Ch 64 Towards the Middle East
Li Hu smiled slightly and was about to answer when all of a sudden, he noticed the ring on Li Xin’s finger, and couldn’t help looking at her with a face full of astonishment. Seeing him do so Li Xin also raised a brow as she stared at him, very straightforwardly waving the hand with the ring on it in front of his eyes. “Any problem?”
“Nope.” Li Hu instantly refocused and looked at Li Xin with a face full of smiling intent.
“Say.” Beside then Qi Mo lifted his head, calmly looking at Li Hu.
Li Hu quickly cleared his throat, earnestly saying, “The blood is normal, with no indication of radiation.” Heading that Li Xin immediately let out a breath of air; these words were currently what she wanted to hear the most.
“However, this blood type is extremely rare, with only a few discovered on this earth. It belongs to a relatively special and exiguous blood group.” Li Hu pinched the report in his hands slightly before handing it straight to Qi Mo, who slightly furrowed his brows.
“Overlord, Boss Juan requests you to answer his call.” White Falcon walked over and reported with a spurious smile on his face.
Qi Mo’s face darkened. “Not answering.”
Li Xin instantly felt that something was weird and raised her head to glance at Qi Mo, however with delicacy after delicacy being slowly delivered, his appeal obviously lost to the temptation of delicious food. Not caring anymore, she began tucking herself into the delicious meal.
White Falcon smiled slightly. “I’ve already told boss Juan that overlord isn’t helping him, but he insists that you must answer the call.”
Standing beside them Li Hu shook his head. “If not for overlord helping him out big time this time by retrieving the goods for him while even helping him solve such a huge problem, I wonder how he’s going to get pass this obstacle. Yet now he’s asking overlord for help again… this boss Juan sure is asking for a beating.”
Qi Mo coldly said, “Let him settle it himself.”
“Qi, why would I ask for your help if I could do it myself?” Juan’s voice appeared all of a sudden, and White Falcon and Li Hu turned back to look. Yellow Falcon had a helpless look on his face as he walked over while holding a phone, adjusting the volume to the maximum.
“Then what do I need you for?” Qi Mo’s icy eyes swept over Yellow Falcon, his voice dark as he questioned Juan.
Juan’s voice was full of helplessness as he pleaded, “Qi, the situation in the Middle East is so complicated, I don’t have the ability to directly make them open an air route to let me go through, Qi, can you personally step in to help, otherwise this batch of goods really wouldn’t be able to arrive on time, Qi.”
Li Xin ate while listening. Hearing Juan’s voice full of the intent to beg, she couldn’t help lifting a brow as she uttered, “Are you not a boss?” Hearing this sound made one get goosebumps, and she’d even lost her appetite. How was Juan even like a boss, if someone said he was an Italian mafia boss, more than half of those who heard would laugh till their teeth dropped.
“If I’m not then could you be? Go away. Qi, quick, I’m already at Central Asia and will be arriving at the borders of the Middle East very soon. No one bothered with my greeting.” After hearing the doubtful tone in Li Xin’s voice his words started coming out from the gaps between gnashed teeth. If he weren’t pleading with Qi Mo, he would have let Li Xin know whether or not he truly had the qualifications to be a boss.
At Juan’s words Qi Mo’s face blackened. From the sidelines Yellow Falcon quickly interrupted, “Overlord, this batch of goods is ours after all.”
Qi Mo’s chilling sight swept over Yellow Falcon. If this batch of arms wasn’t his, then Juan could’ve died for all he cared. Helping him to snatch back the goods, and even helping him to solve the issues of air routes, were Juan to show up in front of him, he really wanted to give him a punch.
“Useless.” The voice was so cold it was at absolute zero degrees, but on the phone Juan let out a deep sigh of relief. This meant that Qi Mo had agreed. Not daring to talk anymore he straightaway hung up, not letting Qi Mo have the chance to lecture him.
He didn’t want to lower his head to beg Qi Mo either, however he really had no other choice ah, in the complicated territory that was the Middle East, his name truly did not have as much influence as Qi Mo. It was because this chaotic territory had big demands with regards to munitions, thus no matter which power it was they still had to give Qi Mo some face. Now he did not have that big a face, although the Italian mafia was renowned both at home and abroad and their powerful forces were long-standing throughout history, not giving them face was not giving them face because that piece of land was too far away. Their influence was completely unable to get through. So, no matter if it was in Europe or America he could crab-walk sideways, however in the Middle Eastern territories he had to lower his head to walk more carefully.
Yellow Falcon, White Falcon, Li Hu and the others heard Qi Mo scolding Juan, and that together with his actions made them not help snickering in their hearts. As they hadn’t gone by the standard airways, the originally tight schedule they had been on had relaxed. All they needed was an air route to open up and they could immediately arrive. They didn’t have to go by a different and more difficult path anymore so they became more relaxed.
“Inform a few chiefs, say that I need to borrow an air route.” Qi Mo had a stormy face while he instructed. He would definitely teach Juan a good lesson when they got back.
“Yes.” Yellow Falcon nodded and strode away. Qi Mo’s reputation in the Middle East was truly astounding, as long as they didn’t mention who they were delivering the goods to and only mentioned they were borrowing some airway, then borrowing any air route that could be opened was not a problem at all.
After giving a few instructions, White Falcon saw that there weren’t any big matters left and fished out an earring with a ruby on it and gave it to Qi Mo. “This is somewhat complicated, this thing was made with its components all layered and connected firmly, if there were any forced intrusion, the internal structure would be destroyed. There’s no way to extract its complete structure and design as well as functions.”
At that, Qi Mo turned around to meet Li Xin, who had widened her eyes to stare at the ruby earring. Li Xin saw Qi Mo look over and instantly lowered her head, pretending as if she hadn’t seen anything. She’d told them a long time ago that other than her no one else would be able to use this device. That pair was doomed to never work without her other pair, and even White Falcon could only dream of figuring out its designs and functions.
“Make another one.” Qi Mo pinched with his thumb and middle finger the various interlinked pieces of the ruby earring, lightly saying to Li Xin.
Li Xin immediately lifted her head when she heard him, “For what?”
Qi Mo looked at the earring on Li Xin’s earlobe. “The colour is too ugly.”
Li Xin instantly raised a brow. The colour was ugly? How was this ruby earring ugly? She felt that it was quite pretty, and could help looking up to meet Qi Mo’s eyes, disagreeing, “Boss, if you don’t know how to admire the colour then don’t give your judgement, how in the world is the earring’s colour ugly?”
Hearing Li Xin’s words, Qi Mo’s forehead instantly creased as his eyes swept over her face. Li Xin felt the cold air blowing in her direction and quickly revealed a bootlicking smile, “Hehe, never mind boss, I said it wrongly. But this thing is linked together, what’s the use if I make another one? This took me over ten years of slow tweaking and changing to perfect it, whatever I felt like changing I would change, it’s a bit difficult for me to make a new one right now .”
These words weren’t false, since the craft that she’d learnt from young wasn’t this. She was just fumbling, fumbling about, and it was the result of her finding the real technique by putting her ideas into practice after numerous trials and errors. If he wanted her to make another one, then she would have to start reengineering from the beginning.
His brows faintly scrunched before throwing the earring in his hand over to Li Xin. “Adjust its appearance a bit. It’s ugly with so many attachments.”
Seeing Qi Mo being so demanding, Li Xin raised her brows slightly helplessly before catching the earring that Qi Mo had thrown over, asking, “Boss, say, what exactly do you want to do? If I change it then it won’t match my pair anymore, plus, each and every piece has its own function, how am I supposed to change it?”
His eyes darkened slightly before suddenly saying, “Come here.”
Li Xin glanced at Qi Mo, and couldn’t read anything from his darkened and expressionless face. She didn’t know what exactly he wanted, and so just obediently walked over to him.
“Put it on.” He calmly said, lightly turning his body away.
Hearing his words and seeing his posture, Li Xin involuntary widened her eyes, “Boss, you’re wearing it?”
“Hurry up.” Qi Mo’s impatient voice sounded out.
Li Xin immediately turned silent, then looked at the women’s jewellery piece in her hand. What would it look like if it were to be worn on Qi Mo?
Though at the same time she faintly detested his domineering blackmailing ways, because this was her stuff ah, after going around one round it suddenly became others’. The heavens were unjust.
No matter how she ground her teeth it wasn’t going to do anything. Li Xin obediently put her earring on Qi Mo’s ear. The long black hair by his ears faintly hid the ruby red earring, actually giving off an unspeakable flavour. Red mixed with the darkest of blacks was a completely different species of bloodthirstiness.
Looking at her own earring being worn by Qi Mo, it actually didn’t seem the slightest bit feminine, nor was it gentle, instead one could faintly feel that fiery red exuding a bloody feeling. That’s right, it was a bloody feeling. The only red accessory on the cold and unfeeling Qi Mo actually brought out a feeling that was neither gentle nor elegant, but instead seemed like a dash of blood amidst that sea of black. That vibrant bloody colour made his heartlessness, emotionlessness, and arrogance even more prominent.
Li Xin was utterly speechless. Why was it that no matter he wore it would never subtract from his aura, and would instead add to it. Her originally beautiful and elegant accessory had actually given off a bloodthirsty feel. She rubbed the earring on her ear, feeling completely speechless.
“How to use it?” Qi Mo felt the earring that had just pierced through his ear lobe.
“ He sure can recognise what’s worth.” Li Xin muttered
Meeting his chilly eyes she forced out a smile. Qi Mo was a like robber, while she could only helplessly watch as she was getting robbed. Not only was she robbed, but she even had to tell the other party how to use her things. She was truly useless.
“Overlord, Chief Bunio doesn’t agree.” As Li Xin was explaining to Qi Mo how it worked, Yellow Falcon suddenly came over to report.
“Him again? Why is this person so troublesome?” Li Hu was constantly standing by the two and was supposedly there to help them with their injuries, yet seemed more as if he was here to watch a show. His face instantly sank after hearing Yellow Falcon say so. His forehead scrunched as if he didn’t have any good feelings towards this person.
“It is indeed really troublesome, however he is the middle of our way, if he doesn’t let us through things will get troublesome for us,” White Falcon said, touching his brow.
With a calm and cool look in his eyes, Qi Mo slowly asked, “What are his conditions?”
Yellow Falcon glanced at Qi Mo before saying, “He wants overlord to personally meet him.”
At that, Qi Mo couldn’t helping furrowing his brows, while beside him Li Hu growled angrily, “What great guts, he’s fleecing us again.”
White Falcon’s voice turned cold. “Who let him be the biggest power in the Middle East. This time round we have to pass through his airspace, so what can we do other than going over and getting fleeced by him.”
Yellow Falcon shook his head, “I don’t think so, his tone seemed a little anxious, and when hearing that it was us calling and that it was overlord wanting to borrow an air route, he seemed to heave a sigh of relief. However he was still very insistent that overlord personally go meet him. The moment he meets overlord will be the moment he opens a route to let our delivery pass.”
Qi Mo stilled slightly before ordering, “Prepare the plane.”
Yellow Falcon made a sound of agreement before quickly retreating. Li Hu and White Falcon exchanged a glance, both simultaneously lifting a brow. They were actually being threatened, and seeing Qi Mo’s icy expression, the two shook their heads. Right now they were the ones making the requests, they couldn’t do anything. However once this matter was finished they would make him pay, no matter if he was the biggest power in the Middle East or not.
Carrying her up, Qi Mo walked towards the entrance, but Li Xin instantly started struggling while saying, “I’m not going boss, I’m a patient, I’m not going!” A trip to Southeast Asia had left her with half a life, while the trip to Australia had left her with a third of her life. That would become her resting place if she followed him to the Middle East so she would rather die than follow him.
Qi Mo’s was holding her waist while carefully avoiding the injured back. Sweeping an icy gaze over her face, he put her down while lightly saying, “There will be a cleaning up here.” Finishing, he walked towards the plane, as if he had no intention of making things difficult for her.
Li Xin saw Qi Mo easily let her go and before the smile on her face could reveal itself, Li Hu who was following behind her chuckled, “Don’t forget, Yarossi has just been killed by boss, the sky here is about to change.”
She instantly froze. “What do you mean?”
Li Hu’s lips quirked and revealed a bloodthirsty smile, but he only made an elegant waving gesture towards Li Xin before following Qi Mo.
“What does that mean?”
“Boss Juan’s men cleaned up Yarossi’s people, the world here will be broken to pieces before coming together. For the next few days the blood here will flow like rivers, no one will stop you if you want to remain here, but you’ll be responsible for your own life.” White Falcon stood next to Li Xin while stating calmly. He then pointed at the ring on her finger, his eyes becoming even more calm as he continued, “You are one of overlord’s people, the guys here will take good care of you.” After saying so he followed Li Hu and left Li Xin alone.
SHIT. Li Xin finally understood. Qi Mo killed Yarossi, now that he was gone, all those people that were being cleaned up by Juan’s men would take very good care of her. Very, very good care indeed. Li Xin aimed a punch at Qi Mo’s shadow before chasing after him.
“As long as boss is there, I’ll be there, this is the duty of a subordinate!” Li Xin quickened her steps to catch up to Qi Mo, dead serious as she followed him.
Qi Mo didn’t turn his head to look at Li Xin, just reaching over to hook an arm around her waist and made her lean on him as they walked. He said, “You better remember those words you said.”
Italy wasn’t too far away from the Middle East, so Qi Mo’s didn’t bother to use any military use aircrafts, just sitting in an ordinary aircraft and headed towards the turmoil-filled piece of land that had flames of war constantly burning.
Sitting on the plane, Li Xin was being cuddled in his bosom while she looked at those eyes that had shut themselves to rest. Li Xin turned her head to look out at the white clouds flying past the plane before letting out a deep sigh. She hoped that nothing thrilling and stimulating would happen this time, because she didn’t have much life left to be tormented. If this pattern continued, she would have to report to King Yama twenty years earlier.
Looking away from the window, Li Xin glared at Qi Mo, who was taking a nap. If she died earlier than she was supposed to, then even if she had to cross mountains and destroy heavens she would drag Qi Mo down with her and never let him live another day to resolve the grudge in her heart.
Middle East, the land that had gotten rich from petroleum, yet at the same time was turned into a constant war-zone because of it, reminded Li Xin of the saying ‘whether success or failure, they were caused by the same person’. This vast desert world owned very little precious materials yet always had war and destruction.
“Who are you? Report your identities, or face the consequences.” Warnings were coming in nonstop, and when Li Xin heard the sentence that she’d already heard countless times before, she glanced at the dozing Qi Mo who was using her as a bolster and then at Yellow Falcon, who had always answered back with the same emotionless reply. She couldn’t help shaking her head.
There were too many authorities in the Middle East. There weren’t as many in the other territorial airspaces, but the moment they entered this land, there were simply too many signals and warnings. Were the person sitting on this airplane not Qi Mo, she had no doubt that this plane would have been destroyed eight hundred years ago in this territory that had plenty of firepower.
Entering into Chief Bunio’s territory, the moment the person enquiring heard that this was Qi Mo’s plane, Chief Bunio appeared in the line after a short pause. “Overlord Qi, I’m glad you’ve come.”
“Chief Bunio, open your air space.” Qi Mo spoke straightforwardly.
“Of course, no problem, Overlord Qi, I’ll be waiting for you in Harlem Palace.” Chief Bunio seemed equally straightforward as he hung up immediately after promising.
Not even a moment later a fleet of planes not far away flew towards the west, while Juan’s voice came on. “Thanks Qi, seems like this time it’s still your face that is bigger.”
Snorting, Qi Mo replied, “You better be careful.” Li Xin saw that Qi Mo actually knew how to care for others and couldn’t help looking at him with slightly raised brows.
“Qi, don’t, let’s talk nicely between us and not do things that would harm relations, okay?” Juan’s voice was slightly helpless and had the intention of sucking up. Clearly, there was another meaning to Qi Mo’s words.
“Go open a mine in Africa after you return.” Qi Mo was not moved at all by Juan’s words.
Juan howled and wasn’t able to say anything to rebut before getting hung up on by Qi Mo. Li Xin rubbed her nose and buried deeper into Qi Mo’s bosom. Go open a mine in Africa. A famous and powerful boss had been sent to Africa to open a mine with just a word from Qi Mo. She didn’t exactly know what that was, but after hearing Juan’s tragic cry, she knew that it definitely wouldn’t be anything nice.
Beside them was Li Hu who had been constantly flipping through some data. He saw Li Xin’s actions and couldn’t help laughing. Who let Juan make such a huge mistake, and even needed for Overlord to come and wipe his ass. If it was another person they would have long reported to the underworld. One had to know that the two were involved in many businesses together; sending Juan to Africa to guard was definitely a preferential punishment.
Harlem Palace. Qi Mo’s private jet stopped on the grassy land in front of the palace, and a middle aged man who had been waiting for them immediately went up to greet them.
Li Xin followed beside Qi Mo, and seeing the newcomer in a standard Muslim dress with a warm smile on his face greet them with a standard greeting and their group similarly bowing, her eyes instantly widened. Qi Mo knew how to return a greeting; were her eyes mistaken.
Before she could fall into a daze, behind her Yellow Falcon held her waist and pinched slightly, making her bend forward in pain while looking towards him. Seeing him doing the same thing while glaring at her and signalling at her to follow their actions, Li Xin didn’t understand, but still copied their actions.
Although she’d come to this land before, she didn’t know that etiquettes here were of the utmost importance. Monetary matters could be discussed, however committing a breach of etiquette could return even a person with previously good relations to ground zero and even into an enemy. The higher a person’s status the more they would care about this point.
“Welcome, Overlord Qi.” The middle aged man smile as he looked at every person. When his eyes landed on Li Xin he couldn’t help stopping slightly, however still continued to politely glance through the group, not pausing for too long.
“Please. My father has been awaiting your arrival. Please follow me.” The middle aged man had a vibrant smile as he led the group, and Qi Mo nodded slightly and followed.
“Just copy whatever we do.” Yellow Falcon followed behind Li Xin and quietly said next to her ears. There were many rules in this place, with many beliefs too. Although Qi Mo’s reputation and power was great, however he still had to adhere to many of the rules and regulations here. Li Xin heard his words and nodded. She didn’t have many abilities as a person, however she was still able to observe the situation.
Following behind Qi Mo and the middle aged man who was supposedly a prince, the moment she entered Harlem Palace Li Xin couldn’t help touching her nose. Gorgeous and extravagant; there was an unimaginable amount of extravagance, with golden doors, carved white jade pillars, and jade and agate pebbled atop displays and decorations. Other than extravagant, one simply could not think of any other word to describe it.
However, their style seemed rather vulgar. Gold, an amount of gold that exceeded one’s imagination, was either laid on the ground or on doors or on railings. One could see the golden colour everywhere they looked, and it didn’t seem classy, rather the sight revealed extravagance and ostentation.
On their way, all the servants politely bowed towards their group of people, while they didn’t continue returning the bow and just walked quickly ahead with lifted heads. She saw all those women whose faces were so covered up that nothing could be seen, with even their eyes shielded by a piece of muslim cloth, all bow at the sight of their group before kneeling at the side. They lowered their heads and waited for them to pass before getting up and leaving.
“Overlord Qi.” Walking through a forest-like garden, entering into Halim Palace, a man that looked to be around fifty years old enthusiastically welcomed them.
“Chief Bunio.” Qi Mo’s face was calm as he walked over.
“Overlord Qi, long time no see. Yi, why is there a female?” Chief Bunio shook Qi Mo’s hand as he looked at Li Xin with a look of surprise on his face.
Qi Mo coldly looked at the Chief. “Just tell me what you want.”
Hearing Qi Mo be so straightforward, and also knowing that Qi Mo’s personality was just so cold and direct, Chief Bunio waved his hands to signal for the servants to leave, and even his son who had just received them had left. He looked at Qi Mo. “Since overlord Qi is so frank, then I won’t be so courteous, time is important to you all after all.” While talking he glanced at Li Xin, Yellow Falcon, Li Hu and White Falcon.
Qi Mo’s face darkened slightly. ” You can just straightforward.”
Seeing Qi Mo not hiding it from Li Xin and the others, he hesitated slightly before nodding. “They’ll still know in the end. Overlord Qi, you all follow me.” While speaking, he stepped back before turning around, walking towards the inner palace.
Their group followed behind Chief Bunio to walk further in. Qi Mo was half a step behind next to the Chief, while Yellow Falcon and Li Xin were behind Qi Mo with Li Hu and White Falcon taking up the rear. No one spoke.
Going through a curtain, they saw Chief Bunio press on the wall, and a secret door suddenly opened. They went down steep steps, with no light other than the glow from huge luminous pearls on the wall to guide them.
The deeper inside they got the lower they were, and the number of security doors also increased. Looking at Chief Bunio’s serious expression, the bright smile from before was completely gone and his actions were now as careful as they could be. Li Xin and Yellow Falcon exchanged a glance while simultaneously quickening their pace. Yellow Falcon did that so that he could protect Qi Mo from the closest distance possible, while Li Xin felt that something was wrong with the atmosphere and wanted to glean some confidence from Qi Mo.
Chief Buno stood in front of a solid gold door, and while pushing the door open, said somberly, “We’re here.”
Ch 64 Towards the Middle East
Li Hu smiled slightly and was about to answer when all of a sudden, he noticed the ring on Li Xin’s finger, and couldn’t help looking at her with a face full of astonishment. Seeing him do so Li Xin also raised a brow as she stared at him, very straightforwardly waving the hand with the ring on it in front of his eyes. “Any problem?”
“Nope.” Li Hu instantly refocused and looked at Li Xin with a face full of smiling intent.
“Say.” Beside then Qi Mo lifted his head, calmly looking at Li Hu.
Li Hu quickly cleared his throat, earnestly saying, “The blood is normal, with no indication of radiation.” Heading that Li Xin immediately let out a breath of air; these words were currently what she wanted to hear the most.
“However, this blood type is extremely rare, with only a few discovered on this earth. It belongs to a relatively special and exiguous blood group.” Li Hu pinched the report in his hands slightly before handing it straight to Qi Mo, who slightly furrowed his brows.
“Overlord, Boss Juan requests you to answer his call.” White Falcon walked over and reported with a spurious smile on his face.
Qi Mo’s face darkened. “Not answering.”
Li Xin instantly felt that something was weird and raised her head to glance at Qi Mo, however with delicacy after delicacy being slowly delivered, his appeal obviously lost to the temptation of delicious food. Not caring anymore, she began tucking herself into the delicious meal.
White Falcon smiled slightly. “I’ve already told boss Juan that overlord isn’t helping him, but he insists that you must answer the call.”
Standing beside them Li Hu shook his head. “If not for overlord helping him out big time this time by retrieving the goods for him while even helping him solve such a huge problem, I wonder how he’s going to get pass this obstacle. Yet now he’s asking overlord for help again… this boss Juan sure is asking for a beating.”
Qi Mo coldly said, “Let him settle it himself.”
“Qi, why would I ask for your help if I could do it myself?” Juan’s voice appeared all of a sudden, and White Falcon and Li Hu turned back to look. Yellow Falcon had a helpless look on his face as he walked over while holding a phone, adjusting the volume to the maximum.
“Then what do I need you for?” Qi Mo’s icy eyes swept over Yellow Falcon, his voice dark as he questioned Juan.
Juan’s voice was full of helplessness as he pleaded, “Qi, the situation in the Middle East is so complicated, I don’t have the ability to directly make them open an air route to let me go through, Qi, can you personally step in to help, otherwise this batch of goods really wouldn’t be able to arrive on time, Qi.”
Li Xin ate while listening. Hearing Juan’s voice full of the intent to beg, she couldn’t help lifting a brow as she uttered, “Are you not a boss?” Hearing this sound made one get goosebumps, and she’d even lost her appetite. How was Juan even like a boss, if someone said he was an Italian mafia boss, more than half of those who heard would laugh till their teeth dropped.
“If I’m not then could you be? Go away. Qi, quick, I’m already at Central Asia and will be arriving at the borders of the Middle East very soon. No one bothered with my greeting.” After hearing the doubtful tone in Li Xin’s voice his words started coming out from the gaps between gnashed teeth. If he weren’t pleading with Qi Mo, he would have let Li Xin know whether or not he truly had the qualifications to be a boss.
At Juan’s words Qi Mo’s face blackened. From the sidelines Yellow Falcon quickly interrupted, “Overlord, this batch of goods is ours after all.”
Qi Mo’s chilling sight swept over Yellow Falcon. If this batch of arms wasn’t his, then Juan could’ve died for all he cared. Helping him to snatch back the goods, and even helping him to solve the issues of air routes, were Juan to show up in front of him, he really wanted to give him a punch.
“Useless.” The voice was so cold it was at absolute zero degrees, but on the phone Juan let out a deep sigh of relief. This meant that Qi Mo had agreed. Not daring to talk anymore he straightaway hung up, not letting Qi Mo have the chance to lecture him.
He didn’t want to lower his head to beg Qi Mo either, however he really had no other choice ah, in the complicated territory that was the Middle East, his name truly did not have as much influence as Qi Mo. It was because this chaotic territory had big demands with regards to munitions, thus no matter which power it was they still had to give Qi Mo some face. Now he did not have that big a face, although the Italian mafia was renowned both at home and abroad and their powerful forces were long-standing throughout history, not giving them face was not giving them face because that piece of land was too far away. Their influence was completely unable to get through. So, no matter if it was in Europe or America he could crab-walk sideways, however in the Middle Eastern territories he had to lower his head to walk more carefully.
Yellow Falcon, White Falcon, Li Hu and the others heard Qi Mo scolding Juan, and that together with his actions made them not help snickering in their hearts. As they hadn’t gone by the standard airways, the originally tight schedule they had been on had relaxed. All they needed was an air route to open up and they could immediately arrive. They didn’t have to go by a different and more difficult path anymore so they became more relaxed.
“Inform a few chiefs, say that I need to borrow an air route.” Qi Mo had a stormy face while he instructed. He would definitely teach Juan a good lesson when they got back.
“Yes.” Yellow Falcon nodded and strode away. Qi Mo’s reputation in the Middle East was truly astounding, as long as they didn’t mention who they were delivering the goods to and only mentioned they were borrowing some airway, then borrowing any air route that could be opened was not a problem at all.
After giving a few instructions, White Falcon saw that there weren’t any big matters left and fished out an earring with a ruby on it and gave it to Qi Mo. “This is somewhat complicated, this thing was made with its components all layered and connected firmly, if there were any forced intrusion, the internal structure would be destroyed. There’s no way to extract its complete structure and design as well as functions.”
At that, Qi Mo turned around to meet Li Xin, who had widened her eyes to stare at the ruby earring. Li Xin saw Qi Mo look over and instantly lowered her head, pretending as if she hadn’t seen anything. She’d told them a long time ago that other than her no one else would be able to use this device. That pair was doomed to never work without her other pair, and even White Falcon could only dream of figuring out its designs and functions.
“Make another one.” Qi Mo pinched with his thumb and middle finger the various interlinked pieces of the ruby earring, lightly saying to Li Xin.
Li Xin immediately lifted her head when she heard him, “For what?”
Qi Mo looked at the earring on Li Xin’s earlobe. “The colour is too ugly.”
Li Xin instantly raised a brow. The colour was ugly? How was this ruby earring ugly? She felt that it was quite pretty, and could help looking up to meet Qi Mo’s eyes, disagreeing, “Boss, if you don’t know how to admire the colour then don’t give your judgement, how in the world is the earring’s colour ugly?”
Hearing Li Xin’s words, Qi Mo’s forehead instantly creased as his eyes swept over her face. Li Xin felt the cold air blowing in her direction and quickly revealed a bootlicking smile, “Hehe, never mind boss, I said it wrongly. But this thing is linked together, what’s the use if I make another one? This took me over ten years of slow tweaking and changing to perfect it, whatever I felt like changing I would change, it’s a bit difficult for me to make a new one right now .”
These words weren’t false, since the craft that she’d learnt from young wasn’t this. She was just fumbling, fumbling about, and it was the result of her finding the real technique by putting her ideas into practice after numerous trials and errors. If he wanted her to make another one, then she would have to start reengineering from the beginning.
His brows faintly scrunched before throwing the earring in his hand over to Li Xin. “Adjust its appearance a bit. It’s ugly with so many attachments.”
Seeing Qi Mo being so demanding, Li Xin raised her brows slightly helplessly before catching the earring that Qi Mo had thrown over, asking, “Boss, say, what exactly do you want to do? If I change it then it won’t match my pair anymore, plus, each and every piece has its own function, how am I supposed to change it?”
His eyes darkened slightly before suddenly saying, “Come here.”
Li Xin glanced at Qi Mo, and couldn’t read anything from his darkened and expressionless face. She didn’t know what exactly he wanted, and so just obediently walked over to him.
“Put it on.” He calmly said, lightly turning his body away.
Hearing his words and seeing his posture, Li Xin involuntary widened her eyes, “Boss, you’re wearing it?”
“Hurry up.” Qi Mo’s impatient voice sounded out.
Li Xin immediately turned silent, then looked at the women’s jewellery piece in her hand. What would it look like if it were to be worn on Qi Mo?
Though at the same time she faintly detested his domineering blackmailing ways, because this was her stuff ah, after going around one round it suddenly became others’. The heavens were unjust.
No matter how she ground her teeth it wasn’t going to do anything. Li Xin obediently put her earring on Qi Mo’s ear. The long black hair by his ears faintly hid the ruby red earring, actually giving off an unspeakable flavour. Red mixed with the darkest of blacks was a completely different species of bloodthirstiness.
Looking at her own earring being worn by Qi Mo, it actually didn’t seem the slightest bit feminine, nor was it gentle, instead one could faintly feel that fiery red exuding a bloody feeling. That’s right, it was a bloody feeling. The only red accessory on the cold and unfeeling Qi Mo actually brought out a feeling that was neither gentle nor elegant, but instead seemed like a dash of blood amidst that sea of black. That vibrant bloody colour made his heartlessness, emotionlessness, and arrogance even more prominent.
Li Xin was utterly speechless. Why was it that no matter he wore it would never subtract from his aura, and would instead add to it. Her originally beautiful and elegant accessory had actually given off a bloodthirsty feel. She rubbed the earring on her ear, feeling completely speechless.
“How to use it?” Qi Mo felt the earring that had just pierced through his ear lobe.
“ He sure can recognise what’s worth.” Li Xin muttered
Meeting his chilly eyes she forced out a smile. Qi Mo was a like robber, while she could only helplessly watch as she was getting robbed. Not only was she robbed, but she even had to tell the other party how to use her things. She was truly useless.
“Overlord, Chief Bunio doesn’t agree.” As Li Xin was explaining to Qi Mo how it worked, Yellow Falcon suddenly came over to report.
“Him again? Why is this person so troublesome?” Li Hu was constantly standing by the two and was supposedly there to help them with their injuries, yet seemed more as if he was here to watch a show. His face instantly sank after hearing Yellow Falcon say so. His forehead scrunched as if he didn’t have any good feelings towards this person.
“It is indeed really troublesome, however he is the middle of our way, if he doesn’t let us through things will get troublesome for us,” White Falcon said, touching his brow.
With a calm and cool look in his eyes, Qi Mo slowly asked, “What are his conditions?”
Yellow Falcon glanced at Qi Mo before saying, “He wants overlord to personally meet him.”
At that, Qi Mo couldn’t helping furrowing his brows, while beside him Li Hu growled angrily, “What great guts, he’s fleecing us again.”
White Falcon’s voice turned cold. “Who let him be the biggest power in the Middle East. This time round we have to pass through his airspace, so what can we do other than going over and getting fleeced by him.”
Yellow Falcon shook his head, “I don’t think so, his tone seemed a little anxious, and when hearing that it was us calling and that it was overlord wanting to borrow an air route, he seemed to heave a sigh of relief. However he was still very insistent that overlord personally go meet him. The moment he meets overlord will be the moment he opens a route to let our delivery pass.”
Qi Mo stilled slightly before ordering, “Prepare the plane.”
Yellow Falcon made a sound of agreement before quickly retreating. Li Hu and White Falcon exchanged a glance, both simultaneously lifting a brow. They were actually being threatened, and seeing Qi Mo’s icy expression, the two shook their heads. Right now they were the ones making the requests, they couldn’t do anything. However once this matter was finished they would make him pay, no matter if he was the biggest power in the Middle East or not.
Carrying her up, Qi Mo walked towards the entrance, but Li Xin instantly started struggling while saying, “I’m not going boss, I’m a patient, I’m not going!” A trip to Southeast Asia had left her with half a life, while the trip to Australia had left her with a third of her life. That would become her resting place if she followed him to the Middle East so she would rather die than follow him.
Qi Mo’s was holding her waist while carefully avoiding the injured back. Sweeping an icy gaze over her face, he put her down while lightly saying, “There will be a cleaning up here.” Finishing, he walked towards the plane, as if he had no intention of making things difficult for her.
Li Xin saw Qi Mo easily let her go and before the smile on her face could reveal itself, Li Hu who was following behind her chuckled, “Don’t forget, Yarossi has just been killed by boss, the sky here is about to change.”
She instantly froze. “What do you mean?”
Li Hu’s lips quirked and revealed a bloodthirsty smile, but he only made an elegant waving gesture towards Li Xin before following Qi Mo.
“What does that mean?”
“Boss Juan’s men cleaned up Yarossi’s people, the world here will be broken to pieces before coming together. For the next few days the blood here will flow like rivers, no one will stop you if you want to remain here, but you’ll be responsible for your own life.” White Falcon stood next to Li Xin while stating calmly. He then pointed at the ring on her finger, his eyes becoming even more calm as he continued, “You are one of overlord’s people, the guys here will take good care of you.” After saying so he followed Li Hu and left Li Xin alone.
SHIT. Li Xin finally understood. Qi Mo killed Yarossi, now that he was gone, all those people that were being cleaned up by Juan’s men would take very good care of her. Very, very good care indeed. Li Xin aimed a punch at Qi Mo’s shadow before chasing after him.
“As long as boss is there, I’ll be there, this is the duty of a subordinate!” Li Xin quickened her steps to catch up to Qi Mo, dead serious as she followed him.
Qi Mo didn’t turn his head to look at Li Xin, just reaching over to hook an arm around her waist and made her lean on him as they walked. He said, “You better remember those words you said.”
Italy wasn’t too far away from the Middle East, so Qi Mo’s didn’t bother to use any military use aircrafts, just sitting in an ordinary aircraft and headed towards the turmoil-filled piece of land that had flames of war constantly burning.
Sitting on the plane, Li Xin was being cuddled in his bosom while she looked at those eyes that had shut themselves to rest. Li Xin turned her head to look out at the white clouds flying past the plane before letting out a deep sigh. She hoped that nothing thrilling and stimulating would happen this time, because she didn’t have much life left to be tormented. If this pattern continued, she would have to report to King Yama twenty years earlier.
Looking away from the window, Li Xin glared at Qi Mo, who was taking a nap. If she died earlier than she was supposed to, then even if she had to cross mountains and destroy heavens she would drag Qi Mo down with her and never let him live another day to resolve the grudge in her heart.
Middle East, the land that had gotten rich from petroleum, yet at the same time was turned into a constant war-zone because of it, reminded Li Xin of the saying ‘whether success or failure, they were caused by the same person’. This vast desert world owned very little precious materials yet always had war and destruction.
“Who are you? Report your identities, or face the consequences.” Warnings were coming in nonstop, and when Li Xin heard the sentence that she’d already heard countless times before, she glanced at the dozing Qi Mo who was using her as a bolster and then at Yellow Falcon, who had always answered back with the same emotionless reply. She couldn’t help shaking her head.
There were too many authorities in the Middle East. There weren’t as many in the other territorial airspaces, but the moment they entered this land, there were simply too many signals and warnings. Were the person sitting on this airplane not Qi Mo, she had no doubt that this plane would have been destroyed eight hundred years ago in this territory that had plenty of firepower.
Entering into Chief Bunio’s territory, the moment the person enquiring heard that this was Qi Mo’s plane, Chief Bunio appeared in the line after a short pause. “Overlord Qi, I’m glad you’ve come.”
“Chief Bunio, open your air space.” Qi Mo spoke straightforwardly.
“Of course, no problem, Overlord Qi, I’ll be waiting for you in Harlem Palace.” Chief Bunio seemed equally straightforward as he hung up immediately after promising.
Not even a moment later a fleet of planes not far away flew towards the west, while Juan’s voice came on. “Thanks Qi, seems like this time it’s still your face that is bigger.”
Snorting, Qi Mo replied, “You better be careful.” Li Xin saw that Qi Mo actually knew how to care for others and couldn’t help looking at him with slightly raised brows.
“Qi, don’t, let’s talk nicely between us and not do things that would harm relations, okay?” Juan’s voice was slightly helpless and had the intention of sucking up. Clearly, there was another meaning to Qi Mo’s words.
“Go open a mine in Africa after you return.” Qi Mo was not moved at all by Juan’s words.
Juan howled and wasn’t able to say anything to rebut before getting hung up on by Qi Mo. Li Xin rubbed her nose and buried deeper into Qi Mo’s bosom. Go open a mine in Africa. A famous and powerful boss had been sent to Africa to open a mine with just a word from Qi Mo. She didn’t exactly know what that was, but after hearing Juan’s tragic cry, she knew that it definitely wouldn’t be anything nice.
Beside them was Li Hu who had been constantly flipping through some data. He saw Li Xin’s actions and couldn’t help laughing. Who let Juan make such a huge mistake, and even needed for Overlord to come and wipe his ass. If it was another person they would have long reported to the underworld. One had to know that the two were involved in many businesses together; sending Juan to Africa to guard was definitely a preferential punishment.
Harlem Palace. Qi Mo’s private jet stopped on the grassy land in front of the palace, and a middle aged man who had been waiting for them immediately went up to greet them.
Li Xin followed beside Qi Mo, and seeing the newcomer in a standard Muslim dress with a warm smile on his face greet them with a standard greeting and their group similarly bowing, her eyes instantly widened. Qi Mo knew how to return a greeting; were her eyes mistaken.
Before she could fall into a daze, behind her Yellow Falcon held her waist and pinched slightly, making her bend forward in pain while looking towards him. Seeing him doing the same thing while glaring at her and signalling at her to follow their actions, Li Xin didn’t understand, but still copied their actions.
Although she’d come to this land before, she didn’t know that etiquettes here were of the utmost importance. Monetary matters could be discussed, however committing a breach of etiquette could return even a person with previously good relations to ground zero and even into an enemy. The higher a person’s status the more they would care about this point.
“Welcome, Overlord Qi.” The middle aged man smile as he looked at every person. When his eyes landed on Li Xin he couldn’t help stopping slightly, however still continued to politely glance through the group, not pausing for too long.
“Please. My father has been awaiting your arrival. Please follow me.” The middle aged man had a vibrant smile as he led the group, and Qi Mo nodded slightly and followed.
“Just copy whatever we do.” Yellow Falcon followed behind Li Xin and quietly said next to her ears. There were many rules in this place, with many beliefs too. Although Qi Mo’s reputation and power was great, however he still had to adhere to many of the rules and regulations here. Li Xin heard his words and nodded. She didn’t have many abilities as a person, however she was still able to observe the situation.
Following behind Qi Mo and the middle aged man who was supposedly a prince, the moment she entered Harlem Palace Li Xin couldn’t help touching her nose. Gorgeous and extravagant; there was an unimaginable amount of extravagance, with golden doors, carved white jade pillars, and jade and agate pebbled atop displays and decorations. Other than extravagant, one simply could not think of any other word to describe it.
However, their style seemed rather vulgar. Gold, an amount of gold that exceeded one’s imagination, was either laid on the ground or on doors or on railings. One could see the golden colour everywhere they looked, and it didn’t seem classy, rather the sight revealed extravagance and ostentation.
On their way, all the servants politely bowed towards their group of people, while they didn’t continue returning the bow and just walked quickly ahead with lifted heads. She saw all those women whose faces were so covered up that nothing could be seen, with even their eyes shielded by a piece of muslim cloth, all bow at the sight of their group before kneeling at the side. They lowered their heads and waited for them to pass before getting up and leaving.
“Overlord Qi.” Walking through a forest-like garden, entering into Halim Palace, a man that looked to be around fifty years old enthusiastically welcomed them.
“Chief Bunio.” Qi Mo’s face was calm as he walked over.
“Overlord Qi, long time no see. Yi, why is there a female?” Chief Bunio shook Qi Mo’s hand as he looked at Li Xin with a look of surprise on his face.
Qi Mo coldly looked at the Chief. “Just tell me what you want.”
Hearing Qi Mo be so straightforward, and also knowing that Qi Mo’s personality was just so cold and direct, Chief Bunio waved his hands to signal for the servants to leave, and even his son who had just received them had left. He looked at Qi Mo. “Since overlord Qi is so frank, then I won’t be so courteous, time is important to you all after all.” While talking he glanced at Li Xin, Yellow Falcon, Li Hu and White Falcon.
Qi Mo’s face darkened slightly. ” You can just straightforward.”
Seeing Qi Mo not hiding it from Li Xin and the others, he hesitated slightly before nodding. “They’ll still know in the end. Overlord Qi, you all follow me.” While speaking, he stepped back before turning around, walking towards the inner palace.
Their group followed behind Chief Bunio to walk further in. Qi Mo was half a step behind next to the Chief, while Yellow Falcon and Li Xin were behind Qi Mo with Li Hu and White Falcon taking up the rear. No one spoke.
Going through a curtain, they saw Chief Bunio press on the wall, and a secret door suddenly opened. They went down steep steps, with no light other than the glow from huge luminous pearls on the wall to guide them.
The deeper inside they got the lower they were, and the number of security doors also increased. Looking at Chief Bunio’s serious expression, the bright smile from before was completely gone and his actions were now as careful as they could be. Li Xin and Yellow Falcon exchanged a glance while simultaneously quickening their pace. Yellow Falcon did that so that he could protect Qi Mo from the closest distance possible, while Li Xin felt that something was wrong with the atmosphere and wanted to glean some confidence from Qi Mo.
Chief Buno stood in front of a solid gold door, and while pushing the door open, said somberly, “We’re here.”
