pappabearbooks #544 - Chapter 543 Zhou's Residence
#544 - Chapter 543 Zhou's Residence
As dawn was breaking, Li Chenqiu, who had been tempering his abilities all night, left the hotel alone. He grabbed a bowl of douhua paomo along the way and arrived at the meeting point agreed upon with the other members of the small group.
Once everyone had arrived, the group boarded an underground train bound for City 102, leaving this land behind.
The headquarters of the three major Northern Federation consortiums are all located in the Third District. The place where Zhou Tengfei was staying was a residence built by the Zhou Consortium for Zhou family members working in the Second District.
If anything happened that endangered their safety, or if there were important matters to discuss, the Zhou family members in the Second District would go to that residence, because it was very safe.
The train arrived in City 102 at nearly ten o'clock in the morning. After leaving the train station, the group arrived at the bus stop Zhou Tengfei had mentioned and waited.
"I never thought I'd have the chance to wander around a consortium's residence!"
"Take a few more pictures for me later, I need to upgrade my social media presence!"
"Look at your pathetic self, like a country bumpkin who just arrived in the city. We're students of the War Academy, can't we have some class!"
"Among us, you're the least classy. Every time you go out to eat or drink, you have to post a location-tagged update, afraid others won't know you're spending money in high-end places."
"Exactly, Teng-ge always pays for everything, what do you have to show off!"
"You… you don't understand. I'm just recording my life. If you slander me like this, I'll sue you for defamation!"
The group joked and teased each other. Li Chenqiu kept his hands in his pockets, like an outsider, not saying a word.
Just then, a crew-cut young man came over, bumped Li Chenqiu with his shoulder, and asked in an 'I know everything' tone, "Qian'er, those dark circles are heavy, didn't sleep well last night!"
This person was called Zhang Pin, Sun Qian's best friend.
Li Chenqiu glanced at him: "You guessed it."
Zhang Pin grinned: "What about that delicate girl?"
Hearing this, the others also looked over.
"She left in the morning."
"Hehehe, how did she leave? Did she leave like this, or like this?"
As Zhang Pin spoke, he supported his lower back and walked in a strange posture, eliciting a burst of snickers from the others.
"Qian'er, remember to send that girl's contact information to the group, good things shouldn't be enjoyed alone!" someone said with a smile.
"That guy is not a good person, you better pray you don't run into him," Li Chenqiu said inexplicably.
"Qian'er, you greedy little bastard, you want to monopolize…"
Beep beep—
The sound of a car horn suddenly rang, interrupting that person's words. Li Chenqiu turned his head and saw a business van parked on the side of the road.
He scanned the license plate and strode forward: "The car to pick us up is here, let's go!"
Hearing this, the others hurriedly followed Li Chenqiu's pace and entered the car one by one.
Besides them, there were two other people in the car, one was the driver, and the other was a middle-aged man with a stern face, wearing a black jacket, sitting in the passenger seat.
Bang!
The closing of the car door instantly weakened the noise from the outside. The originally noisy people were now as quiet as rabbits.
The middle-aged man in the passenger seat said without turning his head: "There is a briefcase next to your seats, inside are the clothes and ID bracelets I prepared for you. Put on the clothes and wear the bracelet on your left wrist, understand?"
Click!
Someone opened the briefcase and saw a uniform of the same style as the middle-aged man, and asked in confusion: "Why do we have to change clothes?"
"The Zhou family's residence does not allow irrelevant people to enter. Only by wearing my subordinates' clothes and ID bracelets can I sneak you in," the middle-aged man explained coldly.
As soon as these words came out, a nameless fire surged in the hearts of several people.
Crew-cut youth Zhang Pin showed displeasure: "We are invited guests, we are students of the War Academy, not irrelevant people!"
The middle-aged man looked at the speaker through the rearview mirror, and a sneer appeared on the corner of his mouth: "Then you can take the train back. You can't get in without wearing this outfit.
I'll give you three minutes, those who want to go in, hurry up and change clothes, those who don't want to go in, get out of the car quickly, hurry up, don't waste my time."
"You!" Zhang Pin clenched his fist, a cold light flashed in his eyes, then he opened… the briefcase and began to put on clothes silently, and so did the others.
If they really left this time, they wouldn't be able to ride Zhou Tengfei's coattails in the future. They could still tell what was more important.
Three minutes later, the business car drove into the main lane and disappeared into the crowded intersection.
The Zhou family's residence covers a vast area, located in the suburbs of City 102, next to the legion stationed in this city.
After driving for about an hour, the speed of the business car gradually slowed down. The people sitting in the back row poked their heads out one after another, looking at the front of the road.
The semi-circular light罩 shone with a faint blue light under the direct sunlight, and classical and gorgeous pavilions rose from the horizon, a heavy historical atmosphere rushed towards them.
As they continued to move forward, soldiers began to stand guard on both sides of the road, and helicopters patrolled in the air. Looking towards the end, what came into view was a gate supported by dozens of white jade pillars, hundreds of meters wide, that was the gate to the heavenly palace.
The sound of swallowing saliva came from the car. Zhang Pin and others all widened their eyes, looking at the behemoth in shock.
They had imagined that the Zhou Consortium's residence would be very luxurious, but they didn't expect it to be so inhumanely extravagant. Not to mention anything else, the cost of the gate alone was probably tens of billions!
While the others were shocked by the Zhou family's "壕", Li Chenqiu's gaze was completely caught by the several instruments placed at the gate.
He was very clear about the function of these instruments, not only clear, but also personally experienced them, it was the life measuring instrument that could judge identity and detect forbidden-level beings!
Li Chenqiu's brow furrowed slightly, a look of solemnity flashed in his eyes, and his fists clenched subconsciously.
Although the life measuring instrument could not expose his identity as a resurrector, the strength of Nine Forbidden was impossible to hide. If a student had Nine Forbidden, even the stupidest person would know there was a big problem with him.
In addition, blocking him was a protective cover with unknown defense, and several powerful Realm auras. It would be a bit difficult to kidnap Zhou Tengfei in this situation!
"It's just a place for people to live, does it have to be so heavily guarded?"
Li Chenqiu secretly complained in his heart, while thinking about how to bypass the life measuring instrument and enter the Zhou family's residence.
Soon, the business van stopped in a parking space a hundred meters away from the gate.
"Get out of the car."
The middle-aged man unbuckled his seat belt, opened the car door, and walked towards the gate.
Seeing this, the others hurriedly got out of the car and trotted to follow.