My Pet Beast is Super Awesome - Chapter 39

Chapter 39: Meeting Luo Feng Again

Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation
Ring ring!
Sucheng Mutant Administration Department Building.
Chen Zhenglong, who was exhausted by the two explosion incidents, was awakened by the frantic ringing of the phone just as he fell asleep. His wife murmured something irritably as she turned around.
Turning on the bedside lamp, Chen Zhenglong put on his coat and glanced apologetically at his wife before taking his phone as he walked to the balcony.
“Go ahead, did somewhere blow up again?”
Chen Zhenglong’s tone was not very friendly. The two bombing cases at hand saw no progress, with too much manpower and resources had been expended. Due to personnel shortage, the piled-up cases at the MAD was like a mountain, and almost suffocated Chen Zhenglong alive.
The operator on the other end of the phone seemed to be startled, and after a moment of silence, he carefully asked, “Captain Chen… you already knew?”
A somewhat dazed Chen Zhenglong could not react and impatiently said, “Hell if I know anything, speak quickly.”
“Yes, Sir! We’ve just received a report from a lecturer of Sucheng University Combat Training Department. There’s been an explosion at XX Mountain, and there’s a missing student.”
“So it’s just an explosion… hold on first, wait until… What did you just say?! Another explosion?!” Chen Zhenglong glared as raised his voice in a roar.
His wife in the room seemed to have been awakened by his voice as she muttered something again. Chen Zhenglong remembered that he was at home and quickly lowered his voice as he asked for the details of the report.
“F*ck!”
After hanging up, Chen Zhenglong laid on the window sill of the balcony, his expression grim as if he was dying.
The case itself was, in fact, not very complex because the lecturers themselves did not know too much. There were suspicious people entering the training grounds and then a student went missing before an explosion tore through XX Mountain.
However, when Chen Zhenglong asked about the name of the missing student, his entire mood soured. It was Shao Zifeng again. He had appeared in the vicinity of the explosion in the old town. His figure was seen in the explosion case of Guchang Anju Neighborhood, and he was once again linked to the third explosion.
Chen Zhenglong had a massive headache now because according to the information he knew, Shao Zifeng was in a sibling unit of the MAD. The two units guarded the city, one in the light, and one in the dark. Although their guiding principles were different, he really disliked their way of conduct. However, they both belonged to the same unit level, so the MAD did not have any authority to question them.
He had sent feedback about that unit to the superior authority, but each time it was only flagged as ‘read’, with the superior authority seemingly agreeing to their behavior in silence.
Chen Zhenglong scratched his head irritably and then lit a cigarette by the window sill. Taking a deep puff, the sudden bright and dark red glow in the night was unusually eye-catching. After two puffs, the hands holding the smokes shook slightly. As he looked at his sleeping wife, he snuffed the cigarette.
Chen Zhenglong stared blankly at the night sky, his heart feeling more and more irritable.
Ring ring!
A harsh ring of the phone rang out again. Chen Zhenglong did not even look at it and took the call. “What else, tell me everything at once.”
The party on the other side of the phone seemed to be taken aback by Chen Zhenglong’s tone, and after a moment of silence, a snigger rang out.
“Captain Chen, you already know?”
“You!” Chen Zhenglong’s temper immediately flared as he heard the voice, but in consideration of his sleeping wife, he still lowered his voice as he growled.
“Don’t be so temperamental, bad temper hurts your wellbeing. Plus, aren’t you gonna ask why am I looking for you in the middle of the night?” The person on the other end of the phone seemed to be unconcerned with Chen Zhenglong’s attitude, and the person’s tone remained calm.
“Speak! I don’t have so much time to waste with you lunatics.” Chen Zhenglong took a deep breath, resisting the urge to hang up.
“The Order of Divine Origin, are you interested?” After saying that, the other party seemed to recall something and added, “Come here alone. Don’t inform anyone in your department.”
“You mean…”
…
Chen Zhenglong hung up the phone and quickly rushed to the bathroom to wash up before neatly putting on his uniform. He almost could not contain the excitement in his heart. The Order of Divine Origin had almost been his nightmare recently, no matter how he searched, he was not able to find a single clue.
Opening the door, Chen Zhenglong turned around and looked at his sleeping wife. He opened his mouth wanting to say something, but in the end, he could not bear to wake his wife. A rare trace of softness appeared on his face before he gently closed the door and left.
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Shao Zifeng opened his eyes and looked at the pure white ceiling in a daze. The beep of the medical instruments rang beside his ears, stopping at times as he was immersed in thoughts of ‘Who am I, where am I, what am I doing?’
“Yo, you’re awake.” An extremely attractive male voice rang by his ear, sounding somewhat familiar.
Shao Zifeng turned his head, and his vision was still somewhat blurry as he vaguely saw a man’s figure that was sitting not too far away from him and smiling at him. He looked familiar, who was he again? Shao Zifeng tried to get his rather stiff brain moving again.
“You’ve forgotten about me? It’s me, the one who talked to you about your dreams.” Seeing Shao Zifeng looking at him with a dazed expression, the smile on the man’s face stiffened as he felt a little awkward.
“My dreams?” Shao Zifeng, who was still in a daze, muttered to himself. Where had he seen that before… An inexplicable feeling came smacking him in the face. Oh, something is coming out!
He carefully observed the other party as the blurry silhouette slowly became clearer. A white coat that was immaculately ironed, a gold narrow-framed glasses, a neatly combed hair, and the rather bossy-looking seating posture.
“Luo Feng?” Shao Zifeng said after some hesitation.
Seeing that Shao Zifeng had finally recognized him, Luo Feng’s expression improved slightly. Ahem… he needed to maintain his big-boss style, he thought to himself. He then crossed his leg over the other, as he slowly smoothened his slightly wrinkled sleeves.
“Dust explosion, killing a level three pet beast. Kid, you sure are capable, you really made me see you in a different light.”
He was indeed surprised by Shao Zifeng’s performance. When he first saw the armadillo lizard, he had indeed been tempted by his love for talents, after all, such a rare mutant creature had never had any poor aptitude, plus he had also witnessed Ballie in a fight.
However, after reading the appraisal report by Director Zhao, he lowered Shao Zifeng’s observation level to dispensable. After all, no matter how rare an armadillo lizard was, with its low aptitude, no one would care about it.
That night, when Shao Zifeng called him, he was actually somewhat surprised. He had even thought of an excuse to decline before answering the phone, but he had never expected the former to present him with such a big gift.
“I’m just a bit luckier.” Shao Zifeng smiled weakly. Just as he attempted to sit up, a sharp pain spread all over his body. His forehead was instantly covered with cold sweat as his face turned pale.
“Don’t move if you don’t want to waste it. You’re really lucky this time.” Luo Feng stood up, tidied his appearance, and pushed his glasses up as he said, “Okay, you can keep it here for now. I have a lot more here. Things have to be dealt with. If it weren’t for the fact that the Alien Administration isn’t clean, I would’ve had no desire to enter muddy waters!”
“Well, I…” Shao Zifeng called out the moment he saw Luo Feng prepare to leave.
Luo Feng turned his head around and said, “Also, you’ve done well this time. Think a little about what you need.”
…
There was a special ward not too far away from Shao Zifeng’s ward.
Half of this ward was built underground, and the above-ground part was a huge piece of special glass. Standing before the glass, one could clearly see what was going on inside. The part buried underground is covered by a special alloy that could withstand a level five pet beasts full-on assault for ten minutes.
Standing outside the glass wall, Chen Zhenglong stared at the person in the ward with fiery eyes. The person’s whole body was wrapped in layers of bandages, with several tubes inserted into his body as they were connected to the medical instruments surrounding the bed, recording the patient’s vital signs.
Chen Zhenglong had been standing there all night and staring at the person the entire time as if he was afraid that this person would suddenly disappear. His bloodshot eyes could barely conceal the excitement in his heart.
“Yo, Captain Chen, not taking a rest?” Luo Feng, who had come out of Shao Zifeng’s ward, looked at Chen Zhenglong for a moment, not expecting that he was still standing there.
Chen Zhenglong glanced at Luo Feng and continued to stare at the person in the ward as he said with slight sarcasm, “You lunatics know how to care about people?”
“That’s not it, it’s just that the next operation would require your cooperation, Captain Chen. If anything happens to you, things will be difficult.” Against Chen Zhenglong’s sarcasm, Luo Feng only pushed the frame of his glasses and replied nonchalantly.
Chen Zhenglong was startled when he heard the words and was a little puzzled. “Operation? What operation? The dark piece of the Order is here, don’t we need to wait for him to wake up?”
“Of course not. We already have the information we need to know. Now we only need Captain Chen to release an arrest warrant for Pei Yong, and then send all of the MAD operators to investigate across the city. You can leave the rest to us.” As the cooperation of the MAD was needed for the next operation, so Luo Feng did not mind revealing some details.
Chen Zhenglong went silent as he heard the words as he carefully pondered the intention of the operation.
Suddenly, he looked like an enraged lion, his eyes bloodshot as he stared at Luo Feng, hissing each word. “You want to use his wife as bait!” Luo Feng looked calmly at the furious Chen Zhenglong and acknowledged it with his silence.
“Have you ever thought about the consequences of such a radical approach! While Pei Yong deserves to die, but his wife and the child in her womb is innocent. You lunatics!!” Chen Zhenglong was furious, almost as if he was about to eat someone alive.
“So what then?” Luo Feng looked at him calmly without any trace of emotions in his eyes.
“So what? So what! Hah! Right, you guys are a bunch of unscrupulous lunatics who would do anything to achieve your goals. Of course, you wouldn’t care about the consequences. Just like three years ago when you watched my brothers getting killed!” Chen Zhenglong smirked as a memory that he never wanted to recall again appeared in his mind.
Three years ago, Chen Zhenglong had just retired from the army and was assigned to Sucheng’s MAD with a few of his comrades. In a sudden terrorist attack, Luo Feng and the people of his organization wanted to expand the results of the battle, and in the process of leaving baits whenever they could, they turned a blind eye and watched the MAD operatives getting slaughtered.
Among them was the late captain of the Sucheng MAD team, Xue Qigang, a person whom Chen Zhenglong regarded as an older brother.
“We only look at the results and skip the process. Our mission is to protect Sucheng from destruction. The sacrifices made in the process, no matter how big, has nothing to do with us.” In the face of Chen Zhenglong’s accusations, Luo Feng only calmly pushed his glasses up, not showing any sense of guilt.
“Right, so no matter how big a sacrifice has nothing to do with you. Since our paths diverge, I shall take my leave.” Looking at the calm Luo Feng, Chen Zhenglong too calmed down as he turned around and prepared to leave.
“The letter of appointment from the top. Prior to the removal of sleeper agents inside the MAD, Captain Chen Zhenglong, the leader of the MAD team will need to fully cooperate with our operations, and accept our dispatches. This is the document.”
Chen Zhenglong froze as he turned his head around stiffly as he looked at the seal on the appointment letter in Luo Feng’s hand. A flash of pain appeared in his eyes.
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“All to the meeting room.”
The officers of the MAD’s various departments put down their work and all quickly assembled in the conference room on the fourth floor.
Xiao Li followed Brother Wang and the rest, wondering what Captain Chen had called for a meeting for. He was a little anxious, after contacting Pei Yong last night, there had been no news from him since.
Now the talk of the third explosion being spread around in the MAD today gave him a bad premonition.
After walking into the conference, the atmosphere was a little depressed. The usually boisterous and glaring Captain Chen was sitting calmly at the front of the conference table. Although there were no emotions on his face, the subtle pressure he exuded caused Xiao Li to feel even more pressured.
“Everyone is here?”
Chen Zhenglong looked around as if wanting to keep the images of everyone’s face in his mind. From the information he had obtained, he learned that there were sleeper agents of the order in this crowd, and that was unacceptable for Chen Zhenglong.
He took the projector’s remote control and turned on the projector, showing Pei Yong’s ID photo before saying, “This person failed in his attack against a student of Sucheng University at Wutong Mountain last night. He has since escaped in fear of the crime he committed. We suspect that he is linked to the organization we have been investigating recently. Everyone, put aside your current work, and form teams to search the whole city. We must find this person at once!”
The MAD operators looked at each other, before standing up and saluting him. “Yes, Sir!”

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