Volume 14: Devastation Chapter 692: Suspicion of the New Star Chamber of Commerce
Before Asano Akira could speak, Sakurai Na spoke first: "You don't know this! I checked online, there will be an exhibition of traditional ethnic costumes in this neighborhood this afternoon. The exhibition organizers have posted an open invitation online, and all fans of traditional ethnic costumes are welcome to participate... This is what we call a perfect disguise that suits the time and place!"
"Okay, okay, in my opinion, you treat this mission as your first date with Asano Akira?" Ke Lan complained.
A deep blush immediately appeared on Sakurai Na's fair face. She shook her head and denied it immediately, "No! I am taking this very seriously. Don't look at me as if I am so relaxed now. Several high ground nearby have been controlled by the assassins of the Mitsui family."
"Tsk...if there's a traitor among these assassins, then you'll have to take the blame."
"In my opinion, our death squad is much more reliable than those agents of the Security Bureau." Sakurai Na said unconvinced.
Letting the Mitsui family's death squads participate in the operation was a last resort... After all, at this time, there was a severe shortage of manpower. The Security Bureau was so short of manpower that it began to issue weapons and equipment to civilian personnel, allowing them to replace field agents to perform less difficult tasks.
"Okay, let's get in the car." Ke Lan glanced into the distance and saw Aya coming over with two lunch boxes.
Asano Showa and Sakurai Na went straight into the back seat. Aya returned to the car and took a look at their clothes. The corners of her mouth twitched slightly, but in the end she said nothing and silently handed both lunch boxes to Ke Lan.
"Have you guys eaten?" Ke Lan turned her head and asked the two people sitting in the back seat.
"I had already eaten when I first came out." said Asano Akira.
"Eating with her?" Ke Lan subconsciously looked at the sushi in Sakurai Na's hand.
"No, I had a working lunch with Hound and the others." Asano Akira shook his head.
"That can also be called a working meal...Speaking of which, aren't the treatments you give your employees too bad?" At this point, Sakurai Na suddenly glared at Ke Lan, "When I arrived at the Silver Building, I happened to see them gathered in the conference room eating instant noodles."
"I'm busy at work, and fast food can save time." Asano Akira replied calmly.
For the staff of the office, it is already good enough to have time to make instant noodles. Most of the time, they can only fill their stomachs with compressed biscuits. They have to work until after ten o'clock in the evening before they have time to go to the cafeteria in the park to have a hot midnight snack.
"Do you want to eat?" Ke Lan handed over another lunch box.
"No need." Asano Akira said softly, "I'm not hungry."
"I didn't ask you." Ke Lan turned his attention to Sakurai Nai, "I asked her."
"You...what do you mean?"
Sakurai Na's face flushed red immediately. She wanted to refuse, but Ke Lan, the scheming bitch, deliberately increased the strength of squeezing the lunch box, causing a small hole in the edge of the lunch box. A hot and fragrant smell immediately poured out from the small hole and filled the entire carriage.
Sakurai Na swallowed with some difficulty. Just when she was about to say that she was not hungry, her stomach made a gurgling sound.
Ke Lan guessed correctly. In order to appear like a "lady" in front of Asano Akira, she was indeed controlling her food intake... Although she had just eaten a box of nigiri sushi, this amount was less than one-third of her usual afternoon tea.
"Don't force yourself. There may be a part that requires a lot of physical strength later. You can't run on an empty stomach." Ke Lan's "kind" voice sounded like the whisper of a devil to Sakurai Na...
Sakurai Na took a deep breath, and after secretly glancing at Asano Akira's closed eyes under his sunglasses, she quietly reached out and took the lunch box handed over by Ke Lan.
"Even though you say no, your body is still very honest..."
"you……"
Sakurai Na wanted to say something, but Ke Lan put a finger to her lips in a gesture of silence, and then signaled with her eyes to Asano Akira who was sitting upright next to her.
Sakurai Na was not familiar with Asano Akira's abilities. She didn't know that even if Asano Akira couldn't see anything, he could still clearly understand what was happening around him - not only inside this hovercraft, but even places dozens of meters away from the car were completely within the sensing range of Asano Akira's mental power.
"You two should eat quickly. We still need to hurry after that." Aya said in a calm tone as possible. "The Nova Chamber of Commerce is four blocks ."
"Rising Star Chamber of Commerce? Have you locked on the target so quickly?" Sakurai Na asked, swallowing a piece of sushi quickly.
"It's just that this family is the most suspicious." Ke Lan said after taking a bite of rice.
The biggest feature of this kind of fast food in the food stalls is that it contains a lot of oil and salt. It is not healthy at all, but it tastes very good.
What surprised Ke Lan the most was that the roast duck in the lunch box was not synthetic meat, but real duck meat... Although the breeding cycle and meat-to-feed ratio of poultry cannot be compared with those of livestock, for ordinary people, it is still not an everyday ingredient that they can afford to eat every day.
"Rising Star Chamber of Commerce...well, they have always had business dealings with our Mitsui Group." Sakurai Na said.
Aya nodded: "We have already mastered this point. Not only you, but the new chamber of commerce has long-term business relations with many large financial groups."
"To put it bluntly, they are just a bunch of second-hand dealers." Ke Lan took a bite of the sausage and said while chewing: "Looking for gold in shit, buying those treasures that seem worthless at a low price, and then selling them to those big financial groups at a high price... As long as you have a sharp vision, you don't have to worry about not making money."
"Can you please stop using such disgusting words while you're eating..." Sakurai Na said somewhat dissatisfiedly. Although she complained, her appetite was not affected at all. In the blink of an eye, half a box of sushi disappeared from her cherry mouth. "But there is one thing that you security officers may not know."
"What's the matter?" Aya raised her eyebrows and immediately became energetic.
"The old man in our Mitsui family has a hobby, which is to collect relics with Alpha characters on them... Whether it's stone tablets, some metal pieces, or paper rubbings... He especially likes to frame these things and hang them in his study like those famous paintings... Almost 90% of these relics with Alpha characters on them are sold to us by the New Star Chamber of Commerce."
The official Ark acquisition agency will definitely not let go of the ruins spoils with Alpha characters . As a private company, it is understandable for the Nova Chamber of Commerce to occasionally pick up a bargain, but it would be a bit unreasonable if it could get a large amount of such spoils.
Unless, these relics and spoils were not purchased through formal channels, but bought from other people...
For example, those heretical sects wandering in the wilderness.
With the help of the prophet's ability, the heretic sect has explored no less ruins in the past few years than the hunters on the Ark. However, not all the spoils can be consumed by themselves... At this time, they need an agent to exchange the spoils they don't want for materials that cannot be produced in the wilderness - and this Nova Chamber of Commerce may play the role of this "agent".
