Chapter 398 Betrayal
Chang Yue's office is a typical personal territory, filled with models of various anime characters, limited edition comics and figurines. These items create a space full of fun and personality.
Of course, Lin Ze would regularly find various excuses to clean up this space for him. Although he always said that he would smash or throw it away, that was not the case. Lin Ze just asked someone to help him move those things that were not suitable to appear in a director's office to the warehouse.
But even for Chang Yue, the bottom layer of his desk drawer was kept unusually tidy, as it contained things that were most important to him.
Therefore, when Chang Yue pulled out a photo from there, Lin Ze also realized the importance of this thing to Chang Yue.
"This is Raven."
Chang Yue's voice was low and solemn, and the yellowed photo in his hand seemed to bear the traces of time.
In the photo, a girl with short black hair stares into the camera, her eyes revealing tenacity and wisdom.
The girl was wearing the old-style black uniform of the Special Management Bureau. Although her appearance was not stunning, she had a unique charm. The freckles on her face added a bit of liveliness to her.
"Is she a human or an alien?" Li Muhan took the photo and asked with interest.
He is a straightforward person who is always curious about unknown things.
"What kind of brain do you have? You have the memory of a goldfish. You're the captain, but I've told you before that, aside from the headquarters team and the elite teams at the branch offices, the standard teams at the Special Management Bureau basically only have one alien. Besides, this photo was taken ten years ago, and the conditions back then didn't allow for multiple aliens in a team."
Chang Yue said this and sat back in his chair, taking out a few more photos.
"The outlier in the seventh team has always been Wuzhiqi, so he can be said to be a veteran of three dynasties."
One of the photos was of Wuzhiqi, whom Li Muhan and others encountered at the exchange conference. No one knew about it before, but now the whole world knows that Wuzhiqi ran away with Xia Luer. Although the wanted order is still there, the level is not that high.
Li Muhan didn't get angry after being scolded by Chang Yue. Instead, he scratched his head and continued to ask, "You said that Zuo Xi, the captain of the seventh team, is not qualified to be your apprentice. Is this girl better than him?"
Lin Ze took over and explained, "Strong strength isn't the only criterion for captaincy. I don't know much about Zuo Xi, but from what I've heard, he's good at rallying the team and has charisma. In fact, he bears some resemblance to you, Li Muhan."
Upon hearing this, Li Muhan picked up the file on the table again and looked at Zuo Xi's photo carefully, trying to find similarities with himself in that calm expression.
"He's not as good-looking as you." Just as Li Muhan was observing carefully, Xia Yue's voice suddenly came from beside him.
Li Muhan was stunned at first, then he rubbed Xia Yue's head vigorously: "You have good taste."
"...Hmm..." Xia Yue narrowed her eyes and enjoyed Li Muhan's kneading. (You guys are not thinking this wrongly!)
"Ahem, pay attention to the timing of entering the factory, Li Muhan, there is a follow-up to that document."
At Lin Ze's reminder, Li Muhan quickly took his hand away from Xia Yue's head and continued to look at the documents. Then he discovered that there was indeed a follow-up to this stack of documents.
And that was actually the execution order for Zuo Xi, and the name of the person who signed it was: Zhong Rulin, Director of the Arbitration Institute of Tianhai City Special Management Bureau.
"Zhong Rulin was found dead in a nursing home this morning. The cause of death was a slashed throat. He was the former director of the Tianhai City Procuratorate and retired three years ago, but it's clear Zuo Xi didn't intend for him to enjoy his retirement."
Lin Ze's words were filled with heaviness. She placed a stack of detailed incident reports neatly on Chang Yue's desk, as if reminding him of this cruel fact: "But you should already know it."
Chang Yue nodded slightly, as if he had anticipated all this. He stretched out his hand to write the report, but paused in mid-air and finally retracted it.
"Zhong Rulin did sign Zuo Xi's death sentence, but that was merely official duty. Zuo Xi is now targeting him, too, which shows how deeply he hates the Special Management Bureau."
Li Muhan stared at Chang Yue and asked urgently, "So, what happened back then that made him hate the Special Management Bureau so much?"
"Back then, Tianhai City had just experienced the devastation caused by the Earth Dragon Ancestor, and the entire city was in urgent need of reconstruction. Teams 5 and 7 were established as emergency response teams in this context, tasked with maintaining order and combating the extraordinary crimes that arose from the chaos. Zuo Xi, due to his exceptional leadership skills, was chosen as the captain of Team 7."
Chang Yue told Li Muhan what happened that year. Of course, this was only what he knew.
The formation of the Seventh Team was specially approved by the General Administration and promoted by the Tianhai City Special Management Bureau. At that time, Lin Ze was promoted to deputy director for successfully imprisoning the ancestor of the earth dragon.
Out of trust in Wuzhiqi, she recommended this alien to the Seventh Team.
However, Wuzhiqi's defection put Lin Ze in a very embarrassing situation, and he even faced the possibility of being dismissed.
At the critical moment, it was Chang Yue who stepped forward and relied on his influence and persistence...in fact, it was his fists and brute force that saved Lin Ze's position.
Geng Yang was once the captain of the Supervisory Commission's executive force. He is experienced and his strength is no less than any alien. He is also an important member of the team. He was also Zhong Rulin's most trusted subordinate.
The last member, Raven, whose real name is Mo Xuan, has an even more impressive background.
Not only is he Chang Yue's favorite student, he also ranks among the best in the Special Management Bureau's combat member training.
There is a raven from the underworld living in her body. It is said that this raven is the governor of Huangquan, and its realm has the mysterious power to control life and death.
Its feathers transform into the Yellow Springs Blade, and the wounds it inflicts carry a ghostly aura. Unless the raven's host personally handles it, even the gods cannot heal it.
But such a team, which can be regarded as elite now, encountered a major change during a mission.
"That mission was clearly just a simple raid, aimed at sweeping out an illegal chemical factory that employed aliens to refine drugs. According to intelligence, the aliens they hired weren't even at the level of cholera, but even with such a simple mission... Team 7 was almost wiped out."
Team wiped out?
Upon hearing this, Li Muhan was stunned. He didn't understand why such a powerful team could not defeat a group of monsters whose level was not even that of Cholera.
"No one knows the specific circumstances..." Chang Yue looked at the documents in the iron box. "I originally thought the General Administration sealed the files from ten years ago because there was something unknown, but now... I think those old guys just felt that exposing this matter would bring shame to them."
A hint of indifference flashed in his eyes.
"Zuo Xi betrayed Team 7. He sold his own members to those criminals. As a result, apart from Wuzhiqi, who was scouting outside the warehouse, Raven and Geng Yang died on the spot."
"Impossible!!" Li Muhan slammed the table. "Let's not talk about Wuzhiqi. Geng Yang is an elite of the Overwatch Council. That Raven is even your apprentice! Even if they fell into a trap, they wouldn't be killed by a bunch of insane creatures who can't even handle cholera, right?!"
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