Chapter 616 — Childhood Playmate
The Blossom Guardian · Page 2 of 2
It had looked tense, but it had never carried the true danger of a real mission — only the trust and friendship between teammates! Second, Third, Fourth, Fifth, Sixth, and Little Seven — where are you now? Are you doing well? Are you busy running missions all over the world too?
Wei Zhao shook his head. Since leaving the training camp, his teammates had scattered to the four winds, and he had never seen them again.
Of course, apart from those three happy periods, Wei Zhao had also known many bitter ones. One of them was not exactly bitter — at the very least it counted as bittersweet, and it too had been a rare stretch of time... It was during those days that he came to know Yang Huaijun, and a few comrades-in-arms like Pangolin, and Xiao Ning...
And it was precisely because of Xiao Ning that Wei Zhao had forcibly erased that period from his memory, and it was also the reason he had chosen to flee the first time he saw Yang Huaijun.
Even now, Wei Zhao was not clear why he had rejected Xiao Ning so decisively. Was it truly because of the vast power looming behind her, blotting out the sky? Or was it because he could not give her a stable life?
The Wei Zhao of back then had never imagined that one day he would retire — still less that he would retire at such a young age! Wei Zhao did not know what the old man had been thinking, suddenly planting him in Songshan City to carry out a special mission that, once completed, would let him live off it for the rest of his life. It was a one-shot deal, plain and simple.
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Qiu Lingshan leafed through the case files on her desk. The kidney-harvesting ring seemed to have reined itself in considerably of late; ever since their transfer station had been smashed, their people had grown far more cautious. Yet they had by no means stopped — they had simply shifted their targets and locations to the villages and towns on the city's outskirts.
Over the past week, two widowed farmers had been murdered, with identical methods, and the locations ever more erratic! One victim was from Gayazi Village in the east of the city, the other from Shenbu Village in the west — one east, one west, tens of kilometers apart. There was no pattern to it at all!
Even deploying police to lie in wait, it was impossible to blanket the hundreds of villages around the city with officers. Never mind whether there were enough police to go around — even if there were, the entire station could hardly shut down and send everyone to stake out the kidney-harvesting ring, could it?
Qiu Lingshan felt thoroughly useless. Since taking up her post, she had cracked several major cases and won unanimous praise and recognition from the provincial and municipal leaders, but Qiu Lingshan knew well enough in her heart how things really stood. How those cases had been solved — she had not the face to say it aloud.
Even when others praised her, Qiu Lingshan felt herself blush crimson. She was not a person who liked to lie or boast, so it sat badly with her, and yet there was no way to explain.