First-Year Internship—And You Went to Site 749 to Contain Monsters?!

The middle-aged man waved his hand, and several 749 Bureau staff members immediately came over to release the two.

Seizing this opportunity,

The man pulled Lu Ding aside: ”Let me introduce myself - my surname is Qiu, I’m Elder Shui’s dedicated secretary.”

”I handle Elder Shui’s miscellaneous affairs and matters that aren’t particularly important to him.”

This was skillfully phrased.

One had to understand that when Lu Ding arrived here, it was Elder Shui himself who received him, without anyone else present.

Combined with what Secretary Qiu was saying now,

This basically explicitly told Lu Ding: I didn’t receive you because you’re important enough that I’m not at your level.

While introducing his own position, he was also elevating Lu Ding’s status.Secretary Qiu continued: ”I apologize for what just happened, and I hope you won’t take offense. I’d like to plead for leniency on their behalf - when children don’t live up to expectations, every family has its difficulties. I hope you can be magnanimous and not hold it against them, and I also hope that in the future, their children will be more obedient.”

Very tactful and full of subtle meaning.

After processing this in his mind, Lu Ding responded: ”Yes, let’s hope they become more obedient. If the family doesn’t teach them, there are plenty of people outside who can. It would be best to keep them strictly confined.”

”They’ve spoiled Su Hongyu and Dong Minglong too much. I suspect they won’t have the heart to keep them confined. With these children’s personalities, they’ll eventually take a fall they can’t recover from.”

The conversation ended there, making the point without overexplaining.

But Lu Ding understood perfectly.

”Thank you, leader.”

”Just call me Secretary Qiu, everyone does.”

They exchanged these words.

Elder Shui shouted from nearby: ”What are you whispering about over there?! I can’t understand anyway, why are you worrying about other people’s business? Hurry up and come push me - the wind’s so cold, are you not treating me as human?”

Secretary Qiu adjusted his glasses: ”I might need to trouble you a bit more.”

”This is what I should do.”

The old man had stood up for him so strongly and backed him up, and now Secretary Qiu was giving him this opportunity.

Lu Ding certainly had to seize it.

He went over and pushed the old man’s wheelchair: ”Elder Shui, where shall we charge to this time?”

”No more charging, no more charging. How can an old man withstand your antics? Let’s go back, push slowly now.”

Lu Ding smiled and slowly pushed the old man along the bustling streets.

Until they entered a tunnel.

They went in, then came out.

And arrived at the 749 Bureau headquarters here - Hanjing 749!!

As they walked forward, Secretary Qiu explained to Lu Ding:

”Great Han consists of one capital, two cities, three continents, thirty-six provinces, seventy-two territories, and one hundred eight autonomous regions of various forces.”

”Any single one of these is unimaginably vast.”

”Among them, the one capital refers to Hanjing. The two cities are Wangcheng and Jiangcheng. The three continents are Shenzhou, Zhongzhou, and Daozhou.”

”There are too many provinces, territories, autonomous regions and the like to mention.”

At this point, Elder Shui turned his head: ”What’s this? Trying to take shortcuts?! If you’re going to say it, say it all at once.”

”Alright, alright, alright.”

Secretary Qiu agreed, giving Lu Ding a helpless smile that seemed to say: No chance to slack off now.

This was the kind of behavior that showed he considered Lu Ding one of their own.

He listened as Secretary Qiu introduced them one by one.

Until they entered a room.

After closing the door,

Secretary Qiu changed his tone: ”Everything I just told you is temporary.”

Lu Ding thought for a moment: ”You mean the new city?”

”Exactly, the new city. ’New city’ is just what outsiders call it - originally the internal higher-ups didn’t designate it as new city.”

At this point, Secretary Qiu smiled mysteriously: ”Lu Ding, guess what the new...”

Before he could continue,

Elder Shui raised his hand to hit him: ”I ought to give you a couple of smacks, you testing him like a student?”

Secretary Qiu dodged to the side and said to Lu Ding: ”See? Now that Elder Shui has you as his successor wearing the special merit award, his own grandson, he’s forgotten about me, the pretend grandson.”

Since there were no outsiders now, and no possibility of being overheard, Secretary Qiu’s attitude became more relaxed.

He continued: ”The name originally decided by the higher-ups was Yujing.”

Yujing!?

This name was domineering!

These two characters instantly carried substantial information.

Now everything fell into place.

No wonder Great Han hadn’t completely abandoned the new city despite all its chaos and destruction. No wonder they said this was the forefront!!

So it was an alternate capital.

Then wasn’t he going to develop a new capital?

Maybe he could get a multi-courtyard residence in the 0.5th ring district.

A courtyard house - hey! Authentic!!

And there was another point - the name Yujing matched Lu Ding’s [Divine Palace].

Needless to say, this place would definitely bring him prosperity!

Secretary Qiu opened a nearby safe and handed Lu Ding a phone.

”This is for you. When you go to the new city area later, if anything happens that you can’t handle yourself, you can call the numbers in here. There are only two numbers - one is Elder Shui’s, one is mine.”

”But I need to be clear with you first - since there are no outsiders here, if it’s something that goes against principles, you can’t call me. I need to maintain plausible deniability.”

”If it’s something that is within principles, then you can only call me.”

Elder Shui added from the side: ”And don’t worry about whether it’s troublesome or not.”

The old man patted his chest with some pride: ”My old injuries are too serious, I won’t live many more years. I fear none of them, while everyone outside fears me.”

Severe old injuries, advanced age, numerous achievements, ample merits, fearless of death, unafraid of trouble.

Buffs stacked to the max, 100% resistance - if you hit him you can’t fight back, if you fight back he self-destructs.

If anything happens to him,

Within Great Han’s borders, the cries of ”Old leader!!!” rising to the sky would make your scalp numb.

More T0 than version T0.

Very cheap, but also very satisfying!

Only now did Lu Ding understand - when Elder Shui said at their first meeting that he could hit anyone he wanted in the new city,

This was the reason...

He bowed solemnly to thank the old man: ”Thank you, Elder Shui!!”

”None of these formalities! I wear the special merit award, you wear the special merit award - what do we call this?”

He turned to ask Secretary Qiu beside him.

”The passing of the torch.”

”Right, the passing of the torch. This is inheritance. Inheritance cannot be broken, the flame cannot be extinguished. You are a meritorious official - if we don’t treat meritorious officials well, no one will achieve merits in the future, and Great Han will be gone.”

As he spoke, he reached out his hand. Lu Ding went up, held it, and crouched down, feeling the warmth of the old man’s palm and the roughness of his fingers.

He listened to the old man speak in a gentle tone: ”You’re still young, you still have a future. Young people should venture forth. As for me, I don’t have much money, so I can’t help you economically.”

”But I can still offer something. This is the reward from above, and I personally added one more.”

The old man took out two crystal-clear, finger-length jade worms and placed them in Lu Ding’s hand.