Chapter 664: 664
In the dead of the night .
Xia Lei sat quietly on the sofa in his room . His vision was locked on the floor beneath his feet . The floor and concrete slabs were nonexistent in Xia Lei’s left vision — Ling Han was in the room right under his feet .
Ling Han was packing his belongings . His luggage was quite simple . It consisted of a suitcase, a laptop, a spare suit set, a few pairs of underwear, and multiple pairs of socks .
After he finished organising his things, Ling Han sat on the sofa and made a call .
“Boss, I’ve settled into Thunder Horse Military Factory . ” Ling Han spoke in a low voice, but Xia Lei still “listened in” by reading his lips .
This call was to Zongzheng Wukui .
Although Xia Lei couldn’t hear Zongzheng Wukui’s voice, he was able to guess that it was him from Ling Han’s expression and the way he spoke .
Since Ling Han had chosen to call Zongzheng Wukui at this time, it was easy to see that Ling Han had a better relationship with Zongzheng Wukui than Fan Fan .
“Yes, Boss . Please rest assured . I will complete the mission . ” Ling Han said, “Xia Lei seemed to be still a little dissatisfied with me, but he won’t have the guts to act impudently in front of me . He did give Song Baicheng a bad attitude though… Of course I won’t care about such trivial things . I’ll let him be arrogant for now… Yes, I will contact you whenever something new comes up . Goodbye . ”
Ling Han didn’t put down his phone after the call . Instead, he continued to make calls . He made two domestic calls and two international calls . All the calls were to Korea .
The four calls to Korea were related to the current situation . The people who picked up the phone calls were no simple folk . From the way Ling Han had addressed them, Xia Lei guessed that they were probably congressmen and important members from the Opposition Party of Korea .
Xia Lei’s heart thumped . ‘It looks like Ling Han still hasn’t given up on the matters in Korea . He is such a hardworking person . If I don’t help Fan Fan, I will still be the winner in the power struggle of Bureau ZN, but…’
The corners of Xia Lei’s lips curved in a smirk .
The relationship between him, Ling Han, and Fan Fan could be perfectly described using an idiom: the sandpiper fights with the clam, and the fisherman benefits by catching both . Ling Han was the sandpiper, Fan Fan was the clam, and he was the fisherman . The fisherman in the idiom was merely a fisherman, but in this situation, he was a fisherman who had a relationship with the clam . So, he was a fisherman who got all the profits .
Ling Han went to the bathroom after he finished making the last call . Xia Lei stopped using his X-ray vision .
Xia Lei also took out his phone and dialled a phone number that he had not called in a long time .
“Who is this?” The voice on the other end of the phone belonged Ahn Geungan and it was filled with suspicion and wariness .
“Did you forget about me, old friend?” Xia Lei replied with a laugh .
There was silence on the other end of the line for a while before Ahn Geungan spoke . “Mr Xia . Why are you calling me so late in the night?”
“To chat about the good old days . Is that okay?”
“Stop joking around . We are not friends . ”
“How can you say that? I’m calling you out of sincerity . ”
“Sincerity from you? Hah!” Ahn Geungan snorted . “When I hear your voice, I’m reminded of my son, Suhyeong . You probably forgot about him, right? Did you think that I would forget about his death?”
“Mr Ahn, of course I didn’t forget, and I won’t forget . But what I remembered was that he had brought a lot of hitmen with him, intending to kill me . From your perspective, you lost your son . But from my perspective, am I just going to forfeit my life and wait for him to kill me? If there’s a cause, then there’s an effect . That’s karma . Accept reality . ”
“I don’t want to talk nonsense with you . If there’s anything you have to say, then just say it . ”
“Okay, then I’ll be frank . I guess you’ve already forgotten about what I have in my hands?”
“What do you want?” Ahn Geungan’s voice was filled with anger .
“Don’t take me the wrong way . I know your election situation is not optimistic, but I’m not here to hit you when you’re down . Instead, I’m here to help you . ”
“You kept those things because you want to threaten me to reach your goal . How can I believe that you want to help me?”
“I have my own goal, of course . I can’t just help you and not get anything in return, right?”
“Tell me, then . What’s your goal?”
“I want to make some changes in the free trade zone agreement and some targeted policies . That’s my only request . It’s as simple as that . ”
“Who do you think I am? Do you think I’m the president of Korea? Even if I am, your request is over the top . Do you think I’m going to agree to it?”
“Do you think you can refuse?” Xia Lei’s tone was calm, but his words carried menace .
If you refuse, I’ll just destroy you!
“You should know well that it’ll be useless even if I agreed to it . Your request is beyond my capability to grant it, so it’s no use even if you threaten me . ”
“What if I can help you win the election?” said Xia Lei .
“Are you kidding me?”
“Why would I joke with you? Tell me, what do you need help with?”
Ahn Geungan hesitated . “I know you have a skilled thief . I want to borrow him . Also, my finances are being monitored, so I can’t use it in the election . I will need some clean money . ”
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