The Clash

At the ambush perimeter around the Action Bureau, Mr. Qingming checked the time again.

Another half hour had passed since midnight.

There was still no sign of activity outside, and the scouts they had sent out had brought back nothing useful. It was as though Luo Teng and that kid Jiang Yue had vanished from the face of the earth and would never return to the Action Bureau.

Mr. Ye couldn't help saying, "My lord, perhaps we should make other arrangements."

Although Mr. Ye had helped devise the ambush plan, the situation now was making him doubt it.

What if Luo Teng didn't come back? Were they supposed to wait here all night?

Once daylight came, the ambush would be completely pointless.

Just then, a figure hurried out of Action Bureau headquarters and approached their ambush perimeter.

"It's Xu Wenjie." Mr. Qingming's Zhuangzi was evidently a visual evolver. Even through the thick darkness, he recognized the figure from several hundred meters away.

"Let him through." Xu Wenjie was Deputy Director Wu's trusted subordinate. He wouldn't leave his post for no reason at a time like this. If he had come out, there had to be an important reason. Deputy Director Wu ordered them not to stop him.

Xu Wenjie looked deeply worried, and his expression seemed off.

"Wenjie, didn't I tell you to stay inside and make sure the personnel holding down the fort at headquarters didn't make a move? What are you doing out here?" Mr. Qingming—in other words, Deputy Director Wu—asked in a low voice.

"Director Wu, something's not right. I just used a patrol as an excuse to pass by Luo Teng's office. There was no one inside, so I went in to check and made an important discovery!"

"What discovery?"

"I can't be sure if it's