Chapter 883 - Greedy Like A Snake that Wants to Swallow An Elephant (1/2)

Chapter 883: Greedy Like A Snake that Wants to Swallow An Elephant

Translator: Exodus Tales  Editor: Exodus Tales

Astute brilliance flickered in Tang Xiu’s eyes as he said again, “The second one is to prepare for the other eventuality—track the source of his phone call. Be sure to find his position while I go ask someone to help to investigate it as well. I hope our men can find him first if he’s on the mainland.”

“Got it!” Hao Lei directly hung up after replying briefly.

Although Tang Xiu sat calmly at the dining table, deadly intent was assurgent inside his heart. He never liked being coerced or played. The other party was too greedy, and he had secretly made up his mind to make him absolutely regret what he did if he could find him.

“Is this all necessary for the zodiac carvings, though?” asked Mu Wanying curiously after putting down her chopsticks.

Tang Xiu nodded, “Yeah, we already have a lead on the jade rat, but the owner is too greedy, raising the price again and again and simply broke my bottom line.”

Mu Wanying nodded without speaking anything. She knew that Tang Xiu was someone who was easy to speak with. He would never be so angry if the other party was not that excessive.

Beijing.

It was a city cast by reinforced concrete, showing a scene of its prosperousness. Located outside the Southern Fifth Ring Road was a very special and heavily guarded residential complex with four patrol teams on guard 24 hours a day, as well as various surveillance equipment to monitor every part of the neighborhood, creating a three-dimensional surveillance network.

The center of the block was surrounded by a nearly three meters high wall with only a small three-story building that looked very ordinary. For outsiders, this small building was the complex’s Property Management Office, but to the families of the Special Ability Bureau’s ability users, this small building was a mysterious place only those Elementalists could enter.

Four floors underground.

Aquababe was fiddling with a satellite phone while pacing back and forth outside the training room. She had just pressed the doorbell, yet there was no response. Duanmu Lin was currently training inside and he hadn’t even come out.

“Hey, Aquababe, what are you doing here?”

Electrolady leisurely strolled in while carrying a cup of green tea. Her face, however, was rather pale and her black training suit was drenched with her sweat, making it literally being pasted on her body, revealing her hot, alluring stature to the fullest.

“Tang Xiu just called and asked the Chief for something,” answered Aquababe with a wry smile. “I just pressed the doorbell, but there’s no response,”

“Girl, don’t tell me you forget that he likes to wear a headset while training, eh?” Electrolady smiled and said, “Anyway, if you wanna let him know that you’re looking for him, you gotta press the bell uninterruptedly. Besides, he’ll take off the headset every ten minutes or so.”

Aquababe blanked out for a moment and hastily nodded.

At last, the heavy metal door slowly opened and the heavily sweating Duanmu Lin wiped his wet hair with a white towel and asked, “What is it?”

Aquababe hurriedly handed over the satellite phone and said, “Tang Xiu just called. He wants to speak with you, Chief. He said there’s an important thing he needs your help with.”

Tang Xiu?

Duanmu Lin grabbed the phone and saw a number on the screen. He called it back and waited for a few seconds before his called got picked up. Then he spoke, “Are you looking for me, Tang Xiu?”

“Elder Duanmu, there’s something I need your help with.”

“Tell me!”

Duanmu Lin’s expression turned strange the more the conversation went on. Then he interjected, “It turns out that the Big Boss behind the Grand Fortune Jewelry is you, and also the culprit who created a babel of criticism and sensation with the billions of US dollars for treasure hunts recently, huh? What exactly are these zodiac jade carvings? Is it really worth your time to spend such a great deal of effort to look for them?”

“Well, the zodiac jade carving has no effect on ordinary people. There aren’t any uses for ability users like you either. But for me, it is no small help,” explained Tang Xiu. “You must have heard some facts about cultivators, right? The further cultivators like me walk on our cultivation path, the harder it is for us to break through the realm. Therefore, I need the zodiac jade carving for my use. I need to comprehend the profound principles contained within it and strive to break through to the higher realm as soon as possible.”

Duanmu instantly caught the gist and nodded, “I did hear about this fact. Alright, I promise you. I’ll contact the Head of Intelligence Service immediately. I believe that a person can be found soon as long as he’s in our country. But I’ll still need to ask permission from the top brass if he’s in any foreign country, though. If they approve, I can use the Skynet Intelligence System overseas.”

“Thank you, Senior Duanmu. I’ll be waiting for your news,” Tang Xiu directly hung up after thanking him.

Duanmu Lin threw the satellite phone back to Aquababe and quickly issued a series of orders.