Death Progress Bar

When the first snow fell, news of Gua Wu's death came.

At that time, Shi Jin was sorting out the review points for the final exam drawn by the teacher. When he noticed that the mobile phone in his pocket vibrated, he seemed to have a premonition, and his heart suddenly sank.

"Gua Wu is dead." After the call was connected, Lian Jun's voice came through the handset of the mobile phone, close to his ear, and pierced into his heart, "When he was evacuating after assassinating the target, he unfortunately encountered a tarantula retreating. The large army was blocked by them on Treasure Island. He was afraid of being caught and become a bargaining chip for tarantulas threatening me, so he chose to kill himself. He jumped into the sea and died, and the body could not be found."

Shi Jinming knew that these were all fake, but he still felt a little uncomfortable when he heard it. He let out a shallow breath and asked, "Is he safe now?"

"At that time, there were often fishing boats passing by the sea." Lian Jun didn't answer too much in detail, and asked again, "I will pick you up on weekends?"

Shi Jin still refused: "No, it's not safe."

Lian Jun was silent for a while, and asked: "Then let Gua San go?"

Shi Jin responded, wanting to ask him if the next person to leave was Gua San, he opened his mouth, then silently closed it again.

What's the point of asking, isn't that the obvious thing to do.

……

Accidentally killed Gua Wu, Lu Shan didn't feel very happy.During the meeting, she patted the table a little irritably, and said, "Don't believe me, Mr. Lian is a f*cking lunatic! This Gua Wu has been with him for so many years, and now he died here. I really...don't Say I am cowardly, from now on I will stick to the one-acre three-point land in our country, and none of you will try to drag me out again. No one can hold Lian Jun crazy, I have to stabilize my foundation. "

Yuan Peng didn't understand her anxiety, and even felt that she was mentally ill, and said, "You said that you must deal with those hexagrams, and now you are lucky enough to kill one, why are you panicking again? Lianjun broke an attribute. Come on, shouldn't you be happy?"

"Then can the situation be the same now as it was then! I lost six of my subordinates, a total of six! If six regional leaders died on your side, are you panicking?" Lu Shan patted again. After getting down from the table, seeing Meng Qing and Qi Yun frowning at him, he paused, suppressed his temper a little, and said slowly, "It's not that I want to scare people, it's that Mr. Lian is really smart! What he wants to do I have never guessed correctly. Now the business abroad is a mess. He didn’t think about cleaning it up. He actually came to kill my people. Can you guess his purpose for doing this? Can you? Change us here Anybody, with the business in foreign countries in such a mess, would we do what he did?"

No one answered, Lu Shan asked the point, if they were Lianjun, in such a messy situation, they would not be like Lianjun, specially assigning a useful subordinate to assassinate a few An enemy subordinate who has no influence on the current situation.

"Mr. Lian doesn't seem to have any plans to save foreign business at all." Qi Yun spoke, speaking a bit slowly, as if he was thinking while speaking, using words very carefully, "From MZ to the current X and DL districts, He fights all the way and retreats all the way, and waits for the business to die before retaliating. He has no effective measures to save the market, and he always feels... a little strange, with Mr. Lian's ability, he shouldn't have made the situation like this."

"That's it!" Lu Shan sat up straight, as if someone finally understood what she wanted to say, "Strange! This is the point! Every time I feel that what Lian Jun is doing is strange, I will ask It’s a big loss! Anyway, I think the current situation is a bit wrong, everyone must be careful.”

Meng Qing also frowned, carefully considered the current situation, and said: "But the current situation is indeed created by us spending resources, unless...the information we got from that Gua Jiu is false, we will always It's drilled right from the start."

"Impossible!" Yuan Peng was the first to deny, and said affirmatively, "We have checked the information at the very beginning, and you all said that the information should be true. Don't you think it is absurd to judge it as false now? Lu Shan, Don't disturb the morale of the army with alarmist talk, you are too afraid of Lianjun, so you always unconsciously magnify his actions, a person with weak will like you is really not suitable to be the leader of the action."

Lu Shan sneered: "I'm not suitable, so are you suitable? Being cautious in doing things will mean that your will is not firm, and your prejudice against me is really deep. Yuan Peng, knowing why snake teeth can't make a big deal Well, it's because of your recklessness and lack of perspective!"

"you--"

"Okay!" Meng Qing patted the table, glanced at the two with a sullen face, and said, "Now is not the time to quarrel, calm down."

Both Lu Shan and Yuan Peng shut up, and in the end Lu Shan seemed to be unable to hold back, and defended herself: "It is said that it is an alliance of four families, but now the four of us, Meridian Gate and Snake Ya, have benefited, Qianye Yin I was not affected in any way in the second line, only my tarantula was poked into a sieve by Lian Jun, don’t blame me for this attitude, it’s because the hammer didn’t hit your heads, you don’t know the pain.”

What she said was also reasonable. The situation had developed to this point, and it was indeed the tarantula who had been suffering.

Meng Qing calmed down and said, "Don't worry, everyone will help Tarantula get through this difficulty."

Lu Shan pressed her forehead and didn't speak.

Qi Yun suddenly said: "Could this be the purpose of Lord Lian? To defeat us one by one and divide us internally. It is obviously unrealistic and very difficult for one-on-four to destroy, but if we only target one, then Mie's strength is easy to do. Gua Wu has a high status in Mie, Lian Jun specially sent him to assassinate the important person in charge of the tarantula, presumably because he attaches great importance to this assassination against the tarantula. Lu Shan is right, Lianjun will not do meaningless things."

The other three all looked at him, thinking along with his words.

Qi Yun continued: "There is another possibility that Mr. Lian spent so much effort to assassinate the high-level executives of the tarantula. Could it be that he deliberately wanted to put pressure on Lu Shan and force her to withdraw her power, so that we can fight against the whole of Mie abroad?" Press and attack a gap and then do something about it."

As soon as this guess came out, Meng Qing and Yuan Peng immediately turned serious expressions. Most of the foreign interests are now divided between them. Then they are in danger.

They couldn't help looking at Lu Shan.

Lu Shan received their gaze, and refused without thinking: "No, I can't transfer my strength abroad again. What if Mr. Lian sends someone else to assassinate my subordinates at this time? Such a loss I really can't take it anymore."

Meng Qing and Yuan Peng frowned deeply, one was thinking carefully, while the other became visibly anxious.

"You only care about yourself like this, what kind of ally are you?" Yuan Peng couldn't help asking.

Lu Shan's face sank, and she said, "I'm just your ally, not your mother! Let me risk my own death to protect you, to gamble on an uncertain possibility, I can't do it! I think you don't Treat me as an ally, and only consider yourself in everything!"

"Stop arguing!" Meng Qing interrupted the two of them, looked at Qi Yun, and asked, "What do you think?"

Qi Yun glanced at Lu Shan and Yuan Peng, who were tense, and replied: "The current situation of the wolf spider is indeed very dangerous. In this way, I can send some people to the wolf spider to help. As for the foreign part, Lu Shan, I hope you can help." Whether you can persist or persist, we are responsible for different areas, and now the business in some peripheral areas can only be operated by tarantulas, and it is really not beneficial for us if you withdraw."

"I can also call someone to help." Meng Qing also opened his mouth, seeming very satisfied with Qi Yun's suggestion, looking at Lu Shan and said, "Don't worry, we are allies, there is danger on your side, everyone must will help you."

Yuan Peng didn't make a statement, and asked him to help Lu Shan, it would be better to kill him.

Both Qi Yun and Meng Qing retreated, and Lu Shan's expression finally looked better, and she compromised and said, "Then I will hold on for a while... Everyone must find a breakthrough as soon as possible. The stalemate cannot last long. We must move forward or stop here , and if it drags on, Mr. Lian might not be able to figure out something else."

Hearing her sarcastic remarks again, Meng Qing almost couldn't hold back her impatience.Fortunately, Qi Yun quickly opened his mouth and accepted Lu Shan's words.

"It's impossible to give up. Mie and we are now in a deadlocked situation. The stalemate really can't continue. I think we should return to the original plan, the foreign business part. The reason why Mie can still be dying under our strong attack , because of the support of Gua Ba and Gua Ten, we failed to kill them last time, this time, we must find a way to get rid of them."

This was the first time Qi Yun proposed a plan, all three looked at him, and Lu Shan asked, "Then you want to lead this assassination?"

Qi Yun smiled and replied: "Everyone has their own things to be busy with, this time I will do it."

……

Holiday villa, study room.

Lianjun burned the materials belonging to hexagram five, and then pulled out all the materials of hexagram eight, hexagram ten, and hexagram three at once.

It happened to be the weekend, Shi Jin went back to the villa, and at this time he was nestling on the sofa in the study room to confirm the review outline for the final exam with Mr. Feng.He listened to the phone calls between Lian Jun and Lu Shan for a while, and saw that Lian Jun was burning papers and getting materials outside, he quickly realized something, looked sideways at the three pieces of paper in Lian Jun's hand, Said: "Three people are going to be sent out this time? Could it be that Gua [-] and Gua [-] also..."

"It's not them, it's Gua Ba or Gua Ten who have been outside all the time." Lian Jun replied, looking at the tablet with the call interface hanging in front of Shi Jin, and asked Mr. Feng opposite, "When do you always want to leave?"

Shi Jin was taken aback for a moment, and quickly turned to look at Mr. Feng on the other side of the video call.

Mr. Feng's hair has turned gray again, but he is still full of energy. Hearing this, he snorted coldly and said, "Don't worry about me, let's make arrangements for the boys first. I'm innocent. When the time comes, just find a training school Staying here is enough for old age."

"You can't say that, it's better to be careful about everything." Lian Jun shook his head and asked, "When the final exam is over, how about I arrange you to travel around the world? Or I will organize a senior scientific examination group for you, you You can do something you like."

Mr. Feng's face darkened when he heard this, and he said, "Why do you ask after you have made all the arrangements! You self-made bastard, you don't respect your teacher at all!" After finishing speaking, he hung up the call.

Shi Jin turned to look at Lian Jun.

Lian Jun looked back at him, put the documents in his hand upside down on the desk, walked up to him, touched his head with his hand, and said softly: "This year's New Year may be a little colder... I will find a way to invite Li Jiuzheng Shi Weichong also came here, he is staying alone in a foreign nursing home, and his mother is in that situation, the New Year should be difficult, how about we bring him here too?"

"No need." Shi Jin hurriedly stopped him, looked at the materials he had folded upside down on the desk, and asked, "Can I have a look at those?"

Lian Jun was silent, then patted his head again, and said: "Shi Jin, how to live a new life is their freedom, all we can do is to bless."

Shi Jin retracted his gaze, stretched out his arms to hug his waist, and buried his head between his chest and abdomen.

"Bring fifth brother here." It took him a long time before he opened his mouth, and added, "Big brother, you can tell the nursing home to take good care of him, and I will also ask second brother to pay more attention to big brother of."

Lian Jun responded, bent down and kissed the top of his head.

……

This week's back-to-school is still sent by Gu San.The two of them didn't speak, until the car stopped at the school gate and Shi Jin was about to get off, Gua San finally said, "Shi Shao, Happy New Year."

This New Year's greeting was too long in advance, Shi Jin paused when he opened the door, lowered his head and blinked hard, and replied with a smile: "I still prefer to hear you call my name." After speaking, he opened the door and got out of the car, his head also He walked towards the school gate without looking back.

Gua San watched his back disappear into the school gate, leaned on the back of the chair in a daze, then raised his hand to wipe his face, turned around and left.

……

The hellish review week has begun, and Shi Jin spends all day in the library, feeling like he doesn't know anything outside the window, and only reads sage books.In a blink of an eye, the weekend came, Shi Jin came to the school gate after school, found a familiar car, opened the door expressionlessly and got in.

Gua Er was full of dissatisfaction: "What is your expression, you are not happy to see that I am here to pick you up?"

"You talk too much nonsense." Shi Jin still had no expression on his face, he took out the review materials and said, "Every time you come to pick me up, my ears can't be clean. Be quiet today, I have to review."

"Tsk, it's really hard to speak, and you're not afraid of getting dizzy while reading a book in the car." Gua Er muttered in disgust, and started the car.

This weekend, Shi Jin didn't see Gua San in the villa.He set up a fire at the entrance of the small building, wrapped some sweet potatoes in tin foil and stuffed them in, roasted some sweet potatoes with the firewood he picked up, and distributed them to everyone.

In the end, there were three more sweet potatoes, and Gu Er still wanted to eat them, but Shi Jin didn't give in, and buried the sweet potatoes in the soil with a blank expression.

"Even if the ripe sweet potatoes are buried in the soil, they will not sprout in the next spring, and they will not grow into new sweet potatoes. If you waste them like this, you might as well let me eat them." Gua Er is still eyeing those sweet roasted sweet potatoes.

Shi Jin rolled his eyes at him, touched some firewood ash with his hand, and wiped it on his face.

……

After the final exam, the winter vacation came, and Shi Jin went back to the villa, where he was bored in the kitchen all day, studying all kinds of dark or weird dishes.Gua Er's scalp was numb from eating, and he ran away when he saw him. The two of them were noisy, making the deserted villa a bit more lively.

Xiang Aoting, who had been out of contact for a long time, suddenly called Shi Jin on a snowy day and asked him when this year's reunion dinner was.

Shi Jin lay by the window of the living room of the small building, looked at the thick snow piled up outside, and replied with a smile: "We won't have a reunion dinner this year... When the weather gets warmer next year, let's find a time to get together again." Fourth brother, what have you been up to recently, why can't I contact you?"

"There is a mission." Xiang Aoting replied, and suddenly said, "Xiao Jin, don't be sad."

"Fourth brother, what are you talking about, why am I so sad." Shi Jin still laughed.

Xiang Aoting didn't answer, and after a while, Shi Jin lowered his tone as if to compromise, and said, "Fourth brother, I'm feeling overwhelmed."

Xiang Aoting comforted: "It's okay, just bear with it, everything will be over before next summer."

Shi Jin was stunned, his heart tightened, and he quickly sat up and asked, "What do you mean by that? Why are you so sure that everything will be over before next summer? Is there anything official is going to do?"

"Don't worry." Xiang Ao Ting quickly comforted him.

"How can I not be in a hurry, fourth brother, you—" Shi Jin suddenly thought of something, suppressed the desire to continue asking, and said, "It's a secret operation, right? I'm sorry, I shouldn't ask about these things... Fourth brother , will Mr. Lian be in danger?"

"No." Xiang Aoting answered affirmatively, with a promise, "You and him will be fine, Xiao Jin, don't worry, Mr. Lian may not be unaware of the official affairs."

……

No one expected that Qi Yun's actions would be so efficient.They made a plan at the meeting the day before to find a way to kill Gua Ba and Gua Ten while defending themselves. Qi Yun locked the location of Gua Ba and Gua Ten the next day.

Meng Qing was a little suspicious: "Could it be that you planted spies in Mi'an?"

Qi Yun waved his hand with a smile, and said, "It would be great if we could insert spies. I just sent people to keep an eye on Mie's business movements for a while. It's just a lucky guess and a fluke to lock their positions. Let's not talk about that, Gua Everyone is not sure about the true appearance of Ba He Gua Ten, so I need your help to prevent me from targeting the wrong person this time."

"How can I help?" Lu Shan asked.

"For this operation, it is best not to let go of any fish that slip through the net. I hope you can help me seal the escape route of Gua Ba and Gua Ten. I will close the door and beat the dogs."

"Yes." Yuan Peng was the first to express his opinion and responded positively, "The situation abroad can no longer be so deadlocked. Gua Ba and Gua Ten must die."

……

The hunt for Gua Ba and Gua Ten began. Qi Yun did have some skills, and it only took a week to drive Gua Ba and Gua Ten to death in an isolated island environment where they could not ask for help.

But Qi Yun didn't kill them immediately, but made up his mind to capture them alive.

Yuan Peng didn't like this way of temporarily changing the plan, and couldn't help urging: "Can't we just kill them directly! These two people saw that they were going to die, but they started to self-destruct their business regardless, trying to drag us to hell together , and Mr. Lian must have noticed something was wrong, reinforcements might be on the way, so don't waste your time."

Qi Yun still looked calm, and comforted him: "Be safe and don't be impatient. It is better to have reinforcements here, and it will be more convenient for us to negotiate. Lianjun values ​​affection, and the living Gua Ba and Gua Ten are definitely more valuable than the dead ones. "

"Then catch it quickly." Lu Shan also frowned, a little irritable, "I really can't afford it here, just like Yuan Peng said, Gua Ba and Gua Ten began to recklessly fight back economically, we It is too difficult to mobilize resources and manpower to prepare for and clean up.”

Meng Qing thought about it for a while, and said, "Do you need my help? I can send someone to catch it with you."

Qi Yun glanced at him, with nothing on his face, but he picked the table with his fingers unhappily, and replied: "I'm caught now, everyone, stay safe and don't be impatient."

That night, the people in Qianye began to close the encirclement circle, trying to capture Gua Ba and Gua Ten alive. However, just as they approached the hiding places of Gua Ba and Gua Ten and were about to rush in, there was an explosion.

Gua Ba and Gua Ten died, they blew themselves up, and they died without a whole body.As soon as the explosion started here, Mie's branches in all major foreign regions suddenly started to act together, attacking all the strongholds of the four major organizations in a swift and violent manner.At the same time, the strongholds of domestic tarantulas in Baodao and Province G were suddenly attacked, and a big melee broke out without warning, both at home and abroad.

Lian Jun directly raised the battle from the economic level to the most irreversible stage of firepower conflict and territorial attack.Meridian Gate and other organizations were unprepared and caught off guard.

Snake Fang bore the brunt, and several strongholds in Area X were pried overnight.Because it had to spread out its business network before, its staff strength was too scattered, and because it wanted to help Chiba encircle Gua Ba and Gua Ten, it transferred its staff away from the stronghold. As a result, facing the onslaught of Mie, its strongholds were almost Those who did not resist were scattered.

"Is he crazy?" Yuan Peng was furious and couldn't believe it. "What the hell is he trying to do by firing so directly? Does he really not want foreign business?"

"I just said to be careful to guard against Mr. Lian's counterattack, don't be greedy for profit, don't act rashly...Damn it, Mr. Lian is really crazy!" The situation of Tarantula was even worse. Can't stop cursing.

Meng Qing hung up the phone call from his subordinates, frowned and said: "This time it is Gua San who led the team to launch a foreign offensive. Mr. Lian was well prepared. Their idea of ​​fighting directly at the beginning was the idea of ​​getting angry. They never thought of fighting with us. What kind of economic war is fought!"

Qi Yun frowned tightly, in a bad mood, he thought he had finally won over Lian Jun and figured out Lian Jun's purpose and thoughts, but in the end the fact gave him a slap in the face.However, he quickly suppressed these emotions, recalled Mie's movements in the past few months and the current situation, and was shocked.

"I understand." He said suddenly, with a dry voice, "We don't save the business at all, even dare to kill customers, let us spread the net to take advantage of it, use the lives of our subordinates as bait and pawns, and then take advantage of our power to spread too much. A wave of fierce attacks spread out..."

Meng Qing frowned at him and said, "What are you talking about, it's a mess."

"It's not chaotic at all." Qi Yun looked at him with a terribly serious expression, "Think about what Mr. Lian has done during this time. He didn't protect himself or save himself at all. He allowed Mie to be severely injured by us step by step, and then turned back. Come here and drag us into the water. Only those who want to die will waste their own resources so recklessly. Meng Qing, don't keep your strength. If you don't use your full strength this time, you may all be dragged down together by Mie hell!"