Searching for Treasures in the Clouds

The screen showed that the caller was "the boss." This was his note to the person who taught him how to do things, so this person was considered one of his own, so he answered the phone.

"Mr. Ma, where are you now? Where are you going next? Please tell me your itinerary." The voice on the other end of the phone was a man's voice, a little rough.

"I..." Ma Xiaolong looked around and replied hesitantly, "I'm just wandering around outside. I'm going to rest in the hotel later."

"Which hotel?"

"Uh...it seems to be called Grand Orchard Dorsett Hotel."

"Okay then. I'll arrange for someone to bring you something later. You can pick it up in the hotel lobby."

"Oh, good."

"That's all. See you later."

"Oh...Okay, no, wait a minute." Ma Xiaolong suddenly stopped the other party, "Boss, um, we've only given you 4 million now. I want to ask, when will the rest of the money arrive?"

"Don't worry about that. When we do business, the most important thing is to keep our promises. We will definitely give you what you deserve. I will give you another two million later. Take your time. Anyway, I will definitely give you all the money before execution."

"Good good."

The man's words reassured Ma Xiaolong, and he quickly agreed and said goodbye to him.

After hanging up the phone, he sat stiffly on the bed. The conversation just now made him feel uneasy, and he didn't know why.

Thinking of his family who were still waiting for him at home, he became even more panicked and couldn't help but let his mind run wild. As he was thinking about this, he remembered the second phone call.

The caller ID showed an unfamiliar number, marked as a takeout courier number. He stared at the screen with wide eyes, but didn't answer the call. He waited until the ring reached the eleventh time, almost reaching the limit of automatic hang-up, before he picked up the phone to answer the call.

"Hey……"

He greeted with a trembling voice, sweat broke out on his forehead and back, and beads of sweat slid across his body as nimbly as water spiders on the water.

"Mr. Ma, your things have been delivered. Please come and pick them up. I'm at the entrance of the hotel."

"Oh, well..."

Ma Xiaolong stood up from the bed, put on his clothes, a mask and a hat, and set out to find the errand boy who was going to deliver something to him.

He thought that the item delivered this time would be something shameful and should be delivered secretly in a corner in front of the hotel. Unexpectedly, the errand boy was standing in the lobby of the hotel waiting for him.

He slowed down his pace and walked towards the errand boy in work clothes, looking around with his eyes. Seeing that there was nothing unusual about the waiter and other staff in the lobby, he felt strange.

He had done this kind of errand running service before, delivering things to big hotels like this one. Generally speaking, people were not allowed in and could only wait outside the door.

This experience made him wonder whether the errand boy who came to deliver the things to him had some other identity to hint at him.

The moment he took the thing from the errand boy, he carefully looked at his expression and saw that he looked normal, just like other errand boys, anxious to rush to the next destination requested by the next customer.

"I'm leaving now, Mr. Ma. Bye. Come back to me if you need anything. I can deliver things quickly."

The errand boy left the hotel and walked to the door, and immediately called the orderer who had placed an order to deliver something to Ma Xiaolong.

"Hello, boss. I'm the errand boy. I've delivered the order you just sent me. I took a photo of it and sent it to you via text message."

"I see, thank you, go and do your thing."

The man on the other end of the phone responded and immediately hung up.

"Hey, it hung up just like that?" The errand boy looked at the hung up phone with some regret.

The tip for this order was two thousand, which was almost equal to half a month's salary for him. He was so happy to get this order. He was just thinking about chatting with the owner of the order and asking if there was anything else he could deliver and making some more money. He didn't expect the other party to hang up the phone so immediately. It was really a pity.

"Well, it's over. Don't be too greedy. One order is enough to make money."

After mumbling something to comfort himself, he hummed a song and rode away on his electric bike.

"Today is a good day, bringing happiness for years to come..."

Ma Xiaolong took the thing back to his room before opening it.

The contents were ordinary, nothing special. No, maybe it could be said to be very special, because there was a takeaway and something like a power bank, and a large bundle of money.

He ignored the takeaway and the power bank for the moment and picked up the money to count.

"One, two, three, four, five..."

It was a lot of money, and it took him a long time to order everything, a total of 100,000.

Ma Xiaolong was a little overwhelmed holding a large bundle of money. He stared at the money with a burning gaze that almost penetrated all the money.

"Well, never mind, let's eat first..."

He couldn't figure out why the person who taught him how to do things suddenly wanted to give him cash. He had a vague feeling that there was a conspiracy behind everything, but he couldn't figure it out, so he had to open the takeaway and eat first.

Just as he put the first bite of rice into his mouth, the phone rang again. His hand holding the chopsticks trembled. He licked his dry lips and reached out to the phone with a trembling hand.

The caller ID showed the words "Tigress". It was his wife. He breathed a sigh of relief and answered the phone decisively.

"Hey……"

"Xiaolong, why did you come back? Where are you now?"

There was some noise coming from Ma Xiaolong's wife's side. It was the sound of children crying, and there seemed to be more than one child, as well as the sound of things being thrown and smashed.

Ma Xiaolong was silent. He looked around nervously, then replied in a sad tone: "Wife, I can't go back. You know, if I take that kind of crime, I will definitely be shot. There is no room for negotiation. Don't wait. The one million yuan that the boss said he would give me has arrived. I will find a way to transfer the money to you. You live a good life with the children and help me take care of my parents."

"Xiaolong, this money..." Ma Xiaolong's wife's voice was filled with tears, "Why don't you come back? We don't want this money anymore. We should find another way to treat the child's illness... Come back..."

"Don't say so much. I've already agreed to it and I've got the money. How can I regret it? We can't earn this much money in three lifetimes. It's good to have it. I'm using my life to make my whole family live a good life. It's worth it."

Ma Xiaolong looked around again. The nervousness in his heart made him seem to have hallucinations, and there were always dark shadows flashing in front of him.

"That's it, honey. I'll give you the money I can transfer now, and we won't contact each other anymore, so that if something happens to you, you can just tell others that I died of illness. Got it?"

"Wow, ahhhh..." Ma Xiaolong's wife cried bitterly.

After talking to his family on the phone, Ma Xiaolong felt even more deeply uneasy. His wife's call was like a death warrant, urging him closer to death and forcing him to carry out his next plan.