Chapter 349: I Invite You to a Battle
January 20.
Li Fei left Lanling City by train with twenty-seven people.
Among these twenty-seven were Liang Chen and five other "clerks," Lü Wenxing, and ten people he had recruited from the Cessation of Hostilities Pavilion. Three of them were Dao Foundation Stage seat officials, while seven were Registered Martial Masters.
The remaining ten had been assigned to Li Fei by the Supervisory Pavilion:
one Dao Foundation Stage seat official, one Spirit Transformation Stage mage, two imperial officials at the Qi Transformation Stage, and six second-grade subordinate officials, including ordinary people with no cultivation whatsoever.
These ten people were not responsible for combat or protection. Their job was to investigate cases.
Li Fei was nominally going to Gan Province to investigate a case this time, so he naturally had to bring professionals along.
Having Blue Patrol Special Envoy Li Fei charge in with a saber and hack people apart was well within his capabilities. But when it came to investigating cases, he was completely out of his depth.
That was why the Supervisory Pavilion had equipped him with a ten-person team to assist with the investigation.
Three days later.
"Lord Li, these are all the records of Wei Hongwen's rise from Cui City, step by step. They include everyone who ever crossed paths with him. I selected several people worth investigating further. Please look them over."
Inside a private compartment, an old man dressed in a dark-gray robe, with a few strands of white in his hair, handed the file in his hands to Li Fei.
The old man was named He Jian, the Director of the Arrest Division under the Supervisory Pavilion, and a level-fifteen seat official.
His martial talent was average. At sixty-seven years old, he had only incorporated two