Changye's Late-Night Visit

That was Huanggang Sci-Tech Trading Company.

The three of them got into the car and sped toward the company.

At the company entrance, Zhou Mei flashed her police ID. The barrier rose, and they headed straight for the main office building without the slightest pause or a single wasted turn, arriving directly outside the chairman's office.

A stunning beauty with an extremely alluring figure and vividly bright lipstick swayed over gracefully. "May I ask..."

She had only managed two words when Changye reached out!

She struck the woman's neck.

The beauty's eyes flew wide open, her gaze turning blank as she slowly collapsed.

The chairman's office door was pushed open directly.

A man sat in the broad executive chair. It was Ding Haichun, the man they had seen in the recording.

Ding Haichun frowned slightly. "You are..."

"Ding Haichun, your plot to assassinate Qu Taiqing at Qingyuan Temple has been exposed. You're under arrest!" Changye stepped forward and came before him.

Ding Haichun's expression changed abruptly.

He raised a hand, and a syringe appeared out of thin air. Whoosh!

It shot toward Changye.

At the same time, he retreated to the window in a flash, raising his hand. Boom!

The floor-to-ceiling window shattered into pieces.

Lin Xiaosu's heart jolted. Th-this was absolutely not something an ordinary person could do!

Zhou Mei's expression changed as well. A Gene Human!

The man before them was also a Gene Human!

Gene Humans were exceptions in this world. Ordinary people might never see even one in their lives, yet she had seen one yesterday and another today!

Was this luck?

No, it was terrible misfortune!

For a police officer, there was nothing more dangerous than a suspect suddenly revealing themself as a Gene Human during an arrest, refusing to be taken into custody and striking back to kill.

Yesterday, she had escaped disaster because Li Diandian, Hu Ya, had been there. But what about today?

Within Lin Xiaosu's Divine Eye, he clearly saw the hair-thin Hairpin Needle. It was less than three inches from Changye's head, but he could do nothing. He could see it clearly, yet he could not react in time...

In that very instant.

Changye's finger moved.

Her fingernail trembled lightly and flicked the needle, sending it flying toward the ceiling.

The next moment, that finger suddenly accelerated and tapped the back of Ding Haichun's head. Half his body was already beyond the window ledge, but Changye's finger hooked sharply, catching his collar. Boom!

Ding Haichun flew backward and smashed heavily onto the desk. His eyes were vacant, and he had already fallen unconscious.

Zhou Mei stood as if petrified...

Lin Xiaosu's heart pounded even harder...

Of all the women he had seen in his life, Hu Ya was the fiercest.

But today, everything he had long believed was overturned. This woman called Changye was even fiercer than Hu Ya.

Her movements might have looked refined and gentle, but the results she achieved were truly savage...

"Sister Chang, I... we'll send people over immediately." Zhou Mei took a deep breath and returned to normal.

"No need. My people will be here soon. You... go back first!"

When Lin Xiaosu and Zhou Mei exited the building, a maglev vehicle appeared in the sky...

Sitting in Zhou Mei's little car, Lin Xiaosu watched the maglev rise through the air and vanish beyond the clouds. He slowly turned sideways, only to find Zhou Mei looking at him too.

"Officer Zhou, she... who exactly is she?" Lin Xiaosu asked.

"Captain Zhang said she was from the provincial department, but now I suddenly feel... that doesn't seem right." Zhou Mei said, "At the very least, the provincial department definitely doesn't have a system like that. And in the province-wide skills competition, no one like her ever won an award."

"So you don't actually know her at all either..."

"Understanding someone isn't easy. I don't understand you either!" Zhou Mei said. "Today's murder case was even stranger than yesterday's. How were you able to make a breakthrough?"

"Can I be a little Versailles about it?" Lin Xiaosu blinked.

Zhou Mei rolled her eyes. "...Say what you have to say. Let it rip if you have to fart!"

"The world of geniuses is beyond the comprehension of ordinary people!"

Zhou Mei stared at his eminently punchable face, speechless for a long while. At last, she let out a soft breath. "If we run into difficult and complicated cases again, can we still come to you, genius?"

"Sure! Didn't your provincial department leader set an example through practical action today? Ten thousand yuan per consultation!" Lin Xiaosu said.

"Ten thousand yuan? Are you robbing people?"

"Nonsense!... This is faster than robbery, far more high-end, and it isn't even illegal."

Zhou Mei had no interest in talking to him anymore.

With one stomp on the accelerator, she sent him to Old Tashan Village. After dropping him off, she turned around and left...

The time that followed passed without wind or waves.

Lin Xiaosu studied at home, occasionally chatting with Hu Ya about the bullshit of life. Time flew by.

One day, two days, three days. In the blink of an eye, it was April 12, one month later.

The civil service examination was just one week away.

His mother went to Qingyuan Temple again midway through. This time, the backing she sought was even more formidable than Guanyin Bodhisattva—she sought Tathagata Buddha.

Whether that backing would prove useful remained to be seen, but Lin Xiaosu himself had begun to waver.

Before gaining his divine ability, he had also thought that an iron rice bowl with secure income through drought and flood alike was pretty good.

The salary might not be high, but it was stable.

And civil servants held high status. What his mother never stopped talking about was that if he had a civil servant's identity, he could pick a wife sideways across ten villages and eight hamlets. The girl's family would not ask for bride price, a car, or a house either, terrified that asking for too much would scare away this golden turtle son-in-law...

Yet after gaining this great divine ability, Lin Xiaosu asked himself again and again.

With the Heavenly Insight Eye above my head, am I supposed to become a meteorologist at the weather bureau?

A man who observed celestial phenomena, only to end up observing the weather?

That can't be right, can it?

This was a divine ability with powerful earning potential, the kind that had earned him ten thousand yuan in half a day...

But such thoughts could only drift through his heart. He truly did not dare discuss them with his mother. She was easy to reason with on most matters, but not this one. If he dared show any sign of backing down, she would really beat him flat with the family law...

As the sun set in the west, Lin Xiaosu took a walk outside before returning to his room.

The moment he pushed open the door, he was startled.

There was someone in the room.

A beautiful woman sat quietly beside the desk where he studied. She turned around and smiled at him.

Changye!

Changye, whom he had not seen for a month, had silently entered his room.

"The civil service examination is coming soon. You applied to the weather bureau." Changye gently closed the open book.

"Yes." Lin Xiaosu raised a hand and closed the door.

"Are you willing to become a weather observer?"

"Sometimes, life isn't about willingness or unwillingness, but about compromising with fate." Lin Xiaosu poured her a cup of tea. "At least when I applied, that position was relatively unpopular, so the competition might be less intense."

"How about I give you a suggestion?" Changye asked.

"What?"

"Don't take the exam!"

Lin Xiaosu's heart skipped slightly...

"You can have a more suitable position."

"What do you mean? You're arranging a job for me?"

"If you're willing, there is a unique job that can be given to you." Changye's eyes flickered slightly.

"Unique? In what way?"

"To outsiders, you would be working for a private company."

"And in reality?"

"In reality, you would be working for the country. It is extremely sacred, extremely solemn, and the compensation is quite high!" Changye said.

Lin Xiaosu slowly raised his gaze. "What exactly would I do?"

"Whatever is needed! Sometimes you would be needed to investigate cases, sometimes to work undercover, sometimes to assume different identities..."

"Are you extending this invitation on behalf of the provincial department?"

"No. What I represent is not the provincial department. The provincial department isn't qualified enough!"

Lin Xiaosu stared into her eyes. "Who exactly are you?"

"Do you know Qianlong?" Changye asked him five words.

Lin Xiaosu's entire body shook, great waves rolling through his heart...

Qianlong. Any man with even the slightest heroic sentiment knew that name.

Qianlong, the Republic's Hidden Dragon Guard.

Kings among police officers, the pinnacle of the pyramid among soldiers.

They lived in darkness, yet allowed the people of the entire nation to see the light.

Every one of them was a godlike existence.

No ordinary person could ever meet any one of them. Once they did, it meant something earth-shaking had happened.

"Why choose me?" Lin Xiaosu lightly licked his lips.

"You may not realize it, but because of your existence, Qianlong solved a shocking major case. And because of that case, Qianlong's higher-ups truly saw the immense role a criminal investigation genius could play. That was why they made an exception to recruit you. In one month, the vetting process has already been completed. That is why I rushed here overnight, to ask for your opinion."

"Which case?"

"The case of Qu Taiqing's murder at Qingyuan Temple. Through Ding Haichun's interrogation, we uncovered a criminal organization deeply hidden within the country and pushed Operation Qingping forward by a great step..."

Operation Qingping targeted sabotage operations by overseas organizations.

The plan had many branches. One major branch was the infiltration and sabotage of genetic projects by overseas organizations.

Genetic projects were a popular track this century. The scientific world had even reached a conclusion: the next century would be the century of genetics. Whichever country held the reins of genetic projects would essentially gain dominance over the future world.

Therefore, genetic projects were key national projects, and also a field where countries infiltrated one another and wrestled in white-hot competition.

Qu Taiqing was one of Qianlong's people, with the code number 2198. He was not a Gene Human, but he was a top scholar researching genetics. He had lived in Tashan for eight years, and his research had made great progress. If his research continued, it was highly possible that he could solve the century-old problem of Genetic Rejection.

That was why the enemy plotted to assassinate him.

They hoped to use this method to halt Great Xia's genetic research program...

"This complicated game of competing situations, this level of nations... can a little ant like me really make waves on such a platform?" Lin Xiaosu murmured.

"In such a situation, everyone is an ant. No one can conquer the world alone. But don't forget, you are not fighting alone. Thousands upon thousands of heroes behind the scenes are fighting too..."

Lin Xiaosu slowly stood and walked to the window, smiling faintly. "My mother has set her heart on making me a civil servant. If I take this step, does that make me a civil servant?"

"That depends on how you define a civil servant and what original intention you hope to fulfill through becoming one. If your purpose is fame, this position cannot give it to you. If it is leisure, it can give you that even less. If it is money, no problem, it can provide that. But if you sincerely want to do something for the country, then this is the choice most suitable for you."