Enforcer Manual
Chapter 1066 - 929: Electronic Cricket Fighting_2

Chapter 1066: Chapter 929: Electronic Cricket Fighting_2

After completing the preliminary infiltration, Lu Xiang didn’t forget to change the topic, confusing Song Lan and making this Dumb Bird completely let down his guard, "Although they only know about ’Wild Bone,’ a Six Stars rescuer, their criteria for classifying ranks does make some sense."

"It used to, but the fact that Classmate Yaku became a Six Stars rescuer has caused serious destruction to the power division."

Besides the standard of destroying a city, a Six Stars rescuer also naturally possesses the "above Five Stars rescuer" hard indicator.

But looking at Classmate Yaku, not only can’t he destroy a city, he might lose to at least half of the Six Stars candidates.

"Don’t talk that way about your subordinate. Classmate Yaku was the first to respond to the H1 Department’s call. In terms of enthusiasm, he’s much stronger than the others."

"I’ve never looked down on him, on the contrary, I’m very optimistic about his future. ’Yaku Barrier’ is clearly a late-game hero."

Song Lan was very confident.

Strength and victory aren’t limited to the present. As long as Classmate Yaku continues his life-cultivation practice, he will have a lot to offer in 60 years!

"I suggest that you still consider the future office relationships. I heard that Hog Foster also responded to the invitation from the H1 Department."

It’s well known that Hog Foster is a petty person.

The unpleasantness they had in the Seventeenth Region could almost be described as irreconcilable, causing the Foster Family to lose a lot of shady businesses and nearly cost Hog Foster his position as family head.

That must have been the darkest time in his life.

Questioned by family members as suffering from dementia, they even wanted to send him to a nursing home.

"After the incident in The First Region, besides establishing the ’Standin Messenger Club,’ he focused mainly on internal strife. Those who had questioned him, those who had gone over his head to accept invitations from the High-level Parliament, all faced various degrees of revenge. The Foster Family has now returned to the state of a one-voice system."

This was enough proof that even becoming a ’Standin Messenger,’ Mr. Hog’s character hadn’t changed.

Moreover, Hog Foster (Time Stop), Roger (Psychic Energy), and Diago (Divine Envoy) were all regional-limited characters; as the events concluded, they all returned to their ordinary lives.

"Office politics are very popular in big cities. The relationship between Valerian and his people is an exception."

Lu Xiang genuinely worried for Song Lan.

Given his hands-off management style, she seriously doubted H1 would be divided into several factions, staging meaningless infighting daily.

"Don’t worry, such things will never happen in our department!"

"Where does your confidence come from?"

Lu Xiang raised an eyebrow. She had observed Song Lan for a long time and was quite certain that managing subordinates was not one of his strengths, with Valerian, Roger, and Zhuang Chi being left to develop freely.

"Old Lu, what do you think H1 Department is?"

"Isn’t it an important department responsible for maintaining national security?"

"Completely wrong!"

Song Lan said, "The correct answer is a department where you rest on public funds, waiting to save enough money to go back to your own homes and slack off!"

In his view, the fundamental reason for office politics is to maintain personal power and a channel for promotion, which clearly doesn’t apply to salary thieves.

This job has no scope for advancement and no voice in office politics.

The only reason people come to the office is to clock in.

"In a friendly work environment, infighting won’t happen."

"Nonsense!"

Although Lu Xiang said that, for some reason, Song Lan’s absurd theories always seemed to work out.

Could it be true, as he said, that everyone harbors a Salted Fish Soul, and all he did was awaken it?

This made her feel somewhat regretful.

They were on a private plane provided by the Review Meeting, equipped with systems like cloaking fields, only used for some top-secret missions by the Counter-Intelligence Department and Military Intelligence Section Seven.

The plane had no pilot; navigation was completed by artificial intelligence.

Which means the entire airplane is now their own private world.

And if Song Lan shows distress due to office politics, then what follows would naturally evolve into a one-on-one mentoring session, and their roles would shift to that of student and teacher.

She always comes prepared.

In addition to knowledge for dealing with office politics, she had also prepared a white blouse, black skirt suit, and a teaching crop she bought online.

But now, these props seemed temporarily unnecessary.

Lu Xiang’s restless eyes scanned back and forth as the countdown to the plane’s landing grew closer, yet she ultimately failed to find a way to broach the topic of teacher and student roles.

As the silhouette of The First Region appeared ever so faintly outside the window, she finally let out a long sigh and gave up the struggle.

As for Song Lan, from beginning to end, he never realized what Lu Xiang was hiding in her bag, his gaze captivated by the rejuvenated First Region.

He vaguely remembered when they last left The First Region, the entire city was in such damage, with numerous corporate buildings destroyed by overgrown plants, inevitably bringing business to a halt.

The employees of Military Intelligence Section Seven had an unexpected holiday until the company buildings were reconstructed.

A crafty member of the battle exchange group saw through this.

According to the information presently available, the events that occurred in The First Region and the Second Region were deemed to be related to him, and a new question arose.

This group member pointed out that if he possessed the power to defeat "Corruption" in one blow and could revive the dead by reversing time back to one week earlier, then why did he engage in such a prolonged struggle with an opponent capable of "destroying a city" in The First Region, ultimately leading to the majority of its buildings being destroyed?

Luckily, the chat group did not encourage discussions on such topics which lacked real-life evidence, otherwise, Song Lan’s hidden intention might have been exposed.

Indeed, even Lu Xiang was unaware that during the battle with "Dominate" and the god of plants, he not only allowed their powers to destroy numerous buildings but he also accidentally caused a few of the most overworked companies to collapse because of some "accidents".

For the working people, having the company building demolished meant they couldn’t come to work due to irresistible forces.

But this absolutely should not be known to Lu Xiang.

Otherwise, following "Jinx Star," he would earn himself another nickname, "Demolition King."

Lu Xiang was always one to hold a grudge, seizing every opportunity to bring up "Jinx Star" in his ear several times.

Thinking this, Song Lan suddenly sighed in a way that was rather telling, "The Review Meeting’s residence is truly worthy of its name, the reconstruction work was completed so quickly!"

Normally, Lu Xiang would have easily sensed something off about Song Lan.

But today, she too was harboring her own schemes and, hearing Song Lan’s comment, her eyes lit up as she quickly asked, "Do you want to know how The First Region was rebuilt? I can teach you!"

...

Afterward, both fell into a long silence, simultaneously.

This time, even Song Lan sensed something abnormal about Lu Xiang.

He admitted that Lu Xiang might be the person who understood him the best in this world, so...

How exactly did Lu Xiang, the person who knew him best, come to believe that he would be interested in the tedious reconstruction work of The First Region?

"Sorry, I’m not interested."

After a while, Song Lan spoke up.

"Ah, um, the plane is about to land."

Lu Xiang’s voice also lowered, contrasting starkly with her current mood.

This dumb bird is really impervious!

Right now, she really wanted to pull out the teaching crop from her bag and give Song Lan a stern lesson, making him understand all her efforts on this journey!

As they approached the airport of The First Region, she took one last reluctant look at her travel bag placed in the aisle.

It seemed that she would have to wait until tonight, after Song Lan returned from reporting to H1 Department, to figure out what to do.