Elsewhere,
the Jiang Group of the Aalborg Federation faced a sudden investigation.
A squad of people in black uniforms came straight to the foot of the Jiang Group's tower.
"Who are you? This is a private building; no entry without permission." The guards stepped forward at once to stop them.
The people in black uniforms paid them no heed.
Behind them, a man came rushing up quickly.
"I'm the chief of the local Peace Bureau of the Aalborg Federation; we now have the right to enter here. If you have any doubts or wish to appeal, you can contact higher up. But right now no one may stop them." The Peace Bureau chief's forehead was covered in sweat, and one button on his clothes was done up wrong.
A few minutes before, he had received an order:
they were to assist a squad unconditionally in its business.
What this squad was, what its task was, he did not know.
Higher up had given him only one sentence:
they're from the Fierce Dragon; you are to assist them unconditionally; even if they kill someone in front of you, you are to deal with it.
Just one sentence that simple.
It was enough to show how important this task was.
He had come along without a word.
He had never imagined that where they were going was the Jiang Group.
The Jiang Group ranked first among enterprises locally, and among the top ten in the whole Aalborg Federation.
Before, even he had had to follow the rules here when he came to the Jiang Group.
But now what he followed were the orders of the Aalborg Federation's leadership.
"Excuse me, wait a moment. Do you have an appointment?" Once they walked into the lobby, the front-desk staff came up at once to ask.
The people in black uniforms said nothing, and only walked toward the elevator hall.
The Peace Bureau chief took out his identification: "We're handling an extremely important matter. Please don't disturb us."
Having shown his identity, the Peace Bureau chief at once followed the black-uniformed squad.
They went straight into the elevator hall.
This elevator hall needed a keycard to reach the designated floors, but the black-uniformed squad merely swept a device over the card reader and lifted the restriction.
The elevator went straight to the top floor.
The Peace Bureau chief swallowed; he was curious just what these people meant to do.
But he did not dare ask.
Before long, the elevator reached the top floor.
Outside the elevator there were not many people, but still some staff working,
and a reception desk.
Suddenly seeing so many people come in fully armed, the receptionist at once stepped forward: "Who are you? We haven't received any notice of visitors. You can't come in!"
The black-uniformed people walked on without a change of expression, as if they had long known the layout here well.
The Peace Bureau chief again showed his identity.
In a top-floor conference room,
the chairman of the Jiang Group was holding a meeting, looking at everyone attending.
Just as he was about to begin asking about last quarter's results,
the door was pushed straight open.
The sudden interruption of his speech left him very displeased.
"What's going on? Didn't I say this meeting is very important? No one comes in without my permission!" The Jiang chairman turned his head and roared.
"Chairman, it's not that I didn't want to stop them. These people moved too fast; I couldn't stop them at all. And there's our local Peace Bureau chief too," the receptionist said with a bitter smile.
Seeing the people who had burst in, the Jiang chairman realized something was wrong.
These people wore black uniforms, but with no marks of identity on the uniforms.
Even so, the presence about these people let even him, the Jiang chairman, sense that their backgrounds were certainly no ordinary ones.
Otherwise how could ordinary people burst into his Jiang Group tower, and with the local Peace Bureau chief following them like a little lackey, not daring to say a word?
"May I ask who you gentlemen are?" the Jiang chairman asked tentatively.
"The Fierce Dragon Embroidered-Uniform Guard. Apart from the Jiang chairman, everyone else please leave this room at once. But don't leave this floor, and don't try to contact anyone outside with communication devices. Without our permission, please wait outside," the black-uniformed man said earnestly.
The Fierce Dragon Embroidered-Uniform Guard?
On hearing these words, most people still looked completely baffled.
But the Jiang chairman's face went white.
As a man at the top, he knew of the existence of the Fierce Dragon Embroidered-Uniform Guard.
It was the Fierce Dragon Kingdom's intelligence organization, answering directly to a few people at the top of the Fierce Dragon Kingdom.
And those few people were all of the most formidable standing:
the Fierce Dragon Emperor, the Fierce Dragon Supreme Secretary, the Fierce Dragon marshals and so on.
In ordinary times the Fierce Dragon Embroidered-Uniform Guard would not appear; they only lay hidden in the dark, quietly watching this world.
And each of the few times they had acted had been an earthshaking operation.
As far as he knew, on the Eastern Continent there had been a great family that could rank among the top twenty on all of Dragon Star.
But overnight every person in the whole family was gone, and its businesses were all broken up.
Outsiders only heard that the family had made a failed investment and gone bankrupt and been restructured.
But insiders all knew there had been no investment at all.
That family's business had been booming.
Given another ten years, it might have entered the top ten enterprises of Dragon Star.
And by chance he had come to learn the inside story:
it was because this enterprise had been carrying out some scientific research.
Toward the scientific research of Dragon Star's enterprises, the Fierce Dragon Kingdom had always let them be; anyone could do research.
But this enterprise's research had reached the stage of human experimentation.
For human experimentation, condemned prisoners were generally used.
But this enterprise's demand for human experiments was very great, and there were not enough condemned prisoners to meet it.
So, to secure the efficiency and thoroughness of their human experiments,
they began finding test subjects themselves.
And since they had begun finding them, for thoroughness the test subjects naturally covered men and women, old and young, of every age,
down to newborn infants, and pregnant women in the midst of labor, and so on.
And these acts naturally touched the Fierce Dragon Kingdom's bottom line.
The Fierce Dragon Embroidered-Uniform Guard went into action.
And the Fierce Dragon Embroidered-Uniform Guard did not work like a regular agency that needed evidence first.
So long as they suspected you, they could take action against you!
One could imagine how terrifying the extent of this power was.
And now these fellows had actually appeared before him, and had even stated their identity outright.
At this moment he began going back over in his head whether he had done anything lately.
Could it be because of the road contract he had taken last year, where the roadbed was supposed to be laid fifty centimeters deep and he had done only thirty?
Or the last time, when, to win a tender, he had gone to a certain senior official…
Every sort of matter rose in his mind.
In business at their level, to say one's hands were wholly clean was impossible.
But he had also stressed to the people under him that they must have limits in what they did: you could take a little, but you must never do anything against humanity.
At every family gathering he had stressed this too, several times.
In this world, however rich their Jiang family was, if those people merely had a thought, their Jiang family could be overthrown at any moment.
He had never imagined it would really come to their Jiang family.
"You're the chairman of the Jiang Group, and the present head of the Jiang family, correct?" The Fierce Dragon Embroidered-Uniform Guard opposite came straight to the point.
"Yes. I am." The Jiang chairman swallowed as he spoke.
"Then I ask, and you answer."
"Very well."
"How many children do you have?"
Asking about children?
Could his children have got into trouble?
Though a few of his children truly were somewhat dissolute, usually eating, drinking and playing,
they surely would not do anything to provoke the Fierce Dragon Kingdom.
"I have five children. Three sons and two daughters," the Jiang chairman answered earnestly.
"Among them, are there any called Jiang Yumeng and Jiang Nannan?"
"Jiang Yumeng? Jiang Nannan? I've never heard these two names at all," the Jiang chairman said, completely baffled.
"Are you sure there aren't? Then why, when I check your household registry now, are there two people in it, Jiang Yumeng and Jiang Nannan?" The black-uniformed man's eyes were fixed on the Jiang chairman, missing none of his facial expressions.
The Jiang chairman said earnestly, "I can guarantee that there is absolutely no one in my Jiang family called Jiang Yumeng or Jiang Nannan."
The black-uniformed man took out two portraits and laid them before the Jiang chairman: "Then these two people, have you seen them?"
The Jiang chairman looked twice and shook his head at once, saying, "I've never seen them."
"Mm, very well. Sorry to have disturbed you today." The black-uniformed man put away the two portraits and made to walk out; just as he was about to open the door,
he stopped.
"Mr. Chairman, the matters we discussed here today, the things you've seen."
The Jiang chairman said at once, "You haven't asked me any questions, nor shown me anything."
"Mm." The black-uniformed man pushed open the door and walked out.
Under the eyes of everyone outside, they walked into the elevator and left the Jiang Group tower.
The Jiang chairman let out a long breath; he felt cold sweat all down his back.
He was somewhat curious just what this was about.
But he did not dare investigate, still less ask anyone to make inquiries about it.
"Pass on my word. The news of those people coming today: no one is to pass it on privately. All the surveillance footage is to be erased. If I learn that anyone is gossiping behind my back, don't blame me for being harsh!" the Jiang chairman said gravely.
"Yes!"
Very soon this news was sent back by the Fierce Dragon Embroidered-Uniform Guard.
The guard following Zhao Chen learned the news too.
Without a change of expression, she swept her eyes over the university student and the little girl sitting beside Zhao Chen.
Now it was certain: these two's identities were forged.
As for just what their aim was, there was no knowing.
Her mind turned a few times.
She was thinking whether to expose these two's identities now, or wait a little.
Just at this moment:
"Everyone's about done eating. Where are you all planning to go next?" Zhao Chen asked curiously.
"To play!" Huang Nannan was the first to raise her hand and say.
Huang Min at once covered her daughter's mouth and said with a smile, "We'd originally planned, once we'd finished eating, to see Nancy off to rest first if she was tired."
"But Nannan wants to go play. Godmother's here, big sister's here. And today handsome big brother's here too. I want everyone to play together!" As Huang Nannan spoke, she tugged at Zhao Chen's sleeve: "Handsome big brother, can we play together?"
Looking at Huang Nannan's big watery eyes,
and then at the well-behaved, adorable Nannan beside her,
he thought a moment; he seemed truly to have nothing much on lately.
"Sure; I can play with the two little darlings for a while," Zhao Chen said with a smile.
Hearing this, Huang Nannan at once waved her arms excitedly and said, "Wonderful. I get to play with handsome big brother!"
And behind Zhao Chen, that guard's heart clenched.
This Huang Nannan was no problem.
But the other Nannan's identity was a problem; if His Majesty the Fierce Dragon Emperor went on staying with her, there was bound to be big trouble.
It seemed she still had to find a way to tell His Majesty about this first.
"Then where are we going next?" Zhao Chen asked curiously.
"I'd originally booked a vacation villa. There's plenty to do there, and we can order some snacks too. If you don't mind, we can go there to play," the Nancy Empress said.
"Mm." Zhao Chen nodded.
The Nancy Empress looked at Jiang Yumeng and Nannan: "And you two? Come along too. Your search for that person doesn't have to be this minute. I've already had people look; that will save far more time than your looking yourselves."
Jiang Yumeng looked at Nannan somewhat hopefully.
To spend a little more time with the idol of the stories was something she had dreamed of.
Nannan thought a moment, and nodded sweetly.
"Okay."
"Then that's how we'll arrange it," the Nancy Empress said.
Then the party left this restaurant.
A vehicle had been arranged outside too.
A rather large vehicle stood by the roadside.
And at this point the guard, unable to hold back any longer, came to Zhao Chen's side and murmured a word.
"You all go ahead; I have something to deal with here." Zhao Chen said a couple of words to the Nancy Empress.
Then he followed his guard off to one side.
"What is it?" Zhao Chen asked, puzzled.
His guards would not come forward to disturb him unless it was something special.
The guard glanced at the several people over there who had already got into the vehicle.
She said quietly, "Your Majesty, just now I had people look into that Jiang Yumeng and Jiang Nannan. According to the identity details they gave, we found that the Jiang Group has no such two people at all. These two's identities are entirely faked. But for what secret purpose they've slipped into the Dragon Palace Starport, and whether their appearing beside you is a coincidence or some plot, we don't know at all. So, considering your safety, do your plans from here need some change?"
Hearing this, Zhao Chen was somewhat surprised.
He had sensed no ill will at all from that girl.
But her identity was actually forged; then was her earlier aim of finding someone false too?
It gave him a little more curiosity.