Chapter 194 Returning to Linlang! Wuhuan: Are you looking for me?

"Director Zhao, you have seven meetings to attend today. The seminar on your proposed 'Regulations for the Standardized Management of Professionals' will begin in 23 minutes; attendees are already taking their seats. Also, the graduation ceremony at the Third Middle School will begin at 12:00 today, and Director Li wants you to give a speech on behalf of the Professional Combat Department… and…"

Linlang City Combat Division.

As Zhao Huaiyi, who looked like a young man, listened to his female assistant's concise and clear introduction of the activities he would be attending that day.

As one of the deputy directors with real power in the combat operations department, Zhao Huaiyi's work is extremely busy every day, almost non-stop.

But as a Tier 3 outstanding professional, he was energetic and had amazing physical strength, so this kind of work was nothing to him.

That is to say, it takes a relatively long time, and sometimes we are a little too busy to keep up.

After all, many times when the combat command he represented was not present, those people couldn't get what they wanted to do done.

There's no point in doing it.

Zhao Huaiyi was so busy with work that he was rarely home... but there was nothing he could do; being in this position, he had to take care of certain things.

...And deep down, he also really enjoyed being the center of attention.

As for upgrading...

He hadn't run a dungeon in a long time.

He is already a top-tier professional at level 69 of tier 3.

But at his level, the upgrade speed was just too, too slow...

Those professionals in the general public, even with their full effort to upgrade their skills, would need to work for several months...

Someone like him, burdened with worldly affairs, will only be slower.

It's so slow you can hardly see the end.

...So he has given up now.

It's fine as it is.

He has been the deputy director for three years now, and he has gradually gotten used to this kind of life.

The assistant's voice kept ringing out, and Zhao Huaiyi was listening while signing some documents.

Suddenly, the phone rang, interrupting the assistant's conversation.

Zhao Huaiyi looked up and saw that it was his personal phone ringing.

He picked up the phone, glanced at it, and calmly said, "Let's proceed according to the plan."

The assistant quickly replied, "Yes."

After saying that, she tactfully left the office, thoughtfully closing the door behind her.

Zhao Huaiyi then answered the phone.

"explain."

"Director Zhao, the guy who escaped from prison has appeared!"

"What?"

Zhao Huaiyi's eyes narrowed instantly, and he abruptly stood up: "Where?"

"funeral parlor!"

"Keep an eye on him, I'll send someone over immediately."

"yes!"

Zhao Huaiyi hung up the phone, his eyes darting around.

Because he was too busy with work, he was often away from home and naturally neglected to care for and educate his family... Unbeknownst to him, his son developed serious character problems.

By the time this is discovered, the other person's personality has already taken shape.

He had tried to educate people about this.

But how do we educate them?

Hit him? Scold him? Lock him up? Or just beat him to death?

It's completely useless.

He's a professional; it doesn't hurt him at all.

He ignored the insults.

Confined to your home? He'll just put you on a hunger strike... Anyway, professionals don't feel pain; they just keep losing blood until they starve to death.

Let alone killing them... Even tigers don't eat their cubs.

Moreover, he also felt that he owed his son something.

In the end, the matter could only be dropped, and I could only try to persuade him with earnest words to not act too extremely...

But he clearly underestimated his son's twisted mind.

They actually did something utterly inhuman!

When he first learned that his son had done these things, he almost beat the man to death.

But after seeing the other person's cold and distant gaze, he stopped... and could only sigh in despair.

What can I do? This is my own son.

Besides, what good would it do for him, the deputy director, if things really escalated?

Although it was just an ordinary person who died, the son's behavior had clearly crossed the line of morality.

Fortunately, it wasn't difficult for him, as the deputy director of the Combat Department, to cover it up.

He didn't even need to lift a finger... a trusted professional under his command could handle everything perfectly.

His attempt to cover it up seemed to embolden his son, and similar incidents occurred almost every so often, causing him considerable distress.

Gradually, he simply stopped caring about his son's affairs... He arranged for some people to clean up his son's messes, and he himself began to ignore his son's problems.

As a result, it became much quieter.

However, the son's actions behind the scenes became increasingly brazen.

But because of his power and his cover-up, everything seemed calm and peaceful.

Until a few months ago...

My son did something stupid again.

According to previous practice, this incident should not have involved him either.

But this time, something went wrong...

His subordinates arranged for a man named Xiao Huan to be sent to prison, and then manipulated the process to have him sentenced to death.

As a result, on the eve of his execution, this man, who was originally just a 'gardener' in his daily life, suddenly unleashed a powerful fighting ability, killed many prison guards, and escaped alive!

He received the news the next day, and he was completely shocked.

Career change!

The other person's profession has changed!

According to some of the surviving prison guards, judging from the other party's actions, he had clearly become some kind of powerful assassin!

However, during the previous verification process, the results from the detection tools showed that the other party was clearly just an ordinary person with a regular job.

Everything was in shock.

Only Zhao Huaiyi, after the initial shock, suddenly realized something...

Job Change Altar!

This news is now fully known to the senior management of the professional combat departments in various cities.

They even chose a name.

And all of this began in Jindong City...

Zhao Huaiyi immediately asked the people in the prison at the time if they had noticed anything unusual... After all, according to intelligence, when the job change altar appeared, it was accompanied by unusual phenomena.

However, no unusual phenomena occurred.

This puzzled Zhao Huaiyi, but he soon realized that the key to the matter lay with the gardener named Xiao Huan.

To find out what really happened, we have to catch him.

More importantly... he also learned what exactly happened after the incident.

Knowing the truth, he almost beat his son to death again!

That beast!

His actions are worse than those of an animal!

Not only did he destroy and kill someone else's fiancée, but when he discovered that the other party was investigating, he even brutally murdered the fiancée's best friend in front of the other party... and he also explicitly stated that the other party's fiancée had also suffered such torture.

Zhao Huaiyi could imagine how deep this hatred was.

To be honest, if I were in Zhao Huaiyi's shoes and had experienced these things, killing the entire family wouldn't be an exaggeration!

But alas, this was his son.

He ultimately couldn't bring himself to do it.

And then, news kept coming in that several of his son's cronies had been found dead.

The son was clearly frightened and stayed in the combat division for a while, not daring to go out at all.

...It's clear that his son wasn't really crazy; he just knew that his father wouldn't actually kill him.

That's all.

Although I am utterly disappointed in my cowardly scumbag son.

But he is, after all, his son.

He still granted him protection.

At the same time, he also sent people to keep an eye on the other party's whereabouts.

As a result, more than ten days after the other party escaped, they disappeared and seemed to have left Linlang City.

But instead of relaxing, Zhao Huaiyi became even more nervous.

The reason is simple...

If his judgment is correct, then that former gardener youth is very likely to be an epic-level professional now!

His disappearance is not a good thing at all; on the contrary, it means that the lives of his entire Zhao family may have entered their final countdown!

Because the other party definitely went to upgrade!

How could the other party not seek revenge for this?

According to the jailer, the other party was also an assassin...

An epic assassin has set his sights on his home.

This was enough to keep him up at night!

He had even been preparing for this period of time; he planned to resign from his position and then leave Linlang City with his family.

Xia Guo is so big, and communication is not convenient. Once he leaves Linlang City, it will not be easy for the other party to find him again.

Unexpectedly, while the matter was still being dealt with, the other party actually returned!

Zhao Huaiyi made a decisive decision, his eyes cold.

The seeds of hatred have been sown.

Regardless of who is right or wrong, they are now irreconcilable enemies.

He came back just in time.

Only a month or two has passed. Even if an epic class is the strongest, how many levels can it gain in two months?

He is probably still just a Tier 1 professional.

If it's only a Tier 1... then even if the opponent is an Epic class, he's confident he can kill them!

Without further hesitation, he went straight out the door and headed for the funeral home. At the same time, he made phone calls to arrange for manpower… determined to capture the culprit in one fell swoop and nip this huge future threat in the bud!

...

at the same time.

Inside the funeral home.

Xiao Huan stood blankly in front of a tombstone for a long time. A photo was hanging on the tombstone, which read 'Tomb of my beloved wife Liang Bing'.

In the photo, his girlfriend's smile was still radiant. He still remembered the scene when the photo was taken... It was when he told her that he had been able to get a job as a gardener at the Li family's house and that his income had increased dramatically.

My girlfriend was so happy that day, and for the first time ever, she asked him to buy her a new dress.

His girlfriend, wearing a new dress, showed it off in front of him, the skirt fluttering, her smile radiant, as beautiful as a dream.

This photo was taken at that time.

Later, his girlfriend died, and he buried her ashes here. When he opened his phone, all he saw was her radiant, youthful smile... So he chose this most beautiful photo of her as her memorial portrait.

...My girlfriend is vain and loves beauty. If she knew this in the afterlife, she would probably agree to let him use this photo of her smiling most brightly as her funeral portrait, right?

He stared blankly into thought. After a long while, he gently touched the smiling face in the photo... but the once warm and soft face had now been replaced by a chilling touch.

Overwhelmed by grief, his eyes suddenly turned red, and tears almost welled up in them.

But he quickly took a deep breath, suppressing the overwhelming grief churning in his chest.

Despite being a professional, he felt as if his heart was being squeezed by a tremendous force, making it hard for him to breathe.

It took a long time for that sorrow to slowly dissipate.

Finally, he murmured, "Good boy, you watch closely down here. I'll send those scumbags down soon... and make them apologize to you."

He looked at his girlfriend again, and after a long while, he got up but did not leave. Instead, he walked towards another tombstone not far away.

The tombstone also depicts a girl, her smile shy.

This is my girlfriend's best friend.

The poor woman he killed.

Looking at the inscription "Tomb of my beloved daughter Han Zhizhi" on the tombstone, he froze. After a long while, he bowed deeply three times to the portrait on the tombstone.

"I'm sorry, it's my fault... I've hurt you."

If it weren't for his investigation, if the other party hadn't been worried about him and hadn't chosen to contact him privately to warn him not to continue...

So the other person is probably still alive and well.

After bowing three times, he looked at Han Zhizhi's portrait.

He took a deep breath, glanced to the side, and then vanished in a flash.

In the distance, several professionals were staring at the figure in front of the tomb.

When the figure disappeared, their expressions changed simultaneously!

"The other party has disappeared; they've most likely gone into stealth mode!"

"What do we do? The barrier team hasn't arrived yet!"

"Damn it, notify the higher-ups right now!"

The other party's sudden disappearance caused their expressions to change drastically, and they immediately took action, intending to report to their superiors.

But at that very moment...

A faint voice sounded in their ears.

"Are you looking for me?"

This voice caused everyone's expression to change drastically, and they abruptly turned their heads.

Behind them, a pale-faced young man stood quietly.

His eyes were slightly red, and his gaze was lifeless.

(End of this chapter)