The Dragon King's Temple Flooded

Gu Yuan let out a loud shout.

Sun Miaomiao stopped in her tracks and looked toward the source of the sound.

Her gaze swept over the man in the jacket pinning Zhang Tian, then over Zhang Yining who was sprawled on the ground, and finally landed on Gu Yuan.

Sun Miaomiao tilted her head and blinked.

"Gu Yuan? No wonder I didn't see you go find the Captain at the Destiny Bureau today. What are you doing here?"

As soon as these words were spoken, the air went still for a second.

The Destiny Bureau agent holding Gu Yuan's shoulder glanced at him, and the strength in his hand instantly slackened.

This kid knows a Warlock from the Bureau? Judging by the way she addressed him, their relationship wasn't ordinary.

He silently withdrew his hand and took half a step back.

Seeing this, Gu Yuan immediately flexed his wrists and scurried behind Sun Miaomiao.

The man in the jacket, Zhang Hongtai, looked completely bewildered as he stared at Sun Miaomiao.

"Uh... Warlock Sun, do you know this suspect?"

Sun Miaomiao hugged her bag of potato chips and walked up to Zhang Hongtai.

She extended a finger and beckoned, signaling for Zhang Hongtai to lean in closer.

Zhang Hongtai hesitated for a moment, but still bent down to lean in.

"Uh, I remember you. You're Zhang Hongtai from the Second Team, right?"

Sun Miaomiao lowered her voice and pointed at Gu Yuan, who was hiding behind her.

"He isn't a suspect. He's our Captain's cousin."

The expression on Zhang Hongtai's face froze.

The circle of black market vendors squatting on the ground couldn't hear what they were whispering, but they weren't blind.

"What's going on here? Why did the Destiny Bureau let that kid go?"

"Duh, do I even need to say it? It's obvious he has a massive background! Didn't you see the lead officer's face change? He looked fierce as a demon a moment ago, and now he's pale as a sheet."

"Damn, with a background like that, why is he setting up a stall in the black market? Is he experiencing life?"

Zhang Hongtai's head was buzzing, and a thin layer of cold sweat seeped from his temples.

Shen Tingxue's cousin? Even though that woman had only recently been promoted to Captain, who in the entire Destiny Bureau didn't know her reputation?

She was a ruthless character who even dared to kick their Second Team Captain right in the face.

During last month's staff meeting, just because their Captain had made a few snide, passive-aggressive remarks about her.

As soon as the meeting ended, Shen Tingxue cornered him in the hallway and beat him so badly he spent an entire month in the orthopedics ward!

If that female Tyrannosaurus Rex found out that he had pinned her cousin to the ground in the black market, mistaking him for a peddler of fake medicine... Zhang Hongtai swallowed hard, feeling a chill run down his spine.

He hurriedly raised his hand to wipe the sweat from his temples, his brain racing as he tried to salvage this godforsaken situation.

"But, someone filed a formal report claiming they were selling contraband, and there were even photos of the transaction..." Zhang Hongtai's voice lost a third of its strength as he pointed to the porcelain bottles on the ground.

"That's the merchandise he was selling!"

Zhang Hongtai walked over, bent down to pick up a white porcelain bottle from the ground, and pulled out the stopper.

A rich, medicinal fragrance instantly permeated the air.

He poured out the contents of the bottle.

A dark red pill rolled into his palm.

Sun Miaomiao leaned in and sniffed.

"Defective Blood Qi Pill," Sun Miaomiao gave her assessment directly.

She took the pill from Zhang Hongtai's hand and squeezed it.

"Although the appearance is a bit ugly and the impurities are ridiculously high—eating it will likely give you a stomachache—it is a legitimate pill and isn't on the list of contraband."

Zhang Hongtai stared at the pill, then took out his phone to look at the reported photo again.

Zhang Tian, who had been pressed against the wall for ages, finally caught his breath and shouted.

"Officer! I told you I was selling legitimate goods! That photo was just us looking at these bottles of Blood Qi Pill! Who knows what bastard was hiding in the shadows taking pictures of us and filing malicious reports!"

Gu Yuan quickly jumped out from behind Sun Miaomiao and chimed in with a look of righteous indignation.

"Officer, this is clearly a frame-up! We are the flowers of the motherland, the future pillars of the martial path! How could we possibly do anything illegal or undisciplined!"

Gu Yuan patted his chest, his face neither flushing nor his heart racing.

Zhang Hongtai gripped the pill, his facial muscles twitching slightly.

After all that, they had caught the wrong person.

Not only did they catch the wrong person, but they had also nearly offended a relative of the King of Hell.

The merchants being held captive nearby erupted in an uproar upon hearing this.

"Look, look! The Destiny Bureau arrested the wrong people!"

"If they're wronging a few students, we must be even more innocent!"

"Let me go! I want to go home and eat! I sell authentic beast leg bones, definitely not pig marrow bones!"

"Quiet!" Zhang Hongtai spun around abruptly.

"Whether you're innocent or not, you know that in your own hearts!" Zhang Hongtai pointed at the group of merchants, gritting his teeth.

"Those selling fake chest armor that breaks ribs, those selling fake medicine that makes people spray—take them all back to the Destiny Bureau for interrogation! Not a single one of you is getting away!"

The merchants instantly shut their mouths, each shrinking their necks like quails.

Zhang Hongtai turned his head to look at Gu Yuan and the other two, squeezing out an extremely stiff smile.

He waved his hand.

"Release them."

The enforcement officers immediately let go of the hands pinning Zhang Yining down.

Zhang Hongtai walked forward personally, took out a key, and unlocked Zhang Tian's handcuffs.

Gu Yuan walked over to Sun Miaomiao, pulled a piece of nougat from his pocket, and handed it over.

"Sister Miaomiao, thanks for today; otherwise, we would've had to go inside for tea."

Sun Miaomiao's eyes lit up. She snatched the nougat, tore open the wrapper, and popped it straight into her mouth.

"Mmm, delicious, very milky."

Sun Miaomiao nodded with satisfaction and turned to walk away.

The needle on the compass in her hand began to spin wildly again.

"You're welcome. I still need to head to the east side of the city to track a runaway mutant retriever. I'm off."

Staring at her compass, she wobbled and disappeared into the dim end of the air-raid shelter passage.

"Haha, well... Student Gu."

Zhang Hongtai rubbed his hands together, leaned in toward Gu Yuan, and lowered his voice.

"Today was truly a case of the flood washing away the Dragon King's temple—family failing to recognize family."

He rubbed his chin, his face full of awkwardness.

"Look, this whole thing today, it was just a misunderstanding. About your cousin... could you perhaps not mention it?"

Zhang Hongtai was truly afraid.

Gu Yuan blinked, looking at Zhang Hongtai with a blank expression.

"Huh? Officer, what are you talking about? Did something happen today?" Gu Yuan scratched his head.

"Didn't I just come to the black market for a stroll since it's the holidays, and then happen to run into a Destiny Bureau enforcement operation and watch the excitement?"

Zhang Hongtai was stunned for a moment, then his eyes lit up.

This kid was sharp!

"Right! Exactly!" Zhang Hongtai patted Gu Yuan's shoulder hard.

"Just watching the excitement! Student Gu's awareness—truly a pillar of the martial path!"

He turned to look at Zhang Tian, pulled his phone from his pocket, and opened the transfer interface.

"Stay away from fish-and-dragon-mixed places like the black market in the future!" Zhang Hongtai said while scanning the payment QR code on Zhang Tian's stall.

"I'll take all five bottles of your pills. How much?"

Zhang Tian was stunned, his mouth hanging open for a long time without reacting.

"Fifty thousand per pill, two hundred and fifty thousand for five," Gu Yuan quickly quoted the price from the side.

"Ding! Payment of two hundred and fifty thousand yuan received." Zhang Tian's phone immediately chimed with a crisp notification.

"Yes, yes, the officer is right! We won't come here again!" Zhang Tian looked at the balance on his phone, ecstatic.

Zhang Hongtai put his phone away, took the five porcelain bottles, and waved his hand grandly.

"Team, move out!"