Volume 2 Ghost Army Chapter 290 Temporary Base
The black night sky is full of stars.
On the highway in the eastern suburbs of District 5, a white hovercraft with dazzling lights flashing was speeding towards the base of the Night Rose Mercenary Group.
Li Jiu sat alone in the car, with a Sabre brand cigarette in his mouth, feeling the autumn breeze outside the window, and thinking about what happened not long ago.
Before leaving the working class area, he bought the abandoned villa isolated in the wilderness.
At that time, Doug successfully contacted the owner of the villa through the intelligent optical computer. After he explained that he wanted to buy the villa, the original owner of the villa immediately rushed over happily.
Speaking of which, the original owner of this villa was a small local tycoon in Shoushan City. More than ten years ago, he took a fancy to the land here and thought that this place would be developed into a prosperous area in the future, so he circled the more than 100 acres of land in the name of building a villa. But who would have thought that after he spent a lot of money to build the villa, he was very depressed to find that he had made a mistake this time. Instead of developing the land, a civilian area was built...
As for the villa, he had no intention of living in it, not to mention that after a civilian area was built nearby, the security environment was not as safe as the downtown area. No rich person was willing to live in it, so even if the original owner of the villa wanted to sell it, it would be very difficult.
Therefore, the villa that Li Jiu and his team found has been in a state of abandonment since it was built.
When Li Jiu met the original owner of the villa, the other party was very enthusiastic because he was eager to sell the villa. He promised that as long as Li Jiu could pay immediately, he would be able to transfer the ownership of the entire villa to Li Jiu.
Even the original owner of the villa told Li Jiu bluntly that he had spent more than 36 million Alliance Coins to purchase the land and build the villa, but now he was willing to sell the villa to Li Jiu for only 15 million Alliance Coins.
However, Li Jiu still felt that the price of 15 million was a bit too high, so he was only willing to pay 10 million Alliance Coins...
Because, in his opinion, a villa like this built in the wilderness with no pleasing scenery around it, unless there is a special need, only a fool would spend a lot of money to live in such a remote place where no one lives.
In fact, if Li Jiu had not considered that the identities of the Doug brothers and the three Cloud Leopards were somewhat special and it was not appropriate for them to be exposed to crowded places frequently, and that he also needed a hidden place as a temporary base for the development of his power in the future, he would not have bought such a desolate place...
The price offered by Li Jiu naturally made the original owner of the villa feel embarrassed for a while, but considering that the villa had been abandoned for many years and had not been sold, and he was in urgent need of working capital, he finally had to bear the pain and sold it to Li Jiu at a price less than one-third of the construction cost of the villa.
After Li Jiu bought the villa, he asked Doug and his brother and Yunbao to choose a small building to live in first, and told them to clean and redecorate the long-abandoned villa when they had nothing to do.
Before leaving, Li Jiu naturally did not forget to divide the 180,000 Alliance Coins that Doug and his brother won in the bar into two parts and gave them to them. He also left 2 million Alliance Coins to Yunbao, asking him to be responsible for the renovation of the villa. If there was any money left after the villa was renovated, it would be left to Yunbao directly as his temporary activity funds.
In addition, Li Jiu clearly designated Doug as the temporary steward of the three of them, responsible for restraining the future actions of the three and reporting directly to Li Jiu.
Li Jiu made this arrangement mainly because he found that Doug was relatively calm and steady compared to Quinn's straightforwardness. As for Yunbao, although he was the strongest among the three, Li Jiu had only been in contact with him for a short time and did not know him well enough, so he would not consider letting him be the person in charge for the time being.
Finally, after Li Jiu settled his three men, he drove the hovercraft back to the Night Rose Mercenary Group base.
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After driving on the road for about half an hour, Li Jiu returned to the base.
At this time, it was already seven or eight o'clock in the evening.
However, when he had just parked his car and was about to go back to the dormitory to rest, he received a message from Kaqi.
"Have you finished your work? Is everything going well?"
"Well, it's done. It went quite smoothly." After reading Kaqi's message, Li Jiu replied with a smile.
"That's good. Where are you now? When you come back, come directly to the bar at the base. We have just finished training and let's get together tonight." Kaqi replied.
"Well, OK, I'm back and will be there soon." Li Jiu was a little surprised, wondering why everyone was still gathering so late... but he quickly replied.
After finishing the communication with Kaqi, Li Jiu went .
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The bar at the base is small, less noisy but more cozy.
When Li Jiu arrived at the bar, he saw seven members of the fifth team and the only two remaining members of the seventh team sitting at a rectangular table in the hall.
"Little Leo, come here!" As soon as Li Jiu came in, he was seen by the sharp-eyed Bella, who immediately greeted him with a smile.
As soon as Bella finished speaking, everyone else looked at Li Jiu who was standing at the entrance of the bar.
Seeing Bella so enthusiastic, Li Jiu couldn't help feeling a little embarrassed, but he didn't show it on his face. He just smiled and nodded at everyone and walked over.
"What are you doing? The competition is the day after tomorrow, why are you drinking today?" After sitting down, Li Jiu looked around at everyone and asked with a smile.
"Hey, brother, it's because we have a competition the day after tomorrow and we can't drink tomorrow, so we have to get drunk today!" Bakus grinned, picked up a big glass of draft beer and drank it down.
"Yes, let's all have a good drink today, take a day off tomorrow, adjust our condition, and prepare for the competition the day after tomorrow. Besides, the celebration party for the last mission hasn't been held yet, so let's just have it together today." Kaqi also showed a rare charming smile, and while speaking, she handed Li Jiu a glass of beer.
"Well, this arrangement is fine. We can't achieve any results in one day's training anyway, so we might as well let everyone have a good rest." Li Jiu took the beer, nodded, and started drinking.
You know what, after working for such a long time, he actually felt a little thirsty.
"Oh, by the way, whose meal is today?" After taking a sip, Li Jiu felt refreshed. He glanced at everyone and asked with a smile.
"Damn it, brother, aren't you talking nonsense?" Bacchus cursed with a smile, holding the wine glass.
