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

Ding Busi looked at Ding Xing like this, his heart bleeding with pain.

He knew the Ding Family was in the wrong, and he knew his eldest brother, Ding Busan, was in the wrong.

But...

Sigh...

He had been imprisoned by this ”main lineage first” mentality for far too long.

He always felt that incidents like what happened to Ding Xing’s parents were unavoidable on the path of a family’s growth.

But... but he couldn’t truly prioritize the family’s interests and the main lineage above all else.

If he could truly do that, he wouldn’t have held a grudge about his own son and daughter-in-law’s deaths for so long, nor would he have dared not point out Ding Xing’s true thoughts in front of his eldest brother, Ding Busan.

Yet, he also found it difficult to genuinely consider his own family’s well-being.

Twisted.His feelings were complicated.

All his emotions ultimately condensed into a single sentence.

”I disagree!!!”

Ding Busi wanted to use this resistance to dissuade Ding Busan from his risky idea of collaborating with Wuwang to deal with Lu Ding.

But Ding Busan was the head of the main lineage.

Once he decided something,

How could a branch lineage head like him possibly change it?

Ding Busan set his teacup down with a clink: ”It’s not up to you to disagree. Your disagreement is a betrayal of the Ding Family, a defiance of the main lineage. Little brother, let me tell you one more time, the Ding Family prioritizes family interests above all, and the main lineage is supreme.”

As he spoke, he slowly stood up, his imposing aura leaking out: ”In other words, I am the family head!!!!”

Ding Busi instantly deflated.

He seemed to lose all strength, stumbling back and collapsing into a chair.

He remained silent for a long while.

Finally, Ding Busi mustered the courage to truly defy his eldest brother for the first time: ”Big brother... we... should split the family.”

He was disappointed, but he could also understand Ding Xing’s feelings.

Since he couldn’t stop his eldest brother from leading the Ding Family into this risk,

Then let his eldest brother lead the main lineage into danger. He would take the branch lineage and develop elsewhere, trying his best to make it up to Ding Xing in the future.

In the end, his guilt towards Ding Xing’s parents made him choose to cover for Ding Xing without exposing him, taking his people and splitting the family to leave.

”Split the family!!!?”

”You want to split the family with me!!!?”

”Ding Busi!!! Has your conscience been eaten by dogs!!!?”

”Our parents died early, I raised you from childhood, and now you want to split the family with me!!?”

”Get out!!!”

”No splitting!!!”

”Get out of here!!!!”

Ding Busan was furious and flustered. He never expected his own brother would want to split the family with him.

And especially at such a critical time.

Thinking of this, Ding Busan grabbed anything within reach and hurled it frantically at Ding Busi.

Ding Busi didn’t dodge.

He let the objects hit his body.

After a while, when Ding Busan’s actions slowed somewhat, Ding Busi stood up: ”Big brother, I’m serious.”

Then he looked at the young man who was giving him a cold stare: ”Ding Xing, come with me. Your grandfather has something to discuss with you.”

Ding Xing refused without a second thought: ”No, Grandfather. With important matters at hand, I must stay here and await the family head’s orders!”

”Listen, just listen, listen to what Ding Xing says! Then look at yourself! Even a child knows to share my burdens and unite as one, yet you’re thinking of splitting the family with me!!!”

Ding Busi opened his mouth but ultimately said nothing.

He just silently walked out alone.

His heart was filled with desolation.

”Wrong, wrong, one mistake after another...”

Hearing this, Ding Busan’s anger flared again, but when his gaze fell on Ding Xing standing beside him, he felt somewhat comforted.

”You’re still the one who puts my mind at ease.”

Ding Xing smiled, his gaze drifting outward.

I’m sorry, Grandfather...

Meanwhile.

On the other side.

Inside the temporary command post in the Path of Dry Bones.

Lu Ding looked at the letter in his left hand and the message on his right hand’s phone.

He then looked up at Fu Xinghe who had delivered the letter.

”What does this mean?”

Earlier, after withdrawing from Wuwang’s Nowhere Room, Lu Ding had been reviewing information about the Ding Family.

Fu Xinghe knocked on the door, saying a bird had delivered a letter.

Lu Ding took it and read it.

It said:

[The Ding Family is colluding with Wuwang, intending to ambush the Special Envoy.]

Just as he finished reading,

A message popped up on his phone from a stranger, but the first sentence immediately revealed the sender’s identity.

”I am Ding Busi of the Ding Family. My eldest brother has been deceived by villains and may do something unfavorable to the Special Envoy. Please be extra careful, Special Envoy.”

That’s right, this was Ding Busi’s foolish method.

Since he couldn’t expose Ding Xing’s wolfish ambition towards the Ding Family, nor could he stop his eldest brother from collaborating with Wuwang, he would give Lu Ding a psychological heads-up in advance, hoping he wouldn’t come.

As long as Lu Ding didn’t come,

Then the Ding Family would be fine.

As for how he got Lu Ding’s phone number,

Previously, others didn’t know because Lu Ding never leaked it. But now, after so much development, all the major families within his jurisdiction who should have his contact information already did.

So it was normal for Ding Busi to know Lu Ding’s contact details.

He sent the message to give Lu Ding advance warning. Of course, if things still couldn’t be avoided later, then this message would also serve as an offer of surrender. Whether he lived or died didn’t matter; he hoped some members of the Ding Family could survive, that the lineage wouldn’t be severed.

After all, Lu Ding’s fearsome reputation was well-known.

In a situation like the Ding Family’s, if Lu Ding didn’t come to harm, the Ding Family would face extermination.

But to think of capturing Lu Ding...

Ding Busi wasn’t as confident as his elder brother, Ding Busan.

He also didn’t know what kind of bewitching potion Ding Xing had fed Ding Busan.

That made him so firmly believe that Wuwang and the Ding Family could definitely capture Lu Ding.

Fu Xinghe came over and glanced at the message.

Pushing up his glasses, he smiled and said, ”Brother Lu’s fearsome reputation has caused them to develop internal divisions. The arrogant Ding Busan wants to work with Wuwang to deal with you, but the relatively weak-willed Ding Busi believes collaborating with Wuwang can’t defeat you.”

”And the Ding Family prioritizes the main lineage. With Ding Busi’s personality, he can’t really influence his brother’s decisions, so he could only resort to this foolish, inferior strategy.”

”From a rational perspective, if they burned their bridges and went all out, they might still have a sliver of hope.”

”Now he’s proactively tipping you off, probably seeking a future for himself.”

”Little does he know, by doing this, he’s both sabotaging his brother’s plan and forfeiting any future. Ding Busi might survive because of his tip-off and firm stance.”

”But Ding Busan will definitely die!”

Lu Ding nodded. Fu Xinghe still understood him well.

Following Xinghe’s line of thought,

Lu Ding continued based on the Ding Family information he had just reviewed: ”Given Ding Busi’s weak personality and the branch lineage’s long-ingrained habit of prioritizing the main lineage,”

”After Ding Busan leads the main lineage to their deaths, Ding Busi leading the branch lineage will only lead to repeated decline, a slow death. They can’t possibly develop. So the outcome is still predetermined, just a matter of time. If things are exposed later, the branch lineage members might even come to hate him.”

Fu Xinghe chimed in: ”Exactly.”

Lu Ding smiled helplessly, looking down at his phone: ”Truly, a thousand schemes by villains are no match for a single clever idea from a fool.”

”Ding Busan is arrogant, conceited, and dull, but he’s not stupid. He can listen to others’ suggestions, but he can’t discern which is the best advice for the current situation. However, once he decides, he basically won’t change.”

”Ding Busi has a weak personality, somewhat kind-hearted, but he’s stupid. Once there are too many suggestions or factors, he gets confused, loses his head.”

So, this also illustrates the importance of unity from one perspective.

Sometimes, only with sufficient unity can you fight for that slim chance. If you’re not united enough and disagreements arise, you get this kind of self-sabotaging situation.

Of course, this was also because Lu Ding was strong enough, his reputation fierce enough, his deterrent power great enough.

If Lu Ding were someone with a good, kind reputation, then Ding Busi probably wouldn’t be in this situation.

”What about this one?”

Lu Ding shook the letter in his hand.

Fu Xinghe looked at it, a thoughtful glint in his eyes.

”Based on what you told me, combined with the Ding Family information, I can roughly speculate.”

”The Wuwang member who said he could contact the Ding Family to deal with you has an over eighty percent probability of being an insider of the Ding Family, and not a low-ranking one at that.”

”Otherwise, he couldn’t persuade Ding Busan. Dealing with a 749 Bureau Special Envoy is no small matter. If Ding Busan didn’t trust him enough, or if he didn’t have enough authority in front of Ding Busan, it would be impossible.”

Earlier, Lu Ding had given Fu Xinghe the general situation.

After all, more minds are better than one.

No one can achieve absolute perfection. Thinking is like a net; there’s only a difference in the size of the holes, it’s impossible to have no holes at all.

So having one more person think makes the holes a bit smaller.

Lu Ding trusted Fu Xinghe greatly, and telling him about this matter had no negative impact on him.

Then he listened as Fu Xinghe continued: ”Within the entire Ding Family, the number of people who meet these requirements is no more than a handful.”

”And if we apply further conditional screening within that handful, combined with this letter, Ding Xing’s possibility is the highest, reaching ninety percent!”

”Ding Xing...”

Lu Ding recalled the information he had just read. The Ding Family branch lineage’s young genius, very loyal to the main lineage, Ding Busi’s biological grandson, whose parents were sent out by Ding Busan as an apology and died.

After Fu Xinghe’s data-driven analysis,

Lu Ding seemed to grasp the key point.

”You mean, Ding Xing’s displayed obedience and loyalty are a facade? In reality, he secretly joined Wuwang?”

”And the reason he sent me this letter is so I can prepare in advance, succeed in Wuwang’s upcoming plan against me, then implicate the Ding Family, massacre the Ding Family, using my hand to avenge his parents?”

Fu Xinghe brought over a tablet, swiping as he spoke: ”Exactly!”

After saying that,

He handed the tablet to Lu Ding.

”Look, Brother Lu. In Wuwang’s previous actions against eastern forces, there were specifically targeted attacks on Ding Xing’s enemies.”

”And within the actions targeting Ding Xing’s enemies, there’s the Golden Ao you killed, including the current Gao Qiuli.”

”This shows that without intervention from Wuwang internal personnel in the west, western Wuwang members wouldn’t casually go to the east.”

”Moreover, in these operations, there’s one person who perfectly matches Ding Xing’s identity. Almost every time there was action against that family’s forces, he was present.”

Lu Ding glanced down at the information on the tablet.

[Wuwang, Door-Knocking Ghost, cultivation around Three Restrictions, behavior style cruel but extremely measured........]

”Looking at the Door-Knocking Ghost’s record, the people he treated cruelly were mostly those related to enemy forces. Others, he wouldn’t be that cruel to, but he still killed them; it was just a difference between torture-killing and direct killing.”

”Combining these conditions with Ding Xing’s experiences, the Ding Family’s motive for colluding with Wuwang, the Wuwang member’s authority in front of Ding Busan, plus the hidden meaning behind this letter, I believe Ding Xing is the Wuwang Door-Knocking Ghost!!!”

At this moment, Ding Xing had no idea that in the office, two people, one tablet, with no smoke or tea, had stripped him bare with just a few sentences each.

All sorts of data arguments, clue combinations—it completely fell into Fu Xinghe’s area of expertise.

Unless you left not a single trace, otherwise Fu Xinghe could follow the thread, gradually deduce, and find the target.

If it were Yan Feifan here: ’Brother Lu, I think this kid seems a bit off...’ and then he’d start brainstorming wildly.

The two assistant investigators each had their own strengths and weaknesses. It was like they had opened a heavenly eye. Isn’t this overpowered? Can we even play!?

After listening, Lu Ding looked at the letter in his hand: ”Door-Knocking Ghost, Ding Xing... you’ve schemed well, eating from several bowls at once...”

As he spoke,

Someone knocked on the door.

Fu Xinghe glanced at Lu Ding, and after receiving his consent, he called out: ”Come in.”

An investigator pushed the door open, entered, saluted, and reported: ”Grand Guardian, Secretary Fu, the Ding Family has sent an invitation, inviting the Grand Guardian to a banquet.”

Lu Ding smiled: ”Their movements are quite fast, not a hint of dragging their feet. Decisive and quick, I like that.”