Upper City, Superintendent Department.
At this moment, everyone in the Third Squad was on the verge of going crazy.
Originally, the higher-ups had announced that the Zerg matter was settled, and everyone had breathed a sigh of relief.
Even though they felt a bit of disdain for their new mission — catching a cheater for the Bureau Chief of the Police Headquarters — they never expected there would be so many suspected Witches!
“Seriously, is the Bureau Chief’s wife insane? Can’t she just settle down?”
The Third Squad’s sniper, Qi Qi, was currently in a state of total collapse.
Before her sat a mountain-like pile of documents, all of which were records of Witches the Bureau Chief’s wife had contacted recently.
The Police Headquarters was the main office for the Superintendent Department.
Their Director, Yun Liuxue, had been personally promoted by the Bureau Chief of Azure Star.
To repay that favor of patronage, that damn Yun Liuxue had not only sent the elite Second Group over but had also thrown in the Third Squad, even though they had just finished dealing with the Zerg.
To put it plainly, Yun Liuxue was simply too desperate to climb the career ladder.
Qi Qi was a sniper with pale golden hair.
Part of her hair was tied up, and she wore a black eye patch that covered her eyes, leaving only her fair cheeks and sharp jawline exposed.
Her temperament was usually cold and crisp.
But right now, she lacked all the calm and composure a sniper should have, her face full of irritability.
Anyone would go mad if they had to face such a melodramatic infidelity investigation.
“Qi Qi, you can’t just blurt things out like that!”
Xiaoyuan was so startled that the cowlick on her head stood straight up.
Discussing the Bureau Chief behind his back was a good way to lose one’s job.
“Ahem.”
Shao Hua cleared her throat. The room fell silent instantly.
“Sigh, just do your jobs well. Once this is over, I’ll apply for a bonus for all of you.”
Shao Hua pinched the bridge of her nose, feeling exhausted.
She would rather be out fighting the Zerg right now than dealing with these annoying domestic affairs.
Because this was the Bureau Chief’s private family matter, Yun Liuxue didn’t dare let an Automaton organize the data.
After all, most Automatons were manufactured by The Company.
Even if they were the Superintendent Department’s own Automatons, there was no guarantee they weren’t being monitored by The Company’s database.
Therefore, the Third Squad had to suffer.
All this information had been dug up by the Second Group, but no one expected the Bureau Chief’s wife to be so thirsty.
In just one year, she had been involved with so many Witches.
It was no wonder the Bureau Chief was so frantic.
However, looking at it from another perspective, the Bureau Chief was quite enduring.
His wife had been acting like this for a whole year, and he had put up with it.
The reason it finally exploded was that the Bureau Chief’s youngest daughter had recently undergone Hatching.
When the Bureau Chief looked at the little girl, she didn’t look like him at all.
He secretly did a paternity test, only then discovering he had been cuckolded.
At the mention of a bonus, everyone’s eyes lit up.
Qi Qi sat back down, grumbling under her breath.
No one was going to turn their back on money.
Shao Hua sighed and flipped open a document.
Suddenly, an unexpected photo appeared before her eyes.
Looking at the girl with white hair and cherry-blossom eyes in the file, Shao Hua blinked in disbelief.
She rubbed her eyes vigorously to confirm it wasn’t an illusion.
Her expression became extremely colorful.
‘Wait, Bureau Chief… your wife plays that wildly?’
***
At home, Su Ling actually received a call from Sister Jing.
K423 had gone into some sort of cleaning frenzy, insisting on helping Su Ling tidy the house.
Su Ling couldn’t talk her out of it, but she felt bad letting her do it alone, so she joined in.
She didn’t expect the phone to ring right then.
Su Ling glanced at K423.
For some reason, K423 and Bai Miao were getting along famously, as if they were real sisters.
Su Ling stepped out onto the balcony and answered the call.
“The Original preserve us! Little Ling, did we have a red-haired customer before?”
“Red-haired?”
Su Ling frowned.
Instinctively, the image of a mature, beautiful woman flashed through her mind.
“Yes, red hair, a great figure, very mature, a mole at the corner of her mouth, and red eyes… but very charming. Right, right? I remember we had her as a client, didn’t we?”
“I think I remember her. What’s wrong?”
Su Ling recalled the woman.
She had indeed seen her half a month ago.
That red-haired older sister exuded a mature aura from head to toe, and she had treated Su Ling with great tenderness, almost as if she were her own daughter.
Some customers left a deep impression — Ji Lingyuan was one, and this mature, red-haired woman was another.
“Ahhh, then we’re finished!”
Sister Jing wailed over the phone. Su Ling’s heart skipped a beat.
“My informant just told me her name is Wen Ruyu. She’s the wife of the Bureau Chief of the Police Headquarters!”
“One week ago, the Bureau Chief’s youngest daughter hatched, and it was discovered she wasn’t the Bureau Chief’s bloodline. The Bureau Chief and Wen Ruyu are currently in the middle of a divorce.”
“And the Bureau Chief is investigating exactly who put those green hats on him.”
Su Ling stood there, completely stunned.
The Bureau Chief?
The Bureau Chief’s wife?
Cuckolding?
She was just a Fuli Ji from the Lower City.
How on earth did she get mixed up with these powerful figures?
“It’s not mine!”
“No one said it was yours! If it were yours, we’d both be dead!”
Sister Jing blurted out, nearly dying of fright herself.
If it really were Su Ling’s child and she had cuckolded the Bureau Chief, well, they probably wouldn’t even have to worry about the debt anymore.
Their whole family would evaporate and report straight to Fengdu.
“What exactly is going on now?”
Su Ling asked anxiously.
At the same time, she felt a bit resentful.
‘Seriously, for a Bureau Chief’s wife, are you that thirsty? You even ran all the way to the Lower City. What, are there not enough pretty girls in the Upper City, or did you just want a taste of street food?’
“The Superintendent Department is investigating. They are looking into every Witch Wen Ruyu has contacted in the past year. I expect your profile is already sitting on a desk at the Superintendent Department.”
Upon hearing this, Su Ling’s small face turned pale.
She was truly being wronged.
Was it easy for her to earn a little money?
Su Ling bit her lip hard.
Although her heart was full of infinite grievance, she knew that in front of such powerful figures, she was like an ant on the side of the road that no one cared about.
She couldn’t make any waves at all.
“But don’t worry too much. Ultimately, she was the one who came looking for you. You were the passive party, and logic is on our side. As long as that child…”
Sister Jing’s voice trailed off.
Su Ling also fell into silence.
She desperately tried to recall the encounter with that mature woman that day.
“Um… did you maintain the Isolation Array?”
Witch reproduction relied on the mingling of magic from both parties.
To prevent any “accidents,” it was simple: set up a Magic Isolation Array in the room to block the magic within their respective bodies.
That way, no matter how they played, no one would get pregnant.
Sister Jing was also desperately trying to remember.
“Maybe, possibly, probably… I maintained it?”
Sister Jing’s mind was a complete blank.
She couldn’t find a single memory of herself maintaining the array.
The two of them fell into a heavy silence.
In the living room, the laughter of K423 and Bai Miao drifted in occasionally.
But Su Ling felt as if she couldn’t breathe.
*Ding-dong — *
Just then, the doorbell suddenly rang.
Su Ling’s heart tightened along with it.
“Oh, who are you?”
K423 opened the door and found a stranger standing there.
Su Ling walked over and saw the joint marks on the person’s neck, realizing the stranger was an Automaton Maid.
“You must be Miss Su Ling.”
Seeing Su Ling nod, the Automaton Maid seemed to breathe a sigh of relief.
“I’m sorry to disturb you at this hour, but my master would like to see you.”
“Your master? Is it Ji Lingyuan?”
Su Ling asked curiously.
The only person she knew who had an Automaton Maid was Ji Lingyuan.
However, the Automaton Maid before her was a blue-haired girl, completely different from the style of Ji Lingyuan’s maids, who were all mature women with curvaceous figures.
“No. My master’s name is Wen Ruyu.”
The maid paused.
“You met half a month ago.”
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