Chapter 42 - Chapter 42: Hibiscus City with Surging Undercurrents
Chapter 42: Hibiscus City with Surging Undercurrents
Translator: Henyee Translations Editor: Henyee Translations
“Take it, take it. I just bought the magic prop card. Don’t ruin it.”
“Thank you, Brother Li.”
After Zhou Xiaoxiao succeeded, she hurriedly thanked him and obtained a brand new deck of poker cards. Although it was a prop card, it was actually not much different from ordinary poker cards. Otherwise, it would not be able to be faked.
She couldn’t wait to leave this place. She found a deserted place, tore open the packaging, and took out a few.
Then, she took out a carrot with bug holes from the dining room and used a little force to easily cut it open with a poker card.
“It’s still relatively easy to cut things with poker, so cutting leaves will probably be even easier.”
After coming to this conclusion, Zhou Xiaoxiao looked around. Her bright eyes narrowed as she suddenly threw the poker card in her hand.
—Pa da!
However, her aim was really out of control. It could be said to have gone in the complete opposite direction. The poker card that was originally going to fly into the trash bag bucket accidentally flew onto the cleaning lady who came to clean.
“Oh no, it’s crooked!”
Zhou Xiaoxiao lowered her head resentfully and said awkwardly, “I’m sorry,
Auntie. I didn’t do it on purpose.”
The cleaning lady quickly walked up to Zhou Xiaoxiao and gently patted her forehead. She muttered softly, “Xiaoxiao, what are you being naughty about again? Your leader just went over there.”
Zhou Xiaoxiao cupped her hands apologetically and said, “I was wrong, Auntie.”
The cleaning lady flipped through the poker cards in her hand. When she saw that it was the Ace of Hearts, she immediately thought of something and blamed softly,
“I didn’t expect you to be the one playing poker. You were the one who threw it in the lounge last time, right? It’s good to have some fun, but don’t affect your work. Otherwise, I won’t be able to hide it for you.”
“I know, Auntie, but what last time…” Zhou Xiaoxiao looked confused.
“Cut it out. Thankfully, Auntie helped you clean up last time. Today, you threw poker cards everywhere. If the leader sees you, he will teach you a lesson.”
“I was wrong, Auntie. I won’t lose it again.”
After Zhou Xiaoxiao promised, she put away the poker cards resentfully and returned to her office.
Although she had been taught a lesson, Zhou Xiaoxiao had also resolved some of her doubts.
“Looks like this flying card technique can indeed be practiced. It’s just that cutting leaves in the air is too exaggerated. You can increase the accuracy of the poker cards, but the power is still limited..
“But if the poker cards are placed on the polisher, they should also have cutting power. The wound caused by that…”
Ring ring ring…
Just as Zhou Xiaoxiao was daydreaming, her phone suddenly rang. “Hello, Captain Chen, what’s the matter?”
“Quickly finish eating and go to the office for a meeting. The meeting organized by Chief Zhang will begin in five minutes.”
“Huh? Why did Chief Zhang call me?”
“You handled the robber case beautifully last time. Chief Zhang is deliberately nurturing you. Don’t waste time. I’ll teach you a lesson if you’re late!”
“I’ve had my dinner. I’ll be right there.”
Zhou Xiaoxiao quickly cleared the dining table and quickly went to the drawer of her desk to get the meeting book.
After a while, Zhou Xiaoxiao rushed to the small conference room in only three minutes.
Seeing that it was a small meeting room, Zhou Xiaoxiao understood that today’s meeting was definitely not simple.
Small meetings organized by Chief Zhang would usually only involve relatively important people.
She pushed the door open and entered. Sure enough, the room was already surrounded by a group of people, waiting for the meeting to start.
Zhou Xiaoxiao glanced around. There were more than ten people present, and there were three men in military uniforms sitting beside the main seat with solemn expressions.
Even the military was here. Clearly, this meeting was not ordinary.
Zhou Xiaoxiao was still in the internship stage. She knew that she was insignificant, so she chose a seat against the wall outside the main conference table.
After a while, Zhang Zhenghuai brought Captain Chen into the conference room.
“Since everyone is here, let’s start today’s emergency meeting.”
After Zhang Zhenghuai sat down, he looked around and finally looked at the man in the military uniform.
“Everyone here might be wondering why the comrades from the army are attending today’s meeting. Then let me briefly introduce everyone. This is Commander Xu, Commissar Li, and Deputy Commander Wang from our local garrison.”
Zhang Zhenghuai introduced the three military men one by one.
Among them, the man called Commander Xu was especially eye-catching. Because he was really fierce, bald, and very big, he was 1.9 meters tall. One look and one could tell that he was a soldier king when he was young.
It was Xu Jiajia’s father, Xu Kui.
The three of them nodded slightly at everyone.
It was not appropriate for everyone to applaud and welcome him in such a serious occasion, so they nodded in greeting.
Subsequently, under Commissar Li’s signal, Xu Kui slowly stood up and signaled with his eyes for the comrade playing the projection to project the information on the big screen.
Xu Kui cleared his throat and went straight to the point. “Hello, comrades. I’ll tell everyone what’s going on…
After Xu Kui’s brief explanation, everyone gradually understood the content of today’s meeting.
It turned out that Xu Kui and the others were carrying out a secret mission to eliminate international mercenaries.
The actions of this group of mercenaries were very treacherous. Xu Kui and the others had been unable to destroy this mercenary group in one go several times in the battle with the other party.
Recently, he learned that two mercenaries from that group had appeared. Xu Kui led his men to the vicinity of Hibiscus City and finally found a trace of their whereabouts.
At first, he was also puzzled. Why did this group of people come to Hibiscus City?
However, as the investigation went deeper, Xu Kui realized that the target mercenaries had actually pulled up another group of people in Hibiscus City.
Before confirming the identity of this group of people, Xu Kui did not act rashly. Therefore, he informed the relevant departments in Hibiscus City about this.
With the help of Chief Zhang, he had finally figured out the situation recently.
It turned out that the group of people that the mercenaries had pulled up was actually a group of tomb robbers with a criminal record!
It was obvious that these two teams were not compatible, but now, they were actually together.
This was strange.
It was precisely because of this that the armed mercenaries that Xu Kui was investigating had mixed up with the criminals who robbed tombs, which was why today’s emergency meeting was held.
This was because tracking down mercenaries was the military’s mission, but grave robbers were not under the military’s control.
With the cooperation of the military and police, Chief Zhang immediately decided that he had to prevent the mercenaries and grave robbers from causing trouble in Hibiscus City. He had to capture both groups in one fell swoop!
Then, Zhang Zhenghuai opened the projection cloth and said, “This group of tomb robbers has a certain level of armed force and is extremely vicious. They are Class A fugitives.
And now, there were at least two very dangerous mercenaries involved, which increased their ability to commit crimes.
“Although we don’t know why the mercenaries and tomb robbers are together for the time being and what their goal is, Commander Xu and the others have been chasing these two mercenaries all the way to our Hibiscus City. Therefore, this time, for our police, it’s not just a tomb raiding case.. We have to help the military to capture the mercenaries within our capabilities!”