Trafford’s Trading Club

"Hailey, where are you going? Is the locker room over here?" The security guard pointed in the direction to the side.

Before that, ‘Hailey’ seemed to be on the right track.

When Arnold heard this, he subconsciously adjusted his glasses - but as soon as he made the move, he realized that his glasses had been taken away by Caroline. He immediately touched his nose and said quickly: "I know. , I just wanted to go to the toilet."

The security guard shrugged and said, "There is a restroom in the locker room."

"Ha...really? Yes, it's in there, haha." Arnold nodded.

"Hai Li!" Unexpectedly, the security guard suddenly stared at Arnold without blinking, and walked up, "Could it be you..."

"I...what's wrong with me?" Arnold turned his head.

"Could it be you..." The security brother's body seemed to be pressed up, so Arnold subconsciously stepped back, and finally leaned directly against the wall. The security brother said abruptly: "Could it be you?" I want to steal a bar now!”

"Stealing wine?" Arnold was startled.

The security guard looked around at this time, lowered his voice and said: "Let me tell you, the supervisor found that a lot of good wine was missing. I don't know who reported it, saying that someone secretly took the wine here and sold it for money... ...Brother, I haven’t done anything for a long time, and you just came back, so don’t seek death!”

"Oh...oh, okay, thank you." Arnold nodded.

The security guard smiled this time and said, "Okay, hurry in and get your things, go back and greet your female boss... By the way, Hailey, do you look a little different?"

"Are you there?" Arnold quickly opened the door and walked in, leaving the security guard with a back view: "Maybe my hair is a little longer. I haven't had a haircut recently."

"Really?" The security guard shrugged and didn't care.

He quickly unlocked the locker in his dressing room for 'Hailey' and poked his head over, seemingly curious about what was inside. But Arnold covered the door of the cabinet and looked at the security guard.

The security guard walked away whistling, "I'll wait for you outside, hurry up!"

Arnold nodded, and then shined a flashlight into the cabinet. He saw that there was a black bag inside the cabinet, so he directly used the bag to put all the items inside, regardless of size, into the bag, and finally checked After taking a quick look, I found that there was nothing missing...

Soon after, Arnold went out. The security guard was smoking a cigarette outside. When he saw 'Hailey' coming out, he accompanied him out of the Kata Club, chatting and laughing.

Caroline seemed to be impatient with waiting, and walked up with a sullen expression on her face. The security guard gloated for a while.

"Brother, please wish yourself well." The security guard patted him on the shoulder and returned to the security booth with a flashlight.

When Arnold saw Caroline walking in front of him, he patted the bag in his hand to indicate that he had taken the things. Caroline nodded and seemed to be relieved.

Arnold suddenly said: "Oscar owes you a statuette!"

Caroline rolled her eyes at Arnold, snatched the bag from Arnold's hand, and then lowered her voice and said, "Let's get out of here quickly."

Arnold nodded, and the two quickly left while the surrounding street lights were not on, intending to use this safe place to check the contents of the bag.

Unexpectedly, not long after they left, several men wearing expensive short-sleeved shirts appeared in front of them. Several men directly blocked their path.

Encountered a robbery? That was Caroline's first thought - only to be quickly denied. Because locals rarely get robbed.

Generally speaking, it is foreigners or tourists who encounter more robberies.

"What do you want to do?" Caroline is also a person engaged in gray income after all, so at least she won't be completely panicked when something happens.

One of the men sneered, "Finally dare to show up, Hailey? Catch them!"

The man suddenly waved his hand, and several big men stepped forward at the same time. In just a few moments, they directly controlled Arnold and Caroline, unable to struggle.

"What do you want to do! Let me go! Let me go!!" Caroline wanted to bite the person who caught her, but soon, she was covered with a bag over her head and upper body.

She could only hear the screams, which were the screams of Arnold - he seemed to be being beaten by these men.

ah--! ! ah--! !

"I'm not Hailey...ah——! I'm really not..."

"You bitch! You swallowed our things. Do you think that if you don't show up, we won't be able to do anything to you?"

"Take it away! Take it back, and I'll greet this guy properly and ask him to spit it out for me!"

Caroline became more and more frightened. She couldn't see anything and could only feel herself being pulled around. Finally, it seemed that she was getting into a car. Then someone reached in and covered her nose. This hand was also holding a towel. .

She smelled an almond scent and passed out.

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…

Tsk-tsk-tsk-tsk!

The car radio can only emit electric sound, no matter which channel it is tuned to. Ao Fei shook her head and simply turned off the car audio.

The traffic conditions on the road are very bad - the power outage has caused the red street lights on the main roads to stop working. Now the traffic police can only rely on temporary manpower guidance. It is strange that the road conditions are good.

The car stopped on the road. Ao Fei picked up the mineral water and took a sip in annoyance, then casually threw it on the passenger seat - the bottle hit something.

It was a work permit with Aoife's face on it, proving his identity - he was the country's security minister.

After some persuasion from her secretary, Ao Fei finally stopped what she was doing and planned to go home to rest for a while, take a shower and change some clothes.

But he felt that all his time would be wasted on this congested road.

At this time, Aoife's phone suddenly rang - because he had been at the control center of the Ministry of Security, the strange pulses during the storm outside did not affect his phone.

"Hello, I'm Aoife." Aoife activated Bluetooth: "Bara, what's the matter?"

The caller was Bala, a Filipino maid hired by him.

Bara said happily: "Oh! My God, Mr. Aoife, I finally got through to you. It seems that the communication has been restored. I have been looking for you!"

"It should be that some areas are starting to recover. I happen to be in the service area." Ao Fei said casually: "Tell me, what's the matter?"

"Sir, the school is suspended. I picked up Louis from the school dormitory and just put him to sleep." Bara said very responsibly: "Sir, you haven't been home for several days. I want to ask you. Will you come back tonight? If you don’t come back, then I won’t get off work.”

"Oh... I'm sorry, Bara, I'm too busy." Ao Fei pinched her eyebrows and said, "Okay, I should be home almost. When I come back, you can get off work."

"Sir, do I need to prepare dinner for you?"

"No, I'm not hungry. Just pack up and you can leave when I come back." Ao Fei gave the order casually, and then asked about Louis' situation.

The child is sent to a full-time school and stays in the dormitory all the time. He can only go home during holidays. Of course it is not a holiday now, but if the school has a power outage, it is normal for classes to be suspended.

"Louis is very good. He doesn't make any noise. He just wants you to come back soon." Bara sighed and said, "Sir, you know, Louis is too young. You are so busy, and Dr. French often doesn't come back. Louis will Feeling lonely.”

"Thank you, Bara." Aoife seemed unwilling to say more about this topic, and said quickly: "I'm driving here, don't talk about it now, wait until I come back."

…

"Then, I'll go home first. I also want to go back and have a look."

In front of the apartment door, Bara, who was almost forty years old, nodded towards Aoife, then got on her bicycle and left. After watching her leave, Aoife yawned and returned to his room.

All the way upstairs, and then came to son Louis' room. Aoife entered Louis' room quietly without turning on the light, but only used the light brought by the corridor light to come to the bed.

He lowered his head and kissed his sleeping son's forehead, then put the child's arms into the quilt, but felt something from inside the quilt.

Aoife took it out and saw that it was a picture frame.

Ao Fei looked a little complicated, and finally sighed, put the photo frame on the bedside table, then closed the door and left, walking downstairs - the power supply to the residential area here has been restored.

Aoife took out a bottle of sparkling water from the refrigerator and drank most of it with a few gurgles. He was going to take a shower, but then he heard a noise - someone opened the door to the house.

He frowned and came to the living room.

I saw a staggering figure walking in... holding a half-drunk bottle of wine in his hand, and then he sat directly in the entrance hall where he was changing shoes, looking drunk.

This person is clearly Dr. French.

"How did you come back?" Aoife walked up to Dr. French, but seemed to have no intention of helping him up, and just stood there.

Dr. French heard the sound and raised his head, his eyes half-open and half-closed, seemingly hazy. Dr. French burped, "Aoife...oh...come back..."

With that said, Dr. French held on to the wall and stood up with difficulty, but suddenly lost his balance and was about to fall to the ground. Ao Fei frowned, stretched out his hand to stop him, and then dragged him directly to the sofa in the living room.

He pushed Dr. French directly to the sofa, "Look at you! School is suspended, and Bara has brought Louis back! So, hurry up and get rid of the smell of alcohol in you. I don't want Louis to think that his grandfather is A drunkard!"

For a moment, Dr. French seemed to stiffen, but he quickly turned over, lay down on the sofa, closed his eyes, and fell asleep.

Ao Fei gritted his teeth, as if he felt an unknown anger rising, but had no way to vent it. He paced back and forth in the living room, walking very fast. Finally, he wiped his face with both hands vigorously, and then sat down again.

The single sofa and the couch were only an arm's length apart, and he looked at the drunk Dr. French. He knew that the old man had not really fallen asleep.

"Why did you meet Billy at the theater the day before yesterday?" Aoife asked with a frown.

Although he already had some guesses in his mind, he still wanted to hear Dr. French's answer with his own ears. But the doctor still didn't move at this time, and seemed to have fallen asleep.

Ao Fei wiped his face again, "Actually, I can guess even if you don't tell me. The current government will no longer support your project with money, at least not in the next few years. Than Altruism, do you plan to sponsor you? Yes, if we can really launch a satellite of our own, it will indeed have a great impact on the future situation. "

The doctor heard a sound of snoring.

Aoife sneered, "Humph, looking at you now, you probably got a rejection from Billy, right? Now that the Senate President is dead, the various factions have to reshuffle. And the theater case, let this term The leaders are in trouble. This is really a good opportunity for those in the opposition. Give up. With this opportunity, Billy will not invest a lot of money in you for the time being. Don't put it Those politicians see how patriotic they are, and they only focus on sticking up for others!"

The doctor seemed to be snoring louder.

Ao Fei let out a heavy breath and leaned on the back of the sofa, looking at the ceiling. After being silent for a long time, he slowly said: "I know, that is your dream. But... But we are only mortals after all. , some things really can’t be done, then give up. If you let yourself go, you also let others go. Back then... if you hadn’t insisted on carrying out launch tests, that kind of thing wouldn’t have happened. "

The snoring suddenly became softer.

"Every time Louis asked me where my mother was, I never told him the truth..." Aoife looked at Dr. French's back and said bitterly: "What do you think I can tell him? About his mother, Your student, my wife, because of her grandfather’s dictatorship and stubbornness, strongly requested to launch an unstable rocket without obtaining all safety data, which ultimately caused the entire..."

"Forget it!" Ao Fei stood up suddenly, "You just keep sleeping in your dream, don't wake up... Anyway, after so many years, I have got used to it. But I beg you, you study what is yours Things, but you'd better not get involved in this whirlpool of power. You are not young anymore. If you want to retire, you can do it at any time."

"I'm going to take a shower, and I have to go back later. There have been a lot of things lately, and the president issued a death order..." Ao Fei walked upstairs, "School is on holiday these two days, and Louis is at home. If you have time, you can Stay with him for a while. If I don’t have time, I’ll ask Bara to come over early, and that’s it… Good night.”

The sound of footsteps going upstairs gradually faded away, leaving only a wall lamp in the living room.

He was curled up on the sofa like a homeless man wandering the streets.

Suddenly, the doctor pulled out the cushion and covered his head, turning the world completely into darkness.