(An extra update for 45 monthly votes... More and more, it felt like spinning a cocoon only to trap myself inside...)
By then, Tang Changsheng had returned to Yin-Yang Mountain. He was not alone: the two police officers, Cui Zhengfei and Liang Ge, had come with him.
After so much time had passed, Cui Zhengfei had calmed down. He knew that without Tang Changsheng's help, things would have ended badly for him today, and he would have dragged Liang Ge down with him.
But the young man could not swallow his pride, and his anger had yet to fade. He especially resented Tang Changsheng for stopping him from exposing the whole affair, so he wore a sullen scowl.
Tang Changsheng paid neither of them any mind. Saving them had been nothing more than a passing impulse.
As Tang Changsheng had said before, truly upright people were far too rare these days—practically an endangered species. If he could lend one a hand, he would.
But if they were too foolish for Tang Changsheng to do anything else, that was another matter. Since Master Tang had promised that the two of them would not expose the affair, the responsibility fell on him. He had ways to make sure they could not speak of it.
"You two will stay on the mountain for now. You can go down only when I say so. Don't think about running away... Of course, if you don't believe me, you're welcome to try!"
With that, Tang Changsheng left them alone. He handed them over to Wu Shulan to settle in, then hurried back to the Quiet Room to begin preparing the Ritual Refinement of the Reversing Sun and Moon Heavenly Mechanism Formation.
As for whether the two police officers would try to escape... that depended on whether