Tom Cat breaks through the dimensional wall.

In the central area of ​​District 13, there were computers arranged in a circle facing outward, and many clerical staff from District 13 were working there.

Jackie Chan, Blake, and a middle-aged Chinese man were standing there talking about something.

Xiaoyu abandoned Tang Mu halfway and acted alone, hiding not far away and eavesdropping on the conversation between Jackie Chan and others.

After seeing Xiaoyu, Tang Mu was so angry that he put his hands on his hips.

It's so unfair. This guy ran away without saying a word, causing the company to install high-tech machines there and even the spatula was frying with sparks.

A good cat was almost exhausted to death.

But now is not the time to settle the score with Xiaoyu.

Tom also wanted to know about the conversation between Blake and Jackie Chan.

For the sake of the side quest, Tom and Blake are on the same side on this matter.

Even if Jackie Chan really doesn't want to join District 13, he must be allowed to investigate those extraordinary events.

If Jackie Chan is really reluctant to investigate unidentified creatures, he can first try to find a few archaeological-related things from the archives of District 13 and give them to him.

Anyway, no matter what, as long as there is something to do.

How much money Tom can earn from side quests is closely related to the number and quality of adventures he has experienced.

Even if Jackie Chan really wants to be a lazy fish, Tom Mu can't let him be a lazy fish. He must encourage him well.

On the other side, Jackie Chan, who had clearly been arranged by a cat, was still smiling foolishly and talking to the person introduced by Blake.

"This is Director Hu Liang from our Thirteenth District. He is a very good naturalist and an expert we specially invited from Pingjing. He is responsible for intelligence screening and coordination."

"After our people collect intelligence on relevant extraordinary events from all over the world, they will send it to Director Hu and his team for preliminary screening and sorting."

"Once we confirm that the intelligence has a certain degree of authenticity, we will dispatch members of the action team to conduct on-site investigations. After the preliminary investigation, we will be able to determine the authenticity of the intelligence."

"Once it is confirmed to be true, we will conduct an in-depth investigation, and then Director Hu and other experts from our 13th District will decide how to manage that extraordinary event."

"Jackie Chan, we are very confident in your abilities. You have both the strong operational capabilities of the action team members and the profound knowledge of experts and scholars. If you, a talent, join us, we will be able to do our work better."

While introducing the basic work flow of District 13 to Jackie Chan, Blake continued to persuade Jackie Chan to join them.

Jackie Chan did not respond to Black's repeated attempt to recruit him.

He didn't really want to get involved in these events, which would undoubtedly be a trouble for him.

But this did not prevent Jackie Chan from having a pleasant chat with Director Hu and others.

After all, Jackie Chan has always considered himself to be just an archaeologist.

As a scholar, it is natural to respect those who possess knowledge.

He respects experts and scholars like Director Hu who have real talent and knowledge.

Joining District 13 is one thing, talking to knowledgeable people is another.

So even though Jackie Chan didn't pay any more attention to Blake, he had a good chat with Director Hu.

"Director Hu, take a look at this. Is this the legendary water monkey?"

Although District 13 is an international organization, it is generally dominated by China.

It’s just that the characteristics of the District 13 organization are quite special, so the base is located in Hong Kong, which is also a special place.

Despite this, the talents in these thirteen districts truly come from all over the world, and are not all from Hong Kong.

For example, the comrade who is now communicating with Director Hu Liang is a native of Pingjing.

Hearing his subordinates talking, work matters were more important, Hu Liang stopped talking to Jackie Chan for the time being. He leaned over to look at the computer screen, and motioned to his colleague to turn a few more pages. After looking for a while, he was suddenly speechless.

"Don't call everything water monkeys. These are not water monkeys. The first one is monkey-shaped algae, and the second one is obviously a group of people wearing monkey clothes."

"I know the third one. A group of people are trying to make money by hyping it up. They were clearly digging a landscape pond, but they claimed they were catching water monkeys. They've been in the local newspaper for several months, but they haven't caught a single monkey hair."

"The ones behind are sea slugs, flying monkeys, and three-toed sloths. You can't even recognize them. You need to go back to university and study again. The Japanese thing behind is also fake. I went to see it last year. It's just a piece of wood."

"This is a bullfrog, this is a bat cub, either one of them is a water monkey."

Director Hu shook his head and sighed, "It's true that everything can become a water monkey."

"Okay. Director Hu, I understand. I will refute all the information about water monkeys right now."

The colleague nodded and rejected the documents.

While refuting the report, he couldn't help but sigh: "It's very strange. Many unconfirmed life forms have been confirmed, but why are the reports of water monkeys always rejected? Could it be that there are wild men in the world, but not water monkeys?"

It looks like another poor young man has been tortured by water monkeys.

It's strange to say.

Other more outrageous unconfirmed life forms may have the possibility of real existence, but for such a simple water monkey, there is no clue of its real existence.

But rumors about it have spread quite widely, and some information can be collected from time to time.

Not only Director Hu and his colleagues, but all the civilian staff in District 13 have a special feeling for this water monkey.

Let’s not worry about what the people in District 13 think.

After watching their work in its entirety, Jackie Chan had a clearer understanding of District 13.

If he didn't like archaeology more, he might have joined District 13.

At least for now, the work in District 13 is quite interesting.

Blake waited and observed for a while, and after seeing Jackie Chan's expression, he smiled and asked, "How about it? How about joining us and giving it a try?"

Upon hearing this, Jackie Chan hesitated for a while, but finally shook his head and refused.

"It's been six years since we last met, and you're still as stubborn as ever."

Blake really didn't expect that even after all his efforts, Jackie Chan still didn't waver at all, which really made him feel helpless.

After thinking for a while, Black said to Director Hu Liang, "Didn't you collect some intelligence from Egypt recently? Show it to Jackie Chan."

Blake is in charge of operations and Director Hu is in charge of intelligence, so they are on the same level.

Blake didn't know much about intelligence information, so Director Hu had to do it.

Blake only knew that Jackie Chan was more interested in archaeology.

In that case, let's cooperate with Jackie Chan on tasks related to archaeology.

In this way, he shouldn't refuse again, right?

This is what Blake thought, and this was his last effort to keep Jackie Chan.

If this can't keep Jackie Chan as his old friend, then he has no other choice.

Upon hearing this, Director Hu responded and turned to operate the computer behind him.

It didn't take long before a document was retrieved from inside.

After opening the file, Director Hu motioned for Jackie Chan to take a look.

When Jackie Chan heard Blake talk about Egypt, his archaeological DNA started to move.

Seeing Director Hu's greeting, he walked over without hesitation and looked carefully at the document and the photos in it.

"This style of jewelry is really the style of ancient Egypt..."

Jackie Chan stroked his chin and carefully looked at the photos in the article.

As he flipped through the document, Jackie Chan suddenly saw that the jewelry with a large red gem was broken.

There was a big crack on the ruby.

From the angle of the photo, you can even see that the ruby ​​is hollow inside!

After carefully reading the text in the document, Jackie Chan roughly figured out the origin of this ruby ​​jewelry.

This was picked up by an American in the desert of Thebes, Egypt. The original plan was to send it to the UK for auction, but something unexpected happened just after it arrived in Cairo.

The originally intact ruby ​​suddenly cracked, and a beetle with a very strong bite force emerged from it.

Because he was bitten by the beetle, the American was very angry and killed the beetle.

I wanted to pick it up and examine the body, but it was taken away by a white cat in the hotel.

But relying on his previous memory, this person still drew the appearance of the beetle.

This New Year, I can travel around Egypt alone again.

You must have some knowledge of Egypt.

It is precisely because he has a certain understanding that he wrote down his own guesses at the end of this article.

Looking at the familiar yet unfamiliar word, Jackie Chan raised his eyebrows with interest: "Scarab?"

"Yes, it is the scarab. Although there is no photo of the scarab, only a hand-drawn draft, this incident has been verified, and the man did not lie."

The chair under Director Hu’s buttocks can rotate.

He obviously guessed what Jackie Chan wanted to ask, and before Jackie Chan could ask, he turned his chair around and spoke to Jackie Chan.

Seeing that Jackie Chan was indeed interested, Blake said, "We in District 13 want to investigate the scarab and confirm whether the scarab in ancient Egyptian legend really exists. Do you want to join us?"

To be honest, Jackie Chan kind of wants to go.

But compared to this, being involved with an official organization like District 13 seems more complicated and may very likely affect normal life in the future.

After weighing the pros and cons, Jackie Chan felt a little regretful, but still shook his head.

Seeing this, Blake didn't know what to say, so he could only nod and not force it.

"In that case, I'll send someone to take you back first."

The cooperation was not reached, but the two parties are still old friends after all, and this is just one incident and it does not affect the relationship between the two parties.

I watched Jackie Chan and the others finish their chat and get ready to leave.

Tang Mu, who had been hiding and listening for a long time, ran to Xiaoyu and called her to leave quietly together.

If I go out now and get discovered by Jackie Chan, there would be no point except getting scolded.

Tang Mu and Xiaoyu also didn't want to be scolded by Jackie Chan.

Anyway, they had heard everything they wanted to hear. Since Jackie Chan and the others were leaving, Jackie Chan and Xiaoyu naturally would not stay.

Before Jackie Chan and the others left, Tang Mu and Xiaoyu had already taken the stairs and left District 13.

After leaving District 13 and returning to the surface, the two did not stop. Instead, they took a taxi and headed to the antique shop at Wan Chai Pier.

After returning to the antique shop, Tang Mu, Xiao Yu and the cat acted as if nothing had happened, as if they had never sneaked into District 13.

The two little guys whistled, trying to show their harmlessness.

Hearing the noise at the door, the old man who was sitting behind the counter, reading a newspaper and chewing garlic, raised his head.

Seeing that it was Xiaoyu and Tangmu who came back, he looked behind them and didn't see Jackie Chan. He asked curiously, "Hey, where's Aaron? Didn't you go to the airport to pick him up?"

Xiaoyu pretended nothing happened and walked into the antique shop with Tang Mu. She picked up a feather duster and used it to remove dust from the antique goods on the shelf.

At the same time, he answered his father without turning his head: "Uncle Long was picked up by an old friend of his. He asked us to come back first."

"Aaron's friend? Which friend?"

Dad was a little confused. Although Jackie Chan knew a lot of people, he didn't have many true friends, and Dad usually knew them all.

I don’t remember any of them being in Hong Kong.

Xiaoyu didn't reply. At this moment, the door of the antique shop was pushed open again. With the sound of the welcoming bell, Jackie Chan and Blake walked in from outside.

Because they haven't seen each other for a long time, out of courtesy, since they are already in Hong Kong, Blake must come to visit his father.

Seeing someone coming to the door, the old man was stunned for a moment, then he suddenly realized: "Ah, it's you."

"Dad, long time no see."

Blake forced a smile and greeted his father.

Jackie Chan first focused his attention on Xiaoyu and Tang Mu standing aside.

Seeing Xiaoyu and Tangmu cleaning the store, I felt very relieved.

They actually went home obediently without causing any trouble. It was really touching.

They didn't know that Xiaoyu and the others had just come out of District 13. It was a rare occasion for Jackie Chan to see the naughty Tang Mu and the others finally behave themselves, and he was so moved that he almost cried.

This is really not easy.