My dream connects to three thousand years later.

Chapter 56 The True "King"

“I repeat, he implemented this strategy only after reporting it to the authorities.”

"Yes, I can't absolutely guarantee that if he hadn't done this, the situation in the shantytown would definitely have gotten worse... but it's highly likely that it would have gotten worse."

“I trust him, Your Excellency.”

"Yes, sir!" Li Kang tensed abruptly, giving a military salute, even though he knew the person on the other end of the phone couldn't see him. "I will obey your orders without question!"

After hanging up the phone, Li Kang immediately relaxed. "Alright, no need to stand here at the nature reserve office anymore! Go find Chu Zhu in the shantytown redevelopment area."

Bi Xuan almost cheered as he hung up the phone, took the car keys hanging on the wall, and prepared to drive the steam car.

Guan Fei followed closely behind Li Kang, holding back his curiosity for a while, but finally couldn't contain himself and asked, "Who called you? I haven't seen you like this in a long time..."

After a brief silence, Li Kang coldly uttered six words, "Jinghai City, Su in charge."

At that moment, everyone fell silent.

Because that is the true "king" of the entire Jinghai City!
……

Union headquarters.

Li Kang stepped into the Director-General's office and then saw the head hanging high on the ceiling.

He gasped.

Yes, he did learn from Chu Zhu that Zhou Ze was dead. But he never expected it to be in such a way…

The sheer humiliation of this death is overwhelming!
No wonder the shantytown redevelopment area is acting like crazy now.

Especially... he glanced at Chu Zhu cautiously.

Chu Zhu didn't sit down; he leaned against the wall, silently gazing at Zhou Ze. He didn't even take down the head hanging from the lamp and properly arrange Zhou Ze's body... His attitude was very clear!
"Who, who did this?" After a brief moment of stunned silence, Guan Fei's temper exploded instantly, his eyes turning bloodshot.

The person he respected most was naturally Chu Zhu… As for Zhou Ze, his attitude was rather complicated. He admired him to some extent! But at the same time, he and his family had considerable disagreements with Zhou Ze's style of doing things during his time in charge of the labor union.

Compared to the extremely radical style of the union when it was first established, which seemed to want to hang all the factory owners from streetlights, Zhou Ze's governing style can be summarized as follows:

If you take a step back, and I take a step back, the world will be a better place for everyone.

I don't care about your factory owners' lives or fortunes, but you can't treat your workers like disposable materials and disregard human life.

Zhou Ze was extremely charismatic; strictly speaking, the factory owners preferred facing Zhou Ze to Chu Zhu. However, the situation was different for the workers.

However, no matter what, seeing him die such a miserable death, it was impossible for Guan Fei not to feel anger rising in his heart.

Undoubtedly, this is a contemptuous and humiliating act against everyone in the shantytown redevelopment area!
"An extraordinary individual." Chu Zhu uttered only three words succinctly.

Li Kang nodded slightly. "Are you sure? Okay... if that's the case, then our Commandery has no choice but to intervene."

He wasn't surprised. Or rather, he had guessed it before he came.

"Any other clues?" Ning Linglong subconsciously pulled out her notebook and pen, preparing to start taking notes. A strange light shone in her eyes.

To be honest, she had always felt quite awkward around Chu Zhu before—her father's savior paired with a blind date, and he was even four or five years younger than her, who could resist that? However, Ning Linglong felt at this moment that although he was indeed a bit younger, he was indeed an extremely powerful, charismatic, and charming man.

Hmm... Recalling everything she saw after entering the shantytown redevelopment area, Ning Linglong suddenly felt that going on a blind date with someone like this wasn't such an unacceptable thing after all.
"The opponent is suspected to be a cultivator in the second or even third realm! Their profession is related to assassins, and their awakened supernatural power may be the ability to conceal themselves," Chu Zhu said calmly.

"So it's about cultivating immortality... Ah?!" Ning Linglong froze halfway through her recollection. She glanced at Chu Zhu subconsciously, and only after Chu Zhu nodded in confirmation did she manage to memorize the information with difficulty.

"What's wrong with cultivators?" Chu Zhu realized the key point. Moreover, Ning Linglong's attitude was different this time...

Oh, right, last time it wasn't truly confirmed that it was a cultivator who did the trick; he was the one who was killed. That's how we deduced the conclusion by working backward in the real world.

“There are very few cultivators!” Li Kang said softly, his eyes flickering uncertainly.

“There’s one more thing,” Chu Zhu said after a moment’s thought, “If nothing unexpected happens, that assassin’s next target is me.”

Guan Fei clenched his fist suddenly, twisting his muscles as they squeezed out from the fat covering his entire body. At that moment, his muscles twisted into a knot, and blood vessels burst out, like living worms... unusually ferocious and terrifying, as if the blood vessels might burst at any moment.

Li Kang pretended not to see it, his brows furrowed tightly. "Are you sure?"

"Yes." Chu Zhu nodded.

After pacing back and forth several times, Li Kang's brows furrowed more and more, and he finally said, "Why don't you stay in the underground temple for a while and wait until things calm down before we talk about it?"

"No!" Bi Xuan was stunned for a moment, and subconsciously raised her hand. "Captain, this isn't right, is it?"

Li Kang glanced at Bi Xuan and nodded slightly, signaling him to speak quickly.

“This has escalated to such a huge extent! We absolutely must arrest and kill the assassin, otherwise how can we quell the unrest and anger in the shantytown redevelopment area? Even if our strength is insufficient, we should still report it! Doesn't the Commandery have any experts at the third realm or even higher?”

“Yes!” Li Kang nodded. “And then?”

Wall announcement: "?"

"Putting everything else aside, even if I wanted to protect Chu Zhu personally, it would be almost impossible! I can only spare one day at most." Li Kang covered his forehead with a headache. "Why don't you guess why the police bureau is located next to the yamen, or why the yamen is located next to the underground temple base?"

"And why are we in the officially allocated residential area so close to the compound where the leaders live!"

Wall announcement: "..."

I see! So it was about protecting the leader.

No wonder Li Kang asked Chu Zhu earlier if she was willing to live in the underground temple.

Undoubtedly, even someone of Li Kang's caliber couldn't easily extricate himself from the situation. For higher-level official powerhouses, extricating themselves was even more impossible.

Even if the shantytown redevelopment project is a big deal, ... the safety of the leaders is still more important.

On the other side, a look of realization also appeared in Chu Zhu's eyes.

No wonder. He had been wondering if all the powerful and influential people in Jinghai City were superhumans. Otherwise, it was impossible to explain why they weren't being assassinated every few days…

(End of this chapter)