The officers under Zhou Quan each had their own duties and left his office one after another to get to work.
He bent over his desk and began dealing with the paperwork and other tasks that had accumulated over the past two days.
Knock! Knock, knock!
Less than five minutes later, someone else knocked on his office's glass door.
"Come in!"
Zhou Quan called out without looking up.
"Busy, Sergeant Zhou?"
Along with two sets of footsteps, one light and one heavy, a cultured, gentle voice reached Zhou Quan's ears.
"Sir Lau Kit-fai? Captain Yang? Please, have a seat!"
Looking up toward the voice, Zhou Quan immediately broke into a friendly smile.
At the same time, a trace of gravity involuntarily rose deep inside him.
It was Lau Kit-fai, who oversaw administration next door, and Captain Yang Jianhua from the Motherland's Yuezhou armed police.
Zhou Quan and Lau Kit-fai were quite close in private.
During working hours, however, unless their work overlapped, they rarely dropped into each other's offices for a chat.
As for Captain Yang Jianhua, he had read her personal file because of last year's joint undercover operation involving Chan Ka-kui.
But today was their first actual face-to-face meeting.
Captain Yang Jianhua of the Motherland's Yuezhou armed police had made a special trip across the border. Surely she had not come for sightseeing.
After inviting Lau Kit-fai and Yang Jianhua to sit on the visitor sofa, Zhou Quan personally made each of them a cup of tea.
"Sergeant Zhou, you weren't badly hurt last night, were you?"
Lau Kit-fai accepted his cup and spoke with concern, his face also full of righteous indignation. "These criminals are far too brazen, daring to assassinate a senior Police Force officer in broad daylight."
"This is absolutely unforgivable."
At that moment, Lau