Chapter 53: Chapter 53: Rapid Improvent Within Sight
"I’ll have Hu Xiang keep an eye on him for now." Su Chen closed his wristband after receiving a firm confirmation from Hu Xiang.
He turned, and just as he was about to enter the Gravity Chamber, he froze. He glanced toward the door as if sensing sothing, and the knocking sounded again.
KNOCK! KNOCK! KNOCK!
"It’s certainly lively today."
Su Chen opened the door and was slightly taken aback by what he saw.
"Younger Brother Su..." A middle-aged man stood outside. He wasn’t particularly tall, only reaching Su Chen’s shoulder, and his face wore a genial smile.
"Section Chief... Pan?" Su Chen stared at the man, not having expected to et him so soon.
The visitor was none other than Pan Yu.
"What brings you here so suddenly?" Su Chen’s face betrayed nothing but surprise.
"You’ve been in the patrol section for so ti, and we haven’t had a chance for a proper chat." Pan Yu chuckled. "What, am I not welco?"
"Not at all. Please, co in." Su Chen stepped aside. ’His repeated covert actions are proof enough that he doesn’t dare make a move on
here.’
"Are you settling in okay here?" Pan Yu asked, looking around and feigning concern.
"It’s much better than my previous place," Su Chen said with his back to the man, pouring a glass of water. ’What a sha,’ he thought.
’He arrived so suddenly. I’m not ready to make a move; it’s not a good opportunity to use poison.’
After exchanging a few pleasantries, Pan Yu sighed and got to the point. "My friend, as you’ve probably figured out, I didn’t really co here just to chat."
"To be honest with you, with the Lord City Lord temporarily managing the Inspectorate, everyone, from top to bottom, is on their toes, terrified of making a mistake. As it happens, your Seventeenth Patrol Squad falls under my purview."
"This is rather awkward..." He put on a troubled expression. "You’ve been staying in your room this whole ti, but the patrol squad’s records show perfect attendance. That was fine back when the Director was around, but now..."
He sighed, his tone helpless. "My friend, can’t you see the difficult position this puts
in?"
"How about this? I’m not asking you to patrol every three days. Just going out once a week would be enough. What do you say?"
Su Chen’s heart sank. ’He’s that desperate?’
After a mont’s thought, Su Chen imdiately replied, "No problem. I won’t make things difficult for you."
"Excellent! I knew the Director’s student would be considerate of the Inspectorate." Pan Yu’s face imdiately broke into a wide smile. "That fellow, Old Qin, was too anxious to even co talk to you himself."
"Well, I have nothing else, so I’ll be leaving." Pan Yu truly seed to have co only for this, leaving as soon as he had achieved his goal.
Once in the elevator, his smile gradually faded. ’Still too young.’
’I rember Pan Yu’s class is Shadow Concealer.’ Su Chen shut the door, already calculating. ’I have to get clear information on this class.’
As it happened, that wouldn’t be difficult for him at all.
’As for the patrol? Like hell I’m going.’
...
Su Chen trained day and night without interruption. Several days passed before he was finally disturbed.
He opened the door and welcod Fatty Sun inside.
"My friend, with your kind of perseverance, you’d succeed at anything." Fatty Sun offered his usual flattery before taking out a tal case. "The Potions you asked
to buy: ten vials of Black Fla and twenty of Spiritual Light."
’I need to speed up my Sky Splitter Warrior progression. Once I reach Tier Two, these Tier One Potions will be useless, so I’m reducing my stock of Black Fla.’
"Thanks." Su Chen took the case. Fatty Sun then produced a stack of papers and whispered, "This is the intel on the Shadow Concealer class."
"This is everything I could dig up by asking around discreetly. I can’t just pull up more specific class information directly."
"I appreciate it, Brother Sun." Su Chen took the docunts. He wasn’t really concerned with the formal class information, but rather its specific abilities.
Flipping through the docunts, he casually asked, "What’s our section chief like?"
"Qin Cheng?" Fatty Sun sneered. "A master of graft and extortion. He also has a foul temper and is always chewing out the people under him."
He paused, his brow furrowing slightly. "Did he give you trouble? I can go have a word with him."
"No, just curious." Su Chen shook his head with a chuckle. "What about the deputy section chief?"
Old Sun thought for a mont. "Pan Yu’s a decent guy, actually. He has a sterling reputation in the Inspectorate."
Su Chen nodded, indicating he understood. Seeing him so absorbed in the docunts, Fatty Sun couldn’t help but ask out of curiosity:
"Aren’t you trying to advance to Gale Hunter? Why are you asking about Shadow Concealer? That’s just a Tier Two Middle-Level class."
Su Chen explained, "I’m asking for a friend on the squad. She just advanced to ssenger, didn’t she? She’s thinking about aiming in this direction, so if she gets a chance to advance later, it’ll save her so effort."
Fatty Sun’s beady eyes darted. "Zhou Li?"
"Mhm." Su Chen continued to carefully peruse the docunts in his hands.
"Lucky you," Fatty Sun said, unable to hide his envy. Seeing how absorbed Su Chen was, he had been about to warn him not to get too emotionally invested.
’The gap between Zhou Li and him is just too wide. A fleeting romance is one thing, but anything more...’
But when he rembered Jiang He coming to look for him that one night, he swallowed his words. ’With Su Chen’s experience, he probably doesn’t need
to remind him.’
Feeling a pang of jealousy, he said his goodbyes. Before he left, he reminded Su Chen to burn the papers after he was done with them.
A short while later, flas were curling upwards as Su Chen fed the docunts into them, his face flickering in the firelight. ’Shadow Concealer... I need to prepare thoroughly. It’s a sha he’s an insider, which will make poisoning him very difficult.’
He glanced at the artificial lights outside the window, which had already dimd. On his panel—
Sky Splitter Warrior: 93%
Secret Artifact Master: 74%
Snake Shadow Body Refining Technique—Skilled: 95%
Dawn ditation Technique—Mastery: 10%
’Thanks to my Red Gold Talent for spiritual aptitude, my ditation Technique proficiency always increases faster.’
....
"There’s really no obvious anomaly."
On the top floor, Zhang Hongbo flipped through the investigation files Yuan Chenyang had left behind. He had assud such a large-scale investigation would have turned up so clues.
But after a careful review, he found nothing.
"How could this be? It was a Deceitful Artifact, after all." Zhang Hongbo found himself wondering the sa thing as Yuan Chenyang.
....
He had just finished burning the docunts when, as if on cue, Pan Yu knocked on his door again.
The deputy section chief forced a smile. This ti, he skipped the pleasantries and got straight to the point. "My friend, when do you plan on going out for your patrol?"
"Patrol?" Su Chen gave him an odd look. "Didn’t I already tell Captain Zhao? Just mark
down as absent."
’Yuan Chenyang put
in the Inspectorate for convenience’s sake. Old Sun, wanting to look good to his superiors, took care of all my arrangents.’
’But really, perfect attendance or not, it makes no difference to .’
"This way, we’re doing things by the book, and you won’t be put in a difficult position," Su Chen explained.
Pan Yu’s expression shifted. He was rendered speechless for a mont before forcing out, "Right. As long as you don’t mind, it’s fine."
"What’s there to mind? I’m going to leave the Inspectorate sooner or later anyway," Su Chen said nonchalantly. "I need to get back to my training, so I won’t keep you."
SLAM!
The door slamd shut, leaving Pan Yu’s face frozen, a muscle in his jaw twitching!
’Damn it! How dare he play !’
...
A short while later, Su Chen quietly opened his door and went to a small eting room on the first floor. Hu Xiang was already waiting for him there.
"What’s the situation?" Su Chen asked in a low voice. "What has Pan Yu been up to?"
"Not much," Hu Xiang said with a frown. "He’s on a simple routine, just work and ho every day."
"I can only tail him from a distance, I can’t do a deep investigation. If you really think sothing’s wrong with him, you can report it for an internal review."
"No..." Su Chen shook his head instinctively. ’I can’t. This involves the Space Crystal, not to ntion the drained Deceitful Artifact.’
’If those two things were exposed, not even Yuan Chenyang could protect .’
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