Love letters are not allowed in the exorcism notebook!-Chapter 505 - 83 Looking Forward to the Next Opportunity to Cooperate

Benefiting from the development and progress of modern industrial civilization, ships can also enter ports safely at night guided by lights.

The various taverns and inns along the coastal docks are almost all open 24 hours a day. One often sees drunken sailors being hauled out clumsily by the tavern staff and left unattended on the street side, and the sailors don’t mind at all, comfortably snoring against anything they can embrace.

Two drunken sailors saw Qiao Hongyi, dressed in a suit and leather shoes, sitting at the entrance of the bar and immediately felt a nameless fire rise in their hearts. When sober, they didn’t dare to offend these respectable people from high society so easily.

But now the inferior alcohol had given them endless courage.

The two staggered over, with a malicious smile revealing itself at the corner of their mouths. However, as they got closer, the expressions on their faces grew more and more vacant, until they even forgot their initial purpose.

Qiao Hongyi stared intently at the notebook in his hands, completely unaffected by the noisy surroundings. However, when the two drunkards hazily passed by him, the foul smell of alcohol mixed with vomit still made him frown slightly.

"If you’re not willing, why force yourself?"

An air of smugness came from the plain-looking man sitting across the table.

Of course he was happy, for the fellow who had said time and again that he would never meet with him again, had ultimately set aside his nauseating pride and sat down in front of him once more.

Nothing brought a demon more pleasure than personally enticing a saint to fall.

Qiao Hongyi didn’t say a word, only stretching out his hand.

"Don’t be in such a hurry, the moonlight is so beautiful tonight, can’t we just sit down, slowly savor the wine, and have a good chat?"

"I have nothing to chat with you about, and I’m not in a hurry."

Qiao Hongyi said expressionlessly, "Money in one hand, goods in the other. From the time I fulfill the agreement, for every extra minute you delay, you will pay ten times the price. I don’t care, as it’s already been thirty seconds."

The smile on the plain man’s face stiffened, he still wanted to persist, but eventually, he handed over the document bag to Qiao Hongyi with clenched teeth, "The deal is made, we’re even!"

"Good."

Qiao Hongyi took the document bag, opened it in front of him, and his eyes quickly scanned the text on the documents.

"Isn’t this intelligence a bit too perfunctory? It doesn’t clarify Tartalos’s specific plan from beginning to end."

"Don’t you People of Ming always say that plans cannot keep up with changes?"

The plain man spread his hands and said with a smile, "In his original plan, the role of the Fox Demon was quite critical. First, to usurp the authority of the Black Earth Goddess and then transform into Moses, leading the Joshua People toward the Promised Land of God... This plan was very secretive and was steadily being implemented, but it was messed up by your people, quite by mistake."

"The monsters that came from the North in search of their kin revealed the true identity of the Dark Mother Goddess. All the past praise and image-building have turned into a joke, no one will believe she is a Saint sent by the Lord to guide His people anymore."

"And the Imperial Jade Seal, missing for many years, suddenly appeared, further disrupting their planned arrangements, and they still haven’t come to a conclusion on whether or not to risk going for this bait."

"All of this is really too coincidental."

"What does that have to do with me?"

Qiao Hongyi sneered, "What I want is Tartalos’s new plan, and you’re trying to fob me off with this outdated junk? Are you uncomfortable if you don’t take some advantage?"

"Is there a possibility that the guy hasn’t figured out his new plan yet?"

The plain-looking man shrugged and said, "Dark Mother Goddess Sect, National Salvation Warriors Association, Pure Land Sect, Dragon Worship Church, plus the Throne Knight... These are the cards in his hand, it’s just a matter of which card to play first and which card to play later. What else do you want?"

"If that’s what you’re saying, then I don’t need to be polite with you anymore."

Qiao Hongyi put the folder into his briefcase and looked up at the "old friend" in front of him.

"Wang Yunxiao, Yan Yu’an, Cheng Xuefei, Ito Hidemi... these young people weren’t favored by the Special Service Bureau just for their personal combat abilities. The scenario I set up can only restrain them temporarily. Whatever you’re planning to do, you’d better hurry. Otherwise, don’t blame me for not warning you, these young wolves’ bites can really hurt."

Upon hearing this, the plain-looking individual frowned and said, "You clearly stated during the contract signing that their lives were to be exchanged."

"Are you senile?"

Qiao Hongyi rolled his eyes at him. "What I said was that I’d create an opportunity for you to take their lives. The food is right in front of you, and you’re still waiting for me to feed it to you? What kind of overgrown baby are you?"

The plain-looking man’s face darkened instantly, but he quickly relaxed and, staring at Qiao Hongyi with schadenfreude, said, "Alright, perhaps I did misunderstand a bit. But I’m really curious, for an intelligence exchange, you went so far as to harshly deal with your own people, even at the risk of hurting the innocent. If word gets out, how will you explain it to them?"

"Or should I say, does your conscience really allow you to do this?"

Qiao Hongyi looked sideways at him and said, "I’ve found that you folks really love moral coercion. Don’t you have anything else to do besides guilt tripping people?"

"No, no, no, you’ve got it wrong, I’m just genuinely curious."

The plain-looking man smiled and said, "As far as I know, the moral standards of the People of Ming have always been very high; they just can’t accept the idea that ’some sacrifices can be made to achieve a goal,’ especially someone like you who disregards the lives of civilians in exchange for intelligence..."

"Would I have earned your trust if I hadn’t done this?"

Qiao Hongyi retorted.

"Of course not, so I said I’m just curious, not trying to accuse you of anything."

"Moral standards and moral obsession are two different things, whether you are curious or not, I’m under no obligation to satisfy your curiosity."

Qiao Hongyi stood up, donned his overcoat, and said to the plain-looking person sitting across from him, "Loyalty exists because the price of betrayal isn’t sufficient. That saying does make sense. If you can’t come up with a chip that excites me, you should look to yourself for the reason, instead of always trying to entice me into corruption. Whether I betray or not, business is done with a clear price tag. This collaboration has been pleasant, and I hope we have the chance to cooperate again in the future."

"Of course, there will be a next time."

The plain-looking man said with a smile, "You already know Moses’s identity, aren’t you curious about Jesus’s identity?"

"You’ve been drenched by the rain yourself, so you also don’t want to see others using an umbrella, is that it?"

"That’s a fine quality of a Demon, after they fail in their plan it only means they will come at me even harder."