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"Okay, drive the car to the helipad outside the city. We'll meet there and set off together."
"Okay, I'll be there in about fifteen minutes. See you later." Gu Ran made a U-turn at the next intersection and drove out of the city.
"OK!"
After hanging up with Raymond, Su Xiaoqiang called again.
"What's wrong with you? Didn't I tell you to call me as soon as you got home?" Su Xiaoqiang's voice came through the phone, sounding somewhat unhappy.
"I ran into Lu Mingfei on the way here. We chatted for a while, and I gave him a ride."
"I'm so glad you're alright. I thought something had happened to you on the way."
"Sorry for making you worry."
Gu Ran turned the car onto the elevated highway and drove out of the city: "Xiao Qiang, I received an internship assignment from the school. I have to go abroad tomorrow."
"An internship? Going abroad? Where are we going? Can I go with you?" Su Xiaoqiang felt a little reluctant to part ways with someone she had just started dating.
They became a couple less than four hours ago.
And we just agreed to meet tomorrow.
Gu Ran said helplessly, "You probably won't have time to get your visa. As for the specific location of the internship, I can't tell you... because dinosaur fossils are incredibly valuable, and it wouldn't be good if someone else got there first."
"Then, how long will it take you to come back?"
"As fast as twenty days, at the latest... a month." Gu Ran left himself a way out, giving a more generous timeframe.
On the other end of the phone, Su Xiaoqiang counted the days on her slender, white fingers.
"Then, you have to promise me you'll come back within a month."
"Okay." Gu Ran nodded. "I promise you."
"You still have to call me every day!"
"it is good."
"You're not allowed to flirt with other girls."
"No flirting."
"You also have to think of me every single day...every single day!"
"Think of you just once?"
"What's wrong? Is it not allowed?" Su Xiaoqiang asked in a haughty tone.
"Of course not, that's too difficult!"
"Gu Ran! I'll make you think of me once a day, what's so difficult about that!" Su Xiaoqiang's voice rose, her tone tinged with grievance.
Gu Ran held the steering wheel with one hand, watching the streetlights and night sky recede into the distance, thinking about the pitiful little expression on her face on the other end of the phone.
He smiled and said to Su Xiaoqiang, "I don't want to lie to you, but I really can't think of you every day."
"you……"
On the other end of the phone, Su Xiaoqiang was almost in tears.
But before she could speak, Gu Ran continued:
"Thinking of you once is not enough. Whenever I have free time, I think of you every moment, a hundred times, a thousand times, ten thousand times... I think of you countless times."
The other end of the phone remained quiet, but you could hear her sobbing with joy and trying to suppress her laughter.
"You smooth-talking, big bad guy!" Su Xiaoqiang sniffed. "You just love bullying me!"
Gu Ran said, "How do you know I'm glib? Have you tried it?"
"You...you're so vulgar!" On the other end of the phone, Su Xiaoqiang understood the meaning behind his words, and her pretty face turned red.
Gu Ran continued to tease her:
"That night on Tian Ding Mountain, if I hadn't opened my eyes in time, you probably would have gotten a taste of my smooth talk..."
"Beep-beep-"
Su Xiaoqiang seemed too embarrassed by what was said and hung up the phone immediately.
Gu Ran smiled and put down the Bluetooth earphones.
A short while later, he received a message from Su Xiaoqiang on QQ:
"Be careful and come back soon. Don't keep me waiting too long."
Gu Ran replied to her message: "Okay."
By this time, he had driven the car out of the suburbs and saw Raymond waiting nearby.
On the tarmac not far away, a helicopter was on standby.
……
Two hours later, Gu Ran and Raymond boarded a private jet.
According to the schedule, they will land at Gimpo Airport in Seoul three hours later.
This was Gu Ran's first time riding in a private jet. He didn't know the model of the plane, but it was very large.
Unlike passenger planes with rows of seats, private jet cabins are furnished like living rooms, complete with upholstered sofas, tables, and several separate rooms.
The plane ascended into the stratosphere and began to move forward steadily.
Gu Ran unbuckled his seatbelt and asked Raymond:
"You brought me on the plane without my passport, which means you're going to prepare a new identity for me, right?"
"Dear Gu Ran, you guessed right, this is an infiltration mission."
As Raymond spoke, he used the airplane's projector to explain the mission details to Gu Ran.
About three months ago, several deaths occurred in Gangnam District, Seoul.
The deceased were all men, aged between 18 and 20, and all high school students.
According to the autopsy results, their cause of death was exhaustion followed by over-excitement and suffocation.
The South Korean sheriff announced that he believed they had all committed suicide.
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South Korean law enforcement officials believe that the male students were probably under too much academic pressure, so they tried to relieve the pressure by fighting before they died, but their excessive joy caused them to suffocate.
Because they couldn't find any trace of anyone else at the scene.
Therefore, the conclusion was that he committed suicide.
In three months, twelve such cases occurred.
Of these, six cases were made public, while the rest were not disclosed for various reasons.
The parents of two families felt that their sons had died in such a way, and that it was utterly shameful.
Therefore, the parents of these two families did not even announce the death to the public.
The Seoul sheriffs had also noticed that something was amiss with the case.
They found a Pokémon Charizard badge among the deceased's belongings.
As for the connection between the badge and the case, they do not yet know.
Because there were no clues that an outsider had committed the crime.
After listening to the case briefing, Gu Ran pondered for a while.
He asked Raymond, "These are all the official statements. What about the Secret Service's investigation?"
"Very good, Gu Ran. The fact that you asked this question proves that you were listening attentively."
Raymond switched to a report on his laptop keyboard and re-projected it onto the projector.
The report from the Secret Party was simple and clear.
This was done by the dragons.
Dragons, like humans, have all sorts of desires, which can be simply summarized as the seven deadly sins:
Pride, envy, wrath, sloth, greed, gluttony, lust.
Dragons have desires that are more extreme and biased than those of humans.
Therefore, the South Korean executive department initially concluded that this was a lecherous dragon.
The species level is unknown, but it is preliminarily determined to be either a fourth or fifth generation species.
"Wait, why was it determined to be the work of the dragons, and not the hybrids?" Gu Ran raised his question.
“This judgment is based on evidence, and I will explain the specific reasons later,” Raymond said. “Let’s continue with the Executive Department’s investigation report.”
According to the report, the executive branch found a survivor a week ago.
Yes, a boy received the Charizard Badge, but he didn't die.
When the executives went to question him, they discovered that he had lost part of his memory.
So they used hypnosis on the surviving high school student.
Through deep hypnosis, it was discovered that the high school student had been captured and imprisoned, and the dragon intended to have a deep and simple conversation with him.
But the dragon seemed to have no idea that the high school student had gender dysphoria, and that he believed he was a girl, which was why he couldn't get an erection.
So the dragon gave up on the high school student and simply altered his memories.
"This dragon didn't kill anyone to silence them?" Gu Ran asked in confusion.
"Yes, this dragon seems to have its own principles. As mentioned before, these South Korean students all died from exhaustion."
The executive department's report also noted that, in the high school student's memory, the dragon had told him that if he obtained the Charizard Badge and remained unharmed for more than twenty days, it would abandon him as a target.
Therefore, this high school student has lived to this day.
It's clear that these psychopathic killers all have their own principles; simply put, they have obsessive-compulsive disorder.
"Wait, you said this mission wasn't dangerous, is that why?"