Chapter 123: Su Jian Dragged to Work in the Middle of the Night

Xu Chengzhu pondered for a moment and said, "What you say is very likely."

He weighed his words and continued, "The patrol teams under the Patrol Office have too complex a membership. It is easy for problems to arise. Moreover, the current patrol teams seem understaffed; everyone works more and more, yet the salary remains the same as before. Resentment is heavy, and they are easily bought by outsiders."

Hearing this, Director Bao Junyi's face immediately turned red with embarrassment.

How could he not know about the situation where the patrol team has few people but many tasks?

This situation was caused by his own hand.

To advance one step at a time, this arrangement was forced upon him.

Only if the patrol team frequently encountered mishaps could he arrange the people he trusted one by one into positions.

"Furthermore, the Intelligence Office under your Patrol Office has employees whose origins can be traced back over forty years, to the era before Sima Xuan's predecessor.

How Sima Xuan was poisoned? It is possible that someone in the Intelligence Office leaked his dietary preferences and whereabouts."

Hearing this, Director Bao Junyi nodded. He felt in his heart that Xu Chengzhu's speculation made quite a lot of sense.

"Taking advantage of this incident, you should clean up the Intelligence Office and the patrol team again. Do not always cause me sudden explosions.

My, Xu Yi's, heart truly cannot withstand your next surprise attack."

The expression on Director Bao Junyi's face suddenly became somewhat hard to suppress a laugh.

"Xu Chengzhu, do not forget, we still have a mutated leech opponent outside the city walls. So, I will still come to find you."

Three types of insects?! Xu Yi's face turned as black as it possibly could.

"Why do these Star Insect Clans fixate on our Xiancheng?" Xu Chengzhu asked with a look of confusion.

Director Bao Junyi thought to himself, I do not know this either.

"First, tell me your plan," Xu Chengzhu asked again.

Director Bao Junyi first stated his One's Own Idea, and Xu Chengzhu nodded directly upon hearing it.

"Just do it this way. Later, I will have Xu Ji, the commander of the City Guard, contact you. He will cooperate with you to deploy the City Guard for battle."

Hearing these words, Director Bao Junyi nodded in satisfaction.

The position of City Guard Commander is only given to the new City Lord's confidant.

This is not only to establish the new City Lord's authority, but also for the new City Lord's personal safety.

Previously, the Sect had seen no shortage of incidents where the City Guard rebelled and killed the City Lord.

Therefore, after a City Lord ascended, replacing the City Guard Commander became an unspoken rule tacitly accepted by the Sect.

Although such tacit acceptance could also lead to the City Lord and the City Guard rebelling against the Sect together.

But it is still less damaging to the Sect than the City Guard killing the City Lord.

After all, killing the City Lord would directly cause the Sect's prestige to decline, creating a crisis of trust among the hundreds of millions of human races directly ruled by the Sect.

Making everyone feel the Sect is not strong enough, which is why City Lords keep dying.

Conversely, if the City Lord rebels against the Sect along with the City Guard, it is at most a matter of how long it takes to suppress the rebellion.

Because everyone will assume the Sect is powerful; simply dispatching a few high-level cultivators can suppress the rebellion.

The main reason for this phenomenon is that City Lords all come from the Sect's powerful faction.

As for the City Guard responsible for defending the city within Xiancheng, in the Sect's hierarchy, they are merely irregular local garrison troops. Their combat power is not worth mentioning, being only slightly stronger than a ragtag mob.

Even granting the City Lords of various Xianchengs control over them poses no real danger.

If they rebel in the future, send elite forces to directly annihilate them.

However, in the current Xiancheng, the force of the City Guard is still quite important to Director Bao Junyi. He even relies heavily on this force, after all, he has no one else available under his command.

As the night deepened, the entire Xiancheng became noisy.

Whether in the inner city or the outer city, the large-scale investigation operation woke up the entire Xiancheng.

Ordinary commoners could only squat at home waiting for people to come investigate, but those with status and rank took direct action.

Even if the investigation had not yet reached their own homes, they could take their relatives and run to other neighborhoods that had already been investigated to lie down.

It was better than being ambushed and attacked by a parasitic human suddenly appearing beside them.

As the Su family investigated more and more neighborhoods, manpower from many small factions was reassigned by the Su family to work; they were free labor, so why not use them? But after the numbers grew, the Su family's direct lineage still needed to supervise and guide them in their work.

So the Su family conducted a third round of personnel reassignment.

This time, Su Jian was also reassigned.

In the middle of the night, he was called out from his warm bed and his wife's embrace.

It was simply ungentlemanly!

But could he say he would not go?

He did not have the courage.

So he still had to go.

This time he "luckily" was assigned to the investigation team led by Su Hanlin.

Su Jian and another female cultivator from the family were assigned together to Su Hanlin's team. As soon as Su Jian saw Su Hanlin, he wordlessly handed the late-night snack his wife had brought to him to Su Hanlin.

"My wife said you did not come home last night. Before leaving, she brought an extra portion of late-night snack for you. She asked me to see if I could find you and give you the meal." Su Jian thought to himself, Is my luck this good recently? Who would have thought the leader of the team I was assigned to would be Su Hanlin.

"Thank you, sister-in-law," Su Hanlin happily accepted the lunchbox. Later, he would find a place to finish the late-night snack; he was hungry just in time.

"How is the situation?" Su Jian walked over and asked.

Su Hanlin first had an older cultivator take the female cultivator away and assign her work.

Then he said to Su Jian, "The results of the inner city investigation are okay. Sometimes we sweep three or four neighborhoods and find no parasitic insects. After all, it is the inner city; the management of each neighborhood is much stricter than outside."

"Luckily everyone manages strictly," Su Jian immediately said, "Otherwise, it would be troublesome."

"I heard that you, little Su Jin from your family, were the first to discover this new type of insect?" Su Hanlin asked again.

"Yes, yes. On the way to school. That insect launched a surprise attack and almost succeeded. Luckily, Su Jin was carrying protective items prepared for her in advance by my cousin grandfather," Su Jian said.

"Why did that parasitic worm target Xiao Jin? Could someone have sold her information?" Su Hanlin suddenly asked with a serious expression.

He knew that Su Jin was the contract master of the Blood Crimson Net.

If someone had discovered this secret, it wasn't impossible that they would scheme to kill Su Jin.

Because if Su Jin died, the Blood Crimson Net would lose its chance to grow rapidly. It wouldn't die, but its growth speed would begin to slow. Once it reached a certain stage, it would stop growing altogether.

"It probably wasn't that. It felt more like an accidental encounter," Su Jian said, frowning.

"You should still be careful. From now on, it's best to escort her to and from school. At least for this period, personally picking her up and dropping her off is necessary. So that if something really happens, you won't regret it forever," Su Hanlin reminded him.

Su Jian nodded. "Got it."