Enforcer Manual
Chapter 438: Black Alumni Association_1

Chapter 438: Chapter 438: Black Alumni Association_1

After living in the small town for a week, Song Lan finally returned to the urban district.

Of course, the official reason given by the Void Investigation Bureau was that Comrade Adventurer 13 had sustained severe injuries in the battle against the Absurd Demon and urgently needed to be transferred back to headquarters for treatment. That afternoon, Big Radish Head and others bid him a reluctant farewell.

A week later, upon returning home, his apartment had undergone tremendous changes.

Several life-sized "Sponge and Starfish" character cushions had appeared out of nowhere in the living room, and a complete collector’s edition set of "Sponge and Starfish" DVDs was displayed on the coffee table in front of the TV. It was then that he remembered that Lu Xiang’s leisure activities, when she had free time, included watching this animation.

Besides that, she had also bought a complete collector’s edition set of "Tom and Jerry" DVDs.

Director Lu’s hobbies were always so out of the ordinary.

It was said that these cartoons were classics, remade based on narrations by people from before the war, but in today’s highly developed entertainment industry, their sales were not ideal. Thus, the producers cleverly repackaged them into collector’s edition DVDs and used exorbitantly high collector’s prices to bamboozle people like Lu Xiang, who didn’t watch much TV otherwise.

Song Lan hadn’t expected that even the astute Director Lu would one day be deceived by someone.

"You’re back."

Upon hearing the sound of the door opening, Lu Xiang, who was busy packing in the bedroom, poked her head out. Song Lan also caught a glimpse of the new short-sleeved shirt Lu Xiang had bought. It was grey, and the material looked no different from the wholesale goods found in malls. However, on the front of the shirt was a print of a standing, smirking cat.

In his memory, Lu Xiang had little interest in cosmetics, jewelry, and clothes, and for a long time when she went out on her days off, she would wear her uniform. Later, as head of the psychological counseling department, he suggested to the director that it could make citizens nervous and cause unnecessary misunderstandings if she went out looking like that when she was off duty.

Lu Xiang took the advice to heart and thus bought herself three sets of casual clothes on her way home that day.

In total, they cost less than 300 watts.

"Did you specifically go to a collectible shop to buy this?"

"It came free with the DVDs, along with a water bottle, fridge magnets, and a wall clock."

It was a common sales tactic.

Perhaps even the sellers of the collector’s editions realized that their blatant money-grabbing was somewhat inappropriate, so those with a bit more conscience threw in some small gifts for the buyers.

Lu Xiang excitedly waved Song Lan over, "Come, try this on and see if it fits!"

He was dragged and pulled into the bedroom where, immediately upon entering, he saw another grey short-sleeved shirt on the bed, but this one had a cartoon mouse printed on it. The shirt was several sizes too large, displaying a "smart" smile on the mouse’s face.

"Matching outfits, what do you think?"

As Lu Xiang helped Song Lan put on the shirt, the corners of her mouth slightly curled upwards.

Not bad, it fit well.

"Not bad at all."

Song Lan praised repeatedly, although he couldn’t quite understand how Tom and Jerry could remind anyone of a couple. If a couple had the same interactions as those two, they’d likely end up on a talk show.

"The Seventh District has an urban temperature control system, with winter temperatures generally ranging between 10-20 degrees Celsius. We can wear these when we go out shopping."

Recently, so much had happened in the Seventh District that she hadn’t had time to study the content of "A Love Tip Every Day" for quite a while. In fact, she had been longing to experience what ordinary couples did, leisurely going out shopping with a lover. However, her notoriety in the Seventh District was too great; even a simple shopping trip would eventually turn into a "Law Enforcers’ Review Meeting" with the citizens.

Citizens always seem to have endless questions.

Crime rates, unemployment, street thugs demanding protection money, and now there’s added the mystery of the Void.

Even Grandpa Li downstairs would daily ask her to inquire about some insider information for his friends from all over the world, which made Lu Xiang consider whether she should park her hover car on the rooftop instead.

Although Lu Xiang tried to maintain a calm tone, Song Lan could hear the anticipation in her voice.

Upon reflection, he had never experienced the interaction of couples going out shopping together; he remembered that during their reunions after graduation, he was always surrounded by just male friends, and their topics of conversation never strayed from gaming.

This made Song Lan somewhat nervous.

Because in a sense, going to the Seventh District was like attending a reunion for Lu Xiang, and he really wasn’t good at such events.

"It won’t be a problem for me to go to the Seventh District with you?"

"What problem could there be?"

"Didn’t they say the invitation was for outstanding graduates to return to school? I never studied at your school."

"Don’t worry about that, I’ve inquired with the school, and they said that this time it’s permissible to bring family members."

After all, the theme of this return to school was different from previous military drills; this time it was about holding a harmonious, friendly reunion, which was unprecedented at the school, and Lu Xiang found it quite novel, "Furthermore, the school said family members can participate on their behalf."

"Participate on their behalf?"

This was certainly the strangest way of participating that Song Lan had ever heard, "Aren’t they afraid of it being awkward?"

"Our school is a bit special, as you know; it’s a military academy. Many graduates are sent to operational departments in their first year, and now it’s been over a year since graduation, we don’t know how many are still alive."

So much for a harmonious, friendly reunion!

Yet, Lu Xiang didn’t seem to realize the sudden somber mood, continuing on her own, "Their family members might also want to use this opportunity to visit the place where they lived and studied, perhaps as a way to remember them."

Honestly, the thought of attending the reunion was becoming less appealing to Song Lan.

The tone for the event had been set even before boarding the plane.

He firmly believed that remembering the deceased shouldn’t be on the agenda of a reunion only a year after graduation.

Seeing Song Lan’s hesitation, Lu Xiang smiled slightly, placing her hands on his shoulders, "It’s normal, don’t feel pressured."

And so, with a touch of apprehension, Song Lan and Lu Xiang boarded the plane to the Seventh District early the next morning.

Deep down, he was curious about Lu Xiang’s former school, a learning environment starkly different from any he had known, where every student who managed to graduate was tough as nails.

As for the possibility that this was directed by the Review Meeting, Lu Xiang didn’t object; since Song Lan had arrived home yesterday, she seemed to be in an excited state, though her demonstration of excitement was always subtle, only detectable in her tone and conversation by those who knew her very well.

He remembered Lu Xiang had said before that if she had the chance, she wanted to personally take him to visit her alma mater someday.

That day seemed to be coming sooner than he had anticipated.

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