Chapter 40 : Taoist Disciples

When the square-faced man walked out of the elevator, he saw Bai Yue at first sight. His originally dignified face suddenly revealed a very intriguing look.

Bai Yue was the same. After seeing the other party, she first showed a hint of surprise, and then her face was filled with undisguised disgust.

The middle-aged man didn't take it seriously, as if he didn't see anything, and walked over quickly, "Eunuch Bai, I didn't expect that we would meet again so soon. How are you these days?"

"What are you doing here?"

The middle-aged man laughed and said, "Of course we are here to support you. Supernatural incidents have occurred one after another in Nangang. The headquarters attaches great importance to it and is afraid that you don't have enough manpower, so they sent us here to help."

"Really?" Bai Yue looked past Qiu Zhonglei and at the group of silent subordinates behind him, and said lightly, "The 13th Action Team from the headquarters came with you?"

"Yes, Bai Dujian, you are in trouble. Of course, we brothers will do our best to help you."

Bai Yue nodded indifferently, then took out her cell phone and walked aside to contact the headquarters.

Meng Yong didn't know the middle-aged man. After looking at him for a few seconds, he followed Bai Yue to the corner.

After Bai Yue confirmed that the headquarters had indeed sent people to support, her expression was not very good.

"Boss, who is that guy?"

"The leader of the Thirteenth Action Team, Qiu Zhonglei."

"Qiu Zhonglei?!" Meng Yong took a breath of cold air, "Why is he here?"

"You know him?"

Meng Yong smiled bitterly, "How could I not know? Although I have been transferred to Nangang for a year, I have heard about Qiu Zhonglei's name countless times from my friends at the headquarters."

After finishing speaking, Meng Yong turned his head and glanced at Qiu Zhonglei in the distance, with an unnatural look on his face.

Meng Yong had indeed heard of Qiu Zhonglei's name, and he had heard it more than once.

In terms of rank, Qiu Zhonglei's position is not as high as Meng Yong's, but the former's identity is extremely special.

The headquarters is different from the local branches. The latter have a very simple organizational structure. In addition to the office clerks who do logistics and research information, there are only two or three tactical support teams and a Class A incident team that specializes in handling supernatural events.

The headquarters is different. It has many functional departments, including more than ten armed departments alone. One of the departments was just established , less than a year ago.

With so many action teams, Meng Yong would be happy to see whoever comes.

The Thirteenth Action Team, which only included Qiu Zhonglei, was the one he was extremely reluctant to see.

With the frequent occurrence of supernatural events across the country, the Public Affairs Security Supervisory Office began to be obviously short of staff. In order to deal with unknown and more harmful supernatural events in the future, the supervisory office continued to recruit some strange people from the public, and among these people, there were many Taoist inner disciples.

Qiu Zhonglei joined the Public Affairs Security Supervision Department with a dozen of his fellow apprentices half a year ago.

This guy's original sect was called Daoyi Temple, and most of his disciples were proficient in the art of Qimen Dunjia. For the Public Affairs Safety Supervisor, they were rare talents.

In fact, it is not uncommon for Taoist inner disciples to join the Public Affairs Security Supervision Bureau. They all enter the world to defend their country.

But Qiu Zhonglei was different. As the eldest senior brother in the sect, he actually negotiated terms with the Public Affairs and Safety Supervisor.

In addition to generous treatment, the prison was unable to separate the dozen or so brothers and sisters into different departments.

Perhaps it was because the prison was seriously short of staff, or perhaps it was due to some other reasons, but the prison agreed and set up a new department, numbered 13, as one of the action teams.

However, after going out on several missions, the prison discovered that this group of people's methods of dealing with supernatural incidents were extremely extreme, and they did not follow the action manual at all. To put it bluntly, they did not care about the consequences in order to complete the mission. Whenever they dealt with supernatural incidents or related targets, they never left a single person alive.

And judging from the on-site recorder, this group of Yinmen disciples who believe in the idea of killing one to save a hundred are likely to attack even innocent people.

Later, the headquarters was very dissatisfied. After talking about it several times, Qiu Zhonglei and others just smiled and let it go, not taking it seriously at all.

Originally, Bai Yue, as the deputy chief supervisor, wanted to kick this group of people out of the Public Affairs Security Supervisory Office, but for some unknown reason, he was stopped by the chief supervisor Mo Daoqing.

Later, Mo Dujian kept this action team at the headquarters. The team was not responsible for any particular province or city, but was on standby at the headquarters.

In addition, Qiu Zhonglei and his group are very unfriendly to all colleagues, and they seem to be forming a small gang.

There are so many talented people in the prison, all of them are masters, and their tempers are definitely not very good, so there have been many frictions and even physical conflicts with them.

Therefore, the action team headed by Qiu Zhonglei is notorious.

Meng Yong didn't quite understand the order from headquarters, and asked quietly, "Boss, we don't have any information right now, and we can't even be sure whether it's a supernatural event. What are Qiu Zhonglei and his group of Taoist priests doing here, and how can they help?"

Bai Yue pondered for a moment and said, "Let's not talk about this for now. There are too many things to deal with. Now that we are here, let them wait. Tell Qiu Zhonglei about the situation in general."

Meng Yong nodded and walked quickly to Qiu Zhonglei.

Bai Yue looked at the two people in the distance, her heart full of surprise.

Meng Yong only heard about Qiu Zhonglei from his friends at the headquarters, so he didn't actually have a comprehensive understanding of the matter.

Bai Yue is different. She has always stayed in the headquarters and worked with others there, so it is inevitable that she has more contact with them. Therefore, she knows Qiu Zhonglei and others very well.

Qiu Zhonglei came from a good Taoist family, but he was also the son of a wealthy family in the imperial capital.

Because he was weak and sickly when he was young, his father sent him to the Taoist inner sect Daoyi Temple.

In this way, Qiu Zhonglei became an inner disciple of Taoism.

However, this disciple is different from other ordinary disciples. Except for the autumn and winter seasons, he spends most of the year wandering in the prosperous world of the imperial capital. It is unclear whether this can be considered as entering the world or leaving it.

Moreover, the Daoyi Temple is not some hidden Taoist sect. The abbot is well versed in the Five Elements and the Eight Trigrams as well as divination, so he often travels among various wealthy families and is on good terms with the direct descendants and even the heads of the families of these wealthy families.

Especially in recent years, Daoyi Temple has been involved in worldly affairs more frequently. Because it accepted Qiu Zhonglei as its disciple, it has become inseparable from its wealthy enemies in the imperial capital, and even sent its disciples to stay at its enemies' homes for a long time, which has a bit of the flavor of the support and worship of ancient wealthy families.

The Qiu family has a significant influence in the imperial capital. I don't know how they knew that there was such a mysterious and high-powered organization like the Public Affairs Security Supervisory Agency in the country. I don't know for what purpose, but they sent Qiu Zhonglei and his junior brother in.

If he were just a disciple from a noble family, the Public Affairs and Security Supervisor would definitely not accept him. Just the hurdle of being the deputy supervisor Bai Yue would be difficult for an outsider to pass.

However, they were a group of "Taoists" with considerable abilities, so they had no choice but to recruit them.

And Bai Yue is very annoyed with Qiu Zhonglei.

As a woman, and an extremely sensitive one at that, Bai Yue knew very well that Qiu Zhonglei had extremely strong and improper thoughts about her, and that these thoughts were not just admiration and love, but were also mixed with a lot of other messy things.

So Bai Yue disliked Qiu Zhonglei very much, even to the point of hating him.

Seeing Qiu Zhonglei always looking at her vaguely, Bai Yue turned around and took out her cell phone again.

But this time, she dialed the landline number of the eunuch Mo Daoqing.

Half a minute later, Bai Yue hung up the phone, looking confused.

Originally, she wanted Mo Daoqing to transfer the people back. Even if there was a shortage of people, they could just send people from Lin Province.

But Mo Daoqing said that it was he who directly ordered Qiu Zhonglei and others to come and help.

In addition, Mo Daoqing also asked about Chu Yu's movements and asked Chu Yu to have more contact with Qiu Zhonglei.

This request was strange, but Bai Yue did not hide it and told Mo Daoqing about Chu Yu and the Flame Snake. Unexpectedly, from what he heard on the phone, Mo Daoqing did not seem surprised at all. He just said "I know" and hung up.

It neither answered nor resolved Bai Yue's questions, but instead made her even more troubled.

Why should Qiu Zhonglei and others have more contact with Chu Yu?

Bai Yue was standing there, thinking about Mo Daoqing's intentions, when Qiu Zhonglei came over with a smile on his face.

In fact, Qiu Zhonglei looks okay. Although he is not handsome, he is not ugly either.

He has a large, square face, very majestic, and the only thing missing is the three words "great, glorious and correct" engraved on his forehead.

If you don't know him, judging from his behavior and appearance, he seems like a middle-aged man with a strong sense of justice.

Standing in front of Bai Yue, Qiu Zhonglei said with a smile, "Master Bai, we twelve brothers are not here to be on call at any time. Although we are here to provide support, we also have a lot of autonomy. If you don't have any instructions, we will leave."

"Go out, where to?"

"Of course we're going to the scene to see if there are any clues left. But don't get me wrong. It's not that we don't trust you, but that we don't trust the Nangang branch."

Bai Yue nodded indifferently.

Just go, out of sight, out of mind.

Qiu Zhonglei continued confidently, "If we can help you solve this problem, Bai Dujian, don't forget to treat me, Old Qiu, to a meal as a reward."

Bai Yue said nothing.

I'm inviting you to dinner. I'm inviting you to eat a machete. Do you want to eat it?

Seeing Bai Yue didn't say anything, Qiu Zhonglei didn't care. Just as he was about to turn around, he seemed to suddenly remember something and asked, "Oh, by the way, when I was at the headquarters, I heard that there was a talented person in the Nangang branch. He was a clerk and he actually solved two supernatural incidents. Is he here? Let me meet him?"

Bai Yue glanced at Qiu Zhonglei with an inexplicable look in her eyes.

Bai Yue was good at observing people, so she had a hunch that Qiu Zhonglei's seemingly unintentional words seemed to have some purpose that she was not aware of.

"There are so many things to do, let's deal with the things at hand first."

After saying that, Bai Yue turned around and leaned against the window, took out a box of unmarked cigarettes from her arms, lit it, and looked out the window without saying a word.

Looking at Bai Yue's curvy back, Qiu Zhonglei swallowed his saliva, then turned around and left reluctantly.