Chapter 122: Not a one-man battle
For a whole afternoon, Song Lan was in a mood.
Because he received personal instructions from the supervisor:
Go home together after work and take her car.
It stands to reason that Lu Xiang was finally able to get off work on time is something worth celebrating, and he has to prepare three dishes and one soup to celebrate when he goes home, but Lu Xiang sent him a message just a quarter of an hour after he performed a "warm citizen" performance in front of his three subordinates.
For the first time, Song Lan did not watch a movie in the afternoon, but held her head in her hands, leaned on the office chair and stared at the ceiling in a daze.
Fortunately, the three of them are not members of the operation department after all, and their understanding of "enthusiastic citizens" is limited to the legends that circulate between departments, but Lu Xiang is different, she is not only the person who has the most contact with "enthusiastic citizens", but also directly met with herself during the city-wide meeting.
What's more, Lu Xiang is thoughtful and has been engaged in criminal investigation work for a long time, because it is indeed possible to associate his identity with just that sentence.
Still, he did.
Maybe deep down in his heart, he actually didn't exclude Lu Xiang from knowing this secret?
In my thoughts, it's time to get off work.
The off-duty activists among the law enforcers actually needed to ask Zhuang Chi to remind him of the off-duty time on this day, but the three of them didn't think much about it, they just regarded Song Lan's abnormal state in the afternoon as the nervousness of being interviewed by the "enthusiastic citizen", after all, it is extremely difficult to control this role in front of the camera, and the slightest negligence will be seen by the general public.
As members of the department, they naturally prepared for the interview, and got everything done before the set time, such as the location and the speech.
Ten minutes after the three of them left, Lu Xiang entered the door.
"Let's go, I'll give you a ride."
Her tone is as always, or Lu Xiang has maintained a calm state whether he is working or living for more than ninety percent of the time.
The two of them left the office building without a word and got into the hovercar.
With the sound of the engine pushing, the hovercar slowly lifts into the air.
Song Lan leaned against the window, this was the first time she had seriously examined the city from this angle.
As we all know, the 17th arrondissement is a city with a high crime rate, unemployment rate, and disappearance rate, but unlike the dilapidated city that people imagine, this city looks at least glamorous on the surface.
Towering buildings, resplendent entertainment venues.
As the sky darkens, the work begins on a giant multicolored billboard, which outlines the city's glittering silhouette, and instead of poverty and sin, it is the psychedelia of entertainment to death.
"When I graduated, I volunteered to work in the 'Abnormal Case Investigation Bureau' in District 3."
Lu Xiang, who was sitting beside him, suddenly spoke, "That's an investigation department that specializes in investigating crimes involving prosthetic reformers and spiritual abilities. β
With her overall first-place result, all this should have come naturally.
However, the result she got was that the director of the Anomalous Cases Investigation Bureau personally rejected her application, and then the second, third, and fourth choices were rejected one after another, and finally she fell into a state of uncertainty about her future, waiting for notification.
"No, with your working ability and work attitude, is there any department that does not welcome talents like you?"
This is not flattery, Song Lan is curious from the heart.
Aren't employees like Lu Xiang who talk less and do more practical things the mainstay of every department? If he is the head of the department, he would like to find all employees like Lu Xiang, so that he doesn't have to worry about anything every day, and his employees can automatically arrange all the work properly.
"Maybe it's because of the internship before graduation."
Lu Xiang's long-standing questions were finally answered after coming to District 17, because when she planned to arrest Chai Ke, she was also blocked by various parties, the biggest of which was the Inspection Department, an institution that openly guarded the justice of the coalition government.
She gradually realized that there were also three or six or nine types of criminals, and that both law enforcement and the Bureau of Abnormal Cases were essentially there to fight the criminals that the coalition government wanted to bring down.
It was only recently that she realized that whenever she was feeling down, there was someone who could always give her strength.
This was true in the Lenard case, as it was during the Finez attack.
Thinking about it carefully, before Song Lan became the head of the psychological counseling department, she had already started working.
Perhaps now it's her turn to give back.
"Why did you suddenly think about it?"
Song Lan knew that what he heard now was all foreshadowing, and Lu Xiang called him into his hovercar and closed him in this small environment, probably not to talk to him about the past.
Sooner or later, it will come.
"Because I happened to hear before that your dream was to become an actor, but in the end you had to give up your dream for some reason."
"It's true that life doesn't go as planned."
Song Lan nodded.
In fact, his dream of being an actor is not a lie, after all, there are many kinds of actors, and the actor he wants to become happens to be a more alternative kind.
At this point, General Porusalino was the object of his study.
Perhaps in the near future, a war will eventually break out between the coalition government and the rebels from the outside world that will engulf the whole world, and then it will be the real moment to test his acting skills.
"I'm a little curious about the line skills you mentioned."
Lu Xiang smiled, "Can you use the tone just now to help me repeat a sentence." β
She pulled out the text she had prepared in a memo on her phone.
This time, her smile didn't look stiff at all, and it wouldn't make people associate her with the cold-blooded female killer, because that's how she felt at the moment.
"When you come, they'll leave it to you."
As he spoke, Lu Xiang tilted his head and observed Song Lan's reaction with interest.
She was more interested in the other party's reaction to seeing this line of text than in hearing Song Lan repeat this line.
"Ahemβ"
Song Lan coughed lightly, as early as when he was in the office, he was mentally prepared, but when the words came to his mouth, they turned into a dry voice like reading, "You're here, they'll be handed over to you." β
This time, it was not to disguise his identity and not admit it, but Lu Xiang's demeanor at the moment made him always feel like he was being publicly executed.
"Your line skills need to be strengthened."
Lu Xiang quit the memo with satisfaction and put away his phone.
She did not continue to delve into this issue, whether it is "A Love Trick a Day" or in the school textbook on psychology, it is written that in many problems, the effect is often the best.
"It seems that the work of hiding the identity of 'enthusiastic citizens' will be put on the agenda in the future...... Song Lan, let's work together for the future of the 17th district. β