Not paying was definitely out of the question, even if the other side were civil servants. In the end, Fang Zheng and Date haggled for quite some time before finally reaching an agreement. Fang Zheng would not enter the government as a civil servant. Instead, he would appear as an outside consultant.
The task ultimately assigned to Fang Zheng was scientific investigation.
Simply put, the government wanted to deal with nonhuman troubles without letting ordinary people find out. What were they supposed to do in that case?
There was only one answer: trust in science!
Simply put, if a Vampire incident occurred somewhere, the government would secretly hire Fang Zheng to handle it. Fang Zheng would go there, deal with the Vampire, then tell the locals that it was not a Vampire at all, but someone having a rabies episode...
Of course, this had its downsides. Since they were in an employer-contractor relationship, if anything major went wrong, the government would not hesitate to throw Fang Zheng out to take the blame. Fang Zheng did not care about that, though. As long as they were willing to pay him, handling the aftermath would be his business.
In the end, Fang Zheng's side would operate under the name of the support division, the Special Investigation Department. The government would also issue them special identification, making it easier for Fang Zheng to investigate different places.
For Fang Zheng, that was enough.
At present, the Special Investigation Department had only Fang Zheng as its lone commander, but he did not care about such trivial matters. Personnel were optional to Fang Zheng. Right now, he had other matters to deal with.
Namely, Sayu's problem.
After returning from Chang'e City, Sayu seemed to have made up her mind. She specifically sought out Fang Zheng and