Chapter 41 Extraordinary Baptism, Someone Comes on a Rainy Night!

Drainage work in the main urban area is still ongoing and the streets are in a mess.

The study session had to be moved to an abandoned theater in the suburbs.

While the staff were cleaning the venue, Harlin took out a stack of lists from his file bag.

It is densely packed with the names of instructors who retired from the Security Bureau that year, as well as the names of soldiers who retired due to injury, illness or other reasons.

"Go and invite the people on the list. Let's get 300 of them first, and have them take turns giving lectures."

After ticking a few important names, Harlin paused and gave the specific remuneration:

"The instructors at the Public Security Bureau will receive 10 contribution points for their lessons."

"Eight points each for retired warriors from the Blood Dragon, Cross, and Happiness Legions."

"Everyone else will be paid based on 5 contribution points. Please keep a clear account and report it to the station for official payment."

The staff responded and immediately started looking for people according to the list.

The study session started on time at 4:00 p.m. in the abandoned theater.

After a brief speech by Deputy Station Chief Harlin, the first instructor took the stage to recite the response procedures for hydrophilic infectious agents.

However, the audience was not interested at all. This rote teaching method was of little help to the current situation.

After all, the casualties today are all caused by new sources of infection that are not even recorded in the database, and the old response strategies are already outdated.

"For the inspectors currently on duty, have them take turns coming in to study tomorrow. The exam will be held in three days. Regarding the exam questions..."

Harlin paused, his tone suddenly becoming more serious. "Within fifteen days, you must find and kill an infected person while on duty!"

So strict?

The hearts of the inspectors sitting in the back row suddenly sank, especially those who usually just went about their business, cold sweat instantly seeped out of their foreheads.

Fortunately, Ding Yishan had previously set a rule of "demotion only after failing to meet the standards three times", so there was still a 45-day buffer period.

After the study session was arranged, Harlin just walked out of the door and someone came up to him quickly.

"Dario, what's wrong?"

"Stationmaster, Ding Yishan just summoned Cloud Leopard Changyuan, who stayed for about forty minutes."

"Where's Lei Hu?"

"Still at the East Station, haven't gone there yet."

"Didn't go?" Harlin was stunned for a moment, and an unexpected smile flashed across his face. "Okay, this is Ding Yishan's own fault."

"Stationmaster, do you think Ding Yishan has discovered that Lei Hu has been close to us recently?" Dario Haven followed closely behind Harlin, his voice very low.

If you want to be a duty station chief, you must first reach the fifth level of inspector.

Currently, in addition to the chief and deputy chief, two duty chiefs, there are six fifth-term inspectors in the checkpoint.

Four people from the East and two people from the West.

Davidson, the deputy station chief of the West Station, is one of them, and the other is him, Dario Haven.

"He's not blind, he'd have discovered it long ago, but what can he do?"

Harlin sneered, "Back when Ding Yishan was still a nobody, he also joined our Western faction and was able to suppress those fifth-term inspectors."

"Next, we're going to have to fight for the position of station commander. We shouldn't rush into action. Let's wait and see what he says. After all, the four of Yunbao Changyuan are not easy to deal with. If he can't maintain balance, chaos will break out."

"No rush..."

Dario was slightly disappointed, but he could only nod in agreement.

"By the way, Station Master, an Eastern inspector reported to the North Station today."

"Is that... Cheng Ye?"

Harlem raised his eyebrows slightly.

He has an excellent memory. From the beginning of the year to now, although three of the four trainee inspectors in the station have passed the job assessment, only Cheng Ye has obtained the "graduation" certificate in less than two months.

This speed ranks second since the establishment of the checkpoint system, only half a month slower than the record set by him as the deputy station chief at that time.

But the difference is that he broke the assessment record during the infection wave, while Cheng Ye approached this number in a non-wartime state.

The two people have exactly opposite tendencies.

"I remember he had very poor combat talent, but I didn't expect him to be so courageous. He actually dared to come to our North Station?"

"More than just a big guy, this guy is no ordinary guy. He's clearly here to show off in our Beiting..."

In a few words, Dario recounted what happened at North Station that morning.

Hearing that Cheng Ye had exploited their psychological weaknesses and forced back a group of brainless second-generations in a few moves, Harlin had no reaction and even wanted to laugh.

After all, as the chief examiner of the trainee assessment, he knew Cheng Ye's IQ better than anyone else.

If he were to be bullied by those idiots who hoped to become the superiors by inheriting the position of Inspector, he would start to doubt whether there was something wrong with his judgment of people in the first place.

However, as Dario continued to repeat, Harlin's expression quickly changed.

"Are you sure he only asked a few questions when they met and was able to determine that the other party was infected? He remained calm during the battle and even saved the observer?"

"Yes, I watched the full video, his performance..."

Dario thought about it and gave a relaxed evaluation.

In the video he saw, Cheng Ye was indeed not afraid at all. Whether he was taking the initiative to shoot or in the subsequent counterattack and retreat, he was quite decisive.

"Where the hell is the video? Bring it over here so I can see it."

Harlin couldn't help shaking his head, and the scene of Ding Yishan specially approving Cheng Ye a hundred bullets a few days ago flashed through his mind.

Could it be that I had misjudged him? Could this guy be a ruthless character with both literary and martial skills?

The tablet arrived quickly.

Harlin frowned and pressed the play button. He even pulled the progress bar back twice before finally agreeing with Dario's evaluation.

Indeed, with ease!

"Tsk tsk, this generation of the East School is so rotten, I didn't expect such a good seedling to emerge."

"Well... arrange for someone to contact him and see if you can win him over to our side."

Compared with Ding Yishan's hesitation, Harlem's performance was completely the opposite, so decisive that it was a little scary.

"But... he's from the East?"

"What's wrong with being a Dongren? Isn't Lei Hu also a Dongren?"

Harlin looked surprised and looked Dario up and down.

"Haven't I told you several times before, when it comes to factional struggles, the most important thing is to understand the other side's details."

"Cheng Long is Cheng Long, and he is him.

This kid has lived in the inner city since he was a child. He has never been involved in the mess in the station and has no sense of belonging to the East Faction.

The only problem is Liu Bi. It just so happened that that idiot Ding Yishan sent Liu Bi to the hydropower station. If we don't win him over now, do we have to wait until he gets a firm foothold?"

"Do you think this guy is stupid? I guess he must know that Ding Yishan has other plans to transfer him to the express station, so he deliberately chose our North Station as the entry point, but it also gave us an opportunity."

"What about Garcia?"

Dario's mood was in turmoil, and he thought that Harlem had completely given it his all in his fight for the position of webmaster.

"He has just been released from the emergency room and is still in the hospital. Let's go and win over Cheng Ye..."

"Wait until he's strong enough to come up to me and protest."

Harlin waved his hand. "Just do as I say. It won't take long. As long as the chaos within the East Faction is resolved, I will naturally find a way to help you secure your position as the station chief."

"Yes, Station Master!"

When Dario heard that he could be promoted to the duty station chief, his eyes instantly lit up with ecstasy, and he no longer had time to question it.

Ordinary prosecutors have to work hard all their lives, and they may fall into the hands of infected people one day.

But once you become a duty stationmaster, it means you have jumped out of the bottom and have the capital to climb up.

Why did Harlem fight with Ding Yishan like this?

Everyone actually knows that Happiness City’s “extraordinary baptism” is held every six years. This year is the fifth year. If you don’t fight for it, you will have to wait for the next six years!

In the last round, Ding Yishan was in a strong position, so Harlin chose to temporarily avoid the attack and voluntarily gave up the extraordinary baptism.

Unexpectedly, Ding Yishan was not up to the task. First, he missed the opportunity to awaken, and then he made a series of stupid moves. In order to please the top management of Xingfu City, he not only lost a general Cheng Long, but also several key inspectors.

Therefore, Harlem will never sit idly by this time.

The seemingly fierce factional struggle at the moment is just the beginning.

The real storm will not hit completely until winter comes or even the beginning of next spring.

By then, all the inspectors, no matter if they are in the fifth, fourth, first or even trainee period, will be affected by this storm!

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As night falls, the street lights come on.

A warm yellow halo permeated the quarantine area, dispelling the inky darkness spreading from the wilderness.

A light drizzle started to fall again.

From time to time, a flash of lightning tore through the clouds, illuminating the outline of the city ruins in the distance and causing waves of howling from mutant beasts.

"This damn weather..."

Li Matthew sent off the last group of people in line and watched everyone being escorted into the isolation area by guards. Then he straightened his back and rubbed his sore shoulders.

How many people were put in quarantine today?

Oh, I seem to have forgotten to count.

But there are at least two hundred people, and each of these guys is very suspicious!

"Seven minutes until the end of the shift."

After taking out his defense communication and checking the time, Li Matthew stood up and walked towards the isolation net between areas A and B, intending to chat with Cheng Ye to kill the last bit of time.

"Inspector Cheng, you're so busy here!" Li Matthew sighed, clinging to the lattice railing. "I've been busy in Section B, and you've only had one car pass through Section A all day."

"Yeah?"

Cheng Ye was doing push-ups on the ground and replied without raising his head.

"I noticed you didn't ask anything when we met, and just sent people to quarantine. You're not busy, are you?"

"ah?"

Li Matai was stunned for a moment after understanding the meaning behind Cheng Ye's words, then laughed nonchalantly, "You don't understand this. I've been at the checkpoint for over twenty years. I've witnessed quarantine riots, withstood waves of infection, and endured constant factional struggles, big and small. Yet, I can still stand here and chat with you today. What's the secret?"

"I'm not careful and cautious enough!"

"Really?"

Cheng Ye stood up and couldn't help but give a thumbs up.

The two of them had taken time out of their busy schedules to talk to each other a few times today, and now they were pretty familiar with each other. At least, apart from Liu Bi, this old inspector was the first "friend" he made at the station.

However, compared with the reckless Liu Bi, Li Matthew's caution is ingrained in his bones.

In the morning, it was still a buy-one-get-one-free deal, but in the afternoon, I checked the level and it became buy-two-get-one-free.

In his opinion, the "lucky ones" were selected based entirely on their feelings and sent to the isolation warehouse.

"I know you want to ask, why would I come to the express checkpoint if I'm so afraid of death, right?"

Li Matai enjoyed Cheng Ye's thumbs-up and grinned, "It's actually very simple. Don't underestimate the inspector badge in your hand. You just need to focus on improving the level of this thing. Once you reach a certain level, as long as you don't deliberately commit suicide, it will be difficult for you to die."

Finally finding a topic to talk about with Cheng Ye, Li Matai showed a bit of superiority.

"Back when your father was still alive, he looked down on people like me. Every time we met, he would look down on me and wouldn't even bother to raise his eyelids. Who would have thought his son would praise me now?"

"Well..."

Cheng Ye was too lazy to complain.

This guy has the thickest skin he has ever seen, and it is more durable than the barbed wire in the quarantine area.

However, just when he was about to ask about the inspector's badge rank.

Boom.

A clear bell rang from inside the checkpoint. Looking up at the watchtower, the yellow flag that had been hanging for a day was finally taken down.

"It's finally over."

Li Matai rubbed his arms and yawned. "We've been working non-stop for twelve hours. The station should give us a model worker medal to hang around our necks."

Before he finished speaking, he suddenly glanced into the distance, then turned around and urged:

"Why are you still standing there after get off work? Do you really want to be a model worker and get a medal?

"Hurry up, retreat!"

"withdraw?"

Cheng Ye followed his gaze and saw a beam of light breaking through the darkness deep in the rain.

The lights were swaying and approaching. Judging from the speed and brightness, it was obviously not a large Jinbei, but a vehicle capable of high speed travel.

That's strange.

Unexpectedly, someone came just at the end of the working day, and coincidentally, it was when the bell rang.

"Let's go, let's go."

If it was 7.59, Cheng Ye would naturally wait, but he was not a fool after 8 o'clock.

After all, the probability of infected people appearing at night is more than ten times higher than during the day.

However, just as he opened the isolation door and was about to leave, Raven came up to him in a hurry.

"What's wrong?"

"Sir, the incoming vehicle has sent a signal to the station. It's... a lord from the Crusaders."

"What, the Crusaders?"

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