Dragon Knight Wang Hao? Contracted dragon pet?

“Him?”

Tang Long nodded thoughtfully.

“He’s right. The Ninth District’s luck crystal is almost depleted, so Adventurers need to be dispatched to prevent potential dangers. Who knows when monsters might suddenly descend upon the Ninth District.”

“The luck crystal again?”

Li Xunle put down his phone, propped his chin with his right hand, and fell into thought.

He had heard others mention the luck crystal several times, which made him somewhat curious about it.

“Again? Has anyone else mentioned it to you?”

Tang Long clearly picked up some other information from Li Xunle’s tone.

“Not long ago, Mayor Zhuge Tianming told me to try my best to acquire some luck crystal for Wolong City when I go to Supergod Academy in the future.”

“What? You know Mayor Zhuge Tianming?”

Tang Long’s eyes darted around. He hadn’t expected this student to be acquainted with the Mayor of Wolong City.

He couldn’t help but reassess Li Xunle’s background and identity.

If what he said was true, that he had won the competition among the three major academies, then he indeed had a chance to get close to Zhuge Tianming.

This young man’s future seemed limitless!

Must not offend him!

His fingers tapped lightly on his thigh, his mind racing.

“We met once!”

Li Xunle said nonchalantly.

After all, he didn’t think it was anything worth showing off.

Tang Long looked thoughtful, his tone filled with anticipation.

“If you can really get into Supergod Academy, then you might just be the pride of Fengchu Academy and Wolong City.”

After speaking, Tang Long took out a pack of cigarettes from his pocket, pulled out two, and offered one to Li Xunle.

“Smoke?”

“No.”

Li Xunle refused without hesitation.

Before he transmigrated, he had smoked once in elementary school and it choked him terribly.

Since then, he had no fondness for smoking.

Tang Long looked at Li Xunle with a half-smile, saying nothing, and lit the cigarette in his own mouth, then took a deep puff and exhaled it out the window.

Suddenly, his phone rang.

He held the cigarette in his left hand, flicked the ash out the window, and pulled out his phone with his right hand to answer.

“Xiao Pang, what’s the situation?”

“Brother Long, the five deceased Adventurers don’t have significant backgrounds, but one of them is a bit troublesome.”

“What background?”

“One of the deceased is named Lin Hu, the cousin of Lin Lei, the Deputy Director of the Third District Law Enforcement Bureau in Wolong City.”

“Deputy Director Lin Lei of the Law Enforcement Bureau? This is… damn it…”

Tang Long’s tone was slightly worried.

Then, he cleared his throat.

“Alright, Xiao Pang, I understand. Do the others have no background?”

“No.”

“Good, that’s it then. I’m hanging up.”

Tang Long finished speaking and hung up the phone.

He took another puff from the cigarette in his left hand, his eyes half-closed, as if to avoid the smoke.

His mind was constantly pondering.

Lin Lei, the Deputy Director of the Third District Law Enforcement Bureau, was not a simple person.

Any Deputy Director or Director of a Law Enforcement Bureau was not someone he, Tang Long, a Law Enforcement Team captain, could afford to provoke.

And the Lin family represented a top-tier family, similar to the Xia family.

Immediately, he looked at Li Xunle, who was playing on his phone, with a serious expression.

“If it weren’t for Director Wang’s kindness to me, constantly urging me to find someone with revival skills, I wouldn’t get involved in this mess…”

Li Xunle suddenly stopped scrolling on his phone and tilted his head curiously towards the solemn-faced Tang Long.

“What? A bit difficult to handle?”

“It involves a Deputy Director of the Law Enforcement Bureau, so it is indeed a bit tricky.”

Tang Long’s hand suddenly trembled, realizing his finger had been burned by the cigarette butt.

Li Xunle chuckled, unfazed.

“So it seems to be a hot potato?”

“It is.”

“Otherwise, forget it. I’ll just face it myself.”

Li Xunle looked out the window nonchalantly.

“Forget it? How will you face it?” Tang Long stared at Li Xunle curiously.

“It’s simple. If gods come, I’ll kill gods. If devils come, I’ll kill devils.”

A rare maturity appeared on Li Xunle’s young face.

These words sent a chill down Tang Long’s spine.

After a moment of silence, he propped his chin, staring thoughtfully at Li Xunle.

“The information shows you’re an orphan, so you can indeed do that. But if you have ties, it’s not suitable. For example, that brother you care about, can you protect him for life?”

“…”

Li Xunle pondered upon hearing this. Indeed, he couldn’t. There would always be a time to part.

Tang Long continued.

“Just fighting isn’t enough. When you’re out in the world, you need connections, unless you have no family or friends. Can you do that?”

Li Xunle thought for a moment.

He was originally without family or friends, but Zhao Hao, this brother, they had been together for several years. Logically, if the other party encountered trouble, he couldn't stand idly by.

After all, the other party had helped him for several years, and standing idly by would be unrighteous.

However, the Lin family certainly had more weaknesses than he did, without a doubt.

Tang Long saw Li Xunle fall silent.

So he continued, “You know, without a network of connections, people can make small moves in the dark, like hiring a few Adventurer assassins to wipe out your brother’s entire family, then killing those assassins to silence them. Who would you turn to then?”

Li Xunle didn’t care at all. He could challenge anyone.

This wasn’t the reason he came; the divine skills bestowed by the system were.

Soon, Tang Long led Li Xunle out of the car and walked to a brightly lit building — the Wolong City Ninth District Law Enforcement Bureau.

Li Xunle followed Tang Long to an office on the second floor.

Knock knock knock —

Tang Long knocked on the door.

“Come in!”

A low voice came from inside the room.

Tang Long gently pushed open the door and led Li Xunle into the office.

A short-haired middle-aged man in his forties sat in the office chair with a worried expression, his eyes closed in contemplation.

He seemed to be troubled by something.

His name was Wang Hong, the Director of the Ninth District Law Enforcement Bureau, an 82nd-level Swordsman.

Tang Long got straight to the point.

“Director Wang, I found the person you were looking for.”

Wang Hong suddenly opened his eyes, a flicker of brilliance in them. His gaze first fell on Tang Long, then on Li Xunle.

“Tang Long, you found him?”

“I found him. His name is Li Xunle, Fengchu Academy’s First Poisonous Healer, and the champion of the Three Academies Grand Competition.”

Tang Long briefly introduced Li Xunle’s identity.

“First Poisonous Healer? Champion of the Three Academies Grand Competition?”

There was a hint of surprise in Wang Hong’s eyes; he clearly didn't quite understand such an extremely peculiar identity.

Tang Long continued, “It’s just that he got into a bit of trouble and needs your help to handle it.”

“What kind of trouble?”

“He killed five Adventurers with semi-law enforcement status in the city. One of them was Lin Hu, the cousin of Lin Lei, the Deputy Director of the Third District Law Enforcement Bureau.”

“Lin Lei?”

Wang Hong frowned, a bit hesitant.

He could indeed handle it, but there was a bit of risk.

The status of the Third District and the Ninth District were not the same; the Third District’s status was a bit higher than the Ninth District’s.

Lin Lei’s network of connections was definitely very strong, so for him, it really was a risk.

Moreover, the Lin family was a top-tier family.

Top-tier families had influence spread across hundreds of cities, deeply entrenched and very difficult to deal with.

A cunning rabbit has three burrows, and top-tier families have at least a hundred. Provoking them would make it very difficult to clean up the mess completely, and they could always stab you in the back at any time.

Wang Hong looked at Li Xunle thoughtfully.

“Do you really have revival skills?”

“Yes, but there are limitations. I can only use it once within 24 hours, the target must not have been dead for more than an hour, and I can only revive one target.”

“If that’s really the case, then I think I’m willing to take a risk.”

Wang Hong leaned back in his chair, his eyes constantly shifting.

Li Xunle asked casually, “May I ask, what do you need revival skills for?”

“To protect someone!”

“Protect whom?”

“My nephew, Wang Hao, is a hidden class — a Dragon Knight.”

“I know. He’s my classmate. He needs me to protect him?”

“Yes, because he’s about to contract a dragon pet!”