"His name was changed to Zheng Tong!" the subordinate continued.
"Who is Zheng Tong?"
"He's the grandson of Zheng Henian, Vice City Lord of Jinzhou City."
At that, Xie An's expression darkened.
"These Alliance Government officials are utterly corrupt."
The Interstellar Alliance was made up of hundreds of planets inhabited by humans.
Within the Alliance, there were two major branches: the Alliance Government and the Alliance Army.
Government officials were responsible for managing the cities on each planet.
The military, meanwhile, was tasked with expanding the frontier, constantly conquering new planets and securing more resources for humanity.
However, corruption was a chronic illness that could never be completely eradicated from human society.
It was all too common for Alliance Government officials to bully ordinary citizens.
Lu Feng was just a kid from an ordinary family in Jinzhou City. Naturally, he couldn't stand up to someone like the city's Vice City Lord.
No wonder he didn't want to join the military.
Perhaps the experience of having his Martial University admission taken away had already made the boy lose faith in the government and the Alliance military.
"Assign people to protect Lu Feng in secret. We can't let anything happen to a talent like him," Xie An ordered.
The ability to tame Exotic Beasts from birth was extraordinarily rare. His future value to the military was immeasurable.
However, it was precisely because of Xie An's arrangement that Lu Feng escaped disaster that night.
That evening, after work, Lu Feng took a taxi to People's Hospital.
His younger sister, Lu Mingxue, was in the hospital awaiting surgery in a few days. Their mother, Li Qinglan, had also temporarily quit her job to stay by her side around the clock.
Lu Feng spent several hours with his sister at the hospital and didn't head home until late at night.
He had just reached the entrance to his residential complex when a cloaked figure suddenly blocked his way.
"Come with me!"
Before the other man had even finished speaking, he grabbed Lu Feng by the shoulder and dragged him into a black sedan without giving him a chance to resist.
The man was far stronger than Lu Feng, leaving him completely helpless.
The soldier hidden nearby to protect Lu Feng immediately contacted Xie An.
"Officer, we've got a problem! Lu Feng's been abducted and taken away in a car!"
"What?" Xie An sprang to his feet at the other end of the Communicator. "Why didn't you stop them?"
"The other man was incredibly fast. He's at least Peak of Third Realm. I didn't have time to react."
The soldier was only Early Third Realm. He was no match for the cloaked figure.
"What's the license plate?"
"366953."
After receiving the license plate number, the military quickly identified the car's owner and tracked the vehicle's route using the city's traffic cameras.
The black sedan eventually stopped on an empty street in Jinzhou City's Fifth Ring.
The cloaked man got out and dragged Lu Feng from the car.
"Brat, you sure know how to hide!"
"Principal, why hold such a grudge?"
The man who had abducted Lu Feng was Zhao Chang, the principal of Third High School.
That night at the Beast Fighting Arena, Lu Feng had caused him to lose 1.5 million Star Martial Coins, and the arena had thrown him out.
The more Zhao Chang thought about it after returning home, the angrier he became.
That 1.5 million was his life savings. He couldn't just let it go.
He had used his position to look up Lu Feng's home address in the school's student records, then staked out the boy's residential complex the next day.
But Lu Feng's family had gone to the hospital early that morning and hadn't returned all day, leaving Zhao Chang empty-handed.
It wasn't until tonight that Zhao Chang finally caught Lu Feng heading home alone.
"If you don't pay me back, I'll make you disappear from this world."
Faced with the threat, Lu Feng remained calm.
"Principal, you placed the bet yourself that night. How can you blame me?"
"Hmph! If you hadn't set me up, would I have lost that much money all at once?"
"Then you've only got yourself to blame for being so greedy."
Zhao Chang stepped closer and suddenly grabbed him by the throat. "Kid, I'm not joking! If you don't pay me back tonight, I guarantee you won't see the sun tomorrow."
His grip was incredibly strong. Lu Feng struggled to breathe, his face turning red.
He had never imagined that Zhao Chang, a Martial High School principal and public official, would be ruthless enough to kill someone.
If he didn't pay the man back, the old bastard might really kill him.
But Lu Feng had already given his winnings to his parents. He'd kept only a little over a hundred thousand for his next trip to the Beast Fighting Arena.
Zhao Chang tightened his grip, his expression growing more vicious. "You're just as irritating as your homeroom teacher! You never know how to bend. How are you supposed to get by in this world?"
At the words "homeroom teacher," Lu Feng suddenly thought of He Qing, the man who had been furious when someone else took his admission spot.
"Teacher He... What happened to him?"
"That guy actually went to the Education Bureau to report me because of you! If the Zheng Family hadn't stepped in, I would've lost my position as principal. I've already fired him from Third High School."
Zhao Chang's eyes were cold. "You're about to die, and you still have time to worry about someone else?"
"You... bunch of scum. You'll get what's coming to you sooner or later..."
Before he was reborn, He Qing had once lost his life trying to protect him.
After returning to the past, Lu Feng had chosen to give up his admission spot to protect his family and friends.
But he hadn't known that his homeroom teacher had never given up on him.
For his sake, He Qing had even lost his job.
A fire seemed to burn in Lu Feng's chest. Anger and guilt twisted together, threatening to consume him.
"I'll ask you one last time. Are you paying me back or not?"
Zhao Chang cared about nothing but his own interests. He clamped down on Lu Feng's throat, his gaze so vicious it seemed to spit fire.
Just then, a military off-road vehicle sped up and pulled to a stop beside the black sedan.
Three soldiers climbed out.
As soon as Zhao Chang saw the military personnel, he let go.
In this world, Alliance soldiers represented the highest authority. No one dared act out in front of them.
"I'm Gao Zhan, captain of Jinzhou Military's Chasing Wind Squad. You're Zhao Chang, right? You're coming with us."
The leader of the three stepped forward and fixed Zhao Chang with a sharp look.
"O-Officer... May I ask what I've done?"
"As principal of Third High School, you not only altered a student's college entrance exam admission spot without authorization, but also abducted a high school graduate late at night. Those two charges alone are enough to earn you eight or ten years in prison."
Before they even arrived, the military had already used the license plate number to uncover Zhao Chang's entire history.
"Ridiculous! Do you have any evidence? I'm the principal of Third High School, and I have close ties to the Zheng Family. I'm not going anywhere with you!"
"That's not up to you!"
Before Gao Zhan had even finished speaking, the two soldiers behind him moved in to restrain Zhao Chang.
Panic-stricken, Zhao Chang stumbled backward and turned to run.
But in the next instant, Gao Zhan blurred forward and appeared behind him. With a single move, he subdued him.
Clearly, Captain Gao of the Chasing Wind Squad was at least a Fourth Realm expert.
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