Chapter 25: Bowing

"[Spades 7], what is your request?"

"I need a quiet room."

"Reason?"

"Discovered a suspected Fusionist, conducting a Calamity level determination experiment."

"Fusionist?" The woman raised her eyebrows in surprise. "Is it possible to absorb him?"

"The target can rule out the possibility of being a member of the Fusionist faction, but has a tendency to join the law enforcers. Whether he has absorption value depends on the results of my determination."

"Understood."

The woman took a key from the bottom of the cabinet. "The quiet room is on the second basement level."

Chu Muyun took the key, opened the basement secret door, and his figure flickered and disappeared.

The woman walked out from behind the counter, stood at the door, and observed the surroundings obscurely, then flipped the "Open" sign on the door to "Closed".

Whoosh—

In the darkness, Chu Muyun lit a kerosene lamp and stepped down the narrow stairs step by step.

The dim light gradually descended. At the bottom of the stairs was a space of about ten square meters. Chu Muyun bent down and placed the kerosene lamp in the center of the floor, then took out the small brown bottle and poured out its contents.

Chu Muyun took off his glasses, and a blue radiance rose from the bottom of his eyes. A powerful pressure turned into a whirlwind, stirring in the space!

"Diagnosis... beginning."

……

Ice Spring Street.

Chen Ling's figure shuttled through the broken ruins, searching carefully.

He was very glad now that he was assigned to this place and was responsible for finding clues... If Chen Yan had left any clues here, he would be the first to know and the first to cut them off.

If the safety amulet from yesterday hadn't been picked up by him, but had fallen into the hands of other law enforcers, the consequences would be unimaginable.

But it turned out that Chen Yan hadn't left anything else behind.

Chen Ling spent the whole morning turning the ruins of Ice Spring Street upside down. Apart from various flesh and limbs, there was nothing else, not even the traces of the "Calamity Domain" that Qian Fan spoke of.

Chen Ling couldn't help but wonder in his heart, what exactly was the ability of the Calamity in Chen Yan's body?

Just as he was pondering, a figure walked over from a distance.

"Wu Youdong?" Chen Ling recognized the person and was slightly stunned.

Wu Youdong being on Ice Spring Street was not unexpected, but the problem was that Wu Youdong was now leaning on metal crutches, one leg was in a cast, his whole body was covered in wounds and bandages, his left eye was bruised, and he was as dirty as if he had just crawled out of a trench.

Hearing Chen Ling's voice, Wu Youdong, who had been hanging his head, finally had a glimmer of light in his eyes.

"Chen Ling." Wu Youdong smiled bitterly. "I thought I wouldn't be able to see you alive..."

"What happened to you..."

"I don't plan to be a law enforcer anymore."

Wu Youdong raised his head and looked at the aurora in the distance, a trace of sadness and loneliness flashing in his bruised eyes.

"What happened?" Chen Ling clearly remembered that when he left yesterday, the other party was still full of anticipation to complete the task. How did he become like this today?

"Law enforcers... Ice Spring Street... none of them are good things."

"Chen Ling, do you know what kind of people live on this street?"

"They are debt collectors! Cultists! Wanted criminals! There are illegal gun trades, drug trades, and organ trades everywhere here! I went to collect information from the survivors on this street yesterday, and I was mocked and insulted by them!"

"They kicked me into the toilet! Made me help them wash the toilet! I refused, and they broke my leg!"

Wu Youdong's voice trembled more and more. He seemed to remember some painful memories, and veins bulged on his neck.

"They did it on purpose!!"

"The law enforcers in District 2 know what kind of place this street is! None of them want to come, so they ask for manpower from District 3! I don't know what deal they made with Ma Zhong, but Ma Zhong transferred people from the District 3 reserves!"

"He knows we are newcomers, and our families are poor and have no influence! Who else would he transfer if not us??"

"To put it nicely, we are here to support. To put it bluntly, we are just offerings given by the law enforcement high-ups! I swear on my life! The law enforcement high-ups must have connections with the underground trades on Ice Spring Street!"

"Why?!"

"My parents sold everything to support my education! I passed the law enforcement exam on my own ability!"

"Why do they have the right to insult me like this?!!"

Wu Youdong roared angrily, his eyes red as blood, but even at this point, he still didn't dare to speak too loudly... because the law enforcers of District 2 were not far away.

Under the gaze of the lion, no matter how furious the ants are, they can only be suppressed and silent.

Wu Youdong's chest heaved violently, as if he would challenge Ice Spring Street or the law enforcers to a duel in the next moment, but as a voice sounded, his body shook again.

"Wu Youdong, Chen Ling? What are you talking about?"

Qian Fan, wearing a black and red uniform, walked over from a distance with his arms crossed, asking curiously.

Wu Youdong's face turned pale instantly.

"Wu Youdong, didn't you say you weren't going to be a law enforcer anymore?" Qian Fan spoke again. "Voluntarily withdrawing from the law enforcement exam gives you no chance to go back on it... For people like you, this should be an opportunity to change your destiny. Are you sure you've thought it through?

Or... if you feel that there is something the law enforcers are not doing well at the moment, you can bring it up, and we can discuss it..."

Wu Youdong's face changed repeatedly, and he wanted to speak several times... But under Qian Fan's gaze, he finally just shook his head.

"No, nothing... I withdraw voluntarily."

"What a pity."

Chen Ling looked at Wu Youdong in front of him, and his mood became complicated...

Wu Youdong dared to complain about the crimes of the law enforcers to Chen Ling, but in front of the law enforcer, he didn't dare to say a word.

But he couldn't say Wu Youdong was cowardly, because even if Wu Youdong didn't become a law enforcer, he would have to live in District 3 or other major districts of the Aurora Domain in the future, and no matter where he was, there would be law enforcers...

For everyone living in the Aurora Domain, the law enforcers are the sky.

Wu Youdong looked at Chen Ling deeply, lowered his head again... He struggled with those cheap crutches, gritted his teeth, and limped toward District 3.

His figure slowly shrank as he moved further away, until he became a tiny grain of fine sand, scattered by the wind at the end of the road.

Chen Ling knew that from this day forward... Wu Youdong might never lift his head again.

"Sigh, I actually think he's quite decent—hardworking and with good potential." Qian Fan watched Wu Youdong's retreating back and let out a long sigh.

"By the way, now that Wu Youdong is gone, there's no one to do his work... From today on, you'll take his place."

Chen Ling was startled; he turned back to look at Qian Fan.

Qian Fan smiled as he met his gaze. Under the sunlight, his smile looked like that of a demon.