Enforcer Manual
Chapter 503: Sincerity for Sincerity_1

Chapter 503: Chapter 503: Sincerity for Sincerity_1

Lu Xiang’s learning ability was always astonishingly strong, at least Song Lan thought so.

Just one conversation, and she grasped the essence of being a bad woman—when he was woken up by the alarm clock the next day, Lu Xiang had already arrived at the department for work early as usual, and after groggily climbing out of bed, Song Lan realized a terrible fact.

It was 6:03 AM, just three minutes past Lu Xiang’s usual time for starting work.

As his vision gradually cleared, his phone displayed an even more horrifying detail.

Today was Saturday, a day off.

But before leaving, Lu Xiang had considerately set 10 alarms for him to ensure he went to bed and woke up early.

The alarm was mandatory and couldn’t be canceled, a service provided by an internet company for people who struggled to get out of bed, featuring not only the mandatory, undeletable characteristic but also requiring fingerprint authentication to turn off each alarm. Unless he got up and sat up straight to operate the touch screen with his fingerprint, the annoying sound would continue.

Song Lan certainly wouldn’t have downloaded such a torturous app onto his own phone. Although he wasn’t keen on going to work, he maintained a very regular daily routine, with an extremely stable biological clock, ensuring he would wake up at 8:30 AM every day without the need for an alarm, just in time to calmly cycle to his department.

Lu Xiang, drawing inspiration from the late-night snack episode and based on her understanding of Song Lan, devised a plan that was routine but still capable of causing him genuine pain.

While Song Lan was sleeping soundly, she stealthily used his fingerprint to unlock the screen and downloaded the app overnight, touted as "the alarm service that lazy people rave about, so mom no longer worries about me oversleeping," and within an hour, she had intensely set up 10 alarms to make Song Lan suffer between 6 and 7 in the morning.

That day, Song Lan felt as though he had returned to his student days, experiencing the terror of being dominated by an alarm clock.

He merely glanced at the list of alarms and was forced to abandon the thought of continuing his cozy sleep.

Shakily getting out of bed to wash up, he took his phone to the living room.

Greeting him was a piping hot breakfast, prepared by Lu Xiang; though it didn’t require much skill and was mostly just heating things up, it was mostly what he liked to eat in the morning. The sweet soy milk was ready and a sticky note bore a message:

"This is the breakfast made with love that I’ve prepared for you. I’ve gone to work first, you take care of yourself at home, mwahヾ(^∀^)ﾉ!"

Having spent a lot of time with the navigation robot Nami, Lu Xiang had also mastered the skill of using emoticons to act cute.

The adorable emoticon on the note immediately contrasted with Lu Xiang’s serious and earnest image. Imagining Lu Xiang saying such words in a cute tone, Song Lan felt like he had been shocked, and the pain and irritation from being startled awake by the relentless alarms subsided greatly.

Lu Xiang seemed to have carefully calculated his movements, as almost right when he sat down, the second alarm went off, perfectly timed for breakfast.

The steam from the soy milk wafted onto his face, giving him a hint of warmth on this cold winter morning.

As a man who would never show up at the time clock until the last moment, Song Lan’s breakfast usually carried the chill of just being taken out of the fridge, consistent with his 2020 habit of just getting by.

A warm breakfast brought a new change to his monotonous life.

Bad women are really terrifying.

More subtly, Lu Xiang seemed to have mastered the balance in just one night.

Keeping a person hovering between agony and joy, never able to predict what changes life would bring next, Song Lan for the first time considered using his ability to predict the future for his everyday life.

But he quickly dismissed the idea because today, he had some proper work to do.

Biting into his homemade sandwich, he took advantage of the lingering pain from being woken up early by the alarm on his day off to send a message to his new friend, Mr. Killer, fervently complaining about Lu Xiang’s cruel behavior, omitting the part about her preparing a comforting breakfast, and mentioned at the end of the message that he’d found a lot of insurance bills in Lu Xiang’s bedroom safe in the middle of the night.

Sincerity was the principle he valued most in the process of making friends, and also the secret to his ability to become good friends with most people.

The so-called making of friends is the process of exchanging sincerity for sincerity.

It’s like, after meeting a friend you can trust, you can immediately reveal your identity as a Canadian goose to them.

Song Lan assured that this text message contained his true feelings, and even after he had read the message, he was already starting to get angry.

A moment later, his assassin friend replied:

"I’ve run into some trouble, be careful of the Exceptional Cases Investigation Bureau."

After a while, his assassin friend seemed to remember something else and sent another message, instructing:

"After I’ve dealt with the trouble, I will find a chance to meet you. Remember, by then I will use another method to contact you. If someone replies to you via text message, it would mean that they have managed to get my phone."

Just two short messages clearly conveyed Mr. Killer’s current predicament and his consideration for the safety of his hostage friend.

He expressed, through the meticulous thinking of a professional killer, his concern that his hostage friend might suffer persecution from the Exceptional Cases Investigation Bureau.

You see, this is the benefit of the principle of exchanging sincerity for sincerity.

Although, strictly speaking, they were not on the same side, they had become good friends because of their sincerity.

His assassin friend even hinted at his employer—the Exceptional Cases Investigation Bureau—in the messages.

Hanna had revealed last night about what happened at the prosthetic hospital, and the Bureau had sent a large number of people to infiltrate the Exceptional Cases Investigation Bureau, but what she didn’t mention was that some of them were there on behalf of Angle Saffire, while others were there to deal with the aftermath of hiring a border assassin.

Only the real employer could dispatch and deploy at the first time, but fortunately, his assassin friend was one step ahead, having escaped from the hands of the Bureau’s agents.

Meanwhile, the assassin also reminded him in the message that the Exceptional Cases Investigation Bureau might take him to a dark room, to complete their unfinished actions, using this as an excuse.

Ultimately, whether it was the kidnapping or the aftermath, the ultimate goal was to change Lu Xiang’s mind; they seemed to believe that as long as Lu Xiang continued the investigation, he would inevitably uncover the truths that the higher-ups were trying to hide.

"Dong dong dong, dong dong dong—"

The third alarm rang accompanied by an eerie knocking sound.

Visitors rarely came to Lu Xiang’s apartment, especially not before seven in the morning.

"Hello, we are agents from the Exceptional Cases Investigation Bureau. Is Mr. Song Lan at home?"

Not at home!

Song Lan immediately stopped the alarm and silently tried to play dumb.

However, a small drone appeared at the living room window, resembling an eyeball, and the moment he saw the small drone, the drone also spotted him.

At the same time, the agents’ voices were heard again at the door.

"Mr. Song Lan, we mean no harm, but we would like you to come with us."

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