Manhattan Reborn 1978

Island country, Tokyo

Tokyo International Airport.

A flight from New York landed smoothly on the runway.

Half an hour later, the passengers walked out of the exit passage.

Ava Fangtian was wearing a brown-red windbreaker, leading a petite girl out with light steps, following the flow of people.

(Ava Fonda, from the movie "Lord of War", she is played by New York actress Bridget Mooney. Mooney has played the heroine in the movies "I, Robot" and "Memory". )

Yuri Orlov, who had been waiting here for a long time, saw Ava Fangtian from a distance, and happily opened his arms to greet her~

Marat and Kihara Nobunari stood a little further away, looking at Ava Fangtian who couldn't hide her good figure even in a thick coat, and laughed softly.

“This guy’s eye for finding a girlfriend is really good!”

"Hehe~"

Kihara Nobunari smiled in agreement, stepped towards the petite girl who was following Ava Fangda just now, and shouted.

"Tomomi!"

"Ah~ Nobunari-kun!"

Tomomi Moriyama, who had been bumpy on the plane for more than ten hours, saw her fiancé Nobunari Kihara waving to her. She ran up to him in surprise and threw herself into his arms without saying a word for a long time~

Yuri let go of Ava Fangda, turned to look at Kihara Nobunari and the two hugging each other, and laughed softly.

"Let me introduce you to my colleagues first."

"That's Marat, and Nobunari Kihara."

"them.."

Marat walked forward with a smile, waved to Ava Fangtian, briefly introduced himself, and started chatting casually.

At this moment ~

A middle-aged island man in a suit, leading several airport security guards, walked quickly not far from Yuri and others, and spoke in less than standard English.

"ladies and gentlemen!"

"Sorry to bother you, I'm so sorry!"

"But we need to check Ms. Ava Fangtian's carry-on luggage again..."

"Oh?" Yuri looked at his girlfriend Ava in confusion and asked.

"What did you bring in your luggage?"

Ava shook her head in confusion and said, "It's just some of my clothes and cosmetics, as well as the commercial video tapes that I brought here specially this time."

"Yes!" The middle-aged man from the island nation still maintained a polite attitude and continued with a smile.

"We just wanted to check those tapes in your luggage."

"..."

Yuri and Ava were both stunned and didn't react for a moment.

Marat next to him took a few steps forward, stared at the middle-aged man with slightly narrowed eyes, and asked.

"Your identity?"

"terribly sorry!"

"I forgot to introduce myself."

"I am the head of the security department of the international airport, and one of our department just now..."

"What's your name?" Marat interrupted him directly and asked.

"..." The middle-aged man did not answer immediately this time, but maintained a polite smile and said.

"This gentleman, we are only asking this lady to cooperate with our work in accordance with the safety management regulations established by the airport."

"If you have any objections to this, you can contact our superiors..."

"But we also hope that you will cooperate with this lady in our work!"

"..." Marat raised his eyebrows and looked around carefully instead of looking at the middle-aged man who was speaking.

Yuri put his arm around his girlfriend Ava's shoulders, walked to Marat, and said expressionlessly.

"You're going to check the tape, right?"

"Yes."

"can!"

"Marat, you and Kihara Nobunari call to book a hotel first. Ava and I will go back with them."

"..good!"

Marat stood there, watching Yuri and the two people gradually move away with several airport security personnel, and glanced at Kihara Nobunari with a gloomy face: "Let's go find the phone!"

"...Hmm!" Kihara Nobunari firmly held the little hand of his girlfriend Moriyama Tomomi and nodded slowly.

----

Texas.

It's approaching midnight~

Northwest of Houston, in a farm vacation home on the eastern outskirts of the small city of Hempstead.

While David took off his coat, he asked Polly to take a shower first. He found the phone number in the bedroom and dialed it.

"Hello~"

"Hey Livlin!"

"How about I invite you and Leslie to have dinner alone tomorrow night?"

"Hehe~"

"Sorry, really sorry!"

"I just came back from my mentor's house tonight..."

"Ok!"

"Then you choose the restaurant first and we'll contact you at noon tomorrow?"

"Okay ~ Good night!"

. . .

Put down the phone.

David took off his shoes, lay on the edge of the bed and looked at the ceiling, trying to slowly "cold start" his mind~

Because the people he met and the things he heard today were very important!

Emerging futurist, John Nesbitt.

Begnino Odessette, President of General Electric Company.

Jack Welch, the candidate to succeed General Electric.

Lehman Brothers CEO, Peter Peterson!

Horn Coderling, director and senior partner of Lehman Brothers?

Julie! ?

David arranged these people in sequence in his mind, connected them with various lines, and marked their relationships and some of his guesses~

Emm. .

seem. .

Still a little unclear about the smoothness!

"call!!"

David rubbed his forehead with his hands, carefully recalled tonight's exchange with his mentor, Professor Bartley, and slowly closed his eyes.

after awhile.

Polly walked into the bedroom wearing a bathrobe and saw David lying beside the bed. She walked over and asked with concern.

"If you're tired, go to bed first."

"Um.."

"I.."

At this time~

Two beams of light shone in from the window, attracting their attention.

David got up and walked to the window, looking at Mr. Tianniu who got out of the car that had just stopped, knowing that he would not rashly choose to turn back at this time if nothing happened.

So, he turned around and said hello to Polly, then picked up his coat and walked downstairs, opening the door to let Mr. Beetle in.

. . .

More than twenty minutes later, in the living room on the first floor.

The beetle handed David the microphone, put it back in its place, and waited quietly.

David rubbed his brow with his hand, thought for a moment, and asked, "Can the private plane arranged for Polly tomorrow fly from Hawaii to Tokyo?"

"It should be okay." Longhorn took out a notebook from his pocket, glanced at it a few times, and nodded.

"it is good!"

"You have to calculate the time and then arrange the flight route application."

"After Polly's private plane arrived in Honolulu, Hawaii, she asked Mag Ludwig, who was in Honolulu at the time, to board it and rush to Tokyo."

"Over in Tokyo, tell the gardener to call Yuri~Tell him to take a break for the time being and wait for Mag to take care of everything before continuing our business."

"On the New York side, Gardener is responsible for contacting Tokyo. Odis Parker assists Sam Rogers in dealing with the Phibro Company and the investigation on the Hunter brothers."

"Don't interfere in each other's affairs."

"Especially Otis!"

"Don't let him get mad and scare people!"

"Haha~ Okay!" Mr. Tianniu suppressed his laughter, nodded and wrote these down.

David took a deep breath, squinted his eyes and looked at the darkness outside the window, and whispered.

"Tell Mag Ludwig that if no one in Tokyo stands up to support our business, there is no need to force anything, just take everyone back to New York!"

"Following up, I will contact Davis Rice and Kaguichiro Yasuda individually."

"Then you ask the gardener to find a way to find my housekeeper Acklade, and have him fly directly to Honolulu to take care of Sena's mother and others..."

"and also!"

"Tell lawyer George McCarron to get the application documents for the trading company under Yuri Orlov's name as soon as possible!"

"Tell Sam Rogers, tell him to follow the plans I left behind and not get distracted."

"Tell Otis Parker that he can fly over and talk to me face to face about the intelligence and information that he is not comfortable speaking out in detail on the phone~"

"Tell Bernard Madoff that if his friend Mikhail wants to invest more... he's welcome!"

"But this investment will go into Bernard's fund company at Vanguard Group, not my fund company."

"..." After Mr. Tianniu quickly wrote down all this, David felt very tired and shook his head.

"That's all for now~"

"Thanks a lot!"

"thanks!!"

"Haha~" Mr. Tianniu put away his notebook, shrugged with a smile, and joked.

"Boss, should you consider giving me more overtime pay?"

"Hahaha~"

"Definitely!" David smiled and nodded.

. . .

Send Mr. Tianniu away.

David did not go upstairs to his bedroom, but went directly to the door of a room on the second floor and gently knocked on the door.

inside the door.

Elena Mesa was wearing a knee-length nightgown and let him into the room with a smile on her lips.

David silently walked to the small stool by the window and sat down, rubbed his cheeks vigorously a few times, and said: "You contact Zina tomorrow morning and ask her to stay with Mag's wife Janet Patrick in the past few days. "

"Because Mag needs to do something very important for me, and it must be a lot of inconvenience for Janet to be pregnant and alone in New York."

"Okay!" Elena walked up to him and squatted down, holding her cheeks with her hands, and responded.

David looked at her "dazzling" beautiful face, shook his head with a wry smile, and said again.

"Brotney Mejia has been accompanying Cui Yingying during this period, visiting Professor John Conkers in Los Angeles."

"Tell her that the things I asked her to do before to set up an intelligence network need to be accelerated!"

"Yeah!" Elena nodded slightly without changing her posture.

David looked at Elena quietly. After a moment of silence, he drew a few wavy lines on her forehead with his fingertips and whispered.

"Polly will be leaving tomorrow morning."

"Lilith promised Laura to accompany her to visit some elders and friends."

"I also made an appointment with Leslie and Livlin to have dinner tomorrow night."

"So, you go to the mentor's house with me tomorrow morning and prepare lunch for us."

"Then you go with me tonight..."

"Ok!"

David spread his fingers and slowly brushed them downwards from Elena's forehead. Watching her slowly closing her eyes, he took a deep breath and sighed.

"You are such a... monster!"

"Hehe~"

When Elena heard David's "praise", she sat down on the ground happily and shrugged.

"I am a charming fairy, but I don't eat people!"

"what!"

David deliberately showed a vigilant expression, put his hands on his knees and frowned.

"The time we have known each other is not that short."

"I am a person who has a clear plan for my future."

"I also hope you have some clearer plans for your future~"

"For example: traveling around the world~"

"Or find a place with a great view, stop and enjoy the quiet life, etc."

"Well, I know!" Elena raised her right hand, pressed it on her heart, and smiled.

"Once upon a time, I was always thinking, always searching, and never stopped~"

"But now I have met you..."

"I don't want to worry about this anymore!"

"Now, all my future plans are...to be by your side~"

"Forehead.."

David was speechless for a few seconds, leaned down and looked into Elena's eyes closely, shook his head slightly and said.

"I don't deserve this!"

"Maybe~"

Elena deliberately rocked her body back and forth a few times so that she could look at David from a distance and close, and whispered.

"With your intelligence, you can definitely understand~"

"How many girls or women with beautiful faces like me will be lucky enough to find...the so-called happiness?"

"At least I haven't seen any of them living an ideal happy life..."

"So almost ten years ago, I gave up all the fantasies and unrealistic expectations in my heart~"

"But I was lucky enough to be able to take care of me when I was most frustrated."

"It allowed me to meet you!"

Elena looked at the speechless David and couldn't help but smile: "Polly is still waiting for you, right?"

"She's leaving tomorrow, don't keep her waiting any longer!"

"..Um!"

David walked to the door very decisively and quickly, suddenly stopped at his feet, turned around and asked.

"Can you...knit a sweater?"

"Of course it will!"

Elena stood up holding on to the carpet, quickly gestured with the index fingers of both hands and said with a smile: "The former British Prime Minister Churchill liked to knit sweaters to relieve stress."

"...Churchill?!"

"Yup!"

"In the UK, from the prime minister and princes to civilians and soldiers, there are a lot of men who like to knit sweaters!"

"I have lived in London for so long, and after hearing this story, I also learned it~"

"Ah...oh!"

David tilted his head with a strange expression and thought for a while, conjuring up a "magical" scene~

Former British Prime Minister Churchill was sitting on the sofa, smoking a large pipe, knitting skillfully while listening to his subordinates report on the latest battle conditions on the front line.

This picture~

Gee!

Emm. .

David covered his eyes with his hands and said with a wry smile.

"Tomorrow, go check out Professor Bartlet's measurements and try knitting a sweater for him first~"

"And how about you get us each a nice sweater?"

"Okay!" Elena agreed with two thumbs up.

"ok~"

"You have a good rest, see you tomorrow!"

"See you tomorrow~"

Watching David walk up the stairs, Elena gently closed the door. The smile on her lips was no longer hidden and bloomed silently~

----

new York.

Early morning~

Manhattan.

In the white winter fog, an old Ford sedan drove out of the Lincoln Tunnel.

in the car.

A middle-aged man wearing a knitted winter hat and a heavy leather jacket covered the lower half of his face with a scarf. He parked his car at an intersection and looked quietly at an apartment building in the distance.

After about half an hour.

The number of vehicles on the road gradually increased, and the postman and milkman delivering newspapers also began their day's work~

Municipal garbage trucks loaded with all kinds of garbage rumbled past, but they failed to attract people's attention at all.

But the middle-aged man who had been waiting in the car adjusted his seat and stared closely at a garbage truck passing by in the distance, watching it disappear at the corner of the street.

The middle-aged man lowered his head and glanced at his watch. It was 6:37.

He reached out and took out a paper and pen from the inside pocket of his leather jacket, wrote down the time on it, and marked two lines of small characters next to it~

With the car, two people.

Did not stop on the way.