"Maybe," Zhong Ling said flatly. "I need to go back and make a statement."
"Uh... right." Sun Hang scratched his head. "Can I not do it?"
Sun Hang himself had no intention of making a statement... Even though he could completely be considered to have soloed that out-of-control hunter, as long as he did not want to make a statement, probably no one in all of Tianfu City would dare force him to do so.
The sentry posts and patrol convoys all had high-definition recorders anyway. Video footage was far more efficient than that kind of formalism that started by asking for your name and gender—given the current situation in Shu Province, most people who liked rigidly following rules, or exploiting rigid rules for profit, had already been pushed into the background. Everything was basically efficiency first now.
Quite a few of the officials rescued during the Temporal Anomaly incident had resigned from their positions on the Tianfu City Management Committee and left Shu Province with their families under various pretexts... As for the current Tianfu City Management Committee, nearly two-thirds of its members were fresh blood.
Among that fresh blood were young people promoted from below, as well as experienced, practical officials parachuted in from elsewhere—Yang Lian had mentioned this to Sun Hang more than once. In her words, "Work really is much more comfortable now than it used to be."
"No." Zhong Ling shook her head. "But there should still be some boxed lunches left in the fridge. You can heat one up in the microwave."
"Boxed lunches?"
"I made them earlier. They were meant for Yang Qi and the others," Zhong Ling said.
"Fine... Do you need me to take you back?"
"I can leave with the convoy." Zhong Ling glanced at him. "Are you coming?"
"No.