Intelligence

"What's wrong with you?" Xiaobai asked, noticing Li Hao's unnatural expression.

"Um... I'm fine," Li Hao said, pulling himself out of his reverie. "This gun is pretty good."

He ran his fingers along the barrel of the Tenglong gun. "Sell me this gun."

"Huh?" Xiaobai's concerned look vanished completely upon hearing this.

"Hey buddy? Don't you use this kind of gun every day at the club? Why are you taking it from a nobody like me? Do you know how hard it is for my little club to get a fully modified gun? This is the only one..."

"I'll offer 100 million."

"Deal!" Xiaobai rushed forward, gripped Li Hao's hand tightly, and shook it. "You really care about your sister, cash or card?"

Li Hao immediately paid with his mobile phone, swiping 100 million yuan without batting an eye, making Xiaobai's teeth itch with envy.

"It's different when you have money, huh? You spend money so generously."

Li Hao ignored her, saying, "Sister Bai, next time Boss Han comes, just call me. I have something I'd like to ask him about."

"What are you doing! Are you really trying to steal my customers?"

"No, it's serious business." Li Hao's tone was emotionless, but Xiao Bai saw that his eyes didn't seem to be joking, and he nodded seriously.

There was a moment of silence in the meeting room, then Li Hao remembered to say...

"Oh right, I asked you here because I need your help with something." Li Hao took a flat plastic box out of his inner pocket.

There was a CD inside.

"Experimental data?" Xiaobai took the box and immediately recognized the origin of the disc.

Li Hao nodded and said, "I did this myself, without going through the club, so you can rest assured."

"The data and drawings you asked me for last time are all in here."

"Besides these, there's some intelligence I've gathered recently. Could you help me analyze it?"

Xiao Bai raised an eyebrow slightly. "Intelligence? What intelligence? What are you analyzing?"

"New dangerous areas, prison intelligence, including a prison map I drew myself, and some information about the map boss, the warden."

"Can you help me analyze the warden's possible weaknesses and design some tactical tools to target him?"

"This is quite difficult. I'm not confident I can succeed. You should at least tell me what kind of tool you need, right?"

Li Hao didn't know which direction the props should take, so he agreed with Xiao Bai to study them first and then contact her once the direction was determined.

Xiao Bai held up the disc and examined it carefully under the light on the conference room ceiling. "Besides, you guys have been dealt a terrible blow by the warden lately, especially the Bald Eagle Association and the Samurai Sword Club."

"So many people got lost during the pioneering work, and it seems like they failed again today?" Xiaobai said gloatingly.

Li Hao didn't reply, staring at the gun in his hand, lost in thought.

In the silence, a vibration sounded from Li Hao's pocket.

"Hello, Manager Zhang."

"Yes, I'm not in the city anymore."

"It's not far, I can get there in an hour. I drove here, so you don't need to pick me up."

"A meeting? When? Why so urgent?"

Li Hao remained silent for a while, listening intently to the person on the other end of the phone.

"Okay, I understand. I'll head back now. Goodbye."

After Li Hao hung up the phone, Xiao Bai asked from the side, "Busy guy, what kind of meeting is that?"

"I don't know the content of the meeting, but I guess it's related to the recent prison map, and it was officially convened by the United Nations."

Xiao Bai didn't delve any further. He took the box of experimental data and walked out of the conference room. "I'll watch your things for you. Go ahead and be careful on your way."

"Um."

After leaving the 78 Club building, Li Hao put the Tenglong rifle in the trunk of his car and then drove back the way he came.

On his way back, Li Hao's mind was still on the marks on the rifles. Where did that shopkeeper Han, who came to sell goods, get all those fully modified weapons?

And what exactly happened in the prison recently? What kind of situation could cause the Bald Eagle, which had been using Level 5 protection, to suffer repeated losses and even get lost?

The same route back felt much faster.

Upon entering the official building of the Dragon Kingdom, one finds that the United Nations officials have borrowed a conference room here for a meeting.

Once Li Hao entered, he realized that the meeting was even more exaggerated than what Manager Zhang had described on the phone.

The conference room was large, and there were already over a hundred people inside. Each seat had a microphone on the table.

Even before the meeting was scheduled to begin, the top leaders of the six major clubs had already taken their seats.

Apart from the management of the various clubs, everyone else in the meeting room was an acquaintance.

"Tiger Girl?" Li Hao saw the familiar figure he had seen just a few hours ago.

"Li Hao, you're here too?"

"Why are you here? Weren't you supposed to be discharged tomorrow?" Li Hao walked towards Tiger Girl and Manager Wang.

Manager Wang said, "I told her not to come, but she insisted that everything was fine and she had to come. I couldn't persuade her otherwise."

"I'm fine now. All the requests have been made this time, and I'd like to hear what happened."

"Everyone's here? What's going on?" Li Hao looked at Manager Wang, noticing his confused expression. Manager Wang said, "Didn't Old Zhang tell you?"

"I went out of the city and just got back, so I haven't had time to look into it in detail yet."

"My information comes from the United Nations officials who are investigating and reporting on the recent situation of four people going missing in a prison in a new dangerous area."

Then Manager Wang pursed his lips and said, "But I suspect it's the Bald Eagle Association's doing. You should know that the Bald Eagle's stock price has been plummeting lately, and today's operation failed again, with more people going missing. They can't sit still anymore."

"What are they trying to do? Gathering people together won't solve anything!"

"That's the strange thing. Logically, he should have held a press conference to salvage his reputation and reduce the losses, but instead he pulled this stunt."

The noise in the conference room subsided for a moment, and Li Hao and his companions turned around to see that the officials had entered.

After greeting Manager Wang and Tiger Girl, Li Hao returned to his seat.

"They're here." Manager Zhang patted the seat next to him, leaving it for Li Hao. Jiang Chi and Chen Xiaoxun were also there.

After the leaders in the front row took their seats, a blond young man from the Bald Eagle Association walked to the front of the stage and spoke into the microphone.

"Thank you all. I am Anderson, the head of the Bald Eagle Association's branch in China." After a brief self-introduction, Anderson went straight to the point without any pleasantries or formalities.

"I've gathered everyone here amidst your busy schedules to discuss a new, dangerous operation and information about the prison map."

"As you all know, we have already conducted three operations, but the progress of exploring this map is less than 50%, and we have not even defeated the map boss, the Warden, once."

"During this period, our operators made several attempts, all of which ended in failure. In order to complete the initial exploration as soon as possible, the United Nations has taken the lead in calling on everyone to share the information they know, break down information gaps, and reduce unnecessary sacrifices in the future."

"With all the club leaders here, who would like to start the discussion?"

Anderson's gaze swept across the court, but no one noticed the hint of madness hidden in his calm eyes.