Xiao Zhanqiang waited all night but did not wait for the middle-aged man to come back to report the progress of the matter to him. He called countless times, but his cell phone was always turned off for some reason.

He was a little panicked. Could it be that the guy saw so many goods and got rich and ran away?

He spent the whole night in anxiety and had no sleep at all. Before he knew it, it was daybreak.

Rubbing his swollen temples, Xiao Zhanqiang sighed, stood up, stretched, opened the office door and walked out.

He came to the reference room, picked up the information he had ordered the people in the reference room to sort out yesterday, and went to the hospital.

When they arrived at the hospital, Li Minghao had just gotten up and was yawning. Xiao Zhanqiang opened the door and walked in.

When Li Minghao saw Xiao Zhanqiang entering the room, he quickly got out of bed: "Minister Xiao, why are you here so early? I just woke up."

Xiao Zhanqiang smiled slightly and handed the information bag in his hand to Li Minghao: "Guang was busy dealing with matters in the branch. He didn't sleep all night. I just saw the dawn, so I sent this information to you.

, you must be in a hurry too."

"Actually, it's not that urgent. I don't want you to worry about it. I guess you haven't had breakfast yet. Why don't you stay and I'll treat you to the breakfast in this hospital? Let me tell you, the food in this hospital is delicious." Li Minghao

He took the information handed over by Xiao Zhanqiang and said with a smile.

Xiao Zhanqiang shook his head: "No, there is still something going on at the branch, and I have to rush back."

"Then I won't keep you here. You should walk slowly and take care of yourself. Don't just stay up late."

"Okay, I'll listen to you and I'll try my best." Xiao Zhanqiang nodded slightly, turned and left.

After sending Xiao Zhanqiang away, Li Minghao closed the ward door and sat on the hospital bed, opened the information bag and read the contents inside.

Liu Zhida, who had woken up early at this time and listened to the entire conversation between the two, spoke: "There is something wrong with this guy. How many things can a branch have to have a minister stay up all night to deal with it? In addition, although there are bloodshot eyes in his eyes, he said

To be honest, it doesn’t look like I spent a whole night reading the information and processing things.”

"It does feel like something is wrong, but we don't have the energy to check what he did now, and there is no point in checking. Unless one day in the future his things conflict with what we want to do, we will have to take care of it." Li Minghao said.

Looking at the information in his hand, he said casually that he thought Xiao Zhanqiang was at most the same as the previous person in charge of the Northwest Region.

Liu Zhida chuckled and said, "You don't have the energy, but I do. Don't forget that I am Buddha. It is my strength to rummage through boxes and cabinets to track down people."

Li Minghao chuckled: "I think you can't stand lying in bed these past two days."

"You're right. To be honest, I wasn't injured at first, but the doctor insisted on keeping me in the hospital for observation, and even restricted my movements. I was so busy that mushrooms grew on me.

Here we come." After saying these words, Liu Zhida leaned against the wall and sighed.

"Since you want to check so much, then go ahead, but only at night. The doctor may come in at any time during the day to check on the condition." After Li Minghao said this, he waited for a long time and didn't hear Liu Zhida's answer. He turned his head.

When he looked at the hospital bed next to him, he realized that Liu Zhida had disappeared and the window not far away had been opened at some point.

"This kid is so impatient, it really hurts me." Li Minghao sighed and continued to read the information in his hand.

At the end of the page, Li Minghao slowly frowned. This matter was a bit beyond his imagination. He never expected that he would encounter such interesting things when he came to the South China Sea.

He packed up the information, got out of bed, left his ward, and came to the three-person ward where his three senior brothers lived.

Opening the door, Li Minghao found that his three senior brothers were all practicing meditation. He knew the consequences of disturbing these senior brothers, but he couldn't leave now, so he had to tiptoe into the ward.

He sat down on the small stool.

He didn't know how long he had been waiting, but Tang Chao slowly opened his eyes. He saw Li Minghao coming, and asked him in sign language what he was doing here. Li Minghao pointed to the information bag in his hand.

Tang Chao understood, quietly got out of bed, and took Li Minghao to the outside of the ward.

After closing the ward door, Tang Chao asked: "What's wrong? What happened?"

Li Minghao opened the information bag and took out the last piece of paper and handed it to Tang Chao: "Brother, look at what is written on it. This trip to the South China Sea is not as simple as we thought."

Tang Chao looked at the information in his hand carefully. The further he looked down, the more he frowned: "Ghost ship, South China Sea shark, treasure worth tens of millions, don't tell me, this is really interesting."

"It's normal for treasures to be found everywhere. The South China Sea sharks were indeed recorded in books before, but didn't they say that the South China Sea sharks later became extinct? Why did they appear in the records of this branch again?"

Li Minghao scratched his head and asked, "And the ghost ship, isn't it a legend from Xizhou? Why is there such a thing in China?"

"It's really abnormal to have these things. I think the appearance of these things should have something to do with the Yangzhou Ding in Guixu, Nanhai. As long as we find this Yangzhou Ding, this matter will come to light." Tang Chao read this.

Information, he sighed. The things recorded in the information were indeed beyond his expectation. Things that were written a thousand years ago actually appeared a thousand years later.

Li Minghao nodded slightly: "Maybe it really has something to do with Yangzhou Ding. Now we can only hope that the submersible will arrive soon."

"It won't be long before we can go into the water to find out. During this time, you should keep it in mind and use the spare time in these few days to consolidate your cultivation. If the above record is correct, then

We should encounter quite a bit of danger when we go down." Tang Chao put the information into the information bag and handed it back to Li Minghao.

"Don't worry, senior brother, I will practice hard these two days. I'm leaving first." Li Minghao smiled slightly, turned around and left.

Tang Chao looked at Li Minghao's leaving figure, smiled slightly, turned around and opened the door and walked into the ward.

On the other side, after Liu Zhida left the hospital through the window, he took a taxi and arrived at the branch location.

After looking at the hotel in front of him for a while, Liu Zhida did not rush in. He looked around and finally turned around and left.

Not long after, a hunchbacked old man carrying a broken wooden crutch came out of a small restaurant, looked around, and walked slowly towards the hotel across the street.

When walking towards the hotel, the old man was almost hit by a car coming from the side. Fortunately, the driver of the car braked suddenly and stopped the car only a few centimeters away from the old man. The old man was frightened.

After a jump, my hands and feet were so trembling that I couldn't even walk.

The driver cursed a few words and then drove away. The old man waited for a while before continuing to walk slowly to the other side of the street, and then walked into the hotel.

The front desk of the hotel frowned when they saw the old man walking in. It was obvious that they were not happy for such an old man in his 60s with weak legs to stay in the hotel. If something really happened, they couldn't afford it.

But the prayer didn't seem to work. After the old man walked in, he walked straight to the front desk, then took out his ID card and a bank card from his pocket with trembling hands, put them on the table and pushed them in front of the front desk.

The front desk was stunned. She didn't expect that an old man in such simple clothes would have a bank card. She asked doubtfully: "Old man, do you want to stay in the hotel?"

The old man didn't seem to hear what she said clearly. He put a hand by his ear, leaned closer and said, "Ah, girl, what are you talking about?"

Although the front desk was a little annoyed, he had no choice but to say that he was here to give money, so he had to force a smile and whisper in the old man's ear: "Uncle, are you here to stay in the hotel?"

"Oh, stay in the hotel, yes, come and stay in the hotel." Only in this way did the old man hear clearly, and he nodded and said loudly.

"Uncle, what room do you want to stay in and how many days do you want to stay?" the front desk continued to say loudly.

"Ah, it's enough to live in a similar place. I don't know how many days it will take. Let's go for three or four days." There was a smile on the old man's face, but the front desk didn't notice this.

"Okay, sir, please wait a minute." After saying that, the front desk took the bank card and ID card handed over by the old man and opened a room for him. However, the front desk played a little trick and opened a room directly for the old man.

Superior room in the hotel.

I originally wanted the old man to make a fool of himself and leave, but I didn't expect that the payment was successful when I swiped the card, which made the front desk look embarrassed.

"Daughter, is this room ready? My old legs can't support it anymore." The old man looked at the receptionist who was stunned and didn't move, so he asked.

The front desk reacted, smiled awkwardly, returned the bank card and ID card to the old man, and returned the room key to him: "Uncle, your things are returned to you, the room has been opened, the room number is 502

."

"Thank you, my dear." The old man chuckled and walked to the elevator on crutches.

The old man came to the fifth floor and opened the door to the room. He looked around first and then made sure there was no one around before entering the room.

After closing the door, the old man breathed a sigh of relief, moved his body, reached into his back, and took out a ball made of clothes from his back. After taking out the ball, the hunchback on the old man's back immediately

Disappeared.

Straightening up, the old man reached out and grabbed his hair, and pulled hard. The old man's hair and facial features instantly turned into a mask and was pulled off, revealing Liu Zhida's face hidden inside.

Heaving a sigh of relief, Liu Zhida lay on the bed: "It's really difficult to do something special. I have to disguise myself even to get in. But fortunately, I know how to do this. Otherwise, I don't know what to do. It's just a pain for Minghao."

, I don’t know if you can help me complete this lie.”

After resting for a while, Liu Zhida got up and came to the table, took out a pen and paper and started drawing on it.

"There are six floors in total, but from the outside it looks like there are at least eight floors, which means the two floors above are special service areas. Except for the lobby structure on the first floor, the rest of the floors are roughly

Similarly, there is a stairwell not far to the right of the elevator entrance, and you should be able to enter the top two floors. There should be a corner on the left, you can take a look at it in the evening. That's probably all there is now, I will look around and improve it at night

That’s OK.”

Liu Zhida put down the pen in his hand, took a look at the crooked pictures he had drawn, and kept sighing: "I am really a little expert at painting."

To put it briefly, it was night in the blink of an eye. Liu Zhida was lying on the bed after eating takeaway. Suddenly he heard a rush of footsteps coming from a distance. From the sound, there must be quite a few people.

Liu Zhida frowned. This should not be the footsteps of guests. The shoes these people wore were all military-specific shoes, so they could only be people from the special branch. He glanced at the time on his phone. It was so late.

, what actions did they take?

Despite this speculation, Liu Zhida did not dare to open the door and go out. Regardless of whether he was disguised or not, problems would easily occur as soon as he opened the door, so he was not in a hurry if he waited for a while.

Thinking like this, Liu Zhida closed his eyes and fell asleep.

When he opened his eyes again, it was already past midnight. He listened carefully to the sounds outside. It was quiet and there was nothing unusual.

After taking off his tattered clothes and wearing a night suit underneath, and covering his face with a black cloth, Liu Zhida walked to the door of the guest room, put his ear against the door and listened for a while to what was going on outside.

After confirming that there was no one outside, he reached out and held the door handle, opened the door gently, and walked out slowly.

After closing the door, Liu Zhida quickly walked to the stairwell on the right side of the elevator after confirming his direction in the darkness.

When opening the door, Liu Zhida paid special attention to the movement around him. After confirming that no one was there, he opened the door and walked in. During the entire process, the sensor light in the corridor never turned on.

Entering the stairwell, Liu Zhida went up the stairs, and after a while he came to the stairwells on the sixth and seventh floors.

The large iron door of this stairwell is made entirely of iron. Unlike the iron doors on the lower floors, there is a piece of glass in the middle to see what's going on inside.

Liu Zhida reached out and pushed the door. The door was locked, but to be honest, these things could not trouble him, a Buddhist.

He took out his small bag from his pocket, opened it, took out the lock picking tool and put it into the keyhole, fiddled with it up and down, and finally there was a crisp click from the door, and the door opened.

Liu Zhida smiled slightly, put away the lock picking tools, gently opened the door and walked into the seventh floor.

The seventh floor is basically the same as the floors below, but there are some differences. There are more cameras here than the ones below. In addition, the door here does not have a house number, but the same ones as in the Special Office.

The name of the department.

Liu Zhida looked at all the doors on this floor and didn't see a door with the name Minister's Office written on it.

"Could it be on the eighth floor?" Liu Zhida muttered in his mind and walked slowly towards the stairwell.
Chapter completed!