Enforcer Manual
Chapter 935 - 871: Hall of Fame Player

Chapter 935: Chapter 871: Hall of Fame Player

The Fourth Region detected a large number of wild Vadim refresh signals.

On this day, the Exceptional Case Investigation Bureau felt they were facing an unprecedented provocation, but as events unfolded, they soon realized that Vadim was not deliberately provoking them. In fact, for a lawless scoundrel like Vadim, he had been quite restrained recently.

Dressed in a thick, body-concealing coat on a swelteringly hot day, his face was masked with a combination of a mouth guard and sunglasses, with even his hairstyle being stealthily hidden under an old beret.

Yet, even with such meticulous disguise, passersby still recognized him at a glance.

"Teacher Catherine, are you sure you’re not joking?"

Lu Xiang couldn’t help but ask.

In her impression, Teacher Catherine always took cases seriously and responsibly, never joking about such matters.

Yet the current situation sounded as if, overnight, everyone in the Fourth Region had become a famous detective, able to recognize Vadim beneath the beret, sunglasses, and mask at just one glance.

Throughout the morning, the Bureau’s hotline had been blowing up, and even the elderly sanitation worker identified Vadim’s disguise and eagerly reported the latest news about the wanted criminal to the Bureau.

"If he really was dressed in disguise as you say, how did these citizens recognize him?"

"I had my doubts at first, but take a look at this photo."

Catherine sent a photo taken by the reporting citizen.

The person in the photo was heavily concealed, and his real appearance was completely obscured.

Moreover, this is the Fourth Region, where mildly famous rescuers often disguise themselves this way when they don’t want to stir up commotion.

But...

This person is Vadim.

Even if one couldn’t make out his physique and features, some kind of intuition led everyone to recognize the identity of the person in disguise.

It’s like in a game where you carefully conceal yourself, but the ID floating above your head gives away your identity immediately.

Catherine believed this was Vadim’s current predicament, where no matter where he went, he would be recognized by people at first sight.

This phenomenon was unique among the cases she had dealt with in the past, and for a moment, she even felt a twinge of sympathy for Vadim.

"It really is him."

After a while, Lu Xiang had to favor her instincts over her rationality, but unlike Catherine, she knew that when such a problem occurred, seeking out Song Lan was the right move.

Based on her past experiences, when inexplicable phenomena occurred in real life, it was mostly because of Song Lan, and this situation also fit very well with Dumb Bird’s style of always liking to tease his friends.

With that in mind, she said, "Teacher, I need to step out for a moment."

...

When Lu Xiang returned to her room at the Eden Hotel, she unsurprisingly found Song Lan, who was dozing off on the double bed. According to him, he had been extremely busy over the past few days, and now that the production team had not scheduled any new tasks for him, it was the perfect time to catch up on sleep.

Theoretically, these two days were for the students to continue learning from their mentors.

However, Song Lan trusted that Veronica and Valerian could grow rapidly even without him, thanks to their friendship and bond—and besides, this was the Fourth Region, a place harbouring hidden masters; people said that walking into any coffee shop could lead to encounters with celebrities only seen on TV.

Perhaps while they were causing a ruckus outside, they might accidentally meet a hidden master wearing a headband with the word "oil" and have the secrets of their craft bestowed upon them.

Of course, Lu Xiang mercilessly refuted such justifications.

The sharp-witted director immediately saw through this excuse Dumb Bird made up to slack off; yet, in another sense, she had to admit there was a tiny bit of truth to what Song Lan said—Song Lan was not good at teaching, seemingly due to his extremely weak foundation in Spiritual Energy theory, directly causing the current situation.

Either he would use standins to let others become "Standin Messengers," or, like the unfortunate "Y Control Barrier," they would end up learning nothing at all.

Before coming to the Fourth Region, she had met "Y Control Barrier" a few times in the Seventeenth Region.

Since parting ways with the First Region, the young man hadn’t shown much progress, still claiming he practiced his health and self-improvement regimen daily, with his modest goal being to rank in the top three among his contemporaries from the Six Stars rescuers in 60 years.

According to the Six Stars rescuers’ policy, after ten years of work, they can submit retirement applications to the rescuer department, which allows them to enjoy a leisurely life and receive the highest standards of benefits from the rescuer department for life, with the United Government covering all expenses for food, clothing, housing, and transport.

Over ninety percent of Six Stars rescuers choose to retire once they are eligible, meaning even if "Y Control Barrier" remains as is from this point forward and keeps from applying for retirement, he would outperform ninety percent of his contemporaries.

When Lu Xiang heard all this, she felt "Y Control Barrier" was clearly corrupted by Song Lan.

If you think about Hanna and Yeying, it seems that everyone who has been seriously mentored by Song Lan inevitably gets infected by his "virus."

Ever since arriving in the Seventeenth Region, Hanna had completely let loose, and lately, she had been planning her seventh paid vacation; and as for the little friend Yeying...