Let them offer their loyalty!-Chapter 488 - 314: Qin Shuman and the "Retired Emperor" (Asking for Monthly Tickets with 10,000 Words!)_3

Although he hadn’t yet thought of a solution, Yan Chen was, after all, Qiu Tu’s superior and the head of the Investigation Bureau. Whatever he decided, Qiu Tu had no way to oppose it.

’Still, I need to think of another way....’

While thinking this, Qiu Tu slightly bowed and responded, "Received, Bureau Chief...."

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Meanwhile.

As Qiu Tu and Yan Chen were calculating against each other.

In Xinjie City, within the military’s Security Department, the director’s office.

Qin Shuman, dressed in a grass-green military uniform, sat behind her desk, looking up at the surroundings that were both familiar and somewhat strange. She was feeling a mix of excitement and annoyance.

What excited her was... After a year’s time, she had finally achieved the position she had longed for! She was now officially in charge of Xinjie City’s Security Department!

This had brought her one step closer to her goal, and she could finally go all out and vigorously pursue her political ambitions!

But what annoyed her was... Even though she had become the director of the Security Department, she had just received a communication from Dai Yukang.

Dai Yukang told her that, because Xinjie City was a focus for the Sanctuary’s development in the coming period,

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the Security Bureau had sent an inspector to Xinjie City to oversee the work of the Security Department.

If there were any shortcomings in the Security Department’s performance, he had the authority to point them out and demand corrections, or even to take direct command of the Security Department’s operations.

After hearing about this "inspector" from Dai Yukang, Qin Shuman’s mood soured completely.

After all... nobody would like it if, after struggling for so many years to come out on top, a retired emperor suddenly appeared above them.

Moreover... Dai Yukang’s words were too vague.

He only mentioned that the person had the authority to oversee and command the work of the Security Department.

But he didn’t specify how this supervision or command would take place.

From start to finish, Dai Yukang only gave Qin Shuman an internal phone number.

Telling her that calls from this number would be from that inspector....

After hanging up, Qin Shuman stared blankly at the number 9527 on the communicator.

She was guessing whether this "retired emperor" was male or female, what their status was, what rank they held?

Having guessed for a long while without a clue, Qin Shuman had no choice but to put this "retired emperor" out of her mind for the time being.

She felt torn between excitement and pressure, which made her particularly want to confide in someone, to have a good talk, um... and to vent.

’Otherwise... how about contacting Qiu Tu tonight?’

Once this thought emerged, it lingered persistently in Qin Shuman’s mind.

Moreover, she felt her rationale was quite proper: now she was the director of the Security Department, and Qiu Tu was the minister of the Political Department. They were the highest chiefs of their respective institutions’ intelligence systems, and there would definitely be many opportunities for cooperation in the future.

So it was quite reasonable to have some early communication, to smooth the way for their collaboration, to probe a bit.

And at that moment, while she was entertaining these wild thoughts, suddenly, her communicator started buzzing.

Qin Shuman was startled, then hastily looked at the communicator.

To her surprise, she found... the number 9527 was lighting up on the communicator.

’So soon?’

She was somewhat shocked by the "retired emperor’s" quickness in reaching out to her.

Qin Shuman sighed softly, realizing that her plan to meet up with Qiu Tu tonight was likely to go awry. After composing herself, she answered the call.

The next second, a voice came through the receiver... a voice of a woman she hadn’t met before, "Director Rain Butterfly?"

Hearing the woman’s voice, Qin Shuman, who had years of experience in intelligence work, immediately conducted a brief analysis of the voice’s owner.

’Probably a woman around 27 or 28 years old?’

’The tone is quite gentle; she should be fairly easy to get along with?’

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