novelraw Chapter 649: I’m Going to Report You — When I Become an Investigator, I’ll Come Back for You
Chapter 649: I’m Going to Report You — When I Become an Investigator, I’ll Come Back for You
Everyone around them was holding their breath, not daring to make a sound.
After all, if you offended someone from the Fierce Pursuit Hall...
Well...
The consequences could be unimaginable.
In the new city, human life was cheaper than grass.
But!!!!
Not everyone could just stand by and watch this happen.
In the corner.
Two young men wearing hats had witnessed the entire incident from beginning to end.
They exchanged glances with each other.The one in the black hat silently picked up some peanuts and poured them into his mouth.
The one in the white hat picked his teeth with a toothpick, then nudged his good brother beside him.
"Jing Bai."
After calling his name, he gestured with his chin toward the scene.
The black-hatted young man looked up, his expression somewhat troubled: "Let's not cause trouble, okay? This meal was paid for by someone from the Fierce Pursuit Hall - Jiang Ren, Grand Guardian Jiang."
"Grand Guardian Jiang is famously righteous and benevolent."
"When you eat someone's food, your mouth goes soft;
when you take someone's money, your hands go weak. If we meddle in the affairs of his friend, it's a bit inappropriate, especially since Guardian Jian here has a good relationship with Grand Guardian Jiang."
Qin Jinghao nodded: "That makes sense, but..."
"Are you really willing to eat this meal, buy a couple of nice outfits, and then go sell your life to the Fierce Pursuit Hall?"
"Training through the coldest winter days and hottest summer days for ten or twenty years, acquiring all these skills, even secretly learning our master's Pill-Grasping Hand and Life-Hastening Palm - just to become a gangster?"
Xiao Jingbai quickly finished the peanuts in his hand and swallowed: "Neither of us has any status, any job is as good as another."
"And I think the Fierce Pursuit Hall is pretty good. We burned down their casino, and Grand Guardian Jiang didn't even blame us."
"All his brothers value loyalty."
"I know you don't really like Guardian Jian. When Grand Duke Lu came earlier, your eyes were practically glued to him. But with our qualifications, we can't become investigators."
"Besides, in the new city, there's not much difference between investigators and the Fierce Pursuit Hall. Aren't those investigators of yours just as corrupt, one worse than the other?"
Hearing this, Qin Jinghao recalled again the stories about Lu Ding that the storyteller had told earlier.
He also remembered the imposing manner of Lu Ding's entrance.
As a man, this was the dream he pursued!
He wanted to become someone like Lu Ding - to have his own cool nickname, to have people singing his praises through storytelling, to make an impressive entrance.
Although this was his first time seeing the real person in the flesh.
During this time since coming to the new city, everything he had heard about Lu Ding had already built up a very high image of him in Qin Jinghao's mind.
And after seeing him today, it was truly a case of "the rumor falls short of the reality."
His character hadn't crumbled one bit.
Qin Jinghao's eyes flashed: "I don't know if 749 values loyalty, but I saw that Lu Ding himself is very principled."
"I also heard that White Ridge has become much better under his governance."
"As for black and white, it doesn't matter to me. I judge by the person. When Grand Duke Lu made his entrance, he completely overshadowed the image of Grand Guardian Jiang in my heart."
"Grand Guardian Jiang does value loyalty, but his loyalty is based on our skills, on his desire to recruit us."
"But Grand Duke Lu - his very entrance was an overwhelming display, his every gesture showed his caliber..."
He paused for a moment: "As for our identities..."
"I believe that if I tell Grand Duke Lu what happened here, plus with my skills and talent, at worst I could become a trainee investigator."
"With my Fourth Restriction strength, I believe I'll quickly become a Formal Investigator."
"Those below me - regular investigators can't compare to me. Those above me - Grand Duke Lu dominates everything. I could just charge straight ahead without thinking, going wherever Grand Duke Lu points, being loyal!!"
Facing his good brother's passionate words and beautiful fantasies about the future.
Xiao Jingbai didn't hesitate, immediately pouring cold water on it: "Jinghao, this... is too idealistic."
"And snitching... isn't that a bit..."
"Wasn't it the storyteller who provoked Feng Yueming first, and then Guardian Jian came to stand up for him? This..."
As soon as these words were spoken.
Qin Jinghao immediately understood that this seemed to be the starting point where the two of them would begin to drift apart.
A feeling of regret filled his heart: "Jing Bai, do you think that storyteller can still survive..."
Xiao Jingbai fell silent, but that silence was answer enough.
Qin Jinghao continued: "If you dare to do it, you should dare to take responsibility. Why is it considered snitching just because I report what she did?"
"Jing Bai, don't worry, I'll pay back Grand Guardian Jiang ten times what he spent on us. Wait until I make something of myself, I'll definitely come back to pull you up with me. Wait for me, you have to wait for me."
With that, Qin Jinghao was about to run out.
Xiao Jingbai shouted: "Jinghao, don't you like Feng Yueming? Don't you think she's beautiful?"
Qin Jinghao turned back one last time: "Let's use the language of ordinary people since we're living in the ordinary world. For the same career advancement - joining the Fierce Pursuit Hall, I'd get wealth and beauty;
joining 749, I'd get power and fame!"
"Feng Yueming... she's just an opera singer."
"If I had the fearsome reputation and power of Grand Duke Lu, then a hundred Feng Yuemings would be scrambling to sing for me, spreading my true name to thousands of households, and I'd still be saying 'watch your influence'."
With a laugh.
Qin Jinghao quickly ran out of the All Under Heaven One Family restaurant.
Leaving Xiao Jingbai alone sitting at the dining table.
"Didn't we say that after coming down from the mountain, we would eat delicious food, make friends in the martial world, roam the world freely on horseback, and live with swift justice and vengeance..."
"Why do you insist on joining an imperial organization like the Great Han's 749..."
Suddenly, a voice reached his ears.
"Because the Great Han has no emperor, Jing Bai. Whatever you do, don't get too deeply involved with the Fierce Pursuit Hall. We're brothers, wait for me, wait for me to come back and pull you up!!!"
After saying this seriously and earnestly, Qin Jinghao grabbed the phone he had forgotten earlier.
Before Xiao Jingbai could say anything.
He had already run off and disappeared.
Meanwhile.
On the other side.
In the Path of Dry Bones 749 Bureau Chief's office.
The bureau chief and deputy bureau chief of Path of Dry Bones 749 were still watching the restored surveillance footage.
Who knows how many times they had rewatched it by now.
Deputy Bureau Chief Nan Kaiye, being more impatient by nature: "Even if we watch this video until it's worn out, it's still Lu Ding!!!"
"Besides Lu Ding, who would dare to be so arrogant - first wiping out an entire consulate alone, then slaughtering all the Path of Dry Bones investigators?"
He was getting emotional: "No one!!!"
"No one would dare to do such things."
"Only Lu Ding!!"
Duan Tianya rested his chin on his hand: "But there's no face visible, and he doesn't have any motive for the crime either. Why wouldn't he reveal his identity?"
"Besides, even if the people from the Tai Island consulate were conducting human experiments, that still doesn't explain why he had to kill all the investigators too...."
What Nan Kaiye said made sense, but Duan Tianya's words also had their own logic.
"Then why the fuck are you making me watch this video over and over again? What exactly do you want to do!?"
"We can't even confirm if it's him, and it's making me furious for no reason,"