Ark Traveler, I want to take a day off today too

"Tsk, tsk, tsk, people like you are called otakus in the East." Xingxiong smacked his lips and twisted the handle directly. The electric donkey rushed out like a small whirlwind. "Then how did you get to Longmen last time?"

Lin Lei put his head on Xingxiong’s back and said sullenly: “I owe someone a huge debt, and I do whatever the creditor tells me to do...so I came here.” It must be said that Xingxiong’s back was much softer and warmer than he had imagined.

In addition, it was already late autumn or winter, and the biting cold wind made him subconsciously lean on the other person's back again: "You are wearing so little in this weather... Aren't you cold?"

"I'm from the ghost tribe...and who do you think is the reason why I have to work overtime so late?" Xingxiong snorted softly, but she still felt very touched by someone's concern: "If you feel cold, you can hug me tighter."

“I’m not afraid of the cold… and didn’t I tell you that we went to Chernobyl before?” Although he said this, Linley still stuck a little closer.

The waist of this special operations officer, who was mostly fighting on the front lines, was naturally not as slender and soft as Warfarin and the others, but it represented healthy elasticity. “It feels so good~” Lin Lei pinched it subconsciously.

“If someone else dared to do this to me, I would break his hands and hang them on the street lamp.” Xingxiong sighed, “I really want to arrest you as a molester, Mr. Lin Lei~”

“I won’t move… Mainly because it feels really good… So…” Linley said as he subconsciously pinched it again, “Ah, sorry.”

“Lin Lei… Believe it or not, I will throw you off the bridge.” Xing Xiong said sinisterly, but then she smiled: “However, if you pay for this barbecue, I can forgive your dirty hands.”

"Of course, no problem, provided that the restaurant you find has good food...otherwise I won't pay."

A quarter of an hour later, Xingxiong stopped the car in front of a slightly shabby barbecue restaurant, and Linley frowned slightly: “Are we already in the slums of Longmen?”

"Why do you dislike it?"

“No, because there are basically no police officers from the Imperial Guard here… That’s why I said that.” Linley said as he picked up his suitcase. “Let’s go and see what the restaurant you mentioned is like.”

The barbecue stall, which was originally bustling with people, instantly fell into a dead silence after Xingxiong appeared. At this time, the owner of the barbecue restaurant wiped his hands and came out. He was a film man with a scar on his face and only one hand. The moment he saw Xingxiong, he subconsciously said:

"Sister-in-law?"

"It's me, A-Long, and you guys can have your food... I'm off duty now." Xingxiong waved his hand at the customers who had a variety of looks but most of them had tattoos and flower arms. "Just don't do anything in front of me."

"Yes! Big sister!"

“Are they all local gangsters?” Linley pulled up a plastic chair and sat down. “No wonder there are no guards in the slums here. Are they the ones who maintain it?”

"You could say that Aaron was my subordinate before, but later on I became a police officer in Longmen, so he became my informant." Xingxiong came over with two large drafts of beer. "Later during a drug bust, his hand was broken by a drug dealer, so I just let him live his life."

“That’s how this barbecue restaurant was opened. I have to say that their barbecue skills are quite high… Their horned beast (lamb) kidneys and warty beast meat skewers taste quite good.” Xingxiong smiled and held his chin up to look at Lin Lei: “Now let’s talk about another issue.”

"Where...are you planning to live?"

030. It is impossible to have sex after drinking

"My room is big, so it's no problem to just go to sleep after eating." Xingxiong's expression looked like this.

Sister, you are a ghost from the East Country, not a succubus from Kazdel! Linley could only quickly take a sip of beer to calm his nerves. He had to admit that this refined beer was indeed better than the canned beer provided on the island.

The strong aroma of wheat covered up the faint smell of alcohol, and even made him forget that he was actually drinking: "Huh...should I stay at your house? Aren't you afraid of gossip?"

"I came from the slums, and I used to be a gangster." Xingxiong said nonchalantly, "Do you think ordinary people would look down on someone like me? Except for Lao Chen and the others, few people dare to chat with me."

"Although I live in an apartment, the bed is big enough for two people to sleep in..." But then she waved her hand and smiled: "I'm just kidding, but it's true that I have a guest room. When Lao Chen didn't go home, he would sleep there. You can also stay there."

Having come to this point, Linley felt embarrassed not to nod. He held out his cup and clinked it with Xingxiong’s. “Thank you very much.”

At this time, A-Long also came over with freshly roasted kidneys and meat skewers. "Big sister and this... big brother-in-law? Your skewers are ready. The garlic-flavored roasted scale fish will take a while to make."

"Pfft!" Xingxiong spat out a mouthful of wine: "Aaron, he is my friend, not your brother-in-law." At least not now, she added silently in her heart.

"That's my possible future brother-in-law." Aaron added with a smile, "Is this your first time at Longmen?"

“The last time I came to Longmen was almost two years ago, so it’s not wrong to say it was my first time.” Linley raised his glass and clinked it with his. “Besides, I didn’t come here very often back then. It seems like your store is doing pretty well, boss.”

"Thanks to the big sister... either my brothers in the underworld often come to take care of me, or I hear that the guards on the field come to patronize me... so my business has always been good... but..."

"Just? What happened, Aaron?" Xingxiong put down his glass and asked softly, "Or is there something wrong with the slums?"

"Recently, the guards have been appearing in places like the slums quite often. Actually... a group of unregistered infected people have come to the slums, so now both the brothers in the underworld and the ordinary people living here are a little panicked."

"Why didn't you call the police for such an important matter?" Xing Xiong seemed to understand something and said, "Did Mr. Lin forbid you to tell me?"

"Well... Big Sister, if it's okay..."

"Well... I'll come and check it out tomorrow... but not as a superintendent." She nodded. "Now give us two more beers."

"Okay!" Seeing that Xingxiong agreed to his request, Aaron's steps became lighter, and those friends who were eating skewers here all breathed a sigh of relief at the same time.

Linley picked up a bunch of horned beast kidneys and began to chew them. “I didn’t expect that some people would have to go to work after work. Have you ever considered coming to Rhodes Island?”

"Don't you guys in Rhodes Island have to work overtime?" Xingxiong raised his eyebrows and picked up a skewer of Turdus meat and started eating. "It's mainly because things haven't been peaceful lately...otherwise we wouldn't be so busy."

“That’s also for the ordinary Guards. You can’t have stolen the badge of the special operations team on your shoulder.” Linley smiled and ate the last piece of tender and fragrant horned beast kidney. “At least it’s time to get off work in Rhodes Island.”

"That's for you too, Mr. Dredger, the logistics operator... I've never seen a logistics operator shoot so accurately." Xingxiong stuffed the skewer of meat into the other's mouth unhappily, "At least my brothers and sisters still need me... So even if I want to leave, I can't for now."

"Eat yours first...Come with me here tomorrow?"

“No problem… let’s just treat it as a trip.” Linley nodded and continued to eat and drink with Xingxiong.

At the same time, a tense conversation was taking place in the Governor's Mansion in Longmen.

"Commander Wei, whether it's the strategic level or their identities... I think our Guard Bureau is capable of doing this job. Whether it's crime or aggression, our Guard Bureau's capabilities are more than enough."

Chen put his hand on the sword and spoke loudly to the dragon head man sitting in the high seat.

"Although you... Rhodes Island can provide more possibilities... but the demands you put forward are too high, and this demand cannot be exchanged for the conditions you offer now." Wei Yanwu tapped the pipe in his hand and said softly to Kal'tsit, the Doctor and Amiya below.

Although the voice of the Lungmen Governor was soft, it was full of irrefutable and indisputable courage. But unfortunately, he now had to face another Riddler - Kal'tsit.

"Oh? Really? I even think our asking price is too low..." Kal'tsit's mouth curved into a mocking arc, "I admit that the power of the Longmen Guard Bureau is indeed strong, and coupled with those shady forces, in a sense, Longmen is indeed an iron wall..."

"But what if your enemies now are not just the Reunion?"

"What do you mean?" Chen Li shouted, "Does it mean that you are also colluding with the Integration Movement?"

"Chen... calm down." Wei Yanwu tapped his pipe again to calm Chen down: "Dr. Kal'tsit, could you please continue?"

The old lynx snorted coldly, "You can let me continue, but first pay the compensation for illegally detaining our Rhodes Island operators." She turned her head and looked at Chen beside her, "Or do you think your reasons for arresting Dredger are reasonable and sufficient?"

Deruijie? This name is so familiar... I always feel like I have heard this name somewhere before? Wei Yanwu thought to himself, and he looked at Chen calmly: "What's going on?"

"The Rhodes Island operator has affected our Guards' investigation, so I have detained him for disrupting official duties. Xingxiong should be interrogating him now." Chen said expressionlessly, "I think I did nothing wrong."

"They are guests, Officer Chen!" Wei Yanwu glared at Xiao Longnu and said, "Hurry up and ask Xingxiong to let him out."

“Even if you release him, you have to compensate us for our mental damage, Mr. Wei.” Kal’tsit ignored the two people’s double act. “Also, the reason we were late was because you suddenly issued us a task to stop the integration movement. No matter what, you were at fault first.”

"Considering that Dredger is still our 'elite operator', the compensation you have to pay cannot be lower than this number!" As she said this, she made a '6' comparison.

032. I'm going to sleep first

“Lin Lei… I have something very unfortunate to tell you…” Xing Xiong’s voice was a little trembling, “Old Chen is coming to stay at my place today…”

“Ah, shouldn’t she be in the Governor’s Mansion today? What should I do then…” Linley sighed and sat up. “Are you planning on letting me sleep in your room next?”

"Why don't you sleep in my room?" Xingxiong said guiltily, the pair of huge headlights bouncing up and down with her breathing.

“I fucking knew it.” Linley patted his forehead. “Alright… I’ll warn you first. We have things to do tomorrow.”

“Of course I know that… I’m a policeman.” Xingxiong said as he handed him the suitcase and harpoon, and put the shoes that Lin Lei had worn into his room. “We can’t let Lao Chen know that someone else has been here, otherwise she will definitely keep asking questions…”

“Oh, go take a shower first. You already have clothes so I won’t buy you any.” Then the 1.80-meter-tall man pushed Linley into the bathroom. “Remember to take out your dirty clothes and put them in my room first!”

...a quarter of an hour after the Rhodes Island/Lungmen talks...

The people from Rhode Island and Chen Du had already left the Governor's office. Now Wei Yanwu was the only one left in this huge reception room. The brother of the Emperor of Yan State, who had been in charge of Longmen for more than 20 years, fell into deep thought again.

"The name Drijer... I always feel like I've heard this name somewhere two years ago." He tapped the pipe in his hand, struck another match to light it, and took a deep puff.

Just as Wei Yanwu was about to take his second puff, a woman wearing a kimono and a jacket with similar ancestral blood to Wei Yanwu snatched the pipe from his hand and asked, "How many bags have you smoked today?"

Wen Yue, who used to be a princess of the East Country, is now the wife of the Governor of Longmen. Her purple-red hair and fiery red eyes easily remind people of gods, Buddhas, ghosts, and the like, but coupled with her ancient face that is full of feminine intelligence and maternal nature, it is easy for people to say:

"Mrs. Wen Yue is someone I can call my mother."

But unfortunately, this maternal look is just one of Princess Wen Yue's looks. If you knew that she was the kind of person who would race with Xingxiong on the outer ring of Longmen at midnight... maybe you would like her more?

Seeing Wei Yanwu's miserable face, Wen Yue could only smile unhappily: "I know that the Chernobyl incident makes you very anxious now, but this is not a reason for you to smoke so many more cigarettes every day... Didn't Xiao Chen try to persuade you?"

"I tried to persuade them, but it was useless, wasn't it... In fact, the problem with the Reunion Movement itself is not a big problem. The real problem has always been the attitude of Ursus itself." Wei Yanwu smiled bitterly, stood up from his sofa, and put his hands on Wen Yue's shoulders:

"It's been four days since the Reunion took over Chernobyl. There's been no movement from Ursus, whether it's official announcements or their army... These blind bears don't seem to care about this border city at all."

"This is very abnormal for the Ursus Empire, which has always been warlike," he concluded.

"You might as well go talk to Ge Rui about this matter instead of asking me, who knows nothing about it..." Wen Yue gently grasped Wei Yanwu's hand on her shoulder and scratched it from time to time.

Old Wei immediately smiled and said, "How could that be possible? Madam has always been my best wife... I will go talk to him later... But Madam, do you know the name De Ruijie?"

"Drejie... this name... I remember it appeared in the gang riots in Longmen a year and a half ago..." Wen Yue narrowed her eyes and recalled the past, "If I remember correctly... she should be a master of using a gun. She killed so many gang members from Syracuse and Longmen in one night that she even blocked the sewers in the slums."

“So who is the beneficiary of his doing this?”

"One is Xingxiong, Xiao Chen's subordinate... The other is Texas from Penguin Logistics... And it seems like this person has never appeared again..."

"Right now, there's a guy codenamed Dredger wandering around the city of Longmen in Rhodes Island... Doctor Kal'tsit said that Dredger is on vacation now, and even their CEO Amiya has no right to call Dredger back to the island."

Wei Yanwu leaned his head on Wen Yue's shoulder and gently touched Wen Yue's cheek: "So I wonder if these two people are the same person... If so, can we get some information about Chernobog from channels other than Rhodes Island?"

.....Meanwhile, at the resting place in Rhode Island.....

“So is Lin Lei really okay?” Jane looked at Amiya, and the little rabbit nodded very seriously.

“Mr. Lin Lei sent me a message, Doctor… He is staying at a friend’s house now… That’s strange, I remember that Mr. Lin Lei didn’t seem to have any records of entering Longmen… How did he know him?”

"Maybe we met online. The one from the engineering department... I remember he had a lot of great online friends, didn't he?" Jane tilted her head and said, "Also... that Misha that Officer Chen asked us to look for, Amiya, do you have any clues?"

Amiya could only shake her head. "At present, we can only confirm that the child named Misha is in the slums, but we may not be able to confirm the exact location until we get there tomorrow." She said, pulling the quilt for Jane like a little adult.

"It's already late, Doctor. You should take a rest first... It's not good to use your brain to think."

......Star Bear's Apartment......

"Xingxiong, your expression is not right..." Chen asked suspiciously while slurping the instant noodles Xingxiong brought her, "Did you lynch that Rhodes Island guy? I know that guy is a bit mean, but you still have to be patient."

"You've already had several allegations of violence."

Xingxiong could only smile awkwardly: "Ah? Really? Then I will try to restrain myself in the future... By the way, Lao Chen, I heard that your tone on the phone was not right... What happened in your negotiation this time?"

"I just learned one thing from that little girl from Rhodes Island... The person who led the Reunion Movement to occupy the entire Chernobog... was my sister Tallulah." Chen whispered, "And now the Reunion Movement is likely to take action against Longmen... I want to know what has happened since she left... Why did she do such a thing?"

After saying that, Mr. Chen, who had always been tough before, stood up staggeringly as if he was drunk and walked towards the guest room: "Don't worry about me, Xingxiong... As for you, I'm really sorry to drag you over to work overtime so late today, I'm going to sleep first... Good night..."

033. Have you ever considered working in the Guard Bureau?

Lin Lei vaguely remembered that when he went to bed, Xingxiong and he each had a quilt, but why was the other quilt now kicked to the ground... and now his face was blocked by a huge, soft thing with a faint fragrance.

His body was held in the Star Bear’s arms, and its slender and strong thighs were directly placed on his legs. Lin Lei now felt like a prey that was about to be strangled by a rattlesnake.

But it would be nice to be strangled like this, he thought to himself, while Xingxiong's soft, cotton-like headlights kept massaging her face as she breathed: "I'm talking to you...are you so dishonest when you sleep?"

Following the man’s helpless words, Xingxiong suddenly opened her eyes, but she did not intend to speak and subconsciously tightened her arms around Lin Lei.

"Fuck, are you trying to murder me?"

“Then you’re probably the first person to be suffocated to death by a chest injury.” Xingxiong let go of his hand with a smile, and Lin Lei finally broke free from that soft ‘hell’ and breathed in fresh air.

"What time is it now, Linley?"

“It’s 7:30. Shouldn’t you go to the police station, sir? Officer Chen next door left before 7 o’clock.” Lin Lei felt like a rag doll being kneaded and rubbed by Xing Xiong:

"Anything else fun?"

"It's just so-so. After all, I sawed off at least 80 arms with Prajna." Xingxiong muttered, "I'll go to the Guards Bureau and tell Lao Chen and then go to the slums... I have to say I'm very concerned about the situation over there."

"Then I'll wait for you downstairs in the Guard Bureau?"

.....Office of the Senior Inspector......

"Xingxiong... Can you tell me why your name is on the bail book of that Deruijie?" Chen tilted his head and looked at Xingxiong who was looking around, "The other person you are talking about is you yourself~"

"Emmmm..."

"Xingxiong, I'm asking you again seriously, answer me." Chen knocked on the table, and Xingxiong could only say helplessly:

"Because they are from Rhodes Island, Lao Chen...it is reasonable that they are all guests of Governor Wei...it is not appropriate for you to arrest the guests directly, right?"

"Try not to let this happen again! Also, Xingxiong, I have a mission for you... Later, people from Rhodes Island will go to the slums to search for unregistered infected people. I hope you can go over and take care of them..."

"Surveillance or protection?" Xingxiong's expression suddenly became serious: "If it's surveillance, I think it might be more appropriate for you to go find Missy."

"That barbecued pork cat... I'll... 'Longmen swear words' later..." Chen covered his head in annoyance, "Besides, Xingxiong, you are much more familiar with the slums than she is. As for monitoring or protection... I think it's both. This is also my assessment of Rhodes Island."