After that, Li Wei more or less began living the life of a detective on television.
What was a TV detective's life like?
Drinking (which Li Wei didn't do), reading the newspaper, and watching horse races.
Only Li Wei watched car races instead of horse races.
Humans were naturally drawn to competition, no matter what form it took, and steam cars were no exception. Besides, steam cars had only just appeared in this world, and there were still no unified standards, so the vehicles on the racetrack came in every shape imaginable.
For Li Wei, it was a fairly entertaining pastime.
That didn't mean Military Intelligence Section Seven had nothing to do during this period. For one thing, Li Wei and the others had received leave after the Imperial Bridge case. For another, Military Intelligence Section Seven needed to train its other squads. They couldn't rely on Li Wei alone to investigate every supernatural case in Fog City, let alone the entire Empire, so cases that seemed less dangerous under Li Wei's classification were assigned to other squads.
Of course, there was bad news along with the good. Although the others didn't have Li Wei's system, the principle of physical exorcism remained the same. With weapons such as silver bullets and incendiary rounds, the other squads had also resolved some cases involving ghosts and evil spirits. However, most had suffered considerable casualties, and some squads had been wiped out entirely.
Still, those sacrifices were necessary. There was no way around it.
Li Wei had also received a sizable reward for the Imperial Bridge case: a bounty of three thousand pounds.
Well... it was much less than he'd received for the Courtesan Killer case, but that was hardly surprising. The circumstances back then were different, and Li Wei was now part