Even having experienced transmigration once before, Chen Huijie still found this absurd beyond words.
Were transmigrations so casual now?
At least let there be a truck involved. Give it some ceremony.
No. Now is not the time to complain about the lack of ritual.
If he wasn't mistaken, he had returned to the past.
And if that was true, then a great many things might be prevented from happening.
Calm down. Think this through.
Chen Huijie rubbed his cheeks hard, forcing reason back into the dominant seat, then began seriously considering what to do next.
That was when he noticed a strange pink app on his phone that he had never seen before.
"Affection Level?"
When did I install this?
Frowning, Chen Huijie tapped it, but the prompt that popped up read:
Please activate Memo.
…???
Isn't my Memo already working?
He instinctively opened the Memo app.
Then he saw the next note reminder waiting there:
R.I.P.
May the dead rest in peace.
Chen Huijie's expression turned grave at once.
At this point in time, his past self was not in Lungmen. He was still roaming under the alias Yuanyan, recording all manner of strange and interesting events on his phone, planning to one day return to Lungmen, use those memos and photos as reference, and write a chivalric novel to properly close the chapter on his swordsman dream.
Fate, however, had other plans.
After he returned to Lungmen and entered the Guard Department, the Memo app had gradually filled with all sorts of entries—mostly case records, kept as study material.
Whenever a Guard Department member died in a case he touched, Chen Huijie would add one short note at the corresponding time of death:
R.I.P.
It was both a tribute and a reminder to himself never to let the passing of a human life turn into a cold statistic.
Now—
Four minutes.
In four minutes, the undercover officer codenamed A Shui would be brutally murdered by gang members.
Four minutes…
Chen Huijie closed the phone with a face of ice and jumped off the rooftop.
That's plenty of time.
…
"Old Chen, why'd you drag me out in the middle of the night?"
Elsewhere, a green-haired, one-horned female officer came roaring in on a small motorbike. Scratching at her hair, she looked helplessly at the dragon woman in front of her.
"I'd barely dozed off. What is it—some emergency?"
"Hoshiguma, come on. We're checking surveillance!"
Sparks practically flew from Chen Huijie's words. She was murderous with rage.
Hoshiguma raised a brow. Only then did she notice that under the raincoat, Chen Huijie's uniform was a mess—collar crooked, buttons mismatched.
"Calm down and explain what happened first. At least if I know what's going on, I can give you some advice."
Pointing out her disheveled appearance, Hoshiguma motioned for her to climb on.
As the bike started moving, Hoshiguma added, "Is this about the harbor case? Not bad, Old Chen—went home, took a shower, and somehow showered up an inspiration. You really—"
…Eh?
The moment the word "shower" came out, the pressure from the back seat became downright terrifying.
Wait, what? Since when did shower become a trigger word?
"Hoshiguma, I think my instincts before were right."
Thinking about that loathsome home-invading pervert, Chen Huijie felt her anger surge all over again. But she forced herself to stay calm as she said:
"Someone really has been investigating me. They've probably already collected quite a bit of useful information. You know how good the security at my place is. Yet just now, a stranger opened my door with a key—and he was dressed in something like a Guard Department uniform."
!!!
Hoshiguma's face changed.
Because they went the same way home and because they were partners, Chen Huijie usually rode Hoshiguma's scooter after work. And over the last few days, Chen Huijie had kept saying she felt like someone was watching them. They had tried all sorts of counter-surveillance measures and found nothing, so in the end they had gradually let the matter drop.
But now it seemed their opponent's methods might far exceed what they had imagined.
To infiltrate to this extent without them noticing at all…
No wonder Old Chen was this furious.
At the very least, they had to find out who the enemy was.
"But we already checked the surveillance once before and didn't find anything…"
Hoshiguma had only just begun analyzing the situation when a shrill ringtone interrupted her. Chen Huijie pulled the phone out of her pocket, glanced at the screen, and lowered her voice.
"The call says Old Seven's in trouble. He was suddenly taken away."
"Old Chen, come with me to the slums. Hopefully we're not too late."
Hearing that, Hoshiguma yanked the handlebars into a hard turn and twisted the throttle all the way down. The little scooter exploded with performance utterly mismatched to its appearance. Clearly it had been modified. And it was still accelerating.
From here, the slums wouldn't take long.
"Who's Old Seven?" Chen Huijie asked, balancing herself on the back.
When Hoshiguma first arrived in Lungmen, she had spent some time working as gang muscle, so she still had many ties in the underworld. Chen Huijie knew that. But unless necessary, she never pressed too much into Hoshiguma's past.
"It's A Shui."
As she spoke, Hoshiguma kept the throttle pinned, weaving through narrow backroads in the storm with expert control, spraying water in every direction.
"There's a gang in the slums called the Bombs-Away Gang. They're involved in a counterfeit goods case. Missy needed an undercover operative in there gathering intel, but her side's channels were being watched—it wasn't safe. So I helped out a bit and then didn't interfere anymore. Didn't expect his cover to blow. This is bad."
At the mention of A Shui, Chen Huijie naturally remembered him.
Originally he had served under her. Later he voluntarily transferred to Swire's side. People had their own ambitions—nothing to be said there.
But the smug look on that stupid叉烧's face when he did it really had been infuriating.
Just because she had money! As if money could be eaten!
Still, one matter at a time.
Hopefully they could still make it.
At that very moment, in an abandoned ruined house deep inside the slums, a gaunt young man hung suspended in the air, shirt torn off, body covered in bruises and cuts.
Cold wind howled in through the broken windows and holes in the walls, making him shiver. His muddled consciousness cleared just a little.
He instinctively looked around.
A single light bulb struggled to cast a weak yellow glow, making the figures standing in the distance look like wavering phantoms.
"Old Seven, you ungrateful bastard. Of all things, you had to turn rat and become an informant!"
A dog-headed man missing one ear brandished a boning knife as he spat the words viciously.
"Get a good look at my face. If you come back next life looking for revenge, don't pick the wrong guy."
Then he drove the blade straight toward A Shui's chest, clearly intending to open him up alive.
Clang!
At that exact instant, thunder exploded.
In the ghastly flash of white lightning, a crimson sword appeared out of nowhere, intercepting the killing blow.
The red blade shivered once.
The boning knife shattered inch by inch.
The fragments punched into the dog-man's body, hurling him backward into the wall. He coughed out a mouthful of blood and immediately lost consciousness.
The underlings all tensed in shock.
Their boss was, at the very least, a serious knife fighter.
How had he been crushed in a single exchange?
Then another flash of lightning lit the room, and they finally saw the newcomer standing beside A Shui—
Handsome, cold-eyed, sword in hand, killing intent blazing.
Guard Department!
They had no idea how he had found them, but they recognized the insignia on the raincoat immediately.
The men had just started to move—
Then came a dull thud.
Their vision spun.
And one after another, they collapsed into the innocent sleep of newborn babies.
He… took them all down?
How did he do that?
A Shui stared, wide-eyed enough to momentarily forget the pain.
His colleague had only flicked the blade ever so slightly. A pattern seemed to flash across the weapon. Then all the criminals, as though someone had smashed them on the head, went limp and toppled together.
Wait…
This colleague…
A Superintendent?!
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