Meanwhile.
Thousands of miles away, in Longdu.
At Bureau 7 headquarters, inside a rather oppressive office.
Hou Liangbing had been having a terrible few days.
Inside Bureau 7, the subordinates who had once fawned over him now looked at him strangely.
At his brother-in-law's request, he had tried to deploy the Reverse Scale squad against Yue Feng.
Instead, the entire squad had resigned. He had been forced to kneel and kowtow in public before those eleven formidable operatives would return.
But Man-Rat had posted the video of him kneeling and kowtowing on the internal network, making him the laughingstock of the entire system.
His standing in the Zhong Family had plummeted too.
His wife, Zhong Xiaoai, had not let him into their bedroom for a week.
The look in his father-in-law's eyes had changed from admiration to undisguised disappointment and disgust.
He hated them!
He hated Yue Feng!
And he hated Yue Xiaofei even more!
Hou Liangbing swore he would make the brothers pay in blood!
But he did not dare act.
Yue Feng's unfathomable abilities haunted him like a nightmare. Even now, the thought of them made his heart pound.
Knock! Knock! Knock!
Someone suddenly knocked on the office door.
"Get lost!"
Hou Liangbing growled irritably.
His subordinate hesitated outside, then steeled himself and pushed the door open.
"Bureau Chief Hou... Commissioner Smith, Eagle Country intelligence's special envoy to Dragon Kingdom, is here to see you."
Hou Liangbing froze.
Smith?
He had heard the name. Smith was one of Eagle Country's top agents, a ruthless man notorious for his brutality.
Rumor had it that he had played a part in regime changes in several small countries over the past decade.
What did he want with him?
"Send him in."
Hou Liangbing suppressed his irritation, straightened his collar, and resumed