Chapter 639 - Unexpected (1/2)

Just because Zhang Baogen had accidentally amused an autistic child with his saliva bubbles, it made him, a supernatural being, decide to remain at the orphanage. This would probably be unimaginable to many supernatural beings.

But whoever stipulated that supernatural beings had to go around killing people and striving for supremacy?

Perhaps superpowers were meant for achieving other things in the first place.

Not everyone in this world was cast from the same mold. Ren Xiaosu sought to use his own superpower to protect his family and friends, while Zhang Baogen felt his superpower was at its peak when using it to cheer up an autistic child. Was there anything wrong with that?

Zhang Qingxi went into the orphanage’s kitchen to look around and realized there weren’t even any decent food ingredients.

Zhang Baogen explained, “The Qinghe Group disburses 6,000 yuan to our welfare home each month. But as y’all can see, we have so many children here, so that amount is definitely not enough to go around. We also don’t wish to see these children suffer, and most of them have some sort of issue. They’re either born with internal birth defects or developmental disorders like autism. Their parents abandoned them at our doorstep and gave up on them.”

Qin Sheng looked at the group of children and said coldly, “To think that there would be such an impoverished welfare home in Luoyang City. Why don’t they just call it a hardship home instead? Where’s the director? Get him out here. I want to check with him on who’s responsible for these situations!”

There were only two care workers at the orphanage. One of them was Zhang Baogen, and the other was a girl who was telling stories to the children inside the home. Meanwhile, the director had not made an appearance at all til now.

Zhang Baogen went in and shouted for the director. But when Ren Xiaosu saw the director, he was dumbfounded. It was Hu Shuo!

Ren Xiaosu immediately cursed in his head!

To be honest, he had not expected to encounter Hu Shuo here.

He was wondering why Li Shentan had only made mention of Si Liren but not Hu Shuo. However, he did not expect Hu Shuo to actually end up as the director of the orphanage at Luoyang City.

After all, this was the former director of the Li Consortium’s Special Investigations Division, so how could he possibly be willing to be the director of an orphanage?

He wondered how Hu Shuo ended up as the director of the orphanage, and it seemed like he had been in the role for quite a while too. However, Ren Xiaosu did not expose Hu Shuo’s identity. He just stood at the side and watched Hu Shuo lament to Qin Sheng and Zhang Qingxi. His acting was so flawless the two Riders did not suspect a thing.

Ren Xiaosu even suspected Hu Shuo was the one who instructed Zhang Baogen to deliberately kill someone so it would attract the attention of the Qinghe Group’s people. By playing the sympathetic card, they could improve the orphanage’s benefits.

Back when Zhang Baogen was holding the hostage, there was something that made Ren Xiaosu suspicious, and it was how Zhang Baogen had so easily stopped resisting.

But only by doing so could he survive until the “interrogation” stage without getting seriously injured. Only then could he convey to the Riders his reason for killing someone.

One would have to carefully consider the Riders’ behavior patterns before they dared to pull off something like that. And it was precisely someone like Hu Shuo who possessed such a quality.

If it were really so, Hu Shuo was probably not expecting Ren Xiaosu to appear here.

Qin Sheng and Zhang Qingxi assured Hu Shuo they would investigate this matter thoroughly the next day. On top of that, the disbursement of funds to the orphanage would be handled by the Riders’ staff in the future. It would no longer be controlled by the Civil Affairs Department of Luoyang City.

Hu Shuo was so grateful he directly addressed the Riders as kind angels. Zhang Qingxi and Qin Sheng turned red in embarrassment and wanted to get out of there.

Ren Xiaosu did not leave, as he told Qin Sheng he wanted to catch up with Zhang Baogen.