"Huaguo's special forces? More or less what I expected. But since you learned the Wolf-Running Diagram, your superiors should have put you to good use. Why did you leave the military, and what brought you to Xierde?" Wang Yu asked calmly.
"It's simple. Something happened to my family, and I urgently needed a large sum of money to help them. I happened to make a few connections in Xierde while carrying out missions abroad, so I voluntarily left the service and came to Xitie City to work as a bodyguard for anyone willing to pay enough," Li Xiaodao said frankly, holding nothing back.
"I see. Once you'd learned the Wolf-Running Diagram, leaving the service couldn't have been easy, could it?" Wang Yu asked, narrowing his eyes slightly.
"No. Fortunately, my former commanding officer sympathized with me and did a great deal to help me leave my unit.
"But you can draw a diagram capturing the essence of the running wolf, Mr. Sai. You must be someone very important back home. Why would you come to a country as chaotic as Xierde?" Li Xiaodao asked, looking somewhat puzzled.
"My story is a long one. It was as though I woke up and found myself abroad. Since you used to serve in our special forces, do you have any special channels for contacting confidential departments back home? Channels guaranteed to be free of foreign surveillance," Wang Yu continued asking after a sigh.
"Confidential departments? What exactly do you mean, Mr. Sai?" Li Xiaodao asked in surprise, rather baffled.
"Secret bases back home, for instance. I want to contact the person in charge of a particular base," Wang Yu said slowly.
"As far as I know, quite a few secret bases have been established back home in recent years. Every one of them