Chapter 42 Crisis lurks everywhere
"Welcome to Qinggang City Evening News."
"This afternoon, another demonstration broke out outside the gate of the Knights Foundation base in our city. Most of the participants were students. They raised flags to accuse the foundation of its recent actions against civil knights. They accused the foundation of violating the law without any evidence. , arrested an ordinary student who had just turned eighteen——"
In a gorgeously decorated office at the Knight Foundation, the sound of TV news rang out.
With a bang, the door was pushed open from the outside. Li Xunde walked in, slapped his hands on the table, and asked loudly: "President, I don't understand why we let him go? I and my team members have been investigating this kid for a long time. Yes, he definitely has a big problem!"
Yuan Zhenghua turned down the sound of the TV, looked at the subordinates in front of him, and said, "You went to his house to search and came back empty-handed, and now you come here and ask me why I let him go? Haha, what do you think?"
As he said that, he stood up a little irritably, grabbed Li Xunde's shoulder, pointed to the picture on the TV, which showed a group of students and young people demonstrating: "The people are already very dissatisfied with our investigation. Now that you are bringing people back without evidence, do you think the pressure from public opinion is not strong enough?"
Li Xunde was stunned. This sentence doesn't sound right.
"President——"
"Needless to say." Yuan Zhenghua straightened his wrinkled sleeves, then threw a letter out of the drawer and said slowly: "I wrote a letter of recommendation for you. Recently, the police station needs some people who are willing to work hard. , you can go there for a while for now.”
Li Xunde reacted. The president wanted to put all the responsibility for the arrest on him.
He was just following orders. Of course, part of the reason was to keep his clothes. Who made Dai Ming the competent person stationed in their area? This guy's drive was lost. He must bear a heavy responsibility, otherwise he wouldn't be in such a hurry. to speed up the progress of the investigation.
Moreover, Chairman Yuan’s initial order was to arrest people directly, but now he is uncharacteristically asking him to take the blame alone!
"President, you... you can't do this." Li Xunde is already in his thirties. According to this position, he can retire and get a pension when he reaches forty in a few years, but now he has to be demoted to the police. Signed, "President, please keep me here, I promise to help you catch that folk knight."
"It's not that I don't want to keep you, but it's just that there's such a big fuss now, and the people above are watching."
Yuan Zhenghua folded the letter of recommendation diagonally, stuffed it into his breast pocket, straightened his collar, patted his shoulder, and said in a serious tone: "You go to the police station and wait for a while, wait for this gust of wind to pass. Now, I'll find a way to bring you back."
Li Xunde looked down at the letter in his breast pocket, tightened his fists a little, then nodded silently, turned around and walked out of the door.
After a while.
Yuan Zhenghua picked up the landline phone on the table and dialed the number: "Help me prepare the car, I want to go out."
After hanging up the phone, he picked up the coat on the back of the chair and hurried out the door.
As the door slowly closed, the voice-activated lights in the corridor went out, and the news on the office TV continued to play.
"From some live videos of today's incident released by the Foundation, it appears that although the civilian knight solved the insect infestation, he clashed with the official knights for some unknown reason, injured two more official knights and then fled in a panic——"
In front of the TV, a man in a suit, with a pale face, threw the red wine glass in his hand to the ground.
"boss......"
Behind him, the attendant was too frightened to speak loudly.
"What a bunch of losers!"
The man in the suit turned to look at the attendant and asked, "Where is this guy Starscream now?"
"He..." the attendant hesitated: "He seems to have been seriously injured and is hiding temporarily."
"Trash!" The man in the suit glanced at the news screen: "These foundation knights are also trash! They are all fucking trash! Even a private knight can't deal with them."
"Boss, we underestimated the enemy too much this time." The attendant wiped away the cold sweat and handed over a towel and said, "Otherwise, we wouldn't have let this guy escape."
The man in the suit took the towel, wiped the red wine off his hands, and said, "How is the situation in the laboratory?"
"A perfect match. That guy was originally gifted. Now he has undergone biochemical transformation, and his matching degree with ZO has reached an astonishing 70%. Although our ZO implantation technology has not reached 100%, I think it should not be either. Lose to the city-level knight."
"City level? The official knights who were hammered today are also city level, and there are two of them!"
The boss said: "It is impossible for Dai Ming to deal with that folk knight. Isn't the foundation investigating a boy named Gao?"
"Yes, but the informant told us that this kid has been released. It is likely that the foundation's previous inference was in the wrong direction." the attendant said.
"I don't care if it's wrong or not, but his fitness test is true, which means this guy is likely to become our enemy in the future."
The boss said: "Let Dai Ming prepare in the past few days to deal with him. I will not allow my plan to have another unstable factor in the future."
"clear."
Dai Cong bowed his body, but did not leave directly.
The man in the suit rolled his eyes and said, "Is there anything else?"
"The guy from the foundation said he wanted to meet you..."
"Tell him to get lost! Is he worried about his fate when he comes to see me at this time? Idiot!"
"yes."
The hall was quiet again, and the evening news was still playing on the television.
"The incident related to the Civil Knights has attracted widespread attention from the international media in recent days, and many countries have expressed their willingness to lend a helping hand to Qinggang City——"
In the living room of Meng's house, classmate Meng was sitting on the sofa, his eyes wandering, his mind completely not on the news, looking worried.
Then, she stood up and said to her parents beside her: "Mom and Dad, I'm going back to the room to go to bed first."
"Why don't you go next door to see Xiaochen?"
Meng Fangming raised his head and said: "He has been staying at home since he came back. I knocked on the door but he didn't open it. I don't know if this incident has affected him too much."
"Yes, how could the foundation arrest people so casually? Xiaochen is just that old, and he is still a high-spirited child. This time he was taken away without committing any crime. It makes no one feel comfortable."
On the side, Aunt Meng, who was wearing a facial mask, echoed.
"It's up to you to check it out. I'm going back to my room first."
With that said, Mengxiangjun entered the room without looking back.
"This girl is really getting more and more ignorant." Meng Fangming said as he stood up and walked to the kitchen, "I'd better go there again. I don't know if Xiaochen has eaten yet. I just happened to bring the chicken soup you left for him. "
inside the room.
Classmate Meng sat on a chair and looked ahead with complicated eyes.
On the table in front of her, there was a thing with a red shell that looked like a rhinoceros, with a few black cracks on the shell.
Meng stared at it as if thinking.
After a moment, she sighed.
Dong dong dong——
Gao Chen came to the door and saw Uncle Meng outside the door through the peephole.
He opened the door and asked, "Uncle Meng, is something wrong?"
"I just came over to see how you were doing." With that, Uncle Meng handed over a thermos pot, "This is the chicken soup made by your Aunt Meng. I was worried that you hadn't eaten, so I brought it to you."
"Thank you." Gao Chen took it and opened the lid. The aroma filled his nostrils, and he said, "Uncle Meng, I'm fine. This time I can see the world. This is the first time in my life that I have seen such a big scene."
"I feel relieved when I see you like this." Uncle Meng said, "But Uncle Meng has to tell you that you may not have the chance to join the ranks of the fittest in the future. You should also know that this is how the Foundation is... ..."
"I understand." Gao Chen joked heartlessly: "It's not like people can't live unless they become fittest. Even if a tree moves to another place, it can still grow into a towering tree."
"Uncle Hahaha, I just like your temperament." Meng Fangming saw the young man say this, and he was basically relieved, "Then you rest first, and come back home for dinner tomorrow morning."
Bang, the door closed again.
Gao Chen held the thermos bottle, walked to the dining table, put it down, sat down and took a few sips with a spoon.
Suddenly, it stopped again.
His mind inadvertently recalled what Luo Ning had asked him.
'If you insist on fighting alone, remember to wear a mask. '
Looking at the chicken soup in the bowl, Gao Chen seemed to have a new answer.
The mask is not for himself, but to protect those around him.
He is not Kadoya, and his strength is far inferior to Kadoya.
Before reaching the strength to conquer everyone, a mask may be the best protection.
Now, although he has been cleared of suspicion, he has been completely exposed to everyone's vision in another way.
If, as the inspection team inferred, foundations across the country and even the world might be infiltrated by protozoa, then would it really be safe if he was cleared of suspicion?
How could the protozoa allow a boy with a criminal record and a fitness test beyond the normal level to successfully grow into their enemy?
Therefore, he is still in danger now, and it is more dangerous than before!
Maybe, the person knocking on the door to check the water meter one day is a protozoa, and the old lady helping him across the street is also a protozoa, and they may become his threat and his enemy.
If you really want to get rid of the current predicament, you must strengthen and continuously strengthen your own strength.
[Competent person]: 007/200
[Available attributes]: 30
This is the experience gained after today's battle. One zerg, two Kamen Riders, each got one level, and they are still 43 levels away from the passion form.
Gao Chen drank chicken soup as if he had made some kind of decision.
Since the inspection team asked him to clean up the entire Qinggang City Knight Foundation, it just gave him a reasonable and legitimate reason——
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(3000 for this chapter, there will be another update later)
(Volume 1: Prologue, there are still a few chapters to be written)
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