Chapter 242 - The Nine Military Bureaus (1/2)
The next morning, Zhang Che and Huang Juyun took the latter’s custom-made, full metal-bodied super luxurious car alloyed with purple-gold crystal, heading to central Bei Du City.
Zhang Che found it a little strange. Shouldn’t the relevant departments be located in some secluded area? Why would they be heading towards the city center?
Huang Juyun dispelled his doubts with a smile. “It’s not a combat unit. Of course it’d be more convenient to locate it in the center of the city.”
Seeing Zhang Che still acting a little nervous, Huang Juyun chuckled, “No need to be nervous. Your experience is important to the Nine Military Bureaus for their study of this series of incidents. They won’t make things hard for you.”
Zhang Che smiled, embarrassed. “It’s exactly because I thought this is the highest intelligence department. I’m afraid they’ll even find out the age I stopped wetting the bed.”
Truthfully speaking, Zhang Che was indeed very nervous at the start. His predecessor had heard many things about intelligence departments. Thinking that he was about to become the target of investigation, how could he stay calm?
After hearing Zhang Che’s words, Huang Juyun pointed at him, not knowing whether to laugh or cry. It was only when his future father-in-law gave him his word that he finally settled down.
The car drove on for close to an hour through the intersecting roads, before turning into an unassuming little courtyard.
Zhang Che wasn’t curious about the ordinary exterior of this place. Instead, he was bemoaning silently, -This driver really sucks, taking so long to reach here. If it was Miss Tienan driving, I’m sure we would have been here in half an hour!-
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After alighting from the car, Zhang Che followed Huang Juyun and passed through several strict security checks, before finally arriving at the inner area of the Nine Military Bureaus.
The person who received them was a middle-aged major general, as well as a few record-takers sitting at his side.
What Zhang Che found strange was that other than these people, there was also a middle-aged woman with rather high cheekbones sitting at the side calmly, exuding the dignified aura of someone with high status.
Huang Juyun’s complexion changed slightly the moment he entered the room and saw this woman. There were hints of awkwardness, and hints of restraining fear, leaving Zhang Che’s heart thumping. -Shit, did future father-in-law run into his old flame? This is not good.- This kind of situation was something he really wanted to avoid.
The department head of the Nine Military Bureaus, Xu Lingkong, probably felt the awkward atmosphere in the air. He couldn’t help but stood up and greet Huang Juyun, “General Huang, this must be your daughter’s little boyfriend, Zhang Che?”
The face of the middle-aged woman sitting at the side suddenly turned cold. She humphed, “Department Head Xu, this isn’t the place for small talk. Please start your questioning. I still have to hand the results of the questioning to our higher-ups.”
After saying that, the middle-aged woman turned to look at Huang Juyun, whose face was constantly changing. She said coldly, “General Huang Juyun, please sit at the side quietly. Don’t interfere with our questioning process. Thank you!”
Huang Juyun’s complexion turned even uglier. He didn’t utter a word, only sitting down at the side passively.
Zhang Che was crying about his bad luck inwardly. -Looks like this won’t be an easy process. Does this count as getting implicated?-
Afterwards, the questioning officially began.
Zhang Che repeated what he talked about this to his future father-in-law, starting from the demonic flower that could blur one’s rationality.
When he was onto the part when the demonic flower’s soul trying to consume him, but was killed instead, the middle-aged woman suddenly interjected, “Stop! You just said that that demonic flower could cloud your consciousness from the start. It goes to show that its soul should be far stronger than yours. How could you reverse kill it at the last moment? I think your story is very suspicious!”
-Freaking hell… you old virgin must have gotten dumped by my future father-in-law in the past!-
Zhang Che was very annoyed. However, looking at another perspective, this woman was indeed faithfully discharging her duty, and her senses were keen, discovering the loophole in his story immediately.
However, with his future father-in-law going through the story with him previously, Zhang Che wasn’t afraid of her. He met her suspicious gaze, saying calmly, “How would I know? Maybe that demonic flower is only good at clouding senses, and its soul wasn’t actually that strong? Moreover, that was only a strange plant in the end, how could it match up to us humans?”
There was no way to refute his words.
The middle-aged woman focused her cold gaze on Zhang Che, suddenly changing the topic, asking, “Since that demonic flower’s soul was consumed by you, then your spiritual sea must be larger than ordinary beastmasters. Can you talk about your beastmaster tier and the number of beasts you can employ?”
-This woman is incredible!-
“My beastmaster tier is already at Tier Five.” Zhang Che had no intentions of hiding his beastmaster tier. Not only that, he even planned on revealing a little about the secret of his large spiritual sea. “Also, I can employ one subdued beast more than other beastmasters.”