Light Fortress
Chapter 378 - 64: Odd Jobs (5K Words - )

Chapter 378: Chapter 64: Odd Jobs (5K Words Chapter)

"The entire ’transaction’ took less than a minute."

"Agent 073 was very cautious... Coming all this way, I could only see the shadow of the airship, but there is one thing that can confirm that he indeed belonged to the North Continent Military Department."

Lu Nanzhi sat in the office, scrutinizing the metal box delivered from the North Continent, speaking to the other side of the communicator, "The only uncertainty is whether it was him who personally came."

The transaction was actually very successful.

Because what both parties exchanged was not ’objects’, but ’trust’!

For the Ancient Literature Society members who had lost contact, the hardest part was putting adequate trust in the real world. The fact that North Continent’s airship flew directly to Da Du for the trade, in an era before "the key" had appeared ten years ago, was indeed fantastical.

It was just an ordinary transaction.

Agent 073 had thousands of ways to get the materials to Da Du.

However, the fact that he sent out an ’airship’ signified... he didn’t care.

Gu Shen whispered, "Agent 073’s willingness to drop the materials is sufficient to show... he saw our sincerity."

The entire hierarchy of Huazhi was unaware of what the ’object’ of the trade was.

Even less clear was why Lu Nanzhi personally took part in this transaction.

So... they insisted on sending relevant personnel and powerful Transcendents to set up control over the trading site, as modern Da Du couldn’t afford a second ’Angel Envoy assassination’.

If something unexpected happened to Lu Nanzhi.

Huazhi would be plunged into the greatest crisis in history.

And this was why the transaction was successful.

Agent 073, on board the airship, saw the ambush, which actually wasn’t significant... because ’the one’ coming to trade with him had far too esteemed an identity. In fact, the ambushes around Golden Flag Mountain were just the tip of the iceberg; if any unforeseen circumstances occurred during the transaction, the whole set of emergency measures deployed by Cui Zhongcheng would instantly come into effect.

Everyone was very tense.

Only the lady... she was quite relaxed, even more so than when she was a candidate running for the council.

Her trust in Agent 073 was built on years of interaction and knowledge that whenever Agent 073 attended a meeting, he was the one to erase the records afterwards, always ensuring the meeting room was secure.

Some people, even though they have never met in person.

But in reality... had long been acquaintances.

Lu Nanzhi actually felt a little regret; she had hoped to personally meet the legendary Agent 073 through the ’transaction’, but she also knew it was impossible.

The erasure of the meeting room records showed that Agent 073 was someone who greatly valued security.

Such a person, appearing personally in his first transaction, was highly improbable.

This transaction, the first real-world intersection of the Ancient Literature Society members scattered across Five Continents since ’the key’ appeared... Before that, everyone restrained themselves, staying away because ’exposure’ meant ’destruction’.

The Federation Council’s crackdown on the Ancient Literature Society has been prolonged for more than a decade.

"All in all, this transaction was simpler than I expected..."

Lu Nanzhi massaged her temples, saying, "I’ve checked the contents of the box, and all the materials you need are there, prepared in duplicate. The rest of the materials are almost ready by Huazhi... we can send them to Changye at any time."

"But... there’s a very important issue."

"Countless eyes in Changye are now watching you."

The lady lightly tapped the table and said in a deep voice, "Your every move is being watched... Even the ’object’ sent by Huazhi cannot escape the surveillance of ’Wind Eye’."

"Changye is vast, there are always places that are blind spots for those eyes."

Gu Shen said with a soft laugh, "Send someone trustworthy to deliver the goods to this location."

After the communication ended.

Lu Nanzhi looked at the map coordinates sent by Gu Shen and fell into deep thought.

Northern Changye, Boundary Highway.

Number 447.

...

...

Shen Li had been "odd-jobbing" at Spring Rain Temple for nearly a week.

It was another day of completion... He furrowed his brows and looked at the challengers sprawled messily on the ground, finding today’s ’shift’ to have ended too early.

Because there were very few people.

Only half as many as yesterday!

Shen Li remembered that when he had shown up yesterday, the open ground outside the gate was packed with challengers, naming and demanding to fight with Gu Shen... Why were there so few today then?

These people had flocked here early in the morning because the iron gate of Gu Family’s Villa District was dismantled, allowing anyone to come in.

Luo Yu originally intended to install another iron gate.

But at the request of Gu Nanfeng, the gate remained open, and the security personnel did not stop anyone from entering or exiting... because it wouldn’t be long before the iron gate that was taken down would turn into an iron rod, striking those challengers.

Over the next two hours, the Gu family would maintain the philosophy that ’every visitor is a guest’, sending those who were injured to the hospital for treatment.

There are always some strange people in this world.

It seemed some found it a bargain too good to pass up... Once the news that "you get free treatment after being beaten up" spread from the Gu family, there were even more people at Spring Rain Temple the second day than the first.

And after being brutally beaten, some among them finally realized, "Free is the most expensive."

Shen Li exerted great force with every move.

He didn’t care about his reputation or the strength of his opponents, delivering each punch and each strike with 120% effort... There was absolutely no ’friendly sparring’ or ’stopping at points’.