The Tough Guy Handling the Case Was Actually Him?!

"Mm?"

Chief Zhang raised an eyebrow, surprise flashing in his eyes.

"Miss Ju Zi came up with the list so quickly?"

Although he was the chief of the Security Bureau.

Matters concerning Peace Officer district assignments were always handled by Miss Ju Zi.

As long as the required conditions and criteria for that area were entered.

Miss Ju Zi would select the most suitable candidate.

It spared them plenty of gossip and did its best to maintain fairness.

However.

Zhang Qifeng quickly reacted and asked in confusion:

"There's only one name?"

"Miss Ju Zi wouldn't make this kind of mistake, would she?"

The secretary was an ordinary-looking middle-aged man.

At that moment, he shook his head with a strange look in his eyes.

"It wasn't Miss Ju Zi."

"He applied for it himself."

Applied?

Wait a second.

Zhang Qifeng froze, then asked in confusion:

"A probationary Peace Officer?"

"Didn't all the probationary Peace Officers in our bureau become full officers half a year ago..."

Suddenly.

Zhang Qifeng's voice cut off as he rubbed his chin.

"His name was Qin Annian, right?"

Only probationary Peace Officers who performed exceptionally during their trial period had the right to choose their districts.

It was preferential treatment the Security Bureau offered geniuses.

Zhang Qifeng clicked his tongue in amazement, and he also learned who was at the root of the hundreds of people in the Security Bureau working overtime.

"So he was the lead investigator on this case?"

"That kid actually jumped into this quagmire on his own?"

As chief.

Zhang Qifeng led by example and had not used his authority to review or meddle in ongoing cases.

Before this.

He had not known that the Old District Gang Brawl Case was in his hands.

"Everyone else avoided that place like the plague, yet he applied to go there himself?"

After all.

When they set the selection criteria for the Old District Peace Officer district this time, he had received plenty of "suggestions."

As a chief preparing to retire, Zhang Qifeng was willing to do some favors.

He was already old.

His Life Development Power had reached its limit, leaving almost no room for further improvement.

Zhang Qifeng also had to consider his retirement life.

Mayor Qian was currently facing enormous resistance as he prepared to forcibly develop the Old District.

The Security Bureau was a violent agency responsible for maintaining internal order, so they would inevitably have to charge at the forefront.

The Old District had now become a powder keg with its fuse lit.

No one wanted to sit on it.

Coincidentally, Qin Annian was the one who had lit that fuse.

Because of that.

Even now.

The bureau had yet to select a suitable candidate.

"I never expected it."

"This boxing genius actually applied for it himself?"

Even Zhang Qifeng, who had spent more than a century navigating officialdom, could not understand Qin Annian's thinking.

He lightly tapped the desk.

"This kid was used as a blade by others before."

"And now he's getting involved in this matter again."

"His courage is commendable."

"Fine."

Zhang Qifeng said to the secretary:

"If there's any way we can help him, give him a hand."

"Our Taiyu City Security Bureau hasn't produced a local genius like this in a long time."

The secretary was stunned by those words.

Chief Zhang, who was about to retire and had already planned on playing the agreeable old man, suddenly wanted to back Qin Annian?

Some people in the bureau were currently fighting fiercely, relying on their family backgrounds.

Lingyun Pharmaceuticals, that colossal entity, was involved as well.

Ever since the regularization assessment, the Security Bureau's higher-ups had caught a whiff of something, even though they had yet to find evidence of Sun Yingyuan breaking the law.

"Oh, right."

"Did you receive Director Han's wedding candy?"

The secretary's expression turned from strange to even stranger.

"I received it already."

"This..."

After hesitating for a moment, the secretary could not help gossiping:

"Chief."

"Director Han suddenly got married. Who exactly is the groom?"

Zhang Qifeng shrugged and said:

"Don't ask me."

"I don't know either."

"See if Miss Ju Zi is willing to tell you."

The secretary immediately gave a bitter smile and replied:

"Chief."

"You're joking. How could I have that authority?"

Even the Security Bureau's higher-ups had no right to investigate private information that someone had chosen to keep confidential.

Not to mention.

"Director Han has quite a background."

"I'm afraid not even our planet's United Council has that authority."

At that, the secretary could not help sighing.

"Outside, there's Mayor Qian's Old District redevelopment plan. Inside, there's the struggle among these Sky People."

"I almost want to file a report and apply to retire alongside you, Chief."

Zhang Qifeng laughed heartily and patted the secretary on the shoulder.

"Xiao Li."

"With that mindset, how are you supposed to improve your Life Development Power?"

"No matter what goes wrong."

"This old man can still take one hit before retirement."

"The sky isn't going to fall."

Zhang Qifeng's vitality and blood were indeed gradually declining, but his Life Development Power had long since surpassed a thousand.

He was one of Taiyu City's few top experts.

It was only that.

In recent years, he had gradually reined in his sharp edge.

"Go ahead and do it."

After Secretary Li left, Zhang Qifeng walked to the floor-to-ceiling window.

He gazed out at the neon advertisements filling the sky and the dense, dilapidated residential districts farther away.

No one knew what he was thinking at that moment.

Meanwhile.

In another senior Security Bureau official's office, the room was a complete mess, with shattered wedding candies scattered across the floor.

"Han Xi!"

"You bitch!"

The woman gritted her teeth, hatred visible in the depths of her eyes.

The wedding candies on the floor only became more of an eyesore to her!

To fight for the position of deputy director of the Operations Division, she had paid a heavy price and made many deals.

She had originally thought that position was already in the palm of her hand.

But unexpectedly.

In order to compete with her, Han Xi had actually found some random man?

"With your standards, Han Xi, what man in Taiyu City could possibly catch your eye?"

"For a director position in the Operations Division, you're willing to go this far?"

The woman's breathing quickened, her ample chest heaving sharply.

Buzz!

Just then.

A notification sounded from the computer.

"Huh?"

"This temporary worker?"

"He applied for the Old District as his jurisdiction?"

"No."

"Didn't he just pass the regularization assessment?"

"How did that happen so fast?"

"Right!"

"So he was actually the lead investigator on this case?!"

After calming down from her surprise, calculation flashed through her slightly narrow eyes.

"The Old District..."

"The redevelopment project."

"I never expected this boxing genius to be so stupid. After lighting the fuse, he actually volunteered to sit on this powder keg?"

"As expected of a mud-legged nobody with no connections and no one to guide him. So what if he has a little talent? How far can he really go?"

As she paced around the office in circles, a plan suddenly formed in the woman's mind.

"He's offended quite a few people already."

"He wouldn't be bad as a disposable pawn."

"As long as I gain Mayor Qian's support, Miss Ju Zi's evaluation of me will rise accordingly."

She believed the terms she offered would be more than enough to make the Qin brat become her dog.

She found Qin Annian's contact information.

She drafted a short message.

Then.

She calmly waited for Qin Annian's reply.

News that Qin Annian, who had just passed the assessment, had applied for the Old District as his Peace Officer jurisdiction gradually spread through the Security Bureau after being leaked by the higher-ups.

The people working overtime were all busy.

But when they heard the news, they all put down their work at the same time!

"So it was him?!"

"The tough guy handling this case was actually him?"

A stormy sea rose in everyone's hearts!

In just four days.

He had confronted Zhao Daming, passed the regularization assessment, and now cracked this major case!

"Gasp!"

"Is that for real?"

"Isn't that way too unreal?"

"How desperate did he have to be to apply for the Old District as his patrol jurisdiction?"

For a moment.

The crowd erupted in an uproar.

A place they avoided like the plague, and someone had actually volunteered to go there?

And his performance was this outrageous, too!

"What?"

"Did no one warn him?"

As soon as those words were spoken, the noisy office fell silent.

Some people shifted their gaze uneasily.

"There were originally five slots."

"Now that some unlucky bastard has taken one, the chances of being picked are much lower."

Everyone tacitly lowered their heads and continued with their work.

How did that saying go again?

Better a fellow cultivator die than me.