"Yingzi, are you really sure it’s okay to do this?"
After walking out of the underground parking lot.
Jin Chenghua looked worriedly at Wu Liang, who was beaming with a radiant smile, feeling a bit uneasy.
After all, he had been at the Beijing Headquarters for about a month now, and he usually avoided people like the Hook Nose and the Shorty if he could.
Jin Chenghua mostly aimed for harmonious profits, and since he wasn’t originally from Huaxia, he didn’t want to cause any trouble here.
If he couldn’t provoke them, couldn’t he just avoid them?
Where has he ever seen someone like Wu Liang, who on his first day of training, even before seeing the main gate of the headquarters, manages to beat up local Awakened individuals!
"Huh? What did I do? I was just exorcising Fierce Ghosts, you can ask anyone in Chengyang City. My ability is just releasing Mist, it doesn’t cause any harm."
While Wu Liang was playing dumb outside, inside the parking lot were two people curled up in the corner, beaten until they were black and blue, still twitching in pain.
When they asked themselves honestly, they really hadn’t seen Wu Liang take a step to harm them.
In that Mist, they just inexplicably felt like something was hitting them, but couldn’t figure out what it was.
Neither the Shorty’s ability to detonate with a snap nor the Hook Nose’s ability to manipulate objects found anything substantial around them.
Just like that, they were baffled and beaten for ten minutes.
"So is the situation really that strange at the official headquarters right now?" Wu Liang suddenly blurted as they were walking.
After walking out of the parking lot, Jin Chenghua had explained to Wu Liang in his abstract Mandarin about the current situation at the Beijing official headquarters—
When Jin Chenghua first arrived, the official headquarters was exactly as imagined.
Cordial, fair, and enthusiastic.
All the Awakened individuals he encountered coming for training mostly came with a learning attitude, and even if he occasionally met one or two with bad characters, they were just nodding acquaintances.
People like the Shorty and the Hook Nose who acted excessively never appeared.
Until half a month ago, the headquarters inexplicably recruited a large number of civilian Awakened individuals.
As the saying goes, ’a mix of dragons and fish,’ with such a strange large-scale introduction of civilian Awakened individuals with no considerations, there inevitably were some with malicious intentions.
Even Jin Chenghua did not understand why these Awakened individuals, akin to street thugs, could join the official ranks. Was the upper leadership out of their minds?
"When something unusual happens, there’s bound to be something fishy, has anything strange happened in the past half month?" Wu Liang curiously asked Jin Chenghua.
He couldn’t believe the upper leadership were simply out of their minds.
Someone like Minister Long, managing a city district’s official department, is as savvy as a monkey. How would the leadership at a place overseeing the entire nation’s official matters not function properly?
Everyone here is an old fox, what are they playing at like it’s a tale from Liaozhai?
"There is indeed something unusual I recall," Jin Chenghua said after careful thought, "One night, there was an alarm blaring at the base, and it was said someone requiring strict supervision escaped!"
He remembered that many high-ranking official figures whom he rarely saw were out looking for the person that night.
Since then, the officials inexplicably began a massive recruitment of Awakened individuals, leading to the current chaotic situation.
Wu Liang thought deeply upon hearing this.
There must be some essential connection between the two; why did the officials suddenly start a massive recruitment after an important person escaped?
Moreover, he had a bad premonition...
Minister Long mentioned that the person who knew the real story of the "Promised Land" was coincidentally strictly monitored at the headquarters, without access to any electronic devices. Nᴇw novel chapters are publɪshed on 𝔫𝔬𝔳𝔢𝔩~𝔣𝔦𝔯𝔢~𝔫𝔢𝔱
Damn it... Could it be that the person who escaped is this guy?
Don’t mess with me! I just traveled from Chengyang City all the way here to find someone, and they escaped just as I arrived in the Capital?
"No, it shouldn’t be this person. Minister Long only mentioned this matter to me a couple of days ago. If the insider had escaped half a month ago, Minister Long wouldn’t be clueless till now, right?"
Wu Liang could only comfort himself with this reasoning for now.
He’s not in a hurry; today is just his first day in the Capital, he hasn’t even been to the headquarters base yet.
Certainly! When soldiers come, we’ll hold the ground; when water floods, we’ll barricade with soil!
"By the way, your BMW got turned into an electric scrap now, how are we going to the headquarters base?" Wu Liang suddenly remembered a more pressing issue.
"No worries! I still have another car! I’ve already called someone to bring it over!" Jin Chenghua’s face was once again adorned with a smile blooming like a flower.
Although a moment ago Jin Chenghua was a bit upset when the BMW at the parking lot got smashed into a scrap, within a few minutes, he had completely put it behind him.
His words casually revealed this foreigner’s wealth.
Leading Wu Liang to a side street with less traffic, the two chatted casually about the Beijing headquarters as they waited for the car.
After about ten minutes, with a flash of striking bright purple, a stylish sports car stopped in front of them.
A woman with long hair, chewing bubblegum, got out from the driver’s seat, wearing a denim jacket, giving off a valiant and heroic vibe.
She walked up to Jin Chenghua, staring at the stature that was more than a head taller than her. Suddenly she lifted her leg and kicked fiercely.
The kick landed on Jin Chenghua’s stomach, toppling this tall foreigner onto the ground, yet his smile didn’t falter.
"Fu Juan! Can’t you meet without kicking me every time?"
Hearing his words, the woman, irritated, spat out her gum into a trash can and said angrily, "You’re not allowed to be punched when you turn my car into a flashy purple?"
With that, she ignored the struggling Jin Chenghua trying to get up from the ground and instead turned to extend a hand towards Wu Liang with a smile, "Hello Yingzi, I’m Fu Juan, vice captain of Chengyang City’s second team, codename Du Juan."
Hearing her self-introduction, Wu Liang figured out something that had been bugging him.
Why did Sun Zhoushan’s first team have a vice team leader, but no one had mentioned the vice team leader on He Zhan’s side? He originally thought there wasn’t one.
But unexpectedly, the vice captain of the second team was simply not in Chengyang City!
"Hop in, we can talk about everything else once we get back to the base." Fu Juan flicked her hair as she opened the car door.
Jin Chenghua, now standing, muttered, "Engineer Chen and Zhang Wei are just in the parking lot, why didn’t you go and kick them?"
"What? You ran into those two bastards again? Which parking lot, tell me, and I’ll go and crush all their balls now! Daring to bully my people?" Fu Juan’s eyes flashed with a fierce light upon hearing those names.
Her words made Jin Chenghua and Wu Liang involuntarily tense their legs, as if feeling a phantom pain.
Wu Liang hadn’t expected that the vice captain of the second team would be such a fiery-tempered woman.
Listening to her, she really was ready to take action at the slightest provocation!
"No need, I’ve already crushed them..." Wu Liang said sheepishly.
Fu Juan looked at him in shock, then laughed heartily, patting Wu Liang on the shoulder, "Good! Good! Good! Bastards deserve a lesson like that! Look, Jin Chenghua, see how Shadow handles things? He started a fight on his first day, when will you learn to resist a bit, huh?"
Jin Chenghua just smiled without saying a word.
After the laughter, Fu Juan still earnestly advised Wu Liang, "Having a temper is fine, but the situation at headquarters is a bit chaotic now, so be careful."
"For instance, once we get to the base, I’ll let you know who you can randomly hit, and who you can only hit on the day you leave. Once done, we’ll just head back to Chengyang City."