Chapter 60: Su Chen: I Hope Pan Yu Is Okay
“You could say that.” Qian Hui’s expression was somewhat strange, but he quite agreed.
“Thank you, Brother Qian.” Su Chen said solemnly: “I will remember this favor in my heart.”
Sure enough, Qian Hui’s furrowed brows relaxed considerably, and he sighed: “There are plenty of people watching me here too. Now that you’ve taken it, I won’t have to offend anyone anymore.”
“Your status is sufficient; others won’t have much to say.”
“Right, there’s this too.” Qian Hui opened another metal box on the side, which contained three vials of crimson viscous potion.
“Second Order Mist Fiend Potion, this is your quota for one week.”
“If you give a few more weeks’ worth, it won’t be enough; you’d still have to run back and forth.” Sun Fatty muttered,
Qian Hui’s face turned pitch black. “Then why don’t you get the Trade Repository to send more over.”
“You’re joking, why get so worked up.” Sun Fatty shook his head helplessly.
Su Chen saw Qian Hui getting so angry he was about to make a move, so he quickly spoke up to smooth things over. “Coming back more often is pretty good too; I can learn more from Brother Qian.”
After chatting idly for a bit, Su Chen and Sun Fatty finally left from there.
“Don’t feel like you owe him anything. Old Qian has screwed me over plenty before too.” After they left, Sun Fatty explained.
If you feel like you owe anyone, owe me.
Su Chen said sincerely: “I understand.”
Sun Fatty felt relieved. Communicating with Su Chen was truly straightforward, so he couldn’t help but start calculating: “Hmm, still short a Body Tempering Method…”
“The Training Method side is under my charge. For Gale Hunter, use E-level【 Gale Body Tempering Method】, tempering the body with blazing fire hurricanes; the effect should be pretty good.” Sun Fatty gave a suggestion and continued:
“The E-level Training Methods we have here are just those two or three sets anyway; no real choice.”
Su Chen had no objections and followed Sun Fatty to the Internal Affairs Department to watch him retrieve the Body Tempering Method and hand it over.
“Right…” Sun Tai saw he was about to leave and stopped him again, taking out a set of information. “This is the Meditation Method you wanted.”
Su Chen took it and flipped through it briefly. 【Ethereal Meditation Method】, focusing on precise control of mental power.
【Star Light Meditation Method】 had long reached Master Level, granting the ability named 【Star Rhyme】, which improved mental resilience.
First Order mental attacks could basically be immune by now.
Just mentioned it a couple days ago, and Sun Tai already had results.
“This is already the third one. If you want to get more, it’ll probably be quite tricky…” Sun Tai rubbed his hands and said in a low voice.
“Shouldn’t need any more.” Su Chen shook his head. Promoting to 【Mystic Arts Scholar】 only required three F-level Meditation Methods anyway, and the remaining Profession Development Degree wasn’t much.
“That’s good.” Sun Tai breathed a sigh of relief.
Zhang Hongbo had only given him three days to prepare. Su Chen timed it just right, tidied up the room decently, and then followed Sun Fatty to check out the place.
South Wind City was very large. Besides the patrol guards dispatched daily from Inspection Headquarters, the four southeastern, southern, western, and northern districts also had temporary branch offices to enable quick responses.
……
“Su Chen was transferred from the Inspection Department to the North City Branch and even became a Second Order Professional.”
Zhou Xian received his subordinate’s secret information. A cold glint burst from his sinister eyes as his gaze fell on the corpse nearly covered in frost, a flash of grief passing through his eyes.
His own son had died young, yet the killer was becoming ever more prominent. Resentment filled his chest.
“Pan Yu has gone silent too; something must have happened to him, but it wasn’t the Inspection Department who did it. Could it be…”
With Pan Yu gone, the pawns he could mobilize in the Inspection Department were just small fries.
“Could it really be up to me to handle it personally?” Zhou Xian stared at the corpse, still hesitating.
He had no other tasks left; he just needed to find that “delicious soul.” If he went all out, it wasn’t without opportunity.
But he wasn’t sure if Su Chen really knew why the Strange Artifact was empty.
“Zhang Hongbo, using him as bait—you’re not afraid of Yuan Chenyang coming back to fight you to the death.” Zhou Xian paced back and forth in the room, his hair disheveled, eyes deeply sunken, looking like a withered tree, his voice growing even lower,
………
“Sigh, such turbulent times…”
On the road, Sun Tai drove the hover car and glanced at Su Chen in the rearview mirror, sighing: “Pan Yu, the deputy section chief of the Patrol Section, seems to have had an accident.”
“Deputy section chief? Had an accident?” Su Chen looked stunned and quickly asked: “What happened?”
“No idea.” Sun Fatty steered with one hand and scratched his head: “He hasn’t come to the Inspection Department for several days straight. At first we thought he was on some mission, but later no one could contact him. Went to his home and saw no one there.”
“Secret mission?” Su Chen couldn’t help saying.
“The City Lord definitely didn’t assign any mission, and the Minister probably wouldn’t either. Pan Yu hasn’t even met the Minister a few times.” He shook his head.
“Any clues?” Su Chen also showed confusion.
“Your section chief is already investigating the situation.” Sun Fatty said in a low voice: “It’s got everyone in the department on edge, all thinking it’s the Cult of the Strange God making a move in the shadows. His home safe is gone too; no one knows the situation.”
Su Chen sighed: “Hope he’s okay.”
“Yeah, he was a pretty good guy.” Sun Tai agreed.
The North City Branch was a four-story small building. As someone from Headquarters, appointed by the City Lord, student of the Minister, and a big shot with connections to the skies, he naturally received a warm welcome.
After a friendly chat with Director Hou Xu, making clear he had no intention of meddling and just wanted to focus on training.
The other party became even more enthusiastic and unhesitatingly gave up his own director’s room.
Hou Xu went home every day to his wife, kids, and warm bed; he didn’t live here.
“Five-times gravity chamber; everything needed is here.” After seeing off Sun Fatty, Su Chen carefully inspected the room and activated 【Spiritual Perspective】 to secretly check for surveillance or the like.
He then skillfully pulled the curtains, peering out through the gap at the bustling people outside and vehicles crisscrossing the sky.
“They probably arranged people outside too. Since it’s fishing, the one holding the rod shouldn’t be far away.” Su Chen’s heart stirred. “How about pulling in another insurance?”
Su Chen opened his bracelet and scrolled through contacts. After some operations, he closed it with satisfaction.
Stretching his body, Su Chen reached into his storage space and pulled out a bottle of 【Mist Fiend Potion】, uncorked the seal, and downed it in one gulp. The taste was somewhat spicy.
It slid down his throat, faintly burning it.
The effect was extremely pronounced; the exposed skin turned crimson red within seconds, and inside his body it felt like blades were slicing.
“So intense…” Su Chen’s face flushed red. He quickly downed a Spirit Light Potion, then darted into the gravity chamber. The suddenly increased five-times gravity nearly flattened him; it took a while to adapt and enter the state.
As a result, once he circulated the Gale Body Tempering Method, the slicing sensation intensified; what was once cold blades cutting flesh became high-temperature cutting blades.
Here, Su Chen didn’t dare train to utter exhaustion. Feeling it was about right, he stopped.
【Gale Hunter: 2%】
【Mystic Tool Master: 79%】
【E-level Gale Body Tempering Method—Beginner: 5%】
【F-level Ethereal Meditation Method—Beginner: 50%】
At Second Order, both the profession development rate and Body Tempering Method improvement rate had dropped by more than just a bit. Even with upgraded potion specs and the gravity chamber, it was hard to match First Order speeds.
Thanks to the influence of Crimson Gold Level mental talent, the 【Mystic Tool Master】 profession development rate was considerably faster than that of 【Void Ripper Warrior】.
Early next morning, before Su Chen could start training, someone hurriedly came to notify him that someone was looking for him downstairs.
“They really came, and so fast?” Su Chen was quite surprised, tidied up a bit, and went downstairs.
At first glance, he saw the young man standing in the hall, standing very straight with an impressive demeanor—it was the City Lord’s son, Zhang Hengyu.
