According to the map passed by Ace, Zhao Yi quickly found the location of the coordinates. (Outline)

This is a high-end club located at the southern end of the commercial area. This can be seen from the dozens of luxury sports cars parked in front of the building.

"Mercedes-Benz", "Porsche", "Chery"...

With the changes in the earth's crust, volcanoes erupt, tsunami, and abnormal climate... A series of disasters completely ended the ancient Earth era. However, the continuation of civilization did not cause faults. While leaving this home planet, humans who immigrated to the universe also brought all the things that symbolize civilization into new places of residence. Especially those manufacturers with thousands of years of history, using the latest technology, what they produced from factories is no longer the traditional "car". Suspended vehicles made with electromagnetic power are neither equipped with rubber tires nor possible to be driven by gasoline. However, in the inherent thinking of humans, they are still called "cars".

These luxury sports cars are not bargains sold by the civil affairs department. They are luxury goods worth hundreds of thousands of federal standard currency. Especially those specially customized handmade sports cars, because they are not mass-produced and all the templates are destroyed after one use. Therefore, they are unique treasures. Their prices can even be as high as tens of millions of yuan.

In Zhao Yi's view, rather than spending this money to buy a sports car, it is better to buy a small-scale fully armed fleet at the same price. In terms of luxury and practicality, he often chooses the latter.

Because time was in a hurry, he didn't have time to stop and ran towards the hall. However, he happened to run into a young woman walking towards him.

"Ah———What do you want to do?"

The sharp shouts instantly filled all the space in the hall, attracting countless eyes from all corners. It was at this moment that Zhao Yi suddenly realized that under his heavy military boots, he seemed to be stepping on something soft and small.

It was a delicate white high heel. The leather pad on the inside of the heel was also printed with the round trademark of Louis Vuitton. And its owner, a woman about twenty years old, wearing white tight trousers and a floral satin cool shirt, with a nice face and a white skin. She was supporting the ground with her hands, desperately trying to stand up.

"I'm sorry! I'm sorry! I didn't mean it."

Zhao Yi repeatedly apologized, and reached out to pull the other party up from the ground. However, he did not expect that such a move would be caused by a burst of pissing scolding.

"Take your dirty hands away. If you hit someone, you will take advantage of me. You, you damn pariah———"

Upon hearing this, Zhao Yi's face darkened and he frowned and said, "I am certainly wrong, but please pay attention to your words."

"What else can I say to a lowly man like you?"

The woman held her feet and put on the fallen shoes again. She raised her fingertips and pointed at his nose and scolded him harshly. Her voice was loud and sharp.

She actually looks good and has a very moist skin tone. Of course, due to technological factors, many cosmetics can effectively cover up the blemishes on the skin surface. As for the actual beauty and ugliness... Before taking off makeup, only God and herself knew it.

"There is no education at all. How dare you talk to me? Bah———"

Seeing this, Zhao Yi was silent for a few seconds and stopped talking. He shook his head lightly and walked around sideways.

The best way to do this kind of unreasonable woman is to ignore it.

"stop----"

Suddenly, the woman stopped him. She bit her lower lip hard and said hatefully: "You are still a federal officer. What's the matter if you just leave like this?"

"What do you want?"

Zhao Yi was so angry that he laughed.

"Reimburse money! Compensate my losses———"

The woman pointed to the shoes that had been stepped on her feet without hesitation: "Look clearly, this is Louis. (office) Vuitton, a high-end product made of genuine leather. I spent 120,000 federal standard currency to buy the authentic product. You must..."

"This is two hundred thousand——"

Before she could finish her words, Zhao Yi had already taken out the check book from his arms, filled in a string of numbers quickly, threw it over without hesitation, and sarcastically said: "By the way, you are really/his/mother/ugly, which makes me feel disgusted. Even if you are standing on the street, selling/prostitute/women, you are much cleaner than you----"

"you----"

The woman's face changed and was about to attack, but she saw that Zhao Yi had already walked up the stairs quickly and disappeared quickly among the crowd. In desperation, she could only pick up the check on the ground, turn around and walk out of the hall in anger.

Standing on the corner of the second floor, he looked at the other person's figure who was leaving. Zhao Yi, with a gloomy face, called a waiter watching the fun next to him, stuffed a hundred-dollar bill, pointed to the woman's back as she left, and asked, "Who is this person?"

"Why, you don't even know her?"

The waiter who put away the banknotes answered diligently: "She is the daughter of Count Aubrey, Miss Millie, a famous beauty in the noble circle. She is also a regular visitor here."

"noble?"

Zhao Tian was a little surprised: "She is actually a noble?"

"Although they are nobles, they do not have the temperament that nobles should have at all, right?"

The waiter smiled and said, "It's not surprising. Miss Millie has never looked down on people without titles. People without titles are all untitled in her eyes. After a long time, she naturally gets used to it."

"Since that's the case, she still cares about money and things so much? To put it bluntly...it's like a wealthy slave who has never seen money."

Thinking about the previous actions of a woman and being associated with the title of "noble", Zhao Yi felt that it was really incredible, and his words naturally became mean.

"What's so strange about this? It's no longer the era of royal power. The empire has become a federal, and the various privileges enjoyed by the nobles have been deprived. Although they still have ancient titles, they really have property... Haha! I'm afraid that the money cabinet of a country farmer is much thicker than a duke. The nobles have been completely ruined."

The waiter put his right hand in his pocket, gently twisting the paper of the hundred-dollar bill, and said with a smile: "Actually, you don't have to pay any compensation to that woman. The so-called "Louis Vuitton" leather shoes are perfectly fakes, worth only thirty yuan at most. Miss Millie comes here to have coffee every day, and I have seen at least twenty men step on her feet. Haha... Simply put, she did it on purpose. And you... Dear sir, I suggest you call the bank now and make the check invalid immediately."

......

The accident did not affect Zhao Yi's quick movements. In a remote hall on the third floor, he saw Ace who had been waiting there.

Compared to the last time he met, his appearance was almost nothing. He was still wearing expensive clothing with exquisite workmanship. Black, the collar and cuffs were inlaid with bright silver satin fabric, and his skin was still very white, emitting a faint smell of cologne. He seemed to like hair growth, and his length was beyond his shoulders. He tied a brown ribbon behind his head, and combined with the angular facial contour lines, giving him a feeling of sunshine.

"You're a little faster than I expected to arrive."

Ace stood up from the chair with a smile and asked Zhao Yi to sit down.

This is a fully enclosed suite. There is no monitor or something, nor a waiter. There is a pot of coffee on the coffee table, and steam keeps rising and floating out of the mouth of the pot. It looks very high, and it should have just been boiled.

Zhao Yi stared at Ace, trying to see something from that smiling face.

“The coffee here is good, very exquisite handmade products, and it is also very good at cooking.”

Ace filled the cup in front of Zhao Yi and pushed the tea tray containing sugar and milk into front of him. After doing all this, he sat back on his chair and placed his hands and fingers crossed on the table.

"How do you know I'm in "Light of Hope"?"

Zhao Yi looked straight at him, his eyes appearing very serious.

Many people can know their news. However, that is only for the military and some special departments. From any perspective, Zhao Yi does not think that Ace can be classified as well-informed.

He and himself are classmates at the Federal National University. In fact, except for the contact between classrooms and spare time, Zhao Yi knew almost nothing about Ace. However, he did give himself help in some things he had experienced in the past, and he could also be regarded as a friend.

"Everyone has his own secret."

Ace picked up the coffee and took a sip, saying seriously: "I have never explored your private realm, nor have you been stalked for twenty-four hours. Of course, I have my own source of information. Some things cannot be made public and cannot be placed on the surface to let you know more. But no matter what, I am your friend———"

He spoke the last few words very slowly and his tone was very serious.

Zhao Yi crossed his hands in front of his chest, with no expression on his face. He was silent for about twenty seconds and nodded heavily and slowly.

"Tell me! Why did you call me here?"

"Is Zhang Xiaoxian with you?"

The words said from Ace's mouth surprised Zhao Yi suddenly. His pupils suddenly shrank, and his right hand subconsciously retracted under the table, and his fingertips had touched the holster that was on the back of his waist.

"Don't be so nervous, I have no interest in her, nor do I want to be a witness to your sweet story with her."

Ace spread his hands helplessly, with a wry smile on his face: "I knew that while saying this, I would become the most questionable object in your mind. Even... may be classified as "enemy."

Zhao Yi was still silent. Although his right hand had been put back on the table, his eyes were locked in Ace without any deviation.

When he heard Ace speak, the first thought that someone had revealed the secret of the colonial base.

However, this idea only existed for a few seconds before it completely disappeared from his thinking space. Or it could be transformed into another way of existence that is worth thinking about.

Because, Ace first mentioned Zhang Xiaoxian...

If someone deliberately leaks the secret, or the other party already knows the secret in his hands, he should not use women as the topic, but instead directly reveals his identity or threatens more directly.

Thinking of this, Zhao Yi's tense heart slowly fell back to its original place. He reached out to pick up the coffee, but did not drink it, but just slowly turned between his fingers and palms.

"Continue talking. What do you know?"

"I don't know much. At least, not as much as you think."

Ace looked at Zhao Yi's eyes: "Zhang Xiaoxian is missing, and many people are looking for her. I don't know if you know the troubles she is involved in? Of course, I also like the elopement stories of Romeo and Juliet. Haha... Let's relax, I said that things are completely different from what you imagined. Again———I am your friend, not your enemy. Although I dare not say that it is so worthy of relying on you to give your back completely to me, you can trust me... really!"

Zhao Yi nodded slowly, and the hostility filled with the thinking space began to fade, but he still maintained enough vigilance.

"Zhang Xiaoxian should have mentioned his father Zhang Kuishan to you. If you really plan to get married and have children, then from the perspective of blood relationship, you should call that man "father-in-law". However, he is so crazy. He actually wants to marry his biological daughter to an old man with a burial neck. This matter is widely circulated in the circle I am familiar with, and many people know the inside story... These are all off-topics. The point is that someone saw Zhang Xiaoxian boarding your spaceship with his own eyes, and someone has sent a large number of subordinates to ag64, wanting to find Zhang Xiaoxian in your garrison area."

These few words shocked Zhao Yi———If someone else said these words to him, he might not have been so surprised. But Ace... before entering the Federal National University, he had never had any interaction with this person. Could it be that the reason why he met in the classroom of Class F of the Art Department was the same as Zhang Xiaoxian's previous purpose, just to get close to himself?

Thinking of this, Zhao Yi couldn't help feeling peeped at. He suppressed the anger in his heart and asked coldly: "Your circle? What does this sentence mean?"

Ace held the handle of the coffee cup and his fingertips bounced back and forth on the surface of the cup wall: "I did hide something from you. I will make the most sincere apology for this. But please believe that I have no malicious intentions towards you, and..."

"You haven't answered my question yet----"

Zhao Yi interrupted him without hesitation.

"I know you know Gruber, the director of the Pyramid Industry Alliance."

Ace glanced at him: "I call Gruber "Uncle". Of course, I have no blood or kinship with him, it is just a title of respect."

Zhao Yi felt his pulse beating begin to accelerate.

"I don't know if you are clear about the leadership model of the Pyramid Industry Alliance. The entire alliance is actually dominated by seven directors. Gruber is just one of them, and among the other six members, there is a director named "Wen Yan". He... is my father."

Ace's voice was very plain. As he described it, a figure of Asians gradually appeared in front of Zhao Yi - thin, tall, with thick finger joints, hard facial contour lines, and a bit mean, with tight lips and shrewd eyes in his eyes.

Yes, when Director Wen Yan and Gruber went to the "Blue Ocean Dream" planet, Zhao Yi once met this person at the headquarters of the Pyramid Alliance.

"My mother is European. According to ethnology classification, I belong to Eurasian mixed race. But this cannot change my last name... My last name is Wen, and the full name is "Ace Wen". It may be a bit difficult to read, but it is true."

"Your father sent you to monitor me?"

Zhao Yi sneered, and the slightly calmed relationship began to rise and fall again.
To be continued...