Inside the Security Department operations director's office on the sixteenth floor of the Murray Building at the Police Force's Tai Kwun headquarters.
Zhou Quan took two kraft-paper files out of the safe beneath his desk.
He used this safe exclusively to store the files of Crouching Tiger officers.
What those two kraft-paper files contained was obvious.
They were not merely ordinary Crouching Tiger members, but two of the Crouching Tiger Seven Heroes under his command.
PC63760, Cheng Tao!
PC98731, Jing Jinxian!
Spreading the two files open on his desk, Zhou Quan tapped the desktop lightly in thought.
Cheng Tao was born in 1976 and had grown up as an orphan in a Hong Kong Island welfare home.
He had suffered many hardships, but had not been influenced by the darkness that had plagued Hong Kong Island in earlier years.
After graduating from Form Seven, he had applied to the Wong Chuk Hang Police Academy.
As soon as he joined the Police Force, Zhou Quan selected him for the first batch of Crouching Tiger members, and he also became one of the Crouching Tiger Seven Heroes whom Zhou Quan watched particularly closely.
Jing Jinxian was also born in 1976, according to his personal background information.
He had originally come from a harmonious family, with both parents being ordinary citizens.
However, when he was in Form Five, his parents were caught up in a Triad brawl and ultimately died from their severe injuries.
Thus, after barely making it through to his Form Seven graduation, he too chose to apply to the Wong Chuk Hang Police Academy.
His subsequent experiences were no different from Cheng Tao's, and he too became one of the Crouching Tiger Seven Heroes whom Zhou Quan watched closely.
On the surface, there were no flaws in Jing Jinxian's personal