"What should we do next?" Little Fatty asked with a miserable face, "What if those people can’t find anything in other places and come back to search us again?"
"It’s not out of the question," Tang Fei stated. "Since they’ve already focused on this area, it proves they have enough evidence. If they don’t succeed this time, there will be a second time, a third time..."
"If higher-ranking officers come over, I’m afraid even the Princess’s face won’t be enough..." So we still need to find a way to get him out."
Tang Fei looked at Bai Wuxin and said, "You rest well for a bit, recuperate... Later, I’ll channel some Yin Yang Qi into your body, so you can at least walk freely..."
"Okay," Bai Wuxin replied.
Tang Fei looked at his watch and said, "At eight-thirty, when everyone finishes dinner and starts to crowd the streets, we’ll blend into the masses..."
"Then, we’ll have broken free... The vast sea lets fish leap, the high sky lets birds fly. Once you’re hidden in the crowd, you can go wherever you want, and even the Sky Eye system won’t be able to lock onto your trail..."
"Thank you," Bai Wuxin said gratefully.
"Thank what?" Tang Fei said with a smile. "I should be the one saying that to you."
Bai Wuxin understood what Tang Fei meant, gave him a profound look, and then closed his eyes to rest.
He knew that the real danger had not yet arrived.
Little Fatty turned to Tang Fei and asked, "Bro, what are we going to do?"
"Are you full?" Tang Fei inquired.
"No," Little Fatty shook his head.
"Neither am I," Tang Fei said. "Let’s go, let’s continue eating. Only with a full stomach will we have the energy to work."
"Alright!" Little Fatty said happily.
Moreover, today Tang Fei had personally cooked, making all of his favorite dishes.
Good food should not go to waste.
Monitoring Bureau. Director’s office.
Yan Wenli took off the glasses perched on his nose, gently laid the document in his hands on the desk, pressed it down with his slender, dry fingers, and looked at Director Zhong, "Nothing was found?"
"Yes," Director Zhong replied with a fearful expression, explaining, "We have searched every household in the Lion Mountain area, but we haven’t found the target individual."
"Didn’t you say you had caught onto his tail at Lion Mountain? How is it that you can’t find him now? Could he possibly have flown away into the sky?"
"Yes. We did indeed find traces of his escape and according to our deductions, he should indeed be hiding in this area..."
"While we’re not afraid of offending people, by doing something ..." Yan Wenli’s gaze turned stern as he looked at Director Zhong, speaking in a deep voice, "We’ve paid such a high price, and yet this is the result we get. Do you think this is satisfactory?"
"I deserve to die, I admit my guilt."
"Whether you deserve to die or know your guilt is something we will discuss later," Yan Wenli said with a hint of gloomy amusement on his lips. "But now... is this the work you’re giving me?"
"Enough apologies," Yan Wenli interrupted with impatience, saying, "I want results. Without results, all words are useless."
"But, my lord, I led my men to thoroughly search, and we truly found no suspicious individuals..."
"Have all the households been searched?"
"Why the hesitation?" Yan Wenli pressed, "Is there a fish that escaped the net? An incomplete search?"
"Not daring to deceive the director, there indeed was one household we did not search," Director Zhong admitted honestly.
Though he was the chief of Section Five, he knew that Section Five was not only his Section Five but also the director’s. There were spies from the director in Section Five, not just one or two.
If he hid the information now and someone else reported it to the director, his loyalty in the eyes of the director would be discounted.
Ability is important, but loyalty is more important.
He couldn’t make such a mistake.
"Oh? Who has such a large face that even Chief Zhong must not lightly offend?"
"Tang Fei?" Yan Wenli paused, saying, "That name sounds a bit familiar..."
"He’s the disciple of the Great Grandmaster Xuanyuan Mingjing, a friend of the Princess, and the vice-captain of the Imperial Guard personally appointed by the King... He did indeed invite us to search inside, but we all felt there should be no issues with him, so we did not enter."
"You thought there were no issues, so you didn’t check?"
"We were about to enter and search when the Princess just happened to call. We thought we should at least maintain Her Highness’s dignity..."
"Was it you who wanted to maintain Her Highness’s dignity, or was it your group’s decision?"
"I can understand if you or the others wanted to please the Princess and brown-nose her. I would do the same... Which subordinate doesn’t want to be liked by their superiors? Right?"
Yan Wenli looked at Director Zhong and said, "But have you ever thought about why the Princess would call at that moment? Right when you were prepared to search the house?"
"What does the director mean?"
"I don’t mean anything," Yan Wenli immediately denied. "With such a noble status, how could the Princess possibly collude with rebels?"