"Director, I’d like to request so leave." Yang Xiao said, sowhat embarrassed.
"Didn’t I just give you half a month off?" Nalan Shuo was confused. In the past year, Yang Xiao had only been at work for a maximum of two months, spending the rest of the ti hanging out with unsavory characters.
Seeing Yang Xiao’s ingratiating expression, Nalan Shuo sighed, rubbing his forehead with one hand and waving the other, "I’ll give you another 5 days, but then you need to get back on track."
"Thank you, Director!" Yang Xiao stood up and gave Nalan Shuo a proper salute.
As he was about to leave, Yang Xiao seed to rember sothing, halted in his tracks, and reminded, "Director, we just killed the protector of the Withered Bone Pavilion. Those guys aren’t good people, so be extra cautious, they might retaliate against us."
"You too." Nalan Shuo nodded.
After saying that, Yang Xiao left, but just as he reached the door, Nalan Shuo called out, "If you can’t part with that girl, bring her along, don’t let her down."
Yang Xiao stopped in his tracks and turned around, only to see the director lighting a cigarette. As the smoke slowly rose, the director’s resolute face beca blurred, his slightly lost eyes full of stories.
Putting on a mask, Yang Xiao took the elevator down to the underground parking lot and sent a ssage to Xi nxiu. In less than 2 minutes, Xi nxiu arrived hurriedly.
"Captain, I’ve been driving your car all along, and living in your villa, you can rest assured." Xi nxiu took out the car keys, looking ingratiating, aid the unlock button at a black SUV.
"Chirp chirp"
Like a chauffeur, Xi nxiu first opened the front passenger door for Yang Xiao, then jogged to the driver’s side, opened the door, and got in.
"Captain, you haven’t co back for such a long ti, didn’t the sister-in-law miss you? Next ti when you go far away, tell where she lives. While you’re not there, I’ll make extra runs to take care of her for you." Xi nxiu said seriously, putting on sunglasses.
Car, house, sister-in-law... Yang Xiao suddenly felt that all the assets he had worked so hard to accumulate were being taken away by this kid Xi nxiu.
"Where are we going? Back to my villa?" Xi nxiu asked instinctively.
"Hmm?!" Yang Xiao suddenly felt sothing was wrong, very unsettling.
In the next second, upon realizing, Xi nxiu awkwardly chuckled, "It’s your villa, Captain, I’m just straightforward, hope you don’t mind."
"Not ho, take out of the city."
"Got it!"
With a press on the gas pedal, the black SUV drove out of the underground parking lot, rging into the traffic outside, soon disappearing from sight.
Late at night, in a bedroom on the second floor of a villa in Rongcheng Lin’an District, a middle-aged man was sound asleep.
The man’s face was resolute and angular, but cleanly grood, very fresh, lacking the greasy feeling common to many middle-aged n at that age.
There were few things in the room, each placed in its designated position, with the leather slippers under the bed neatly together, toes pointing outward.
It was evident that the man was very good at managing himself, with a bit of obsessive-compulsive behavior, and highly alert, as the room was filled with surveillance caras and various alarms.
Near the door on the wall of the bedroom hung a set of black uniforms.
The black uniforms, hidden in the darkness, resembled a silent warrior, silently guarding.
Not far outside the villa, a black sedan was parked with three people inside, the two in the front were smoking, killing ti out of boredom.
The person in the back seat was wrapped in a thick coat, lying sideways on the seat, occasionally emitting soft snores.
This car was staffed with people from the Patrol Defense Office security section, keeping watch overnight as required, since not far behind, in that villa lived Lin’an Patrol Office Director, Nalan Shuo.
The person sitting in the passenger seat yawned, realizing he was a bit sleepy, quickly shook his head, took out a small tin, and popped a piece of concentrated coffee candy into his mouth, "Crunch crunch" chewing it up.
It was already 2 a.m., and this villa area was very quiet, inhabited by high-class citizens with not only wealth but also status.
The car had been modified, with several small screens in front of the passenger seat showing live surveillance video, with caras covering every blind spot outside Nalan Shuo’s villa.
"Haah—"
Sitting in the driver’s seat was the captain of this small team, a retired frontline officer, a bit older, whom everyone called Captain Zhou.
Late night, Captain Zhou couldn’t help but yawn.
After all, he wasn’t young anymore. Back when on missions, he could go three days and three nights without sleep, but not anymore.
"Captain, you get so sleep, I’ll wake Ah Cheng, the two of us can handle the watch," suggested the young man in the passenger seat.
"No need, let him sleep." Captain Zhou straightened his back, tightened his clothes, his gaze sweeping over the roadside, and after a mont, he murmured quietly, "Stay vigilant, my right eyelid has been twitching non-stop today, don’t know why."
"I’ll get out and take a walk." As if to validate his words, Captain Zhou patted the gun and alarm on his waist, opened the door, and got out.
"I’ll go with you." suggested the crew mber in the passenger seat.
"You stay, keep an eye on the street corner, it’s the best vantage point."
After speaking, Captain Zhou walked along the roadside alone, hands in pockets, seemingly aimless but actually checking several secretly placed alarm points.
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