Chapter 100: One Takes A Loss, The Other Turns To Ashes
The new Disinfection Officer felt that coming to Ningjiang City was the right choice, but tasks still had to be done, and demonic creatures still needed to be prevented and eliminated.
No matter how strong Li Ye was, he was still just one person; he couldn’t take care of all the lesser demons and little fiends scattered everywhere.
Short on people? Of course, request more from above.
“Grandpa Wang, you promised me twenty people, but I can’t carry out my work like this.”
Li Ye directly called the Provincial Department director.
A kindly laugh came from the other end. “Understand my situation, there are only so many people. I deliberately picked some usable ones for you. If you want more, you’ll have to wait a bit. I guarantee, in another half year, I can send you a few more.”
“If this keeps up, I’ll recruit people myself,” Li Ye said.
“That would be great. If you can recruit some, it would solve the urgent problem.”
Old Man Wang’s tone was cheerful. “Little Ye, you call me grandpa, and grandpa won’t screw you over. In Ningjiang City, go ahead boldly. If there’s trouble, your Grandpa Wang has your back.”
“Then thank you, Grandpa Wang.”
Li Ye smiled and hung up the phone, then shook his head again.
Could he not have his back?
Twenty came in one batch.
Martial Arts University graduates had been out for over five months, but among the arrivals, there weren’t any fresh graduates; they were all transferred from original Disinfection Bureaus, and not even one from the province.
Recruiting people was too difficult.
Someone like him was one of a kind, like scorpion shit—solitary.
But this severe shortage of people made him think of Yang Jie. Last time, he agreed to join the Disinfection Bureau, but after so long, there was still no movement.
Thinking of this, Li Ye made a call to Yang Jie.
“Brother Li.”
“Last time you said you wanted to join the Disinfection Bureau. How’s the consideration going?”
“Brother Li, it’s not that I don’t want to join; it’s impossible. The martial arts school won’t let me go.”
Li Ye was slightly stunned. “You didn’t tell them you wanted to join the Disinfection Bureau?”
This wasn’t his previous life, where taking a civil service exam let you break your company contract. But with the reputation Li Ye had fought for, it should carry some weight, right?
“I did, but they said they don’t care about that. Either I cripple my martial arts and pay money to leave, or pay a breach of contract fee of one hundred million. Forget it,” Yang Jie said.
Li Ye laughed in anger. He hung up and had Huang Qingyi come over.
“Big Huang, go to the Taibao Martial Arts School. The people there aren’t sensible. Teach them how to deal with the current Disinfection Bureau. Then bring back someone named Yang Jie; he’s someone I value.”
The martial arts school where Yang Jie trained was called Taibao Martial Arts School, not the one Li Ye trained at before. It was a small local school with fame, a chain with branches in five cities around Ningjiang. The headmaster had broken Vajra Pass and Army Breaking Pass, a Second Realm martial artist.
They taught from unbreaking Dragon Gate training methods to medium-grade martial arts, to exquisite-level martial arts for Half Breakthrough. Besides charging for lessons, they invested in nurturing, offering directional contracts to those with outstanding talent.
Yang Jie was one of them.
For such a martial arts school, Li Ye was willing to talk nicely and pay the compensation that was due.
Li Ye had specifically checked this martial arts school’s contracts before. If contracted, the monthly spend on an apprentice was only around twenty thousand.
Even if contracted from the beginning of junior high for six years to senior year, that was one million five hundred thousand. Plus time and effort, Li Ye was willing to pay double, three million to take Yang Jie.
Li Ye had no money on him now. He swallowed all the aquatic products from his fiefdom; the industries that should give him dividends hadn’t paid yet.
The Ren Family’s industries had money, but it wasn’t all Li Ye’s. Business had costs and profit sharing, and being consumer industries, profit margins weren’t that high.
Li Ye didn’t run business himself and needed people to manage it. Normally, he got 10% of the net profit.
This proportion wasn’t small. He didn’t need to worry about investments, expansion, or business issues; others handled it. He just needed to consider dividends.
In a year, it was about twenty million.
But that would only come at year-end.
Though he had no money, others did. If worst came to worst, borrow from Director Pan.
Unfortunately, the other side was a bit ungrateful.
He now felt that the rules from his previous life should exist in this life too!
“Let me tell you, no way!”
Inside Taibao Martial Arts School, martial arts school master and owner Lu Zhe pointed at Yang Jie’s nose. At just 1.7 meters tall, he looked like a child next to the two-meter-tall figure, but his momentum was undaunted.
“The martial arts school nurtured you for a full six years! You’re about to graduate and go to university, and now you want to leave? For what Disinfection Bureau? What’s good about that dead-end, miserable manual labor!”
“Besides, you’re only at Five Dragon Gates; you can’t even touch the Disinfection Bureau’s Six Dragon Gate level! I still say the same: either disperse your qi and blood, pay money and scram, or pay one hundred million in breach of contract fee! Otherwise, stay put!”
With the Martial Arts Competition approaching, the Martial Arts Track Class experience training had ended, perfect for rest. Lu Zhe took the chance to call Yang Jie over for another scolding.
Last time Yang Jie brought it up, he refused, but still felt uneasy, so he did it again.
Lu Zhe was also sponsored by the martial arts school from childhood, but his talent was inferior to Yang Jie’s. After so many years, he was only at Six Dragon Gate, just one more Qi Blood Leap than Yang Jie.
But in the martial arts school, he was the master, and those sponsored with contracts were, in his eyes, the school’s property. He wouldn’t let them go no matter what.
The Disinfection Bureau and such were just excuses to him.
Yang Jie had grown bold; probably someone outside took a liking to him and wanted to swap contracts.
Even if it was really the Disinfection Bureau, he didn’t care.
In his eyes, the Disinfection Bureau was just a bit fiercer with its director. Last time, they inspected all martial arts industries in the city, making them grumble. But now that director was transferred away, the Disinfection Bureau was back to like three years ago—or rather, three years ago was the norm for most Disinfection Bureaus.
Who the hell cares about those people.
As for the Ren Family falling, he knew a bit, but it wasn’t in his direction. Who cared; it was just gossip after tea.
“Yang Jie, in these six years with me, I treated you well, feeding you well every day. What for? Just so your martial arts succeed and add another floor to our martial arts school.”
After scolding, Lu Zhe sighed again. “Your talent is good. Given time, you might reach Nine Dragon Gate. If you train another Hardening Technique, maybe like the headmaster, break the Mysterious Pass and step into Second Realm.”
“By then, you can leave or stay as you wish. But now, you must stay here until you graduate university and get assigned to work at the martial arts school.”
“Even if it’s really the Disinfection Bureau valuing you, do you think it’s a good place? Only dogs would go there—chasing demonic creature scents all day like dogs. If unlucky, either get offended and beaten to death, or bitten to death by demonic creatures!”
Clap, clap, clap.
Just as the words fell, applause rang from the martial arts school entrance.
Huang Qingyi, in his captain uniform, clapped while entering with three menacing-looking men.
“Impressive. That sentence made me think this time was all a dream.”
He looked at the three men behind with sour faces. “Am I a dog?”
“What are you saying.”
Song Zhengyu bowed slightly, flattering with a smile. “The Disinfection Bureau is the guardian god protecting people’s peace. How can you insult it like that? Rest assured, we’re here to handle it!”
With that, the three moved together. With qi and blood surging, all leaped nine times, surrounding Lu Zhe.
“What are you going to d.”
Before he finished, a burly man punched to seal his mouth, slamming him down. The other two attacked mercilessly, all strikes to vitals.
Huang Qingyi ignored the beaten man and looked at the stunned Yang Jie. “Are you Yang Jie?”
Yang Jie nodded instinctively.
Huang Qingyi smiled. “Director Li values you highly. I heard you’re classmates. I’m Huang Qingyi, captain of the Disinfection Bureau’s First Major Team. Let’s keep in touch.”
“Director Li?” Yang Jie was stunned.
Huang Qingyi smiled. “Anyway, your contract is voided. The Disinfection Bureau will cover it. You won’t have trouble.”
He walked over, patted Yang Jie’s arm, and praised. “With this build, what master at a martial arts school? You should be slaying demons.”
Saying that, he grabbed Yang Jie’s arm and headed out. At the door, he glanced at the surrounded and beaten Lu Zhe.
“Right, this martial arts school of yours, I suspect it’s colluding with cults. It needs to be sealed.”
Running around places lately, getting banquets and respect from local forces, made Huang Qingyi realize one thing.
Pulling the tiger’s skin gets more satisfying the more you use it.
Why exert yourself when you can do it without effort?
Li Ye’s tiger skin was exceptionally satisfying, and his style elevated Huang Qingyi’s approach.
In Ningjiang City, there was no one he couldn’t afford to offend. Even short on manpower… didn’t he have lackeys?
Ningjiang City’s three major gangs… three company bosses were all here.
“Officer Huang, you go first. We’ll handle this.”
Song Zhengyu kicked out Lu Zhe’s teeth, turned to Huang Qingyi with a fawning smile. The other two followed suit, watching Huang Qingyi leave.
East City District’s Feipeng Company boss Song Zhengyu, North City District’s Dragon Mountain Food Company boss Duan Yi, West District’s Jiang’e Sect was gone, but replaced by Jianghai Gang… Jianghai Aquatic Trade Company’s force, boss Jiang Daqiao. All at Nine Dragon Gate.
Normally, leading such forces without Second Realm Breakthrough wouldn’t hold, but no choice—Ningjiang’s underground Breaking Through Realm martial artists were nearly annihilated by Li Ye.
A few lucky ones were in counties, visited by Li Ye during demon extermination after annihilating the Ren Family.
Benefiting from the fame of destroying the Ren Family and Li Ye’s terrifying strength, they luckily knelt and survived.
But these three weren’t afraid of being swallowed; all dogs look at the master when beating dogs. Of course, they needed to maintain presence, or get forgotten.
Like now, at the call of Huang Qingyi, dubbed ‘Secretary Huang’, they came.
Three Nine Dragon Gate against one Six Dragon Gate, all practicing the same exquisite-level martial arts—easy capture.
“All scram!”
Jiang Daqiao roared at the stunned crowd in the martial arts school. “Didn’t you hear? It’s sealed!”
The people in the martial arts school scattered!
“You, you… Our headmaster is Zheng Jun! He won’t let you off!”
As a Hardening Technique practitioner, under harsh beatings, Lu Zhe still had strength to speak.
“We know, Jianghuai Province’s Peerless Taibao, body Hardening Technique plus two iron rods beating southern Jianghuai. My big brother suffered under him.”
Song Zhengyu sneered. “But Peerless Taibao can only make my big brother suffer; Li Longhu can turn my big brother to ash. He just won’t let me off; I don’t want my big brother underground letting me off either.”
He personally sent his good nephew down. Though one day he’d beg big brother underground, not now.
Living longer, what if big brother reincarnated as a pig?
That would perfectly miss each other.
