Chapter 68: Darkness Before Dawn

  After a series of battles in the north and south, Lin Sheng finally followed Hei Mei Gui to Shanghai, passing through the bustling city center, and the two arrived at a single apartment.

  It's really true that hearing a hundred times is not as good as seeing once, the domineering Black Rose who lives in such an ordinary white-collar residential area actually went to help an old lady upstairs voluntarily.

  "This world is crazy" Lin Sheng muttered, closely following behind Hei Mei.

  "Little Hao, it's been a while since I've seen you," the old lady said with effort. "This is the first time I see you bringing a boy back home, your boyfriend, right? He looks really handsome and suits you well."

  "Thank you, Auntie," Hei Mei said with a genuine smile: "I'll buy you your favorite pear tomorrow."

  "Thank you so much!" The old lady said with joy: "You're really a good girl, I still have some from last time!!" "Young man," the old lady turned her head to Lin Sheng and said: "Being able to find Xiao He as your girlfriend is the blessing of eight lifetimes, you must cherish it well."

  "Thank you, Auntie." Although her face was smiling brightly, Lin Sheng's heart was extremely depressed.

  "Living next to her must be punishment for all the bad things your family did in their past lives."

  "How's that? Not bad, right?" Entering the apartment on the fifth floor of Black Rose, Lin Sheng saw a tidy living room. Although there was nothing valuable, it felt very warm and cozy.

  "Really nice!" Lin Sheng took over the Coke she handed him and said: "I've never seen such a clean house."

  "You are the second man to enter this room." Black Rose said deeply, staring out of the window.

  "Who was the first one?" Lin Sheng asked in a tone that didn't care whether he got an answer or not.

  "A heartless man" Black Rose whispered resentfully: "He saved me, and at the same time destroyed me."

  "This...". Lin Sheng obviously couldn't understand Hei Mei's profound Zen words.

  "Never mind that," Hei Mei Gui took a deep breath, "As long as there's wine today, let's get drunk. I'll take you to see my room..."

  ……

  At 10 o'clock in the morning, a gray three-wheeled fruit cart, Pingguo. After waiting anxiously for a week, the long-awaited text message finally arrived, and Wang Zhigang couldn't help but jump up and down with excitement, although joining forces was fake, Li Wancai's bullying of him was real.

  "This grudge will not be repaid, I swear not to be human, one day I will repay it many times over."

  It was probably just the weekend, and there were many people coming and going at the border inspection station. At 10:01, a gray-white tricycle loaded with watermelons came over, and after being stopped, Wang Zhi Gang jumped up with his equipment and fiddled around for half a day, but didn't find anything unusual, so he ordered it to be released. Although the whole process only took one minute, the two "fruit vendors" on the tricycle had already broken out in a cold sweat...

  ……

  "It's done." In X County Town, Li Wancai's base, Uncle Cai received a call from his brothers at the front line and excitedly said to Li Wancai: "The goods have been successfully cleared, this Wang Zhigang is really capable, if things go on like this, the entire Chinese A-goods market will be ours. You should urge our brothers below to work harder and increase production."

  "Don't worry about this," Li Wancai said excitedly, "I've already activated ten manufacturing bases at the same time. As long as there's no problem with transportation, daily production won't be less than 300 kilograms."

  "It's great, by then we'll really be counting money until our hands cramp up~."

  Haha

  ……

  "The operation has begun" In the secret conference room of the Provincial Public Security Department, several leaders gathered together again. He Xing was making a progress report on the Demon Capturing Plan. "This morning, Wang Zhigang has already smuggled in 100 kilograms of heroin for Li Wancai. I suppose the quantity will continue to increase afterwards."

  "Very good," said the delighted Captain No. 1, "It's rare for Wang Zhigang to be so capable. As long as he cooperates well with Uncle Cai and Li Wancai, our plan is already half successful. What's the current situation with Night Hawk?"

  "He has followed Black Rose to Shanghai," said the head of the National Security Bureau. "Black Rose seems to be quite fond of that kid, and since they met at the Green Lake Hotel, she hasn't let Night Hawk leave her side. After successfully turning Wang Zhi Gang, she took Night Hawk to a secret residence in Shanghai, here's their photo."

  "Really not bad." Looking at several secretly taken photos, the leader smiled and said: "Unexpectedly, the heart-thrilling Black Rose turned out to be such a beautiful girl. What a pity!"

  "The more beautiful something is, the more poisonous it is." The rough voice of the second leader sounded, "Aren't you afraid of being discovered by Black Rose with such blatant sneaking shots? She's a venomous and deadly beauty."

  "You're underestimating our national security, aren't you?" The head of national security said with a sullen tone, "The national security personnel sent to monitor Black Rose are excellent special agents who were specially recalled from abroad, having experienced countless battles and even took photos of the secret meeting between two heads of state. Let alone this small-time Black Rose."

  "It's okay like this" Number One hastily mediated: "With Night Eagle following Black Rose, we can capture her at any time. Beijing also attaches great importance to our thorough destruction of the Black Box organization this time, and has assigned all the elite troops on each front line to us. We must live up to everyone's expectations and wipe out the Black Box in one fell swoop. How have you been doing here for the past few days?" The chief continued to ask about the situation.

  "Everything is going smoothly," said the third leader with a smile. "He's been busy lately, jumping from one thing to another, and has already figured out our recent work priorities. Yesterday, he even used his words to bribe Old Wang into showing him all the drug cases that have been cracked this year. In short, he's having the time of his life."

  "This is for the best," said the chief seriously: "No. 8 is now the most important source of information for Hei Shan Jia, we not only need to pass on the information we have compiled through his mouth to Hei Shan Jia, but also make full arrangements below and use actual actions to prove to Hei Shan Jia that the intelligence provided by No. 8 is completely reliable. In short, all our departments' work now needs to revolve around the Demon Capture Plan until we catch Hei Xiangzi."

  ……

  The stars have shifted, and the days have passed. Time will not stop for anyone or anything. After four months of hard work, a huge net has slowly taken shape. Through Wang Zhigang's "**" actions, Uncle Cai and Li Wancai have successfully smuggled tens of tons of A-goods from X County to mainland China, creating value that can only be described with astronomical numbers.

  Walking out of the bathroom, Lin Sheng quietly sat on the sofa. From Hei Mei's uncontrollably joyful expression and words, he had already judged that she had successfully taken the throne of this year's sales champion in the company.

  The final battle is about to sound, and the darkness before dawn may be especially long?