Start a mysterious island

After browsing the communication section of the Alien Hunter software for more than half an hour and learning about some of the recent events in the Alien Hunter community, Lin Li quit the software.

"Ding dong."

Just after exiting the Alien Hunter software, a message popped up in the group of the residents committee of Ping An Garden Community.

Lin Li clicked on it and took a look. It was a message sent by the group leader Aunt Wang to all members.

The content of the message is that Aunt Wang went to the street office for a meeting this afternoon.

As expected by Lin Li, Aunt Wang went to the subdistrict office for a meeting, and the director of the subdistrict office said something at the meeting.

That is to ask the presidents of the residents' committees of each community, like Aunt Wang, to inform the residents in the community to try not to go to the wilderness area near the outskirts of the South District in the near future to prevent being attacked by some crazy beasts.

In the eyes of ordinary people, aren't those alien beasts that cross the border and break into the safe zone just crazy?

The residents in the group read the notice sent by Aunt Wang, and then typed to ask, when will the matter about this strange beast end?

Aunt Wang's reply was that she didn't know when such crazy beasts would be completely dealt with. This would have to wait for notification from the Superpower Management Bureau.

Lin Li dived silently, looking at what everyone was talking about in the group, thinking to himself, "These people don't use their brains! Aunt Wang is just an ordinary person. Ask her when will this kind of thing end? How can she have an answer?"

After a while, there were hundreds or even thousands of messages in the group. Lin Li peeked at the screen for a while and felt that it was all useless chat, so he quit the group.

"Take a shower, then go to bed. Get up early tomorrow and go wandering around the wilderness in the South District to see if you can encounter that kind of strange beast that can grow red mushrooms..."

Lin Li threw his cell phone on the sofa, then got up and went to the bedroom to get his pajamas and take a shower.

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At around one o'clock in the morning, in a villa community, the study on the second floor of a villa near the entrance of the community was brightly lit. It was so late and the owner was still awake.

"call……"

A man in his forties, 1.75 meters tall, with a Chinese character face, a slovenly beard and messy hair, sat on an office chair, leaning against the back of the chair, taking a long breath, and a line of white smoke came from his mouth. Spewed out.

He was the only one in the study, and it was quiet. After finishing smoking the cigarette in his hand, the middle-aged man with a haggard look immediately threw the cigarette butt into the ashtray on the table in front of him, and then took out another cigarette. Click on it, and then he puffs away.

"Dinglingling..."

The mobile phone placed on the table rang. The middle-aged man who was puffing away his breath suddenly thought about it when he saw the mobile phone, and there was an obvious expression of excitement on his haggard face.

He immediately reached for the phone on the table and answered the call.

"Hello."

"Boss Wang, I went to the warehouse to take a look today. There are a lot of pearls in the warehouse." A female voice came from the microphone of the mobile phone.

"What? There are a lot more pearls? Where did those pearls come from? Which supplier sent pearls to Zhang Yuxi?" After hearing the other party's report, the middle-aged man shook his right hand holding the cigarette. asked eagerly.

"Boss Wang, I don't know where those pearls came from? I didn't see the supplier you mentioned. Those pearls seemed to appear out of thin air in the warehouse." The woman replied.

Zhang Yuxi purchased pearls from Lin Li. There were only three people who knew about this matter, including her. One was her accountant Liu Lan, and the other was Xiao Yun, the clerk in the jewelry store.

Regarding the sudden appearance of so many pearls in the store, the clerks in the store were also very curious about where their boss received the goods.

Because Zhang Yuxi issued a hush-hush order, neither Liu Lan nor Xiaoyun would tell the public about this matter, so so far, no one knows where these pearls came from.

"You...I paid you to help me monitor Zhang Yuxi's movements, but you didn't get any useful information, you loser." The middle-aged man angrily cursed at the woman on the other side of the phone.

"Boss Wang, how can you curse? I took your money and helped you monitor our boss's movements.

I’ve reported so much news about the store to you before. Aren’t you quite satisfied with it? Now if you say that I didn’t give you any useful information, you are going too far! "The woman who was insulted by the middle-aged man retorted angrily.

When the middle-aged man saw that the woman across from him who had accepted his money dared to talk back, the anger in his heart suddenly increased. He could not help but raise his voice by several decibels and continued to curse.

"You loser, the information you reported to me before does not need to be reported by you, and it will not affect my plan.

Now there are so many high-quality pearls suddenly appearing in Zhang Yuxi’s store. You need to investigate the source of those pearls, but you have no use at all. You still say that you are not a waste? "

"My surname is Wang, I am not your servant. If you scold me like this again, I will..." The woman was interrupted before she could finish her words.

"What are you going to do? Just take my money and do things for me honestly. If you get scolded or whatever, you just let me bear it.

If you say another nagging word to me, I will tell Zhang Yuxi that you took my money and did things for me..." the middle-aged man threatened in a subtle way.

"Boss Wang, how could you do this?" When the woman heard that the middle-aged man threatened to tell Zhang Yuxi about collecting money from her and doing things for him, the woman suddenly panicked and her tone softened.

"Hmph... Just know that you are afraid. If you dare to talk back to me in the future, you know the consequences..." The middle-aged man's tone softened when he saw the woman opposite him. After snorting coldly, he added another threatening word.

"..."

Faced with the middle-aged man's threat, the woman remained silent. Now she regrets very much that she was blinded by money and took money to do things for him.

It's a pity that things have developed to this point, and it's too late to regret. There is only one way to go.

"How many pearls are there in that batch?" the middle-aged man asked.

"Huh..." The insulted woman took a deep breath and tried to calm down the anger in her heart. Then she thought about the pearls she saw in the warehouse today, estimated the number in her mind, and said.

"I don't know the exact number of pearls in that batch, but based on my experience, the number should not be less than 70,000."

"It won't be less than 70,000. Are you kidding me?" The middle-aged man screamed when he heard what the woman said.

Originally, he thought that this batch of pearls would be the same as last time, around 20,000 pearls. Unexpectedly, the answer he got was no less than 70,000 pearls. Such a number completely exceeded his expectations.

"Boss Wang, I'm not kidding you. It is indeed no less than 70,000. This is still my very conservative estimate..." the woman said firmly.

"Quality, the quality of these pearls this time can't be compared to the previous two batches of pearls!" the middle-aged man asked anxiously, with an anxious look on his face. He hoped that the answer given by the woman would be as good as his own Just what I expected.

"The quality of the batch of pearls that appeared today is still the same as the previous two batches. They are round and flawless, and of excellent quality..." the woman said. Her words completely made the middle-aged man despair.

"..."

When the middle-aged man heard the answer given by the other party, it was as if the last life-saving straw in his hand had been taken away. He leaned back and collapsed on the chair, staring at the ceiling blankly.

"Hey, Boss Wang, are you still there?" The woman waited for a long time and saw that her employer didn't speak. She shouted a few times and found that there was still no response, and then she hung up the phone.

The middle-aged man slumped on the chair, staring at the ceiling with his eyes blank, muttering to himself.

"According to the plan, after Zhang Yuxi's woman's supply of goods is cut off, the store will not last long before it closes. Everything was fine, why did it become like this?"

This time, the middle-aged man and other colleagues mobilized a lot of funds in order to suppress Zhang Yuxi.

Compared with other people, in order to obtain more benefits, the middle-aged man borrowed money through various channels and put up all his wealth.

What was once a sure thing has now become like this.

Not only was Zhang Yuxi not defeated, but he also had sufficient supplies to mount a powerful counterattack. It could be said that the middle-aged man and his colleagues had no chance of making a comeback.

If they lose this business war, the company will go bankrupt and completely withdraw from the industry.

And because the middle-aged man has staked all his wealth, after the company goes bankrupt, he will still have to bear a lot of debt. Compared with others, he can be said to be the worst off. At least other people's companies have gone bankrupt, and there is still some left. Qian spent his remaining years peacefully.

The middle-aged man slumped in the chair, staring at the ceiling blankly, did not react for a long time. It was not until the cigarette he held in his right hand burned his fingers that he was burned, and he came back to his senses.

"No, I can't just sit back and wait for death. I have worked hard for so many years to get what I am today. I can't just let it all disappear overnight."

The middle-aged man threw the cigarette in his hand into the ashtray, looked at the cigarette that was about to burn out, and murmured to himself, with a fierce look in his eyes.

The middle-aged man, who was holding the phone tightly with his left hand and kept exerting force, finally made an extremely bold decision.

"call……"

Taking a deep breath, the middle-aged man dialed the number of a person he had not contacted for several years.

Originally, he had decided not to contact this person again, but now he had no choice but to do so.

"Beep, beep, beep..."

The call was dialed, and within a few seconds, the other party connected.

"Boss Wang, long time no see. It's so late. Please call me. What's the matter?"

"I have a business here and I want to discuss it face to face with you. Are you free tomorrow?"

"Tomorrow! If you're free...where can we meet?"

"Tomorrow we will be..." The middle-aged man told the other party an address, and then the two ended the call.

"Huh..." The middle-aged man took a long breath after making the call. His heartbeat continued to accelerate, and then he took out a cigarette from the cigarette case with trembling hands.

"Pap, tap, tap..."

After fiddling with the lighter several times, he lit the cigarette. The trembling middle-aged man took a few puffs of cigarette, then leaned back on the chair and looked at the picture hanging on the wall in the study with piercing eyes. A family portrait of three people.

"I absolutely cannot go bankrupt..."

A voice full of malice echoed in the quiet study.

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The sun shines brightly in the early morning, and the weather today is still as hot as the past few days.

Lin Li slept until dawn and got up early. After washing up in the bathroom, he went to the kitchen and opened the refrigerator.

He heated up the plate of meat buns given to him by his neighbor next door yesterday. While eating the hot meat buns, he turned on his phone and checked today's weather forecast.

Good guy, today's highest temperature is actually 40 degrees, which is one degree higher than yesterday... Lin Li looked at the temperature shown on the weather forecast and couldn't help but gasped with a surprised expression.

Although the weather forecast showed that today's maximum temperature would be 40 degrees, this did not dissuade Lin Li from his decision last night to go to the wilderness on the outskirts of the Southern District to look for that weird beast today.

After breakfast, Lin Li cleared the table, and then he put a few uneaten meat buns in crisper boxes and placed them on the mysterious island. He was preparing to take these meat buns to the wilderness to eat.

After cleaning up everything at home, Lin Li made a phone call and contacted the air-conditioning repairman, and made an appointment with him to come to his house in the evening to repair the air-conditioning.

Although you have a refrigeration tool on hand, you don’t need to call an air conditioner repairman to repair the problematic air conditioner at home.

But Lin Li thought about it, so he couldn't use the refrigeration device in front of the guests at any time.

That way the explanation is unclear, so if there is a problem with the air conditioner at home, you still need to ask an air conditioner repairman to repair it.

"I almost forgot something like that..." Lin Li was walking towards the entrance of his home and preparing to go out. He suddenly remembered that he forgot to do something, and then stopped and turned back to the living room.

On the coffee table in the living room were two shopping bags from the pile of things he bought at the supermarket yesterday.

Lin Li rummaged through one of the shopping bags filled with snacks and took out a large bottle of sunscreen.

In the past, when he went out, no matter how strong the sun was outside, he would not consider putting on sunscreen.

But it didn't work anymore. Su Yue asked her about tanning several times, which forced Lin Li to apply sunscreen in order to deal with her.

"This sunscreen should be useful, right? I remember when I was in Qiongcheng, Su Yue used this brand of sunscreen after swimming..."

After Lin Li applied sunscreen on himself, he thought for a moment that Su Yue, who had fair skin, had never been tanned before, and immediately gained some confidence in the brand of sunscreen he had applied.

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