Chapter 364 — An Old Acquaintance of the Master

"He says distinguished guests have taken everything... Forget it, Xiaobo, Dad will pay out of his own pocket, you take your classmates to a better hotel!" Kang's father had no wish to quarrel over the matter: "Whatever happens, do not slight your classmates." "Fine..." Kang Xiaobo hung up, his fist shooting up in fury to smash the roof of the van, only to pull back at the last instant: "Damn it, what bullying! On what grounds!" At his second grandfather's last birthday, Kang Zhaoming had brought a crowd of cronies and they had all been lodged inside the hotel, many in single rooms. His friends were good enough, yet when he brought a few classmates they were told to find an inn - what reason was that? "Let it go, Xiaobo." Wei Zhao did not take it to heart. "We will find a place ourselves." "Leader, you do not know - the Moon Over the Sea Hotel in Donghai is really a resort, huge beyond belief. How could there be no rooms?" Kang Xiaobo said through gritted teeth: "To me, they simply look down on us!" "Ha... the Moon Over the Sea Hotel?" Wei Zhao started slightly: "Is that the name?" "What? Leader, you know this hotel too?" Kang Xiaobo stared at Wei Zhao's startled face and asked in puzzlement. "Wait, I am going to make a call." Wei Zhao hesitated a moment, then opened the door and stepped out of the car. Though Wei Zhao had no desire to use his old connections - this was his last mission, and when it ended he wished only to live an ordinary life, willing even to trail the young lady as her follower for the rest of his days, for these days without a hail of bullets and blood licked from the knife's edge were too sweet to relinquish - yet this time, for Kang Xiaobo, for the sole brother he had come to know since merging into common life, Wei Zhao decided to break his rule for once.

Wei Zhao walked to a spot a little apart from the van and dialed a number. The call connected and was picked up almost at once, a pleasing female voice ringing out: "Eagle?" "How did you guess it was me?" Wei Zhao asked, slightly taken aback. "The call is located in Donghai City." There was a hint of reproach in the voice: "At present, apart from you on that rather unusual mission over there, there is no one else in that region." "Oh? Truly the princess of the hacker world." Wei Zhao smiled wryly: "You can learn my position in an instant..." "Even without locating you, your mobile number is registered in Songshan City, so I could work it out." The Princess gave a soft snort: "Fixing your position was merely to make certain." "Very well, I admit I am useless with computers." Wei Zhao yielded: "I want to ask you something. The Moon Over the Sea Hotel in Donghai - is it run by our people? I seem to have seen it before on the handheld computer."

"Where is your handheld computer?" The Princess did not answer, but countered with a question of her own. "The old man at home took it to play games..." Wei Zhao broke out in a cold sweat: "And he said there is no danger in this mission, so I would not need the thing..." "...Play games?" The Princess was plainly speechless at that, yet Old Wei was not one she had any right to judge, so she acted as if she had heard nothing: "It is run by our people..." "Well, give me the contact for the person in charge." Wei Zhao said. "His contact is..." The Princess passed the contact to Wei Zhao. "Good, I will hang up now." Wei Zhao memorized the contact. "Have you nothing else to say to me?" The Princess pressed. "What else is there..." Wei Zhao froze. "Goodbye!" Before Wei Zhao could speak again, the line at the other end had already gone dead. Gazing at the disconnected phone, Wei Zhao smiled with helpless bitterness. What fit was this girl throwing now? What Wei Zhao had never imagined was that the owner of the Moon Over the Sea Resort in Donghai was not only one of his own people, but an old acquaintance of his master. Though they had never met, he had more than once heard his master speak of the man. Using the contact supplied by the Princess, Wei Zhao dialed his number.

"Hello, whom are you looking for?" Once the call went through, a deep and resonant male voice came from the other end. "Uncle Tian?" Wei Zhao ventured. "You are?" The man called Uncle Tian was uncertain who this caller addressing him as Uncle Tian might be. "I am Wei Zhao." Wei Zhao spoke his own name. Uncle Tian on the other end was clearly startled and fell silent, as if turning the name over in his mind, and only after a moment asked tentatively: "The Leader's closed disciple?" "It is I." Wei Zhao said. "Please give your codename and password in the organization." Uncle Tian was evidently a cautious man. "Eagle, and the password is..." Wei Zhao recited a code combining numbers and English letters. "Forgive me, Young Master Lin, I was only acting by the rules!" Uncle Tian was suddenly far more cordial: "Young Master Lin, what are your orders for me?"

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