Chapter 148 The prelude to the dark night, the song of boiling life
During the meal, Zhao Chen brought it up again about the wedding dress.
Wan Ning sat up straight naturally. On this matter, she felt that she still couldn't let go. Apart from the fact that she really wanted to wear the phoenix robe, it was also true that she wanted to steal the British Museum. Of course, these reasons were the best.
What she used is also the most true, that is, she hopes that Zhao Chen can break the worldly concept when doing things, detach himself from the world structure, and do whatever he wants.
At that time, maybe she can really be the queen of the world.
Stealing the British Museum was a major event worthy of being recorded in history.
Chen Yanlan suddenly spoke up and shared interesting anecdotes about the salvage process with everyone: "In this shipwreck, we were fortunate enough to salvage a few interesting pieces of clothing... Due to their proper preservation, the completeness of these pieces of clothing is amazing.
I am amazed that it can even be worn by others again, which makes me have to admire the ancient people's clothing skills..."
"Oh, what kind of clothes are they?" Li Miaoxian turned his head.
She was very interested in strange clothes, just like the robe she was wearing at this time.
"It seems to be the clothes in the palace, probably worn by the royal family." The little secretary was noncommittal.
Bai Wanning put down the tableware in her hands.
"Do you have any pictures? Show them to me."
Chen Yanlan was waiting for her words.
"Want to see it?" she asked again.
"It depends." Wan Ning nodded.
Chen Yanlan left the table, went to bring over the charging phone, found the album page, pulled out the pictures, and showed them to Wan Ning.
Zhao Chen's eyes were calm and he glanced at Chen Yanlan. This little secretary's acting skills were acceptable.
The moment she saw the photo, Wan Ning was stunned for a moment.
Chen Yanlan didn't recognize the clothes, but she did... She turned her head and glanced at Zhao Chen, and found that Zhao Chen was engrossed in eating, with no expression on his face. Her heart skipped a beat, could it really be such a coincidence?
Wan Ning returned Chen Yanlan's cell phone without saying a word.
Keep eating.
Wedding dresses and robes are trivial matters, the important thing is that there is no reason to steal from a museum.
She pretended that she didn't see it, trying to cover it up with silence to confuse the audience, but she was unwilling to lie, and she was unwilling to pass the phoenix robe that Chen Yanlan took out as other clothes.
She is like this...Can Zhao Chen agree?
"What clothes are you wearing? Show me." He reached out and took the phone over.
He thought, this kind of phoenix robe is not particularly beautiful, why does Wan Ning like it so much?
After holding it in his hand and observing it for a long time, he said, "So what kind of clothes is this?"
Chen Yanlan shook her head.
When Bai Wanning wanted to talk nonsense about this matter, Li Miaoxian took the mobile phone over and walked around. The mobile phone was finally held by the Zhao family's eldest brother.
Just glanced at it.
Li Miaoxian said something that made Bai Wanning's heart beat wildly: "Ming Dynasty standard phoenix robe..."
After saying the name, Li Miaoxian was a little confused as to why the queen's clothes appeared in the sunken ship. Although he was a little confused, it was salvaged from the water after all, and Chen Yanlan could not commit fraud on this matter.
Just a phoenix robe cannot please anyone in this family.
Zhao Chen was stunned.
"Huh?" He wondered, then he seemed to have thought of something and turned his eyes to Bai Wanning.
Bai Wanning looked at him, then reached for the phone again and stared at it carefully for a few times.
"This dress is pretty good, but I don't know if I can wear it..."
She spoke softly, and before Chen Yanlan spoke, she glared at him.
The little secretary had to shut up.
The family can eat in peace.
As if what just happened was just a small episode.
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Dinner is over.
When Bai Wanning was dressing up and getting ready to go out with Zhao Chen.
Zhao Chen sat with Chen Yanlan and listened to her work report.
"The leaders of the nine pirate groups at sea are not fixed. They change their leaders almost every period of time. They rely on the battle of wits and courage and the interests at the top to allocate the number of pirate leaders; but the leaders of the two largest pirates have never been
It has changed, and it has been going on for more than ten years..." Chen Yanlan paused,
"In other words, there is a group that controls these nine pirate groups, and the two largest pirate leaders are the leaders of the nine pirate groups... The other small leaders are irrelevant;
However, since we eliminated a pirate yesterday, the regular shipping routes in Southeast Asia, the Malay Archipelago, and the places near the Southeast Peninsula where pirates usually hang out have disappeared today;
This provides us with two signals. The first is that they shrink their forces and maintain a defensive formation to prevent us from breaking through them one by one;
Second, it may be that they are gathering forces to encircle and suppress our salvage ship; according to the current scale of our maritime mercenaries, the winning rate in a fight with these pirate groups is only 50%;
And we are in the open, they are in the dark... No, they may not know the location of the salvage ship..."
Zhao Chen frowned and had a headache, "So now, the salvage ship may be attacked at any time?"
"So far...it looks like this."
"Call the second uncle to come back. By the way, we can drive our transport ship over and transport the loaded goods in advance. Don't transport them to our private island. Let's park them at a port near Singapore first... Wait for this
Let’s talk about it after the storm has passed.”
He looked into the distance, and the setting sun outside the window had already dropped into the sea. Finally, a sense of urgency came to his mind. It was late at night, and the sea was even more unsafe.
There will be more instability factors in naval battles at night.
Pirate gangs won't talk to you, desperadoes, their lives are even cheaper than mercenaries.
"Do you have any good ideas?" he asked.
"I think the first task is to find the leaders of the two large pirate groups first. Only by controlling them can we truly feel at ease. Another piece of information we obtained from the prisoners is that the two leaders are usually not at sea.
Only remote control of the island group on land...using old-fashioned satellite phone communications."
"On land?" Zhao Chen was stunned. Compared to the absence of a trace on the sea, it was equally difficult to find those two people on land with the comings and goings of people.
Things come to an end.
Seems to have reached a dead end.
The task of salvaging the treasure will take at least four and a half days.
During these four and a half days, your property may suffer a devastating blow at any time.
"Where are our bombers?"
"There are only three bombers parked on our small island in the Malay Archipelago. It takes twelve minutes for the three planes to fly to the location of the salvage ship. According to the firepower comparison between our two sides, half of our manpower may be wiped out before the bombers arrive on the battlefield.
,even more..."
Zhao Chen was about to speak but stopped.
Chen Yanlan saw what he was thinking, "Those three thousand mercenaries have gone deep into the hinterland of northern Myanmar, and now it may be too late to mobilize them to the sea; while the mercenaries in the Far Eastern Siberia region can only urgently mobilize 200 people, and they have to maintain
The manpower required to mine metallurgy.”
Zhao Chen waved his hand, "200 people are not enough. Water from afar cannot quench the thirst of nearby people. Moreover, after this incident is over, the gold mining and metallurgical industry in the Far East will no longer need to use mercenaries. Their wages are too expensive, and the apes of the primitive tribes of Africa are physically strong."
If you have a low IQ, you can use it."
The little secretary nodded silently.
Rubbing his eyebrows, Zhao Chen felt that his brain was running out.
While he was thinking, Chen Yanlan was already on the phone with the second uncle.
After making the call, the little secretary spoke softly, "Now that we are involved in such a large-scale military activity, we actually need encrypted information calls and a commercial satellite of our own..."
Zhao Chen nodded, "It should be so. Instead of looking for someone else to launch a satellite, why not develop satellites ourselves... Oh no, let's do the space business."
"Okay, I will draw up specific plans for the space development department early."
Suddenly, Zhao Chen was stunned for a moment and asked again, "You said they used an old-fashioned satellite phone to communicate?"
"right."
"This call...does it require satellite?"
"Need, not only need, but also need a unique line open source..." When she said this, Chen Yanlan had already realized what the problem was. Before Zhao Chen could speak, she immediately responded, "Give me five
Minutes, I will immediately find the satellite launch records in Southeast Asia..."
Zhao Chen looked straight into the distance, the living room was quiet, Li Miaoxian was working in the bedroom, and Bai Wanning still didn't dress up well.
Three minutes later.
Chen Yanlan got the records and detailed information, "The positioning of satellites can cover a small hemisphere, but it needs to be accurately positioned to accurately convey information and is most likely to be related to pirates. We have targeted 13 satellites launched in Southeast Asia.
Satellites; apart from the 11 officially launched satellites, there are only the last two satellites left. One satellite comes from the Mafei Commercial Group; the other is also commercial from the Southeast Asia Maritime Shipping Group..."
When the little secretary said this.
Zhao Chen looked into her eyes and spoke calmly, "If I remember correctly, our two salvage ships were leased from Southeast Asia Maritime Shipping Group..."
Chen Yanlan: "The pirates destroyed their own salvage ship by themselves? This is obviously impossible... So it's the Mafei Group?"
"Wrong, it's normal for pirates to destroy their own salvage ships, because the salvage ships have been leased to us... As long as they steal the goods and destroy the salvage ships, we can only pinch our noses and compensate the two salvage ships according to the price.
.....And, how did the pirates find us? Is there a positioning device on the salvage ship?"
Zhao Chen's words once again made the secretary suspicious.
If the pirates knew the location of the salvage ship from the salvage ship, then the pirates must have been sent to plunder the salvage ship, rather than accidentally patrolling the salvage ship's location.
"Interrogate the small pirate leaders again and ask them about their goals and motives, whether they were instructed by others or whether they acted on their own."
Chen Yanlan made the call immediately.
Wang Tiezhu answered the phone, and Zhao Chen immediately knew that the pirate leader they captured was not dead. This at least proved that he did not know much information.
A hoarse and miserable scream came from the other end of the phone, and Wang Tiezhu seemed to be inflicting torture.
A minute later, Wang Tiezhu responded to the call while breathing heavily, "This little boss said that they were just looking for traces of their own patrol team, and just like the patrol team, they happened to encounter the salvage ship. According to what he said, the location of our salvage ship, although remote, was
It is indeed a must-go place for pirate patrols. Judging from the pirate's presence that day, they do not have a strong motive!"
The moment this result came out.
Zhao Chen didn't speak, but Chen Yanlan quickly spoke, "I will meet with the president of Southeast Asia Maritime Shipping Group tonight..." As she spoke, she turned on the computer and showed Zhao Chen the detailed information of Mafei Business Group.
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The information collected was quite satisfactory and even presented perfectly.
After reading it, Zhao Chen didn't even have any clue.
Finally, Zhao Chen set his sights on Lin Wanqing, the current president of Mafei Group. This is a Chinese name. After hesitating for a while, he still said, "Can you check the detailed information of Lin Wanqing?"
"Others may not be able to do it, but Hua Chen's super secretarial team has the world's top hackers and cyber assassins. Give me three minutes."
One minute and twenty seconds later.
Chen Yanlan spoke softly and introduced Lin Wanqing to Zhao Chen, "Lin Wanqing was born in southern Vietnam. He was arrested and imprisoned for drug smuggling and trafficking in 1997. After he was imprisoned, a big explosion occurred in the prison where he was detained. This incident became famous in Vietnam at the time.
, has a very high reputation even now, Lin Wanqing is a survivor of that explosion... Fifty-six-year-old Lin Wanqing opened the largest underground casino in Southeast Asia in the southern part of Jurong Island in Singapore..."
When he said this, Chen Yanlan had stopped.
Zhao Chen seemed to be in a daze and suddenly came to his senses. He shouted into the room, "Wan Ning, haven't you finished putting on your makeup? I've chosen a place to go out. Hurry up." He whispered again,
"Three hundred people were brought back, fully armed. Come and have fun with me tonight. The bodyguards are also in plainclothes. Don't alert others. I just went over to have fun and accompany Wan Ning..."
Chen Yanlan sighed and nodded, "I will arrange the mercenaries in place."
Zhao Chen has already spoken like this, and there is nothing that can stop her.
"Why are you in a hurry? I'm still choosing a dress... Come here quickly and help me take a look."
After Zhao Chen went to the wardrobe, he chose a white bubble skirt for her, which was youthful, beautiful, fresh and cute.
"Does this makeup look good?"
"There is no trace of makeup." He replied.
"Hehe, that's right. I haven't had time to put on makeup yet. Can you wait for another half hour?"
"..."
Zhao Chen's face was stunned. It turns out that everyone's girlfriends are the same, and Wanning is also a girl who has no sense of time.
"Oh, husband, don't be angry? Okay..."
"Okay, I'll wait for you, don't worry, just put on your makeup slowly."
"Thank you, husband." Her voice was clear.
Walking out of the closet, Chen Yanlan said with some worry, "Would it be a bit rushed to go today, and your safety is not something to be joked about."
"I told you, I'm just going to have fun with my wife. Don't worry. What you should really do is steer the ship from behind and tell your sister-in-law if there is any emergency."
The sister-in-law he refers to is Li Miaoxian, as Ma Xiao often calls her sister-in-law.
Bai Wanning finished dressing up, and Zhao Chen took her arm and went downstairs.
Then take a car and go directly to the casino.
Open the map and take a look. The south of Jurong Island is the sea. The purpose of setting up the venue here is obvious. After entering the ocean from the south, you are actually entering the small island group in the south of Singapore. After drilling into the small island group, you want to find it again.
But it’s too difficult.
"Is my husband worried?"
"Nothing."
"Then why don't you touch my legs? That's not like you."
"I have my moments as a gentleman, don't I?"
"Gentleman? What gentleman are you talking about?" she asked.
"..."
Zhao Chen and Wan Ning looked at each other, and after a few seconds, they said, "Okay, I really didn't let go of my hand just now."
After saying this, he already held Wan Ning in his arms.
Naturally, ordinary cars do not support their riding style.
However, the top MPV has considered all the needs of customers, and such a sitting posture is also simple.
Not long after.
Wan Ning suddenly said, "No... the car here is not her own car." The white bubble skirt on her body reflected her pink skin, which was charming and dazzling. But in this state, she could interrupt rationally.
Zhao Chen’s behavior.
Zhao Chen was forced to stop. After taking a breath, he quickly calmed down.
The real strength of a strong man does not depend on how strong he is at his peak, but on whether he can restrain himself at his peak. This is the real strength.
There is no doubt that Zhao Chen feels that he has opened up a path from physiology to philosophy.
'Li Miaoxian likes philosophy very much. Let's discuss it with her in the evening.' He thought as the car reached its destination after half an hour's journey.
The environment at the scene... surprised Zhao Chen.
This is not like an underground casino.
It's more like an entertainment venue on the surface.
When many long-legged ladies standing on the street see a car approaching, they will stretch their necks and wait for the boss in the back seat to get off.
Wan Ning was a little surprised, "Why are they standing outside? On the street."
"It should be just right for people to see." Zhao Chen hesitated and spoke.
"Ah, they might as well go inside. I guess the price they can sell there will be higher..." Suggestion came from Wan Ning.
"Maybe, maybe the ones here are different from those in China."
"Maybe it's different, but there are more important people inside. Their figures and looks are good enough to go in and accompany others."
Zhao Chen didn't know the reason, but that didn't stop him from talking nonsense, "Maybe the people working inside are business editors? Civil servants?"
"What a cold joke." Wan Ning chuckled.
Suddenly Zhao Chen realized a problem.
Perhaps these glamorous ones standing outside were not what he thought. They might just be acting as scouts in the guise of selling meat;
There is another possibility. Even if they are in this condition, they cannot enter. The restrictions on entering this underground venue may be extremely high. Then if they stand outside, they may be led by guests who want to come and play.
They enter. In this case, these women may also be the trustees of the venue, inducing the rich to spend huge sums of money in the venue.
After thinking about this, he spoke directly and told the co-pilot's security guard, "The signal jammer can be turned on."
To prevent these people outside from sending signals to the inside, the important thing is to capture the messages they send.
He pulled Wan Ning out of the car. He couldn't sit in the car for a long time. The car was parked at the door for too long. This was an abnormal behavior.
The greeter at the door spoke in a standard London accent.
After entering the hall, someone came to ask them what they wanted to play.
"Play some big ones." Zhao Chen waved the cards in his hand.
The expressions of the two greeters did not change too much, "Please come this way, we need to verify the capital first..."
Gee, this place really doesn’t cheat the poor. It’s the first time I have to verify my capital to play this thing.
Zhao Chen's card probably has a balance of several million US dollars. This level is mid-range and will not make casino people look down on him, nor will it arouse their greed.
He pulled Wan Ning and followed the waiter, taking the elevator into the negative 3 floor.
As the elevator sank, Zhao Chen's heart was slowly lifted up. With Wanning, he was still a little scared. He was afraid of life and unknown speculation. What he was most worried about was that Wanning would be hurt because of his indulgence.
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"Four guests are going to enter the casino. After the capital verification is passed, the welcome guest will take the guests downstairs." Zhao Chen heard a voice from the intercom not far away from the guest welcome guests. He felt slightly relaxed. Those four were his bodyguards.
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Chen Yanlan, who was staying at the Jinwan Hotel, urgently contacted the spokesperson of Southeast Asia Shipping Group.
Old Mr. Jones, with a feeling of apprehension, got into an extended car and headed to the Jinwan Hotel for business negotiations.