I set you up on a blind date, and you've managed to overcome all the weirdness?

Lin Yan understood.

If we pass the buck to Lao Zhao, he'll take it, but he has to be able to handle it.

Lin Yan thought for a moment, then had an idea. He looked up and said seriously:

"Team Leader Zhao, the fragments from last night were indeed taken away."

"I assisted Captain Zhao in passing it on to an informant. I don't know the informant's identity; Captain Zhao said it was confidential."

After Lin Yan finished speaking, Zhao Jianguo stared at him for an unknown period of time.

Suddenly, Zhao Jianguo twitched the corner of his mouth.

This kid is truly born to navigate the officialdom.

"Are you telling the truth?"

"It's true that I don't know the informant's identity," Lin Yan replied sincerely.

So you knew that my fabricated informant was fake.

Zhao Jianguo glared at him.

"Okay, I'll write up the record in the archives this afternoon, and I'll create the informant numbers now."

"Thank you, Captain Zhao."

"You're welcome." Zhao Jianguo picked up his pipe and finally lit it.

He exhaled a puff of smoke and then suddenly said something else.

"Remember, if anyone asks you in the future, just say you were doing something for me, that the fragment was given to my informant, and that I can cover it up in terms of procedures."

"I've got it."

Zhao Jianguo nodded, picked up the "Field Service Regulations" on the table, turned to a certain page, and pointed to a line of text on it with his pipe.

"There is a supplementary clause regarding the whereabouts of the fragments: if a confidential informant registered at the bureau level or above receives the fragments, the field personnel do not need to fill in the specific whereabouts in the report."

"This information wasn't included in the investigation form; I'll add it for them this afternoon."

Lin Yan knew that Zhao Jianguo was patching up his hole, and he was very grateful to this lovely leader.

As he stood up to leave, Zhao Jianguo said something again, this time in a more casual tone, so casual that Lin Yan felt he had practiced it on purpose.

"Don't use all of the 500,000 to buy a house after it arrives. Keep some in your savings. If you have other dates in the future, you won't need to tell me you're an undercover agent."

Lin Yan paused.

"Captain Zhao, that time was really..."

"Go out."

Lin Yan left the office and closed the door.

The aroma of coffee wafted from the break room outside. Sister Liu and Old Chen were still chatting about last night, and Xiao Zhou's laughter could be heard even from several rows of workstations away.

Su Qinghan looked up for a moment, then continued working.

He walked to his workstation and sat down.

I started writing the 3,000-word report I owed Zhao Jianguo.

In the afternoon, Lin Yan finished writing half of the report and decided to finish it tomorrow, taking a break first.

He pulled up a chair and sat down next to Su Qinghan.

"Qinghan, can I borrow your forum account for a moment?"

"Temporary workers don't have the authority; Team Leader Zhao said you need to help."

Su Qinghan stopped, turned her head and glanced at him, seemingly assessing the credibility of his words.

Lin Yan looked completely honest.

"You can use it, but don't post, don't reply, don't click on random things, and don't change your password."

Su Qinghan pulled a notepad from the table, wrote down an account number and password, and pushed it over.

Su Qinghan turned back to continue typing. Lin Yan was about to leave when she suddenly remembered what Zhao Jianguo had mentioned about points redemption, so she turned back.

"By the way, besides exchanging for equipment, what else can we exchange our points for? Can we exchange them for anything?"

"Points can be redeemed for regular equipment, including but not limited to upgrade parts for the Exorcist Revolver, mercury explosive ammo supplies, and accuracy calibration services for the contamination threshold meter."

"You're not a full-time employee yet, so you can't use the bureau's app; we can only show you paper documents."

As she spoke, Su Qinghan pulled a folder out of the shelf.

"In addition, if you have sealed away core fragments of the Ghost-level or higher grotesque type, you can use points to apply for craftsmanship hours."

"A craftsman is a human artisan who can refine fragments of rules into rule-based artifacts. There are no more than five such people in the entire country. Their code names are not made public. One craftsman is equivalent to one master craftsman."

She paused for a moment.

"Rule items are extremely rare, but the Exorcising Revolver is a mass-produced item and can't be considered a rule item."

"Mass-produced goods?" Lin Yan glanced down at the holster on his waist.

"Substandard fragments sealed into a gun barrel are mass-produced goods. Only fragments of the Soul-level quality, if crafted by a master artisan, can be made into a standard item."

"You're a temporary worker, so you don't have enough points to redeem craftsman hours, but you can save them up for now." Su Qinghan pushed up his glasses.

Lin Yan remembered that Chu Chu had told him that old-fashioned and eccentric people could also make rule props. He wondered what the difference was between them and those made by craftsmen.

"What are the intricacies of the props made by the craftsman?" Lin Yan asked.

"Craftsmen can use core fragments to reshape them into usable rule-based items."

"The data related to process and failure rate is at level four access level, which you do not have sufficient access to."

"However, the points earned from working hours are incredibly expensive; you probably wouldn't be able to accumulate enough within three years under normal circumstances."

"Unless you continue like last night, taking care of a wandering soul with just one meal."

After saying that, Su Qinghan turned back to typing.

Lin Yan returned to his workstation and logged into the forum using the account Su Qinghan had given him.

Most of the posts in the intelligence trading area are just casual chat, and the few official posts are just bland announcements.

He simply filtered the geographical scope and only looked at posts from Jiangcheng.

I scrolled down and soon noticed an interesting post.

[Nanhu District - Unresolved] Summary of abnormal sighting reports of street frog mascot costumes.

The post was made two weeks ago, and last updated three days ago.

The post compiles several bizarre eyewitness accounts.

People have seen a figure dressed as a frog mascot in commercial streets, bus stops, and at the entrances of old residential areas.

It usually sells balloons, and its movements are clumsy; it imitates the frog dancing poses seen in short videos.

Witnesses said the mascot costume was the same kind of frog costume commonly seen in videos, used for selling baby frogs.

Several comments below the post discussed the bizarre rules.

Half of the survivors are children, which may be related to the bizarre archetype.

Lin Yan suddenly remembered that someone in the matchmaking group seemed to have mentioned news about Nanhu District.

Scroll down to the next post.

Some say that everyone who came near it disappeared within three days, while others say that when the missing were found, they were wearing the same frog mascot costume and were in a strange state.

In one case, the missing person was found squatting under a street lamp in a commercial street, asking everyone he met if they wanted a balloon, expressionless, and only smiling no matter what he was asked.

Scrolling further, Lin Yan discovered that the official classification had marked it as a wandering spirit-level bizarre creature awaiting processing, codenamed "Selling Baby Frog".

Two previous attempts to encircle and suppress it failed, and physical attacks were ineffective; it remains active.

The current survivors are being housed in the Xiaotangshan quarantine center.

Lin Yan exited the thread and continued browsing, but found no more new or bizarre information.

None of those people from the matchmaking group ever appeared on the forum.

After holding back his report for a while, Lin Yan slipped away early.

Having just received a huge sum of 500,000 yuan, he wanted to move to a new house.

He had long been tired of living in that dark and poorly ventilated cubicle.

At nine o'clock in the evening, Lin Yan lay on the bed in her new home.

The bay window in the living room was slightly ajar, and the night breeze blew in, causing the curtains to billow slightly.

Moving is really hard work. I was just about to close my eyes when my phone vibrated.

【Cyber ​​Ghost Chu Chu】: Brother! Chu Chu drove around Nanhu District today, covering most of the city. Chu Chu is exhausted.

Nanhu District?

What a coincidence?

[Lin Yan]: What do you do in Nanhu District?