At six in the morning, Lang Jin suddenly woke with a start.
The television in the living room was still playing the news. Colored light fell across his face, leaving him slightly dizzy.
This was normally when he got up, but the night before, he had first attended an emergency meeting, then driven Director Lu Yang, the Special Envoy from the Great District High-Energy Center, and his group to the airport. By the time he returned home, it was already past midnight. Throughout it all, he had kept watch on developments in East 824 District and received notices from the Great District work group from time to time. He was utterly exhausted and had unknowingly fallen asleep on the living room sofa, only waking when the watch on his wrist vibrated.
It was not an alarm he had set himself, but a message from someone he had marked for special attention.
The moment Lang Jin saw the sender, he was fully awake.
The sender was none other than Tang Li, the big boss and director of the District High-Energy Center.
This man had already skipped work and abandoned his post for half a month. It had even been longer than the time he had spent on duty since taking office. Among the previous directors of the District High-Energy Center, many had sought an easy, prestigious position, but none had been this absurd from the very beginning.
The District High-Energy Center staff had quite a few complaints about it, and rumor had it that several leaders at the Great District Center had also expressed dissatisfaction.
Lang Jin said nothing on the surface, but inwardly, he felt that it was quite good that man did not show up.
Whenever he saw Tang Li, he could not help recalling Pawa, the fugitive who