Super Soldier in the City

After consolidating the data of Su Mengxin and Li Yifei, Li Yifei selected two projects from them. One was a project from the overseas expansion company under the state-owned Huahai Group. This company has many energy projects, and this time, it was cooperating with the United Arab Emirates to jointly develop an offshore oil and gas field project. The Huaxia side provided financial aid and technical workers, while the UAE provided resources.

The negotiations were initially normal, but midway, the UAE side suddenly changed its attitude and proposed a very unreasonable demand. Not only did they ask Huaxia to invest more money, but they also demanded to change the ownership distribution. After studying the situation, the Huaxia side sent a negotiation team to discuss, since the preliminary work for this business had already started, and the construction and technical workers had even arrived in the UAE half a year ago. The development area had been under construction for nearly six months. At this point, the other party reneging was somewhat excessive.

The negotiation team went but to no avail, as the other side was determined to play rogue. If they disagreed, fine, the construction site would halt. They could find a random excuse to prevent you from starting work. After all, it was in another country’s territory, and Huaxia was helpless.

The UAE is not just an ordinary small country; it’s incredibly wealthy, with its underground filled with oil reserves. Huaxia couldn’t afford to play hardball and had to resort to coaxing.

The negotiation team was deadlocked, and then a piece of infuriating news came back to the Huaxia side. Because the underground reserves of the extraction site had suddenly doubled, the other party reneged. If that were the case, the Huaxia side would grit their teeth and accept it, spending a bit more money.

The critical issue was that news spread that the oil tycoon Alfa Group got involved. A company from Japan was also competing, and even Indian parties were trying to get a piece of the action.

Originally, the Huaxia side was not too concerned about these companies. After all, Huaxia people have money and are willing to spend. A little loss wouldn’t matter much. At worst, they could raise the oil price a bit more to recover the cost.

As a result of these companies’ involvement, the UAE became even more arrogant, proposing more unreasonable conditions.

According to Su Mengxin’s data, this investment transaction exceeding five billion US dollars was likely to be abandoned by the Huaxia side. The initial investment of one billion US dollars for basic construction expenses, which had already been disbursed, might go down the drain.

When this news came back to the country, several bigwigs in the Energy Department were furious. It was said that several unlucky people were dismissed because of this, but the loss could not be recovered.

Li Yifei, single-handedly, didn’t have much confidence in this, but he still wanted to try. According to Old Master Su’s information, one of the top leaders in the next election cabinet would come from the Energy Department.

If he resolved this trouble, Li Yifei’s name might become known to some influential people, allowing the Li family to settle down in the future.

Huaxia and its best neighbor, Pakistan, constructed an oil pipeline stretching thousands of kilometers. An important link in this was the oil, which, according to the previous extraction agreement, was prioritized for supply to Huaxia.

The Middle East, due to its unique geographical environment, holds more than half of the world’s oil reserves. The huge demand for oil globally in recent modern times has made these countries wealthy fast and also quickly divided this place. Behind them are the shadows of countless major powers like the United States, Russia, and various European countries, and the world’s major oil companies, it’s both black gold and bloody black gold.

Huaxia missed the golden opportunity of control, so in recent years, it has been striving to expand its influence here, but even now, it controls few oil fields.

This time was a good opportunity, as most of the oil fields already had owners, making it challenging to acquire them. But this was different; it was a new oil field that was being explored, and domestically it was considered a must-have.

Li Yifei thought this was an opportunity, so he came here.

He was also aware of the many opponents he would face. Li Yifei knew well that dealing with those oil giants was no easy task. Each of them was ruthless and dared to kill without hesitation.

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Back home, Su Mengxin and others were still collecting and consolidating information. When necessary, they would also come over to assist Li Yifei. Li Yifei first needed to figure out what was really going on.

In recent years, due to the existence of some terrorist organizations, religious wars, and the sinister tactics of those most malicious major powers, the Middle East region has never been peaceful: the Middle East War, the Iran-Iraq War, the Afghan War, the Gulf War, the Kosovo War, the Iraq War.

These were just the major wars, some lasting months, some years, or decades, with continuous fires of war burning. In this region, battles were fought fiercely, involving national troops, United Nations troops, local government forces, various mercenaries, opposition forces, terrorist organizations, and others.

It could be said that aside from some countries in Africa, the Middle East at this time was the most attractive and most troublesome place for major world powers.

When Li Yifei came here in the past for a mission, he had lost teammates in battles and killed countless enemies.

This was a soldier’s realm, a paradise of war, and also the closest region to death globally. Religion, ethnicity, and other trivial accusations could lead to death here.

If one was a war maniac, a killing maniac, they might fall in love with this place. In Li Yifei’s years of military service, executing missions in the Middle East was definitely one of the most challenging experiences.

After the appearance of hot weapons, high-tech weapons, guided weapons, unmanned reconnaissance, and other weaponry, the region became even more chaotic.

Returning here, Li Yifei felt a bit stirred inside, as well as a remembrance of his former comrades. He could still remember the faces of some of them, even their combat habits, catchphrases, and favorite foods.

Unfortunately, they were now just ashes, some without even their names left behind.

On the plane, looking at the scenery below, Li Yifei felt somewhat wistful.

Another plan was to go to a place called the Kole Area. At this time, it had no affiliation, and there was a local organization army. According to the information reported through Li Yifei’s own channels, this organization planned to establish a regime, potentially forming a country.

This wasn’t the critical point, as there were too many organizations in the Middle East to explain clearly even with tens of thousands of words, considering all the factions and so on.

The Kole Area, as shown in the data, was a disputed region among several neighboring countries. Originally an ungoverned area, it had become infested with terrorist organizations, with local people enduring great sufferings. However, recent news suggested this area had a stunning oil reserve, which was a killer.

Li Yifei learned of this information from a mercenary he had once saved. This war maniac from Northern Europe happened to be hired to fight in the Kole Area, and upon hearing that Li Yifei was coming to the Middle East, he casually mentioned it.

Li Yifei had asked him to further verify the information, of course, offering compensation for it, and the other party agreed.

Though this information wasn’t yet confirmed, once it was, it could be expected that this area would inevitably become a contested ground for countries and the forces of major powers behind them.

Upon hearing the news, Li Yifei immediately realized this was an opportunity, an excellent opportunity.

An unclaimed enclave, which was bound to be fiercely contested. However, capturing it would bring enormous benefits.

For the Huaxia side, such matters would require involvement, and the simplest way would be to support a local power to join the scramble.

Li Yifei felt that if he could accomplish this, the impression of him in Huaxia’s high-level circles could reach unprecedented heights.

Of course, this was the second plan. His first plan was still to get involved in that oil extraction site.

On the plane, Li Yifei’s face was expressionless, his eyes slightly squinting as he looked at the scenery outside the window.

Beside him, Wu Shuwei took off her headphones and looked at Li Yifei. She remembered that Li Yifei had mentioned to the tycoon prince Sashar earlier that he had served for several years. So she was pondering whether, if she hadn’t stood up to the Japanese man earlier, Li Yifei would have stepped in?

Logically speaking, a soldier surely had a sense of justice.

Wu Shuwei, being idle, started analyzing the earlier scenes, guessing whether Li Yifei would intervene.

Li Yifei wasn’t the kind of shockingly handsome guy, and he was certainly younger than her, but his side profile had a touch that young men lacked, especially the look he had when squinting pensively, with a hint of world-weariness. With Wu Shuwei’s experienced eyes, it was clear that this must be a man with stories.

As for what stories, Wu Shuwei couldn’t guess. She was just a bit curious.

An ordinary soldier wouldn’t chat so smoothly with a prince from a wealthy nation, maintaining composure and even leading the conversation.

Was he an officer? Wu Shuwei continued to guess, just as Li Yifei happened to turn around and meet her gaze. Wu Shuwei didn’t avoid it, boldly looking back at Li Yifei.

Li Yifei was incredibly perceptive and could sense every move of everyone in the First Class Cabin. Wu Shuwei had been staring at him for a while, and Li Yifei was certainly aware of it.

Wu Shuwei could tell that Li Yifei wasn’t pretending to be deep, nor was he idly daydreaming. The sunlight outside shone on his profile, giving Li Yifei a layer of mystery.

Unfortunately, flights eventually reach their destination, and planes inevitably land, leaving Wu Shuwei without the opportunity to speak to Li Yifei again.

Across from them, the tycoon prince Sashar, drunk with excitement, took a girl with him to the restroom, returning with a peculiar expression after more than ten minutes. It wasn’t hard to guess what happened during that time.

Only a little over ten minutes? That was quite fast. Li Yifei nodded toward the tycoon prince Sashar, who then glanced at Wu Shuwei, seemingly hinting something to Li Yifei.