The surge of impulsive emotion had passed.
Now it was the return of rationality.
Xue Kai adopted a serious expression.
"After the Dong Family incident but before the Su Family incident, I received a ssage from my wife, Su Zhiqin. She told the Su Family was in trouble."
"And her words implied that I should use my position and authority to help."
"I refused imdiately and explained the stakes to her. She listened and understood, but she couldn't let go of the Su Family. She tried to force my hand by threatening divorce."
This account was sowhat biased.
But Su Zhiqin was already dead now.
Speaking realistically, since she was gone, her empty identity could be used—ensuring it didn't affect the correct overall course of events—to mitigate his own mistakes.
It was impossible to stubbornly confront Lu Ding head-on and try to turn white into black in the world of the living, right?
Offending Lu Ding, offending Elder Shui, being eloquent and cunning under the premise of internal strife...
Forget it...
Xue Kai continued, "Later, influenced by emotion and acting on impulse, coupled with the fact that the trouble the Dong Family was stirring up at the ti was indeed significant, I issued an order to my subordinates to advise and inform Lu Ding."
"As for myself, adhering to the principle of recusal when relatives are involved in a case, I recused myself. I turned around and took people to the Su Family, intending to persuade them to cooperate as needed and submit to investigation as required."
"However, during this process, due to my work error and the unique properties of Special Envoy Lu's own techniques, communication signals were interfered with, causing him to not clearly hear the notification from our departnt's staff."
"This point was later corroborated when I rushed to the Su Family. Special Envoy Lu's giant-sized technique indeed could affect signals."
"Due to the urgency of the matter, after receiving unclear information, Special Envoy Lu did not linger but proceeded directly to the Su Family to engage in combat."
"It was also later, during my confrontation with Special Envoy Lu, that I learned the Dong and Su families had attempted to plot against the Great Han's Special Envoy. Therefore, on his way back to report, Special Envoy Lu, while ensuring the smooth progress of his own mission, took preemptive action against the Dong and Su families."
These words made everyone present look sideways.
Including Lu Ding.
He hadn't expected this either.
That Xue Kai would speak like this.
But it made sense.
Though it largely avoided the crucial points.
It dodged both his own issues and Lu Ding's problems.
Previously, he couldn't be sure whether Xue Kai was clever or truly convinced and not crooked at heart.
Now, Lu Ding could confirm it.
Xue Kai might be half-convinced, but his heart was definitely not crooked.
The implied aning in his words was that he was waiting for Lu Ding to produce evidence, leaving room for maneuver.
If Lu Ding couldn't produce evidence, this man would imdiately pile on and kick him while he was down, demanding justice for his wife.
If evidence was produced, then he was truly convinced.
Lu Ding could understand. After all, his wife had died. If he made no gesture after his wife's death, then he would be a pure-hearted scoundrel, an ungrateful wretch.
On the high platform, the high-ranking officials from the Second Hall Review Office heard these answers. "Oh? The Dong and Su families intended to plot against the Special Envoy?"
Then they looked at Lu Ding. "Is there evidence?"
Lu Ding raised his hand. "There is."
He released the audio and video recording from that ti in Wuwang's Nowhere Room.
In an instant.
Everyone present stood up simultaneously.
Looking at this scene with disbelief.
The atmosphere in the hall fell into an eerie silence.
When they saw Lu Ding in the Nowhere Room, starting a fight at the slightest disagreent, beating those Wuwang demonic cultivators until they were reeling, not giving them the slightest bit of face...
Satisfying!!!
Their front teeth felt a bit warm, needed to air them out.
Watching from beginning to end, seeing with their own eyes, hearing with their own ears about Yuwen Longyuan and others discussing the Dong and Su families' request for cooperation during the Wuwang Nowhere Room eting.
Lu Ding stood up. So things didn't need to wait for others to ask questions like 'How can you ensure the authenticity of this recording?'
Lu Ding would say it himself.
"All the leaders present should know about my actions in the new city. So ti ago, after learning in the Wuwang Nowhere Room that the Dong and Su families wanted to join forces with Wuwang to deal with , I moved faster than them. I set out first and successfully intercepted and killed mbers of the Dong and Su families in the uninhabited zone."
"Later, from the uninhabited zone, I pursued and killed mbers of the Dong and Su families all the way to Fengkou City. At the Purple Cloud Sect's Purple Qi from the East Grand Gathering, I personally killed the Dong Family's Fifth Restriction Qi Refiner, Dong Congyi!"
"Everyone present at the Purple Cloud Sect's Purple Qi from the East Grand Gathering can testify to this."
"And at that ti, Fengkou City 749 Bureau Deputy Director Liang Fang was also there."
Since Lu Ding dared to say this, the others no longer harbored doubts, only waiting to go through the verification process afterward.
Now, their focus fell on this audio and video recording.
On the high platform, the third hall of the Three-Hall Joint Hearing, the Great Han official authority.
"Lu Ding, this Wuwang Nowhere Room... how did you get in?"
Curious, astonished.
The secrecy of Wuwang's Nowhere Room was too outrageous, to the point that the Great Han had tried repeatedly to crack it but never succeeded.
If we only considered the cultivation levels of the Wuwang demonic cultivators, they weren't particularly impressive.
The main issues were that ancient teleportation array and the Nowhere Room attached to it.
Extrely annoying!!!
Specialized fields require specialized skills; they truly had no solution.
Now Lu Ding could actually infiltrate Wuwang's Nowhere Room. This...
Facing the doubts from the high platform, Lu Ding's answer consisted of only four words: "Personal patent."
Public is public, private is private.
One must keep a clear head.
Joining the 749 Bureau was not wrong, serving the public and the people was not wrong either.
But!!
One's own rights and interests must also be protected.
The secret of entering the Nowhere Room must remain firmly in his own hands. This was a temporarily irreplaceable condition.
Only by holding it securely could he highlight his importance to the new city.
He couldn't possibly, like in so past-life novels or TV dramas where characters join a faction and spill everything like beans from a bamboo tube the mont they're asked, right?
Hearing this utterly undisguised answer.
Laughter erupted from the high platform. "Hahahahaha, he's keeping it quite tight. Fine, fine, fine, we won't ask about your personal patent."
The big shot from the 749 First Hall cast an interested look. "As far as I know, in the subsequent battle of 'cleansing' the Path of Dry Bones, you had a large-scale conflict with those Wuwang demonic cultivators from the west."
"Combined with the recording just now, you knew they wanted to deal with you?"
"In the subsequent fight, you not only killed many Wuwang demonic cultivators but also prevented them from escaping?"
Lu Ding nodded. "To be precise, it wasn't preventing them. It was directly killing the Wuwang demonic cultivators who tried to escape during the process of them activating the teleportation array to flee!"
"Moreover, the entire western Wuwang is now under a certain degree of my control. I also have layout plans and strategies for the future. If smoothly implented, given ti, I will cleanse the entire new city of Wuwang mbers!"
These words sounded only sowhat arrogant.
But when combined with the actual situation.
This was simply arrogance without bounds!
Wuwang, which had given the Great Han headaches and for which they had no effective solution, Lu Ding actually dared to say he alone would cleanse them.
What kind of bold declaration was this?
The damnable part was.
They couldn't refute or question it.
Because before saying this, he had already proven it with action.
'Wuwang? Not that aweso.'
Not only successfully infiltrated their ranks but also attained a not-low position.
On the high platform, the most excited was undoubtedly the high-ranking official from the 749 First Hall.
Damn, it brings honor!!!
Satisfying!!!
Finally, soone could deal with Wuwang.
It really required the right dicine for the illness.
Wuwang's Nowhere Room, Wuwang's teleportation array, were as good as nonexistent in front of Lu Ding. Simply unbelievable!!!
The high-ranking official from the 749 First Hall said, "How much ti do you need?"
Lu Ding didn't hesitate. "Treating the symptoms is fast. Curing the root cause takes ti."
Two anings were implied in his words, which boiled down to four characters: 'waiting for the right price.'
The 749 high-ranking official didn't mind Lu Ding's 'waiting for the right price.' In fact, he liked this kind of attitude.
Only an aweso existence could enjoy the 'waiting for the right price' where there's demand but no fixed price.
The more arrogant, the more it indicated solid confidence.
Now Lu Ding had achievents when achievents were needed, strength when strength was needed. His character and conduct were beyond reproach!
So why be indirect?
The 749 Bureau never did things indirectly.
BANG!!
The high-ranking official from the 749 First Hall slamd the table and stood up.
"No more playing gas with you. 3.0, no, I'll give you the treatnt authority of a 3.5-level subordinate jurisdiction 749, plus the treatnt of a 3.5-level 749 Bureau Director. In the new city, go at it with broad strokes!!!"
"Lu Ding, aren't you arrogant? We're not pushovers either. Today I'll put it right here: Wuwang, the Yellow Heaven Sect, all major external forces... as long as you can deliver results against them for , whatever you want, I'll give it to you!"
"If it exists dostically, I'll give it to you. If it doesn't exist dostically, I'll take people out to seize it for you."
If you want the horse to run, you have to let the horse eat grass.
Lu Ding was a 749 Bureau investigator. As his leader, he must support him!
Even if so things couldn't be done openly, it didn't matter. He could wear a mask.
Elder Shui, sipping tea nearby, made an acknowledging sound and cast a glance. "Need you for that?"
Wear a mask?
Elder Shui didn't even need a mask. It was who did it, so what? Not happy? Let's have a go then?!
Don't give all that complicated talk. I'm a rough man, I don't know how to read.
On the high platform, the official person fiercely banged his gavel. "Enough, enough! Are we holding a comndation eting here!?"
"Don't you see what kind of occasion this is!"
After saying that, he looked at Lu Ding and grinned. "Lu Ding, could you help us with a small favor?"
"Huh?"
The high-ranking official from the 749 First Hall imdiately voiced his confusion.
So you told to be quiet just because you wanted to poach soone?
"What 'huh'? There's no other way now. Only Lu Ding is the most suitable."
These words made Lu Ding curious. He had his own pride but was never a complacent person.
Throughout the Great Han, from top to bottom, there were so many prodigies, so many powerful experts. There might not be prodigies more aweso than him, but there were definitely experts more formidable than him.
And with the new city's public testing imminent, he didn't want to be distracted by other matters either.
"The Great Han has so many powerful experts and prodigies, they..."
Before Lu Ding could finish his polite refusal, the high-ranking official from the First Hall cut in, "But they don't know An Wuyang."
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