Martial Arts Song

Chapter 263 See you again
After seeing that Chen Qing said he knew, Fei Dongtao did not continue to test him with words, but instead told Chen Qing many details of the mission.

"I asked someone to check this mission. It was posted about two months ago. Someone took it at first, but it failed later. It was put back online a few days ago, and then you happened to take it."

Fei Dongtao said to Chen Qing: "At present, the target of this mission, 'Chen Zhenghui' and Fengxin Trading Company are probably already alert to the assassination. If you want to continue with this mission, you'd better take this into consideration."

"Is this so..."

After hearing what Fei Dongtao said, Chen Qing narrowed his eyes and said, "Does this count as a failure of your investigation? This mission is not as simple as it seems. You didn't even investigate the identity of the target before launching it. The failure of the mission is actually closely related to your failure of investigation."

According to the book "Matters" distributed by "Yun" to customers, the level of the task is finally assessed after investigation by "Yun"'s intelligence team and calculation through a certain internal algorithm.

It doesn’t mean that the more money you pay, the higher the rating will be.

The more money the client gives, the more money "Yun" earns. When issuing tasks to killers, it is still based on the level of the task.

The investigation of the target's identity information is of vital importance. Generally speaking, for missions above the silver level, "Yun" must investigate the target's approximate identity information in order for the killer to take action.

Of course, the professional killer would not completely trust "Yun"'s investigation and would also conduct a secret investigation of his own.

However, according to the provisions of the book "Matters", the "Cloud" organization's insufficient investigation of this mission was indeed a dereliction of duty.

After hearing what Chen Qing said, Fei Dongtao fell silent.

After a long moment, he nodded and said, "Yes. As far as this mission is concerned, there was indeed negligence in the investigation. But according to the results of the subsequent detailed investigation, the difficulty of this mission is still within the range of silver-level missions, but the reward is relatively less."

"So there is no remedial measure?"

Chen Qing continued to narrow his eyes and asked back.

Although the difficulty of this task is still within the range of silver-level tasks, the reward is only 30,000, so the cost-effectiveness is very poor.

In this regard, Chen Qing wanted "Yun" to give an explanation.

"That's what I was going to tell you about."

After hearing this, Fei Dongtao looked at Chen Qing and said, "The dereliction of duty in this mission lies with the intelligence team. But the mission has been issued, and the reward is set at 30,000. If it is changed rashly, the headquarters will discover the dereliction of duty on the part of the intelligence team."

"So, the intelligence team asked me to pass on a message to you. They want the reward for this mission to remain the same, and then they will privately compensate you with a certain amount of money and provide you with this intelligence investigation for free, so as to cover up this matter. What do you think?"

"Ok?"

Hearing Fei Dongtao's words, Chen Qing's eyebrows moved slightly and asked, "How much do you want to compensate?"

As Fei Dongtao said, this mission has already failed, and the target of the mission must be highly vigilant against assassination now.

If he wanted to continue this mission, even though he was a master of "Jingbian", the difficulty would increase a lot.

In addition, this mission involves enemy spies from other countries, and he himself does not want to be involved in such things again, so he already has a specific idea in his mind about this mission.

But if he could make a little more money from it, he certainly wouldn't mind.

"According to the information provided by the intelligence team, the reward for this mission is between fifty thousand and sixty thousand according to the internal calculation."

Fei Dongtao seemed to have anticipated Chen Qing's question, and replied without any surprise on his face: "The reward for the mission is already 30,000 yuan. If you complete this mission, the intelligence team will give you another 30,000 yuan in private as compensation."

At this point, Fei Dongtao paused, then smiled and said, "Actually... it's not bad to give the intelligence team some face. You're going to be a gold medal killer in the future, and your contacts with the intelligence team will only increase. If you give them some face now, it will be much more convenient in the future. What do you think?"

These words can be considered as persuasion.

Chen Qing pretended to think for a moment, nodded reluctantly, and said, "Okay. I don't know anyone in the intelligence team, so I don't need to give them face, but since they asked you to ask for this, I'll give you some face."

His words made it clear that he was doing this for Fei Dongtao's sake, not for the intelligence team.

Although both of them actually understood that Chen Qing was more concerned about the money, such nice words still sounded nice to the ears.

Fei Dongtao also cooperated and said with a smile: "Thank you very much for giving me this face."

After hearing this, Chen Qing did not continue the topic. Instead, he looked at Fei Dongtao and suddenly asked, "I'm curious, if a certain task issued by the 'Yun' organization is never completed, how will this task be handled in the end?"

This was indeed the doubt in his mind.

This point is not recorded in either the book "Matters" sent to customers or the book "Rules" sent to killers.

He was very curious about how the "Cloud" organization would deal with it if a task could not be completed.

"Your question is a good one. It seems that you really want to develop seriously in our 'Yun', otherwise you wouldn't think of this question."

After hearing this, Fei Dongtao smiled and said, "Let me tell you this, we at 'Yun' won't accept every mission. We won't accept missions that are impossible to complete, such as assassinating peerless masters, or assassinating the prime minister of a great country, etc. Missions that will bring disaster to 'Yun' will not be accepted by 'Yun'."

"The missions we take are basically missions that can be completed by the assassins in the organization and will not bring catastrophic disaster to 'Yun'."

"Of course, mistakes are made in the missions we take on, such as the mission you took on this time. Although we have our own assessment system for issuing missions, it is ultimately operated by humans, so it is normal to make mistakes sometimes. Both the intelligence team responsible for the investigation and the review team responsible for the assessment have made mistakes."

"So, we naturally have a set of countermeasures for mission assessment errors. If a mission is delayed due to insufficient investigation by the intelligence team or negligence and mistakes by the review team, then the mission will be automatically promoted to a higher level after five consecutive failures, and the extra cost will be paid by the team that made the mistake."

"Let's take the mission you've just accepted as an example. This mission is currently a silver-level mission. If you fail once, and if you and others fail four times in a row, for a total of five failures, then this mission will automatically be promoted to gold-level and completed by a gold-medal killer!"

"At that time, the mission reward will also increase to the level of a gold-level mission, and the extra mission reward will be borne by the intelligence team that initially investigated the dereliction of duty. If a mission is not completed after being promoted to a gold-level mission, and fails five times in a row, then our three ace killers will personally take over the mission! The extra expenses will still be borne by all members of the intelligence team."

"In short, as long as it is a task that we 'Yun' take on, we will do everything we can to complete it, regardless of the cost. This is also the reason why our 'Yun' has a good reputation in the industry."

At this point, Fei Dongtao showed a hint of pride. He looked at Chen Qing and said with a smile, "How about it, are you satisfied with this answer?"

However, after hearing his words, Chen Qing looked thoughtful.

Then, he asked again: "What if someone does not use the real name of the peerless master or the prime minister of a great country, but uses a photo or portrait with a pseudonym, or the unknown nickname or former name of the peerless master or the prime minister of a great country, to let 'Yun' take the task? How will 'Yun' treat this task then?"

"..."

After hearing this, Fei Dongtao was speechless for a long time.

After a long while, he said expressionlessly, "Honesty is the foundation, and the same applies to assassins. If you deceive Yun into accepting such a mission, Yun will naturally not admit it or carry it out."

Chen Qing smiled when he heard that, and stopped asking questions about the bug, and slowly stood up.

"Then let's do this for now."

After finishing the conversation, Chen Qing walked straight to the office door. In addition to the content that Chen Qing had just read, the investigation report also included the recent activity trajectory of the mission target.

But because it overlapped with the task information table Chen Qing had seen before, Chen Qing did not look at it any further.

"it is good."

Seeing that Chen Qing didn't want to talk anymore, Fei Dongtao stood up and walked Chen Qing to the door.

Afterwards, Chen Qing went downstairs and left the "Yun" organization's base.

The conversation between the two parties actually did not take long. From the time they met to Fei Dongtao going upstairs to get the investigation report, and then to the two of them discussing the mission, the whole process actually took less than ten minutes.

When Chen Qing left the "Yun" organization's base, it was just past 1:10 p.m.

Then, he did not walk to the center of the "Gangqiao District" and take the public tram back as he had done before.

Because the "Gangqiao District" is the port of Dongcheng, Jiulong Avenue in this district no longer runs along the "Hongjiang River", but passes through the middle of the "Gangqiao District" and extends to the port.

Therefore, Chen Qing went directly in the opposite direction of the central area, walked through the streets and alleys and came to the "Gangqiao District" along the bank of the "Hongjiang River".

Then, when no one was paying attention, he went down to the river bank, quietly dived into the water, and began to swim upstream.

"Gangqiao District" and "Wusong District" in Xicheng on the opposite bank are both port areas. Therefore, there are many ferries or merchant ships traveling across the "Hongjiang River" between the two.

Fortunately, when Chen Qing was in Qianyang, he practiced the "Golden Toad Swallowing and Exhaling" method, which is a method of training the lungs to break the limits, and he mastered the miraculous skill of holding his breath underwater for more than 20 minutes.

He dived into the water, swam upstream, and after passing the "Port Bridge Area" section of the river, he emerged in the "Land Travel Area" section of the river.

Then, he swam upstream against the current of the river.

Sanyang, Tutang, Tianxin, Sanlin, Chenhang, Zhoupu...

Chen Qing swam all the way to the end of the "Red River" at the "Huhai"!

Afterwards, he turned around and swam downstream. When he was about to reach "Sanyang", an area with many ferries on the river, he stopped at the "Tutang District", then turned around and swam upstream.

In this way, he kept swimming upstream and downstream, returning to the "Tutang District", repeating this process over and over again.

time flies.

Soon, the afternoon passed.

As the sun began to slowly set, it was just after five in the afternoon.

Sanlin District, by the riverbank.

Chen Qing panted and swam slowly to the shore from the water.

"Sure enough, swimming upstream like this is much more exhausting than swimming back and forth between East and West City. I was 'exhausted' after four hours..."

After getting ashore, Chen Qing, who was soaking wet, muttered to himself.

After he came out of the base of the "Yun" organization, he jumped into the "Red River" and started today's practice.

With yesterday's summary, he started practicing upstream today, and the results were almost as he expected, even faster!
In just four hours, he achieved the same results as he did in eight hours yesterday!
However, after muttering to himself, Chen Qing quickly wrung out his clothes and pants, went ashore and headed towards "Linxing Road" in "Sanlin".

Although it was a happy thing to save half the practice time, he had something else to do this afternoon and was a bit pressed for time, so he had to hurry.

……

At dusk, the sun sets.

The golden sunset glowed from the sky, scattered across the ground through the gaps between the high-rise buildings, forming mottled light and shadows of varying shapes, giving the "Hu Hai" West City a layer of color and exuding a unique, picturesque scenery.

Jiangwan District, Yunguang Road.

In a six-story building covered with company advertising signs.

Under the setting sun, young men and women who were leaving get off work walked out of the building one after another.

As the temperature rises, office workers in Xicheng District take off their thick spring clothes and start wearing thin, cool, beautiful and handsome summer clothes.

Qi Yi, wearing a grey long skirt, a brown plaid Chanel-style vest, a pair of small leather shoes, and her long hair simply tied up with a headband, walked out of the building with her colleagues, talking and laughing.

A female colleague suggested in a pleasant voice: "Do you want to go for a cup of coffee?"

The other female colleagues quickly responded with "OK" and "OK".

Qi Yi also wanted to echo.

But suddenly, she frowned slightly, slowly turned her head and looked at the cafe across the street.

She saw a familiar figure sitting under a huge parasol among the many tables and chairs outside the cafe opposite, looking at her.

When she looked over, the figure raised his hand with a smile on his face and greeted her, and silently called out with his lips: "Senior Sister~"

"Sorry, I have something else tonight, so I won't go. You guys go ahead."

Qi Yi turned around and said something to her female colleagues with an apologetic look on her face.

After some verbal persuasion, she said goodbye to her female colleague and walked towards the end of the street. While doing so, she looked towards the coffee shop opposite and raised one hand in front of her, pointing to the end of the street.

Seven or eight minutes later.

In the "Forest" cafe at the end of the street.

In the dimly lit cafe, Qi Yi sat at a table in the corner.

With a "ding-ling" sound, Chen Qing pushed the door open and walked in. After quickly scanning the room, his eyes stopped at Qi Yi. He walked over with a smile, pulled out a chair opposite Qi Yi and sat down.

Just after Chen Qing sat down.

Qi Yi asked calmly, "Tell me, what's the matter?"

(End of this chapter)