Enforcer Manual
Chapter 601: War Hero Song Lan_1

Chapter 601: Chapter 601: War Hero Song Lan_1

Three days after bringing Yeying back home, Lu Xiang started to feel some regret.

The girl indeed followed the Archbishop’s request and earnestly learned from them. However, the issue was that her object of learning was Song Lan. With the two of them, one fond of eating and the other of lying down, when put together they produced a destructive effect greater than the sum of their parts.

Song Lan hadn’t come downstairs for three consecutive days, claiming that his time in the Third Neutral Country exhausted him so much that he suffered from backache and leg cramps upon returning home.

Lu Xiang admitted that she had indeed added to Song Lan’s fatigue to some extent, but he was supposed to be in the prime of his physical health. How had his daily routine started to resemble that of an elderly person?

That morning, Lu Xiang was sitting at her desk, seriously contemplating how to get Song Lan back on his feet when an uninvited guest knocked on her office door.

The gold star medal with five points identified his identity, and entering with him was a complete media team.

Lu Xiang was familiar with this tough-looking middle-aged man in his forties. Not long ago, as a Five Stars rescuer, he had been part of the appeal for a major conscription.

The failures on the front lines and the intensifying contradictions had greatly affected his reputation. Recently, the ridicule against him on the internet had been relentless, turning him from a well-known military expert into a clown in the eyes of netizens.

His eyes were filled with exhaustion as if he had been tormented by the denunciations on the internet.

Lu Xiang admired the courage of the middle-aged man and his team. The border city’s resistance against him was the strongest, and in recent days, people even burned his posters and portraits on the streets. It’s important to note that openly insulting a rescuer in the United Government was a punishable offense.

However, the Law Enforcers turned a blind eye to those enraged citizens.

They were the direct victims of the mass conscription.

The ones who were sent to the front lines could be their family, relatives, or friends, who either died on the battlefield or were deemed part of the Rebel Army by the United Government—after Kunka refused the recall order from the United Government, he and the entire Expeditionary Army were regarded as the Rebel Army. The United Government issued a bounty of 47,290,000 volts on him.

All this happened within the past three days.

After "Rat," District Seventeen had another person with a bounty of over ten million.

"Hello, Mr. Engle. Is there anything I can assist you with?" Lu Xiang asked.

"In fact, we do have something we hope to entrust to you. This is extremely important for me... no, it’s crucial for the current situation of the entire United Government." Engle seated himself on the sofa opposite the desk, suppressing the displeasure in his heart.

In his view, Lu Xiang was just a Three Stars rescuer, his rank far above hers. Yet she hadn’t received him and remained sitting at her desk after seeing him, as if he were just an ordinary visitor.

If it weren’t for the recent adverse media climate, he wouldn’t have come to such a backwards and remote place like District Seventeen.

Forced by his company’s arrangements, he had to swallow his pride.

Because according to the latest information they had, Lu Xiang and Song Lan were the only two who had returned from the war. The rest of the soldiers who had gone to the front lines were either gnawed to the bone by Mutants, or they had joined Kunka’s forces and become part of the Rebel Army that defied the command of the United Government.

In such a situation, the United Government continued to have a soldier who returned from the war tell those still in the dark "the truth" about what happened in the Third Neutral Country.

The United Government and the Review Meeting wanted the public to understand the true reason for the failure of the grand expedition—that Rebel Army leader Kunka conspired with the Barrosa Group and the Lunar Eclipse Sect. They had disclosed the landing information of the Expeditionary Army to the enemy in advance and used the Mutants to trap those loyal soldiers who refused to join their rebellion.

Furthermore, they would need to describe how Kunka and the rebels masqueraded their acts of "rescue" as coercion for the remaining forces to launch a rebellion with them. Those who refused to be tainted by association were bound and thrown into the midst of Mutants.

"Bloody Rebellion."

Before setting off, his team had already written the speech’s title in advance and even produced evidence to corroborate these "true accounts."

Now, all they needed was to find a trustworthy character in the eyes of the citizens to carry out this task.

Without a doubt, Lu Xiang was the best choice.

However, her "rebellious" nature made the Review Meeting uneasy about entrusting her with such an important task. If Lu Xiang had been the type to brazenly lie to the camera, she wouldn’t have been dispatched to District 17, a godforsaken place.

So, they turned their attention to Song Lan.

Recently, Engle and his company’s team spent a lot of time getting to know Song Lan. The results of the investigation made them overjoyed.

Based on the general appraisal of Song Lan from the outside world, he was a gentle-natured, amiable person who avoided conflict.

Working in clerical duties within the Law Enforcers department, he had never gotten into arguments over work issues, and even the most hot-tempered Law Enforcers in his department would give him a thumbs-up when speaking about him.

However, this so-called workplace nice guy was seen as a sign of weakness in their eyes, much easier to manipulate than Lu Xiang. They believed that with just a little trickery, they could make Song Lan compromise with them.

Thinking of this, Engle managed a slight smile, "Director Lu, if it’s convenient, could you arrange for us to meet with Chief Song?"

"Why?"

When she heard the name Song Lan, Lu Xiang’s eyebrows shot up.

"Chief Song is a witness to this war. Our team would like to interview him, it won’t take up too much of his time... And although the outcome of the war did not meet everyone’s expectation, the Review Meeting still hopes to fulfill the promises made to the people before the mobilization."

Rewards for contributions.

They believed that this would be an irresistible temptation for a minor office worker who hadn’t seen much of the world.

...

Meanwhile, someone knocked on the door of Lu Xiang’s apartment.

Song Lan lying on the sofa gave a gesture to Yeying, the little girl who was absorbed in nibbling on walnuts, and she instantly ran barefoot to open the door.

Regardless of what others said, Yeying’s stay had brought many benefits to Song Lan’s life.

From now on, even fetching deliveries or taking out the trash could be spared.

Suddenly, Yeying’s call came from the hallway, "Song Lan, it’s Grandpa Li, he’s looking for you!"

Grandpa Li?

Song Lan felt befuddled as he pressed the pause button. Why on earth would the gatekeeper come to look for him during the day?

He slipped into his slippers and walked towards the door; however, before he could get close, he heard Grandpa Li’s excited shout.

——"Hero!"

These two words startled Song Lan enormously; the psychological impact was even more intense than the thrillers recently produced by Kolo Film Industry.

"Grandpa, don’t shout nonsense; it can easily lead to unnecessary misunderstanding."

"There’s no misunderstanding, look, isn’t this you?"

Grandpa Li, despite his age, handed his smartphone over to Song Lan like a fan chasing after their idol.

The photo that appeared before him made Song Lan’s vision darken; even more terrifying was the description below the photo—war hero, Song Lan.

"That’s a rumor."

"No, it’s on the official website of the rescuers, how could it be a rumor?"

Immediately after, Grandpa Li revealed a look of someone who had already seen through everything, "I knew it, lad! You’re a dark horse; you were bound to make something of yourself!"

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