Chapter 108: Rock The Boat!

Chapter 108: Rock The Boat!

Eurasia Capital, Central City, Self Defense Force Headquarters, Commander Lee's office...

Knock! Knock! General Lee, Commander of the SDF, looked up toward the door and said firmly, "Enter!"

A military officer clad in a crisp white uniform entered the room and saluted General Lee. He immediately stepped forward to deliver his brief, reporting, "Sir! I have received a report about the North American Mercenary group called Ace-Team."

Without looking up from his massive pile of paperwork, the General gruffly said, "Report."

"Sir, it seems they were hired for some job on the Long Island and are currently staying in VIP rooms authorized by Chuck Ben of the Ben family," the officer detailed, keeping his posture rigid. "As of yet, we don't know what their contract is involving but we can send a team to capture them within 5 days if we send them with helicopters now."

General Lee put up a single finger to pause the report, turning to his terminal and punching in a secure code to access top-secret files. He calmly scanned the encrypted information that was decrypted on the screen, then closed the window. He looked back up, telling the man with little interest,

"Stand down on the Ace-Team issue, they will be dealt with. An elite team will be wiping them out within the week. I want you to seal the Ace-Team files and erase them from our data-base, authorization Yellow."

The officer's body stiffened at the mention of the high-level authorization, and he quickly nodded, saluting as he heard the Commander's final order, "Understood! Any other orders for me General Lee?!"

After an uncomfortable, heavy silence filled the office, Lee looked back at the man, his expression shifting into a look of deep sadness as if he had lost someone incredibly important to him.

"A week ago, Captain May Lee died on a mission in the China Empire but her body was unrecoverable," Lee stated, his voice dropping an octave. "Let the Clan know. I will hold a small funeral for her tomorrow."

The officer looked completely stunned hearing the tragic news, but he quickly recovered his military bearing and saluted again, "My condolences, Sir! I will get that taken care of now."

"You are dismissed," General Lee answered quietly.

The officer turned on his heel and left the office to seal the requested files and report the sad news to the rest of the clan.

Once the door clicked shut, Lee opened his laptop again to personally alter some classified files. On the glowing screen, the operative history for May Lee was being actively converted to a brand-new identity under the name Captain Lucy Shen. All fake data was systematically made real as he deleted his daughter's personal, secret details from the system.

It seems May Lee had already been marked as officially deceased eleven years ago publicly when she was shot in the stomach on enemy soil, meaning what Lee was changing right now were her deep-cover intelligence files. Apparently, she had been living completely in the shadows all these years, working as a highly skilled spy.

"Sigh, You are as stupid as your brother," Lee muttered to the empty room, rubbing his temples. "Why do you kids always make life hard for this old man? I lost my wife, my son, and now my daughter. So all I can do is watch over you all."

He leaned in to look at the very latest encrypted message sent directly from his field operative, Lucy Shen.

[Asset Lucy Shen: Sorry, but my target needs me, so I will not be coming back, just kill me off. I will work remotely for you, but I will not leave my target. Oh and put me in-charge of Mei Xia like before, she is not leaving as well, she has already fallen to her target and is compromised. LOL. Don't be a mad old man, I am happy.]

Lee let out a sharp breath and hit the delete key on the text. Then, he placed the laptop directly on the floor and crushed it under his boot a few times, and when the device was completely pulverized, he threw the pieces away using multiple trace-destroying trash incineration methods. Yes, even the digital delete button was not enough for security like this. Later tonight, he would have to personally remove more matching information that was recorded on paper inside his safe.

After he finally released the heavy melancholy caused by his stubborn daughter, he pulled up a separate file containing information on Rick.

"Sorry Rick, I should not have sent her to you, but whatever, she is happy, so you can suffer from my headache now," the General murmured to himself.

While watching a newly broadcasted television commercial for the launch of Harem-Chat, the General put on a highly amused smile as he saw his own grandson trying his best to act.

"I wish I could hold my great-grandchildren, but I will just watch over you till you need me, little-firecracker, just like your grandmother, ha-ha!" Lee chuckled softly, encrypting the secure terminal and turning everything off before leaving the office for home...

Meanwhile, to the east side of Azure State, the Kate Kong tour bus had pulled to a stop at Eastern Dragon City for the singer's latest major concert event.

Jean Jia, Kate's professional manager, looked across the seats at the famous singer, who was staring down at her laptop with a stupid, starry-eyed grin, prompting Jean to ask a silly question, "How many times are you going to watch that commercial?! Sigh, Kate you are too distracted."

Kate, who had her hair tied up in a casual ponytail today, pointed directly to the monitor with a wide smile, proudly boasting as if she deserved the credit herself, "Jean, you told me he never took acting classes, but look, look, look here! He is acting with some talent. Sure he is an amateur, but I can see his skill. He never lies and is a star, Ufufu."

"Kate, this is the only thing he stars in," Jean countered, crossing her arms.

Kate shook her head quickly, adjusting her laptop screen to correct her manager, "Nope, look at these fight scenes he has done, he uses acting in all of them! See in his high-school fight, and here with his animal fights. And he acts like an animal and that is true acting. So he is better at action scenes, but he does have skill."

Then, she pouted slightly, her finger tracing over the image of Ana Zi appearing on the screen.

"Even that stuck up Ana is trying to get with him, so she sees it also. Hey Jean are you sure he has not gone out with that easy girl? I hope Rick did not get tricked by her. She even slept with the chief officer's son to get the role with me, I am just disgusted by that guy. He even tried threatening me to get me kicked out of the movie if I did not sleep with him, disgusting."

Jean shook her head, her expression turning sour as she recalled the incident, thoroughly disliking that executive's son as well. She looked at the singer and told her, "Did you not look at the email I sent with his known wives and lovers?"

"Wait what?! Really, oh let me find it, he-he, oh I deleted it by accident, oops!" Kate giggled, her fingers tapping against the keyboard.

Kate looked incredibly excited to finally see the details of Rick Lee's harem, but as the page loaded, her face instantly stiffened. Jean, seeing the exact same shocked look she had experienced when researching the file, smiled dryly and said, "Yeah, Crush that Crush. He is marrying two of the big four main-branch Ladies, a Doctor, his former step-sister Police Woman, and the Head Ning's twin daughters, you remember them right? I think you three did not get along back in White State, right?"

Kate looked completely confused, her eyes darting across the text, "Why would Rick marry those two awful women?! Did they blackmail him, or trick him?"

Jean shrugged, knowing that regardless of how it happened, the reality was set, replying, "Does not matter, they are married and both five months pregnant, so he won't leave them. So you should just give up on a man with so many lovers. He even has two personal maids, so you can imagine what he is doing with them. He is just your average Young Master, lustful and a womanizer."

"Humph, I will tell Boss Long you said that about the man she hangs out with," Kate countered, crossing her arms defensively. "If Victoria Long spends time around Rick, then he is not like you said, but... The lustful part might be true though, fufu."

Jean, suddenly realizing what the powerful Victoria Long might do if she found out about the gossip, quickly sat up straight and warned Kate, "Hey! I am allowed to have an opinion alright! So don't go and try to get me fired over a random thought of mine."

Kate ignored the panic, pointing her finger toward the screen where an American woman was shown cheering during one of the recorded fights, asking, "This woman was not on his wife and lovers list you gave me, right? Who is she to Rick then?"

Jean leaned over to look closely at the display, recognizing the face instantly, "She is fellow teachers at Star University with Boss Long and also friends with Rick's, Doctor wife, Hana. She is Rick's computer teacher, and from what I gathered, the guy Rick was fighting was her ex-fiance, so I don't know what to make of her. Oh and they are neighbors."

Kate began searching further online, her brow furrowing as the database blocked her requests, prompting her to ask, "Jean, I can't pull up Rick's harem information on the Life Statistics, how did you find out about his wives?"

Jean looked over in complete confusion, pulling out her own device to check the server, completely baffled by the result, "What?! A while back when I had done the research when you asked, it was on here?! Now I can't pull it up, why?"

Kate, seeing Kim, Victoria, and Mei appear together in a video frame on the screen, quickly pulled up their individual files on the public Life Statistics network, her eyes widening as she read the status lines aloud, "Kim Smith and Mei Xia are listed as single, but when I try to find Boss Long's information it says sealed?! Do you think Victoria Long and Rick Lee are married?!"

Jean Jia heard the most hilarious and absurd suggestion ever and could not hold her laughter in for a single second.

"Ha?! Hah-aha! Oh my goodness, that is so, ha-ha, Oh man could you imagine Tang and Long married?! Don't make me laugh, Kate. There is zero-chance in our world she would fall in love with Rick, trust me, ha-ha!"

Kate felt a bit silly imagining the high-profile match after hearing her manager's outburst, but why was everyone treating it like a forbidden subject?

She watched the recorded arena fight again, then restarted the Harem-Chat commercial, looking down at the display as she asked, "I guess... If he forgot me, I can forget him... But if he remembered me? Does he think I died like my mother told me?"

Jean hugged her shoulder tightly to comfort her, her tone softening as she offered, "It was like 8 and a half years ago, Kate. You were both kids. The chances of him forgetting you and your old pen-pal letters are high, so don't blame him for forgetting. He has to know who Kate Kong is, so if he does not notice you then he does not really know you."

Kate shook her head quickly, reaching into her personal belongings to pull out a small, faded photograph of herself at ten years old, taken right as she left Star City.

"Rick only knows this girl named Katelyn Pu," Kate murmured, tracing the edge of the paper. "I hardly look the same, so he wont recognize me."

Jean glanced down at the old photo, seeing the skinny stick-girl with boyish short hair, then grinned in genuine amusement at how dramatically her star had changed over the years. She nodded her head and said, "Well we will be in Star City in about 3 weeks so who knows, but I definitely want to see his reaction to you, ha-ha."

After my group of five finally got inside our connected VIP suites, we immediately pulled out our gear to sweep the two rooms for hidden bugs and cameras. Knowing the walls might have ears, I pulled out a fresh notepad and quickly wrote a message to the four women.

[There is one hidden camera pointed to Victoria's bed with a microphone, so we can't talk in there. This second room of Lucy's here is clean and if we close the door and keep it down we can talk.]

Mei quietly closed the adjoining door to seal our privacy, allowing us to speak in low whispers as I analyzed the situation.

"Looks like Chuck wants to see what Victoria is doing in the night time or looking to see if she is doing naughty things," I explained, leaning against the desk. "I can disable the camera or put it on loop mode if we need it."

Lucy grinned, pointing a finger back toward her own side of the suite as she added, "Chuck thinks the maids room across the hall is for me and thinks this room is for you to protect Boss. But he put the camera in to confirm and get a cheap thrill."

I turned my attention to Vicky, offering a practical solution, "When you crawl into bed, I can turn it so it shows you laying there still the whole night so don't worry."

Vicky looked up at me with a proud, confident smile, her eyes flashing with a mix of mischief and defiance.

"Do it after our show," Victoria suggested, her voice carrying a playful edge. "Let us wear robes to bed then cover ourselves and let him hear us make love, then will he be more likely to be repulsed?"

Lucy’s grin widened instantly, leaning forward to add fuel to the fire, "I could put your whole act on loop for the rest of the night for a while too, so we can act openly?!"

I smiled at these two creative minds but quickly shook my head to explain the risks, "We don't want to chance it leaking onto the internet, and disgracing the Long and the Tang. Sure we can blame it on Chuck, but he probably won't be around to take the blame, and frankly I do not want to show off my wife, even if it is under covers. So I will put it on loop and we will mess up the sheets on our own. His maids will want to confirm the bedding, so let him be suspicious for a day or two."

Lucy slumped her shoulders, looking thoroughly depressed by my cautious decision, "Boring, I wanted to add porn-directer to my bucket-list."

I shook my head at this completely broken older woman, then gestured for Mei to follow me across the hallway so we could inspect the separate quarters assigned for the servants.

Both of us immediately activated our electronic scanners for bug detection, and within seconds, the device flagged a hot signal coming directly from the communication hardware. I pointed to the device and wrote in my notebook, [Mei looks like the only free room is the adjacent room of Lucy's. So we need to be mindful of the words said in this room.]

Mei caught the instruction, a playful smirk spreading across her lips as she decided to utilize the wiretap for her own amusement, raising her voice to match a dramatic archetype.

"Young Master Tang, are you going to put it in now?! But what if the other maid walks in? Oh, not again, fine, hurry and finish fast, Young Master."

Mei winked at me, her hands moving quickly to undo my belt before she hiked up her long skirt, pulled down her panties, and leaned directly over the couch back in the center of the room, smiling back at me over her shoulder. Never leave a willing woman waiting.

So for the next ten minutes, Mei put on an absolute master-class performance of a master-and-servant sex play, filling the room's hidden microphone with excessive, breathless praise for her Young Master. She really, thoroughly enjoys making me engage in these wild scenarios. As soon as I filled her belly up with my warmth, she stood up, using a handkerchief to quickly clean both of us before pulling her panties back up. We headed straight back across the hall to the main suite, knowing we had taken a full fifteen minutes in the bugged room.

When the two of us slipped back inside Lucy's room, finding Victoria still cleaning up in the bathroom stall, Lucy looked up from her screen and immediately called us out.

"The ship has not pulled out yet and you two went to Rock the Boat already?! I am sooooo jealous you know! Here at least use this body spray, or go shower, you two smell like sex, geez!"

I let out a quiet sigh in my heart, realizing it was probably a bit insensitive to flagrantly flaunt my active sex life directly in front of a woman who currently didn't have one. Clearing my throat, I looked over at the two maids and Lucy to announce my next move.

"Cough, I will go shower in the bugged room next door and let Chuck see me walk out and see my sausage, ha-ha. I will be back after I am clean."

I grabbed a fresh change of clothing from my bag and headed back over to the target zone to get entirely clean.

After every single one of us had finished showering and changing into fresh clothes, our group made our way outside to the main observation deck to wave at the small crowd gathered down on the docks. I, Vicky, and Lucy walked over to lean against the thick front rail, watching quietly as the massive vessel finally began its departure from the port. Behind us, both Mei and Mercy took up defensive positions, making sure to keep the surrounding passengers at a respectful distance as we felt the cold sea breeze blow hard against our faces.

As we sailed steadily westward with the afternoon sun still shining brightly behind us, a sudden realization hit me, making me smile as I looked out over the open water. This was my very first real trip that didn't involve sitting inside a car. A genuine ship cruise. I couldn't help but smile at how rapidly my personal horizons were growing, thinking that maybe by next summer, I would even be leaving the country entirely.

Lucy, catching the expression on my face, leaned closer against the rail to ask, "What is making you so happy? Is it being surrounded by four super sexy women?"

I looked directly into her blue eyes, catching the genuine warmth and care hidden behind her red-framed glasses, which gave her an incredibly young appearance as she flashed a trickster smile.

"No, but it does make the trip better for sure," I answered honestly, looking back out at the waves. "I was just thinking about what I will do in this world. I have a lot that needs to be left behind."

How could I have possibly known at that moment that she already knew more about my true background than anyone else in my life? This woman possessed direct access to all the hidden intelligence and ancestral records concerning my lineage. When she heard my words, she understood the heavy weight behind them, her expression turning a bit sad as she realized the sheer amount of work I had ahead of me. She reached out, holding my arm tightly as she spoke.

"You know, I don't have many goals in my life, Rick. So I have decided. I will help you leave behind a strong legacy in the world, one your children and their children will be thankful for? Will you take my help?"

The sudden depth of her words made me feel exactly the same way I did during that intense hospital room conversation with James. I turned my head, staring seriously into her earnest expression to state my ultimate objective.

"My dream is to build a business empire that will change the world, silly right?"

Lucy's face lit up with a bright, radiant smile as she instantly confirmed her loyalty, "Then I will follow you and help you move the economic world. It will take a while, but I have nowhere else I want to be. So I will be your biggest supporter. Well I am helping you with your first business right now, Ufufu."

Victoria watched the exchange from the side, seeing her resident computer genius expressing a deep desire to help her husband, and she simply nodded in approval, thinking the professional alliance was excellent for my future. However, I noticed Mei’s expression tightening from behind, looking exactly like a big sister who felt her personal turf was being actively invaded. Mercy, on the other hand, merely kept her eyes scanning the deck for physical danger, entirely ignoring my complicated women's issues.

Before Lucy's intense conversation could start sounding like a strange romantic confession, a uniformed staff member from the ship approached our group, stopping politely to hold out an elegant invitation card.

"Miss Victoria Long, the Captain and Mr Ben have cordially invited you and your guests to dinner tonight on the upper third-deck restaurant, The Siren. It is at 7 pm and it is formal wear, hope to see you then."

The hostess gave a professional bow and immediately left to attend to her other duties, leaving Mercy to step forward and take the invitation from her hand.

Victoria checked the time on her wrist, turning back toward the suite doors as she announced, "Well I am done here, let us go take a nap everyone, in case this is a long night."

Lucy clapped her hands together, her face filling with absolute excitement as she giggled, "Oh, I am going to wear something drop dead gorgeous, Ufufu!"

Victoria paused by the entrance, looking back toward Mei and Mercy to ask a critical question, "It says my guests, so do you two want to eat with us?"

At the exact same time, both Mercy and Mei shook their heads to decline, and Mercy stepped forward to clarify her stance.

"I need to focus on what is going on and can't be distracted, so I shall only watch," Mercy stated, her posture entirely rigid with professional focus.

Mei nodded in quick agreement, her eyes scanning the corridor before she added, "It is best for us to not eat and drink, so we can assist, but thanks."

I smiled at their absolute dedication to our safety, feeling a surge of confidence as I ushered the group back toward the safety of our adjoining suites.

"Alright, lets get something to eat then sleep," I announced, cracking my knuckles as the final countdown to the dinner trap began. "Time to annoy the Chuck and make him say, Fuck!"