The suspicious instructor

Having finally saved the two cats, Fang Xiaozhu wanted to carry them back to her hospital room, but a nurse stopped her.

Pets were not allowed in the hospital. The two cats wandered around the balcony every day, and only Fang Xiaozhu's sweet-talking pleas to the doctors had kept them from being chased away.

"Put them down. We'll register them tomorrow, and no one will try to catch them again." Fang Yuan lifted the two cats down.

Fang Xiaozhu had gotten filthy, her clothes covered in mud.

"Go take a bath. You're so dirty, and your clothes are covered in germs. What if you get sick?" Fang Yuan pushed her off to bathe.

As they walked into the inpatient building.

They happened to run into their martial arts instructor, Wei Hailong.

Fang Yuan greeted him. "Instructor Wei, what are you doing here?"

Wei Hailong pointed at his arm. "Got a cut. Came to have it treated."

"Has it been treated?" Fang Yuan asked.

"Yes."

Wei Hailong answered, then raised his wrist to check his watch. "School's still in session. Why are you here?"

"Oh, my sister's in the hospital. Something urgent suddenly came up, so I rushed over. I'll go back to school and submit a leave slip later," Fang Yuan quickly explained.

After exchanging a few words, the two went their separate ways.

When he reached the stairs, Fang Yuan looked back at Wei Hailong's retreating figure with a frown, finding something odd.

This was the inpatient building. Why would he come here to have a wound treated?

After her bath, Fang Xiaozhu sat on the bed and sneezed.

Fang Yuan hurriedly borrowed a hair dryer and dried her hair for her.

"Brother, have Little Orange and Little Gray really mutated?" The hair dryer blew so hard that Fang Xiaozhu could barely open her eyes, but she still remembered to ask about the two cats.

"They really have. Try not to touch the orange cat from now on," Fang Yuan warned.

"Why?"

"The orange cat's mutated ability is Flame Claw. Its claws get hot enough to burn people."

"No, Little Orange wouldn't burn me."

"I'm talking about an accident. Besides, there are so many germs. Anyway, no holding them."

"Can't I just give them baths?"

"You can't even take care of yourself. How would you have the energy to look after those two?"

"I can do it."

Once her hair was dry, Fang Xiaozhu lay on her stomach on the bed, her eyes slowly closing until she fell asleep.

Beep, beep, beep...

Fang Yuan's phone chimed. He took it out and saw a WeChat message from Little Fat Dragon.

Little Fat Dragon was the nimble fat guy who had used the Chameleon Concealment ability to tail Fang Yuan last time.

Last time, Fang Yuan had squeezed some money out of him. After the transfer, he had left the WeChat contact there without deleting it.

Fang Yuan opened the message.

Little Fat Dragon: "Got a new job. Investigating everything about your sister Fang Xiaozhu, starting from birth. Interested?"

Fang Yuan's brow immediately furrowed when he saw the message.

That overseas Awakener organization had set its sights on Fang Xiaozhu after all.

Fang Yuan quickly replied, "How much?"

Little Fat Dragon: "You're really going to sell out your sister?"

Fang Yuan: "When I'm ruthless enough, I'll even sell myself out."

Fang Yuan had already thought it through when he had "sold himself out" before.

Even if he did not sell this information, someone else would investigate it.

If he sold it himself, he could not only learn the mastermind's target in advance, but also choose what information to reveal.

Compared with the little money he could make from selling information, getting advance warning of danger was more important.

Now, for instance, knowing ahead of time that the Spear of God was investigating Fang Xiaozhu meant he could make preparations.

After a moment's thought, Fang Yuan replied, "Name the price."

Little Fat Dragon: "I'm not giving you a cut this time."

Fang Yuan: "Then did you message me because you have a death wish?"

Little Fat Dragon: "I'll trade you some information."

Fang Yuan thought for a moment, then replied, "What information?"

Little Fat Dragon: "Based on what I heard from Old Cao on Bar Street, the backer behind the investigation into your family seems to have arrived in Donghai City already."

Fang Yuan: "Seems?"

Little Fat Dragon: "I figured it out from what Old Cao said. Believe it or not, it's up to you."

Fang Yuan: "When did the person behind this arrive in Donghai City?"

Little Fat Dragon: "I don't know exactly, but from the way Old Cao talked, that backer personally met with him when I was first hired to follow you."

Fang Yuan's brow immediately furrowed when he read the message.

If Little Fat Dragon's information was true, someone from the Spear of God had arrived in Donghai City a month ago.

School had only just started then.

Fang Yuan felt that things were getting tricky.

After a while, Little Fat Dragon sent another message. "Well? That information carries enough weight, doesn't it? Business takes honesty. If you play fair, so will I. That's how we keep doing business."

Fang Yuan typed a reply and sent it. "All right. I'll send you the information you want in a bit."

After sending that message, Fang Yuan sent over some information he could reveal.

Anyone could find these details simply by sneaking into the hospital, so there was no need to hide them.

Then Fang Yuan frowned and sank into thought.

Things were getting increasingly tricky. Now the Spear of God had set its sights on Xiaozhu.

Moreover, according to the information Little Fat Dragon had revealed, a member of the Spear of God had entered Donghai a month ago.

In that case, the person who had sneaked into their home and searched the safe was probably a member of the Spear of God.

Who could that person be?

A face involuntarily surfaced in Fang Yuan's mind-Wei Hailong.

Wei Hailong had been sent by the military to serve as an instructor. On the surface, there was nothing wrong with that.

But the possibility of an impostor could not be ruled out.

Besides, the timing was too much of a coincidence.

The person from the Spear of God had entered Donghai City just as school started, and Wei Hailong had arrived at No. 1 High School as an instructor at exactly that time.

Also, Wei Hailong had suddenly appeared in the hospital just now, saying he was having a wound treated, yet he had come to the inpatient building.

Something was clearly wrong.

There was also that time Wei Hailong had stared at the cone-shaped sculpture in the library. Who knew whether he had discovered the Triangular Star Core inside?

The more Fang Yuan thought about it, the more suspicious the man seemed. After carefully considering it, he took out his phone and called Fang Zhenguo.

Once the call connected, Fang Zhenguo's booming laughter came through the phone.

"You actually called me? Do you want money, or do you want to buy something?"

"Be serious and listen. I just got word that someone from the Spear of God entered Donghai a month ago. I need you to look into someone now." Fang Yuan's voice was utterly serious.

"Who?" Fang Zhenguo immediately grew serious.

"My school has a new instructor named Wei Hailong. He says he's from the navy's amphibious assault force. You still have comrades in the military, right? Find someone to check his background."

"All right, I'll have someone look into it. But checking someone in the military might take some time," Fang Zhenguo readily agreed.

"Try to be thorough. Ideally, get a photo and specific details," Fang Yuan reminded him.

"Are you suspecting..."

"Yes. I suspect this Wei Hailong might be an impostor."

After hanging up, Fang Yuan returned to the hospital room and pulled up the blanket, tucking his sister in.

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