Central Inspection Station.

Station Chief's Building.

Jiang Chuan walked briskly into the first floor, rehearsed his speech internally once more, and then climbed the stairs to the second floor.

Knock, knock knock.

"Come in!"

The door was gently opened, Ding Yishan was not sitting behind his desk handling official affairs as usual, but was standing by the window, holding a cup of hot tea and gazing out at the "construction site."

During these last seven days of closure, the Central Inspection Station has been hurriedly repairing infrastructure, especially in the isolation area where He Fei's incident occurred, rapidly building more complete isolation chambers.

It's a pity that this repair is ultimately just superficial; the most ordinary steel is used, and it's impossible to replace it with stronger isolation alloy.

After all, unlike other commissioned units in the Buffer Zone and Inner City, the inspection station cannot forcibly request funds.

Tracing back.

It was still set in Cheng Wu's generation that the inspection station needs to be self-financing.

This rule blocked the possibility of the Inner City extending its reach to the inspection station, and it also quashed the idea of internal personnel becoming complacent.

A few years ago, it was during the great pioneering era, the inspection station's days were prosperous.

Within just a few years of income, it built the large inspection stations in the North and South, virtually every visible and tangible area used isolation alloy.

But in recent years, as the Stone Province's structure stabilized, the income that Field Inspectors could bring back gradually decreased, only enough to maintain daily operations and basic repairs of the inspection station.

At the beginning of the year, Ding Yishan turned almost all liquid assets into material resources and let the Core Inspectors take them out.

The original plan was that if they could hold out until autumn, they would greatly alleviate the current plight, striving to renovate the Central Inspection Station to the scale of the North and South within two years.

But plans often don't match reality; the sudden outbreak of infections made the fund deficit increasingly severe.

Currently, renovations can only temporarily maintain the situation.

"Have you found out the situation?"

"Yes, I have already contacted Cheng Ye."

Ding Yishan turned around, smiling, seemingly in a good mood.

The wrinkles from continuous worry had faded significantly, and an indescribable relaxation was apparent between his eyebrows.

"Is there good news, sir?"

"There is indeed!"

Ding Yishan pulled out a chair and sat down, exhaling a long breath, "It's only been a few days, Zhou Changhai, that fool, finally couldn't resist, secretly went to see Harlem at noon, and was jointly reported here by the other three. I assume he has decided to join the Westerners and seek a higher position."

"Ah?"

Jiang Chuan was stunned, Eastern People's Inspector voting for the Westerners' camp, and the Station Chief still managed to smile?

Currently, the South Station's Duty Station Chief Lei Hu is already allied with Harlem, along with two other Westerners' Fifth-phase Inspectors. Zhou Changhai defecting would mean the Eastern People are at a huge disadvantage?

"Chuan, your skills are impressive, but..."

Ding Yishan tapped his head, "You still need more practice here; otherwise, if I promote you to Inspector, you would only be a laborious brute."

"Sir, I..."

In the past, when Ding Yishan praised his skills, Jiang Chuan accepted with ease.

But today, he felt strangely uncomfortable, his mind flashed with images of hundreds of guns pointed at him, being chained up by others.

"Four Fifth-stage Inspectors, I can't deal with them, regardless of who I favor, it will make the other three dissatisfied, and they could resent me as the Station Chief. Therefore... I have to let them fight amongst themselves to reach a conclusion, only then can I step in to manage the situation."

Ding Yishan spoke to himself, then changed the topic, "Now it's different, Zhou Changhai, that fool, has joined Harlem, giving me a perfect target... Hey, you think, if I as the Station Chief show a bit of fear now, who would be most concerned?"

"It's..." Jiang Chuan hesitated, tentatively replying, "The other three Inspectors?"

"I have to take back what I said earlier, boy, your brain has become insightful over these years."

Ding Yishan laughed heartily, "Forget it, let's not talk about this. The upper echelon's scheming won't trigger any major waves; regardless of who becomes Duty Station Chief, it won't impact the current situation. The real fight for Extraordinary opportunity will happen around mid-next year."

"You visited Cheng Ye, how is he?"

"Very capable!"

Chuan took a deep breath, "The feeling I got was he is at least not weaker than Cheng Long for their age."

"Oh?"

Ding Yishan straightened up suddenly, unable to suppress his raised eyebrows. Could today be a double blessing?

"Explain in detail, from the beginning."

"Yes." Without hesitation, Jiang Chuan narrated the experiences after entering Zone B-7.

Even being captured by the Celestial Essence Community people, he did not conceal anything.

He understood that the Station Chief before him cared for results and not details.

Sure enough, upon hearing he was tied up, Ding Yishan merely raised his eyebrows, his eyes revealing increased interest.

However, as Jiang Chuan continued, when he talked about the reactions from everyone when Cheng Ye entered the community and the inspection methods employed.

Ding Yishan's smile gradually faded, he began to frown and contemplate.

Especially the three questions Cheng Ye asked, he pondered them several times, ultimately shaking his head involuntarily.

"What kind of questions is this kid asking, who taught him to be an Inspector like this?"

"I don't know, but after asking, he directly released me."

"What a mess!"

Ding Yishan scolded him, but wasn't sure how to continue.

He simply took a moody sip of tea and said, "Go on."

"Later, he didn't question my identity and escorted me to his residence, then wanted to go to the hospital..."

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