Enforcer Manual
Chapter 832 - 824: You Deserve to Die

Chapter 832: Chapter 824: You Deserve to Die

Song Lan brushed past the crowd as he crossed the street and entered the cake shop. The customers who had been inside were now swarming out, rushing toward the opposite side of the street where the sound of the explosion had come from.

It turned out that, in any era, watching the excitement was a human instinct.

The onlookers weren’t busy with putting out the fire but instead took out their phones to capture the explosion. They had a hunch that this explosion, happening opposite Kolo Film Industry, would become today’s headline news for the United Government.

Most of them didn’t care whether there were any casualties in the café; they were more concerned about how much new attention this firsthand material would bring to their social media accounts. They hoped the phones of other onlookers would malfunction, making them the exclusive witnesses on the scene.

The cake shop emptied out just as Song Lan entered, and he immediately spotted three familiar figures.

Lu Xiang, Zhuang Chi, and Roger were sitting near the corner, with three extra-large soufflés on their table.

Lu Xiang faced the entrance and, seeing him, took advantage of the others’ inattention to speak deliberately and slowly to Song Lan, "sweeping—through—the—stars."

Bad luck!

Why did he always run into Lu Xiang whenever he encountered an emergency?

Out of regard for his identity, he chose another corner opposite the trio.

Lu Xiang, perhaps deliberately, seized every chance to make faces at Song Lan across several tables.

It was both cute and frustrating, probably the best description of the current scene.

The only consolation for Song Lan’s wounded heart was that the cake shop had air conditioning and free WIFI. With these two amenities, he could stay in the cake shop until nightfall.

After learning about the explosion at the coffee shop, Guan Lili and Sean Grant contacted him immediately.

Despite him honestly explaining that the bombs were a trap set by people in the coffee shop, it seemed they didn’t believe him. They hinted indirectly that it was time for filming and, as a mentor, he should be mindful of his personal image.

He could have pretended to leave early and then come back at midnight to carry out his brutal interrogation methods.

As for the misunderstandings others had about him, Song Lan was too lazy to refute them one by one anymore.

He adopted an attitude of indifference—let it be.

After connecting to the café’s free WIFI and opening the online movie streaming app, he leaned back in his chair with the air conditioning blowing as the staff served the multi-layered cakes, fragrant with the scent of fruit.

Everything was ready; this was what he called life.

For Song Lan, it was still a calm and peaceful afternoon, but for Kolo Film Industry, the time before nightfall was the calm before the storm.

Perhaps Song Lan’s suggestions to the staff had worked, as the trainees assigned to scatter and investigate around the Kolo Film Industry neighborhood gathered some insider information about the killer organization through informants who preferred to remain anonymous.

The informants revealed some details through public phone booths, preset AIs, or recording chips without exposing their own information.

The Civil Assassin Organization genuinely existed.

Each of them had targeted eliminating the founder of Kolo Film Industry.

The existence of the whole organization was closely related to the company’s "villain strategies" over the years. In the process of covertly fostering criminals, they were also indulging their crimes.

When those persecuted by the criminals realized that both the rescuers and the company were in cahoots with these villains, they could only unite. They deeply recognized that the real source of evil was not the criminals, but the company manipulating everything behind the scenes.

They were not the first to awaken to this realization. There had been others who had strapped on tactical nuclear bombs, destroying not only the company building but the entire district with it, and they considered these people heroes.

Of course, in the eyes of the United Government, those people were terrorists, whose existence was to be despised even in death.

This time, their purpose was clear.

The founder of Kolo Film Industry had to die as a price for his years of actions.

The crew of "Master of Rescuers" had indeed wished for big news, and yet the heavy nature of this news left them at a loss for a moment.

Revealing evil was the original intention of creating the program, but this time, the target they had to expose was Kolo Film Industry, the very company backing the program.

The contestants were also divided into several factions.

Some smart ones acted as if they knew nothing, handing over the chips they investigated to the program and then leaving the decision to Sean Grant and the person in charge; some supporters of the company firmly believed these were lies by criminals against the company, a concoction to cater to people’s dark suspicions about the company; of course, there were also one or two naïve ones like Valerian, who started following the clues, hoping to find conclusive evidence.

Valerian had just revealed her plan to Lu Xiang and the others a short while ago.

If Kolo Film Industry really was fostering those criminals in secret, she was determined to have the real villains punished by the law—that was the true spirit a rescuer should convey.

Zhuang Chi called this typical cannon fodder behavior.

From the moment Valerian refused to believe that "Master of Rescuers" had any insider manipulation and was firmly convinced they had not predetermined a champion, Zhuang Chi realized Valerian was somewhat too naïve, or rather, she still harbored beautiful illusions about the world.