romantic love

"We call the gangsters who robbed the Aldridge Orphanage x," Lu Xuyan nodded the huge light screen in front of him, "it's not hard to imagine that x and Hongta are controlled by different interest groups, but the ' The goods' will be sold through black market channels, that is to say, every An Qi that disappears, no matter whether it was destroyed by Hongta or not, may appear at our destination." He waved his hand to Julia, gesturing to her Then go on.

Julia nodded, gestured a few times lazily on the terminal, and the picture on the light screen was replaced all of a sudden: "This is a photo I found from the surveillance camera. It's very blurry. After repairing it, I can barely read it." She quickly He drew a circle on the light screen with his fingers, and the circled picture was magnified several times, "Look here, the group of people who contacted those missing nurses have all stamped on the back of their necks, probably for prostitution. Desperadoes for the black market, but I checked and couldn't find any black market associated with this pattern."

I stared at the circled pattern tightly, but the picture quality challenged my nerve strength. I half-blinded my eyes and could only vaguely see that it was a cross-shaped pattern. The black dots slanting out from the side appear to be dense at first glance. It is simply impossible to identify the prototype through these lumps of color.

So I asked Julia suspiciously: "Why not? Did you read it wrong?"

She shook her head, annoyed by doubts about her professionalism: "Don't compare your eyes with mine, Meng Liang, if I say you don't have it, you don't have it - but it doesn't exist in the black market, it doesn't mean it doesn't exist, I didn't mean to When I saw the news, I called it up for you to see."

A report printed in the corner of the newspaper appeared in front of our eyes. I took a closer look. The title of the report was "'City of Angels' Foundation injected another 500 million into Angel's adoption subsidy fund. Become a new frontier of philanthropy."

"Increase the subsidy for adopting Angel, stimulate adoption, and help Angel in the shelter return to her family..." I muttered the sentence in the report, and suddenly found a somewhat familiar pattern in the picture embedded in the article.

"The founder of the 'City of Angels' foundation is a priest of the Holy Bishop, and this coat of arms is the totem of the Holy Bishop." Julia quickly tapped the keyboard, blurring the pattern in the accompanying picture several times , just overlapped with the tattoo on the previous photo, "This kind of messy little sect has branches all over the place. Fortunately, there is only one place where the Holy Bishop can be used as a black market place. It is at Haiwei Wharf, yes, it is The Haiwei Road under our feet comes to an end, the pier facing the sea in the west."

"Following Ms. Julia's discovery, I also got some information—that pier was called the 'Asian Black Triangle'." Lu Xuyan smiled slightly, "The city of angels that conducts illegal transactions, the rose flower that detains the mentally ill Sanatorium, and the Blue Rose Palace, the source of evil, three black buildings stand there, the funny thing is, their names are very beautiful."

"Isn't the Blue Palace behind the Red Pagoda? Why did you run to Haiwei Wharf?" I didn't understand.

"That's because you don't know how big the Blue Palace is." Lu Xuyan spread his hands at me, as if he was a senior, "I have worked there for many years, and I have never fully visited all the buildings in the Blue Rose , but I roughly know its specific production process. Taking jade as a comparison, after the factory gets the raw ore, it will sort and polish it first, pick out a batch with good color and put it on the process line for the next step of processing, and then divide it again Only the last batch of qualified products will be sent to the market, and what you have come into contact with is already the batch closest to the finished product, and how much waste is abandoned in the middle will not be seen by you."

My brow twitched.

"You guessed it right." Lu Xuyan's tone was a bit harsh, "The dock is where the rough stones are polished. Do you know why it is at the dock? Because they need to dispose of a lot of defective products that cannot be shown, and the sea is an extremely Wonderful home."

"...don't say any more." I just felt chills on my back, and I didn't dare to worry about whether the females thrown into the sea were alive or not, and I didn't dare to imagine how dark the "black triangle" was. Some admire Lu Xuyan, working in such a place for several years, it is not easy to be so insane.

"Let's get down to business." Lu Xuyan snapped his fingers, "All the auction items in the City of Angels will be stamped with three types of steel stamps. It's not complicated. It's the three numbers '123'. A 1 means the supplier is Hongta, and a 2 The representative supplier is x, and the number 3 is the angels they took in through some charity activities. These angels must have so-called "selling points", whether they look good, have a good voice, or even They are particularly odd-shaped, and they may be made into specimens and collected in the exhibition hall after they are bought."

Before I had time to speak, I saw Lin Lu leaning against the back of the chair with his arms folded, and teased with a smile: "Why are you still stamped like pork?"

"On the contrary." Lu Xuyan didn't care who was more disgusting than him, "The ones that are not stamped, the ones that are screened out are likely to be made into pork."

"Shut up, Lu Xuyan." Yang Shuzhi interrupted them impatiently, "Don't always take this perverted joke as humor."

Lu Xuyan shrugged, and apologized very carelessly: "Tell me about the goal of our operation, we need to rescue at least two Angels with different stencils, and then expose the matter to attract attention—as for The plan, the plan is not complicated, we have already obtained the simple map of the City of Angels, the biggest problem now is how to sneak in."

"Can't the old way work?" Julia raised her eyebrows.

"I'm afraid not." Lu Xuyan sighed, "In the entire City of Angels, only the auction house is completely closed, and nothing can open that door except the invitation letter. By the way, the chip in the invitation letter cannot be copied. In other words, each one is unique."

"Is there any chance we can get an invitation?"

Lu Xuyan shook his head: "City of Angels will not joke about the lives of powerful people, so far we haven't found anyone who has an invitation letter, and at the same time, we don't know when and how the City of Angels will issue new invitations. of."

"This sounds like a dead end." Lin Lu said leisurely, without any anxiety in his tone.

It wasn't just him, except for me, none of the people at the table showed the slightest panic because of this dead end. They seemed to have a countermeasure, and this gave me an extremely bad premonition.

Lin Lu played with his hands, Yang Shuzhi lowered his head to drink tea, and when Julia and I looked at each other, she suddenly looked away.

I looked at Lu Xuyan: "You insist on me joining you, is it because I have something to do with the ticket to the black market?"

Lu Xuyan's answer was specious: "It is true that it is extremely difficult for ordinary people to sneak into the auction house, but there is a group that can easily enter its center."

My heart trembled, my nails sank into my palm, and I questioned him in the harshest tone I could imagine: "Lu Xuyan, what do you want to do?"

"Meng Liang, you have to know that there is no free lunch in the world." Lu Xuyan looked me in the eyes without flinching, "I tell you clearly, the only one who can save your brother now is yourself."

I pressed my fist to my forehead in pain: "Maybe he's not in the auction..."

"Don't deceive yourself—you and I both know that it's been almost a week. If he wasn't in the auction, he wouldn't be alive now."

I was dumbfounded, and after a while, I asked with a little luck: "What do you need me for?"

"We need a bait." Lu Xuyan broke my last fantasy with clear and decisive words, "An Qi with a high IQ, the ability to create conditions for us to break in, and at the same time charming enough."

As if afraid that I might not understand, he added: "I need you to provide us with a beautiful, tough and intelligent 'sss'."

"Impossible!" There was a smell of blood coming from the inside of my lips, and it took me a few minutes to calm myself down, trying to express myself with rational words, "I will not involve Sangsang in this matter, it has nothing to do with I don’t have the right to do that myself.”

Before Lu Xuyan said anything, the rich man sitting opposite me jumped up: "Meng Liang! It's up to you whether you have power or not! I bought that Angel with my money, and it has always been mine— —I just lent it to you for two days, don't you understand? Now you have to hand it over!"

"Mr. Hawkins," I gave him a cold look, "I don't know who paid for it, and I don't care. I only know that he is my legal partner. The red and white document signed in black and white a month ago, Do you think my wife is a toy car? If you want to lend it to me, you can lend it to me, and if you want to take it back, you can take it back?"

Howkins's crooked eyes became even more crooked with anger: "You don't want your brother's life? Just for a good-looking little thing, human life doesn't matter?"

I was a little impatient: "My younger brother is An Qi, and my wife is also An Qi. There has never been a distinction between high and low. Sangsang is a smart and well-behaved child. He has an independent personality and wisdom. He is not a tool. Why should I decide for him and drag him into this muddy water?"

"Well said." Lu Xuyan interrupted me suddenly. He stood up and clapped his hands symbolically twice. The fragmented applause seemed to have a sense of irony. Hawkins and I stopped arguing and turned our heads to look at What kind of drama is this man with a clown face going to sing.

"I know your partner is a person who is capable of making rational judgments, Mr. Meng, no one is qualified to make decisions for him." Lu Xuyan gave me a thumbs up, and then opened the terminal, "So we should let He chooses, doesn't he?"

I looked at him suddenly, moved my mouth, but said nothing.

He slowly projected the interface of the terminal on the light screen, and sure enough, his terminal was always in the communication state.

"Turn on the video." Lu Xuyan said to the terminal, his voice was very soft, "Do you know how to turn on the front camera?"

I held my breath, and in the next second, a familiar figure appeared on the light screen.

Sangsang was leaning against the head of the bed in light pink pajamas. I coaxed him to put this pajamas on before going out. I told him to go to bed earlier and not wait for me to come back. But looking at it now, he obviously didn't listen to me.

There is no sleepiness in his brows and eyes, he has probably been awake for a long time, or he has not fallen asleep at all. The hat attached to the pajamas is still the same as when I put it on for him, and the long plush rabbit ears hang down. On the side of his face, his complexion is especially white.

"Meng Liang." He called me softly.

I woke up like a dream: "Sangsang, what the hell is going on? Didn't I tell you not to answer the messy phone calls?"

"I'm worried about you, Brother Meng." He pulled the rabbit's ears embarrassingly, and a few strands of silver-white hair fell from the nightcap, "You are very strange today, I was worried that you would be in danger, so I just watched you Excuse me, did I do something wrong?"

That pair of clear black eyes stared at me steadfastly, which made my heart ache, and of course I would not blame him: "How is it possible. You did nothing wrong. This man surnamed Lu is a bad person. Everything he said is Lie to you, don't take it seriously, sleep well, be good, and be obedient."

I waited for him to nod, but this time he didn't do so obediently as usual, but quietly looked up into my eyes.

My heart sank slightly.

After a while, he said to me, "I'm going."

I shivered suddenly: "Sangsang!"

"I have already promised Mr. Lu that he will send me all the plans and materials." He said to me seriously, "Meng Liang, I don't want you to be like today, so sad and tired every day."

"...if you go, I will be even more sad!" I raised my voice, almost begging him, "If you don't come back, I will be a hundred times more sad than I am now—no, I will die, Do you know that I'm going to die!"

"You won't." Sangsang smiled suddenly, and I was a little dazed. This was the first time he smiled at me like this. The corners of his mouth were curved, showing some small fangs, and he was as confident and dazzling as a peacock, " I promised you that I will always be with you, I will be there wherever you are, I am very powerful."

I was dumbfounded, I didn't know where his confidence came from, and I didn't know how to argue.

Lu Xuyan saw that I had nothing to say, so he said goodbye to Sangsang on his own initiative. I watched An Qi, whom I kept on my heart, obediently lie back in bed, said good night to me, and hung up the communication.

I turned my head to look at Lu Xuyan: "Now it suits you."

"Don't look at me like an enemy." Lu Xuyan sighed, "To tell you the truth, I'm as unwilling as you to use An Qi as a bait, but this is the last way."

"There will be other ways." I whispered, not knowing who I was comforting.

"No, Meng Liang." Lu Xuyan said mercilessly, "Although this is the first time I have come into contact with the City of Angels, it is not the first time I have investigated the black market where Angels are traded. We have infiltrated, made unannounced visits, and tried Close to those dignitaries who participated in the auction, all experience tells us that once Angel flows into those people's homes from the trading market, we will never be able to find their traces, not to mention that as a charity, the City of Angels can even issue legal recognition adoption certificate."

I didn't give up: "What about the staff? Can't we start with the staff there?"

Lu Xuyan glanced at me sympathetically: "Do you think we didn't think of it? Unfortunately, the only thing that can open that door is the invitation letter. Angel's care and management have long been fully mechanized. Similarly, the auction day All processes are carried out only through the Internet and broadcasting, and no one can get in."

I slammed my fist against the wall, but there was no reply.

I can't think of any other way, not just me, everyone here, including the self-proclaimed experienced Lu Xuyan, probably can't think of any better idea, otherwise they wouldn't spend so much effort asking me to join them; Besides, we don't have much time left. My brother has been on the black market for a week. Lu Xuyan told me that the City of Angels will clean up the goods once a week. After the auction this Sunday, my brother will only face two endings. Either become a toy of some powerful person, or be completely destroyed.

"Don't be so pessimistic." Lu Xuyan patted me on the shoulder, "You have to trust that An Qi of your family, I have been working for so many years, and this is the first time I have seen such a special guy, I heard that people from Blue Palace and Red White Rose There is nothing to do with it, and the City of Angels is probably no exception."

I shook my head, I know that my Sangsang is not as invincible as they think, he does have beast-like aggressiveness and fighting power in some aspects, but in the final analysis, he is just a good boy who likes beautiful skirts and loves to act like a baby; he is innocent Sensible, pure and intelligent, ignorant of the world but able to see through people's hearts, he is as bright as an angel, and should not be exposed to those dirty businesses and people because of my involvement in this inferior, dangerous and immature turmoil.

I said to protect him, but he has to bear all this for me. If I lose him because of this—no, I can't even imagine that I may completely collapse, I may go crazy, or I may die.

"Tell me all your plans." I said hoarsely to Lu Xuyan, "I have to know, I have to know what kind of risk my lover will face if he joins."

In addition, I also want to know what I can do. If I can, it’s okay to risk my life. It’s best to save my brother. If I can’t, I’m his brother. There are only people left in this world who are related to him by blood. Even if we die together, it is just the end of a family reunion. As for my partner, he is so good, he should be loved, cared for, and free alive.

"There is not much you need to do." Lu Xuyan seemed to know what I was thinking, and he handed me a printed document, "Take Sangsang to the public shelter the next morning—this is Your script."