Walking out of his boss's office, Zhuang Mian saw a young man of similar age walking around the corner.

"Zhuang Mian, long time no see, have you been doing well recently?"

"It's okay, Xiao Tang, do you also have something to report to the teacher?"

"Yes, yes. I have made some progress on the case I'm working on recently. I want to report it periodically to prevent the teacher from thinking that I'm dead."

The two exchanged a few simple greetings and then went their separate ways.

There were no more familiar faces in front of him, and the smile on Zhuang Mian's face gradually disappeared.

She heard some hints from her teacher's words.

Over the past few months, or rather since she joined the Purge Team, her team has been among the most efficient in completing missions and solving cases.

Although she was restrained in the use of her abilities, some colleagues still had doubts about her style of doing things.

There are only two directions of suspicion: either Zhuang Mian is a super-powered person who can use cheats that others don't have, or she really has her own set of skills.

However, Zhuang Mian does not want to expose the fact that he is a super-powered person yet, so he can only guide the possibility towards the second one.

But what the teacher meant was that he hoped he could promote his own unique secret recipe.

This is also not what Zhuang Mian wants to see.

After all, she overestimated the efficiency of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the purge team. She was too aggressive when she was first transferred here, which made many people remember her.

That’s why I regret it so much now.

If I had known earlier, I would have hidden it a little more...

According to the regulations of Hope City, when an on-the-job personnel becomes a superpower, everything about him must be re-evaluated.

Zhuang Mian obviously didn't want others to pry into his past and secrets, nor did he want to join any organization with many super-powered people.

Are you kidding me? How could working with a group of super-powered people be easier than working with a group of humans?

What's more, her current job is exactly what she likes.

She had already made up her mind that after completing the sewer roundup plan she and El had planned, her merits would be enough to allow her to climb up a little, so that she would have fewer opportunities to use her abilities and would no longer be so conspicuous.

Thinking of this, Zhuang Mian quickened his pace and planned to go back and repeat the specific arrangements of the plan with his team members.

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After the young man finished chatting with Zhuang Mian, he walked towards their common teacher's office.

His expression also gradually became colder, as if everything that had just happened was just a show.

After knocking on the door a few times, the young man was allowed to enter.

"Teacher, this is my action plan."

He bent down slightly and handed a document to the man in front of him.

The other party took the plan and flipped through it briefly, and his expression changed from relaxation to slight dissatisfaction.

He closed the document and raised it high, his facial expression changed several times, but in the end he did not smash it down, but just put it in the corner of the table.

Then he opened the drawer of his office and took out the plan that Zhuang Mian had just submitted:

“Look at this.”

The young man frowned, took the document and read it quickly, then his face became even uglier.

"Teacher, I..."

"I'll go first."

The middle-aged man's tone was filled with unquestionable majesty:

"Your plan is terrible, far inferior to Zhuang Mian's, right?"

"right."

"I gave you a chance, didn't I?"

"right."

"So did you take your chance?"

“No…no.”

“Do you think you are good enough?”

“…”

"What do you think your value is to the Ministry of Internal Affairs?"

“…”

Every question was like a hammer hitting the young man's shoulders, making his back more and more bent.

As if he had been greatly humiliated, he interrupted the man:

"Teacher, I just lack some experience. I wonder if you have asked Zhuang Mian her..."

Hearing the young man's rebuttal, the man called teacher was stunned for a moment, then leaned back with a relieved expression, and his posture became free and casual.

If his tone just now was still of disappointment in someone's ability, his current behavior was as if he was facing a useless person.

"I asked, but they didn't want to tell me. Don't you understand?"

The man spread his hands indifferently:

“I am your teacher, as well as hers, and I will not be infinitely partial to you.

"Everyone's experience is a valuable asset. Others have no obligation to teach you for free. You should have understood this long ago."

"But you taught me a lot."

The young man argued subconsciously.

"If you redirect your flattery in a different direction, you might achieve better results..."

The man took a deep breath and calmed himself down:

"What I teach you is already in the textbook, and I'm getting paid, so don't say such clumsy things in the future."

He thought for a moment and continued:

"I think you already understand that the Ministry of Internal Affairs is not the right place for you... Tell your family, there will always be some other unit that is suitable for you, there will always be."

Feeling humiliated and unwilling, the young man left the teacher's office with his plan.

As he walked slowly forward, an idea came into his mind:

Zhuang Mian, an alumnus who was transferred to the Ministry of Internal Affairs because of his meritorious service outside the university, has solved a large number of backlog cases in the past few months.

This is not something that can be done by someone with only a few years of work experience, even a professional cannot do it.

Then there is only one answer - the other party might be a super-powered person!

Every super-powered person is a public asset of Hope City. It can be said that from the moment their abilities are discovered, their lives no longer belong to themselves.

While enjoying generous treatment, they also had to donate all their personal belongings, including their bodies.

Therefore, if a human awakens his abilities in private and does not choose to report it, the officials of Hope City will also punish him.

Not everyone is like General Wencheng, who can record an opposition superpower like Lin Qingliu in the book with just one sentence without any negative punishment effect.

If it can be confirmed that the other party is a super-powered person and reported, Zhuang Mian will face official detention and training before being officially recruited by Hope City.

The man named Tang Qing didn't care whether he could inherit the other party's position, he just wanted to make things difficult for his outstanding senior sister.

For this, I am willing to make a small effort.

At the same time, two floors below, Zhuang Mian was having a small meeting with his teammates:

“I have submitted the plan, and it will most likely be approved, so we should start preparing now.

“Let me repeat the plan - we will conduct a systematic sweep of the one-eighth area northwest of the Hope City sewers. This is consistent with our previous reconnaissance results.

“Perhaps this operation is the right one to catch the Mind Flayer.

"At that time, a large number of members of the public security team will assist us in the cleanup. You need to pay attention to the issue of command. Let me briefly talk about a few aspects..."