Professionals really do make a difference.

Their methods and approaches are quite mature.

Li Jing had no idea when Li Qi Dao entered the Secret Realm.

But according to Chen Jing’s plan, he should not have been in the Secret Realm for long.

In just a short time, Li Qi Dao had managed to land a job as a health checker, which was highly efficient.

As he watched Li Qi Dao come over with a scanner, scanning downwards from his neck, and trying to get behind him, Li Jing took out his Management Bureau credentials and spoke softly.

"Brother, we’re on the same side."

?

Li Qi Dao was startled.

This call of "Brother" had him a bit confused.

Then the words "We’re on the same side" confused him even more.

Subconsciously, he glanced at the credentials Li Jing opened.

Seeing the name Lu Yangcheng on the credentials, Li Qi Dao frowned slightly.

Lu Yangcheng, of course, he remembered.

For the previous new type of illicit goods case, Dai Hong had temporarily transferred three members from the Heavenly King Group led by Li Jing from the Assistant Inspector Department. As a member of the Major Crime Unit Six, he couldn’t help but pay attention.

A Lu Yangcheng with a charcoal black face, sitting in the meeting room, was quite conspicuous.

Looking at Li Jing, Li Qi Dao’s expression gradually became strange.

Clearly, the person in front of him was not Lu Yangcheng himself.

The memory and observation skills of the members of the Major Crime Unit were not a joke.

Appearance could be changed by various means.

But it wasn’t to the extent that even height and body shape didn’t match up.

With the name Lu Yangcheng and reference to height and body shape, Li Qi Dao easily made associations.

Glancing quickly around to ensure no one was watching, Li Qi Dao cautiously voiced his guess.

"Li Jing?"

"It’s me."

Li Jing nodded.

He deliberately took out his credentials for identification.

Li Qi Dao thought of him right away, there was no need to hide.

Having received confirmation from Li Jing himself, Li Qi Dao breathed a sigh of relief.

He initially thought he had good luck and ran into someone who was guilty and problematic as soon as he came in, but it turned out to be one of his own people.

Pretending to still be scanning Li Jing, Li Qi Dao spoke in a low voice.

"Did you just get in?"

"Yes, I’ve only been here for a few minutes."

Li Jing answered, standing still, playing the part of cooperating with the examination.

"How long have you been here?"

"Over an hour."

Li Qi Dao responded, saying,

"The current situation in the Station Bureau is still somewhat stable, but overall everyone is very tense. The Parasite Insects are appearing and disappearing unpredictably, everyone is on guard."

With that, he continued.

"Including you, there are now a total of nine people from the bureau here. It’s okay for us to communicate with each other, but it’s best not to make too much contact. We are not actual members of the Management Bureau, attracting too much attention will affect subsequent investigations."

"Hmm."

Li Jing responded.

He remembered what Chen Jing had instructed.

He also understood why Li Qi Dao was expressing concern.

In recognizing and communicating with each other.

One was a coincidence, and the other was...

Glancing at the thermal imaging scanner in Li Qi Dao’s hand, smiled.

"Do you have any more of these scanners?"

"..."

Li Qi Dao.

He initially thought Li Jing wanted to communicate with him, but he didn’t expect the burly man to be interested in his scanner.

Giving a wooden glance at a certain person, Li Qi Dao looked around.

Ensuring no one was paying attention to them, Li Qi Dao passed the scanner to Li Jing, whispering.

"To ensure that there are no parasitic infiltrators in the station, the Management Bureau established a patrol inspection team. I spent a lot of effort to infiltrate it. This scanner is now yours, I have spare ones given by the Logistics of the station."

Having said that, he nodded in acknowledgement and walked away in the direction behind Li Jing.

Li Jing didn’t stay in place either, he put the scanner into the storage space and walked towards the direction where he had just spotted the health bar.

...

After a while, Li Jing arrived near the tent area where the person with a health bar above their head had entered.

Stopping some distance away, Li Jing didn’t directly go into the tent.

The tents set up in the station had clear assignments for their usage.

The area where he had met Li Qi Dao just now was located directly below the entrance to the Secret Realm.

The main uses of the tents were for commanding, logistics, meetings, etc., and many people were going in and out.

The area he was in at the moment was for rest areas.

The person with the health bar above their head was a female, he couldn’t just barge into the tent blindly.

If he really went in there, before he could figure out what was happening with her, she might yell ’pervert’ first.

Standing near the tent, Li Jing took out the scanner.

Just as he was debating whether to find a passing Management Bureau member for a health check, the woman with the health bar above her head came out of the tent.

Seeing the woman come out, Li Jing calmly walked up to her.

"Comrade, it’s just routine procedure."

Upon hearing this, the woman paused, being very cooperative.

"Please hurry, I have work to deal with."

"Sure thing."

Li Jing smiled, lifting the scanner to scan the woman’s potential Parasite Insect infection areas front and back.

The woman wasn’t parasitized.

This result was something Li Jing had suspected beforehand.

Given the woman’s cooperation, it was clear she wasn’t one of those infected.

The Parasite Insects are smart and cunning.

If an infected person would never easily agree to an examination.

Putting away the scanner, Li Jing stepped back.

"All clear, thank you for your cooperation."

The woman nodded and walked away briskly.

Li Jing watched her walk away, full of doubt.

Once it was confirmed that she was not parasitized by the Parasite Insect, but had a health bar above her head, he could easily draw a conclusion.

This woman was a humanoid demon.

When he was scanning the woman earlier, he had paid particular attention to the badge on her chest.

The ranking and cultivation levels in the Disaster Management Bureau couldn’t be clearly determined like the badges on patrol personnel’s shoulders.

The Management Bureau was different from the Patrol Bureau, where strength is the hard criterion for promotion.

Rather than pure strength, they valued length of service and accumulated Merit Points.

The longer the term of service and the higher the Merit Points accumulated, the higher the position in the Management Bureau.

This, can be judged by the stripes and engraved number on the badges worn by the management staff.

There are three stripes on the woman’s badge.

This indicates that she has been a member of the Management Bureau for three years.

The number engraved on the badge is 118.

This means she has accumulated at least 1.18 million merit points.

Accumulating 1.18 million merit points in three years is quite an achievement in the Management Bureau.

The merit points in the Management Bureau are calculated according to the proportion of spirit objects turned in and the merits of action, not equivalent to money.

If forcibly converted, one merit point is roughly equivalent to ten thousand.

That is to say....

This woman has technically earned 11.8 billion in the Management Bureau!

This astonishing figure somewhat shocked Li Jing, making him consider switching sides to the Disaster Management Bureau.

Of course.

He wouldn’t really do it.

The Disaster Management Bureau leads a relaxed life – fishing for three days, sunning the nets for the next three months.

In the Secret Realm, chances of finding opportunities come rarely.

Whether it falls within the jurisdiction of the Management Bureau one belongs to or whether one gets a chance to join the exploration team is not guaranteed.

That the woman managed to earn 1.18 million merit points in three years only indicates one thing.

She’s very lucky, having encountered valuable spiritual objects and earned the corresponding merit points.

Then, due to her accumulated merit points, she was promoted and participated in more rewarding actions to accumulate to this extent.

Judging by her current merit points, she would definitely be in middle management of the Station Bureau.

A human-shaped demon blending into the Disaster Management Bureau is audacious and undoubtedly skillful.

The Management Bureau usually operates in clusters, even if they’re scattered, they form teams of at least ten.

Exploring something like the Secret Realm will inevitably result in situations where action is required.

Once action is taken, the demonic qi will leak out and be detected by others.

A human-shaped monster has no reason to be able to survive in the Disaster Management Bureau.

Yet this woman successfully blended into the Management Bureau, swimming like a fish in water. It’s astounding to Li Jing.

Just a few days ago, he was still struggling for a million.

A human-shaped monster, which should find earning money a challenging task, living in the cracks of human society, has it thousands of times better than him!

This dame....

How did she do it?

Li Jing is utterly puzzled.

Watching the woman gradually moving away to the center of the camp near the entrance to the Secret Realm, Li Jing pondered a bit and followed from a distance.

In terms of secretly investigating a mole, the current situation didn’t yield any results.

This woman can’t possibly be the mole he’s searching for.

She’s doing splendidly well in the Management Bureau, she’s radiant and charming.

You can hardly find a few human-shaped monsters doing better than her in this world.

Why should she betray and sabotage the Management Bureau?

She’s so influential that her every word carries weight.

If she came into contact with an unfriendly, unknown Wisdom Civilization, selling it to the Management Bureau would obviously be the best option for her.

Li Jing does not plan to interfere with the woman’s life, but in order to get the 50 million bounty, he has to use all possible resources.

His time is limited, only three days.

The Secret Realm Passage won’t stay stable for very long.

Moreover, he is not the only one assigned to secretly investigate the Secret Realm. There are nine others including Li Qidao.

Speaking of motivation, Li Jing’s isn’t very strong.

But being human, he must compete.

Compared to patrol inspectors Chen Jing chose, like Li Qidao, Li Jing is but an amateur.

Without some tricks, how could he compete?

The woman with the health bar above her head is a middle manager in the Management Bureau, he must contact her properly.

Not hoping for direct gains, but hoping to get convenience.

...

Following the woman to the center of the station, Li Jing saw her enter a tent, he approached and sneakily peeked inside through the gap of the tent curtain.

Inside the tent, there is a conference table.

With just one peek, there were seven or eight people sitting inside.

"Obviously,

This group of people, like the woman, belong to the management team and were planning to hold a meeting.

After sneaking a look at the inside of the tent, Li Jing found a blind spot to stand and waited patiently.

If one wants to talk to someone properly, naturally they have to wait until they’re free.

The reason he didn’t try to communicate with her on the spot is because she clearly stated that she has matters to deal with.

...

About half an hour later, the meeting in the tent ended.

The Management Bureau members who attended the meeting left one after another. More than twenty people filed out intermittently, the woman was the last one to leave.

She was seen chatting happily with a male member of the Management Bureau, causing his gaze to visibly stick to her.

Seeing this scene, Li Jing wasn’t surprised.

In interpersonal communication, women often have more advantages.

Especially those who are good-looking.

This woman is doing so well in the Management Bureau, she certainly knows how to exploit her own advantage.

The one fortunate enough to be favored by her, must be of a high status.

Watching the two laughing and talking as they walked away, Li Jing stepped out of the blind spot and followed stealthily.

After a while, the two finally parted ways.

Seeing this, Li Jing seized the chance when the woman was alone, rose into the air with Sky Control, and landed in front of her.

The woman was slightly taken aback when she saw him land, she frowned and stopped.

Having just had her body examined half an hour ago, how could she forget?

The fact that someone appeared right in front of her, was not a coincidence.

Being a human-shaped monster, she is much more sensitive than ordinary people.

Seeing that the woman clearly realised, Li Jing smiled as if he knew her.

"I need something from you, can we find a place to talk?"

"..."

The woman remained silent.

Li Jing clearly headed straight for her, and she was baffled.

This man, why is he targeting her?

Is he attracted to her, trying to flirt?

Or...?

Before she had time to think, Li Jing approached and lowered his voice.

"Don’t worry, I don’t mean you harm. If I did, I would have exposed the fact that you are a human-shaped monster when we met earlier."

The woman stiffened at his words, her face changing color rapidly. She hardly managed to control her expression and avoid looking panicked.

She glanced quickly to the left and right, and bit her lower lip.

"What do you want? Money? Or me?"

???

Li Jing.