Chapter 741 Chens dinner party, the old friend under the mask!
"Brother Su, we have completed the last procedure, but it will probably take some time to get an audience with Mayor Chen. This is going to be difficult!"
Standing in front of Somo, Sun Quan put down his hand, which was full of seals, except for the last blank license.
In the afternoon, with the help of the trading point and favor, the entire trading license procedure went smoothly to the last step.
But at this point, no one could help but continue.
According to the current management methods of Tianyuan Territory, the processing of each document and the handling of affairs will be divided into five levels from one to five.
Among them, Levels 4 to 5 can be processed urgently, and you can get an interview with the mayor in two days at the latest.
But once you reach level three, you no longer have this treatment, and you have to wait until the mayor has time before issuing an interview notice.
By coincidence, the importance level of the trading license happened to be level three, and it did not rise to the category of emergency matters.
"What, have you submitted your application?"
"Submitted it, but Mayor Chen didn't have it at all." Sun Quan shook his head and was about to continue.
Suddenly, there was a rapid knock on the door outside the laboratory.
After getting the answer, Zhang Da walked in from the outside with an excited face, his forehead covered with sweat.
"There's news, tonight is the Chen family's dinner, and we have also received an invitation from Zizailiangfang."
"Yes. We said we wanted to commend the companies that performed well during the summer harvest. A total of twelve companies were invited, and our Zizai Liangfang was among them."
"Just in time, take this trading license with you and let Mayor Chen handle it on the spot, so you don't have to worry about it later!"
Zhang Da took out a well-preserved gift certificate from his pocket and carefully placed it in front of the table while spitting.
At this time, the way he looked at Somo had completely changed, and he no longer had the unruly look in his eyes.
Some are just extremely well-behaved.
After all, not everyone can be received by Mayor Chen. The fact that Zi Liangfang is here today is entirely due to the young man in front of him.
"Dinner party?"
After hearing these two words, Sumo finally put down his tools, took off his dust-proof gloves, and picked up the gift certificate.
Gift certificates are not made of paper, but a wooden product with a strong sense of touch.
The whole thing is bright red, with four huge characters on the front, corresponding to Chen's dinner party, and some unknown flowers are carved with flying dragons and phoenixes.
Turning to the back, there are some specific details of the invitation and the recipients.
"Zizai Liangfang, Su Youzong?"
"Is this being given to me?"
Seeing the big words in the lower right corner, Sumo smiled and put the gift certificate down again.
"How are the preparations for the Heroes Meeting?"
Sun Quan: "We are proceeding in an orderly manner. We have selected more than 20 workers with proficient vocational skills, and have temporarily given them a taste of the sweetness through some small means. The information is still being verified twice. Once
Verify and send it over immediately”
"Very good!" Su Mo nodded with satisfaction: "I'll leave this to you. As for the trading license, don't worry, I will go to the meeting alone tonight!"
"Going to the meeting alone?" Seeing that Su Mo had stood up, Zhang Da immediately shook his head like a rattle: "Boss, it is written in the dinner that each invitee must be accompanied by at least two people!"
"Is there still such a rule?" Sumo frowned, picked up the gift certificate again, and carefully read the invitation details at the back.
Sure enough, the third to last article came up with the idea of whoever the devil is, and it really stipulates it like this.
Male participants must bring one or more female dance partners, with the maximum number of people not exceeding ten.
Female participants can choose to bring women or men of the same age, with the number also not exceeding ten.
Perhaps it was for the sake of the atmosphere of the dinner that I went to the meeting alone, but was rejected from the beginning.
"Okay, then let Zhang Min follow me. She happens to be the manager of our Liangfang."
"Okay, I'll make arrangements right away!" After receiving an extremely satisfactory answer, Zhang Da nodded quickly and left the laboratory in a hurry, fearing that Sumo would regret appointing other candidates.
Seeing his appearance, Sun Quan couldn't help but let out a sigh after the door was closed again.
"Brother Su, this old man is really eager to send his daughter over."
"He must be trying to get Zhang Min to get close to us, and to use this to threaten us."
"It's okay, I know it well!"
After patting Sun Quan on the shoulder and seeing the latter hesitate to speak, Sumo laughed loudly and interrupted the topic.
Compared with Chen Shen who has been working in the wasteland for half a year and supported the government management of Tianyuan Territory.
Zhang Min's level of scheming is like a novice who has just entered the game, and it is not worth his effort at all.
"It's going to be a tough battle tonight."
I knew that when dealing with the current Chen Shen, I couldn't just deal with those two fools Feng Long by vaguely passing him by.
Sumo had already prepared several sets of rhetoric in his mind, and also thought of several emergency plans for different situations.
At the same time, for this talent that he had conquered and cultivated.
Sumo was also a little excited in this communication that spanned eight years of time and space.
"The best time to plant a tree was ten years ago or now."
"Tonight, let me see for myself what kind of fruits this tree planted by me will bear in eight years!"
With one thought, Soma no longer thought about it.
After putting all the small parts on the desktop into the tool box, he also planned to "get ready".
Give yourself, the great mayor, an unexpected surprise!
It's night.
The Eagle Hotel, the largest foreign hotel in Hope City, became the only protagonist in the city tonight.
Outside this splendid hotel, dotted with all kinds of lights, the style is incompatible with the post-apocalyptic wasteland.
Starting at seven o'clock, dozens or hundreds of escorts were fully armed and guarded the three surrounding streets.
In the past, it might have been a bit excessive for the Chen family to have such a grand gathering every year after the summer harvest.
But this year is different. As long as the permanent residents of Hope City can obviously find that there are indeed many new faces in the city recently.
There is a special mercenary who has a sinister face and you can tell at a glance that he is not to be trifled with.
There is a tall foreigner with a cold face and a very exotic style.
There are also various short-statured wilderness hunters who wear exclusive adventure costumes and are only for intelligence.
These people not only wander around every corner of the city during the day, but also try their best to find out what happened in the Tianyuan territory recently.
At night, you can occasionally see them running vigorously through the city to avoid being searched by the escorts even after the curfew.
In order to prevent these people from causing trouble.
Ordinary people can understand that the Chen family is making such a fuss now.
It's half past seven.
In front of the hotel building, cars began to arrive one after another, and people of different ages and looks came out of them.
In the beginning, it was mostly young people.
Most of the men getting off the bus were in suits and leather shoes, and the women were wearing extravagant evening dresses.
They met on the way and chatted skillfully together. They stepped onto the red carpet laid out in the hotel like a fashion show and walked confidently into the hotel.
Walking towards the back, middle-aged people are the main force.
Compared with the former, these middle-aged people are much more low-key. The men basically wear uniforms with low-cut hair, while the women wear low-key dresses.
And these people are the result of the Chen family's expansion in the territory over the years!
"Get married, absorb, associate, come"
"The Chen family started with only a dozen people, but over the years it has grown to more than 300 people, and the number is getting bigger and bigger."
"Because the center is clear and the main body has strong cohesion, their presence can basically be seen in the government affairs, economy, and management of the entire territory."
"Including the managers of our Sangtian Town, they are also members of the Chen family."
Sitting in the passenger seat of the Neng car, Zhang Min pinched his collar uncomfortably while introducing.
Today, she is wearing a light blue evening dress with a beautiful face, looking charming and charming.
Together with Sumo, who is wearing a black suit next to him, he is completely worthy of being a talented man and a beautiful woman.
But for some reason, the closer he got to the Eagle Hotel, the more Zhang Min became restless.
There is quite a sense of embarrassment that an "underground love affair" is about to be forcibly exposed.
"Oh? The manager of our Sangtian Town is a member of the Chen family?"
"I never knew this"
After opening the car window and handing over the invitation for inspection, Sumo put his left hand on the car window and continued to drive in.
He had been in the Tianyuan Territory for so long, but he had only heard of the name of this Flying Eagle Hotel, but had never seen its shape.
Now that I see it, it is really shocking.
The eight-story Flying Eagle Hotel has a facade dotted with light yellow spotlights, no less than 300 of them densely packed.
The translucent upper dome emits a faint glow, directly reflecting the sky and causing diffusion.
From left to right, the diameter of this hotel alone is more than 500 meters, and its overall area is hundreds of acres.
If you add a luxurious shelter made of exclusive materials underneath.
Normally, this place can be treated as a hotel.
In wartime, it can become a second command post and an unbreakable bunker.
"Hello distinguished guest, our party is held on the third floor. This is your ID card. Please take it with you."
"We will park your car for you in the hotel parking lot. You can pick it up at any time with your ID card."
Unlike the "country bumpkins" in Sangtian Town, the doorman in charge of reception at the Flying Eagle Hotel recognized Somo's fifth-generation capable car at a glance.
In an instant, his attitude was even better than when he received the younger members of the Chen family.
"Trouble!"
Striding out of the car, Su Mo straightened his tie confidently, and his face, which was not handsome at all, gained an inexplicable temperament.
At this time, in Zhang Min's eyes.
She even had the illusion that the Chen family was not the protagonist tonight, but the man in front of her was.
"Let's go"
Naturally patting the folds of his clothes, Somo stretched out his hand slightly, leaving a space for him to hold it.
The latter's face froze, but in the end he followed the example of other people who came over and put his arms up stiffly.
Following the red carpet, the two of them entered today's main venue after a while.
The first floor of the Flying Eagle Hotel has temporarily turned into a security inspection floor tonight.
Since there was storage space, Sumo thought that the security was just a formality and would not play a substantial role.
But the amazing thing is that after walking through three consecutive detection gates.
However, a prompt came from the game panel.
[Record]: It is detected that the player "Suma" has entered a special independent space, and your storage space function will be temporarily blocked.
[Record]: This ban is not mandatory. When the danger level around you is higher than "3", the ban will be automatically lifted.
"Is there still such a way?"
As he stepped into the elevator going to the third floor, Sumo looked as usual, but he was quite curious.
He didn't know what the degree of danger was.
But this method, although it cannot be used as a weapon, can force the opponent's storage space to close.
But within the territory, it can play an excellent role in some situations.
For example, if a prisoner is detained in a prison and has storage space, it will be difficult to manage it.
But if the storage space is enclosed, the difficulty will undoubtedly be much easier.
For important occasions like this, we can also ensure that no one with ulterior motives will lurk in, thus protecting the safety of everyone present.
Enter the main banquet hall on the third floor from the elevator.
The brightly lit interior was already filled with tables, and all kinds of delicacies and fruits were placed on the tables.
The waiter carrying the wine table walked inside, with one or two rows of half-cups of red wine placed on it, bringing out bursts of fragrant fruity flavor.
Taking a look at the people already present at the venue, Sumo was a little surprised.
There were no less than a hundred people in this densely packed place, but no one was familiar to him. There were strange faces everywhere.
"Aren't these people all from the Chen family?" Su Mo tilted his head and asked Zhang Min in a low voice.
"No, over there are the people from the Longhang Chamber of Commerce, and over there are the people from Daxing Agriculture." He pointed to three or four groups in a row. Zhang Min was no stranger to these businessmen at all.
"The people who are coming now are all branches of the Chen family in the villages and towns outside. The main family will not come here until half past eight."
"Is that so?"
Knowing the situation, Su Mo nodded and casually took Zhang Min to sit at a table outside.
Those people who came from the chamber of commerce all followed the limit of the invitation and brought ten people to form a big table. They were mingling with the people from the Chen family who were coming now. It was very lively.
There were only two of him and Zhang Min at the same table, which was a bit strange.
However, the host didn't care that Somo didn't come. He just ate the food in the fruit plate and passed the time. He didn't care at all about the looks from time to time from others.
It was not until half past eight, and people began to walk in at the entrance of the hall, that Sumo raised his head and looked over.
At this sight, his eyes suddenly focused.
The first person who came to the scene from the head of the Chen family was someone he was very familiar with.
Chen Kai, one of the managers of Hope Village before he left.
"He is the mayor of our Sangtian Town," Zhang Min introduced quietly from the side.
"Huh? Chen Kai is the mayor?" The first time he noticed that Chen Kai came in, he looked at him vaguely. Su Mo was slightly surprised and also looked over.
Eight years later, Chen Kai was over thirty years old. Frequent disasters in the wasteland and hard work had added a few obvious wrinkles to his face, making him look quite aged.
At the same time, Sumo saw a long scar on his neck that stretched to the back of his head.
It added a fierceness to his personal temperament.
After looking at each other for a while, Chen Kai looked away with a slightly unnatural expression and strode towards the hall.
Behind him, more and more people walked in, and Sumo saw one by one the "acquaintances" he had been waiting for.
Chen Yi, Chen Yun, Chen Hui, Chen Chao.
Before he left, he asked Pei Shao to count the members of the Chen family. There were seventeen people in total.
At this time, when the last person approached, except for Chen Shen, he had not yet been seen.
Su Mo was shocked to find that after these eight years, except for the large and small scars on their bodies, all the Chen family members were still alive.
"This is a bit unexpected!"
Picking up the cup of Coca-Cola, Soma drank it all in one gulp, moistening his slightly burning throat.
Almost everyone among the seventeen people who came in looked at him with a casual look, obviously they had already received the news.
Not knowing exactly what card the opponent would play, Sumo could only continue to sit at the table and wait patiently for the banquet to take place.
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"Mr. Su Youzong, right? I've known you for a long time. I've been busy with work and haven't been able to meet you. This is the first time we've met, right?"
Turning his head, Chen Kai came over at some point carrying a goblet.
His eyes were deep and full of meaning.
"This is our first meeting." Su Mo nodded regretfully: "The mayor has many things to do all day long. He is worried about the wealth and lives of tens of thousands of people in the town, and he is also responsible for economic management. I understand!"
"It's good to understand. There has been some instability in the territory recently, and there have been frequent disasters. Fortunately, Zizailiangfang has given us Sangtian Town face, and this has allowed me to hold my head high in the family." Chen Kai smiled and raised his hand.
Cup: “I’d like to toast you with a cup!”
"I'm flattered, I'm flattered." He picked up the Coke cup in a panic. After the two of them clinked the cups, Somo drank it down again.
In the eyes of others, his cautious appearance perfectly matched his status as a native of Liangfang.
But when it fell into Chen Kai's eyes, it made him frown slightly.
After drinking the wine in the cup, he looked at Somo.
"Zizai Liangfang is developing well, and Mr. Su is also working steadily and developing well. This is a sign that talents have come to our territory."
"Come, let me toast you again, and I'll celebrate Mr. Su's coronation in advance."
Chen Kai took another glass from the waiter's wine table. This time, Chen Kai drank it without even touching it.
Sumo couldn't help but narrowed his eyes at this performance.
He originally thought that the testing would not start until Chen Shen, but he did not expect that Chen Kai became the vanguard and came first.
Fortunately, before Su Mo could continue to speak, a commotion broke out at the front of the stage, temporarily interrupting the confrontation between the two.
"The mayor is here!"
The commotion lasted for a while, and I don't know who shouted.
The whole place fell silent immediately, and everyone who was sitting down also stood up.
Blocking the dazzling light with his hands, Sumo followed everyone and cast his gaze over.
There was a lot of crowd on the stage at this time.
But the scholarly man wearing a light black robe who walked out from behind became the only focus of the crowd.
Looking up, Su Mo was slightly shocked.
It was completely different from Chen Shen's slightly thin appearance as he imagined!
This should be Chen Shen's man. His exposed limbs are not the flesh and blood body of a normal person, but have all been replaced with prosthetic limbs made of light silver alloy, full of a sense of technology.
At the same time, his body was also extremely strong, and he was at least fifteen centimeters taller than before. He jumped from a skinny boy of 175cm to a 190cm warrior with slightly bulging muscles all over his body, exuding strong hormones.
On his face, Sumo saw a slightly reflective light silver mask, covering all his expression and flesh.
Even the skin next to him was covered, making it impossible for people to see clearly what kind of state he was in at this time.
"No way? Is this what Chen Shen wants?"
"Is it following Sun Bahu's path of personal armed force?"