Book 3, Chapter 94: Chaos
Sun Rao frowned at the ssage.
It said that the son and daughter of a senior executive from so company from another Central City had left their hotel and were wandering around Glowing Dew District. They were going to various places that were deed unsafe, so the departnt wanted them to keep an eye on them so that nothing would happen.
Sun Rao didn’t want to do this, since they had more serious business on their plates. However, the departnt had given them an order, so they had no choice but to obey.
The armored patrol car turned around and headed to the location shown on their Realm Pass.
Chen Chuan checked and found that the siblings were normal people. “They’re not martial artists. Shouldn’t this be the City Patrol’s job?”
“You’re right that it shouldn’t be our job, but if they cause trouble, the City Patrol won’t be able to clean up the ss. In the end, we’ll be the ones who’ll have to wipe their asses. With that being the case, it’s better to prevent them from causing the ss in the first place,” Sun Rao said in resignation.
“If they’re the children of a senior executive, they should have security guards following them. Do we really need to watch over them?” Chen Chuan asked.
“They do have security guards, so they’ll be fine. Problems arise when they’re the ones causing trouble. We had one such case a month ago.
“The guy was the uncle of a high-ranking governnt official. He thought that he didn’t have to worry about getting into trouble since his family would protect him. So, he took a stroll at night going wherever he wanted and ran into an ard group throwing bodies away. Out of curiosity, he insisted on taking a look. He got killed and thrown into the sea for his efforts.
“The one who killed him was a martial artist from a resistance group with a bounty on his head, so the central governnt and the public have been demanding answers from the departnt. They want us to take accountability. Since the tournant is about to start, the departnt doesn’t want anything to happen during this ti.”
“How do you intend to deal with this problem?” Chen Chuan asked.
“We can only follow them and stop them from doing anything out of line,” Sun Rao said.
They drove to the location shown on the Realm Pass. Soon, they saw a dark-green convertible in front of them. It was driving around wherever it pleased.
There was a security guard wearing sunglasses sitting in the back seat, while a pair of teenagers around fourteen years of age sat in the front. The teenagers’ faces were covered in thick makeup, and their dyed, platinum hair danced wildly in the air.
The girl had been bobbing her head to electrifying music when she suddenly received a notification and looked behind her. “Soone’s following us. I think they’re from the Resolution Departnt.”
“Perfect timing. Watch
shake them off.” The boy beca even more excited. He floored the gas pedal, and the engine roared as the car sped up down the road.
Sun Rao watched it coldly. He didn’t ask the driver to speed up. If they followed them, the two brats would just get even more excited. In any case, he had a better way to deal with them.
He contacted the departnt and asked whether there were any resonators who could change the route of the boy’s Realm Pass, only to be told that the resonators in the departnt were all busy with sothing else and couldn’t do sothing this trivial. Then, they told him to deal with the problem on his own.
Since he couldn’t get anyone to help from the departnt, he contacted a resonator he was familiar with and said to Chen Chuan, “Resonators have always been rare, and the good, trustworthy ones are even rarer. I have a resonator I have been working with long-term, and he even has a Class One Domain License. I can recomnd him. If you encounter any problems in the future, you can go to him.”
“Thank you, Senior Sun,” Chen Chuan said with a smile.
Sun Rao wasn’t doing this purely to take care of him. Resonators who often worked together with the Resolution Departnt could get authority to do certain things much easier, so they were really just helping each other.
Soon, the teenagers shook them off. As if they had done sothing amazing, they cheered and gave each other high-fives, but after driving down the road according to the route the Realm Pass showed them, they noticed the Resolution Departnt’s car next to them.
Imdiately, they realized that sothing was wrong, and they felt pissed. The boy turned around and said, “Lao Qian, stop them.”
The security guard gave them a look but did nothing. Going along with their antics was as far as he would go. He was absolutely not going to attack the Resolution Departnt’s car. He still wanted to live, thank you.
“How boring.”
When they saw that the security guard was not moving, while the Resolution Departnt’s car kept following them as the Realm Pass kept bringing them in circles, they knew that they couldn’t have any fun. The siblings beca even more pissed. The girl gave the driver the middle finger before turning around toward the hotel.
Sun Rao seed to have been expecting that, and he huffed. “Don’t feel annoyed by this, Chen Chuan. If you’re going to keep working in the Resolution Departnt, you’ll run into these things too. Just think about ways to get promoted. Then, you won’t have to go through all this trouble.”
“Do you intend to stay with the Resolution Departnt after you graduate?” Chen Chuan asked.
“Of course,” Sun Rao answered without hesitation. “I’m already familiar with how things operate here, along with the people. If I go to other departnts or companies, I’ll have to communicate and familiarise myself with the people and environnt there. This costs ti and money. While the salary in the Resolution Departnt isn’t high, sotis, you can earn money from side jobs. You also get to enforce the law and don’t have to care about what the companies think.
“You’ve only been here for half a year, haven’t you? You haven’t co into contact with many things. Once you do, you’ll understand that the Resolution Departnt is a great place, which average people don’t even get the chance to join.
“An Cheng wants to join a company so he can earn more money. He wishes to beco a senior executive, like so of our upperclassn, and live a dignified life, but I think he’s too idealistic. Unless you’re cunning, you won’t be able to survive in those companies. Sooner or later, you’ll end up eaten and spat out.”
The teenagers took a stroll around before returning to their hotel. Once the convertible headed to the underground parking lot, the armored patrol car stopped at the entrance.
“We’ll wait here for a bit. Once they’re upstairs, we’ll head to the Swordfish Gang’s base,” Sun Rao declared.
Right after he finished, their Realm Passes started beeping. This ti, it was the City Patrol requesting help with a martial artist suspected to be suffering from functional dysregulation syndro.
Sun Rao’s expression turned stern. Martial artists suffering from functional dysregulation syndro were caught in their own hallucinations. No one could tell what they were going to do, so they had to be taken out imdiately.
Hence, they had no ti to keep watch over the hotel. Once they submitted a report about sending the siblings back to the hotel, they headed to the place where the martial artist was.
***
The siblings had parked their car and were ready to return to their suite when they saw that the Resolution Departnt’s car was gone. The girl gasped and said, “They’re gone!”
“So?” the boy snapped. “If we leave, they’re going to return and keep an eye on us again.”
“Heh. Let them, then. I know a place we should visit. If they want to co, let them. We might even be able to see sothing fun.”
The girl whispered into her brother’s ear, and his eyes lit up. “What are we waiting for? Let’s go!”
They ran back into their convertible and drove out. Soon, they sped down the road.
***
According to the location on the Realm Pass, the armored patrol car arrived at a general warehouse area at Glowing Dew District’s port. The City Patrol had already secured the periter. When they saw the Resolution Departnt’s car, the leader imdiately waved at them, and the City Patrol mbers removed the barrier ropes and barricades with familiar ease to let the car in.
Chen Chuan had received information about the martial artist while they were on their way. He was a security guard captain in charge of the port’s safety, but then turned around and killed the manager of the warehouse and even injured a few of his teammates with a weapon. Right now, he was hiding in one of the warehouses.
“As long as he’s here, all is still well,” Sun Rao comnted.
Then, he said to Chen Chuan, “I’m sure you’ve heard of functional dysregulation syndro. Usually, they have an episode whenever sothing upsets them. Once the symptoms appear, they need dicine from big pharmaceutical companies, or they have practically no chance to recover. Even if they do, the chances of them having another episode in the future beco much higher.
“During an episode, their compatibility with the implants increases. Since their judgnt becos compromised, they are also no longer scared of death. Because of this, such people have to be taken out imdiately.”
When the car stopped, Sun Rao opened the door. “I’ll go in to take him out. Wait here and see whether the departnt gives us any other orders.”
Chen Chuan nodded and watched him leave while drawing his gun out from its holster.
After ten minutes, Chen Chuan heard a few clear gunshots from the warehouse area. So more ti passed before the blinking, red notification on his Realm Pass disappeared. The City Patrol guards ran inside. Soon after, Sun Rao walked out unhard.
Once he returned to the car, he shut the door and said, “I figured out what happened. Yesterday, gang mbers stole so goods from the warehouses. The manager had put those goods there, and so of them were contraband obtained through illegal channels. They got mixed with non-contraband goods, of course. The manager then had a discussion with the gang leader, and they agreed to have the gang take the contraband goods by ‘stealing’ them. After they were sold, the two would split the profit equally between them. The manager could also get compensation from the security and insurance company.
“But the security guard captain was a responsible man. When the gang mbers ca to steal the goods, he should have clocked off his shift, but he was worried and patrolled the area one more ti. It’s at that mont that he noticed so of the security guards working with the gang mbers to move the goods.
“The security guard captain killed the gang mbers and got into a fight with the security guards. In the end, he managed to protect the goods, but ironically, before the sun rose, the security company fired him on the grounds of him fighting with his colleagues.”
Sun Rao shook his head. “So people within the security company were clearly in cahoots with the warehouse manager. That’s why the security guard captain’s actions offended them. Worse still, after he went back ho, he learned that one of the gang mbers he killed... was his son.”
Chen Chuan took a look at the security guard captain’s information and noticed sothing. “He graduated from Martial Valor University?”
“Not the main campus. He studied in one of the branch campuses and worked hard in Central City for twenty years. He did not have a single criminal record and had even beco a citizen with the help of a senior at work. Now, it’s all gone.” Sun Rao huffed and looked at the people outside. “Twenty years of hard work...”
A long ti passed before he continued. “We’ve been delayed here long enough. We have to go back to watching Zhe Rong. Let’s—”
They received another ssage. Sun Rao’s expression changed as he cursed and said to the driver, “Lao Wan, go to Elephant Tavern! Hurry!”
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