This was the right path to take

Weiguang District, lakeside Greenland Park.

Chen Chuan and Lao Feng sat down on a bench by the lake. Beneath the willows in the distance, several people were fishing at their leisure. Others were boating on the lake, while plenty of children chased one another and played nearby.

Even seated, Lao Feng did not lean against the backrest. His upper body remained perfectly straight. Facing the cool breeze blowing across the lake, he said, "Ah, three years have gone by in a flash, haven't they? Even elsewhere, I often heard about you, Cadet Chen. What happened in Jibei Province really was unexpected. I never imagined you would actually pull it off. When you decided to push ahead, I was truly worried for you.

"You have no idea how fiercely the other Central Cities condemned you. If words could drown people, I'm afraid all of Jibei Province would have gone under."

Chen Chuan said, "If words alone could knock us down, we wouldn't be standing here."

Lao Feng smiled and said with feeling, "Cadet Chen, you're just as confident as you were back then." He paused. "Well, besides catching up with you, I came because someone higher up wanted me to pass along a few words."

Hearing this, Chen Chuan placed a hand on his World Token and called to Fu Mu, intending to have Fu Mu block the surrounding domain field. Yet at that moment, he discovered that the surrounding information domain field had already stopped functioning.

He looked at Lao Feng and noticed that the man's bearing seemed to have changed in an instant.

Gazing at the distant lake, Lao Feng said, "Commissioner Cao had actually already picked up some leads concerning the Investigation Group. But with the deaths of those two personnel, every lead came to an end. In