Chapter 654: 400, going abroad Chapter 654: 400, going abroad “Lao Luo, remember one thing, intelligence work should be silent like a moistening rain, not openly parading through the streets,” Qing Chen said.
Qing Chen reminisced to himself that Kite Falcons under the Spy Bureau always had their own jobs as cover and would never blatantly announce to the outside world that they were Kite Falcons.
The Parents’ Meeting he wanted should also be .
Although those family members had joined the organization, they should still gather intelligence for the organization within their own life trajectories.
Moreover, they also needed to keep their ‘family’ identities hidden, moving from overt to covert.
Only in this way could they invisibly obtain truly useful information.
The Parents’ Meeting needed to stay hidden within the Federation, not becoming an organization loathed by many like the Mechanicus.
By then, Luo Wanya had understood Qing Chen’s intentions, realizing that what he had done in the past, albeit successful, did not align with Daytime’s development strategy.
“Boss, I know what to do now,” Luo Wanya said softly.
Qing Chen continued, “The task currently assigned to you is only one, after you complete the infiltration of the lower echelons of City 10, find Shadow Candidate Qing Yuan for me. He is currently Shadow Candidate Qing Yi, the one I support and the most worrying opponent in the battle of the Shadows. I suspect he is hidden in the civilian area, protected tightly by some Time Travelers.”
Luo Wanya shivered slightly, not having expected to be involved in the battle of the Shadows.
It was, after all, a real battle for succession, one of the events closest to the core of consortium power.
At that moment, Luo Wanya asked Qing Chen, “Boss, where are you going this time?”
It was only his first day back, and while all the Time Travelers were busy catching their breath, Qing Chen had already booked his plane ticket, with no intention of resting.
In just half an hour since his return, Qing Chen had arranged everything for Daytime as if settling his affairs.
He had only taken enough cash in his UnionPay card for this trip, leaving the rest with Jiang Xue as operational funds for Daytime’s future.
He was like someone prepared to face death serenely, ready to venture alone to a foreign land.
At a certain moment, Luo Wanya felt that Qing Chen’s actions resembled his own from more than a decade ago when he was preparing to flee and lay low.
The first time Luo Wanya fled, he had a fake divorce with his wife and handed over all his assets to her, while he left with a small Golden Buddha necklace and a pure Gold Rolex watch to smuggle away.
Taking the Golden Buddha and Gold Rolex were for easy liquidation while laying low abroad—these were the best assets for liquidation and the last capital for a comeback for people in their line of work.
In the first year of laying low, his wife still called him occasionally.
In the second year, there was no word from her.
When he returned to the country, his wife had already remarried with all his property.
Luo Wanya didn’t confront that woman or demand money because he felt that it was his fault, and there was nothing to be said.
Was there anything wrong with the woman? No.
It was his own wrongdoing, why should she sacrifice her youth for him?
However, Luo Wanya knew that Qing Chen was not leaving to lay low this time, which was definitely different from his situation.
After all, he did not dare to use regular transportation back then.
Therefore, Luo Wanya was puzzled about what the Daytime boss was up to, arranging all his affairs before leaving as if settling his last matters.
This trip was evidently extremely dangerous.
Qing Chen thought for a moment and said, “Abroad.”
He was to take a flight from Los Angeles North Suburbs Airport to Guangcheng, then board Turkish Airlines Flight TK073 from Baiyun International Airport to Istanbul Airport.
Next, he would take Flight TK1953 from Istanbul Airport to Schiphol Airport, reaching Amsterdam, Netherlands.
The journey would take nearly 20 hours, and the first-class ticket cost over twenty-seven thousand yuan.
If it had been before, Qing Chen would definitely have bought an economy-class ticket, but Hu Xiaoniu said that first-class passengers did not need to wait two hours in line for a visa.
First-class passengers on international flights have a separate exit.
So Qing Chen decisively switched to first class.
Fair to say, when it comes to spending, Hu Xiaoniu and Zhang Tianzhen are somewhat more experienced.
Qing Chen wasn’t planning a pleasure trip abroad, but the third sites for his life-and-death challenge were not easy to find.
Even at this trip’s destinations, he still needed to wait for opportunities to arise.
Time waits for no man, and Qing Chen was not even sure if an opportunity would arise during these 30 days of his return.
During the 30 days of transit, whenever he rested, he was secretly training in the ‘Mysterious World’ under the philosophy of ‘winning people over with virtue’, all in preparation for this return.
Luo Wanya asked again, “Boss, is it really dangerous? Maybe you shouldn’t go, we’re doing pretty well now aren’t we? You are already considered unattainable in others’ eyes, why risk your life? We have a saying that goes ‘the son of wealth shall not sit in danger,’ which means those of high status shouldn’t put themselves at risk…”
Suddenly, Qing Chen remembered the old man who had passed away in the sunlight, then he said to Luo Wanya, “If youth were granted again, a measure of gold for a measure of bluster.”
“Huh? Boss, what does that phrase mean?” Luo Wanya, the straightforward man, was completely baffled.
Qing Chen smiled, “It’s nothing, just drive your car.”