"Who are you!"
"Put down the saber!"
"Don't you dare! If you hurt Director Guo, I guarantee you're dead!"
After a moment of stunned silence, the people from the Provincial Capital's research institute shouted, summoning weapons and pointing them at Lin Shuguang.
The people from the Special Management Bureau were stunned too.
In particular, the veterans who had spent years in the bureau were shaken by the domineering way Lin Shuguang had seized control with a single stroke.
In nearly ten years, their Huai City Special Management Bureau had never dared draw a saber and hold it to those people's throats as he had today.
"Director Lin, don't act rashly!" The directors of the other departments hurried to dissuade him, seemingly terrified that a moment's carelessness would lead Lin Shuguang to actually kill someone sent by their superiors. That would be difficult to answer for.
The director of the Third Department, however, stood behind the crowd without speaking. After studying Lin Shuguang for a while, he lowered his head and said to Chu Xiongtian, "I don't know Director Lin very well. Do you think he can pull this off?"
Chu Xiongtian grinned. "It's in the bag."
At the center of the crowd, Guo Nianjia dared not move. From the icy chill radiating from the saber against his neck, he was certain the man holding it meant to kill.
"How should I address you?" Guo Nianjia forced himself to remain calm.
Lin Shuguang regarded him coldly. "Tell me why you came here."
Guo Nianjia froze, then answered instinctively, "To take custody of the Winged Dragon's corpse and bring it back to the Provincial Capital, along with all the research ma-Bang!"
Before he could finish, he screamed and dropped to his knees before Lin Shuguang.
His desire to survive made him