My Peninsula 2007

Chapter 447 A Soldier's Family
After hanging up Bai Jinjun's call, An Rusong turned to look at Lin Ya'en, who was sitting in the driver's seat. The woman had already gotten into the car, but hadn't started it yet.

"Drive," An Rusong said casually, noticing the other person had one hand on the steering wheel but was looking at him. "Why are you looking at me?"

Lin Ya'en didn't answer directly. She started the car first, and then tentatively asked, "Chief Bai Jinjun?"

“Hmm,” An Rusong nodded in response, then turned back to look at his phone.

He dialed Jenny's number, but asked curiously, "What, do you know Director Bai?"

“I do know him, but he doesn’t know me,” Lin Ya’en said casually as she slowly started the car, then added with a smile, “He’s President Li Minbo’s personal secretary. Anyone who pays even a little attention to the news probably knows his name.”

Just then, An Rusong dialed a number on his phone. Before he could speak, he could faintly hear Jenny's voice coming from the other end: "Where are you?"

Hearing the obvious excitement in her voice, An Rusong brought the phone to his ear and said, "Military service? What's up?"

"Military service?" Jenny was clearly taken aback. She asked in surprise, "What kind of military service?"

“I am now a full-fledged soldier in the Republic of Korea Army,” An Rusong said with a smile. “Have you forgotten?”

"Oh," Jenny said, suddenly realizing, "So, our Chairman An is already a private?"

These words made An Rusong a little embarrassed. He didn't even have the rank of private first class yet. As a trainee, he belonged to the lowest-ranking group in the South Korean army.

The phone call was a bit loud, and Lin Ya'en, who was turning her car around nearby, obviously heard what Jenny said. She chuckled and gave An Rusong a charming eye roll.

"Is someone nearby?" Jenny asked, seemingly having heard the soft chuckle.

“Yes, my superior,” An Rusong switched the phone to his right hand and placed his free left hand directly on Lin Ya’en’s thigh, stroking her smooth, delicate, and cool skin as he said with a smile, “Lieutenant Lin Ya’en.”

Lin Ya'en glanced down at his unruly hand, rolled her eyes at him, but didn't slap it away.

“Oh, then I won’t bother you any longer,” Jenny said, changing the subject. “The reason I called you was to tell you that the Colonel is going to invite you to dinner, and he asked me to ask when would be a convenient day for you.”

“Leonard?” An Rusong asked.

"What else?" Jenny said with a smile.

“This guy suddenly invited me to dinner, it can’t be anything good,” An Rusong laughed.

“This is really good news,” Jenny explained on behalf of her boss. “Well, I won’t go into the details over the phone. I sent you a document on NGN, and you’ll see what it is.”

“Okay,” An Rusong knew that the other party was hesitant to speak directly because they knew Lin Ya'en was present.

Jenny's call ended quickly. An Rusong fiddled with his phone and logged directly into the NGN app—the NGN app is now compatible with Apple systems, and its download count on Apple devices is already quite high. The only downside is that mobile data is currently too expensive, and the internet speed is as slow as a snail.

As expected, Jenny sent a file to An Rusong on the NGN software. Fortunately, the file was not very large, and it was downloaded in just a few minutes after An Rusong clicked download.

He opened the downloaded file and squinted to examine its contents.

The package contained two small documents, one of which was surprisingly an NSA arrest warrant. The wanted man was named Viktor Bout, a Russian national, and he was wanted for his long-standing ties to al-Qaeda and the Taliban, as well as for supplying weapons and equipment to the Taliban.

The NSA issued the warrant two years ago. In order to capture this arms dealer, the NSA even offered a reward of five million US dollars. Anyone who could provide accurate clues could receive this generous reward.

The second document concerns Viktor Bout's arrest in Bangkok, Thailand. It details the arrest process, stating that NSA agents located Bout's hideout by monitoring internet communications and successfully apprehended him on May 13th.

An Rusong had just finished reading the document when he heard a soft "ding" from his phone, indicating that NGN had received a new message.

The message was sent by Jenny. She wrote a long message, the main content of which was that Victor Boot was also an NGN user. In the past few months, Jenny's team had inadvertently discovered his whereabouts while monitoring a large number of NGN users in real time, which led to the arrest operation some time ago.

Capturing Victor Boot was undoubtedly another major achievement Leonard had made since taking office, which was why he wanted to invite An Rusong to dinner. Surprisingly, An Rusong had indeed heard of Victor Boot before. In his previous life, this guy was quite famous; he was the inspiration for Yuri Orlov in *Lord of War*, the character played by Nicolas Cage.

This guy is known as the world's number one arms dealer, with personal assets of billions of dollars. His clients are not just al-Qaeda and the Taliban. To be precise, he is present wherever there is military conflict in the world.

He not only served the Russian government, but also the US government. Washington probably issued a warrant for his arrest because he possessed too much information that was detrimental to Washington.

In An Rusong's previous life, Viktor Bout was not captured by the Americans, but by the Thai police. That is why, after he was arrested in Bangkok, both the United States and Russia requested that the Thai government hand him over to them.

Despite pressure from both countries, Thailand ultimately chose to hand him over to the United States. However, in 22, Russia brought Viktor Bout back to Russia through a hostage exchange.

Who could have imagined that in the world after An Rusong's rebirth, the NSA would actually catch Viktor Boot, this big fish, by monitoring the NGN?

"Who gets the $500 million bounty?" An Rusong pursed his lips and sent Jenny a message.

He sent the message, but there was no reply for a long time. He smiled and put his phone away. When he looked up, he saw Lin Ya'en pulling her car to the side of the road.

Moreover, it started raining outside at some point, and a thin layer of water had already covered the windshield.

It was already dusk, and because the sky was covered with a thick layer of clouds, the sky appeared very dark, as if it were night.

Right next to the jeep was a solitary building on the side of the road. An Rusong bent down and glanced at the building. He found that it was quite tall, at least twenty or thirty stories high. However, it looked a bit awkward standing there like a long, narrow lamppost.

“Military Personnel’s Home?” At the entrance of the building, there was a rather old sign with Chinese characters on it.

"What do you think of this place?" Lin Ya'en turned off the car and asked while unbuckling her seatbelt.

"What do you mean, how about it?" An Rusong asked in surprise.

“I mean, what do you think of this place?” Lin Ya’en asked again.

An Rusong subconsciously turned his head to look out the window, only to see six or seven soldiers in military uniforms walking out of the building entrance and running towards the distance.

"You don't intend to do *that* in a place like this, do you?" An Rusong said in a strange tone, touching his nose. "This seems to be a place specifically for soldiers to rest, right? The conditions don't look very good."

Lin Ya'en ignored his nonsense and said to herself, "This is the 'Military's Home,' built in 1969. It's a hotel specifically for military personnel."

An Rusong turned his gaze away from the window and looked back at the woman beside him.

“The main building has 37 floors in total, 30 above ground and 7 below ground,” Lin Ya’en continued. “It has a total area of ​​more than 4 square meters and currently has 274 guest rooms. It is also equipped with a large banquet hall, swimming pool, gym and other supporting facilities. However, since it has been built for nearly forty years, it is quite old and looks somewhat dilapidated.”

"What, you're not trying to get investment from me, are you?" An Rusong chuckled. "I'm not interested in running a hotel, especially a military hotel."

“I’m interested,” Lin Ya’en said, her eyes sparkling, her pupils seemingly brimming with light.

"Oh?" An Rusong was surprised.

“Currently, all military units in Seoul lack welfare facilities for soldiers,” Lim Ya-eun continued. “So, the higher-ups have set their sights on this place, wanting to redevelop it to improve the welfare services for the military.”

“I think it’s because the Blue House has been cracking down on corruption recently and is strictly investigating corrupt behavior by public officials. Those ‘people in higher positions’ you mentioned no longer have a place where they can openly indulge in debauchery, so they’ve set their sights on this place, right?” An Rusong scoffed at the other party’s statement.

"Does that matter?" Lin Ya'en countered.

An Rusong shrugged and changed the subject, saying, "Okay, I got it. You're interested in this place. So, what's next?"

“This building currently belongs to the Army Association,” Lin Ya’en said. “Previously, they had commissioned the Ministry of Finance to develop the project, but the Ministry of Finance was unwilling to provide the funds and therefore rejected the project. Now, the Army Association is preparing to seek cooperation from private capital to make the project a reality.”

(End of this chapter)