner. Who will respond if this spreads out?" Dare to come to Dubai again. Especially those world-class rich people. If Dubai cannot even guarantee safety, I guess our Palm Island project will be closed as soon as possible. What do you think, Your Excellency the Crown Prince!"

"Is there such a thing?!" Hamdan's expression changed, and he said to Pang Hongfei, "Mr. Pang, I'm sorry. I will definitely give you an explanation for today's matter, and I promise that something like this will never happen again."

"It's okay, it's okay." Pang Hongfei quickly said with a smile.

After Ye Fang and Hamdan chatted for a while, Hamdan left. Ye Fang looked at Pang Hongfei and said, "This time, please believe what I said."

"Believe it." Pang Hongfei slowly uttered two words.

Ye Fang looked at Pang Hongfei and continued, "Someone once told me that choice is more important than hard work! Today you have such a choice in front of you. It's up to you how you choose. This is my phone number. I'm in Dubai. The Crown Prince lives in the palace, if you want to know more, come to me!"

Saying this, Ye Fang pulled Nan Yi out of the coffee shop without waiting for Pang Hongfei's reply, leaving Pang Hongfei alone in his seat in a daze.