[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-the-imperial-enforcer-with-an-eight-hour-workday":3,"chapter-the-imperial-enforcer-with-an-eight-hour-workday-the-imperial-enforcer-with-an-eight-hour-workday-chapter-57":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"chinese","The Imperial Hound on an Eight-Hour Shift",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":20,"prevChapterSlug":21,"totalChapters":22,"novelImage":23},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":16,"volume":17,"translator":18,"content_hash":19},2225115,4113,"Chapter 57","the-imperial-enforcer-with-an-eight-hour-workday-chapter-57",57,"\u003Cp>Let's talk about Wang Hai.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This trip was for a secret visit, and bringing people with poor martial arts would be a burden. Wang Hai had internal energy to support him, so he set off alone, changing horses all the way, and arrived at his destination in less than a day and a half.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Although the person opened his mouth, he didn't know much, only saying that someone handed the manual to him, saying it was the Right Envoy's instruction, just put it there, don't ask anything else.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After losing the manual, he had reported it, but there was no response. Since then, he had lost contact with the sect.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Unable to bear Xiaosi's torture, he racked his brains and said: \"Since the manual was lost, I have been out of the city a few times to do things, and I seem to have been followed. The methods look like people from the sect.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I went out of the city to do things several times very suddenly, and they could follow up immediately. This person should live near my home. I didn't dare to check, I don't know which family it is.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wang Hai came here to investigate, wanting to find that Ming Cult member who was monitoring, to see if he could dig out the Ming Cult Right Envoy's plan.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This place is a village under the jurisdiction of Beizhili, with not many people, close to the mountains and forests.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Few people come and go in this kind of place. To avoid attracting attention, Wang Hai got off his horse in advance and tied the horse in the woods by the road.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then he took out some clothes and disguise items from his luggage, and spent a stick of incense time roughly tidying up.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In a short while, he changed from a heroic young military officer to a dusty traveling merchant.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wang Hai entered the town and wandered around, roughly figuring out the layout of the surrounding buildings. He took the opportunity to chat with a few idlers and roughly locked onto a few suspicious households.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then he left the village, found his horse and luggage, changed into a night-traveling suit, put on hook-blade gloves, sat on a bluestone slab to rest and adjust his breath, waiting for the night to act.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The sun set, and in the blink of an eye, it was midnight.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After half a day of adjustment, Wang Hai had eliminated the fatigue accumulated from the rush, stood up, stretched his muscles and bones, and then used his light technique to go to the few suspicious households he locked onto during the day.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>According to the news he got from those idlers, there were three households near the person who was interrogated, and they had moved in in recent years and had no relatives with the local families.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wang Hai flipped over the wall silently and fell into the courtyard of the first household.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He first entered the bedroom quietly, pointed at the master's neck with one finger, and knocked him unconscious. Then he searched carefully in the house and under the bed, and knocked on the floor tiles and wall panels, but found no secret doors or secret rooms.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Finally, he held the person's pulse, checked for internal energy, and carefully pinched his muscles and bones to see if there were any traces of practicing martial arts.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Basically ruled out the suspicion of this person, Wang Hai flipped over the wall and went out, checked the second family in the same way, but still found nothing.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>By this time, Wang Hai actually didn't have much hope in his heart.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>According to the Ming Cult's style of doing things, the possibility that this line had already been broken was very high.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If it weren't for the Ming Cult Right Envoy, and the Five Mountains Sword Sects mission being related to the Ming Cult, plus the fact that the things on this road were vaguely connected, Wang Hai wouldn't have come to investigate personally so urgently.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wang Hai put one hand on the wall and was about to flip over the wall of the third household.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He just showed his head on the wall.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In an instant, a cold light had reached his face!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wang Hai was overjoyed: \"Caught!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He supported the wall with his left hand, grabbed the flying dart that was coming toward him with his right hand in mid-air. His gloves were inlaid with refined iron pieces, so he wasn't afraid of the poison on the thing cutting his skin.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As soon as Wang Hai landed, he saw a figure flip onto the roof and flee outside.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wang Hai sneered and threw the flying dart back as it was.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Whoosh——Pfft!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Ah!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The person shouted, blood sprayed from his knee, his body lost balance, and he immediately fell on the roof.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wang Hai flipped onto the roof, didn't talk much, reached out and grabbed the person's chin, and dislocated the joint with a crack.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then he grabbed both hands, and with two crisp cracks of \"crack\" and \"crack,\" he twisted them off directly. Both legs were treated the same way.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In just two or three breaths, this person was deprived of all ability to act, wriggling on the roof like a maggot, making a \"heh heh\" painful cry from his mouth.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wang Hai carried the person's clothes, jumped off the roof, walked into the house, threw the person in a corner at will, and searched carefully in the house.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In less than a stick of incense time, he found a scripture, a few banknotes, and a waist token in a secret compartment under the person's bed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wang Hai picked up the waist token and examined it carefully; it had some text written in Persian on it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Embroidered Uniform Guard had been searching for Ming Cult disciples for many years, and they were very familiar with certain specific Persian sentences.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Thick Earth Banner.\" Wang Hai read it out.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Ming Cult structure from top to bottom is: Leader, Left and Right Envoys, Four Protectors, Five Banner Leaders. The disciples in the sect are under the jurisdiction of the five banner leaders, which are Sharp Metal, Giant Wood, Flood, Fierce Fire, and Thick Earth.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Fifteen years ago, the Ming Cult was severely damaged, the main altar was destroyed, and the leader Ji Tianrui died.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Below the leader, a Right Envoy, two protectors, and three banner leaders died.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Among them, the Right Envoy was later supplemented, but there has been little news about him to this day, and it is not known whether he is a man or a woman. A protector was supplemented.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But the banner leaders have always only had the Thick Earth Banner and Flood Banner leaders, and have never been supplemented.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The reason is very simple, the Ming Cult's five banners have different divisions of labor. In that battle fifteen years ago, the Sharp Metal, Giant Wood, and Fierce Fire banner disciples who faced the enemy head-on were all killed. Only the Flood Banner, which was responsible for the operation of the branch altars in various places, and the Thick Earth Banner disciples, who were responsible for secretly investigating news and undercover espionage, were preserved.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Without disciples, there is naturally no need for banner leaders.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Embroidered Uniform Guard has been dealing with the Thick Earth Banner people for most of these years.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And this person has the Thick Earth Banner waist token, and he is also a person with status within the Ming Cult, and should be a middle-level figure of the Thick Earth Banner.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Ming Cult has gone underground for more than ten years, and those who remain are all loyal die-hards who will not open their mouths easily. Wang Hai is used to dealing with Ming Cult people, so he didn't talk nonsense, dragged the person over, and started using torture to interrogate.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That person was also tough, and he endured for two hours before opening his mouth weakly: \"Stop... I'll say...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wang Hai stopped, wiped the blood on his hands on the person's body, and asked: \"What is your name, what contact do you have with the Ming Cult Right Envoy?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I... I am called—\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The person was just about to speak.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Pfft.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But he saw a cold light shoot from the courtyard, directly inserted into the person's neck!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Blood sprayed, the person fell softly and lost his breath.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wang Hai's pupils shrank, and he immediately turned to look at the courtyard, his internal energy ready to go, fully alert.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He had been working under Li Miao for many years and had handled no less than a thousand or eight hundred missions. How could he not secretly guard against the Ming Cult setting an ambush at this time?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But he clearly didn't hear a sound, and the speed of that hidden weapon was weirdly fast, he didn't even have a chance to block it!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wang Hai focused his attention and looked at the courtyard, only to see two people appearing in the courtyard at some point, one young and one old.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The young man had a feminine face, and he was just right to say to the old one: \"Banner Leader Zhou, how long did your subordinate hold on?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The old one was expressionless and replied coldly: \"Two hours.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Ah, then you won.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The young man smiled and said: \"However, Banner Leader Zhou, does this count as cheating?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I was betting with you on how much he would say, why did you kill him?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The old man didn't answer, just looked at Wang Hai coldly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The young man turned his head and smiled at Wang Hai: \"Hello, brother.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"After you took the person away, I waited for you here for a long time.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"You are an Embroidered Uniform Guard, right. Do you recognize someone—should be in his thirties this year, heroic face, martial arts at the top or above? Should be called... Li Miao?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"If you know, please tell me.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I am Yun Zelin, I met him fifteen years ago, and I have been asking about him for a long time.\"\u003C\u002Fp>",1687,"2026-06-17T21:41:15.265Z","2026-06-18T03:13:38.468Z",1,"Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite","8e3482d86a77aca93d1f211d0d4576639ce35f618f27f35153550f86987e2ffb","the-imperial-enforcer-with-an-eight-hour-workday-chapter-58","the-imperial-enforcer-with-an-eight-hour-workday-chapter-56",647,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fthe-imperial-hound-on-an-eight-hour-shift-cover.jpg"]