Director of the Investigation Bureau

Half an hour later, Lu Chengchuan came out of the guest room.

The villa's servants were setting dishes on the dining table. Gu Mingwei was about to ask his daughter to knock on the door, but seeing Lu Chengchuan come down on his own, he quickly greeted him, "Mr. Lu, it's just about time for dinner, please have a seat."

There weren't many people at the table, just Gu Mingwei's family of four, and Lu Chengchuan as their guest. During the meal, only Gu Mingwei spoke to him, the others kept their heads down, shoveling rice into their bowls.

After the meal, only Gu Mingwei had a smile on his face.

After finishing dinner, Lu Chengchuan left, and Gu Mingwei had his driver take him back. On the way back, his phone rang again. Picking it up, he saw it was Zhou Yaning calling.

"Hello, Captain Zhou, is there something you need?" Lu Chengchuan felt like he was so busy, just solving one thing, and another one quickly came up.

Gu Mingwei and the people from the Investigation Bureau were taking turns to find him, with good coordination in between.

"Our director would like to meet you, are you free?"

In the days since returning from Little Stone Village, she had been dealing with the strange pattern, and in between, she had also reported Lu Chengchuan's matter to her superiors. The director had known about Lu Chengchuan for a while, but there wasn't much reliable information about the Little Stone Village incident, and no conclusion could be reached for the time being.

With the matter unclear, the director suggested meeting the person, and Zhou Yaning quickly arranged it.

"Why does he want to see me? Can I say I'm not free?"

His dealings with the Investigation Bureau were purely based on mutual benefits. What could he possibly talk about with their director? Lu Chengchuan's first reaction was to refuse, but Zhou Yaning seemed to have guessed that he would say that, and said calmly, "I found a new martial art manual. If you come over, I'll give it to you, how about that?"

"I suddenly have time, where are you?" Hearing about the martial art manual, Lu Chengchuan immediately changed his mind.

If she had mentioned the martial art manual earlier, he wouldn't have refused.

"Master, please take me to the Municipal Armed Forces Department building."

Zhou Yaning sent him a location, and Lu Chengchuan quickly had the driver change course.

The driver was Gu Mingwei's personal driver, and he understood how important this distinguished guest was to his boss. Hearing that he wanted to go to Yuehu Square, the driver started the navigation again without saying a word.

Forty minutes later, the car stopped on the street in front of the Armed Forces Department building. Lu Chengchuan got out of the car, ready to make a call.

"Mr. Lu!"

Just as he was about to make the call, a somewhat familiar voice sounded. Lu Chengchuan looked in the direction of the voice and saw Zhou Yaning's subordinate, Qian Xiaoling, jogging over.

"Mr. Lu, the Captain asked me to wait for you here. Please come with me, the director is waiting for you."

Qian Xiaoling led him into the government building, and the two of them took the elevator to the twelfth floor.

In a single office, Zhou Yaning sat cautiously on a chair. In front of her was a desk, and behind the desk was her direct superior, the director of the Investigation Bureau, Zhang Chengyan.

The middle-aged man's appearance was unremarkable, but he was the head of the Guangnan Province Investigation Bureau, with tremendous power.

"Xiao Ling just sent me a message that he's arrived."

Just now, Qian Xiaoling had sent a message saying that Lu Chengchuan had arrived, and Zhou Yaning quickly reported to her superior.

"He's here? I've wanted to meet him for a while now. If I hadn't been so busy, I wouldn't have put it off until now."

Zhang Chengyan had been hearing Zhou Yaning say that this person was very powerful, very powerful, and he had long wanted to meet him. Today, he finally had the time.

"What's your assessment of him?"

"Very powerful, very mysterious. He's not an Esper, but his martial arts skills are even more powerful than Espers. It would be easy for him to kill our team. His personality is relatively normal, he just likes martial arts."

Zhou Yaning had cooperated with him several times. Putting everything else aside, she had personally witnessed how strong Lu Chengchuan was.

"According to you, a martial artist who has trained to this extent... is indeed very powerful."

Knock, knock, knock...

As the two were talking, a knock sounded on the door. Qian Xiaoling had brought the person to the director's office door.

"Come in." Zhou Yaning glanced at the director and told them to come in quickly.

Qian Xiaoling opened the door and let Lu Chengchuan enter on his own. She, as an ordinary member, was not qualified to listen to this kind of conversation between leaders, not even to eavesdrop at the door.

"You're Lu Chengchuan? Have a seat."

Zhang Chengyan watched the person come in, all the way until he was standing in front of him. To be honest, he couldn't see anything special about him. He just felt that this young man was very strong, very energetic, and his eyes seemed to glow...

Lu Chengchuan wasn't polite, he went up and sat down, and only then did he speak: "You're the director of the Investigation Bureau?"

Zhou Yaning was listening from the side, and hearing what he said, the heart she had been holding finally died.

She didn't know what to say. At least Lu Chengchuan used an honorific, so it couldn't be considered 'rude'.

Zhang Chengyan chuckled. He had been in a high position for many years, and rarely did anyone speak so directly. Even in a special department like the Investigation Bureau, some things still needed to be learned, after all, they were also an official organization.

But Lu Chengchuan didn't care about that. As far as he was concerned, although the person in front of him was powerful and influential, that wasn't enough for him to go up and flatter him. That was impossible.

"I'm Zhang Chengyan, the head of the Guangnan Province Investigation Bureau. Yaning has mentioned you to me more than once. Meeting you today, you are indeed extraordinary."

Zhang Chengyan was just being polite, he really didn't see anything special.

Don't think that just because someone is successful, they can immediately see who is powerful and who isn't. This requires more time and the accumulation of work experience from the person involved to judge. Lu Chengchuan had already proven that he was very good at fighting, so even if Zhang Chengyan couldn't see anything, the facts were in front of him, and he acknowledged Lu Chengchuan's strength.

"Director Zhang, is there something you need?"

As soon as Lu Chengchuan said this, Zhou Yaning shook her head slightly again. This was too direct, was that really how you ask...?

Zhang Chengyan didn't show much reaction, but since the man was being so direct, he decided to be straightforward as well.

"I want to ask, just how powerful are you? I'd like to see it for myself." He preferred to speak plainly with straightforward people; right now, he just wanted to know how strong this person was.

Zhou Yaning remained calm and collected; she didn't care what they said or did, as it wasn't her business.

"I don't mind putting on a show, but who will cooperate with me?"

Lu Chengchuan didn't mind showing off, but he wondered who would fight him. Did they want him to demonstrate catching bullets with his bare hands?

"We have plenty of people here; we could find a hundred without a problem. Yaning, ask Secretary Hong to bring Chang Hao's team and your team here. We'll meet at the training ground."

Zhou Yaning went to the side to call people. After a short while, she returned, and Zhang Chengyan got up and headed towards the training ground in the office building.

The three of them set off first. When they arrived at the training ground, there was already a team training there. They went to the other side, not wanting to interfere with their training.

In a few minutes, the secretary arrived at the training ground with two teams.

One team from the Investigation Bureau had six people. Many Espers had awakened within the old team, and with the addition of Espers recruited from outside, many teams were now composed of Espers.

The team didn't know why the director had called them here. Once they arrived, Zhang Chengyan walked over.

"I've called you here to assign a task." As he spoke, he turned to look at Lu Chengchuan. "This gentleman is an expert I've brought in to spar with you. Chang Hao, you are the most powerful Esper in our Investigation Bureau, so you must give it your all!"