In a budget hotel somewhere in Qinghe City.
"Captain, there's movement. The rat has left its hole!"
A young man wearing a headset and monitoring surveillance footage on a laptop spoke in a low voice.
On the screen, a middle-aged man with narrow eyes, sunken cheekbones, and a rather sinister appearance calmly got into a black sedan.
If Mu Yun had been here, he would have recognized him immediately. This was Gao Shi—the man he had just seen.
"Keep watching him. Confirm the accuracy of his final route!"
In the outskirts of Qinghe City, a square-faced middle-aged man spoke gravely.
"Captain, why don't we just search his base directly? Do we really have to wait for him to expose himself?"
A young man with a rather youthful-looking face said.
"We need evidence when we do things, especially in our line of work as Pokémon Investigators. Plenty of people are watching us. If we rush in recklessly, we'll alert the enemy—and what if we find no evidence? Even if your father is a regional commander, disrupting the normal operations of a law-abiding business will still get you reprimanded."
The square-faced man patiently explained.
There was no helping it. The young man before him was the only son of his superior's superior.
If not for the fact that he had a Totem Level Pokémon, as well as his father's standing, he could not be bothered with him.
"Fine."
Seeing the captain bring up his father, He Lun could only give up.
His father had always been upright and impartial. Even as his biological son, if he made a mistake, he would not escape a beating.
It had been one thing when he was a child, but he was already twenty-two now. Getting beaten again would be far too humiliating.
Just then, the