Chapter 8: Liaison
Taking a deep breath, Zhang Yuanqing tried his best to keep his tone calm:
"Officer Li, I am Zhang Yuanqing."
"..... It's you." The opposite party smiled, "What is it that you want to find me in the middle of the night?"
Zhang Yuanqing said in a deep voice, "I have a clue to report, in fact, before Lei Yibing disappeared, he once sent me a card."
"Why didn't you say so before?"
Li Dongze's tone did not have the slightest surprise in it.
This ....... Zhang Yuanqing hesitated slightly and informed the other party of his speculations about Bing's disappearance case, one by one.
The other side was silent for a long time and lost his smile:
"You kid is quite good at adding drama to yourself."
Guanya was right, Zhang Yuanqing's character was actually quite withdrawn, a cheerful, optimistic and positive normal college student wouldn't be so wary.
"Sorry ......"
Zhang Yuanqing was a little embarrassed and immediately changed the topic, no, cut to the chase:
"I encountered something rather odd and incomprehensible tonight, well, can you understand what I mean."
"So it seems that you managed to come out of the Spirit Realm." Li Dongze's tone carried a bit of relief.
Yes, just stepped out and almost died in it ....... Zhang Yuanqing's heart settled down when he heard such a reply.
The other party really knew about the Spirit Realm.
Li Dongze said, ''College student, congratulations on becoming a Spirit Realm Walker, this is the title for our kind. I am also a Spirit Realm Walker, the difference is that I am official and you are wild."
Spirit Realm Walker ...... Zhang Yuanqing savored the words and asked:
"What is the Spirit Realm?"
He had too many questions he wanted to seek answers to, so he could only ask from the very basics.
"I can't tell you right now, if you want to learn about the Spirit Realm, you'll have to make a choice." Li Dongze said in a deep voice:
"There are two types of official attitudes towards the Spirit Realm, one is to absorb and cultivate, and the other is to regulate and control. The former represents joining us and becoming a member of the official Spirit Realm Walkers.
"The latter is to be a casual cultivator, and we won't care as long as you file with us and promise that you won't utilize your abilities to violate the rules and regulations. Of course, you won't be able to get any help from the officials either."
Zhang Yuanqing said without hesitation, "I am willing to join the organization and throw my head and blood for the country and the people."
Li Dongze laughed, "Worthy of being from a family of vigilantes, very conscious."
Zhang Yuanqing could not tell whether the other party was mocking or praising for a moment.
"Then take an early rest, tomorrow morning at eight o'clock, I'll pick you up." Li Dongze said.
Huh? Not now? Zhang Yuanqing hesitated, "Tomorrow?"
"Or else, what time is it now? If you want to shed your blood for the organization, you have to wait until the organization goes to work."
You don't want to talk about it on the phone, right, for fear that I'll renege and whore out information for nothing? So you have to wait until tomorrow to meet offline ....... Zhang Yuanqing could only say helplessly, "Alright."
Hanging up the phone, he glanced at his cell phone, the time showed 11:00 p.m. The passage of time in the Spirit Realm was the same as the outside world.
Successfully contacting the official organization, Zhang Yuanqing's heart was greatly settled, and at this time, the tiredness brought out by struggling for survival in the Spirit Realm came rushing in.
He lay down on the bed and set the alarm clock, his eyelids getting heavier and heavier as he fell into a deep sleep.
.........
The next morning, at seven fifteen, Zhang Yuanqing was awakened by the sound of the alarm clock, narrowly escaping cardiac arrest and passing away on the spot.
While turning off the alarm clock, he yawned and got out of bed.
The quality of sleep last night was not ideal, having several nightmares, each one related to ghosts and monsters, waking up several times.
In the living room, Grandpa was sitting on the couch watching the news, his hair was silver and thinning, he was tall, his wrinkled face was unsmiling and stern.
Grandma was banging away in the kitchen making breakfast, and at the long dining table, my sister-in-law was squatting on a chair playing with her cell phone, puffing out her cheeks like a cute hamster.
"Up so early?"
The sister-in-law scrutinized her shriveled nephew and grunted, "A look of overindulgence, did you do something bad last night, I'm going to check your trash can."
In normal times, Zhang Yuanqing would have sneered back and said, Going to look for food?
But right now, with the Spirit Realm on his mind and the meeting with the official organization, he was not in the mood to fight with his sister-in-law.
Listlessly, he sat down next to the woman, his eyes glazed over as he waited for the meal to begin.
Soon, Grandma came out with steaming hot rice porridge, doughnuts, poached eggs, and a cage of meat buns.
Zhang Yuanqing took a sip of the hot congee to moisten his throat, looked at Grandpa, and said tentatively:
"Grandpa, I remember that after the construction team of the She Ling Tunnel disappeared back then, the Public Security Department organized a search team to look for it, and you were in it at that time."
Grandpa gave a "hmmm" and said with some confusion, "It's all ancient history, why are you asking about this."
"Yesterday I saw this story on the internet again, do you know what happened to the worker who was found."
Grandpa frowned and said, "Forgotten, so long ago, can't remember."
"Didn't he say he went missing again." Grandmother on the side interjected, quite interested in joining the discussion, "And it is a strange disappearance, this thing back then in the police force in a panic, or the leadership of the police department directorate personally down to appease, only to be considered the past."
"There is this?" Grandpa didn't admit it.
"Old Chen ah, are you getting old and getting dementia. You told me this matter yourself." Grandmother perked up.
..... Grandpa lowered his head and drank congee: "Believe in science, don't be keen on these superstitions, the older you get the more gossipy you are."
Found and then disappeared ........ Zhang Yuanqing sipped his congee in a somewhat low mood.
Obviously, that survivor entered the spirit realm again after 36 hours, and this time, he didn't make it out alive.
He had predicted correctly that the death rate of the Mountain God Temple was extremely high, and the second main quest was very, very dangerous.
Wanting to survive, relying on the officials was the most correct decision.
After eating breakfast and simply washing up, Zhang Yuanqing took the elevator downstairs and waited for ten minutes at the entrance of the district.
A black business car slowly pulled up, the electric door automatically slid open, and Li Dongze sat on the white leather sofa, leaning on his cane and folding his legs together.
The same dress as yesterday, black suit, black vest, white shirt, greasy hair neatly combed back, with two delicate moustaches.
"Get in the car, college student."
Lee Dongze wore a smile.
"Okay, investigator." Zhang Yuanqing returned the smile.
After he got into the car, the black commercial car merged into the traffic and drove unhurriedly through the streets in the early morning.
Li Dongze opened the car refrigerator while asking, "What to drink?"
"Coke!"
"Then you can only go to the supermarket later to buy it yourself." Li Dongze poured himself a glass of whiskey and chucked a hockey puck to throw it in, held the drink, leaned back in his seat and leisurely said:
"I will now take you to do the entry formalities, and by the way, I will give you basic training. First of all, introduce yourself, Li Dongze, Level 3 Spirit Realm Walker, Five Elements Alliance Songhai Branch, Kangyang District Squad 2 Shichang, occupation is scout."
Scout? There were other occupations besides Night Wanderer? Zhang Yuanqing assumed a posture of listening attentively.
Despite the doubts in his heart, he did not interrupt.
As a person who was good at socializing, Zhang Yuanqing knew that it was impolite to casually interrupt others, and he would not allow himself to be deducted points for such trivial matters.
Li Dongze took a sip of his wine and said, "First, I'll talk to you about what the Spirit Realm is!"
Zhang Yuanqing immediately perked up.
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PS: This chapter is a bonus.
