An off-road vehicle was parked outside the school gates, with two young men in camouflage standing in front of it.
The one on the left was bald and looked stern, his bulging muscles radiating a fierce air.
The one on the right was a young man with black hair. He was not particularly handsome, but his almond-shaped eyes made Lin Shuguang take another look. A phrase flashed through his mind... "a face full of romantic promise."
"Nice to meet you. My name is Cao Chao."
"Lin Shuguang."
"Han Yi!"
Cao Chao was the black-haired man with almond-shaped eyes. Compared with the bald man, Cao Chao was more talkative and seemed socially adept.
Lin Shuguang withdrew his gaze without betraying anything.
Before either of them could speak, he opened the car door. "Let's get in first. We can talk on the way."
"Ah, no problem." Cao Chao paused. Even the bald man, Han Yi, gave Lin Shuguang another look before silently starting the vehicle.
Even now, he could not understand why their superiors had insisted they come to Demon Martial to pick someone up.
He was supposedly just a Special Management Bureau member from some other small city... here to pad his résumé?
No displeasure showed on Cao Chao's face. Sitting in the front passenger seat, he turned toward Lin Shuguang and handed him a file, making sure to explain:
"This is a demonic cultivator organization that's been hiding in our city for years. It poses as a Martial Arts Hall and has quite a local reputation. The Hall Master is called Zuo Rongfei. His strength is unknown, but our preliminary estimate is Nine Resonances of Bone Tempering... The person you're looking at now is Zuo Rongfei's son, Zuo Haoping. His cultivation is around Six Resonances of Bone Tempering...
"This operation