Chapter 37: A Ring 1 (1/2)
Chapter 37: A Ring (1)
Translator: Soldier
Affiliated to the Department of Homeland Security, the Supernaturalism Management Bureau (SMB) was a government agency.
Zu Zhichong had just come back from the accounting office where he received his travel allowance for this season. Seeing that his chief was clearing the desk, he couldn't help asking, ”Chief, you are not working overtime today?”
Li Zong unscrewed the lid of his Thermos bottle. The smell of Chinese wolfberries and slices of ginseng instantly reminded him of what happened in the morning. His lips curved in a smile. Surprisingly, his tone of voice was not as cold as it usually was. ”There's some business I have to attend to, and I've got to go back early.”
Zu Zhichong became even more curious. What kind of business could Li Zong have to attend to? If there had been any changes worth mentioning in his life recently, the presence of another man in his apartment would be the only one.
Zu Zhichong gave a cough. ”Oh. Okay. Chief, has He Zheng made a decision? My sect-uncle is going to finish his closed-door cultivation soon. If he goes back to the sect with me to meet my sect-uncle and starts learning right away, he might be able to participate in our department's entrance test this year.”
”I'll ask him after I return.”
On hearing this, Zu Zhichong gave a wicked grin, lifting his eyebrows and winking. ”Chief, are you serious? I feel that you've become a typical married man.”
”How so?”
”You're different from single men like me! Uncommonly charming!” Zu Zhichong hurriedly said.
Tun Shanhai, who happened to be walking by, bluntly twisted his head around, gave a meow, and then commented in human language, ”That 'single' part is true. Hardly any men remain single at your age. I don't see that there's anything to be proud of in it.”
”Ha. Tun Shanhai, seriously? You want to do this again?” Zu Zhichong rolled up his sleeves and hurled up to him. ”You've been single for no shorter than me! If you say that again, I'll have you castrated!”
Zu Zhichong touched a raw nerve of Tun Shanhai, which led to a fierce fight between them.
The office was unduly uproarious. When Li Zong was about to leave, Zhen Ni delivered some files to him, saying, ”Chief, this is the background information we obtained a couple of days ago about those two men. One of them is a common white-collar worker, and the other is an entertainer who entered the industry not long ago. There's nothing special about them.
I suspect that there's indeed someone who has been manipulating common people with demonic Qi, forcing them to kill people so as to facilitate his or her cultivation. I looked into the archives of people living nearby and narrowed down the list to a couple of suspects. Han Zhuo has started investigating them.”
With a somewhat serious expression on her face, Zhen Ni lowered her voice and said to Li Zong, ”Chief, I suspect that this series of events might have something to do with those Demon's Attendants.”
Twenty years before, the Demon King came into the world. Meanwhile, a group of people dedicated to serving the Demon King sprang up, calling themselves Demon's Attendant. They had caused SMB a lot of trouble.