On Reward Day, the clamor of the Patrol Bureau was comparable only to the time each month when wages were handed out.
It was already close to the time to go on duty when Chu Mu barely arrived at the Patrol Bureau.
Inside the not particularly large Patrol Bureau, the place was already as noisy as could be, bustling with people.
In just over a month, after one bandit-suppression operation, the several hundred patrolmen of the Patrol Bureau had, as if replacing old with new, changed out another whole batch.
Chu Mu himself had only just arrived not long ago and did not know many people to begin with. Now, looking around, it seemed all were unfamiliar faces.
"Squad Leader!"
"Squad Leader!"
After walking into the Patrol Bureau, Chu Mu had still been preparing to do as he usually did, casually find some place to stand around, but the greetings that rang out one after another left him rather caught off guard.
One unfamiliar face after another, each calling him Squad Leader with quite a bit of respect.
At this moment, Chu Mu seemed only now to somewhat realize that he was no longer the nameless ordinary patrolman he had been before.
Mountain Bandit Suppression, several heads taken, one of the very few patrolmen to be promoted—this was already enough to give him a little more fame in Nanshan Town.
Squad Leader...
Sweeping his gaze around, seeing nothing but eager attentiveness, Chu Mu slowly savored the title in his heart, and the feeling within him was actually somewhat hard to put into words.
In his previous life and this one, this was the first time he had ever experienced such a feeling.
This taste seemed... not bad?
It was not that he coveted power, influence, or reputation, only... this kind