Under everyone's complicated gaze, Xu Zhe calmly returned to his seat. There was no farewell, no embarrassing scene of sympathy.
Everything was done silently. Although Xu Zhe only had one arm that could move, he was not any slower in gathering his arms.
To Wu Qian, it felt like just a blink of an eye, and Xu Zhe had already shouldered the huge backpack and walked towards the gate.
It's really heartless...
Not only is the boss who fired Xu Zhe heartless, Xu Zhe is also equally cold-hearted, which makes people sad.
On the way out, Xu Zhe didn't say a word, and didn't even look back.
Until the sound of the door closing, it seemed that the office had finally returned to its original operating hours.
Wu Qian slammed the table and stood up first, her eyes filled with anger towards the section chief.
"Chief, can you give us a reasonable explanation? Why did you fire Xu Zhe without any reason?!" Wu Qian's question seemed to shatter glass.
"Reason? If you want, you can find ten thousand reasons to fire him just from his eight years of work." Ouyang's reasoning made it impossible for Wu Qian to refute. After all, according to the standards of a national investigator, Xu Zhe really did not have a qualified position.
"But..." Wu Qian wanted to say something else, but she found that those colleagues who had been with her for eight years did not say a word and continued to be busy with their own things, as if nothing had happened
"Okay, sit down. Just obey whatever the boss tells you..." Haozi said impatiently, closed his beloved notebook, and packed up his things.
"Damn, I've been waiting for so long and finally I can go out!" Tiechui cheered excitedly.
"You guys?!" Wu Qian couldn't understand and couldn't comprehend. She just felt sad for Xu Zhe who left quietly. She never thought that the people around her were so heartless.
"Wu Qian, why are you still standing there? Pack your bags..." Ouyang said as a matter of course, "This is an order from the chief of the Paranormal Section... Because the former Paranormal Section member Xu Zhe is suspected of a major crime, in order to avoid unnecessary losses, Wu Qian, Mouse and Hammer are specially assigned to track Xu Zhe 24 hours a day. If you find anything unusual, report it to me immediately."
"What is going on?" Wu Qian felt that she was becoming more and more confused.
"Let's go! We won't be able to catch up with that guy if we don't leave now." Tiechui grabbed Wu Qian's hand and dragged her out of the office.
Following behind him, Haozi crossed his hands behind his head, looking relaxed and contented.
"Haozi..." As the fashionable young man was about to leave the office, the boss called silently, "Take good care of him, and be careful..."
"Don't worry, boss. Take care, everyone." With a hippie smile, Haozi waved goodbye.
Three people got into the descending elevator together, with one person confused, one excited, and one indifferent.
"What the hell are you doing? Let me go!" Wu Qian shook off the restraints of the hammer, her face filled with anger, "Are you still Xu Zhe's friends? You watched him being driven away by the boss without saying a word?!"
"Can you please stop chattering? It's really annoying..." Mouse picked his ears with his thumbs, and his ears tinnitus was heard. "You can't figure out the boss's intentions when you know everything. You've wasted your time studying. Listen carefully, 'righteous sister'. In name, we are out investigating, but in reality, we are secretly assisting. You are so stupid..."
"But Xu Zhe's suspension is a fact!" Wu Qian still refused to give in.
"This is what the boss always says, 'Use power when it's useful and discard it when it's a hindrance.'" Tiechui even pretended to be the boss's signature gesture of covering his mouth.
"What's the big deal about being suspended? Xu Zhe has much more important things to do than a job. And with the title of civil servant, there are too many things he cannot do, and if he does, it will be too easy for him to be traced by his superiors. It is more convenient to be a free man..." Haozi's words were accompanied by the ding of the elevator arriving. The metal door opened, and facing the elevator head was the shabby Beetle "Mary".
Xu Zhe was sitting in the back seat of the car, leaning against the window with his eyes closed, and fell into a deep sleep.
You can't blame him. Xu Zhe didn't sleep a wink the whole night yesterday, thinking about the next steps.
Maybe now is the only time I can take a break from my busy schedule
The three people quietly got into Qiao's Mary. In order not to disturb Xu Zhe's rest, the big guy Tiechui and the "driver" Wu Qian sat in the front, and Haozi sat next to Xu Zhe.
"What exactly should we do now?" Wu Qian was at a loss.
"Wait, hand over all your bank cards first." Haozi said, and took out his own cards from his purse. Wow, there were 3 gold cards.
In comparison, Wu Qian only has an ordinary China Merchants Bank card, which is also the account used for salary payment.
Tiechui only had this card, and he handed it to Haozi.
He stacked all the cards together, without giving Wu Qian any time to react, and folded them into countless pieces and threw them out of the window.
"Hey! What are you doing?!" Wu Qian couldn't help but want to shout, but when she looked at the sleeping Xu Zhe, she lowered her voice a little.
"Don't you understand? Tracking cash flow to track down the target person is the most basic method for an investigator. To put it bluntly, we can't use even a penny in our account now. And our whereabouts must be kept highly confidential and all phones must be turned off to avoid being traced." Haozi gave specific requirements.
"What on earth are we going to do?" Wu Qian was becoming more and more confused.
"Of course I'm going to be a 'bad guy'. Have you ever seen a bad guy leave his name?" Tiechui's smile showed how excited he was.
"We are going to cause trouble and be the biggest villains in this city until the entire city is forced to evacuate." There was a smile on Haozi's lips, and he didn't think there was anything suspicious about his words.
"Just a few of us? Are we going to disrupt the entire city?" Wu Qian didn't believe that she had such great ability.
"Don't worry, follow Xu Zhe. Don't mess up the whole city. Even if you want to cause trouble to the whole country, it's no problem. There are so many devils here that you're getting goose bumps..." Patting Wu Qian on the shoulder, Tiechui tried hard to make his expression look confident, but Wu Qian looked at him with goose bumps...
Wu Qian started the fully loaded Mary and drove out of the underground garage of the General Administration. In the next fifteen days, they were destined not to come back, and there was still a lot of work waiting for them.
Cars are driving on the streets of this crowded city. Every time the red light comes on, there are always a lot of people and cars that stop. They may all have different happiness, different troubles, and different lives.
But now, they all have a common fate, which is the "One Hundred Demons Night Parade Banquet" on the 15th. No matter if they are happy or troubled, they will become food for demons, their blood will dye the land red, and there will be no life on the earth.
The only one who can save them is the sleeping man in the back of the car...
Really, even Wu Qian, who had always believed in Xu Zhe, began to doubt whether he could really save more than 46 million lives in 15 days
The green light came on and the car continued to drive. Just after passing an intersection, an accident happened again...
"Stop the car!" Xu Zhe woke up from his sleep and suddenly shouted again.
Fortunately, I had experience in this before, so I quickly stepped on the accelerator and stopped the car abruptly on the side of the road.
If the hammer in the front row hadn't been big enough, it would have been thrown out of the windshield.
"Oh my god, are you trying to kill me?!" Tiechui turned his face away from the glass, feeling depressed.
"Wait for me." Xu Zhe got out of the car quietly and walked towards a bank on the roadside.
"What is he doing?" Wu Qian didn't understand.
"God knows, this guy is our boss now, just do as he says." Haozi said indifferently.
Not long after, Xu Zhe came out of the bank. Unlike when he went in, he was holding bundles of banknotes in his arms, and even in each of his pockets there were bundles of money. The bright red hundred-yuan bills were like waste paper in his arms.
The passers-by were all stunned. They had heard of rich people, but never seen such a show-off. Fortunately, I didn't meet any bad guys today...
Back in the car, everyone was equally confused.
"Okay, robbing a bank?! You don't even let me participate in such an exciting activity!" Tiechui was a little angry.
"Why rob a bank? This is the working capital provided by others, 1 million." Xu Zhe threw the money in his hand into the back of the car.
"What are we going to do now?" Wu Qian asked softly.
"Let's find a hotel first. You and Tiechui will start working in the afternoon. I will give you a list and money, and buy what I need according to my requirements." Xu Zhe's plan had been formed last night.
"Wait, wait, why are there only two of us?" Tiechui held the back of his head, confused.
"Stupid, didn't you see that Xu Zhe's arm is still hanging around his neck? I also have my own 'job'." Haozi was the first to understand what Xu Zhe meant.
The car continued driving until it arrived at a four-star hotel along the river.
When the doorman opened the car door, his eyes were full of disdain because Mary looked like she was about to be scrapped.
But when he saw the four of them coming out with bundles of cash in their arms, a flattering smile immediately appeared on his face, as if he was expecting to get some high fee
The person who checked into the hotel was Xu Zhe, but he did not use his own ID card, but that of a GUANGZHOU person using the alias Xu Ming.
This name naturally reminded Wu Qian of the last time's couple of thieves. Thinking about Xu Zhe's "performance" at that time, she still wants to laugh.
Because it is a big hotel, it has a complete ID card scanning system, which is directly connected to the public security department to confirm the authenticity of the ID card. But surprisingly, Xu Zhe's ten-fold false identity was confirmed. The receptionist handed the ID card and room key to Xu Zhe with a smile on his face...
Later, after questioning Haozi for a long time, he finally told Wu Qian the secret.
It turns out that no one in the Security Bureau knew of Xu Zhe's existence, and there was no information about him. In the outside world, Xu Zhe had 13 countries and more than 24 different identities. He felt very similar to the British 007, acting like a spy.
However, there is no other way. Due to its unique position, the Paranormal Investigation Department cannot always handle everything in a routine manner. Sometimes, in order to ensure a stable balance between humans and the other world, some extraordinary measures have to be used for some major cases.
In order to avoid investigation and prosecution by the higher-ups, firing the officer was the last resort. As long as the officer's information was not leaked, the Paranormal Investigation Division had enough confidence that the real murderer would not be found even after a hundred years.
In the history of the Paranormal Investigation Department, there have been no less than ten investigators who were fired in this way. One of Xu Zhe’s external investigators left the department in this way…
In line with the principle of not feeling sorry for his adopted son, Xu Zhe booked a VIP deluxe room on the first floor of the hotel, which has 5 guest rooms, a study, 3 bathrooms, and even a private kitchen.
On one side of the room, there is a 100-square-meter rooftop garden. The unobstructed river view and the sense of conquering the whole city are worth the money...
The terrifying price of 12,000 a day is so high that there are only a few bidders in Wuhan.
As a result, more than 90% of the time in a year, this room is used to accumulate dust. It feels like this is a guest room, but it might as well be a sample room used by the hotel for display.
I gave Xu Zhe a pack today, which means it will last for 15 days. It seems like the hotel manager will cry for a long time out of excitement
After piling the luggage together and sending away the fawning waiters, the large room suddenly became much quieter.
"My goodness, I thought the room arranged by the Public Security Bureau was comfortable enough, but compared to this, it's simply not a place for human beings to live." Tiechui sighed and looked around, as excited as a child.
"As long as you have money, you can enjoy any luxury in this society." After all, as a young master from a wealthy family, Haozi did not take all this seriously.
"Is it really appropriate for us to live here?" Looking at the decorations around her, Wu Qian sat down on the soft sofa with doubt, feeling that it was a bit contradictory for her to appear here as a civil servant.
"Take this..." Xu Zhe didn't care about that. The first thing he did after sitting down was to write two lists with the fingers of his barely movable right hand, and handed them to Wu Qian and Tiechui. "It's 12 noon now. Leave at 1 o'clock. You must buy everything on the list before 6 o'clock. Starting from midnight tonight, until tomorrow morning, I want this city to experience the first round of 'terror'..."