First-Year Internship—And You Went to Site 749 to Contain Monsters?!
Chapter 212: Procedural Issue, Confidentiality Clause, Await Further Notice

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While Lu Ding was thinking about these things,

Bai Hemen came back and handed him the sliced watermelon.

Wei Hong didn’t hold back—he grabbed a piece and started eating.

After chewing and swallowing the melon, he asked, “How’d you tell that Wu Yishuang had something to do with me?”

Lu Ding:.........

“Was that hard?”

At this moment, Bai Hemen was handing watermelon to Wang Qingge.

He poked his head over when he heard that. “Wu Yishuang’s connected to Brother Wei?”

The look on his face said it all: see, Xiao Bai didn’t catch on—was that really so obvious?

Lu Ding didn’t know whether to laugh or be speechless.

Looked like he was being complimented for being clever.

But comparing him to Bai Hemen...

Not to look down on this blockhead’s IQ, but still...

“Sigh... I guessed.”

“Hahahahaha, then your guess was spot on. Smart, just like I said, hahahahaha!”

Lu Ding laughed along, then turned his head.

Wang Qingge held up a sign:

[This watermelon’s really sweet, hehe]

At that moment, Lu Ding’s feelings were hard to describe.

How to put it...

He once saw a goofy video online.

Roughly, a boss sent a message in a small work group:

[Today’s some big holiday—we need to aim for five million in sales. Do you guys have confidence?]

Then one by one, the avatars responded:

Drooling Patrick Star, cross-eyed Dudu, hands-in-pocket Monkey King, beach-walking fat Ultraman...

All saying “We have confidence.”

That moment, the boss’s heart probably went cold.

Lu Ding felt about the same now.

Out of nowhere, he kind of missed Yan Feifan.

At least when Yan Feifan was around,

he didn’t have to use his brain, just his fists—Yan Feifan would have everything arranged perfectly.

Lu Ding only needed to perform when he was in the mood.

Just do some follow-up.

Unlike now.

Right then, Lu Ding made a silent decision—to keep an eye out for rare spiritual treasures that could boost talent for Yan Feifan.

Just happened that Lu Ding himself didn’t need them.

Being one with heaven and man was already better than any rare herb or treasure.

As for cultivation resources for Brother Feifan,

Lu Ding believed that under his wing, Feifan would never lack anything.

And he wouldn’t even need to worry about it.

Like they say, even dogs and chickens rise when one man ascends.

With that brain of Yan Feifan’s,

Lu Ding didn’t believe he’d be lacking in resources while following him.

Over on the other side,

the Bai Family’s cultivators were still digging and working the soil.

They had once seen a glimmer of hope when Bai Baolian and Cha Yuanzheng arrived.

Now that both were gone, their messy thoughts vanished with them.

So, better to quietly finish the job here.

They definitely didn’t want to “leave with” those two.

Time passed, minute by minute.

Until deep into the night.

The Bai Family’s Madam was pacing around the courtyard, unable to sit still.

Her thoughts were a mess.

A tiny place like Ba’er Mountain—and Bai Baoce disappeared after going there, then Bai Baolian disappeared too.

Now Cha Yuanzheng, at the Fifth Layer of Si Ming Realm, was completely silent too.

Madam Bai was baffled.

When did Ba’er Mountain become a cursed place or something?

Does it eat people!!?

One after another—go in, gone. Go in, gone. Like auto-feeding a monster.

Then she asked 749.

Heh! Every single one of them kept their lips sealed.

Ask anything and the answer was:

procedural issue, confidentiality clause, await further notice.

That whole mess of deflecting routines—they’d pulled them all out on the Bai Family now.

Madam Bai thought to herself: you people didn’t used to be like this.

Just a day apart—why the sudden change in attitude?

Something’s off, definitely off—there’s something fishy going on.

But she couldn’t figure it out.

So in the middle of the night, she had someone go call her children.

And sure enough, here they came.

“Mom, it’s so late—what did you call us over for?”

Madam Bai and the Bai Family Patriarch had three sons and one daughter total.

The one who spoke was the eldest, and also the current acting head of the family besides Madam Bai herself: Bai Fengjing.

Madam Bai looked at him: “So you do know how late it is. And yet you don’t care your niece and nephew haven’t come back!?”

Bai Fengjing looked puzzled: “Which niece and nephew are you talking about?”

He had a ton of stuff to deal with every day—who had time to keep track of which niece hadn’t come back or which nephew went missing?

They were all grown-ups, not little kids—how was he supposed to watch them 24/7?

Though he thought it, he didn’t dare say it.

Madam Bai snorted coldly and turned to her second son, Bai Fengtang: “So what about you? You don’t care about your son and daughter either?”

Bai Fengtang took a step back.

“Mom, Baoce runs wild in the mountains all the time. Ten, fifteen days out of the house is nothing. As for Baolian—you’re the one who sent her out. She only said a few words to me, didn’t say what she was doing.”

All the big and small matters in the household were handled by Madam Bai, and she was dominant. Outside matters went through the eldest.

If nothing else, they had their old man.

And Xitong was the Bai Family’s stronghold—just two words: rock solid.

Honestly, Bai Fengtang couldn’t manage much and wasn’t in a position to speak up.

In his heart he thought: Haven’t you always been the one gathering and teaching the kids? Why are you blaming me now for not caring...

Madam Bai’s face turned cold: “So it’s my fault now?”

Everyone quickly bowed their heads and muttered “We wouldn’t dare.”

Only then did her expression ease a little.

“Baoce lost contact in Ba’er Mountain. Baolian took Cha Yuanzheng to find him—and now they’re both out of touch too.”

“I had someone ask 749. But they gave nothing but runarounds and excuses—refusing to give any answers.”

“I suspect there’s something wrong with Ba’er Mountain, so I called you all here to discuss what to do next.”

Bai Fengjing considered her words: “I think, right now, we shouldn’t go head-to-head with 749. Their attitude already says enough.”

“Before, our relationship with 749 was pretty decent—at least on the surface, and they wouldn’t go out of their way to embarrass us.”

“But now that they’ve suddenly changed their stance, there must be other factors at play.”

“Sure, in recent years the Bai Family’s been a bit aggressive in its expansion, but in principle, we haven’t crossed too many red lines with 749.”

“So my guess is—someone from the top came down. And that someone might be hostile toward our Bai Family.”

“All in all, during this period, the Bai Family shouldn’t make any overreaching moves. Otherwise we risk handing them ammo to use against us.”

“If 749 won’t talk, then we wait. Sooner or later they’ll have to give a statement—it’s just a matter of time.”