Volume 8: The Stones and the Sky] Chapter 2: Passive Trading-

The consultant led her sister back to the bookstore in the submarine. When they came here for the second time, Tianyi had already come out of the subspace.

He was still the same, sitting behind the desk, staring at the pot of coffee on the left, thinking about something in a daze.

The door was pushed open, and the consultant walked in front of him, "Ah, he's out."

When Tian heard that he wasn't talking to him, he looked up and saw a woman following her consultant. She was about twenty-five years old, with her shoulder-length middle hair, her makeup was light, and the hairstyle she chose exposed her forehead, which was considered a very confident approach to her appearance. Her skin color was extremely pale, which was exactly the same as the consultant, and it seemed to be hereditary.

At first glance, Tianyi naturally couldn't guess that the two were siblings. He tried to guess the identity of the woman first. A face she had never seen before, a cold look, from the way the energy was running, it was at least a strong man above the level of fierceness, and was brought in by the consultant...

"This must be the president of Yinying. Don't you discuss it in advance if you bring such a big shot?" Tianyi said.

The consultant replied: "She suddenly said she wanted to come to see you, so I'll bring her here."

"You have to have a little stance? You are also a military advisor in the Cross." Tianyi's tone of saying this did not seem to care a lot.

"Gu Ling." Gu Ling had already walked to Tianyi's table at this time, and directly said his name, and stretched out his right hand.

"Oh... So that's it." Tianyi seemed to understand something, politely held the other party's hand, and smiled and said, "Hello, Tianyi, Tianxia Tian..."

"...The first one, I know." Gu Ling took over his words, "I watched the live broadcast a week ago."

"Ah... the show was not very successful." Tian said, tilting his body, poking his head out, and saying to the consultant: "Is it my real sister?"

"Can you pick it up?" The consultant also came over and moved the stool he usually sat on to Gu Ling.

Tianyi was very rare to sit upright and started talking, "That... sister."

"You don't need to call me that." Gu Ling said.

"Oh, that... Xiao Ling."

"Who should I take advantage of it?" The consultant jumped up before his sister.

"Why are you talking? Let's go and drink your vegetable juice." Tian Yi replied.

"Xiao Ling is Xiao Ling, it's just a name that makes people call me." Gu Ling's tone was still cold: "Before this... can you consider letting go of your hands?"

When Tianyi heard this, he ended the nearly one-minute handshake, but there was no embarrassment on his face: "Your appearance explains a lot of problems."

"Are you implying that I am getting information about the Counter Cross through my brother's relationship?" Gu Ling replied quickly.

"No, he wanted to say that your appearance explains genetically why a scum like me looks pretty good." The consultant said to Gu Ling.

"You scumbag, you reacted very quickly." Tian Qi walked to the side and took a coffee pot and two cups.

"I've seen it, I've said it a long time ago. Communicating with such people will only lower your lower limit. You'd better go back." The consultant said again.

"Aren't your boss quite good at speaking? He not only compliments me, but also sarcastics you." Gu Ling said: "After that, he didn't say anything, you rushed to say it yourself."

"Because your younger brother is too smart, if he is inevitably going to be sarcastic, he would rather say the sarcastic words before others." Tianyi sat back on the sofa chair: "From a psychological point of view, this behavior can be applied to a very professional term - being humble."

"Which country's psychology are you reading?! This is the conclusion that you have come from studying your own autobiography!" the consultant shouted.

"Okay, let's stop kidding, let's talk about the serious matters." Tianyi picked up the coffee pot: "Do you want coffee?"

"Don't drink his stuff, let alone eat it. If he asks you if you want to taste some wild game, it actually refers to the dead mice and unknown creatures in the drawer on his right hand. In short, you don't accept anything he provides to you for free." The consultant finished quickly and took a sip of his own tomato juice.

Gu Ling simply answered the word "never."

"Okay." Tianyi poured himself a cup: "Yinying is indeed a very powerful organization, and your position is neutral. If you want to cooperate with the Anti-Cross, I am very welcome..."

"You're wrong, Tianyi." Gu Ling interrupted: "It's not me who asked you to join Yinying. I'm here this time to consider whether the Reverse Cross is qualified to discuss cooperation with my organization."

"Hehe..." Tianyi smiled: "That's it. If you ask the consultant, don't you know everything about our qualifications?"

"It's better to see it at first sight than to hear it." Gu Ling replied concisely.

"Okay, okay, you've seen me as the head of the family now. If you have any questions, you might as well raise them directly." Tianyi picked up the coffee and looked like he was indifferent.

"Are you married?"

"puff!"

"puff!"

Tianyi and the consultant sprayed out the things they were drinking at the same time, but neither of them dared to face the lady.

"Is this related to the cooperation between the Anti-Cross and Yinying?" Tian said while coughing.

"Yes." Gu Ling answered calmly.

"What are you doing? You want to marry me?"

"Don't think about it."

"Oh... I understand." Tianyi wiped the coffee stains on his clothes and sat down again; "Don't worry, don't say that there is no, even if there is, I will not be influenced by the woman's thoughts, the wind beside the pillow..."

"Why don't you knot?" Gu Ling once again asked a puzzling question in a cold tone.

Tianyi was stunned for about five seconds: "Is this related to cooperation between organizations?"

"I noticed that your organization seems to be full of male members." Gu Ling said: "Anyway, my brother works with you, so if you are..." Her words were very clear, and she suspected that Tianyi was a gay man.

"Sister... don't do this..." The consultant felt embarrassed, and he probably was about to get angry. Don't look at that guy's crazy and unfathomable appearance, if he gets angry, he will cause his rogue nature to explode.

"Hu..." Tian Yi took a deep breath, took a sip of coffee to suppress his shock, then adjusted his expression and replied as calmly as possible: "I am usually lazy and casual, so that my family is so cold and there is no food in the bowl. As the saying goes, if you are poor, you will be careless; if you are rich, you will be full of wives and concubines, so you have not gotten married yet." He paused: "Are you satisfied with this explanation?"

"It's not convincing. It may be more credible if you say it's because of your personality." Gu Ling replied tepidly.

"If you have the will, please extend your hand and try again!" Tianyi was so angry that he put down his coffee cup, as if he was about to turn against him.

The consultant said: "I think you two should talk alone. I'll go find a corner to drink my vegetable juice." After that, he turned around and walked out. He probably couldn't stand it anymore.

When he left, Tianyi returned to his usual listless expression: "Okay, he has gone far away, let's stop here for unreasonable trouble. The ugly words can be said."

Gu Ling replied: "Blood Owl, Gambling Snake, and Night Knight, these names were originally on Yinying's enemy list, but one was imprisoned, one was protected by you, and the other was always uncertain. So I will delay the handling of their actions for the time being, but it is not that I will not stop pursuing them anymore. Yinying has sufficient reason to chase them."

"Oh... are you trying to negotiate the conditions? If Yinying wants me to compensate the personnel and economic losses caused by these three people, it would probably be a very difficult thing. Just the 'revenge fund' involved in the snake is the entire property of a great noble chaebol after the death of a great noble chaebol. You have to know that I still owe your brother hundreds of thousands on the books..."

"I don't want money." Gu Ling said.

"That's what I want?" Tianyi said: "I'm what I mean, what do you want to say..."

“I thought we had skipped the ‘unreasonable’ stage.”

"Sorry, it's a bit unhappy to see you've been so calm."

Gu Ling continued the words just now, "It would be too vulgar to ask you for money, but you who owed Yinying the cross to the cross, so I want something."

"What do you want? To the maximum extent, you can give this submarine to you."

"Don't give me weapons or technology, I can get it directly from you."

"This conversation really made me feel more and more unhappy..." Tianyi took a mouthful of coffee again.

“I want art.”

"Hmph...woman." Tianyi shook his head and a strange smile appeared on the corner of his mouth.

"What's your contemptuous expression?"

"Nothing." Tianyi quickly opened up this dangerous topic: "Analysis from your words just now, you must not be able to buy what you want with money. You want me to steal, right?" He said arrogantly: "Ha... say it, you can do whatever you want."

"Do you pick the stars in the sky to me?" Gu Ling asked.

"Ah, pick it for you." The other party's words sounded a little wrong, but Tianyi still dared to answer like this.

"Very good, I'll give you a month to hand over the 'Scarlet Pandora' to me." Gu Ling said: "If you can do it, Yinying will be a loyal ally of the Cross in the future."

"If not, the consultant will take away the science, connections, property, etc. of the Cross as much as possible to compensate Yin Ying for the loss, right?" Tianyi asked with a smile.

Gu Ling did not answer, but stood up and walked out: "This is my test of you. Since you are also the so-called "crime consultation", then go and 'steal' to show me. You don't use force or ability to rob, nor do you need your "book of the heart". Can you still act like you are in control?"

Tianyi looked at Gu Ling's back for the last time and drank the coffee: "Then please wait and see."
Chapter completed!