Listening to Qiu Tu's words and watching his dashing figure, Tan Huimin was momentarily stunned.
What needed cleaning? What was there to arrange?
Weren't the items in the lounge already well-equipped? And it wasn't messy either.
Thinking this way, Tan Huimin couldn't help but look inside the door.
The next second, shock was written all over her fair, oval-shaped face.
Eh? Where was her and Qiu Tu's bed?
Why had it disappeared?
How could her boss have rested for half a day and then... the bed was rested away too...
Meanwhile, as Tan Huimin was thinking this,
Qiu Tu had already left his 12th-floor private office, heading straight for the medical department on the 11th floor.
Since the work day had finished, there were not many people left in the medical department when Qiu Tu arrived.
Qiu Tu didn't seem to mind, and he directly picked up the communicator to make a call to the head of the medical department.
After a moment, the call connected. A somewhat ingratiating voice came from the handset, "Commissioner... no, no, Director Qiu. You're looking for me?"
As one of the three highest-ranking officials in Xinjie City Investigation Bureau, Qiu Tu's position and power were already at the pinnacle of Xinjie City.
As the Deputy Director of Operations, Qiu Tu ranked third in Xinjie City, only below Tang Feifei and Yu Zhengyi.
Yet, in terms of power, he was even above Yu Zhengyi, ranking second.
Furthermore, because he controlled the significant weapon of the Political Department, to a certain extent, he was now on an equal footing with Tang Feifei.
And in Xinjie City, Qiu Tu's status was exceeded only by the Three Giants, placing him in the first echelon.
In terms of position, due to several City Hall commissioners, he had just squeezed into the top ten of Xinjie City.
But in terms of power, he was solidly fifth!
Only below City Hall Commissioner Jiang, Senior Colonel Lin from the military, Tang Feifei, and Qin Shuman.
And that was just the power he had in plain sight.
If one were to include the command of the Security Department, granted to him by Dai Yukang,
Qiu Tu felt that he was now the uncrowned king of the entire Xinjie City.
With command over several thousand armed investigators, jurisdiction over public security offices throughout Xinjie City, and control over the Investigation Bureau's secret military and intelligence departments…
Who else in the entire Xinjie City could rival him?
Even when facing Senior Colonel Lin, who commanded tens of thousands of soldiers, Qiu Tu was not the slightest bit afraid.
It was because of Qiu Tu's rapidly soaring position and power that the head of the medical department, despite being only one rank lower, was still exceedingly respectful and ingratiating.
Qiu Tu wasn't surprised or particularly concerned about the head of the medical department's attitude.
He grunted, then asked, "The bodies of the agents who... took the Cataclysmic Potion in the past few days but didn't make it through—where are they?"
Hearing Qiu Tu's question, Director Gou of the medical department hesitated for a moment before responding, "Director, those agents' bodies... because they were contaminated by Catastrophe Power, they might pose some danger."
"So, we've stored them in the medical department's morgue."
"We plan to observe for half a month and, after confirming there's no change, proceed to incinerate and bury them en masse."
Hearing Director Gou's words, Qiu Tu grunted once more, then instructed, "Call the on-duty staff in the medical department and ask them to unlock the morgue, then wait for me to come over."
"I want to inspect those bodies."
On hearing this, Director Gou was startled, then said, "Director, let us handle this dirty and exhausting task for you."
"With so many bodies, don't dirty your hands..."
Listening to Director Gou's words, Qiu Tu slightly knitted his eyebrows and rebuked, "What do you mean by dirtying my hands? Director Gou, they all sacrificed themselves for our department, for Xinjie City."
Realizing his mistake after Qiu Tu's criticism, Director Gou hurriedly chuckled and said, "You're right, you're right. I misspoke, I misspoke."
After that, he promptly said, "I'll contact someone right away to open the door for you, Director."
Qiu Tu grunted and hung up the phone.
Then he casually beckoned an on-duty medical staffer, asking him to lead the way to the morgue.
Qiu Tu, on the back of legendary events during this period, had already achieved immense prestige within the Investigation Bureau.
Within the Bureau, there might be those who didn't recognize Tang Fei, the Acting Bureau Chief with a weak presence, but there was nobody who didn't know Qiu Tu, the newly appointed Deputy Director.
So, when summoned by Qiu Tu, even though it was after hours, that investigator came over excitedly to lead the way for Qiu Tu.
After all… not even considering the chance of being noticed by Qiu Tu for leading the way once, just the mere act of guiding Qiu Tu was enough to boast about in front of his colleagues for hours the next day!
In this manner, guided by that investigator, Qiu Tu quickly arrived at the morgue.
By now, the morgue was brightly lit, with all the lights turned on.
The on-duty section chief, sweating profusely, was directing the movement of the dozens of bodies of those who had failed to awaken.
Upon seeing Qiu Tu, the section chief quickly ran over and saluted, "Director! We've opened the morgue as per your orders and moved out the bodies of our... colleagues who failed to awaken!"
"Please review them!"
Qiu Tu nodded slightly, then stepped forward into the room, beginning to scrutinize each body.
The dare-to-die teams from the military and Investigation Bureau had enlisted a total of 109 people. Among them, 23 awakened successfully and became Qiu Tu's subordinates.
The 86 who failed to awaken all lay here.
47 from the military, 39 from the Investigation Bureau.